Kenya Volunteered to Fight Haiti's Gangs. It Might be Losing the Battle...
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It is downright absurd that Simon keeps me more informed than traditional news networks with a fraction of the budget.
I mean you need like 2 or 3 researchers, 0 fact checkers and a talking head :D
@@Atomy111 a whole team of propagandists
You made the mistake of thinking the traditional news has the purpose of informing you. Silly mistake but most of us make it. Realizing the mistake however is another matter.
I’d love to see him do a side channel where he covers American politics. I feel like he would be insanely good for informing Americans in an unbiased way due to his foreign citizenship.
There isn’t really a place to learn about current American politics without the highly polarized coverage in America, hence our absolutely stupid situation
Well, Simon is also heavily relying on the traditional media doing all the reporting, investigating, and interviews. He or his team is doing neither of this and basically only using secondary sources from the media.
For some time 'gang violence' does not seem adequate for the situation, the groups seem more into warlord territory.
Yeah they don't seem to be a government to really contest them at this point they literally just Warlords would probably gives them Authority
its also been decades, not just "some time".
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Some of these "gangs" do be the government.
exactly, these "gangs" are better armed and trained then many militaries in the region.
As soon as I realized their first "victory" was seizing a non-combat zone and calling it a win I knew those arrogant fools are in way over their heads.
Arrogant fools..maybe according to you! Any successful military mission is considered a win regardless of how minute it maybe. We don't know their strategy so we can't just assume they are fools. When we got to Iraq we took a major unoccupied highways and installations and called it a win. Were we fools then?
They didn’t get any victory, it was a pr stunt. The gang still ruled it
Kenya government lying!? How shocking!
Haitians did warn them. They said stay home or you'll be considered an invader.
another war lost too underfed, illiterate insurgancies lol
Haiti is a tough situation no matter what force is trying to restore and keep order. Epic failure of a country for decades.
I think there are certain powers who want Haiti to stay a failed state.
Yes. The reparations they had to pay for daring to break their own chains had a lot to do with it.
@@ElBandito You are right, it is just like Sudan, Ethiopia, and even Ukraine. There is always a benefiting party from war. To name a few, in Sudan, it's Russia's interest in building a port and the UAE's investment in gold. For Ethiopia, it's also Arab nations and the Somaliland govt that wants to sell land for the Ethiopian govt to build a port. Ukraine also gets access to U.S. grade weapons and the backing of Nato, but a lot of Russia's investments in Africa are funding their fight in Ukraine. Haiti is interesting, and in my own opinion, I believe that France should be intervening, I mean if they value diversity and human rights, then clean up your mess from your fathers, and their fathers' mistakes. If the U.S. can apologize to Iraqmmmm m for a war they started killing millions of innocent lives, then France can do something about Haiti if you ask me.
@@ElBandito Literaly like saying "who benefited from 9/11?" corporations, army recruitment, etc.
@@scottlangley5596lmaooo
It's honestly insane that the Kenyan forces liberated an area, hung around for a bit and then buggered off and the gang just instantly returned. What did they think was going to happen?! I could've told you that and I'm not a professional soldier!
If they stayed there, what was going to happen to the port which is the most important thing to get aid, food and other important stuff.
400 is just not enough.
That's william ruto for you
It's not insane we thought so too
Kind of sounds like Afghanistan doesn't it?
The Haiti government hasn't set up proper logistics plus they're just 400 men not nearly enough to keep everything in check
Imagine sending a POLICE force into Hati, a war zone that makes 1993 Somalia look like opening at Disney world, and giving them a wildly restrictive ROE and no air or fires support or long term logistics.
It’s not a traditional police force like you think. They also fight terrorist
Yup, this is going to be a Mogadishu 2.0
Be nice if we learned our lesson sometimes...
@@disposabull What are you talking about lmao?
They're African police though, they're likely more battle hardened then most European soldiers. Also not sure how this is so much worse then Somalia, Somalia is a war that's been raging for over 40 years at this point and those fighters were and still are closer to the Taliban then any gang, just recently a mayor got killed by a suicide bomber which is the sort of thing you dont really see in Haiti where people are mainly just looking for some food and money rather then a fanatical ideology.
Haiti isnt worse than Somalia
This is why I love this page. Zero reporting on this in my usual media sites. Curious how that conflict is going.
😆😆😆 If your "usual media sites" aren't giving you information it's possible to go look for it yourself. This page relies *entirely* on reports from the media for the information in its videos. You don't have to be a passive consumer of news.
You can’t win a war without the backing of civilians. Haitians didn’t elect their government so that battle was already lost.
