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

  1. Someone made that claim in another comment. If they wanted to surrender, the time to do it was when the tanks entered the field.
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  2. We’ve always been the world’s greatest butthair exporter, but after the shale revolution we’ve got butthairs up the wazoo. China’s just going to have to bite the bullet and bootstrap their domestic production by importing Brazilian wax.
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  3. As you might have guessed, much of the crisis is manufactured. The very representatives that Texas sends to Washington are actively sabotaging the federal efforts to control the border, while the Texas governor screams that the federal government is not doing enough. Some of the obstacles that the Texas governor has erected violate treaties between the U.S. and Mexico, while other obstacles (notably the razor wire) interfere with the Federal Border Patrol (the border guards) from doing their job. The Texas governor would be well within his rights if he erected his obstacles at a distance from the river. This would require taking private property from owners with property on the border, which wouldn’t be popular and it wouldn’t serve the purpose of generating controversy. If the crisis on the border were truly a crisis, would Donald Trump tell the Republicans in Congress to resist efforts to solve it because the crisis makes Biden look bad? I was a member of the Republican Party for 25 years. I have no love of the Democrats or of Joe Biden. But the moral bankruptcy of the modern GOP is deslumbrante.
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  4. How can that state’s representatives be blocking federal efforts to defend the border? Apparently it’s not really a big crisis, because senate and congressional republicans has said this week that they’d block any proposed solutions in order to help Trump win the election.
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  5.  @shaggydestroyerofworlds2208  By Federal Government, you mean all three branches, correct? Because it seems like Texas Congresspeople are helping to create these problems for Texas. Ultimately, it’s the people of Texas hurting themselves by sending obstructionist representatives to Washington.
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  6. I don’t think many Mexican-Americans will be asking their Congressperson for military interventions in Mexico. The main reason is that those Mexican-Americans that would be politically involved enough to call their elected officials are more American than Mexican (second, third, and beyond generations. The second reason is “the history is complicated”. If the U.S. unilaterally intervened, it would be seen by the majority of Mexicans (not to mention the Mexican government) as an act of war, no matter how well intentioned. There are two or three things the U.S. can do to kneecap the Mexican cartels. The most obvious seems unrealistic—cut the demand for drugs. The other two are also obvious: stronger enforcement of anti-laundering banking regulations and better control of firearms flowing to Mexico. It will take political will to accomplish these objectives because of the banking lobby and the NRA, but if you cut off the money and the weapons, the law enforcement problem becomes manageable. Speaking of drugs and the military, how about a “don’t ask, and pass the joint” policy? 😂
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  7. In most contexts, putting the year first buries the more important information. Day or month is usually the first thing you want to know (as well as day of the week).
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  8. Blog/Podcast Network called Lawfare focuses on the intersection of Security/War/Law/ (both international and domestic U.S. law). I suggest trying to contact them, although I’m not sure which person there would be the best to advise you. If they can’t answer questions, they know someone who can.
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  9. He’s cried wolf a few too many times for me to think the border crisis is as bad as he says. What’s truly unconscionable is that the Republicans in Congress held up the Ukraine aid, demanding that it be tied to solving this so called crisis. And now word has come down from Mar A Lago that a solution to the crisis be blocked because that would help Joe Biden.
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  10. A gun store or a sporting goods store? I don’t think I ever saw a gun store selling boots. I bet if the camera had panned over, there’d be a fishing tackle section and a camping section.
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  11. A Putzi.
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  12. I’ve done a little work in visual effects. I’ve only seen this video once and the stock explosions and stock fires poorly composited jumped out at me further than the ambush vehicle jumped over the hill. I don’t think it was quality work. And I don’t appreciate people putting out fakes. This isn’t ethical or helpful to anyone. This is the sort of clumsy work I would expect from Russian propaganda.
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  13.  @m.sutton04  There’s capturing it and there’s making some thunder runs to the airport or downtown or whatever.
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  14.  @RyanMcBethProgramming  is envelopment another possibility? From current positions, drive SE to get behind Kupiansk?
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  15. It’s almost as if no one remembers that the checks were a product of bipartisan effort. The issue wasn’t whether, the issue was how much.
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  16. And that’s the power of the TOW (to kill groundhogs). Incidentally, Kazakhstan recently seized some roscosmos assets for nonpayment of the electric bill.
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  17. This is like the Ryan McBeth Video Daily Double.
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  18. So does “advesary”
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  19. Last time it got that bad, they didn’t have tanks.
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  20.  @CarlaCorc  Actually, the orange guy was (and is) ambivalent wrt the vaccines. He wants to take credit for them, but he must also pander to his base, many of whom are conspiracy theory lunatics. It was those people that politicized it. They also politicized surgical masks. The other side of it was the many grifters that sought to profit from the pandemic and fears of vaccines. They benefited from the politicized fears, so they pumped up the politics as much as they could.
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  21. The music is kind of dumb, too. It’s a cue for slowly building tension where there is none. It’s a routine patrol. No need for any music unless and until shit starts happening.
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  22. Wrong. You’ve been listening to not particularly smart people who probably claim to be realists, but they’re just dummies.
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  23.  @stevet5785  NATO didn’t kill over a half million people in Iraq. That’s a bald faced lie, oft repeated by propagandists.
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  24. And in 5 years he’ll be commemorated on a 10,000 Rial coin.
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  25. He knows it’s buffoonery, he’s telling the “anti-wokers” that their political attacks on the military are stupid and unwarranted.
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  26. I think you’re spot on with your first thought. WRT to closer to the front line, it really depends. What sorts of Russian assets would be defended this way? Completely static ones, like harbors and docks? That seems a viable use. Hidden ammunition caches? Not so much. The best use would be for critical and strategic infrastructure far from the front. I think the point of barrage balloons is that these would be used as an inner ring of defense, not the only ring.
