U.S. invasion of Panama (1989-90) - Op. 'Just Cause' 

That Game series cool

​@@cfiber_inc i have just cause 3 and 4, both are really fun

They really missed the chance of putting a soldier with a grappling hook as an Easter egg 😂

Seems legit

​@@nomoretears_ damn that wouldve been great, or a soldier with a wingsuit

Imagine if they played "Panama" by Van Halen LMAO

I was there for that

The one that broke Noriega was when they played never gonna give you up. They Rick rolled him into submission. This means the US military had the first Rick roll in history.

@@aj3751 they did and even played Rick Astley’s Never gonna give you up

​@@lasombra1469 That Song Should Be Classified as a Weapon of Mass Destruction and Rick astley Should be charged with war crimes

Real

He even has people in the cia

Cod black ops 2 makes sense with this whole paragraph, undercover Cia spy, Menendez, and finally the numbers which haunted Mason

I'm calling it, it was Archer, Ray, and Cyril as the numbers guy

​@@Ramschat who?

If only they knew what was happening they wouldn't have celebrated that much tho

@@MissCleo24yeah… that’s how it’s always kind of been sadly

​@@whonow3486is Noriega really a better option?

​@@arithgutierrezno

Well, everyone who didnt have their family members and homes burnt down during the invasion...

wie alle deiner Vorfahren Mörder, Kriegsverbrecher und Besatzer unschuldiger Völker - den vereinigten Staaten von Amerika ist das heuchlerischste Imperium aller Zeiten!

That’s awesome

Thank him for his service, he had probably seen chaotic stuff, though i hope he hasnt.

How's that awesome. Modern day colonialism. Using drugs as an excuse to invade a country and control a canal that doesn't belong to them

​@@spiderhussain8795 isn't it weird how one guy will say "we did all this horrible stuff." And other come along like "awesome work" It like they are GENUINELY blind and have been brainwashed.

same.

Did you watch the video? That was the event that allowed us to start the invasion. I'm almost certain that was set up by the three letter agencies in order to go to war.

but not much when the subject is USA invanding middle and south america

Exatamente snake.

We did not take hostages, we were protecting the civies from the attack

Thanking them for what? For serving corrupt politicians and agencies?

@@ermining1 For facing down an army that declared war on the US and restoring democracy to Panama, maybe?

@@Dennis-nc3vw a country that the US hasd already a decent military presence in and with the guy taking power being a CIA asset... Yeah sure, a worthwhile war...

@@ermining1 Are you just trying to take a jab at the US by mentioning he was a former CIA asset, or are you really suggesting that he wasn't a threat even though he freaking declared war on the US and killed Americans? The fact he was a former CIA operative was just one more reason America was justified in taking him out.

We arrived there about four hours later to secure that airfield. in that time looters had stripped the metal from the walls and roof of the hangar. Taken the sinks and toilets from the bathroom and were half way to prying up all the one inch tiles off the floor. All the very badly hurt casualties were sent to Fort Sam Houston for long term treatment. We had a guy shot up badly, some guys from his platoon went down to see him. There was a SEAL from that raid in the bed next to him. He said as they were running accost the runway the opening gun fire had blown the muscle off of his thighs and he fell on his face. Their medic ran over and started tying off the meat with tourniquets as he continued suppressing fire with his short M-60, until he belt ran out and then passed out.

Eradicated? They might have been a little bit dramatic. Almost all buildings from the canal zone still exists. The eradicated areas where in low income neighborhoods where civilians were massacred, just because they lived close to a panamenian army base.

ah yes more or less destroyed than they alrwady were?

I like how everyone here is just assuming that my parent came from higher income communities where the effects were minimal. Respectfully, those were there stories, they were there in that era, don’t try and tell it for them🤙🏿

Thank you for your service

Talk about timing. I wonder how it felt to be that guy who got out right before Pearl Harbor or 9/11.

