Fact Checking the Tucker Carlson - Col MacGregor Interview of August 21st
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The original Tucker Carlson Col MacGregor Interview can be found here.
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The 3:1 wounded to killed casualty ratio can be found here.
www.belfercenter.org/publicat...
Note that the paper states that “With recent medical advances, however, the U.S. wounded-to-killed ratio today ranges anywhere from 10:1 to 17:1.”
www.belfercenter.org/publicat...
This may have been true due to the COIN environment of Iraq and Afghanistan where MEDEVAC was not threatened with a contested environment. Read my article Goodbye MEDEVAC Bird for more on how LSCO may change the medical environment back to the traditional 3:1 ratio.
ryanmcbeth.substack.com/p/goo...
The figure of 500,000 serving in the Ukrainian Army came from The Guardian. Note that the Wikipedia answer is different, but includes reserves.
www.belfercenter.org/publicat...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armed_F...
Nuclear Weapons in Europe provided by the Arms Control Center.
armscontrolcenter.org/fact-sh...
Fact sheets on versions of the M2 Bradley from BAE Systems.
www.baesystems.com/en-us/prod...
My video on the AT-4 Rocket “found” in Mexico.
• Is Ukraine selling Jav...
Russian Attack Submarines:
www.nti.org/analysis/articles...
Russian Bastions:
www.cjoscoe.org/infosite/wp-co...
The article on Imminent Danger Pay is here.
www.militarytimes.com/news/yo...
The Palantir AIP video is here.
• Palantir AIP | Defense...
Islam in Russia.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_i...
The Yakut people.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakuts
Dr. Caroline Orr Bueno’s Weaponized Spaces Article on “Hawaii, not Ukraine.”
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakuts
The source of the $700 payment rumor.
apnews.com/article/maui-wildf...
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This critique is protected by fair use doctrine for commentary, criticism, news reporting, and scholarly reports.
The Uncensored version is at ryanmcbeth.substack.com
Get your own private intelligence agency at Veloxxity.com.
The original Tucker Carlson Col MacGregor Interview can be found here.
ua-cam.com/video/iMUAaWK79Vc/v-deo.html
The 3:1 wounded to killed casualty ratio can be found here.
www.belfercenter.org/publication/nonfatal-casualties-and-changing-costs-war
Note that the paper states that “With recent medical advances, however, the U.S. wounded-to-killed ratio today ranges anywhere from 10:1 to 17:1.”
www.belfercenter.org/publication/nonfatal-casualties-and-changing-costs-war
This may have been true due to the COIN environment of Iraq and Afghanistan where MEDEVAC was not threatened with a contested environment. Read my article Goodbye MEDEVAC Bird for more on how LSCO may change the medical environment back to the traditional 3:1 ratio.
ryanmcbeth.substack.com/p/goodbye-medevac-bird
The figure of 500,000 serving in the Ukrainian Army came from The Guardian. Note that the Wikipedia answer is different, but includes reserves.
www.belfercenter.org/publication/nonfatal-casualties-and-changing-costs-war
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armed_Forces_of_Ukraine
Nuclear Weapons in Europe provided by the Arms Control Center.
armscontrolcenter.org/fact-sheet-u-s-nuclear-weapons-in-europe/
Fact sheets on versions of the M2 Bradley from BAE Systems.
www.baesystems.com/en-us/product/bradley-fighting-vehicle
My video on the AT-4 Rocket “found” in Mexico.
ua-cam.com/video/kQoMZM1dBI4/v-deo.html
Russian Attack Submarines:
www.nti.org/analysis/articles/russia-submarine-capabilities/
Russian Bastions:
www.cjoscoe.org/infosite/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Conflict-2020-and-Beyond_A-Look-at-the-Russian-Bastion-Defence-Strategy.pdf
The article on Imminent Danger Pay is here.
www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2023/07/27/us-troops-in-ukraine-can-now-earn-hazard-pay/
The Palantir AIP video is here.
ua-cam.com/video/XEM5qz__HOU/v-deo.html
Islam in Russia.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_in_Russia
The Yakut people.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakuts
Dr. Caroline Orr Bueno’s Weaponized Spaces Article on “Hawaii, not Ukraine.”
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakuts
The source of the $700 payment rumor.
apnews.com/article/maui-wildfires-hawaii-fema-misinformation-8562e2e81e03626acc5be30700d73120
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Ryan, next time, when people are monologuing, its just that, monologuing. You don't need to fact check every word. Focus on important details. You're here to fact check the general, not the host. So focus on that. The rest is just junk data. It bloats the video and bores the viewer.
Why don’t you ever fact check MSNBC and CNN
I work in Training for the marines as a contractor. Col MacGregor is so full of ""it I had to take a shower before I typed this message. May I suggest a one time donation button for your substack page that gives you XX number of days. I would go for that(yes I a cheap bast&rd)
@@Chris-xz8fmhe’s fact checked everything they’ve gotten wrong about the war.
@@Chris-xz8fm I only watch ESPN. But I would if you sent me something.
I can't believe blatant liars aren't publicly ridiculed in this age. 20 years ago these liars would have been shamed to oblivion.
That's why its called post truth era.
You have your facts and I have my own alternative facts. Fight the lizards! Haha
Did you forget 20 years ago the state & media lied us into Iraq. Things have always been this bad
Yeah, I fear Russia got under the skin and in the head of a large part of the US population.
20 years ago these liars got us into the Iraq war and failed in Afghanistan.
It’s astonishing how both men manage to be wrong about LITERALLY EVERYTHING yet say it with such confidence.
this is a key insight to highly-confident personality types
Dunning Kruger aint got shit on Carlson.
manipulative personality, grifter or NPD often behave that way, hence using "confidence" as yardstick for truth is a bad logic
It is important to recognise that Tucker Carlson is not even trying to be correct. He has an agenda and he will push it no matter what lies it takes. I have no idea if the Coronel here is doing the same or is just incompetent. Ultimately, he is saying what Tucker wants so his competence doesn't matter at all anyway.
They've been wrong about Putin, Russia, and Ukraine since the beginning of this "special military option." I hope their getting paid because shilling for Russia for free is just dumb.
If Tucker Carlson said the sky was blue I would look up to confirm it.
It almost sounds like MacGregor is receiving a cheque from Putin.
"The Russians from the very beginning, have *always* treated the Ukrainians very fairly." -- Big, double XXL Doubt on that one, chief.
He said that, I lost all respect for him. They have burned churches with soldiers in them. What joke!!
Ya I mean WTF man.. remember buchha? This is just Russian propaganda
The Russians bombed the ever-living shit out of Chechnya, technically their own people. There hasn't been a war in the modern era where they have treated their adversaries "fairly".
They keep larping the Great Patriotic War instead of developing their war fighting.
Yup, we saw how fairly they treat Ukrainians in Bucha, among other locations. If they do that to civilians, they are not being warm and fuzzy to the soldiers they capture.
He won the Goebbels award for this one.
I have a hard time believing that the colonel is making these arguments in good faith.
Like ryan has said in the past, these retired vets love being heard.
They will spew anything just to get a bit of exposure because they have nothing else in their life
If he is he has shot himself in the foot by saying these things, no credible organisation will seek his professional opinion again.
😂😂😂 colonel MacGregor totally frustrated because his prediction goes wrong 😂😂
Me too. At one point he apparently says "we" in place of "Russia" when outlining what Russia will and will not tolerate in relation to Ukraine. It's very difficult for me to believe that MacGregor and Carlsson aren't both Russian assets actively working against the US.
Yes, it would be interesting to audit his savings and possessions.
