I especially like the random number of ships. Just build any old ship and get her on the water, like the Chinese Navy 😆.
I agree we absolutely need the strongest Navy, but we don't even have tugboats right now! We need investment in basic operational capability which the authors of this document almost certainly have no clue about.
You state we wanted a review. Your last video kinda acted like you actually reviewed the thing, but you didn't. You took the most literal meaning, and then stated things were or were not true.
Legal Eagle came to opposite conclusion in regards to abortion than you, and I follow the Legal Eagle reading here.
This leads to the question: Did you anaylze the other points deeply enough to actualy make a statement about them?
E.g., tax simplification. The last video kinda glossed over that point, but stated overall this is not a tax increase. Hold up, Im not an american, I dont know how you taxes work. And after this video, i dont know either. This would be like a 20 min video, explaining how taxes work, how the new tax system would work, and then calculating a few examples to see if this is actually an incrase or a decrease (or a net neutral with less effort). This way, you can still stay politically neutral. Just state facts, dont value judge them.
You also offer to be an expert for other people on military stuff. If you want to tackle other topics, feel free to invite experts on that topic. As you frequently do on military matters that are not your core expertise (e.g. linking that navy guy).
If you get a tax guy on your channel, I would listen to his expertise.
Anyway, Im glad your back on topics you are an expert in, I came to this channel to learn more things about military, since it's kinda an important topic since 2022.
I want your full breakdown of each category. Because I don’t think your original analysis was accurate. What they want and what is propaganda is important to the American people. I’m guilty on this as I’m a democrat and think tRump’s shit really does stink.
The Disability lines in that Doc are disturbing. The VA and associated departments have already changed so many rating requirements, 2019 was the last "silent" voting as they call it, that is, the VA puts out potential changes and then says to provide feedback for or against, thing is, this is not advertised in any significant way, as is the VA's intent, so the few that do find out provide no impact and everything is approved.
Potentially dangerous invasive procedures are now required in many rating decisions, this was done to prevent new decisions being made until surgery is performed. For example, Atrial Fibrillation, this one was a highlight because it had a high number of decisions. Now surgery MUST be performed a minimum of three times to "correct" the AFIB before compensation is even considered. One Ablation procedure can require up to several hundred burn spots to correct these electrical shorts. Not getting into the minutia, this is bad when this is performed multiple times as is the new requirement.
I described just one. Many, many more were changed outright, including cancer diagnosis and assumptions. The short of it is, the VA and associated departments do not care if the procedure (not just AFIB) will potentially cause more damage in the long run, it is the savings due to denial in the short term and ultimately the savings due to denial in the long term. This also coincides with the 2025 plan of denying veteran claims simply because "they" want to due to these peoples perceived savings in money. Disability payouts are a huge chunk of the Governmental budget, and many conservative politicians, and some democrat politicians want it gone, though they will keep their golden healthcare on your dime.
It seems Ryan is living in some realm of "I have never been a leader". I retired a SFC in 2005 from the Army, it was the norm that E-4's (SPC) and E-5's (SGT) be squad leaders, there was never an instance this did not happen, so what Ryan said about the Army verse the Marines in regards to squad leader rank made no sense and sounded more like lack of leadership related experience on his part or just flat guessing.
Missile defense is real, and lack of it is a problem. It made me have a "WTF" moment when Ryan made the statement he did in that video in relation to missile defense given our current adversaries have both massive offensive missile programs and defensive programs, we are behind the ball on both, in my opinion, missile defense should not fall into the complacency of "good enough" which tends to be on the low side of good if one understands politician speak.
Recruitment. This is a multifaceted failure mechanism. So many people I have talked to regard the military and the mindset of dying for your country as just plain stupid. From statements like "It is not my war, why should I die for it" to "I do not care what happens to Europe" to "Thinking you are doing anything good in a war is your own ignorance and you deserve to die in war".
This mindset is the fault of the politicians we vote into office, in fact, most of the troubles we have in the world today are due to politicians with "certain" mindsets. Using the term woke is wrong, using the term destructive is more apt to describe what politicians are allowing in our country on both sides. Both sides have extremist pundits and these politicians are the root cause of the problems in today's society, that is the short of it, everyone knows the long explanation would be too long to type. We get rid of these politicians on both sides and settle on common sense and not have religious fanatics on one side and subculture loving fanatics on the other, then the USA would be far better off. It is the extremist, fanatical politician that is the danger to our Republic.
