How US Companies Get Away with Fueling Russia’s Military

How the US is Supporting Russia’s War
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A Russian cruise missile is shot down in Ukraine by American provided air defenses. Investigators look inside the wreckage of the missile and what do they find? American components- microelectronics and microchips. How is this happening? A shadowy network of shell companies and middlemen that are smuggling Western electronics into Russia.
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  • @johnnyharris
    @johnnyharris3 ай бұрын

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  • @bonteski2997

    @bonteski2997

    3 ай бұрын

    you can just ship the parts to Bulgaria or Serbia or Hungary and they will resell to Russia. Its not a big deal , and of all people you should know better, its trade and economy . It has noting to do with " Fueling Russia’s Military'

  • @howIsee1t

    @howIsee1t

    3 ай бұрын

    You need to make next video about how to open shell company and way to enter in to the business😂, love the detail analysis.

  • @Booz2020

    @Booz2020

    3 ай бұрын

    Slava 🇹🇼 Heroyam TAIWANese 🦾

  • @glass8289

    @glass8289

    3 ай бұрын

    Why USA and EU Sanctioned russian oil but not Russian diesel and Nuclear supplies? Hypocrisy is a way of life in west.

  • @makisekurisu4674

    @makisekurisu4674

    3 ай бұрын

    It's insane how technologically advanced the Us really is. If you discount the us, people in the rest of the world would be living 30+years in the past.

  • @SC-zg6iv
    @SC-zg6iv3 ай бұрын

    Glad to finally understand why Texas Instruments charges $200 for calculators 😑

  • @worldoadobe

    @worldoadobe

    3 ай бұрын

    $200 for calculators???

  • @bondrewdthelordofdawn3744

    @bondrewdthelordofdawn3744

    3 ай бұрын

    200 for calculator?The f ?

  • @petrichor259

    @petrichor259

    3 ай бұрын

    ​@@worldoadobeyup

  • @somone1437

    @somone1437

    3 ай бұрын

    they put their mouth where the money is. I dont trust the companies, yet i cant do anything...yet. Vote for politicians who actually does less shady than right stuff

  • @Tensho_C

    @Tensho_C

    3 ай бұрын

    ppl surprised there are expensive calculators have not done math above algebra lmao

  • @TylerOrchowski
    @TylerOrchowski3 ай бұрын

    I work in this industry and would like to add some detail and context to Johnny's video. First off, this was an accurate explanation of how parts get where they aren't supposed to go. Kudos there. What is important to understand though is that these aren't military or space grade chips. Those can handle heat and vibration and radiation and are pretty well controlled by our government, with an extreme price tag accompanying them. The trick is, consumer electronics are advanced enough now that you can fly a missile with the same parts in your car, or washing machine, or phone. The parts Russia is getting are used everywhere, and as a result it's nearly impossible to prevent them from getting into the wrong hands. This phenomenon is the same one that has enabled cheap consumer drones to be modified to deliver explosives in the conflict. This level of performance is commonplace and cheap now.

  • @ronblack7870

    @ronblack7870

    3 ай бұрын

    so lets impose a tax on all these chips and use it to build weapons for ukrae

  • @IgorKravchenko_

    @IgorKravchenko_

    3 ай бұрын

    As far as I know, the choice of using western consumer grade electronics in military hardware in Russia was made exactly to easily source these components when the sanctions are implemented. It seems this strategy worked quite well. I remember that several years ago in Russia one of military jets crashed and they were disassembling some black-box related stuff live on TV, and people noticed right away that it was made of off-the-shelf parts you could buy in a shop next door and there was an outrage inside the country about it presuming that it is obviously a flaw. May be it wasn't indeed.

  • @p382742937423y4

    @p382742937423y4

    3 ай бұрын

    Yes, that is true. Still.... shit

  • @certainperson9869

    @certainperson9869

    3 ай бұрын

    Thanks for adding the context. This is an important point to this video.

  • @isaacvelazco2111

    @isaacvelazco2111

    3 ай бұрын

    The food industry has traceability, lot numbers, batches, so you can draw a line of a product to even take it out of the shelves at the store. I bet that for chips is not that different. However, I think that sales managers in this US companies are going to get a big bonuses at the end of every year (and accionist their part) while the war is in process. If you have a record of your clients from the last five years, you could easily tell which new clients (whevever they are or there name is) are at the end of the day, Russia, there is a economic benefit and interest to sell this by companies in the US that is not considered in the video.

  • @mohammadyounes645
    @mohammadyounes6453 ай бұрын

    Conclusion : Sanctions means closing a door and opening a 1,000 windows.

  • @BenYamunma

    @BenYamunma

    3 ай бұрын

    Tell that too Cuba

  • @user-cb2df9zy6d

    @user-cb2df9zy6d

    Ай бұрын

    @@BenYamunma It is impossible to simply take and isolate 1/6 of the planet; despite sanctions, even the United States imports something from Russia. The departure of most companies consisted of a name change. Russia now looks stronger in the eyes of the Middle East, Asia, many countries, it went against the United States and did not break, this gives them an incentive.

  • @Epoch11

    @Epoch11

    Ай бұрын

    Sounds pretty accurate

  • @2hotflavored666

    @2hotflavored666

    Ай бұрын

    @@user-cb2df9zy6d Looks stronger? Half of Russia's army got annihilated by Ukraine, Russia's Black Sea fleet is now a submarine fleet and Prigozhin utterly humiliated Putin, and by extension, Russia.

  • @user-cb2df9zy6d

    @user-cb2df9zy6d

    Ай бұрын

    @@2hotflavored666 That's just what they tell you. That there is total mobilization in Russia, that missiles are running out, that Russians have nothing to eat, that the economy is destroyed... Don’t you find it funny yourself?

  • @EricBussman
    @EricBussman3 ай бұрын

    One thing I'd like to note that Johnny didn't really touch on... These chips are not military grade. So they don't have the durability or general reliability that military grade does, which are heavily controlled and cost a lot more money. But these are regular consumer grade chips that all our cars, phones and calculators have. Which makes it very hard to regulate, nearly impossible

  • @ShayCovers

    @ShayCovers

    2 ай бұрын

    Source??

  • @EricBussman

    @EricBussman

    2 ай бұрын

    @@ShayCovers it's common knowledge. You're gonna have to do a little Google searching for something to read on it. The military chips are highly controlled and cost more. I'm sure you can find some good stuff to read on it if you search for it

  • @EricBussman

    @EricBussman

    2 ай бұрын

    @@ShayCovers It's common knowledge. You're gonna have to do a little Google searching to read something on it. The military chips are highly controlled and cost more. I'm sure you can find some good stuff to read on it if you search for it

  • @harrietxo2310

    @harrietxo2310

    20 күн бұрын

    He did in another video!

  • @marloyt7786
    @marloyt77863 ай бұрын

    These companies are the lords of war. The only people who don't lose in conflicts.

  • @onnnn111

    @onnnn111

    3 ай бұрын

    Great Nicholas Cage film

  • @Gigusx

    @Gigusx

    3 ай бұрын

    ​@@onnnn111 Makes me wanna watch it again. There was another one (War Dogs) about dealing arms with Jonah Hill that also was good.

