European Reacts: How US Military SMOKED Russian Mercenaries 

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The literal definition of "fuck around and find out." As a former US Marine I can confirm that we do not take attacks lightly

Yes, this actually happened. It was the US Secretary of Defense that called his Russian counterpart asking if there were Russian forces in the area. The Russian counterpart denied that there were any Russian forces in the area. After the battle was over, the US Secretary of Defense allegedly called his Russian counterpart again and said "we have confirmed there no Russian forces in the area" as to politely say, we just obliterated whoever it was.

Fun fact: it wasn't just a representative of the US military calling Russia, it was the Secretary of Defense himself calling his Russian counterpart. His Russian counterpart said that they had no Russian troops in the area, and so the defense secretary called the guy in charge in the area and said, "Go ahead."

If the Russian officer had admitted they crossed the Euphrates, then the soldiers would at least have been able to keep their lives if not their pride, but the officer lied, and told the American officer again and again that the troops weren’t Russian. So the Americans were like, “Great! It’s not Russians, let’s get whoever it is out of there,” and they did. So the Russian leadership let their soldiers down, which is sick.

The medal is probably the most expensive participation trophy ever made. The whole incident really optimizes the phrase "Fuck around, find out"

As a Retired Member of the U S Military I laughed too.

The best part for me was at the very end when the Russian and Syrians started to form up again and the Americans made the phone call that turned them back immediately. Think about that for a second. They should realize from the phone call that they are being watched. There will be no surprise attacks. Not possible. No surprises at all for the Americans. If that doesn't send a chill down your spine then you just don't get it. We know where you are, we know what you are up to. You have our attention. Go home.

Just remember we Americans have a very unique definition of "proportional"

The ignorance and overconfidence of the Russian and Syrian attackers is obvious in this example but is not their fault. To say their superiors sent them into a meat grinder knowing there was a chance that the US response could be an overwhelming air and artillery response, is an understatement. It seems likely this was a test of US resolve to hold the oilfield that was met with an extreme response instead of a metered response. The "overkill" was intentional to demonstrate that such incursions would not be tolerated. The staging for a potential attack that followed showed that they clearly had not learned their lesson and were willing to see if the US was still defending the area.

The Portuguese accent is apparently _extremely_ similar to the Russian accent when speaking English due to something about "stress-times" when speaking. And with how well known the Russian accent is, it's always going to be the default guess. You're hardly the first Portuguese person I confused as Russian at first- though I figured it out pretty quickly.

A lot of people don't know that Portugal is part of the oldest "mutual security" treaty still in effect. The "Treaty of Windsor" was ratified in 1386. England and Portugal have benefitted from the commerce clauses and there has been no war. It don't get much better than that.

One thing this video doesn’t cover is the weeks and months before this Russian troops have been spoiling for a fight with Americans. They tried running vehicles off the road with their armor tried setting up roadblocks to interfere with American troop movements. This was the straw that broke the camels back.

As a US Veteran I laugh because their leadership thought they'd get away with it. As a human and a veteran I also feel bad for the soldiers that had to die because of their leadership.

One of my colleagues in the military played the intercepted phone calls and radio transmissions from the Russian Mercenaries. It was very evident who directed them to go in and it was done as a test to see how the US President at the time would react. The American response was not what the Russians were expecting. The order was given to send Russia a message to never directly challenge the United States again. To hear the mercenaries on the ground calling in that they were being massacred and begging for support knowing full well they would never get it is rather disturbing. The Russian Air Force never took to the sky because the United States made it very clear the Russian aircraft would be destroyed before they even took off.

They were mercenaries. They knew what they signed up for. I value human life, but “if you threaten my brothers you die” type of mentality takes over, especially if there is no set rules of engagement with unidentified attackers. FAFO.

This is a great example of combined arms warfare, where 40 or so special forces and some local troops defeated a force of several hundred with ground and air attacks.

As an American….i say use any and all measures to protect our people. I don’t want a “fair fight” or anything even close. I want ALL of my people to come back home. The cost to the other side in order to make that happen isn’t my concern.

