China’s Secret Mercenary Army Exposed

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  • @Taskandpurpose
    @Taskandpurpose  2 ปีที่แล้ว +140

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    • @kevintewey1157
      @kevintewey1157 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      If This Were true which I see no evidence of what about the USA mercenary troops all over the world? And why are you a racist nazi?

    • @kevintewey1157
      @kevintewey1157 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      How many USA Communists and I didn't get any notification about these mercenary groups so I would have joined if there were any

    • @draconisthewyvern3664
      @draconisthewyvern3664 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      o sure, good for developing countries if you ignore they’re not hiring locals and building effectively chinese enclaves shipping all the workers they need over.
      that these projects are often questionably legal and even expand into illegal mining and…
      that and the 4% you pointed out with collateral sometimes being airstrips and…

    • @velchronc9490
      @velchronc9490 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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    • @cheesypuffs1342
      @cheesypuffs1342 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      why is this shocking? With more terrorist attacks killing chinese engineers in Pakistan & African nations, they'd be morons not to beef up security. At one point when their construction workers were maimed in Afghanistan, communist china even hired Eric Prince & Blackwater as protection detail. The NED, freedom house & USAID pays thugs in Burma, Thailand & recently the Solomon Islands to specifically riot & burn down chinese-owned factories & shops. 🤣 problem is, those local hooligans can't tell the difference between mainland chinese & the freedom loving taiwanese owned businesses. This prompted both roc + prc governments to meet w/ the Solomon island gubmint to review & establish new security laws.

  • @adriancontreras7523
    @adriancontreras7523 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3793

    "State owned, private security companies"
    Well... that's an oxymoron if I've ever heard one

    • @danshakuimo
      @danshakuimo 2 ปีที่แล้ว +282

      I guess "public security company" isn't really a term since at that point it would just be the military

    • @Nasrudith
      @Nasrudith 2 ปีที่แล้ว +48

      Or maybe the police. But at that point it sounds like being so used to privatization that you are unfamiliar with the term 'police'.

    • @MIZvalvod
      @MIZvalvod 2 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      @@danshakuimo then again, “public security” can’t really be permanently hired by private corporations right?

    • @yeoshenghong4802
      @yeoshenghong4802 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      The UN is trash In security in Africa. Private security is more effective then the UN.

    • @monsieurpickle5535
      @monsieurpickle5535 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Watcher nice whataboutism. The US has more power than anyone for a long time yet rarely does anything as wrong as China with limited power .

  • @TJ-vh2ps
    @TJ-vh2ps 2 ปีที่แล้ว +526

    “I learned it by watching you!” Aw man, that hits right in the feels. The truth hurts.

    • @esobed1
      @esobed1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      That clip gained an instant thumbs up.

    • @rodeanalfanteforcadela7645
      @rodeanalfanteforcadela7645 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Blackwater if I’m not mistaken

    • @AR15andGOD
      @AR15andGOD ปีที่แล้ว

      What china is doing is nothing like what the US did over there

    • @hermesliteratus882
      @hermesliteratus882 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The Chinese appear to be a very good student.

  • @darkhobo
    @darkhobo 2 ปีที่แล้ว +229

    The China and USA "I learned it by watching you" bit legit had me cracking up for a minute

  • @JackMyersPhotography
    @JackMyersPhotography 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2069

    From the 70s to the 90s, my Dad built oil wells and water desalination facilities in the 3rd world for Mobile Oil and Bechtel Corp. They had former SAS and US SF guys defending their job sites in places like Northern Africa.

    • @low_vibration
      @low_vibration 2 ปีที่แล้ว +102

      @Tin Watchman and therefore everything the ccp does now is ok

    • @dankoz6340
      @dankoz6340 2 ปีที่แล้ว +325

      @@low_vibration more about expectations. China isn’t doing anything “new” but the scale is beyond any humble money venture.

    • @low_vibration
      @low_vibration 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@dankoz6340 china =/= the ccp

    • @mrgunn2726
      @mrgunn2726 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Anyone who thinks Haliburton or Bechtel do not represent the interests of the US government are on crack. These 'private security companies' whether they are Academi, Wagner, or CCP are the same, it allows governments to project their powers.

    • @acatwithwiskers9273
      @acatwithwiskers9273 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      @@dankoz6340 see clip at 0:36

  • @kzg_turtle4897
    @kzg_turtle4897 2 ปีที่แล้ว +307

    "They haven't gone full blown CIA yet."
    Entire video for a single punchline... worth

    • @mannyb7949
      @mannyb7949 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Matter of time, matter of time

    • @bosniankumquat1835
      @bosniankumquat1835 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      They funded and backed communist rebels in the Philippines during 60s and 70s(rebels that still cause massive problems for the Philippines btw ) . They’ve been doing cia things since the start .

    • @Western_Decline
      @Western_Decline 2 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      At least, he admitted CIA is evil and causes trouble worldwide.

    • @dickiewongtk
      @dickiewongtk 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Western_Decline not evil, just selfish

    • @Xind0898
      @Xind0898 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@dickiewongtk evil in the eyes of the people they harm due to selfish reasons

  • @greenbankreptiles
    @greenbankreptiles 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Probably your best video so far..thanks for what you do! Much love and respect from North Devon, England x

    • @Taskandpurpose
      @Taskandpurpose  2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      thanks for the kind words I try to bring important info to the work!

    • @greenbankreptiles
      @greenbankreptiles 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Taskandpurpose Respect Chris.. I really like the way you do things..Keep it soldier!! X

  • @badgerpa9
    @badgerpa9 2 ปีที่แล้ว +517

    Glad you covered this, they have been growing their military a lot this way.

    • @Western_Decline
      @Western_Decline 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Remember, we sell billions in weapons to Apartheid Israel and Saudi Arabia, because we care about human rights.

    • @badgerpa9
      @badgerpa9 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Western_Decline Saudi stopped their latest purchase from your country before they increased the attack on Ukraine. Israel sells to you does not buy from ruzzia.

    • @Scott11078
      @Scott11078 2 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      @@indiasuperclean6969 Totally not some Pakistani dude trying to Troll India. Also seriously you had to respond to every reply? I have to respond to everyone of your replies, once it is started it cannot be stopped. I got shit to do man. So if the rest end up being double @'s oh fucking well, too much damn time to strike all that every time.

    • @tamasgyorffy1
      @tamasgyorffy1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      the trick is really the link to the Party, and not the military. in case of domestic turmoil, and internal divisions within power, they will respond to Party orders. in foreign states, this is a massive power projection element. the huge number commands attention to western military, and politics too. but I guess, China is already given quite a lot a attention, taking on the World in front of our eyes :)

    • @dan3458
      @dan3458 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Lmao even after the video continually points out America do all the same things you still talk about it like its unique to evil China. You lot are so deluded its bizzare.

  • @JJDirtBiker
    @JJDirtBiker 2 ปีที่แล้ว +313

    The quality of content on this channel has shot through the ROOF this year. Thank you for creating content on and from a unique perspective. This is dope, thank you.

    • @tamasgyorffy1
      @tamasgyorffy1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      fully agree w you!!! Chris is King amongst the Average Infantrymen!

