This month's news without the bulls%&t (February 2024)

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    Welcome to this month’s news for February 2024. This month we’ll be talking about the election in El Salvador, the latest developments in the conflict over Ukraine, and explain the US border Crisis.
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Komentáře • 838

  • @sirswag01
    @sirswag01  Před 3 měsíci +99

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    • @vcp2077
      @vcp2077 Před 3 měsíci +3

      Is it just me or has your sub count kinda remained the same for the last 2 yrs

    • @NeostormXLMAX
      @NeostormXLMAX Před 3 měsíci

      38:28 by the same logic, the usa is directly responsible for israel's genocide on gaza

    • @clousefe7013
      @clousefe7013 Před 3 měsíci

      Without lie huh, yet didn't say anything about strategy that used for Palestine typical western bias. Saying Iran supplying war and say neutral on us supplying war to murder civilians.
      Say partial truth,, truly sinister play warmonger.

    • @03stmlax
      @03stmlax Před 3 měsíci

      He was a CIA created fraud, hired to bring down Putin through political upheaval, and was a leader of a neo-n@zi group before the CIA recruited him. You're easily propagandized

    • @suckerforpain7373
      @suckerforpain7373 Před 3 měsíci

      You guys missed a reference: "Remember remember the fifth of November, the gunpowder treason and plot"

  • @psilo5623
    @psilo5623 Před 3 měsíci +1905

    El salvador's president is a rare example of a competent and non-corrupt dictator. I didn't think that was possible

    • @Relatablename
      @Relatablename Před 3 měsíci +356

      He reminds me of Napoleon. Morally challenged, but extremely effective.

    • @mariooiram7546
      @mariooiram7546 Před 3 měsíci +75

      We need that in México ASAP

    • @dust9307
      @dust9307 Před 3 měsíci +222

      Don't know much of his policies, but I think a non-corrupt dictator is at least an oxymoron, if not a contradiction in terms. Dictatorship is itself a form of corruption. Idk though, do you think dictatorship could potentially be a morally neutral position?

    • @lolcerditorock
      @lolcerditorock Před 3 měsíci

      No le des ideas al don​@@mariooiram7546

    • @richarddarma1452
      @richarddarma1452 Před 3 měsíci +36

      Singapore?

  • @sjeason
    @sjeason Před 3 měsíci +419

    The thing about El Salvador’s situation is that while the immense power the president now wields is scary and could easily lead to a dictatorship, and the way in which some of prisoners were treated is wrong and there’s no doubt innocent men in there…..the thing is, you can’t deny that average El Salvadorans lives has been significantly improved by this scheme, and I don’t honestly know of any other way they could have achieved that. It certainly raises some tough questions.

    • @theorixlux2605
      @theorixlux2605 Před 3 měsíci +42

      "With thunderous applause"
      I truly hope for the best, but being realistic.

    • @Boricosa
      @Boricosa Před 3 měsíci +17

      I don't live in El Salvador, so I honestly have no idea what the future for that country looks like. Sure, it has improved in the present, but will this ability to arrest anyone still be present 50 years from now? If not, how do they plan on transitioning away from it? How will it impact the citizens' trust in law enforcement and the government?

    • @sjeason
      @sjeason Před 3 měsíci +26

      @@Boricosa I agree but from what I learned, the country was practically run by the gangs, you always had to be afraid of them or pay your “protection” fees and whatnot. Considering he dragged them out of that it’s not hard to see why he’s popular, but it is still scary

    • @Meowblivion
      @Meowblivion Před 3 měsíci +2

      He’s literally doctor doom

    • @iainrickwood2623
      @iainrickwood2623 Před 3 měsíci

      @@Meowblivion might be spoilers for Invincible, but he's literally Robot (from a civilian's perspective, not the perspective of the heroes)

  • @rosecityattwilight
    @rosecityattwilight Před 3 měsíci +565

    "Struggling to meet their basic needs" is a real pretty euphemism for starving to death.

    • @nicholasleclerc1583
      @nicholasleclerc1583 Před 3 měsíci +45

      It's not an euphemism, it just implies a critical condition without risking being demonetized : What else could "struggling to meet your own basic needs" mean other than approaching death ?

    • @rosecityattwilight
      @rosecityattwilight Před 3 měsíci +71

      @@nicholasleclerc1583 People in my city who are houseless are "struggling to meet their basic needs", but they aren't starving to death. It doesn't imply the absolutely critical nature of the issue, nor the lifelong and multi-generational physiological effects it will have for half of the population who are children *if they survive*.

