GEN Votel was a very approachable leader. Amazing to see him eat in the dining facility every night in AF with everybody else and carry on conversations with any rank. He is genuinely a nice guy and did not seem to be all that impressed with himself like so many who obtain that rank.
Simply stop middling with other countries internal issues and be friends with them be part of the solution not the problem! Don’t take a side respect people deference’s
They don't take a long term view. If they did, they wouldn't have cut their demographics off at the knees and blown the largest financial bubble in human history.
Absolutely. The CEO that looks around the table at subordinates and says, “does anyone know who the smartest person in the room is ?” After a pause, and many puzzled faces, the CEO says, “all of us, together as a team!”
Senior officers and politicians took the all volunteer force for granted. They aren't worth listening to or following anymore. Results matter, remember?
The fact that you have a top general say 'i dont know much about Chinese culture ' is scary. You have a bunch of Americans believing their own. propaganda and they in high positions
@@soniama5246 Just the wrong side, as in evil. Your soldiers are "defending" your country too stupid to realise that if you didn't help dozens of coups, dictatorships, and several invasions America wouldn't have so many enemies
@@soniama5246 Soldier want to pay off their college fees so they kill real people defending their countries overseas as well as terrorists who wouldn't have existed without the US.
❤❤~Completely Remarkable Courage Of Four Stars U.S. General intend to solve these Middle East crisis for sure. I CODY WASHINGTON All The Time Stand's with our USA For The Price Of Remarkable Freedom . Round The Clock~providing welfare for our USA...... Should receive this spectacular award for Defending The World *****
Great conversation! Appreciate bringing the topic of service and recruiting. I just finished a tour in Recruiting Command and we are doing better, but everyone it requires whole nation to get us where we need to be as a country.
Lot of wisdom here and yet on the budget, too many sacred cows (capabilities ) that need to be refit/merged bottom line. DoD has too many orgs/ civilians as well that aren’t war fighters. Yes sof /rangers are good but the clear stars of the dod are the logistics and transport uplift capabilities which makes things go. Without those, the phone’s not ringing.
you know I'm at minute 4:29 and I haven't felt reassured that anyone knows what's going but i feel alright that this guy has a grip. you know and this may be irrelevant but i wanna point out something. i was looking at my bro's pics from the 90's, like time of Bosnia and Croatia, and the looks on those guys faces are serious, and mean and fuckin ready. and the reason i bring up the looks on their faces is i wanna make sure no one is in denial about how bad things could get and what could be required to survive. i think it's important to recognize the enemy is willing to blow himself up. the enemy may not fight like a gentleman at all. the enemy will poison your kids while they're partying. the enemy is mean, the enemy is hungry, the enemy is desperate, the enemy is dangerous. and while we know all the enemies combined can't really match our military power we always have to think in recognition of the fact that since they can't logically take on the empire, they will do the things they can do and sadly, without great military might, the enemy could achieve victory. i personally don't think many people would start a fight or participate in a fight they thought they we're guaranteed a loss. anyway, i'm an idiot, just delete this after you read it
21:00 I agree with this, but this is a problem of American will, when we are diplomatic the American people feel undignified but when we flex our military might the American people feel inhumane. I cannot imagine the tightrope the commanders n chief have to walk
So they think the US and Israel are a force of stability in the Middle East?? Lol We (the US) should not support one side over another in the region. Do business with all, let the people of the region figure out their problems. The root of the tensions are all the US bases in the region, and the unconditional support to the Israeli apartheid and genocide. From it's inception, the Israeli state has been expansionist and aggressive. They will never be accepted by the people of the region at the expense of the Palestinians. The power structure in place now takes an enormous amount of military aid and coertion by the US to maintain. It will thus fall as soon as US interests turn elsewhere. It's just a matter of time.
You would be correct if the radical Muslims stayed in their own country and did not radicalize their children to kill westerners. If you don’t want to have US military presence then don’t go outside of your country to fight others. I don’t think we should be giving anyone any damn money or Ammunition at all.
Honestly, no one hates Americans for being American. It's more that from the outside of America it looks like the public supports the destabilizing and frankly immoral foreign policy America has agreed on. Russia invading Ukraine because that was one origin of Russia civilization 700 years ago and it westernising is a security risk is wrong, but settlers creating Israel because of it's origin 2000 years ago at the expense of a agricultural culture without a military is okay?
People have to have moral reason to serve the nation including army. If young people see that, serving in army means depending genocide, atrocity, denying peoples right, ethnic cleansing, attacking sovereign state with pure lie to justify just to show power, how someone can motivate to support that kind of service, if they are not mentally ill or brain washed?