I absolutely love that “The truth has a ceiling, but the sky is the limit for lies.” I’m definitely gonna use that. I’ve just come back from a weekend long garden party in the Cotswolds UK, most of the people there were folks who have been too some of the best schools and universities in the UK and abroad, and although the alcohol was flowing amongst other substances, it absolutely blew my mind how many well educated people I’d previously considered smart and tuned in, were spreading the most outrageous conspiracy theories I’d ever heard as though they were established facts. Very depressing and baffling. 😢
People are stupid. Get used to it. 💕🇨🇦
Wait, what were they drinking?
@@peterdisbury6346 the kool-aid
It must be spreading from the US to the UK.
@@Mark-op7zt USA didn't invent stupid.
A Colonel commands 3000 to 5000 men. One would expect his expertise to be at that level.
Effing crazy that someone in the US military is so openly a Russian asset.
I didn't realize that Tucker Carlson was in the US Military
Not Carlson but MacGregor
Wow. Just because someone has a different point of view than what the MSM is spoon feeding you, they are an "agent of Putin". Reminds me of 1984 when anyone who went against the propaganda was an "agent of Goldstein". People like you are every bit as dangerous as those who support Putin in Russia.
I don't think he's a current Colonel in the US military, but I do agree he is currently an open Russian asset. Along with Tucker.
"Useful idiot" I think they're called, and they've been with us for a long time. But yeah, always good to identify them wherever they are.
Tucker Carlson never let the truth get in his way before, why would he bother now.
*Carlson
Tucker never lets anything to get in the way of spreading Putin's propaganda either.
@@Rensunecorrected 😅
Yeah as an Outsider (from American)..what is his agenda actually? why does he do this?
@@spawndli1410 Carlson? If the Democratic leaders are for it, Carlson is against it. It plays well with his audience and the Dominion lawsuit proved that when it was show via his text messages that what he says on the air does not reflect what he says in private. That he will lie on the air if that is what he thinks his audience wants to hear.
Aaaand THIS is why I am QUICKLY becoming a fan.
You're literally not bashing a person for the statements they made, but you ARE offering fact based and reasonable arguments as to why their statements aren’t actually factual.
Thank you.
Thanks Ryan for explaining Col MacGregors interview as there seems to be 2 totally different stories here. Seems Scott Ritter has the same sources as he has the same comments as the Col.
If you didn't know, Scott Ritter is a convicted pedophile. That in and of itself does not make his claims inaccurate... but his claims are mostly pure bs.
Ritter is famous for his arrest for trying to hook up with a 16 year old girl. He later married a Russian "Translator" (who may have worked for the FSB) who he met when she was a teenager. Some believe it was a honeypot operation.
It's not that surprising that Ritter holds the same beliefs as MacGregor. He's been a Russian Mouthpiece at least since his marriage. These days he does a lot of writing for RT and Sputnik.
@@dancahill9585It all makes sense now
Two different stories,, gee ever hear of the 2012 Smith Mundt Modernization Act, it allows for usa to use propaganda on Americans,,, Ryan reports what the state run media wants , McGregor reports on the reality not covered by Smith mundt.
@@dancahill9585 and his recent book tour in Russia was a rousing success -- invited on to russian state media multiple times ---- I kid you not, but hey, follow the money ...
Fact checking Tucker Carlson sounds like painful task, but positive for society. Thanks for this
Arduous if nothing else.
This is the way^^^
i think biden and black rock tried.. they dont look good now
The sad part is... the people who need this information won't get it... and if they do they'll just discard the information and keep the cult mentality...🤷♂️
I think it is simple, because all you have to do is figure everything out of his mouth is utter bullshit. Facts checked!
McBeth, you're a much more diplomatic person than I could ever be. Thanks much for being a good example of journalistic integrity.
👍 Hahaha... just what I was thinking. His ability to maintain a professional reserve was astounding! 🤣
Ryan let's others draw the implications. He's playing his part and playing it smart.
"On September 21st, 2023..." he says on August 27, 2023. That's how this video starts & what I heard on August 30. And you're going to give credence to....?! "journalistic integrity" usually gets the date right
@@urinesamplesand another, he literally put the corrected month on the screen to correct his mistake on a word. And yet that's why you base your entire reasoning behind despite him literally correcting it? It's likely you enjoy false propaganda from tucker and alike.
Invite him onto your show. It would be very interesting... if he accepted.
Fact checking Tucker Carlson AND Douglas Macgregor is almost a full-time job. Have they ever been correct about anything?
Possibly by accident, before they became Russian agents...
Indeed.
Carlson had been tapping into a growing legitimate, widely held line of anti-establishment views; with Trump, it seemed he began to only care about relentlessly building his brand, maybe becoming another Rush Limbaugh. However, he went far out with the stolen election stuff that, my opinion, he could not have actually believed. Then his brand-building, er, anti-establishment senses had him opposing the one thing he might have supported about the Biden Administration; i.e., aid to Ukraine. He actually said he is rooting for Russia, of all things, completely destroying any credibility. Tucker's base believes everything about the Biden Administration has to be wrong, and he's pandering to that base. He is obviously not stupid, but I don't think he has any actual beliefs.
The problem is that the fanatics that watch Tucker and now Macgregor don't watch any media feeds that would contradict what they say. And the same fanatics are so deeply invested in their false narratives that they would most likely reject an evidence-based argument anyway.
However, it's still important to call out their lies, because it MIGHT keep some people from sliding into the same mindset.
@@joncasey2129 Are you serious? You're repeating the lies of the same CIA that lead us into Iraq for 20 years
MacGregor calling US equipment old as Russia rolls out T55s and even T10s is genuinely hilarious
For real. Most of Russia's tanks were built in the 80's or earlier. Same with their IFV's.
Don't do this... The "WhatAboutism" is the worst form of distraction from facts.
@@vanyok What facts? Most stuff we use is no older than 30 years. Most stuff Russia uses is 30-70 years old.
@@JTMastermost stock of mbt and ifvs that the ukes are using are from the 80s. Usa is just flipping old stock to give new contracts to their military companies for new stuff. Pretty good little racket
Apart from one Patriot SAM system and some ammo, USA is sending stuff that was written off decades ago. It’s good kit but the costs are already spent.
I have never ever seen someone so... thoroughly deconstruct a person's propaganda before. Great job!
L.O.L.
Intresting
@@aaronmoore3050well unfortunately ryans right on all of it
How do you know this guys right ?
Ryan needs to get to work on those stationary bicycles he has in the background.
And this saved for future reference. Thanks Ryan!
Big respect to your patience and composure debunking these blatant lies.
Listening to MacGregor saying that: "russians treat Ukrainians fairly", got my blood pressure up. He's wilfully ignoring the Olenivka prison massacre, that Ukrainian POWs always look like they've been starved when they return from exchanges (the Azov POWs returning from turkey) and the regular reports of castrations.
What a disgrace!
@@plamenbalev3632 Typical Russian whataboutism.
Macgregor is an absolute mouth piece for the Russians. I'm not saying he's be paid but I feel like he's biased against the Ukrainians.
@@plamenbalev3632it's been debunked so many times that it was ruSSia that blew up the barracks ,but answer me this how come Ukrainians that come from ruSSain prisons ALWAYS looks starved whereas ruSSain prisoners look a little chubby .
There is no proof that Azov batallion members taken prisoner were neo-nazis, and there's no proof that their prison was hit by HIMARS. What was shown as proof is a few pieces of debris which may have been easily transported from a site of another HIMARS strike.
There is no evidence that there were multiple missiles hitting Olenivka compound, yet Ukrainians don't have HIMARS missiles that can cause such destruction when fired solo as opposed to being fired in a volley.