    • @Prismate
      @Prismate Před 3 měsíci +7

      Basic > physiological

    • @Chkoupinator
      @Chkoupinator Před 3 měsíci +16

      I'm honestly pretty disappointed too, the numbers at the end don't show the difference between civilians and active military, and they had to add in the mother of all understatements on top. They also didn't mention the people that got shot for trying to get food from aid vans and the injuries which were blamed on a "stampede" (even though medical staff said most of the injured had bullet wounds, so the stampede was most likely caused by people running away for their lives)

  • @LordKore
    @LordKore Před 3 měsíci +1212

    El Salvador summed up: We got Thanos/Tropico Player as a leader. He's literally making everything better but also has total control over everything. he's still the best leader we had in generations but he can cause a civil war if they try to force him out from all the good he's doing.
    Ends jusfiy the means BUT the dude hasn't turned out to be an evil asshole... YET. If he leaves office once his last term is up. BRUH. El Salvador Nayib Bukele would show the entire world; Yes you CAN have total control over a nation and NOT being an evil asshole just because no one can stop you.
    I really hope he is actually a good guy

    • @MDzmitry
      @MDzmitry Před 3 měsíci +87

      So, anti-Lukashenko?
      It's honestly very rare for me to feel envy but god damn, I do right now
      Also, happy that you folks finally see some improvement and actually support your leader

    • @yetipotato8567
      @yetipotato8567 Před 3 měsíci +12

      Sure hope it goes well

    • @yetipotato8567
      @yetipotato8567 Před 3 měsíci +42

      And hope he is able to give up power. Becoming a forever leader may lead to become less wholesome dictator

    • @jimtsap04
      @jimtsap04 Před 3 měsíci +42

      As they say power doesn't corrupt, it reveals. You can have a lot of power without being an asshole, it's unfortunate exceedingly rare but it's possible, wether it's true in this case remains to be seen but hopefully it does.

    • @deathshot7623
      @deathshot7623 Před 3 měsíci +21

      Let just hope his dictatorship is like the romans did back when there is a crisis in Rome and not being an asshole

  • @start5363
    @start5363 Před 3 měsíci +770

    back on this month of "THE RUSSIANS DID WHAT-"

    • @jessefernandez1797
      @jessefernandez1797 Před 3 měsíci

      careful with the anti-russian propaganda on this channel folks.

    • @shkamarustorm
      @shkamarustorm Před 3 měsíci +58

      This about to morph into "THE ISRAELIS DID WHAT-"

    • @Kurosaka
      @Kurosaka Před 3 měsíci +20

      @@shkamarustormbeen doin for decades

    • @simunator
      @simunator Před 3 měsíci +10

      ​@@shkamarustormlurk more noob. their playbook is the most heinous thing you've yet to digest

    • @SDSypher
      @SDSypher Před 2 měsíci

      @@shkamarustorm look up Metzitzah B’Peh 😋

  • @sirmaurice.-
    @sirmaurice.- Před 3 měsíci +192

    German here.
    Farming is already highly subsidized. Most farmers turn a huge profit. For example a farm with 40 acres and 3 people working can turn a profit, not revenue, of 160k a year, food is already paid by the company, as well as 'company' cars (talking top of the line Mercedes G Class or something similar). Less than 3% of their overall revenue is due to the subsidies that the government was planning on cutting. They already took some of these cuts back.
    On another note: the current protests are organized by giant farming companies that pull in a lot of smaller farmers.
    The problem however is, that these smaller farmers have nothing in common with the giant farming companies. They are being used by said companies as pressure makers.

    • @vahlen5281
      @vahlen5281 Před 3 měsíci +2

      Statista puts the average profit of full-time farming businesses in Germany around 82.000 € for the years 2021/2022, which isn't really that much considering all the work that goes into farming, both physical as well as administrative effort like dealing with the endless German bureaucracy. So your example is not representative, unless the average profit skyrocketed from 2022 to 2023.

  • @snailtime9294
    @snailtime9294 Před 3 měsíci +306

    Navalny watching Rick and Morty and tweeting lines from The Wire is peak.

    • @alilweeb7684
      @alilweeb7684 Před 3 měsíci +6

      And now he's dead, how cool is that

    • @scaredstar9127
      @scaredstar9127 Před 3 měsíci +52

      ​@@alilweeb7684 gotta work on your rage bait comment bit more friendo

    • @forestrees2000
      @forestrees2000 Před 3 měsíci +4

      @@alilweeb7684lmao why are you upset friend?

    • @Silver_Prussian
      @Silver_Prussian Před měsícem +1

      Absolute corny cringe to be popular with the clueless western public.

    • @Silver_Prussian
      @Silver_Prussian Před měsícem

      ​@@scaredstar9127no he is right I personally am very happy large portions of russia are as well. Both the far right and far left are also glad, only the libs are sobbing crocodile tears.

  • @spooks6464
    @spooks6464 Před 3 měsíci +243

    Wouldn't be a SirSwag video without a Titanfall reference.

