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@paultorgerson8776

4 ай бұрын

'Murked'. Cappy you never disappoint.

@rocko7711

4 ай бұрын

❤❤

@arabidimaandwhatever

4 ай бұрын

They are not destroyed

@Taskandpurpose

4 ай бұрын

merc'ed * yes hahah I probably wont stop saying that now its stuck in my head much love@@paultorgerson8776

@Taskandpurpose

4 ай бұрын

much love!@@rocko7711

"We'll see how this CIA mission didn't go exactly as planned" might as well be the CIA's motto at this point

@adamredwine774

4 ай бұрын

I feel like the ones that do go well stay classified longer so there’s a bit of bias there.

@Neverwas_one

4 ай бұрын

The enemy has a say.

@100500daniel

4 ай бұрын

Well we probably don't know about the successful missions 😂

@cadennorris960

4 ай бұрын

Survivorship bias

@Taskandpurpose

4 ай бұрын

we rarely get to hear about their successes but boy when they mess up it's a real cluster f****. my CIA handler told me to remind everyone they're doing their best!

It's crazy to me how the Kurds were completely abandoned after Isis was defeated.

@AT-AT26

4 ай бұрын

Mostly abandoned but still some support like Biden removing sanctions on Rojava occupied parts of Syria.

@jeremiahwilson1255

4 ай бұрын

Literally every one of our failures in foreign policies 😑

@SHVRWK

4 ай бұрын

thanks to Trump

@RoyalMountedAnkleBiters

4 ай бұрын

Yeah, it's real messed up. I know former SF guys who have gone private & continued assisting & fighting alongside them but they are very much at a disadvantage.

@CollinY818

4 ай бұрын

The Kurds also joined Isis and they didn’t attack Isis until the west told them too

“The terrorist organizations we funded to fight our enemies have become a serious problem for us” basically sums up the entire history of C.I.A operations

@GenJuhru

4 ай бұрын

Yep, very optimistic of them.

@sharpasacueball

4 ай бұрын

Also: "we toppled democracies to install dictators friendly to us and now the people there hate us"

@gambitacio

4 ай бұрын

Which ones though? It was obvious Al Qaeda was hiding in Pakistan which was our “ally”.

@amerigmatictv

4 ай бұрын

I'm sure Ukraine will prove different.

@LexlutherVII

4 ай бұрын

when they get Bored they create........ and .......... and.........

I really like that point you made about our involvement. "If we really did create a monster, then it was our responsibility to see to its destruction." Very logical and understandable.

@GenJuhru

4 ай бұрын

And just like the cycle that it is, the need to build a new monster may be necessary for this task too.

@ObaidRehmanR76

4 ай бұрын

colonizer mentality

@rickastely996

4 ай бұрын

@@ObaidRehmanR76What?

@gr-8166

4 ай бұрын

Well it wouldn’t end. To end a disaster you must first stop funding it. This whole issue kept happening because the money and supplies were consistently given to them. It’s like having a proxy war in Detroit while giving a gang tanks and jeeps then saying, “we made a mistake”. Never let government solve problems that are the result of government intervention…

@MartialGlobe

4 ай бұрын

But at the end of the day the ground forces of iraq etc. are the ones who mostly dealt with that bullshit your government arguably created

One of the great ironies I find hilarious is the Taliban regaining control and discovering the joys of fighting against an ISIS insurgency. Victory truly is a poisoned chalice sometimes.

@Ungehorsam

4 ай бұрын

Well that is because the Taliban only came into power by forming a secret pact with America to fight against ISIS

@charlesevanshughes3638

4 ай бұрын

Best of luck to them both.

@voltage80x

4 ай бұрын

That was always the plan. To keep the Middle East unstable has been the plan for 75 years.

@badluck5647

4 ай бұрын

That call themselves ISIS, but it really just Taliban factions fighting a civil war.

@Ungehorsam

4 ай бұрын

@@badluck5647 While that is true in the sense that ISKP are ex-taliban it is false to claim they aren't apart of IS considering they have binding allegiance to the current IS Caliph.

I feel like we often forget that ISIS was primarily fought by local and neighboring groups such as the PMF, SDF, YPG, IRGC, and Hezbollah. Yes, American air strikes helped, but ground forces won the war against ISIS.

@rubengutierrez19

4 ай бұрын

No it isn't forgotten its just that his channel is extremely Pro-US biased. He has even said it , outright ignoring the massive Russian missile/air strikes on not just ISIS but Al-Nusra and similar groups. The fact the NATO only sent troops after the SAA started turning the tide is an eye opener. Turkey invaded the North to protect their proxies and stopped Syria from retaking Idlib. And the US came in thru Jordan to take over Al-Tanf where ISIS is still "somehow" operating from. The Peshmerga barely even fought against ISIS and there was a bunch of proofs that the US just tended to bribe ISIS commanders to leave areas to they could reach other oil fields much faster. Only some true "radical" elements of ISIS actually fought IE. In Al-Raqqa

@wallingnaga6563

4 ай бұрын

Yap the ground troops fought 90% of the war with ISIS

@damiion666

4 ай бұрын

They wouldn’t have succeeded without American air power. They’d still be slugging it out on a stalemate

@tsubadaikhan6332

4 ай бұрын

And, from memory - It was the Russians who started the campaign of destroying ISIS's Oil Transport into Türkiye, not giving a crap about the civilian or environmental damages - Which ended up being very effective. Also I distinctly remember when Raqqa surrendered Western Forces allowed a bus convoy into the city at the end to transport the surrendering forces out to safety, if they agreed to leave. That one wasn't an unconditional surrender.