Haitians want a say in their government… not dictated USA leaders.
@@sheryldt they have it it’s their country but instead they can’t keep it together would you rather we don’t get involved cause that would be peachy I’m sure there are less wasteful things to spend our tax money on than a country who loves it’s own dysfunction
I’m not going to lie, I’m glad you shed light on different events happening around the world and especially in Haiti ❤ news outlets need to do the same more
News outlets are _always_ shedding light on "different events happening around the world". This channel relies entirely on reports _from the media_ for the information in these videos. You could find it too if you decided to be active in looking for information instead of just being a passive consumer. Your disinterest in educating yourself is not the fault of any news outlet.
Haiti is the best example for people who believe "Anarchy is the solution, government is a scam"
basically, Haiti is "The Anarchy"
'Who should we send to secure this collapsing country?'
'Well, we have some police units from Africa...almost famously bad at securing their own collapsing countries...'
'Sounds good, send them in.'
Well no western country will go in because it'll eventually be used against them in race politics.
Kenya is quite good from what I hear. Relative to Africa, and their forces are quite good at this sort of thing DUE to Africa being a hotspot.
I betcha these guys rolled in hearing "gangs" even though it is more like "warlords with lifelong fightere". Ones who probably know every inch of the island.
Then were arrogant, and got stomped.
If you watch some of the previous videos you'd see that, for historical reasons, no Western nation wants to be boots on the ground otherwise everyone will cry colonialism
Not all countries in Africa are collapsing and Kenya for all its problems is a relatively strong and stable state with functioning institutions. There have been issues with the police force as well as the government, but the country has a track record of intervening in other states in the East Africa region and the Balkans. While I don't think that Kenya should be involved in Haiti, those reasons are more to do with how the government is attempting to position itself as a client state for U.S. interests. As such you would do well to familiarise yourself with the politics of different African countries before making blanket statements rooted in old stereotypes.
Those Kenyan forces are pretty good tho
For the record, the Kenyan army failed miserably in its mission mandate in the Congo. Tasked with disarming rebel groups through negotiation or force, the army allowed the rebels to expand their territory without engaging in combat.
they only expanded when we were forced out, they were playing cat and mouse, plus congos president is kind of playing tricks on congolese minds
@@chrispine9788yes...also...D.R.C is not our problem...they have had constant conflicts for 30 years already...a country with less than 60M people should not be expected to restore peace in a country with more than 100M people...they have enough people to recruit into their army...instead...they run into other countries and expect the rest of us to leave our countries and go fight on their behalf...out of pocket
@@faithkerubo8357 Haiti is basically just an endless emergency. People say the US owes them for the occupation but the US has paid back that debt multiple times over by now. Just look at all the disasters they've had: most of the time half or more of the aid is coming from the US, something like 20% of their economy are remittances (mainly from the US), and a large part of their government budget was international aid mainly from the US.
@@arthas640 Personally...I think countries that are always in a conflict should have their citizens being at the front line of solving their own problems...in addition,other countries should be allowed to refuse to take in refugees from such countries because refugees are not meant to be permanent residents...they are meant to go back home and you can't take people back home if there's always a problem in their country
MR23 begun making gains as soon as Kenya defense forces were forced out.
Here is a huge kicker; those Kenyan police have not gotten paid by the U.N.!!!! My husband was over there working as a contractor and he learned that they haven’t gotten paid AT ALL!!!! Risking their lives and working for free. Absolutely shameful!!!
"How bad are things in Haiti right now?"
"Three Ohios"
"Mother of God..."
“Three Ohios…
In only 7 months”
“Dear god it’s worse than we thought”
@seanmarshall5463 it's not *that* bad, it's worse, 3.3 Ohios
Yeah in fact it's 6.6 ohios since it was a whole year there and just 6 full months in Haiti...@@jakdmavika9233
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Enhanced-Ohio Scale
If I were a Kenyan police officer being sent to Haiti, I can guarantee you that I would not be doing anything to risk my life for a nation that is not my own. They have an incredibly difficult problem to deal with, and I do not think police officers are suited for this task - this appears to be more of a military problem.
If Haiti keeps on depending on others to solve its problems, it will always fail. The UN have sent forces in time and time again, and although they have often restored some semblance of order, they have not fixed the underlying issues with Haitian political culture, corruption and a general "dog-eat-dog" approach to all things. There is no civic pride, there is no trust, there is no hope, and so things will remain unstable.
