How Powerful is Lebanon’s Militant Force? 

@Task and Purpose - will you cover the Israeli foam bomb?

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Ya know Mr. Cappy, a couple years ago i told you id been critical of you in the past but that you'd come a long way. Well, as someone who believes its important to admit when theyre wrong, or moreover, if youre going to criticize then you need to praise too, your channel and yourself as a talent has grown tremendously. You are pretty much my premier choice for news and more indepth analysis on the parts of the world you cover. Its become a lot more than "just a war channel." There are still a couple other channels that are pretty solid in terms of analysis but you're right there with them. Congrats. Im happy for you and all you've accomplished. The hard work definitely shows. Kaizen.

Can Hezbollah veterans join the Navy Federal Credit Union? What about American 🇺🇸 veterans who served, but got booted 🥾 with a Duck Dinner 🍲, like Bowe Bergdahl? 😅

Hi @Chris Cappy, just to add some clarification: the martyrdom does exist in Islam. But it is not "unrestricted". There are also rules of war in Islam, including a clear separation between civilians and warriors, preserving religious sites, fauna and flora (killing animals, destroying vegetation and mistreating prisoners of war for example are Kabaa'eer aka Major Sins that won't be forgiven). There are also strict conditions about war declaration and war leadership. Just to say that it is *far* more complicated than that, *hypothetially*. But when you add an apocalyptic version of Islam like modern Shiism, awaiting for the coming of the Mahdi, their Messiah (in Sunni and traditional Islam, the Messiah is Jesus and nobody can trigger the Apocalypse and fundamentally nobody knows, as opposed to Shiism where Mahdi is coming soon, always very soon), and when you add Islamic schooling chaos with 100 years of failed nation states building and sub-factions of Islam claiming to represent the "only true" Sharia (BTW Sharia means legislation, so yeah there was never one single Sharia), and then you add security instability creating appeal for more fundies and fascists (you recognize them as usual as they claim to be the only true representatives of a religion, also called Takfir-ri-een, literally "those who say everybody else are Kuffars or apostates, thus the escalations of "crazier, more fundamentalist than though") Is it Islam? I'd say, it is more Islamism. The activist, weaponized, borderline if not fully fascistic movements claiming "pure" representation of Islam. Also anti-state, often underground, often populist when they can get that support, in times of crisis or war zones.

you are awesome..you are a human.Nice thinking

You realize who the true enemy is.

@@chinpokimon9173 yup, and that the tree of liberty needs “watering”

What is our business? I suspect you do not understand the concept that the best defence is a good offense. War is hell, as you know. But your attitude seems to be better war in the USA than somewhere else. No thanks.

No one's trying to come to america and fight us here... The logistics is too much so yea we should not be in other people lands before Israel we had no "enemies" in the middle east

That's fairly misleading

​@@charleshall6357no he's right

They are wrong as a lebanese.​@@thegrimreaper.971 Hezbollah is installing shia settlements in sunni and christian areas, aka 65% of the population. They are unpopular amongst non shias

do u mean popular in Palestinian and Lebanon Muslims? then yes but don't get fooled by them, Hezbollah is just using Lebanon territory to fulfill Iranian power in Palestine

@@gumimegpoid9099 goofy kid 💀💀💀💀

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What do you expect from a veteran dog of the empire

Thanks

You present a very tortured interpretation of the word “terrorism.”

@@MB-pd8gt don’t say that bro that’s wrong 😭

He is amerucan what do you expect

Hezbullah actually has a deal with Israel that as long as Israel doesn’t attack Lebanese civilians they won’t attack Israeli civilian targets

couldn't that be said about every country if we look at their history ?

I know right, they're just occupants helping their little devil state

@@iamafish928Lol. Not really. You’re also reaching deep into history to find examples, we’re living through the same American imperialism we’ve seen since the 40s, destabilizing and demonizing countries and peoples for profit.

more like colonial region keepers

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Generally, people who are fighting to die don't win wars because they are reckless. See Japan.

For them

​@@mh-ht2fpcorrect, but they cause the other side as much suffering as possible before they go out

that's cause we fight fair and care about collateral and civilian casualties

​@@JoeyP946funny 😂😂😂

No not really

@@celestialsatheist1535 Haha, you are joking, aren't you? Aren't you?!

The pentagon is a part of the US government. It is a state actor, not a non-state actor. It is in a different category. But yes, thank you, America is the most powerful country in the world.