@darklyripley6138

4 ай бұрын

I worked with a few YAT(YPG Special Forces) units in Syria. They were awesome people. But if not for America, none of the local groups would be as effective as they were. The YAT units I worked with were trained, and outfitted by America, and looked more like CAG than the rag tag militia that these same people were a few years prior.

After being in the ground and seeing it first hand, this video gave my 2 deployments over there in 2015/16 a little more meaning. I was focused on my mission and my buddies, not the bigger picture. Thank you for explaining this operation with such enthusiasm and knowledge!

@warpigs9069

3 ай бұрын

Thank you for being a part of history. Just by being there you've helped shed light on the situation.

@GemRippers

3 ай бұрын

and thank you for your bravery fighting against pure evil, thus allowing for the freedom & safety of MANY (myself included) today! 🇺🇸

This was my big deployment during my tenure with the air force. I remember briefing our Wing Commander on my suspicions about Ramadi being the target of a major offensive. My unit commander didn't want me to include that analysis in the briefing because he didn't believe it. I SPECIFICALLY referenced it as the most likely CoA. Too bad he was rotated out before the offensive happened. I would have loved to see the egg on his face.

They’re still out there in cells. Never underestimate a group with a strong ideology, bolstered by holding territory for a while, fading away easily. Don’t let your guard down just yet.

@mdnytc

4 ай бұрын

That's if US let them play again.

@JoshuaC923

4 ай бұрын

They're probably in Europe now

@noobshityou

4 ай бұрын

​@@JoshuaC923and seeking asylum 😂😂

@Apollo-tj1vm

4 ай бұрын

Yeah.. funny thing just happened

@Ungehorsam

4 ай бұрын

Cells do not operate in the thousands. Once you are with thousands of soldiers you are no longer cells rather a full on guerrilla insurgent force, which is what ISIS represents in Iraq and Syria right now, in places in Africa they aren't guerrilla fighters rather a full on military with territory to protect and hold

Super interesting. Had no idea we began targeting their oil trucks, but, makes sense. Slow moving, super soft targets, easy to hit. Also, limited ability to replace those trucks and convince people to drive them.

@Taskandpurpose

4 ай бұрын

yeah that was probably the most interesting thing I learned in this project. It was actually a really controversial move if you look deeper into that whole aspect of the war because the oil trucks were possibly driven by non ISIS workers who were trying to earn money. The US air force dropped leaflets for weeks warning everyone to not drive the oil trucks. It's actually kind of an awful aspect to the war to think about but....it worked / had the intended outcome at least

@JP-qb3ny

4 ай бұрын

CIA < Mossad < Israel

@MichaelGalt

4 ай бұрын

@Taskandpurpose I mean, better than constantly blowing up the oil fields where they probably had slave labor working. Quite frankly, they might have tried that with the trucks, but I would bet they didn't... since then the slaves would just try to run. Most people don't understand how much funding ISIS was able to achieve through taxes, checkpoints, and "security". They also took over tons of businesses and basically profited from everything that was going on in the areas under their control.

@Sandals578

4 ай бұрын

@@Taskandpurposeand trench guns are only a war crime to nazis.

@Gaehhn

4 ай бұрын

@@Sandals578 You know the Nazis didn't come to power until 15 Years after WW1 was over, right?

This was a brilliant useful and insightful exposition of what is happening in this part of the world. Better by far than the twaddle produced by the major media. You have rendered an outstanding service to tired out old warriors who are just trying to stay on top of events. Many thanks.

Nice overall view on a war that puts many things into perspective. Keep up the great work. Have a great new year.

As much as the Syrian Government, Iran and Russian is hated, you can't deny they made a huge contribution to fighting ISIS. It's disappointing it wasn't covered in this video. Their goals may have been different (recapture areas lost in the civil war, not to specifically destroy ISIS), but it was still ISIS that was holding a lot of the territory.

@badwolf66

4 ай бұрын

Yeah this is mostly American propaganda.

@kaulumapaulus9234

4 ай бұрын

It's because of them that isis is actually defeated

@freddiemercury2075

4 ай бұрын

I am surprised Iran and Russia were fighting ISIS too.

@harounel-poussah6936

4 ай бұрын

@@freddiemercury2075 Especially since Iran created ISIS !!! Yup !!!

@ascendedbro1828

4 ай бұрын

​@@freddiemercury2075What is so surprising?

"Al-bugatti"... Never change Cappy 😂

@detectivejohndyson

4 ай бұрын

lol I’m surprised there aren’t more comments on this. Al-bugghati? Al-bugahti?

@livininanonymity

3 ай бұрын

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Same Baghdad as the capital of Iraq.

@daminox

8 күн бұрын

@@livininanonymity more like al-baghdeadi, am i right? ba dum tish

I’m glad to have played a part in this fight. I lost my good friend, NAVY SEAL Charles Keating IV on May 3rd, 2016. I’ll never forget that day. I had hundreds of combat missions/raids and that day, I was medically discharged as a result of RPG shrapnel. I didn’t have my weapon raised quick enough when I rounded a corner….i didn’t know until years later after being allowed to watch the drone recording from that day, the ISIS fighter was hit by several rounds from my MK18, and eventually bled out. I wish I could redo that day. I was a USAF SOF/ST TACP, spent years attached to the 3rd Ranger Battalion, and briefly attached to SEAL teams who didn’t have a JTAC in the area.

