SHEIKHS, the PERSIAN GULF and the most EXPENSIVE ARMIES in the world - VisualPolitik EN

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Saudi Arabia has one of the largest and most expensive armies on the planet. It's the most significant buyer of US weapons and yet, when it comes down to it, a simple drone strike is able to bring the kingdom to its knees.
The situation in the rest of the Persian Gulf petro monarchies is not very different. With the exception of perhaps the United Arab Emirates, these countries are characterized by spending a lot of money in equipping armies that are very ineffective when it comes to the hour of reckoning.
Why do gulf sheikhs spend so much money on their armed forces? How on earth can you explain why they're still so inept? To find out, don't miss our video today.
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[@VisualPolitikEN]

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[@simbamartens7192]

Please talk about the LEBANON CRISIS next. It was Lebanon's dysfunctional political system that led to the explosion, at least that's my takeaway from this analysis of the situation in Lebanon and its sectarian political system: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gXucaJ6Qiql4g5I

[@ambrosearuwa9458]

Do a video about African countries, especially Nigeria, the corruption in Arabian armies is a joke compared to that of my dear Nigeria. Nice job you guys

[@victorganguly1856]

India spends near to Saudis,or even more!!! Still not even mention close to israel.... Shame

[@Tony-fr8eb]

"The heaviest thing that a Saudi soldier lifts is his pay check "

[@darthslackus499]

Wish we all had that problem.

[@user-dy1rj6mi9q]

Not really

[@user-dy1rj6mi9q]

Thier saleries are standards, but the special health care and housing are the expensive

[@darthslackus499]

@@user-dy1rj6mi9q Special Health Care: We're going have to use the leech. If that doesn't work, we'll have to amputate it.:

[@user-dy1rj6mi9q]

@@darthslackus499 wtf no

[@voiceoffarooq6810]

3rd largest military budget doesn't translate in the 3rd most powerful army............. Sudi army is not the 3rd most powerful.

[@jolly-rancher]

Not even 30th

[@PrinceOfDolAlmroth]

​@@jolly-rancher any competent western force is capable of utterly dismantling them in the span of a week. For examples, see comparable militaries getting absolutely clapped by israel in any war they've fought against them.

[@complicatedjason]

USA Wouldn't want them to be powerful anyway, how do you keep making profits if they're not reliant on arm imports from USA 🇺🇸

[@prilk1704]

ur ryt money doesn't necessary reflect the outcome eg United states spend on average more than three times the money per person on health care than the other developed countries but still have the same life expectancy as the most other developed countries

[@knightride9635]

Yeah, more like 3rd most incompetent army in the world

[@enochlam9936]

Ah sheikh, here we go again

[@artman7780]

Oman!

[@explosivereactionstv7414]

ISIS: Yemen

[@explosivereactionstv7414]

Money can’t buy a good army. Ask the Saudis

[@iot1452]

Many years ago, I read a report online. It relates to the first gulf war and how the USAF tried training Saudi pilots. The report mentioned how difficult it was to train Saudi pilots as they were too dim to understand things. I cannot find this article anymore despite searching the keywords, but there is some truth to this, evident from Saudi borrowing Pakistani armed force personnel in their current Yemen conquest AND hiring the former Pak Army Commander too.

[@jumamnumbwa9483]

All US's allies are weak including EU all depends for USA to survive,, Europe of today can't stand against Russia without USA, because USA doesn't wants his wives to d3peñd on themselves

[@snail-bait3229]

@@jumamnumbwa9483 There is a difference between size of an army and quality. As a Brit I wouldn't say the British army is weak. Its considerably smaller than the US army of course. But it is also considerable better equipped and better trained than that of Arabian forces. European armies have a longer history of battle than the Arabs, at least in modern warfare, thus they have more experience. Plus the select few strong European nations, like Britain and France are the select few which have strong Military Industrial Complexes to manufacture the arms they use. The Arabs have to buy everything.

[@Azerkeux]

Arab armies suffer greatly from communication, there is no unit cohesion and nobody obeys chain of command. They would rather ignore a potential security flaw or refrain from relaying a sit-rep than to be the person responsible for telling the commanding officer and subsequently suffer reprimand.

[@unchainedirony9499]

It honestly can, except they would have to look at hiring a Western or Russian Mercenary company, they are essentially highly effective armies for hire and generally don't care what you ask them to do as long as the money is good.

[@emirbenaissa3441]

Most expensive and most useless... Lol just look at Yemen!