@@SchlopFlopper this reminds me of back in the 90s when I read an excerpt from a guy on a carrier at Okinawa when he saw the Bunker Hill get hit. He said that him and his buddies were on their flight deck looking at the Bunker Hill on fire and thinking “that could have been us”.

@blockmasterscott Russia is also doing a good job in Ukraine, too. Didn't you know? You should team up with the Russians, no?

@@teapotserving6975 what you smoking i want some

My grandfather told me stories about this as well. I believe he was also on a list because of his relation to American soldiers (my father and an uncle) but they couldn't find him because he was far from the city, in the mountains. The same mountains Victoriano Lorenzo fought in during the thousand day war. He loved his history and passed that love of it down to me. May he rest in peace, he passed away just over a year ago at 96. He was proud at how far his country had come compared to the days of Noriega

Noriega was made president by the CIA (double agent) he killed Torrijos (best president in history according to Panamanians) it can be interpreted as revenge for the canal's sovereignty treaty. Noriega was captured by the Panamanian police themselves but the US never sent transport, the plan failed and the rest is history. He was sentenced to death but was tried in the USA and they pardoned him because he served them

@Emilio Melendez 507 ★ It's true that he may have had a role to play in Torrijos' death, but he was well on his way to becoming a leader before he helped the CIA. Also, I know some Panamanians say that Torrijos was a good leader but the reality is he was a dictator of Panama that seized control of the country and implemented many policies that were the building blocks for Noriega. Most people that claim he was great say that because Torrijos did a lot to prop up his public image, like how Pablo Escobar used his drug money to donate all the time. I've never heard of him being considered for the death penalty but I do know that he served only half the time in the US as a POW. But he was also extradited and tried in France, who did not recognize his POW status and then sent to serve his sentence in Panama where he died in 2017. Also, he definitely WAS NOT captured by Panamanian police. He was in the Vatican embassy until he surrendered and released into US forces custody. Should he have received the death penalty? Honestly perhaps but it's good to know he spent the rest of his days behind locked bars where he belonged. He didn't deserve freedom after his crimes

So culbia still being a dystopia.

@@musofir2204 What emilio was refering to when he said that noriega was catured by panamenian police force is an event prior to the invasion of panama. This event was the coup d'état of 1989 know as "the Albrook massacre".

Thanks for saying this. I had the honor of fighting with the 82nd in Cerro Tigre and Colon. On January 1st we walked into Sabanita outside Colon. We were met by a mob of Panamanians celebrating the invasion, they invited us into their homes , fed us and explained why they were so happy. I will never forget that.

Many ethnic Russians have celebrated the Russian invasion of the Ukraine.

Us Panamenians have a lot of mixed feelings about the invasion since it was obviously a very dark event for us but so was Noriega's dictactorship. Saddest thing is lots of Noriega's people are still in positions of power and are a still a big cause of corruption here to this day. We fought hard against foreign occupation in Panama for our leaders to sell us yet again for a mining deal. Its like nothing ever changed in terms of both foreign control and our government's repression.

​@@Heavywall70 Thats very cool, my grandmother always tells me about the time she took food to some US troops during the invasion

​​@Heavywall70 I love the part where you conveniently ignore that.The u s is exactly who propped up and supported noriega in the first place. They only got rid of him because they didn't need him anymore

I was looking for a Black Ops 2 reference

"Him?"

@@Wolf-wc1js exactly

"What are you looking So smug for?" -Woods

Woods: No mason

Two tours the in Panama? The war only lasted a month.

Rest in piss both of them and everyone else who died for US capitalists interests in this and every other war they started.

Rip Sld1 Lynnels, the first Panamanian soldier killed in the invasión, his father was in the US army but he joined the Panamanian National Guard then PDF in the early 80s, he was KIA protecting his friends in Amador

That’s awesome

One of my Lifeguard Coordinators was a PDF soldier and survived the Apache attack on his base, he lost 2 close friends in front of his eyes

Now I wanna see Simple History to make a Operation Gothic Serpent/Battle of Mogadishu video.