@blu3dreaming996

3 ай бұрын

🫡🫡🫡

@warpigs9069

3 ай бұрын

I'm glad you're here with us, and able to share your story.

@stryz5736

Ай бұрын

thanks from france

@chikalikedis8170

Ай бұрын

you left your brothers to die

Thank you for explaining and highlighting this important conflict.

"we'll arm the rebels, that's always gone well." - America

@islandwills2778

4 ай бұрын

It's one of the reasons that I consider the USA to be one of the most cruel and evil nations to ever exist. Over and over they fund, arm and create monsters because of some geopolitical goal. And always in places far far away from them

@jamesadams7319

4 ай бұрын

"It will be cheaper in the long run and have lower risks."

@user-tc9sk4ei9y

4 ай бұрын

"The terrorists we own are the rebels" - also America

@philipthecow

2 ай бұрын

"Let's just deploy a few combat troops"

I remember CNN was airing live footage of the final bits of fighting in the battle of Mosul while me and my brother were eating lunch. It showed a group of counter-insurgents looking for an ISIS fighter hiding out in a yellow-grassy patch with a war-torn city in the background. Suddenly as the counter-insurgents move closer, an ISIS fighter pops up and raises a rifle at them. AND LIKE IN A VIDEO GAME, SOMEONE SHOOTS A ROCKET DIRECTLY AT THE ISIS FIGHTER AND TURNS HIM INTO RED GOREY MEAT Me and my brother in unison say “OH SH*T” when it happened. The CNN anchor lady just said some of the footages is distressing, but it took almost a minute for them to cut away. I’ve never been able to find this footage, or found any mention of it on the internet. I didn’t care to see it again 10ish years ago when I saw it, but now it’s difficult to find even if I look (which I wouldn’t recommend for ANYONE to look for)

@emilen2

4 ай бұрын

Oh come on, where's the video? Asking for a friend 🙂

@Imperial_Lizardgirl

4 ай бұрын

Thanks for telling me. Not gonna look for.

@skip1383

3 ай бұрын

@smileydog5941 When you say “10ish years ago”. Are you sure you’re talking about the Battle of Mosul in 2016-2017, and not the Fall of Mosul from 2014?

@smileydog5941

3 ай бұрын

@@skip1383 Most likely the Fall of Mosul of 2014

@smileydog5941

3 ай бұрын

@@emilen2 If I'd found it I would let you know. The problem is that when you go searching for something like that you stumble upon waaaaay worse things, which is why I strongly advise doing so.

Great video, which was very accurate and provided enough details that anyone could have a good understanding of what, why, and how. Great job.

Cappy I cant tell u how happy I am to see you answer this question, cause I have wondered about this many times. Looking forward to watching this video over dinner. Much love and happy new year. :)

Joshua Wheeler was my teacher at Camp Robinson in Arkansas when I went for my GED thru the Army, he was there on medical leave in June 2007. He 100% is the reason I got my GED and passed in top 3% of my class, I got a challenge coin for that as well that I gave to my son when he graduated high school. I still remember hearing about his death and feeling extremely sad by it. I only knew the man as a teacher who helped me with my math and kept me motivated to get my GED. I had to stop this video when he was mention to write this.

@CaptainHarris-ip2kg

4 ай бұрын

You have my sympathies.

@deicide3821

4 ай бұрын

@@CaptainHarris-ip2kg I still think about him, I didn't know him as others did and only as a teacher. His one on one with me with my math saved my butt and helped me beyond words. I'm glad I got to know him in the way I had.

@abedmarachli7345

4 ай бұрын

This is the type of man who makes a difference by taking initiative and sacrifice for people you do not know and who may not deserve it, but you live up to your principles.

19D, 1st Cav. We trained IA forces in FOB Marez, Mosul from 2010 to 2011, Operation New Dawn. Our Trp suffered three casualities, Sgt. Fiero, Sgt. Bartley, and Spc. Lamar. A few years later, ISIS came. The IA we trained, and lost battle buddys for, tucked tail and ran. Whole thing was BS, glad we got out of there. Wish we didn't lose anyone doing it though.

@SkyRiver1

4 ай бұрын

The politicians time and time again commit good men to irksome actions that have dubious or worse outcomes. In this case as in later in Afghanistan, the only real winners were the American Arms OEMs that got orders to replace the lost material. Both the Rothschild and the Morgana fortunes were built by supplying governments with the means to fight wars. And no matter who won the money boys made their nut every time.

@mmancino1982

4 ай бұрын

I was in Kirkuk during that time with 2-12 cav 1CD. We heard about those losses. sucks bro Pretty much all the IA and IP we trained were friggin useless. The Kurds were a different story. The ones we worked with were solid. I kinda took one of their young soldiers (16 at the time) under my wing, so to speak. Gave him a bunch of my extra gear because the gear they'd given him was literally falling apart, "coached" him during patrols etc. I often wonder what came of him.

@mordant221

4 ай бұрын

@@mmancino1982 We never trained any Kurds, 1-9, but yeah we heard good things about them, they probably did much better against ISIS. The IA were definitely trash though, always trying to sell us their own gear. Came home with 2 plate carriers!