    • @Taskandpurpose
      @Taskandpurpose  2 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      thanks I'm trying to expand the types of content and topics that we cover! glad some people enjoy the new direction

    • @cd5433
      @cd5433 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Taskandpurpose thank you for making so many videos recently. It seems like everyday there is a new video

    • @coolcoolercoolest212
      @coolcoolercoolest212 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ad was a little sus

    • @Ryanowning
      @Ryanowning 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      No kidding, the opening was FUCKING GOLD.

  • @josephfranzen9196
    @josephfranzen9196 2 ปีที่แล้ว +143

    I worked for Triple Canopy for close to 4.5 years after finishing up one re-enlistment in the 82nd 1st/504th as an 11B and talking to quite a few of the PMC’s in our AO as I was blown away by their pay scale and it’s not like these guys were all SF qualified shooters with beards that qual expert, they were 11B’s from the various units just like me. During my time with TC I firmly believe that we were able to successfully change the strategic environment of the AO’s that we were operational in as well as routinely being able to achieve objectives in an exponentially faster manner than it would take an infantry platoon to. After TC I worked for a few smaller, but well respected firms before finding a home at 4GS where I currently work. The one thing I can tell you from my experiences in the world is that China does not have quantifiable real world combat experience, which in turn creates leaders, it forces you to train and kit differently out of necessity and survival, when you have large former state sponsored militaries that downsize there’s always an influx into the PMC world. I can promise you that regardless of the Geneva Convention, well known American PMC groups were utilized in illegal ways, although they were actions that directly supported coalition forces and their mission objectives. Ever since Executive Outcomes came out of nowhere and forced 20,000+ strong RUF rebels to the negotiating table with a little over 100 shooters people started to take notice, the UN spent close to $75,000,000 rotating peace keeping forces into the Congo and their presence had little to no effect, the RUF continued raping and pillaging daily because what needed to be done wasn’t peace keeping but an offensive campaign to liquidate and cripple the groups existence.

    • @TheJarric
      @TheJarric 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      they did it twise woud have done it 3rd time but un rather wasted on peace keepers and humuliated they made mercs illegal

    • @redcell9636
      @redcell9636 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      This is brutal irony in the efficiency of a PMC. My biggest worry is that this puts the gun not in a legislative body's hand but the hand of a Mega Corporation that is harder to hold accountable, and they will make governments puppets to a crony-capitalist Free Market arbitrarily turning the world to syndicasism. Making free and fair Constitutional Republics (like ours) into a festival puppet. We are already seeing the collectivist globalization of that now, and it will not end well.

    • @TheJarric
      @TheJarric 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@redcell9636 more likely it woud return to mercentalism as states do have power to put em down

    • @josephfranzen9196
      @josephfranzen9196 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@TheJarric I know that’s so wild! Part of the terms of the ceasefire with the rebels was that EO be expelled from the country. Those guys put in work.

    • @AR15andGOD
      @AR15andGOD ปีที่แล้ว

      geneva convention doesn't exist. only on paper and therefore only in your head.

  • @tamasgyorffy1
    @tamasgyorffy1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +574

    Chris, you do very decent geopolitical presentation. Love your previous military/weapons-focused vids as well. But have to tell ya, this is very decent, well-rounded, and a balanced, question-raising content! My highest esteem :) I remain your fan!

    • @Taskandpurpose
      @Taskandpurpose  2 ปีที่แล้ว +65

      thanks I feel like I'll always cover weapons and equipment history but it's great to have the context of how those weapon systems are deployed and the results they bring to governments and people

    • @timetraveller4116
      @timetraveller4116 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I agree

    • @pieluver1234
      @pieluver1234 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@Taskandpurpose China has been regularly forgiving loans, including recently forgiving loans of 17 countries. The low interest US loans are unavailable to these high risk countries, so of course they're gonna grab the regularly forgiven loans from China

    • @ericreed4535
      @ericreed4535 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@pieluver1234 What is the total amount forgiven vs given? The answer provides context and exposes your ideology. The amount of loans forgiven by the west is enormously disproportionate compared to this pittance forgiven by the Chinese.

    • @LoganMaclaren
      @LoganMaclaren 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@pieluver1234 , Thanks for saying that, this was a very poorly researched video by Cappy. It's the worse in a series that started around the beginning of this year (I wonder why...) and it has been drowning in US propaganda against Russia and China ever since.

  • @angela_eric
    @angela_eric 2 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    This is probably the fastest I have seen a video after its release ever. Also love the commentary.

  • @feelingchanvre928
    @feelingchanvre928 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Your stuff keeps getting better every time you post, keep it up man!

  • @sakurakou2009
    @sakurakou2009 2 ปีที่แล้ว +112

    wasnt east india company that conolized india also private company that had their own army independent from UK 💀

    • @jon-hw6lq
      @jon-hw6lq 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Same with voc in east indies. This is not new tactic

    • @availablehage
      @availablehage 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      They also tried to take dugna laag from bhuvan

    • @andromedamessier3176
      @andromedamessier3176 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      That is why I told people in my class that any countries and ethnicities can go crazy too with power. That is just humans in general.

    • @stefthorman8548
      @stefthorman8548 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@andromedamessier3176 "crazy with power" pretty sure they are just acting in their own interest.

    • @andromedamessier3176
      @andromedamessier3176 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@stefthorman8548 acting on their own interest while trembling on others is literally what crazy with power means. Everyone has the same greed. It will not stop even it they have everything.

  • @lordwind9745
    @lordwind9745 2 ปีที่แล้ว +345

    The main issue of developing nations is that they don’t have the infrastructure to create the training nor the capital to attract/retain the skilled workforce. Even if they manage to train out some highly skilled workers by focusing resources, they’d get siphoned off to other countries really quickly because they’d get paid way more. China doesn’t have to negotiate good rates for these countries since no body else can compete with them in terms of available cash and risk tolerance. I’m sure those 80+ countries all understand this and aren’t just taking out loans for no reason.

    • @viktoriyaserebryakov2755
      @viktoriyaserebryakov2755 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Or because you just buy out the officials to sell their own country out into paying a debt the people who made the decision never have to pay themselves.

    • @Scott11078
      @Scott11078 2 ปีที่แล้ว +45

      @INDIA SUPER CLEAN 🇮🇳 Totally not some Pakistani dude trying to Troll India.

    • @TechnoMinarchist
      @TechnoMinarchist 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Well here's the thing; you'll never develop by not putting resources into your people.

    • @jxdirsdt1045
      @jxdirsdt1045 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I doubt my country understands it
      Since they allowed more Chinese firms to come in and more loans to being taken up. More and more people are losing their job and positions. Even the labour force are pulled in from China...So it's a shit show really

    • @tamasgyorffy1
      @tamasgyorffy1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      the political, social and economic pressure together are irresistible motivators to infrastructure development.... it costs what it costs. you can win elections with. you can loose sovereignty with these projects. quickly. surprisingly quickly. "sic transit gloria mundi", as the latin saying goes

  • @tchsramblings575
    @tchsramblings575 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    Private security companies are ubiquitous around the world. Even a small nation like Singapore has them. The main question is, how many of these Chinese security companies have interfered with the politics of the sovereign nations or have helped to overthrow the foreign governments on behalf of their intelligence agencies? From records so far, answer seems to be none.

