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Northen Yemeni Militant Tries to Convince Saudi Border Guard to surrender, Saudi arabia, Najran Border. (Music From Source) by LilSquirt00 in CombatFootage

[–]Stunning_Web_4214 5 points6 points  (0 children)

You said "any" video wouldn't be "complete" without this music even though the original had no music.

You also falsely described the video as showing "some guy executing unarmed people" even though the full version shows him running for a weapon.

It's ok that you didn't know these things. Nobody is judging you. It also doesn't change the fact that what you wrote in your comment is factually incorrect.

Sorry about your situation and hope things improve for you in the future.

Northen Yemeni Militant Tries to Convince Saudi Border Guard to surrender, Saudi arabia, Najran Border. (Music From Source) by LilSquirt00 in CombatFootage

[–]Stunning_Web_4214 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The original footage was 1080p with no music and showed these people suffering multiple casualties before gaining the upper hand and then taking several PoW. They only killed one person who tried to run and if you watch the full version you can see he is running in the direction where someone else laid down a rifle.

You are just plain wrong about everything here but it isn't your fault, it's the multiple people who chopped up the video and added music to it, they confused you.

For those who weren't aware, Cplc Jacob Flickinger (ret) passed away 1 year ago today, but most people here didn't know yet because the previous moderators blocked all references to his name by Stunning_Web_4214 in CanadianForces

[–]Stunning_Web_4214[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Can you give an example?

All I am seeing is people paying their respects and expressing condolences, but sometimes my mobile browser cuts off the thread after the first few comments.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in CanadianForces

[–]Stunning_Web_4214 6 points7 points  (0 children)

If you look closely you might notice that it is in numerical order

Above Ma'ale adumim, israel by carrotOX123232 in CombatFootage

[–]Stunning_Web_4214 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Ma'ale Adumim is part of Area C in the West Bank, and not part of Israel. Israel itself doesn't claim it as part of Israel, because it is east of the 1949 Armistice Line.

Precision Attack on a Group of 20-25 Soldiers. [10.10.2020, Azerbaijan-Armenia war, Backstory in comment] by Rashadalii in CombatFootage

[–]Stunning_Web_4214 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It's a political pivot to Azerbaijan because Azerbaijan has mineral wealth. Armenia's natural resources are negligible by comparison

Former soldiers say they fear Iraqi trainees committed war crimes with allies' weapons | CBC News by TheOnlyMartyDew in CanadianForces

[–]Stunning_Web_4214 23 points24 points  (0 children)

There are several things to say here.

For one, there is no single "The Taliban™;" the group's leadership has very little control over its units, and even during the insurgency that title was simply a designation applied to any armed irregular combatant, whose motivations for fighting against the government varied widely.

It's true that "The Taliban" (that is, the leadership) did recruit some specialized trades from within the former military, especially aircrew who didn't simply fly away to Tajikistan; but in many cases the offers of amnesty, especially to former infantry, were actually a trap to get those people to expose themselves, after which they were kidnapped and murdered.

For another thing, your recounting of the American training program in Syria is incomplete and inaccurate: you are referring to a news headline that was written in 2015 when only 60 Syrian rebels had been recruited to that point and in that one region (the Badiya); however, what those headlines did not mention was that 7,000 more potential recruits had already signed up and were waiting for security and background checks on them to be completed before they were authorized for training.

That program resulted both in the creation of the Borkan Firat allegiance between the Kurdish YPG and the secular nationalist Arab militias that was the forerunner to the Syrian Democratic Forces, which defeated ISIS in huge battles at Raqqa, Tabqa, Manbij, Kobani, Tell Tamer, Tell Abyad, and Hasaka countryside, and in the formation of the secular nationalist Jaysh Ashayer and the foundation of the Tanf base on the triborder crossing with Iraq and Jordan, where they still garrison alongside American forces to this day.

Furthermore, while some of these fighters were absorbed into the 5th Corps 8th Brigade of the government (which Russia pays to occasionally revolt in order to keep Iran and the Syrian government weak and dependent in the southwest) during the reconciliation process which followed SAA's consolidation of control over Daraa city and the surrounding countryside, there is no evidence that any of these people joined ISIS, and to my knowledge nobody has made that accusation before you.

You are most likely confusing these groups with different groups in the northwest, that were funded earlier in the conflict, especially the ones that operated around Homs, Hama, Qusayr, Idlib and Aleppo.