@JinKazama92

4 ай бұрын

@@mmancino1982 bro you gotta find that man

@mmancino1982

4 ай бұрын

@@JinKazama92 I never even knew his last name, unfortunately. I just knew him as "Ahmed"

I truly appreciate the subtle comedic jabs you took while describing this situation. "Hit them right in the fanny pack."

Thanks Chris. That filled many knowledge gaps, and thank you for your active service.

Kurds were the boots on the ground. Kurds were a major part of the Inherent Resolve.

@AaSs-ln9mm

4 ай бұрын

What about Assad and Russia?

@taysondynastyemperor5124

4 ай бұрын

Because everyone else did nothing lmao.

@mirshafie

4 ай бұрын

Shia was by far the largest ethnic group fighting ISIS, but of course Kurds, Arab Sunni, Christians et.c. all fought bravely and suffered tragic losses.

@calebbearup4282

4 ай бұрын

@@AaSs-ln9mm Assad and Russia were more focused on harming innocents than in harming ISIS. Hence the incident when Wagner tried attacking Kurds and got smoked by the US

@needtoknow514

4 ай бұрын

@taysondynastyemperor5124 USA had and continues to have a small footprint. USA provided logistics and air support. 40,000 kurds. 900 USA was 2,500 until Trump pulled the money, and Turkey invaded Syria & Iraq to kill Kurds.

Warranted or not, the CIA do have somewhat of a reputation for doing their own thing, and causing many more problems than they solve... still, I guess it keeps people employed.

@Noahzgard

4 ай бұрын

The thing with secret services is that when they do right - we take it for granted and usually even dont know they did something. We know only their fuckups :D

@cerealport2726

4 ай бұрын

@@Noahzgard yeah, yeah, this is the usual story eh, all those gallant, brave, and honest people doing a wonderful job with only the occasional small, harmless mistake... like training and funding Osama Bin Laden, the mujahideen, the Taliban, the Iran-Contra disaster, the fake intel about WMDs in Iraq... gun-walking to drug cartels, and all those drone strikes in countries where no one thought the USA was at war... not to mention government sanctioned extraordinary renditions to countries where torture is ok... It's amazing how many people think it's perfectly ok, even admirable for their own country to conduct operations to destabilize and overthrow governments, fund terrorism, train psychopaths, and otherwise cause trouble with global implications, yet, when it is revealed that other countries do the same, it's somehow "wrong", and shouldn't be allowed...

@bunk95

4 ай бұрын

Those marketed as part of the CIA do their own thing? You market parts of making and keeping slaves as problems? Youre not a [citizen] or something are you? Learn how to market the waste?

@cerealport2726

4 ай бұрын

@@bunk95 you don't make any sense, what has "marketing" got to do with anything here...? Unless you are talking about the massive resurgence of the slave trade in Libya since the US interfered in Northern Africa... yet more potentially unintended consequences of governments interfering in the affairs of other countries... and yes, I know the USA is not alone, but we are talking about the CIA after all.

@bunk95

4 ай бұрын

@@cerealport2726 you mean making and keeping slaves that dont lie as frequently about whats occurring? Slaves that aren’t tortured so they only appear to be [marketing] themselves/others/places/etc.? (You didnt learn how to lie about slaves, their behavior and where theyre at in [school]?)

Great report Chris very informative.

I've been watching you for a couple of years now and have come to the conclusion that you are not an average infantryman. From my days where iron sights were all we had, you must have snuck in an education somewhere. Keep up the good work.

Towards the end of the video you mentioned the Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi raid and it always reminds me of how much of a coward he was. He had the opportunity to become a “hero” to his followers by standing his ground and fighting to the death against one of the movements biggest enemies. He could have sent some of the world best soldiers to the grave with his S-vest but instead he chose to cower away and then run. He claimed “death to the west” and all that yet when he had the opportunity to inflict heavy casualties upon the pinnacle of the US military, he ran. He ran into a tunnel with three kids and blew himself up when the dog came for him (the dog, named Conan, survived). Don’t get me wrong, I’m glad he didn’t just wait by the door and clack off his vest when delta came in but it does show how despite what he may have claimed and what he represented, he was a coward. When the real warriors came knocking, he showed his true colours.

@ansur9556

4 ай бұрын

Woulde you have had the Balls to Face Guy's from the Delta Force?😂

@lzhiwei

4 ай бұрын

Bin Laden didn't even try to take up his rifle despite having helicopter noises and other gunfire giving him enough early warning. It seems to reach a high rank and old age as an islamic terrorist, cowardice is levelled up high in their skill tree.

@brendondowdy5651

4 ай бұрын

​@ansur9556 I would assume the other guy isn't a jihad extremist though lol. So glad we got him off the board.

@baronc252

4 ай бұрын

@@ansur9556 the guys followers certainly had more balls than him. Clearly somebody else should've been running that show. I suppose we should be thankful that it was a coward like him.

@mattmattmatt131313

4 ай бұрын

...and risk getting captured? Be paraded around by your enemy and trial you? Real life isn't some movie where you wait around by the doors when the enemy comes knocking. I'm sure he understood he is up against elite trained proffesionals. He could watch the doors but get attacked from another direction never even seeing the enemy. He could be absolutely rifled through yet still survive through some freak coincidence. Nah this way he ensured his death. The islamic media would still say the next day how he "died a martyr in an American raid" the details don't matter. Hitler deleted himself in a bunker when the Soviets were still miles away.

