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@mw3killer10001

2 ай бұрын

I Love your content I have a bud who is also a vet he's amazing and I have so much respect for people like you. Keep it up! Thank you!

@lawyermahaprasad

2 ай бұрын

Is the AD targeted to Indians or Americans?

@alhuggie2726

2 ай бұрын

😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢ĥ😢

@user-eh4dz6ne3r

2 ай бұрын

bro got hacked

@misonipeter4377

2 ай бұрын

Can't get into the group

Key concepts from this video: -Djibouti is small and weirdly shaped, but strategically located. -The French were the first to penetrate Djibouti. -The United States is currently all over Djibouti. -Everyone has to pay if they want to be in Djibouti. -Everything passes through Djibouti. -The Chinese have been doing naughty things in Djibouti.

@Freedom_Half_Off

2 ай бұрын

Thanks ... now I don't have to watch the video 🫡

@oxydoxxo

2 ай бұрын

Wow. Djibouti gets around.

@seansingh4421

2 ай бұрын

You’re my favorite person now

@shafsteryellow

2 ай бұрын

It's somalia

@dezalt

2 ай бұрын

Geebooty

Assuming that soldiers from all military bases get local leave, it would be interesting what happens in the local pubs on Friday night!

@quarkedbutt3957

2 ай бұрын

We didn't get leave when I was there, it was treated like a combat deployment (most units there are QRF for Somalia or other countries)

@thelordofcringe

2 ай бұрын

It's Djibouti, you ain't getting leave unless you bring a battalion to watch your back.

@CorgiWrangler

2 ай бұрын

Ahh yes the local totally not insurgent Hotspot pub

@theiranianputin2770

2 ай бұрын

@@quarkedbutt3957 Agreed, that's what my neighbor had said. He got posted there for 6-7 months and they weren't given leave. He also said it sucked but tbh he said it sucked everywhere but Germany lol.

@gordonmacdowell8117

2 ай бұрын

Never order the "Chained to the Plumbing" on special cocktail at the local dive bar.

The Americans and Chinese are in Djibouti??! Well I hope they don’t go to Uranus next…

@go4ride

2 ай бұрын

You made me snort my coffee out my nose.

@QNEGRO1

2 ай бұрын

Man, and here I thought I was the only one going to write a funny comment on this video😂❤

@sleeplesssoul__2457

2 ай бұрын

@@5eant_better luck next time 🤡

@rafaelalzino4948

2 ай бұрын

haha 🤣

@culturedman1310

2 ай бұрын

Now that's original 😂

The _"Djibiouti"_ line from the beginning of Wedding Crashers is my favorite part.

A fight of both bases would be like a game mode of conquest in Battle field 4😂

i love the intro: DJBOUTI!

@rootkhan3254

2 ай бұрын

shit caught me off gaurd 😂😂😂😂😂

As a US Marine Air Traffic Controller I chuckled when you used stock footage of Air Force ATC radar scopes (STARS) while you were talking about “intelligence gathering”. If you ever want to do a video on Marine Air Traffic Control and Expeditionary Air Traffic Control I’m your man.

You cover so many areas! It's great! Not just helmets, but Djibouti, too!

@genghisgalahad8465

2 ай бұрын

Boots on the ground and helmets in Djibouti... 🪖

@52Ford

2 ай бұрын

@@genghisgalahad8465 Ouch.

@sugondeeznuts3857

2 ай бұрын

they also covered djbouti

I think the 30mi x 10 mile scale was off in the illustration. Those countries are hundred and thousands of miles of coastline, the Red Sea is 1400miles at its longest (thanks Wikipedia).

@BangBangBang.

2 ай бұрын

ha, I saw that and was like uhhhhh

@Nilafila76

2 ай бұрын

Yes I caught that too. He was referring to the Bab -el mandap straight at the entrance of the Red sea but the graphic was as long as the whole Red Sea.

@crysteldogg8936

2 ай бұрын

I don't know how most people didn't point that out. Stuck out like a sore thumb, I'm like "31 miles, where tf did that number come from"

@realnavysailor

2 ай бұрын

Come on T&P you gotta correct this one.

