Why Are American Troops in Ukraine? - Russian Roulette (Dispatch 108)
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- Three hundred American soldiers have arrived in western Ukraine. In the latest dispatch, Simon Ostrovsky traveled there to find out what their mission is.
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Did we learn nothing from Vietnam? You can't just train the local forces to fight a much larger force. It just doesn't work out well. We'll end up getting involved in a another losing war like Vietnam. Sigh.
Doubt it . America does not want to get involved in a war with Russia which will happen if they do get involved & this wont be a vietnam war (even though America won every important large battle in that war) im sure this will turn into a world war if the states get involved which will cause Russia to "offically" get involved causing a domino affect
***** HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
good one
*****
oh so you mean the war the us wasnt officially involved in and in which the us's involvement led to the cluster fuck the middle east is today?
yeah great fucking job.
if you call that "won" youre either really stupid or you must think 9/11 was another great victory for america.
idiot.
***** By supporting the mujahedeen we've created these Taliban, ISIS.. etc
909Snipez off topic question, but where are you from ?
USA - Delivering pizzas since 1950
VERSACE they are Paratroopers dumbass!
@@thomasrush5417 they're puppets sniffing other countries asses, especially if there is oil in it 🤑.
@@thomasrush5417 what a shame! do you wona say that the paratroopers do not know to deliver any pizza?? :))))))
And middle east is their favourite place
@@armstrong4196 lmfao all these countries look up to us🤣
Its strange seeing US troops in woodlands camo, so used to Desert camo.
that's just the new uniforms
@@kyh6767 ikr
Curien247 it’s not woodland, o do some research.
The us has different uniforms for different terrains
it's multicam
99% of Twitter users who comment on the current Russia/Ukraine war have never seen/known about this or the Donbas War
Exactly. 99% of the western world thinks that Putin just had a bad day and decided to attack Ukraine.
and when they are presented with the other side of the story, they often refuse to consider it.
They even don't know were Ukraine is on the world map
Well they were fighting Russians in 2014 and still the same
Americans are propagandized from cradle to grave. The majority lack the ability to think critically especially when it comes to the wealthy elite aka USG oligarchs campaigning for another war for profit. When Americans live their children more then they hate the " other",
wars will stop.
I don't think he liked continuing with the pizza analogy.
Fraser Supersport Really Sherlock you don't say.
Fraser Supersport haha nice one
Fraser Supersport Im starting to think i've wasted my entire life not using pizza analogies whenever i've done maths equations
So what kind of pizza is the US giving Ukraine? What did they give Vietnam? Iraq?
Crick1952 lol ikr
It is funny how the people they are meant to be training have so much more actual combat experience than them.
Even funniner how those boot ass soldiers would still mow over you.
Nightstalker Gaming Stick to minecraft bro
JayDee Woah, umad bro?
Nightstalker Gaming
Nope.
JayDee That's good :)
“When you order a pizza, you have to start somewhere.” Wow, amazing advice.
These boys order lots of pizza 🍕, they are paid professionals...
With nobody to cook for them 😕
The begining of the end
If only they knew
This could be the beginning of a huge fuck-up...
Every country America steps in, it will fuck it up and step out without stealing or doing more damage.
Playstation Production Yeah, countries such as Germany, or South Korea, or Japan, or any of the other western European countries post WW2. Such fuckups.
Niklas W. No, the beginning was when Russia attacked Ukraine.
Patrick Lundström That is weird that former USRR states are want USA to help them. That only show that Russia is not friendly state and making enemies every where they go to
Niklas W. usa and russia are the same they always use the National security and International security cards to invlove in others countries problemes
Simon stirs the pot oh so well lol. Good job.
Thing to remember is this.....the Ukrainians are very different than the Iraqis. The Ukrainian troops are, to be honest. More able to take in, digest and use the training that the US Army will offer them. Another aspect is their personal resolve is stronger than the Iraqis. You just can't compare them, honestly. This is just my opinion and what I see.