  • @MoodyGooseCow
    @MoodyGooseCow Před 3 měsíci +220

    The thing is with El Salvador and their crime policy is that when the country is so far in decline and so held back by crime. Liberal democratic rights may need to be withheld to get the country into a safe state. But for countries that don’t have anywhere near as serious a crime problem and are much more developed like Europe, USA etc. such policies would be far more damaging. A country like Haiti could learn from such policies undertaken in El Salvador, the hope is that with long term stability these practices aren’t kept in place as by that point the benefit will not outweigh the cost

    • @longiusaescius2537
      @longiusaescius2537 Před 3 měsíci +2

      Haiti would work if they were Dominicans

    • @epiceg9464
      @epiceg9464 Před 3 měsíci +3

      Watching the situation in Haiti, this comment predicted the chaos perfectly. After a point, rights are secondary to freedom and if someone can offer safety, people will be willing to forfeit their rights

  • @meep5604
    @meep5604 Před 3 měsíci +254

    The intros always hit so hard. Please swag news team I need you to pay for my medical debt because of how hard this intro hit.

    • @prointernetuser
      @prointernetuser Před 3 měsíci +3

      Honestly. If it was up to me, I'd have Everybody Wants to Rule the World and that would be my peak. I'd be stumped for good song ideas afterwards, and yet Swag Team 6 always delivers with the intro every month. I'm a sucker for a good world event montage.

  • @jucom756
    @jucom756 Před 3 měsíci +44

    The thing about Bukile is: the best way to actually _get shit done_ is totalitarian control, so in the short term totalitarian control always performs better than democracy, however there has to be a reintroduction of democracy after a short while of totalitarian control so that it doesn't get corrupted because while it does get shit done it can also really easily fall off a cliff

    • @thecoolone777
      @thecoolone777 Před 3 měsíci +5

      Absolute powers corrupts absolutely, if Bukile is a truly benevolent dictator, his successor won’t be.

  • @verminsupreme6801
    @verminsupreme6801 Před 3 měsíci +49

    About Nayib Bukele, it’s great that what he has been doing has been for the betterment of El Salvador, but I’m still worried. Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. He may be a benevolent dictator, but who ever comes into office after him may not be so benevolent and could go down the route that every other dictator in history chose. For now, all we can do is sit and watch how the situation unfolds

  • @caiocarugati7432
    @caiocarugati7432 Před 3 měsíci +83

    bukele is not completely loved by salvadoreños, his aggressive tactics has led to arrest of a lot of innocent people. but i only visted and heard this from a lot of young people.

    • @unkindled6410
      @unkindled6410 Před 3 měsíci

      Isnt his approval rate at like, over 90% and he won his reelection by a staggering advantage? Not to mention, his country went from the most dangerous in south america to one of the safest in the world, extreme conditions require extreme measures, you have cartels and gangs wrecking havoc on your country rampantly and unpunished, you gotta up the level of security enforcement, you cant catch devils with angels.

    • @MaticTheProto
      @MaticTheProto Před 3 měsíci +13

      Yeah… but the results are pretty positive

  • @Fuckinyocouch
    @Fuckinyocouch Před 3 měsíci +325

    Does the intro song have any relation to the whole Glasgow incident? If not, as I presume that the song was chosen prior to the event, what a fortuitous coincidence 😂

    • @svensvensson1085
      @svensvensson1085 Před 3 měsíci +15

      Could you explain? What Glasgow incident?

    • @neonboxdragon3782
      @neonboxdragon3782 Před 3 měsíci

      @@svensvensson1085 someone made a really bad willy wonka chocolate factory set and made people pay 40 bucks each for entry it was like awful and was meme'd on twitter

    • @tencs
      @tencs Před 3 měsíci

      @@svensvensson1085The Willy Wonka scam that happened at Glasgow. You should look it up it’s quite funny lol

    • @AdrianGK47
      @AdrianGK47 Před 3 měsíci +43

      ​@@svensvensson1085might be the willy wonka disaster experience event that happened recently

    • @yaboy821
      @yaboy821 Před 3 měsíci +52

      @@svensvensson1085 someone made a willy wonka event and advertised it with ai. The event itself was comically bad like bare white rooms with a single poster for decoration bad

  • @enoch2283
    @enoch2283 Před 3 měsíci +79

    Absolutely my favorite "without the bullshit" episode I've seen. I actually watched the news and felt a little better. Unbiased while still being genuinely enjoyable to watch.
    Thank you sawg news team and supporters

  • @CrAzZzEeEmAn_
    @CrAzZzEeEmAn_ Před 3 měsíci +44

    Apparently, Navalny asked that, when he was inevitably to be buried, that he’d want an orchestra playing music from that scene in terminator 2 while he was lowered into the earth. I think he got his wish.
    Rest easy, hero.

    • @accountname2521
      @accountname2521 Před 3 měsíci +5

      only way for him to be a hero is if you are rooting for the color revolution to take place in russia...
      Wake up zog

    • @Silver_Prussian
      @Silver_Prussian Před měsícem +1

      He isnt a hero but a massive fraud turned into a fake messiah stop simping for the pathetic fool

  • @Steakboi69
    @Steakboi69 Před 3 měsíci +115

    Most important event of the month is this video dropping

  • @JoeVO24
    @JoeVO24 Před 3 měsíci +258

    As sad as it is to say, it was inevitable.

    • @nickkerr6068
      @nickkerr6068 Před 3 měsíci +1

      It makes me happy 😁😁

    • @senseishu937
      @senseishu937 Před 3 měsíci +2

      What was inevitable?

