Brit Reacts to How US Military SMOKED Russian Mercenaries... 

I will say, that even from a young age, my mother always told us, "Never start a fight. But if somebody starts one with you, then you damn well finish it." I think that pretty much sums up the American way.

A story from WWII was that if you attacked an unknown location and you got accurate, spaced shots, they were British; if a hail of machine gun fire, they were German; if there was a pause, then all hell broke loose with bombs, artillery, and mortars, they were Americans.

This is a perfect example of "play stupid games win stupid prizes"

They were making a statement for sure. Overkill for a small force like that, but the US wanted to make it clear that any aggression would be unacceptable.

The US military has no chill when politicians aren’t involved.

The Russian planes didn't take off because they didn't want to lose planes for sure. You don't want to go against F22 raptors

One of my favorite lines comes from the movie Enders Game. A bully had been ...well, bullying another much smaller boy. Eventually it came to a confrontation where the smaller boy surprised the bully by fighting back with unexpected savagery and brutality. When the adults confronted the boy and asked him, "Once the bully was down and you won, why did you continue hitting him?" His answer, "I won that fight, but I had to make sure I won every fight after." Translation: Hurt your enemy so bad that the very thought of them ever striking back is too horrifying to even consider. An example was made of these Russian mercs.

This is what the U.S does when politicians stay the hell out of the way!

Basically they gave them a participation trophy for getting beat.

This is why Russia is so focused on building nukes and hypersonic missiles. They know the US would molly wop them in a conventional war.

The only smart move they made was not sending up the SU's theyd be annhilated before they even knew what hit them (F-22s).

This video is an example of why we US Soldiers say “Fuk around and find out”, Wagner fuked around and found out 😏

Margaret Thatcher once praised the US for using it’s overwhelming power with such restraint. “No country ever used such great power more responsibly or with such restraint. I wonder what would have befallen us in Western Europe and Great Britain if that power had been in Soviet hands!” Like the US hasn’t expanded its borders since Hawaii became a state even though militarily we could conquer many places if we had that kind of Putin mentality. Mexico and Canada wouldn’t stand a chance.

Fuck around and find out. -Sun Tzu

Yes, in the initial US call Russia denied having troops out there. The Russians tried to attack another nearby outpost some time later, another call was made just like with the previous attempt. Russia, again, denied having troops in that location, but those troops left the area soon after the call was made without firing a single round.

3:47 The Russian's said that no Russian Government forces were attacking the base, which is technically correct. The Wagner Group is a privet military company based in Russia so their soldiers don't belong to the Russian government. That way if they loose a battle like this one the Russian government keeps it's hands clean by saying that no Russian government forces attacked the Americans.

Hey bro, Ive watched quite a few of your videos over the last couple days and I just want you to know, from a U.S. veteran and true believer in all the amazing things that make our country genuinely worthy of appreciation, thank you for all the high props and love you've shown throughout your video adventure. You've definitely inspired more than a few unintentional smiles just from hearing/seeing the absolute intersted joy you show when you discover something unique about out culture, and I want to emphasize without any question that the beauty of nature throughout this country is exactly as youve commented. Anyway man, you must come see and expirience all these things in person. But be warned (even though I'm pretty sure you already know) once you get here, you may never leave. And I for one would be first in line to endorce your citizenship ;) haha. Thanks for looking past our reputation and steriotypes, its all just good vibes over here brotha.

8:18 I'm fairly certain that was the point of this. They dominated the attackers to send a very clear and specific message. "Never, ever let your fuck around cross the find out threshold again." Lol.

As we use to say in the Marines in the 70's Miss With The Best And Die Like The Rest and it was proven. Also you mess wwith one U.S. Servce Person and you will feel the wraith of all of use.🇺🇲🌟💚

Don't know how many the Americans had, but you know how many showed up.... ALL of them!!

I love that they used the BRRT of the A-10 as the bleep noise for the cuss words LMAO!

If he really shot at the apache helicopter he wouldn't be able to show up to get his metal

"Why?" Because if their planes took off, they would have been turned into scrap.

There is nothing "fair" in war. Only win and loss. You bring a knife, I bring a gun. You bring a tank, I bring an A-10. Now, lets talk about intelligence. Where in the history of warfare can one side not only see/hear what is being done behind the enemy's lines, but then they "call" the other side and say, "hey, we see you, still wanna play"?