Prolly

The CIA and the Military Industrial Complex is

Well said

well said bro, also quick question how your relationship with palestinans especially who are christians & athiest....

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What the hell is Moslem??

as a Lebanese Muslim Sunni, I agree with everything you said brother

@@alifazel623Israel has never been” aggressive”. .. maybe you should learn before you spread rubbish

​@@JoshSand-bl3wiyeah they've never been aggressive, they just invaded lebanon twice and funded militias.

​@@alifazel623aggression that they have often brought onto themselves.

@@JoshSand-bl3wi Israel attacks every time and then calls it "pre-emptive strike", you guys are coping

@@7son51 Idk if Israel has done such a thing You provide no verification But even of they did I’ll bet you that it was to preserve their own existence

Sri Lankan Tamil here, I believe we also invented the car bomb

​@kennethmariyanayagam No, actually Tamil Tigers started their operation in 1976, but Hamas suicide bombings started way before, during the 1950 on a small scale, the significant happened in 1989 with a loss of 16 killed

Free Palestine

@@atifarooz Don't think Hamas even existed during that time. Also Kamikaze way before anyone

​@@atifaroozhamas was formed in 1987, so how could they have carried out bombings in the 1950s.😂

It's a political party with a private army. Lebanon is the one who needs to sort itself out.

As Hamas is the State inside Gaza.

​@@josepnebotrius872Hamas IS gaza, it has no opposition, they control everyone there

@@josepnebotrius872 Hamas controlled the Gaza strip and partially the west bank, Hezbollah controls south Lebanon.

Is that a good thing? A country inside a country??

Well to solve terrorism, you need to nation build and conduct de facto policing. Something the military is ill-suited for. But to nation build you need good policies. But the US haven't been passing particularly good domestic policies for the past several decades. Likewise, trust in US police has dropped substantially. So I don't think the top brass knows how to nation build so they resort to the military which doesn't work.

Big shots also know Leb-Hezb is also quite active in our back yard. There are thousands of Leb immigrant communities all over south and central America as well as Canada, and the Leb-Hezb act as what we would call an organized crime ring or mafia to both financially support and occasionally leverage those communities for illicit trade which brings in money and moves hard to get military hardware around.

​@@fortusvictus8297that's always a given. The biz model works. Have a nice façade, a popular ideology and voilá u have a masque for ur less acceptable activities. Grow big and u get a place in org crime sindicat.

@@neurofiedyamato8763 I think to solve terrorism, Israel can give the land back. The occupation is what created the resistance in first place leading us to where we are at now.

and what land is that?@@minwhalee6630

I didn't know that about the second part. Who set that restriction on the Lebanese military? Is it part of a peace treaty?

@@HidInMistProductions the USA controls what can and what cant the Lebanese army get, it reached to a point where the Lebanese army had to refuse a very huge military aid from Russia which encompassed several Tanks, 7 MiG fighters, and thousands of bullets of fear of angering the US.

@@mohammadjaafar1496 What the heck. Every day I learn more about U.S. foreign policy and every day I'm more disappointed. Thanks for taking the time to answer + inform me, I appreciate it.

@HidInMistProductions They limit what the army can get, multiple countries have offered to arm Lebanon such as Russia, China and Iran but US threatened with sanctions if the Lebanese accept and are only allowed to buy from countries such as US, France and allies and this way they can limit what the Lebanese army has. So no air defences, no heavy weapons, no proper tanks, no fighter jets etc nothing that can pose a danger to Israel. Which Hez uses as a justification for them having their own arms and that partly makes them stronger than the Lebanese army

I wont argue on the past Its blurry But what will happen today There are missile attacks landing on israel daily from lebanon And few invasions have accrued Israel response is limited Israel Cities were evacuated What do you think will happen next ,if it continues like that ? Will it do any good to lebanon Enforcing another war on israel ?

Long Live The Phalange! 🇱🇧

@@khabbad😂 uh, ok.

Yeah, while the Christians are divided (e.x. the Free Patriotic Movement is chill with Hezbollah and doesn't like Israel), the right-wing Christian militias during the civil war had a hand in some atrocious stuff like the Sabra & Shatila massacre against Palestinian refugee camps (with the assistance of the IDF).