    • @docaz9453
      @docaz9453 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      This nothing compare to what CIA do

    • @nutayahoo5000
      @nutayahoo5000 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      We know who is funding this joker don't we 😄

    • @lixzx007
      @lixzx007 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      they not CIA nor black water

    • @luisvilla799
      @luisvilla799 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      They use investment it’s easier and cleaner look see belt and road

  • @stonefish1318
    @stonefish1318 2 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    Love this channel! Shines the light into the darkness of the military and industrial political complex

  • @akaroth7542
    @akaroth7542 2 ปีที่แล้ว +52

    Went to college with a Ghanian dude: said it was like the wild West with Chinese companies having their own armies unaccountable to local police. They mostly drove recklessly around in jeeps w guns, he said.

    • @Alikerry
      @Alikerry 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      any chance you have an article or link discussing this issue more? or any way i can contact the Ghanian?

  • @Pincer88
    @Pincer88 2 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Seems our 'average infantry man' has done more than just a little homework and studied geopolitics, diplomacy, economics and strategy. All that while in the back of a Stryker. Not so average after all. Great job! Love this content as much as the old school weapons videos.

    • @whirving
      @whirving 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I don't think the British involvement with the East India Trading Company was at all hidden, it was probably more of a way to shield it from debt and provide opportunity for selected favorites to the crown.

    • @Pincer88
      @Pincer88 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@whirving You are refering to the EIC as some sort of private ARmy I assume? Could very well be. Here in the Netherlands we had a similar company (Dutch East Indies Coy) which operated pretty much the same (and I don't know which one came first).
      And the video does not mention contemporate, 'western' mercenary companies. But I guess the purpose of the video is to show, that despite claims of the opposite, China is 'as much a force for the good' as any other empire was and is.

  • @sargonassarg4356
    @sargonassarg4356 2 ปีที่แล้ว +238

    Mercenary companies are all the rage today but what's interesting is that modern security contractors they got their start in Africa. Anyone remember Executive Outcomes? Some of these mercenary led battles even utilized old Sherman tanks!

    • @TheIndianaGeoff
      @TheIndianaGeoff 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      What happens when the mercenaries decide something needs to change in China?

    • @Shadowgunner785
      @Shadowgunner785 2 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      They even helped to win wars. Just look at the Liberian civil war

    • @badfoody
      @badfoody 2 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      Hiring Mercs for Africa is an age old tradition
      It's a MASSIVE continent. Even stabilized countries will have issues with insurgents cause it's so easy for them to hide
      So a lot of ex militaries find work there.

    • @Shadowgunner785
      @Shadowgunner785 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@TheIndianaGeoff why do you think china owns shares in all of them?

    • @sakurakou2009
      @sakurakou2009 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      @@badfoody I remeber reading that france would hire Senegal or west african soilders to their central african conolies like central african and use Algerians soilders in west africa , like this when they shuffle the soldiers away from their homeland they prevent the soilders from upraising and revolting against their rule and no matter how brutal they are to natives they not shift their loyalty

  • @Chiller01
    @Chiller01 2 ปีที่แล้ว +173

    Huawei Security? Sounds like Amazon + Blackwater. Jeff Bezos goes rogue mercenary.

    • @monsieurpickle5535
      @monsieurpickle5535 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Huawei does everything that's why they are banned here . You have a very successful monopoly of course you'll want them doing everything including "private security."

    • @BigBoss-sm9xj
      @BigBoss-sm9xj 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Lol

    • @valorz6064
      @valorz6064 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Ali BangBang E-commerce and Security 🤣

    • @MrGrim2u1987
      @MrGrim2u1987 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@indiasuperclean6969 you are funny. Highly untruthful but funny.

    • @gottagofastest
      @gottagofastest 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@indiasuperclean6969 BASED AND CLEANPILLED

  • @teddy.d174
    @teddy.d174 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Excellent topic and video Chris, it’s one of your best.

  • @thomassecurename3152
    @thomassecurename3152 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Chris. You do such a great job. Thanks for all your work. Tom.

    • @bunsdad4530
      @bunsdad4530 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      He does good videos but the us does not really issue loans. They give a bond at 1 percent to the imf and the imf gives out the loans with 10 percent or more loan arrangement fees. 10 percent on loans that can be billions!
      So the country owes 10 percent in kickbacks to billionaires and they are often not even American.
      Americans are also unaware that isreal has visa free travel to Russia and that Israel does not take part in the Russian sanctions. They have reviewed over a billion a week from the us for 50 years and now they are getting filthy rich dealing sanctioned Russian goods. The us has guaranteed their security and energy supply for decades and now they are stocking up on yuan and rubles.
      What is the old saying
      With friends like that who needs ……

  • @RabbitusMaximus
    @RabbitusMaximus 2 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    Well done Chris - you’ve managed to consistently hone in on the issues of relevance!

  • @giftedshfter4433
    @giftedshfter4433 2 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    It's absolutely terrifying what can be accomplished when you can convince men that they are doing the right thing..

    • @user-ob1rh3cz7h
      @user-ob1rh3cz7h 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I dont think you even grasp their culture or way of thought. They arnt a western male being brainwashed to fight. These people believe in the one china, like an ant colony live or death or taking life is almost meaningless to them. They play their role for the hive and thats it, there is little to no thought of individualism or right or wrong. Thats the true scary part because it makes a strong fighter motivation wise. Be nice to stop weaking our men in the west to prepare against such a future enemy.

    • @charles8769
      @charles8769 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Yeah just look at iraq

    • @DarkKnight-db1dy
      @DarkKnight-db1dy ปีที่แล้ว

      yup, kinda like the genocides and destruction of local cultures by Islam and Chrisitianity or acts against humanity by Nazism

  • @robwo
    @robwo 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Dang, Chris. You pack stuff so much information into your explainers that I need three more explainers to unpack each episode. Now I gotta go back and rewatch.

  • @abhinavmathur5648
    @abhinavmathur5648 2 ปีที่แล้ว +115

    I had read a book titled “confessions of an economic hitman” which described how US used debt and infrastructure loans to become a world power. Seems like someone in China read the book and decided to copy that as well

    • @Deno2100
      @Deno2100 2 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      No, China hasn't really done any of that. China just forgave 10s of billions in loans to a few countries. They have more to make from developing those countries than from burdening them with debt.

    • @madkabal
      @madkabal 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      copied but did not understand it. The US model help build economies, its profitable to be part of the American Empire. The CCP model is a shake down. Essentially loan sharking disguised as a helping hand.

    • @Channel-23s
      @Channel-23s 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      That and companies making billions and focusing on the Navy and Air Force

    • @abhinavmathur5648
      @abhinavmathur5648 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Deno2100 actually that’s what the book alleges too. US forgave billions of infrastructure debt in exchange for other pounds of flesh like votes in UN, military bases

    • @NonConformistPsyche
      @NonConformistPsyche 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Someone in China read that book and learnt from America's mistakes. US indeed used those methods but demanded compensations, pissing off African governments.