What can one do? At this point.... look just let the least insane gang take over and hope that it one day evolves into a government. Or, send in a genuine UN task force to take order, impose that order for at least 10 to 20 years, and then gradually build up a civic society. There is no quick fix for this. If you're going to intervene, then intervene on a big scale and for a long time, or don't bother at all. This half-hearted, piecemeal interventions just prolongs the suffering of Haiti.
This will not be solved until the Haitians solve it themselves. And I don't know when that will happen. This is like China during the war-lord era, except a lot worse.
As someone living in Russia I can't stand when people tell you that you must stand up and solve your country's problems. It's genuinely impossible to do so. For instance, in Russia you'll get arrested as soon as as you will unfold even a blank piece of paper. In Haiti it's even worse. As soon as as you will try to do something in this failed state you will put your life at a great risk. In their situation you may be killed by gangs, drug drillers, HNP, peacekeepers, etc. So I tend to reckon that it's absolutely unfair to tell that people of Haiti are the power that should make this country stable. In this situation their goal is just to stay alive!
That's a very backward way of thinking especially coming from a non Haitian!
The problem with fucked up countries is, that to many people think they can't do anything about, and font act because of it, and that they don't want to pay the price to better the country. And if foreign countries intervene, especially if it's western countries, then they get blamed for everything going wrong, or that what they did wasn't executed perfectly enough. I mean NATO still get shit on for preventing the genocide in Kosovo. With reactions like that, nobody will step up to solve problems like Haiti's. Same problem with Gaza, nobody wants it and take responsibility for that powder keg.
@@artekchanel9358 Problem is, as this video shows, no one can or will do this for them.
@@artekchanel9358- You need 500k Russian citizens to march to the Kremlin at the same time. But, yeah, hard to coordinate -- no one is willing to take the first step.
Still, people are out in the streets in Venezuela. And recently Bangladesh, etc ... but _most_ Russians are perfectly fine with Putin (hopefully fewer by the day), owing to the years and years of state propaganda.
$400,000,000 US for 600 police... that is about $600,000,000 AUD or $1 million per officer... how is that 'underfunding'?
400 million is the expected annual cost for operation, not for the 600 police. Funding 2500 foreign police, logistics, aid, 15,000 hatian police, 2000 hatian soldiers etc.
The video didn't make this clear
Edit: 600 million is the expected cost, 400 million is pledged so far
You also have to include equipment, vehicles, transport, and everything else
that's not far off from what even local policing costs. I worked in government contracting for awhile and overhead is _insane_ like just on the contractors side it's 30-50% and you've got people in the government handling things too and thats for simple shit like building a bridge, not an international military operation. Even in a regular military you've often got 2 or 3 or more people doing support stuff for every fighting soldier so that 600 police could easily have a couple thousand support and admin staff.
You invest 600 million, but you make 52 billion in profits (illegal resource extraction)
@@ArjayMartin these things called vehicles, equipment, weaponry, transportation, so on, and so forth have to be included there. Not to mention feeding all of those people. Transporting hundreds of people ain't free (surprising, I know)
If you can't tell, there was a lot of sarcasm in this comment.
Someone is sure to 'find' a reason why this is all America's fault.
Hatai is on the American continent
@@leighpowell1062 Tectonic plate, maybe.
@@leighpowell1062 haiti is an island bro its in the caribbean it is not part of the americas technically
America is responsible for a lot of messed things.
This ain't one of them
Have you looked into the history of the island? You can start there ya know. Just saying
Amazing how far these gangs get when they havent even got a clue on how to hold a gun/rifle.
under the right leadership illiterate, malnurished and cowardly chivilians can become an army
under the wrong leadership, smart, well supplied and brave soldiers can become a graveyard
they were virtually unopposed is why. Haiti's "military" didnt really exist, their police were barely funded and horribly outnumbered, and the government is near Somali levels of defunct. It's not hard to become a champion when your opponent is a frail old lady with a broken hip. Also doesnt help that that lack of funding lead to tons of military and police simply selling their weapons and/or joining the gangs since if you're a half starved peasant policeman with 32 kids and you're choices are A: get shot at for $3/day or B: make $50/day by shaking down people for bribes and ignoring the gangs its not a hard decision for most.
@@arthas640 Well the lesson is quite clear. Haiti is what you get when there is no police. Abolishing the police clearly does not work, it just turns a country into a Mad Max scenario with whoever has the biggest guns ends up ruling the neighborhood however they see fit. And ordinary people are completely at the mercy of whoever has the guns that takes charge in the power vacuum left by a lack of a police force.
This demonstrates how out of touch the UN actually are, with a population of around 11.2 million, a land area of just over 27,000km² and a coastline of 1,700km - even the full contingent of 2,500 troops is not going to be able to achieve much, especially without a marine and air component to their operations. London has around 33, 000 serviing Police Officers for a population of around 8.8 million and a land area of around 1500km², to put things in perspective. I think we can all agree that Haiti has a bigger problem than London.
