Inside the mind of a sniper: direct from the front lines in Ukraine

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  • Опубліковано 25 жов 2022
  • Wali is a retired decorated Canadian Soldier considered to be one of the world's best snipers. When the conflict between Russia and Ukraine began, Wali left his family and lucrative career as a computer programmer in Quebec to serve as a Volunteer Sniper for the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
    website: wali.news/projects
    Watch the full episode on Patreon-
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  • @joyanna9433
    @joyanna9433 Рік тому +62

    Jon, you're truly a phenomenal interviewer. I love how you just let the people talk and let them decide the direction of the conversation. It shows true interest in the person and their story.
    It goes without saying I applause this man's bravery and I will watch the complete episode with great interest.

  • @josephmiller1941
    @josephmiller1941 Рік тому +35

    I love how John just listens to his guest. You can learn a lot by just keeping your mouth shut while somebody is speaking.

  • @froostypeat2346
    @froostypeat2346 Рік тому +42

    For those interested in more testimony of the war in Ukraine, there’s a really great interview of the same Canadian teammate Wali refers to here. He talks about the trench incident as well as other unbelievable situations that they were in.
    The video is titled: “Canadian fighting in Ukraine describes the hell he witnessed”

    • @marken8888
      @marken8888 Рік тому

      man thesee twoo guys are very good stoory tellers, so satisfying hearing both sides of the story.
      wally and this canadian dude musst developed a good friendship.

    • @kingsman3087
      @kingsman3087 Рік тому

      @@marken8888 boring

    • @marken8888
      @marken8888 Рік тому

      @@kingsman3087 tf u saying, little boytoy?

  • @benjam0
    @benjam0 Рік тому +10

    A UA-cam channel with the Punisher, how is this not bigger?

  • @SRTceejay
    @SRTceejay Рік тому +11

    Jon is top 3 interviewer on this platform. he takes his time to listen to the guest and he always lets them finish there sentences without cutting them off like most other interviewers on here. great job man this was a very interesting interview considering that modern warfare 2 the video game just dropped so this gives us the inside on the REAL modern warfare.

  • @in2thewild
    @in2thewild Рік тому +4

    Love your show brother super stoked to see you putting in the work

  • @Bgwizard
    @Bgwizard Рік тому +3

    Thank you for your service Wali 🇨🇦

  • @nathanialebbs4607
    @nathanialebbs4607 Рік тому +9

    Yo, I didn't know you had a channel, you are literally one of my favorite actors, The Walking Dead, Fury, Punisher, severely underrated, I subscribed instantly.

  • @harukrentz435
    @harukrentz435 10 місяців тому +2

    Wali only lasted for 2 months in Ukraine. He ran away as soon as possible once he realised that Russia had artilery and tanks unlike the isis or talibans.

  • @GrumpyOldMacSalty
    @GrumpyOldMacSalty Рік тому +8

    Wali is following in Canadian Forces tradition by living up to the morals and values of our greatest hero - Leo Major. A fellow Québécois, and the gold standard for a soldier

  • @Xsi9mm
    @Xsi9mm Рік тому +60

    Thank you Wali for putting your life on the line to help the people of Ukraine

    • @ima8533
      @ima8533 Рік тому

      You mean those Neo-Nazzi’s

    • @tyronedavis5621
      @tyronedavis5621 Рік тому +1

      Hes putting his life on the life for the filthy politicians who hide the truth

    • @AlexTrout79
      @AlexTrout79 Рік тому +4

      The dude ran. The war is still going 😂

    • @Crispy_pata
      @Crispy_pata Рік тому

      Boy he is just a coward looking for attention!

    • @user-yz1zt1nq1p
      @user-yz1zt1nq1p Рік тому +2

      Helping by making the fight keep going and all the Ukrainians will be dead by the end... What great help.

  • @Mattjki
    @Mattjki Рік тому +7

    The more I hear about Ukrainians, the more I think they are great people.

