The Art of War: Proxy Warfare 

The US turned a blind eye while US citizen Gonzalo Lira was tortured in a Ukrainian prison for reporting on the events honestly. He may very well be back there now.... In context to govts justifying accepting atrocities when it suits their proxy war interests. He may very well be back in custody now. Its too bad he wasnt smoking pot and being stunning and brave, or else theyd trade terrorists like the merchant of death or whatever to get him out, but Im sure the US knows he was being tortured and was probably in on it. As an aside, f proxy wars, and f ukraine.

There's an often overlooked conflict involving Europeans and economics in South America, the salpeter war between Peru and Chile. It's bizarre no one has made a video on it yet

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I think a dog wrote it, ShihTzu

"A good commander is benevolent and unconcerned with fame." -Sun-Tuh-Zoo

"Until a mosquito lands on one's testicles, one does not truly understand restraint" -Sun Tzu, probably

I've been saying that for months 😤😬

@@Metaphix My favorite Sun-Tzu quote. 🤣

Explain how it's only indirect. I'm confused.

​@@odinfromcentr2 Simon is simply narrating, the channel is doing his dirty work.

​@@georgehh2574actualy... its youtube fighting this war For simon by demanding your time

It was a mess.

it helped that it was never proven by shooting down & capturing a Russian pilot. If a Russian pilot was ever caught then things may have been different.

Well there was direct conflict with China in that war too, but it somehow didn’t escalate outside of Korea.

@@thesauceman8457 China did not have nukes. Conflict between them and the USA was possible w/o nuclear war. It didn't escalate because Truman fired McCarthur who was smoking crack and wanted to carpet bomb China and even nuke them. Either option was gonna get WW3 started.

@@dcptivIf a pilot was caught AND we admitted it. That second part was key.

I'll have to look into that, I never heard anything like that.

Its sort of like the suez crisis where it was israel, the uk and france against egypt, the usa and the ussr.

Vatican how?

​@silverhawkscape2677 the Rebels were Catholic, whilst the rest of Nigeria was half Protestant half Muslim

He made a video about it ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-O2OLdE6peHY.htmlsi=0_VKYg0ZzndZXtYi

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Sun Tzu listed a chapter breakdown like that and I'd say he knows a little more about listing than you do pal, because he invented it!

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Dude wtf are you talking about That's like saying people don't talk about jv as much as the varsity team Lmfao and? Duh

@@tylermorrison420hey bud, hopefully you see this reply, no it is not like that at all. It is far more like saying here, this is a microscope, it has 100X power, and here is an electron microscope, it has 1,000,000 power, look at this cell with both scopes, it’s not the same dude. We aren’t always against our enemy, we need our enemy sometimes

Ruzzia has been an irrelevant regional power since the collapse of the soviet union, china is the US's only true rival anymore.

An argument could be made that the proxy war going on in Yemen between Iran and Saudi Arabia is kind of a proxy war for America. It's a twice removed proxy war on one side and a direct proxy war on the other side.

@@andrewmathias1967 this is correct, arms are funded partly by black rock

Lenin was an international socialist, I reckon he thought about war a lot. At least the need for proxy war to create more communist states.

I mean Lenin did wage war on the majority of his populace; his political party lost the votes so he resorted to violence. Though I guess the fighting was more led by Trotsky

​@ClericOfPholtus His own people and every other peoples within their vicinity

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Simon loves it when we say he looks like every other bald guy with a beard.

Forgot to mention that the Algonquin and Iroquois were actively fighting against each other when the French arrived. The French sided with the Algonquin (because they were the first people they encountered) which made them enemy of the Iroquois. When Britain and France started fighting for power, the Iroquois sided with the British because France sided with their enemies. It was a four-way proxy war with two alliances hoping to use their partner in defeating their traditional enemy.

You mean the aboriginals were not smoking peace pipes and banging all the time? That's what Trudeau says

Sun Tzu commented that! And I'd say he knows a little more about commenting that you do _pal_ because he invented it!