Lastly, holding POWs in a prison that's in the range of 40 km from the frontline is against the Geneva conventions under which the combatant POWs should be kept in a safe location.
You have absolutely no clue what you are talking about do you? Why don`t you actually check what happened at that prison?
I live in Poland and i am amazed how lies and half-truths can easily be promoted in western media (and i am also counting my own media).
That you hate your own country of Poland, tells me your a Russia sympathizer.
western media is all propaganda operation mockingbird
Are you familiar with our Fox News? Their tag-line is 'Fair and Balanced', which is laughable, everything that gets broadcast on that network is politically motivated. Free speech, hooray... I guess... (Tucker's not there anymore, but that's where he honed his BS skills)
Journalism doesn't pay bills or make rich people richer. Sensationalist bullshit does. Most media outlets have devolved into a more plausible form of tabloids.
The pursuit of wealth is corrupting our entire species.
Tucker Carlson is NOT news. Its prapaganda for the ignorant.
Thank you for this evaluation. I have felt for a while that McGregor is a Russian Aperatchic
Absolutely disgusted. My family member always quotes Macgregor, especially about the javelins in Mexico. So damn infuriating.
Sorry he’s always been the worst glad you have seen the light and honest guy
Yeah big issue what most folks need to do when looking up facts putting into works especially for anything involving complex matters such as this because the truth takes months to years to really Manifest because it involves people and alot of them. The problem with media like this and people who draw information from this they are not interested in the truth they want their vision to be the truth and they use these sound bites to assert their claims. It's sad because if you want it takes a while and even then might not be the whole thing.
As a Mexican, I can't stand this man's lies about Drug Cartels.
Now you can point them to this video to correct them.
"On September 21st, 2023..." he says on August 27, 2023. That's how this video starts & what I heard on August 30. And you're going to give credence to....?!
Take a shot every time Ryan says "The Col. May not be aware of technical advancements in the past 30 years." Lmao
No, I gave up drinking years ago and don't want to get hammered now. Read my comments on the other threads about what MacGregor's problem is.
I am sorry but I cannot participate in this either. I do not have enough spicy water
Was so surprised Ryan wasn't sucking on a glass of whiskey during this. "The Colonel " obviously had a few too many shots before the Stucker interview.
Haha. I have to drive home. Lol
😂He is called " viejo gaga" in countries "no woke".
Fish host clearly thinks he's a brilliant highly intelligent man
Thanks, appreciate your views.
Col MacGregor has appeared on russian state TV as a guest.... tells you everything you need to know about him.
And he have been saying things like "Ukraine will loose within weeks" since the first week of the war. 😂
We've had an atf potential director on Chinese tv before
Ow, yes. And my aunt once spoke with a Russian citizen. She must be a Russian sympathizer or better yet a Russian spy.
@@catstac2542 You have to be at least morally compromised to appear on a state adversary's propaganda outlet
@@catstac2542That isn't even close to being a good comparison. There's a difference between a random civilian talking to another civilian and an ex-military guy openly spouting verifiable falsehoods on the state-run news outlet of an adversary.
During the "Winter War" between Finland and Soviet Union, the red army soliers were impressed of finnish soldiers habit to take care their wounded and dead ones also, because there wasn't anything like that in Russias side.
The more things change, the more they stay the same...
Imagine how terrible a society that doesn’t take care of their wounded must be. There must be so little trust between people. As soon as you get in a little bit of trouble, your fellow people drop you like dead weight. Jeez, just sad.
@@Fractured_UnityI seen a video of a Russian who was shot in the leg. His "brothers" took his bullets and left him
@@kjireland3567 Moral of the story, don’t get injured. They’re just teaching their men never to risk their necks.
Originally the Finnish army was planning to berry the dead soldiers near the battlefield during the Winter War (1939-1940). However, several Finnish women went near the front to collect those dead soldiers, who were their relatives or friends. So the army quickly changed it's process and transferred the corps to that area, where the soldier had lived. So his relaives could identify the corps and get the certainty, that this person was really dead. Naturally it was a bad message, but a negative certainty is still better than a long continuing uncertainty. Both in WW1 and WW2 a lot of American soldiers died in Europe. Almost all of them were berried in Europe and their relatives didn't have a chance to see the dead soldiers. Then although the relatives got a formal verification, that this soldier had really died, many of them didn't believe that information. Perhaps there had been some error in the names, perhaps this man is only captured and he will come back sometime in the future. This false hope made the future life more difficult compared to the case, when one really knew, that this soldier will certainly not come back. The false hope must be killed, before the sorrow job will begin. And only after the sorrow job has been finished, one can continue the life normally.
This is intresting to watch three months later.
Lovei your mention of PLTR.....battle tested....Did you use the product ?
Brilliant, erudite, qualified, experienced opinion. Thank you so much for "clarifying" Tucker's commentary. He is a very canny manipulator. Keep up the awesome, much needed and appreciated work.
Well said! Agree with you!!
I think you are being kind to this retired army colonel. When I served as a conscript NCO in the Dutch army, a colonel was the highest rank any officer could reach without extra army university education. To be a general you needed to get an army university degree. To be a higher echelon general (up to 4 star) you even needed to go to a specially dedicated top education program specially for generals (by invitation) before leading armies. This colonel clearly has not had that privilege. A colonel is usually in command of a regiment sized army unit. He carries out what top brass order him to do without much influence as to what that should be. Also as Ryan points out the man is almost eighty years out. The cat really comes out of the bag when he points out the "fact" that Russia is trying to become the last European, full blown christian state without being flooded by "foreigners" and that's why "everybody" is against Russia. I would rather prefer to hear Gen Petraeus's opinion on this matter (which I have) than this relic from the pasts brain fart's. Also the fact he is a guest in Tucker Carlson's show does not bode well for the informational value of what he has to say.
"Full blown Christian state without foreigners" they have a strong Muslim minority and invited immigrants from central Asia to join the Russian army as a fast track to Russian citizenship lol
It’s the same thing in the U.S. Army. To get promoted to Brigadier General you need to go to the Army War College each service has their own version. Mcbeth is being nice because when you start to critique “right wing” or any political figure figures people tend to get really upset really quickly. And I don’t think he wants to get into politics because that’s not his jam.
what stuck out to me the most is the claim of "our stuff is so old"...
so that colonel thinks an abrahms couldn't stand up to a t72? or a bradley against a bmp?
this guy is an idiot in the best case and a russian asset in the other...
he lost value by going on his show, but only after spewing nonsense on whatever platform would have him.
@@NicholasOrlick. You might be correct about the right wing in the US but the left wing is even more retaliatory when they feel affronted & I say that as an Independent watching this Shit Show continue to accelerate.
You're being very generous to the Colonel.
That Colonel should be demoted to an E-1.
You're being very generous to the -Colonel- traitor.
Fixed that for you.
Ukraine is getting destroyed… there are no winners.. … and just who and what is the enemy?
@@SirAntoniousBlock -Sorry he isnt a Nazi apologist.
Mr. McBeth, I think your show is fantastic. Keep up the good work sir.
👏 as usual, solid step by step breakdown.
I was very impressed with how you never called Tucker or the colonel liars even though obviously that's what they were. It must have been difficult to refrain, but that's what you need to do to be accepted as authoritative.
He’s polite and professional
Uncommon these days
I strongly disagree; we need to call liars liars and not pussyfoot who they are. Using euphemisms lets them get away with it more and let more fall for their lies.
@@linda1lee2 Indeed.