    • @motorcity5277
      @motorcity5277 Рік тому +3

      Yes, we are. Thank you.

    • @user-nv3ch8tc4p
      @user-nv3ch8tc4p Рік тому +3

      You are great people too! I am speaking to you as a Ukrainian. You are also brave and strong. Even if you don't think so, or haven't tested it yet.

  • @motorcity5277
    @motorcity5277 Рік тому +1

    Thanks for that interview from Ukraine

  • @karma.2781
    @karma.2781 Рік тому +2

    Deep

  • @PopoMedic
    @PopoMedic Рік тому

    Good shit Jon.

  • @chrisstevenson7302
    @chrisstevenson7302 Рік тому

    Jon reminds me of Fred ward ,,,, respect

  • @equos5060
    @equos5060 Рік тому +1

    the music at the end killed me...

  • @jdnthecanadian424
    @jdnthecanadian424 Рік тому +1

    Thanks Jon, Thanks Wali. Slava Ukraine!

  • @KopsiCS2
    @KopsiCS2 Рік тому

    sick production ! would love to see you talk with Alain Chabat ;)

  • @Judiciar_Geo
    @Judiciar_Geo Рік тому

    I just watched the sick perfect run John executed after a year long hiatus from practicing his drills at Teran Tactical. My dude is a fucking truth bomb when it comes to doing some trigger work.

  • @ICYPROFITS
    @ICYPROFITS Рік тому +17

    Damn I think I would listen to the trained sniper if he's telling me not to do something

    • @ferretcorps2426
      @ferretcorps2426 Рік тому

      problem that in our country when this situation has happened, were mobilized like a huge amount of people, and a lot of them were not trained like our soliders are trained right now. One thing when you look on guys who were trained and recruited before 24 of February with combat experience, second when you look on newbies who are not trained, who can be not smart, who can be reckless. So i think now situation has changed. Bakhmut is really good example of it. Right now russians mobilized a lot of unexperienced "mobics". Their casualties count like 500 a day, when it was maybe 100-200 three month ago. Because they out of soliders, their regular army ended, their claws are blunted. I just do not want that ukrainian soliders image was ruined by such separate stories, we really need support right now. Peace! 💛💙

    • @treeguy7490
      @treeguy7490 Рік тому

      @@ferretcorps2426 so you think the Russians have an incompetent military...I could point to factors that say other wise. Your take on Bakhmut is interesting as the Ukrainian leadership have even come out to say it's not going well for them. How many are dying on either side is hard to say but seems like heavy fighting from either side...and people are dying that is a sad fact.

    • @ferretcorps2426
      @ferretcorps2426 Рік тому

      @@treeguy7490 They try to capture Bakhmut, a small town with an area of 41 km² for 5 months. Given that the russians fight with scorched earth tactic when they destroy a city so that the Ukrainian soldiers cannot physically fortify themselves and often they capture completely destroyed cities (like Mariupol). If you google, you can find pictures of fields in the Bakhmut area, littered with russian soliders corpses, who were mobilized recently, who still cannot and do not know how to fight, and the corpses of prisoners who were recruited by the Wagner PMC. Their regular army is almost destroyed, most of those who remain are paratroopers who retreated from Kherson. When the Russians enter the Bakhmut city, they are constantly knocked out in a day or two. Our big problem is not even to repel these attacks, but because our resources are very limited. We cannot drive them away because we do not have enough of machinery. But they cannot capture Bakhmut either. I read the channel of one solider who runs drones in Bakhmut: most of the battles take place on the fields, when the Russians run to the dugouts, like in the first world war. Or skirmishes in the forests, which are littered with both the corpses of Russians and Ukrainians, because the battles there are the most intense. My friend's father returned from under Bakhmut with a wound. He told that we also have a lot of losses, but they are not comparable with the russians. They grind their teeth on Bakhmut. But Ukraine cannot alone fight with russia with such a small amount of weapons, and the supply of it to us has been reduced and west allies do not give us an offensive weaponary, like tanks. We can't counter attack in such conditions. Ukrainians have already called Bakhmut "the fortess". Ours soliders, without normal food supplies to combat positions, weapons and outnumbered. It is true that the situation in the region is difficult and our military leadership already confirms the complexity of the situation, thereby asking for help, but the Russian army is not competent. It just doesn't end. Our military leadership reports that the Russians lost about 33 thousand soldiers in 2 months, the largest amount in such a period. This is not counting the Wagner PMCs and the DNR forces, while they lost Kherson and Bakhmut is still standing, not a single large city has been captured.

