When Beau starts out in a snarky/sarcastic tone with a schoolhouse rock shirt on, you know some short sighted conservative is about to get schooled about something they should have known from the start :)
Probably someone from the right, but not necessarily. There is still a bunch of left-wing Tankies left, that cheer for RuZZia, even though it's anything but socialist, BUT: America BAD. ..and everybody resisting RuZZia is just an American vassal, etc. Bla bla.
Being a short sighted conservative that wasn’t schooled and agrees with the assessment. I’d like to hear about what the feeling is about the Abrams tank situation. I’ve got mixed thoughts.
@Beau of the Fifth Columb... I see you're up late (commenting) as I am. I'm currently working at the border providing health care to asylum seekers, which is irrelevant to my question/statement. I'm an indigenous woman living in Oklahoma, raising native kids in our homelands. Oklahoma is poised to enact the most barbaric anti-trans laws in the nation, banning affirming care until 21 or 26 years of age. How can woke parents fight this, short of moving to a blue state, when our tribal services are most available to folks who live on the reservation, I mean ACLU?! SOMEBODY FUCKING HELP US... My trans kid should be left unbothered by the state, the same way they are left unHELPED by the state in terms of infrastructure and education and health care and mental health..... but no. Red states are actively seeking to kill the very care my kid needs to NOT KILL THEMSELVES. PLEASE.... do a video on this... spread awareness... and advise this terrified native mama.
looking back quite a ways to books I have read in the past one thing I remember was I was impressed by how the indigenous people seemed to be accepting of what is now called Trans people. I hope that things look up for you and thanks for taking care of the asylum seekers. May you and yours be blessed.
As an adult living in a quaint little spot of rural nowhere between the townships of Negro Bend and Gay (seriously, I am not joking) who's finally come to terms with the fact that they are Trans and just began working-up the courage to seek-out resources and affirming care (because again, rural, Negro Bend, Gay).... *sigh* fuck this state.
Beau: "In 1775, during the Siege of Boston, there was the Battle of Bunker Hill." Sam: "WELL ACTUALLY..." 🧐 Beau: "History nerds, just let it go. That's what everybody knows it as." 😑 Sam: "Oh, okay. Fair enough."😆 Great video as always, but getting called out in the first two minutes made me laugh at myself - which is usually a healthy thing for an arrogant know-it-all and pedant like me 😉😁
Beau: "...the battle of Bunker Hill..." Me (thinking): (Which actually took place on Breed's Hill.) Beau: "History nerds, just let it go. That's what everybody knows it as." Me: (Busted!) 🤣
Thermobaric Beau. You sure know how to suck the air out of someone's position and leave behind nothing but smoldering rubble. Well played Sir. Well played.
It's good to have a history lesson occasionally. All too often, we remember the myth, forget the reality, and misunderstand what an event really means.
Bingo. Not only didn’t the Colonists win the Battle of Bunker Hill, it wasn’t even fought on Bunker Hill. (It’s pretty well known among people in the greater Boston area, but not much further afield.)
@James David Walley but the battle did give the colonist hope of holding their own and even possible victory in a war as the British suffered heavy losses compared to the colonists.
Furthermore, Ukraine does have another "hill" to sell at the same price per square meter: Bakhmut. And it looks like the Russians intend to make the purchase.
The phrase to describe this, is a Pyrrhic victory. Named for the Greek king and general Pyrrhus of Epirus He is said to have stated, after defeating the Romans, "If we are victorious in one more battle with the Romans, we shall be utterly ruined".
His victory proved unsustainable due to losses and Greek control over southern Italy soon ended. The old Romans, before the Empire, were a hard bunch. Ornery as hell and mean as they come. They loved a good fight, getting in close behind their shields and stabbing opponents in the torso, legs, and groin with their gladii. The best thing an opponent could do was ambush them and hit their the flanks and rear with heavy cavalry and fast moving infantry, like Hannibal. Fighting them head on without any other plan was suicide.
@@patrickcannady2066 that battle happened before the romans were equipped with the glaudis. That battle and Hannibxl's later campagns jappened before the marian reforms that created the legionair roman army we all know. In fact it was the lessons taken from those two wars that lead to the marian reforms.
I learned a lesson, oddly enough, from a drunk teenager. He said, "We all [sic] can't be winners all the time." It hit me in this super profound way because I realized that the future wasn't about who won or who lost in the moment. It was based on how you continued forward from each victory or defeat. 'We all can't be winners all the time" has become the mantra I use. To me it means, "what are you going to do to move passed this?"
Getting knocked down doesn't make you a loser. Knocking someone down doesn't make you a winner. What makes a winner is someone that keeps getting up after being knocked down. A loser stays down. Or stays still when they've knocked someone down
At first I read "We all [hic] can't be winners all the time", which made me chuckle. For once I'm glad I forgot to clean my glasses before reading a comment lol
@@leyrua that's true, I opened the fridge, kept talking, and he walked up behind me. He cracked open the beer and I realized, "He just took my last beer! What the hell!?" That's when he said the thing and everyone got a good laugh.
The number of graves at a cemetery used by Russia's notorious mercenary Wagner Group has dramatically grown over the last two months, satellite images show. A photograph taken on Jan. 24 by Maxar Technologies, a U.S. defense contractor headquartered in Colorado, shows at least 121 burial plots in a section of the cemetery allotted to fighters from the private military company. An image of the same area taken on Nov. 24 appears to show around 17 graves, suggesting that in two months there has been around a sevenfold increase, according to an NBC News analysis of the site on the outskirts of the village of Bakinskaya, in southwestern Russia.
History nerd checking in. A direct ancestor of mine stood with Prescott on Breed's Hill. Another difference here is that the "Russian Bear" is far, far weaker than the British Empire was in 1775. The sun didn't set on the latter until the 20th Century. The former was finished 30 years ago, but didn't know it until now.
As far as I know Dak Prescott, the Cowboys quarterback, could be a direct descendant of this Prescott guy. We could have a very long argument about how weak the British empire was in 1775. It was certainly struggling to cope with governing 14 colonies (counting Canada) in North America as well as managing Ireland's problems, and trying to govern India through a shell company. In 1780 there were massive riots in London, encouraged by an anti-Catholic nobleman who said, more or less, "the Papists are about to replace us." In my view this system narrowly avoided total collapse through a series of major reforms (starting with letting the United States go) until the more stable Victorian Empire emerged.
@@Winspur1982 Losing the American colonies was the necessary push to get the much needed reforms going. Little appreciated fact, but a great many people left America for Canada after independence. Canada was close to going the same way as the American colonies until this influx rendered the population ultra loyal. Combined with the reforms it pushed Canadian independence back nearly 100 years.
@@Winspur1982 In my case, the lineage is not "as far as I know." My mother spent years documenting her father's family history, and earned a place in the Daughters of the American Revolution. My ancestor was there. A key player? No...just a guy with a musket. But he was there on that hill.
@@magnificentbastard5085 The way I look at it, the stable "sun never setting" British Empire that some are nostalgic for, that was only created in 1858 with the winding down of the East India Company and Canadian independence / self-rule ten years later. But starting with the South African War in 1900 (the reasons for that: equally silly as the 2003 Iraq War), that structure started to totter.
