@@impyrobotArticle 359 of the 1996 Russian Criminal Code, which states: “Recruitment, training, financing, or any other material provision of a mercenary, and also the use of him in an armed conflict or hostilities, shall be punishable by deprivation of liberty for a term of four to eight years.”
Hi Simon, how about a look at western PMC's, it would be interesting to compare them to those in this episode, are they similar in where and what operations they are engaged to carry out? do they conduct their operations in a similar manner? you mentioned a couple of massive western oil companies that have PMC's, it would be interesting to hear your thoughts on those. Cheers Simon keep up the good work.
Le monde diplomatique the most reputable French news paper did a lot of research on blackwater It’s the same story as Russian PMC Bush granted total immunity. No court can trial them They sniped civilian irakis on highway for fun because they were leaving for USA in a couple days. So they needed a bit a blood. A French reporter was accompanying them which tells you the level of impunity they operate with Russia USA France its all the same crazy warmongers rule us Thé report is at least 10 years old when France still had a bit of free speech left. Since then we have become America’s dog 😢
@usonumabeach300 maybe it wasn't when it was actually happening. US only pulled out of Afghanistan 2 years ago and Simon has been making content for a long time.
I would be totally fine if you don't show that tiny TV with the horrible audio quality ever again. I'll still watch almost all of your content. I'm just saying I would be good with that sort of decision.
Crazy part about Wagnar is that they approached an American Special Operations veteran to run its precursor in I believe 2011? Idea was to help them secure mine security contracts in Africa. (At this time, US and RU troops had been join training and working together for counter-terrorism. So it's not as bad as it sounds)
Yea makes you wonder where things went south between the USA-Russia. The whole NATO thing seems too simple. I know a lot of people in Russian government lived during the Cold War but still, they're obviously not ideologues. Modern Russia is as far from the soviet system as you can get. Went from an authoritarian communist state to a authoritarian capitalist oligarchy. Idk probably should look more into Russia in the 00s/10s.
The US and oil compaines run multiple private mercenary groups, when they themselves are in conflicts they carry out the same function. Of course there is no excusing the sheer brutality and abuse seen much more in the Russian ranks
Hi there. Russian (and Japanese) speaking commenter here. Really like your videos, but heard a few times how things are just not pronounced correctly in non-English languages. It's not a big deal and you are making so many quality videos, that some things may slip. But it'd be great to add a transcription of foreign words to the script so that Simon could read them properly and viewers could hear how they actually sound. That includes names of the cities and regions of Ukraine, names of people (Japanese, Ukrainian, Russian, etc), and organizations. For example Rusich (it's pronounced Roo-seech (or -sietch if you're a fan of Dune) and not "Rasic" or "Rasih" as you would read this in German or some other language (as it's in the video). Rusich basically means "Rus person". Other than that - great content, cheers!
PMC Wagner is (or was) the most powerful PMC. They have similar equipments to the Russian army, but not on a large scale. They also have a bunch of members and experience in many regions. Though they seem a lot quieter these days after a few of their leaders were caught in a plane “accident”.
Very insightful, I really wanted to know more about the non-Wagner PMCs. The only one I noticed missing is the mysterious Convoy PMC, operating somewhere south of Ukraine and Crimea. Awesome video 🙌👏👏👏
The mysterious convoy you are talking about is the contingent of Russian troops in Crimea, who have been there since the 90s, when Crimea was still part of Ukraine
I watch your videos across many channels, and have for a long time. I love your content. Also, please stop using that super annoying TV audio thing. IMO it comes off as much less polished and professional than your videos otherwise do.
Note to editor: please stop using the grainy "old tv" voice effect. It's jarring and distracts from taking in the information being presented. The rest of the editing is great, but the TV bit is unpleasant and I am far from the only one thay feels that way. Otherwise great video as always, guys!
The comment about russia not wanting to fight the west just makes sense. Russia has so much natural resources. The amount of money they could of made by just doing business with Europe instead of fighting a war in Ukraine. Russia could of become like norway that have that much natural resources. Could uplifted entire population instead of lining the pockets of billionaires. They chose to be the same russia its been since the tsars.
@@bigzclipz5104you think the Russian elites would allow that to happen? Both countries elites are scum. Both countries used to be like siblings and got along till the rich got richer
@kaiservon2936 ya 2 brutal invasions in Chechnya, attack in Georgia. Maintained relstions with many brutal dictatorships ya they really did nothing to isolate themselves. Gtfo with they did nothing
@kaiservon2936 what are you even talking about . In the early 2000s Putin supported the war in Iraq along with bush and was also in favor of joining the eu and nato .
Russian pmcs now are basically what the US PMCs had the potential to be prior to 2007 as until that year American pmc's were not subject to the the rules of the American military called the uniform code of military justice or the UCMJ And they did often get away with many unsavory tactics done on the battlefield
But they weren't on the battlefield. They did security. They got shot at, they fired back. Not an unsavory tactic. The biggest stain on Blackwater's record was a huge legal misconduct as evidence that would exonerate the contractors was not admitted and evidence was allowed to be introduced by the notoriously corrupt Iraqi police.
@@ChucksSEADnDEAD they did both, security and battlefield operations But the issue was they were exempt from US military law and that loophole was finally closed in 2007 and now they will not operate like the horrible Russians
@@rejvaik00 really depends on how much you're stretching that "battlefield operations" label there. I was an 11B in Mosul and Baghdad from Aug'05 to Dec'06, and if Blackwater got into any kind of fight without telling us, we'd be out there bagging their bodies. They offered me a quarter mil tax free and I told them to kick rocks because SGLI got them beat. They legit were less useful than a supply unit in a fight, despite the news coverage...I know, we made contact while escorting plenty of supply units. Y'know those "Navy SEALS" Hillary personally killed with her private email server in Benghazi? That right there is why I didn't follow my peers and the money.
@@Theultra4sshole never said they were more useful than the normal military forces but by the time of '05 and '06 they had a well documented paper trail in their misbehavior Still even with all that they were at the time not subject to the US military law not until 2007 and unfortunately it took one final international incident and civilian casualties to make them so
@@rejvaik00 misbehavior absolutely. But I wonder what you're calling "battlefield operations". Feels an awful lot like media-induced misconception about who and what they were. In Baghdad in late 2006, we saw them as an absolute sh!t show aimed at recruiting the red-suspender skinhead suicide king crowd that "would totally yell at the drill sergeant if he said that to me".
For about a decade in the early 20th Century, China dealt with a period called the Warlord Era in which following the collapse of the Qing Dynasty, multiple warlords, governors and public figures had their own private armies and militias which would go around fighting each other in what were essentially multiple mini civil wars across the country as these leaders jockeyed for power. These Chinese armies were well organized, operated with a military structure and even had equiplemnt such as Western-made tanks and artillery. Today, Russia has multiple private armies and militias who are nominally loyal to the Putin regime but many of these private armies and militias are well armed with tanks, armoured vehicles, drones and artillery. If or when Putin expires, I can't help but think Russia may find itself dealing with its own Warlord Era.