It needs a force of around 20,000 heavily armed troops to bring things under control, only then reducing this force whilst they train local Police Officers and the Haitian military is not only trained to a higher standard, but expanded to around 25,000 to be able to effectively support the Police and retain order within the Country.
The UN has shown the same level of left wing woke arsed ineptitude that the League of Nations showed in the 1930's, numerous smaller conflicts that went under controlled, which then led to the spat in Europe and the Pacific...their inaction in Ukraine, Gaza and Africa is leading us down that path.
If only you hadn't said woke, you could have so many more upvotes...😅
Let's look at why "left wing woke" doesn't get you anywhere here: Right wingers did Iraq and Afghanistan, both of which severely sucked and made the world SO much worse. How many radicalized and violent teens all over the western world were fed THESE VERY IMAGES that Bush et al produced and are now "woke" as in blocking universities to somehow help Gaza and or Hamas, they're not quite sure yet...
Modern liberal democracy is the biggest success story of the modern world, conservative trickle down economics are its biggest failure.
A lot of people use woke to denounce the former while pedaling the latter which is demonstrably idiotic
"Kenya lend me a hand?"
~Haiti
An African nation trying to enforce law in Haiti...nothing could possibly go wrong.
The mission is led by the UN 🫠🤌
Who else would help?
Kenya is in Europe mate.. check your Atlas 😊
It didn't work when we did it either lol
@@Bushboydonkey What... God, Poe's Law is killing me... I can't tell if this is a joke or not.
Still don’t understand how anyone ever believed the KENYANS could do what the US could not. Did they think just because they’re black the Haitian gangs will comply? 😂😂
When Haitians spend a century complainign about all the white people taking advantage of them it's not hard to start thinking thats the case, even though Haiti and Kenya have as much in common as Haiti and America, maybe even less since the Haitian Slaves were almost all _West_ Africans.
Read History Books.. Kenya has already ever done what The USA and UN could.not.
Check out Somalia and Alquiada alshabab. After US failed it's the Kenyans who were called to.lead the mission and they actually succeeded Now somalia is a different Nation 😅
Kenya dealt with similar issues when you were not yet born. Kenya is the only African nation to be capable of doing it, but they have troubles at home, is why I do not expect them to have an easy time in Hati
@@robertsolomielke5134 dealt with similar issues like fighting a well armed hoard that out numbers them 100 to 1 halfway around the globe? Hell even Navy SEALs or SAS wouldn't be able to handle those odds, much less some admittedly experienced cops. This is like sending in a precinct worth of LAPD to defeat the Taliban.
@@ammcoariauniversal3511
Kenya army relied on US Intel. But even then 300-500 kdf were wiped out by the Alshabab in one attack. Wouldn't say they won because Alshabab is still conducting attacks inside kenyan territory.
How is 400 million dollars for 600 officers woefully underfunded? Thats almost a million per dude... how does this cost so much? They already had uniforms and guns before, they probably earn no more than 50k, even with hazard pay and such. Sure they need transport, food and housing. But not half a millions worth...
Maybe they are sleeping at home and travelling to work every day
No wya they earn 50k lmao. Even the average lower level enlisted American soldiers weren’t making that when delayed to Iraq and afghans
@@TheAsheybabe89 yeah of course. I am making the most generous possible assumption that they definetly get less than one tenth of the budget per man there, just to be on the safe side.
But i noticed later that the max man power of the mission will not be 600 but 2.5k troops. And then it isnt thaaat far fetched anymore...
But will still be easily enough for a couple of rolexes for the commanders and politicians behind, maybe a swimming pool or two as well.
Am from Kenya and I can actually say how much they got as pay to go to Haiti...they were promised 100 thousand ksh (about 1300 usd) per soldier but got 1/5th of that....the politians took the money😢😂
@@juniormunene4875 ah man that is fucked up...
As a Haitian thank you for the update. ❤ a lot of negative subscribers and commentators. But Haiti will rise again. I pray the Kenyans are safe ❤
I can read alot of racist undertones from the comments. Bad times don't last forever. Every little step made in Haiti is worth celebrating.
@@likatalikata3823 same they’re disgusting.
A lot of people here do not want or wish for a stable Haiti but Haiti will eventually rise.
