The Rise & Fall of the World’s Most Notorious Private Army
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Blackwater was the most controversial Private Military Contractor, or PMC. Blackwater was founded by a former Navy SEAL, Erik Prince
But here’s one thing I’ve learned from Peter Theil, the billionaire co-founder of PayPal, it’s that if everyone is on the same side of an issue, whether that be Silicon Valley all leaning left, or that Blackwater is bad, there’s probably a compelling argument on the other side that gets drowned out.
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Yes
Can you make a video on the Lavon Affair? It’s a very interesting event that few people talk about
If you want to show the demonetized part of the video you can just post that part on its own
Hey can do a video on Russia and how they hired people to fight for them? Like in Central Africa and the Ukraine.
Hey Jake, great videos as always 🎉🔥
Just a suggestion,
As I saw the video getting demonetized for a few controversial parts of the video, why not start a Telegram group and put that full-fledged, unadulterated video which otherwise would get demonetized?
Or else, just put those clips which were cut short as "bonus videos" or "deleted scenes" in such a Telegram group where you can invite people with an invite link.
That'd be awesome 💪
I watched an interview of a royal marine who fought in Afghanistan, he was on £1.5k a month while contractors working directly along side him were on £15000 / $20700 a month.
thats crazy, do u have link
@@nizzy4333 yeah, it's a UA-cam channel called "Complete Commando" second most recent video
Fun fact - private contractor always gets more. Was doing IT, was mad with my pay, left, offered my services as a private IT guy after they had two morons unable to do shit, got paid 5x more.
That’s not that contractor’s fault. That service member signed that contract just like I did k owing exactly what his benefits were going to be and in exchanged for what. Some do it for the glory, some do it for the money and some do it for none of the above.... if he/she is in it for the money we’ll get out and go find the next black water ;)
There is more honor when you have your flag on your shoulder. Ask any military man and he’ll say he didnt sign up for money
If I were a sociopath I’d lead a corporation called ‘The rise and fall’ and then intentionally sabotage it just to watch a Jake Tran episode titled ‘The rise and fall of the rise and fall.’
Genius,I would call mine peepee poopoo man so it would be the fall of peepee poopoo man
based
I'd name it "of the fall" so it'd become "the rise and fall of the of the fall"
@@theRPGmaster sounds like a Michael bay movie
@@derangedanimal9098 Da ting go brrr and oof.
Blackwater: Hey I'll help you raid that military base for 5 million dollars.
CIA: Did you say 5 billion?
Blackwater: No I sai-
CIA: DEAL
Why does the government want to get itself ripped off?
@@VeryProPlayerYesSir1122 that’s how they steal our money.
That's not far from the truth. When I was in Iraq in 2003 the locals were selling US forces Chinese made office furniture for the HQs. But Americans generally didn't know that Arabs sell by bargaining. They offer outrageous prices up front and the customer is supposed to talk them down by 33% to 50%, depending on the seller's circumstances. Most US officers tasked to do the purchasing paid what was asked like they were shopping at WalMart. Those smart enough (and there weren't many) to realize most of the stuff was overpriced just figured the Arabs were being greedy. After a while they were. And not long after that they had to be since the insurgents were targeting them and their families so they needed to pay for their own private security.
If they spend less than their budget it ends up getting cut
@pee poo i legit heard once that around 70% of food and small repair pieces are thrown away or abandoned because people dont bother to actually do logistics.
My cousin is ex UK army and now works for a military contractor.
In 5 years he can retire, he will never have to worry about money for the rest of his life.
He also enjoys the work. He didnt acclimatise to civilian life that well.
How did you get this that line of work ?
Well all claim to be people of religion and substance, until we see dollar signs
Does he work at Alfa Metal?
why are you assuming that a guy who cant adjust to civilian life will ever retire no matter how much money he makes.
we both know he's going to live that life until he's red mist.
@@spg1794 who says he can't adjust to civvy life?
He couldn't find a civvy job, so he found a job where he has a wealth experience and it pays extremely well.
He has no intention of working until he's pink mist.
“Trust me, if you invest in this cereal brand, you too can be a profitable war entrepreneur”
I’m sold
The cereal contains allulose as a sweetener which in conjunction with all the protein your body can’t break down at a normal rate. It’s 4g of carb after the initial 14 stated on the box because your body literally discards it. Wouldn’t advise trying this cereal if your stomach is already sensitive. Otherwise have fun with the toots
America, The most Racist country in the World. 👹 Violating Human rights #SanctionRacistUSA
@@factsovafeelings6524 >has that username
>spouts off emotional bullshit
Well trolled, my friend.
Wolf Cola
“If the government can make you rich, They can take all that power away in a moment notice”
China: First time?
Also China: You will be disappearing now!
Jack ma be like
Now, Erik Prince operates his PMC business in China FYI and he lives in Hong Kong
@@indobalkanizer6557 but he lives in Abu Dabi right??
No one, ABSOLUTELY no one:
Jack Ma: 🖕🖕🖕
Imagine companies like Coca-Cola having private military.
*Pepsi intensifies*
You know Pepsi had the 6th largest Navy in the world at one point LMAO
I'm glad we didn't let Pepsi of the hook.
Last thing I want is a submarine to deliver a 2L of soda
The SAMSUNG Group would like a word with you.
Coca-cola hired death squads in Colombia that murdered dissenting workers
I know some of those mercenaries who worked at Blackwater. The stories they tell will send chills up your back.
Lmao. I don’t think any one who worked for Black Water will ever mention to you that they have.
Okay delivery guy 7 4 0 2
@@user-re3fd6jl5kwrong
Same my father served them
Honestly Black Water's name was also super easy to villainize.