Warlord era Russia will be the most dangerous era for Earth. These warlord groups would compete over nuclear warhead control. Some will give Russian technological knowledge to the West for profit, and some will be loyal to Russia and will attack the militaries of other countries without any fear. It is why Russia needs a strong government with the loyalty of its people.
Ну так то в России не много чвк, из всех более менее боеспособным было только чвк Вагнера, а все остальные это структуру редко повышающие по численности 1-2 дивизии, да и то это большая редкость, тот же Русич это вообще отряд в составе Вагнер, а Редут это 16 гвардейская бригада (7000 человек), все остальные мелочь.
Man, this channel is great but the editors sudden new propensity for altering the audio to sound like an old tube radio or TV or whatever is really fucking annoying, and I know I'm not the first one to say this.
One use for PMCs is to disguise losses. If PMC casualties don't make it into official statistics or get a shrug from the public. It can be harder to do the same with the regular army or conscripts. One use for PMCs in Africa is training and support of local units. A sort of PMC cadre with local constabulary or militia troops around them, with the PMCs as advisors, instructors and specialists. It sounds like they have reinvented the old mercenary palace guard. When you don't trust locals enough to not start a palace coup, paid-off outsiders can be an option. I'm getting more curious about what the lower end of mercenaries look like today. A bloke paid $500 to stand and watch and call a certain number once a convoy is in a spot is a sort of mercenary.
The Wagner PMC's were all elites though. Their command was all former GRU operatives (except for that one guy from Donbass that fought since 2014 but proved himself as a talented commander). The lower level troops are all guys who got dismissed from the army/spetsnaz/vdv for various reasons. The Wagner's aren't/weren't regular soldiers. This was proven by their abilities to fight in urban environments without sustaining huge losses, inventive tactics and the ability to shoot down large amounts of Russian Army Air (that even the AFU hasn't succeeded in). There was a few instances where Wagner used prisoners to get to difficult to reach positions but this was more an exception than the rule.
@@AndRei-yc3ti Russian companies pay a lot more than the army. The army already pays a lot more on paper than any civvie job in the poorer republics. The federal armed forces also have a core of troops of that quality. These sort of units also suffer the most depletion during a conflict. A lot of russian para units were important parts of the first offensives. The companies lack the logistics and support functions of national armies. There's no Wagner rear hospital service or Wagner munitions factories. Providing a cadre to build a local national force around is something they can provide.
@SusCalvin Wagner had its own artillery units, tanks, APCs, etc. They were fully functional as an independent force except they didnt have their own factories as far as i'm aware (they even had their own food production). But you are right - Wagner fighters are currently being used to train new cadre and are staffing military academies teaching new recruits what they know. If that is good or bad, i'm not sure
@@AndRei-yc3ti Wagner has as much hardware as the russian MoD lets them. From what I understand of their putch attempt, they had pilfered material for months and had little way of replacing it once they got started. The amount of support each frontline soldier needs just keeps increasing with modern mechanized warfare. I mean that this is one of the much more common jobs of military contractors. Russian contractors in Syria were training local syrian troops and advising them. Other contracts in Africa have done similar jobs and formed cadres for local units to build on. People buy the training of a contractor sort of. They buy specialist skills like pilots, signalists etc.
In Russia we have a saying: Never ask a woman about her age Never ask a man about his salary Never ask a Rasik about what happened to the Ukrainian war prisoners 😁
this is phenomenally detailed. but why in the world do you not provide sources? your writers took the information from somewhere. how hard is it to drop in the source while writing the over all script? takes mere seconds to open a shared doc and copy paste the source details as you write.
I like Simon too. But his info isnt aways the best, its more overal or not that deep. Politically correct too. I will asume he dosnt whant problems so he dosnt show his sources. That or he whants to lie to us and dosnt whant us to look the things he has used and call him out.
It’s best to think of this as a opening for people to explore further. The mainstream channels usually don’t do the extra bits cuz their overall audience is one that likes the “broader view”. Honestly how many people will check out the sources and verify em, not many. Most just wanna consume and think they know it all.
@@LaVaZ000 lol I remember a Indian movie where “religious fanatics” start to riot because of some news but turns out they were rioting at the wrong shops/area 😂😂. The cop stationed to take care of the situation called the PM of the district and said “let it be”, more tax collections for us. In this case, instead of taxes it’s clicks and views ig. You will notice it’s always a channel with like 3K or 7K subs with 5k views per video that usually offer word for word analysis sadly.
I am an avid follower of most of your channels, Simon, but the Warographics might just be my favourite. That being said, these recent cuts in editing where you switch to old timey TV and change the audio output are just weird, and out of place. I don't see them as adding any quality to the production, and usually take away from the flow of the video, as I find myself rewinding to relisten a part that was hard to catch. Other than that, hands down, your team of writers, editors and you as a presenter are an amazing content producers, and I thank you for countless hours of high quality, entertaining, educational and sometimes just silly, work you do. Cheers mate!
@robertmcneil1295 yes. Every single war torn country has them. Russia has literally a dozen neonazi pmc corps. No neonazis have political power in ukraine.
@@robertmcneil1295 can you tell me what effect those ukrainian neonazis have actually had on anything? Russian claims of genocide in rhe donbas were found by every single international criminal court to be conpletely baseless. I can point you directly to dozens of documented cases of neonazi wagner and their neonazi subsidiary rusich committing mass atrocities in ukraine eastern europe, kenya sudan somalia Central african republic uganda etc.
"Rusich" is actually pronounced more like "roosich" ("roo" as in "kangaroo", ending sounds as in "teach"). The word's meaning is akin to "russian" or "slavic", only it is an old word, not in use anymore in everyday russian language. This PMC is particularly nasty...
@@chaosXP3RT They are not fascists (Even China or the USA can easily fit some definitions of the criteria of fascism), the ideology is different, rather an alternative to the National Socialists of 3rd Reich and to some extent, anarchists. Moreover, they are in conflict with Russian ethno-nationalists from other battalions (national conservatives, monarchists, and so on). Because in their opinion, Rusich goes too far and parodies the ideology of those who killed Russians also because the Slavs were considered untermensch. In addition, they are criticized by others for the fact that the Rusichs use the flag of the house of the Romanovs + use it upside down and at the same time wuth the Kolovrat (this is a relatively new symbol-attribute accepted unofficially among pan-Slavists as a symbol of the Slavs), while the Romanovs and the Empire itself are rather associated with Orthodoxy (which to some extent contradict each other, because Kolovrat also refers to paganism wich Orthodoxy got rid of on the territory of old Rus), they are criticized for using eclecticism, symbolism not according to purpose.
@@mitrogulf4073 The co-founder of Ruisch, Alexey Yurievich Milchakov literally saidon camera in 2020, I'm not going to go deep and say, I'm a nationalist, a patriot, an imperialist, and so forth. I'll say it outright: I'm a Nazi". You can say, "even the USA and China meet some criteria of Fascism", but a better example of Fascism would be the Russian government and it's supporters. I highly encourage you to watch Russian state TV and listen to what they say.