Did you not not get his point, with out the hyperbole? @@linda1lee2
But everything he is talking about is absoluts BS. Every point he maid was complette out of context or was theoretical. Russians lost 120k while they only used less then 100k in the offesince itsself, that took only about 3 month from witch 2 month were part of the retreat processe after the negotiations in march 2022, while the ukrainians are attacking now for about 15 month and in this time the reports where totaly clear the ratio(killed/wounded) is NOT 1:3 on the ukranians side, not even close but most likely 1:1 or even 2:1. The Western MSM IS talking about not only Ukrain is winning, but a total defeat of Russia. etc.
Full props for pointing out "both sides lose this war". I generalize that to included all wars.
I'm not particularly interested in anything....certainly not comparing who's got the biggest doorway to Hell...... But I was just passing whistling a tune..... Interesting how neither side is set to win so surely the best cause of action is negotiate obviously part of that negotiation should be if Russia accepts Ukraine having American sorry NATO weaponry then the USA will allow Briks defence force to be stationed within Canada and Mexico....
I think Col Macgregor and Tucker are trying to offer some ballance and most importantly trying to get everyone to realise this could escalate to MAD if one of the powers is cornered.
Good Work Sir. Civil and polite, but critical. A standard for all internet discourse.
He accuses Tucker of failing to cite evidence for his claims, then proceeds to make numerous claims without evidence. Also, he selectively edited short clips from the interview that lack context and supporting evidence. (Example: McGregor spoke extensively about the Abram's turbine engine that only has 8 hours of fuel as the main reason for the Abrams being outdated. This was conveniently omitted from this video. In fact, the author of this video completely misrepresented McGregor's argument.)
@speakfreely.1776 he provided his claims and his sources are cited in the video description.
Do try again I love seeing simps flail in the wind
@@The_Lone_Aesir Nice ad hominem, maybe you can use logic and evidence to make a cohesive argument next time buddy
@@The_Lone_Aesir not a simp...it just simply didn't fit his/her narrative.
@@stevenblackwell4903it has nothing to do with my "narrative". I disagree with the dishonest way this "fact check" video misrepresents the original arguments in the interview in order to deceive the audience.
Thank you for the thoughtful analysis. I can't believe that the Colonel, with a straight face, would refer to Russia as a Christian county. It seems that the Orthodox Church of Russian acts as a subservient arm of the Russian government. You can almost sense the disgust in his tone of voice about immigration and the mixing of various cultures.
Priest listen to confession and tell KGB/fsb. No confidential just between you and the priest. Add the government to the confessions.
Russia is 89% Christian/Russian Orthodox, therefore Russia is objectively a Christian nation.
@@nancyschiller7043Do Orthodox even have confession?
All the senior Russian Orthodox priests are former KGB that were allies of Putin. Putin put them in those positions at the direction of Yeltsin.
Some of those that works forces. Are the same that burn crosses.
I appreciate this fair, calm, evenhanded treatment of yet another TC "interview".
Mr McBeth you were most generous in your response to the Colonel's claims and assertions with he may have forgotten this or that detail from years past and so forth, it was so generous you should be nominated for philanthropist of the year.
Absolutely
MacGregor has either lost his damned mind, or is literally reciting a script written for him in Moscow.
I think it's a combination of both, I been glued to this war from the very beginning, that Colonel is totally out to lunch. I have no idea how McGregor ever made it past Captain much less making it all the way to full Colonel. He's either in the mid stages of Alzheimer, or like that self promoting idiot Carlson he's on the FSB's payroll.
The later
Later, because when he speaks on literally EVERY OTHER SUBJECT he is engaging speaker.
These other gents beat me to it. I suspect he's got a handler. He and Tucker probably are getting the narrative from Moscow. They would've been pleased with the election of Trump and are probably unnerved how the wheels have come off.
@@piotrd.4850or you just agree with what he says and doesn't question it. How many people don't care about Ukraine who will not bother fact checking anything said?
I love how charitable Ryan is being saying that the Colonel might be mistaking a javelin for an AT-4 because of his age or time of service. The Swedes started selling the AT-4 back in the 80s.
You lost almost all credibility when you proffered Zeihan as an invaluable source.
He lost me when he said that Kiev was the objective of Russian army. No one from Russian officials ever said anything about taking Kyev.
Because of you I watched that interview.
You're too polite and nice towards MacGregor. He's BSings in every statement!
Oh man I just came across this after seeing the Putin interview… will you be making an update?
By the way this is gonna age like milk, Col Douglas Mcgregor was right about everything. If you willing to go online and bash a highly decorated soldier, then you should be willing to admit you were obviously wrong about alot with your assessment. Who cares about credibility these days anyway right?
Ryan, you were very diplomatic in not calling the Col. a flat out liar . Thanks for the info. I heard some of these outlandish stories also. 👍👍
You know, that's pretty much what I told Tucker when I commented about his MacGregor interview. My comment disappeared.
@@RandyStalding i think that's the case of the video owner deleting comments that they don't like - but yeah, your statement is rhetorical. I appreciate Ryan's objectiveness and nuance.
Not gonna accused anyone as RU Propaganda shill, or paid by Russian government, and etc. People overestimate Russian military capabilities at the beginning of the war is understandable (including me), but how are their opinion still hasn't changed until now is beyond my understanding.
Honestly, I think it might be that some people have a lot of trouble letting go of old information, especially if it was formed during a period of trial. For example, talking to my parents about the modern dating scene. I can tell them just how crazy it is, and I keep hearing these 80's style dating tips that just don't work today. Tried to pick a non political example, I am sure there are some from both sides, but I genuinely think it's more so people have trouble letting go of established worldviews.
Same here.
There's money in it, that's why. Not many people do stoop as low as Russian spokespeople on western media. I wonder how much McGregor was asking as a fee to go into that interview?
Yes i was one of those pepole Ukrainie has no chance pepole who think otherwise are delusional changed my mind around the time russia retreted from kyiv
I saw the tucker video months ago.. Just Found Ryans rebuttal.. Thank you
Ryan, Please interview or watch an interview with general Ben Rhodes, who was the highest American in NATO Europe. As you have seen , McGregor has an agenda, and it’s not a good one whatsoever! Keep up the great work, this old Marine loves your content!
The phrase “The colonel may not be aware…” does a lot of heavy lifting in this video
he's probably not aware even of the bullshits he's telling lol, completely out of touch with reality
Wow Ryan, you were really kind to the Colonel. I've seen him in several different talk shows, including the Tucker interview, and the only impression I came away with was that he is a Russian cheer leader, and an anti-Ukraine doom merchant. Bottom line: Ukraine doesn't have to win. All they have to do is not lose. Great analysis.
"Ukraine doesn't have to win, just not lose", wtf kind of cope is that? What does not losing look like to you exactly?
@@SgtAndrewM Not lose means just that. Do the same thine the North Vietnamese did to the US, the Mujahideen did to the Soviets, and the Taliban did to the US. Outlast the enemy.
@@SgtAndrewMDon't bother man. They're living in their own world. And it's full of rainbows and ponies.
@@b212hp If I recall correctly the ratio of dead wasn't great for the side that "just didn't have to lose"
But oh well its just Ukrainians dying rather ameeicans am I right?
@@SgtAndrewM I'm not saying it's good. Col. MacGregor's implication is that, since Ukraine has no way to win, they should just give up and be swallowed up by the far superior Russian Federation. It will be messy, but Ukraine has the ability to keep Russian from winning long enough to outlast the Russian's will to destroy Ukraine.
This contains plenty of non sequiturs itself. And plenty of wishful thinking. Only 100,000 Ukrainian wounded mid 2023? This is an obvious under estimate.