Israel had one major friendly fire incident 57 years ago. The nation of Israel was 20 years old at the time and barely functioning. It is tragic but the reason you keep referencing it is because you don’t have much else. My grandfather was attacked by US planes when he was in Korea. He didn’t prattle on about hating his own country after that. You are talking about it because you don’t like Jews. Spare us the BS. Hamas just killed dozens of Americans and still has some hostage and I bet you haven’t given it a single thought.
Let's be honest. Israel was not our "staunchest ally" at that time. They fired on one ship, the Liberty, which they claim was A mis identification. You can accept that or not. In the intervening years Israel has publicly apologized and paid reparations to the crew or their families. It was a regrettable incident, but it is time to move on.
At the first few seconds of the video middles east top national security problem then list a bunch of issues that have nothing to do with our national security
Depends on what you mean. Most people can’t see past their own family and friends so they cannot understand that energy policy is a driver of foreign policy. Also we have allies in the Middle East and Africa that Iran used proxies to disrupt and attack, it’s really not rocket science to understand that, now fixing the problem…that’s harder than rocket science
GEN Votel was a very approachable leader. Amazing to see him eat in the dining facility every night in AF with everybody else and carry on conversations with any rank. He is genuinely a nice guy and did not seem to be all that impressed with himself like so many who obtain that rank.
Imagine being impressed with a leader pretending to be human.
@user-wc8lu7qd2m are you OK. You make a lot of comments
@@WillS-x9ybecause sounds like English isn't your 1st language
@@McVet3 how’s that? Words too big for you crayon eater?
@@McVet3 and did you even read your sentence? It has the grammar of a 13 year old autistic girl.
Simply stop middling with other countries internal issues and be friends with them be part of the solution not the problem! Don’t take a side respect people deference’s
Yeah, sure that works, not.
@concord14 we talk about a rules base world order but we break the rules ever time is not convenient for us
learn to spell
They don't take a long term view.
If they did, they wouldn't have cut their demographics off at the knees and blown the largest financial bubble in human history.
Absolutely. The CEO that looks around the table at subordinates and says, “does anyone know who the smartest person in the room is ?” After a pause, and many puzzled faces, the CEO says, “all of us, together as a team!”
Senior officers and politicians took the all volunteer force for granted. They aren't worth listening to or following anymore. Results matter, remember?
My new favorite podcast. Feel a lot better about a lot after watching this.
I’ve had the privilege of working with both SGM Weimer and SGM Thetford. Both are worldclass warriors. The nation owes both great respect.
The fact that you have a top general say 'i dont know much about Chinese culture ' is scary. You have a bunch of Americans believing their own. propaganda and they in high positions
When top officials ask "Why are we invading this country?" Maybe you are on the wrong side
@muhammadedwards8425 who do Americans fight for? Their country or being highly trained bodyguards for companies? Think about that
@@muhammadedwards8425 wrong side of what?
@@soniama5246 Just the wrong side, as in evil. Your soldiers are "defending" your country too stupid to realise that if you didn't help dozens of coups, dictatorships, and several invasions America wouldn't have so many enemies
@@soniama5246 Soldier want to pay off their college fees so they kill real people defending their countries overseas as well as terrorists who wouldn't have existed without the US.
❤❤~Completely Remarkable Courage Of Four Stars U.S. General intend to solve these Middle East crisis for sure. I CODY WASHINGTON All The Time Stand's with our USA For The Price Of Remarkable Freedom . Round The Clock~providing welfare for our USA...... Should receive this spectacular award for Defending The World *****
Didn't you learn from Vietnam and Afganistan. Bent upon making innocent unsuspecting american children cannon fodder for dumb politicians
Great conversation! Appreciate bringing the topic of service and recruiting. I just finished a tour in Recruiting Command and we are doing better, but everyone it requires whole nation to get us where we need to be as a country.
well so far this guy is really impressive to me
i think i could write an essay on recruitment but i don't want to do it in public
Thank you for your report.
Lot of wisdom here and yet on the budget, too many sacred cows (capabilities ) that need to be refit/merged bottom line. DoD has too many orgs/ civilians as well that aren’t war fighters. Yes sof /rangers are good but the clear stars of the dod are the logistics and transport uplift capabilities which makes things go. Without those, the phone’s not ringing.
Great conversation, Abrams standards
The comment section is a dumpster fire. This means you're doing something right.