Nope! You have 12.000 gang members pitted against the same number of security forces. Horrible odds, it's a balanced fight through and through. If you're fighting an equal fight, you're fighting wrong. Equipment quality and training don't matter as much as one would think against an insurgency because the insurgents tend to disregard their losses way more than the security forces do. During the bloody PKK 'Hendek Incident' terror operation in Turkiye in 2015-2016, around 30.000 military and police personnel equipped with some of the best gear available were mobilized against 600 to 2000 terrorists dug down in urban areas. Even with such power inbalance, more than 700 security personnel were killed in action against 2000 claimed terrorist losses. It was a 15 to 1 battle with the losses being 3 to 1 because the terrorists had the "home advantage". Insurgency is no joke. You don't clear out that rabble with 200-400 "highly trained and equipped officers" no matter how well they may mean. It's a waste of life, money and time.
The only insurgents I see are the kenyans. ⚪️🗑
We will embarrass ourselves in this mission 😂
Haiti isn’t as bad as Somalia plus it’s only 1000
You've always embarrassed yourselves when it comes to sending so called missions to Haiti. If you haven't seen that all the while, it's probably because you don't know how to be ashamed.
@@Izzy_B241 we sent 3000 soldiers for operation Linda nchi.
But seriously we shouldn't be having our boys fighting in another country especially when the gangs in Haiti pose no security threat to our country
@@user-kb4gv9pn6k why would we be embarrassed of it??
We have been against this deployment for longer than you have known about it
@@Oh-God-Of-All-Creation this isn’t about Haiti ruto Tryna scratch the back of Americans
0:15 Ruto is president not prime minister
Is he though? He seems to be answering to foreign powers just like a colonial prime minister would.
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he shouldn't even be president to begin with
Today we're making him resign for good ruto must go we don't want him
@@KK-zp3yk you can only make your mother to resign
Thanks!
Let me tell you what the real problem is with Haiti. The problem is that, like many other countries, it is very very hard for the diaspora to be part of the solution. I'm canadian and am born to a haitian mom. I would LOVE to help Haiti in any way possible, even if it's just to take a vacation there and help the local economy. However, it's not even close to be a possibility and haven't been for a long time. My mom left the Duvalier dictatorship and i have zero close relatives left in Haiti. All of them are in Canada or USA and most of them are educated people. When your country loses educated people and that the remaining people are so corrupted and only money driven without a single care for the well being of the population, that's the results you're gonna get. At this point, my catholic being just hopes for a miracle in Haiti. Can't imagine the struggle of a daily life in the shoes of someone living in Port au Prince. Of course, the history of Haiti is a sad one as it was pretty much the first country to live through economic sanctions after the revolution but I'm not the kind of guy that looks for excuses. We haitian people need to unite and work together, whether you live in Haiti or not.
It’s not as easy as think, there are very powerful forces at work in Haiti. ( core group, wealth elites, foreign powers) these people run the country like a mafia. Even the mulatto Haitians, can’t speak up on corruption in Haiti, people in the states have been killed for speaking up.
@@user-pe8tj9uw3o I'm not surprised, but god willing, this will change one day. Life is a perpetual change of the guards so I'm hoping that one of these days, Haiti will shine under a new guard. Until then, yeah, it's definitely not easy and even seems hopeless at times but we shall not give up.
Haha Kenya has anti-government protests back home and the idiots in-charge decided to send their cops there. Utter stupidity.
As a Kenyan, I'll tell you that it's all about the money. The leaders even shortchanged the police they've sent to Haiti. But we aren't even rooting for them in the first place. The entire police force is corrupt and highly incompetent. We'll see what happens when all is said and done.
@@charlies_memoir5136wataitisha kitu kidogo uko
Puppets for Us
Kenya will handle it
@@charlies_memoir5136stupid thinking
Only the USMC has shown it could stabilize Haiti militarily. The problem has always been the locals and their politics. I don’t expect anything to change.
Haiti is a lost cause. It’s best to leave the nation alone and never mention it. Pretend it doesn’t exist.
We are not a lost cause. The US needs to stop infiltrating our government to place any puppets they want. Also, Port-au-Prince is just the capital.
Ruto is doing it for the money. He's a corrupt warlord. This world is better without him and his lineage. We as Kenyans are breaking apart due to hard economic policies. He must go
We uri kirimu muno !! we, Uramera Ruto ni warlord kana mwina thina maguteithe naki?
@@MrVasco07 you only speak when you need help? Go engage your mother. ngùi
Kenya going to fight in Haiti, I hope they have ugali 😂 because Kenyans are known for ugali and gossip
@@MrVasco07 Kenya going to fight in Haiti, I hope they have ugali 😂 because Kenyans are known for ugali and gossip
THANK YOU!! EXACTLY. Paid middle man for the US. Disgusting traitor.
