Comments by "seneca983" (@seneca983) on "Ryan McBeth" channel.

  1. 26:23 In case anyone's curious, "pioneeri" is the Finnish word for "field engineer" and "vänrikki" is the lowest commissioned officer rank in the Finnish army, so basically equivalent to a 2nd lieutenant.
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  2.  @AyamanAmusic  "the hard pushback of the people in Israel by the notion that you don't feed your enemy" I think starving the enemy population probably amounts to a war crime.
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  3.  @AyamanAmusic  "Do you wanna start to count the war crimes that Hamas did?" It's certainly more than 0 but that hardly means that preventing food shipments from coming in wouldn't also be a war crime. "And what are the rights of terrorists groups by those war rules?" I'm not sure about the terrorist groups themselves but you need to remember that the enemy civilian population does have rights under the laws of war, even if they support the aforementioned terrorist groups.
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  4. "What the hell is wrong with them." I think most likely they just aren't very knowledgeable (or if they are they probably hope that the people who see the video aren't).
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  5.  @RE-ec7iz  I don't think conscription makes sense for the US. Conscription is an effective policy for countries that are at risk of a major invasion from a land neighbor (or want themselves carry out such invasion) because it's a cheap method for creating a large mass of reserves for such a war. That doesn't apply to the US. Strategically, the US almost like an island. Its military is mostly an expeditionary force and doesn't really have a use for a large mass of reservists than conscription can generate.
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  6.  @CedarHunt  Where would they all go? What country would receive them?
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  7. Apparently the oldest know joke, which happens to be Sumerian, goes "Something which has never occurred since time immemorial; a young woman did not fart in her husband's lap".
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  8.  @Hypernefelos  "I bet there were more lead sling bullets with inscriptions on them than without any." I'm a bit skeptical. The amount of sling bullets consumed in war was likely quite high so I think inscribing more than half of them would be excessively laborious. However, the absolute number of sling bullets with inscriptions is probably still high.
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  9.  @stevebuckley7788  To me it seemed like the missile didn't explode in this video, though I'm not 100% certain.
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  10.  @stevebuckley7788  It's not the size of the splash as such. I just don't see a moment where the explosion could have happened. If the explosion would have happened right on contact with water I think we could have seen the explosion itself with at least some smoke included. You could try to argue that the explosion happened a bit later when the missile was already below the water surface. However, that doesn't seem likely to me either. I think then we would have likely seen two separate splashes for impact and explosion. Also, I think the shape of the splash doesn't seem to match an underwater explosion. From what I've seen (from videos, not IRL) underwater explosions seem generate a splash straight upward, not one that splits into somewhat angled splashes. You can also see the effect of the explosion in a wider area on the surface around the splash in the center.
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  11.  @DoctorProph3t  "You’re forgetting air pressure’s influence on relative humidity" Air pressure at any given height varies far less than what's the difference in the molecular weight of H₂O to N₂ or O₂. "and that there’s also more nitrogen and oxygen gas in the air below 1000m sea level where air density is at its most packed, and you’re forgetting that most atmospheric air is N2" That doesn't change anything. A water molecule is much lighter than both N₂ and O₂ molecules. "Humid, warm air is denser per cubic inch than cold, dry air." No, it's less dense. "Ask any pilot and they’ll tell you the same thing." They won't if they know what they're talking about.
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  12. 0:55 "do not send me any Cuban cigars" <nudge, nudge; wink, wink>
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  13.  @johnmilner6419  "It the turret was out of control, the TC was either wounded or killed" He definitely wasn't killed and can't have been too seriously wounded either because he (and the other 2 crew members) are shown abandoning the tank.
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  14. I guess for many journalists their main area of expertise is, surprise, surprise, journalism itself rather than what they're reporting on. I guess ideally journalists should seek to consult a relevant expert but that can easily get slow and/or expensive.
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  15. Though I think in Swedish it should be "Gripedörren".
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  16. You have to take into account that the missile appears to hit the water surface sideways.
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  17.  @57thorns  "two NATO countries now having S:t Petersburg in artillery range (more or less)" (EDIT: Corrected distances.) St. Petersburg is about 170 km from the Finnish border and over 150 km from the Estonian border. What kind of artillery are you thinking about here? Some kind of rocket artillery?
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  18. "there can't be an autonomous gaza" What's the alternative? Israel permanently annexing Gaza? That would seem rather problematic because it would bring about 2 million Arab Muslims into Israel proper. Israel might deny them citizenship rights and only give them the right to reside in the area of the (former) Gaza Strip and maybe some other restricted parts of Israel but I think that would be hard to sustain in the long term. It would probably carry enough risk of a significant demographic shift in Israel in the long term to make many Israelis uneasy with it (even though it wouldn't be enough to make Jews a minority).
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  19.  @reubensandwich9249  "For some nations, it doesn't make financial sense to have tanks, Netherlands comes to mine." According to Wikipedia, the Netherlands has 18 Leopard 2 main battle tanks.
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  20.  @CedarHunt  What about the current Gazan population?
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  21.  @thinguyetpham6661  I can't think of a single country that would be ready to receive 2 million Gazans.