As for self named transgenders, this subculture needs to stop appropriating known terms and create their own. This subculture is not as prevalent as many politicians and social media sites would have one believe in my opinion. I disagree that the number of transgenders in the military are well over 2500, I would bet far, far less. The number that is inflated is likely, in my opinion, inflated for politician and media reasons. For obvious medical record reasons and obvious privacy/safety reasons, the exact number will not be known, still, the media/social media and politicians will make flat false statements spouted as "fact" that there are thousands of this subculture in the military, I disagree.
World salad news articles talk of the transgenders that are permeating the military and when out, embraced their freedom as if it were some massive conspiracy that tens of thousands of transgenders are quietly biding their time in the military, I simply say BS. The only reason the transgender subculture had an increase in military recruits,w as when the military/government allowed transitioning for free in the military, that should not take a rocket scientist to figure out why some in this subculture joined the military. The question that these transitioning individuals in the military did so for god and country first, verse the free transitioning in my opinion is obvious, and I am 100 percent certain every single media outlet and politician would make the case for patriotism over free transitioning to support their agenda.
The medical support system for transgenders in the military is a burden both in peace and in wartime in my opinion. Saying transgenders will not be put in combat units, and saying those individuals getting stuck in forward combat areas where medical care would not be sufficient to meet their needs is naive, the rear areas are all front line combat areas as any sensible Soldier knows, destroy the rear areas, destroy the offensive capability of a military, especially in today's combat environment.
The alternate lifestyle subculture as I refer to them, creates more problems and serves no positive combat multiplier in any form for the military, good intentions aside. Good mental feels and inclusiveness is not a combat multiplier, soldiers that obey orders, can discern between illegal orders and lawful orders, maintain mission first mindsets, and have the ability to sacrifice and order others to sacrifice when the hard choices are presented are what is needed, not political agendas that are currently sending recruiting into the toilet. Again, "some" politicians and much of the media/social media are the primaries in the blame game as to why things are like they are.
For some transparency, my last Tricare primary doctor was transgender, a very good one, I actually gained a ton of insight with our conversations, which were hilarious at times. The only reason I do not have them now is that they moved to the East coast after 3 years as my primary. So those looking to witch hunt as to my opinion on the transgender subculture, get screwed, to put it bluntly.
In closing, Ryan, get some SME's when needed and stop doing what the other less reliable media is doing, it is really unbecoming.
I have two large points of disagreement with you here:
1) In regards to the generals, they have overseen such a decline in the fortunes and rention of the military that there are clearly a large number of generals that need to be cashiered from service. Additionally, in light of the Afghan debacle, all general officers who served in Afghanistan should be put before a a court of inquiry to examine their actions and why they failed to wipe the Taliban out.
2) Abortion in the military. It is illegal for the federal government to pay for abortions. Loyd Austin is engaged in an active criminal conspiracy to use the US Military (mostly the army) into an abortion mill and hiding behind retention and readiness, which are at their lowest level since Pear Harbour and is partially his fault.
Thank you. I have no idea what Lloyd Austin is or isn't doing regarding abortion in the military, but I don't want taxpayer money used for transporting women to abortion sites.
I never said you have to get an abortion, I just implied that your rules should not be forced on others . Especially when they are religions in nature. You do you and raise your children on your interpretation of right and wrong. Numbers 5:11–28,
Those people who were kicked out of military for refusing an experimental vaccine should be compensated. Those who took it and were injured (actual rate is about 3%), should also be compensated "made whole" in legal words. Nurnberg code forbids foreced medical procedures.
Everything you wrote is pure and utter bullshit. COVID killed almost 700 active military members. Did any MAGAs shed a tear for those fallen heroes? There were also over 25,000 veterans who died from COVID in VA hospitals.
There were more than 2 million service members who were vaccinated, and out of that, there were 25 service members who had serious complications. That's 0.0012%.
Multiple studies have found that myocarditis is 11 times more likely to happen after a COVID infection than with controls.
A another study found that: "COVID-19 vaccination is associated with reduced risk for cardiovascular complications such as AMI after SARS-CoV-2 infection compared to those who have never been vaccinated."
"Furthermore, data from 40 health care systems reviewing over 14 million cases from
January 1, 2021 to January 31, 2022, continue to support the benefit of COVID-19 vaccination with a significantly higher cardiac complication incidence associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection than after mRNA COVID-19 vaccination for both males and females in all age groups."
The military's first mandate is to have the troops ready for mobilization at a moment's notice. That's impossible if they're infected with a raging pandemic and they're too sick to get out of bed. The COVID vaccine decreases symptoms in up to 65% of people getting the shot.
