Charlie Wilson's War : Afghans vs. Soviet helicopters (HD CLIP)
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- Charlie Wilson's War : Afghans vs. Soviet helicopters
What’s happening in this Charlie Wilson's War movie clip?
An unexpected Afghan missile destroys a Soviet helicopter. Charlie’s assistant (Amy Adams) gives him the good news. Archived videos of successful Afghan operations are shown. Charlie’s (Tom Hanks) efforts, much to the disbelief of some people, are undeniably working.
What’s the movie Charlie Wilson's War about?
Based on existing Charlie Wilson, this movie depicts the story of how this womanizing US congressional representative from Texas tried to come to the help of the Afghans suffering from the soviet occupation in the early 1980s. Charlie Wilson (Tom Hanks), encouraged by his friend Joanne Herring (Julia Roberts) discovers the difficult conditions of the Afghans. With the help of CIA operative Gust Avrakotos (Philip Seymour Hoffman), and despite the odds, they manage to bring support as well as weapons to the Afghans using top secret political schemes that will allow the Afghans to defeat the soviet invaders. Using diplomacy, strategies and politics, the two of them succeeded in assisting Afghanistan however not as much as they would have wanted.
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What's really impressive is that we just saw a Mujahedeen artillery shell shooting down a Soviet F-4 Phantom II over an American desert. That just doesn't happen every day ya know.
That just never happens ya know
And a UH-1 at 2:41 if I'm not mistaken. Wasn't aware the russians employed those...
The A-6 was a surprise, after that I would've been surprised to see anything Soviet. The Mil Mi-24 CGI wasn't very good but they should've stuck to it anyway.
quit pickin' the fly specks out of the pepper...
What's really impressive is Amy Adams' ass swaying in tune with her pony tail while she walked down the hall.
2:22 "They hit a soviet motorized rifle battalion on horseback? These guys are pretty good" How those words echo today. We literally ate that fist sandwich
haha yea we did
Afghan muj =/= Arab jihadists
The Mujahideen aren’t equal to Taliban.
The Mujahideen is not one whole organized force, but rather a whole number of independent tribes and clans working separately from each other with only one common goal: the expulsion of the Soviets from Afghanistan. And each one had their own foreign supporter, each one seeking to influence Afghanistan after the war by propping up their chosen resistance group.
While most of the Mujahideen groups were getting support from America and Pakistan, the Taliban were getting their support from Al Qaeda, which was under Bin Laden. After the war, when all the Mujahideen groups came together to a conference to discuss how to run their liberated country, the Taliban murdered most of the gathered leaders without warning and violently seized power, seeking to hog total control for themselves.
@@huydang5955 Mujahedeen and Taliban, Al Quaeda, UCK, Islamic State, are all the same s.hit.
@@huydang5955if you don't know th correct make up of the mujahideen forces in Afghanistan than don't lecture others on it.
Please
Well, educating and equipping a small group of guerillas into an effective fighting force has never backfired later.
Oh really ?. Do you know about 9/11? and the 20 years we spent in Afghanistan?
@@JOHNSmith-pn6fj My comment was an attempt at sarcasm and referenced your point exactly. I will take care to mark sarcasm for literal meaning only readers in the future.
Sorry about that. My bad.
Don’t forget the /s. No matter how obvious the sarcasm is to you, we can’t hear the tone of voice you’re typing in.
@@4plus20isHappy Duly noted and a habit I have taken up since this little misunderstanding.
I think the best thing said during the war was when a Congress person asked if the Afghans could learn to shoot the weapons, The military man asked "does it have a trigger?" The Congress person said yes. The military man answered "Then they know how to use the weapon."
1:57 ah yes the notorious Soviet A-6 Intruder and F-4 phantom (also a Huey later)
lol, I saw that too, I think they were shooting the wrong side down
Noticed that too.
also kinda bothersome how they use fixed wing aircraft...but then go for "helicopters" instead of rotary wing aircraft which would of made it somewhat more military-esque...but yeah the a6 intruder is a bit of an odder aircraft but almost everyone remotely into the subject matter knows what an F4 phantom is
😂😂😂
Bad use of stock footage
1:15 Best hall walk ever.
