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"The US rely too much on techonology" The Amish must be the most effective fighting force in the universe to these people

The people who say “the US relies too much on technology” are the exact same people who will tell you “the T-14 is the most advanced tank in the world.”

Remember when Armchair Warlord was the most delusional guy out of these four chuckleheads?

Fun fact, not only was Gonzalo arrested, then released under conditions, but he then openly announced that he would try to escape the country and was then arrested again.

My favorite quote about the Russian army is "Russia has a a large and modern army, but the large army isn't modern and the modern army isn't large."

Worth mentioning that "8 years in army" can mean anything from tactical officer to "I peeled potatoes for the canteen".

_"Russia is winning"_ Reality: The last time Russia has managed to conquer a city was Lysychansk *half a year ago* and have since then *lost almost half of their territorial gains.*

"Su-57 Femboy" "F*ck them into a fine paste" "the 5th emergency bottle of wine" These are the literary masterpieces I come to this channel for. *chefkiss*

As a former marine, I can 100% confirm that some elements of the Russian military are just as capable of breaking ball bearings as I am.

After watching the stream of Lira with LazerPig as a guest: oh boy, that aged well, Lira REALLY knows nothing

Who's coming back to this now that he's been arrested? 😂

I think part of the problem is that everyone is taking Russia's modernization and mobiliation capacity numbers at face value, and possibly Russia is deluded into thinking its own figures are right. Because I doubt many generals were willing to tell their bosses "I bought a bunch of shitty Albanian surplus ammo instead of those nice modern shells you wanted for the tanks, so that I could buy another dacha in Cyprus with the difference". They built a culture of theft and graft, led and encouraged by Putin, for decades, which didn't matter in peacetime but once real combat started revealed itself as a major problem.

I admire how drunk LazerPig still is more researched and knowledgeable than 99 percent of the self proclaimed "experts" and armchair tacticians.

Absolute devastation--came here after The Great Roundtable Shitshow Of 2023. YES OR NO: Are you (You) watching this video again after that?

watching a 9 months old lazerpid video, while being drunk is one hell of an adventure, I feel like I'm listening to my interior monologue

Who’s rewatching before lazerpig goes on the podcast himself?

More people need to hear “They never state their expertise, because they don’t fkn have any”. I get asked about Ukraine by my co-workers constantly. I was a mechanic in the Army for 8 years and barely know how to fix half the equipment in our fleet, let alone know every intricate detail of large scale combat operations. It’s like asking a cook at McDonald’s if they know how all the chairmen plan on expanding global marketing and international profits over the next 2 years.

My mom (former MI officer for 20 yrs) summed up what the arty guy is best “there were 200 navy seals who served in Iraq and Afghanistan and I’ve met 600 of them”. I’d say at best he cleaned the arty pieces every day and never asked questions

Gonzalo Lira getting busted recently by the Ukrainian SBU and greeted with the words „Welcome to Ukraine“ made my day.

Actually, based on one interview from Lindybeige from his friend who volunteered regarding HistoryLegend's claim of people being shocked at combat there, yes. There were certain US veterans who expected fire support and fast medevac but couldn't get it because Ukraine isn't nearly at that standard. Lazerpig's counterargument is still valid though. Many volunteers stuck it out and are goddamned badass. Many were gung ho with experience or not and couldn't hack it but I don't blame them

“The land Russia has taken already will most likely remain Russian.” This did not age well

“US army doesn’t have a structure” The US army isn’t the one who has no NCO corps.

Came back here after the “Debate”. This REALLY doesn’t age well. Well done there, LP.

Anyone else rewatching this after watching Lira's meltdown yesterday? ;)

"they could hit POLAND IF THEY WANTED" and I could punch a 7 foot tall 300 pound bodybuilder if I wanted .... different scenarios, same consequences

The 'military expert' was best used by Chieftain, in one of his talks 'I am an armour officer and served in Iraq... this means nothing. You should listen to me because my job as a historian involves digging through the US Army archives, which I have sourced everything from.'

I had to go back and watch this again as a result of the Gonzalo Lira shitshow from today.

Back after lazerpig owned Gonzalo In his own game. "Bradley's are just lightly armored jeeps.

These drunk rants are half of why I'm subscribed. Lazerpig's more dedicated, topical videos are very well made, and I learn quite a bit from them, but this? Nice to sit down for an hour of Lazerpig after a long day.

53:00 "Explaining how the Ukrainian army went from 7k to 200k in just 8 years would be a video in itself." And I want to see that video.