Brian Streufert What exactly did you see that tells you about personal resolve?
***** what does that mean?
But the difference is America doesn't have much to teach the Ukrainians. American trainers are there primarily to teach a country how to use OUR weapons we give to them effectively. But with out weapons it's pointless to even have trainers.
aluisious Defending against foreign invasion tends to invoke stronger desire to fight than holding up a government that has been struggling to put down an insurrection that has lasted decades. (This is of the view that the war in Ukraine is against Russia aggression)
Brian Streufert Many of the Ukrainian Army we fight here, is honorable. They do not abandon their weapons and their posts, as did the earlier Ukrainians "who did not give fuck". Those we do capture, say that they have been told that in "Separ" territory, we torture, burn our captives to death, crucify them, and that nonsense.
Hell, look, there is Azov Battalion video of crucifixion of "East Ukrainian Separ". It is recent, you look on google and see. It is Graphic 18+ tho.
But yes we Ukrainian people are honest, we are working very hard as well. You see, we in the Donbass, we would have gone to Maidan too. We would have stayed in square, protested the Oligarch government in Kyiv.
But we were too busy working. Too busy providing food for out families, too busy mining for the benefit of who--the whole of Ukraine.
And now we get ripped. We paid 70% in taxes! Even us poor people pay 70% in taxes! And now we are denied pensions and payments even doctors, medics, who work in municipal hospital had not received supplies from Ukraine government since 2013!
In the "Separ" government, at least they provide us some food, or anything. We always hear this from the radios, from the Ukraine radios "oh we are providing people of East Ukraine food"
And then it never comes, Arseniy Yatsenyuk says on the page of Ukraine Embassy to United States official website, he calls us "inhumans."
Previously he mass labeled all of East Ukraine "terrorists" even to the point of calling us "dogs."
Yes, we are people of Ukraine.
Slava Ukraina! Slava Donbass!
It’s hard to watch. What is the U.S. governments interest in assisting regime change, de facto running Ukraine, and flooding it with weapons? Exactly how did all this help American citizens? We trained and eventually armed their military to help them kill and devastate fellow Ukrainians in the east for 8 yrs. Sending billions of dollars worth of weapons to a country on Russia’s border, combined with our absolute insistence for Ukraine joining NATO and pushing them to an uncompromising policy with Russia, lead to their predictable destruction today. Everybody who knows anything has been warning us since 1997 where this would lead if we did not stop, and yet we doubled down at every chance. And we continue to double down even now. For what exactly? I can’t see any rational reason. Did our gov want war with Russia? They absolutely knew this would lead to it.
And did you hear the ambassador say we’re mainstreaming there volunteer militias? He’s referring to the Nazi militias that were eventually integrated into the Ukrainian national guard. They even made a nazi slogan the official Ukraine military slogan. So yeah we armed crazy violent nazis in Ukraine. What a mess…
damnnn 😑 we dont need 2 kno
Facts!!!
What air defence doing vatnik
"They even made a nazi slogan the official Ukraine military slogan." what are you refering to here?
I miss Simon's reports so much. All the great reporting we got out of this area of the world was like no other.
Good joke.Thanks. Buahahaja. But he is great propagandist, in opinion of many experts.
@@lukasgescholowitz agreed I’m not pro Russian or pro Ukrainian in this conflict but he is generally a Ukrainian sided reporter.
@@wlmhs8245 Well, i even don't think that. He is for sure 100% american politics sided guy. Thats his job, imo.
@@lukasgescholowitz propaganda is when you give fake news, manipulate stats etc. This dude litterally only interviews people and lets them give the news he also interviews the russian side as much as he can the difference is that russia isnt as open for journalists only state media is allowed most of the time. You can see in this series he was almost taken as prisoner in one of these videos when he tried to pass russian border guards in Crimea
@@lukas6610 bro, u e en don't understand what propaganda means... 😂
Ostrovsky! A good fuckin journalist, digging for truth and asking real questions head on. When will you realize that there are no sides really? All those military standoffs and confrontations don't have a good side and a bad side. It's all fucken politicians on all sides beating their chests trying to instigate some shit, using their old, narrow-minded, conservative minds trying to figure out how to beat up the other guy. Psychologically, they are like little kids inside a sandbox breaking eachother's toys not caring that other kids won't have anything to play with. Humans should act smarter now and be peaceful with one another, but those old dudes in power are really pulling us back into a shithole.