  • @user-fb1dr1pv7e

    @user-fb1dr1pv7e

    3 ай бұрын

    Преподавание в палестинских школах, находящихся под управлением Агентства Организации Объединенных Наций для помощи и организации работ (БАПОР), тем, пронизанных антисемитизмом и насилием, а также наем учителей, связанных с террористическими организациями, способствовали экстремизму, который лег в основу резни, устроенной ХАМАСом на юге Израиля 7 октября, заявили эксперты 30 января подкомитету Конгресса США, пишет журналист "The Algemeiner" Дион Дж. Пьер. Израильская организация по надзору за образованием "Impact-se" предоставила свои показания на фоне новостей о том, что США и десять других стран приостановили финансирование БАПОР из-за обвинений в том, что дюжина его сотрудников участвовала в зверствах ХАМАСа и что около 12000 из них связаны с террористами. "Мы знаем, что сотрудники БАПОР принимали участие в этой бойне, но это были не несколько паршивых парней, скорее, у учреждения прогнили все внутренности", - заявил генеральный директор "Impact-se" Маркус Шефф Комитету по надзору и подотчетности Палаты представителей США по иностранным делам. "Откуда мы знаем? Мы знаем это, исследуя образовательную инфраструктуру БАПОР. Тамошние учебники учат, что евреи - лжецы и мошенники, распространяющие коррупцию, которая приведет к их уничтожению. Школьников учат, как перерезать шеи врагу, а сожжение евреев в автобусе празднуют как вечеринку с барбекю". По данным Госдепартамента, американская помощь БАПОР была приостановлена, поскольку правительственные чиновники готовят "тщательное и быстрое расследование" причастности агентства к терроризму. США являются самым щедрым благотворителем агентства, предоставив ему 340 миллионов долларов в 2022 году. "БАПОР играет решающую роль в предоставлении жизненно важной помощи палестинцам, включая необходимое питание, лекарства, жилье и другую жизненно важную гуманитарную поддержку. Их работа спасла жизни, и важно, чтобы БАПОР рассмотрело эти обвинения и приняло все соответствующие корректирующие меры, включая пересмотр существующей политики и процедур", - заявил 26 января пресс-секретарь Госдепартамента США Мэтью Миллер. Во время слушаний 30 января Шефф заявил, что пропаганда антисемитизма и террора в школах БАПОР и события 7 октября неразрывно связаны между собой. ""Impact-se" уже много лет предупреждает о последствиях такого воспитания ненависти, и я спрашиваю вас: что БАПОР может предложить следующему поколению палестинцев? Токсичные учебники, которые слишком часто преподают учителя - экстремисты? Проще говоря, БАПОР не соответствует своей цели", - заметил он. В течение более двух часов комитет Палаты представителей по иностранным делам выслушивал выступления других экспертов (и время от времени критиков), в том числе Ричарда Голдберга из Фонда защиты демократии (FDD), Хиллеля Нойера из "UN Watch" и профессора Университета Вирджинии Мары Рудман. Они описали опасную как для израильтян, так и для палестинцев ситуацию, которая требует немедленного внимания мирового сообщества, хотя иногда и расходились во мнениях относительно того, что следует делать сейчас. "Когда вы смотрите на подстрекательство к насилию, которое продолжается десятилетиями, когда люди которые из поколения в поколение верят, что они - беженцы, ожидающие возвращения в то, что сегодня является Израилем, чтобы сбросить евреев в море, то 7 октября становится логическим завершением образования в школах БАПОР", - рассказал комитету Гольдберг. "Это, конечно, то, чему они обучали поколения, как использовать ресурсы, которые мы предоставили этим террористическим организациям для помощи в выполнении этой миссии. БАПОР является проблемой. БАПОР является частью того, что произошло 7 октября, и это будет происходить снова, если мы продолжим его финансировать". Мара Рудман защищала роль БАПОР как агентства социальных услуг для палестинцев, но объяснила, что его чиновники были "ханжескими" и "слепыми" в отношении проблем внутри организации. "Помощь США БАПОР является ключом к удовлетворению основных потребностей палестинцев, особенно в секторе Газа, и имеет решающее значение для безопасности Израиля и безопасности США", - заметила Рудман. "Чтобы возобновить эту помощь, нам нужна структура для оценки того, что пошло не так с агентством и можно ли это исправить с помощью внутренней реформы или требуется передача ответственности другой организации, внутри или за пределами ООН. Разработка и надзор за аудитом, необходимым для такой оценки, должны осуществляться за пределами БАПОР - вне всякого сомнения". Какая организация, такой и директор В заключение Рудман заявила, что помощь БАПОР должна быть возобновлена, пока ее деятельность тщательно изучает внешняя организация, настаивая на том, что гуманитарный кризис в секторе Газа распространится на весь Ближний Восток, поставив под угрозу безопасность США и Израиля. Многие, в том числе некоммерческая организация "Движение по борьбе с антисемитизмом" (CAM), не хотят возобновления финансирования агентства. "Сегодняшние слушания только подтвердили то, что мы знали уже давно: БАПОР никогда не будет партнером, которому можно будет доверять в достижении своей цели - служении благосостоянию палестинского народа", - говорится в заявлении организации, опубликованном 30 января. "Соединенные Штаты и их союзники должны полностью и навсегда сократить финансирование БАПОР и найти альтернативные механизмы для удовлетворения гуманитарных потребностей палестинского гражданского населения, не подрывая при этом безопасность израильтян".

  • @canchero724

    @canchero724

    3 ай бұрын

    War is truly the most profitable industry there is.

  • @Getoffthepitch

    @Getoffthepitch

    3 ай бұрын

    Yeah that's why the revenue dropped so hard for all semiconductor companies last quarter 😅😂

  • @user-yh1nm1vy3i
    @user-yh1nm1vy3i3 ай бұрын

    This feels like living in the 1930s but with Wi-Fi and KZread.

  • @Booz2020

    @Booz2020

    3 ай бұрын

    Slava TSMC 🇹🇼

  • @kotenoklelu3471

    @kotenoklelu3471

    3 ай бұрын

    I don't know. Some people say it's more like before WW1.

  • @dennisp8520

    @dennisp8520

    3 ай бұрын

    It’s because it is history always repeats itself and the events happening these last 20 or so years has been mirroring many events that happened during the early 20th century almost to a T.

  • @benkin155

    @benkin155

    3 ай бұрын

    Expect we are not under the bombs

  • @jeffersonclippership2588

    @jeffersonclippership2588

    3 ай бұрын

    It's crazy how this war has completely shattered the mythology of WW2. Now we know for a fact that if Hitler had oil he would've been allowed to stomp all over Europe unopposed.

  • @audiomxr
    @audiomxr3 ай бұрын

    Great Reporting - so much learned in this video. Well done team.

  • @neoanderz
    @neoanderz3 ай бұрын

    Bloody hell Johnny, this is something normal TV news would never report on. Videos like these should go viral! You are the best in the business when it comes to reporting great news!

  • @d1namis

    @d1namis

    3 ай бұрын

    Because it's not critical review prof. If you try to google components that he showed in the video, not just in info-graphics, but also in photographs, you will quickly notice that most of Rocket components of Russia rockets are 1985 to 2007 years of production, most of them are discontinued in 2007 and most of them have cheaper China clones or alternatives. This video is very confusing.

  • @Hitomaru-shiki.sensha

    @Hitomaru-shiki.sensha

    3 ай бұрын

    it did go viral, 1.3m views. but what are those 1.3m viewers going to do about it. nothing.

  • @Ahmed-li4bw

    @Ahmed-li4bw

    3 ай бұрын

    @@d1namis bro google is not reliable when it comes to these things and you need a deep research

  • @marvinbrando722

    @marvinbrando722

    2 ай бұрын

    It will not happen. To start, people want to be lied. It is easier to live in a lie. In fact, people will hate this. All of those viewers of MSNBC, CNN, FOX, NBC, ETC, ETC, they want to be lied, period. The truth like this, deep state, etc, etc, they will hate it.