I am taking a Computer science class at Embry Riddle, and this week we were talking about misinformation and 'fake news'. I shared this video along with my discussion post and many people really seemed to love what you shared. Thank you for making this video and many more like it. Makes me feel a little better that not everyone in the world is trying to make me think, feel, or believe the way they want me to. You share truth and that can never be understated.
My son is in his first year at Embry Riddle.
@@ottoskorzeny9805 that's awesome! Tell him good luck! Embry Riddle is an awesome school
Nice work McBeth! I appreciate you fact checking the brazen BS being propagated out there
Nice work? He is twisting facts. Media told about imminent victory of Ukraine on many occasions. Media suppressed and lied about numbers of dead and irreversible wounded Ukrainians. Originally, Kiev was never objective. Now it is.
Why did the colonel say a lie that can be easily checked and disproven? Because the vast majority of this interview's audience would never bother to check. And even if someone actually bothered for them and gave them the result, they would still say "fake news" and ignore them.
Somebody once said, "Keep a wary eye on the Colonels". This guy is either wacked out, or in somebody's pocket.
Thanks for your efforts just to clarify at 25:50 are you saying there is no chance of any Americans on the ground in Ukraine, working for/with the Ukrainian military?
I believe he addressed that a couple months ago or maybe I'm thinking of Beau of the Fifth Column in advisors and overseeing equipment coming in and being utilized properly. Some politicians demanded eyes on the assets months ago. And like Ryan said USMC is at the US embassy. Now working for Ukraine like in taking orders and executing them that would be the foreign legion volunteers, if you look at their equipment they're providing their own stuff.
@@KoRntechand there are sources of sf guys coming out saying they were in Ukraine under the U.S. government leadership lol
Ryan Mcbeth is a breath of much needed fresh air. It's nice to recieve information without spin involved. I genuinely hope his style of presentation becomes the norm.
@@speakfreely.1776yes watch the whole interview the Russian is awesome and cool really gives context to how wrong mcgregor is since he dose not site any sources
Ryan, as a Ukrainian I want to thank you for all the work and investigation you do!
Here we just don't see such crazy interviews, we have our own 🙂
Also, I want to say that you are correct 97% of the time, there is a lot of information to go through, you are doing a good job and it's very important.
Thank you again!
Хай живе, вільна Україна! I am sorry for this friend, I have watched Ukraine struggle and fight on alone with a courage akin to Poland and Finland during World War II back in 2014. Your country stood alone defending Her People as a bulwark against Russian aggression even as little to no aid was given so as not to "provoke" Russia. May peace and prosperity return to your lands and your People. I continue to ask my representatives for continued aid in your struggle for freedom. Слава Україні, героям слава!
@@jakeholmannfHEROYAM SLAVA 🇺🇦🇺🇲
Ryan got complimented by a Ukrainian bot. Says it all. Lol. Come on people! Stop listening to the CIA and listen to Tucker.
@@jakeholmannf tell that to the 14000 people of the Donbass killed by the murders in Kiev between 2014 and 2022. Tell that to the parents of the thousands of murdered children killed by UFA and Azov shelling of civilians areas. You know that is why Russia stepped into Ukraine. They went in to stop this murdering and protect the Russian Ukraines. Stop being a Banderite trying to twist history.
Slava Russia
That was the most polite and neutrally worded way to say, "These people are totally uncredible and *at least* repeating verified lies" that I have ever heard.
This is a very comprehensive, logically laid out and we'll researched. It's a shame that mainstream media didn't have more analysis of this quality.
Remember one important thing in the west, gov control over 99% of all journalists.
Meaning they are hunting down the rest of 1%, and journalist's who are not hunted down because they are telling the truth about what happened in Ukraine since obama gave green light to start working on getting control over Ukraine in 2008.
They all are under gov controlled mainstream umbrella, no questions about this.
Honestly independent journalist's are being hunted down.
Mainstream Media addresses its "product" to grassroots who have not much education and intellect therefore there is no need to apply much efforts to develop people's mind according to certain purpose.
But the Mainstream Media has been saying that Ukrainians are Winning the War. So, that's a Straight up lie right there by this Gentleman if he identifies himself as a Man
Carlson has been fact-checked by mainstream media & even late night shows for years. Only fools & outright traitors would listen to him.
Yep, agreed, and honestly, I believe tucker dosent even believe in this, seeing his past interviews he was far more unbiased, especially on environmental issues, but after 2020 i think he and all other pendents are cashing in on the hyper partisan culture right now
I think mcgregor is the guy who said Ukraine will lose the war every few months since it began. Ryan makes so much more sense.
Yup! If you look back to the Crimean invasion, he was cheer leading for Russia back then too. And as soon as Russia initiated its full-scale invasion, he was predicting Ukraine would crumble in a matter of days. In fact, he even criticized Russia as being too gentle in the opening days and urged them to be *more brutal* to end it faster because that would be more humane. I don't recall if that was before, during, or after the Russians massacred civilians in Bucha.
It's disgusting that someone like this successfully infiltrate the military for such a long career.
MacGregor has consistently underestimated Ukraine and overestimated Russia since the war began. Some three weeks ago he was talking about a massive Russian breakthrough at Kopiansk. Never happened. He has become tiresome.
You should do a video on spotting logical fallacies.
I'm a 100 percent supporter of the military industrial complex.
It's nice of you to dignify this video with so much clarification and giving the Colonel all benefits of all of the doubts.
Look man you spend a fraction of the defense budget and loose no american lives and in turn you get your arch enemeny weakend or even defeated to the point where russia wouldn't exist as a state anymore. Why would they now push the narrative that ukraine is loosing, russia is strong and its not worth supporting? Maybe thats the problem, that you cant play war with russia anymore when they are defeated.
Too many. How can you look at the outcome of the war so far and think the US won’t wipe the floor with Russia
Yeah that man has to be knowingly lying or paid off at this point. Hes been saying Ukraine is about to collapse like a broken record since the war began
@@Zakatak-mf4iq He's a hack who lends his alleged credibility to any cause that pays enough. I have no idea whether he believes in what he is saying himself, although it doesn't really matter.
Ryan, bless his heart, does a good job at pointing out the misinformation . However, the strategy behind this entire video deserves being pointed out as well. This is a hit-piece to push a narrative: The government is lying to you, American soldiers are and will be dying, we are taking part in a war we shouldn't be in.
here's how I heard his "clarification": "On September 21st, 2023..." he says on August 27, 2023. That's how this video starts & what I heard on August 30. And you're going to give credence to....?!
Ryan, you are incredibly patient and how you consistently give the former general the benefit of the doubt is quite charitable
Former Colonel not General.
He's not giving him the benefit of the doubt he's being disingenuous.
@glennkennedy9229 no, he's going what any good analyst does:
Points out errors without assuming intent.
Ryan can't read the Colonel's mind and therefore cannot say with certainty what the Colonel is thinking.
@@harjutapaI, otoh, can & will assume intent: MacGregor knows all these things yet continues to intentionally spew disinformation & regurgitate Kremlin propaganda.
@@jacqdanieles Little buddy, the only propaganda being spewed here is by you, an unqualified civilian, and even more by private McBeth, an unqualified civilian with an average serving record. I mean, this kind of intelligence is way, way above his paygrade.
So go learn some math, hombre.
He's saying our tanks are old, but doesn't acknowledge Russia is re-activating Soviet era tanks.
you base your findings in theories and the limited information that West intelligence choose to release. the General provides info based on his actual experiences in the service and time in leadership. there is your views; his views; and the truth.
The word which comes most to mind to describe Colonel Macgregor is: disinformation. The key difference between misinformatiom and disinformation is that one arises ouf of ignorance whereas the other is deliberate and calculated.