"Unlike the government, we don't keep secrets of our capabilities. We don't sell policy, we sell power. We are a super power for hire." -- Jonathan Irons
In Cyberpunk 2020 you could visit and adventure in the European Economic Community and the Soviet Union. The soviets in 2020 were an EEC client/ally with a number of poorer, less stable nations between them and the core EEC nations like France, Germany. The soviet union took another turn after Gorbachev in their world. Reforms and Yeltsin halted. Instead there was a rebellion of increasingly independent state companies and their militias later on. The Soviet Union in 2020 is a wonky balance between the authority of the president and the state security agencies, a handful of now independent former state companies and the organitskaya or mafia groups where each part has an understanding not to step on eachother.
This could be the start of a new series. I'd like to hear more about US and UK PMCs such as Blackwater, Aegis, G4S and Vinnell just to name a few. Then if that Video does well take a look at PMCs from the EU.
They woun't because your pmc's shoot only the bad guys all the other countries are soo bad ! Britain strong and etc the only country in the world untill ww1 that killed more peoople then the all 20 century authoritarian regimes combined
Russian Neo-Nazis always crack me up. They live in an alternate universe where the Nazis didn't invade the Soviet Union and slaughter millions of people or the Nazis didn't see the Slavs as inferior and wanted to subjugate them and use them as slave labor.
it just says that you are not familiar with the ideology of the Russian neo-Nazis at all. None of them praises Hitler or the German nation. In general, everything is based on neo-paganism and the praise of the Slavs and Russians in particular. They take the experience of the Third Reich and transform it into something else. They don't treat the Germans very well, and their enemies are the peoples of Central Asia and the Jews.
Simon, I absolutely love your Warographics videos! But this CRT distorted voice that you've been adding recently into the edits, I don't think it works well with the overall aesthetic.
Thanks for explaining, like you always do! And I had a thought. Holy sh*t. Remember when back in the day that Hideo Kojima's MGS 2: Sons of Liberty came out, and it had an entire part that 'predicted' the future? What if the Russian PMCs are not using that game as a game, but a literal manual/how-to guide?
I've been honestly shocked lately by how much of the future Kojima accurately predicted. He was big on unmanned drones too, a good while before they were reliable and useful enough in the real world. Hell, MGS4 is basically the game version of this video!
Your question depends on interest, need and availability. Shockingly France's failures in Africa have been a boon to send a few thousand PMCs to fight in Africa. Kidal Mali is a perfect example because they act as mercenaries means they don't follow human rights and only answer to their clients and handlers. For the Russian military this means it gets rid of the hot heads( Wagner, Rusich and others) and also means it can use the freed prisoners cause alot of actual killers don't have any skills to find work already in the States it's hard to rehabilitate prisoners so sending them to a dirty hell hole in Ukraine, Syria or Africa to die for the government's benefits and be seen as heroes while doing so seems to good of a prospect. One former criminal who was seen negatively came back as a hero after being pardoned as he fought in Ukraine. Examples like this will likely convince many to want to join these are rapists, murderers and a cannibal in one report that was freed after fighting not the type of ending many people would want for cannon fodder but life is a funny thing sadly.
Не хочу портить картину вашего мира, поэтому напишу по русски. За изнасилования, грабежи и убийства гражданских в ЧВК Вагнер и в других Российских ЧВК связанных с государством, был единственный приговор - Расстрел либо позорное болезненное увольнение. Только идиоты будут портить мнение местных жителей (коих большинство) о себе на "официальном" уровне поощрая подобные действия. Проще говоря эти парни были "лицом" России. И да... Я Русский тролль, приятно познакомиться. Говорю только ложь и пропаганду. Всего хорошего.
@huntersmith761 Aslo Russia invaded ukraine because of ukranian army shelling civilians in donieck and because of high number of nazis in ukraine and don't think russia would inave Poland, what for?
Rusich (rositsch) is not a pmc,they are a volontere group,michaltschuk is not the founder,rhe group was foundet back in the 2nd chechen war,some rositsch members have worked for wagner (like slavian the 2nd kommander)
STORY: 10 FACTS: 0 EVIDENCE: 0 Does anyone think that this random youtuber have any idea what he talks about? You are confidently talking about this like you were there with them? This is like watching a sci-fi movie, you see everything but you have no idea if its true in real life, but its interesting like a Hollywood movie...I knew exactly what you are going to say even before watching this because everyone could make video like this without knowing anything and no arguments...Im sick of desperate hippies giving their thoughts that they read on google and the news, what about asking people that live there, you just read what people like you wrote whatever they like. You are just trying to make the content interesting and "mysterious" by not telling a one fact or evidence. Who did they rape? The real truth is this, the only good thing in this video is his voice, but he would sound a lot better with like national geography content or UFO since every other word is, could, probably, maybe, possibly... Nothing is a fact. Exactly Wagner came wherever the west made a mess, Syria, Africa, they are giving the power to the people that the west colonized and to kick them out because west is making sure the countries are poor so that they can work for western companies as a cheap working-class. "Unsaferie business" "Shadowy" "Whats really going on" like what?????"Crimes agains humanity, nasty business, dirty business" like what???? Where are the examples????The west is putting their nose almost in every single country and we can see the results but when its someone else then its gotta be something bad. All we heard is they are bad bad and bad but we haven't hear what they've done??? Did you ever say where all this information comes from so that I can take a look too? Assasinate Zelensky? Why? For Russia its even better if he is there lol. I feel like I watched a kids cartoon and ppl that get hyped on this I believe that they use like 1% of the brain. By the way pls check your glasses Im pretty sure those are womens "kitty" glasses...
This is a very relevant and very overlooked aspect of the war in Ukraine. I was aware of other PMCs but didn’t understand who they work for or the dynamics between them. I feel like their involvements are generally attributed to Wagner by most people in the media. Your videos are always interesting but this sheds some light on something that is ongoing. 👍
I think that the advantage given by PMCs isn't plausible deniability, (everyone knows who they work for) but rather expendability. Remember when Wagner tried to take a refinery held by american forces? If those were regular troops the russian military would have been obligated to support them, with the risk of starting a war with the USA. But since they were Mercenaries the russian military could simply let them die.
@@arx3516Yes, you CAN plausibly deny what everyone knows. If everyone knows something, but can't PROVE it, then that is the very definition of plausible deniability. For example: Wagner commits war crimes. We all know they work for Russia. But Russia can deny that THEY committed war crimes, because it's not THEIR military forces, it's a private company that they were paying. "Can't blame us boss, we just paid them to do XYZ. You'll have to talk to the PMC about any naughty business".
@@realtalk6195 The only difference is, is the US acknowledged using them, while r*zzia does not. Oh, and America never hired prisoners into their PMCs, cyka.
Utkin was not a Nazi, that's a lie. If Wagner's PMC consisted of neo-Nazis, then Central Asians, Africans, Syrians, Colombians and Venezuelans would not serve in it. Yes, yes... These nations are present in the Wagner PMCs. And there are also many nationalities from the Caucasus in the Wagner PMCs.