And she is redhair. More for sex apetite
I have to agree 😉
Amen!
You could set your watch to it
loved the extra few seconds gloat at her bum, very subtle by any standard
I'm sure the afghans will be forever grateful for this & sing the American national anthem in the streets.
Afghans are disposable as well as Europeans etc. 😉
is this why they kicked the Americans out and the Americans had to flee in the middle of the night?
@@Ovrlord_1 You mean when Trump ordered an immediate and chaotic evac without consulting the allies in Afghanistan.
@@Cowcow211 Last I checked Obama signed off to make a deal with the Taliban well before Trump was even in office. The Taliban the same guys America said it would remove from power and get rid of. Now the Taliban have 69 billion dollars worth of weapons for free and are stronger than ever.
@@Cowcow211 вот прямо так и приказал: хаотично!
I could watch an hour of Amy Adams walking down that hall
I've never seen this before, but knew straight away that could only be Amy Adams. Even before we got to see her face.
I wonder if the Soviets left them any Helicopters when they pulled out of Afghanistan
These guys are pretty good..... Took the US twice as many years to find that out.
Mujahideen =/= the Taliban but ok
Well, we kept them hiding in caves until we left, and took way fewer losses in 20 years compared to the Soviets, so...
@DFMRCV Yes you're 100% correct. The end result was the same. That's all I'm saying. Wasn't trying to tick you off.
@@forrestry Ah, I'm not... okay, let me clarify.
If you mean the Afghani people, then, sure. We went in with the wrong expectations. But "these guys are pretty good" implies we were fighting the Mujahadeen.
Which just isn't accurate as most of the Mujahadeen members we gave weapons to were long dead by the time we invaded (in fact, we had to ally ourselves with the "Northern Alliance" when we first went in as the Taliban were but one part of a larger conflict).
So, the guys we were fighting weren't "pretty good" in the way of the guys funded here.
@@dfmrcv862 I always figured they were the same people with different enemies.
Fun fact: the warmongers who sent the weapons to the afghans in the 1980s and were impresed by their performance "these guys are pretty good" are mostly the same warmongers that decided to go to war against those same afghans in 2001.
lol not the Soviet warmongers though? The ones who invaded Afghanistan? No they were pacifist 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I disagree with the assertion the US are warmongers. Of all the conflicts I'm aware of there is only one where the US went to war for corrupt or nefarious reasons and that was 2004 Iraq.
Afghanistan was a case study in elitism biting its own ass.
The thought never even occurred to most of these people that there was fundamental value differences between the Afghanis and American people. Much less that extreme elements in the faction they're supporting could size power and one day be capable enough to attack the US directly.
Wilson has an interview pre 9/11 where he basically says "cool, we armed them, but if we don't go in there to help them build a better society we are just creating warlords"
@@rangodenalo6185 war is a choice, idiot .
@@rangodenalo6185and why should we of stopped the soviets, congrats you got a wasteland filling with backward tribes that can only grow drugs.
The first 84 seconds of this is like an ad for Stark Industries.
Well in this geopolitic chess match, in exchange for a check mate to the soviets in Afganistan, you sacrificed your two towers.... literally
Yeah but the soviets had ALOT more casualties and lost their government in the end
@@Nclake5485 so, twin's were expendable ... That's the american dream for you.
@@germanmaldonado3157 so were the soviets. They lost more troops in ten years than the US has in 20 years and two front wars. I think the whole world knows that communists are far more expendable and have garbage tactics when it comes to warfare
@@Nclake5485Soviets lost government for far more serious reason than Afghanistan.
Meddling in the middle east didn't help
Your enemy’s enemy can be even worse.
Yeah. America is something else.
@@mgtowveteran3234 Smoke a bone.....
How many Americans died of these weapons we gave the Taliban in the Eighties to use against the Soviets?
