Comments by "MarcosElMalo2" (@MarcosElMalo2) on "Ryan McBeth" channel.

  1.  @AdverseOpinion  right. You have to give them the opportunity to call “time out”, according to the rules of war on some fantasy planet in an alternate reality. Seriously, where do you get this idea that you have to give the enemy the opportunity to surrender in the middle of a fight? The Russian soldiers had the opportunity when the tanks entered the field. They could have thrown down their weapons and walked out with their hands up and a white flag. Once the firefight starts, all bets are off. You hunker down, try to merge with the mud at the bottom of the trench, and hope you survive long enough to surrender. Let me repeat that. There’s no “time outs” in the middle of a firefight.
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  2.  @embracethesuck1041  So, “nobody told me”. Was your MOS being a mushroom? You know what being a mushroom is like, right? They feed you a lot of shit and keep you in the dark.
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  3. Fwiw, parts of Ukraine were part of Lithuania long long ago. Polish culture (and Roman Catholicism) also had a big influence on the eastern oblasts. That’s one of the fascinating things about Ukraine: it has always been a place where different cultures have met and rubbed off on each other. The ancient Greeks and the early Vikings met in Crimea and the southern Ukrainian coast, setting up trading posts and farming the fertile soil. It’s this historical multiculturalism that makes Ukraine different from the “princes of Muscovy”, both past and present. Moscow’s greatest outside influence was the Golden Horde, which beat the shit out of the princes and burned Moscow down twice. At that point the Muscovite warlords, I mean princes, became tax collectors and tributaries for their Mongol overlords. I don’t think it’s an exaggerating to say they were pimps, and the culture extolled by Putin in his ahistorical ravings, is basically a pimp culture.
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  4. Socks and skivvies and a t-shirt to start. Good trekking socks also help with foot comfort if you have to spend time standing around on cement floors.
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  5.  @Whatshisname346  Our baby boy is growing up and becoming a brand. He’s becoming a media personality and as such he’s got to wear tailored suits, live in the right neighborhood, and drive the right car to fit in. If it makes you feel any better, he’s probably leasing the Tesla. (God knows it’s one of the worse purchases you can make in terms of depreciation.) I think I’ve been watching Ryan since shortly after 02-2022. It’s nice to see one of the good guys launch a successful career. Or to put it GenX hipster terns, I was a fan when Ryan was still cool, before he sold out. 😂 (No, I don’t think he’s sold out.)
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  6. There’s a difference between saying, “I am willing to be martyred” and “I want to be martyred”. The first tells us that the person is willing to suffer deprivation, injury or death to advance their cause. The second tells us that the person is actively seeking death to advance their cause. Given the course of events, it’s pretty clear that the radical activists attacked the comandos to provoke a reaction in which they might be killed. It’s not Ryan missing the nuance of a word, it’s the speakers of the word using it in an unambiguous way.
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  7. Even lighter off road vehicles get stuck in mud or sand all the time. Then they need to be pulled out. It would be a delusion to think the same doesn’t apply to the Archer. Maybe you can’t put them in the same category, but I don’t think the difference is as great as you assume.
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  8. I think of Ukraine in 2025 as Ukraine in 2025. I’m trying to understand the war on its own terms rather than searching for WWI or WWII comparisons that ultimately aren’t of any utility. Overly facile comparisons don’t help our ability to understand, they diminish our ability by distracting us from the reality.
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  9. It has a negative flavor, but isn’t always bad. For example, you could describe your exercise program as a physical fitness regime. I think the word is of French origin.
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  10. We would need to hire hundreds of thousands of border patrol agents and spend billions on creating a defense in depth infrastructure to satisfy the demands of the anti-immigrant faction who want to hermetically seal the border. Double those numbers if we also seal the border with Canada. In the process we would also risk changing the character of our country into a police state.
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  11.  @badger_ninja8681  I guess you didn’t even watch the video. You’re more of a mushroom than a badger. You thrive in the dark and you’re happy when people feed you shit.
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  12. Physics has YOU!
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  13. Uh, yes we do, unless you’re ignoring pre-Colombian structures.
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  14. Are you pro-tiger?
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  15. Mechanical bird.
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  16.  @TheArklyte Easy navigation point!