Apparently just to salt the wound, the one thing the video left out was a B52 carpet bombing after everything was said and done the entire remaining wreck of the convoy with 30 x 2000lb JDAM bombs.

The Russians that were killed were not Russian Army or military forces. The Russians were Wagner PMC mercenaries, the same ones fighting in Bakhmut right now.

Russian Pilots didn’t take off because they knew they would die if they did. Simple

11:30 "It was like God-damned training day..." I dunno about that. Even in the US Army Signal Corps we'd have damage to equipment and some minor casualties (minor injuries requiring sickcall, like twisting ankles or similar) during training. You could say our training is a bit harsher. But we do go off the saying 'Train as you Fight.' Better to have issues in training and perfection in the real thing. But yeah, the Russians got torn up bad. As shown in the video most of their dead had to be ID'd by dental record or DNA testing. The US used to excel at stacking bodies. Now we just puree them, high-five each other, chest bump, and go back to playing video games and shamming. Just think about that, especially if your government considers the US an adversary. You're just in the way of us getting back to our video games and goofing off. That's all our enemies are to us. An inconvenience. These Wagners were the best Russia had. They were less annoying than a cricket you can't find in your barracks room. But they made the most common mistake made, they mistook kindness and mercy for weakness.

I really enjoy your reactions. That said, I would like to offer one suggestion. If you interrupt a sentence in the video to react, back the video to the beginning of the interrupted sentence. That way, your people watching the video don't just get just the last half of the sentence when you return to the video. You're doing a great job!

The Wagner mercenaries are not technically Russian military, so "Russians" and the US are not fighting each other. Had Russian planes taken off and engaged the US, that would be direct contact. Also, Russia is not a superpower by any stretch of the imagination.

You have got it dude. I’m glad I came across you. You’re gonna be huge

Those were translations from an intercepted communication between the Russian soldiers and their headquarter. You can actually find the original somewhere on YT.

I can 100% confirm nothing. ARTILLERY!!!! The king of battle 🙌 they didn't just send a squad bro.

10:44 Russia f*cked around and found out the tactical superiority of American forces is not to be trifled with

The US military hasn’t lost a fight since the beginning of the Korean War. All “defeats” are political and not military.

Nah. Nowadays Russia is a 3rd rate power at best, the war in Ukraine has decisively proven that.

I watched a lot of reactions to this video, but your reaction is the best!!!

You know the Russian guy that answered that phone call must have shit his self they thought they were attacking some Syrian guys and then you realize it's the Americans and they're saying stop it or else I guess they chose or else

Russian commanders were wise to keep their fighter out of the sky that night. Their fighters stood zero chance against the US F 22’s that night.

Russian Fighters never took off because they knew once up would be immediately Shot Down! Planes expensive! Great point the US Military got a Great Training exercise!

You asked a very good question, why did Russia keep its aircraft on the ground? It’s because they knew who they were picking a fight with. US forces have in the past sometimes abandoned a position to avoid confrontation with Russian forces. The Russian commanders thought we might do that this time. When that didn’t happen they knew at once any and all aircraft they send up they are going to lose, *and* that US forces would expand their counter-attack to include those airfields. They knew that not only would they lose every plane they sent up, but they would lose every plane on the ground. Keeping their aircraft grounded was the smartest move they made.

The U.S. called in and asked Russia if they had anyone in the area, Russia said no. Ooops

Lol it was like a chihuahua running at a Grizzly bear! Lol

One of my buddies (and most of our local National Guard group) was a part of that. When he came home, all he said was they went to Syria to provide close air support to the Special Forces. The 155th has Apaches and Cobra attack helicopters. Can I hear a BRRT, BRRT? :)

Imagine what the US/NATO would do to Russia if Russia made a stupid move against NATO in the Ukraine / Russia war?

Fun fact: The sound used to censor the video is the auto cannon of an A-10 Warthog. One of the last planes you would want to encounter in combat.

Those Russian fighter jets don’t have a chance against US fighter jets that’s why they stayed on the ground

You asked why the Russian planes didn't take off? That's because the only way for the Russians to have an airplane while the Americans are in the air is to keep it on the ground, camouflaged as a wreck or a truck or a haystack. This is because we know the second they take off, what speed altitude and direction they take, and route missiles to them before they even reach contested airspace. The combined air forces of the entire planet wouldn't make it a few days playing air tag with the Americans, and they know it. There just isn't a way to fight a plane that can easily and reliably shoot you down from so far away you literally wouldn't even know it existed except for the rather self evident fact that something blew up your ride.

