"Regular" Intel Brief NOT AFGHANISTAN UPDATE - 24 AUG 2021
hello again everyone and welcome back to the underground so today just wanted to do another normal uh intel update for everyone we've got a lot of stuff to talk about uh just for everyone who has been following our afghanistan series i'm still going to continue that we're still working on some slides and some products for that but this is not that brief i will be talking a little bit about afghanistan here at the end but this is really a conus united states style brief you can check out our other briefs if you're not familiar with the format but yeah this is just going to be our normal brief that we normally do so without further ado let's go ahead and get started with the weather just like always so weather for isr uh over the next 24 hours is going to be quite good so like i mentioned like i try to mention as often as i can remember uh keeping an eye out for good isr weather is kind of a handy trait to have it's it's always good to be able to look up at the sky and say hey this is really good weather for uh some kind of overhead surveillance especially with the the way the world is going and the way things are looking uh today and with the topics i'm going to cover today you'll you'll see why this is important but bottom line is that over the next 12 to 24 hours the united states as a whole will have excellent excellent weather for any kind of isr it's going to be very clear clear skies from the from the surface all the way up to where isr assets would be located at also we are in a green illumination cycle meaning that the moon a moonlight is very bright that means that it's going to be very easy to see things with performance enhancing devices like uh night vision goggles and things like that so any kind of force multiplication tool that relies on amplified light like night vision devices will will be very very very effective over the next 24 hours and as we can push into the next at least the next 18 hours for all different kinds of cloud levels not just the low-level stuff we can also see that the similar things going on there all these high-level clouds are are pretty much few and far between for the majority of the united states florida's got some stuff from uh from the hurricane slash tropical depression slash whatever it is now um out there and same thing up in the uh american northeast but uh for the most part we're gonna have clear skies no matter where you're at in the country pushing forward into no tams nothing significant to report on that front uh really there's a couple of space operations but by the time this airs they will have expired so there's no need mentioning them again i just wanted to mention that if you don't know what a no tam is or why it's important we have a specific video on that so it would be a great time to learn what this stuff is because this is very basic level stuff so moving forward into the civil unrest forecast and we've got quite a few changes here the biggest two changes from the last reef are portland portland has been host to a significant amount of hostile activity from a variety of actors over the last couple of days at least the world's been kind of focused on afghanistan right now in the past couple of days so they've kind of ignored the shootings and the gun play that's been going on in the street in portland between either antifa and just pick a group right it's going to be antifa fighting them or them fighting antifa or groups that we can't even name because youtube will uh will censor us and remove this video so yeah you can check that out on your own time i'll provide some sources in the in the at the end of this but portland really big hot spot currently currently a very high state of civil unrest particularly in the downtown region likewise i'd also like to point out phoenix arizona i've upgraded it sorry i forgot to get it updated on the map but it's been updated to a unrest being highly likely and this is due to election stuff so the election audit stuff is coming out and it is um how should i say this to avoid censorship it is uh counter to what the mainstream and regime sources want you to hear so that's the best way i can think of describing it so all the trump supporters out there will be will be pretty happy uh based on what limited data has come out about the election on in arizona but again me being the uh sort of pessimist on this front i don't really think it's going to be that effective but we can talk about that later when we get to it moving forward into logistics so the western part of the united states is is facing some pretty severe weather uh sorry water shortages uh this is due to a variety of of reasons that you can research on your own but for those of you who don't live in the area you probably aren't tracking this as much as people who live in the area and it's quite bad and these things get compounded once we move into the critical infrastructure stuff on the next slide but water shortage big deal probably going to get worse uh over the you know finishing of summer into the beginning of winter also the the microchip shortage has gotten much much worse major auto manufacturers are making some serious uh serious efforts to combat that and figure out ways around it uh toyota actually just announced that they're going to cut global production of all of their vehicles by 40 percent that is devastating uh that's devastating even for just one company toyota provides a significant portion of the uh vehicle manufacturing for not just the united states but for the rest of the world and that is a huge deal volkswagen did the same thing but they did not give a percentage on how much they're having to scale back which is interesting at least i haven't seen them give a percentage their press releases were just kind of like yeah we're having to scale things back but it's probably similar to toyota because they source a lot of their parts in the same places uh also forgot to mention on the water shortage lake mead is is now in a state of severe shortage i don't know what terminology they're using but power