    • @TheRyman230
      @TheRyman230 Před 3 měsíci +32

      Alexei Navalny's death

    • @michaelvossen7253
      @michaelvossen7253 Před 3 měsíci +20

      It's not inevitable if it could have been stopped. His early death was a choice made by some idiot and approved by Putin. Now Alexei won't be forgotten and the revolution will burn brighter. Rest in peace.

    • @IVI00101
      @IVI00101 Před 3 měsíci

      @@michaelvossen7253 What is your take on Gonzalo Lira?

  • @youraveragechroma2139
    @youraveragechroma2139 Před 3 měsíci +34

    34:23 Drone warfare you say?
    We are really speeding up to the Black ops 2 setting huh?

  • @neonarmada4450
    @neonarmada4450 Před 3 měsíci +50

    bruh was watching rick and morty... RIP

  • @thelastpillar
    @thelastpillar Před 3 měsíci +6

    My coworker is visiting family in El Salvador right now. He said he never would have gone back home without Bukele's policies making it safe to do so. The compromise for that; however, is that he can never get a tattoo. He said that they are stopping men on the street and telling them to lift their shirts. One tat and you're immediately thrown in prison for being a suspected gang member, regardless if that tattoo is a MS13 logo, or a tiny pink elephant.

  • @funnynamenumber4998
    @funnynamenumber4998 Před 3 měsíci +15

    Thanks Swag & all the editors & writers who actually do the work

  • @dusanstojkovic3380
    @dusanstojkovic3380 Před 3 měsíci +42

    I feel like there's bias in the reporting on the situation in Ukraine, namely in February an important event was the fall of Avdiivka.
    This is a Ukrainian loss, which is hard to not take seriously since the city was on the border between Russian and Ukrainian held Donbas since 2014.
    The city was basically a fortress and there are no other fortifications on that level for many kilometers deeper into Ukrainian territory.
    I know this is a pro-western values news channel, but the reporting on the war in Ukraine is not objective enough.
    Anyway, keep up the good work, pozdrav iz Srbije!

    • @gabepoling3536
      @gabepoling3536 Před 3 měsíci +6

      i like the message they portray but they have had heavy bias and lots of bulls%&t in the last 5 or so idc about your opinions i just wanna know what happened

    • @Sarchein
      @Sarchein Před 3 měsíci +2

      i think it might be the very low expectations alot of people still have for ukraine, some people believe its a win if ukraine lasts another year, like the amount of man power, material, and talent being drained out of the russian war machine is already a massive win. considering their oncoming demographic collapse which we the usa can hold off on for a few more decades with rampant immigration, i guess its a more macro perspective if anything

    • @gabepoling3536
      @gabepoling3536 Před 3 měsíci

      @@Sarchein "macro perspective" this isn't a video game, this is peoples lives. I'm not a fan of sending any money overseas and I'm not a fan of massive immigration into my country. I'm tired of being the world police we have no business sticking our noises in other peoples shit. Flint Michigan hasent had drinking water in 6 decades and we can spare money for them? How about out failing ingustructure, or massive amounts of debt. None of this matters to you people your killing America and her culture.

  • @TheCart54321
    @TheCart54321 Před 3 měsíci +7

    That bad feeling song at the beginning for your intro has got to be the most perfect song you’ve ever used for an intro before

  • @Flyingclam
    @Flyingclam Před 3 měsíci +12

    El Salvador is such a extreme case, I dont blame Bukele for his tactics. However the country should be wary and vigilant aganist any attempts of dictatorships
    Edit: also its important to know the former party he was kicked out of was a Socalist and Marxist-Lennist party. So ideologically he has ping ponged alot

    • @andreirachko
      @andreirachko Před 3 měsíci +1

      Wait, if he was kicked out of that party, that means he wasn’t aligned with their views to begin with, so not much of a ping-pong after all

    • @aetheriox463
      @aetheriox463 Před 3 měsíci

      i mean, extreme left wing and right wing ideologies do tend to make dictatorships

  • @neon-rc6lc
    @neon-rc6lc Před 3 měsíci +20

    Another month another episode another great opportunity for learning. Thanks guys.

  • @drakkon2zshadowsz909
    @drakkon2zshadowsz909 Před 3 měsíci +3

    The way I see it, El Salvador/Bukele basically had no better option. Murders and chaos were rampant and SOMEONE had to step up and crack down on it. Its not perfect and some innocents were indeed detained but If they spent time being meticulous over the arrests far more innocents would be dead and not much would be better.
    Bukele is indeed a guy who 'gets shit done' and thats exactly why he's so popular. I think the overall global nigh-worship of democracy has made us blind to its setbacks, namely how long and hard (ayo?) it takes to get shit done. Look at the US, they spend 99% of the time arguing over what to do and 1% on barely doing anything, nothing really gets done and the status quo continues. Its a stagnant system, like having two plumbers endlessly argue over how to fix the toilet while it leaks everywhere. I'd rather have one do a marginally worse job than possible than have no job done at all.
    It was a tough call, but at least it was a call that actually happened, it had its drawbacks, but its a rare case where the means DO justify the ends, and i just hope the innocents that were swept up in the arrests are eventually given a chance to be freed.
    I respect Bukele for taking control and actually doing SOMETHING and stopping a majority of needless deaths in the future