The name sounds like an evil organization from a marvel comic series
They are still in business under name of Academi LLC And bigger then before still have us government contracts including CIA contracts that if read between lines of what they don’t say, they do some of the CIAs wet work
@@markfelton8170 you read too many spy novels. The PMC trade is nothing like it was. Gone are the days of making $1,000/day. Their parent company has been selling off their assets and has been entertaining offers of less than they paid for them.
@@NotKimiRaikkonen no I just know how crappy people can be when they feel they have righteousness on their side Your right on black water being dismembered and sold off Last being the 200 million their former aviation section was sold for The wet work I believe your not though It was proven they were doing contract work for CIA and those jobs were the root for a lot of the companies charges being leveled against them for arms trafficking and more I don’t read spy novels I have the past 100 years of history to entertain myself with regarding my countries track record that show it’s nothing to sub out the job of “keeping Americans safe”
It sounds like a splinter group of COBRA or something haha
“No one loves a warrior, until the enemy is at the gate”
LK, I swear, the morning I went to work the day of 9-11 all the people in my office (university grads and clerical - everyone a civilian) were all in a level of fear and anxiety. One of them asked if I was aware what had just occurred to which I responded, "yes," with an angry voice and visage. She and two others just stared at me, incredulous at my belligerent like response. "Aren't you scared?" Another asked. I replied, "scared? No I want to thrust a bayonet through their G.D. throats." Another co-worker had just entered, heard the conversation and said, to the wide eyed nervous group, "what do you expect from a former combat Marine?" He and you are correct, no one has any need for the military until the bayonet is at their throats. Then after the threat is gone and they perceive they are safe, they pooh-pooh the need for government spending on the military and make fun of the culture.
@@LesterMoore well now they want to replace the culture with their own. You think mercenary industry is getting bad, let me make it worse. It is getting replaced by militarized drones, and they will sell killing machines to the highest bidder.
The Liberals believe they can replace soldiers with drones and just need to make certain of the ideology of the operators.
@@Marinealver That will be a grave mistake. Killer robots. Very sad to see if this comes to pass.
@@LesterMoore And then the whole bus clapped.
Eloquently out
I have a couple of friends who joined the Royal Marines here in the U.K. and there plan all along was do 6 years in the marines then become a contractor. One of them told me he earned more in his first year as a contractor than he did in all 6 of his time as a royal marine. Last couple of years they’ve both been working security on cargo ships.
Sounds like a decent career path for a natural fighter. If you're fighting someone else's war, be it your country's or some other client's, you might as well be compensated for putting your life on the line for their interests.
@@Jupiter__001_ You know that's the point of paying enlisted soldiers, right?
are they payed well?
@@barca8341 He's get paid £500 a day.
@@howey935 thanks
As a 21 year Navy veteran, I am proud of my service and of my fellow-vets. However, I no longer will recommend military service to my children or grandchildren for their lives to be wasted by some stupid politician, and as of now I don’t that there is any other type. Darlington, South Carolina
Wow, Who would have thought a navy vet would have said something so fruity.
Fruity or Beefy, it doesn't matter. What matters is right and wrong. Do you think what he said is wrong
The rise and fall of the world's most powerful private army, laughs in East Indian trading company
This is fax.
Dutch or English?
@@ls200076 English of course, Gawd bless de queen
@@issacschneider2499 No gawd bless the king? D:
@@issacschneider2499 noo the dutch... We fucking had an monopoly on the trade global😂😂
I’m going to just take a second to appreciate how impressive it is that Blackwater hired Roy and Jim.
Jim worked his way up from paper salesman to Blackwater operative. Pretty amazing.
13 hours wasn’t blackwater, they were however all former blackwater contractors but at the time they were contracting for CIA grs
I did a paper on college on BlackWater. I got to interview my friend's uncle who was an ex-BlackWater, the kind of shit the government allowed BlackWater to do was INSANE. And he probably only told me what was known out there.
Yep PMC contractors weren't liable for US military law until 2006
They were finally held to account by US civil law in 2007 in direct response to the Square massacre which left 17 Iraqi civilians dead
@@rejvaik00 hmm it would be one thing to shoot at a crowd if it harbors insurgents but shooting at civilians for no reason is just pointless. Mad with power. Trigger happy. But more likely situation is that they outlived their usefulness.
Someone at the top realized a private army that gets big and influential enough to challenge your own means they can essentially replace them with anyone who has enough money to start a coup. usually its the u.s that schemes coups all around the world for a healthy chaos but it could turn on them.
@@Andytlp we can play a conjecture all day long searching for the why, but Its irrelevant
I am just telling you the quick summation of facts of the event
@@rejvaik00 "civilians". i.e. insurgents
@@ArdentLion says who? So every person in an invaded country is an insurgent? That's a slippery slope
“Blackwater made millions off war”
Politicians starting the war, making wayyyy more off it, and never shouldering a rifle or digging a foxhole: “how dare they!”
I’ve been offered numerous contracts for deployments as a PMC. Offers are too good to pass up. But there’s so many downsides, and you don’t get the same support as a conventional soldier. No one has your back. High risk, high reward. Good schedule though, either 90 days in country with 30 days off, or a 75/75 split.
Watching to much Shawn Ryan show.
I’m genuinely curious though, have you worked for one of the PMCs officially in the past (at least for a while) or is this based on experiences from your other battle buddies that have joined up and have told you about those experiences?
@@BL4CK-L1ST This is based on contracts I have been personally sent. I don’t have many friends who contracted after the military. My friends who are still contractors have much more experience and since we’ve all been through similar things, stories and experiences tend to get shared. Contracting today is different than even 3 years ago. Contracts three years ago are different from 10 years ago. Things are always changing and evolving, therefore experiences may vary.
