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Life lesson: do not fly in a heli if you're the president of a middle-eastern country
The Iranian president is now with Allah. He must have a lot of explaining to do.
Shh don't tell them lol
And make sure your pilot isn't an agent by the name of 'Eli Copter'
@@zollen123" ye, Israel ain't dealt with chief"
Let’s hope mossad hide its trails really well so we don’t have mushrooms popping up all over.
u know it's getting real when they put a paradox player in charge
Lol. When assimilation goes wrong
criminal syndicates make their own meta, 1000 hours in multiplayer and i love it ^^
😂😂😂😂
like eu4?
'I've done a WC several times; how hard is it going to be to paint Ruthenia??!"
Let’s not forget “Shoiguuuuuuuu” (prigozian voice) had absolutely NO battlefield experience upon him becoming DM either.
"Шойгу! Герасимов! Где наши чертовы боеприпасы?" 😂
neither do most defense Secretaries or ministers, they don't need to and having military experience often makes them corrupt, Defense Secretaries/ Ministers are glorified accounts/managers they don't really handle war strategies they handle procurement or war material
@@Robert_Douglass You gotta do it the way he did.
"ShOIGUUUUU!!! GGGEERRRRAASSIMOOVV!!!!"
@@ScarletImp O-kay..... Here goes, I suppose.
"ШОЙГУУУУУУУУУУУ!!! ГГГЕЕЕРРРАААСССИИИМОВ!! ГДЕ БЛЯТЬ НАШИ БОЕПРИПАСЫ!!!"
How'd I do...?
LSA WERE EVERYWHERE
Mr Shoigu better not travel by plane ever again in his life.
And buy a windowless house
Dont go to tea partys
Or train or car or bike or scooter
That's a lot of stressful things he would have to avoid hopefully he doesn't decide to shoot himself in the back of the head 5 times as a result
.... if he lives that lomg...
Nothing live in my head like Prigozhin screaming out in that infamous video, “Shogu!! Gerazimov!!” Lol 😂
For sure... especially "Where's the ammunition?".
That memory lives rent free in my head for the rest of my life 😂😂😂😂
Prigozhin/Wagner were the only capable Russians too. Now they're buried in a car park along with Russias hopes of reforming the USSR
I miss big boss
Где мой сука боеприпасы 🤬
Andrei Belousov doesn't have a military background, but does have a deep understanding of defense economics. Sounds like a more cutthroat Russian version of Perun. I wonder if he likes making hour-long PowerPoint videos.
More like loves making underlings sit through hour-lomg powerpoint presentations. He is Russian, after all.
Perun is a hack
Shoigu wasn’t in either
@@charliefinn7874 Shoigu is a relic of the old Soviet era of rising through the ranks by connections. Ironically, Russia is shifting to qualified posts while the US is reverting to the Soviet style.
he is no one and nobody
he was chosen only because he will not lead a revolt
Thanks for keeping us updated. Here’s some money towards the writers’ caffeine fund
thank you so much
siiimp!
You're a legend! Thank you.
Big W bro
Holy shhiiiit.. HOW tf have you not received a like / comment / pin from Simon after basically donating a PS5 to the cause..?!!
That film vignette frame is distracting and not an improvement over the normal talking-head monologue shot.
I agree! My ADHD is going wild
Sounds like a personal problem guys
I think I've seen (or made) this comment on every video for over a month. They clearly don't give a shit.
At this point I'll settle for no fake historical images or wacky distracting overlays. Which may still be asking too much. The animations on the vignette are getting worse...
Yet they want to be called serious analysis, not just news.
I personally don't even find it distracting, just dumb and unnecessary. At least they aren't using AI photos anymore, so whatever
I agree, distracting as hell and looks unprofessional
2020's are not a decade to fly private jets and helicopters.
Or on a Boeing.
@@JakeyBaby6 Theres a new saying. If its Boeing, I ain't going
@@thesenate1844 The fact that's a riff on a saying of the opposite shows how far they've fallen.
Someone tell Mike Lindell.