    • @treeguy7490
      @treeguy7490 Рік тому +1

      @@ferretcorps2426 I appreciate you reply. I had started a reply and I accidently clicked out of the comment box...in turn deleting my reply. I don't have the time right now to rewrite it. Again I appreciate you perspective.

    • @treeguy7490
      @treeguy7490 Рік тому +1

      @@ferretcorps2426 One of my biggest disagreements is with your notion of scorched earth policy being the only way(you implied) the Russians are conducting this conflict. I think your out to lunch and makes any of your other points weak. Just because you can google pictures doesn't prove anything especially with the propaganda machine hard at work on both sides. If I want I can find a picture to show whatever will support my view of the conflict. Mariupol is not flattened as I have seen recent video footage(I still take that with a grain of salt of what the situation is like there now). So I don't agree again with the notion that Russia is deploying scorched earth policy. You say that Russia is grinding it's teeth in Bakhmut...I would consider the overwhelming missile attacks and artillery forces say other wise. Seems like you think that the metric by which Russia is successful in their deployment is territory gained...this is where I views of the military action policy differs. If Russia was to push deeper in Ukraine to soon would create a logistical nightmare. As the battle lines currently stand and the methods that they have deployed in the most recent months since a consolidation of the military leadership have proven effective. Russia having a way greater artillery force and air force are utilizing those strengths effectively against Ukraine...frankly Ukraine is being sent back to the stone age from the loans taken from the west and the electrical grid constantly being dismantled. I am surprised with the restraint that Russia has had in just completely taking out the power grid as they have shown they have that capability. At the end of day I hate that people are dying in a conflict that could of been avoided from both sides.

  • @TheNookyDooky
    @TheNookyDooky Рік тому +1

    is he still alive last thing i heard he went home then went back to ukraine. its been less than 7 months and i heard no updates???

  • @ContagionKS
    @ContagionKS Рік тому

    If I knew about your channel I’d of subbed Sooners. Love you Shane

  • @mattkeith1180
    @mattkeith1180 Рік тому +1

    The title of “Real One’s” isn’t a hyperbolic title to get clicks. This couldn’t be anymore real!

  • @alexshtyn6336
    @alexshtyn6336 Рік тому +1

    A Kornet missile is a bag of trouble it'll cut through modern tank armour. extremely accurate can be fired from a very long range without reactive defense system it's hard to deal with .

  • @123123Bear
    @123123Bear Рік тому +1

    The outro point when the music hits was a bit tasteless, but war is too I guess.

  • @end8665
    @end8665 Рік тому

    Punisher have UA-cam channel awsome

  • @dirtsmegee
    @dirtsmegee Рік тому

    Damn bro …

  • @christo0187
    @christo0187 Рік тому +1

    Je suis Canadian. Lest we forget

  • @Bobjohntehmonkeyman
    @Bobjohntehmonkeyman Рік тому +1

    How do i get the full pod?

    • @xbleaksquidx
      @xbleaksquidx Рік тому

      Sign up for the Real Ones Patreon

    • @Darth_Marcus
      @Darth_Marcus Рік тому

      @@xbleaksquidx meanwhile shia labouf is fucking free to watch huh? 😂 greedy ass capitalists will make a buck for anything!