@Juho-uf8si

2 ай бұрын

bab al mandab strait is somewhat the size announced but its confusing af that graphics guy draws lines on whole red sea length

Great info keep up the good work TY

Nice video Chris. Great information.

*Well researched* content sprinkled with the right amount of *humor* presented with high quality *media & animation* . [standing ovation]

That 31-mile (50km) bar scale at 04:00 into the video is so far "off" the mark it doesn't pass the 2 second "what?" test.

I’ll always remember Djibouti because I got to see Topgun Maverick while I was there.

@toodlepop

2 ай бұрын

i'll always remember djibouti because of that 24hr subway. christmas dinner? ruined, get on a plane. thanksgiving dinner? throw your plate away, get on a plane and eat combos in the dark. BUT...i was flying to djibouti and i knew that 24hr subway would be waiting. all was well.

@Khemtime

2 ай бұрын

@@toodlepop I ate more Subway while I was there than I have in my entire life. 2AM on the way back from working out, grab a sandwich and sit on the sidewalk to use the WiFi and call my wife. One of the few things I looked forward to.

My cousin is in Djibouti, thanks for covering this! Really helps me understand the local situation.

Very informative video! Thanks mucho.

Keep up the good work young man

In February of 1966 I was a passenger on the P&O ORONSAY sailing toward the Suez Canal with a scheduled call in Djibouti BUT . our call was cancelled due to some unrest there and all these years later I have never had a opportunity to get back but as they say , " the more things change - the more they remain the same . Also on that journey , the only Chinese boats we saw were the Junks clogging Hong Kong harbour housing the people fleeing Mao's Wonderland .

@mattshussett8063

2 ай бұрын

So you are saying that your Djibiouti call was cancelled and you haven't had another in 58 years? That's depressing man. Lower your standards!

You’re bad ass buddy. Love your content. Head and shoulders. Head and shoulders

3:58 I'm always amazed at how y'all get things wrong in your graphics.

@alexs5968

2 ай бұрын

Bro I was so confused for a second like I know I ain’t seeing that right

@currrenteventnerd1254

2 ай бұрын

What? You didn’t know the Red Sea was only 31 miles long😂

@MacrosFTW

2 ай бұрын

Does he even check

@bpdp379

2 ай бұрын

I watched an episode where he mispronounced something…😂

@wlewallen

2 ай бұрын

And an Opsrey is a helicopter. I'm not complaining: I love this guy's schtick. He obviously slaps these episodes together in a hurry: it would be stunning if he didn't make a few minor errors.

I can understand any base wanting to restrict airspace above itself. Especially adversaries. Also can the US and Chinese soldiers have annual Olympics and competitions in non contact sports in Djibouti

@luzhang2982

2 ай бұрын

Classic spy vs spy shenanigans. Not surprised someone being head of Intel being pissed while messing with each other in non violent ways. Let petulant neighbors. Firefighters are clearly a different department from both fronts and have no bias on that front. They just want to take care of emergencies.

@philkoth2198

2 ай бұрын

We invited them last year. State Department said "NO!"

@elix901

2 ай бұрын

@@philkoth2198see my thoughts the joes want to get along while being competitive but, the higher ups don’t.

@dickmelsonlupot7697

2 ай бұрын

@@luzhang2982 exactly. The head of intel just sounds pretty fckknn petty. Like how being able to fly over a military base (let alone one owned by an adversary) is somehow a requirement and that the US is entitled to it somehow yet when you do that over theirs or even try to attempt to near theirs, they'll be as pissed of or do far worse than what China has done. Like that time the US shot down an airliner

ja booty is my favorite country now

I trust this guy the most out of All of the geopolitical channels! Keep it up man, great work

Great content

Another great video - thanks so much for the update!

Love your work here in the comments to help your channel!!

Love your unique style, never change!