No casualties from these 2 models only minor damage from flying low (some OH-6s were prone to wire traps and electrical wires from flying too low)

@@SniperFallen06 My father was a soldier during the Torrijos era. He retired when Noriega took office. His best friend from the battalion died when he knocked out an M551 with a ZPU cannon in the Santa Ana neighborhoo d. He died from shrapnel. (there are undocumented casualties for unknown reasons)

It is also depicted in Just Cause 2

Weird how did he even know that he was put into a game wherein fact he was inside the prison

@@Jupiter.141 Probably saw it on TV or saw guards playing it in some break-room? Who knows.

@@Razgriz_01 you are not allowed to play. Games in workplace. Especially on a prison facility. Noriega was put into maximum security and by standards of every maximum security around the globe television is not allowed

@@Jupiter.141 Then he must've overheard it then. It is funny how he even found out about BO2 like you said.

I don't care about your dad. Why are you justifying your birth cause too much

Your dad is my servant.

@@teapotserving6975 what?

I live here so I can believe the heat stroke part, it gets very hot here very quickly sometimes

@@teapotserving6975 what drugs are you on?

You should be ashamed of him. After all, he participated in an illegal invasion of a foreign country. You're kind of for International Law? Filthy Hypocrites

Thar is pretty cool tbf

That’s really cool!

Whoah, hard r bro. It's "rigga".

So did the family of Jonas Savimbi

I know this is partially unrelated but Jonas Savimbi also sued Activision and even the late Fidel Castro during the development of black ops one after the operation 40 mission

​@Coleman 48 Jonas savimbi was already dead long before Bo2 was released. His children sued Activision

I'm glad it got dismissed. Tin pot dictators and their "military" (It's a stretch to even call it that) need to be reminded of their place in the food chain every now and then, whether that be on the field of combat or in the digital space.

@@thelonewanderer2550 ah I see. It appears that I misread it, thank you for the correction

Also You got another thing coming by Judas Priest and Don’t fear the reaper by Blue Oyster Cult

Dude got Rick Rolled lol

Literally rick-rolled into surrender.

The US Army is surprisingly progressive, they were rickrolling people way before the 2000s.

Mf got rick rolled, instant demoralized

You suffer with me?

HUDSON?! WHO IS NEXUS TARGET?!... HUDSON?!

@@MrSviggels It's Menendez You should have told us. YOU. SHOULD. HAVE. TOLD. US.

​@@Gillan1220 He even has people in the CIA

@@yohannesaklilu2697 "Bullshit! This guy's fucking with us!" *Kravchenko gets his head shot by Woods*

Hehe 9/11

Mi general, augusto pinochet

The first 9/11

Chile's 9/11

This! This should be the next video of the cruelest dictators in history series that this channel has: Augusto Pinochet

So our women are tougher than Panamanian SF is what you're saying

@@desperado8605 Tougher than the panamanian military isn't a very high bar. I'd wager terror groups like ISIS have the same level of military force projection as panama had then and now nevermind an ACTUAL military force.

"Hey, we got dogs!". Send the female!

@@desperado8605 Most of the SF units were already dead when the bombs were dropped, only a few remained and got shot afterwards, US Troops killed the dogs either by poison or shoot them inside their cages, not sure if warcrimes apply to animals too

@@SniperFallen06 look if Koreans are considering using a auto shooting robot. I think this is fine

Tell your adopted dad that he is a traitor to his own people in Panama.

I remember balboa. I went to balboa HS before rotating back to the states

@@W.Stryker I went to kindergarten on base.

@@ruttiger500 which base?

@@W.Stryker I think Albrook or Balboa I only finished kindergarten and first grade on the base but it was so long I can’t remember which base. We moved to the States when I was going into second grade. My Dad was in the Airforce at the time so not sure if that makes any difference

Yep , it's 'Simple' all right

yessir been watching them since 2019, banger history videos

Sure is simple, should be called propaganda history.