FYI, all: Soledar is a town of a little under 11,000 people whose only real strategic importance is A) a salt mine, where some folks think Putin's boys expect to store materials (Ask anyone who's ever worked in a salt/ potash mine what that stuff does to metal when it hits atmospheric moisture again to find out how good an idea that is for anything but... food maybe?) and B) the fact that it is a convenient place to hold North of the *_larger_* town Bakhmut (pop just over 71,000). Russian forces have been stopped at Bakhmut, unable to take the city, since around mid-October. A few weeks ago it was thought that a push was likely to surround and overwhelm the Ukrainian barriers that had been put up to reinforce it, but thankfully what looked to be an inevitable retreat out of the town (Main road is the highway north-west to the even larger and more heavily fortified cities of Solviansk [pop 105,000] and Kramatorsk [pop 147,00] ) turned into a solid defense, with Russians gaining the fields up to town and a few suburbs but no more. The front line has been creeping into town slowly, but the Ukrainian army outside of Bakhmut has been doing really well at preventing even a 3/4 or 2/3 surround so far. So, this great Russian victory we're not being told about is a small town that can be held to make flanking a larger town easier, so that they can conceivably take it and finally start goose-stepping down the road to where the *_real_* defenses are waiting for them. After 12-13 weeks or so. With *_heavy_* casualties. Good thing news of this great Russian victory hasn't been leaked to us poor, ignorant Westerners, eh? XD At this rate it'll only be 30-40 years before they're marching on Kyiv again! We'd better not anger such a powerful force by, I dunno, maybe... giving Ukraine a bunch of tanks or anything! *_XD_* EDIT: Population figures were from _before_ the fighting started. Any civilians still there are there by *_their own_* choice, _despite_ authorities telling them to get out of there over the last few months. ANOTHER EDIT: My main source for this has been a guy called Denys Davydov [ www.youtube.com/@DenysDavydov ], a Ukrainian pilot/ aviation nerd whose channel used to be about motorcycles and traveling, but has over the past several months become a pretty much daily recap of publicly available news and troop movements re: Ukraine. He's also quite happy to point out and decry Ukrainian officials' corruption, too.
Very good summary. Let me add...the town of Soledar was defended by two brigades (about 8000 men) and attacked by at some point at least 60.000 russian soldiers. Both brigades were able to reposition at the second defensive line relativly intact. We don't know real numbers yet, but it seems that Ukraine lost a couple hundred men, KIA and wounded, while Russia lost aproximatly 10k KIA and at least another 10k wounded. Every attempt to breach the next ukrainian line so far has been unsuchessful. In most cases Russia wasn't able to press with enough men to break through. Almost as if wasting men at a rate of 50:1 wasn't a sustainable way to keep momentum. For reference...a usual rate for storming fortifyed positions is between 3:1 and 5:1
"so that they can conceivably take it and finally start goose-stepping down the road to where the real defenses are waiting for them. After 12-13 weeks or so." not an expert here, but i thought they'd been driving towards Bakmut since August or so. that after their huge retreat from Kyiv, they'd set their sights solidly on Bakmut so they could gain complete control of Donestk. my understanding was Bakmut/Donetsk was the end goal there, so they could at least claim the region. and that for this reason the UA army had made it a last stand position. and i haven't heard anything about solviansk etc. i can understand if my impressions are wrong from not having consumed as much about the war as you.
@@vforwombat9915 no...for all of those oblasts they need to take the towns west of Bakhmut as well. Bigger cities. Better defended. And with more difficult approach routes for an attacker. Bakhmut has always been just a stepping stone. That said...they might declare it was always their end goal if they actually ever get it. Their military is that inept now, anything else might seem out of reach.
After the battle, the rebel forces that eventually became the Continental Army under George Washington’s command encircled Boston and besieged it. After seizing some high ground close enough for Washington’s forces to use cannons (captured earlier the same year at Fort Ticonderoga) to shell the British forces in Boston, the British left and shipped up to Halifax to plot their next move.
@@peterweller8583Unless you live or work near Charlestown, MA. People definitely talk about it, but it’s kind of a local symbol of why we need to stay humble about legends. At least it was for my colleagues.
Hey Beau. I keenly remember your videos on Switzerland changing stances with regards to the invasion of UKR and how you stressed the importance of this historically neutral country taking sides. Interestingly there are now calls in the Swiss parliament to loosen export restrictions of arms produced in Switzerland, to allow them to be farther exported, e.g. into UKR. I'm sure it's on your radar already.
Saw the title and this old American colonial historian smiled. Knew just where you were going. Even that 3rd wave of the Brit attack was almost stopped. Retreated to Boston, hunkered down and, except for coastal raids, stayed there until the evacuation on 17 March 1776. The frustrated Brits resorted to terror bombing by their frigates of civilians at Charlestown and Falmouth, Maine to pass the time. You are getting very adroit at sticking the ending. Appreciated.
Having spent a winter in Boston, and knowing that the Bay was much bigger in 1776 (and the world colder on average), I can imagine what the evacuation was like. March 17 was probably the first day the Royal transport ships could get through the ice floes. The raw winds whipped the sails as the frostbitten soldiers piled on board. The Crown was not ready to give up, though, because they still had Manhattan and Long Island. The good Tories of New York colony would surely help them prevail!
The fact that they are SO DESPERATE as to consider the capture of an unimportant small town at the loss of that many troops to be a victory... that says all you need to know about the state of the war.
Thanks for you videos, Beau! Love from Zaporizhzhia as always. Watching your channel - sounds of artillery in the distance noticed by all the dogs and cats, but not people anymore. There's no fear or panick because we have allies and partners like you.
The notion that you are "obligated" to cover this or any topic is -- well, interesting. That said, the Bunker Hill legacy is a good reminder for us all. Thanks for taking time to give us your thought process. 🙏🏽
Don't worry Beau, you can barely call it "victory" because taking a city of 10 thousand after almost half a year with huge losses with tens of similar size cities ahead isn't exactly making a dent. Only win is propaganda one yet people not exactly buying that
Back just before HIMARS arrived, the Russian forces were taking land at a rate where it would take them 83 years to capture the rest of Ukraine. It has slowed down. They had a day within the past week where they took 3K casualties. Another reality I hold onto is that towns like Soledar have lost nearly every structure as the AFU defended the town. In retreat, Russia will find it rather hard to defend Soledar as they won't have any structures to use themselves.
@@barbeonline351 The Russians' ghoulish strategy of leveling the towns they claim to want to "liberate" makes it really hard for me to understand the armchair left that still support them. But I guess if you believe all non-russian media including people on the ground are just a big imperialist conspiracy you can believe anything.
@@Aktomik Do we have a language barrier here? "Armchair Left who still support them"? Is the them Russia? I only know those on the Right who can find praise for Putin. Sorry, I don't find your statements clear, nor can I tell if you agree with me or are being critical.
@@barbeonline351 I don't see the comment to which you replied so please excuse me if I'm missing something vital. While most of those supporting Russia seem to be on the right, there is a (shrinking, but still extant) subset of the left whose analysis seems essentially to run as follows: the US is an evil imperialist-captialist power, and NATO exists in large part to serve its geopolitical interests. Therefore, that which opposes the power of NATO is good. Therefore Ukrainian annexation by Russia (preventing it joining the EU and/or NATO) would be good. Therefore support Russia in this war. I don't agree with it and I think it stems from ignoring that Russia is also an imperialist power, but it's a perspective that's still out there.
@@DaraelDraconis Wow, you must live in a different part of the world than me. I only see fractions of the Right who actually espouse a purported sensibility in courting favor with Putin given the potential economic benefits. The Left only see Putin as a danger to humankind, and if the Ukrainians are willing to field an army against him, then open up the warehouses and send them what we can. Thanks for the perspective.