@TheGospelofKenneth

2 ай бұрын

Ye, I was gonna say the same shit😅 like his content but let's be honest here! Most KZread channels are cookie cut outs of already successful channels ✅ I mean of it ain't broke don't fix it but yeah, unique?! Probably not​@@bryananderson3772

@Cthulhuwarlord

2 ай бұрын

@@bryananderson3772it’s a bot

That video of the Osprey over the PBs at 6:11 was MSRON 11 on our last deployment in May-Dec 2023 doing medevac training with the PJs!

Great video, good information. Kinda gave me the giggles though.

I was deployed to Djibouti '05-'06. Great spot.

So what your saying is that china's getting all up in Djibouti 😂

@123shotas

2 ай бұрын

Doesn't seem like they can reach it either way 😂

Hilarious start to the video like from me

Just so you know you are now my chief source for international news. Be proud of that.

Just here to say I was excited to see an 86th IBCT patch in there @ 10:34

My state is going there later this year… so thanks for the info

the infographic at 4:05 needs some editing, it's showing the red sea being measured at 31 miles long, not the Bab-El-Mandeb straight.

@garethmottram

2 ай бұрын

Yeah that 31 miles line is more like 900, and the 16 miles well the that’s not 16. It marks the Red Sea not the ban el-mandab (🥃)

@chupacabra304

2 ай бұрын

@@garethmottramUS just 100 miles long 😂

Amazing animation

For an average infantryman, you make some great videos!

It's a pretty smart move on Djibouti's part. Having so many military bases, American in particular, guarantees that there will never be a coup or serious uprising against the government there as long as they continue to host them.

@gandydancer9710

2 ай бұрын

You think hosted countries can't sponsor coups?

@amistrophy

Ай бұрын

​@gandydancer9710 that's what the 7 other countries are there for

@gandydancer9710

Ай бұрын

@@amistrophy Do you think that that's an answer to my question?

15:32 i love that..

Ha ha, enjoyed your attempt at the Camp name. Camp Lem-kd;sajfblahblah! 😄 Camp Lem-on-yaaay. Pretend you're French when you say it. I used to call it Camp Lemonade. Looks a whole lot better now than when I was in and out of there back in the early to mid-2000s.

The best saying out of that place is “I want to go so deep into Djibouti that I’m in your Chabelley” 😂 9:47

Is it possible that Djibouti got its name inspiration from the musical "The Music Man"? Buddy Hacket sings these lyrics in "Shipoopi" (sounds like Djibouti) : She's the girl you're glad you found She's your shipoopi Shipoopi, shipoopi, shipoopi The girl who's hard to get Shipoopi, shipoopi, shipoopi But you can win her yet Shipoopi is the hard to get "Girl" (Djibouti) that many major national militaries are tying "to get". Major countries are trying to "win her yet"..... This is a great episode, illustrating how much I should know about geopolitics and yet are completely clueless about. Thank for helping me become a bit less clueless.

Just how meany countries have left seamen in Djibouti?

@benedictaesangbedo2286

2 ай бұрын

America,France,Japan,Saudi Arabia,UK,Russia, and China I think

@ommsterlitz1805

2 ай бұрын

America is a continent@@benedictaesangbedo2286

@philkoth2198

2 ай бұрын

@@benedictaesangbedo2286 Spain, UK, Germany also at some point.

4:57 take a look at camp lemonia.... lomonieg😂

5:25 that image sums up the houthis very well

Nice jacket!

1981 refuelled there on the way to the Gulf. First time I ever saw someone taking a bath in a ditch, some things never change.

Eyy, sorry for my rude comment last video. Thank you for improving your affect!

"We've seen Djibouti become the focal point for various military powers including the US, *France* and China" hehe good one.. The French Air Force has been present in Djibouti since 1933. In 1948 creation of French air base 188. French Army Camp Lemonnier was created in 1977. It bears the name of General Émile Lemonnier, beheaded by the Japanese for refusing to sign his surrender in Indochina during the 2d World War. The American base was created in 2002.