This reminds me of the US Marines having to go to Haiti back in the early 1900s. Unfortunately this time around, the gangs are far superior to the Cacos that ruled the countryside.
The problem is the resources the Kenyan Police have. Haiti needs at least 15,000-20,000 armed police, air and boat supported as you stated .Time is also a factor.
For some reason I thought the 2,500 figure was the number that just arrived in Haiti. That 2,500 is the grand total....this is just a waste of money and before the end, of lives.
And let's be honest if Kenya gets those things, they will stay in Kenya.
Haiti itself has 14,000 police and 2000 military. Nearly half of the expected budget for the mission is training and equipping them. But yes, they are a sorry state and more international forces are needed. Getting the local forces trained/equipped will be essential for long term stability, but they honestly can't really do much (and training locals is often a mixed bag in terms of results, especially if the local forces already have significant core issues)
But yes, they definitely need more international boots on the ground - but the expected number of total police, including the Hatians, is in that ballpark. Edit: the hatian personnel number was pulled from the planned budget for the mission - I am not 100% sure if it's the number they currently have, or the number they hope to have with the funding
Let's not forget that the police are under a gun embargo imposed by the US, while the gangs are allowed to arm themselves to the teeth.
I’m down for these midnight uploads as I get off work Simon
Cool, let's turn the gangs into battle-hardened insurgents by slow-walking an incompetent military/police intervention, which gives the leaders time to adjust and adapt. It's not like we've seen this before...
lol right, no one cares about the Haitian government being very corrupt and extremely extremely underfunded by years of tribute payments to France and others or the Haitian people eating dirt and living in sheet metal shanty towns with no electricity or running water. When the Haitian people decide enough is enough and remove the tyrannical government by revolution, the UN calls it gang violence and call for an international intervention. To be fair there are lots of gang members involved with the revolution, but in my opinion we see the gangs 100% of the tjme cuz that’s the narrative the medias wants to show, if u go and watch the on the ground videos of the actual people in Haiti talking and not just media headlines and articles written by people who have never even been to Haiti, you’ll see it’s not just gang members who are angry with the government.
There is no solution to Haiti, external o internal. Haitians themselves love the caos the way it is. It’s a way of life, outsiders don’t understand.
Is Kenya closer Haiti than The US 🇺🇸 ? Why did they choose Kenya 🇰🇪 and not the US ? Kenyan soldiers will learn a lesson that they will never forget 🔥🔥🔥
Kenyan police*. Kenyan soldiers have already been to Somalia which was worse than Haiti
Great video. When newspaper under report events, I can always find information here. Keep up the good work!
“Unusual murderous year by American standards” is funny and painfully true. Sociopath is the default character load out here.
Gotta Love Simon I'm here for every video
Thank you Simon that is troubling to hear.Hoping the best.
Gotta be honest...when I found out Kenya was going to Haiti, it didn't exactly inspire high hopes for a resolution. Granted, Kenya was the only one that stepped up to the plate, and they deserved all due credit for that, but I can't say I'm surprised with the disappointing start.
Fingers crossed that they're just getting acclimated to the environment, and things improve in Haiti. To draw a historical comparison, the US got our asses kicked when we first entered WW2. We had to acclimate to the brutal fighting, and we were able to eventually turn things around. Not a direct comparison, but similar in essence.
pgbrown
🇰🇪 Kenyan leaders received 4Hundred Milllion dollars to send troops to Haiti.
Just who was the proud ones to step up ?
Fat Swiss bank accounts are where the money went . ☆
Thanks for keeping an eye on Haiti. Thanks to your and TLDR videos about this country I am now really willing to include Haiti in to my bachelor's graduate work about peacekeeping) Thanks for your work and please continue to talk about Haiti as it appears to be a very interesting and vital problem for the region.
Haiti need to examine what president Bukele did in El Salvador to eradicate its gangs. He didnt need US intervention or international support.
He said he would help just ask
Point of correction
William Ruto is Kenya's president not Prime Minister
12:20 AM and I'm watching simon.....I have a problem
Hahaha I ALWAYS play a video from Simon just before sleeping 🤣 I can understand you
That makes a whole bunch of us 😂
me it's 2:14 am
@@HiramGonzalez-fz8fk has to be 40 minutes or more for me. 15 minute videos are dangerous because all of a sudden I'm half dreaming random algorithm rabbit holes.
Haiti is Haiti. You won't change Haiti.
This is what happens when you send police where you should send the army
Yeah there’s no way Kenya is gonna succeed in this. I’m gonna have to vote for Trump because there’s no way Kamala will handle the oncoming massive Haitian migrant crisis.