generation has been seriously affected by that also the liquor shortage that we talked about that i mentioned last time is it's still present and it has expanded to a lot of other areas but it's really random so i just left the the icons where they were from last briefing a lot of people all over social media are complaining about liquor shortages in their area and posting pictures of like empty liquor store shelves but it's really hard to get a beat on where things are at uh our dude who man's a twitter for us is having a couldn't find really anything tangible to show you guys or be able to make an assessment as to where these are at other than where the state liquor boards have issued statements such as in these three states and also i should mention just very briefly that costco has a they're having another run another shortage on toilet paper and bottled water this i believe at this time based on what limited analysis i've been able to do on it this one seems totally social media driven it doesn't have any sort of legitimate cause it's like some journalist tweeted something because they went to a store one day and one costco around the country they tweeted it and then there you go everyone reports on it because all the reports i've been seeing on the costco toilet paper and bottled water shortage have been circular meaning that you follow them all back and they all kind of come back to the same few number of sources uh it's it's like an adult version of the telephone game but it's more devastating than just a child's game like that so pushing forward into critical infrastructure concerns uh there are three main things uh two being cyber attacks uh i just put the two biggest cyber attacks there have been a significant number of cyber attacks over the past gosh two or three months it's been i could probably spend hours and hours and hours just just typing the actual number of cyber attacks but the biggest ones have been t-mobile they had the personnel the the personal data of over 100 million users leaked breached and it's currently for sale on the dark web which is disconcerting if you're a t-mobile customer likewise mitsubishi also had a cyber attack and this is interesting because this was the uh defense infrastructure for mitsubishi so they provide a lot of the defense infrastructure for japan and things like that even in the united states they provide a lot of technical data and things like that and defense railway and electrical power grid data was stolen this if you google mitsubishi cyber attack you'll find that almost the exact same thing happened a couple years ago actually and i think it was yeah early 2020 uh they lost uh missile data so uh defense missile data was lost to hackers and mitsubishi has kind of a history of this losing defense data of all things we're not talking about you know losing someone's t-mobile password they're losing the the missile secrets and things so that's not good and then finally like i mentioned uh the water shortage out west is going to compound very soon into a power shortage because a lot of the electrical power for the west actually comes from hydroelectric facilities and if you have something like the colorado river dip really low it reduces power generation so like i mentioned these things compound so not only do you have very little drinking water for people but you also have very little power so you're gonna have these things tend to happen at the worst possible times right so you're not just gonna have to deal with one utility being out but likely both and as one gets worse the other one's going to it's going to bring the other one down with it so that's something to to be on the lookout for if you're out out west i'm sure i'm preaching to the choir for those of you who live in those areas and you you know uh if you've been affected or how severe these things are so really just for uh for situational awareness of anyone out there who's not living in those areas and then moving on to the meat uh of the briefing today significant governmental action so uh i'm gonna try to move through this as quick as possible because there is a lot of stuff and it's all kind of really depressing so first one is there have been a few more arrests for people using fake medical passports this occurred in hawaii you can check out the link that i've got in the sources that will be at the end of this but yeah this just highlights a larger argument that any attempt to go against the federal regime even to do things like traveling between states or buying food at this point will be met with a lot of force so these guys the two guys that they got arrested um i wish i could talk more about the actual circumstances of it but i'm not entirely certain because all the reporting is coming from mainstream media which is unreliable at best but this is just goes to show keep things on the down low as much as you can on that so that's all i'm going to say about that moving forward into number number two which is youtube has updated their policies their content creator policies to ban content that discusses prayer as a cure for the virus that shall not be named this is kind of once again like everything we're seeing these days it's just a foot in the door to outright banning religion on the internet or on their platform you know in general now a lot of people are gonna make the argument okay fine youtube's a private company they can do what they want well here's here's the thing on that for those of you who have not heard our many many many hours of content and podcasts and other videos on this topic it is our opinion here that if a private company either gets a significant amount of tax benefits or is affiliated with federal agencies or is in some way controlling an overwhelming part of daily life for americans their protected status of the excuse that you know libertarians love to use of oh well there's just a private company they can do what they want well it kind of loses a lot of its steam as an argument considering that how what percentage what overwhelming majority of people get their news from youtube nowadays