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  27. He’s keeping the peace and preventing genocide, which you seem unable to do on your own.
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  28. Lol, seriously, there are extreme cases where you’d want to change jobs, move to a new place, find a new social group, etc.
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  29.  @cw6043  Was he a whistleblower, though, or was that his cover story? His “journalist” handler was a guy writing pro-Russian and pro-Chinese agitprop for years, who funneled him to the Russians. There’s no way of knowing if he held back material for his hosts. At best I think one can say Snowden was just a well intentioned useful idiot. At worst he was a traitor and a spy.
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  30. Zorro Zorro Zorro, The fox so complicated and meta, Zorro Zorro Zorro, he makes the sign of the Zeta. There, fixed. 😉
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  31. What a crock of shite.
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  32. Firearms already mechanically malfunction. I think the question is not whether the technology malfunctions, but the rate of malfunction. A secondary question is how easily and quickly can one clear the malfunction. Horror stories are anecdotal and generally not statistically significant. I’d want to see actual data preferably by independent testers, before I start worrying about potential horror stories that might or might not happen.
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  33. Are you aware of a class of things known as reconnaissance satellites? They’re these things in orbit that are equipped to take photos, and then send the data back to earth. Some countries have their own, but there are commercial companies that will sell you their photos or even book time as they fly over what ever part of the world you want to surveil. Nobody needs look for barrage balloons to indicate high value targets. That could actually work against you, as your adversary could set up balloons around false targets. This is super obvious to me, and I’m not exceptionally smart. I don’t know if the balloons will prove to be viable or not, but the objections like yours just seem like you’re unaware of Google Earth and/or maps that get updated more frequently. Nobody needs to see barrage balloons to find targets.
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  34.  @Seth9809  Well, seeing as how Biden was criticized by some for not postponing the date of withdrawal, let me take a wild guess. It was Obama! 😂
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  35. You’re talking about the man that invented grease. Or water. He invented fingers. Life would not be the same if we didn’t have fingers or grease or water. Ryan better think carefully before he goes up against the second smartest man in the universe, after Trump.
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  36.  @YahWay. It’s all relative. To the MAGA right, Ryan is a woke liberal squish. (But to those types, so is John McCain.) But let’s be clear, at this point a MAGA bot is indistinguishable from a Russian bot. It doesn’t matter if they’re operating from St. Petersburg in Russia or St. Petersburg in Florida. They have the same goals: spreading disinformation to impair democracy.
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  37. Question: How complex is the logistical chain for the Bradley? Follow up question (that probably can’t be answered until it’s tried): Can Ukraine’s overall logistics system absorb this new weapon system? Premise: The Bradley platform is a subsystem of a “weapon system”, that is to say it’s a component that works with other component systems such as tanks, artillery, air support, and infantrymen. All of these subsystems must be serviced by a logistics system. The basic questions we should be asking are: 1) can the Bradley be added to the mix without overtaxing logistics? 2) Can the Bradley be integrated into the currently constituted fighting force, either in the vehicles intended role or pressed into a different role? (Ryan suggests it could be used mainly as an artillery spotting device, for example. Depending on which model is sent.) The logistics issue is really a big deal because there is also an opportunity cost. Opening a new logistics chain will most likely constrain currently existing chains (supplying and servicing artillery, for example). I really hope that the Bradley can be successfully integrated, and if so, the U.S. sends a metric shit ton.
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  38. Please don’t discourage these people from moving to Russia.
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  39. Heatvision and Jack > Megaforce
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  40. Surely you mean button up? As a Lvi-501 operator, I was trained to button up, not down. In a fast moving situation, you might miss a button if buttoning down.
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  41. And? Did you even watch Ryan’s video?
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  42.  @HA-ml4sx there’s a difference between being willing to risk one’s life for a humanitarian cause, and seeking death by attacking someone who has the potential to kill you. The guy didn’t say he was willing to be a martyr, he said he WANTED to be a martyr. And then he attacked comandos.
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  43. It’s workable in space, but you don’t need the giant robot for factor. You just need a crate or container with a life support system and a place to cram or strap on your propulsion, weapons, countermeasures. So who cares what it looks like?
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  44. Look to Lawfare wrt to constitutional issues, national security, and international relations. For an anti-trump conservative viewpoint, there’s the Bulwark. Both channels have podcasts and websites.
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  45.  @JoshuaRed-v4f Aaron would put everyone but fascists at the “Democratic table”, including moderate Republicans and non-fascist conservatives Republicans. George frikkin’ Bush is supposed to sit at the “Democratic table”. And maybe he’s right. There are two tables. But the democratic table doesn’t represent the Democratic Party. It represents those who believe in democracy. And his table represents those that wish to overthrow democracy. I’m a conservative and a former republican. I’d be honored to share a table with anyone who is pro-democracy, even Democrats.
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  46. Ukraine hasn’t entered Russian territory to destroy monuments. Only a developmentally disabled child would make the false comparison you just did.
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  47.  @idkitsprobablysuntzu9530  Until he does, check out LazerPig’s video about the Moskva. Also I think Perun did one on Russian Navy. Both are worth watching, although they have VERY different presentation styles.
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  48. The bottom line is that this is a scam, and his target audience is people embracing grievance culture who feel personally victimized by Biden. You know, the ones who send money in the hundreds of millions to a certain politician’s legal defense fund. If 1,000 people who say it venmo-ed him $5, he’s already cleared $1500 above the amount he claims he owes. I suspect the amount he’s made is higher than that. If he can avoid or beat criminal fraud charges, he has a promising career in politics.
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  49. Just for clarification, what are the rules for “forage”?
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  50.  @KlodianHysi  Pooty 🐷
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