  • @hackneyedstudios4699
    @hackneyedstudios4699 Před 3 měsíci +95

    25:20 i feel like this section kind of misses the ‘nuance’ differentiating biden and trump’s document retention, i.e that biden handed over the documents immediately when it was brought to his attention whereas trump is recorded as telling his staff to hide the boxes

    • @DennisMoore664
      @DennisMoore664 Před 3 měsíci

      They could also have pointed out that Robert Hur who ran the investigation is a former Trump appointee so there are questions of bias and his possibly trying to drive the narrative about Biden being incompetent to deflect from Trump's own cognitive issues.

    • @delighted2849
      @delighted2849 Před 3 měsíci

      You also forget the nuance of the fact that the alleged hiding was due to the fact they broke down his doors at mar-a-lago despite previous interaction showing Trump would let them in to take the documents.
      Oh and funnily enough, Bidens documents were in stuffy boxes, kept from when he was the vice president of Obama, meaning they were there for a lot longer, in his garage.

    • @0topon
      @0topon Před 3 měsíci +12

      He said in the clip that Biden helped the lawmakers and that Trump was not cooperative.

    • @hackneyedstudios4699
      @hackneyedstudios4699 Před 3 měsíci +6

      @@0topon yea i know, it just seems like a bit of an understatement

    • @PosterityIslesNews
      @PosterityIslesNews Před 3 měsíci

      ​@@hackneyedstudios4699no it feels perfectly appropriate

  • @noahs2k
    @noahs2k Před 3 měsíci +43

    It was sad to hear that Navalny died. I truly hope that the people of Russia remember him and fight for their rights.

    • @TheRifild
      @TheRifild Před 3 měsíci

      yeah the 5-10% of his 1-2% supporters might do, good fucking luck to them

    • @dimas3829
      @dimas3829 Před 3 měsíci

      Yes, we remember him bitching when other opposition leaders got the votes he wanted for himself. We also remember how he used derogatory slurs towards Muslims and pormised that Crimea will always be Russian. As well as him making a buck of corruption money - which was the case which jailed him eventually. You lot remind me of people that shouted that George Floyd is literal saint - same level of derangement.

    • @FluffyFlounders
      @FluffyFlounders Před 3 měsíci

      He will be forgotten like yet another western dog that he is

    • @accountname2521
      @accountname2521 Před 3 měsíci +4

      CIA wishes the same!

    • @Brandon-a-writer
      @Brandon-a-writer Před měsícem

      shit brother russians are less fussy in general about moscow ant petersburg politicos, as long as ppl aren't famined, purged or being attacked by germans, it is not seen as tyrrany. ppl think of putin broadly as their choice, a cowboy who tells america to fuck themselves and does whatever the fuck he wants. - am russian, live off and on there and am culturally um russian still despite having the freedom of voting for brandon or an old pervert without reason or incentive to improve anyone's life beyond those who directly and financially support his continued power trip for its own sake. like douglas adams of hitchhiker's guide to the galaxzy put it, anyone capable of being elected president on no account should be allowed to do the job. more than anything it seems like periods in history for russaisn associated without strong central leadership are always terribly hallowed; time of troubles after the Rurikids transitioned into a dynastic Romanov autocracy, period of civil where not one, not two, but three fucking false Dmitri's ... wait, that was another time when three pretender's to the throne claiming to be a dead former prince waged war on the state.
      Even in the time of fucking stalin, for the 89% of the lowest earning people, like, anyone making what we would call upper-middle class income though not wealthy, were in positions of security never endured or long enjoyed by the majority of russians in their whole span of history, from the kievan rus to the Tsar of all russias. man it sucks to look at the motherland and see a necropolis, dead state, with people who, noble they be, have allowed comfort to disjoint the prerogative of nature which compels a free people to oppose tyranny with violence. problem for most is that it is not seen, nor really felt [in ways that would be understandable as overreach or dramatic as such] that freedom is not theirs despite the same awareness there of what some westerners think is a continuous pins-and-needles affair where one is just one smart ass remark away from being gulag'd for the fuck of it, and beat up, and your dad is fucked on Who Wants to Win some fuckin Ruples.
      I would wish them a better go of it for the next mad egotist whose penchant for power aligns more with Harun al-Rashid, supporter of the arts, advanced science, had the biggest harem in history, made the bet al-hikma, house of wisdom, etc. Russia at least dessrves a better class of obvious tyrant whose mode of interaction is celebrity delettante with insatiable patriotism and tendency to defend and attak for his subjects.
      da zavtra ya fook, sry drunk off jello shooterx

  • @MeMe-hv6wd
    @MeMe-hv6wd Před 3 měsíci +12

    I SAW AN AD IT ISNT DEMONITIZED RN

    • @minetech4898
      @minetech4898 Před 13 dny +1

      CZcams will still show ads, but swag never gets a penny of it

  • @pro_154
    @pro_154 Před 3 měsíci +232

    R.i.p to the spark of the revolution

    • @brianquint6126
      @brianquint6126 Před 3 měsíci +16

      You wish, Fed.