Gonzalo Ligmaballs has been arrested W

It's funny. I looked at Gonzalo's channel, he's been calling virtually everything wrong since the beginning of the war and all his top comments keep talking about how he's so right about everything. WTF

I will address this whole "I was in the military, therefore I'm an expert" thing: I was in my nation's military for 15 and a bit years, 16 months of high school as an artillery reservist followed by 3 contracts totalling 14 years as a naval engineering mechanic. What did this teach me? It taught me how insanely bureaucracy can bloat. It taught me that regardless of who's job something is supposed to be it will be done by whoever it is the biggest problem for if the job isn't done. It taught me that there is a level of apathy which allows someone to watch millions needlessly bleed out of an organization because "it's not my money". It taught me that hard workers get left at the bottom ranks while smooth talkers fly to the top. It taught me that people who speak confidently will be assumed to be competent. It taught me that there is such a thing as a $10,000 desk lamp which doesn't do anything cool, it's just a desk lamp. Yeah, I'll stop there, point is I have learned more about strategy and military analysis from playing computer games and watching KZfaq videos than I ever learned from 15 years of what was supposed to be service, yet if I cited these as sources of expertise I would get laughed out of the room as hard as these twits ought to have been.

Lazerpig: "They never state their expertise. Because they don't fucking have any." Me as a combat veteran: "Preach!" I am beyond done with all the idiot veterans who think their role as the organizational equivalent of a lug nut on a rear wheel makes them an expert on the entire vehicle. Same for the officers, all the way up to generals, who think their equivalent role as a hood ornament does the same thing.

I didn't think GL could get less coherent, but then I watched the first few minutes of your interactions with him. Destiny made it longer than I did. *salute*

Fun fact the Mosin Nagant, shown at 15:16 was actually first designed and produced in 1891, it is normally used as a parade rifle and production ended in 1971.

"My job was to predict civilian response to hypothetical scenarios." Ah, but that's s exactly what a retired secret agent would claim his former job was! You don't fool us, agent Lazerpig...

I'd like to point out that Russia lost an amphibious assault ship, an ocean going salvage ship, a guided missile cruiser and numerous patrol boats in a land war.

As an anecdote, I used to be a club secretary of a shooting club. We used to get a lot of new members who were ex-Army and would arrogantly tell me they knew 'all about shooting' Our coaches soon showed them how little they actually knew.

I say, revisit this topic. After scaring Gonzalo so badly he threatened and kicked you off his show, it would be interesting to hear your take.

I absolutely love how readily and calmly you said "Su-75 Femboy," as if that's the actual name of it. Nearly did a spit take with my morning coffee. Thank you, lol.

I can’t tell who I feel worse for. The Ukrainians who are getting their efforts dismissed by endless propaganda, these “Experts” who are so brain washed the believe the said propaganda, or LazerPigs poor liver for the abuse this podcast made it endure.

The way Lazer Pig turns something from what could possibly a boring (but educational) podcast into really good comedy is a work of good talent. Keep up the good work!

Call me crazy, but it's possible that Gonzo was still a bit upset over this video...

It's especially funny to watch them saying "unable to stop russian advancement", while "russian advancement" for the last month was at best a couple of villages or streets of those villages. Russia basically went from "we are going to take Kyiv in 3 days" to "hooray, after weeks of harsh fighting we have finally taken a small village the size of a couple of streets in Mykolaiv province, which is surrounded by swamps and basically is a dead end"

I am a field grade officer (medical officer) in the German Army and i am now at 20 years of service with several deployments... That being said, i honestly can say, that i have no clue when it comes to tank warfare, urban warfare or anything else of interest when it comes to analysing whats going on in ukraine... So much for military experts

You just can't imagine,how funny it sounds 9 months past.

And my boy still went in the dragon's den to piss in his nostrils. Bless you LP, you have more patience than me. Or a better wine cellar

“Hit the polish border, the Poles would love that.” If only you were wrong 😂

1 hour in. Guy in the upper right is an actual paid agent of the Russian Federation. Guy in the upper left wants to be a paid agent of the Russian federation. Guy on the bottom left drove the truck that the artillery unit kept its fucking rucksacks in. And the guy on the bottom right got a gold star good for him.

I actually enjoy this video far more now after having watched LazerPig deal with the absolutely unhinged ramblings of Gonzalo first hand on their video yesterday. Cheers to you LazerPig for actually doing the best job possible to try and be objective.