@@charliepope6750 Appreciate taking time to apease my curiosity, kudos.💪
@@charliepope6750 Would you take the opportunity if it presents itself in a way that the offer convinces you further?
My dad is a retired US Marine and he sometimes talks about how much he and his fellow marines hated blackwater and other PMCs because they were doing basically the same job but with no accountability and making 6 figures when the Marines were only making 40-50k. His job was also going through after action reports and the PMCs still had to file after action reports(even though it didn't really matter if they did) and they would typically read something like "one MAM(military age male) acting suspiciously. One MAM dead." According to my dad, "acting suspiciously" could mean anything like looking at them funny. So my dad sees them as just trigger happy mercenaries who try to justify it to themselves by calling it patriotism and protecting America, despite robbing the american people.
Makes sense. Being useful doesn't get your contract renewed, looking useful does.
Sounds that they were based
PMCs today are the privateers of yesterdays. We are using pirates and bandits to commit potential war crimes without damaging our own reputations.
bUt MuH PatRIoTs
@@maggiejetson7904 true but war dogs will do what they do best ... I would support them as they created a reputation of don't mess with the devil... Taliban would shit their pants when they hear Black Water. If they were posted in Afghanistan paid by afghan government like Trump would have wanted then the horror of people in afghan wouldn't have occurred.
If someone hurt my Dad I would not show mercy to them & they will suffer till the end because I am not someone to double cross with & having accountability is what stops me & what ruins the revenge.
Laws are for sheep's but for the Devil the laws are absent as humans don't have authority over them .... You people can't comprehend the depth of what I am saying because your human nature is what slaving you people. Devil deals with evil & that's how I roll 😎 😈
This is not a good primer on Blackwater.
Most of the video has Tran singing Blackwater's praises and quoting their CEO directly. It isn't a bad idea to give background info on the occasion for and details of Blackwater's rise, but he leaves out most of the important stuff. For example, he mentions Paul Bremer to gloat about how Blackwater kept him safe, but he doesn't bring up that Bremer used his dictatorial authority to give all contractors effective immunity to Iraqi law. Blackwater guards routinely murdered Iraqi citizens both on and off-duty, but no one who cared had jurisdiction to do anything about it thanks to Bremer. The worst punishment they ever faced was being sent home early.
When it comes to discussing the massacre that finally soured their reputation in the states, he opts to skip it to avoid losing out on ad revenue. I understand if he doesn't want to interrupt his income stream, but it would be better to leave these kinds of videos to people who are willing to give the full story even if they don't gain as much financially.
Interspersed throughout the video are random quotes about war. They aren't really helpful or appropriate--mostly, they serve to try and convince the viewer that war is inevitable and we shouldn't bother trying to avoid it. Nevermind that the war in question was completely avoidable and started on false pretenses.
This is the first video I've seen by Jake Tran so I don't know if it's a pattern or not. I don't wish him ill or anything. Just, if you're looking to be informed on this subject, look for a video that's been demonetized.
this deserves top comment. Unfortunately you're extremely late to this videos popularity. Hopefully it rises, and someone is heard 👍
I'm halfway through the video and my thoughts are exactly the same. Yeah, this deserves top comment
Same thoughts brotha
This should be at the top of the comments.
As soon as he started saying "there's two sides to every story" talking about the deadly paid killers with no oversight I got a bad feeling. Like sure we can acknowledge that politicians are scumbags _too_ but that in no way absolves these guys or makes them "patriots and herors"
The issue with having private militaries is they no longer abide by the Geneva Convention. This is similar to the two Russian private military contract companies operating in the last 2 decades. However, the French Foreign Legion, operating under the French Army, has been operational for a very long time and is widely accepted practice.
Isn't that why people hire them
Geneva convention more like Geneva suggestion
well you gotta remember they don't represent a nation or country yes they are USA based so they don't have to abide by it hense why they are a valuable asset unfortunately sucks what happend to Eric prince and his company
Yeah but also when you find or capture a pmc you can pretty much do whatever you want with them.
Hilariously enough, the UN has a history of resorting to privatizing operations via seeking PMCs to do the actual fighting because their own peacekeeping forces are kept behind strict ROE (not to mention incompetent more than they'd like to admit) Look no further than Sierra Leone.
“Only the dead have seen the end of war” is a quote from the Ancient Greek philosopher Plato FYI.
War is mankind's oldest profession.
@@JEB66 and most profitable profession.
@@JEB66 No that's gathering stuff for food (or something simple like that, you get my meaning)
I guess it depends how you define war, though. If you have ooga group fighting booga group for control of the elephant carcass, is that war?
Is it war when lion prides fight over territory? Or is war when societies clash? When a fighting side aren't all part of the same family group, but believes in a common goal that allows them to fight alongside strangers?
If it's the latter, war probably came after a bunch of other things
I'm not sure about that great quote, but those are facts
The dead only know one thing: It's better to be alive.
NATO: **goes to war with china**
Blackwater: My death was greatly exaggerated
The Blackwater guys involved did an over 5 hour interview on Blackwater's intense training, the incidents during that tour and on September 16th, and what it did to their life for years. It's harrowing to know what they did for their country and the country they're in, and their own government betrayed them. Highly recommend listening to all of it.
Whats the podcast called
@@jacksonfowler4442 shawn ryan show, blackwater massacre
Excellent comment fuck Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton. I'm not even American and what happened to those dudes was bullshit. Eddie ghallegar too.
@@jacobmorenzoni1873 Shawn Ryan have such fascinating podcasts n well chosen guests.
I highly recommend it!