  • @PatClassic1980
    @PatClassic1980 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Shocking? Seriously? We have US citizen mercs EVERYWHERE. Russia, The UK, Korea, etc all have mercs across the globe. Working for money and in the benefits of their home country. Not shocking at all.

  • @ColdHawk
    @ColdHawk 2 ปีที่แล้ว +140

    I wonder if the assessment I keep hearing, that the Chinese have absolutely no combat experience, is accurate. Perhaps if one looks deeper there is actually a core of operational experience and combat-experienced personnel they can call up. It’s a mistake to violate the first rule of war; NEVER underestimate your enemy.

    • @kukulroukul4698
      @kukulroukul4698 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      u dont know whats war STFUP

    • @kurtsell8376
      @kurtsell8376 2 ปีที่แล้ว +46

      That’s a good assessment but you could have said the same thing about Russia before they went into Ukraine with their Wagner group. The problem being that even if a country has a small group of soldiers who’ve seen combat it doesn’t mean 1-their army will use their experience well, 2-that those troops have experience in modern mechanized warfare on a large scale (or any other relevant experience), or 3- that those mercenaries with experience will go far in a million+ man army. I agree that it isn’t ever good to underestimate your enemy, but overestimating them can be equally bad as it can let them bluff you into giving them something you really shouldn’t.

    • @BigMoneyChink
      @BigMoneyChink 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@kurtsell8376 agreed on like all of your points however I would rather train for the worst possible scenario just in case

    • @flawless_Cowboy
      @flawless_Cowboy 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@kurtsell8376 I will never forget when the Wagner group got their gunpowder smeared asses handed to them by those gunships 💀💀

    • @MrBurns0922
      @MrBurns0922 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      In my honest assessment as a dumb grunt, I think it boils down to a leadership style. If it is more of a top down control system and the small unit leader can’t act independently then they may run into problems.

  • @ExistentialGojora
    @ExistentialGojora 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    My only trusted geopolitical news source.
    Thanks Cappy.

  • @Alex.The.Lionnnnn
    @Alex.The.Lionnnnn 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    "Not imperialists" as John Oliver put it, "we (the english) handed the baton of imperialism to America who grabbed it with enthusiasm, and China are just waiting like a coiled spring".

  • @ianbaxter382
    @ianbaxter382 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Very impressed with the content and clear delivery, I have worked in Africa and seen some of the growing Chinese influence first hand. This needs greater exposure I think.
    Thanks of making some really balanced informative videos.

    • @Taskandpurpose
      @Taskandpurpose  2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      thanks for watching, greatly appreciate your feedback especially considering you have first hand knoweldge of the topic. be well good sir

    • @Jackrobert28
      @Jackrobert28 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Taskandpurpose Where is the 1% and 4% Chinese debt number come from ? Sri Lanka has more debt to the West like Black Rock/IMF or other government/corporations.
      Only country I have seen is Ethiopia that has a lot of Chinese debt.

  • @obsidianstatue
    @obsidianstatue 2 ปีที่แล้ว +42

    I've seen some of these Private securities appearing on CCTV7 a TV channel dedicated and run by the PLA
    They were training some PLA units on CQC combat

    • @babayada2015
      @babayada2015 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@indiasuperclean6969 You okay bro?

    • @MrDasfried
      @MrDasfried 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@babayada2015 just report it.... It's most probably some stupid bot

    • @nvelsen1975
      @nvelsen1975 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@babayada2015
      It's pretty entertaining as troll acts go. Those Indian ultra-nationalists spreading hate everywhere are so tiresome, he's channeling their idiocy quite well.

    • @babayada2015
      @babayada2015 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@nvelsen1975 lmao

    • @Scott11078
      @Scott11078 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@indiasuperclean6969 Totally not some Pakistani dude trying to Troll India. Also seriously you had to respond to every reply? I have to respond to everyone of your replies, once it is started it cannot be stopped. I got shit to do man. So if the rest end up being double @'s oh fucking well, too much damn time to strike all that every time.

  • @squirrelmaster4life
    @squirrelmaster4life 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Yo Cappy I am extremely impressed with the variety in your content and the detailed information you provide in your videos. Thanks also for serving our country. Hooah!

  • @anonymouslyopinionated656
    @anonymouslyopinionated656 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Cappi gets all the kudos because of his good looks and delivery, but the writing and research teams are top notch as well

  • @parasinthephilippines
    @parasinthephilippines 2 ปีที่แล้ว +172

    You forgot to mention that the Philippines had to cancel its retirement visa after over 35000 Chinese males all of fighting age took the visa.
    Philippines is strategically important to both Western and Eastern governments.
    Subic Bay being a strategic stronghold in the upcoming struggle for Taiwan.
    You also have the blockade of the Atol's within the South China Sea by "Fishermen" who've blockaded for over two years.

    • @monsieurpickle5535
      @monsieurpickle5535 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      It's different when China does it though apparently.

    • @jacobhoover1654
      @jacobhoover1654 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@indiasuperclean6969 but in India you cut the clitoris off of women at birth & tigers stalk your streets at night.

    • @Hikaru109Ichijyo
      @Hikaru109Ichijyo 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      actually China annexed two Philippine islands both have large natural and oil gas reserves under them, the Philippines govt didn't care at first but now they do, but can't do nothing because the US isn't there anymore. My gf is trying to her fam to join their kids in Canada cuz it could be a WW2 situation where CHina takes Taiwan, Philippines and Hawaii so they can have the whole cooler of Pacifico's to themselves. China already got the SOl0mon islands too as the SOlomons restricetd US ships from their waters and banning them porting there.

    • @jacobhoover1654
      @jacobhoover1654 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@Hikaru109Ichijyo China will never take Hawaii, that's the entire reason the US conquered them over 50 years ago.

    • @Cheeseatingjunglista
      @Cheeseatingjunglista 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Hikaru109Ichijyo The South China Sea grab more likely than invasion of Taiwan. USA will not defend Philippines like it will Taiwan, plus China does not want to destroy Taiwan, it want the chip fab plants just like the |USA needs access to em. China has already claimed some islands, has built or is building others which it claims is Chinese territoy, that in ancient times China controlled the SCS - well it destroyed its own navy in the 1440's, forbade long distance travel and trade and did not reapper till after '47. They have every intention of claiming the Ocean based on this idiotic "history" and these fake islands - all just big enough to fit troop transport aircraft to land

  • @gebeme11
    @gebeme11 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    "I learned it from watching you! Okay!"
    Dude, I laughed so hard at that.

  • @Tentacl
    @Tentacl 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    This was a refreshingly neutral stance on this issue. Good video.

  • @braddavis4377
    @braddavis4377 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Outstanding research and presentation as usual. It's funny how the mainstream media has to play catchup with TH-cam content creators. Keep up the good work!

  • @mattcotnoir9884
    @mattcotnoir9884 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I didnt even know this was happening. Thank you for the excellent video!

  • @SpamMouse
    @SpamMouse 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Great report Chris, thank you.

  • @carloshernandezsanchez1877
    @carloshernandezsanchez1877 2 ปีที่แล้ว +42

    Mad video Cappy! Looking forward to your insights on the Kherson offensive!

