When I served in the US Army, I found that the easiest officers to deal with were the generals. They were always cool, in my experience. It's because they've made that rank. They are no longer competing. They are certified bad asses. It goes against what most people think, but the strongest warrior is also the most gentle. I noticed it was that way in martial arts, too.

@@alanhyt79 the martial artists who love a good laugh but even worse can make you laugh, those are the overkill cream of the crop.

Roger Wicker has been calling for a direct strike on Russia. Roger looks a bit old to go into combat with Russia maybe he wants to send you son instead? Seriously

you need to learn the actual meanings of words. mattis is a national disgrace.

get in line, we're trying to get him in Canada on a 2 year contract lol

​@@nilloc93 no we need him in Greece

those things didn’t seem to help in afghanistan

Poor showing on BOD of Theranos.

@@woah367because you can’t nation build people who don’t want it.

now everything he said replace Russia with USA, and you will understand what Putin things. Ukraine is right on Russian border not US.

It shows arrogance and idiocy to not involve the Russians in any solution. Like it or not, the concerns of the Russian federation need to be accounted for, and considered in any kind of political solution involving Eastern Europe. We nearly blew up the world because the Russians put a couple missiles in Cuba so we do get it we just pretend not to.

What’s so great about the solution? Ignores Russia, the greatest key player in the whole thing. Not listening to the needs and concerns of the Russian federation is how we got here. After all the Russians have been invade many times by the West. All this talk of Russian aggression and the Russians have only gone to Western Europe twice in history. The first time was in 1815 after Napoleon invaded and killed millions of them unprovoked and the second time was 1945 after the Germans invaded and killed 30% of the population unprovoked. Bro, I talk about Russian aggression. We love you ignore how sweet invaded Russia and the 1730s then how Napoleon did it and 1814 then how Britain and friends teamed up in the 1850s to do it again how we repeatedly put the Turks up to it how the Germans invaded in 1914 and the Germans invaded the 1940s how the set the allied powers of World War I invaded in 1918 how Poland was used as a base for invasions into the 1920s and how Finland invaded in the 1940s. And for the past decade, how terrorist operations in artillery strikes have been killing Russians across the border from Ukraine.

⁠​⁠​⁠@@Mortabluntyour recollection of history is so laughable. Poland used as a base of operations for a Western invasion of Russia? Did you forget that Lenin decided to INVADE Poland to use it as a BASE OF OPERATIONS for launching successive communist revolutions across Europe? The Soviets got driven out and Poland secured its independence. Finland invading Russia? Did you forget that the Soviets INVADED Finland unprovoked in 1940, which led to the Finns seeking retaliation to reclaim illegally seized territory? And I guess we’ll just ignore the Soviet occupation of Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Moldova (Bessarabia), and Bulgaria. Don’t make it too obvious that you actually don’t care about “national sovereignty” by backing Russia. And your assertion of Ukrainian “violations” that somehow forced Russia’s hand is also extremely questionable at best. It was thanks to Russia that the Minsk agreements fell apart, specifically with backing the DNR in their seizure of the Donetsk International Airport. That was a direct contravention of the ceasing of hostilities on the frontline. Putin made clear from an essay he published back in 2021 that he had no intention of seeing an independent Ukraine, intent on robbing them of their distinct ethnic identity. You need to come to grips with the fact that Russia is a dying imperialist state. Ukraine’s efforts in defending itself will be a significant step in dismantling this colonial apparatus.

@@bladfadsfblaadsfsadf900 Wow, my first interdimensional traveler! Okay, just so your know, in THIS universe, Nazis are considered BAD. Enjoy your stay until you make it back to Planet Backwardsia.

@@MortabluntThe same Nazi’s that Stalin made a non-aggression pact with 🤔

Yea the reason why you don’t see the media talk about him is Bc anyone that goes to actually see him speak gets converted to his side lol he’s not a warmonger like the media tried to paint him

Correct : Soviet Union losses in WW2 :20 millions . Putin want to build a Union 2.0 consequently will try annex /control every country t that is not part of Nato and or EU,: this is why Finland and Sweden decided to join Nato on the spot. I am afraid that Russia will continue to fight In Ucraine regardless the human cost Putin plan to stay in office until 2036 even if he is already 72.

Russia isn’t hanging tough, they’ve destroyed the Ukrainians. The Russian army is more capable than the US military. Russia is the dominate military power in the world today, the US is now #2. That’s pretty clear to everyone in the world except Americans.

Putin has made it pretty obvious that he doesn't want to take control of Ukraine, just the culturally Russian border provinces. NATO and US encroachment on Russian borders and Ukrainians attacking Russians in those areas is the underlying cause for this. That is the problem. I have much respect for Gen. Mattis. His military accomplishments and credentials are superb. I do listen to his answer with a bit of hesitation because he is on the board of General Dynamics and is now a part of the military industrial complex who profits on eternal wars.

I'd vote for him if he ran in 2024. Why are republicans putting up clowns like Trump when they have people like James Matis in their ranks?

@@auditoryproductions1831 sadly, he does not want to be a politician. He'd show up every short-dick in Washington.

