Blood Money: War Vet Mike Prysner Breaks Down Who Got Rich Off 20 Year Afghan War

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The US has admitted its defeat after two decades of imperialist war in Afghanistan. Why did the US stay in this war for 20 years? Who was profiting? And who is yelling the loudest right now about human rights in hopes of getting back those military contracts?
War veteran Mike Prysner, turned anti-imperialist activist, who is also producer for ‪@EmpireFiles‬ & co-host of the podcast Eyes Left, explains.
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@benstevinson764 2 жыл бұрын

Mike Pysner is a Real American 🇺🇸 Hero!!! 🌟 I Salute you Sir ✌️😎

@sbl17jackson37 2 жыл бұрын

The US contractors, Generals who work for the weapons industry, war profiteers, and corrupt Afghan government officials, should all be arrested and tried for war crimes.

@therach7841 2 жыл бұрын

Don't forget the U.S. officials.

@fluff5800 2 жыл бұрын

The international criminal court can't actually prosecute or investigate the war crimes of the United States because the US will invade the Netherlands. It's called the hague act.

@sbl17jackson37 2 жыл бұрын

@@fluff5800 That's very true. The corrupt USA and Israel who are the world's biggest war criminals can invade other countries and kill people and escape prosecution from the international criminal court, but other countries don't get that luxury.

@were_all_fact6026 2 жыл бұрын

"Behind every great fortune is an equally great crime." -Balzac

@treefrog3349 2 жыл бұрын

Never heard that before. Sounds like something Mark Twain would say. So true. So sad..

@wendysheets8730 2 жыл бұрын

Great guest. He's very honest.

@johniii4955 2 жыл бұрын

It's so sad 300 million a day for 19+ year's could've bought every American family a house. Hate it when our government steals our national treasures for themselves.

@monkeyking-self-proclaimed7050 2 жыл бұрын

What's more sad is how many people die because of $300 million a day for no good reason.

@yurigansmith 2 жыл бұрын

Don't worry, the US finances its wars by means of the USD global reserve currency status, hence indirectly the rest of the world pays the bill.

@WhyTeeisayouassstooge 2 жыл бұрын

@@yurigansmith what a Sohai 🤭

@detroitandclevelandfan5503 2 жыл бұрын

Eisenhower warned us.

@pukahuroad3967 2 жыл бұрын

Mike Prysner speaks with clarity that challenges establishment doctrine. He and Abby Martin are a formidable couple working hard to speak truth to power.

@ankersman 2 жыл бұрын

Yes I really applaud their efforts. Must be so difficult in the heart of US imperialism to be a teller of truth when all the inducements for such an obviously intelligent couple to just shut up and climb a corporate ladder are so blatantly profitable. Given their public exposure, they, as have many others, exiled themselves from that world. The baubles of capitalism never will be theirs to experience. Much respect to the both of them.

@rodneykiehne5212 2 жыл бұрын

Correction, Russia was asked, they didn't invade. Only the US invades.

@happyaxolotl3736 2 жыл бұрын

Rodney Kiehne They are talking about the US creating a situation that forced the USSR to invade Afghanistan back in the late 70s early 80s.

@ew5153 2 жыл бұрын

This channel telling the truth and the whole truth not pieces of information is priceless. Why can't main stream media do the same? What's really happening in these illegal wars wage by the United States imperialist regime need to keep being expose. We need to be informed about what’s really happening on the ground in Afghanistan and more outlets such as this one covering real news. Great job!

@AnnieT369 2 жыл бұрын

Can't expect the Afghan soldiers to continue fighting when their leaders had fled.

@michaelwoo4123 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome and resonating!

@Mr13FNG 2 жыл бұрын

Dope segment. Mike P is the MAN

@benstevinson764 2 жыл бұрын

Mike Pysner is Speaking the Truth!!! 😎👍🇺🇸

@lindamohamed5296 2 жыл бұрын

So glad to see Rhania Khalek providing analysis. Thank you, Rania!!

@Woleteworke321 2 жыл бұрын

Ethiopians don’t want the U.S interference in supporting TPLF to dismantle our beloved country like Afghanistan. We all saw that the US has a terrible reputation now, and the best thing for US to do is to sit back and examine their own internal issues. Thanks for having Mike who is honest and knowledgeable.

@user-cc8kb 4 ай бұрын

Great interview! Thanks

@Vivacious_Lenin 2 жыл бұрын

Mike rules

@winkstorm 2 жыл бұрын

Why no one is asking where the Talibans buys their weapons over the past 20 years.

@atashikokoni 2 жыл бұрын

Seems like I've stumbled upon another great news channel.