Russia won the darwin lottery, Darwin awards

I was laughing too. It was an example of the phrase "fuck around and find out".

You are not the only one laughing! I’m getting a good chuckle right along with you!

No, it's not just you. I've watched this so many times by reactions and I still find it freaking hilarious 😂

As a US Marine M60E3 gunner '86-'90, who was thankfully never in any combat but was involved in Operation Desert Shield. It is difficult for many to imagine just how much hurt the US Marines (200,000 limit), and the whole US military can bring once they know exactly where the enemy is, and they don't have to worry about civilian casualties. Just prior to getting out, I was attached to the armory of HQ company of 2nd Battalion 3rd Marines Infantry Division. We had 150 Marines in our company, and the weapons we had in stock in the armory, were as follows... Twenty Four TOW systems Eight Mark19 automatic grenade launchers Fifty two 50 cal machine guns with tripods Thirty two M60E3 machine guns (7.62mm) Forty eight SAW (5.56mm Squad Automatic Weapons) One hundred and forty eight M16A2s Thirty two 9mm Barettas With that many weapons available for a headquarters company, none of the Marines even needed an M16. Can you imagine being shot at by a HQ company, and the least damaging weapon they had was a SAW that would fire at up to 1100 5.56mm rounds per minute at up to 1000 yards effective range? If you could even close to 500 yards after they ran out of rounds for all of those things, you would still have your hands full with Marines being able to pick you off very effectively at 500y without even using a scope on their M16s.

Russians: There are no Russians there. Americans: By golly…you’re right! There ARE no Russians there…anymore. 😉

"Speak softly and carry a big stick." - President Theodore Roosevelt

You're not being bad for laughing I laugh so hard I farted😂

“Obliterated” is definitely a word and you absolutely used it correctly here.

It hilarious to watch people f around and find out that you don’t f with the US military .

6:30. Even people in Brazil who speak Portuguese confuse a lot of people around the world because Portuguese and Russian sound similar when it comes to the vowels. Again I think it's amazing that two people from across an entire continent with no contact with each other can I have a similar linguistic speak. So its not the way you look, it is that the pronouciation accentual Phonetics of Portugal and Russia sound similar to those who dont speak neither.

That call from the US to Russia went like this, “Do you have troops assaulting our base?…. No comrade…. 5 seconds later…. That is correct”

You’re not the only one laughing. And if that means we are going to hell, maybe we’ll laugh at that too.

There is an account of the battle by a survivor. It was a pitiful story of stupidity. They went in like they were going to scare a bunch of villagers and take over. What they got was an expensive lesson of resolve.

I think some people might think you’re Russian due to the accent. It does sound vaguely like an old stereotypical Russian accent used in movies years ago - and most Americans are not familiar with hearing Portuguese talking.

Your accent is DIFFERENT from what a Russian one is, but not THAT different, the difference is very subtle. That's why - totally your accent. No, there were definitely places where I was laughing. And I'm less sympathetic w/ bad actors... I think they were bad actors.

Imagine getting a medal for getting your guts rearranged. 😂

I live in an area of the U.S. where there are a lot of Portuguese people although mainly from the Azores. I knew you were not a Russian. lol

I love how this video uses the ‘BRRRRT’ sound from the A-10 Warthog to bleep out the profanities of the Russian.

Its ok to feel sorry for the wagners, until you realized Russia denied them and Wagner went back to Russia to be used again

I watched every reaction to this video and I loved mostly every single one. I really can't wait to watch this video! It's going to be so good!!!

Some JTAC just sitting in an observation tower with 8 radios and a cup of coffee thinking of creative ways to combine airstrikes. ☕🤔

“If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.” -Sun Tzu’s

No your definitely not the only one laughing at this.

Yeah they got the "Congrats, you survived the American military" participation medal lol. Kind of the same as giving a medal to the one who came in last place in a race just for participating to make them feel better lol.

I think your accent can be mistaken for Russian and your name can also. I have Italian relatives and their accent is similar to yours. And, no, you are not the only one chuckling. Wagner was "obliterated".