    • @notenoughmemes1847
      @notenoughmemes1847 Před 3 měsíci

      Think the Russian communist party has more influence with folks than Navalny the far right ever did

    • @lazarusnouvel7320
      @lazarusnouvel7320 Před 3 měsíci +15

      THE SPARK CAN NEVER BE EXSTINGUISHED

    • @heyheyduskyhere
      @heyheyduskyhere Před 3 měsíci +29

      Navalny’s spark would set in motion the end of putin’s regime

    • @IVI00101
      @IVI00101 Před 3 měsíci +6

      @@heyheyduskyhere Are you talking about destruction of livelihood of most Russian citizens?

  • @CalzaTheFox
    @CalzaTheFox Před 3 měsíci +65

    RIP Navalny, you were a bigger chad than Putin ever was.

    • @dimas3829
      @dimas3829 Před 3 měsíci +9

      pressed X to doubt.

    • @user-fn2mx6dd5k
      @user-fn2mx6dd5k Před 3 měsíci

      Same shit other package

    • @FluffyFlounders
      @FluffyFlounders Před 3 měsíci

      @@user-fn2mx6dd5k even worse, Navalny sold out his country to the west, at least Putin with all his faults is working for his country.

    • @PosterityIslesNews
      @PosterityIslesNews Před 3 měsíci

      putin was a badass during his first years of presidency, it's pretty close

    • @accountname2521
      @accountname2521 Před 3 měsíci

      there is a fine line between bravery and stupidity.

  • @user-en7dx1qp3k
    @user-en7dx1qp3k Před 3 měsíci +24

    The second I realized what the intro song was I audibly gasped lmao, S tier reference

    • @bluwasabi7635
      @bluwasabi7635 Před 3 měsíci +3

      It fit perfectly, but what was the reference (idk)

    • @user-en7dx1qp3k
      @user-en7dx1qp3k Před 3 měsíci

      @@bluwasabi7635 I'm not sure if it was intentional but a few days ago there was an incident regarding a shoddily-run "Willy Wonka Experience" in Glasgow that was so bad it left kids crying and parents furious. Danny Gonzalez recently did a video on it.

    • @illpunchyouintheface9094
      @illpunchyouintheface9094 Před 3 měsíci

      @@bluwasabi7635willy wanka did multiple war crimes against the little orange people

    • @braindecay9477
      @braindecay9477 Před 3 měsíci +4

      ​@@bluwasabi7635yeah, what was the reference?

    • @th3_tea412
      @th3_tea412 Před 3 měsíci

      @@braindecay9477Look up Willy Wonka Glaskow

  • @elsienova4269
    @elsienova4269 Před 3 měsíci +4

    El Salvador's president is quite a success story for the nation. Innocent American viewers need to be reminded that El Salvador is not the US. This is not a situation of use of excessive force. Any gang member in this nation is basically an armed terrorist and this sorta of semi dictatorship approach was the only way to fix the nation and its definetly on a good track, with not only economic and livelyhood improving by insane amounts, but being against conservative policies in the country that hurt people socially.
    It was basically near impossible to raise a kid safely in El Salvador for an insane amount of time, let alone give them the freedom to express themselves and grow as a person in a country where a gang member will kill you if you "look weird". Now, it might be a widespread possibility.

  • @thehappybeard
    @thehappybeard Před 3 měsíci +1

    My sister in law is from El Salvador. Last month she went back (she's pregnant) in order to see family for the first time in 20 years. It was super safe apperently and she never felt in danger.

  • @plasmyth5501
    @plasmyth5501 Před 3 měsíci +1

    Thank you for helping me keep in the crazy loop that is the world at large! Hope to see your channel grow!

  • @Real_MisterSir
    @Real_MisterSir Před 3 měsíci +6

    The thing with El Salvador is, the nation has been on the border of societal collapse for decades - only really kept together by gang war dynamics leading the system rather than the governing bodies instituted by civilians.
    The nation's only true path to salvation, is to have a heavy-handed yet responsible figure of authority to cut through the layers and reassemble things from scratch.
    Question is just, will he stay responsible enough to let go of his power when the time comes, when he has done his job, served his purpose? That will be the true test.

  • @besheveledbear4568
    @besheveledbear4568 Před 3 měsíci +2

    Yet another fantastic month of new, keep it up lads!

  • @cadencollier9225
    @cadencollier9225 Před 3 měsíci +3

    Wow I didn't know any of that was going on in El Salvador. Very informative. Unchecked power like that is a bit intense, but those results are equally as intense.

  • @SierraG667
    @SierraG667 Před 3 měsíci

    Thank you for providing the news yet again, pls keep going Swag team!