  • @LuisLascanoValarezo
    @LuisLascanoValarezo3 ай бұрын

    "The only way to certainly win a war is to support both sides" - Italy at Some point

  • @gianlucamagi1635

    @gianlucamagi1635

    3 ай бұрын

    👆

  • @A86270

    @A86270

    3 ай бұрын

    lol except here no one will win until poisoned west stop feeding Ukriane...this would be over if not for globalist agenda

  • @jsillyv86

    @jsillyv86

    3 ай бұрын

    Sounds like someone stays at home watching KZread

  • @karezaalonso7110

    @karezaalonso7110

    3 ай бұрын

    French banks were helping Germany during WWII to prolong the war because they were making a "killing" on the interest payments.

  • @scriptself6092

    @scriptself6092

    3 ай бұрын

    That a little bit doesn't make any sense

  • @victor.randolph
    @victor.randolph3 ай бұрын

    “WAR is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious.” Smedley D. Butler - 1935

  • @xyx4266

    @xyx4266

    3 ай бұрын

    During COVID ppl were scared indoors while these mofos around the world were sketching the boundaries of the new map, like Ribbentrop-Molotov - ez...makes sense now.

  • @snizami

    @snizami

    3 ай бұрын

    Yet Harris even concludes the piece by painting the OEMs as somehow well meaning but largely helpless actors in the face of an inherently intractable issue; instead of greedy global war profiteers who are happy to see these toxic dynamics continue.

  • @user-yr8cl1fx5r

    @user-yr8cl1fx5r

    3 ай бұрын

    @@xyx4266 true...

  • @Mo-jp8ty

    @Mo-jp8ty

    3 ай бұрын

    lool the imagery is funny@@xyx4266

  • @apocolypse11

    @apocolypse11

    3 ай бұрын

    Lol this guy in the video sounds worried n paranoid. 1935 they knew this already. Stay ahead of the curve n worried about yourself.

  • @petemchardy3605
    @petemchardy36053 ай бұрын

    Hi Johnny I've just watch your video thanks man for the info you have a new subscriber

  • @ChristopherStellarTucker
    @ChristopherStellarTucker3 ай бұрын

    Have been inspired by your journalism over the last 3 or 4 years. Great investigation and research.

  • @Walliin
    @Walliin3 ай бұрын

    War has always been very profitable for certain groups of people… “The more things change, the more they stay the same”

  • @Sublllll

    @Sublllll

    3 ай бұрын

    Most solid comment here!

  • @USSAnimeNCC-

    @USSAnimeNCC-

    3 ай бұрын

    And capitalists or anyone in the far act like capitalism haven't killed people while pointing how communism killed people the irony

  • @simulatednatas

    @simulatednatas

    3 ай бұрын

    If we let them, US is profiting from all wars in the world

  • @blackmamba___

    @blackmamba___

    3 ай бұрын

    I definitely chose the wrong career path 😔

  • @Jozamendo

    @Jozamendo

    3 ай бұрын

    Correctomundo. . Wealthy will make bank while innocents will die..

  • @littledoseTM
    @littledoseTM3 ай бұрын

    In war is money to be made, especially if you sell to both sides

  • @vasilispatsalidis5683

    @vasilispatsalidis5683

    3 ай бұрын

    Ask Rothchild he specialises in this double dealing.

  • @Sn-ue2pd

    @Sn-ue2pd

    3 ай бұрын

    Self perpetual customer base.

  • @voyog5191

    @voyog5191

    3 ай бұрын

    Well how about we just don't let them anymore: I am apparently paying for the reordering of NATO weaponry & the chip manufacturing incentives with my tax money, while already wealthy shareholders are increasingly gobbling it all up. So I believe I have the obligation to track down Employees and Engineers, if necessary over social media, working in those Companies, who should refuse to be part of this dirty con-game played by their Employers.

  • @protic4

    @protic4

    3 ай бұрын

    Profits over lives. Long live capitalism!

  • @Booz2020

    @Booz2020

    3 ай бұрын

    Never Say NEVER 😎 Justin Bieber

  • @andyb281
    @andyb2814 күн бұрын

    Great stuff. The shell network analysis was exactly what I wanted to know about after watching the Kyiv Independent report.

  • @maxor3607
    @maxor36073 ай бұрын

    Really nice documentaries you have on these channel Johny.

  • @hattielankford4775
    @hattielankford47753 ай бұрын

    Chip companies: Wow! We're suddenly selling a lot more chips on a steady basis while wars surprisingly go on and on. How fortuitous and not related! No need to look behind the curtain. 🙄

  • @Obi_01

    @Obi_01

    3 ай бұрын

    lol straight up. Oh this vacation island just purchased $200 million worth of equipment? That’s odd. Ship it tho

  • @networkgeekstuff9090

    @networkgeekstuff9090

    3 ай бұрын

    Don't instantly blame the chip companies, it is more about the middle-man looking for a quick buck here. If you are texas instruments and someone from Turkey, Hungary, Serbia or India orders 500 chips, you do not know if that goes to a car or to a missile. Some of the chips listed are very much general purpose chips. The better question you should be asking HOW do you help the middle man to get his margins so high, that Russia will not be able to affort many of them. Or worst case export tax of 50% for any chip leaving western country.

  • @Obi_01

    @Obi_01

    3 ай бұрын

    @@networkgeekstuff9090 we’re not talking of 500 chips going to shell companies. We’re talking about $200 million worth of chips going to shell companies. The chip manufacturers are smart enough and equipped enough to verify their customers. If a KZreadr can do it (with limited information), a corporation can do it. But they won’t because that’s would be putting something over profits which is a sin

  • @llamingo696

    @llamingo696

    3 ай бұрын

    Free market mate

  • @hattielankford4775

    @hattielankford4775

    3 ай бұрын

    @@networkgeekstuff9090 Are you telling me that chip companies aren't basing stockholder value and growth projections on the numbers they have? Are you telling me it wouldn't be bad for them, profit-wise, if they weren't able to sell those chips to sanctioned entities, through middlemen or not? I may not have an answer, but I can see a problem. This reminds me of other companies whose product lines include at least parts or materials acquired* through child labor and unsafe conditions, just outsourced. They also claimed they didn't know, and they still profited from it. There has to be a better answer.

  • @TringmotionCoUk
    @TringmotionCoUk3 ай бұрын

    I can't find the quotes now, but Standard Oil was supplying Germany with specialist gearbox oils (among other things) via Panama. When investigated the CEO (possibly) said to the investigation "the needs of shareholders are more important than the needs of the government". Ford and GM were also somewhat complicit IMHO

  • @sharpfangs37

    @sharpfangs37

    3 ай бұрын

    For starters, you should know that By 1940, Standard Oil no longer existed; it was disbanded due to antitrust laws.🤦🏻‍♂️

  • @EriK8520

    @EriK8520

    3 ай бұрын

    Money is always more important to psychopaths than lives.

  • @sharpfangs37

    @sharpfangs37

    3 ай бұрын

    By 1940, Standard Oil no longer existed; it was disbanded due to antitrust laws.

  • @SiaarZH

    @SiaarZH

    3 ай бұрын

    Not always money, some people like the founder of Royal Dutch Shell - Henri Deterding - were simply Nazis at heart. They donated before the war and once the war started saw no conflict of interest.

