Comments by "Bell UH1H Huey" (@belluh-1huey102) on "GDF" channel.

  1. @Eric Blust  yo what unit? Also, my friend from the corps went embedded with the Iraqi army and saw an improvement from demoralized a$$hats to a semi competent force in a few tours. He doesn't speak much about Iraq but sees his time there as a learning experience to appreciate life.
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  2. @Blue Skies Media  I got a video, it's called "America's Entaglement" by Kraut to tell you about America's foreign policy. Also, this channel is literally low-grade Johnny Harris.
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  3. @chripian flopez explanation is always needed
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  4.  @josedorsaith5261  Iraq was already suffering from sectarian violence in the 80s
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  5. @kalajari1749  Man, you calling Iraq in 1991 a poorly trained militia? You barely do jack research and forget about the USSR aid dumping, 3rd biggest army in the world at the time, and finished fighting Iran and Kuwait. Sure, they are poorly trained, but it should take a while to dismantle them. Iraq in 1991 had a modern military with a capable Airforce and such and is comparable to Ukraine in 2014. Yet it gets steamrollered within a week. Not to mention heavy AA and Mig 29s in the fleet could've wrecked havoc in the air, but it didn't. Pierre Sprey moaning about how the Abrams cannot hold a candle to the T72, oh how he was wrong in that regard.
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  6.  @rhizomefriend  to the general public it doesn't
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  7. @Zeerak 141  suicide is self-inflicted, not by others. So idk what kind of pot you are smoking to get that answer.
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  8. @Ry H  it actually does matter, as if you spin an invasion with solid justifications and evidence, you might get the international community on your side. Yet both wars are built with faulty evidence. Also, watch Kraut's American Entaglement video.
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  9.  @afriendlymedic1927  suicide isn't the same as Iraqis killing Americans lol, back on topic pal
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  10.  @rulerofeverything6294  Look at the casualty ratio my man
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  11. @Greg Robinette  I mean those events are indirect intervention. I mean something like direct intervention, aka invasion. Like Panama and Grenada in the 80s and 90s
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  12.  @benadrylcumbersplatch6448  Iraq and Afghanistan don't got a McDonalds
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  13.  @lolsilesia  yo what of vodka you drinking man, Russia had nothing to do with Iraq, nor they own any of it.
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  14.  Blue Skies Media  I think you misunderstand the U.S. as your logic is blown when I introduce wokeness and cancel culture.
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  15.  @diegorincon4673  Diego, we have to take claims with a grain of salt, if we have VALID and visual footage of war crimes, whether it be on some Iraqi's phone, or whatever, then we can believe it. The fog of war is very much real, you don't know what's civilian and what's the opposing force most of the time. U.S. learned this way faster than the Soviets and begun the adoption of surgical room clearing when many U.S. troops were committed to Iraq. Meanwhile, Russia just indiscriminately bombs city blocks like it's nothing, Russia still has the task of actually occupying Ukraine left to fulfil, which is always harder than invading.
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  16. @Blazin Tiger  uh, you are kind of hypocritical rn as you're changing your point that joinning the military is to fight a war. Many people literally abuse the army for self benefit, like even a 18 year old out of college who just needs to do basic, stay at a desk for 1 year, and they get their Gi bill, or get a good job at Lockheed, look good for community service, etc.. Friends and family in the military, one saw combat, I don't see anything about signing your life away.
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  17. @ObrnenyDrevokocur  the U.S. invasion led to more civilian casualties, which is an over generalization of the conflict in Iraq. You, my friend, need to research the Iraq Civil War and Secterian Violence in Iraq. U.S. for a certain time, increased civilian casualties, but also lowered them. If you want, I can go in depth with a year by year graph of civilian deaths by violence in Iraq.