Except for the fact that russia invaded Ukraine, and america didnt theres your sides.
guitarbrother Digging for the truth? So far he's only reported on ONE side of this "truth". Nobody seems to care about the recent ruling by Ukraine that the Odessa Massacre was "accidental", when there was video evidence of Maidan protesters burning it down. czcams.com/video/0vJaPQpK4kk/video.html
guitarbrother indeed, Simon has been doing a really good job in this series.
MsTbsd proof of this "Russian invasion"? The US has 300 soldiers officially in Ukraine, as well as mercenaries and the CIA. Russia has a few hundred men who had volunteered to fight there of their own free will. Besides the facebook pics that were taken in everywhere BUT Ukraine.
As far as I know, only the East is under attack; you're telling me that West Ukraine is single-handedly resisting this invisible Russian "invasion" and the attack of "rebels"?
Clifton Haralson Speak for yourself, I and everyone else was created by God. There is no division between men, it is evil governments that create wars for their own nefarious purposes. It has always been that way.
"Well to continue the pizza analogy, are there going to be a lot more pizza deliveries soon?" LMAO
I guess these trainers did make a difference after all in fending off a general russian invasion 7 years later.
Watch at least first video, please
What was happening in 9th of May in 2014 year in Mariupol:
-czcams.com/video/Pmp0AaItuwU/video.html
War that led to war, documentary about events that have been happening since 2014 year(read description):
-czcams.com/video/wMKFYrqucmU/video.html
Documentary about Donbass:
-czcams.com/video/AEOy0eRcJxo/video.html
P.s. i can send more about it
So, not words, only facts
Pretty much. Even though it started small, this was a huge step in Westernizing the Ukrainian military. Such as NCO's making more calls on the ground, which is a huge advantage NATO militaries have, where the Soviet and modern Russian military still lack severely. Lack of an NCO corps is one of the biggest reasons Russia is currently under preforming, as well as logistics.
@Mr Majestic The other comments you made across this video prove you’re just an idiot. Go back to your hut, Vadim.
The fending off doesn't seem to be going so well....
Wtf Simon! Haha 7:07
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300 American soldiers have arrived in western Ukraine. In the latest dispatch, Simon Ostrovsky traveled there to find out what their mission is.
Watch “Meet the Texan Fighting for the DPR: Russian Roulette (Dispatch 107)” - bit.ly/1z1Q4ef
300 fat pigs for russia bear!
MURICA FUK YA
Mohammed Said You are a most loving and tolerant person.
***** You broke this one a while back.
VICE News God bless you Simon!
If the US Congress is so keen on throwing fuel on the fire, maybe we need to send all 535 of them over there and let them do the job themselves. We can send Victoria Nuland, her husband(Robert Kagan), and all of their former PNAC and current CFR buddies over there too. Be sure to suspend their high pay, and give them military wages. Bring our troops back home from places where they have no business being.
Wow some one with a lick of sense here.
mtnvortex That's a good idea. Move Washington to Ukraine. Then the US will have no choice but to keep Russia out.
They have a lot more business being there then when they were in Iraq
I used to feel that way about my government's activities, but not anymore. Most of the US troops, and many of the people, really do have good intentions. Many outside the US don't realize, but the American *people* , in general, really do have good hearts and they want to help others make better lives. That is why they volunteer to go wherever they may be sent.
The problem is that all of us, in every country around the world, have allowed ourselves to be blinded by leaders with personal agendas. With the help of intelligence agencies and State Departments, they use the media to build false narratives which embolden us to start fighting each other. Things are not always as they seem, or as we are told. While we are busy killing each other, we cannot see what is really happening.