@samusaymanden6797 2 жыл бұрын

The analysis of the Afghan conflict in this video is great. I now understand why the Afghan army didn't put up any resistance to the Taliban. The Afghan army position implies that the war was imposed upon them and they were fighting the Taliban involuntarily. It's a lesson to learn from for any occupiers that would like to impose their ideology on other people. Another point I want to understand is who forced the US into negotiating with the Taliban to leave Afghanistan instead of the Afghan government. Did the US already lose the war militarily and they were finding a way to exit the country peacefully as we saw their departure? On no account the US should have negotiated with the Taliban if they had defeated the Taliban.

@de3181 2 жыл бұрын

Order out of Chaos we already know who made that type of deal their goal is basically creating as much, anger and chaos and confusion as possible they don't care!

@de3181 2 жыл бұрын

These are the same exact conditions that create, a Taliban, Hitler and Stalin then they create documentaries acting like they don't know the conditions that lead to that boiling point!

@zehrajafri9252 2 жыл бұрын

It's nothing to do with ideology, it's hateful greed. All about the profits, disgusting.

@Velazquez4life-xf7ts Ай бұрын

America wants to bring democracy in order to install a puppet president.

@tokarev3094 2 жыл бұрын

War is a racket

@zehrajafri9252 2 жыл бұрын

And the way Assange is being tortured for acting like a human being, the world is aghast. Free Assange, Hale and Snowden.

@monkeyking-self-proclaimed7050 2 жыл бұрын

It can happen if someone can somehow arrange history's biggest protest with 2-3 trillion people. Maybe even 300 million protestors going to US Capitol.

@davidschlessinger9945 2 жыл бұрын

Prysner and Sjursen two of the best. Would love to hear Danny's analysis on your show

@nedkelly8495 2 жыл бұрын

Brilliant discussion. BT is a shining torch in a dark world

@sayaandyangsaya2756 2 жыл бұрын

"Our target is completed" The military-industrial complex inside the US.

@josephlau9585 2 жыл бұрын

TQVM to the three panelists for the great discussions. Mike really let rip the very evil US admin. They really deserved to be harshly punished for the sufferings they make around the world. It would be good if this video can be aired in a. Platform for very many Americans to read.

@lowcc7602 2 жыл бұрын

Massive corruption.

@wretchedfibs4306 2 жыл бұрын

Best analysis I've seen. Appreciate the sanity.

@MrMaziar58 2 жыл бұрын

The rumours were that not Liberty for Afghans were as much important as finding the trillions$$ of lithium sources in Afghanistan Plus they and many other nations were against the presence of western forces in Afghanistan all these past twenty years anyway.

@deekneumann3943 2 жыл бұрын

The U.S. weapons were left purposefully because the arms industry preferred to make money on manufacturing more new weapons rather than recycling used weapons. War is big profit.

@carbonara2144 2 жыл бұрын

Excellent content. So happy I found this. There are sane people amidst this war crazyness

@ewalker1057 2 жыл бұрын

In the first days of bombing Afghanistan, the U.S. bombs a hospital in Kabal. IAC reminds that thirteen women were killed in the OB/GYN unit. Women and chicken were the main casualty of the U.S. occupation in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria....

@christopherlord3441 2 жыл бұрын

Great stuff. Keep up the good work.

@wtf_usa5597 2 жыл бұрын

The US government's internal oversight office, SIGAR, admits, "all war-related costs for the U.S. efforts in Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan over the last two decades are estimated to be $6.4 trillion." Most of that went into the pockets of private, for-profit contractors. ... We could have solved every problem in the world, including global warming for that kind of money. Think about that for a minute.

@lorincowell6944 2 жыл бұрын

Is it possible to see stock activity of congressional members, notably those who would be the first to be privy to troop withdrawal?

@berhanugetahun2140 2 жыл бұрын

Do not forget they are planning ir trying how to enter in Ethiopia internal conflicts and make it endless.

@shlomojesus971 2 жыл бұрын

Jimmy Carter needs to be interviewed on Afghanistan

@barockobummer2448 2 жыл бұрын

The Empire's days are numbered

@mmendi1114 5 ай бұрын

Mike Prysner, I did not realize I was listening to the guy that made my cry so hard when he famously claimed "...because you lied...."

@jacintochua6885 2 жыл бұрын

Look at history. They Brits thought they could overrun anyone. Beers Wars proved them wrong. But many don't learn.

@touchofclassfun6984 9 ай бұрын

Mike and Abby great people journalists !!!

@WhyTeeisayouassstooge 2 жыл бұрын

85b of equipment left behind is the best way to write off corruption.

@foodvlogz691 9 ай бұрын

Real hero

@simplica1 2 жыл бұрын

What a great discourse from these guys especially Prysner making a lot of sense. He should be an advisor to the US government and drive some sense into these hollow headed politicians making bad decisions all the time.