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  18. @kalajari1749  buddy, 3 weeks to Baghdad compared to more than a year to Kyiv is all I am going to say. Calling Russia a professional is pretty funny considering their military can't even plan logistics to fight a country on their border as shown by the very long convoy in the 1st few months of the war. Now the invasion has been dragged out for more than a year with not a lot to show in terms of land gained. The U.S. completed the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan with significantly fewer troops in a shorter time span.
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  19.  @RyH-yx4ys  I got a question, proof that your family is in Iraq? I take claims of "being there" with a grain of salt. I found an Iraqi supporting the U.S. but idk if his claims were true of bein in Iraq
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  20.  @samuelsyofficial  oml
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  21. ​@Wickendiana I agree with what you say, but I also think the US intervention in Iraq was for the better. As it taught us a new strategy and put it into practice. Using the people there to fight the problem to build a new sense of nationality against a single cause.
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  22.  @Planet.Xplor3r  Chinese too
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  23.  @theoheinrich529  I'm sure Full Metal Jacket, Platoon, and Apocalypse Now were pro-war films
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  24.  @yalbad5160  as an FYI, I am 20, but my parents and friends are older to know what life was like before me and saw the significant differences in the news from Iraq to Ukraine. Not to mention, when was the last time ISIS in Iraq made headlines?
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  25. @ObrnenyDrevokocur  Battle of Samarra, where insurgents use a mosque, which is the equivalent to using a hospital for your base of operations, as an insurgent stronghold. It's been documented heavily, and footage from the Battle is on this platform, called "Raid to Seize the Golden Mosque," to add, the footage shows more Iraqis than U.S. forces fighting.
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  26. ​ @lolsilesia  "Yea better for iraq, been at war for 20 years which in total has lead to hundreds of thousands dying and is now under iranian/russian control" this sentence is worded to seem that Russia and Iran started the war in Iraq and now owns it. This comment lacks context simply, and is way to vague which thus leads to more misinterpretation. I thought your nation's education system would be better telling their kids to have better context. As lack of context in messages like these, leads to unintended and unnecessary hatred. Back on topic, "My main point was that your whole operation in iraq went to the dumpster because in the end it gave more power to your adversaries." this is inherently false as cited by "russia probably have access to a lot of iraqi oil," not to mention the U.S. does not care about OPEC anymore soon, OPEC is becoming more and more irrelevant to the U.S. as the U.S. is making more oil domestically and trades a lot with Canada, why would you think many oil exporting countries in OPEC started to support China? Oh right because they lost their buyer America. Look at how much OPEC countries export to America, I used the U.S. Energy Information Administration for data on U.S. oil imports. "My main point was that your whole operation in iraq went to the dumpster because in the end it gave more power to your adversaries." This my friend is not a good argument as Russia for some reason, has the need to heavily intervene in Syria, not to mention Russia tried to occupy some oil fields in northern Syria and got obliterated. It's on the news during 2018, it's called the Battle of Khasham. U.S. not only occupied the oil fields there, but it also shows the lack of such access to oil fields in the middle east. The Operation in Iraq did not go into a dumpster fire as shown in a graph from 2003 to 2008 of U.S. and civilian casualties in Iraq cited by Statistica's "Number of documented civilian deaths in the Iraq war from 2003 to February 2023," as shown on the graph, number of documented civilian deaths went down significantly from 2007 to 2008. Want to know why there was an increase in the first place? Was because a thing called the Iraqi Civil War happened from 2006-2008. Corroborate the beginning, middle, and end of the Iraqi Civil War to other events and statistics to the Iraq war. Such as the amount of Civilians dying, or the amount of U.S. troops dying. Which leads to my main point, the reason why the war in Iraq went bad INITIALLY from the Iraqi Civil War, and to counter your part, was not from supporting U.S. adversaries. Then afterwards, it got better after the Civil War ended during U.S. occupation, casualties went down for both military and civilians, economy stabilizes, national army is somewhat functioning, and much more. Notice how much combat in Iraq happened compared in 2003-2007, to 2008-2011.
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  27.  @sufyansmits6410  the boot is called learning the history of Iraq.