  • @ctriis

    @ctriis

    3 ай бұрын

    It's not just about "psychopaths". The entire US economy, the way it is structured, relies on "fiduciary responsibility", which in practice has been turned into "money and growth is worth more than human lives and humans' health".

  • @Awlo81
    @Awlo813 ай бұрын

    Great research work, as always.

  • @teshane8784
    @teshane87843 ай бұрын

    Very insightful reporting Johnny

  • @justincloward3362
    @justincloward33623 ай бұрын

    We did the same thing with titanium for the SR-71 Blackbird during the Cold War.

  • @TommyShlong

    @TommyShlong

    3 ай бұрын

    CIA was pretty slick

  • @AndRei-yc3ti

    @AndRei-yc3ti

    3 ай бұрын

    The difference is most of these missiles that are in this video using western components were at the beginning of the war. Now they are using Chinese or local components. Most of them aren't hard to produce and Russia has its own fab. It only used Western components previously because it was easier.

  • @sharpasacueball

    @sharpasacueball

    3 ай бұрын

    ​@@TommyShlong"sometimes"

  • @muramasa870

    @muramasa870

    3 ай бұрын

    ​@@AndRei-yc3tiI call big cap on that. Iranian Shaheed drones are still full of western and european components

  • @AndRei-yc3ti

    @AndRei-yc3ti

    3 ай бұрын

    @muramasa870 who told you that? Iran is under pretty severe sanctions and has been for a decade. Quite unlikely they are able to source good components in large enough quantities for thwt

  • @valchaars
    @valchaars3 ай бұрын

    Reminds me of the quote from Wardogs: “ War is an economy. Anybody who tells you otherwise is either in on it or stupid.”

  • @RomanPiter

    @RomanPiter

    3 ай бұрын

    У нас русских есть пословица "Кому война, а кому мать родна".. рифма. Суть ее в том, что война страшна, а кто-то живет ей..

  • @samsawesomeminecraft
    @samsawesomeminecraft3 ай бұрын

    I work for some microelectronics company whose components are for sale on Ebay. It's just not restricted technology.

  • @mattolivier1835

    @mattolivier1835

    3 ай бұрын

    Nor should it be.

  • @bensonmwangi2885

    @bensonmwangi2885

    3 ай бұрын

    @@mattolivier1835who are you to say that they have to restricted, war is business. The sooner you get it the better

  • @willyoder8668
    @willyoder86683 ай бұрын

    Just an absolute piece of cinematic mastery, every single time. Beautiful!

  • @cannedtoast
    @cannedtoast3 ай бұрын

    I appreciate how you credit the news outlets for using their reporting to build your map. Nice work.

  • @Omnigreen

    @Omnigreen

    3 ай бұрын

    Map with Crimea as russia for some reason btw

  • @fatherofchristmas

    @fatherofchristmas

    3 ай бұрын

    @@Omnigreen Crimeans consider themselves Russians. Good luck arguing with them.

  • @markkonigman7369

    @markkonigman7369

    3 ай бұрын

    @@fatherofchristmasthey’ll tell you that many Crimeans consider themselves as Ukrainian citizens, but they are not a majority but minority

  • @olek640

    @olek640

    3 ай бұрын

    ​@@fatherofchristmas [sarcasm]People in Texas consider themselfs as Mexican. Why Texas is on US map but not on Mexican?[\sarcasm]

  • @fatherofchristmas

    @fatherofchristmas

    3 ай бұрын

    @@markkonigman7369 All Crimeans consider themselves Russian citizens, no exceptions, no minorities.

  • @OlssonDaniel
    @OlssonDaniel3 ай бұрын

    A few months ago, Johnny spook about hiring a composer to do his music. That part got stuck in me and it really shows in this video how good that composer is. The music is discreet yet very effective in amplifying Johnny's massage. Oh, a good video in general but hats of to the composer.

  • @Crashyocean

    @Crashyocean

    3 ай бұрын

    Could you share the link? I would like to see that. Thanks

  • @freedomishavingachoice3020

    @freedomishavingachoice3020

    3 ай бұрын

    Tom Fox did a really good job on this ambient backing. He has a website in the description of this video. Thanks for complimenting them!

  • @Cybersawz

    @Cybersawz

    3 ай бұрын

    The music at times drowns out the narration. So no, I wouldn't call that discreet.

  • @matthewstubbs4413

    @matthewstubbs4413

    3 ай бұрын

    No one will read this If you can research this then the western military and nato can. This is more of the elite not just companies for money is actually to coordinate war for years and influence society to their specific will. Doesn't mean peace until billions die with convincing the people to kill eqch other through war , pandemic ,taking vaccines , food supplies contamination and land exploitation through over charging and selling to the private sector , making more of us more compact

  • @allemagneproducer

    @allemagneproducer

    3 ай бұрын

    lol, but i really wouldnt have noticed it tho!!

  • @AS-010o0
    @AS-010o03 ай бұрын

    Thank you for shining light on this 💡 🙏

  • @Rap22647
    @Rap226473 ай бұрын

    Johnny, wanna say big thank you for all you do, discovered your channel recently and am consuming new information from your videos and look forward to seeing more.😎 🔥🔥🔥🔥

  • @c1ph3rpunk
    @c1ph3rpunk3 ай бұрын

    3 decades ago this sort of news would have spawned congressional investigation. We’ve devolved to the point of “yea, so, we all know what’s going on” and let them continue to operate.

  • @excentrik5725

    @excentrik5725

    3 ай бұрын

    Well, the important thing is that USA and EU cant stop virtue signaling about how theyre doing their best to stop evil Putin. LoL

  • @somone1437

    @somone1437

    3 ай бұрын

    they put their mouth where the money is. I dont trust the companies, yet i cant do anything...yet. Vote for politicians who actually does less shady than right stuff

  • @envybartowski8519

    @envybartowski8519

    3 ай бұрын

    @@somone1437 *voting* hahaha

  • @muramasa870

    @muramasa870

    3 ай бұрын

    Yes american political system is now a joke

  • @ioanbotez7128

    @ioanbotez7128

    3 ай бұрын

    I hate to break it to you, but this kind of stuff was very common back in the cold War. Among at ton of other things, my country stole the Leopard tank engine back when it was still fairly new and cutting edge. Then bought the parts needed to build a factory for it through the mechanism described in this video.

  • @rangersraven1453
    @rangersraven14533 ай бұрын

    The problems is that you can cut down on the chips and stuff, but they can go and order 200 units of TI86 to Hong Kong, then send them to Russia. Because the chips INSIDE of TI 86 can also be used to fire a missile. There is no way of stopping them unless you just close off all trades. And that is a thing they will never do.

  • @jozefsnopek352

    @jozefsnopek352

    3 ай бұрын

    if chips in the TI86 could be used to navigate a missile, then Russia needs not to import it. At this level of complexity, they can manufacture it themselves. Western companies that manufacture such specialized chips should really be forced to do due diligence on the end-customer of their chips. And selling such chips to shell companies should be excluded altogether. And I mean if a company in Maldives orders bunch of chips without having any industry that can require them, it is such a red flag.

