@Stigma

Any geopolitical motivation is going to boil down to a resource in one way or another

Geography in itself is sometimes a reason (mountain chains, sea passages, islands etc.).

Also, there's a lot wealth to be transferred from the taxpayer to the military-industrial complex, by having to replace destroyed military equipment, and infrastructure.

There doesn't necessarily have to be a resource grab for some very wealthy and powerful people to make a lot of money off of war.

When you wake up on a Chinook on your way to a New York prison

@Vermillion-Rx

Doesn't sound that conducive to doing this for oil

I wouldn't die on this hill, to be honest. Any geopolitical motivation is going to boil down to a resource in one way or another. It's proven to be oil often enough that denying it just seems like wasted effort. And also, so what? Who wants a commie stooge dictator sitting on the worlds largest oil reserves? Not me!

@Vermillion-Rx Ah yeah I take your meaning.

Perhaps it's a case of hard lessons learnt. It might be easier to install a puppet that will give you a decent trade deal on the oil reserves than trying to take it at the source. We're two decades on from all of that, probably plenty of technological/tactical advancements that make it possible now and not then.

But what do I know?

It wasn't a complete bust, though, they found the tomb of Gilgamesh and the giants of Afghanistan.

@Vermillion-Rx

It's THIS easy?

Dear fucking God

Naw man, nothing easy about that. Saddam/Osama would have been in armed-to-the-gills compounds, and Maduro was likely relatively well protected too. Calling it easy detracts from the monumental precision required to pull a stunt like that.

Putin is seething that he couldn't pull some shit like this on Zelensky and is instead grinding meat into irrelevant Ukrainian farmland for three years.

Spectacular.

@Vermillion-Rx It's beautiful, in the most objective way possible. A flawless tactical insertion, abduction and extraction of the target asset.

I don't give a flying fuck about the larger narrative, but it gets a respectable nod from me to just execute that shit. China and Russia could only dream of doing some shit like that.

@Stigma crap. It'll probably be tomorrow or the next day before I get a chance to actually watch it the whole way through

@Typo-MAGAshiv

youtu.be/KjiDMC_JySs

Found a re-upload, get it while it’s hot! Posted in lower resolution I think, though.

@Stigma damn, and I never got to watch it

I started listening while driving (like I usually do with YouTube), but realized I was missing a lot by not viewing. I put off watching it for later.

Well shit.

No surprise, this video was removed by YT.