[@simbamartens7192]

So much so that Saudi Arabia hadto direct its butchery towards Yemeni civilians. Just recently Separatists in the South of Yemen declared independence! There's a great video analysing the Yemen secession crisis as well as a background explainer of Yemen's Civil War and US-Saudi involvement in it: kzbin.info/www/bejne/paLTeYlprad2eKc

[@MohammadAliAhasan]

@@simbamartens7192 Saudi Spend 100 billions on weapons to invade Yemen. If they had brain they could buy all Yemeni in their side just spending 50 Billion

[@Soma-7662]

It's the Yemeni army fighting Hothies in yemen... get your facts right

[@KaiserMattTygore927]

The irony is that the Saudis are among the most decadent and fragile nations on the planet.

[@Soma-7662]

@@KaiserMattTygore927 prove it

[@darthvader4594]

Doesn't matter how much you spend money on your military if the whole structure is bad

[@oddthings5273]

Agreed. For example Saudi spends 3 times as much of Israel but we all know Israel's army would wreck them.

[@mycodenameisejatt]

@@oddthings5273 Israel get funds from US every year but if they try to attack Saudis the whole gulf country and Egypt will be behind Saudis

[@oddthings5273]

@@mycodenameisejatt Israel's military budget is 20 billion USD, Israel gets 3 billion from the US but the other 17 isn't funds. Now about the part that the others will support well, you are not wrong but first of all Israel, the gulf and Egypt are now allies against Turkey, Iran and qatar and second of all Israel is a nuclear power so allies wouldn't help the Saudis that fast.

[@lukacsnemeth1652]

The Suadis even maintain 2 separate armys, to keep each other in check, thats the ultimate insurance against a coup :D National Guard vs Army

[@arminius6506]

Pakistan is the country (along with the West) which helps Saudis developed modern armed forces.... In Pakistan it's common talk that Saudis are suffering from dilemma, they need a good army to save their monarchy, to establish a capable military you need good strong military officers.... And there's a fear that a competent military lead by capable generals would overthrow monarchy 😊

[@sitarampradhan8488]

Yeah. They learned from pakistan history. How military overthrows elected government again and again. That's why they decentralised their military.🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@Prashant44082]

@@sitarampradhan8488 😂😂😂

[@MA-mu6dj]

So does their Iranian rivels 😂

[@arminius6506]

@@sitarampradhan8488 oooppppsss.... Sorry, as long military is there the wet dreams of toilet less pajeets can't come true. Try learn to live with this brutal fact. 😂

[@rochrich1223]

To prevent the risk of a coup, you must keep the military branches from communicating and you prevent initiative by centralizing command. The Saudis lost many M-1 tanks to RPGs by sending them into close terrain without infantry.

[@whitewolf4120]

rochrich that’s true

[@michael43216]

I'm no expert in Saudi military organization, but aren't cavalry, mechanized infantry, infantry, artillery and close air support supposed to be all operating under "Army"? I would blame the troubles in Yemen more on the terrain and the fact that Saudi M-1s are less heavily armoured than their American counterparts. Yes, Saudi armed forces are not good, but, Russia and the US had similar problems in Afganistan - I don't think they would have been successful in Yemen.

[@akuma862005]

Their C2 sucks, for sure! Having worked Intel in 5th fleet AOR I can tell you most of the GCC have terrible command structures and give the local commanders so little leeway in terms of operational control.

[@azz2]

I think this was a point raised in a previous visual politic about why Israel is so effective. I think the lack of a sense of nationalism was suggested as a factor as well.

[@ADVRaiderKTM]

VisualPolitik EN's average viewership per video has declined by nearly 60%, I think its time to bring Simon back

[@FabioTheGreat]

So, if my friends and I decided to conquer the Gulf, we will succeed 🤔.

[@FabioTheGreat]

@The Gentle Guy Is this real? They can't be that bad come on, lol.

[@ferdinandfernando1739]

You would succeed. From a grammar point of view.

[@KaiserMattTygore927]

Yes, pretty much all you need is like 3 friends and some toothpicks.

[@sebastianelytron8450]

@@FabioTheGreat Never underestimate pussy power.

[@klytouch5285]

Only two words.. national security....🤔🖖

[@hubbapop1]

Will Simon ever come back?:(

[@Akash__Verma__]

No

[@arthas640]

He finally decided to finish his life goal to take down Trump. He stopped merely making political cartoons about Trump and stormed the White House armed with a Union Jack and some earl grey. They say he and Trump are locked in a duel to this day

[@Akash__Verma__]

@Giorgi Jioshvili well he is working fulltime on a lot of hos channels and he told in his last video here that he may not be back.

[@CarFreeSegnitz]

When you gasp at a $67 billion military budget... then realize America spends 10 times as much EACH AND EVERY YEAR.