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  28.  @HICHAM_CHD  Dude never knew how many Jihads came to Iraq. Not to mention Iraqis initially welcomed America as liberators till some Sunnis got salty that the Shias ran things. Not to mention uh, were the founding fathers and state leaders of the 13 Colonies credible people? Heck, the 1st president was a military officer, not a politician. You people keep expecting things to get good in a year. Change takes time.
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  29.  @rodllynuty  you should specify who's firing at what
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  30.  Zoomer Stasi  Wagner got the support of the Russian army
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  31.  Zoomer Stasi  yet you need skilled operators because equipment don't mean anything without morale and skill.
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  32.  @bigmojito1765  But we still gotta verify the sources, and to this day, we don't know if Admiral Yamamoto said, "we awoke a sleeping giant."
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  33.  @rhizomefriend  Which goes to show how informed the general public is. As the average citizen when they see bad news, they talk about it, A LOT.
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  34. ​​ @zeerak1415  in the "Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Statistics: 2023 Update," by CFAH, number one cause for ptsd is rape, while seeing a friend die is in the bottom 2.
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  35. @Sulla the Hutt  now, you gotta admit the true criminals are Russia. They be leveling entire city blocks just to kill a squad of insurgents. Meanwhile, US soldiers go door to door most of the time leaving many buildings standing with minor damage.
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  36.  Gray Fox  Well then nowadays in Iraq, it's rare thankfully. USMC alyways had it hard/
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  37.  @GodplayGamerZulul  I'm still here, nobody sent me anything regarding a source
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  38.  @hunnerat-touaregi4439  now are you a pacifist?
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  39.  @garthalmunemuralias9101  but I also say that we need to factor in the Iraqi Civil War 2006 to 2008
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  40.  @tilda140  no, but their careers are tainted, as it's the 2nd best thing to do
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  41. ​ @zeerak1415  in MRSC's "Study reveals top reason behind soldiers' suicides," stress and chronic sadness are the reason for attempted suicide attempts.
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  42. @Zeerak 141  the MRSC source developed when the U.S. was fighting both in Iraq and in Afghanistan mainly. Fun fact, the peak amount of troops was in 2008 with 166k, a very small invasion force. It's a wonder how the U.S. was able to invade and occupy this land, considering Russia was struggling a lot in Chechnya, starting 2 wars in a small time frame because the 1st one was a failure. If I took GDR's words at face value, the U.S. is fighting a heavily armed force with significantly fewer numbers than colonization occupation numbers. Combat died down in Iraq in 2008 as it marked the end of the Iraq Civil War. U.S. casualties from 2006 to 2008 during the Iraq Civil War declined heavily, the period where most troops died was from 2003 to 2005, yet the yearly suicide rate has a downward trend from 2005 to 2006 till the Iraqi Civil War happened which reached peak of around 6k in 2008. Only 314 soldiers died in 2008. Peak deathcount in Iraq was 2007, but on average, a lot of troops died in 2003 to 2005, yet the suicide rate went down till after 2006. Source: Statistica, also the source cites other sources. So, why did the suicide rate go down where, on average, a lot of troops were dying? Tours last a year, which leaves post deployment suicide a hard graph to corroborate.
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  43.  @is2unknown893  ik, the euro is, but these statements are just quarter cooked. Heck, not even a quarter more like a hundredth.
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  44.  @ernestkhalimov1007  Afghanistan could maintain a war for so long simply because their neighbor had their backs, same for vietnam too.