  • @highondankium3626

    @highondankium3626

    3 ай бұрын

    I work in this industry and would like to add some detail and context to Johnny's video. First off, this was an accurate explanation of how parts get where they aren't supposed to go. Kudos there. What is important to understand though is that these aren't military or space grade chips. Those can handle heat and vibration and radiation and are pretty well controlled by our government, with an extreme price tag accompanying them. The trick is, consumer electronics are advanced enough now that you can fly a missile with the same parts in your car, or washing machine, or phone. The parts Russia is getting are used everywhere, and as a result it's nearly impossible to prevent them from getting into the wrong hands. This phenomenon is the same one that has enabled cheap consumer drones to be modified to deliver explosives in the conflict. This level of performance is commonplace and cheap now.@@jozefsnopek352

  • @dialecticalmonist3405

    @dialecticalmonist3405

    3 ай бұрын

    ​​@@jozefsnopek352The problem with economics, is that is not compatible with socialist thinking. Socialists think they can micromanage their way to power, but they can't. This is why both socialism and socialists lose lose lose lose. Cut off your own exports, and watch the nearly destroyed, useless dollar finally become worthless. And all the socialists in the world can't shed enough tears to change this reality. Absolute world tyranny is the only "solution" to socialists having any chance of defeating markets.

  • @user-xm6zs6ez6i

    @user-xm6zs6ez6i

    3 ай бұрын

    @@jozefsnopek352 Therefore, all these stories about chips are one big fiction. We in Russia are surprised how you make big stories out of nothing) It seems to me that this is because you cannot force Russia to retreat (all of your NATO), but then you should at least tell the world that Russia depends on you)

  • @jozefsnopek352

    @jozefsnopek352

    3 ай бұрын

    @@user-xm6zs6ez6i Oh boy, the only might Russia possess are nuclear weapons. Without them, NATO would make Russia into a desert in a year. Have you noticed that Russia cannot establish air superiority over Ukraine? Russia is actually a poor country with a lot of natural resources. Armed to the teeth fuel station. The only competitive export of Russian technology is nuclear reactors. Yes, Russia can manufacture some primitive chips, but maybe buying the consumer (not MIL versions) version of chips from the West is cheaper than home manufacturing, since it may be super inefficient, like all of Russia.

  • @user-eh5nc1kr5d
    @user-eh5nc1kr5d3 ай бұрын

    Amazing reporting harris keep it up🖒🖒🖒

  • @stmithra
    @stmithra3 ай бұрын

    Thank you Johnny for not forgetting about this war

  • @randxalthor
    @randxalthor3 ай бұрын

    The US used this technique to buy the titanium from the USSR for building the SR-71. In this case, Russia is buying small (yes, 100 units is small) amounts of cheap chips. Hunting these transactions down is like finding a needle in a haystack. We have ITAR export restrictions, but they're only so effective for these small transactions, especially through front companies. We have to keep tracking down which companies are placing these orders and blacklisting them, as well as running HUMINT operations to cut off the business links to Russian companies in the first place.

  • @asdasd-by4hm

    @asdasd-by4hm

    3 ай бұрын

    Maybe that’s a stupid question but why US doesn’t just backdoor the chips or smth

  • @mactep1

    @mactep1

    3 ай бұрын

    @@asdasd-by4hm you don't know which chips are actually going to Russia.

  • @sircrapalot9954

    @sircrapalot9954

    3 ай бұрын

    @@asdasd-by4hmputting a backdoor into every consumer-grade chip, in the expectation a few of them get diverted and you can spy on Russia, would be exponentially more damaging to Western Industry. Semi related: when the NSA lost control of several key hacking tools, those weapons were turned against the US and the rest of the world in the form of the 2017 WannaCry and NotPetya worm attacks that cost billions in damage. Backdoors and exploits can work both ways. In free nations where a right and expects of privacy is generally enshrined, the loss of trust and credibility is more damaging to the homeland than the perceived benefit of the exploit in the first place.

  • @matthewstubbs4413

    @matthewstubbs4413

    3 ай бұрын

    No one will read this If you can research this then the western military and nato can. This is more of the elite not just companies for money is actually to coordinate war for years and influence society to their specific will. Doesn't mean peace until billions die with convincing the people to kill eqch other through war , pandemic ,taking vaccines , food supplies contamination and land exploitation through over charging and selling to the private sector , making more of us more compact

  • @crhu319

    @crhu319

    25 күн бұрын

    Can't possibly work. The war is for profit and these companies get theirs.

  • @Toastyhere681
    @Toastyhere6813 ай бұрын

    Kudos to the graphics audio teams- beautiful work! And ofcourse the journalism as well.

  • @duffal0

    @duffal0

    3 ай бұрын

    Yeah he lost a fan with this one

  • @thomaspaine9610
    @thomaspaine96103 ай бұрын

    Are the chips being sold weapons specific or are they generic chips that can also be used for weapons?? This matters..

  • @sion8

    @sion8

    3 ай бұрын

    Most of them are generic.

  • @NadeemAhmed-nv2br

    @NadeemAhmed-nv2br

    3 ай бұрын

    Most chips are generic period

  • @groomlake51
    @groomlake512 ай бұрын

    Amazing content !! I gave up on the TV news 15 years ago and now with your channel I truly feel informed🙏🏻 real hero’s don’t wear capes😎

  • @mackenziemccutcheon5169
    @mackenziemccutcheon51693 ай бұрын

    If you can’t make money during a war, you flat out cannot make money - Varrick

  • @AbdulGoodLooks

    @AbdulGoodLooks

    3 ай бұрын

    > Blows up an embassy and blames it on the Northern Water Tribe. > Makes propaganda films to get the United Republic to join the war on the side of the Southern Water Tribe to sell more weapons. > Kidnaps the President. > Escapes Prison. > Builds literal WMDs for the Earth Empire. How this man was able to return to the United Republic so easily and keep all his assets is wild

  • @gisar.6539

    @gisar.6539

    3 ай бұрын

    You’re a man of culture 👏🏿

  • @SprayArtNYC
    @SprayArtNYC3 ай бұрын

    Thank you for doing this investigation. We tend to overlook these things but they cost peoples lives :(

  • @martinvigil-mh9nf

    @martinvigil-mh9nf

    3 ай бұрын

    Your right but at the same time most people don't care it's the sad truth if we don't benefit we don't give a dam until it's to late. And what is to late when it starts affecting our wallets then that's when we start wanting to know what the fucking is happening 😂😂😂😂😂

  • @gabriell4862
    @gabriell48623 ай бұрын

    No, that's not hypersonic missile, but that thing is an hypersonic shovel.

  • @Algyyys1
    @Algyyys13 ай бұрын

    Thank you Johnny for your job! Love it all what are you and your team doing .

  • @jasongauthier8567
    @jasongauthier85673 ай бұрын

    Well done Johnny, and team very informative! I work for one of the chip company mentioned and i can assure that we get trained every year to identify when chip go to embargoed countries. The bad guys are smart and don't make it easy to track their behavior. Not to mention that when you manufacture more than 10 billion transistors every second, a few thousands of chip via a few douzens of shell companies can easily go unnoticed and make it very hard to crack.

  • @sophia5808

    @sophia5808

    3 ай бұрын

    But can you take for example hundred of these orders that will go to Russia and fake them? Like making something that their engineers can't repair but that looks believable enough to put in a rocket? Your company will receive money but rocket won't fly. Win-Win. Maybe it sounds stupid but I am just curious

  • @PeterDB90

    @PeterDB90

    3 ай бұрын

    This. I work for a company that files certain reports, and depending on the client's size, the reports can be enormous. We're an office of 10 people and sometimes the reports reach 10,000 pages and we try our best to review them to catch any mistakes but 10,000 pages is not easy to get through - we can't put every single one of our employees on it, so even if 4 of them are reviewing, that's still 2,500 pages per person (some of them have to be referenced back and forth between other pages to verify that everything is correct). Assuming you can get through a page in 5-10 seconds, which is decent time, it would take you between 3 and a half to 7 hours to go through 2500 pages, and that's if you maintain absolute focus which is impossible.