@awildelife 5 ай бұрын

Nah they’re making too much money from AIPAC he could never be bought like them

@tewekdenahom485 2 жыл бұрын

Dope

@peterilcken8865 2 жыл бұрын

peter . Holland . Thank you .

@sergebaron9086 2 жыл бұрын

I don’t understand why so many Americans staying in Afghanistan knowing the given a date to for the military to leave the country .

@nikolaichenko3074 4 ай бұрын

Many good points made in this video. Though, the Taliban's popularity in Afghanistan was understated.

@joejimbo9907 2 жыл бұрын

America has become goofy

@DeBeard 2 жыл бұрын

If only sticked to msm on a daily basis, it could hardly occur to me that im living in trueman's world. Thx yo guys, the real journalists.

@tocrob 2 жыл бұрын

in anything, following the money.

@oldmanbob417 2 жыл бұрын

Correct me if I’m wrong, isn’t Afghanistan the “Cradle of Civilization”? Also Rumi’s birthplaces, I think they called it something else then….

@monkeyking-self-proclaimed7050 2 жыл бұрын

I believe it's Iran.

@dietlindvonhohenwald448 3 ай бұрын

It was called Balkh

@faizannazrawi2657 8 ай бұрын

❤

@zehrajafri9252 2 жыл бұрын

The whole mess created, and atrocities committed by these war profiteering terrorists is just unthinkable by decent humans. Everyone worthy of being called human is afronted and disgusted,at the level of GREED!

@reverse3590 2 жыл бұрын

This man talking hilarious not only audience can't stop laughing all so this girl smiling 😁😁

@SuperDflower 2 жыл бұрын

Is it just me because as soon as all this began I just thought to myself here comes the heroin. And lo and behold, we got the opioid crisis...Where was all that cheap heroin coming from? Just commerce doing what commerce will do… Anyone else out there have that thought as soon as the Afghan war began?

@gregolsen1489 2 жыл бұрын

you're not that far off. This invasion was also about global opium poppy production control and American corporations and drug trafficking mafia profited over 2 trillion dollars from it. Now with the new invention of syntactic heroin in their own Pharmaceutical labs, corporations don’t need Afghanistan as much. Since United States military occupation of Afghanistan in 2001, followed by NATO occupation in 2003, opium production has increased exponentially. Areas under Taliban control had zero production in 2001 (Global Research, October 17, 2018). in 2001 there were only 8,000 hectares of poppy fields in the entire Afghanistan and by 2017 it expanded to 328,000 hectares. in 2001 Afghanistan was accounted for 3% of the world's opium supply and by 2020 this number jump to 93%. From now on, US will focus on manipulating Afghans with all that military ammunition that American troops left behind to destabilize China.

@SuperDflower 2 жыл бұрын

@@gregolsen1489 Wow!… That information alone about the number of hectares is astounding...Just another version of Iran Contra... always the same thing...state sponsored mafia. Sewing death and destruction with its citizens tax dollars, and most disturbingly, with its citizens consent...due to ignorance and the media it also controls and flimsy narratives about nationhood and patriotism. I PRAY that the younger generations are becoming that much more woke to all of this… But I fear, that with the stranglehold on the economy they’re able to assert, there will be people who see the military as their only option. Thank you for sharing this information, disturbing as it is, unsurprising as it is.

@gregolsen1489 2 жыл бұрын

@@SuperDflower sadly, I agree with your assessment. The US has been at war 227 out of 245 years since her birth on 1776. America has lost its sense of reason, morality and credibility. It seems that Washington does not want to accept the fact that in the new geopolitical realities there is no place for a unilateral dictatorship…

@Moes1n 2 жыл бұрын

Two Raytheon shareholders watched this video

@YannisG278 2 жыл бұрын

No one talks about it but who and how did taliban get funded? Who paid for their weapons? How was it all smuggled in? So no one talks about that here which is more important than anything else. US has the best weapons systems and the best tracking system and satellites also drones. How did taliban evaded all that? In my opinion this is all staged and there is a background story for allowing Taliban to do what they did and we don't know what that story is yet.

@Khan-xo8yp Жыл бұрын

My life go go no problem

@bowlampar 2 жыл бұрын

Some American Energy and Defense company's CEO already began to look elsewhere to make up for quarterly loss due to Afghanistan pull out. Tough year ahead for this industry while US government is looking for a new nation building task. 🙄🙄

@yosm8198 2 жыл бұрын

Not forgetting Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

@yushaumeri6292 2 жыл бұрын

26:00 LoL like the story of Mark Luttrel and how 70 Navy Seals got massacred by just 70 Taliban fighters with machine guns 🤣 In order to sound like a hero he said there were 300, but then even in the Navy's report (and eye witnesses) they all stated how he lied

@handoost1514 2 жыл бұрын

Please talk about the situation in Lebanon and sending fuel to Lebanon by Iran

@Moongoldnxay 2 жыл бұрын

Ashraf Ghani was a us resident that worked for IMF

@MrMaziar58 2 жыл бұрын

Was working for Portland school district

@ozaernajim4315 2 жыл бұрын

This is why you gotta turn off CNN FAUX ABC NBC CBS......all BS

@robertrichard6107 2 жыл бұрын

How did that pipeline from Turkmenistan to Pakistan of UnoCal's turn out?