9:35 I’ve always wondered about this and am glad to hear you address it clearly. We knew there were “advisors” on the ground at the time but I was always curious as to the level of involvement from them. As you put it, they were right in the mix, acting as forward observers and calling in air strikes. From the way the media and White House told it at the time, we had very few people in country and those who were in country weren’t fighting and weren’t leaving the wire.

@thedude828-ed2nn

4 ай бұрын

Eddie Gallagher did a interview on Shawn Ryan he was a seal he said they were way more than advisors they were in the push through mosul he said in one engagement they smoked about 50 guys.

@PrograError

4 ай бұрын

@@thedude828-ed2nn I suppose on some level they ARE advisors, but on the other, it's a free for all depending on the prevailing ROE... It's literally small squads doing all the work than a battalion level force like the Iraq invasion, plus US is not exactly liked in that area...

Very clear. Overall excellent. Thank you

Nice as usually T&P!

Oh man, you have cleared up so much of the confusing news about troops in Iraq and Syria. This is also the first comprehensive explanation of the fight against ISIS. Thank you.

@xWhiteRussianx1

4 ай бұрын

They exploiting Syrian oil fields d0nt lie to yourself

@michaelcoletta4547

4 ай бұрын

There's a whole lot conveniently left out

@peekaboopeekaboo1165

4 ай бұрын

Cappy peddling his U$ Gov/Military version of events in Syria . The traitorous Syrian rebels are being used for U$ Regime Change . U$ enabled ISIS to expand inside Syria ...as to weaken Assad and conduct proxy War on Russia . Southeast Asian Muslims and Chinese Muslims also joined ISIS (including Uyghur separatists). Some of these Chinese Muslims are cuddled by U$ and Turkey to this day .

@davidhbrown9767

4 ай бұрын

@@michaelcoletta4547 You know why we didn't hear about all of this beyond a few mentions by the man himself? It was during the Trump administration and media was NOT putting out any accomplishments that the President made on anything. I actually learned some extra information when two Coptic Christians from that mountain in Iraq came to work at the Walmart I worked at for a little while.

@michaelcoletta4547

4 ай бұрын

@@davidhbrown9767 ISIS was already on the run by the time Trump got elected. The usual suspects in Washington get so mad about it, but they lost control of being able to "manage" the jihadists in a way that would eventually result in Assad going the way of Gaddafi the moment Russia got involved. Trump even referenced this in the debates leading up to his nomination and 2016 victory. Turkey was heavily embarrassed but so was Obama's administration... they were caught with their pants down. Biden famously tried to make Erdogan the fall guy when pressed on the dirty game they were all playing in Syria... and Erdogan never forgot this.

I dont wish to gush, but wow, really impressive production values. Information, new and up-to-date. Bravo Zulu.

@peekaboopeekaboo1165

4 ай бұрын

Cappy peddling his U$ Gov/Military version of events in Syria . The traitorous Syrian rebels weren't order to counter ISIS ... they're used for U$ Regime Change . U$ enabled ISIS to expand inside Syria ...as part of weakening Assad and conduct proxy War on Russia . Southeast Asian Muslims and Chinese Muslims also joined ISIS (including Uyghur separatists). Some of these Chinese Muslims are cuddled by U$ and Turkey to this day .

Just came across your channel but I love your shit! thank you for uploading🕺

I was a repairman, so-called CJTF-Operation Inherent Resolve service member in 2015, 16, National Guard member who was there at the time and strongly volunteered to go. "What you did ?" "...I don't know" and I really don't know😮but wearing the armband of the 7th Infantry Division, shuttling in front of the Marines, 82nd Airborne, 1st Armored Division, Army Special Forces , it felt really bad😮

I was a part of inherent resolve and did not know most of this info, super informative, thank you! love your videos

+1 for Delta. Hardly ever hear about this unit. That's a good thing

Good job Cappy. Great content.

Thank you for the video

Fun fact, when civilization was first developing in the region now known as Iraq, the whole area was green and lush. The ancient Babylonians followed a line of civilization that had already existed for several millennia. It was known that the climate was changing to more desert and saltier soil. They developed new technologies and closely managed water to counter the changes. The same cycle (the Malankovich cycle) made the Sahara a savanna region rich with grasses and animals. Ancient cave paintings prove humans lived there. We have another 3,000 years until it comes back but climate change may actually push us there sooner since the changes are related to hotter summer temperatures in the northern hemisphere.

@paralyzerfingereleven

4 ай бұрын

So we lose the polar bears but get the Babylonians back. Fuck yeah

@goober7535

4 ай бұрын

not one part of that comment was accurate. kinda impressive tbh

@CaptainHarris-ip2kg

4 ай бұрын

And that, more than anything else, might solve this whole mess by providing a massive fresh water resource, and settle the area by creating farm lands and ranches.

@Emily-ou6lq

4 ай бұрын

Are you sayaing that the only anthropogenic thing about global warming is the BS around it?

@adamredwine774

4 ай бұрын

@@goober7535 Actually it's all correct. Look up the North Africa Humid Period and Malenkovitch cycles. This isn't secret knowledge, it's well known fact.