  • @sukosuko1

    @sukosuko1

    3 ай бұрын

    @@PeterDB90 any people wonder why everything in america costs 5x more than it should.

  • @jintype2984

    @jintype2984

    3 ай бұрын

    @@sukosuko1 yeah, but if they didn't do that, more components for the Russians to make their missiles😢

  • @milkdrinker7

    @milkdrinker7

    3 ай бұрын

    ​@@jintype2984not to be the pessimistic type but it seems to me like that ship has already sailed.

  • @ericfan1223
    @ericfan12233 ай бұрын

    I sold these components for over a year in the DC area. I repped UMS, Teledyne e2v, Psemi, Nuvotronics and others who sold chips and radio equipment to firms like VICOR, PCTel, Hughes, NGC, and gov. IT is crazy. Happy for this video.

  • @ericfan1223

    @ericfan1223

    3 ай бұрын

    We sold the military and space grade zilinx and other processors and electronics. They made so much money on programs that would have their funding pulled.

  • @ericfan1223

    @ericfan1223

    3 ай бұрын

    And let me tell you. the market is so small, and I BET that the firms want Russia and others to buy their shit. I repped firms who had to stop-sale everything as soon as russia attacked Ukraine.

  • @ericfan1223

    @ericfan1223

    3 ай бұрын

    nxp and altera lol

  • @frsr416

    @frsr416

    3 ай бұрын

    @@ericfan1223 what stocks do you hold that will make me money from this war

  • @lushbIood

    @lushbIood

    3 ай бұрын

    ​@frsr416 hehe my man 😎

  • @MP-wm9gb
    @MP-wm9gb3 ай бұрын

    Amazing work!!!!

  • @Denizetit
    @Denizetit2 ай бұрын

    Great journalism, thank you!

  • @colekarrh9114
    @colekarrh91143 ай бұрын

    Nice to see some good old fashion war journalism

  • @ILOVELEESIN

    @ILOVELEESIN

    3 ай бұрын

    Yes, but can we the people actually put an end to this. Innocent people on both sides are paying the price.

  • @MattAngiono

    @MattAngiono

    3 ай бұрын

    ​@@ILOVELEESINit could have ended almost immediately had Ukraine been reasonable. But you're right. Corrupt leaders on the west wanting to weaken Russia made Ukraine refuse to follow through on terms or had already negotiated to bring a peaceful resolution. Look how that turned out.... Ukraine has destroyed itself in this delusional childish way of acting. An entire generation of them has been obliterated. So sad

  • @MattAngiono

    @MattAngiono

    3 ай бұрын

    I'm sure you could find better. Look up Scott Ritter or Max Blumenthal and the Grayzone... Way better war journalism that isn't biased towards America

  • @lushbIood

    @lushbIood

    3 ай бұрын

    ​@MattAngiono the guy literally said Americans are feeding Russians weapons, the bias is against America.

  • @xxg6573

    @xxg6573

    3 ай бұрын

    @@lushbIoodThat’s how propaganda usually works.

  • @diegoflores9237
    @diegoflores92373 ай бұрын

    Both the US and Russian defense industries are loving this war

  • @Cyberpsych0_

    @Cyberpsych0_

    3 ай бұрын

    And stock traders, my defence related index funds have never been so high.

  • @mattolivier1835

    @mattolivier1835

    3 ай бұрын

    Yup, all the while the evil US gov't is involved, stealing American tax dollars and murdering people.

  • @petslife3665
    @petslife36653 ай бұрын

    Holy God, even ads on this video is helpful! Thank you!

  • @user-qp4fl3tu3z
    @user-qp4fl3tu3z3 ай бұрын

    Thank you for your video

  • @monolith2001
    @monolith20013 ай бұрын

    So hard not to be completely and hopelessly cynical about the world we live in.

  • @Booz2020

    @Booz2020

    3 ай бұрын

    Never Say NEVER 😎 Justin Bieber

  • @danceswith7wolves

    @danceswith7wolves

    3 ай бұрын

    That's where the pharmaceutical companies come in

  • @liroro8812

    @liroro8812

    28 күн бұрын

    Well, everyone sees financial opportunity in This war to make their life better so why not ?

  • @OperationMegalodon
    @OperationMegalodon3 ай бұрын

    Great video as always, Johnny. Thanks for keeping us informed about things that matter🙂

  • @ronanmorgans6097
    @ronanmorgans60973 ай бұрын

    I like how Johnny doesn’t try to point the finger, rather he’s focusing on facts and proposing we find a solution.

  • @awood12345
    @awood123453 ай бұрын

    Surely, the companies that make the chips hold some responsibility. They should be able to do some basic research into who they sell to.

  • @michaellee3903

    @michaellee3903

    3 ай бұрын

    In an ideal world yes, but let's be real these American microelectronic companies care more about their bottom line and aren't going to jeapordize their sales and income just to support an international war effort.

  • @steph4356

    @steph4356

    3 ай бұрын

    Dont matter who they sell to, as said here, the original buyer could just sell it to another seller in the spider web either willingly or unaware who the final destination of those chips are

  • @bondrewdthelordofdawn3744

    @bondrewdthelordofdawn3744

    3 ай бұрын

    It is what it is

  • @OKOK-hm2is

    @OKOK-hm2is

    3 ай бұрын

    How? Most of the information obtained in this investigation has been revesre-tracked. If you have specific chip, with serial number you can try to track its path. But when you have few thouthands of inquiries, how do you know who is gonna re-sell chips to someone who may re-sell them to Russians?

  • @maevista5213

    @maevista5213

    3 ай бұрын

    @@OKOK-hm2is You can easily put contingencies on contracts when supplying bulk to companies, especially ones that have little to no history and an empty board except for 2 russian guys. Sales rep know they're selling to Russia by proxy but as long as the fat commissions are coming in they're happy.

  • @jorgebernal8741
    @jorgebernal87413 ай бұрын

    Thank you for having the courage and foresight to make this. Making the public aware of this issue is the first step in solving the problem. Great work!

  • @ognjen73

    @ognjen73

    3 ай бұрын

    And yet he has 0 curage to talk down on Israel killing more than 30k civilians including kids is Palestine and all done legally with US made weapons..... smh

  • @leeargent58
    @leeargent583 ай бұрын

    Im gonna go with this being on FSB analysis watch List

  • @parthasart
    @parthasart2 ай бұрын

    Very Nicely Documented

  • @hercoldestson5240
    @hercoldestson52403 ай бұрын

    This same thing happened with Ford Motor company and WW2. Ford continued to make tanks and other war materials.