I'm not waitin in traffic like a b*tch
0:00 - Chapter 1 - Russia's new defence minister
13:20 - Chapter 2 - Is georgia on the path to revolution ?
23:30 - Chapter 3 - Russia steps up sabotage attacks in Europe
32:20 - Chapter 4 - Tunisia in turmoil
39:45 - Chapter 5 - Iranian conspiracy in Jordan
thank you very much
You're a legend! Thank you!
@@masseyfurguson8871 Fun fact, i have a master degree in nuclear engineer & i'm working at a nuclear facility as a radiological protection technician
@@ignitionfrn2223That's cool, what nation are you in
@@coconutsmarties France
Shoigu being shifted could very well be a way to shift him out in a way that still takes care of Shoigu. Shoigu may or may not want to be Minister, but he’s never betrayed Putin and we all know Putin takes care of his friend. It’s a cushy retirement.
As for Belusov, that makes a lot of sense because the Defence minister’s job right now isn’t to handle the battlefield, it’s to optimise Russia into a war economy. More interesting imo is to see where Patrushev ends up.
How to properly spell CORRUPTION:
Everyone, all at once now:
R U S S I A
How to properly spell idiоcy?
Correct: You)
@@1_1__1_1daaaamn how long did it take you to come up with that one? Clown
@@masterofpuppets8111 nice to meet you, clown)
You guys haven't done an update on Haiti in quite a while, which is a shame because you've probably been the best on that topic
It's bad, thats your update
It's probably too chaotic to get accurate information at the moment.
@@MARfilms This is unironically the most accurate update I've seen.
In france the GRU tried to hack a dam and ended up jamming a water mill, that was funny
Eyyyy guess who's president just got dusted
Give him some time, i'm patiently waiting too.
im fearing that someone more fierce and bloodthristy than raisi might come to power
@@noir1923 Can you be more bloodthirsty than a guy literally nicknamed "The Butcher of Tehran"? Regardless it doesn't matter because the real power has always been Khamenei
@@unc54
The Tehran reaper?
The Iranian annihilator?
The Persian poison?
@@noir1923 Lets hope he at least has higher education than 6th grade
Russia putting an economist in charge actually makes a lot of sense. Last time they got in a big economic war, the USSR didn’t survive. Granted that was with the US, a much bigger economy than Ukraine.
The USA is still a target. The cyber-war rages pn.
anything you think is wwrong westerners arte so spoiled by democracies they can't think like a rat
To be fair they have a portion of the GDP of every country supporting them with munitions and equipment.
Guy, the war is between the us and Russia. If you can't see ots a proxy war, God help you and o wonder how you even live threw life on your own.
Coruption was not a reason. Coruption is a base of Russian country.
Good one 😂😂😂😂😂
Same with Ukraine and any other post-Soviet countries
as someone who lives here, you're correct. it's so everywhere that you often can pay for a driver's license, a high school exam score, a uni degree, a medical diagnosis, even to dodge the draft. i absolutely hate it here and everything that putin is doing, but i don't know if it will improve or not, occasionally i see anti government graffiti around, but i didn't see much else, granted, here there are cops everywhere. but it feels like unrest is growing slowly
@@octoxodunomuoro2614 It is a high time.
Me: Oh, this looks pertinent.
Also me: I'm starting to develop an aversion to the game Simon Says.
*puts hands in the air*
Corruption in Russia? Never.
Corruption in Ukraine? Who would have thought.
@@margaretthatcher6828Eventually you will learn how to gather and comprehend data but it's not today
@@margaretthatcher6828 Yeah, there's never been more corruption in Ukraine....now that Putin has installed puppets in areas he has "annexed", who have people vote in rigged "referendums" at gun-point....
@@SergiblacklistUkraine is just as corrupt as Russia, simple google search will tell you that information.
Corruption index for Russia is ranked 137 while Ukraine is ranked 117 according to 2022 reports and still high even with amid anti-corruption laws and they were higher amid 2014-2018.