They didn’t do it for their country they did it for money
The irony of showing 13 Hours footage is that a number of the members of the GRS Team in 13 Hours were former contractors for Blackwater
Pretty sure that was intentional.
Only one was
Tell me more please?
So?
Captain obviously doesn't know what real irony is
It's also worth mentioning that Prince - ever the patriot - has spent the past few years hawking his wares to Beijing and Moscow in support of their geopolitical aims in Africa and the Middle East.
"Acts surprised"
The escalating in world disorder in all ways means I should start my own eco friendly peaceful militia 😂🤗
Well there mercs. They go to the highest bidder.
Hey, you can’t fault him for that. It’s his job!
America fucked him over, like they fuck other every single veteran and patriot... only an absolute asshole would continue to help America after getting fucked like he did lol his view on America is probably quite sobering and would give many people a more realistic view on the joke of a nation
If they had named the company “Dolphin-Bunny” it would still exist today. Sounds less evil.
Black Water sounds like a defense contractor. Wasn’t that the name of one of the defense contractors in Bourne Identity that trained Jason Bourne?
Black Water, it's an identity. One, it denotes their origin locale. Two, it it representative of the work they do, they wade through very murky waters metaphorically.
They should have been named apples and peaches😂
Yeah Blackwater literally some tier 1 villain shit kinda name
Dolphins are *totally* evil dude, don't trust them. Ever
Long post here, but I thought I'd shed a little light on this that the video doesn't mention. I worked as a security contractor for almost ten years. Full disclosure, I never worked for Blackwater, Xe, Academi or Constellis, but I knew and worked with a lot of guys that had and I have a pretty good idea of how the business works. What a lot of people took as Blackwater trying to cover its tracks was a lot more complicated than that. Private security companies (including companies that work primarily stateside) often rebrand or do what I call mutually beneficial acquisitions. This is to maintain eligibility to bid on the government contracts. A lot of government contracts have clauses that state the same company can't bid multiple times in a row or on multiple contracts for the same agency. This is meant to encourage competition and discourage corruption. When this happens, a lot of the top people invariably find new homes in the new company or the company that acquired them in merger, usually with similar positions and salaries. I'd also guess (and this is only a guess), that if you trace all the funds, a portion of funds and assets still go to guys like Prince. That's just how this works. A lot of these guys are ex-SOCOM or ex-spooks, so it's not likely they don't know how to move money and assets around clandestinely. Most of them also maintain good contacts within the government that can help facilitate this movement.
That makes a lot of sense actually. I always assumed that the rebrand being blamed on controversy seemed very oversimplified, and that all the controversies did was make Blackwater a bigger name. What you said seems a lot more likely. Thanks for the comment and for your work!
Jake Tran: Serious discussion on the truth behind a private military group
Also Jake Tran: that’s why I love to eat my healthy cereal
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“War is an economy. Anybody that tells you otherwise is either in on it, or stupid.” - David Packouz in “War Dogs”
Only the foolish believe they can profit on war. Socially Optimal Equilibrium is more profitable than the Nash. The people that make the most money in peace will still make the most money in war but it will be more expensive. Sure there are those that make more money in war but they well never be anywhere near the ones that make the most money.
@@Marinealver You can profit from war as long as that war is away from your border.
@@Marinealver war is profit. even jake tran makes money from all of this. that means you're either stupid or in on it.
@@Marinealver ferengi rule of acquisition #35 war is profitable
The original quote came from one smedly butler
I like how the US spends hundreds of billions of dollars a year on the military but still relies on pmcs to do essential work.
What essential work? I guess cooking and cleaning are essential work
It's called plausible deniability
@@jtcameron8345 And deferred accountability
Pmc work outside of military law
Because pmc's had no strings attached
Former military should make a shit ton of money. My son it was a plumber pipefitter in the navy. Doing that he only made about 1700 a month. When he got out he immediately got a job working for a contractor that builds Naval vessels. Starting salary 144,000 and that's exactly how it should be for our veterans
“Including the IRS” dang the same guys that got Capone.
Not even the Joker would take them on.
The irs is a terrorist organization
@@NeostormXLMAX nah,worse then that,cause even terrorist cells are afraid of them.
@@NeostormXLMAX the IRS was suppose to be shutdown immediately by Abraham Lincoln right after the US civil war ended.
@@NeostormXLMAX I wish no one had to pay taxes lol
I never knew merryweather was based on true events
@Spliffy Jimmy I think the joke flew over your head bud
@Spliffy Jimmy fair
"merryweather" sounds like it should be the real name and "blackwater" sounds like the fake, made-up, _obviously evil_ PMC group.
Also a private army based on blackwater: Murkywater from Payday 2
@@d.l.8394 I was about to comment this lol I mean it's not hard to see why people would not think of Merryweather as a parody of Blackwater bc the names are so distant, Murkywater on the other hand is a much more direct parody😁
"Blackwater is no more...."
Meanwhile in Russia...👀
russia has a private army of ex spetsnaz and they still work for the russian goverment
Blackwater is just called Academii now
@@snapnclap yup
Wagner group.....why not, these companies are allright through the world for any politician. So for us.
Edit: after some googling...they even operate MiG29's......a private company..... 😆🤟
Something to mention, the person who edits these videos does a really good job.
Can you make a video on why Pension funds are buying up all the homes in my neighborhood?
Can you make a video on the Lavon affair
Same. City is evicting families by condemning homes for dusty ceiling fans and patio furniture sitting appropriately in the back yard. Actual reason. No exaggeration. Personal experience with my father. Then property management companies are buying up the condemned houses for pennies on the dollar, dusting the ceiling fans and renting them out again after raising the rent, plus deposit and last month rent and making stupid qualifications like earning 5× the rent monthly.. Pages. Pages of requirements.. Happened twice in waves... Its almost impossible to find a home near me...