Stingers - None.
Lots of F4s and Hueys get used by Soviets😂
Is Ace Combat world, Russian fly F22 😂
Remember that documentary Iron Eagle 2? Soviets flew F-4s in that, too. And had M113 with turrets! Superior to Soviet BMP-1….
A lot of stockpiles around the world. One side loses, the other one takes over, stockpiles and all. Some of that stockpile ends up being sent somewhere where it will be tested, evaluated, reused.
@@padurarulcriticsicinic4846 just to be clear. At no time during the Afghan war, did the Soviets Ever use F4s or Hueys.
"A heatseeker Dylon. That's pretty sophisticated for a bunch of half-assed mountain boys!"
I think the Kyber pass ? Was also a defeat for Hannibal and Alexander the Great.
@@shawnyoung8752 and the British. Not only were the Brits completely out of range, those mountainside guns were 50 caliber!!!
Major Dutch talking to Pencil pushing Dillion.
01:57 WTF? Looks like the Soviets got their hands on an A-6 Intruder. I was assigned to an Navy A-6 squadron and spent a lot of time around these birds.
This war reminded the world that on a level playing field the side with the most determination will win
Don't think so. If grit and determination won wars, then you could still buy a slave in New Orleans.
It seems the Soviets were also flying F4 Phantoms, A6 Intruders and Hueys amazing lol.
They shot down an A6 Intruder and an F4 Phantom, GOOD ONE!! 🤣😆👍
US really felt happy helping these terrorists till the moment 2 planes went inside WTC towers
Nah. They just went on peny pinching mode with peace dividend.
1:58, y’all gonna tell me that’s not an A-6 Intruder or no?
Supposed to be Su 25
Plus them downing a F-4 Phantom @1:50 and a Huey
CIA should have noticed back then, this gays were displaying some kind of anti american behavior patterns
And then.... it was the other way around a decade ago lol
2:42 не припомню таких вертолётов в СССР
Это американский UH-1
@@marshal9268
1:45
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Take it easy, the movie is american made,, what you expect? 🤭
@@alitputrawan651 I would expect something simular to mi-8. Make scale model 1:5, blow it, film it.... easy
Hey guys! About those stinger missiles…..
Now the People of Afghanistan is very happy to see the Americans to the supply of heavy weapons they can defend his country against the Soviet Union
about damn time they said.
"Is this the war we want to be fighting? ChaRliE WiLSOn's wAR???"
it is Special War Operation like Putin say. Ha-ha-ha
1:45
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This is by far my all time favorite movie scene with Amy Adams....super doll.
The Zen master says, “We’ll see.”
the scariest part is the heat seeking Stingers dont trigger the Homing alarm on aircraft
The Soviet pilots switched off the alarm so they could have their expendable baddy henchman chit-chat in peace.
@@Elcorethey never has opposition before, so ofc they would chit chat
Its funny when they say. These guys are pretty good. So much good that U.S couldn’t control them in 20 years…
The Soviets did exactly what we did in Vietnam, and Korea,we politically refused to stop the flow of weapons into the war zone, even know we,,, and they knew dam well knew where they were coming from, One of the basic rules of war " the friend of my enemy is also my enemy.
Nixon attacked Cambodia, but Vietnam was different the Americans had no intention nor every attempted to invade the North, it was a joke
Not excatly. Soviet roam the Afghanistan to the fullest. US only clung on the southern Vietnam and only send bombers and commandos to the north, not full frontal invasion like Pusan in Korea.
@@danyleon4870 wasn't feasible since China initially threatened to get involved like in Korea.
@@khabbad the communists started that. Nixon was trying to level the field.
As other commenters noticed, the word “Backfire” comes to mind. Especially considering the Americans had the opportunity to let the old afghan king resume power, but nooo…
Well…hello Amy 😁
And armed the enemy they fought subsequently...and were beaten by...
