Mike Vickers ended up being Under Secretary for Defense Intelligence. He worked both for President George W Bush and Obama. Spend 10 years as an officer in the Army special forces. That nerd was a total badass.
He was also one 51 former intelligence scumbags who signed a letter stating that the Hunter Biden laptop story was Russian disinformation. So he's a liar on top of all that other stuff you just mentioned
Always happy when this pops into my feed. Brilliant film. Phillip’s best role. When his voice cracks while dressing down his boss. Perfection. We lost so much with his passing.
Tony Mendez of Argo fame was asked if he was upset that Ben Affleck played him because Ben is white and Tony was Hispanic. Well Tony made it clear he was not Hispanic he was Spanish. He said his issue with Affleck is that he was too tall and good looking to be a spy. Ben would stick out like a sore thumb in Tehran, where Tony said he was average height, a little over weigh, dark complected and balding. He looked like almost every other man in Iran and no one gave him a second look. Same with Gust, you would look at him and think no way he was a spy.
They say that CIA is the world's largest collection of "sixes". No one remembers sixes. No one notices sixes. Sixes are the grey background in every cityscape on the planet. The only possible reason a spy might be selected for exceptional good looks would be the infiltration of an environment full of beautiful people.
That's the problem with most spy related movies. Real life spies are recruited for having inconspicuous and "average" physical features. The entire point of their appearance is that they are supposed to be unremarkable and forgettable. It is a hell of a lot easier to avoid getting reported for being in a suspicious location after something has happened when nobody even remembers enough about you to make a report. The ultra fit, attractive spy will be remembered for being ultra fit and attractive. It defeats the purpose of being a spy if your very being attracts attention.
The guy was a green beret ragging on the Navy. Standard behavior of all enlisted men to besmerch those from a different branch. Thus, I find your comment rather confusing.
@@siberwolf33 The late Richard Marcinko, who created SEAL Team 6, was a maverick officer--he made rank through promotion rather than go thru Annapolis. If you read his series of books, he isn't shy about his strong distaste for the "ring knocker" graduate officers who stuck together against everyone else, calling them a "mafia". But you are correct, there are belittling nicknames each branch has for others.
SOF has little respect for Naval officers because of the behavior you outlined from Marcinko. It makes more sense for a Green Beret to shit talk naval officers than navy officers to shit talk themselves.
Nowhere in DC that i know of. Maybe around the state dep in foggy bottom? That frieze you can see when it shows the chess players gotta be a recognizable place
The North edge of The Rose Garden at Exposition Park just south of Downtown LA - across the street from USC. The Relief in the background commemorate the 1932 Olympics which were held at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum which is about 100 yards out of frame.
Army vs Navy... Green berets have a 98 percent wash out rate... Navy seals have an 80% wash out. It's the same old song and dance about who is the baddest of the bad.
"They can't get caught with American weapons. That's how a cold war turns hot and we want to keep a good lid on that." Boy if only someone would have taken that advice in Ukraine.
Don't get your pants wet. Exactly which of Putin's "Red lines" has had any meaning whatsoever? Today's Russia is not the Soviet Union. It's a gas station run by gangsters who prey on countries they think are weak. Putin had 30 years to fight Nato and he never did. All he does is bomb civilians wherever he goes.
Oops about Afghanistan. Big mistake from the beginning. Not the same as Ukraine. We have to get it to a stalemate on both sides then we can negotiate peace
huh? what reality you living in? US supporting side against russian controlled govt in entire country, which country has NEVER been controlled by outside country (see England in Afghanistan).. versus US supporting country doing hella good job fighting off invading russia.. that and.. the intelligence US gonna get by providing arms to Ukraine will be significant.. FWIW.. I worked on new army helicopter early this year.. meant to replace 50 year old helicopters. Army cancelled it, realizing drones would be better from what was learned in Ukraine. and.. F-16s to Ukraine. shit, US gonna learn hella lot about russia air defenses.. anyone saying US push Ukraine to cease-fire and they give up some of their country to russia is a dumb fuck that thinks putin in our ally..
Both are proxy wars of larger powers. Innocent people dying over the Ego and greed of lunatic world leaders, & the small group of powerful people who support them.
The mistake was not helping them set up a system of government. Most citizens were not part of the taliban. The ones that were were educated in the west.
@@angellover02171 The mistake was freeing up the Taliban leaders who promptly took back the reins. As soon as the support provided by the boots on the ground was gone, they practically had complete control. The installed government never had a chance against those battle hardened men. Of course we all know who freed them up.
@@angellover02171They were religious extremists revolting against Secular government. One of the biggest reason for the revolt was government trying to ban child marriage and making girls education mandatory
So, the CIA weapon's expert basically just told them that they needed to give the rebels a full suite of weapons to fight a civil war. I don't really think that you needed a weapons expert to tell you this. In all seriousness, this scene speaks to a popular fallacy. It's this idea that if we give a group a certain type of weapon that they'll automatically win the war. War doesn't work that way. Winning a war isn't about any one specific weapon system. It is about developing a coherent, effective strategy to defeat an enemy and procuring very large stockpiles of all sorts of different weapon systems to implement that strategy. In other words, supporting an insurgency against a major power is always going to be an expensive proposition.