Get your booster and appease your pedo overlords
3:41 neither has Shoigu but that didn’t stop Putin making him the second highest ranking general only than of a marshal and there has only been one marshal of the Russian federation
This is nothing new for Putin to promote civilians with no military experience to head the defense ministry there hasn’t been a “military man” at the head of the MOD since 2001
3:45 bro is probably a HOI4 player they put into a military general role
SHOIGU! GERISAMOV! WHERE ARE THE AMMUNITIONS
Shoigu looks like he belongs in that business suit. Certainly matches him more than the military outfit.
nice... outfit matches my opinion of him FAR more than a uniform!! i agree completely!
Now picture him in a shroud.
We love to say that Russia's attacks are costly and dangerous and mad and immoral and outdated.
That's true. The thing is that they work. The one who wins wars isn't the one who is an expert in strategy and tactics and calls out the other for not doing so, the one who wins wars is the one who does what wins wars.
Pretty simplistic take...
Sure they're 'winning' but it's almost impossible for them not to win.
I'm not sure when everything is stacked in your favour that you can say your 'plan' is the reason you won (more like a lack of a plan).
For example, if one guy with a hand gun gets in a gun fight with a hundred guys carrying assault rifles... but the guys with the assault rifles walk around a corner one after the other getting shot in the head, until he finally runs out of ammo.
Is that really a plan or strategy?
@@retsaMinnavoiG All that matters is that whatever it is, plan or not, succeeds.
Thanks!
Wait wait wait...Russia claimed to make a real AT-ST? We need to hear more about this! I need a good laugh!
lol Soviet chicken walkers, I was also thinking it looked a lot like the magitech suits used by the Empire from Final Fantasy 6
Sadly, not even good for a laugh. The videos are on UA-cam still I believe. It's less like a weapons program and more like a bored weeb making a Gundam out of cardboard trying to be cool... Not that I have any experience with that sort of thing.
@@PlapradWHY DO YOU HAVE CAMERAS IN MY ROOM?
@@Sleepy7666 More importantly, why do you still have that old Wing shirt from the 90's. Let it go. It's tired.
And take those dishes downstairs to the kitchen!
Simon, you are a fucking legend man. How in the world do you work this hard spoon-feeding me such good information? 46 minutes again!?
Deserve all the rewards coming to you man. Your analysis is aware of bias and absolutely awesome. Thank you.
Because there is a whole team doing the work its not only Simon 😅.
@@ASR0023 I'm sure you're right. I extend my comment to all those who help him as well.
The old-timey TV filter is dumb. It makes no sense. It gives the impression that the footage is old, and doesn't lend itself well to discussions of current events.
What about the obvious filter over the HD footage of modern events would give anyone the impression it was old footage?
Poor editing choice maybe, but it was obvious to everyone.
Agreed it's really bad choice, totally stupid.
@@yeehawanarchist Yes, obvious, to the point of second-hand embarrassment.
Great channel. Thanks Simon Whistler and team!
Great video. Thank you for taking about these events when most mainstream news ignores them.
"A good general knows strategy, but a brilliant general knows logistics."
Amazing analysis! Please keep us updated
I guess we're getting the Iran video tomorrow, lol
One of the main issue is China trade relations with Russia kinda negate a lot of the sanctions on Russia by the west … and yeah Russia is so huge , with lot of resources and a lot of main power … hopefully Ukraine stay strong and Putin will decide to give up seeing that the cost of the war is too much and useless
Hopefully zelensky is ousted and a truce is initiated while Ukraine is liberated from western corrupters
Hopefully zelensky is ousted and a truce is initiated and Ukraine is liberated from western corrupters
Unfortunately without actual intervention from other countries then Ukraine cannot win and Putin cannot lose.
It was always going to be a numbers game if Ukraine couldn't make some headway in the first 1.5 years because Russia will gear up and they have the numbers.
Thanks again, Simon, for all that you and your writers do.
Great discussion. Very informative. Enjoy this channel immensely.
Gerasimov not Gerasiov at 10:40
I wondered...
Shows Simon really is just a newsreader (and channel owner/creator). There's not a Ukraine invasion follower that doesn't know a major player like Gerasimov. Props to him though, the channel is great. Bit more acknowledgment to the writers would go a long way.