True, but that still was instrumental to bring about the end of the soviet union and creating a huge wealthy european market to get rich off. Pretty good deal even with the losses of a few murrican fools who fell for the lies about a-stan and went there to fight.
the US really should stick to delivering weapons to people actually willing and able to win a war (like they do now with the support of Ukraine). Whenever the US tries to do it themself they lose against goat herders and rice/poppy farmers while creating more enemies then they manage to kill. Its funny how murricans are smart enough to produce a decent weapon, but are too dumb to use them ... just ridiculous the US war record and the gun casualties on US ground.
This movie made me laugh and pissed me off at the same time. The great actors Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Emily Hunt, Amy Adams made me laugh. It pissed me off watching how the thieves and liars in Washington use our tax revenue. No accountability, avoiding the rules behind the scenes, corruption. The US helps defeat one enemy snd create another one, Osama Bin Laden
You do understand that you voted for these "thieves and liars", eh?
Taliban, actually. They took over first in Afghanistan and were comprised of Mujaheddin fighters. bin Laden was a Mujaheddin fighter who was Saudi citizen (born & raised in Saudi Arabia, his family was involved heavily with the royal family), and pissed off at the U.S. for staying in Saudi Arabia after Gulf War I (which the Saudi government invited/wanted us to stay). That is why he started al Qaeda, first to fight against the Saudi government and then the U.S. The Taliban gave him a safe haven.
All we had to do was spend a few extra million to build schools for the Afghan's and provide some help with rebuilding their infrastructure and we could have probably avoided all the crap later on. As the end of the move said "These things happened. They were glorious and they changed the world... and then we fucked up the endgame."
The U.S. since Korea has been really good at fucking up the endgame.
@@calkelpdiver Mostly true. But the US and the West spent $BBB on government payrolls & infrastructure building. The A-ghans simply blew it when they had a one in a lifetime chance to pull their country up from shitting in a ditch to an educated & industrialized (the place is full of minerals) society. Fail.
Not entirely. Panama did end well and so does Grenada. No bad actor coming out from those area.@@calkelpdiver
So many people in these comments have not seen any of the 80's flying movies, "Top Gun" to start with, lol
Unfortunately in the end we paid the price.
THIS movie needs to be a part of todays high school history class. THIS is what our Gov’t used to do, for what we felt were the right reasons. Of course, this should also be part of what happens after, when we don’t like that they possess these skills…
Hopefully the US has learned their lesson about arming a country against Russia but then not supporting them financially when it comes to sustainable infrastructure, free and fair elections, etc etc. Afghanistan turned into a shit hole as soon as the Russian's left because we stopped caring. I don't see that happening with Ukraine this time around but you never know, the Republicans could always take control of the house AND senate and cut off the support entirely.
>Implying they've stopped
@@TheDevynl90 you Americans better make sure that you help the ukrainins get back on their feet after the war cuz it s your government that kept pushing them and supplying them with weapons or they would have surrendered long before , the usa will need to assume its responsibilities ; no more libyia or iraq or syria
@@TheDevynl90 The Ukraine is going to be a bottomless cesspit to Hell. We are funding without accountability all the while we are dancing on the razor's edge of Nuclear war. And who is the leader of debacle: the illegitimate senile POTUS Brandon.
It should be taught in schools; the evil of American Agression and the murder of anti-capitalist governements for a few greedy capitalists.
And then there is the use of irreverence. The seige of Bastogne. Nuts!
Haven’t you heard? They’ve got us surrounded… the poor bastards!
1:58 did they shot down a Grumman A-6 Intruder??
2:02 they shot down F-4 Phantom
@@Sahilprakash1999 yes, bad editing I guess
They probably couldn't find a mig
2:40 they also shot down a Uh 1 Huey
I never knew Americans secretly were allies with the Soviet Union and were involved in the war 🤣
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Aircrafts of all type losses of Ussr are 10 times less than what USA lost in Vietnam. You can say - but they had full fledged AA systems and Aircrafts... And the Afghanistanies had their mountains that are super problematic for aircrafts as you should know very well considering Nato in Afghanistan lost as many airframes as Ussr lost in Afghanistan.