You don't buy it....why do you think we did what we did in cuba
8:22-8:40 ... You "guess" you can see how that might have caused issues? 👀🤨..... Duh.
you know I'm at minute 4:29 and I haven't felt reassured that anyone knows what's going but i feel alright that this guy has a grip.
you know and this may be irrelevant but i wanna point out something.
i was looking at my bro's pics from the 90's, like time of Bosnia and Croatia, and the looks on those guys faces are serious, and mean and fuckin ready.
and the reason i bring up the looks on their faces is i wanna make sure no one is in denial about how bad things could get and what could be required to survive.
i think it's important to recognize the enemy is willing to blow himself up. the enemy may not fight like a gentleman at all. the enemy will poison your kids while they're partying. the enemy is mean, the enemy is hungry, the enemy is desperate, the enemy is dangerous.
and while we know all the enemies combined can't really match our military power we always have to think in recognition of the fact that since they can't logically take on the empire, they will do the things they can do and sadly, without great military might, the enemy could achieve victory.
i personally don't think many people would start a fight or participate in a fight they thought they we're guaranteed a loss.
anyway, i'm an idiot, just delete this after you read it
The State Dept. is to blame for that and has too much power over the military instead of letting them do the job they are intended for.
21:00 I agree with this, but this is a problem of American will, when we are diplomatic the American people feel undignified but when we flex our military might the American people feel inhumane. I cannot imagine the tightrope the commanders n chief have to walk
So they think the US and Israel are a force of stability in the Middle East?? Lol
We (the US) should not support one side over another in the region. Do business with all, let the people of the region figure out their problems. The root of the tensions are all the US bases in the region, and the unconditional support to the Israeli apartheid and genocide. From it's inception, the Israeli state has been expansionist and aggressive. They will never be accepted by the people of the region at the expense of the Palestinians. The power structure in place now takes an enormous amount of military aid and coertion by the US to maintain. It will thus fall as soon as US interests turn elsewhere. It's just a matter of time.
You would be correct if the radical Muslims stayed in their own country and did not radicalize their children to kill westerners. If you don’t want to have US military presence then don’t go outside of your country to fight others. I don’t think we should be giving anyone any damn money or Ammunition at all.
Honestly, no one hates Americans for being American. It's more that from the outside of America it looks like the public supports the destabilizing and frankly immoral foreign policy America has agreed on. Russia invading Ukraine because that was one origin of Russia civilization 700 years ago and it westernising is a security risk is wrong, but settlers creating Israel because of it's origin 2000 years ago at the expense of a agricultural culture without a military is okay?
People have to have moral reason to serve the nation including army. If young people see that, serving in army means depending genocide, atrocity, denying peoples right, ethnic cleansing, attacking sovereign state with pure lie to justify just to show power, how someone can motivate to support that kind of service, if they are not mentally ill or brain washed?
Did Russia not ask to be part of NATO? Did we say yes and then no? I guess partnership for peace had limits and now we have what we have.
Russia was the one that ended cooperation with NATO first in 2007 then they invaded Georgia in 2008 and that was the end.
@@Wadsermight it be because usa offered NATO membership and then reneged? Trust was achieved and then lost.
@@johnconover52 We didn't.
@@timmilder8313 well, other sources beg to differ.
@@WadserGeorgia and Ukraine are Russias red lines. George started the 08 war. Look it up
Our staunchest ally attacked our ships.
Israel had one major friendly fire incident 57 years ago. The nation of Israel was 20 years old at the time and barely functioning. It is tragic but the reason you keep referencing it is because you don’t have much else. My grandfather was attacked by US planes when he was in Korea. He didn’t prattle on about hating his own country after that.
You are talking about it because you don’t like Jews. Spare us the BS.
Hamas just killed dozens of Americans and still has some hostage and I bet you haven’t given it a single thought.
@@privateprivate4315💯
Let's be honest. Israel was not our "staunchest ally" at that time. They fired on one ship, the Liberty, which they claim was A mis identification. You can accept that or not. In the intervening years Israel has publicly apologized and paid reparations to the crew or their families. It was a regrettable incident, but it is time to move on.
This is 💩
At the first few seconds of the video middles east top national security problem then list a bunch of issues that have nothing to do with our national security
Depends on what you mean. Most people can’t see past their own family and friends so they cannot understand that energy policy is a driver of foreign policy. Also we have allies in the Middle East and Africa that Iran used proxies to disrupt and attack, it’s really not rocket science to understand that, now fixing the problem…that’s harder than rocket science
liar
In the comments to read the opinions of the "real" foreign policy experts. LOL.
well sir i vote for me to be the chief communicating officer of whats at stake,
Google USs liberty
lets see if general mentions obama and hillary crews coupe of ukraine president in 2014.....
Not part of the discussion .
@@concord14 ill look it up his views on it ty
@@concord14 it says is nato to blame for russian agression at like 8min....so it is part of the discussion but the general is on team treason
Wow this is all just bs
Ur asking a warrior how to a civil paradigm
Wake up America or learn Chinese and Russian!!
Trans officers will help recruit 😂
Im willing to fight and die for transexual rights . Protect trans kids ! 😂
Then they attack muslim countries, the safest from liberalism, with LGBT "jews"!
"In God, we trust" sure 😂
Propaganda again
Boring 😴 🥱
White men didnt and wont forget you told us you didnt want us