@stefthorman8548

2 ай бұрын

so what? cope harder, if you frenchies had any influence over Djbouti, you would have made them not allow china to go in, and fund them

@swann67000

2 ай бұрын

​@@stefthorman8548if you cowboy had any influence why afghanistan, irak, syria are shithole since you been there? Why did you let russia invade ukraine? I thought russia was your biggest ennemi after ww2 and you let them do what they want? Cheers mate

Great video - great timing! Now we are starting to understand why Yemenese conflict has been going on since I got out of the military in 2013!

Of course! Everyone wants to get in Djibouti!!!

Nook-you-lur. Way to make lemonade, Chris. Hellurr.

I'm not sure how he does it but this is one of the sources I watch to find original perspective. He's smart (I was also enlisted in the service),,and well informed. Plus he makes it fun!!

That’s nearly 7 miles (6.85 [from 11km in the video]) if converting from km to freedom units. Or, about 6 miles (6.214) if going off the title of the video of 10 kilometers.

Many men have been in Djibouti

Everybody wants a piece of Djibouti

I wana see more of Djibouti

Great report… What resources does this place have.

Chris, gotta adjust the Red Sea length. The Bab Al Mandev is 31 miles, but your marker shows the entire Red Sea as 31 miles (it’s ~1400mi)

We landed there on Christmas '13. Special MAGTF-Africa

3:33 - 3:42 "Friends with benefit "? sounds like a case of Djibouti-call.🤷‍♂️

was there in 2022, can confirm the name is what it smells like

This sounds like an ArmA plot in the making.

Digging in Djibouti

DjaBooty is very important

@Somalian-Atheist-Republic

2 ай бұрын

we all love dabooty

The talk at the end of the video about the commercialization of Djibouti and all the countries trying to get in on it reminds me of cyberpunk corpo shit.

3:58. Uh, I'm pretty sure the length of the entire Red Sea isn't just 31 miles...

@deerdust6484

2 ай бұрын

Yeah that confused the shit outta me

@AcidGambit419

2 ай бұрын

I was looking for someone else who noticed. Like damn I could ride my ebike across the entire Middle East 😂

@SSJ0016

2 ай бұрын

lmfao yeah what the hell

Haha. Very informative video... as always. But... I am next to positive you did this video just to be able to say, "Djibouti" as much as possible 😂😂

One thing not mentioned that ive heard before is that the only deep water port is next to the chinese base. so anything we ship by sea over there is very close to the chinese.

Bro actually this is crazy that Resident Evil has predicted an attack on the US and the US wanting to move closer to the island to China

If I owed somebody a load of money, and they set up a camp with a heavy army and navy presence on my drive way... With ability to instantly block all of my outgoing trade... I'd feel a little intimidated!

@stefthorman8548

2 ай бұрын

don't worry you also rented your drive way to numerous people who are hostile to the money lander, and one of those people are way stronger than that money lender

"We like Djibouti, we cannot lie" - President Mix-a-Lot

In Kabul the Iranian and US embassies were across the street from from each other!

Having a face to face identification is nut Witness protection truly is great

Djibouti is fun to say the least

You bet Djibiouti! 😁

at 4:00 that map showing 31 miles is incorrect. it highlighted the entire red sea as the straight, rather than just the Bab Al Mandeb

We need a FARA update from you

Not too sure abut that graphic at 3:59. The distance label ay be cutting Bab al Mandeb a little short, but the graphic is way off when it looks like referencing the Red Sea.

Ahhh... Those oh so familiar "shipping containers" 😅

Cooperative Rivals

China’s foreign policy strategy and humanitarian aid strategy in Africa is honestly pretty fucking amazing. We should take notes

@alexberkowitz5897

2 ай бұрын

Say more

@dickmelsonlupot7697

2 ай бұрын

@@alexberkowitz5897 he's not wrong though. All in all and looking at it critically, they're actually doing a great job and far better than any foreign especially Western nation has done. And let's be real here, any "corruption" or whatever is not really much a China issue but more the nation China is operating in issue since it's them that's corrupt and took the loans that China was too stupid and risky to give out but those politicians involved just pocketed the money. The Chinese "threat" outside China and the South China Sea / West Philippines Sea is highly overinflated and misunderstood to the point that the Americans are a far greater threat than even the Chinese. Like seriously, look at the size of the bases in Djibouti and what is actually placed there. Compared to the Americans, the Chinese just look like they sent their weakest unit to stay there.