What was the point of your comment? Russia lost more tanks and armoured vehicles in Ukraine in less than 12 months than NATO did in the entirety of the war in Afghanistan.
@@generalpatton8468 Who aids Afghanistan? Some shady sheikhs... Who aids Ukraine- 52 of the richest countries on the planet and all their Awacs, Satellites and spy networks. The point here is that war is hard work, especially when you are in the odds Russia is.
@@generalpatton8468
Lazy reading.
@@generalpatton8468 Ukraine is irrelevant to the point the OP was trying to make. Besides, you just can't compare Ukraine and Afghanistan. The two scenarios are entirely different. If you think the talibans are better than the Ukrainian Army, then you need a burn in the bum.
When you’re defending your own soil, there’s no bottom to your courage.
Yup, we are seeing it in ukraine too
And the rise of terrorism ?
If it invades your sovereignty, and your freedoms, you defend against all aggressions, including terrorism.
Defending from who? Have you ever noticed that USSR sent its troops after several requests to do that coming from afghan government? If soviets were invaders then why afghan army was on the same side with them?
@@lexluther3337 but that was the bad government (like Assad's)
if i had a nickel for every time US supported a coup in a nominally stable 3rd world country i could buy a big mac
Why are u guys whining about what type of file footage they used for the downed aircraft!??!! WHO GIVES A F…!!?!!
Amy Adams walk in those heals and her swaying pony tail….
Ohhhhh my…..
THATS THE POINT GENTLEMEN……..
You’re welcome for the redirect……
Hey folks, at 1:58 thats an A-6 Intruder!
I want the sequel… with Ukraine …and a happy end!
There will be one for sure
yes Zelensky's execution in Kiеv, the arrest of all neo-Nazis and of course the trial of all war criminals from Ukraine
in ur dream
@@dwaipayanroy3232 which is coming true, thanks bro
с последним лохлом, доедающим кишки последнего пиндоса?
Thanks to Charlie Wilson he supports the people of Afghanistan to bring the anti aircraft weapons from the US Property and the Supply of FIM-92 Stinger Anti Aircraft Missile to take down the Soviet Helicopters
Now look where Afghanistan is.
@@michaelmixon2479 Now Afghanistan is freedom country , without communist basterdas ! It is important !
We help them to kick out the Soviets eventually. And that training and experience helped them to outlast us after we wandered in there chasing Bin Laden. Be careful what you wish for...
@@user-jr4vx9qe4j Actually some of those communist did turn and join Northern Alliances.
to make the room for 9/11
They need Charlie Wilson nowadays...
For Ukraine
@@novemberalpha6023 no they need Gus
@@MM-qi5mk they probably need one Joanne Herring more than anyone
We just have to find Bin Laden's counter part.
How many fuck ups USA needs to understand nobody wants them? And when they do, they end up regreating it. Being an USA enemy is better than be a friend, with friends like that who needs enemies?
And just think, 20 years later the US fell into the same trap, at the expense of the taxpayers. While American families and veterans struggle to survive while our politicians send all of the money to other countries.
The film is really a moral disgrace. I lost some respect for Mike Nichols, a genius.
Whilst the movie was just CIA propaganda. I lost any shred of respect for him after he was campaigning the have the kiddy raper Roman Polanski released
@@georgesmith1127 That's different. Do you know the facts of the Polanski case?
@@markwoldin162 Polanski is a child rapist. While his victim states that the monetary compensation is sufficient and that she doesn't need him to go to jail, he is still morally repugnant.
How good it must have felt to those people to finally strike back after being ruthlessly pursued for so long.
yes osama felt thrilled. Those are his bitches
The irony is that they didn't know what they were doing... Here take US guns, push USSR out so that US can terrorize you instead 😂
The truth is, US and USSR destroyed once beautiful county that has nothing to do with their stupid wars...
Who pursued them?