@@REPOMAN24722 Ammerimut low iq race mixed bloodthrsty history

I am from Panama, and I see that they did not report the Bombings to the province of Colon and the chorrillo where Thousands died and they did not count other war crimes, this Channel is propaganda.

Eh, blind loyalty to a dictator isn't really laudable imho. If he was a democratic leader resisting imperialism then that's one thing, or even an enlightened dictator.

I'm from here and I'm surprised by these stories in the video, as far as I was told most people ran away when the soldiers showed up, didn't know there was any resistance of the "No surrender" type

​​@@stephenjenkins7971 fighting for some corrupt politician who lied and cheated his way to winning an election, like every is president, isnt laudable either. Democracy is a joke. And it wasnt just blind loyalty to Noriega. Theu were actually defending their home from an invading foreign army after all.

I have mixed feelings, on the one hand I can admire their bravery but on the other I know exactly how evil they were during peacetime and what they did to my first cousin once removed and what they almost did to my second cousin, his daughter who was 15 at the time, to mess with him but she thankfully got away

​@@stephenjenkins7971they dint fight for him, they fought to protect our country, the régimen was evil but even so the love for the Nation is greater and paid the ultimate sacrifice

Or you can shoot on his legs. It’s actually unconfirmed if he’s dead in the canon way. We’ll have a confirmation in the CoD 2024.

@@YonIon996 it’s going to be Gulf War. CW Zombies basically confirmed it via the forsaken Easter egg ending where you’ll see Dr Peck in Japan.

Expect Wood is a lousy shot. Don't know what Mason was doing over 30 years? Guessing Reznov's personality took over during that time, could make a cod game or two with Reznov in twenty first.

@@bloodysimile4893 it’s highly unlikely that Alex Mason will come back, because if Menendez find out that Alex Mason is alive, then he will come for David (Alex Mason’s son). So, Alex Mason is hiding in the safe place where he can’t be spotted by Menendez’s spies. For Reznov, he’s not really a good friend to Alex Mason, because he used him for his agenda to kill Dragovich, Kravchenko and Steiner as a part of his revenge over his best friend Dimitri’s death in 1945.

4 feels weird

Just cause 5 = about to take the whole agency

@@ajsanchez9913 just cause 6: chilling with the chaos army

​@@LuisMane1 Just cause 7:Coming -never- soon

@@Cocoshielie Just Cause 8: coming to a certain level of hyponamanomosistic paledestrians. 😤😤😤🤨🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩

Erm...yeah, that's exactly what this is. We removed a guy who nullified their elections, and replaced him with the guy they actually voted for. If that's not "freedom and democracy", there's not a thing in this world that is freedom and democracy.

And barrock osama is my nephew

I was with 3rd Battalion C Co when we jumped in! It was actually a ceiling of 600 ft, not 500, but 50 cal tracers coming through our C-130s and C-141s was no fun for sure!!

Thank you for your service

Snow?

@@fragout9575 dude C-141 don’t do combat drops only H.A.L.O

And it absolutely was a just cause, more so than other interventions we’ve done

The name was an invention by Colin Powell so that the press and even the invasions critics had to call it a "just cause". Remember folks, Persuade, Change, and Influence.

Yes

Be quiet, you hypocrites!

Wait they played Rick Roll fr?

@@nursestoyland yeah it’s the same strategy they use to break terrorists in Guantanamo. The only difference is that they play Metallica there.

nah it was rock music

@@yoboikamil525 what I mean is that did they play Never Gonna Give You Up?

So many crimes and there was no death sentence for noriega simply because he worked for the CIA.

I was at Howard from 1996 to 1999, the remnants were still there then. Kind of a sore topic with local nationals working on base.