@nightwaves3203 2 жыл бұрын

What war? The Taliban was just playing.

@crimsonJerom 2 жыл бұрын

Is it #Ethiopia next?

@ሚሚ 2 жыл бұрын

God is with us! Don't worry.

@Johnconno 2 жыл бұрын

War veteran Mike Prisoner

@persianfantasy2070 2 жыл бұрын

@dabay200 2 жыл бұрын

Afghanistan is probably one of the most surveilled countries on the planet; satellite surveillance, all telecommunications are surveilled, all internet traffic is surveilled, human assets on the ground, feedback from bugging other countries diplomats in the region, the only thing they don't have is cameras everywhere - but due to the proliferation of smart phones that may not be significant anymore. So America definitely knew what was going to happen and what is happening now even though their presence is limited to the airport.

@artus198 2 жыл бұрын

Entire American culture is same ! War

@natnaelghirma2617 2 жыл бұрын

That title lol : Biden's pullout game.

@RangaNayanajithSilva 2 жыл бұрын

One who have the pain of his wound else, no one knows its sufferings . Its a Humpty Dumpty Operation friends ...

@davidbunch1080 5 ай бұрын

@michaelscott1060 2 жыл бұрын

American middle management

@walterdemo2895 2 жыл бұрын

Lets hope Mike runs under a 3rd Peoples Party!

@RojaJaneman 2 жыл бұрын

His name is ‘Prysner’ 😶😏

@leekenghoon 2 жыл бұрын

Are you hearing? Xinjiang! Xinjiang! Xinjiang! Xinjiang!

@jaydendean6939 2 жыл бұрын

Just like Covid, follow the money.

@midknight1968 2 жыл бұрын

I wrote your words years ago,frustrating cruel monsters,all Patriarchalyl driven aside from the few women involved still clearly don't give a thought about my global sisters if not just as speeches

@davidbunch1080 5 ай бұрын

Mike run for president or get on a ticket as vice president

@fayyaznoor1962 2 жыл бұрын

Rania is right, the Afghan forces did the right thing not to fight. The result would have been the same if Ghani had resigned and a unity government made. The latter will be made anyway

@davidbunch1080 5 ай бұрын

Mike Prysner, run for pres. Or be on a ticket as a vice pres.

@bennyelectrixx 23 күн бұрын

They’ll never let him in

@sdsa007 2 жыл бұрын

OMG! I am getting woke!

@romeo03ca 2 жыл бұрын

US forces were not dying because they were not venturing out. They had to take a helicopter ride if they had to go to the airport. They could not take the road.

@sexysilversurfer 2 жыл бұрын

I think the MRAPs (trucks) were so well armoured against IEDs that the death rate dropped.

@filoberto8348 2 жыл бұрын

They would do patrols all the time and destroyed the Taliban in virtually every engagement. But war is far more complicated, obviously.

@elrich500 4 ай бұрын

Isn’t this guy in that wierd party called party for socialism and liberation?

@kmtgoddess7793 2 жыл бұрын

Pull out game weak lol

@shoaafrassa3892 2 жыл бұрын

Hope the Biden admin listen to Mike!!!

@Rubylove48 2 жыл бұрын

Why is the female host laughing like that?? thank God mike deflected in a sober way. There is nothing funny about sadistic war games.

@MAdams-ey4if 2 жыл бұрын

that's interesting way to look at it, not sure if it's correct, but interesting, "the people making the money and Empire", I believe they are the one and the same, however, I'm open to the argument.

@guytouquet 2 жыл бұрын

Less laughing, less smiling, less sarcasm would be welcome. Detracts from the seriousness of the discussion.

@PoppieFieldsForever 2 жыл бұрын

This program is 👌🏼. But I didn’t know about it until now, get Katie Halper to promote the channel!!!! 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

@dieselzanzibar9661 2 жыл бұрын

Lmfao Biden’s pull out game

@anthonydietrich9581 2 жыл бұрын

Isn't this what Julian Assange exposed? Was more to do with covering up the corruption than anything else. Trying Assange in the US will make this linkages and will hype the intrest in his trial.

@tj5180 2 жыл бұрын

Ya. That was the whole point of forming wiki leaks but the US government accuses him of being a spy for Russia without proof.

@chriskeene241 2 жыл бұрын

His trial won’t get any coverage.