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  45. ​ @SefirothPH  Since you say devastation, probably in terms of city damage and not like casualties, then Russia is doing worse. There's millions of crater holes in the fields and cities in Ukraine, meanwhile in Iraq from 2003-2011 aka the period the U.S. was in Iraq, the cities were minorly damaged and mostly intact. If you go look at some Bakhmut before and after videos to Fallujah or Ramadi before and after videos, one looks more intact than the other. You cannot bring in Mosul 2017 as the U.S. was checked out of Iraq in 2011 and let the national armies fight ISIS over there. Now, for civilian casualties, according to Statistica, February 24, 2022 to June 4, 2023, 8983 civilians died in Ukraine, compared to around 12k civilians dying in Iraq. Yet here is the difference between Iraq and Ukraine, Iraq is suffering from sectarian violence which means many of the Iraqis dying in Iraq are because of Iraqis themselves. This sectarian conflict has been going on for a long time, long before the U.S. came into Iraq, yet the cities that saw the most fighting under American occupation didn't come close to the amount of damage seen in Ukraine. For one, some of the cities in Ukraine look unrecognizable from their prewar status, meanwhile Iraqi cities look very recognizable to their pre-war look. We have yet to see Russia go into the counter insurgency phase, which usually and always sees more civilian casualties and damage, making it a great accomplishment to see how few bombs and artillery shells the U.S. used in Iraq. OH WAIT, an estimate of 306,887 civilians killed, as said by the United Nations in the Syrian Civil War that lasted 5 years that saw heavy Russian intervention. Now according to the Iraq Body Count which documented civilian deaths from 2003 – 14 December 2011 estimated that 103,160–113,728 civilian deaths recorded. U.S. caused less casualties and infrastructure damage in their intervention that lasted 8 years than the Russian intervention that lasted 5.
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  46.  @jorgecortes8448  they were building houses, but you probably weren't seeing them getting built due to civilian contractors getting hit and corruption being high in the Iraqi government.
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  47. @ObrnenyDrevokocur  dude acting like the Arab Spring never happened. Iraq was going to be screwed by a form of ISIS in one way or another. Also, cite evidence of the U.S. directly killing civilians. If you give me a source that does not specify coalition caused deaths, then I am inclined to not believe you. Also, look at a graph of civilian deaths from violence in Iraq by the Iraq War Body Count Project and account for when the Iraq Civil War happened. The Iraq Civil War was from 2006 to 2008 which also saw a lot of civilians dying as seen in the graph, but after the Civil War ended, casualty rates among civilians dramatically went down and the U.S. leaves Iraq by 2011. Around the early 2010s, the Arab spring happened, destabilizing a lot of countries in Africa and heck, it even gaining traction in the Philippines. This allowed ISIS to grow stronger, yet that ISIS part I mentioned was more of corroboration, the U.S. itself through their intervention cannot cause a very global uprising even in countries they barely touched when the spring took place. The other stuff I mentioned about the Arab Spring was Islamic uprisings in many countries, Iraq included.
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  48.  @diegorincon4673  "Anybody who couldn't identify themselves was executed." Now I ask, who led to the paranoia of seeing civilians as enemies? Oh right, the PAVN disguised themselves as civilians. Now, common sense 101, if the enemy disguises themselves as civilians, then you got to make sure a civilian is not an enemy, right? Then this all leads to civilian casualties, as it is pretty hard to identify who is a civilian and who is not, I am pretty sure if you were there you would probably accidentally kill a civilian even if it were not from long range.
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  49. @Yal Bad  dude, idk if you are smoking a lot of opium and cannibas to not see that the entirety of Bakhmut is leveled. Fallujah has standing structures after the battle. The U.S. didn't lob nearly as much shells at cities than the Russians, and the Russians are Shelling places indiscriminately with little accuracy. How many shells were Russia Shelling on the daily these days? Ukraine on the Donbas front looks like a colorized WW2 eastern front battle scene. It's been well documented that Russians solve their problems with bombs and artillery, leveling entire city blocks just to kill a suspected insurgent. Meanwhile, US troops are going door to door, actually trying to minimize damage to make COIN easier. The US respects infrastructure and sees it as the foundation to stabilize a country, while Russia is starting major rebellions through their destruction caused by their Shelling of city blocks.
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  50.  @tacitus6384  btw, some guy named Kala says Russia is a modern and very professional army. What's your take on Russia's army currently?
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