Usually, *the people have no victory in war*. The only ones who "win" are those who fooled us into fighting each other...and still, we continue to cheer them on like we are picking our favorite football teams.
None of our differences should be so great that we need to kill one another. We are all being used as pawns on a "Grand Chessboard", as the title of Zbigniew Brzezinski's book stated. He is an evil bastard too.
6:30 the crook poroshenko Is welcoming the American army and some people still think that this is not an American war against Russia. These has been an American project since the beginning. This footage is from 2015
nice, you trained ultra-nationalists and nazis, very smart thing to do, for what, for corporational interests. I can't believe you trained ultra-nationalists with most of them in nazi ideology. You trained even Azov battalion, the most nationalist military battalion in Ukraine
7:06
I don't think Simon likes the Rain...
7:07 "Where's that pizza we were talking about?"
2:04 he knows but he didn't want to admit in front of camera 😅.. this war is orchestrated and zelensky is a puppet 😂😂😂
"You're aware that there is a war going on now in Ukraine?" 🤣🤣
I love this dude
US soldiers are vetted for mendacity.
This was 7 years ago. The existence of this war prior to the Russian involvement is now censored and denied in American and British media. The official line is that russia started this war in Feburary, which is total bullshiit
Never mind me, just taking this down for the next time someone calls me a "RUSHIN BAWT" for pointing out the Kiev Nazi regime aggression dating back to 2014.
Love Simon, he's not afraid to ask the tough questions.
That Lieutenant Colonel.... He's relaying what he was told to say, yet his facial expression is one of saying he's expecting something entirely different.
He should have asked Pyatt if he ever spoke on the phone with Victoria Nuland
imagine russians training the mexican military, and the USA and mexico being involved in a border conflict at that time. i wonder what USA woudl think about that
The russians need to train there own military first...
If USA practice aggressive policy towards Mexico and try to steal parts of Mexico for themselves, than yes, it would be completely legitimate if China or Russia provide support for Mexico. The thing is that relationships between US and Mexico/Canada are cordial. And USA does not practice imperialism (well maybe some sort of economic but not military) like Putin´s Russia. There is no excuse for Putin´s invasion, nothing can justify the sheer destruction and loss of life result from it. USA did horrible things in middle east and elsewhere, but in Ukraine I am afraid without US/NATO support the nation would be over, joined with autocratic Russia. And what is worse, the history teaches us that after Ukraine my guess is Putin would invade Moldova and start threatening eastern wing of NATO. I am thankfull for Ukraians to fight so bravely.
@@MrFreedemMoldova is messing up/messed up by not joining NATO if that happens. I doubt they can now.
Stupin is stupid but he’s not stupid enough to attack a NATO country.
@@Spudandrowback7Djust keep underestimating them they have 4 new territories 😂😂
@@MrFreedem Yeah, yeah and change of legitimate Ukrainian government with US/EU puppets with further supplement of weapons is not dangerous for Russia at all
This should have happened a long time ago, no wonder RT has been quiet about Ukraine.
Americans out of Europe Now!
Rally your people and get them out. 😂😂😂
people are sick and tired of american world domination!
Mohammed Said out of europe? why not go back to your arab land
At first all these pro-Russian trolls on youtube would type comments like "the US are pussies and dont dare help Ukraine", "the US is afraid of Russia" and my favorite "Obama will never send military to Ukraine because they would be crushed by the big bad bear", now that the US continues to push closer and closer to Russia they want us to go home, who are the pussies now?
So is this why Putin is pissed off?
This is the base that Russia bombed on 13th March 2022.
180 foreign fighters killed
@@zergio1825, I hope it didn't came as a surprise to this fighters. They went there looking for war.
"Are there going to be a lot more pizza deliveries soon?" Lol classic
"you can't eat the pizza all in one bite"
Challenge accepted
yeha, russia is escalating stuff right there :)
The US was invited unlike the Russians.