Utter nonsense. The Third Reich, the literal Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS, made extensive use of foreign volunteers and conscripts from all of these places. Spaniards, Kazakhs, Africans, Turkmen, Uzbeks, Arabs, Chechens, Dagestani, etc. Nazis have no qualms about using other races and ethnicities to fight for them.
This comment is wrong in so many ways. During the American invasion of Iraq, 3,300 to 4,300 civilians were killed. Even the highest Iraqi estimates are less than 7,000. And some of those deaths were caused by Saddam's forces.
Why don't you tell me who exactly was destroyed by the Rusich battalion? Rusich destroyed the Azov battalion, which consisted of the same Nazis, only from Ukraine. And Azov posed with Nato flags, Nazi Germany and the black sun.
PMCs are illegal in Russia. Well, with the notable exceptions of all the PMCs.
*except all the PMCs that are subservient and which the regime finds useful.
Well they gotta get employment somewhere, I mean, how else is an honest warmongerer supposed to make a living?
That is what happens when you only have a "parchment constitution" as there is no rule of law.
@@sarge1408fair point
Laws are only a guideline in Russia
I swear, I find a new channel that this guy runs every other day.
Edit: Dad, I'm famous!
If you can think it, he’ll make a channel for it.
True facts
He no longer runs my favorites unfortunately. Biographics and geographics.
He’s all over the place xD he must have 2 twins or so to do it 😂
He is an AI guys
1:40 - Chapter 1 - PMCS ; what & why
9:25 - Chapter 2 - Redut
13:35 - Chapter 3 - Patriot
16:30 - Chapter 4 - Rusich group
20:35 - Chapter 5 - Russian imperial movement
23:45 - Chapter 6 - PMC Gazprom ; Fakel & potok
28:05 - Chapter 7 - The trouble with PMC's
They forgot to cover Tsar's Wolves PMC (Tsarskiye Volki).
thanks you. RUclips have the chapters fucntional already yet some people barely use it.
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@@realtalk6195good catch, I wonder why they didn't
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Only in Russia, you can legally cut your prison sentence by officially joining an illegal organization.
lol
It's not illegal in Russia to join a russian PMC as a Russian citizenship.
@@impyrobotPMC are illegal in Russia so it is an contradiction
@@impyrobotArticle 359 of the 1996 Russian Criminal Code, which states: “Recruitment, training, financing, or any other material provision of a mercenary, and also the use of him in an armed conflict or hostilities, shall be punishable by deprivation of liberty for a term of four to eight years.”
Or the French Legion. But that spoils the small world view you have.
Hi Simon, how about a look at western PMC's, it would be interesting to compare them to those in this episode, are they similar in where and what operations they are engaged to carry out? do they conduct their operations in a similar manner? you mentioned a couple of massive western oil companies that have PMC's, it would be interesting to hear your thoughts on those.
Cheers Simon keep up the good work.
Le monde diplomatique the most reputable French news paper did a lot of research on blackwater
It’s the same story as Russian PMC
Bush granted total immunity. No court can trial them
They sniped civilian irakis on highway for fun because they were leaving for USA in a couple days. So they needed a bit a blood. A French reporter was accompanying them which tells you the level of impunity they operate with
Russia USA France its all the same crazy warmongers rule us
Thé report is at least 10 years old when France still had a bit of free speech left. Since then we have become America’s dog
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He can't becouse it won't be good image of USA
Pretty sure he did a top 10 list of pmc's is the US after Blackwater was in the news during Iraq.
@@mikes2622wasn't that years before Simon was a RUclipsr? Pretty sure it was in 07?
@usonumabeach300 maybe it wasn't when it was actually happening. US only pulled out of Afghanistan 2 years ago and Simon has been making content for a long time.
My favourite PMC......Simon's Private Media Contractor status......
Seriously 👍 Dr Robotnik himself 😂
I would be totally fine if you don't show that tiny TV with the horrible audio quality ever again. I'll still watch almost all of your content. I'm just saying I would be good with that sort of decision.
seconded.
Yeah, love the content but half time I'm just listening to this and not watching it, and it's freaking jarring lol
Was searching for this exact comment to like. Love the videos but not the tiny TV at seemingly random times.
I agree entirely. Please cut that out.
Agreed!
Crazy part about Wagnar is that they approached an American Special Operations veteran to run its precursor in I believe 2011? Idea was to help them secure mine security contracts in Africa. (At this time, US and RU troops had been join training and working together for counter-terrorism. So it's not as bad as it sounds)
Yeah saw a picture of US SOF and Russians SOF together during a training op. Crazy to think not a lot of people know about this.
Yea makes you wonder where things went south between the USA-Russia. The whole NATO thing seems too simple. I know a lot of people in Russian government lived during the Cold War but still, they're obviously not ideologues. Modern Russia is as far from the soviet system as you can get. Went from an authoritarian communist state to a authoritarian capitalist oligarchy. Idk probably should look more into Russia in the 00s/10s.
@@jazzercise300 Russians say it's NATO expansion, specifically into Ukraine, that soured the relationship
@@andrewhall2235 Russkis just want to be able to re-invade the old soviet republics against their will again.
The US and oil compaines run multiple private mercenary groups, when they themselves are in conflicts they carry out the same function. Of course there is no excusing the sheer brutality and abuse seen much more in the Russian ranks
PMCs seem to be doing all the heavy lifting, we need more episodes about PMCs from other countries especially USA, China and France.
Hi there. Russian (and Japanese) speaking commenter here. Really like your videos, but heard a few times how things are just not pronounced correctly in non-English languages. It's not a big deal and you are making so many quality videos, that some things may slip. But it'd be great to add a transcription of foreign words to the script so that Simon could read them properly and viewers could hear how they actually sound. That includes names of the cities and regions of Ukraine, names of people (Japanese, Ukrainian, Russian, etc), and organizations.
For example Rusich (it's pronounced Roo-seech (or -sietch if you're a fan of Dune) and not "Rasic" or "Rasih" as you would read this in German or some other language (as it's in the video).
Rusich basically means "Rus person".
Other than that - great content, cheers!
and Alexey Mil-cha-kov , not Mil-kha-khov 😊
Lol simon can't even say words in English properly. 😅 Best of luck with words in other languages
Какое счастье, что кто-то за меня это сказал, спасибо
Not gonna lie I am not a fan of the poor TV audio sections, why detract from the quality video with random jarring changes?
West: *has pmc*
East *creates pmc*
West: “hey that’s crime!”
Yeah that's really not what this video is saying though is it, Igor.
Western PMCs were like mall cops with guns. They never fought a war with tanks, artillery, etc.
Yep, that's exactly what that video says, John. @@coconutsmarties
@@ChucksSEADnDEADIf you actually believe in that 😂
@@LaVaZ000 Can you provide source if you disagree?
PMC Wagner is (or was) the most powerful PMC. They have similar equipments to the Russian army, but not on a large scale. They also have a bunch of members and experience in many regions. Though they seem a lot quieter these days after a few of their leaders were caught in a plane “accident”.
Gotta be careful when doing coke and playing with grenades
@@jasonellenberg3261 also when doin coke, and sending a vlog to gerasimov
I can only imagine the depravity your writers had to wade through while researching this video, props to them.