Macgregor is no idiot, but neither do I think he is ignorant in the message he is spreading. In Australia that kind of messaging actually has a name: it's called "white-anting", where "white ants" is Australian slang for termites.
That is to say, the point of a whiting-anting campaign is to undermine a thing or concept until it collapses of its own accord.
Expressed in plainer language, what Macgregor seems to be doing is acting like a Russian asset, spreading a mixture of truths, half-truths, and outright fabrications which, by coinicdence or otherwise, would help weaken Western resolve in their support for Ukraine, and thereby increase Russian chances of prevailing in its war against Ukraine.
I say that because Tucker Carlson is by no means the only social media channel Macgregor has been on spreading that same message. Nor is he the only Russian asset who is out there making the grounds with that same kind of message. Scott Ritter is another; but Ritter at least openly admits he supports the Russian side of the war in Ukraine. (He did so on Twitter back in early February of this year: google "Russia is Atticus Finch" to see those admissions for yourself.)
Outstanding description. I will remember the white-anting..
As someone who was declared dead at least twice by Scott Rider, I can agree with this. 😆
@@nvelsen1975You were personally declared dead by Ritter? Sounds like a good story..?
@@nicolasolton
Ritter declared at one point that 'everybody of the western volunteers who applied' had been killed by Russia.
So that includes someone like me whose record fell between 'readily deployable' and 'civilian' and then got rejected because I've young children and couldn't really sign for 12 months minimum.
That was before I knew how chill Ukraine went on western resignations (and even desertions) of course. I thought that if I touched that pen and did anything else for the next year it'd be a firing squad. 😆
As you can imagine, alledging Russia killed someone who's in a western European country, through a missile strike in Ukraine, is rather amusing.
Apparently (and this involves some Reddit hearsay) if you filled out that online application at all, you've been killed twice, executed and then swapped alive in a prison exchange. None of which you likely noticed, because it's about as true as the reports of the British eating one another since march 2022 as a result of a lack of Russian gas.
so anything that goes against CIA- MI6 narrative spread all over western MSM is russian assets.
Well you guys down there have a track record of blindly follow any narrative masters ( Washington - London) order you.
How aged narrative vacine STOP transmition, go look your senator questioning guys from Pfizer.
O and btw , none desputed anymore that there are nazis in Ukraine army.
I would love to see a civilised discussion between Ryan and the Colonel. I’m sure the general public would leave feeling much more informed and educated.
Ryan is too scared
It wouldn't be civilized. You can't have a civilized discussion between information and brain-death
Yeah, boy Howdy. That counteroffensive was just so damned effective hey?
@@I_Art_Laughingwhich one.. the non existent kupiansk one ?
@@I_Art_Laughing It's ineffective because large swaths of the country have been mined to shit.
Lets see what actually happens and see your fact checks to actually reality of the future.
About a week ago I heard Carlson say that Eukraine has lost the war.
"4 Early signs of Dementia" Well played sir, well played.
Mcgregor sounds like a 14 year old that spent too much time playing with soviet toys on war thunder... 😂
This is scary man. More people need to see this video. It's a real shame that the major news media don't call out liars publicly and retract things because more people will have seen that terrible interview than this great video
Bringing love from The China Show, keep up the good work!
Thank you Ryan Macbeth. You are quite the diplomat.
I too, am not a Republican or a Democrat.
I could excuse SOME of the Col.McGregor's misstatements until he mentioned Russians were taking good care of Ukrainian prisoners of war.
After that, everything he said sounded like it was written by the FSB.
Is McGregor trying to build a hotel in Moscow?
Exactly, that BS about Russians taking good care of Ukrainian prisoners was surreal
Prove that they aren’t…
I seen that Ryan Macbeth clip and I have to agree with Ryan. Kind of gives you an idea why he only made it to a colonel and not higher. In 2020, then-president Donald Trump proposed Macgregor as ambassador to Germany, but the Senate blocked the nomination. On November 11, 2020. But he is still a Trumper and like Trump Pro Russia Anti NATO and Anti America.
How Russia Uses Retired US Colonel’s Ukraine Misinformation for Domestic Propaganda
February 21, 2023
Leonid Martynyuk
On February 15, Russia’s RIA Novosti state news agency quoted retired U.S. Colonel Douglas Macgregor’s interview with the “Judge Napolitano - Judging Freedom” program, streamed on UA-cam that same day.
The Russian translation of Macgregor’s claim isn’t precise but represents his ideas accurately:
"We just don't have ammunition to send. We have reached the limit; our own reserves are rapidly coming to an end."
This statement is misleading and fits into the Kremlin’s anti-U.S. and anti-Ukraine propaganda targeting Russia’s domestic audiences
Russian use of Macgregor’s misinformation
On December 15, 2021, when the United States was warning about an imminent Russian invasion of Ukraine and the Kremlin was denying any such plans, RIA Novosti reported it was unlikely that the Ukrainian army could withstand a Russian military invasion for more than three to four days. The agency quoted an article in The National Interest written by Macgregor and former CIA officer George Beebe:
“Under these circumstances, it is not unreasonable to assume that Russian ground forces would reach their operational objectives along the Dnieper River in as little as seventy-two to ninety-six hours.”
The colonel noted that the Russian side is trying to act as carefully as possible and minimize damage, unlike, in particular, the US army in Iraq. He also expressed the opinion that the defeat of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is inevitable, and President Zelensky is trying to delay it by any means.”
That claim was also false. Ukrainian and international authorities, including the United Nations, reported mass atrocities against Ukrainian civilians allegedly committed by the Russian troops, some of which potentially constitute war crimes
Fantastic news from the Zaporizhzhia direction! It's amazing to see the Ukrainian Armed Forces expanding their controlled territory. Those geolocation videos from August 25 are like watching progress in action - 1.5 km gained from Novoprokopivka is no small feat. And the statement from General Mark Milley about Ukrainian forces attacking the heart of Russian defensive preparations is just awe-inspiring. It's moments like these that make us proud of the determination and strength our military shows. Let's celebrate this advancement and come together to discuss the positive developments in the region!
go help them
we send you billions in equipment the least you can do is go and defend your country too.
Sounds like a lot of sarcasm.
@MariiaVeshchunova I think this September, too, we shall witness great chunks of Ukrainian territory liberated from ruzki.
@@wblake1Definitely when it's rainy season and two feet of mud.
Thank you for doing what you do. I consider it a public service.
this guy is the type of middle manger you see in any large organizations. An expert in all things, always right and sure of himself and not good enough for promotions to shot caller status.
Are you discussing this NCO or the O-6? The Colonel was the operations officer for the most decisive US feat of arms since 1945.
@@darbyheavey406 the colonel.
Great analysis, Ryan. So few have the ability to fact check like you do.
@@speakfreely.1776plus Tucker like to stroke Putin's "ego"
@@speakfreely.1776 Give us some examples.
@@rogerd777 don't bother, he's a literal bot account
@@speakfreely.1776 everything Ryan said is supported in the comments, and most of what Ryan said is well known to anyone familiar with the US military.
@@speakfreely.1776 he cited his sources in the comments is what I meant
Thanks for doing this video Ryan. But I can’t finish it. Watching these traitors is literally making me sick.
If it's T.Carlson,you skip it. This video is for those who still watch him.
Traitors indeed. Disgusting.
The entire time i had a hard time picking out who he was but I remember him from (I think?) a discovery channel documentary about desert storm. Regardless, seems like an old crank needing some money.
The truth seems like treason in an empire of lies.
surprised me how this man could’ve been a colonel in the us army and not know shit about the Us military its mind blowing
I often wonder why a substantial number of westerners hold traitorous pro-russian opinions.