so yeah that's how we feel on that for those of you who don't know and that's why we're continuing to report on stuff like this because it's it's just infringements are everywhere these days and it's it's kind of rough out there also speaking of infringements uh moving on to number three bank of america has once again proven that they are one of the worst or most tyrannical banks in the country they are pushing crt training on employees at to here on the slide i have it to an insane degree which is about the best way i can put it in this censorship-rich environment the source that i have in the sources you can read about it yourself but yeah bank of america is not not exactly known as being a an aboveboard bank they have a long history of things being affiliated with gun control and things like that so yeah there you go uh also 0.4 this kind of ties into the afghanistan stuff but i'm sure a lot of people have already heard right by now that the biden administration slash regime whatever you want to call it actually canceled a a relatively unknown department within the state department it's a small office called the contingency response bureau and their job they were stood up underneath the trump administration and their job was to serve as a a conduit a a point a rally point so to speak for americans that might be trapped abroad because we've had a lot of issues with this like with the philippines going downhill last year civil unrest in hong kong and things like that we kind of learned hey we need to have some kind of coordinated office specifically to help americans get get out of dodge when things go sour outside the united states and this department was created to handle that i don't know how well it functioned honestly i did not know that the department existed until a couple months ago but it uh it was cancelled uh just a few months ago uh by the biden regime and i haven't seen a good i haven't seen any reason for why they did it probably funding of course you know them trying they're trying to funnel funding to wherever they think it needs to go but yeah i just wanted to bring that up because it's a very interesting little tidbit that kind of it's one of those little little dominoes that falls over months ago and now the big indiana jones style boulders rolling at us from that and point number five is new york city is launching a new program uh which essentially what they're doing is paying people to not shoot people and this is actually not a new program this is a program that has come out it was created in california of course and new york city is adopting it and it's very interesting if you read the details of the actual program it's going to be a monthly check that people get for not shooting someone so if they don't get convicted or suspected of shooting someone and if they meet with their sort of parole officer they'll get a check and this is for both ex-cons and um people who are not uh people have never been arrested or never convicted of anything so interesting program uh completely dystopian in nature but it's interesting that if you look at the wording it's almost like they're expecting a certain demographic of people to show up and claim the check for this which is um interesting to say the least and the number six uh our boy hunter uh he's he's lost himself another laptop um as i'm sure a lot of people have heard by now or maybe not many people at all depending on how much this has been censored uh yeah he there's a video that came out i can't show it here of course due to youtube's policies but uh he stated in the video that he he thinks he lost it to the russian mafia and that they are going to use that laptop and the um promiscuous illicit videos on that laptop to blackmail him so there you go um that's all i'm gonna say on that i know that if if i had done that they'd throw me under the jail but whatever moving on we got more important stuff to talk about so number seven rand paul issued an interesting statement i'm not sure how many people have seen it uh in which he issued a it was a few minute long video in which the primary message that has gotten out is his quote that he says it's time for us to resist and quote they can't arrest us all when it comes to things like these lockdowns and stuff like that so um our own feelings about rand paul aside uh i think it's very interesting to see at least some politicians saying these words in this you know context out loud it's very interesting to see that i don't know if it'll be effective again politicians i'd you know we here just as part of our own analytical process don't trust any politician whatsoever or any elected official whatsoever but it's interesting to see this rhetoric getting out there if nothing else uh also number eight this is something that we have tried to do a lot of research on but it's just because it's just the shadiest thing i've seen in a while um a lot of people are calling the headline are the headlines are that this guy this was a false flag event um there the short story is this this guy uh drives his truck which he has allegedly loaded with explosives and such parks right outside the library of congress and uh has a standoff situation with police the problem is is that it looks really really fishy because it was right on the same exact day that people were falling off airplanes in kabul so it looked to me it looked to a lot of people like it was just a distraction from what's going on like it was your textbook false flag this guy was allegedly in his own live stream video had significant you know devices and things like that and all that kind of stuff and it was well thought out and planned and things like that and then he just immediately surrenders as soon as the police show up the standoff was like less than an hour so uh very fishy uh to say the least uh for a lot of people and um yeah we're probably never gonna hear anything more about it it's just going to be lost to the internet but i did want to record it here on this date for posterity i guess all right so moving on to number nine uh house resolution 49 53 basically banning