There are a lot of people worried about hyperinflation and the market crashing because of it. Real Estate seems to be one of the safer investments to make that will be relatively spared from the effects of hyperinflation (people will always need a place to live regardless of what currency is being used to pay for it)
@@adc1222 Does would explain why individuals would buy homes, the person is asking why pension funds are buying homes at an alarming rate.
If hyperinflation hits those homes will lose value, no?
@@YourBlackLocal If you put a $50,000 down payment on a $200,000 home today, then take out a fixed-rate mortgage to pay the remaining $150,000, but the USD inflates by 10:1 or 1,000:1 or whatever it inflates by, then you still own the home after you pay off the $150,000 - even if the $150,000 is now worth $1,500,000.
"Do some research on Merryweather Security Consulting friend. They'd be on trial for human rights offenses if the US government didn't protect all its contractors form any kind of suit - military or civilian. They're immune from prosecution, and they behave like they are. Murdering, stealing, high on power, guns, and anabolic steroids. Lucky bastards..."
- Trevor Philips, 2013
The problem with involving the private sector in war is that they are then incentivised to create demand for their services. Look at Krupp in the first and second WW. Krupp were amateurs in comparison with the military/industrial complex identified by Eisenhower.
What did Krupp do?
@@reinbeers5322 I have no idea what he means by that, besides the obvious i.e. working & allying with moustache man and war profiteering....
@@reinbeers5322 OP just want to sound smart
@@reinbeers5322 Krupp was a massive steel work business that manufactured everything from submarines to artillery guns
The topic of PMC is especially interesting in contrast with modern-day PMC fighting in the Ukrainian-Russian war. Russian PMC received too much power from the government and became an outlet for any "second tier" ideas like hiring people from prison and creating regiments from them commanded by contract officers. Looking at the aftermath from the deoccupied regions they had no law binding above them, and they were part of many war crimes such as the one in Herson, and the one from the North-East regions.
Funny how they're called PMC but Taliban are called terrorists
They go under the name of academy now. And they're still handed contracts and the more we pull out the more companies are going to hire them.
Academi*
They’re part of the merger under constellis with triple canopy and a few others
Oh shit. Your right.
Thank god they're still thriving, kicking ass in times that are hands are tied. An american soldier can't shoot a terrorist planting a bomb in front of base gates unless the terrorist fires a shot, Academi can pop em off without question.
@@Zeromaus yep. i went to their traning academy back around 2017 for their driving course. Bad ass facility
@@Zeromaus They also shoot up random civilians from time to time for fun, so yeah, good job. Let's support them... 🙄
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Hideo Kojima and the whole Metal Gear series was right.
Watch these "PMCs" go to great lengths to "find" resons to stay "employed"
I give my life
Not for honor, but for you (snake eater)
In my time, there'll be no one else
Crime, it's the way I fly to you (snake eater)
I'm still in a dream, snake eater
I'm still in a dream, snake eater
(Snake eater)
One could imagine a real life alternative timeline of MGS 4. A world in conflict dominated by PSCs & PMCs with or without the walking tanks, nanomachines, or bio secured firearms...
Oh god, imagine having to live in a real life version of that boring ass game
I mean, tbf, PSCs wouldn’t be much of a threat to PMCs if you consider PSCs to be like G4S, which are glorified rent-a-cops for the most part. I’d rather hire a PMC.
@@BL4CK-L1ST Depends on the company to be honest.
Perhaps I shouldn't trust America's government with my future plans of such tech. Eh fuck it, I was a nice thought to have but fuck the tops of America
@@umbralgaming3443 so much so this.
I went the same private school in DC, that Erik Prince's son attended. At one point Erik took his children and a bunch of kids in the school to a North Carolina Blackwater facility, where they all got to shoot automatic firearms. Dudes crazy rich, moved to Dubai for awhile.
Abu Dhabi, I worked for the company training UAE security in case Arab Spring started up there.
I remember when I was a kid one of my teachers asked what I wanted to be when im older and I said I wanted to be a Blackwater operative
Based
Real life Call of Duty.
Based.
How can something be so cringe yet it's so based
The world may never know
sociopath vibes
I can't believe the balls to transition from "private military accused of war crimes" into "buy this gross sugarfree cereal to be healthy" back into the war crimes
What’s the common link? You guessed it: MoNeY.
When you think about it, have Mercenaries (or should I say private security) fight wars isn't new. Any point in history that we've been fighting we have one way or another paid another group to fill in the gaps.
Literally. They’re called proxy wars. People are just stuck in bubbles so they don’t know shit about the world
the us hired german mercs when they fought the british out of the 13 colonies (courtesy of oversimplified). doubt that the us government will stop using pmc's either
Even the vatican used to hired swiss mercenary, and the reason they stop using it is that it got formalized by the swiss army.
@@jacksonbilgry8395 the British had more German mercs than soldiers from its own army the battle of Trenton was a raid on a hessian base
@@TheeNino
You’re so smart 😂
Jk, I’m almost certain everyone knows mercenaries existed and fought in wars through history. Blackwater was just an instance of mercenaries stepping outside of their roles.
They were/are evil men.
You know teachers are gonna use your UA-cam videos for class one day?
Speaking as a teacher, I definitely will 😉
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@@factsovafeelings6524 Ever been anywhere else in the world than Europa or North America?
@@factsovafeelings6524 China having literal concentration camp for the huygurs, comitting genocide, most poluter on this globe,...