Alen Zuzic If the US really wanted to escalate shit they would fly bombers along russian airspace like the russians do on the daily. If you think this, a couple hundred bootcamp instructors is an escalation... boy your wrong.
The US isnt scared... Russia's army might be able to fight an army who has never had a war or any experience (Ukraine) vs The US however, Russia would get its ass kicked unless they wanted Mutual assured destruction and nuked the world.
jamali hamilton Invited by Keiv's Junta,the USA installed by toppling the democratically elected government .The puppets of USA invited the owners .Hurrah ... we are welcome there .Ask the Soldiers' mothers how they are happy with you sending theirs sons to die !
Scope R you may not like it but at the end of the day they ( the the current administration ) are thr ones in power now and they invited us there.
Simon has a very hard job, trying to keep the balance on both sides of this horrible war.
Keep up the good work !
Simon never tried to keep balance. U always see he is on the one side, orgerwise u must be blinde, if u cant see that.
@@lukasgescholowitz
Three years ago you didn't have a clue where Ukraine was on the world map, but look at you now, the know-all kid 😅
A college professor told me that Soviet Union was a dictatorship for their public and was a democracy when it comes to lawmakers and the secretary general, and land gifts were not allowed between countries, unless signed by Secretary general and legally endorsed by two third of lawmakers (politburo members) . Any land gift from one country to another has to be signed by the common President (Khrushchev) and two third of lawmakers of the two countries in the union. Khrushchev never avoided Crimean delegates of citizens visiting him in his office in Moscow after 1954, saying those hidden documents do not have his signature. After the fall of communism, his children were subject to lynch mobs. He repeated to delegates that contrary to popular belief , that he never gifted Crimea from Russia to Ukraine by signing papers. He told them Russia still owns Crimea. The land transfer has to be signed by two third majority of all lawmakers of the two countries involved in a land grant, along with his signature. Two lawmakers, called MP or member of politburo) signed a typed letter with government letterhead in secrecy, one was a president of the duma foreign relations committee and other co-signer was a member of Duma. The document had said that the the two men were transferring Crimea from Russia to Ukraine. This is illegal. He told pretty all of the groups of delegates, every time that, contrary to popular belief, that he, Nikita Khrushchev, never gave or gifted Crimea from Russia - maps to Ukraine. He says he had once written an office memo one time at night when he came to the office. Next, the same year, Khrushchev, says he transferred salary funds and sources of salary and Crimea municipal expense funds from Russia treasury to Ukraine treasury. He told them that |Soviet were hidden from the public, and if he could reassure them, he cannot show them what the law say at the time. Khrushchev admitted that this may create confusion (or may not create confusion) in future if and when the Soviet Union broke up into individual nations. Khrushchev made it clear he never transferred the land-mass of Crimea from Russia to another country such as Ukraine. He transferred municipal expenses. It's like saying, the salaries of municipal town hall workers of Jackson, Mississippi will be coming from the government of Canada. Usually foreign workers of a neighboring country are not paid salaries by another country. But it can happen. It doesn't mean Canada owns Jackson, MS.
From what I understand the assignment of Crimea had a lot to do with adminstrative problems around managing water supply which originated in Ukraine. At the time changing administrative control of Crimea to Ukraine simply made it easier to manage water distribution
2:25 "But you're aware there is a war going on in Ukraine" LOL
Nicole Can't blame the Grunt, he doesn't know where or when he's going, he just fallows orders.
BourbonSlow92 Yeah, the guy sounded like he moved to America less than 5 years ago, heavy accent.
@@theguy1633 yeah, that confused me. I guess Americans are too fat, so they have to take newcomers for military now
Pretty crass of US administration to send military trainers to Ukraine. I'd love to see the US's reaction if Russian or China sent military trainers to either Canada or Mexico (or both). Definitely NOT spreading peace throughout the world doing this.
Who the fk would want to train with those losers 🤣 Mexico Request training from the U.S because we are the best.