most guns basically other gun channels who have better luck avoiding youtube censorship than we do uh have talked a lot more about what this bill contains so definitely check that out definitely actually read it don't listen to somebody actually just tell you what's in it read it it's not that long it's not that hard to read it just read it and you'll see what i'm talking about number 10 also had some interesting issues with their uh mail-in ballots so uh a viral video that has gone around uh shows that a lot of the the for specifically for the california recall election which is a mail-in only election which is interesting how an elected official who is who had to create a recall election gets to dictate that the election is going to be held on his terms but nonetheless uh the ballots actually have holes punched in them the the envelopes have holes punched in them and if you fold your ballot the wrong way that hole on the envelope lines up perfectly to show how you voted and a lot of people are claiming that this just makes it easier for people to look at the outside of your envelope and without even being able without even having to open the envelope they can see how you voted and they can decide what to do with that ballot so i'll just leave it there on that so that we don't get censored yet again i know i keep mentioning that but it's it's really become a pain and moving on to number 11 is that the byzantine administration as many people have already pointed out has issued sanctions on russia but the sanctions are actually hurting the united states more because they are he is banning all russian-made ammunition and weapons so basically all of your steel cased ammunition will be illegal uh for import at least not even not illegal for possession yet but uh it's illegal to import and that's a problem uh because for those of you out there who who are not into aks or steel cased ammo roughly 40 percent of all of the ammunition that is imported in the united states is russian in origin so that's a problem for you because guess what 40 percent of the market uh is now going to be coming for your brass ammunition and that is a huge huge uh stab in the back for the gun community uh in a time when ammunition is already in very very short supply so yeah very interesting uh timing on that i'll that's how i'll say that and then finally uh house resolution 4980 this is the one that is alarming very very alarming as well it should be and it probably won't go anywhere just yet but it give it time this is a bill which i'll put it up here on the screen for you it is a bill to put everyone who has not been jabbed with the medical treatment that shall not be named on on a no-fly list so yeah um if that does not alarm you and if i have to explain why this is a bad thing check out our other content um because this is just a prelude again just a boot in the door and if this is not an infringement on basic human life i don't know what it is so yeah like i mentioned i it's very and it's very early stages very very early stages it was just filed like a week ago or last you know acted on a week ago so i don't know how quickly this is going to to go through anything i don't know if it will pass as it stands right now probably not there's probably going to be some riders on it but yeah a very very alarming stuff while the world is stuck watching uh afghanistan and before i move on i did not put it on the slide uh because i did not have time and i didn't want to put just one puck on a blank slide but 75 doctors just walked out of their hospital in florida for reportedly this is of course coming from mainstream media which is circulating the story like wildfire but reportedly they're quitting because they are sick and tired of treating people who have not gotten the medical procedure that shall not be named now a lot of people are looking at this and saying this is a violation of the the hippocratic oath it's turning it into the hypocritic oath uh because you're supposed to trigger treat people regardless of why they're there and a lot of conservative pundits and and social media accounts are running with this one as to be expected but i would just like to point out that at least you know with these doctors at least they told you how they feel about it before and they quit their job rather than harm you with a medical procedure without your knowledge based on something like that what would you what would you rather have a doctor that tells you uh that they hate you to your face or would you rather have a doctor who pretends to be nice to your face but then gives you the wrong medication for an unrelated uh an unrelated condition which can make you worse or they don't give you the best care that you can provide so honestly any kind of doctor that is willing to differentiate between patients like that is a good riddance in my opinion uh because they have no business anywhere near any medical facility whatsoever that's all i have to say on that and we'll move forward into afghanistan so i'm sure a lot of people have checked out our recent content on this rapidly unfolding fiasco but the myself and the rest of the team here have have put in considerable uh effort to uh provide as many resources as possible so we've already got a handful of intelligence briefings by day uh the last one uh covered uh two days a two-day period and all of the briefs cover something different so if you have not if you're just tuning in now to what the afghanistan situation is please check out those videos that's the about the best that we can do now we also have other resources so on our odyssey page you can download all the tools that we've created all of the graphics everything like that and that should help uh at least maybe some people now i should mention that the stuff that we're covering on the afghanistan situation right now is really our main lines of effort are focused on getting americans out and and our allies uh at this at the same time but we're really really hyper focused on getting americans out because the americans seem to be having a very hard time getting to the airport