​@@HidInMistProductions"Had a hand"? You mean sole responsibility. Israelis didn't shoot or kill any civilians at Sabra and Shatila. 100% of the crimes were committed by a Christian milita. Israel did not order them to do so, and they did not take them on a tour of the camp pointing out innocents to shoot. Israeli forces weren't even in the camp. Who's guilty, the people doing the shooting on their own initiative or some Israelis outside the camp nearby that have nothing to do with it? The argument about whether Israel could have successfully intervened is separate from who committed the massacre. It was clearly not committed by Israelis. This is important because the IDF is constantly accused of opening fire on civilians in supposed massacres but such events are never named because they never happened. When they are named, they're wrong: it's non-Israeli groups as in Lebanon, or pre-IDF armed extremist groups 75+ years ago. And in the case of the later, there usually was a similar reprisal days later. During the British mandate there were frequent local massacres of Jews which led to some brief unfortunate periods of back-and-forth violence between Jews and Arabs.

​@@khabbad 😂

Loyalist or republican?

@@JustAnotherAccount8 Just like natives in North America, Australia, New Zealand, Algeria, South Africa etc, the Irish suffered from western Angloid white supremacist settler colonial genocide & lebensraum. But since they look "white" it was to a lesser extent & they didn't need a white savior movie like Dances with Wolves, Avatar etc for empathy with other victims like Palestine and South Africa. Northen Ireland has Protestant settler colonialist who like in Israel stole the land and resources while the natives live like Palestinians/South Africans/North American Natives in walled ghettos/reservations/concentration camps.

@@HaloJumper7 okay? Hows that relevant Edit: im not denying this happened and im pro palestine and pro irish self determination. But its just not relevant to my question at all

@@JustAnotherAccount8 how about you start by putting your cards on the table, before aggressively trying to extract information from a stranger on the internet?

@@poupoupidoum aggressive?!?!?!? It was a simple question with zero aggression behind it. How did you get aggression from a three word question?!?!

It's all a matter of perspective, ask how the Communist Kurds felt about Iraq and seeing USA as a savior, or how Maoist Rebels felt against China in Napel after China funds Monarchists to fight communists. War creates strange bedfellows.

​@@daiyumyothat's a very complex social mix.

I'd argue Nelson Mandella was a terroist who reformed...

Well said

You are surely not from Lebanon or Syria...people in Lebanon and Syria suffer because of Hezbollah.

@marina12345678911000 we don't bro, hezbollah kinda exist, and they do nothing. In suriya they're helping stabilise the region I live under hezbollah territory and also have a home in normal lebanon No difference

@@marina12345678911000 I'm not justifying any of the Hezbollah's actions. My comment was for the western audiences who are brainwashed by the government and mainstream media. Hezbollah wouldn't exist if USA didn't invade middle east or Zionist didn't take Palestinian land. The root problem is US foreign policy and Europeans seeing Muslims as a lesser race and terrorists. It's all about century old colonial aspects of Europe. They're doing the same old colonization but this time wearing a democratic human rights champions musk.

What does it means

Oh, now there are holes in their war! It's a sure sign to stop it now.

Except it's wholey unholy.

There is nothing holy about Jihadists. And never was. These people are fanatic and evil.

its being killed by refusing to commit a sin but these guys are being killed by commiting the most sin ever@@5jjt

While i support the innoncent palestinian people, they no of comments calling for jihad is scary

If you really think this you are in for a nasty surprise.

That’s a good point.

I really don't think this is true. I have a hard time imagining a single more ideological group of people on the planet. Their entire rhetoric is completely detached from material considerations, so I have to agree with the statement above, you'd be in for a big surprise.

​@smokeythebear1633 some do join for $, some out of fear, some out of support for an ideology, some for power. . .it's a host of things - and people in desperate situations with little flow of information are set up to fall into this lifestyle

Some yes but not near as many as you think. This isn’t the modern American Army where most are using it as a means to an end

I usually bite back when I see msm comments but dang it you nailed it.

Idk man he is misrepresenting some stuff

@@mhmadbedrddeen3414 which vid is propaganda?

@@zaynosman5162 seriously not trying to argue. Which parts?

@@Watermelon43564 I commented on this video on how he says suicide is martyrdom in Islam which is completly false as suicide is forbidden

The only group of people in Lebanon who support Hezbollah are the Shias, which is about a 1/3 of the population.

Ok well Lebanon is a failed state. Those services aren't being provided to people now. The Lebanese people can't afford a war now.