Prigozhins wish was granted 😂
Him in the grave be like 🎉
Thanks for the update
Wow this episode was PACKED!! Thank you!
If you see this, would love to see an inclusion of more irregular warfare and descriptions of the impact of influence operations and other IW operations. (Basically the second half of this video) Love your analysis!
Please tell me more about the Igorek walker
Keep up the great work!
please do more of these longer form summary vids. great flow and transitions, nothing was jarring, music was at a good level (maybe a bit too low) and our fact boi had excellent delivery with this
Didn’t the president of Iran go missing in a helicopter crash last night?
Is simon a zio?
I suspect this episode was finished before Raisin's death was confirmed or maybe even before the helicopter went down.
Excellent video, thank you.
Shoigu also had no combat experience
he was in the soviet army when he was young
Shoigu had a power base in the Russian East that helped keep it onside and sending the war effort young Asiatic Russian men to expend on the front lines in places like Bakhmut and Bucha. They will not be nearly so eager to go and fight for a Moscow economist and party hack.
I love the situation room.
I just have no idea how you can put these together so quickly
Are you going to do one on iran?
Probably has the writers furiously typing a script right now
"...show Shoigu the window..." 👍
Why? Is a promotion bad in your country?
@@ericp1139 yep... instant death here when you get a promotion... thought it was common knowledge...
@@coodudeman ah yes I'm sure Ukrainians all know about not flying in helo-chopters anymore unless they wanna be like KOBY!
Shoigu was not a military trained person.
I do hope the people of Georgia manage to make their way to the EU and NATO.
01:16 " . . . this is the moment when Pootin has decided to show Shoigu the door." Is it only a matter of time before Shoigu also gets shown the window? But the real question is this: where's Gerasimov?
Wheres the ammunition???!!
@@whyshouldwecare3267 WHERE'S THE BEEF!?!?!?!?
Shoigu is no war hawk. Putin didn’t even tell him he was standing up the nuclear weapons. A picture said a thousand words in his facial expression.
I know my comments aren't read but I still feel that there should be at least one video on the war on poaching. It is very important to us in Africa
Exactly what's the point of the fake old-time TV-screen-frame on this video?
It is to reduce bandwidth, lower costs or simply "justify" the sub-contracted video editor's fees?
Keep it simple in future.
Holy crap you have a lot of channels!!!
In the immortal words of Cyril Figgis, "I'm a hell of an accountant"
That sounded better in your head didn't it?
*I have been looking forward to new episodes of "The War Room"... You guys are doing a great job. Keep up the great work.... Stay Safe & Stay Dangerous* 😈💯👍
Luscious beard, Simon, keep it up
Love your family as much as Simon loves Russia.
Please drop the old film effect overlay.
Change my day
talk about Iranian president helicopter crash
Definitely in a next upload. It's still a developing event
They definitely filmed this just before that happened
@@divinewillie2973 😆😆😆
Probably gonna do that tomorrow….or next 2-3 days to see what’s gonna happen/see what’s stated to the cause of the crash.
Yea. NOT A HARD LANDING.
I have seen a hard landing. Helicopter looked liked a Splooching Squirrel on the ground and occupants survived (1-2 days in hospital max)
You just did lol
Bipedal combat walker???
Long form name of "New Target".
Is there a Version without the annoying filter? I didn't pay 600€ for a modern phone to watch war updates like it's 1945. :/
Russias population is only 9th largest?!? Does anyone else find that incredible? I had to google I thought russias population was third or something!
Fun fact. The island of Java has more population than all of Russia.
bruh no one wants to live here
@@tsartomato hahahaha 😂
It's been a while since you guys released an update on Haiti.
I like how you tried to make it that he got fired or something when he just got promoted basically.
What is the deal with the fake movie tone pastiche from the 1940s?
it's stupid !
Are you really gonna parrot American government talking points… 🙄
Entirely inappropriate and dangerous.
Man. You are irepleceble and unmached in this business! fantastic work like always.
Anyone who thinks Putin doesn't want an open conflict with Nato is a fool at this point.
Why doesn't he just start that conflict then?