Thats how narcissists and psychos are. Rules for thee, but not for me.
Canada and Mexico would tell them they arent wanted and laugh at them... Ukraine on the other hand... They made a different decision... I wonder why that is... I guess its because Russia is so wonderful and the US is the root of all evil...
@@hochmeisterr the best pfff Haha Nice joke
@@user-mt8vp7pi5u Have you guys taken bakmuh yet?
These American troops weren't sent to train, more like to assess the situation and capability and will to fight of the Ukrainian army, before America decided to send arms to them.
On the contrary, armies often go on "ambassador" missions. They're not there to help one way or another. You will see Chinese, Indian and other "neutral" countries come to Pacific ocean to have "tours" of the bases, airfields and ships. Even USA which has a long history of intervention does sometimes sit out of conflicts. Losses in Vietnam and Korea has softened USA stance on direct intervention. However, "ambassador" missions do help with close relations with possible allies. They dont always result in anything other than handshakes and exchange of good will.
Just the United States troops participate in that war, not all America. Greetings from South América.
@@andressanzcorrea1168 Ellos no entienden
If this isn't NATO expansion then I don't know what is .
Ukraine doesn't want their country to be invaded by "pro-Russian" separatists. Ukraine is a democratic country and doesn't want to have anything to do with Russia.
Crazy to think that at one point Vice was actually "News".
That is exactly how the American involvement in VIETNAM started...
The US govt does not learn from its mistakes.
Bunch OF SJWs
American involvement in Vietnam started with giving Weapons to the French. As for your analogy, and premise, Ukraine is in no way like Vietnam.
When a Western Military don`t likes a question they simply end it with:"thank you everybody"
2:57 Pretty sums up the war about Ukraine.😂😂😂😂
I just love how after spending months in Ukraine around the frontline, all it took was a little bit of rain to convince Simon to go home (sort of).
They kidnapped him, they tortured him, they harassed him, they questioned his beliefs but Simon never faltered.
Starts raining.
Simon: Can I go home now?
How stupid I was to think, I lived in such a peaceful world, how naive I was. Thanks vice you've opened my mind and eyes to something bigger
You realized it 7 years earlier than most people.
ever heard of the Iraq war?
You never heard of the other 220+ years of wars ?
Public schools are bad .
hello from 2023
Europe is doomed
2022, today we know what they are doing in Ukraine 😒
"Are there going to be more pizza deliveries coming soon?"
Haha! Great question.
Дякую від себе особисто моїм інтернаціональним інструкторам за зайняття з багатьох військових дісциплін, вони передають нам свій безцінний досвід, який отримали їх армії, з усього світу
Це безцінним досвід та розуміння що ми з ворогом не сам на сам
@@walkingintrovert89 СМЕРТЬ РАШИСТСКИМ ОККУПАНТАМ!!
Слава Україні!!
How are a bunch of privates going to train these solders going to war. This shit is a show of force.
Vaygar Boyar My point exactly.
Joel Hernandez Umm.... 300 guys is hardly what most people would call a "show of force"...
Richard Taylor Umm putting any soldiers on the border is a show of force. Its a strategic warning.
Joel Hernandez It is a statement but not a show of force. A show of force would be closer to when the US APC's did their convoy parade. Or when RT releases videos of their rocket barrages etc. You aren't really using the term correctly is all I am saying.
Richard Taylor More or less our government is in a proxy war with Russia like it or not.
That was a good reporter not another propagandist with pinnated biased view points.
"Ok, forget pizza. Let's say you have an enormous bowl of spaghetti and meatballs..."
8:05
Anyone that has served in any military will recognize this scene. Its a universal trait.
Smoko?
And out of shot of the camera multiple connexes laid out nicely waiting for an LT who’s taking forever to mark it off.
Anyone who has ever existed will recognize this scene.
"standing around doing nothing on the job"
@@modshroom taking a break maybe?
7:22 ha ha... "please can we go home now?"