But I guess the anti-vaxxers are happy to see our military unable to respond when they're needed most because all of the sick and dying soldiers. Their anti-vaxxer hysteria is a national security risk.
Regarding Project 2025 … there’s a retired 26-year Navy Nuke Submarine Officer and Foreign Service Officer who has a different perspective on “DEI” than yours, based on the linked article he wrote. Perhaps converse with him on-air, as I suspect he is one of the Heritage Foundation’s authors of the playbook’s military sections? https://nationalsecurityjournal.org/dei-is-sinking-the-u-s-navy/
Kindest Regards,
Luke
P.S. I view DEI as a Russian/Chinese tool to sow division in both the ranks and larger society.
Many of us have been pushing for that occupational licensing reform for many many years. The entrenched members of those protected guilds are often also the same people the various states asked for advice on if there should be change.
It’s a hard fight for something obviously good to do. Especially when you come at it from the angle of opening more opportunities to low income earners into higher earning professions without college.
Ryan, what is your opinion of the 25 and me, AI-driven review of Project 2025. It paints a more dystopian view of the proposed program than you’ve indicated here. It sources quotes from the document to back it up.
On the subject of dis-information. The BBC had this video. what is your opinion on accuracy of this video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngrXAPCyRhw or search the title The American pushing Russian disinformation - BBC Trending podcast, BBC World Service
I’m not sure which general or soldier ever said this, but years ago, I heard that the best military builds quantity over quality. In other words you want to overwhelm the enemy, even if their Jets or their ships are 20% better than yours, if you have 10 times the number of Weapons, you are likely to win. Or the case of China if you have a population that’s overwhelmingly larger, then it won’t matter how many times your enemies drop nukes on you. What do you think about this? Should we build cheaper and larger quantities of ships, tanks, and planes? or can higher quality vehicles defeat larger numbers of lower quality vehicles? Would you rather have one Lexus, or 10 Kia?
I especially like the random number of ships. Just build any old ship and get her on the water, like the Chinese Navy 😆.
I agree we absolutely need the strongest Navy, but we don't even have tugboats right now! We need investment in basic operational capability which the authors of this document almost certainly have no clue about.
You state we wanted a review. Your last video kinda acted like you actually reviewed the thing, but you didn't. You took the most literal meaning, and then stated things were or were not true.
Legal Eagle came to opposite conclusion in regards to abortion than you, and I follow the Legal Eagle reading here.
This leads to the question: Did you anaylze the other points deeply enough to actualy make a statement about them?
E.g., tax simplification. The last video kinda glossed over that point, but stated overall this is not a tax increase. Hold up, Im not an american, I dont know how you taxes work. And after this video, i dont know either. This would be like a 20 min video, explaining how taxes work, how the new tax system would work, and then calculating a few examples to see if this is actually an incrase or a decrease (or a net neutral with less effort). This way, you can still stay politically neutral. Just state facts, dont value judge them.
You also offer to be an expert for other people on military stuff. If you want to tackle other topics, feel free to invite experts on that topic. As you frequently do on military matters that are not your core expertise (e.g. linking that navy guy).
If you get a tax guy on your channel, I would listen to his expertise.
Anyway, Im glad your back on topics you are an expert in, I came to this channel to learn more things about military, since it's kinda an important topic since 2022.
I want your full breakdown of each category. Because I don’t think your original analysis was accurate. What they want and what is propaganda is important to the American people. I’m guilty on this as I’m a democrat and think tRump’s shit really does stink.
Long read, be warned.
The Disability lines in that Doc are disturbing. The VA and associated departments have already changed so many rating requirements, 2019 was the last "silent" voting as they call it, that is, the VA puts out potential changes and then says to provide feedback for or against, thing is, this is not advertised in any significant way, as is the VA's intent, so the few that do find out provide no impact and everything is approved.
Potentially dangerous invasive procedures are now required in many rating decisions, this was done to prevent new decisions being made until surgery is performed. For example, Atrial Fibrillation, this one was a highlight because it had a high number of decisions. Now surgery MUST be performed a minimum of three times to "correct" the AFIB before compensation is even considered. One Ablation procedure can require up to several hundred burn spots to correct these electrical shorts. Not getting into the minutia, this is bad when this is performed multiple times as is the new requirement.
I described just one. Many, many more were changed outright, including cancer diagnosis and assumptions. The short of it is, the VA and associated departments do not care if the procedure (not just AFIB) will potentially cause more damage in the long run, it is the savings due to denial in the short term and ultimately the savings due to denial in the long term. This also coincides with the 2025 plan of denying veteran claims simply because "they" want to due to these peoples perceived savings in money. Disability payouts are a huge chunk of the Governmental budget, and many conservative politicians, and some democrat politicians want it gone, though they will keep their golden healthcare on your dime.