Not really, for many teachers this isn't Woke enough
This was a relatively straight forward look at BlackWater, and the same can be said of the many other PMC organizations. Where there is a market for something, whatever that is, someone will provide it. War is no different.
Just look at Executive Outcomes in Africa during the 90s
"relatively" is a broad word, rewatch it and pay attention.
@@pew3561 The video hardly accounts for the entirety of Black Water's history, hence I use the term relatively. Get a dictionary.
@@flyoverkid55 Dude is almost doing a tribute to BW and you call it straight forward; get a brain idiot.
@@pew3561 I have a brain, why don't you put yours to use and show me where my comment is lacking instead of imposing your childish ignorance on those who may have hurt your feelings?
Honestly for about a decade of missions and protection I think a billion dollars is pretty small. Personally from a businessman’s standpoint I dont think they profited that much. Choppers alone cost a lot with just operating and maintenance. Not to mention training the one who fly’s it and the training for the security team itself. I think they even had to buy armored vehicles for their own which again cost them. Aside from the cost, I think the US had more to gain specially with fighting terrorist (and controlling and stabilizing the region) with the black water otherwise they would have even thought of partnering with them I mean duhh they’re the CIA (intelligence).
Late reply sorry, but to be fair Blackwater headhunted people who already had the skills so that cost is lowered, I'm pretty sure "Saddam" had a few American APCs that were "left behind" that Blackwater could "commandeer" for their own use. The beauty of CIA black budgets
@@mateomorales1653 This is corruption and treason to the highest degree to any American with any shred of integrity. Our nation has become what we fought to rid ourselves of. I don’t want anyone causing mayhem across the world in our name.
I'd want to join a company like this after the Army. Many soldiers do, especially Special Forces. The problem is- to the government or organisation that hires them, they're a wolf that can guard, attack and has a very long leash. To the public, that's terrifying. Controversy or no, they would have been burned down as soon as they weren't needed.
They are terrorist groups. They commit war crimes no different from isis
@@haydaboss231 check yourself. They are VERY different.
@@haydaboss231 proof
@@vincentrees4970 They’re worth every penny
@@vespa9566 no they aren’t
Aren't most people in the army right leaning? Why do they fell the need to mention that when talking about the founder?
Because “right is bad” according to the limp wrist people.
No, around 41% favored Biden and 12% were independent leaning in August 2020.
No, around 41% favored Biden and 12% were independent leaning in August 2020.
Makes it more sensational.
@@HotChokolate007 new troops favor biden. veterans favor trump. real big difference biden is a fool
The choice of background music is consistently spot on.
Gta prep work
The idea is that we don't have mercenaries in this country because our armed forces are law-abiding and protective of our form of government. A private army has no such inhibitions. How is it okay for American citizens to go overseas and kill with no legal repercussions? What keeps them from selling to the highest bidder, even if that entity would like America to cease to exist? Why should we allow our nation to be even more tainted by this disinhibited army? These are just a few of the concerns. It's not entrepreneurship. It's lawlessness.
As someone who worked for Triple Canopy after I got out of the Army in 08 I can tell you first hand that 99% of the guys out there are professionals. The general public is only aware of the negative unprofessional actions of a select few PMC’s which allows the uninformed to paint a rather negative picture. The ability to accurately and rapidly deploy assets and resources to an AO in need is vital in any type of modern warfare and will continue to be a requirement regardless if it’s combat with insurgent type forces or a near peer threat.
I greatly appreciate your sacrifice by making the decision to serve for our country! Selfless decision for sure. I would like to respond with....
The negative image for me, existed before pmc. I'm sure everything you said is true and that they are professionals. There is a huge amount of other factors that all interconnect with each other that really genius and twisted at the same time! That's why the image I have is greatly negative. And the existence of pmc's add to that. However I don't dismiss the positive effects that exist as well! I find perspectives of others helpful. This is my perspective. Thanks again for your service!
people forget travis haley was a blackwater member, hes a great dude with several businesses.
Thoughts on the blackwater massacre?
THIS IS ONE OF THE FEW POSTS THAT IS SPOT ON!!!!LOOK THE MILITARY HATED BLACKWATER BECAUSE THEY MADE MORE MONEY WHICH IS TRUE BUT THE ARMY BENEFITS AND PAY EQUAL AROUND WHAT BLACKWATER MAKES,BLACKWATER NEVER GOT EVEN CLOSE TO THE BENEFITS THE MILITARY GOT...I HATE TO SAY THIS BUT THE HATE FOR BLACKWATER IS 100% POLITICAL AND THE LEFT USED IT ALL FOR POLITICAL REASONS..FALLUJAH AND THE 4 DEAD BLACKWATER SECURITY CONTRACTORS WAS THE START OF END OF BLACKWATER.....99%OF THESE MEN ARE 100% PATRIOT'S ....
A man who was a bomb dog handler for Triple Canopy told me the company would not pay to bring the dogs back to the states when their work was done. They abandoned them.
I love these private military/war profiteering videos, keep 'em coming
Your nuanced view that doesn't tow the typical media line is incredibly refreshing
@Clone Rayne well youtube doesn't like non old media talking about the bad stuff and censers it.
There are so many errors in this video. The most ridiculous though is that no BW contractors were injured or killed. I believe 43 of their guys died overseas. The comments section is even more ridiculous. No knowledge but lots of opinions.
Right winger is bad = "Right wing former navy seal"
Left winger is bad = "former navy seal"
Depends what news you're gonna watch tbh.
CNN: Right wing former navy seal
Fox: Liberal former navy seal.
should just be former navy seal
@@potto1488 Fair enough. There are more left wing outlets, but fox also has the largest market share out of any single outlet.
@@EJ-jh1vf because they lied the least. When your enemies shoot themselves in the foot don't stop them.