1. We take good care of our wounded soldiers. My sister is a medic. Yes, some regions are not that good managed in terms of first aid on the battlefield but anyways. Second thing Russia actually has more that 300К soldiers in reserve And I am one of them and no I am not doing tiktoks I just live my life. In case they declared general mobilization it would be a matter of 24 hours to get that 300k ready for battle. I wasn’t called up when the war started and neither of my friends were. They are all soldiers in reserve, you should understand that. Anyway guys, I wouldn’t like to meet you on the battlefield, I don’t want to fight Ukrainians either. Many of us just hope this fratricidal war will be over very very soon. I don’t want to go there and kill anybody. One thing that could make me take a weapon is your or ukrainien soldiers in Saint Petersburg area. Piece to all of you and your families, may be you be happy and healthy! Аминь
"Having not been to Hawaii in a long time. . . . . I'm not even sure I've ever been there" , uhhhh ok then
One thing to add to the hawaii vs ukraine segment.
That's not how US budgeting works full stop.
If support for Ukraine would stop tomorrow, not a single cent of the military budget would flow into domestic buckets.
It's been congressionally approved for use in the military, it will stay there and go to some other military related project.
Ukraine is currently the easiest W for the US military, all the "anti soviet equipment" gear finally gets used for what it was designed and no US boots have to touch Ukrainian soil.
The alternative would be to let all that equipment rust and rot in storage where it has to be replaced eventually anyways.
Helping Ukraine with equipment is by far the biggest bang for the buck the US could hope for and Putin has practically begged for it.
To summarize, whoever brings up "should spend the money in the US" fundamentally doesn't understand how budgeting works.
yep. putin wants you to waste all you have against his defences. and you gave him what you wanted like fools. its bad that so many of you cannot see the end game in this. putin is fighting a battle of attrition. and youre handing it to him on a plate.
Pity people don't realise this sir
Actually much of that equipment would have to be demilitarised and scrapped at great expense most of the armoured vehicles were from European propositioned stock that would have to be relocated back to the US to be demilitarised.
Yea, but the bottom line is that Ukraine is being helped a lot more than the Hawaiians are, regardless of reasoning. Actions are still to be held accountable , if we take our legal system for example. The left-hand might not know what the right hand is doing but it all flows flow from the same source ( taxpayers, right?).
I couldn't tell you what a fair amount would be to either side. But there's a bigger point here than getting caught up in semantics.
@@meissnerflux this is not semantics at all, budgeting is a gigantic core task of the government.
If you want less money to go to the military and more to domestic affairs then contact your congress person, they can argue for that once per year.
But that will still not change what the Department of Defense wants to prioritize.
The DoD might still prioritize sending equipment to Ukraine, no matter if their budget is cut by 5% or not.
That's why Hawaii and Ukraine are fundamentally separate issues and again if you don't get that, then you are one of the people who simply don't know how budgeting and the government as a whole works.
Commentator and media personality is the best description of Tuck Carl I've ever heard. He doesn't relay news, he just comments on it and builds a cult of personality because of it.
He’s just asking questions, questions he could in most cases easily google the answer to.
Just another hatchet job of lies.
@@TH3G0ODGUY
If I was Tucker Carlson I'd have to reply to that with something like "ARE YOU SAYING THAT JUST CUZ THE LIBRUL PAEDO ELITE IS PAYING YOU TO?!!?!" or something similarly deranged. 😆
Honestly, "influencer" is probably the best term for him. Especially since he moved to social media.
@@danbongard3226 What did Murdoch expect from Carlson?
What is the potential viewership that Rupert can sell?
The use of Tucker Carlson to control the thoughts of millions of viewers, appears to be to stimulate Sponsor Dollars?
I hear Carlson might return to FOX.
But the apparent use of his structuring interviews to attract viewers, seems to be what the Sponsors desire?
This video did not age well 😂😂😂😂😂
The best way to assess how many Ukrainians have been killed is to look at all the cemeteries in Ukraine that have been created. I also have no idea. But I have seen fields and fields of Ukrainian flags in cemeteries. Also, if Ukraine is not running out of men, why do many new recruits (again, in videos) look older 55+ or young
In summary, you have made the case--in a very respectful way--that the Colonel has no idea what he's talking about.
"On September 21st, 2023..." he says on August 27, 2023. That's how this video starts & what I heard on August 30. And you're going to give credence to....?! and tell me, how many shows, blogs, podcasts &/or publications has Ryan got under his belt?! ;-)
@@urinesamplesDespite the fact that he put the correction up, It's likely you don't enjoy documentedly factual information. Goes against your skewed propagated worldview. Can't threaten your own worldview can we now
@@herehere3139says the one eating propaganda like crazy
@@tsukicat3143 define propaganda. Documented evidential reality?
@herehere3139 If you consider this as "facts", it's a good example of the problem. It doesn't take into account the fact that our medias are just as biased as russian ones.
Some of it isn't wrong, but a lot of this is a fairly big bunch of opinions that don't take the field into account ands goes against first-hand reporting (e.g. the ukrainians "leveling up just as fast"; this doesn't mean much when ukrainians are far less likely to survive because of russian artillery and landmines, and this is a fairly big problem according to reportings you can get from ukrainian medias. Or The fact that there isn't U.S mercenaries; at the very least we know that there are polish ones, so U.S ones wouldn't be surprising neither).
The very beginning of the video invents a fallacy where there is none, and, once again, it goes against reporting we have from the field. And it goes against things Bryan SHOULD know. Russia hasn't taken Kiev because the goal wasn't to take Kiev. No army would try to take a city like Kiev with an army as small as the one russia used in the first place; the goal was to intimidate the government because russia mistakenly thought, probably because of flawed information from their intelligence, that would have more support in Kiev than they actually had, and thought that it would be enough to intimidate the governement. Moreover, due to their demography, Russia can't afford to do their WW2 stitch anymore even if it takes more time. Bad start.
Regarding ukraine's "technological advantage" with the javelin, and russia has no equivalent, this is false as well. And reducing, say, an HIMARS accuracy is a fairly big deal with this accuracy is the main advantage of the HIMARS. Not to mention that this hardly counts as an advantage given the few number they have.
The 400 000 is very likely. An ukrainian operator, Kyivstar, posted a video specifically thanking their soldiers and saying "400 000 heroes will never answer the phone anymore" in a video they removed afterward. It doesn't mean that it is absolutely certain, but the number most certainly doesn't come "out of nowhere" , and most certainly not from russia since it looks like it is circulating in ukraine as well, and the conflict is widely recognized as being a massacre. And McGregor certainly has sources that aren't available to Bryan. And the number of people who got hurt doesn't take into account that 1/ people can be hurt multiple times 2/ I don't know the last numbers, but ukraine has been at least in its 10th mobilization for a while now.
At the beginning of the year, the estimates were already over 300000 casualty (for all sides) so 400 000 il probably closer to the truth than the opposite. Also, various organizations on both sides counted the dead all accross the countries and once again, we are closer to 300 000/400 000 than 100 000, with ukrainians having more death despite russians being on the offensive at the beginning ; if they lost that many men there would be almost no resistance anymore for ukraine anymore anyway, and their lack of progress is a sign that no, the russian army hasn't lost that many men, not enough for them to have a notable disadvantage at the very least.
Regarding the troops left in russia, both are right. Russia is leaving a ton of its troops in russia because, since the beginning, hence the attack on kiev with a small army, the feared that we might intervene. But they also rotate them frequently, so Brayn is right regarding that. Except that we, at least in europe (even if we usually are less objectively informed than the US which is less biased overall, by far, at this point we reached russian level regarding propaganda), saw reports on said rotations with the soldiers going back in russia and being replaced just to return on the battlefield later.