People conflate America’s role in the Afghan USSR war. America did directly fund many mujahideen fighters, however by and large it was Pakistan and Saudi Arabia that had cash and were directly involved with all of the parties involved. Makes one wonder how the the Taliban aka the students that the Pakistan version of the cia the isi directly funded and created took over Afghanistan. a country which just so happened to have decades of animosity with Pakistan as they had a long standing border dispute that Pakistan would want to completely cripple as a nation playing the mujahideen off each.
@@NaviRyan Saudi Arabia matched funds with the US, and let the CIA spend it as they wished. The Iran Contra money, was funnelled through the bank account used for this. Pakistan was the path into Afghanistan, they very much wanted their share. From memory in the later years, the British provide a second path in.
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This was such a criminally underrated movie.
I haven't seen it but I will now!
Everything that's ever been done is either _"underrated"_ or _"criminally underrated"_ on RUclips 🙄🙄
@@donarthiazi2443every whiney lil baby with nothing to say points this out
@@wspencerwatkins
HaHaHa 👏 I gotta hand it to you, the way you tied your comment to this video was clever.
Touché spencer.
Doesn’t age well, politically-speaking, but agree.
Mike Vickers ended up being Under Secretary for Defense Intelligence. He worked both for President George W Bush and Obama. Spend 10 years as an officer in the Army special forces. That nerd was a total badass.
Thank you so much for that !
He was also one 51 former intelligence scumbags who signed a letter stating that the Hunter Biden laptop story was Russian disinformation. So he's a liar on top of all that other stuff you just mentioned
Always happy when this pops into my feed. Brilliant film. Phillip’s best role. When his voice cracks while dressing down his boss. Perfection. We lost so much with his passing.
Your greatest legislative achievement in six terms was getting reelected five times lmao
Tony Mendez of Argo fame was asked if he was upset that Ben Affleck played him because Ben is white and Tony was Hispanic. Well Tony made it clear he was not Hispanic he was Spanish. He said his issue with Affleck is that he was too tall and good looking to be a spy. Ben would stick out like a sore thumb in Tehran, where Tony said he was average height, a little over weigh, dark complected and balding. He looked like almost every other man in Iran and no one gave him a second look. Same with Gust, you would look at him and think no way he was a spy.
They say that CIA is the world's largest collection of "sixes". No one remembers sixes. No one notices sixes. Sixes are the grey background in every cityscape on the planet.
The only possible reason a spy might be selected for exceptional good looks would be the infiltration of an environment full of beautiful people.
That's the problem with most spy related movies. Real life spies are recruited for having inconspicuous and "average" physical features. The entire point of their appearance is that they are supposed to be unremarkable and forgettable. It is a hell of a lot easier to avoid getting reported for being in a suspicious location after something has happened when nobody even remembers enough about you to make a report.
The ultra fit, attractive spy will be remembered for being ultra fit and attractive. It defeats the purpose of being a spy if your very being attracts attention.
My brother worked in Government during Charlie Wilson’s time. The stories are true…he was “Good Time Charlie”
My second favorite scene of this great movie. Nice upload that captured the good stuff!
First favorite "That's a thick door!" ???
That is a nice stretch of a take. All of the sudden, the scene makes sense.
One of my all time favorites !
The guy at the second chessboard was Tommy from the show Power.
Thinking the same thing. Good eye!!
@@MikeJea He was also a biker in the first season of True Detective. My wife thinks he looks like Kate Blanchett. Once you see it you can't unsee it.
James Barr
He was also in the first episode of Boardwalk Empire haha
Omg nice
One of my all time favorite movies, great acting and many of the real people/situations are infamous
2:36 - someone's phone got a few Tweets.
40 million dollars. They now give out 100s of billions without batting an eye.
Had he been a Navy SEAL instead who trained with the Green Berets, that crack about a naval officer would make more sense.
The joke is that he was a political officer that joined only long enough to put it on his resume
The guy was a green beret ragging on the Navy. Standard behavior of all enlisted men to besmerch those from a different branch. Thus, I find your comment rather confusing.
@@siberwolf33 The late Richard Marcinko, who created SEAL Team 6, was a maverick officer--he made rank through promotion rather than go thru Annapolis. If you read his series of books, he isn't shy about his strong distaste for the "ring knocker" graduate officers who stuck together against everyone else, calling them a "mafia". But you are correct, there are belittling nicknames each branch has for others.
@alertgasper I don't see the correlation between your comment and Marcinko's perspective.
SOF has little respect for Naval officers because of the behavior you outlined from Marcinko.