He probably had to see that.
They left out _Tsar's Wolves_ PMC (Tsarskiye Volki).
Little to no sources
Depravity? Are you talking of Russia or America? This is not My Lai, Mahmudiyah or Haditha massacres.
man you are sheltered. I wonder if a similar video will be made about AZOV?
Very insightful, I really wanted to know more about the non-Wagner PMCs.
The only one I noticed missing is the mysterious Convoy PMC, operating somewhere south of Ukraine and Crimea.
Awesome video 🙌👏👏👏
The mysterious convoy you are talking about is the contingent of Russian troops in Crimea, who have been there since the 90s, when Crimea was still part of Ukraine
Please stop with the weird distorted sound changes it’s awful through headphones
It's just plain awful. Headphones or not.
When real life is just the plot of Metal Gear Solid 4.
0:56 Nooo, please... Not the TV-sound 😭 It hurts my ears like Yoko Ono
True story!
Even their gas company has a PMC that's nice
It is Roo-seech, not Rah-seekh. Rusich means "a Russian man".
Мильхахов одобхряет
I watch your videos across many channels, and have for a long time. I love your content. Also, please stop using that super annoying TV audio thing. IMO it comes off as much less polished and professional than your videos otherwise do.
Agreed
Man, all this talk about PMC is giving me Metal Gear Solid vibes. It kinda makes me wish Prigozion was more like Big Boss.
But who's to judge
The right from wrong
Standing here, I realize
You are just like mee
Trying to make historyy
Cringe. Prigozhin is more like Makarov from CoD: MW. Man, big boss is mega mind guy, prigozhin is just bandit that died because of his stupidness.
@@gwyn_ch no. Prigozion died because of Putin. Lots of people died because of Putin.
Rusich is more like volunteer battalion, it's not PMC. Also "Rusich" "CH" is spelled like "Che" not like "Kh"
neo nazi volunteers
Rusich has signed contracts with Wagner, so its just a part of Wagner
Мильчаков в свои 18 основал ЧВК? За 5 лет до событий 2014 года? И эту хрень на полном серьёзе нам втирают
@@UncleRain2077 they litteraly had contracts signed with Wagner
@@letrashcan6239 proof?
Note to editor: please stop using the grainy "old tv" voice effect. It's jarring and distracts from taking in the information being presented. The rest of the editing is great, but the TV bit is unpleasant and I am far from the only one thay feels that way. Otherwise great video as always, guys!
Same here. It's very jarring for this headphone user.
Surprisingly PMCs are illegal in Russia, but apparently not illegal for every PMC
Since Russia is a lawless maffia state, it's unsurprisingly
They're not PMCs since they are under the Ministry of Defense. Wagner was an exception, but that loophole has now been closed.
The comment about russia not wanting to fight the west just makes sense. Russia has so much natural resources. The amount of money they could of made by just doing business with Europe instead of fighting a war in Ukraine. Russia could of become like norway that have that much natural resources. Could uplifted entire population instead of lining the pockets of billionaires. They chose to be the same russia its been since the tsars.
You think that American elites would allow that to happen
@@bigzclipz5104you think the Russian elites would allow that to happen? Both countries elites are scum. Both countries used to be like siblings and got along till the rich got richer
@kaiservon2936 ya 2 brutal invasions in Chechnya, attack in Georgia. Maintained relstions with many brutal dictatorships ya they really did nothing to isolate themselves. Gtfo with they did nothing
@kaiservon2936 what are you even talking about . In the early 2000s Putin supported the war in Iraq along with bush and was also in favor of joining the eu and nato .
@kaiservon2936 Z troll
Great video, how the team puts these out it nothing but AMZN, keep up the great work Simon and team.
Russian pmcs now are basically what the US PMCs had the potential to be prior to 2007 as until that year American pmc's were not subject to the the rules of the American military called the uniform code of military justice or the UCMJ
And they did often get away with many unsavory tactics done on the battlefield
But they weren't on the battlefield. They did security. They got shot at, they fired back. Not an unsavory tactic. The biggest stain on Blackwater's record was a huge legal misconduct as evidence that would exonerate the contractors was not admitted and evidence was allowed to be introduced by the notoriously corrupt Iraqi police.
@@ChucksSEADnDEAD they did both, security and battlefield operations
But the issue was they were exempt from US military law and that loophole was finally closed in 2007 and now they will not operate like the horrible Russians
@@rejvaik00 really depends on how much you're stretching that "battlefield operations" label there. I was an 11B in Mosul and Baghdad from Aug'05 to Dec'06, and if Blackwater got into any kind of fight without telling us, we'd be out there bagging their bodies. They offered me a quarter mil tax free and I told them to kick rocks because SGLI got them beat. They legit were less useful than a supply unit in a fight, despite the news coverage...I know, we made contact while escorting plenty of supply units.
Y'know those "Navy SEALS" Hillary personally killed with her private email server in Benghazi? That right there is why I didn't follow my peers and the money.
@@Theultra4sshole never said they were more useful than the normal military forces but by the time of '05 and '06 they had a well documented paper trail in their misbehavior
Still even with all that they were at the time not subject to the US military law not until 2007 and unfortunately it took one final international incident and civilian casualties to make them so
@@rejvaik00 misbehavior absolutely. But I wonder what you're calling "battlefield operations". Feels an awful lot like media-induced misconception about who and what they were. In Baghdad in late 2006, we saw them as an absolute sh!t show aimed at recruiting the red-suspender skinhead suicide king crowd that "would totally yell at the drill sergeant if he said that to me".
Dang I actually got here early
Yes u did buddy
For about a decade in the early 20th Century, China dealt with a period called the Warlord Era in which following the collapse of the Qing Dynasty, multiple warlords, governors and public figures had their own private armies and militias which would go around fighting each other in what were essentially multiple mini civil wars across the country as these leaders jockeyed for power.
These Chinese armies were well organized, operated with a military structure and even had equiplemnt such as Western-made tanks and artillery.
Today, Russia has multiple private armies and militias who are nominally loyal to the Putin regime but many of these private armies and militias are well armed with tanks, armoured vehicles, drones and artillery.
If or when Putin expires, I can't help but think Russia may find itself dealing with its own Warlord Era.
Она уже была называются святые 90е.
Warlord era Russia will be the most dangerous era for Earth. These warlord groups would compete over nuclear warhead control. Some will give Russian technological knowledge to the West for profit, and some will be loyal to Russia and will attack the militaries of other countries without any fear.
It is why Russia needs a strong government with the loyalty of its people.
Ну так то в России не много чвк, из всех более менее боеспособным было только чвк Вагнера, а все остальные это структуру редко повышающие по численности 1-2 дивизии, да и то это большая редкость, тот же Русич это вообще отряд в составе Вагнер, а Редут это 16 гвардейская бригада (7000 человек), все остальные мелочь.
@@zacu373I hope soon you will remember 90s as very good times
@@mikolasambir4466ukranian zombies repeat and repeat that 9 years 🤣 even longer
A gas company with a PMC organization
Man, this channel is great but the editors sudden new propensity for altering the audio to sound like an old tube radio or TV or whatever is really fucking annoying, and I know I'm not the first one to say this.