@@justaperson1619 the Russians
@@JoeFabeets the Soviets* fought the Taliban just like the US did. They did not strike civilians
Afghanistan is not called ,,grave of empires” for no reason
,,grave of empires” for USSSR
England is still around and the USA was never an empire and still exists. Alexander died of other causes.
@Thunderchild-gz4gc UK is around, but not an empire anymore, the US is an empire, if you think it isn't you are not paying attention to the world around you. And yes after being defeated in Afghanistan we are seeing the beginning of its long decline.
Using artillery to shoot down F-4 or A-4 lol.
1:45,2:30 in 1987 and 1988 Mujahideen Rebel Forces takes them down all Soviet Forces out of Afghanistan
And americans in 2021
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Those chopper pilots were such rascals! They sure were having a good time!
Well, until people started shooting back...
Back in the days when everyone smoked indoors at Christmas parties....
And they had christmas parties.....
and the russians are taking similar if not higher losses today with just as many western casualties. The russians need to be reminded every once in a while not to get to big for their boots and that theyre not a major power anymore.
Are you actually happy now? Those who provided these weapons to afghans?
And how the f*** could Brian do anything if I stopped the criminals from robbing him?
This scene is almost comical. Let's break it down, we're in the cockpit with the Russians, talking about relationships etc whilst seemingly shooting randomly at women and children (just to drive home the 'Russia = bad' narrative) They fire a stinger missile and it eventually explodes the Hind into a fireball, to which their reaction is almost "We hit it? Did it work?" (I think we know they would be chanting at this point) then... two more dudes with stingers randomly emerge from the bush behind them to fire 2 more shots. It's just so clunky and doesn't really look like a professional film, more like an Austin Powers action scene.
Russia leaves and we go in. France leaves Viet Nam and we go in. What could go wrong?
This movie just showed the military industrial complex for America. NothinG GoT done wiThout the unelected elites blessing
And then they became Isis and The Taliban. Let no good deed go unpunished
2:03 That's AMERICAN Phantom F4
and 1:56 Grumman A-6 Intruder.
А потом эти милые люди вам снеслиипнтагона кусок и два огрызка в ньюерке
Most of Stingers were captured or bought by Soviets. There is huge lot of them in many museums.
No one messes with the Afghans.. not Russian not even Americans..
Yeah, and then September 11. Tsss... Give me a break.
That wasn't the Afghans. OBL and his cohorts were Saudis.
@@dominicbuckley8309
and yet America invaded for 20 YEARS even though it WAS the SAUDIS who got away with murder because; capitalism.
@@dominicbuckley8309 And fought and trained with USA in the Soviet Invasion.
3:00, this guy saw it coming........
this is literal visual refuse how tf did the director look at this and live with having constructed this
And then they did 9/11
None of the 9/11 hijackers were Afghans. Don't forget that.
I think he was talking about the CIA
@@usul573 The hijakers were trained by the same people the USA trained in that war.
@@locuraromantica That's false.
@locuraromantica wrong Al Qaeda trained them not the US.
SUPERMAN: you can't kiss my girlfriend, forest
USA armed Afghani Mujahedeen well, but after all US themselves should have run away from Afghanistan after 20 years of "victorious" war within 2001-2021 years...;-)
That ball... it keeps on bouncing...
I really wonder what would have happened if Putin was premier instead of Gorbachev
So basically we helped them fight the Soviets, then they fought us, now they are fighting ISIS😂😂
Yeah, I think even they're just as dumbfounded.
The best solution to that problem was to put sanctions on Russia in order for them to stop killing innocent civilians and keep the Russians in Afghanistan. Hopefully in the future when two enemies are fighting don't try to break it up. Like China and Pakistan going to war just let them go.
You know that they weren't killing civilians, that Hollywood is the closest aproach to history that the USA is willing to provide the western side. Right? The civilians start to die like flies when the talibans that were helped by USA took over. I don't understand the liking of USA for the worst of the worst: Religeous zelots, nazi partisans,etc...Perhaps is that they don't ask the USA government too many questions.
i wished the usa would have stayed out of ww2.