The whole argument on the Battalion thing is that when a unit is rendered combat ineffective, you don't just sit it behind the lines and slowly rebuild it during an active offensive going for your throat. Instead, you reform the unit with another shattered Battalion and make a new one from a group of veterans instead of reforming one straight from scratch

Great show, but totally gonna have to disagree - as an office worker, I get far more sensible and informed discussions around the water cooler than what we've got from these four jokers.

Russia "has not even started" and lost 900+ visually confirmed tanks. Imagine how many tanks Russia would have lost if it has "really started" lol

As a chilean I am proud my country keeps you un-sober through this triying times

I would definitely enjoy a 5 hour stream if the great LazerPig could manage the required, yet certainly lethal, alcohol to survive it. Great work as always

"Russia is so clearly winning this war" 😂 Meanwhile, military nurses are telling draftees to ask their family for tampons to plug bullet wounds, because there is no gauze.

Being an expert because you were in the military is like using "military grade" in commercials. Immediately let's me know whatever comes next is absolute crap.

10:08 aged like fine wine

I really like the pomposity of self-proclaimed 'experts', who are really just big windbags with a passion for hearing their own voices. Know what you're talking about, and humility goes a long way to garnering respect. Thank you for your perspectives and commentary, LP. You have made a very dry subject engaging and entertaining.

For you to be drunk and still be more civil than most people online, I'm not just impressed, I appreciate your approach

Meh, I have zero sympathy for the Gonzalo Lira guy if he gets bullied. Dude has harassed people outside of his podcast on numerous occasions. He’s so far down the rabbit hole that he’s claimed if he dies, it’s because Ukraine has assassinated him.

" Technoloy doesn't win wars" Every army in human history disagrees with him. "Weapons don't win Wars " . All of his ancestors : How the hell did that idiot come out of our loin ?

this video aged incredibly well

Artillery experience... I was in the mortars. And as a soldier in the mortars, we know VERY little about what we do. Or how to properly deploy it. Artillery is not like a rifle, where you see a target-point at it- and fire. Youre operating a machine. You get target coordinates, and a fire order including grenade type, but you dont know what you hit. Then you are told to pack up and move, but you're generally not told why you are going there. Its like someone saying "I can give a qualified opinion on car design, I used to work for Mercedes". And then it turns out he was working on the assembly line.

I'm gonna go ahead and say it...an American artillerymen would never refer to artillery as the "God of War" they would refer to it as the king of battle. This guy never served or was an supply officer attached to an artillery battery.

Had to come back months later to watch an earlier Gorgonzola Leefra nonsense.

So.. uh.... are they *ignorant* or *evil* ?

One of the things that The_Chieftain does before he gives any talks is that he has a line about who he is that goes something along the lines of "I was an Armor Officer. This means nothing." He then goes on to explain his actual qualifications- namely being a historian and archivist for WarGaming that is paid to go to museums and archives around the world and find stuff out.

I think it's clarifying to understand that most of these former military "experts" tend to be either former enlisted, lower level NCOs or low level officers whose main exposure to military art is on the tactical level. These guys understand the tactics of small and maybe even midsize military units. But they think that if you just string together enough tactical victories, this somehow means you'll win in the end, somehow. It's why they don't seem to understand the necessity of aligning your tactical and operational objectives with larger strategic objectives or the complex underlying systems of logistics and applications of joint forces (air/land/sea). Now, smart officers or NCOs quickly put this together on their own and realize how much is happening above their local fight, but none of these guys seem like the sharpest swords in the armory.

Fun Fact: As I'm watching this video, Popular Mechanics just posted a story headlined "After 5 Months, Russia Hasn't Smashed a Single HIMARS Rocket Truck". I did hear rumors that Ukraine was dressing up other trucks to LOOK like HIMARS, or even just making plywood props, Wile E. Coyote style. Amazing to picture Russia using one of its few remaining smart weapons to take out a fake target.