It makes more sense for a Green Beret to shit talk naval officers than navy officers to shit talk themselves.
0:25 was that James Barnes
1:10 that is 100% the actor that was frames in Jack Reacher? i have not seen this movie***
thats general hux
What is with that horrible ADR fill on "plausibly" around 2:32?
Tommy Egan plays chess?
The game of life
I saw him too😂😂
he was playing chess with Joseph Sikora!
Ladies and gentlemen... the Taliban!
Not quite. The Taliban would arise in response to the warlord period.
Hollywood's way of writing smart/nerdy people is so cringe.
Anybody know where this scene was filmed?
Nowhere in DC that i know of. Maybe around the state dep in foggy bottom? That frieze you can see when it shows the chess players gotta be a recognizable place
The North edge of The Rose Garden at Exposition Park just south of Downtown LA - across the street from USC. The Relief in the background commemorate the 1932 Olympics which were held at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum which is about 100 yards out of frame.
@ng28 thanks I knew it wasn't DC
CHICKENS COME HOME TO ROOST.
There are a lot of feel good movies about America.
This isn't one of them.
A navy seal with crack your nose with a bad look but why people despise green berets? i dont get it
Army vs Navy... Green berets have a 98 percent wash out rate... Navy seals have an 80% wash out. It's the same old song and dance about who is the baddest of the bad.
These people are so unbelievably evil.
AKM(s plural), not A-K-M-S.
please elaborate. Thank you.
AKMS is a variant of the AKM. It has a metal collapsing stock instead of the full wooden stock.
It's AKM-S's he's referring to, not just AKM's
"They can't get caught with American weapons. That's how a cold war turns hot and we want to keep a good lid on that."
Boy if only someone would have taken that advice in Ukraine.
Don't get your pants wet. Exactly which of Putin's "Red lines" has had any meaning whatsoever? Today's Russia is not the Soviet Union. It's a gas station run by gangsters who prey on countries they think are weak. Putin had 30 years to fight Nato and he never did. All he does is bomb civilians wherever he goes.
Oops about Afghanistan. Big mistake from the beginning. Not the same as Ukraine. We have to get it to a stalemate on both sides then we can negotiate peace
huh? what reality you living in? US supporting side against russian controlled govt in entire country, which country has NEVER been controlled by outside country (see England in Afghanistan).. versus US supporting country doing hella good job fighting off invading russia.. that and.. the intelligence US gonna get by providing arms to Ukraine will be significant.. FWIW.. I worked on new army helicopter early this year.. meant to replace 50 year old helicopters. Army cancelled it, realizing drones would be better from what was learned in Ukraine. and.. F-16s to Ukraine. shit, US gonna learn hella lot about russia air defenses.. anyone saying US push Ukraine to cease-fire and they give up some of their country to russia is a dumb fuck that thinks putin in our ally..
Both are proxy wars of larger powers. Innocent people dying over the Ego and greed of lunatic world leaders, & the small group of powerful people who support them.
The mistake was not helping them set up a system of government. Most citizens were not part of the taliban. The ones that were were educated in the west.
@@angellover02171
The mistake was freeing up the Taliban leaders who promptly took back the reins. As soon as the support provided by the boots on the ground was gone, they practically had complete control. The installed government never had a chance against those battle hardened men. Of course we all know who freed them up.
@@angellover02171They were religious extremists revolting against Secular government. One of the biggest reason for the revolt was government trying to ban child marriage and making girls education mandatory
So, the CIA weapon's expert basically just told them that they needed to give the rebels a full suite of weapons to fight a civil war. I don't really think that you needed a weapons expert to tell you this. In all seriousness, this scene speaks to a popular fallacy. It's this idea that if we give a group a certain type of weapon that they'll automatically win the war. War doesn't work that way. Winning a war isn't about any one specific weapon system. It is about developing a coherent, effective strategy to defeat an enemy and procuring very large stockpiles of all sorts of different weapon systems to implement that strategy. In other words, supporting an insurgency against a major power is always going to be an expensive proposition.
It's not a civil war when the Russians / USSR invades.
Ha, ha, ha with their help, the Afghans swept the Soviets back to the old & hungry USSR! So stop fussing!
People conflate America’s role in the Afghan USSR war. America did directly fund many mujahideen fighters, however by and large it was Pakistan and Saudi Arabia that had cash and were directly involved with all of the parties involved. Makes one wonder how the the Taliban aka the students that the Pakistan version of the cia the isi directly funded and created took over Afghanistan. a country which just so happened to have decades of animosity with Pakistan as they had a long standing border dispute that Pakistan would want to completely cripple as a nation playing the mujahideen off each.
@@NaviRyan Saudi Arabia matched funds with the US, and let the CIA spend it as they wished. The Iran Contra money, was funnelled through the bank account used for this.
Pakistan was the path into Afghanistan, they very much wanted their share. From memory in the later years, the British provide a second path in.
So dumb