"we have no idea why we are here because we are just pawns in a geopolicitcal chessgame of the anglo-imperialistic empire" would have been the only correct answer
7:07 Simon: Shieeeet
Very good dispatch. Very telling. The Vietnam war started with military trainers and advisors.
You sound like quite the useful idiot. 4 years later and we're not embroiled in a war in Ukraine.
@@treefiddy727 looks like you are very wrong, lol
What are your thoughts on the situation today ?
Update
WE NEED A GODDAMN UPDATE WHAT IS YOUR OPINION NOW?
If it had been 300 Russian army officers for training the DPR, I guess the journalist wouldn't have called this "a drop in the ocean"
Simon I love you, I love your work. Sometimes I can hear your frustration, its tricky being neutral.
Keep it rolling
Problem is that he is everything but neutral.
@@dr9189 he is neutral always critizing both sides .. he is the best!
We all knew the USA was behind this escalation...
"You have heard that there is a war going on in Eastern Ukraine?"
Lol
*Holy cow, that rain at the end of the video was incredibly ominous
Way late reply , but, his surname is Kovalchuk, he is 90% of Ukrainian heritage. He just plays dumb for the camera.
I though the same thing. Very ominous for Ukraine and Russia, and the whole world.
I don't even post comments on vice videos anymore just read them all and laugh at the stupidity
eric Stoenescu I also don't remember the last time i posted a comment on Vice.
You've obviously never been to RT before.
Most don't know what Ukraine has gone through for centuries fighting to exist!!
By fighting, you mean begging Russia to save them, then being unappreciative whiners. Repeat the cycle as needed.
"Obama! We are all under fire and need immediate backup!"
Obama: "Alright, I'm on it."
*hangs up
Obama: "Hey uh send these guys some trucks and advice."
Vs what? A war?
Same scenario of Benghazi Libya
Came here from the interview that Simon did with the Ambassador months earlier were he said the US was not going to get involved militarily
Simon asks a guy with "Kovalchuk" on his chest. "You are aware there is a war going on, yes"? No way he would possibly know, Simon, hahaha
I think that any help should be appreciated.
pretty sure this place just got destroyed
increase sovereignty by hahahah making htem NATO toilet :D to fight russia :D
I was in boot camp with a Russian immigrant. Super heavy accent. Great soldier too. Wonder whatever happened to that guy
Sounds like a spy
Hopefully went to serve the Rodia and clear Nazis from Ukraine.
Strange to think that these are the barracks that were bombed in lviv in march.
Source/video?
@@jasonablah7702 he’s lying
7:07 Simon: Here we go again... a sad show in the rain.
5:16, the American Ambassador laid it on the table,' THE NEW UKRAINE, AMERICA IS HELPING BRING ABOUT.???"🤯❤🇺🇸
lol, only ukrainians, can say, something good, when its happening while its raining :)
-Please can we go home now? И тут я орнул, спасибо Семён!
"They are going to need a lot more help" Prophetic
military training has never worked, unless you count al-Quaeda as a success, when will America learn, how much money did they spend training Iraqi military units, and we all saw how well that went
Evil Empire necessary caps are necessary, yeah did u hear at all how the iraqi army performed before the kurds got involved and before the US used airstrikes?
Deleating my post? Truth hurts, huh? No further comment!
readable95 Those Kurdish Peshmergah units the US help train seem to be doing pretty well.
That's why the Russian reactions are now 3/2022?
Not just but it certainly one reason
The US was spreading their arms again.
All young puppies and the old guy talking about pizza😂😂😂😂
Thank you for asking the hard pointed questions and pursuing answers.. Thank god someone does it
Didn't the Vietnam war start this way with a handful of US Army "advisors". I'm pretty confident that this is the start of a massive troop build up.
Hello from future.
This is going to be Vietnam all over again.
the rain in the end really did it.. hahaha
couldn't get US Marines?
Its the US Army. The Marines are meant for actual combat on the frontlines of an active war. But that is not why we have troops there. So no, they couldn't get the US Marines.