Now you know why the United States does not have universal health care

The definition of “oh you thought shit was sweet huh”

Hearing the Russians lost half their force, and America only lost some jet fuel makes me happy.

We are begging for China to play with us

By using the contractors they can deny Russia was involved.

that metal they gave out should have been the russian running with his head between his legs fire in the back ground and a big ole brown streak behind the guy running 🤣

Andrei, you’ve lost ANOTHER submarine?🤣

Funny how everyone says if the U.S would go against Russia we would lose, but every time we encounter them, battle them they get their asses kicked. This one example, Vietnam had Russian and North Vietnamese fighter pilots flying Migs, Iraq War in early 90's our tanks whipped Iraqs Russian made T-tanks. Iraq was even battle hardend. list goes on. Equipment wins battles Logistics win wars.....Neither China nor Russia has that mastered even after this many years. The SU35-'s Stayed on the ground because they knew they would get their arses handed to them and didnt want them destroyed

"...and for America it was god damn training day"...😂 that comment was gold

FK around FIND OUT.

You know you effd up when..........btw....I thought I heard a10s

That was not a battle. A battle suggest potential for either side to win. That was an absolute slaughter. You don't need "Rods from God" to put an end to a fight when you can rain down hellfire of that magnitude at such short notice. And it's only gotten worse for the Wagner group cos they went from getting their asses kicked in Syria to now getting their asses kicked in Ukraine. Honestly at this point if I were Russia, I'd retire the entire group. Their struggles in Ukraine has also proven beyond doubt now to the US that, aside from their nukes, Russia isn't actually a genuine threat at all. If only we could get actual _accurate_ data about their _true_ nuclear capabilities even that could potentially change too - since there's been rumours for a while that many of the nuclear missile silos in Russia are actually empty, and others the missiles are _so_ old it's doubtful they would even launch if ever given the signal. Downside is we don't really have a way to verify those claims as true, so the threat has to still be taken seriously. The US has always been on the "don't mess with us hard enough to _actually_ gain our _full_ attention" level since WW2. It was a total eye-opener to learn that the US beat Japan with barely _10%_ of their total military might after focussing the rest against Germany (much to Hitlers surprise who thought the US would be _far_ too busy with Japan to send proper assistance to the UK and her allies). I had also always assumed the US put a much higher level of military focus on Japan than the Germans.

They told you, the Russians initially told the Americans that it wasn't them. The Russians didn't know the Americans were on that base.

America: hey Russia you have any troops near our guys? Russia: nope America: CORRECT!!!!

Life is short being a Wagner.

"When the first vehicle in the convoy suddenly blew up the Russian mercenaries knew something was wrong," has to be the understatement of the decade. Gee, ya think? This is what happens when you train the way you intend to fight. Combat looks just like training.

8:47 you asked why they didn't try launching their own planes. Allow me to refer to just before at 8:11 when the narrator said something about air superiority

Mercs we’re goofy if they thought any US soldier wouldn’t take the opportunity to take their aggression from basking in the hot ass sun out on some fools wanting to mess with us

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First shots fired by Wagner, one Kurdish fighter mildly wounded. The US response: Reaper Drone- 2 missiles 155 artillery HIMARS - at least two full loads A130 Gunship with 105mm, 40mm, and 20mm weapons 4 Apache gunships with 16 missiles each and thousands of 30mm machine gun rounds B52 dropping 500 lb bombs to take out all armor F15 and F22 for clean up duty. All except F15 and F22 in the first 10 minutes. Now you really know, "Why you don't mess with the US military"!!! We simply don't believe in a fair fight. If you choose to engage our military, expect a response disproportionately larger than anything you can offer. Add in the "precision" aspect of our weapons, and you can see how hopeless the attack was at conception. In the US military, every bomb, and missiles are assigned a target, and it won't be long until that feature is in every bullet, so the lethality of US strikes is also disproportionately greater. That's two exponential factors on the US side in any conflict, disproportionate responses added to disproportionate lethality of the attack. Impossible for any foe to overcome.

Great video L3WG.