@@EJ-jh1vf “there are more left wing outlets”🤣😭 name one?
@@Tyler_Lalonde- If you believe any big media company, including fox, you probably need to think a lot more before voting.
Erik Prince and blackwater sounds like the real counter part of Big boss and MSF/Outer Heaven
You got that right, these people are PMC
Or Diamond Dogs
@@PirateCat822 Oh well some people with culture
Haha mercenary business go 📈
@@jamesedwardzerrudo4522 we all metal gears
5:30 I understand that these clips are meant to portray the end of the Soviet Union and are for just a single sentence, but I think it's worth pointing out the error here: those newsreels are from the August coup d'etat where Communist hardliners tried to regain control of the USSR, and not of the actual dissolution of the Soviet Union. The specific event that most directly signaled the dissolution of the USSR was the signing of the Belovezha Accords in December by Yeltsin and by his Ukrainian and Belarusian counterparts; IIRC the reporter didn't actually outright say "Gorbachev has been deposed" or "the USSR has dissolved" in the report announcing it but there is the live report on it regardless
Aside from that, great video, keep up the good work
Highly recommend the Shawn Ryan Show about the Blackwater Massacre.
It's also worth mentioning that the Nisour Square incident resulted in the revocation of Blackwater in Iraq, the PMCs were sent to prison but then pardoned by President Trump, despite the killing of several civilians.
@@Woldmord How is it hard to tell? there is proof that the blackwater guards shot first and they shot at least 14 people with out a reason.
@@Woldmord They wheren't thats why they whent to jail
@@Woldmord the court knows thats why they where convicted you ass clown
@@Woldmord if they were in the right for shooting they wouldn’t have got locked up dummy, I’d rather listen to the courts who have evidence than a couch potato
@@Woldmord hey bud. If you’re gonna defend convicted war criminals, at least have a conspiracy to fall back on. Or some piece of evidence you can throw out. Just saying “mmmm but maybe they’re innocent” is damn near useless. Playing devils advocate without anything to advocate for is called being a pedantic asshole.
Also it is decidedly a war crime to shoot indiscriminately at civilians if you think there’s unmarked soldiers hiding among them. Even if you *know* one of them has a bomb or has a gun.
I feel like war or at least some form of conflict is coming tbh Justin’s looking at everything right now
Justin Bieber? Justin Trudeau?
When do you think we ever stopped? Wars are as normal as sunrises.
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Only the deaf have seen the end of war.
@@factsovafeelings6524 I'd argue China and india are just a TAD more racist. You know, the ones currently slaughtering races due to their race.
I love your ADHD filming style. Keeps me attentive.
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lol you dont have adhd then
You don't have ADHD then
lol you don't have adhd then
Black Water agent Raymond Davis killed two innocent men in the city Lahore, Pakistan and escaped through safe passage without conviction
Jake Tran is a blessing from God.
*”Keep up the good work man. You’re doing Gods work!”* 😇
Teaching peeps to colonise countries, start cartels, be a war profiteer, get away with murder...
My favorite book The Black Company by Glen Cook really looks at morality of a soldier living in the grey.
"Soldiers live, and wonder why."
The thing that got me caught up in this whole video was the....quote...... from Jocko. The credit should be given to Cormac McCarthy. “Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner.” Blood Meridian is one of my favorite books of all time so I’m kind of critical about it.
I worked for black water an you made good points on a few things but your time lines are off an missing some info I was there in 2011 when the name Black Water was being removed an it was named XE Services an then became American Training Center an then became academi. I have so many good stories about the company an their training and the missions over there helping the ANA in Kabul. Good times with good guys.
That part about "if the government can make you rich, they can surely take it all back" reminds me of our old army cadence that says "they army gave me 100 dollars and took back 99"
UA-cam monetization system pisses me off, you're making a documentary and yet they don't allow even to mention sensitive topics.
For another interesting story look into Executive Outcomes a South African private military company that were prominent in the 90s. They went into Angola and Sierra Leone and helped train the local soldiers and keep the peace in these destabilized regions. Of course, their effectiveness put a target on their back and wherever they went the UN followed to push them out and send in their Peacekeepers who could of course not keep the peace.
I was thinking the same while watching this clip. Many parallels between the two companies.
“If you think a lot of money was made providing security just think how much money was made rebuilding it after we turned it into piles of rubble”-
Michael Slater
Did you just quote yourself
It seems Peter Thiel gets mentioned a lot throughout Intellectual dropouts and this channel. Maybe do a video on his story?
He has a book called Zero to One that you can check out with his story and philosophies
@@JeffreyMarr lmao reading
@@karlmoreno4109 fuck me, right?
I notice many of the companies advertising on podcasts are invested in by Thiel. He also has hired a lot of IDW members. I suspect we will hear more about him as PLTR grows. He could be the one dub the libertarian presidential candidate in 2024.
@@JeffreyMarr a video about his theory of zero to one is on my channel. Feel free to check it out 🙂
Now i know that if CIA wanted you terminated they'll outsource it to private contactors
Or just use a Drone 🤖🚀 💥
@@Marinealver hmmm he should make a video about it
@@aymanshamil be surprised if he doesn’t
@@Marinealver what about private contractors WITH a drone?
Sorta, they have their own elite fighting force in the special activities center but they routinely outsource jobs to contractors.
You need to mention the mess of the 2004 Falluja ambush on 4 Blackwater PMC's and how that pretty much kicked off the first and second battles of Falluja where over 50 U.S. soldiers were killed.
I remember seeing that on the news in high school. Almost similar to the pictures of the Mogadishu Battle of 93.