Freddy apex Shows how much obama is committed to this.
TopShot501st the US does not need to get involved with every conflict.
When Russia is trying to reassert itself to its former glory (Soviet Union). I think the US has interest in intervening to prevent that.
Yeah I agree the middle east should just blow itself and the US should just let it do that. Russia is one of the largest threats to the US and needs to be kept in check.
Damn that colonel at the end talking about pizza. Who knew we'd be sitting here 8 years later with most of our pizza going to send Himars to Nazis. Damn.
2:00, speak louder simon, I don't think this guy can hear very well.
That Sergeant had no fucking idea what he was talking abut while being interviewed lol
300 hundred men..... that is 3 digits....... Half Life 3 confirmed!
haha, 173rd Airborne. bunch of tryhards. i was stationed with them in Germany and they are a ok bunch of guys, but we had more fun with the Slovenian 132nd Mountain Regiment.
exactinmidget92 Have you been with the 3rd Mechanized battalion of the bulgarian army ? Or have you heard stuff about them.
That rain turned out to be a pretty bad omen.
I love how VICE reporters ask hard questions and don’t take sides.
6:04..... this General was right. This was just the start and 7 years later it seems that Ukranian forces are fighting Russian forces and in many instances are able to defeat them.
But still lost 4 territories despite being helped by NATO mercenaries weapons and funding 😂
@@marshalljulie3676 Nato is giving Ukraine like 5% of the total weapons they have. Ukraine lost those 4 south eastern territories because when Russia first invaded Ukraine on February 24th 2022 they did so from 11 different directions from inside Russia into Ukraine. Up north from Belarus east from Russia and up from Crimea in the South. Putin thought he would take Kyiv in 3 days. Ever since that failed Ukraine has liberated their lands. Sometimes very fast like last summer liberating Kharkiv and Kherson city but it will be a bit slower this time around to liberate all the rest of Ukraine including Crimea because once last winter came Russians had time to put up defensive positions like trenches , dragons teeth , land mines , and mobilized Russian convicts. So yes it won't be as fast as last summers counter offensive but Ukraine will liberate the remaining territories currently held by Russian forces. Russian troops should leave Ukraine and go to Moscow or wherever they live in Russia if they want to continue living.
@@jasonmardoniomeza1711 Maybe NATO should start giving one percent more? Because it's sure gonna help them to win
4:16 Soldiers that have actually shot at a hostile.
5:23 Fresh off the boat.
Who's training who?
It doesn’t make sense to send regular airborne Units to a country to train their military, if i was to guess there are US Green Berets Special Forces within the bunch. Their main purpose of existence is to train foreign militaries in unconventional warfare, aka guerrilla warfare or a civil war👀. Russia is doing the same with FSB and Spetsnaz on the ground
No wonder the Russian did what they did. The main enemy US on its door step building bases and missile sites close to its border. Imagine if Russia or China did that in the Mexican or Canadian border US border. Russia had a very right to defend itself from the NATO aggression.
Brilliant reportage ! It asked questions and got answers. Has content and scenography and some little candidness too. Like being there on the ground.
Oh boy is that Lt. Col. gonna get his ass chewed, he made statements much higher than his rank.
Lawson M he's in charge of that battalion.. if anyone would make a statement col and up would be it.
I could be wrong, but to my understanding you should divulge as little as possible.
Lt. Col. then Fullbird Col. then 1 star and ect. ;)
Lawson M Unless you are there for a PR stunt.
AshyLarry Exactly, He knew exactly what he was saying and he knew what not to say. He didn't say anything he wasn't suppose to.
WOW , this was really good. when thunder hit ..that was when i felt the gravity of how dark this conflict has become
simon went thug life on that LT with the pizza analogy lmao
It looks like the Americans sent a bunch of fresh faced kids, to teach guys who just came back from the front, what "they know."
I wonder how many Ukrainian-born soldiers the US has training the Ukrainian forces. Thats gotta be helpful.