It's a small salt mine with a couple dozen small homes around it. The Russians sent over 10k men to take this small town. They extended the front line 4 kilometers and lost well over 2k men in the process. I'm using the smaller estimation on purpose, some reports have the death toll on the Russian side closer to 5k men. Russians don't have an inexhaustible amount of men. You can't conscript 1.5 million men without economic and political consequences. You can't lose 122k KIA and another 300k wounded and not suffer consequences.
The Soviets took up to 300,000 KIA in both the Winter War with Finland and Operation Mars one of the operations to relieve the Siege of Stalingrad. The latter operation, Stalin referred to as a diversion. Russia does not have that number of troops. Putin seems to think he is still fighting WW2. I do not get his strategy.
Your KIA « estimate » has one zero too many. The most reliable western source give between 11 and 15.000 KIA.Applying the same counting methodology for the Ukrainian side will give you way over 100.000 KIAs btw.
@@nihluxler1890 The 122K Russian KIA figure is a conservative estimate based on what was verified by Western Intelligence. The real number is probably much higher than that. You Russian scum have littered Ukraine with your corpses. And despite all the work your mobile crematoriums have put in in Ukraine, you can't hide your dead. These tremendous losses also correspond with increased conscription inside Russia to the tune of hundreds of thousands of additional conscripted men.
Funny little anecdote for me personally. Every year in South Bound Brook and Bound Brook jointly, the towns reenact the Battle of Bound Brook. We lost that battle, but the British were unable to win the objective. General Lincoln managed to escape, as did our badly outnumbered troops with little loss. Because the British knew that the Americans were still out there, they couldn't hold the town and the local rebel organizers were also free to keep working. Thus the Enemy withdrew. The Americans regrouped and came back. My daughter always asked why we make a big deal out of a defeat. I can't seem to impress on her the pyrrhic nature of the British victory. Sure not a huge battle like Monmouth or Brandywine but part of the strategic importance of the area and a big deal locally. We won and the Brits lost, just by our living to fight another day.
It's reassuring to hear you say that, but quite often I get worried about how many people russia has to use as cannon fodder. They don't seem to care about their losses, and there are so much more of them than us in Ukraine. Fun fact, Soledar can be translated as 'the gift of salt,' as there are salt mines in that town
Remember, the word is out that many Russian conscripts are sent without basic gear, many are listed as "missing" but known to have been in major explosions, and their mothers are angry that the leaders don't seem to care. It's only just over a hundred years since this sort of thing led to a revolution...
@@old_grey_cat hmm, it's almost February... if we have another February Revolution, can we have another October Revolution, too? ;) (But seriously: what a loss... may it at least create a revolution of mind in the direction of anti-authoritarianism.)
Bunker Hill, Pork Chop Hill, Dien Bien Phu, Hamburger Hill, Hill 231; there are countless historical examples of what's known as a Pyrrhic victory. A piece of hard-won real estate that doesn't amount to a hill of beans.
"History nerds just let it go. That's what everybody knows it as." That's one of the reasons why I am such a fan of your channel. And now we get to learn about pyrrhic victory without actually using the term. Though you can always cover that. Might be a good video.
I just watched Beau educate people about my hometown’s place in history … it’s an amazing day already! The next time I walk passed the Bunker Hill Monument, & the statue of Col. William Prescott, I’m going to tell them about the patriot, Beau of the Fifth Column (JK), who endeavors to keep alive the true American spirit, for which they fought so hard to achieve! Thank you, Beau!
My grandfather ww2 vet if battle of the bulge used to say whats a victory when so many are lost to us in the ground.. heartbreakingly sad..thoughts of someone has to be hurt to gain your victory what kind of victory has honour in someones death...
I love how when people beg for it you give it to them with both barrels. Keep bring the news the way you do and I'll keep coming to hear it. Always leaving the thumbs up for a job well done!
Soledar was a small town of approximately 10,000 people and is now reduced to rubble. Although there are no definitive numbers publicly available, Russian casualties are estimated to be in the 10s of thousands. This is the kind of victory that would make King Pyrrhus blush.
Reminds me of the price that was paid on hamburger Hill..won it to let it go...to re-fight for it's position again.... hundreds of lives lost...just insane...and all the politicians wanted to hear was body count numbers 👀👀🤦🏿♂️🤦🏿♂️🤦🏿♂️
Soladar is a city that runs along a small river valley and encompasses a series of open and underground salt mines. The Russians saw it as a pathway to the north of Bakhmut that it could exploit to encircle that city. Soladar was very heavily defended and the Russians resorted to WW1 tactics of sending wave after wave of infantry to storm the town by force of numbers. Each wave did pinpoint where the Ukrainian defenders were and were not so the next wave could focus on the weak spot. The Wagner force had the main task here and lost nearly two-thirds of its forces to gain a foothold on the edge of the town. to the south of the town, the Russians were using similar tactics in a bid to encircle it which they nearly did but the Ukrainian forces made tactical retreats to the natural barrier of a river where their main forces were located. The Russians did take Soladar but at a staggering cost of men and they are doing this at various points along the line for very little gain. They have not managed to encircle Bakhmut or stop it from being resupplied by Ukraine. These infantry waves are being done by the least fit or trained men first or the Wagner prison conscripts and seeing where these men are cut down or not lets them direct the second waves to the quieter spots and then they use the better troops for further waves. The tactic has given them some gains in some places but it is not leading to universal gains but it is chewing up a mountain of men which is not being reported back home. A Russian soldier that was wounded and captured said how he had been in the field hospital after having shrapnel removed from his back and was tagged to be moved to a main hospital for more surgery but the truck they all got into delivered them to the front at Soladar where he got wounded a second time. Its fight and be shot by the Ukrainians or don't fight and be shot by your own side.
That makes so little sense it actually hurts. The disparity in artillery (both guns and shell consumption) is 10 to 20/1 in favor of Russia. People who think the « mass wave attack » sh!t is true have an actual physical piece of their brain missing out of over-consuming propaganda every day.
Pyrrhus of Epirus beat the Romans twice and took so many losses he said "Another l victory like that and we're done for". Hence, Pyrrhic victory. History might not repeat, but it rhymes.
Looking past the mango tree's blooms. The lush green rice fields. We don't care if we have any mango's. You can't give them away when everyone's tree's have the same. My wife just made a Turkish pizza. Then Beau makes me laugh with good history.
It's always motivating to be told what my obligations are, by people who have no idea what commitments I've made or in what context. I'm not motivated to be as gracious as you, but then I don't have the sense of irony and pathos that you have. Bravo, Beau!
The best general description of this war I've heard in the last few months is, 'Ukraine is tallying its victories in square kilometers, Russia by streets, homes, gas stations, garbage dumps and the occasional town of dubious strategic import.' I know which side I'd rather be on.
When you're constantly taking L's you gotta emphasize the little wins. They gotta celebrate and pretend like Soledar was Kyiv. Also be sure NOT to mention the huge costs it took to get this "win".
Soledar would be the equivalent of if Russia had rushed 12 BTGs into Lyman only to have all of them be encircled and destroyed, and still lose the city. It wasn’t a pyrrhic victory for Russia, it was a pyrrhic defeat for Ukraine.
@@nihluxler1890 except there is no evidence for ukraine have suffered anything close to the losses Russia did, lowest i have seen outside russian propaganda i 6:1 in favour of ukraine
A more recent but less patriotic to Americans example would be the battle of hamburger Hill. Our boys paid a huge toll to take a hill with little strategic value. After they took it, command had them abandon it soon after.