Correction for you. Russia is no longer a super power have not been since the fall of the USSR. By definition and classification the US is the only super power in the world. It requires you to fight 2 theaters of war at the same time anywhere on earth. To explain the definition means the country needs to be capable of fighting 2 Ukraine/Russia wars at the same time on opposite sides of the world.

what nearly every country forgets is that American military will set up surveillance of ANY hostile forces near them and just wait. with the level of surveillance technology that America has, we can see the lettering on a postage stamp from space, so a drone in the air above a potential battlefield is going to see just about everything that moves, even bugs. there is NO WAY to surprise the American military on the ground or in the air. you'd have to dig massive tunnels and even then we have ways to sensing that as well. even under the ocean won't help. who do you think has the better sensors and stealth attack subs?? the American military usually knows about what's going on HOURS before the first shot even happens. we're just spending that time giving the other side a chance to pull out without being wiped out AND setting up our weapons for use...

When you hear choppers and "Fortunate Son" playing in the distance, you better make your peace with whatever God you pray to.

"The Battle of Fuck around and find out."

Wagner hasn’t attacked Americans again, but they very much want revenge. In my opinion, that’s what the recent incursion by two Wagner helicopters into Poland was about. If they can’t get to Americans, NATO will do. I think that’ll be their last mistake.

US Air Force: when Overkill is an option

@L3WG That's why it's been said, "Never bring a knife to a gunfight." 😏

I fully admit that I am indoctrinated a bit w/the fact that even tho I am 100% disabled veteran.. if needed I would pack up my bags, prep my equipment and report for duty.

Imagine you’re going to attack a base somewhere and they raise the American flag 😂😭

And people still say russia would have even a snowballs chance in hell against us, when even what is basically a training exercise can wipe out a whole squad.

Imagine getting a medal for getting your ass kicked

Russia shouldn't have lied when we called. Lite theyre asses up.😂😂

This is great. But at least they didn’t fuck with the boats.

Former USAF C130 engine (T-56 engine) and prop. mechanic, maintenance once on a gun ship.

“It was at this moment he realized…….he fucked up!”

The sound he used when he bleeped the curses was a A1 Warthog gunship firing it's 30 mm 7 barrel Gatling gun.

Every entertaining reaction. Loved it, thank you for your enthusiasm and commentary.

Hey man a Yankee here from Oklahoma U.S.A hey I really enjoyed your reaction of this video it's the best one I've seen you really engage and a lot of other people just sit there and make facial expressions...I enjoy hearing what other people think of the United States...Brother here in the States especially here in Oklahoma we just relax and easy going people. I live out in the country so we cook out on the grill on the weekend have a few beers shot our guns..we hunt we fish and we enjoy that freedom brother...That's another thing about America is your not going to invade our homeland, even if you get past the navy and the ocean our coasts and military then after all that we've got 9 out ten homes armed with firearms...it's virtually impossible task...I don't know if you've done a don't mess with the U.S.A video but you should I'm going to go look on your Chanel...oh And a big thumbs up brother I subbed

8:28 - overwhelming force has a quality all its own!

God Bless our American military forever & ever! So proud of them!!!❤

Hi watching from Philippines

The U.S. military has 2 speeds. Chill, and death lol

Once again America defining the phrase "fuck around and find out"

You asked why Russia didn't send those fighter jets that were close by. Several F22 Raptors in the area.. they wouldn't have made it 500ft of the runway...

This is real battle, but news media did not cover this much

They have conscripts, we have professionals. Makes a big difference. Of course, the advanced gear helps a lot.

40 US Special Forces vs 500 Wagner/Syran forces..... seems unfair for the Russians.

Here's the most important part of that story - The Reaper drone had been targeting them for some time...Really put that together. The Americans already knew. They already knew. Forces were already en route, the Apaches had already been deployed,... I'm sure the reapers had been following them for fucking miles and miles and miles. That phone call was a courtesy. It was basically turn around or die. And they didn't turn around...

Russia never sent up their fighters because I'm sure Wagner was operating off grid. Russia as well as China fears the U.S Fighter pilots, not so much the plane but they know many pilots come out of top gun and they many years of modern warfare the U.S has experience in.

Wagner picked the base with our Delta Force Special Force,Marines. Yes, the Delta & Marines heard the attackers spraking Russian. The Russians Army denied it. The American Secretary of Defense gave the order to smoke them.

Seriously man, you know why their fighters didn't take off... The F-22 Raptors would have cost them MILLIONS in destroyed aircrafts!