Oh boy oh boy oh boy, I can't wait for the next one of these after the Lira blowup

God damn. I myself am a former artilleryman, and my chief was a marine infantryman in desert storm before he made his way to army arty. He taught me what arty’s role is. Destruction. Annihilation. Leveling compounds and depots from the other side of an entire mountain sometimes. We have ammo the likes of which you wouldn’t believe, and we can act as infantry when us heavy M109 guys deploy to where heavy isn’t allowed. Artillery has always, and always will be one of the most important things in any military conflict from the tactical, to strategic level. These sad clowns make me feel like the uneducated idiots in my unit could write Shakespeare and discover ftl travel…

This video aged like the fine wine that gets LazerPig sloshed

"I think Russia's military was underestimated by the US and Ukraine." Does Brian (or any of them) live on the same planet as I do? The opposite is true, the US *overestimated* Russia's military effectiveness and capability. Russia were the ones underestimating Ukraine's military, their morale and their strong will to fight. I remember when the war started the US predicted that Ukraine would fall very quickly, ie. Ukraine would be lucky to last a few weeks. That did not happen, Ukraine fought back and Russia fumbled and blustered their "special military operation". So no, turns out everyone overestimated Russia's military.

Another thing I’ve not particularly seen talked about: Russia doesn’t really build anything. They can do mass resource extraction at scale (agriculture, timber, oil, minerals, mining), but they don’t then turn that into secondary or tertiary goods domestically for export. They extract the resources, sell them abroad, and then import everything they want. This didn’t matter as long as prices were high and markets were open; they could sustain a consumer culture off the back of a resource economy just fine if people are willing to pay top dollar for the resources. But they never diversified. They tried to build Moscow into a financial center to rival London. But it ended up being used for money laundering and diverting state wealth over to actual London to be spent on luxuries, soft power, and influence in the “decadent west”. Antonov ended up being Ukrainian after the Soviet Union fell. They never bothered to replace it or keep that expertise domestically. Baikunur is in Kazakhstan now along with all their rocketry infrastructure. (Which is why I think they left the ISS. Partly because they don’t want to cooperate with America, but I also think Tokaev told them to screw off and that they can’t launch anything) Their vodka industry is in Lithuania. None of the flagship “Russian” produce are made in Russia and the things they do make are crap. And that was BEFORE they got sanctioned to hell. Nobody smart wants to be there, anybody with any sort of clout or connections is leaving, meaning that the problem of having no specialized skills gets more acute and the economic situation gets ever more permanently screwed. But it also means that the people that remain are less and less capable of doing anything about their situation and ever-more repressed. The whole country is a powder-keg. Putin is acting like Tsar Nicholas and risks getting got the same way the Romanovs did. Just like the Tsar thought “I’ve got the Okhrana; I’m safe”, Putin thinks “I’ve got the KGB and all my chekist buddies; I’m safe.” But if he loses the generals and the GRU, the domestic spy agencies might well decide that their future lies in getting rid of the boss instead of protecting him. That’s pure speculation on my part, but the point of all this being that the war is already over, and was over months ago. Combat is ongoing, but Russia is already defeated. Say they take over Ukraine militarily. There’s no way to integrate that territory. It will be under military occupation indefinitely. And unlike the USA in Afghanistan or Iraq, it will be by a people that look, talk, and sound like them. American troops couldn’t easily infiltrate afghan society to mess with stuff. We had to use force of arms. Ukrainian guerrillas wouldn’t have that problem. They could blend in in most places in Russia and cause problems wherever they wanted. That’s Russia’s win scenario: endless domestic problems. And at this point there’s pretty much no hope of getting sanctions fully lifted until AFTER the inevitable postwar trial in The Hague happens, because of all the blatant war crimes. The economic and political war is almost more important than the shooting war, and in that sense, Ukraine is resoundingly victorious. Pushing Russians out of their territory is awesome, because they have less to negotiate with, but the ideal for Ukraine is probably “push the Russians out to the border, and then just hold there indefinitely while Russia implodes”

22 minutes in and man im enjoying this, as someone from a post Warsaw pact country, i always find it both funny And sad when naive westerners believe anything Moscow spits out.

I don't know if Gonzalo Lira has had a mental break in the last five months or if he's just allergic to opposing opinions, and facts, but he really doesn't feel here like the same person who you "debated" yesterday. He seems pleasant here, albeit very credulous and self-satisfied.

Wow just watched the round table "discussion" Gonzo was tossed in the pig pen and completely devoured by the pig. All that will be found is his awful glasses.