@@greentoby26 Putin wants to make NATO exhaust its limited stocks of tanks, AFVs, APCs, & artillery in Ukraine before starting a war with NATO. By then, Russia's economy will have been on a war footing for several years and NATO will be left holding its collective ding-a-ling.
It would be suicide for Putin...
Several years of failure combat and now their finally doing things to drastically fix it
Edit spelling error fix
Now for the next question.
Is it safe to pass judgment on his performance as of now?
Didn't they replace him with a economist though ? Seems a odd choice
Its incredibly how you lads can rationalise your faulty worldview , somewhat of a human superpower I guess the power of cope , L after L but you guys persist with this ‘ Russians bad Russian dumb Russian lose next week’ narrative , when will it stop ?
@@16mopey it was explained why they chose him in literally this video...
What combat failure? Russia is carving out pieces of Ukraine by the day.
I just hope each place finds peace and freedom.
is that Bane's theme song I hear in the background??? 🤣
Can you make new caledonian riots?
What's next for Putin? Appointing Stalin's embalmbed body to the role of prime minister?
So sad to hear about Shoigu going missing tomorrow :(
let's not use that vignette again please
Agreed.
Thanks Simon for continuing to cover the ongoing situation in Georgia. If not for your coverage I literally would not have been aware of anything happening there, because news outlets in the United States for whatever braindead reason find the constant, day-after-day vapid drivel about the Trump hush money trial to be more worthy of national news coverage than an entire country struggling against the tightening grip of Russian influence.
I look forward to hearing your analysis on the impact of Iranian (former) president Raisi's little helicopter mountain adventure, which I'm sure you and the team are working on right now. Keep up the brilliant work.
The Russians have AT-ST?
Nope. They have a really big model of one though...
@@gchampi2good one😂
You’re really gunna just mention a bipedal combat mech and move on aren’t you😂
actually, couple of weeks ago there were 300 000 people protesting in Georgia
I feel like a lot of these issues, Georgia, Russia, the US, are a result of too many old people in power. Too many people that are addicted and clinging to Cold War style policies. But when this is pointed out, all of the old people say "rabble, rabble, rabble, experience, rabble, rabble, rabble!" And they continue to lock out younger generations from making decisions to protect their own future.
Fact: The US has the oldest average age of representatives in the House and Senate in its history. The US is also the most openly corrupt than its ever been in its history. Ill leave correlation and causation to you.
Russia is waaaay more corrupt.
Considering you claimed it is the most corrupt as a fact... got some proof?
@retsaMinnavoiG A Supreme Court Justice caught and censured for taking bribes to pass restrictive laws and overturn Roe v. Wade. I can keep going. Just let me know if you need more. examples. I can make a list.
Sone of Russia-related parts were self-contradictory and/or ignored the industrial reality.
1. Going beyond maxing our arms and ammo production at current factories means building new ones or expanding current ones which even in an optimistic case takes 3-5 years (there is a lot of custom-made machinery involved, so throwing money at the problem has its limits - as the West has seen recently with its artillery ammo production, which is far easier to make than tanks, BMPs, jets, etc.) - not something you can do overnight - and there are no signs (or even just announcements) of new ammo/arms factories being built.
2. It doesn't make sense to claim that after this war Russia would at the same time be going for a mass of basic equipment and "move beyond inherited Soviet weapons" when most of Russian current weapons are Soviet models or based on them - with new designs being stuck in development hell and/or just too expensive (like T-14 Armata).
3. Customers for Russian weapon exports are rarely interested in basic equipment like artillery of ammunition - damn near everyone makes basic ammo in their country and if you look at the past sales, there have been relatively few buyers fro Russian artillery. Without export numbers that Russia used to generate with mostly aircraft and SAM sales, Russian arms export is practically dead.
4. Presenting high ammo usage as cure-it-all ignores that it is resulting in burning through enormous number of artillery gun barrels - far beyond the current or near future production rates and that just like with many other items, Russia is compensating for the massive gap between newly produced weapon and they losses mostly by pulling older equipment from inherited storage of ex-USSR weapons, which are not infinite.