@@auditoryproductions1831 Mattis is not Republican

He’s a dope.

​@FrankGutowski-ls8jt and you have done what in life as compared to Mattis?

And the afghans were so grateful. They adopted liberal democracy and absolutely didn’t house a psychopath who disciples murdered 3000 Americans with airplanes for the crime of existing while American.

based based base neocon s

Holmes relied on making political connections as a way to continue attracting investors, in a similar way Mattis mostly relied on making political connections (and not through experience in warfare) to rise through the ranks. You can't expect a careerist moron like Mattis to make sound decisions in the military or outside of the military.

So right! But he cannot just say why we HAVE to do it

I still can’t figure out what good a Russian defeat means or why it has to happen. But more importantly, I can’t figure out what good would be the result of a Ukrainian victory or what would happen afterwards. Ukraine is a single party totalitarian state that uses the military to slaughter. its linguistic and ethnic minorities. It is extremely corrupt it is overrun with a vowel ultranationalists who openly promise genocide. It has proven it can’t even keep track of weapons, which has now shown up in multiple war zones in the hands of terrorists. So what does a highly armed, million strong, triumphant Nazi army due after all its neighbors, have depleted their abilities to defend themselves in order to empower Ukraine? What does Ukraine do next and where do The guns go?

I had respect for general Jame maddog mattis but it seemes tha tafter retirement he's on the MIC's payreloe as a salesman and keeps spewing the same bullshit they all do with delusions of winning ....unfuckingbelievable....the american cabal has gone clinicaly insane collectivly , they miscalculated if they think they have even the slightest chance of winning this war....the sooner they accept the new reality which is multipolar war and that the US doesn't have to be questioned about anything anymore.....lol...the sooner they'll tear down their own imaginary world, corrpupted washington political oligarchy that fed of perpetual war for 30 years lobbying for certain cladnestine capitalist interests and industries from behind the curtain....THE RED LINE HAS BEEN DRAWN it says NIET motherfuckers!

It's simple he would do the wright things as usual. 😂😂😂😅😅😅😊

How was he right he sold out

Think you could turn that into something we can read and comprehend...?

Mattis threw a fit and resigned over the planed withdraw from Syria, which never happened. I have no idea what he thought about the Doha peace deal and the withdraw of forces, because he never threw public fits about that. I'm sure in 2021, when the country fell, he probably wanted to continue the pointless nation building disaster. The USA is better off without the pointless wars and saving lives and saving money.

if you look at history it was going to do that any way! There was no way to change that out come!

More war huh?

Doesn't matter

Because Putin would be scared of the US military that lost to the taliban.

That same Taliban that beat the Russian army.@@mrunstoppable6711

Jimmy wasn't in charge when that happened. Don't be so quick to underestimate Chaos. If it came to war, Mattis would not stop until Russia, China, and Iran are all thoroughly torn apart.@@mrunstoppable6711

He's basically America's Tywin Lannister@@mrunstoppable6711

May God have mercy on his soul is more like it

@@courtneyhunnell5359 Gen. Mattis is one of most honorable men to serve in any of our lifetimes. I'd like to know why you think otherwise?

Yes! Thanks for saying it too. All the great advice but he can’t say why we need to do it. I am deeply suspicious of this political hack

Why wrong on Ukraine?

So good ! he has the big T charge against him now, Wakey Wakey

What do you mean?

B school chum on BOD of GD says JM is a dope.

You probably think the world is a Disney film ☠️😂

which and how?

Western Europeans and NATO have always been free-riders on the USA. Europeans are not willing to drastically increase weapons production, and if they were, then that would take years. Similarly, the USA is not willing to take drastic measures and any production increases would be years into the future. Also, the USA has to deal with the government destroying merit based employment and production, so good luck with the affirmative action clowns held to no standards. Monkey typewriter theory is being played out in the USA right now.

Russian isn’t outgunned, Nato is. NATO has taken an ass whipping in his war. The Russian bear has triumphed over nato.

What Russian aggression? The last time Russian troops went west was 1945 nice because the Germans invaded them and slaughtered 40% of the population in less than two years. The last time before that was 1815 after Napoleon invaded, and killed millions of them in under a year. This time get another hostile alliance has expanded its forces all the way up to the front door and pays proxies to slaughter their people. For years western proxies have shelled into the country, killed their nationals, and worse. This is Russian aggression like claiming a girl who bites the penis of her rapist is the real aggressor.

Agreed

Yep, this is just more classic arrogant American imperialist stupidity. Treating anybody who doesn’t run their country for the interest of America as an ignorant barbarian, who is doing it for absolutely no reason and refusing to understand what they do or why. Ignore the Russians and their concerns for 30 years in a row, pushing our military alliance and our missiles and our bases ever closer, and closer to their border ever amassing a larger army, and then we wanted to include 1000 mile frontier directly on the Russian border that would give us another million troops across geographically indefensible land that goes directly into the Russian core.