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  22.  @dogefort8410  No, (standard) Finnish doesn't have the 'f' sound for the most part, though it does appear in some loanwords (but eastern dialects use 'f' more). In older loans, like this one, Fs are often approximated with Vs.
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  23. One option is to call it ex-Twitter.
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  24. I think calling the Kurds "anti-Assad" is a bit misleading. When Trump during his first term pulled US troops away from the Kurdish areas, the Kurds allied with Assad to deter Turkey.
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  25.  @HJK242  Fair enough. I edited my comment. I had just googled the distances without bothering to check the map. In any case, the distance should still be well beyond the range of any existing tube artillery (including with rocket assisted projectiles). Maybe it can be reached with rocket artillery.
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  26.  @lurmieei  So the UAE would be in control of the Gaza Strip and not Israel? That sounds a bit far fetched. In any case, your "followed by autonomous rule" would contradict OP's statement that autonomous Gaza Strip wouldn't be acceptable.
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  27.  @osric1730  I have seen claims that many of the control surfaces on the airplane became inoperable and turning left or right could mostly be done by applying a different amount of power in the plane's engines. If that's true, it's possible that taking as straight of a route as possible was very important.
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  28.  @miletello1  At least the videos we have seen don't show the crew getting killed, though they don't go for very long after the crew's disembarkment.
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  29.  @CedarHunt  Is your plan making those Israeli families live among them? Would that really work?
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  30.  @brianhirt5027  I'm rather puzzled by your comment.
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  31.  @brianhirt5027  OK, but how does that work? I don't think you can easily search YouTube comments. I don't see why this video would be interesting to GRU. This comment isn't total non sequitur since Ryan mentioned smoking cigars. That account was created in 2011 which seems to make it less likely that it's a bot for this kind of purpose.
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  32. 0:28 Is that German?
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  33. 1:20 In Finnish the term for IFV is actually "assault tank" (rynnäkköpanssarivaunu).
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  34.  @RonJohn63  True. However, they had worse horses than cavalry. True cavalry needs good chargers as mounts. Dragoons and other mounted infantry don't because their horses won't be charging into battle. You can draw a parallel between horses that are trained to be chargers vs. those that are not, and purpose built military vehicles vs. civilian vehicles.
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  35.  @RonJohn63  I explained my reasoning the last sentence of my previous comment. You can view the worse horses (as opposed to real chargers) as being somewhat analogous to using civilian vehicles (as opposed to purpose built military vehicles).
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  36.  @RonJohn63  I don't find it irrelevant. You mentioned the ad hoc nature of technicals as a difference which would go against describing dragoons as "Napoléonic era technicals". I mentioned a slightly different aspect in which they have a similarity which is an argument for that description. Additionally, I might say that technicals might not always be ad hoc. Some armed groups seem to be using them in a systematic and sustained fashion.
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  37.  @RonJohn63  "If you paint all your light Hiluxs the same color, put standardized weapons on them, and staff them with men in uniform, they are NOT ad hoc anymore." But I'm pretty sure those (and other similar contraptions made from civilian vehicles) would still be called "technicals".
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  38.  @RonJohn63  "when does a vehicle transition from "civilian" to "military"?" The difference wrt. what I was talking about is: -designed and built primarily for civilian use; is converted by mounting a weapon on it -> a technical -purposefully designed and built for military use; designed at least with the possibility of weapon being mounted on it (e.g. APC) -> not a technical
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  39. 1:00 At least in Finnish (and maybe some other languages too?) the term for IFV is literally "assault tank" (rynnäkköpanssarivaunu).
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  40. 4:45 Wait! So despite what you said earlier, you're still assigning at least a 20% probability for the secretary of defense's location being unknown?
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  41. "However, I think that modern guided ammunition can easily take down bridges." I'm not so sure since bridges tend to be sturdy. Take the Antonivka Road Bridge. The Ukrainians apparently did successfully render it unusable. However, that took many precision strikes with HIMARS. That didn't seem to even cause any span to collapse. It just made some holes to the bridge but apparently it's now structurally sufficiently unsound that the Russians aren't using it.
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  42. "But if you mean each year 10% of the population is conscripted." I'm pretty sure that if he meant each year then he meant 10% of the relevant age cohort.
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  43.  @DavorBa  "You mean those small cessna planes ?" As a minor nitpick, I've seen claims that the small aircraft converted into drones by Ukraine were manufactured by Aeroprakt, not Cessna.
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  44.  @stevebuckley7788  ?
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  45. 2:05 "A shotgun is not a weapon of war." It was during WWI.
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  46. Those troops being sent are probably professional soldiers that volunteered for that position because you get a better lot in life that way in North Korea. OK, they might not have know that they would be sent to actual combat but it still applies that they're probably not ordinary conscripts.
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  47.  @theredscourge  The main span of the bridge is a truss-arch so I don't think it uses cables.
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  48. 4:35 Wait! Are you saying that there's still at least a 20% chance that it's a sniper? That seems a bit high to me.
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  49. Don't artillery men wear ear protection? Or does the guy have earplugs?
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  50. 4:10 But what about if the drone is an FPV drone that's about to crash into you carrying an explosive payload?
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