    • @Deno2100
      @Deno2100 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Ghost Offensive.

    • @carloshernandezsanchez1877
      @carloshernandezsanchez1877 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Maybe, but Ukraine has a larger manpower pool and constant Western support. While not likely that there will be urban combat in Kherson, there’s a possibility that the Russian army might have to abandon the positions. At the end of the day the main objective is the Donbas where they’re making slow but steady gains.

    • @booba8930
      @booba8930 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Deno2100 What does Ghost Offensive mean?

    • @Deno2100
      @Deno2100 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      ​@@carloshernandezsanchez1877 A larger manpower pool is not as significant in modern war. In modern war 2,000 well equipped men can kill 40,000 with the proper application of combined arms. The problem only arises if its expensive to achieve that destruction against the enemy. Russia is wise to use artillery because its cheap. Ukraine's main mistake besides trying to become a bulwark for NATO while only a few hundred miles from the heart of Russian power, is fighting a conventional war. They lost the war before is started in Feb but they didn't need to lose this many men losing the war. But what can you expect when their command and control is the US. Of course that is a command that has very little interest in the lives of Ukrainian soldiers.

    • @Deno2100
      @Deno2100 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@booba8930 There wont be an offensive.

  • @bermanmo6237
    @bermanmo6237 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The People's Armed Police report to the Central Military Commission, which is like the United States Joint Chief of Staff, instead of the Ministry of Public Safety, which is responsible for law enforcement
    So, the People's Armed Police is part of the PLA.

  • @stevenhoman2253
    @stevenhoman2253 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Hi Cappy, I have always found your vids. They are both compelling and entertaining. I do enjoy your analysis very often. Keep them coming, mate.

  • @Drewad17
    @Drewad17 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I really enjoy your analysis on topics. Definitely well researched and delivered.

  • @MTerrance
    @MTerrance 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    The CCP doesn't just make loans without security - their loans include provisions for China to own the assets if the host country defaults. This may not mean much if the project is a road (although they could toll a road) but ports and harbors are valuable assets. In short, at least some of these projects would become Chinese assets that have value. The host country would have no recourse once it defaults. The other factor is these projects have little or no transparency, so if they are dramatically overvalued the prospect of default just works to the advantage of China.

    • @dudeguy8287
      @dudeguy8287 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes and no. If the CCP causes a fundamental collapse in these small countries because of this tactic it will be increasingly precarious to actually use their assets. Many rebel factions will be spawned and insurgent warfare will ensue. The US occupation of Iraq is a litmus test for this modern way of puppet control.
      A power vacuum will always give rise to destabilization, and on the scale of China’s exploitation it’s something totally unprecedented and unmanageable.
      Welcome to militaristic geopolitical economics CCP 😄

    • @jeffwen9965
      @jeffwen9965 ปีที่แล้ว

      呵呵,不向西方公布就叫没有透明度,那么你让CIA也提高下透明度看看? 美国及其他西方国家在发展中国家除了变着法子的寻找、扶持于自己有利的国家代理人,就是变着法子发起所谓的革命,编造各种谣言,想法在别的国家掀起暴动、内乱、打着民主自由旗号的革命,来颠覆发展中国家的领导人,疯狂干涉他国内政,不听话的全部被冠以独裁、暴君、种族主义的帽子(其实只有美国名副其实),然后让他国生灵涂炭,甚至引发各种代理人战争,美国从中获益,石油、矿产等等,然后他们宣称对发展中国家的帮助,请问有真正落实的吗?有实际提高当地居民生活水平的么?没有! 然而中国做到了,于是,中国要继续开始承受“心怀鬼胎”“经济殖民主义”的恶名,然而中国没有干涉别国的内政,没有入侵别人的国家,而是其实引导帮助当地人民作基础建设,是的, 这在你们这些昂撒眼中,就是所谓的邪恶!

  • @MrStevos
    @MrStevos 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Another very informative, & enlightening presentation from your average infantry man !

  • @WV-TimidCow
    @WV-TimidCow 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    "I learned it from you!" Well, that is truer in more ways than one, they're doing the same thing we did in 1890, but everyone is losing their minds over the fact they're getting noticed globally because cameras exist.

    • @belthesheep3550
      @belthesheep3550 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      And you know, back then colonialism was more tolerated than it is nowadays. If people knew but didn't mind there'd be no outrage, if they did mind but didn't know there'd be no outrage, it's the mix of both that ensures a reaction

  • @ai-with-steve
    @ai-with-steve 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I feel like this channel is underrated and keeps getting better and better.

  • @davidhoracek6758
    @davidhoracek6758 2 ปีที่แล้ว +171

    A lot of countries in the world, the so-called "hollow states," have local warlords in charge of certain regions. They all have a nominal central government, but there is an understanding between it and the regional warlord that the warlord calls the shots in his region. So far, this warlord tends to be some indigenous local strongman able to seize and keep power. But it's not like warlordism is a properly regulated market that bars entry to foreign nationals. And in fact, Afghan warlords near the Iranian border receive a lot of support from Iran, and they maintain power largely thanks to that support - which has strings attached, of course. We can go so far as to say that Iran de facto controls areas of Afghanistan.
    Now imagine that China finds something of value within one of these many hollow states, and they decide they want to come in and take it. They make a deal with the warlord of the day that Chinese mercenary firms will give him protection and Chinese companies will give him kickbacks in exchange for his non-interference. The really interesting and not wholly unrealistic scenario is one where the Chinese mercenary forces are strong enough to defeat incursions from the country's government army. This way they can basically control chunks of the world through imperialist colonialism, but do it all without arousing much attention.
    In some ways we are very lucky that the CCP requires a controlling stake in the mercenary firm, because with this rule, there is no plausible deniability. My horror scenario is that some unscrupulous mercenary group picks a hollow state like Somalia, decides that it's strong enough to claim and defend some marginal territory there, and then starts making illegal drugs there on an industrial scale and exporting them to the entire world. Or consider this: A "legit" mercenary group like Blackwater gets a contract from some Somali strongman who "owns" beachfront property and wants to develop it into a resort region for foreign tourists, which will need to be kept absolutely safe. Foreign states could literally build substantial colonies in this way, as long as they have the firepower to defend them. The only danger to such colonies would come from the central government getting its act together and legitimately expelling the colonizing powers, so to prevent that the colony would have to make sure to keep the central government weak and hollow and corrupt.

    • @michaelkulakov9716
      @michaelkulakov9716 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      True, some parts of the world are still living in quasi feudalism

    • @KSmithwick1989
      @KSmithwick1989 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      There is a chunk of Somalia that was broken off, it's called Somaliland. It operates a modern port, that was built with western assistance. They even have their own separate currency.

    • @eduardotrillaud696
      @eduardotrillaud696 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@KSmithwick1989 are you saying that there's a place where the western countries have done what they are so afraid that China could do?

    • @userequaltoNull
      @userequaltoNull 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@eduardotrillaud696 no, Somaliland is actually a decently functioning state.

    • @eduardotrillaud696
      @eduardotrillaud696 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@userequaltoNull I've never said it worked fine... Or, if achieved a functional state, then the foreign intervention is justified? In any case, that's still what they are afraid China does. And yet there are examples of foreign intervention gone wrong, even including the use of paramilitaries or private groups operating on behalf of economic interests... American intervention in Central America are one case, for instance.