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  17.  Say-Palyanytsya I don’t think it’s comparable. At best it’s a pale comparison. My father grew up during the depression. When we were little, he would finish anything left over on our plate. Even dining out at someone else’s house or at a restaurant, which embarrassed my mom to no end. He couldn’t help it. He would sheepishly joke about starving children in China. 😅 Speaking of dining out, he frequently would under order for himself, knowing he’d be raiding our plates at the end of the meal. He is in his 90s now and he still won’t order fries with a burger, expecting someone else to share their fries. 😂 Yes, I learned long ago to order the large fries. But anyway, he and his family sometimes went hungry. He was probably underfed at times. But all of this pales in comparison to the genocidal famine that Joe Stalin and the Kremlin inflicted on the people of Ukraine, a famine that the Soviet Union hid from the world during and after. I can’t even imagine the level of trauma the survivors experienced.
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  18.  @TomBaldwin2483  Why are you responding to a Kremlin troll?
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  19. A big component to Russian disinformation is to flood the zone with untruth, partial truth, distortions, and once in a while some actual truth. The strategy is to paralyze the target (you and me) with too many opinions and “facts” so that we don’t know what to think. We lose track of which facts are true and which are false. That’s the most important thing to remember about Russian propaganda. They’re not trying to get us to believe a lie, they’re trying to make us doubt the existence of facts. They’re not trying to spin facts in a positive light. They’re trying to create an information environment where there is no truth.
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  20. I’m really disappointed that none of the top notch journalists at Tenant Media are covering the Martial Law/National Guard/Donald Trump thing. By the way, did they change their name? I can’t find the Tenant Media channel anywhere on YouTube.
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  21.  @jballaviator  There’s so much money already invested in carriers and they’re still useful for many types of missions. I want to mention the “sunk cost fallacy”, but I’m worried about phrasing. 😂
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  22.  @enoughrope1638  If he fought on the side of a declared enemy with whom we were in an active declared war, he’d have problems. That’s not the current situation, so 🤷🏻‍♀️. But his current course of action could (and might have already) lead to his passport being revoked. That would cause problems and headaches when/if he tried to return. But there is no general law against an American acting contrary to our “national interests”.
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  23.  @bcuniverse_ Property return, but not property inventory.
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  24. If they needed the tanks for their mission, they’d find a way to make the logistics work. But they don’t, so the whole supply chain thing becomes a superfluous distraction from the mission. It’s not that logistics for tanks are too onerous or difficult, it’s that Marines don’t need tanks. And as Ryan mentioned, it’s the missions that make the Marines special. Obviously, amphibious landing is an important one, but the Marines have also been redefining themselves as a “Contact Force” for reconnaissance and screening. As a contact force that you put forward to determine where the enemy is while preventing the enemy from knowing the disposition of your forces. This evolution of doctrine doesn’t involve much that is radically new in practical terms. It’s probing defenses and setting ambushes. It’s forward observation—the Marines are not giving up their artillery. OK, maybe F.O. operations are changing with each squad getting a drone operator.
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  25. LE can track money flows going through banks. And they have the authority to do it. OSINT doesn’t. However, it is exceedingly like finding a needle in a haystack if you don’t have predetermined target. Then there is cryptocurrency exchanges which is like searching for a needle in a haystack in the dark. The real problem, though, is this: unless the government has reason to suspect you’ve committed a crime, it doesn’t have the right to rummage through your financial records. If it has reason to suspect you, it can subpoena the bank or get a court order. What it can’t do is go fishing through everyone’s banking records. (Banks are required to report suspicious activity, however.) Anyway, your financial records are private. LE has limitations on its access. OSINT investigators wouldn’t have any access because the records aren’t public.
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  26.  @DogeickBateman He probably thinks that when firemen respond to a fire, they are occupiers.
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  27. The missile shooter is saying “Who’s your daddy?”
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  28. What are “ambulance-chasing criminals”? I think you might be mangling an idiomatic phrase (ambulance-chasing) that doesn’t have anything to do with crime.
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  29.  @Farsight453  Lobbying is a matter of public record. Super PACs are not.
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  30.  @Kingzombiemyanmar  you’re missing an article there, Ivan. Just like Ryan pointed out in the video. Did you mean “the president”, “a president”, or something else? I’d say that 99% of Americans of at least school age know who the President is. Nice try, Ivan. I applaud your helping the Ukraine war effort and NATO by continuing to draw a salary for such slipshod work.
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  31.  @jeffbenton6183 I suspect that he’s one of those who is wants to burn it all down.
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  32. Is it true that they leave oil stains?
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  33. Length isn’t the end all and be all. Girth is also important.