I like how on the one hand "America relies too much on technology " but also "thin vintage Russian platform is definitely more technologically advanced and capable"

LazerPig: *mentions armchair warlord* NCD: *PTSD intensifies*

Looks like Gonzo Loser was arrested by the SBU today. Mr. Pig, would you care to comment? ;)

Define Good: The opposite of evil Define Evil: The opposite of good

One thing I’ve not seen talked about much in sorta the western “warfare commentary o-sphere” is the amount of Russian casualties that are actually Ukrainian casualties. I was talking about this with a friend in Kyiv the other day, and he let me know something I hadn’t really taken note of. But, apparently many of the frontline deaths in the early days of war were actually just the military core of the Donetsk and Luhansk rebel forces. Russia showed up and said “hey, we’ve secretly helped you for years; we’re actually here now. Go and die for us.” And they did. So the “pro-Russian” people that Russia “went to save” are either dead or completely hate Russia now. Any/all pro-Russian sentiment anywhere has died. Russia made a huge strategic error and actively destroyed it themselves.

I love how you don't just say "he is wrong"... you literally discuss why they are wrong, find out what the right answer is and then grind them into the ground with the facts. Exquisitely done @LazerPig, keep up the good work.

Who's here after that Gonzo mf got arrested?

I know the video is old, but I love the "They are out there, you're not." bit. Just cause it's an super simple way to put it and easily understandable. It's like people in the military making fun of someone for washing out of a school or SFAS but never even having gone to it themselves.

Imma throw this out there because @LazerPig is spot on. I spent 10 year in the US Army as an active duty infantryman, 3 deployments to Afghanistan, got out as a SSG. My last gig was as the Regimental Operations NCO for 2nd Cav, so I know more than a lot of guys do. But that's kind of the thing, I know more than most officers in the Army do about the geopolitical situation in Ukraine... and I don't know shit. The very first thing you should be thinking when some Captain, or Major (or even a CSM) starts talking on a podcast about how much of an expert they are on Ukraine and they're not in Intel is that they're a tool. They're worse than somebody who doesn't know what they're talking about, because they *think* they know. And it's 'King of Battle', not 'God of War'. That cannon cocker should have lost his shit if he was actually any good at his job. I am professionally inclined to hate arty, and I'm offended on their behalf.

You mean to tell me that Gonzalo Lira, a man who started his KZfaq career called Coach Red Pill, using 15 camera angles and 50 jump cuts to tell young men to train women like dogs (and is also currently divorced by the way), might not be a reliable source on the war? I am shocked, SHOCKED sir. Good vid btw.

This video has aged very well

Oh and new atlas just made a video where he rants about the B-21 Raider. He of course says it is just a large waste of money and again "being too reliant on extremely costly technology"(even though the B-21 costs only 1/3 of what the B-2 costs). This really demands a lazerpig rant

I still can't believe how quick the legendary VDV, fell. The mythical crack airborne troops of the union and federation, utterly demolished in days of the wars start. I think that alone changed my opinion of how competent Russia, and the PRC, really are. I think the nukes are all that's keeping them relevant militarily speaking.

Regarding the introductions, I am reminded of the Chieftain's KZfaq channel. When Chieftain references his own rank (Lt. Colonel now) and experience with M1 tanks and M2 IFVs, he then has immediately said, "This means nothing." Also, "weapons alone don't win wars". This is true. What really matters is the willingness of the men at the pointy end to use those weapons. A willingness the Ukrainians have demonstrated beyond any shadow of a doubt over the last six months, to the point that the West has been SHAMED into providing useful weapons and munitions to help.

This video marked the beginning of the end.

And now Lira’s dead. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

Listen, as a former crew chief on the CH-53E, I can tell you everything you want to know about advanced combined arms tactics. Military experience is military experience. Sarcasm is implied.

Oh, I get it, this is an alternate history podcast, where Russia hasn't bungled nearly every level of the war in Ukraine. They didn't, you know, very publicly completely fail to take Kyiv, suffering enormous losses in men and equipment, pull back their forces, and then recommit to the Donbas region which they then took literally months to take a very small chunk of Ukraine in grinding, slow offensives that resulted in even heavier losses in men and equipment. My favorite part is when the dude said that NATO and Ukraine "underestimated" Russia. Yeah, we totally underestimated them... we underestimated how incredibly incompetent they are. The news coverage of beginning of the war in Ukraine is basically just analyst after analyst from the West talking about were how shockingly badly Russia was and is doing. NATO overestimated, by a pretty big margin, how effective Russia would be. Russia better hope they never have to face an actual NATO military force. The war would be over in a week or maybe two, and Russia would either have to sue for peace after all it's conventional forces got wiped out or take the conflict nuclear.

"Weapons alone don't win wars" yeah but the lack of said weapons alone has sure lost a lot

Armchair Warlord looks about like what I’d expect someone like him to be