  • @kwinter2541
    @kwinter2541 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Your videos are consistently high quality .

    • @Taskandpurpose
      @Taskandpurpose  2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      thanks I try my best to bring entertaining and interesting information to everyone !

  • @hgoldman12
    @hgoldman12 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Way to go. Keep it up Cappy!

  • @funbarsolaris2822
    @funbarsolaris2822 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Damn this guy really does a better job than most media outlets, its an impressively comprehensive world view, that doesn't get too carried away with US sensationalism and keeps things pretty level headed with a good dose of humour. Well done to the guy

    • @chanceyang9455
      @chanceyang9455 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      100% agree

    • @heartobefelt
      @heartobefelt 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      most media outlets are owned by individuals who publish only what they are told.

    • @c_rock3512
      @c_rock3512 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      He does a really good job at not blindly following US talking points in his analysis. He actually researches and forms his own opinion. It’s refreshing.

    • @ChapCinematics
      @ChapCinematics 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@c_rock3512 Yup, propaganda is a killer

  • @jed-henrywitkowski6470
    @jed-henrywitkowski6470 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I generally preemptively strike... when Cappy puts something out, I hit that like button before watching!

  • @chiefbrody2173
    @chiefbrody2173 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great content. Just subscribed. I’d say roughly two out of five channels I come across are actually worth watching. Nice work, man.

  • @LothlorianOG
    @LothlorianOG 2 ปีที่แล้ว +71

    Honestly this is something I should have researched a long time ago. The thing that made me hesitate the most in whether or not China would invade Taiwan was that they hadnt fought a serious war on a large scale, well really ever under the current government. I always thought it would be time to worry once they had gotten their commanders some combat experience. It would appear theyve been doing that, just not officially.

    • @MarkMark-xz4ff
      @MarkMark-xz4ff 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Isn’t actual combat experience against a trained adversary much different than providing security for infrastructure projects In Africa?

    • @LothlorianOG
      @LothlorianOG 2 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      @@MarkMark-xz4ff oh of course. But it would provide a lot of useful lessons. It provides experience under fire, helps perfect unit tactics, tests weapons in real scenarios. It could highlight logistical or other issues with their transport equipment. They are after-all an extension of the PLA, I'm sure their lessons-learned are being reported back.

    • @truezyf
      @truezyf 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      an army equipments, tactics, orgnization far far differ from security company.

    • @kameronjones7139
      @kameronjones7139 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I wouldn't say this is great experience considering it is mostly security operations with the occasional hostage situation and even then most of these aren't large scale naval operations but most going against pirates

    • @LothlorianOG
      @LothlorianOG 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@kameronjones7139 it is great experience. Amphibious operations are honestly a niche method that can be practiced in a training environments. The US hasn't done any legit amphibious assaults since Korea. Naval operations in general are all about long range engagements, usually out of line of site. Its been that way a long time. So thats irrelevant. Any experience under real threat or fire is more valuable than in-house training, and makes their forces a more lethal threat.

  • @Google_Does_Evil_Now
    @Google_Does_Evil_Now 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    American Democracy - private corporations ruling the state.
    State owned, private owned, I wonder if there's much difference when it comes to government contracts?
    Seems like private is just a way to legally charge higher prices that can be moved using shares to give to rich shareholders?
    Democracy or Theftocacry?

    • @theuberhunter9698
      @theuberhunter9698 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      State-owned = unaccountable and lowest possible quality.

    • @agonzgonzalez7748
      @agonzgonzalez7748 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Like our American internet! Oh wait that all private companies that run terrible business. I can count the amount of power AND water outages I’ve had in my life on both my hands and those are American government, but the amount of internet outages I’ve had is in the hundreds from private companies.

  • @wric01
    @wric01 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    You buy insurance don't you? Well then consider security as a neccessary insurance in their investment as none of it's partners ensure their safety/ security.

  • @mikeray1544
    @mikeray1544 2 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    As a old Cold Conflict trained Navy guy, I can't believe the expansion of Red forces/govts. Soviet Union s wet dream- great channel com Cappy-

    • @harrykuheim6107
      @harrykuheim6107 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      And we paid to build China ...

    • @ls200076
      @ls200076 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@harrykuheim6107 Urah! Long live China!

    • @gotaplay
      @gotaplay 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ls200076 durak

    • @crowe6961
      @crowe6961 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@harrykuheim6107 Kissinger is a traitor.

    • @huwhitecavebeast1972
      @huwhitecavebeast1972 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes, they expanded right into our own government. Long march through the institutions was not a joke.

  • @paulh2468
    @paulh2468 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    This gives the PLA current combat experience, which they need. Platoon level experience only, but better than nothing, from their point of view.

  • @smoothmiles24
    @smoothmiles24 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Props. What a well researched and produced video.

  • @TomScott__
    @TomScott__ 2 ปีที่แล้ว +58

    In America, you never hear about these incidents involving Chinese nationals in 3rd world countries. I would like to see more videos on this type of incident in future videos. We, in America, get a lot of news when incidents occur to Americans but never to Russians or the Chinese.

    • @adisproject
      @adisproject 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Americans don't care about other people, no one will watch that. There are already sources that report that but no one listen to them

    • @TomScott__
      @TomScott__ 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@adisproject 🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @ThisNoName
      @ThisNoName 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      It's just Blackwater in red, they are not meant to be heard unless something went seriously wrong.

  • @Shadowgunner785
    @Shadowgunner785 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I like this video. It's a topic that is not talked about much and must be heard about by more ppl. Good job boys!!!

  • @einosiirila7093
    @einosiirila7093 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I'm happy that I come across your videos and I find what you say very interesting and intelligent keep making more and people like me will watch 👍

  • @AshtonCoolman
    @AshtonCoolman 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    I'm saddened to learn that Eric Prince helped the Chinese in this way.

    • @brandonvancurler6863
      @brandonvancurler6863 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Mercenary.

    • @niksutliff
      @niksutliff 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@brandonvancurler6863 and a war criminal let's not forget

    • @valorz6064
      @valorz6064 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Sad that a contractor was hired to teach other contractors to contract kill?🤣 Turns out everyone's allegiance and loyalty is to Almighty Money...

    • @RemoveChink
      @RemoveChink 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      A soldier for hire follows the money, no big surprise.

    • @MichaelDavis-mk4me
      @MichaelDavis-mk4me 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      What did you expect coming from a mercenary? Being a mercenary is all about bathing in blood money.

  • @ThorneyPolitics
    @ThorneyPolitics 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    A similar vid on western private security would be good. Great video!

  • @Jnojsk
    @Jnojsk 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    If people want to know why there are so many conflicts in those host countries. Because some of the conflicts in the host countries, which might have been old conflicts, have been newly fomented by CIA/NED which are usually regime-change operation and destabilization operations. Other old conflicts are renewed conflicts from the imperial British and French, often because of their meddling.

  • @MarkShank
    @MarkShank 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    I learned it from watching you, America!