  • @clutteredchicagogarage2720
    @clutteredchicagogarage27203 ай бұрын

    I am an engineer who has done a lot of work with micro-controllers, and I have done some work with hardware companies that make various kinds of controller boards for machinery. I am not an absolute expert, but I know a bit about the market for various kinds of integrated circuits and various kinds of computer chips. I 100% sympathize with the aim to cut off Russia from supplies of western computer chips. With that said, I believe that a whack-a-mole approach to shut down all exports of western chips to POTENTIAL middlemen around the world who can re-export them to Russia is probably a Sisyphean problem. Computer chips are cheap, and they're small. Some ICs from Texas Instruments cost as little as a $1, and they're tiny. You could fit thousands of them into a backpack. Someone could purchase them in, for example, Dallas and then fly to Turkey on holiday and hand them over to a middle-man who can take them to Russia. I think that rather than whacking the moles, the CIA should feed them rat poison -- the kind of poison that rats bring back to their nests and share with other rats. Rather than stopping shipments, which would lead Russians to switch to a different supplier, the CIA should find a set of common key components and then pay a few of the suppliers to manufacture visually-identical but defective products. Once an illegal middleman is uncovered, the CIA should ensure that they receive a shipment of subtly-defective chips. For example, with a GPS chip, it could be made to gradually report defective output. The same could be done with accelerometers. CPUs could be made to have memory errors. Basically, the CIA could study the guidance systems of Russian missiles, determine the key components, and then come up with a way that would cause the rockets to fail and fall out of the sky due to small and subtle errors in components. If the CIA finds some Russian guys in Brooklyn who are shipping chips to Singapore that are then shipped to Kazakhstan, instead of arresting them immediately, monitor them and ship them a batch of subtly-defective chips. In that case, Russian industry would spend millions of dollars to manufacture missiles, and an entire batch of missiles would fail AFTER the money is already spent. Companies like Rostec would be crippled because they would struggle to keep track of which chips in their warehouses are or are not defective.

  • @Sneg00vik

    @Sneg00vik

    3 ай бұрын

    Все компоненты предварительно тестируются включая чипы.

  • @clutteredchicagogarage2720

    @clutteredchicagogarage2720

    3 ай бұрын

    @@Sneg00vik Приветствую Иван -- Good luck with that. I am not suggesting that components should simply not work. They should work but with flaws. For example, a 555 timer component could be modified to function properly for the first 5 minutes and then start to malfunction with random outputs. A GPS chip could give correct coordinates for the first 5 minutes and then return random coordinates. The same could be done with gyroscope/accelerometer chips, altimeters, etc. Good luck testing every single integrated circuit that will go into every single board on every piece of Russian equipment. Such a level of testing would slow down production by 90% and require significantly more engineers to produce an equivalent output. This would also accomplish the intended goals.

  • @Sneg00vik

    @Sneg00vik

    3 ай бұрын

    @@clutteredchicagogarage2720 Ну засунуть заведомо неработающих компонент в устройсто это надо быть совсем профнепригодным =). Я как раз и имел ввиду под тестированием - проверку правильной функциональности компонента. В военке и космосе всё досконально тестируется. Также есть избыточное резервирование почти всех компонентов по партиям/производителям/физическому принципу работы. Именно поэтому военный hi-tech такой дорогой. А то, что это замедлит производство - так и есть, поэтому и делаются десятки ракет в месяц а не сотни.

  • @crhu319

    @crhu319

    25 күн бұрын

    And the bad chips would get into other products, kill people say by starting electrical fires, and then the CIA would be to blame as usual. By then Russia shifts to all native and Chinese chips.

  • @427SuperSnake1
    @427SuperSnake1Ай бұрын

    We did the same to them. We got the majority of the Titanium necessary to build the SR-71 from them. By use of shell companies that filtered the material to our military.

  • @Jay1830
    @Jay18303 ай бұрын

    This is high quality there. Subbed, liked

  • @martinvukovski4370
    @martinvukovski43703 ай бұрын

    I think there is a slight misunderstanding in the real desires of the west. It is not to fully commit to supporting the independence of Ukraine, but it is to play both sides and profit from a conflict that realistically does not involve them. At least the companies in the west seem to follow this logic of playing both sides and I’m not sure if this really is solvable because the monetary incentive is definitely tempting for the corporation owners

  • @themuffinman737

    @themuffinman737

    3 ай бұрын

    Greed/capitalism encourages war, nothing new

  • @wenterinfaer7868

    @wenterinfaer7868

    3 ай бұрын

    The hardest thing to explain to a Westerner is that governments and corporations are not one entity.

  • @tomy34188

    @tomy34188

    3 ай бұрын

    I think it is crucial to understand that the West is not an individual player that is orchestrated by a single master mind. Rather it consists of a multitude of governments and cooperations that each have their own goals and incentives, and all of which interact with each other in complex networks, which you could call markets or society. And those players often contradict each other. So if somebody is talking about the West it is always important to figure out what exactly they mean by that.

  • @4mb127

    @4mb127

    3 ай бұрын

    That's one narrative, and I'm sure it's also the opinion and intent of some. But it's most definitely not all. Some of us just want to kick Russia out of Ukraine.

  • @jackryan765

    @jackryan765

    3 ай бұрын

    Have you ever seen war dogs. Or other movies like that? This is something that has been happening for a very long time. People play both sides of the fence to profit as much as possible they don't care about anything other then the all mighty dollar.

  • @MacMilly707
    @MacMilly7073 ай бұрын

    Wow😮, it never fails to amaze me how America is always at the end of anything that's horrible 😔

  • @bob38028

    @bob38028

    3 ай бұрын

    The enormous and sweeping generalizations implied by your comment are making me irrationally angry. It’s like I’m being forced to watch a child build a Lego boat only to throw the whole thing into an acetone bath when they finish.

  • @simont.b.2660
    @simont.b.26603 ай бұрын

    Thank you for this.

  • @AdastraRecordings
    @AdastraRecordings2 ай бұрын

    Wow, that's a fascinating abstraction of asymmetric warfare I'd not even considered.

  • @prfwrx2497
    @prfwrx24973 ай бұрын

    Shell companies are disposable; operators and their valuable connections aren't. Act accordingly.

  • @ryuhabdle9

    @ryuhabdle9

    3 ай бұрын

    Nothing will happen. The US economy needs for these things to happen. We don’t actually want the war to end; not at least before we make some money. Most of both major parties in the US benefit from these activities.

  • @suren2313
    @suren23133 ай бұрын

    Awesome research Johnny I never skip your videos

  • @Adrianbudiman
    @Adrianbudiman3 ай бұрын

    A TALE AS OLD AS TIME IT SELF.... Old stories just regurgitated over and over again across history.

  • @4rl0ng
    @4rl0ng2 ай бұрын

    Thank you for this one.

  • @deadbones23
    @deadbones233 ай бұрын

    Surprise surprise, the US is funding both sides for profit

  • @howIsee1t
    @howIsee1t3 ай бұрын

    Here before it gets viral, really good analysis.

  • @Artem-go5xf
    @Artem-go5xf3 ай бұрын

    Thank you for this video. This is important.

  • @user-vb4sp3xk7d
    @user-vb4sp3xk7d3 ай бұрын

    It's really idiotic to think that sanctions will stop the Russian production of weapons, as well as the story that the Russians are running out of ammunition.😂😂😂😂

  • @sharuwanabdulla5344

    @sharuwanabdulla5344

    2 ай бұрын

    In reality USA was depleting there arsenal 🤭

  • @Dekedence
    @Dekedence3 ай бұрын

    It's almost like war is good for business 🤔

  • @matthewsammut2881

    @matthewsammut2881

    3 ай бұрын

    Businesses: lets supply both sides

  • @DeTrOiTXX12

    @DeTrOiTXX12

    3 ай бұрын

    It always has been, for many centuries.

  • @gaslitworldf.melissab2897

    @gaslitworldf.melissab2897

    3 ай бұрын

    Beginning in the 20th century, that became so, b/c private banks, rather than the peasants of kingdoms started sponsoring them.