He wants there to be a WW3 so he can get his job back and act like a badass like his old days. If you read about his military career, this guy rose up the ranks through political connections, not through experience in warfare. His first experience in a real war was Afghanistan as a Brig Gen. Look how that turned out. 😅 Even after Afghanistan and Iraq, this careerist moron still has no sense of the unintended consequences of war, and he talks as if escalating a political tension towards an armed conflict is a sound practice to bring an adversary to submission. We cannot have rabid dogs like this in the military ranks anymore. They don't help the country with their recklessness, and they only destabilize the world that is already is in a fragile balance of power.

Perhaps his time was better spent in college, preparing to become a general. Admittedly those who went to Vietnam sacrificed their potential to the rice paddies. However life is a consequence on a series of small, seemingly innocuous decisions that aggregate into unpredictable consequences. Each and every one of us are responsible for our own. M’attisa through his strengths and fortune had a great outcome. Those having tours in Vietnam had their own. Those who talk about fairness fail to appreciate that it doesn’t exist in a life determined by an infinite number of interacting variables. Ironically, the principles of chaos theory applies to life. (Mattis’ nickname is Mad Dog, but his radio callsign was Chaos.)

He joined the Marines in 1969 but managed to arrange it so he never went to Vietnam. Apparently the man has never fired his rifle in combat.

No wonder he’s so eager to get bloody and send guys forward.

You are adorable, he has a BV and a CAR.@@grayghost7216

He was hoodwinked, too. As a General officer in the Marines (which he still was at the time), of course he would be supportive of a promise of a small device that could provide an incredible amount of information with a drop of blood. He wanted those devices in the field. Once he started to become aware of what was really going on his position changed. If you are calling into question the integrity of Gen. Mattis, you obviously know nothing of him. One of the finest leaders I have ever had the extreme pleasure of meeting.

@@chackett027 I was a Marine during Mattis’ rise, though charismatic I would not characterize him as one of the best. He certainly attained a high degree of accomplishment but what he did with it is still out for history to judge in context of our timeline. One does not blindly lend their name to a fraudulent claim or assume because of your position you are immune from being lied to. Trust no one and as Mattis said; “Have a plan to kill everyone in the room”.

He joined a ‘pay to play racket’ that, after an initial ‘buy in’ fee of $85,000, netted him $250,000 a year to serve on the board of a company that PRODUCED NOTHING. I think he left after 2 years. $500,000. Not bad! FOR NOTHING except ripping off the investors…some of whom, like Betsy DeVos, sat next to him in Trump’s cabinet.

As if being an accomplished high ranking leader makes one immune to mistakes.

@@anthonykaiser974 How do you figure never seeing the keystone product of your company a ‘mistake’? Mattis, like the other Theranos ‘players’, kept their eyes on the overflowing till.

Aliance with Palestine and Ukraine! We support America, Ukraine from Palestine!!! We out here boy

The cause for NATO expansion is what you see in Ukraine now. Without NATO you would have seen that in every ex soviet country. Yeltsin agreed to it too.

The Warsaw Pact ceased to exist over 30 years ago, what do you have to back up this claim that Russia was going to invade Western Europe?

This is literally the same shit the past 4 administrations all sold us

Define disgrace?

@@insaniam_convertunt_scientiam Throwing a temper tantrum and resigning before resignation was requested or without any sufficient notice would be a good way to describe it.

@@Mautiks I remembered it going a bit more like Mattis: "Mr. President, I don't agree with your decision to hand Syria over to the Russians, so I'm resigning but I'll stick around till you find a replacement" Trump: "YOU CAN'T QUIT, YOU'RE FIRED!"

@@Ericisnotachannel Yes, he resigned without notice. By the way, the President is the decision maker, not SECDEF. Dude went from being one of the most admired generals in Marine Corps history to one of the gауest in like a single week LMAO!

​@@Mautiksmaybe he was right and trump was wrong. Seeing how 2020 turned out I'd say Mattis made the right choice.

Not really

Definitely part of the problem

naw lol

Problem is bloody bastard putin and his regime

It's the same as saying "mAyBe the PrObLeM iS mUsLiMs???!?"

A homosexual ended WWII and saved millions of lives. Look up Alan Turing. It goes without saying that we should never rely on the advice of a bigot. Pretty plain there. Your way of thinking is dying. Good riddance to willful ignorance, because the willfully ignorant will always lose battles. Period.

Exactly why Mattis married a woman.

@@user-eq7zq6so3j What is a woman?

@@Franklin-pc3xd If we found that out then we wouldn't have the department of the navy.

i doubt you would have the guts to tell that to Philipp V

I know that a country’s independence should be respected and civilians shouldn’t be massacred

Mattia resigned, Trump just kicked him out early.

Um...That is how you get fired in DC. You need to read a book. @@echo_94

Trump couldn't carry this man's jock strap even if his life depended on it 🤣🖕

How the Marines are better off from his training

@@jackcaffrey8493 Mattis sold out and cucked to Islam.

Why is that, because he rightly called out Trump for his transgressions?

Come on its not just Mattis, they all are disappointments

Nah, Trump and his clusterfuck of a presidency is a disappointment. General Mattis did the best he could, given the circumstances of the job he was selected for as SecDef. Only one with any real Honor as an American in Trump's cabinet.