Stepping back just a bit I always wonder if when Beau provides his educational response whether the information siloed Challenger learns anything. That's not any abuse of Beau but of the people who absolutely think they know "the truth".
Reminds me that ANZAC day commemorates the landing at Gallipoli. And that again makes me want to listen to Eric Bogle's "And the Band Played 'Waltzing Matilda'", or even better, Johnny Drew's take on the same song.
This is my bedtime story every night! I watch Beau teach a lesson to someone who "knows" things, I get a glimmer of hope that the world isn't completely screwed, and I get some sleep before I have to go out into the world and be worn down by stupid as if I were limestone and republicans were weather erosion for the entire 6000 years they believe the Earth was here.
As a cook in the us army,(a-no-body) you can't win every battle, sometimes its best to strategically retreat to a better position. As a COOK I know this. So should you.
"Please show the Russian victories. Youre doing a disservice" What Russian victories? Russia already lost and prolonging this any further is what Beau calls Waste
Beau, you know you’ve “made it” when people start to claim that you have obligations to them as though you were a public utility. Welcome to the machine! - Pink Floyd
The only obligation people have is to do the research and portray the facts in as neutral way as possible. It's not always easy, but Beau seems to have the knack. He calls out the rhetoric and gives the actual factual and historical details.
This was actually really good. Great way to express what's happening. A tragedy for sure, but not the major loss some are thinking. Been reporting on Ukraine for 3 years now, looooot of stuff the general public gets wrong
Russia is less adept at grabbing dirt now than at the beginning of the war. Betcha they’ll be even less adept at holding it. Leopards, the face eating kind and the large armored kind, will appear for their meal…and they won’t be disappointed.
Idk if it's more consolation or dread-inducing for you, personally, but the overwhelming emotion Putin will be feeling for most of the rest of his life is desperation.
Malignant narcissists don't have feelings. I don't care about him... when he's gone they'll provide another. The enemy is not one leader, it's fascism. We will defeat it together, like we did in 1945.
I missed this a week ago. Thank you for the info about Bunker Hill. I appreciate how very sad you are about both the losses and devastation of a fighting unit. I appreciate how effectively you teach about history/mythology.
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Hi to the night shift
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Hi Beau.. 😊
Good evening Beau! Always a pleasure. 🤝
Good to be here, Beau. Thanks for all that you bring to the world.
Not exactly night here, but greetings from Ukraine. Thanks for the support
When Beau starts out in a snarky/sarcastic tone with a schoolhouse rock shirt on, you know some short sighted conservative is about to get schooled about something they should have known from the start :)
yeah you got that right love his shirt
I can't speak for Beau, but I would be surprised if he doesn't see these 'conservatives' as useful idiots for the Russians.
Probably someone from the right, but not necessarily.
There is still a bunch of left-wing Tankies left, that cheer for RuZZia, even though it's anything but socialist, BUT:
America BAD. ..and everybody resisting RuZZia is just an American vassal, etc. Bla bla.
The only obligation Beau has in my book is remaining intellectually honest about everything he DOES report on!
Being a short sighted conservative that wasn’t schooled and agrees with the assessment. I’d like to hear about what the feeling is about the Abrams tank situation. I’ve got mixed thoughts.
We'd have won at Bunker Hill but we hadn't taken the airports from the British yet.
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Thst one will never get old.
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@Beau of the Fifth Columb... I see you're up late (commenting) as I am. I'm currently working at the border providing health care to asylum seekers, which is irrelevant to my question/statement. I'm an indigenous woman living in Oklahoma, raising native kids in our homelands. Oklahoma is poised to enact the most barbaric anti-trans laws in the nation, banning affirming care until 21 or 26 years of age. How can woke parents fight this, short of moving to a blue state, when our tribal services are most available to folks who live on the reservation, I mean ACLU?! SOMEBODY FUCKING HELP US... My trans kid should be left unbothered by the state, the same way they are left unHELPED by the state in terms of infrastructure and education and health care and mental health..... but no. Red states are actively seeking to kill the very care my kid needs to NOT KILL THEMSELVES. PLEASE.... do a video on this... spread awareness... and advise this terrified native mama.
I'll see what I can dig up
@@BeauoftheFifthColumn ruclips.net/video/YPdYk4-y3jY/видео.html thank you so much..... here's a lead.
looking back quite a ways to books I have read in the past one thing I remember was I was impressed by how the indigenous people seemed to be accepting of what is now called Trans people. I hope that things look up for you and thanks for taking care of the asylum seekers. May you and yours be blessed.
I don't know how much this is worth, but... sending love to you and your kid. And I hope Beau can indeed dig up something that'll be helpful for you!
As an adult living in a quaint little spot of rural nowhere between the townships of Negro Bend and Gay (seriously, I am not joking) who's finally come to terms with the fact that they are Trans and just began working-up the courage to seek-out resources and affirming care (because again, rural, Negro Bend, Gay).... *sigh* fuck this state.
Beau: "In 1775, during the Siege of Boston, there was the Battle of Bunker Hill."
Sam: "WELL ACTUALLY..." 🧐
Beau: "History nerds, just let it go. That's what everybody knows it as." 😑
Sam: "Oh, okay. Fair enough."😆
Great video as always, but getting called out in the first two minutes made me laugh at myself - which is usually a healthy thing for an arrogant know-it-all and pedant like me 😉😁
Eh? *googles*
LOLOLOL
And now I know the real name of the hill it was fought on.
Beau: "...the battle of Bunker Hill..."
Me (thinking): (Which actually took place on Breed's Hill.)
Beau: "History nerds, just let it go. That's what everybody knows it as."
Me: (Busted!) 🤣
Thermobaric Beau. You sure know how to suck the air out of someone's position and leave behind nothing but smoldering rubble. Well played Sir. Well played.
The OP probably doesn't understand that smell of "pyrrhic victory" was a roasting of OP?
BLU-82 of the Fifth Column?
@@patrickjordan2233 Nothing else in the world smells like that.
Thermobaric... that's a keeper.
ThermoBEAUric, might be a word, eh?
I thank you for fulfilling your obligations, Beau. Even if it pains you to do so, you bravely soldier forward.
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One should not be 'pained' to be honest; it should come naturally, with integrity.
@@grantallard I suspect there was a heavy dose of sarcasm in that comment.
It's good to have a history lesson occasionally. All too often, we remember the myth, forget the reality, and misunderstand what an event really means.
@@grantallard
If there's no pain involved in being honest, it's easy. But being honest often isn't easy. That's what integrity is.
Hope Ukrainians will look back on this day and still say 'Tanksgiving' 🇺🇦
Your wrong
Tanksgiving is on the 25th
@@geoff4383 my bad
Ukie Farm Ops will have a field day with this one.
Very clever!
Kung fury: tank... you...
History nerd here: happened at Breed's Hill for those that don't know
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@@briansmutti Mutti!!! 🤗💜♾️
Bingo. Not only didn’t the Colonists win the Battle of Bunker Hill, it wasn’t even fought on Bunker Hill. (It’s pretty well known among people in the greater Boston area, but not much further afield.)
@James David Walley but the battle did give the colonist hope of holding their own and even possible victory in a war as the British suffered heavy losses compared to the colonists.