@@davecopp9356 Germany was killing Jews so I support the U.S. intervention to stop the holocaust. I also know that was GOD letting the devil take the last strike at the Jewish Nation Tribulation. I always wonder how many male Jewish virgins from Bethlehem to the holocaust has there bin ?
Everyone's a geopolitics strategist in these comments sections
If USA did not fund Mujahideen in first place, maybe the invasion would not have been happened
It seems so many people don't know this is a movie. Using movie props.
That was really an F-4 Phantom
The Zen Master’s Fable: We’ll See from ending of CWW. How true it is.
Once upon a time, in a small village, there lived a wise old Zen master. He was known for his calm demeanor and insightful teachings.
One day, the master’s only son accidentally let their prized stallion escape. The villagers gathered to console him, saying, “What bad luck! Your only horse is gone!”
The Zen master simply replied, “We’ll see.”
A few days later, the stallion returned, leading a herd of wild horses back to the village. The villagers rejoiced, saying, “What great luck! Now you have many horses!”
Again, the Zen master calmly said, “We’ll see.”
The next week, while trying to tame one of the wild horses, the master’s son fell and broke his leg. The villagers lamented, “How unfortunate! Your son is injured.”
And once more, the Zen master responded, “We’ll see.”
Soon after, the king’s army arrived in the village, conscripting all able-bodied young men for war. The master’s son was spared due to his broken leg.
The villagers exclaimed, “What incredible luck! Your son doesn’t have to go to war!”
And the Zen master, with his unwavering wisdom, repeated, “We’ll see.”
The fable reminds us that life’s events are interconnected, and labeling them as purely good or bad is often shortsighted
MANPADS. Never leave home without one.
That Soviet Mi-24 Hind pilot was thinking about a relationship with a woman and he was the first to go down in flames. He should've paid attention.
Politics make strange bed fellows. Ironically this came back to bite us in the ass one September day.
The sad part about this is that if they had put in the real story of the first shots, it would be just as hilarious and impressive.
True facts: There were only 2 Stinger gunners that day. They saw a flight of Hind gunships passing by to attack friendly targets. The first gunner took aim and squeezed the trigger. The missile leapt out of the tube and landed 20ft away. A complete dud. EVERYONE there was freaking out. "The US gave us junk! We were promised a weapon!" The second gunner had been taking aim and squeezed his trigger. The missile shot out of the tube and the rocket fired. Everyone shut up and froze. They watched the missile fly towards the Hind convoy. IMPACT! The first helicopter was suddenly spewing smoke and spinning out of control. It crashed into the ground. However, everyone was already grabbing their gear and trying to run away. With both missiles expended and more gunships out there, nobody wanted to stay. However, the Afghans were freaking out in a different way understanding that they had something that could finally take down the one thing they could not previously combat.
IGLA do be going swoooosh
And it’s happening today.
Ah the stinger missile myth
All I ask is to have access to the same weapons my taxes paid for the Afghans to have.
Were you paying taxes in the 1980s? What would a civilian do with a Stinger missile?
@@kaianttila1619 Be a thorn in the side of an occupation force in Minecraft
We've been there twice or thrice 25 years is a short war .
Remember when those Afghans were freedom fighters and russians were evil for going after terrorists in their own country. Reminds me of a certain other Jewish based country doing the same thing.
Fortunately for them the soviets forgot they had flares
figures hanks would be involved in a plot to help the enemy....
Kind of funny to me that the Russian "Fuck" Equivillant takes 2 seconds to say (and that's when the guy is speaking urgently no less), going by how long the censor beep was.
Harold’s a schmuck in every movie I’ve seen him in: Charlie Wilson, Michael Clayton, …
Good movie
and then they shot down your helicopters from them. what an irony
You have to improvise effectively
Nice Soviet f4 and us marines helicopter
I did not know the Soviets flew F4 phantoms and Huey's ?