    • @Darth_Marcus
      @Darth_Marcus Рік тому

      Fuck you give me MONEY! That’s how 😉🇷🇺

  • @drindy5166
    @drindy5166 Рік тому +4

    Canadian soldier reporting for duty: " Sit there and be bored in the trench" ... "yessir!" Lol. Good interview and insight 👊🧡👍

  • @iamdamo
    @iamdamo Рік тому +1

    Hardcore shit man.

  • @user-by6yc8yl7v
    @user-by6yc8yl7v Рік тому +1

    The guys with little to no experience in war should be shown photos of what a human face looks like after taking a .50cal round to the chin, and/or what a pile of dead children killed by a tank round looks like.
    Show them videos of the last 20 breaths a soldier takes before he fades away and his eyes go cold forever.

  • @melissasmith4254
    @melissasmith4254 Рік тому

    I usually never comment, But like I said via Patreon. I haven't been able to watch any of the podcast for a min now like I would like. I've been recovering from some injuries. I'm sure it's a decent episode tho.

  • @badassdahn654
    @badassdahn654 Рік тому

    Smoke feels Like death coming and taking souls

  • @hinana4515
    @hinana4515 Рік тому

    I love you ❤

  • @workiedoe249
    @workiedoe249 Рік тому

    some news said he left Ukraine about six months ago, but this interview is recent can someone confirm?

    • @ferretcorps2426
      @ferretcorps2426 Рік тому

      it is just russian propaganda. im from Ukraine and there new interview with him was released recently

    • @harukrentz435
      @harukrentz435 10 місяців тому

      @@ferretcorps2426 he only lasted 2 months in ukraine before running away back to canada.

  • @aleksandardraskovic7891
    @aleksandardraskovic7891 Рік тому +5

    He has family back home , a year old kid or something , and still risking his life for something he thinks , but will never know for sure the cause. 😂

    • @Cypher81
      @Cypher81 Рік тому +1

      he are lucky to go back home when he want. soldier in thefront are not able to quite like that

  • @christopersambeli6566
    @christopersambeli6566 3 місяці тому

    this is guy wali who went to ukraine thought he was fighting iraqi and aghanistani

  • @jimmyboudreau4207
    @jimmyboudreau4207 Рік тому

    He did a range card. For targeting. Didn't work.

  • @mortifiied3776
    @mortifiied3776 Рік тому +1

    how does this have 30k views an 900 likes

  • @dameionrobinson4491
    @dameionrobinson4491 Рік тому

    Do interview with Bray Wyatt

  • @nemesis9022
    @nemesis9022 Рік тому +3

    What is the best way to get in touch with Jon Berthal? I know this sounds crazy as hell, but I feel like he could potentially talk me off the proverbial ledge. I'm a 32 year old family man that is just absolutely tired of life. For some reason, I feel like being able to talk to this guy would give me some of my mojo back. Make fun if you want, but I've had trauma, been in bipolar mania 3 times, and have been suicidal more times than I care to admit.

    • @BK5250
      @BK5250 Рік тому +1

      Hang in there man.

    • @nemesis9022
      @nemesis9022 Рік тому

      @@BK5250 will do. I was admittedly kinda drunk when I wrote that. I think I'm cool. I've just had a lot of trauma to the point where I get skeptical when I'm happy.

    • @BK5250
      @BK5250 Рік тому +1

      @@nemesis9022 Honestly I feel the same sometimes, I’ve got a good job and great family, but sometimes I still feel like a failure and that my life just isn’t good enough. Then there is something that always stares me in the face to remind me I have a lot to live for.

  • @bocianwbw
    @bocianwbw Рік тому

    Why is Wali considered one of the best?

    • @TheJimyyy
      @TheJimyyy Рік тому +1

      because new like bbc say is the best lol because click bait . in reality he just a normal sniper . he a very good one too

  • @BroodingStoriesAfter_Nightfall

    I mean dude isn't wrong half of the time war is boring but seriously don't forget what type of situation you are in. It's not fun seeing your dumb team mate goof around and accidentally step on an old come to find out still active mine bomb. 8:34 Exactly

  • @aliasnon796
    @aliasnon796 Рік тому

    This is very important to understand that the actions of russia literally systematic warcrimes. Current regime is do everything to purify Ukraine since 2014, only right now losing patience right now and do it in obvious way.
    Any person who will try to dive into this topic can make such kind of conclusion.
    Only one way to end this war - russian capitulation.