I'm astonished the Mosul Dam survived all this. That dam is built on really fragile gypsum rock and it requires constant maintenance to keep the foundations from eroding out from under it. If that dam goes, say goodbye to everything along the Tigris River for the next 100+miles.

I remember those days and the limited news in the US. Thanks Cappy for filling in all the details of the actions against ISIS. I met a warfighter at a bus station, who had the hard look of a combat veteran. We chatted a while and I thanked him for his service and hard work. He told me he was on his way to fight in Mosul. I hope he's now living a good and peaceful life back state side.

That was super interesting. Well done.

As long as these groups have financial support and their is no pressure on them, these groups will always rise again

@bunk95

4 ай бұрын

No pressure on them?

@Alexx120493

4 ай бұрын

financial support and ideological backing by a large portion of the muslim world.

@JoaoSoares-rs6ec

4 ай бұрын

@@bunk95 military actions, meaning continuous strikes on them, not giving them time to regroup and strike.

@JoaoSoares-rs6ec

4 ай бұрын

@@Alexx120493 yes and from some people in Europe and US, that's for the units ment to track such funds, the issue is that with so few to track the internal transactions to catch those using tax evasion, it means even fewer to track the funds going for those groups.

@TKUA11

4 ай бұрын

They did. Russia learned a lot from isis and use their tactics too

Thank you for the info. This is stuff we hear little about.

@peekaboopeekaboo1165

4 ай бұрын

Cappy peddling his U$ Gov/Military version of events in Syria . The traitorous Syrian rebels weren't order to counter ISIS ... they're used for U$ Regime Change . U$ enabled ISIS to expand inside Syria ...as part of weakening Assad and conduct proxy War on Russia . Southeast Asian Muslims and Chinese Muslims also joined ISIS (including Uyghur separatists). Some of these Chinese Muslims are cuddled by U$ and Turkey to this day .

very nicely put together

I was deployed in the Persian Gulf at the heat of it on 2014-15. We were competing on which Carrier drops the most ordinance weight. Our ship got the record of 840+ Tons 😅

@GenJuhru

4 ай бұрын

..and a kitchen sink

@asianamericanadvice6016

4 ай бұрын

840 tons of bombs? In one day?

Brilliant, short but concise, report, Chris. Thank you very much for bringing these reports for the public to know and understand the importance and the sacrifices of US Forces and Allied Nations Forces to deter and defeat repressive forces.

@peekaboopeekaboo1165

4 ай бұрын

Cappy peddling his U$ Gov/Military version of events in Syria . The traitorous Syrian rebels are being used for U$ Regime Change . U$ enabled ISIS to expand inside Syria ...as to weaken Assad and conduct proxy War on Russia . Southeast Asian Muslims and Chinese Muslims also joined ISIS (including Uyghur separatists). Some of these Chinese Muslims are cuddled by U$ and Turkey to this day .

@smo-king6504

4 ай бұрын

It's short because he leaves out all the Russian, Iranian and Lebanese involvement that fought ISIS much more brutal and effective than the US

@dwainerdjon5559

2 ай бұрын

@@smo-king6504 agree 100%, usa do nothin to isis

If anybody is interested in the details of the air campaign of Inherent Resolve, I recommend the book „Hunting the Caliphate“ by Dana Pittard, Commander of all US personnel in Iraq during the operation, and Wes Bryant, a retired J-TAC. It‘s cool stuff!

Thanks for this, I was shaking my head over here all like "The place was fine when I left it". But now I know what happened.

Excellent content, Chris.

The hole video is the best one you have ever made. You are even better than television with their high budget.😊

@guccithickums

4 ай бұрын

@@DroneStrike1776I was just about to say the same thing

@Taskandpurpose

4 ай бұрын

I try to dive deeper into these wars in ways the main stream media doesnt have the time for

@jose2226

3 ай бұрын

Well he was actually there for awhile

Worked with Kurdish YAT units while in Syria. They were some of the best fighters I ever worked with. They had surprisingly good training, had amazing equipment, and fantastic attitudes. All of which came from America.

@thefirst_ranger161

4 ай бұрын

Did you work with CTG while you were there?

@darklyripley6138

4 ай бұрын

@@thefirst_ranger161 CTG is in a different AO. But when I went to Syria, we had to fly into Iraq, then drive across the border. So I did see some guys who I assume were CTG. But they might have been just really well equipped Iraqis. I worked with YAT, not CTG.

great video mate

Another great video🎉

This channel is the best news source.

@JaemanEdwards

4 ай бұрын

If biased news is what you're looking for, you found it. This guy actually supports Israel. Israel are the Russia of the Middle East.

Hey Chris, would you consider making a video on anti-submarine helicopters like the American Seahawk? I'd love to hear your expertise/insight explaining what makes them so effective. Thanks.

@JaemanEdwards

4 ай бұрын

Yes. Do they use those hedgehog type weapons ?

You did a great job with the video

I'm fairly new to your channel and love your videos ! I didn't know you served and wanted to say thank you for your service. It's because of courageous people such as yourself that we don't have a draft or mandatory conscription. It's because of brave people like you that I was able to go to college after high school and get a degree instead of heading out for deployment. Thank you again sir, You've gotten a loyal subscriber today !

Deir ez-Zor was held by Syrian government forces. Granted the IS forces besieging it were some of the last to be defeated, but they never held the town.