5. It would take Russia a lot longer than 5 years just to rebuild its military to pre-2022 state - and even that state of the Russian military was far inferior to NATO.
6. As has been said many times, in any war between Russia and NATO, NATO would rely on its massive airpower - immediately shredding Russian railways-based logistics and after achieving air superiority obliterating both frontline (tanks, BMPs, etc.) and rear area (artillery, HQs, etc.) assets - with Russia not having anything to effectively counter NATO stealth aircraft beyond attacks against airbases - which have been pretty ineffective even against a much much much smaller Ukrainian Air Force. Artillery-based warfare just doesn't work if the opponent has air superiority.
Just shut up you don’t know what your talking about just a lot of cope
Of all the things I expected would happen in 2024, Tunisia’s president trying to recreate Ace Attorney Spirit of Justice was not one of them
after 1:30 I kept expecting someone to be shifted out a window. 🙃
JUST STOP WITH THE ARTIFICIAL "OLD-TIMEY" FILM/TV EFFECT!! SO ANNOYING!!
Agreed it's terrible !
I find the 'TV screen' border around Simon extremely distracting & unnecessary. Please consider disusing it moving forward.
Agreed it's so bad. Just their to boost subcontracted editor fees.
Ty
With Shoigu gone, its time for Gerasimov to complete the double.
The videos without the film/flicker effect recently have been much better. I'm not sure why your editors seem so married to it, but give up on the flicker effect. It diminishes the quality significantly and distracts from the information you're trying to convey - which is what people come to your channel for.
LOL Well the editor has officially declared that they don't care about those of us who hate the tacky, unnecessary vingette applied to these videos and made them even worse. They simply take away from the seriousness of the topics mentioned and brings the quality of the video down. Imagine if the evening news had all the hosts in the dark with spotlights and dramatic music, it would be a joke. These editors should save the ridiculous and cringy editing for TikToks for Gen α. Stop playing with your shitty After Effects plug ins and take your job seriously.
i was thinking the same
Its fearmongering.
Probably they should do an investigative reporting exposé on what intelligence agency is running Simon and who Simon is really working for.
Need to turn this feed into an audio podcast.
Russia has been meddling in Georgian politics longer than almost anywhere else post-Soviet period except perhaps Chechnya. It was their test country for deciding how far they could initially push the West in carving off bits and pieces of a sovereign nation without any serious (from Russian perspective) consequences. Abkhazia and South Ossetia are still contested territories.
They are indepedent and south ossetia would likely become part of russia. they never should become part of georgia in first place
Don't know why anyone thought Ukraine would win 😂
Because Russia isn't willing to sacrifice 20 million Russians to win.
Give less than a year we’ll hear how he’s fallen out of a window
I really appreciate the in-depth coverage warographics does on the Ukraine war, though sometimes the terminology Simon uses to describe Russian tactics seems a little slanted. Describing Russian tactics as primitive by massive artillery and air barrages followed by costly attacks, but describing modern tactics with shock troop attack air strikes and infantry rear guard seem like the same thing. It seems as a means discredit Russian gains by describing them as primitive seems to be more like an excuse than a sober understanding of how a large scale interstate war can be. In similar large scale conflicts since the end of WW2 have had large portions of time where attritional tactics were used be forces that were on similar levels of strength. Examples of this would be the Korean War, the Vietnam war, and the Iran-Iraq war. It’s more common when one or both sides have outside support to keep them in the fight when they would have already lost via attrition. This is not to say these videos are biased, they are probably the most sober assessments of the war I have seen. It gets more to the fact that those in the west seem to have forgotten or refused to understand that not every conflict can be won in a quick and decisive manner. Especially when you have opponents like Russia and China who can call up significant manufacturing and resources to their wars. We can see this with western countries struggling to produce more basic ammunition and equipment. While also relying on high tech but expensive and difficult to manufacture weapons. If we do not understand how costly wars can be than we risk going into a war with delusional expectations and suffering horrible losses as a result. Such as when Russia invaded Ukraine expecting to win in three days. War is an incredibly costly affair and thinking otherwise is foolish and can lead to disaster.