It seems Ryan is living in some realm of "I have never been a leader". I retired a SFC in 2005 from the Army, it was the norm that E-4's (SPC) and E-5's (SGT) be squad leaders, there was never an instance this did not happen, so what Ryan said about the Army verse the Marines in regards to squad leader rank made no sense and sounded more like lack of leadership related experience on his part or just flat guessing.
Missile defense is real, and lack of it is a problem. It made me have a "WTF" moment when Ryan made the statement he did in that video in relation to missile defense given our current adversaries have both massive offensive missile programs and defensive programs, we are behind the ball on both, in my opinion, missile defense should not fall into the complacency of "good enough" which tends to be on the low side of good if one understands politician speak.
Recruitment. This is a multifaceted failure mechanism. So many people I have talked to regard the military and the mindset of dying for your country as just plain stupid. From statements like "It is not my war, why should I die for it" to "I do not care what happens to Europe" to "Thinking you are doing anything good in a war is your own ignorance and you deserve to die in war".
This mindset is the fault of the politicians we vote into office, in fact, most of the troubles we have in the world today are due to politicians with "certain" mindsets. Using the term woke is wrong, using the term destructive is more apt to describe what politicians are allowing in our country on both sides. Both sides have extremist pundits and these politicians are the root cause of the problems in today's society, that is the short of it, everyone knows the long explanation would be too long to type. We get rid of these politicians on both sides and settle on common sense and not have religious fanatics on one side and subculture loving fanatics on the other, then the USA would be far better off. It is the extremist, fanatical politician that is the danger to our Republic.
As for self named transgenders, this subculture needs to stop appropriating known terms and create their own. This subculture is not as prevalent as many politicians and social media sites would have one believe in my opinion. I disagree that the number of transgenders in the military are well over 2500, I would bet far, far less. The number that is inflated is likely, in my opinion, inflated for politician and media reasons. For obvious medical record reasons and obvious privacy/safety reasons, the exact number will not be known, still, the media/social media and politicians will make flat false statements spouted as "fact" that there are thousands of this subculture in the military, I disagree.
World salad news articles talk of the transgenders that are permeating the military and when out, embraced their freedom as if it were some massive conspiracy that tens of thousands of transgenders are quietly biding their time in the military, I simply say BS. The only reason the transgender subculture had an increase in military recruits,w as when the military/government allowed transitioning for free in the military, that should not take a rocket scientist to figure out why some in this subculture joined the military. The question that these transitioning individuals in the military did so for god and country first, verse the free transitioning in my opinion is obvious, and I am 100 percent certain every single media outlet and politician would make the case for patriotism over free transitioning to support their agenda.
The medical support system for transgenders in the military is a burden both in peace and in wartime in my opinion. Saying transgenders will not be put in combat units, and saying those individuals getting stuck in forward combat areas where medical care would not be sufficient to meet their needs is naive, the rear areas are all front line combat areas as any sensible Soldier knows, destroy the rear areas, destroy the offensive capability of a military, especially in today's combat environment.
The alternate lifestyle subculture as I refer to them, creates more problems and serves no positive combat multiplier in any form for the military, good intentions aside. Good mental feels and inclusiveness is not a combat multiplier, soldiers that obey orders, can discern between illegal orders and lawful orders, maintain mission first mindsets, and have the ability to sacrifice and order others to sacrifice when the hard choices are presented are what is needed, not political agendas that are currently sending recruiting into the toilet. Again, "some" politicians and much of the media/social media are the primaries in the blame game as to why things are like they are.
For some transparency, my last Tricare primary doctor was transgender, a very good one, I actually gained a ton of insight with our conversations, which were hilarious at times. The only reason I do not have them now is that they moved to the East coast after 3 years as my primary. So those looking to witch hunt as to my opinion on the transgender subculture, get screwed, to put it bluntly.
In closing, Ryan, get some SME's when needed and stop doing what the other less reliable media is doing, it is really unbecoming.
I have two large points of disagreement with you here:
1) In regards to the generals, they have overseen such a decline in the fortunes and rention of the military that there are clearly a large number of generals that need to be cashiered from service. Additionally, in light of the Afghan debacle, all general officers who served in Afghanistan should be put before a a court of inquiry to examine their actions and why they failed to wipe the Taliban out.