You actually don’t have to feel compassion for everyone, evil deserves no compassion

Well, the Wagner group is better trained and equipped than most Russian units. But when you get down to it, the Russian Army isn't very good as Ukraine is showing. They are fighting a 21st century war, with 20th century equipment and using 19th Century logistics. The beatdown they did was a heavy handed response to deter any more incursions from the Russians. And the Russian pilots wanting to get into the fight probably didn't happen, because they would have been eliminated. The guy talking from the Russian perspective were intercepted communications from the Wagner group to Moscow. And yeah I laughed at them. FRussia

Yea there was a Delta attachment with Army Rangers on site. And marines acting as a quick reaction force. And overwhelming air support. They never really stood any chance.

Theres a phrase thats popular among many Americans... Fuck around, find out. The reason we don't have the best healthcare system in the world... is because we have the best un-healthcare system, tbh I'm pretty sure we are technically the first, second, third and fourth with each of the branches of our military taking its own slot.

I love that the F*** censor sound is a clip of the A10 Warthog GAU-8 Avenger nose gun lol

US: " You have any troops in the area" Russia " nyet. We have no troops there" US military :brrrrrrrrt " yeah . You're right "

I work for a big international company with a very diverse team. And one of my friends at work is Russian (Well, technically Armenian I think? Grew up in Soviet Kazakhstan speaking Russian) -- and YES your accent, for whatever reason sounds a lot like his. ? I don't know why if you're Portuguese. Enjoying your videos!

I'm no expert and can't say I'm familiar with a Portuguese -English accent, but your accent has similar vowel sounds to eastern European English accents. It's interesting!

The sad part about this is that Russian brass seemingly allowed this to happen so they wouldn’t have to pay the mercenaries, they basically sent the mercs into a trap so they could watch how the US forces dealt with the threat.

You are definitely not the only one laughing.

There are two things you don't mess with when it comes to the American military. Our boats and our troops. Responses are almost always "proportional" in nature.

I can say the special forces are covered. You won't get a hand up on them. The millitary makes fun of each other inside. But in the end they have each other's backs.

You know those CAS pilots where patting each other on the back when they got back to base they had a lot of fun

As our colonel in Afghanistan said when the Taliban got a bit rowdy and the Apaches were green lit to go in: Go on boys, show them firepower. (Sidenote: I flew on medevacs, but even from a loiter, that $hit was impressive.)

Dark humor is the best humor.. IMO

We laugh it because the Russian troops both here and Ukraine use the term "fucked us/fucking us" without saying "we got fucked up" which really increases the humor level ironically.

Ahhh, it's called "combined arms" warfare...and we're very good at it!

Deconfliction. If you agree to a line but cross it anyway… cannot blame defenders for defending themselves. When that line is a huge famous river, it isn’t an accident or exercise. A deliberate attack was successfully defended.

U.S. Military doctrine tends to focus on the concepts of asymmetric warfare and targeted strikes. This means that, whenever possible, the commanders in the field will bring overpowering force to a specific target (or set of targets) to achieve their goals. This is why there was wave upon wave of different strikes - artillery, helicopters, air-to-mud (bombers), and drones - that kept pounding at the Wagner forces. As for why people might mistakenly think you're Russian, it probably has more to do with bad Hollywood actors than anything else - it seems that almost NOBODY in Hollywood is capable of a realistic Russian accent, so they settle on a European accent but with a deep voice. It's lazy acting on their part, but results in that particular stereotype. Keep doing what you do, man. I really enjoy your videos!

This why you fuck around, you find out is our motto. We stand ground and never back down

I love how the curse words in the video quote are replaced by A-10 Warthog gun firing noises. 🤣

the accent would be my guess on why someone would think you are Russian. Even if it's wrong the accent makes me think of Eastern Europe accents.

Don’t feel guilty, I laughed too 😂😂😂

my unit was apart of this and the whole time no jokes all business. We didn't feel like death is funny but we'd be damned if the ones dying was our people.