***twitching*** ****twitching***
Furthermore, Ukraine does have another "hill" to sell at the same price per square meter: Bakhmut. And it looks like the Russians intend to make the purchase.
7 months later.... good call.
The phrase to describe this, is a Pyrrhic victory. Named for the Greek king and general Pyrrhus of Epirus He is said to have stated, after defeating the Romans, "If we are victorious in one more battle with the Romans, we shall be utterly ruined".
His victory proved unsustainable due to losses and Greek control over southern Italy soon ended. The old Romans, before the Empire, were a hard bunch. Ornery as hell and mean as they come. They loved a good fight, getting in close behind their shields and stabbing opponents in the torso, legs, and groin with their gladii. The best thing an opponent could do was ambush them and hit their the flanks and rear with heavy cavalry and fast moving infantry, like Hannibal. Fighting them head on without any other plan was suicide.
@@patrickcannady2066 I chuckle to myself everytime I think about the psychological effect of war elephants
@@FarmerDrew They're easily countered by war mice. According to Looney Tunes, anyway.
@@CantankerousDave 🤣
@@patrickcannady2066 that battle happened before the romans were equipped with the glaudis. That battle and Hannibxl's later campagns jappened before the marian reforms that created the legionair roman army we all know. In fact it was the lessons taken from those two wars that lead to the marian reforms.
I learned a lesson, oddly enough, from a drunk teenager. He said, "We all [sic] can't be winners all the time." It hit me in this super profound way because I realized that the future wasn't about who won or who lost in the moment. It was based on how you continued forward from each victory or defeat.
'We all can't be winners all the time" has become the mantra I use. To me it means, "what are you going to do to move passed this?"
Getting knocked down doesn't make you a loser. Knocking someone down doesn't make you a winner. What makes a winner is someone that keeps getting up after being knocked down.
A loser stays down.
Or stays still when they've knocked someone down
@@robinkelly1770 oof, yeah. It's not a victory if you don't capitalize on the opening you've created.
At first I read "We all [hic] can't be winners all the time", which made me chuckle. For once I'm glad I forgot to clean my glasses before reading a comment lol
@@leyrua that's true, I opened the fridge, kept talking, and he walked up behind me. He cracked open the beer and I realized, "He just took my last beer! What the hell!?" That's when he said the thing and everyone got a good laugh.
@@Torsion I'm not sure I'm too impressed with your parenting, though.
I'm really enjoying these late night videos, I get to watch them while I have my evening tea and solitude. This night owl appreciates you! ✌️
Early morning video for me and a great way to get my braincells working when even tea is struggling.
🦉 I salute you fellow night owl!
@@TheGrannyNut same for me. Great to wake up to a new video in the morning as I'm getting ready for work.
The number of graves at a cemetery used by Russia's notorious mercenary Wagner Group has dramatically grown over the last two months, satellite images show. A photograph taken on Jan. 24 by Maxar Technologies, a U.S. defense contractor headquartered in Colorado, shows at least 121 burial plots in a section of the cemetery allotted to fighters from the private military company. An image of the same area taken on Nov. 24 appears to show around 17 graves, suggesting that in two months there has been around a sevenfold increase, according to an NBC News analysis of the site on the outskirts of the village of Bakinskaya, in southwestern Russia.
History nerd checking in. A direct ancestor of mine stood with Prescott on Breed's Hill. Another difference here is that the "Russian Bear" is far, far weaker than the British Empire was in 1775. The sun didn't set on the latter until the 20th Century. The former was finished 30 years ago, but didn't know it until now.
As far as I know Dak Prescott, the Cowboys quarterback, could be a direct descendant of this Prescott guy.
We could have a very long argument about how weak the British empire was in 1775. It was certainly struggling to cope with governing 14 colonies (counting Canada) in North America as well as managing Ireland's problems, and trying to govern India through a shell company. In 1780 there were massive riots in London, encouraged by an anti-Catholic nobleman who said, more or less, "the Papists are about to replace us." In my view this system narrowly avoided total collapse through a series of major reforms (starting with letting the United States go) until the more stable Victorian Empire emerged.
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Losing the American colonies was the necessary push to get the much needed reforms going.
Little appreciated fact, but a great many people left America for Canada after independence. Canada was close to going the same way as the American colonies until this influx rendered the population ultra loyal. Combined with the reforms it pushed Canadian independence back nearly 100 years.
@@Winspur1982 In my case, the lineage is not "as far as I know." My mother spent years documenting her father's family history, and earned a place in the Daughters of the American Revolution. My ancestor was there. A key player? No...just a guy with a musket. But he was there on that hill.
@@gordonmills2748 I respect that. I climbed the hill 9 or 10 years ago and saw the monument.
@@magnificentbastard5085 The way I look at it, the stable "sun never setting" British Empire that some are nostalgic for, that was only created in 1858 with the winding down of the East India Company and Canadian independence / self-rule ten years later.
But starting with the South African War in 1900 (the reasons for that: equally silly as the 2003 Iraq War), that structure started to totter.
History nerds just let it go. 🤣😃😂
Nb4 Breeds Hill
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@@BeauoftheFifthColumn I felt like you were staring at me when you said it. I let it go 🙂
@@SiriusMined I wish more people were like you ☺️
🎶Let it go, let it gooooooooo! Breed's Hill never bothered me anyway!🎶
FYI, all: Soledar is a town of a little under 11,000 people whose only real strategic importance is A) a salt mine, where some folks think Putin's boys expect to store materials (Ask anyone who's ever worked in a salt/ potash mine what that stuff does to metal when it hits atmospheric moisture again to find out how good an idea that is for anything but... food maybe?) and B) the fact that it is a convenient place to hold North of the *_larger_* town Bakhmut (pop just over 71,000).
Russian forces have been stopped at Bakhmut, unable to take the city, since around mid-October. A few weeks ago it was thought that a push was likely to surround and overwhelm the Ukrainian barriers that had been put up to reinforce it, but thankfully what looked to be an inevitable retreat out of the town (Main road is the highway north-west to the even larger and more heavily fortified cities of Solviansk [pop 105,000] and Kramatorsk [pop 147,00] ) turned into a solid defense, with Russians gaining the fields up to town and a few suburbs but no more. The front line has been creeping into town slowly, but the Ukrainian army outside of Bakhmut has been doing really well at preventing even a 3/4 or 2/3 surround so far.
So, this great Russian victory we're not being told about is a small town that can be held to make flanking a larger town easier, so that they can conceivably take it and finally start goose-stepping down the road to where the *_real_* defenses are waiting for them. After 12-13 weeks or so. With *_heavy_* casualties.
Good thing news of this great Russian victory hasn't been leaked to us poor, ignorant Westerners, eh? XD At this rate it'll only be 30-40 years before they're marching on Kyiv again! We'd better not anger such a powerful force by, I dunno, maybe... giving Ukraine a bunch of tanks or anything! *_XD_*
EDIT: Population figures were from _before_ the fighting started. Any civilians still there are there by *_their own_* choice, _despite_ authorities telling them to get out of there over the last few months.
ANOTHER EDIT: My main source for this has been a guy called Denys Davydov [ www.youtube.com/@DenysDavydov ], a Ukrainian pilot/ aviation nerd whose channel used to be about motorcycles and traveling, but has over the past several months become a pretty much daily recap of publicly available news and troop movements re: Ukraine. He's also quite happy to point out and decry Ukrainian officials' corruption, too.
Very good summary.
Let me add...the town of Soledar was defended by two brigades (about 8000 men) and attacked by at some point at least 60.000 russian soldiers.