  • @hp450k7
    @hp450k7 Рік тому

    It might be just me but dont he sound like he's just making this shit up ?😂😂

  • @barrykitchen8200
    @barrykitchen8200 Рік тому

    Out of airborne, air assault, pathfinder, Ranger school, sniper School,the schools I have attended in past throughout the years I got out in 2012. I would say sniper school was one of the hardest. Maybe not physically like Ranger school. but more of a mental capacity and essentially being a calculator. Steady hand and then being stealthy stock lanes and whatnot those are the things that got the most people. Stock Lanes that wouldn't say shooting because the guys that get selected to go to sniper school you can shoot anyway. Target in inches * 25.4 / your Mill dots. Gives you the range of your target. So give or take across the world from the waist up is 30 in multiply that by 25.4. then you'll go ahead and get your Mill dot reticles on that Target and get your Mill dots and then divide and that'll give you your range so before we went to other countries we would actually go and like find out what kind of vehicles they had so we knew that a tire would be 30 in say. Or structurally it's very common for Windows to be a certain size. and then you would always have your dope that you would know or it would be on your buttstock or whatever. You can do quick shots. Fun fact I was in Fallujah

  • @Porter92
    @Porter92 Рік тому +2

    This guy repeated everything 5 times lol

  • @heel5923
    @heel5923 Рік тому

    don't risking to wali with interviews

  • @YourContentSucks.
    @YourContentSucks. Рік тому +8

    Glory to Ukraine

  • @BuffaloCheeseburger1
    @BuffaloCheeseburger1 Рік тому

    Get a Native American and a Navy seal talk about Earth Based Sacraments

  • @MickWolfActual
    @MickWolfActual Рік тому +1

    To bad it’s all in vein!

    • @calador1918
      @calador1918 Рік тому +1

      Be more worried about what you're putting in your 'vein' 🤔😂

  • @raight4552
    @raight4552 Рік тому +3

    2. 5.2014 in Odessa Ukrainian nazis burned 55 people alive but nobody talked about it

    • @grzegorzmarcholt5552
      @grzegorzmarcholt5552 Рік тому

      True. Burned people were pro-russian separatists, who fought against Maidan. And People were talking about it, maybe you weren't listening? No-one was listening when east europeans warned world about Russia and Putin.

    • @RuslanKarasov
      @RuslanKarasov Рік тому

      Don’t talk shit if you not been here, in Odessa that day

    • @raight4552
      @raight4552 Рік тому

      @@RuslanKarasov I know someone who survived that day...

    • @RuslanKarasov
      @RuslanKarasov Рік тому

      @@raight4552 k. I was there

    • @raight4552
      @raight4552 Рік тому

      @@RuslanKarasov with molotov cocktails?

  • @SrAntonio301
    @SrAntonio301 Рік тому

    Who gaslit fake tough guy Bernthal into thinking he could host a podcast ??

    • @Sam-lp6sj
      @Sam-lp6sj Рік тому

      tough guy the comment section😎
      your only video is of a guy crying while eating ramen 🤣
      why are you so toxic bro???

  • @zzzo4509
    @zzzo4509 Рік тому

    What is it that makes Canada sniper able to aim ridiculous lengths?

  • @NooffenceBut_
    @NooffenceBut_ Рік тому

    Why am I only just hearing about this channel youtube?!?!? UA-cam got an upgrade 🫡

  • @user-by6yc8yl7v
    @user-by6yc8yl7v Рік тому +1

    The guys with little to no experience in war should be shown photos of what a human face looks like after taking a .50cal round to the chin, and/or what a pile of dead children killed by a tank round looks like.
    Show them videos of the last 20 breaths a soldier takes before he fades away and his eyes go cold forever.