  • @Denden-kj3rn
    @Denden-kj3rn Před 3 měsíci +3

    another banger episode as always. I hope that one day this show gets the recognition it deserves, but i dont see that happening without yt changing

  • @DavidJohnson-mo7fq
    @DavidJohnson-mo7fq Před 3 měsíci +8

    Good News Everyone!
    Well I mean, no. Things are bad, man. But y'all covered it really well!

  • @laspeedyboi3388
    @laspeedyboi3388 Před 3 měsíci +7

    Titanfall 3 mentioned! 🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣

  • @natpat6394
    @natpat6394 Před 3 měsíci

    Thanks for the hard work team! You all smashed it again!

  • @jimmyd3667
    @jimmyd3667 Před 3 měsíci +1

    Thank you for what you do!

  • @shingshongshamalama
    @shingshongshamalama Před 3 měsíci +2

    What is it with despots thinking "oh I'll just have this popular critic executed, that won't possibly backfire on me" anyway? It always backfires on them. Always.

  • @eastl174
    @eastl174 Před 3 měsíci

    I always love the awsome intros you guys put together every month!

  • @adrianl415
    @adrianl415 Před 3 měsíci +14

    I will Never understand how can you mess around with the people who provide your food... It's just plain stupid...

  • @GypsieJeck
    @GypsieJeck Před 3 měsíci

    This was amazing. Please keep up the amazing work

  • @leeuwengames315
    @leeuwengames315 Před 3 měsíci +24

    so much war can we first stop that before we sanction the farmers?

  • @briannunnenkamp2254
    @briannunnenkamp2254 Před 3 měsíci

    Good video, as always. Keep up the good work.

  • @jacobdoolan4978
    @jacobdoolan4978 Před 3 měsíci +1

    Comment for the algorithm, thank you for all you do!

  • @kenryse5543
    @kenryse5543 Před 3 měsíci

    Please keep up this outstanding job! You guys are awesome

  • @bjorn720
    @bjorn720 Před 3 měsíci

    I normally start getting depressed towards the middle of the month just before pay-day, and this series really helps. Love you guys❤

  • @xinaflar7
    @xinaflar7 Před 3 měsíci +40

    Navalny is the definition of a true patriot, god speed

    • @dexorne9753
      @dexorne9753 Před 3 měsíci

      Patriot that is supported by west organizations. He went to Yale and came back a "3rd world leader" and immediately started going against Putin. Not to mention his far right ideology.

    • @PlayerAfricanChieften
      @PlayerAfricanChieften Před 3 měsíci

      research what he stood for, if u dont, i will copy paste it for you. you are a zombie, a neo con woke zombie, that is why you think he is a patriot.

    • @Silver_Prussian
      @Silver_Prussian Před měsícem

      Definition of a fake messiah and a traitor.
      I better play the role of a villain than a pathetic wimp like him

    • @Silver_Prussian
      @Silver_Prussian Před měsícem

      God speed, to hell

  • @brayonvelasquez3045
    @brayonvelasquez3045 Před 3 měsíci +2

    Why wasn’t the Congo covered?

  • @SorryBones
    @SorryBones Před 3 měsíci +2

    The executive branch has way too much power. It’s supposed to enforce laws, not judge which laws to enforce, or use executive action to create new laws that it wants to enforce. Our legislative system is broken and this is the result.

  • @DRcorban
    @DRcorban Před 3 měsíci

    Great vid!

  • @theactualeverest5088
    @theactualeverest5088 Před 3 měsíci +1

    Grear video cant wait for the election video!! :D

  • @michaellemasters7173
    @michaellemasters7173 Před 3 měsíci +1

    That intro was 🔥
    Could’ve been a whole video on its own.

  • @ilordepic
    @ilordepic Před 3 měsíci +1

    Bro these are the best videos that drop monthly like please never stop

  • @Kaz-qz2oq
    @Kaz-qz2oq Před 3 měsíci +19

    To be fair to Bukele, Lichtenstein is like 3 miles across

  • @Entropy-2
    @Entropy-2 Před 3 měsíci +30

    My brother in humanity
    It's a damn genocide not a war

    • @piggynatorcool668
      @piggynatorcool668 Před 3 měsíci

      It's a race war, before globalization all wars would've been genocide. What's unfortunate about this one is that one side has gone way too far

  • @gaemer3967
    @gaemer3967 Před 3 měsíci +1

    Please include timestamps for the coverage of separate events

  • @svenvogelaar8784
    @svenvogelaar8784 Před 3 měsíci

    Another great video

  • @broncoxy
    @broncoxy Před 3 měsíci +26

    a man can only wish for even 1% of the badassery that Alexei Navalny possessed, what an absolute chad

  • @bridezilla3758
    @bridezilla3758 Před 3 měsíci

    Feels much better for bias this month! I know you guys ask how you’re doing a lot so I wanted to say this felt like a really balanced episode!