  • @curtisnewton2437
    @curtisnewton2437 2 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Great video and I think it would be great to have a comparison of these "companies", because haven't we seen that all over the world with nearly all major powers having similar setups - sometimes more sometimes less direct political influence - in the last 10 to 15 years? Sometimes the political influence is more subtle with e.g. retired generals and politicians etc. being on the board but often the connections are there. So it is a grey area worth looking at!

  • @kylep007
    @kylep007 2 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    Task & Purpose needs to do a video on actual combat experience vs just training and drills. The PLA last fought a war in 1979.

    • @crowe6961
      @crowe6961 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      And when they did, they and the Vietnamese absolutely mauled each other for a month until China went home with nothing to show for it but 50,000+ casualties and some badly wrecked armored units. They inflicted roughly equivalent casualties to Vietnamese troops, but their forces had been fighting for decades on end by that point and knew how to hold the line.

    • @chemistryofquestionablequa6252
      @chemistryofquestionablequa6252 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      They've gained a lot of experience in Africa

    • @TroyTempest777
      @TroyTempest777 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@chemistryofquestionablequa6252 Not really. They've not fought a serious enemy for years and not had their long term logistics etc tested.

    • @thepny_chasseur_de_tricera5361
      @thepny_chasseur_de_tricera5361 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@chemistryofquestionablequa6252 the only country who learn anything from an operation in Africa is France

    • @didyoumissedmegobareatersk2204
      @didyoumissedmegobareatersk2204 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      And when did you fight a real..w..r against a formidable nation lmao
      The last time you fught that your veterns were eating rice feild

  • @thantzweaung9080
    @thantzweaung9080 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Use of military/security contractors by nations (& non-state actors) has existed for at least 4000 years, & will continue to exist for a while, because it's efficient.
    Technically, members of national militaries are contractors, even conscripts are, but it's nitpicking.

  • @magnaviator
    @magnaviator 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    So same as US mercs.. Not true about US interest rates. US, World Bank, IMF rates all significantly higher.

  • @MrAnonymousRandom
    @MrAnonymousRandom 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    You're going to have to hire mercs anyways in dangerous places, why not your own? China learned that security is often necessary for infrastructure projects the hard way. The Tanzam railway they built to aid Africa's liberation struggle in the 70s got blown to pieces by South Africa, leading to long term financial and operational problems. China is not a charity. Those loans are commercial loans. With the non existent or poor credit ratings of those countries, they are lucky that anyone would be willing to extend them credit at anything lower than credit card interest rate levels.

    • @monsieurpickle5535
      @monsieurpickle5535 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Cool story how much does the CCP pay for such statements?

    • @destroyerarmor2846
      @destroyerarmor2846 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      South Africa them was a terrible apartheid regime. Chinese don't exhibit such racism in Africa

    • @zadovrus1624
      @zadovrus1624 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@monsieurpickle5535 What are CIA's rates nowadays?

    • @unrealbot3027
      @unrealbot3027 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@monsieurpickle5535 How many underaged children and drugs did you get paid in by CIA for your counter comment?

    • @RomanHistoryFan476AD
      @RomanHistoryFan476AD 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I mean look at Benghazi the local hired security ran off and the only real protection left was ex US soldiers hired by the CIA for close protection.

  • @tommos1
    @tommos1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Private security? Absolutely groundbreaking!

    • @stefthorman8548
      @stefthorman8548 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      "Private" military that is owned by the state, and yes "51% or more" is state owned.

  • @davidrendall7195
    @davidrendall7195 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    0:36 Exactly how we Britons did it - The East India Company was a part government funded 'private' monopoly that had its own army 'for protection in places distant' and was given free reign to make money. Money also being influence we soon ran India and with those riches went for more. Thing is East India Company for all its devious business plan and pragmatic market control had the Royal Navy dominating the seas to fall back on for force and to chase competitors from the sea lanes. Chinese 'security' overseas do not have control of the seas to fall back on - but if belt and roads project gets finished, it may not need it.

  • @lonnieporter8566
    @lonnieporter8566 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Folks need to realize we're talking semantics here. "They WERE soldiers, but they're not any more."
    Newsflash -- once a soldier, ALWAYS a soldier.

  • @charnalking
    @charnalking 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Excellent peice, well balanced, dealing with a real issue whilst avoided becoming scaremongering, or China bashing

  • @hypehype6632
    @hypehype6632 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    How is this different from America? Remember black water and probably countless others too.

  • @Sam--506
    @Sam--506 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    I live in Ethiopia and the ammount of infrastructure that was build by chinese companies is staggering. From railways to roads within / crossing key cities and regions; to stadiums, water wells and modern buildings.
    It seems that with building of the Renaissance Dam Ethiopian government has more leeway with negotiations and all of the labour is done by ethiopian citizens while chinese are mainly engineers and project managers. Creating more jobs and improving lives of common citizens.
    I remember 6 years ago visiting Addis Ababa with dirt roads in the capital and total shortage of everything. Now it's much better.
    Totally different when government had more of a US influence.
    Though as soon after this shift happened, insurrection groups such as TPLF started to emerge (what a coincidence)

    • @Stephen-bq4nq
      @Stephen-bq4nq 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Enjoy you new masters🤡

  • @SHGames97
    @SHGames97 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    It only seems proper to have the grandson of a Korean War Veteran with armed service experience himself cover such a video.
    Our greatest adversary, that both our Grandpa's fought for us first about 70 years ago 🤣❤️🤣🇺🇲 back again for round two... Wooo!

  • @neilbowness6074
    @neilbowness6074 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The original state owned private security (military) company was the east India company

  • @Justanotherconsumer
    @Justanotherconsumer 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    One thing these also provide is field experience for soldiers.
    Drills and exercises are great, but actual combat is something quite different, and these companies offer an opportunity to get into real fights.

    • @laststand6420
      @laststand6420 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Maybe a little, but fighting fifty guys in Toyota trucks does not equal Fighting fifty thousand guys in jets and tanks.

    • @Justanotherconsumer
      @Justanotherconsumer 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@laststand6420 the first time you see one of your friends get shot or blown up is a hard moment, even if they’re not badly injured. Killing people is also something a lot of people aren’t comfortable about.
      While the technology and challenge might be different, the brutal realities of war take some adjustment and pushing over technicals might not be hard, it provides an opportunity for those “this is not an exercise, they’re actually trying to kill you” experiences.

    • @laststand6420
      @laststand6420 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Justanotherconsumer I get that, I'm sure it is better than training. And I know Technicals can kill you just as dead as M1 Abrams. But still, it's not the same type of war.

    • @ChapCinematics
      @ChapCinematics 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Justanotherconsumer In war that happens all the time unfortunately

  • @arcadyskoit
    @arcadyskoit 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Shocking!! There is US mercenaries all over the world! Shocking!!

    • @rikkivet3407
      @rikkivet3407 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Not state owned

    • @raidenshougun9663
      @raidenshougun9663 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@rikkivet3407 Yeah but let's not pretend as if their bosses don't take bribe money from the US politicians

    • @ChapCinematics
      @ChapCinematics 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Very cool mate

  • @chanahyingchan5070
    @chanahyingchan5070 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Wow. Interest is 1% from US and 4% from China but the countries still
    wants to borrow from China. Either the borrowing countries are stupid
    or there is a hidden clause in the US contract that is not favorable, one that
    undermines the security/development and prosperity of the country.