Both brigades were able to reposition at the second defensive line relativly intact.
We don't know real numbers yet, but it seems that Ukraine lost a couple hundred men, KIA and wounded, while Russia lost aproximatly 10k KIA and at least another 10k wounded.
Every attempt to breach the next ukrainian line so far has been unsuchessful. In most cases Russia wasn't able to press with enough men to break through. Almost as if wasting men at a rate of 50:1 wasn't a sustainable way to keep momentum.
For reference...a usual rate for storming fortifyed positions is between 3:1 and 5:1
Thank you for the great explanation @BoojumFed
Isn't there also a gypsum mine? For concrete? For fortifying? That's bad
"so that they can conceivably take it and finally start goose-stepping down the road to where the real defenses are waiting for them. After 12-13 weeks or so."
not an expert here, but i thought they'd been driving towards Bakmut since August or so. that after their huge retreat from Kyiv, they'd set their sights solidly on Bakmut so they could gain complete control of Donestk.
my understanding was Bakmut/Donetsk was the end goal there, so they could at least claim the region.
and that for this reason the UA army had made it a last stand position.
and i haven't heard anything about solviansk etc.
i can understand if my impressions are wrong from not having consumed as much about the war as you.
@@vforwombat9915 no...for all of those oblasts they need to take the towns west of Bakhmut as well. Bigger cities. Better defended. And with more difficult approach routes for an attacker.
Bakhmut has always been just a stepping stone.
That said...they might declare it was always their end goal if they actually ever get it.
Their military is that inept now, anything else might seem out of reach.
We fooled them. They thought that they captured Bunker Hill, all they got was Breed's Hill!
Preach
@@peterweller8583 All these years, I was mishearing my grandfather complaining about it...
@@larnotlars1717 I read it in a text book seems like a thousand years ago.
It really does not come up very often and certainly not in polite company.
After the battle, the rebel forces that eventually became the Continental Army under George Washington’s command encircled Boston and besieged it. After seizing some high ground close enough for Washington’s forces to use cannons (captured earlier the same year at Fort Ticonderoga) to shell the British forces in Boston, the British left and shipped up to Halifax to plot their next move.
@@peterweller8583Unless you live or work near Charlestown, MA. People definitely talk about it, but it’s kind of a local symbol of why we need to stay humble about legends. At least it was for my colleagues.
Hey Beau. I keenly remember your videos on Switzerland changing stances with regards to the invasion of UKR and how you stressed the importance of this historically neutral country taking sides.
Interestingly there are now calls in the Swiss parliament to loosen export restrictions of arms produced in Switzerland, to allow them to be farther exported, e.g. into UKR. I'm sure it's on your radar already.
Yep it's already in a soon too be released video
WOW, now they've done it!!
They've pissed the Swiss off. 😡
@@michaelmartinez3674 And the Swiss are REALLY good at poking holes in things. Have you seen their cheese?
If Switzerland want to keep an arms industry, they’ll have to change their stance.
@@OldMrFrodo 😂🤣laughed entirely way to hard when I read that.
In Australia, we have Gallipoli.
Lest we forget.
Absent friends.
This is exactly the reason why real history should be taught in schools. Thank you Beau.
No chance for real history to be taugh in russia. Or in american red states (same difference).
Saw the title and this old American colonial historian smiled. Knew just where you were going. Even that 3rd wave of the Brit attack was almost stopped. Retreated to Boston, hunkered down and, except for coastal raids, stayed there until the evacuation on 17 March 1776. The frustrated Brits resorted to terror bombing by their frigates of civilians at Charlestown and Falmouth, Maine to pass the time. You are getting very adroit at sticking the ending. Appreciated.
Having spent a winter in Boston, and knowing that the Bay was much bigger in 1776 (and the world colder on average), I can imagine what the evacuation was like. March 17 was probably the first day the Royal transport ships could get through the ice floes. The raw winds whipped the sails as the frostbitten soldiers piled on board. The Crown was not ready to give up, though, because they still had Manhattan and Long Island. The good Tories of New York colony would surely help them prevail!
As soon as you said Bunker Hill I started to grin as I knew exactly the point you were making...well done !
Man! if I could teach my students as half as well as Beau can lecture on U-tube, I would win an award. Great stuff, as always Beau, and thanks again!
The fact that they are SO DESPERATE as to consider the capture of an unimportant small town at the loss of that many troops to be a victory... that says all you need to know about the state of the war.
Winning can be more devastating than losing.
Donny dotard and brexit prove that.
Just look at Ukraines offensives.
@@nihluxler1890 when the alternative is russian rule, I think it might just be worth it.
@@nihluxler1890 Exactly. They already lost all of the Bradley IFV before they even reached Ukraine.
Sometimes called a Pyrrhic victory.
Way to drop some relevant history on us Beau. Haven't thought about Bunker Hill in decades. Nice!
Thanks for you videos, Beau! Love from Zaporizhzhia as always. Watching your channel - sounds of artillery in the distance noticed by all the dogs and cats, but not people anymore.
There's no fear or panick because we have allies and partners like you.
The notion that you are "obligated" to cover this or any topic is -- well, interesting. That said, the Bunker Hill legacy is a good reminder for us all. Thanks for taking time to give us your thought process. 🙏🏽
I don't know what that battle was but "History nerds, let it go" made my morning!
The battle was actually fought on Breed's Hill, which is nearby. (The Americans had gotten lost in the dark.)
Tldr; The Hill on which the battle was fought was not actually Bunker Hill. It was a different Hill, namely Breed's Hill.
@@TheWolfHowling tldr? It was a sentence 🤦🏼♂️
@@TheWolfHowling what was too long to read? Your comment is the longest one.
Yet they came here to mansplain anyway.
Don't worry Beau, you can barely call it "victory" because taking a city of 10 thousand after almost half a year with huge losses with tens of similar size cities ahead isn't exactly making a dent. Only win is propaganda one yet people not exactly buying that
Back just before HIMARS arrived, the Russian forces were taking land at a rate where it would take them 83 years to capture the rest of Ukraine. It has slowed down. They had a day within the past week where they took 3K casualties.
Another reality I hold onto is that towns like Soledar have lost nearly every structure as the AFU defended the town. In retreat, Russia will find it rather hard to defend Soledar as they won't have any structures to use themselves.
@@barbeonline351 The Russians' ghoulish strategy of leveling the towns they claim to want to "liberate" makes it really hard for me to understand the armchair left that still support them. But I guess if you believe all non-russian media including people on the ground are just a big imperialist conspiracy you can believe anything.
@@Aktomik Do we have a language barrier here? "Armchair Left who still support them"? Is the them Russia? I only know those on the Right who can find praise for Putin.
Sorry, I don't find your statements clear, nor can I tell if you agree with me or are being critical.
@@barbeonline351 I don't see the comment to which you replied so please excuse me if I'm missing something vital.
While most of those supporting Russia seem to be on the right, there is a (shrinking, but still extant) subset of the left whose analysis seems essentially to run as follows: the US is an evil imperialist-captialist power, and NATO exists in large part to serve its geopolitical interests. Therefore, that which opposes the power of NATO is good. Therefore Ukrainian annexation by Russia (preventing it joining the EU and/or NATO) would be good. Therefore support Russia in this war.
I don't agree with it and I think it stems from ignoring that Russia is also an imperialist power, but it's a perspective that's still out there.
@@DaraelDraconis Wow, you must live in a different part of the world than me.