Other times, he just repeat exactly what McGregor said while making it looks like he adds something (the bradley example; yes, you're essentially saying the same things).
The javelin example is actually McGregor mixing up two things, since these - has - been reports of javelins on sale on the darknet, (whether the sale occured is another problem) but this is unrelated to the mexico event. Not to mention that the problem of arms trafficking has been confirmed by kiev itself, which doesn't fight against its own corruption from the inside just for fun. They're attempting to clean it up, apparently.
Regarding the "algorithm" part, the only thing that I noticed is that Bryan doesn't know what an algorithm is or how AIs work. Reality is a tad more complicated than what he makes it look like, particularly regarding targeting. We're still far away from this.
Regarding the "there is a lot of muslims in russia", it is once again Bryan not understanding what McGregor said, which is basically "the country still has a strong national identity".Off-topic. Yes, there are non-catholics in russia, but russia still is a traditionalist country that doesn't have europe's open borders.
Etc. There is a lot to say. It is interesting but definitely not "100% factual" .
This was very informative. I've never heard the phrase "The truth has a limit but lies are unlimited " but I've seen this truth a thousand times. Thank you for giving me this succinct phrase for future use.
There's a misspelling of Tuckers name. It's a actually spelled with letter "F" instead of "T".
Great analysis as always Ryan.
A few things occur to me about this whole Ukraine v Russia war.
Russia is now tapping China and N. Korea for equipment and munitions THEY sold to them over the years. Several reports about that out there. If their production was sufficient, they wouldn't be doing this. Oh, they have production capability, but evidently it isn't enough.
This also depletes the equipment reserves of both China and N. Korea. The former has the industrial base to replace this stuff, and honestly has developed more modern weapons and munitions than what they are selling back to Russia (for the most part). Note - this is old stuff we are talking about.
OTOH, this conflict is also depleting OUR stockpiles and that of NATO. But, on both sides, these are mostly dated systems and munitions which will be replaced by more modern versions. The issue I see is that we really need to ramp up production in the US - we were already playing from a weakened supply stockage due to 20 years of war. Some would say that this is a payoff to the Defense industry (e.g. follow the money). I'm not one of those - it will however, upgrade our war stockage with more modern systems and bullets. Could be some "strategery" happening here.
Russia hasn't been able to field newer tanks and APCs in any numbers in this - they don't have them. They also seem to have kept upgrades to existing ground systems minimal. No flies on their aircraft, but their ground stuff still lags woefully behind (fortunately).
Material weapons aside - Ukraine seems to have adopted a more western approach to command and control. They seem more flexible and adaptive than the Russians who are sticking with more WWII/Cold War approaches - at least in the early months. Decisions, tactical decisions, require higher approval in the Russian military. Hell, the Infantry couldn't talk directly to the Artillery on a radio until the mid to late 80s. Same with Armor. It seems they have kept some of those limitations.
Lastly, Russia has an almost non-existent (read professional) NCO Corps. This has always been a weakness for them, and it continues today. Even China sees this as an issue and has been trying to build an NCO Corps for several years now. Russia's military structure is far too rigid compared to NATO, and especially the US. There is little room for initiative, and indeed initiative might be punished. It's the WWII concept of throwing bodies against the wall and hoping that the other sides attrition is higher than yours. There are exceptions for certain units to this, but they are few.
I think the "depleting NATO's stockpiles" argument is an inherently flawed one.
Early in the war, the stockpiles that were tapped were either very low-complexity items (small arms and ammo primarily, MANPADS and ATGMs on the high end) or they were old Soviet standard hardware. The former is easy to replenish, the latter ought to be replaced anyway to further NATO interoperability and all that. Focus then shifted to artillery as lines solidified and it became a more positional war. And yes, the war has proven to be a huge drain on NATO's artillery assets. But fixating on that is missing the forests for the trees.
NATO doctrine calls for establishing air superiority and delivering ludicrous levels of firepower through air power. While artillery has a role in NATO doctrine, it's a primarily supporting role. NATO doesn't get stuck into positional warfare with artillery duels. That's happening in Ukraine because neither side can establish air superiority. And neither side can establish air superiority because neither side developed that expertise. That's yet another Soviet artifact; the Soviets knew they couldn't compete with NATO in the air, so they focused on trying to establish air defense networks that could control the skies. NATO responded by developing SEAD doctrines to counter that. NATO air power was and remains functionally unstoppable. That we're seeing S400 systems (presumably) lost to drones now is further evidence of just how tenuous the reliance on air defense has become.
What we're actually seeing is a very small portion of NATO's procurement budget, often from over a decade ago but not necessarily only old stuff, being portioned off and sent to Ukraine. This does result in a degradation of NATO assets, yes. But what are these assets supposed to do? Who you ask will get you different answers, but if you cut to the quick and ask Poland, the answer's pretty immediately: the money is spent to buy hardware to fight Russians. (This is the part where I gesture broadly at the war.)
If the goal of the hardware is to thwart imperialist adventures by rival powers, it is absolutely doing its job. If you bought a tank or whatever with the intention of stopping Russia, you're getting what you wanted -- and because it's not your manpower at risk, you're getting a better deal than you initially bargained for. Things get murkier for nations who have other interests (France in Africa, for instance), but in all of those cases, an independent Ukraine is worth the investment.
The argument about stockpiles feels like propaganda.
Love your point about why one keeps weapons. And yeah, this is what they are for. I also suspect that NATO countries are taking military procurement more seriously because of this. Something that was lacking in some countries for a long time.
As for stockpiles, we were already trying to restock before Ukraine v Russia started up. Lots of testimony to Congress about this and lots of money to the defense industry was already flowing. Thing is, much of what we are producing are nextgen versions which needed to happen anyway. This isn't a bad thing, but the more sophisticated the weapon, the longer it takes to produce. There's a balance. I'm not sure we are IN balance at the moment.
At least there is one man left who has retained rational clarity. First class analysis.Thank You Sergeant !!! vento Semper Oculatae
If I lie and I'm found out I want it to be by you. So kind and forgiving in the face of flat out RT propaganda.
I agree that the US Navy could hit Moscow with a nuke in15 minutes. But what Putin constantly talked about was his fear of a nuke on a dual-use Tomahawk missile fired from let's say a NATO state like Romania or Poland (7 minutes) or Ukraine (5-6 minutes). Is there a huge difference between 6 and15 minutes? You decide. Putin seems to think so. Just like in the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, when the US took the threat of Soviet nukes in Cuba very seriously. We didn't say, hey it doesn't matter that subs could still hit DC. And that is a major factor for Putin in why he launched this war.
Thanks. Educational. Still don’t like war, especially losing them.
I desperately wish that there was more discourse and content following this mold. We’ve oceans of information but fact-finding outlets are like small, remote, islands.
But not much debunking here. Ryan doesn't address the big allegations, just litigates nuance and plays victim like all marxist thinkers.
No I disagree
It is very easy to find information.
The difference is between people who watch media to get their opinion affirmed and those who can cross reference and build a factual opinion.
Tucker is a master of like trump and the gop of telling scare stories …
@@cekuhnen rhetoric
"On September 21st, 2023..." he says on August 27, 2023. That's how this video starts & what I heard on August 30. And you're going to give credence to....?!
@@urinesamples ryan is a fact checker like msnbc is a fact checker. He's carrying water for war mongerers.
Nvm the fact that ukraine is NOT a democracy and the media sentiment is 100% controlled by ukraine.