The CIA, when training a local militia force to combat a dictator doesn’t go as planned: 😦

Happy New year all the best love wore information you are great

I'm glad I listened to your full report. It cleared up a lot of questions I had about stories I've been hearing about conflict in Syria and Ira. I hope those to countries appreciate the United States for getting rid of Isis . Thank you for that Explanation!!!

Thanks for doing this video. I was in basic training when ISIS struck and deployed a year later deployed in 2015 to Iraq. How time flies lol

@peekaboopeekaboo1165

4 ай бұрын

Cappy peddling his U$ Gov/Military version of events in Syria . The traitorous Syrian rebels are being used for U$ Regime Change . U$ enabled ISIS to expand inside Syria ...as to weaken Assad and conduct proxy War on Russia . Southeast Asian Muslims and Chinese Muslims also joined ISIS (including Uyghur separatists). Some of these Chinese Muslims are cuddled by U$ and Turkey to this day .

If I remember correctly - It was the Russians who started the campaign of destroying ISIS's Oil Transport into Türkiye, not giving a crap about the civilian or environmental damages - Which ended up being very effective. Also, I distinctly remember when Raqqa surrendered, Western Forces allowed a bus convoy into the city at the end to transport the surrendering forces out to safety, if they agreed to leave. That one wasn't an unconditional surrender. These Wars are always messy, and rarely have clear victors at the end.

Wise move for the DOD to release more info about this period of time and help spread it on social media.

Great video in general, i watched a couple of them already and love them so far, but would you please consider using the proper temperature scale in your scripts/text, the one that is used by the entire world? Thank you!

Thanks for a well researched and well told story. As always 😀

@ivanmonahhov2314

4 ай бұрын

A good lie !

@obeatyrules419

4 ай бұрын

He lost me at AL Bogetti

You best work, great job.

Isis grew 10 time when coalition joined the operation against Isis, then it shrunk significantly when rissia established its bases. Now isis exists in the territory where Russia has no access because the coalition is there

Can you do a video on how America got destroyed in Afghanistan next please

A little bit behind on some of your videos. I'm watching this AFTER the ISIS attack in Moscow.

I remember I was heartbroken when I saw Ramadi had fallen. I spent 7 months there between 2008 and 2009. Absolutely beautiful along the Euphrates.

I’m not the professional here but my first thought when I saw the title of the video was a lot of confusion just because “the worst group” is pretty vague so I’m not sure if you will end up changing it but just a thought. No matter the title I’m always watching anyways for some of the best content on the internet

@jeremyevans9629

4 ай бұрын

I think it's to skirt the algorithm avoiding anything controversial

@johngillespie3409

4 ай бұрын

The worst on the planet, according to Delta, seals and rangers. They love killing them. Go watch podcasts 🇺🇲🇵🇱🇮🇱

@aidanfrei

4 ай бұрын

@@jeremyevans9629 oh true I forgot KZread is like that

@Taskandpurpose

4 ай бұрын

gotta play coy with the title so as to not get dinged by the powers that be

@Areshod

4 ай бұрын

The flag in the thumbnail is a clue

Even with all the foreign artillery, air, and guidance support, Iraqi’s still lost 6000 troops. War is always so tragic.

@alexpetrov8871

4 ай бұрын

Russians spend this number every month for two years now.

@integraxnine745

4 ай бұрын

We lost more than ten times that number in the fighting against ISIS mainly do to the fact that most of our attacks involved paramilitary forces (civilian volunteers with minimum military training) so the losses were heavy. Also, ISIS had suicide bombers all over the place and ISIS soldiers fought till death. Many other factors played part in the heavy losses suffered by Iraq such as lack of ammo, lack of food, lack of air support (air support was very limited and only focused on a very small and limited areas). Back then we would call the command center because we had nothing to eat for several days in the Frontline and they would just say "figure something out yourselves".

@shadowslayer9988

4 ай бұрын

​@@alexpetrov8871Ukraine yeah oh boy they definitely getting up there already needing to mobilize 500,000 people losses must be catastrophic even with all that NATO military equipment.

@user-rx5cf8xd9k

3 ай бұрын

@@alexpetrov8871Sad isn’t it! All because of one nut who sits in his palace I respect Navalny. The US has to support the right side of democracy. You can’t let dictators have their way.

Watched a few videos on Isis now and I think by far yours was the best I've seen explaining the whole war against them. Ty Cappy

Nice, helpfull and packed of info... masterpiece of a video in only 21 minutes of content. I'm linking this to anyone I know hahahah

Yup, all true. It's not like Palmyra, Abu Kamal, etc. evere hapened, it's not like ISIS started to lose when Russia engaged. Shia militias, Syrians and Iranians just sit down and watched...

Great analysis, and I really like that you are sticking out your cheak on a very difficult and sensitive conflict. 👍👌👏 Here is some peaces of missing puzzles; 1. Turkey never attacked ISIS, this was only lies where the Turkish state only bombing kurdish villages, and cities to the ground in eastern Turkey. The same thing happend during the US-Iraq war, where the Turkish army started to attack kurdish civilians by air. Lots of coallition pilot forces complained about Turkish pilots bombing kurdish civilians instead of attacking Saddams forces or ISIS. 2. There are four dominant fractions amoung the kurds, based on Kurdistan, where you have KDP fighting in Iraq, PUK in Iran, PKK in Turkey, and YPG/YPJ in Syria. Trying to defend Kurdish civilians from all these terrorstates military aggression. 3. But because of Turkey is a member of NATO, they act under the public radar when supporting extreme groups like ISIS, and Hamas!