  • @ItsNaberius
    @ItsNaberius Před 3 měsíci

    Great vid as always... Really annoyed that it didn't show up in my alerts feed even though I have all alerts turned on for this channel. Thanks Y ouT ube

  • @jasecarr8572
    @jasecarr8572 Před 3 měsíci +7

    Glad to hear the general consensus that Ben-Gvir is atrocious

  • @aerobiesizer3968
    @aerobiesizer3968 Před 3 měsíci +1

    The intro song was fire 🔥

  • @veganebackoblade
    @veganebackoblade Před 3 měsíci

    Ty

  • @HashSl1ng1ngSlasher
    @HashSl1ng1ngSlasher Před 3 měsíci

    the end credits song was really incredible. Actual goosebumps.

  • @Insomniac_tv
    @Insomniac_tv Před 3 měsíci +2

    Bro the intro slaps

  • @LoboPal
    @LoboPal Před 3 měsíci

    It should be noted, there was a change in the criteria for what qualified as a border interaction if I recall.

  • @johnelvinmwangi1871
    @johnelvinmwangi1871 Před 3 měsíci +2

    Baby wake up, sir swag just dropped.

  • @megalinc
    @megalinc Před 3 měsíci

    This month's news barely got recommended to me, had to search for it once I remembered February was over

  • @ysebasefue
    @ysebasefue Před 3 měsíci +2

    his charts on declining murder rates vs rising incarcerations really make a case for law and order? but at what point will it be an over step? what is an acceptable murder rate and incarceration rate for such a country? he provides basic needs, improves literacy and access to a better life. I guess time will show if he continues to fight the good fight

  • @Julian-cp3vp
    @Julian-cp3vp Před 3 měsíci +1

    The graph you showed at 18:07 shows the Prison Rate, not the Murder Rate. That only comes into play later in the story

  • @ambientmzre
    @ambientmzre Před 3 měsíci

    We need a Spotify playlist of all of the intro and outro songs! Been watching since the first and every song has always mixed up so well!

  • @FlexofFunk
    @FlexofFunk Před 3 měsíci

    "I don't even know what a technical difficulty is".
    bruh that got me

  • @MrTripleM3
    @MrTripleM3 Před 3 měsíci

    Skipti, coming in once again with another banger for the intro.

  • @NedInYaHead
    @NedInYaHead Před 3 měsíci

    26:26 Did I just enter the Whirling-In-Rags?

  • @lebinre
    @lebinre Před 3 měsíci +1

    Yay the news are not age restricted

  • @peeryoxide6742
    @peeryoxide6742 Před 3 měsíci +1

    Sir swag makes me nervous and cry a lot

  • @user-gk9mn2rc2y
    @user-gk9mn2rc2y Před 3 měsíci +1

    Actually the hardest intro i’ve ever seen

  • @agniteyt
    @agniteyt Před 3 měsíci

    Finally, news that makes fun of everything that's happening around the world.
    Also the beginning montage is so amazing, I kept coming back.

  • @Teflonchxpo
    @Teflonchxpo Před 2 měsíci

    Awsome intro 👏👏

  • @rapkaizell
    @rapkaizell Před 3 měsíci +4

    Remember Remember the 5th of November.

  • @Ludiotic
    @Ludiotic Před 3 měsíci

    Brit here. Love the Oompa-Loompah referencing song at the start. 😁

  • @dradedeadeye2310
    @dradedeadeye2310 Před 3 měsíci

    things to always look forward to at the end of a month:
    a very good summary of the circus happening all around the world,
    be inspired by a banger of a video,
    and at least have 1 song be added to my playlist

  • @MrHarding51
    @MrHarding51 Před 3 měsíci

    Great intro mate

  • @johnhurley8918
    @johnhurley8918 Před 2 měsíci +1

    All Bukele has to do to shrug of criticism is say, "Well it worked didn't it?"

  • @LennyBebLel
    @LennyBebLel Před 3 měsíci

    just noticed that in the stock footage at 33:11, the monitors show videos of mission briefings from Call of Duty 4

  • @jakelangevin301
    @jakelangevin301 Před 3 měsíci +4

    I know the views are down but please continue the quality mate

    • @0topon
      @0topon Před 3 měsíci

      i dont think that the views are down, atleast in this series, compare it to the views of the videos from 2022 for example

  • @rehpot9387
    @rehpot9387 Před 3 měsíci +1

    The intro goes unreasonably hard

  • @No_Name6716
    @No_Name6716 Před 3 měsíci +1

    You didn't need to drop the hardest beat at the beginning

  • @scotlandish4718
    @scotlandish4718 Před 3 měsíci

    32:55 this made a lot of sense

  • @devinkiernan5093
    @devinkiernan5093 Před 3 měsíci +3

    Love what you guys do, great reporting. Also keep making these intros, they are great (in a sad ironic way)

  • @StellarStarryNight
    @StellarStarryNight Před 3 měsíci +1

    I like how in the credits it says "I'm off to defend the creek"
    See you on Malevelon brothers

    • @lucaskelsey8689
      @lucaskelsey8689 Před 3 měsíci

      I see he is a fan of spreading managed democracy as well!