The Taliban were the biggest and most influential group that existed after the Soviet-afgan war proclaiming themselves as the successor of the mantel. And no, there are no group fighting the Taliban that has anything to do with the Mujahedeen, the only fighting force left in Afghanistan that are against the Taliban are the ISIL, an ISIS remnant funded and protected by the US since the Kunduz airlift, they have never claimed nor have any relation with Taliban or the Mujahedeen. Or maybe you are talking about the northern opium warlords, they have all surrendered and left the country aftet the US retreat. They are various group of ethnic and religious minorities, whom rights were firmly protected by the Soviets, whom temporarily allied with US for their enrichment and protection from the Taliban discrimination, this group is usually are usually misrepresented intentionally by US propaganda as "liberals" and the "true Mujahedeen" to shield themselves from embarrassment from funding terrorist that killed thousands of their own peoples, the groups themselves has never claimed so, being politically against the Mujahedeen. The northern warlords being subjected to US demand to "democratize" and "embrace western culture" have officially joined the Taliban, some warlords still want to hold on to power but have to left the country and denounced by their tribal elders, most groups of the northern alliance are now in Taliban governments with legal rights protection and representation in governments.

Do you know what some of these manuals are called? I’d love to see if they have English translations

@@yodatrombonist121 I only know the "Art of War" by SunTzu. Your local college may have have some good Chinese sources on the topics

Great example, although I'm not sure it qualifies as a proxy war. Alexios I was aiming to hire a large number of Western knights to fight directly for him, and even required them to swear allegiance to him and directly return any cities they conquered to the Roman Empire. They ended up being much more independent than he had hoped, but the intent was to treat them more as mercenaries than as a nominally independent proxy force.

@@JackHankeAnd yeah, war tends to backfire in many ways.

@@philipdemaeyer1665 True. In defense of the Romans, though, they didn't start the war. The Turks had just invaded and conquered much of their heartland, which they had inhabited for the past millennium. Wanting their land back was pretty reasonable, IMO.

It was only 50 Wagner and hundreds of Syrian allies , propaganda really gotta y'all fucked , same said for the lone survivor situation according to the average American and Hollywood it was 4 vs 100s but in reality it was less then 12

@@lizzyinthecut3617most tank kills on both sides have been from artillery.

⁠@@kingtachalla6181lol that doesn’t make it any better for the Wagnerites. I see you like to simp for loosing sides.

They charged into a minefield. Bad call for the Ukrainian command for not looking before leaping. Not an example Russian combat prowess. Remove the minefield or the lack of tactical awareness of the Ukrainian command for missing the minefield in this avoidable incident and it would have gone very badly for Russia. Ukraine got careless. Russia got lucky.

@@satanicmicrochipv5656 buddy the entire frontline is a minefield and it’s easier to say they need to remove it than it is to actually remove a minefield.

That's a very good point, and it can only be put down to the fact we have our morals and principles still intact in the west, especially in military cricles. It's our politicians that are personally selfish.

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I'm not sure you can say that's still ongoing. The US is now much more invested in its relationship with India than it is with Pakistan, especially militarily, and India has been edging away from Russia as Russia's significance on the global stage decreases.

Ecowas is Western. Western africa.

@@JackHankeAnd of course, is support for Pak may not be ongoing right now considering China is supporting pak now, thereby changing the dynamics. Until very recently though, it was a real thing.

​@@JackHankeAndIndia is not edging away from Russia at all. Keep telling yourself that.

​@@hg.chetanChina has always supported Pakistan. Pakistan was the one which airlifted Henry Kissinger to China in the first place.

They claim land in Turkey,iran and Syria Be a mess if Kurds in Iraq became its own country

That could only be decided by the Syrian government, any outside actor cannot create a new state within another nations borders.

@@36minutesago7 you do realize that it's the Kurds living inside of Syria that have kicked ISIS out and established a safe area when civilians of all ethnicity's and religions can live their lives safe from attacks from everywhere except Turkish and Russian airforces right? The right of self rule is a natural human right and it's up to people living anywhere they are too determined how free they want to be. Obviously if they are subjects of a foreign power they might have to fight for that independence. But it's not a governments position to give something away that it doesn't possess the right to to begin with.

How would his videos cover sociology though?

@maquacr7014 As I said, they would be used as a support resource. You can't simply bombard sociological theory to 16 to 18 yo students. You start with something they can reach, like Cold War, expand the topic into proxi wars (that's when the video would be useful), and then, a bit of sociological theory would top it up. In this case, Samuel Huntington's Clash of Civilizations, which falls into the umbrella of Sociology (and not Political Science) when it comes to what is known as 6th form in the UK. Not an easy task, and certainly to advanced students.

@@alexandrebacci6589 Interesting. Thanks for explaining.

Explain please

and ukraine isnt a proxy war? lol this channel is a joke…

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