and that's something that we're desperately desperately trying to help with along with you know tens of thousands of others out there so we're by no means really making a huge difference but maybe we can make a little difference that's why we're dedicating so much time to this now moving on to a topic that everyone is kind of getting getting a lot of feelings out of the way right now there are a lot of people talking about afghanistan and offering up their their own opinions on the subject but for us when it comes to the afghan conflict as a whole and not just the recent rescue stuff but the actual war itself we're going to take some time to process this one and try to figure out a way to convey our thoughts uh for those who want to hear them uh in such a way so as to not be too long or insanely boring i i know i myself could talk about afghanistan for days and days and not even scratch the surface um so we're going to take a we're going to take a page out of the taliban's book and and be patient on this one we have a lot of time to talk about this war and even more time to look back on it and learn from it so that's what we're really trying to do people can have their own opinions that's all well and good but really when it comes to our organization here we're trying to learn learn things and and put those things into practice for for when we might have to use them so plus a lot of people have far more time in country than we do and they have a lot to say about certain things and we want to simply avoid echoing what others have already said about the whole afghanistan conflict but all of that being said and considering the number of people out there that are are looking for answers um the number of people out there that are kind of avoiding following the the afghanistan rescue mission stuff because it's just too painful uh to watch i understand that i i completely do i'm not going to fault anybody for not trying to help um because it is really a horrendously bad thing that a lot of people are dealing with right now and because of that i will take the time to lay out a few different sentiments that are going around to to put it simply right now the afghanistan fiasco is bringing uh bringing up a lot of different wide-ranging issues i would argue that most of the issues that are coming out regarding afghanistan are far beyond the actual war itself and perhaps even more important than the decades that we spent there perhaps most on the nose are the gritty details about the evacuations themselves the the the government and and the federal regime in the united states really really um screwing this up and uh not really when people pointed out that they're screwing it up not really um doing much about it and we're just sitting here and there's really not as much being done not everything that could be done is getting done and the things that are getting done are very very few and far between so that's something that's being highlighted for a lot of people and really that that has really wide ranging um effects like the in the international community the us international situation right now is is a joke uh honestly even though i personally have lived for years in the world of international diplomacy i have never really considered any international issue to directly affect my day-to-day life but these days i'm not so sure the the consequences of globalism mean that something that happens on the other side of the world could affect you even before you find out about it and that's a huge huge thing to to consider in today's world and things can even strike really close to home the gun control debate is being proven to be just pure insanity at this point by what's going on in afghanistan the raw nature of what's going on in kabul right now and the taliban confiscating millions of weapons immediately is something that nobody can spend i don't care how much you want to try to warp what's going on you just can't and also a lot of the the the sort of woke-ism that that's going around surrounding the feeling of quote-unquote oppression here in the united states i mean yeah the footage in kabul alone is enough to prove to anyone that certain groups of people that claim to be oppressed here in the united states clearly have no idea what real oppression is same thing applies to the concepts of freedom a lot of people are observing what it's like to not have freedom watching the television screen and seeing the taliban take over that that tv screen might as well be a window into the future of the united states at least when it comes to the idea of freedom right no the united states is not afghanistan but a lot of parallels are being played out in real time for the whole world to see and even though people might not realize what they're thinking they definitely feel it and along these lines of a lot of old issues are being brought up and back out into the open again and people who are not even alive for 9 11 are now starting to read history just a little bit and they're starting to ask questions like how is it that the practice of the chai boys and the production of heroin was was banned under the taliban when they were in power but the us government is well known to cover up the rampant abuse of children in afghanistan so much so that it's an atrocity that most u.s soldiers remember about their deployment and like 90 of the world's heroin now comes from afghanistan like what how did that happen we went from having some of the world's most effective if not you know tyrannical i mean it's a taliban right some of the world's most effective drug counter drug operations being run by the taliban throughout the entire country and then like just a couple years later that the world's producer of heroin it's interesting and people are starting to to read and this dirty laundry is getting aired right and speaking of the military man the military is just taking gut punch after gut punch these days uh senior military leadership is just purely insane completely incompetent and just willing to step over a stack of bodies just to get that promotion or that position