@LordEd21-21

2 ай бұрын

It really is a great policy until you read the fine print. Most nations that have signed up for the Belt and road initiative/silk road are now filling complaints that will not work. Simply put all the infrastructure that china built for these nations hardly last a year or 2 and china own local resources, land and/or debt that none of theses nations could pay back essentially become vassal(Slave Nations) for China.

@Cool2023FtwNoice

2 ай бұрын

​@@LordEd21-21 Well said 👍👍

@user-sk2hc9lm9r

2 ай бұрын

​@@LordEd21-21the Fine Print from US media? 😂😂😂 China doesn't want Vassals unlike the US.

I wonder what kind of ordinance the bases have aimed at each other.

sorry for nitpicking but those mileages are wrong at 4:00, cheers from Estland!

Dijibouti is a tourist destination for Ethiopia... Well I had family there that would go there for beaches and bars.

@shafsteryellow

2 ай бұрын

It's somalia

@lanxy2398

2 ай бұрын

@@shafsteryellowSomaliland is not Somalia

@Cthulhuwarlord

2 ай бұрын

Learned while I was deployed there it’s a very popular French vacation spot

Yea my cousins son just spent 2 years there while in the marines. He said he spent most of his time just playing volleyball.

Your graphic about the Bab al-Mandab Strait was a bit confusing. It made it seem like the Red Sea is only 16 miles wide and 31 miles long...

Well…. those PLA troops will be easy to spot in that desert environment wearing what looks like an urban combat camouflage pattern.

About 20 years ago I had an African coworker , probably Somali, I work in and around the Twin Cities Minnesota since the 90s, who I asked if the name Djibouti also sounds funny to Africans, and he said yes. That's as much as I knew about Djibouti before this video.

What a coïncidence 🙈🙊🙉

Spent some time on that base in 2010 when I spent 6 months in the Red Sea/gulf of Aden. Vbss coxswain so I got to visit a bunch of fishing skiffs and learned all about that green plant they love to chew and hold in their cheeks like chew/dip/zyns. We didn’t get to pull into any cool places because of the geography location so the Bob hope galley was a big hit for not just me but the whole crew of my ship. We pulled in twice and cleaned them out the first time so the second time the rules changed lol. Too damn hot

@michaelotieno6524

2 ай бұрын

Green plant is a mild stimulant called Khat

Aside from the funny “not to scale” errors, your video is great! My opinion: China’s presence is a check against possible embargoes at that point. The low level espionage shows that they need finer details on how to disable potential adversaries. I think that tiny country needs those bases on its soil because Ethiopia would conquer Djibouti faster than Putin if there were no militaries there. Trump will probably renegotiate the rental/lease costs. (A joke, no really…) Djibouti is great for whenever Persian gulf turns hot and U.S. assets need to retreat from Kuwait and Qatar. You’re doing fantastic, keep Up the good work!

@zacksmith5963

2 ай бұрын

Why is usa military in Africa

@zacksmith5963

2 ай бұрын

@@SurfaceDweller colonists cry . China wins

Admit it, it's just really really fun to say. It's like making a video about the planet Uranus.

@Garythefireman66

2 ай бұрын

Check out Astrographics 😂

My brother got sent over there as a part of the Minnesota national guard in 2020. Just in time for the governor to call all of the MN national guard 19-year-old fry cooks

okay, i really want to see Djibouti and the rest of the UN create a sports game call "the international Djibouti games" where the fittest athelete from said bases on the representing countries inside

Tryna get to youuuu and Djibouti

i thought he said "da booty" yo ngl the Chinese? soldier's gear looks fire

Damn Djibouti is bigger then I expected.