Thats exactly what christian missionary do in africa, provide them with infrastructure of service like school and hospital bro

@@gutspark6835 god is never very far from tragedies

@@poupoupidoumthat is disrespectful actually. Most tragedies are caused by the US and they are the biggest devil in this world.

oh hi mossad agent

hasbara

@addounsamiyoucef9423 What you talking about Willis?

not see often? just search the state department's position it's the same thing

Lol. I laugh when the guy says non bias and the people believe him.

Same as israel. If they didnt get billions from nato countries they would be nothing.

They are financially independent nowadays apparently.

​@@CraigTheBrute-yf7noi call bullshit. No one making any money in Lebanon right now. They getting funding from Iran.

@@mandrake925 they have smuggling operations across latin america, not just lebanon

@@CraigTheBrute-yf7no that probably still isn't enough. The taliban had 98% of the world supply of poppy and where still getting outside funding. There is 0 chance they are making enough to fund operations in Lebanon, South America, Syria, and wherever else just from operations. They have probably a couple billion dollars worth in missles, rockets, and drones alone. Let alone paying 50k to 100k soldiers. They operate hospitals, social services, schools so they have employees to pay and they probably don't charge local population much bc Lebanon is broke asf. They have to be getting outside funding the math doesn't add up

It’s like when you read old articles about slaves selfishly abandoning the fields and wickedly becoming maroons.

What do you expect from the one that was in Iraq? Was he there to read bed time stories to children, or to terrorize prisoners of war in Abu Gharib?

My understanding is that he has a substantial production effort behind this and most RU-vidrs producing this much content are largely readers and presenters.

Yeap. Their Motto? Don't start no s***, won't be no s***! Peace. :)

@@CaseyHarrisSr yeah....thats stupid....

They are oil peace keepers😂😂😂

YT is a tech tyrant

The irony is that when ScamTube de-monetise a video, they don't disable adverts on it, they just keep all the money the video earns. And we wonder why so many videos get "de-monitised"...

Censorship is the first step to a non free state.

At least for most Americans I don’t think it’s about being busy, it's that they don’t care. We will make time to know every detail of celebrity gossip and in depth lore of our favorite shows, but don’t have a clue about current events and the relevant history. I think this is likely true of most people period, but I can only speak about my experience living in the US.

​@@cwjalexxmostly true of those in the western world, because the entire western world is slowly and effectively becoming the USA. It's not as bad as the USA in most of the western world, and we tend to be less ignorant on many topics, but it's still generally true nowadays.

@@Dee_Ultimate_islamapho_bist Not really, the US simply does not have borders with hostile states, but Europe constantly receives thousands of refugees by boat or through Turkish/eastern borders. Many “refugees” from Syria were fighters who fought against Assad. Yesterday they took pictures with severed heads, and then peacefully drank coffee in Europe. Today Scholz supports the bombing of Gaza in the news headlines of some publications, and what is going through their minds now? All countries have different headaches and threats

@@daiyumyo they are cowards and evil for defending their country against foreign invaders and occupiers? What does that make Israel, US, and French occupiers then? Let me guess, "peacekeepers"?

@@daiyumyo No cowards my friend. The love death more than you love your live.

@@daiyumyo my bad. You are right.

This is probably due to RU-vid's censorship. Content creators resort to creative ways to say self-deletion without saying it :)

Terms and words that we are familiar with are being censored by big tech. Many new terms are being used to bypass censors such as "unalive"

They aren't the same group now as they were then. They are trained, battle hardened, and motivated. That said, the US has a score to settle with them so I am curious to see what those carrier strike groups will do.

you lost to them twice. why were you in lebanon commiting massacres in the first place?

@@moesh5475I love when people say we lost to them, then name even a single battle they won, even one minor skirmish

@@CatManOfTaste they blew up every single military base and out post and barrack for the united states in the 80s ultimately forcing them to withdraw from the country because they could not contain the attacks or stop / prevent them. as an American citizen i see that as a loss sadly and I wish we didn't have to lose our men like that. we still haven't gotten revenge till this day for our fallen. but yes sadly hate to admit we lost to them.

battle of bint jbeil, battle of wasi el hujair, theres many many more. u won 0 wars vs lebanon @@CatManOfTaste

Unbiased ??? Hahaha

I was thinking in my head about a video of dudes begging to shoot regular guys and kids from a plane and just most resent vito to not cease fire and they call them evil?? 😂😂

​@@lintonero9018the question is, who started the war? Not Israel , then who?

@@avik4343 The comment was talking about Iraq...

Zionists started the war in 1948 when they decided to occupy Palestine after they've been given refuge by the Palestinians @@avik4343

​@@avik4343its been going on since 1947....from how Israel was born, who were behind them and the displacement of millions.