  • @gaslitworldf.melissab2897

    @gaslitworldf.melissab2897

    3 ай бұрын

    @@DeTrOiTXX12 . . .only with decisive victories when soldiers or warriors could loot. So often, however, kingdoms went broke, b/c peasants couldn't pay the higher taxes to pay for implements of war. War once cost way too much and no one benefited from it.

  • @16Nemezis
    @16Nemezis3 ай бұрын

    Thank you for raising this issue!

  • @user-os5fz8sd9v
    @user-os5fz8sd9v3 ай бұрын

    There's also Russian and Chinese parts in our military equipment

  • @Soltivskyi
    @Soltivskyi3 ай бұрын

    Thank you, for this interesting video 😊

  • @powertothesheeple5422
    @powertothesheeple54223 ай бұрын

    People honestly can't be suprised by this. It's been going on ever since WWII.

  • @christianlainesse4281
    @christianlainesse42813 ай бұрын

    "War is a racket" - Smedley Butler

  • @K7ANIMATION698

    @K7ANIMATION698

    3 ай бұрын

    I got a feedback report on what I feel and k said informative 😂

  • @Booz2020

    @Booz2020

    3 ай бұрын

    Never Say NEVER 😎 Justin Bieber

  • @djnomadgarcia
    @djnomadgarcia3 ай бұрын

    Probably one of the best channels I have come across lately.. , seriously, I have been looking for such simple, pure honest news content quite a long time , Johnny Harris you like Wikipedia version 2.0

  • @logandewey4303

    @logandewey4303

    3 ай бұрын

    You should check out Real Life Lore as well. I bounce between these two.

  • @r200ti

    @r200ti

    3 ай бұрын

    Problem is he is anti Russian, and people with that attitude are leading us to WW3. Unbiased people are far better, they think about trade and preserving life. Rather than finding an enemy and destroying yourself over it. Russia would easily work around a lack of US chips so it doesnt even matter.

  • @BSworldX

    @BSworldX

    2 ай бұрын

    You know that his stories are bs. They been debunked. He constantly lies and tells half truths. He just sounds and his videos are good

  • @thuytiendang0128

    @thuytiendang0128

    Ай бұрын

    ​@@BSworldX why ? Evidence please ?

  • @cptsmoke0001
    @cptsmoke00013 ай бұрын

    And that's why wars are so profitable 📈 🙄

  • @jameskipp1657
    @jameskipp16573 ай бұрын

    Thanks for doing this story! Agree it is extremely important to bring attention to this.

  • @user-kh1me6xw4c
    @user-kh1me6xw4c3 ай бұрын

    Johnny, this is very important content. No one talks about this and it is driving me insane. Thank you for bringing this up.

  • @movement2contact

    @movement2contact

    3 ай бұрын

    Twitter is full of this info. But yeah- nothing is being done about it...

  • @PiousSlayer

    @PiousSlayer

    3 ай бұрын

    Shell companies gonna shell company. The U.S built multiple shell companies during the Cold War to source materials such as titanium directly from Russia to make the SR-71's. The SR-71's were then used to spy on Russia and others.

  • @mgboltstwitch6921

    @mgboltstwitch6921

    3 ай бұрын

    Maybe so but I'd rather get my news here then twitter 😂​@@movement2contact

  • @khayablack3305

    @khayablack3305

    3 ай бұрын

    ​@@movement2contact nothing can be done about it lol they can easily get those chips from mobile phones, TV's, etc.

  • @MrEnjoivolcom1

    @MrEnjoivolcom1

    3 ай бұрын

    It really doesn’t have to be talked about. This is all fairly common sense. Depends how sheltered you are.

  • @WorldwidebeawareRRR4RPSa-es2ug
    @WorldwidebeawareRRR4RPSa-es2ug3 ай бұрын

    love you bro lol love your channel #1 Thank you in a massive way

  • @p.a.6170
    @p.a.61703 ай бұрын

    Thank you, Sir

  • @iksimkd
    @iksimkd3 ай бұрын

    Because the Global Economy is exactly that, Global! It’s intertwined, connected and every single country depends on it, and when it’s connected on a Global scale like it is, it’s fairly easy for countries to bypass sanctions and import what normal people think it’s not possible to import.

  • @StonedSpagooter
    @StonedSpagooter3 ай бұрын

    Military companies selling military parts to a military? Be better Johnny

  • @rdrrua
    @rdrrua3 ай бұрын

    Great video! How do we make sure the companies do much more to prevent ruzzia from sourcing their chips via intermediaries?

  • @nikyabodigital
    @nikyabodigital3 ай бұрын

    Here to study johhny harris visual anchor to context video editing pattern

  • @remiadeoye6788
    @remiadeoye67883 ай бұрын

    Any electronics enthusiast knows these components can come from anywhere. The same component that runs a toaster can be adapted to run a missile. The fact that there are several components from different manufacturers just shows how they make do with what is available which to me is the scary part. They do need to get a specialized Integrated Circuit.

  • @man-by9iz

    @man-by9iz

    3 ай бұрын

    I guess my graphing calculator runs missiles

  • @anonymousadam8950

    @anonymousadam8950

    3 ай бұрын

    @@man-by9izit very realistically could

  • @Justowner

    @Justowner

    3 ай бұрын

    @@man-by9iz Your graphing calculator is more powerful than the computer than got men to the moon on the Apollo landing.

  • @pavanmelukote
    @pavanmelukote3 ай бұрын

    Brilliant video as usual. Love how the details are so well explained.

  • @Peter-jc4by
    @Peter-jc4by3 ай бұрын

    This is great work Johnny. You’re cut from a different cloth.

  • @Murphisto
    @Murphisto3 ай бұрын

    Which star wars episode was it, where they discussed this? Ep. 7 or 8 ?

  • @kanishqsolanki
    @kanishqsolanki3 ай бұрын

    i dont usually comment on videos but the way you demonstrated everything, well done, johnny!

  • @bmwkmx1
    @bmwkmx13 ай бұрын

    Great vids. Keep the work coming.

  • @conor2162
    @conor21623 ай бұрын

    Hey i love your videos, i am curetly learnig about the history of kosovo can you make a video on it? I whoud comper it to europs Jurusalem and i think it whoud be a very educational and contrversal video which will give your chanal a lotoff attraction to you chanel. You videos are great keep doing what you are doing.

  • @bhangbg1
    @bhangbg13 ай бұрын

    Another great video thanks for

  • @alexisherex6086
    @alexisherex60863 ай бұрын

    Wow johnny harris thanks back at it again with these bangers !

  • @WalterKeepCoreReal
    @WalterKeepCoreReal3 ай бұрын

    We live in a global village. You cannot cut off a country from global trade. Lol

  • @frantiseknovotny9315
    @frantiseknovotny93153 ай бұрын

    In many ways, this is just like fighting drug trafficking. It’s so frustrating, because almost no matter what you do, the product will find a way towards the customer. The demand is so strong, no matter how hard you will try, how many obstacles get in the way, the trade will happen. With drugs, you can at least legalize, put on some hard regulations and put the criminal gangs out of business. Here, the problem is not the effects around the illegal trade, but the final application of the product. I just don’t see any clear solution here.

  • @sababugs1125

    @sababugs1125

    3 ай бұрын

    dope the chips

  • @adrianalexandrov7730

    @adrianalexandrov7730

    3 ай бұрын

    And when you restrict it, it just bumps the price up making it more profitable

  • @andrewhowie3418
    @andrewhowie34183 ай бұрын

    Thanks