I'm not really a fan of the voice transition at 0:51
It makes it quite hard for me to hear what exactly Simon is saying.
One use for PMCs is to disguise losses. If PMC casualties don't make it into official statistics or get a shrug from the public. It can be harder to do the same with the regular army or conscripts.
One use for PMCs in Africa is training and support of local units. A sort of PMC cadre with local constabulary or militia troops around them, with the PMCs as advisors, instructors and specialists.
It sounds like they have reinvented the old mercenary palace guard. When you don't trust locals enough to not start a palace coup, paid-off outsiders can be an option.
I'm getting more curious about what the lower end of mercenaries look like today. A bloke paid $500 to stand and watch and call a certain number once a convoy is in a spot is a sort of mercenary.
The Wagner PMC's were all elites though. Their command was all former GRU operatives (except for that one guy from Donbass that fought since 2014 but proved himself as a talented commander). The lower level troops are all guys who got dismissed from the army/spetsnaz/vdv for various reasons. The Wagner's aren't/weren't regular soldiers. This was proven by their abilities to fight in urban environments without sustaining huge losses, inventive tactics and the ability to shoot down large amounts of Russian Army Air (that even the AFU hasn't succeeded in). There was a few instances where Wagner used prisoners to get to difficult to reach positions but this was more an exception than the rule.
@@AndRei-yc3ti Russian companies pay a lot more than the army. The army already pays a lot more on paper than any civvie job in the poorer republics.
The federal armed forces also have a core of troops of that quality. These sort of units also suffer the most depletion during a conflict. A lot of russian para units were important parts of the first offensives.
The companies lack the logistics and support functions of national armies. There's no Wagner rear hospital service or Wagner munitions factories. Providing a cadre to build a local national force around is something they can provide.
@SusCalvin Wagner had its own artillery units, tanks, APCs, etc. They were fully functional as an independent force except they didnt have their own factories as far as i'm aware (they even had their own food production).
But you are right - Wagner fighters are currently being used to train new cadre and are staffing military academies teaching new recruits what they know. If that is good or bad, i'm not sure
@@AndRei-yc3ti Wagner has as much hardware as the russian MoD lets them. From what I understand of their putch attempt, they had pilfered material for months and had little way of replacing it once they got started. The amount of support each frontline soldier needs just keeps increasing with modern mechanized warfare.
I mean that this is one of the much more common jobs of military contractors. Russian contractors in Syria were training local syrian troops and advising them. Other contracts in Africa have done similar jobs and formed cadres for local units to build on. People buy the training of a contractor sort of. They buy specialist skills like pilots, signalists etc.
It is not a war crime if you have fun
Thats so true!
In Russia we have a saying:
Never ask a woman about her age
Never ask a man about his salary
Never ask a Rasik about what happened to the Ukrainian war prisoners 😁
Какими пленными ?)
Ohh my, editor, 2:45, cut that shit out.
Yeh that's really fkn annoying
Why, when they talk about Rusich, everyone retells Wikipedia, but no one says that they were in Libya and Africa?
Это Кац от мира запада?🌚
this is phenomenally detailed.
but why in the world do you not provide sources?
your writers took the information from somewhere. how hard is it to drop in the source while writing the over all script?
takes mere seconds to open a shared doc and copy paste the source details as you write.
I like Simon too.
But his info isnt aways the best, its more overal or not that deep. Politically correct too.
I will asume he dosnt whant problems so he dosnt show his sources.
That or he whants to lie to us and dosnt whant us to look the things he has used and call him out.
Isn't that funny for a "warographics" channel
It’s best to think of this as a opening for people to explore further. The mainstream channels usually don’t do the extra bits cuz their overall audience is one that likes the “broader view”.
Honestly how many people will check out the sources and verify em, not many. Most just wanna consume and think they know it all.
@@SalehSingh33You'd thing the mainstream channels would actually go into more detail as so not to misinform a huge audience
@@LaVaZ000 lol I remember a Indian movie where “religious fanatics” start to riot because of some news but turns out they were rioting at the wrong shops/area 😂😂.
The cop stationed to take care of the situation called the PM of the district and said “let it be”, more tax collections for us.
In this case, instead of taxes it’s clicks and views ig. You will notice it’s always a channel with like 3K or 7K subs with 5k views per video that usually offer word for word analysis sadly.
0:55 - 2:49 - please stop doing the old TV box cutaway
It sounds horrible
I am an avid follower of most of your channels, Simon, but the Warographics might just be my favourite. That being said, these recent cuts in editing where you switch to old timey TV and change the audio output are just weird, and out of place. I don't see them as adding any quality to the production, and usually take away from the flow of the video, as I find myself rewinding to relisten a part that was hard to catch. Other than that, hands down, your team of writers, editors and you as a presenter are an amazing content producers, and I thank you for countless hours of high quality, entertaining, educational and sometimes just silly, work you do.
Cheers mate!
When do we get a video on the AZOV units of Ukraine?
This is not democratic.
Cuz its really not that interesting. Wow they have nationalists when their country are facing an existential threat? Who would have thought???
@@wrythe777 like Neo-Nazi nationalistic? 😉
@robertmcneil1295 yes. Every single war torn country has them. Russia has literally a dozen neonazi pmc corps. No neonazis have political power in ukraine.
@@robertmcneil1295 can you tell me what effect those ukrainian neonazis have actually had on anything? Russian claims of genocide in rhe donbas were found by every single international criminal court to be conpletely baseless. I can point you directly to dozens of documented cases of neonazi wagner and their neonazi subsidiary rusich committing mass atrocities in ukraine eastern europe, kenya sudan somalia Central african republic uganda etc.
It's pretty surprising that Simon and company haven't started world domination
"Rusich" is actually pronounced more like "roosich" ("roo" as in "kangaroo", ending sounds as in "teach"). The word's meaning is akin to "russian" or "slavic", only it is an old word, not in use anymore in everyday russian language.
This PMC is particularly nasty...
I was cringing when he pronounced the former Ukrainian leaders name as a Yanukovik, like make some effort to pronounce these things somewhat properly.
He pronounces literally every name & word wrong lmao
Fascists
@@chaosXP3RT They are not fascists (Even China or the USA can easily fit some definitions of the criteria of fascism), the ideology is different, rather an alternative to the National Socialists of 3rd Reich and to some extent, anarchists. Moreover, they are in conflict with Russian ethno-nationalists from other battalions (national conservatives, monarchists, and so on). Because in their opinion, Rusich goes too far and parodies the ideology of those who killed Russians also because the Slavs were considered untermensch. In addition, they are criticized by others for the fact that the Rusichs use the flag of the house of the Romanovs + use it upside down and at the same time wuth the Kolovrat (this is a relatively new symbol-attribute accepted unofficially among pan-Slavists as a symbol of the Slavs), while the Romanovs and the Empire itself are rather associated with Orthodoxy (which to some extent contradict each other, because Kolovrat also refers to paganism wich Orthodoxy got rid of on the territory of old Rus), they are criticized for using eclecticism, symbolism not according to purpose.