​@@DieselAF you sir are delusional.

​@@Oth23it would be as anti-semitic. Maybe a middle ground - it was there cause there was a war whose context is israeli solgiers being kidnaped with the aim of exchanging them for palest members of hez group. Context- was U - very anti-jew There is reasonable and understandable criticism and then there is exageration. And it is in exageration where anti-jew sentiment can be easily identified. Notice I didn't say anti-zionist, I wrote anti-jew.

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I’m an Israeli too and from The north and it’s obvious hezballah doesn’t want war cuz they know Lebanon can’t physically and economically handle a war they are a very strong organization if they wanted they woulda attacked us 3 months ago

Propaganda

With full of propaganda

Isis funded itself by exchanging oil for arms in the black market via turkiye. No oil - no money - no isis. But sure the n1 oil power house most definatelly would waste money and effort for oil on the other side of the world, a raw material who isn't that uncommon 😂

There's not enough oil there to warrant US forces protection. But, it does make sense to interdict terrorist supply lines.

Of the 7.86 million barrels per day the U.S. imported in 2020, the majority came from its North American neighbors: Canada, with 4.13 million barrels (52.5%), and Mexico, with 750,000 (9.6%). But imports coming from outside North America are significant. Russia, with 540,000 barrels a day (6.6%), was the top non-continental contributor. Roughly 11% of the imports came collectively from OPEC countries, including 520,000 from Saudi Arabia. 11% of 7.86 million is roughly 864,000 minus the 540,000 from Saudi Arabia leaves 320,000 from other OPEC nations

The argument does not make any sense, there is not significant Oil resources in Syria in the first place. Next is that the vast majority of US oil that is not supplied domestically is from countries in North America.

I promise u the people of Lebanon are struggling because of hezballah

Let it be known that the USA was not a fair broker, the USA attempted to wag its tail by ignoring the Lebanese delegation calls for several weeks, till Hezbollah launched several drones which forced the USA broker to come back to Lebanon and be "fair".

@@mohammadjaafar1496 ok. May peace and justice -- HUMAN RIGHTS, rule of law evenly applied, kindness -- prevail in all the dark and troubled corners. We have our own huge messes in the USA, I truly do not understand our political leaders policies or priorities. Corporate greed seems to drive everything.

@@jenniferfar corporate greeds that you whole heartedly vote for.I mean c'mon,how can you be against entity that you have all the support for

@@AzizDoufikar2280 I have no idea what values you are assigning to me. I do not vote. I'm a conscientious objector. I used to read pipeline white papers for work and later worked in the industry briefly. I am mostly aware of security issues as regards pipelines and offshore rigs. Please be more specific. I am not on Facebook or X etc...I am a communications specialist.

wrong. Hizbollah didn't form until the late 80s, in response to Israel's brutal invasion and occupation in 1985. The group who carbombed the marine base was a precursor group. They were Lebonese patriots who targeted the US forces because of their support of Lebonese fascists who were torturing and killing people. As usual Washington DC was supporting the bad guys.

and since then i usa troops haven't put a foot in our country

Maybe don't go invade other nations if you don't like getting blown up?

No they didn't it was the Islamic jihad ladd

And Israel would’ve taken the South too.

they did it in 2000 against idf

When your survival is at stake, there is no other choice but to fight back.

Tactical draw? Did you see the death number? Not to mention that Lebanon is collapsing since

@@user-qu8tp1hj4o if wars were determined by who killed more Germany won WW2.

2006 they attacked israel and won no land or concessions from israel and lost way more soldiers and way more civilians. In no way is that a draw. Israel successfully defended itself

Im so sorry to hear that, and even worse is there only seems to be escalation. NO one wants to talk peace. Its sad to see such anger and bitter hatred among Brothers.

During the French mandate or the Ottomans?

That's a huge reason for the radicalization of Lebanon. The Christians used to be the business leaders when Lebanon was wealthy and the persecution drove many of them away. During a large part of the 20th century if you met an Arab immigrant in the west they were mainly Christians fleeing persecution. When the business leaders fled they took a lot of their money with them and the Lebanese economy crashed, for awhile people were sending money back to family but as things got worse and worse those family members fled themselves and eventually even the remittances and foreign investment dried up.

I bet you don't know which continent that is

@@KennyNGA psh it's Afraisartica, duh. Please be careful waddling. We know you have a hard time with left and right.