It's the accent. To people who haven't heard a native Portuguese speaker speak it sounds very similar to the native Russian speaker speaking English. Particularly European Portuguese. There's more Spanish influence in Brasilian Portuguese and it comes through in the accent. Your accent actually sounds like what I call "generic Eastern European bad guy" in American, Canadian, Australian, and British t.v. and film. Maybe Portuguese actors were easier to find to play bad guys during the cold war because you don't have that typical Western European sound and it just became industry standard, I don't really know.

I’ve been so looking forward to your reaction on this video. It did not disappoint. By the way, your English is great! Edit: the US military has a “f around and find out attitude”, it’s been that way since our foundation. This day, the Russians f’d around and boy did they find out 🇺🇸

Vlad loves to play around in the gray areas. In that case it went way bad for em

This is what we in the states call "F*** around and find out."

Russians “that’s not us” America “ok then Greenlight 😎” Russians “stop killing all our guys!”

6:25 - I guess it’s maybe just our infamous American ignorance, lol. But being totally honest I did think your accent sounded more Eastern European. Honestly I thought Portuguese would sound more similar to Spaniards and Italians, but I am happy to be proven wrong and learn something new about the world. Cheers!

The best part is that they thought they had air defense in place to protect them. We called Moscow to warn them against doing anything and after denying that it was them doing the attack they still told their guys on the ground to shutoff the air defense that was supposed to be covering the Wagner guys...but they never told Wagner that they'd done that lol.

I don’t subscribe to many channels, but your commentary is great. As a U.S. Marine, your channel is awesome.

I served in the US Navy aboard an attack submarine. I honestly felt sorry for whoever wanted a piece of our submarine force. Tomahawks, mines, torpodeoes and no way to see it coming.

The tank and the APC that were left over was I think intentional. I mean they had accurately targeted every thing else. We probably towed them out the next day for intelligence purposes. I mean every now and then when you have the chance to see what the other side is using, you go for it

That was Prigozen on call with putin explaining how bad they got destroyed. You can find it online

The portuguese accemt one of sounds like a russian accent, at least to a lot of people in America.

The mistake was attacking an oilfield. The US is rather protective of oilfields.

I will say I thought you had a Russian accent but now I hear the difference

At 9:30, I bet the Raptors and Eagles were just waiting for those SU-35's to take off.

i have watched dozens of reactions to this video and laughed at each one.

You are a good person if you laugh at this video

I saw you do sports not too long ago. Have you ever thought about doing America’s greatest race horse secretariat? if you do, I recommend you watch a video with all three Crown races

Great video & thank you for the laughs. You're awesome!

Russia: we have no troops in the area Us: ok removing the area Russia: WAI-

It must be that the accent difference between the Portuguese of Portugal and that of Brazil are very different, because I know 3 Brazilians here in my city, whereas your European Portuguese is the first I've heard. I can't believe they're the same language. At around 7:30--yes, obliterated would be an excellent word.

Imagine those guys going through all of that hell, SURVIVING, and then actually attacking the oil fields. Now they just have to contend with US Army Special Forces, Rangers, and US Marines. Some might would say they got off light.

He almost said "they got a medal for one surviving... goodjob Russia you're #1." Has me dying 😂😂

There are medals for just survival as amusing as it seems. The US military has the Purple Heart which is sometimes referred to as a medal for enemy marksmanship, but it does still show the soldier survived something that others have not so I can understand such awards being given.

Laughing vs. Compassion: Humans don't only laugh at happy things. We also laugh when things are so terrible there's nothing else to do. This was a tragic accident that cost many lives... Yes. And still a little funny, in a morbid way.

I thought you were Russian living in Portugal! To the American ear, your accent sounds very Russian. I have a friend who is from Portugal and his accent sounds nothing like yours, which is why some of us think you are Russian.

In answer to your question, I was laughing really hard while watching this, lol.

We Americans always give whole new meaning to overkill😂😂😮😮

I've always said that Portuguese sounds like Spanish with a Slavic accent.

I have to say this was when Trump was president… love him or hate him but he got the job done!

Everyone calls us bullies. But we really dont draw first blood that often.

The BRRRT censoring curses killed me^^