on the board of raytheon we and many others are now realizing just how crippled our military is especially at senior levels but finally now some other people are starting to take notice due to the blatant lies that are being told like millie stated that there were no indications that the taliban could take the country in 11 days that is a complete and utter lie and you know who else knows it's a lie literally every man and woman who's ever set foot in that country the fall of afghanistan is proving how woke the us military is again at the senior level and this is devastating our nation almost every day people are watching a nation collapse in real time they are not seeing some black and white photo of saigon days after the fact no we're we're all watching the ugly side of all wars and hd video and that raw stuff that that unsensible and unspendable truth of how barbaric the world really is well this is something different from the blanket of propaganda that the overwhelming majority of americans are living under 24 7. everyone who is alive at the time remembers 9 11. well the the fall of afghanistan might now be as directly impacting on the homeland but again in a snapchat and tick-tock age people are not going to forget this anytime soon and perhaps even more significantly witnessing the fall of a nation highlights just how vulnerable our own situation is now more than ever the average american knows that to change our situation f-15s and nuclear weapons are not needed granted that idea is certainly going to embolden the people that have been salivating over the prospect of civil war for a long time now but by and large right now is the time in which most people have the potential to realize that we can change our situation and it doesn't take a significant amount of military force to do it this afghanistan situation is bringing up a lot of things even the concepts of responsibility integrity and consequences are lessons that are being learned or not learned by a lot of people these days no matter how much certain groups in society want to avoid personal responsibility for everything the world finds a way of bringing that responsibility to your doorstep having the honor and the integrity to do the right thing even when faced with adversity is most definitely a dying art and just because something is a human right just because you have the right to do something does not mean that there won't be consequences for doing so consequences are simply cause and effect they don't have to be fair at this point in time if you take actions to resist the federal regime you are going to have to understand that there are consequences for doing so just like those guys in hawaii learn the hard way in a time where liking certain social media posts is being labeled as terrorism you have to realize that any form of resistance no matter how small will not be tolerated much longer and the consequences for resisting anyway might mean that you have to significantly alter your lifestyle to avoid being arrested by agents of the federal government of the state or whatever you want to call it some people like us think that this arrangement is unfortunate but we are willing to accept these consequences and more importantly the lifestyle changes that allow us to continue to exist even as an organization who knew that the end of the afghan war would trigger thoughts like this but here we are but there is some good news so in trying to avoid ending on such a melancholy note uh i just off the top of my head thought up for really good things or at least productive things that we can actually rely on moving forward into the future so number one is that quote unquote normal people are starting to realize that the true nature of the us government right so everybody's got that uncle right out there that you know they can be right 99 of the time but if they present their arguments like alex jones presents his arguments most people just don't believe it even if it's true right even if it's true most people don't believe it so most normal people as in people who don't really they don't understand what a lot of this stuff is they're not very well read or they're just living for the next snapchat video right those people are starting to realize that the us government might not have their best interest in mind and i won't go down the rabbit hole of the concept of governance itself as i really think that argument is unproductive at this point but this fiasco in afghanistan is most certainly highlighting more than any other incident since probably the snowden leaks what our government has become at the risk of really ticking off all the libertarians in the room again for the millionth time i think that most people think that some form of government governance is an all right thing most people think this right we can argue about how much and what it should do and what it looks like but for the most part the idea of some kind of governing body is one defining characteristics of a nation-state right however now perhaps more than ever before our current government has lost its way to put it lightly and this afghanistan debacle is indirectly pointing that out also number two is this disaster is settling the debate on a lot of u.s domestic issues like i mentioned before everything from gun control to what some social groups in the us call oppression is being destroyed in real time people who think that they are oppressed are being proven to not be with every video clip that comes out of afghanistan so that's an interesting little side note that indirectly affects things number three is the the precious and precarious nature of freedom has never been clearer in modern times freedom is a unique concept or at least the us version of it is and this afghanistan rescue disaster is bringing into context questions like well what is a right anyway who can grant rights who can protect them uh chances are if you have even found this video your you already know the answers to these questions but most americans haven't even thought about it since these philosophical concepts are again not exactly