There was money involved.our president sells anything that isn't bolted to the floor including people🤦♂️
yep trump does so get his nosie candy
This situation is terrible for both countries of the island. We are having a big, big problem approaching as these gangs are approaching the border of DR too and the public dominican health system is almost collapsing from illegal haitian migrants.
Great video. One correction: William Ruto is the president not prime minister.
It’s literally like sending children into Compton and excepting they can do anything
Thanks Simon and team
Thank you, Simon and Staff ("not locked in his basement"). Your coverage has been amazing.
400 millions dollars to fund 600 officers? Something doesn’t make sense here
It's just corruption. It's like USA sending the money to Ukraine.
Yeah you are getting it now something ain't right
It’s a good thing the population is armed and families are able to protect themselves….
"Ohio JUST suffered 929 homicides ..." Me listening as a european. DAFUQ????
Who knew having about half the world's supply of civilian owned firearms could make the whole murder thing a lot easier than if you have to use your fists or a knife.
Ohio has about the same population as Belgium, which recorded 1,400 homicides in 2022
no it makes sense
@@LackofFaithifyit also makes government oppression a lot easier.
Ohio has more murders per capita than Kenya!! Think about that!
As someone from Western Europe I am just glad that we are not involved or at least didn't take the lead on this mission. Others are always bragging that they can do it better. It's now time to prove yourselves.
You forgot about France being part of western Europe
@@blackhole9961 Are they involved? I didn't know that. At least they didn't take the lead.
@@n.q163 Haiti was a French colony and is a major reason as to why it's as troubled as it is today.
@blackhole9961 Oh yes. I knew that. I just meant that one of the western European countries aren't leading this mission.
@@n.q163 Oh then yes you are correct about western Europe not being involved in the mission.
How absurd! The port and hospital? NO WONDER. Now the food and medical care will resume to help the GANGS..
What
Haitian Canadian man watching the events on this channel
Nobody is saying Kenyan colonizers🤣 no racism no nothing
You sure about that russki?
Does Haiti have oil now? Wagner would already be there
@@HandyMan657 im Transylvanian 👻
It was approved by the right people you see. It’s how Kosovo voting for independence is legitimate and “the right to self determination “ but not when people on Donbas and Crimea do the same because the Western leftist media doesn’t believe in democracy unless the vote goes the way they want it to
@@Betweoxwitegan nope your just level of inteligence is just american
Not sure how Kenya of all countries could ever project power that far away from it's borders.
Any chance you would cover the whole insanity that happened in Bangladesh in the past few weeks?
Someone needs to talk about it! It has practically sailed under the news.
@@noahgray543 No it hasn't.
It's been all over the news. Can't even watch a video about dogs without a heard of people commenting on the situation there.
What do you call a group of people who you have to pay to protect you and operate your business but if you don’t pay them they will punish you?
Government.
0:15 did you just call the president a Prime minister 😂😂
I noticed that too.
I noticed that immediately
UN... say no more. Even if the forces were adequate, the UN has a habit of undermining their effectiveness with bureaucracy, which often increases the danger to those forces. More forces and resources could be sent, but like with most of the UN's peace keeping failures, the problem is politics.
Arent those gangs just rebels at this point?
1.kenya has no prime minister.
2.ruto is the president,not the prime minister
3.the bill was not an "enforced bill,but rather a "proposed bill"
I wouldn't say Kenya "volunteered" willingly. I'd say the IMF and Kenya's devastating $80 billion national debt had a lot to do with it. And the USA's unwillingness to put boots-on-the-ground, in light of the dangers Kenya is now facing.
not alot but the main
Nothing at all. They don’t have to pay that debt.
No matter what the US does it will be seen as the bad guy. Might as well do nothing and not waste the money nor the resources.
Most Kenyans were against this mission. Ruto went against the wishes of majority of his citizens just to line up his pockets and please his western masters
@@kennethloki7011 i hate it but i agree. Haiti still hates the US even for things like relief missions after their earthquakes and hurricanes, and blame the US for even domestic issues like their gangs and warlords. When the US cuts trade to Cuba it's a "blockade" and "an unfair embargo", f they conduct trade they're "enabling dictatorships", and if they just cut weapons they still get accused of unfair embargoes like in Venezuela. Best to just stop getting involved: we get the same amount of complaints and we can use some of the saved money to deal with the hundreds of thousands of Haitians already in the US.
Power to the people
Simon doing a video about my country ? ....oh no.
Ruto is the president and not prime minister just a tiny fyi..