... or Blackwater killing a family of four in their vehicle because they "thought" they were insurgents following to closely
@@clydegreen3028 Cry about it. My gunner gave a vehicle plenty of warnings, finally lit off a pyro. Shot bounced off the road, went through the windshield and hit the dude’s wife. Freak accident, but the dude learned a valuable lesson: don’t tailgate a military convoy. Wish ambulances and fire trucks in the US would do that too, give these self absorbed divas a lesson in doing the right thing.
@@Rudyelf1 u were there?
@@Rudyelf1 or when they run over a civilian and don't stop. Seriously people don't realize that if you stop in the middle of a street then you are fucked. They have plenty of warnings to get out of the way and to not cross the road and alot of these people are paid by insurgents to walk in front of our vehicles to stop them.
Lords, kings, emperors and nations have been using mercenaries since the dawn of time. In fact its actually a relatively recent thing were armies are made up of mostly volunteers. Go back to the medieval times and going to war meant buying up mercenaries, as they we really the only actual professional soldiers, other than the kings nobles and retinues.
“Their crimes don’t get punished” sounds a lot like another military I know.
The North Vietnamese army?
The Soviet Army?
The US military?
This channel is pure quality, keep that up.
Being a basic infantrymen. I wish I could have been these guys. Especially in 2010. But glad I wasn’t.
Blackwater did alot of air drops. The blood,bullets, food, anything you ever needed was done by them. If you ever watched a CASA 212 descend and scrap the gate on the ground. That was Blackwater.
@@brandonguy4086 damn, thats gay
@@lusca7148 huh
@@lusca7148 I don't care what anyone says, that was hilarious😂
The problem with private companies is Governments can wash their hands of war crimes and privateers don’t have conventions
The issue with relaying on one single private company (Or a cloud of connected companies) for contracting military stuff is they can decide to work for anyone at any time, or not be available when you most need. But then again that's probably US hires these "expendables" anyway
If you outsource to PMC's from a different country then yes it could be an issue., but if you hire from your own country during wartime your goals will be their goals.
@The Iron Cross make that "everyone is expendable to a government" its just not the US
Wdym work for anyone at any time. Who's anyone? What, other countries? What's wrong with that?
@@Rivers349 no. Hiring mercenaries is a stupid decision for any military. They only pledge allegiance to money.
@The Iron Cross if enough troops die support for a war usually plummets, so supporters of a war are incentivized to minimize the death toll
A good mercenary will know which side has the most money, who will have the easier fight, and whoever aligns with their interest the best. These men were all very good mercenaries.
God hate murderers bro they ain't good mercenaries
@@jackhoffmanhoffman35 If god hated them so much they wouldn't exist
"Waging war requires huge numbers of personnel that our volunteer military just doesn't have."
-This from the nation with the LARGEST military/military budget in the world.
PMC doesn't have any strings attached.
Don't have to report death tolls to the public, don't have to report any atrocities, don't have to use them for propaganda, etc
Shit can be swept under the rug more easily
Blackwater did lose men... In fact the death and mutilation of 5 of them was pretty much the catalyst of Fallujah
We have to be thinking of the long term when considering whether or not to deal with PMC companies. In the end...it is a lot easier to sell a war to the public when no bodies of volunteer soldiers are returning home. That means an increased likelihood of engaging in conflicts. It also means increased war-profiteering/corruption. That means a less reliable government. A less reliable government means bad things for obvious reasons. So while in the short-term, you might be willing to support PMC's rather than a draft...you still get screwed, in the long term, by a government that is increasingly hostile to the needs of the people and subservient to the rich.
Severely underrated channel ❤️
The quality of videos that this guy makes is unreal. It’s done better than most of the documentaries on tv. Well done and thank you.
The bureaucracy meant they needed people to do the work fast without waiting for all the red tapes to be removed.
More importantly nobody wanted to send enlisted sins and daughters to the slaughterhouse and have to justify themselves to the families. Using “contractors” meant they washed their hands of any negative acts including death and controversies.
As for the pay you can have your employee do a job at his daily salary OR you can hire someone else to do it chances are it will cost you a lot more. Same here. Government Contractors at every level are paid a LOT more than anybody under the payroll who could do the same job.
Ultimately in dealing with a fringe that had no respect for human lives be it men women or children and expressed and acted with barbarity you need men able to match hell with hell. Your 18 year old enlisted marine isn’t gonna cut it.
When the Cold War ended Congress could not cut the DoD fast enough, one of the ideas to save money but get capability as needed was "outsourcing" many functions to Civilian Companies; the idea was the DoD would contract as needed for specific services instead of maintaining infrastructure, equipment and personnel that could go years between missions. Blackwater was a result of outsourcing.
I did a few AFSOC contracts with Triple Canopy when I got out and it was pretty good, always had the coolest and grittiest assignments and the best holiday bonus pay. Good docu though, didnt know much about Blackwater except for what *everyone* knew about them
When u say the two options for getting men to go to war, you forgot that we went to war without conscription in this war. Yes we used contractors but also a lot of volunteers. And there will never be enough contractors to replace the draft in times of enormous war
I love how everyone hates on blackwater instead of the politicians and government bureaucrats that pay them.
I love in the beginning narrative at around 3:15 he says "war profiteering" and it has Dick Cheney on the screen, because a LOT of actions taken made him an extreme amount of money!
Don't forget the civilian side of things Haliburton got with no bids.
15:10 if a citizen knows that they can personally go to war, maybe, they will elect the politicians that don't start wars
Thank you for calling out UA-cam when they threaten to demonize your videos for use of free speech. I think al content creators need to make the public aware of UA-cam’s attempts to control what people are allowed to see.
Took so long to find it first bud I seen of yours good shit my guy