@@BPD1586 I was on Ft.Kobbe, my father was XO of the 536th combat engineer battalion. Then be transferred to Ft.Clayton where he become S-3 and division.

Was there in 91-92 on Atlantic side. I remember going to pacific side to play youth flag football against those bases.

Josefina!!

WOODS!!!!!!

WHO IS NEXUS TARGET?????

yeah, panama really did flourish after the US fucking left after a century of colonialism.

Yea It did get better economy wise, but you lost your sovereignty. Panama is no essentially a US protectorate. Also, the US propped up Noriega. Classic US moment.

@@tetraxis3011 We had lots of problems before Noriega. Torrijos was also a dictator. And if you think Panama's a protectorate now, then you haven't heard how it was back then. The Panama Canal zone wasn't even Panamanian territory, it was all US owned. We are much more of a sovereign nation now then we were then, but we choose to have good relations with the US.

My family in Panama is glad of the US intervention, they told me stories of the PDF beating people in the streets and tying them to light posts, kidnapping women, and executing those who protested the government.

@@tetraxis3011 not worse than the blatant Apartheid state and colonization, believe.

And don't forget "Never Gonna Let You Down"

@@radjadawamindra697 you mean "Never gonna give you up"?

@@PenguinNoodleSoup yes, Noriega was quite literally gets Rickrolled into surrendering.

@@radjadawamindra697 the first person to get Rickrolled in history lol

Yeah bo2 still a masterpiece

How old are you? I'm assuming you were either not around or too young to remeber?

@@sethhowerton1489 Not around, I am referring to the stories of my parents during the invasion.

Probably because the u.s went beyond overkill and drastically lowered the estimated civ causalities because apparently committing war crimes is OK when away with it while pretending to be the good guys.

@@fiyahquacker2835 92% of Panamanians approved of the invasion according to a poll by CBS.

It wasnt a "Real" declaration of war, Noriega did not signed any proper declaration papers to do That so it was invalid

Because the UN hates America

Noriega declaró la guerra si, pero la mayoría del pueblo panameño rechazaba su dictadura, hoy en día es una de las personas más odiadas en la historia panameña. La invasión es condenada por el exceso de fuerza aplicada, además del bombardeo a una comunidad llamada "El Chorrillo" donde murieron muchas personas inocentes.

It was actually a First person shooter named Call of duty Black ops II

⁠​⁠@@FR4NKL1NCODMWIIHe’s talking about the game series “Just Cause”

I’m so sorry for your loss 😢

82nd Division? I know something.

Wasn’t that the marines in the movie heartbreak ridge lol

The kinda intelligence officer who kidnaps people to be sent to Guantanamo Bay for "interrogation and detention"?

Was he a 10th degree black belt in Navy Seal?

@mbullions A former Navy SEAL, yes

Maybe he was part of the SF units who went to Cerro Azul to cut off radio comms of the PDF minutes before the invasión began

"they are not crimes if they are Americans" French media and other countries documented drug use by American soldiers (there are videos that +18 crushed cars of trapped civilians) They were drugged youth. They were heinous acts that have not been prosecuted.

@@SniperFallen06 the santa ana HQ was not invaded, which prompted the AP to cover the albrook airfield (thanks to this they managed to repel the invading group, they were forced to replace casualties with the tocumen unit

The CIA betrayed them cause the invasión planes were already made

I was taken aback by the music, architecture and nature in your country.

Hope Panama is doing well since then, friend ❤

@@brunovb2650 oh that's great, the culture here is pretty beautiful and more the food

The most impressive thing, was the dead of 4 SEAL soldiers, because the PDF was actually just civilian with weapons, not so trained in combat

@@miguelmoran9705 Yes, they did great!

Does he regret playing a part in the invasion?

​@@user-op8fg3ny3j Why would he? Noriega started it and was a drug dealer.

​@@williamnunley3493The CIA started it*

@@williamnunley3493 Well call me crazy but Noriega was also a CIA scumbag.