  • @Fahad_27
    @Fahad_27 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    "Their working days were long and hard, and required an enormous amount of physical effort. According to historical documentation, between five and 10 million people died as a result of the colonial exploitation under the rule and administration of King Leopold II and his functionaries."
    🤔

    • @Fahad_27
      @Fahad_27 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Tin Watchman exactly!
      One may not compare a business model with "unrequited toil".

  • @caseyb1346
    @caseyb1346 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    The whole "...but they don't have to follow the same laws official troops do" bit is a bit amusing considering we're the ones that passed the Hague Invasion Act.

    • @laughingseal2282
      @laughingseal2282 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Loved this channel when it wasn't straight up american exceptionalist propaganda.

  • @trentmansfield5578
    @trentmansfield5578 ปีที่แล้ว

    Another brilliant video mate keep it up

  • @berniegores2083
    @berniegores2083 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    There's this 600 acre Chinese fruit orchard near my house

    • @Bustin_cider00
      @Bustin_cider00 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Go Annex it

    • @TeSolycMandalor
      @TeSolycMandalor 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Steal fruit. See what they're really growing.

    • @berniegores2083
      @berniegores2083 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@TeSolycMandalor when they cleared the land. And burned all the trees. It was a sight to see. 30 different bonfires in one field

    • @EroticOnion23
      @EroticOnion23 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@TeSolycMandalor fortune cookies on the inside? 🤔

    • @didyoumissedmegobareatersk2204
      @didyoumissedmegobareatersk2204 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@berniegores2083 where u live bro

  • @magnusbjarni
    @magnusbjarni 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Hearing a former soldier talk about this after he was sent to Iraq to protect special interests is kinda funny

    • @Taskandpurpose
      @Taskandpurpose  2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I’m entirely self aware of the role I played in Iraq , never denied it

    • @hello-ii5lh
      @hello-ii5lh 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Taskandpurposepure cuck behavior 🤣🤣🤣

    • @magnusbjarni
      @magnusbjarni 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Taskandpurpose thanks for answering, but that wasn't my point.
      It's that the Chinese are sending mercenaries to protect Chinese special interests and you were arguably sent to Iraq for the very same reason, although in a more official manner and while the US does have strict RoE, there are plenty of examples where US troops went for civilian targets, particularly with drones.
      I guess I just don't really see much difference between sending soldiers and contractors or sending builders and mercenaries. In the end, the results might be the same.
      Different uniforms, same shit

    • @waynesmith7746
      @waynesmith7746 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@magnusbjarni he literally jokes in the video multiple times that america did the same thing dude

    • @john.rc.3274
      @john.rc.3274 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Huh?? The USA had multibillion infrastructure investments in Iraq? Could you please list all the "special interests" i.e. the multibillion dollar infrastructure projects and explain?

  • @JohnJosephBarbera
    @JohnJosephBarbera 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great Job as always Cappy!

  • @josephmccann4913
    @josephmccann4913 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    As a Tired, old Marine Corps Warhorse, I do find some of your content very thaught provoking .. As I was wrapping up a life of service with 36 months down range in the Sand Box .. I get the whole 'privatebwarrior' take on things ... Having said that, for a young man in his late twenties, and at least a few years of being an 03 walk about .. or 19 gama lemo .. air assited tank ranger guy ... and still has his steamy cup of " Whoo Uaa" LMAO .. Doing a little light work in a quiet out of the way fly blown shithole of a country .. pays relly well ... and you get to go to Phu Ket .. ALOT ....

    • @coolboy3848
      @coolboy3848 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ah yes. Hence why my time in Thailand and Philippines was wonderful. And I aint just talking about ladyboys😏😏😏

  • @jaymobiggety9903
    @jaymobiggety9903 2 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    I love the footage of u.s. politicians outraged about them doing that awfully-similar-to-a-thing-that-we-also-do.

    • @allio3459
      @allio3459 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Makes sense tho. Whatever the CCP sees, they do the same thing. Idk why america so mad lmao, they did it first 😂

  • @the_black_douglas9041
    @the_black_douglas9041 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I read somewhere recently that Blackwater is now based in Hong Kong and scratched my head at the time. I guess this ^ explains it. Thanks Chris!

  • @Chris-Someguy
    @Chris-Someguy 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    it's incredible , great explanation. But alot of governments are relying on contracts to avoid legal fiascos
    if they can make those countries a better place it may be better if they are offering jobs and development. The question for me is if it's actually making some of thsse countries a better place for those who live there.

  • @GlasbanGorm
    @GlasbanGorm 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    China has been the number 1, in sending troops to support UN missions. To say UN in Africa is to say china.

    • @Taskandpurpose
      @Taskandpurpose  2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      I’m going to do a whole video on Chinas UN involvement, they’ve engaged in combat / fire fighters against terrorists

    • @danshakuimo
      @danshakuimo 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Sounds like free training for their army which people keep saying has no combat experience

    • @kukulroukul4698
      @kukulroukul4698 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      WHO IS this UN ?

    • @kukulroukul4698
      @kukulroukul4698 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Taskandpurpose yeah cover the illicit human trafficking perpetrated by UNHCR too Cappy and ALSO just for a good measure...cover the WorldHealthOrganisation 's corruption !
      They even insisted/TRIED to lure EU and U.S to adopt WHO regulations that will supercede the individual states CONSTITUTIONS

    • @kukulroukul4698
      @kukulroukul4698 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Taskandpurpose Since Ban Ki Moon 's rule China learned a lot of ''sweet'' things from the UN...i mean ...from the source
      Please dont cover sh*t in this regard... Theres a lot of information that you will NEVER EVER be able to verify and to post

  • @Jonakaleksandar
    @Jonakaleksandar 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Better to have state own company than to have private company that own the state.

  • @Mr--_--M
    @Mr--_--M 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    *That awkward moment when Erik Prince is Betsy DeVos' brother and Mitch McConnel's wife is part of a Chinese run business empire

    • @atoll2453
      @atoll2453 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Well.....the upper class has more in common with other countries' upper class than they do with filthy peasants

  • @Christo613
    @Christo613 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    2 weeks before the initial shutdown to Covid I was in the Bahamas and we saw the US embassy being built, the next day they stopped because they found Chinese workers planting listening devices in the walls. It was crazy..

  • @xlxl9440
    @xlxl9440 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    "You ALRIGHT!!!! I learned it by watching YOU!!!!" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣💯!!!!

  • @Deno2100
    @Deno2100 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    China has already started forgiving some of those loans.....

    • @bestestusername
      @bestestusername 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      If they are given control of ports and other government infastrucure

    • @sonofsueraf
      @sonofsueraf 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@bestestusername i.e. hook line and sinker

    • @didyoumissedmegobareatersk2204
      @didyoumissedmegobareatersk2204 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@bestestusername better than toppling and giving out yanke style democracy

    • @bestestusername
      @bestestusername 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@didyoumissedmegobareatersk2204 yep, turning out like sri lanka or pakistan is a much better plan