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  34. I think it might work when used as a last line of defense, not the only line. It would probably be more viable to protect the energy infrastructure (refineries and tank farms and whatnot) deeper in Russian territory, where the Ukrainians have surprised everyone by getting through. I gave barrage balloons a some thought when Russia began using the Iranian drones to target the Ukrainian power grid. Another strategy would be to create gargantuan cope cages around critical infrastructure. Three or four towers (or more if you want redundancy, and wire mesh could stop a drone. A counter strategy would be to send one drone to blow a hole in the mesh and another to fly through the hole, but that would be hard to manage. Perhaps you send 5 “wire cutting” drones for each drone tasked with destroying the target? In the first year, when Ukraine was taking a beating from the Shahed drones, I came up with some crazy ideas that are probably impractical. Nets stretched between helicopters to catch the drones was one. Anti-drone drones armed with tennis rackets was another.
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  35.  @theduke5484  his post rises to the level of reportable misinformation.
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  36. GenX? 50/50 that it was a roommate rather than a family member. Source: I’m also GenX.
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  37. If you don’t think the targets are already identified, you have very low confidence in the capabilities of U.S. reconnaissance.
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  38. That’s really interesting. If the soldiers are being paid more to buy their own equipment, you could say there was a bottom up procurement process that let the soldiers themselves determine what gear to prioritize. No, it’s not perfect. I’m sure we’d rather see every Ukrainian soldier get every bit of kit he or she needs. But given the limitations, it’s not a terrible situation.
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  39.  @beepboop204 Distinguishing characteristics that can help you identify which is which in the field is a tank goes tankity-tank, and a SPG goes propelity-pel.
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  40. There’s been a authoritarian movement in our country for decades. Up until 2016 (maybe earlier*) they were contained and marginalized by Conservative and Moderate Republicans. MacGregor might or might not be taking money from Russia, but his aim is power for his group and himself—an important position, perhaps a cabinet post. He desperately wants to be relevant and he seeks to be close to power and have a little power himself. There are others in or from the military like him. Michael Flynn and his brother (who is still an active service general officer) for example. Thankfully, they are few. Now that fascists have infiltrated and taken hold of the GOP, I hope liberals can finally see the difference between conservatives and actual fascism. People on the left who branded all conservatives as fascists didn’t cause this (it’s our own damn fault), but they certainly didn’t help. *They really started getting a toehold in 2008.
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  41.  @SirAntoniousBlock  the Soviet Union was “disolved”? Or rebranded? Personally I think they should have gone with NEW-SSR.
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  42.  @Jarsia  or to count
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  43.  @manddca  ISPs send out firmware updates and they don’t usually notify you of it. Sometimes these updates reset the wifi password to the original password (which appears on the modem). This presents a security risk on consumer grade modems. Ryan didn’t explain this in detail—it’s a small risk but it is real. With regards to American waste, I think it’s great that it makes you feel better about yourself. Your self-righteousness is a beautiful flower that enriches your existence. It helps you avoid looking at your own shitty behavior.
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  44. Trump said it on a dare for $5.
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  45. Mearshimer uses the outlandish example of Mexico because the obvious real world example doesn’t support his claim. Cuba was closely aligned with the USSR, and the U.S. did not invade it. We can get into other misconceptions you might have about the U.S. and Cuba, but the bottom line is that the U.S. has lived peacefully with an unfriendly neighbor for over 60 years. We didn’t bomb it. We didn’t bombard it from naval batteries. The Marines didn’t invade it, nor did paratroopers land at the Havana airport. Mearshimer is full of crap. Putin might have mentioned to Clinton (a lame duck President in his last six months of office) the idea of Russia joining NATO, but he NEVER asked NATO to join. If he had any real desire to do so, why didn’t he ask George W. Bush? If you like distorted and revisionist history, you’ll love John Mearsheimer.
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  46. In a world of deep fakes, Ryan bucks the trend and makes an add with a shallow fake. And we are all better for it.
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  47. To hell with that, I’ll just say appetizer or can of peas.
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  48.  @Theire1  My mom was born in 1940. When she used to bemoan high prices, she talked about the movie ticket costing 10¢, the popcorn and candy was 10¢, and the soft drink was 5¢. Your dad’s story is sad and funny at the same time.
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  49. Was it two guys with a third on the stretcher getting attacked? Or was it a group of soldiers, among whom were the two stretcher bearers and the injured soldier? There was the one video of a casevac where a few other soldiers jump in the unmarked vehicle to grab a ride, and that 100% makes the vehicle fair game. It turned the casevac from an evacuation into troop movement.
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  50. “Sir, this is a Wendy’s and I’m not a screenwriter.”
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