@@mitrogulf4073 The co-founder of Ruisch, Alexey Yurievich Milchakov literally saidon camera in 2020, I'm not going to go deep and say, I'm a nationalist, a patriot, an imperialist, and so forth. I'll say it outright: I'm a Nazi". You can say, "even the USA and China meet some criteria of Fascism", but a better example of Fascism would be the Russian government and it's supporters. I highly encourage you to watch Russian state TV and listen to what they say.
"Unlike the government, we don't keep secrets of our capabilities. We don't sell policy, we sell power. We are a super power for hire." -- Jonathan Irons
More like a heavily armed state sponsored and equipped gang for hire in this instance so the polar opposite of Atlas.
Я горжусь что у нас есть Вагнер и Русич я поддерживаю всё что они делают
Я тоже укр нацик и рус нацики друг друга перебьют минусы нет только плюсы
Wagner is still active especially in Africa.
You don't say...😒
You don't say...😒
It's crazy to me that Gazprom basically is just a cyberpunk corp with its own military wing
In Cyberpunk 2020 you could visit and adventure in the European Economic Community and the Soviet Union. The soviets in 2020 were an EEC client/ally with a number of poorer, less stable nations between them and the core EEC nations like France, Germany.
The soviet union took another turn after Gorbachev in their world. Reforms and Yeltsin halted. Instead there was a rebellion of increasingly independent state companies and their militias later on. The Soviet Union in 2020 is a wonky balance between the authority of the president and the state security agencies, a handful of now independent former state companies and the organitskaya or mafia groups where each part has an understanding not to step on eachother.
This could be the start of a new series. I'd like to hear more about US and UK PMCs such as Blackwater, Aegis, G4S and Vinnell just to name a few. Then if that Video does well take a look at PMCs from the EU.
They woun't because your pmc's shoot only the bad guys all the other countries are soo bad ! Britain strong and etc the only country in the world untill ww1 that killed more peoople then the all 20 century authoritarian regimes combined
Can you do a series about the logistics of war?? Or how wars play out politically?? Thank you I love your channel!
Feels good to be here before the thousands of comments about to happen
The vintage TV with distorted audio skit is terrible. It doesn't bring anything and is pretty distracting from the content. I'd like to see it end :D
Please remove this TV segment it's very hard to watch
Don't do that thing where you muffle your voice while playing something on a fake tv again.
I know adsense isn't giving you any love on this one. Thanks, Simon!
It's not "rasik" It's 'r' - 'u' (like put) - s - ch (not like kh, but like in chain) Rusich (easer to say roositch). Genius production!
Russian Neo-Nazis always crack me up. They live in an alternate universe where the Nazis didn't invade the Soviet Union and slaughter millions of people or the Nazis didn't see the Slavs as inferior and wanted to subjugate them and use them as slave labor.
You know any nation/group of people or race can be nazis. Nazism isn’t something only Germans can be it’s literally an ideology any race can practice
it just says that you are not familiar with the ideology of the Russian neo-Nazis at all. None of them praises Hitler or the German nation. In general, everything is based on neo-paganism and the praise of the Slavs and Russians in particular. They take the experience of the Third Reich and transform it into something else. They don't treat the Germans very well, and their enemies are the peoples of Central Asia and the Jews.
We can use our German trophies any way we like. We can even larp as NS Germans, why not?
If the German Nazis considered the Slavs inferior, then why can't the Slavic Nazis consider the Germans inferior? I don't see any contradictions here.
@@hairytentacle3924because youve always been as evil as they were but just not as competent
Note to the video editor: Stop with the garbled TV voice, please, please, please. 🙏🏻 It detracts from the content and makes the script hard to hear.
Simon, I absolutely love your Warographics videos! But this CRT distorted voice that you've been adding recently into the edits, I don't think it works well with the overall aesthetic.
I am a Simon fan. I don't like that old TV editing effect though
Thanks for explaining, like you always do!
And I had a thought.
Holy sh*t. Remember when back in the day that Hideo Kojima's MGS 2: Sons of Liberty came out, and it had an entire part that 'predicted' the future? What if the Russian PMCs are not using that game as a game, but a literal manual/how-to guide?
They're too stupid for that.
Get a grip of yourself. ! 😂
I've been honestly shocked lately by how much of the future Kojima accurately predicted. He was big on unmanned drones too, a good while before they were reliable and useful enough in the real world.
Hell, MGS4 is basically the game version of this video!
Fuck yes
@@coconutsmarties unconventional warfare is kind of his favourite subject, given he grew up on 80's action movies.
BASED
BRB on my way to join Rusich or Imperial Legion!
Ok Nazi.
Your question depends on interest, need and availability. Shockingly France's failures in Africa have been a boon to send a few thousand PMCs to fight in Africa. Kidal Mali is a perfect example because they act as mercenaries means they don't follow human rights and only answer to their clients and handlers. For the Russian military this means it gets rid of the hot heads( Wagner, Rusich and others) and also means it can use the freed prisoners cause alot of actual killers don't have any skills to find work already in the States it's hard to rehabilitate prisoners so sending them to a dirty hell hole in Ukraine, Syria or Africa to die for the government's benefits and be seen as heroes while doing so seems to good of a prospect. One former criminal who was seen negatively came back as a hero after being pardoned as he fought in Ukraine. Examples like this will likely convince many to want to join these are rapists, murderers and a cannibal in one report that was freed after fighting not the type of ending many people would want for cannon fodder but life is a funny thing sadly.
Лол, насильники и каннибалы не набирались в чвк Вагнер) это фейк, брали далеко не всех и каждое дело рассматривалось по отдельности.
Would love to see a video on other countries use of PMCs. I remeber Blackwater, G4S doing some pretty messed up stuff.
One of my favorite channels. Keep up the great content mate!
Не хочу портить картину вашего мира, поэтому напишу по русски.
За изнасилования, грабежи и убийства гражданских в ЧВК Вагнер и в других Российских ЧВК связанных с государством, был единственный приговор - Расстрел либо позорное болезненное увольнение.
Только идиоты будут портить мнение местных жителей (коих большинство) о себе на "официальном" уровне поощрая подобные действия.
Проще говоря эти парни были "лицом" России.
И да... Я Русский тролль, приятно познакомиться.
Говорю только ложь и пропаганду. Всего хорошего.
Slava Z, From Poland
@@baneofbanes they do, im on advances history in school, why?
@huntersmith761 yes i know?
@@baneofbanes because why should I hate them for crimes of their grandfathers? I'm a Christian,
@huntersmith761 Aslo Russia invaded ukraine because of ukranian army shelling civilians in donieck and because of high number of nazis in ukraine and don't think russia would inave Poland, what for?
@@baneofbanesдавай мы лучше вспомним Волынскую резню и Бандеру
🇷🇸🇷🇺 Победа будет за нами!🇷🇺🇷🇸
Turkish-Russian Alliance! 🇷🇸🇷🇺
@@bigfatboss7427Are you from turkey yourself or just proposing the ideal? I'm interested in the culture.