found on tick-tock or only fans and finally number four this incident might be a good way to trigger people to think about ways of reducing tyranny in their own lives sometimes a good kick in the seat of the pants is what's needed to trigger actions horrific acts are usually quite motivating for those who witness them and there have been a plethora of horrific actions during this afghanistan disaster people will remember what happened those thousands of americans on the ground will remember too and they will not just remember the atrocities of war that's something that anyone who's experienced it never forgets for better or for worse but these guys will remember their cowardly and dishonorable officers and senior enlisted over them who at every turn at every decision point decided to do the wrong thing if they were sitting back state-sized shuffling paperwork we might not have known that they were dishonorable cowards but we do now since they were put in that situation and we will never forget that so yeah hopefully that was helpful in pointing out at least some of the things that have been kind of orbiting out there some ideas have just been floating around and uh people haven't really been able to grasp at because they're they feel a certain way about it there's a lot of things going around everybody is it feels a different thing about this whole afghanistan situation ranging from the people who could not care less and probably skipped right through this segment on youtube to the people who are actively on the ground who are trying to save as many lives as possible so the people who are uninformed and they just don't know what to feel about it to the people that are just kind of apathetic about the whole thing right i'm not pointing fingers or accusing anyone of anything i'm just saying that there's a lot of stuff going on and before everybody you know tunes into their favorite podcast who's inevitably going to talk about this it's just i think important to recognize that other stuff is going on and that a lot of opinions are out there and yeah hopefully that was at least helpful in illustrating that so let's go ahead and close out uh with some international issues some other things that have been going around first australia australia has had an interesting time uh we've gotten uh dms and uh information from a lot of different people in australia some people say it's interesting because americans have this idea that that australia is basically the worst dystopian novel that you could ever imagine and the effect is clearly not illustrated by the australians themselves some some australians yes some australians are very highly highly concerned vastly more concerned than americans are with what's going on in their own country but also some australians really don't care um so it's very interesting to see both sides of the coin on that some australians are in the government and they say hey you know this is really not that it's not as big of a deal as people are making it out to be and then other people and you know civilians and citizens and things like that are saying ah no it's actually worse so just remember to take everything with a grain of salt i would agree that the situation in australia does not look good from a u.s context now we have to be careful with putting united states values on another country you know even though australia is very similar to the united states when we speak the same language we have a lot of the same cultures uh however we're different countries and when forming analysis or forming opinions about another country it's kind of i would say not the most accurate way to do it would be to implant your own american values on another country even if they seem to be more similar than dissimilar there's they're dissimilar enough to mean your analysis will be skewed so keep an eye on australia if you're in australia and watching this good luck uh with what's going on um but yeah france is also dealing with much the same thing but the french are a little bit more united it seems it seems to me like they're a little bit more united a lot more people have been protesting in france uh over the same exact thing uh or much the same thing so that's going to be interesting to follow especially with france um dealing with the refugee crisis and things like that uh moving forward with the afghanistan situation it's gonna be interesting to see what they do with their anti-lockdown protesters and china uh like i sort of briefly mentioned already china has directly made threatening statements toward taiwan and they've directly stated that the us will abandon taiwan just like we abandoned afghanistan so like i mentioned this international stuff man it comes to a head real real quick and i can tell you as bad as the afghanistan situation looks a conflict with taiwan or with china words cannot express how bad that's going to get immediately so once again keep your eye on froggy china and they're they're gonna do some interesting stuff over the next few weeks i would almost certainly guarantee that they've that they're going to fly a lot of missions uh into uh with their aircraft into taiwan's air defense interdiction zone that's most likely going to happen at least until the afghanistan situation gets tamped down because well the world knows where our aircraft are right they're flying in and out of kabul right now so there you go and finally iran is enriching uranium again this one kind of got buried in the news this week but they are indeed in reaching uranium by several orders of magnitude more than what they're allowed to by the international atomic energy agency and yeah whatever you feel about that you know i i guess everybody feels again different about iran doing their own thing but again it's iran it's nukes it's you know something to to definitely keep an eye on as we move forward into the future so just wanted to give another shout out another special thank you to all of our patreon supporters it has really helped out helped us out a lot especially with our rising 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