As a kenyan The Misinformation in this video is shocking.
At this point, its probadly easier to let it burn down and start over, once the ashes have cooled down 🤷🏻♀️
Or to give the whole thing to the Dominican Republic, after its all over
From Kenya,
Ruto is a president not a prime minister
"Outgoing President" William Ruto
I think you misspelled Puppet
Outgoing President @@bespokepenguin103
@@bespokepenguin103 Outgoing puppet president
He deserves all of them
Kenya going to fight in Haiti, I hope they have ugali 😂 because Kenyans are known for ugali and gossip
@@brianodida Kenya going to fight in Haiti, I hope they have ugali 😂 because Kenyans are known for ugali and gossip
The best accurate reporting than the traditional media.😊
Haiti shatters my heart, the people can't catch a break 💔
It's the Haitians who have been destroying their own country for decades.
It's your prayers to see Africa and Haiti fall,but take this for free, Haiti will rise again, there's light at the end of the tunnel, joy will come tomorrow ❤❤
Quick Simon do a video over Bangladesh!
Correction, we were bribed over 100M Dollars to fight in Haiti
And tomorrow we are out in the streets until this puppet of a president steps down ✊🇰🇪🇰🇪✊. We won't relent as Kenyans
It’s gonna be like Haiti here in Kenya tomorrow!!
Boss Ruto isn't the priminister he's the president of kenya
Absolutely no way 2,500 is enough to hold anything. At best, this will end up as a MRAP donation to the gangs. At worse, donations plus dead peacekeepers.
It's president Ruto not prime minister 😂 Great job by the way, I love your content
Wtf... over the period of a year "just" 929 people were murdered... That's 2 people a day, every day, FOR A YEAR, with every weekend rising to SIX PER DAY. Wtf is wrong with you America 😮
Blacks.
@@badgerattoadhall no, whites
Hahaha Rockie numbers says south Africa
That country is MESS. Brooklyn, unfortunately, has more Haitians than Haiti does.
If one could wave a magic wand and make everything there perfect, in 5 years it would be just like today.
Hey now, have a little faith! It could be up to ten years!
History has shown that certain people can’t governed themselves without another certain people controlling them. This country will never be secured
Just 2.500? Doesn't that already say everything we need to know... That's not anywhere close to enough, not even just for the capital.
As a kenyan I am even wondering who is ruling my country,the President or the American Ambassador.
Usikuwe mjinga. Ama uliskip primary?
So, because you elected Ruto, owe money to the IMF and China....the US Ambassador is running your country? Former colonies always complain about the horrors of the past and yet they keep electing the worst amongst themselves to keep those systems alive so you can blame a system that officially ended in the 1960s rather than face the facts that every petty African dictator or warlord and the unending corruption and tribal violence are all done by Africans on Africans. You experienced all of the horrors of colonialism and came out with even less empathy for each other than you had during occupation. And of course the US is friendly with Ruto. He is the leader of the country and a willing partner for US interests the in the area. We would be friendly with anyone in charge of a foreign country that wanted to be a partner. Nothing special or unique about Ruto other than he's the one that's in office.
Doesn't really matter when every country or blackmarket organizations wants your resources and people to expand their influence gain allies or to have fresh bodies for thier own nefarious purposes
😂😂😂 They can't even handle the mess in their own country let alone one far away in the Caribbean. Kenya is a banana republic.
I'm truly sorry. But I can't help but giggle that Simon compared Haiti to Ohio. Truly it's beyond the wildest depths of hell if it's worse then Ohio.
Wait, aren't these the great people who invented everything (i.e. pyramids, electricity, space travel, etc...) but can't seem to govern themselves?
I dont get why their hasnt been a military invasion yet. these brats need a new government. forget what they were trying to be. its like the kids when you leave them home alone for to long
00:01 Kenya's significant involvement in the multinational security support mission to Haiti.
01:20 Kenyan officers arrive in Haiti amidst deteriorating security situation
02:40 Haiti's critical infrastructure under gang control, Kenya police effort ongoing
03:55 Key victories in the battle against gangs in Haiti
05:11 Kenyan forces intervened in Gania but had to withdraw, leading to gang resurgence.
06:25 Concerns over underresourced operation in Haiti
07:41 Kenya's deployment in Haiti faces challenges with transportation and equipment.
08:57 MSS deployment in Haiti facing setbacks
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When you watch a Whistlerverse video at 134 am, 15ish min after it posts. You have a problem. It's me. I have a problem.
We have all been there mate. You get used to it.
He’s not the Prime Minister he’s the President 😂😂
Sending one failed state to fix another failed state is ridiculous.