@@bigfatboss7427 leave the NATO and go, Russia will make remember you why they joined the alliance in the cold war
Fun fact. When the guy speaks Russia, it can be changed to USA.
Our PMCs don't have the capabilities Wagner had.
Please stop with the TV cutaways. The audio irks me.
Rusich is not a PMC. Imperial Legion is not a PMC.
Wagner also not really PMC it's a sidejob army
@@besconst it is a PMC, people get paid there. It is just the strongest PMC in the world because it can conduct military operations.
@@borisnikator7060 classical PMC is just militarized security of an oil facilities. Wagner are not the strongest, cause they doesn't exist anymore
@@besconst they exist and will be back soon
@@borisnikator7060 yeah, from grave)
Rusich (rositsch) is not a pmc,they are a volontere group,michaltschuk is not the founder,rhe group was foundet back in the 2nd chechen war,some rositsch members have worked for wagner (like slavian the 2nd kommander)
Blackwater, Wagner, Praying Mantis, they are all owned by Liquid Ocelot.
STORY: 10
FACTS: 0
EVIDENCE: 0
Does anyone think that this random youtuber have any idea what he talks about? You are confidently talking about this like you were there with them? This is like watching a sci-fi movie, you see everything but you have no idea if its true in real life, but its interesting like a Hollywood movie...I knew exactly what you are going to say even before watching this because everyone could make video like this without knowing anything and no arguments...Im sick of desperate hippies giving their thoughts that they read on google and the news, what about asking people that live there, you just read what people like you wrote whatever they like. You are just trying to make the content interesting and "mysterious" by not telling a one fact or evidence. Who did they rape? The real truth is this, the only good thing in this video is his voice, but he would sound a lot better with like national geography content or UFO since every other word is, could, probably, maybe, possibly... Nothing is a fact. Exactly Wagner came wherever the west made a mess, Syria, Africa, they are giving the power to the people that the west colonized and to kick them out because west is making sure the countries are poor so that they can work for western companies as a cheap working-class. "Unsaferie business" "Shadowy" "Whats really going on" like what?????"Crimes agains humanity, nasty business, dirty business" like what???? Where are the examples????The west is putting their nose almost in every single country and we can see the results but when its someone else then its gotta be something bad. All we heard is they are bad bad and bad but we haven't hear what they've done??? Did you ever say where all this information comes from so that I can take a look too? Assasinate Zelensky? Why? For Russia its even better if he is there lol. I feel like I watched a kids cartoon and ppl that get hyped on this I believe that they use like 1% of the brain. By the way pls check your glasses Im pretty sure those are womens "kitty" glasses...
I met a guy from Wagner. He was really chill
This is a very relevant and very overlooked aspect of the war in Ukraine. I was aware of other PMCs but didn’t understand who they work for or the dynamics between them. I feel like their involvements are generally attributed to Wagner by most people in the media.
Your videos are always interesting but this sheds some light on something that is ongoing. 👍
Compare to wagner all others had minimal effect on the battlefield.
Keep going with the great work
Whoever's editing the past few videos is gonna have to spend some time in the basement…
I think that the advantage given by PMCs isn't plausible deniability, (everyone knows who they work for) but rather expendability. Remember when Wagner tried to take a refinery held by american forces? If those were regular troops the russian military would have been obligated to support them, with the risk of starting a war with the USA. But since they were Mercenaries the russian military could simply let them die.
What u have just explained is plausible deniability not expendability
@@justinbrowne2071 can you plausibly deny what everyone knows for certain?
@@arx3516Yes, you CAN plausibly deny what everyone knows.
If everyone knows something, but can't PROVE it, then that is the very definition of plausible deniability.
For example: Wagner commits war crimes. We all know they work for Russia. But Russia can deny that THEY committed war crimes, because it's not THEIR military forces, it's a private company that they were paying. "Can't blame us boss, we just paid them to do XYZ. You'll have to talk to the PMC about any naughty business".
Simon, I love your stuff, but I have to say that I hate what your editors did this episode. The voice changes are incredibly grating.
That TV sound effect is super annoying...
Это прикол произносить вообще все названия неправильно? Ты бы хоть спрашивал у тех, кто тебе тексты пишет, как буквы читать...
I don't want to offend anybody, but every time an English speaker pronounce a Slavic name (10:13) I'm about to die.
Can you make a video on fourth and fifth generation warfare and future of warfare in general?
Please stop that audio cutout... It is entirely not needed
Arguably some of the best channel's on RUclips if not THE best.
Too biased
Rusich is a tiny sabotage group with roughly 100 members you'd think you were describing an elite WW2 waffen ss unit like Dirlewanger or the Ustashe.
100 people capable of what Rusich did makes them the most elite unit
I'm quite surprised any of your situation videos didn't cover the Myanmar situation.
He did in one of the first three, mentioning operation 10/27 and the others. He just hasn't been back to it yet due to his limited time per video.
The staticky old TV broadcast clips are weird please stop
ДШРГ Расик, это пять!
Simon secretly control RUclips, he use other hosts for plausible deniability
Enlightening. I wonder how many the US has being the most militarized nation in the world
We have none. Nothing like Wagner anyways.
@@0816M3RC simple google search proves otherwise😬
@@nameless7699 nah
@@0816M3RC That's a lie. The US is who made PMCs mainstream in the 2000s and even came up with the label. Russia was over a decade late.
@@realtalk6195 The only difference is, is the US acknowledged using them, while r*zzia does not.
Oh, and America never hired prisoners into their PMCs, cyka.
Utkin was not a Nazi, that's a lie. If Wagner's PMC consisted of neo-Nazis, then Central Asians, Africans, Syrians, Colombians and Venezuelans would not serve in it. Yes, yes... These nations are present in the Wagner PMCs. And there are also many nationalities from the Caucasus in the Wagner PMCs.
Utter nonsense. The Third Reich, the literal Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS, made extensive use of foreign volunteers and conscripts from all of these places. Spaniards, Kazakhs, Africans, Turkmen, Uzbeks, Arabs, Chechens, Dagestani, etc.
Nazis have no qualms about using other races and ethnicities to fight for them.
That's it. I give up trying to keep up with all these Vladimirs.
15k civilians died in ukraine 1m in iraq, Russia has the most humane military in the world
There’s no such thing as a humane military
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Yet, over 120,000 Russian soldiers killed
This comment is wrong in so many ways.
During the American invasion of Iraq, 3,300 to 4,300 civilians were killed. Even the highest Iraqi estimates are less than 7,000. And some of those deaths were caused by Saddam's forces.
@@TrolligiIncorrect according to the UK it’s 70,000
They become like the Varangian Guard of the Byzantine Empire.
Private armed warriors engaged in cutthroat politics.
Thanks!
Boy we are just going full Metal Gear Solid 4 huh?
Why don't you tell me who exactly was destroyed by the Rusich battalion? Rusich destroyed the Azov battalion, which consisted of the same Nazis, only from Ukraine. And Azov posed with Nato flags, Nazi Germany and the black sun.
No, that was the Russian military proper, Rusich has never had the capabilities necessary to take on Azov's full force.