@testnameplsignore6916

4 ай бұрын

Whole lotta bs 😅😅

@HikerBikerMoter

4 ай бұрын

sadly none of them (turkey, syria, iraq, iran) want the Kurdish nation promoted to the status of a nation-state

@siyacer

3 ай бұрын

not quite right

Very well done.

Thank You Sir.

Whoa. CIA mission not going how planned? Wild.

@snpdmz

4 ай бұрын

exactly

@abbcc5996

4 ай бұрын

almost all of isis equipment was taken from the iraqi and syrian armies. the meager arms that the rebels received didnt change the outcome in any meaningful way

It's still sickening how the Kurds were used and discarded. They fought like champions.

@chewbacca3269

4 ай бұрын

They fought because they wanted to create a country. They took whatever help they could. No one in the region and no one outside actually wants them to win. They only want to use them in order to keep nations in the region on their toes.

bro, i was in Mosul in 2007-08 and i feel you so much. RIP COP Knight!

One of the best documentaries ive ever seen is “once upon a time in Irak” It documents the story from the US intervention, through to the destruction of ISIS. If you want to know the details of the horrors of ISIS reign, watch it!

The view that we created a monster is ludicrous in that a monster was already there. We got rid of the first monster and another came in. It’s like whack-a-mole.

@Taskandpurpose

4 ай бұрын

You make a good point . Not sure ISIS would have grown without US invasion of iraq but definitely messed up before

@anthonyscott5134

4 ай бұрын

@@Taskandpurpose , Yep, who knows, but what we do know is that Sadaam was a Tirana and mad murderer of his people so I look at it as a good deed. It perhaps wasn’t our fight, in hindsight being 20/20 but as a world leader at least we tried. That corner of the world is pretty messed up! They make the U.S. with all our issues look like utopia by comparison. However we are having our own domestic fight against religious political fanaticism so we don’t have a whole lot of room to talk.

"Nothing brings people together more than mutually disliking someone else" or as the Lions Led by Donkeys's Joe would put it "The Grand Unifying Theory of FUCK THAT GUY" universally prooven true 😂😂😂

@islandwills2778

4 ай бұрын

Isis was particularly easy to hate. As in both USA and Russia collectively were like fuck these guys.

Hey, off-topic question, but I did the asvab through my high school and got an AFQT of 69 and a GT of 112. Is that good? And if so, what does that really mean?

"A man can be killed or destroyed. But if he makes himself more than just a man and becomes an ideal. He becomes immortal." Ras Al Ghul

It's my experience that labelling terrorist is an important part of selling a slow defeat. How do a person get radicalised enough to be a dangerous human? And how much does it take to neutralise the same person? Well, it might look like a victory, but it definitely didn't cost the terrorist much to make the Western world go ape shit for a long time, and invest serious coin in a war against mostly shadows. How do we know the casualties were not just sacrifices in terms of how terrorist operate in the first place? It could just as well be a carrot for us to display, to show the coin wasn't used to do damage that didn't make more radicalised people? How the fart do we know that we are not doing the work a recruiter had a hard time doing before we engaged in a country we hardly knew anything about? I mean, we never before heard about our own citizens joining the terrorist before we were pounding their villages, and that is just a fact we don't have a debate about.

Much to the chagrin of the US State Department, isis was destroyed by The Brave Soldiers of the Syrian Arab Army and Russian Expeditionary Forces.

@youtubechannelidk

4 ай бұрын

facts, despite what you think of them they are the ones who destroyed it not the US with the odd drone strike and small controlled territory

@Man_ham_aslume_124

4 ай бұрын

As opposed to the "chagrin" of the Kremlin?

Holy moooolly…. 😅😢 That was wild… and forget how many conflicts happen around the world… and many that I thought were over seem to have never stopped! Amazing content, you seem very unbiased which is very refreshing… An objective view of the world without taking sides… I am subbed

Loving how the thumbnail has photos of Americans valiantly fighting despite them being the ones who created isis and Middle Easterners being the ones who fought them the most.

In 2018 my best friend was stationed at fort shafter and was supposed to be on some type of training rotation in Thailand and the Philippines. I think it was jungle school or something, but his unit actually got orders to redeploy in the middle of training to kill those ISIS dudes that had set up shop in the Philippines. Shit sounded absolutely insane. You'll never hear about it on the news, but small villiages in the Philippines were basically becoming mini Iraqs/Vietnams. He got a bronze star for that but he'll still never tell anybody about. He only told me because of how close we are. Just not that kind of guy.

I was in Mosul 2011. This hits home and very personal 😠

We could hear him crying, I said: “Abu, don’t cry.”

"People die, but ideas won't" It just a matter of time before another one of these groups decides to show up.

@EunoiaTheIceKing

4 ай бұрын

ISIS is still around btw. No need for a “new group”

What was not mentioned was why ISIS were ever allowed to sale oil, to anyone? I mean surely satellites/drones had noticed massive convoys of oil trucks? And who were they selling it too?

@mikelangelo1232

4 ай бұрын

To USA duh

@johnhenry4844

4 ай бұрын

@@mikelangelo1232it was Iraqi and Syrian traders but hey