I only see fractions of the Right who actually espouse a purported sensibility in courting favor with Putin given the potential economic benefits. The Left only see Putin as a danger to humankind, and if the Ukrainians are willing to field an army against him, then open up the warehouses and send them what we can.
Thanks for the perspective.
It's a small salt mine with a couple dozen small homes around it. The Russians sent over 10k men to take this small town. They extended the front line 4 kilometers and lost well over 2k men in the process. I'm using the smaller estimation on purpose, some reports have the death toll on the Russian side closer to 5k men.
Russians don't have an inexhaustible amount of men. You can't conscript 1.5 million men without economic and political consequences. You can't lose 122k KIA and another 300k wounded and not suffer consequences.
The Soviets took up to 300,000 KIA in both the Winter War with Finland and Operation Mars one of the operations to relieve the Siege of Stalingrad.
The latter operation, Stalin referred to as a diversion.
Russia does not have that number of troops.
Putin seems to think he is still fighting WW2.
I do not get his strategy.
Tell that to the Tzar in his palace. I don't think he is listening.
Your KIA « estimate » has one zero too many. The most reliable western source give between 11 and 15.000 KIA.Applying the same counting methodology for the Ukrainian side will give you way over 100.000 KIAs btw.
@@nihluxler1890 The 122K Russian KIA figure is a conservative estimate based on what was verified by Western Intelligence. The real number is probably much higher than that.
You Russian scum have littered Ukraine with your corpses. And despite all the work your mobile crematoriums have put in in Ukraine, you can't hide your dead.
These tremendous losses also correspond with increased conscription inside Russia to the tune of hundreds of thousands of additional conscripted men.
@@nihluxler1890 doesn't that still mean the russians have lost more though, lol.
Funny little anecdote for me personally.
Every year in South Bound Brook and Bound Brook jointly, the towns reenact the Battle of Bound Brook. We lost that battle, but the British were unable to win the objective. General Lincoln managed to escape, as did our badly outnumbered troops with little loss. Because the British knew that the Americans were still out there, they couldn't hold the town and the local rebel organizers were also free to keep working. Thus the Enemy withdrew. The Americans regrouped and came back.
My daughter always asked why we make a big deal out of a defeat. I can't seem to impress on her the pyrrhic nature of the British victory. Sure not a huge battle like Monmouth or Brandywine but part of the strategic importance of the area and a big deal locally. We won and the Brits lost, just by our living to fight another day.
It's reassuring to hear you say that, but quite often I get worried about how many people russia has to use as cannon fodder. They don't seem to care about their losses, and there are so much more of them than us in Ukraine.
Fun fact, Soledar can be translated as 'the gift of salt,' as there are salt mines in that town
Wishing you safety.
@@DavidLindes thank you! This means a lot amidst yet another air raid alert and the sound of explosions in Kyiv
@@AlexNitsu 😢💜 ... glad it means something! Still/again wishing you safety!
Remember, the word is out that many Russian conscripts are sent without basic gear, many are listed as "missing" but known to have been in major explosions, and their mothers are angry that the leaders don't seem to care. It's only just over a hundred years since this sort of thing led to a revolution...
@@old_grey_cat hmm, it's almost February... if we have another February Revolution, can we have another October Revolution, too? ;)
(But seriously: what a loss... may it at least create a revolution of mind in the direction of anti-authoritarianism.)
Your videos are informative and entertaining.
Glad you like them!
Pyrrhic comes to mind for some reason
Precisely.
Bunker Hill, Pork Chop Hill, Dien Bien Phu, Hamburger Hill, Hill 231; there are countless historical examples of what's known as a Pyrrhic victory. A piece of hard-won real estate that doesn't amount to a hill of beans.
Very inspiring. As much as I know that a small hill is not the end of the world, many of us were sad. But this puts it in perspective. Thank you.
"History nerds just let it go. That's what everybody knows it as." That's one of the reasons why I am such a fan of your channel.
And now we get to learn about pyrrhic victory without actually using the term. Though you can always cover that. Might be a good video.
I just watched Beau educate people about my hometown’s place in history … it’s an amazing day already!
The next time I walk passed the Bunker Hill Monument, & the statue of Col. William Prescott, I’m going to tell them about the patriot, Beau of the Fifth Column (JK), who endeavors to keep alive the true American spirit, for which they fought so hard to achieve! Thank you, Beau!
Phirrus comes to mind. Sometimes winning isn’t winning.
Phyrrus, and I was thinking the same thing. "If we are victorious in one more battle with the Romans, we shall be utterly ruined"
Yes, a Phyrric Victory, a term that's been with us since 279 BCE.
My snark is “never use Phyrrus as a tactical guide”
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My grandfather ww2 vet if battle of the bulge used to say whats a victory when so many are lost to us in the ground.. heartbreakingly sad..thoughts of someone has to be hurt to gain your victory what kind of victory has honour in someones death...
Any more victories like this and we will lose the war-Pyrrhus
Way to go Beau..You gave em exactly what they asked for... Brilliant!
This is the old "Be careful what you wish for, you just might get it" in action.
Brilliant history lesson and great perspective! Thanks for your hard work every day to help us keep our sanity.
Now, we have a good community college and a miniature Washington Monument to mark the spot - both named after the "lost" battle of Bunker Hill. 💖
I love how when people beg for it you give it to them with both barrels. Keep bring the news the way you do and I'll keep coming to hear it. Always leaving the thumbs up for a job well done!
Soledar was a small town of approximately 10,000 people and is now reduced to rubble. Although there are no definitive numbers publicly available, Russian casualties are estimated to be in the 10s of thousands. This is the kind of victory that would make King Pyrrhus blush.
That is some bagdad bob spin right there…
@@nihluxler1890 says the side who features today's verson of bagdad bob. How many Leopards and Abrams have you ruskies destroyed today?
Dream on it's your fantasy... obviously you only get US propaganda
Coping well as i can see. Bu hu hu Beau.
And AGAIN this 60 yr old learns something NEW from Beau about my OWN U.S. history. 😉🙏👊✊️👏👍✌️🖐🏽
Reminds me of the price that was paid on hamburger Hill..won it to let it go...to re-fight for it's position again.... hundreds of lives lost...just insane...and all the politicians wanted to hear was body count numbers 👀👀🤦🏿♂️🤦🏿♂️🤦🏿♂️
Soladar is a city that runs along a small river valley and encompasses a series of open and underground salt mines. The Russians saw it as a pathway to the north of Bakhmut that it could exploit to encircle that city. Soladar was very heavily defended and the Russians resorted to WW1 tactics of sending wave after wave of infantry to storm the town by force of numbers. Each wave did pinpoint where the Ukrainian defenders were and were not so the next wave could focus on the weak spot. The Wagner force had the main task here and lost nearly two-thirds of its forces to gain a foothold on the edge of the town. to the south of the town, the Russians were using similar tactics in a bid to encircle it which they nearly did but the Ukrainian forces made tactical retreats to the natural barrier of a river where their main forces were located. The Russians did take Soladar but at a staggering cost of men and they are doing this at various points along the line for very little gain. They have not managed to encircle Bakhmut or stop it from being resupplied by Ukraine. These infantry waves are being done by the least fit or trained men first or the Wagner prison conscripts and seeing where these men are cut down or not lets them direct the second waves to the quieter spots and then they use the better troops for further waves. The tactic has given them some gains in some places but it is not leading to universal gains but it is chewing up a mountain of men which is not being reported back home. A Russian soldier that was wounded and captured said how he had been in the field hospital after having shrapnel removed from his back and was tagged to be moved to a main hospital for more surgery but the truck they all got into delivered them to the front at Soladar where he got wounded a second time. Its fight and be shot by the Ukrainians or don't fight and be shot by your own side.