2) Abortion in the military. It is illegal for the federal government to pay for abortions. Loyd Austin is engaged in an active criminal conspiracy to use the US Military (mostly the army) into an abortion mill and hiding behind retention and readiness, which are at their lowest level since Pear Harbour and is partially his fault.
These people need to be held to account.
Thank you. I have no idea what Lloyd Austin is or isn't doing regarding abortion in the military, but I don't want taxpayer money used for transporting women to abortion sites.
your religious beliefs are not mirrored by all religions' Jews for example do allow abortions and was not Jesus Jewish
I see. So only those who follow religions that acquiesce to abortion on demand are worthy of constitutional protection of their beliefs.
I never said you have to get an abortion, I just implied that your rules should not be forced on others . Especially when they are religions in nature. You do you and raise your children on your interpretation of right and wrong. Numbers 5:11–28,
I would counter the opposite — the government is forcing its rules upon religious people who do not wish to pay for others’ access to abortion.
Not asking for a ban on it here — just that the military extend its current rule of not paying for abortions to include transport.
And I don’t know what your reference to biblical Mosaic law has to do with this.
Those people who were kicked out of military for refusing an experimental vaccine should be compensated. Those who took it and were injured (actual rate is about 3%), should also be compensated "made whole" in legal words. Nurnberg code forbids foreced medical procedures.
Everything you wrote is pure and utter bullshit. COVID killed almost 700 active military members. Did any MAGAs shed a tear for those fallen heroes? There were also over 25,000 veterans who died from COVID in VA hospitals.
There were more than 2 million service members who were vaccinated, and out of that, there were 25 service members who had serious complications. That's 0.0012%.
Multiple studies have found that myocarditis is 11 times more likely to happen after a COVID infection than with controls.
A another study found that: "COVID-19 vaccination is associated with reduced risk for cardiovascular complications such as AMI after SARS-CoV-2 infection compared to those who have never been vaccinated."
"Furthermore, data from 40 health care systems reviewing over 14 million cases from
January 1, 2021 to January 31, 2022, continue to support the benefit of COVID-19 vaccination with a significantly higher cardiac complication incidence associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection than after mRNA COVID-19 vaccination for both males and females in all age groups."
The military's first mandate is to have the troops ready for mobilization at a moment's notice. That's impossible if they're infected with a raging pandemic and they're too sick to get out of bed. The COVID vaccine decreases symptoms in up to 65% of people getting the shot.
But I guess the anti-vaxxers are happy to see our military unable to respond when they're needed most because all of the sick and dying soldiers. Their anti-vaxxer hysteria is a national security risk.
@Richard Kudrna, You really took the time and energy to type what you did? Your opinion is noted, and is discarded like my Sunday trash.
Hello Ryan,
Regarding Project 2025 … there’s a retired 26-year Navy Nuke Submarine Officer and Foreign Service Officer who has a different perspective on “DEI” than yours, based on the linked article he wrote. Perhaps converse with him on-air, as I suspect he is one of the Heritage Foundation’s authors of the playbook’s military sections? https://nationalsecurityjournal.org/dei-is-sinking-the-u-s-navy/
Kindest Regards,
Luke
P.S. I view DEI as a Russian/Chinese tool to sow division in both the ranks and larger society.
Many of us have been pushing for that occupational licensing reform for many many years. The entrenched members of those protected guilds are often also the same people the various states asked for advice on if there should be change.
It’s a hard fight for something obviously good to do. Especially when you come at it from the angle of opening more opportunities to low income earners into higher earning professions without college.
Ryan, what is your opinion of the 25 and me, AI-driven review of Project 2025. It paints a more dystopian view of the proposed program than you’ve indicated here. It sources quotes from the document to back it up.
https://www.25and.me/?topics=
It references page numbers and provides in-document links. Does any of this change your view, in hindsight?
On the subject of dis-information. The BBC had this video. what is your opinion on accuracy of this video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngrXAPCyRhw or search the title The American pushing Russian disinformation - BBC Trending podcast, BBC World Service
I’m not sure which general or soldier ever said this, but years ago, I heard that the best military builds quantity over quality. In other words you want to overwhelm the enemy, even if their Jets or their ships are 20% better than yours, if you have 10 times the number of Weapons, you are likely to win. Or the case of China if you have a population that’s overwhelmingly larger, then it won’t matter how many times your enemies drop nukes on you. What do you think about this? Should we build cheaper and larger quantities of ships, tanks, and planes? or can higher quality vehicles defeat larger numbers of lower quality vehicles? Would you rather have one Lexus, or 10 Kia?
Probably a French or Russian General see how that quantity over quality is worked out for them.