That makes so little sense it actually hurts. The disparity in artillery (both guns and shell consumption) is 10 to 20/1 in favor of Russia. People who think the « mass wave attack » sh!t is true have an actual physical piece of their brain missing out of over-consuming propaganda every day.
I love how you have brought an understanding of how history can relate to the current day.
Thanks for straightening us out, @Beautfc. Wouldn't want anything overlooked.
Thank you Beau for the example of Bunker Hill.
Pyrrhus of Epirus beat the Romans twice and took so many losses he said "Another l victory like that and we're done for". Hence, Pyrrhic victory.
History might not repeat, but it rhymes.
You're a master teacher!
You would think they'd learn to stop challenging you at some point 🤦♀️...oh well, makes for great content!🤷♀️😂
They don't learn. They never learn.
“I hope we can sell them another lesson at the same cost” 😂
Each one needs to burn their own fingers to learn that the stove is hot.
As one who tracks the genocidal Russian invasion of Ukraine 24/7, your analysis and perspective is spot on. Great job as always. Thanks bro
Looking past the mango tree's blooms. The lush green rice fields. We don't care if we have any mango's. You can't give them away when everyone's tree's have the same. My wife just made a Turkish pizza. Then Beau makes me laugh with good history.
wat is turkish pizza?
It's always motivating to be told what my obligations are, by people who have no idea what commitments I've made or in what context. I'm not motivated to be as gracious as you, but then I don't have the sense of irony and pathos that you have. Bravo, Beau!
The best general description of this war I've heard in the last few months is, 'Ukraine is tallying its victories in square kilometers, Russia by streets, homes, gas stations, garbage dumps and the occasional town of dubious strategic import.' I know which side I'd rather be on.
I started singing along and will now have "The Shot Heard Round the World" stuck in my head the rest of the day.
When you're constantly taking L's you gotta emphasize the little wins. They gotta celebrate and pretend like Soledar was Kyiv. Also be sure NOT to mention the huge costs it took to get this "win".
Or the fact that Wagner Group did the bleeding for it, only to be replaced by regular army for the taking of it... because of internal politics.
Soledar would be the equivalent of if Russia had rushed 12 BTGs into Lyman only to have all of them be encircled and destroyed, and still lose the city.
It wasn’t a pyrrhic victory for Russia, it was a pyrrhic defeat for Ukraine.
@@nihluxler1890 except there is no evidence for ukraine have suffered anything close to the losses Russia did, lowest i have seen outside russian propaganda i 6:1 in favour of ukraine
Fascinating history lesson. Love the way you teach. Thank you
Someone should introduce the author of the note to Beau to Pyrrhus...
... OR Spock - “After a time, you may find that 'having' is not so pleasing a thing after all as 'wanting. ' It is not logical, but it is often true.”
"If we are victorious in one more battle with the Romans, we shall be utterly ruined"
Thanks, Beau, you give me better eyes to see this with.
I love your thoughtful and historical work, Beau!
The only thing better than telling the truth is listening to it.
Thanks, Beau.
(slow, methodical) 👏.... 👏.... 👏.... 👏....
hi Beau appreciate your channel
A more recent but less patriotic to Americans example would be the battle of hamburger Hill. Our boys paid a huge toll to take a hill with little strategic value. After they took it, command had them abandon it soon after.
Stepping back just a bit I always wonder if when Beau provides his educational response whether the information siloed Challenger learns anything. That's not any abuse of Beau but of the people who absolutely think they know "the truth".
Reminds me that ANZAC day commemorates the landing at Gallipoli.
And that again makes me want to listen to Eric Bogle's "And the Band Played 'Waltzing Matilda'", or even better, Johnny Drew's take on the same song.
“One more victory like that and I shall be defeated!”
Outstanding analogy and an outstanding talk.
Was waiting for the schoolhouse rock Beau, you didn’t disappoint.
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This is my bedtime story every night! I watch Beau teach a lesson to someone who "knows" things, I get a glimmer of hope that the world isn't completely screwed, and I get some sleep before I have to go out into the world and be worn down by stupid as if I were limestone and republicans were weather erosion for the entire 6000 years they believe the Earth was here.
And this is why I listen to Beau!
"Pyrrhic Victory" comes to mind.
Perfection, Beau. This thought is perfection.
Imagine the future history lessons in a free Ukraine! There’s going to be much to celebrate
"If you want it that bad, you're gonna pay for it."
As a cook in the us army,(a-no-body) you can't win every battle, sometimes its best to strategically retreat to a better position. As a COOK I know this. So should you.
@@andrelabonte2294 Thank you friend. I am humbled by your comment.
An Army chicken jumped up on the table and started marching time.
An Army bisquit rolled off a table and killed a friend of mine.
Keep on cooking.
Beau " you may be Hated By Many And Loved By Few But You Are Respected By All , And Thank You For Keeping It Real !
Hello Everyone!
Hello Jan.
For once it is me who should be asleep.
Just after midnight here.
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@@shawnr771 Heh. Then do go to sleep I hope you have nice dreams!
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Hi Jan ☺ 🇺🇸💙🇺🇦🕊
Well said sir! Very well said ...
howdy Beau
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Brutal.
"Please show the Russian victories. Youre doing a disservice"
What Russian victories? Russia already lost and prolonging this any further is what Beau calls Waste
That shirt takes me all the way back to my childhood!
Power is officially out at my house because of a generator leak where the wiring goes but still able use my phone data. Pfft
You have helped me remain slightly sane through this mess and I thank you for every single video.
You have no obligations.
Beau, you know you’ve “made it” when people start to claim that you have obligations to them as though you were a public utility.
Welcome to the machine! - Pink Floyd
The only obligation people have is to do the research and portray the facts in as neutral way as possible. It's not always easy, but Beau seems to have the knack. He calls out the rhetoric and gives the actual factual and historical details.
Beau's only "obligations" is to keep EDUCATING the masses, and he does it extremely well. ⭐⭐⭐⭐🙂🇺🇸
This was actually really good. Great way to express what's happening. A tragedy for sure, but not the major loss some are thinking. Been reporting on Ukraine for 3 years now, looooot of stuff the general public gets wrong
Great stuff Beau, get some sleep!
good idea
my watch just told me it’s my bedtime!
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Good morning, lovelies.
👋 howdy
Russia is less adept at grabbing dirt now than at the beginning of the war. Betcha they’ll be even less adept at holding it.
Leopards, the face eating kind and the large armored kind, will appear for their meal…and they won’t be disappointed.
Thank you Beau
If Putin could feel some of the pain he's causing, I'd feel more hope.
Idk if it's more consolation or dread-inducing for you, personally, but the overwhelming emotion Putin will be feeling for most of the rest of his life is desperation.
Malignant narcissists don't have feelings. I don't care about him... when he's gone they'll provide another. The enemy is not one leader, it's fascism. We will defeat it together, like we did in 1945.
@@dynamicworlds1 then I trust his dread is shortlived😁
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yes! that and abject paranoia!
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I missed this a week ago. Thank you for the info about Bunker Hill. I appreciate how very sad you are about both the losses and devastation of a fighting unit. I appreciate how effectively you teach about history/mythology.