[@corvusglaive5769]

But with a population of more than 10 times that of Saudi Arabia

[@steve55444]

Yes, but all that money allows America to project its power and influence throughout the whole world. Dominates almost all the oceans in the world which in turn allow them to protect all its global trade interests. Protect and guarantee the sovereignty of not only their own nation but also that of their allies e.g South Korea, Taiwan and many more. Now Saudi Arabia what does it get for that amount of money? It keeps the monarchy in power.... barely

[@paulc2548]

US may spent 10 times more than Saudi but US is a bigger country as well... and US is 100 times more power than Saudi. The power it projected around the world is second to none.

[@akuma862005]

Especially if you have been a part of the US military you know so much money is wasted on non working projects and insanely priced equipment. We could spend half of what we do spend and still be the "strongest" military.

[@akuma862005]

Especially if you have been a part of the US military you know so much money is wasted on non working projects and insanely priced equipment. We could spend half of what we do spend and still be the "strongest" military.

[@alexanderstancer4368]

So if you pay for your armies with oil and the armes are powered by oil, does that mean that the armies are 110% oil?

[@gautampram]

the part i liked the most was ' a simple drone strike can bring the kingdom to its knees'. Very true

[@abinthomas3673]

W8ing for the next vdo

[@robertdavenport1109]

This dude is passionate

[@eghosa2705]

Congratulations on getting 1M sub

[@shabbirfoodvlogs1024]

Good job

[@shabbirfoodvlogs1024]

bro please help me

[@tusharjain1801]

Indian?

[@cb2291]

Too few likes for a video this damned good

[@shahidafridi6968]

Could you plz make a video on turkey recent update on gas discovery

[@amilidis]

Did anyone else see Leslie Nielsen sitting in the background, when Carter was making his speech?

[@acrobat6217]

Damn that was a long ad in the beginning

[@HimanshuGupta-jx4nk]

He worked on the mic or voice . 👍👍

[@alamagordoingordo3047]

So intresting a topic not enough covered.

[@tomkelly8827]

When you showed the map of the Straight of Hormuz, it made me wonder, why doesn't the UAE consider digging a canal through their land to offer an alternative to the straight. It would be a massive project to be sure but for the energy security that it could help to provide, it may be worthwhile

[@typxxilps]

i want simon whistler back !

[@nubserver]

2:45 what car is that? looks so nice...

[@Mehrankhan1]

When is the next episode?

[@DCMarvelMultiverse]

I remember Gladwell's Ethnic Theory of Plane Crashes. Some cultures have a high power distance that stifles collaboration, reporting, contributions, and quality control all of which depend on communication. America has a relatively low power distance culture with the Upper Midwest and Northeast being highest and the West and Southeast being lowest but overall nothing as hierarchical in casual interaction like other countries. A higher power distance might be a contributing factor in lousy ME armies.

[@DCMarvelMultiverse]

@Rick K You don't question anyone with higher prestige, pedigree, or position.

[@gillianmogomotsidambe1338]

@@DCMarvelMultiverse damn the explanation really hits home in my country Botswana 😓

[@meferswift]

@Rick K akin to class system. Lower status obey higher status and nobility.

[@blahblahblahblah2837]

@@DCMarvelMultiverse Interesting. We are seeing the negative effects of a low power distance in the US coronavirus response right now. "I don't have to wear a mask. It's my right"

[@DCMarvelMultiverse]

@@blahblahblahblah2837 That's not high power distance. HPD is when your society is big on a formal pecking order and you do not question the judgment of one higher in status, rank, or pedigree.

[@DimJongUn]

I thought it was Ali G on the thumbnail for a half second

[@spacecadet9663]

Blinkist should adopt the slogan "read fast and break things"

[@yaseenevo]

What happened to Simon?

[@maxwalker1159]

Interesting

[@daveronald7788]

My goodness! A mini-me Simon

[@sharathbhushi4903]

3:38-3:58 can someone tell what's the name of that background music?

[@gs043420]

Colonel bogey march

[@lambo-ca]

The concept of "Man the behind a weapon still exists."

[@mathewkelly9968]

All paper tigers , Saudi Arabia's inability to put down the Yemenis is a perfect illustration of this . Seriously you'd just need say about 100 Toyota LandCruisers with MGs strapped to the back and some rocket launchers to overthrow any of these countries .

[@mohawkal9302]

Don't forget that the entire US and the UK military and almost all of Europe spent the past 20 years in Afghanistan fighting the Taliban just to withdraw in failure !!! Yeah i think 100 Toyota LandCruisers with some weapons strapped is enough lol.

[@edk487]

Mohamed Al if they wanted annex Afghanistan they could easily do so.

[@cs-mi8ur]

@@mohawkal9302 they were not fighting,they were policing.They defeated the Taliban and can overthrow Taliban anyway.Talib strategy was to hit and run,not fight and conquer.

[@wonky12345]

Way too many commercials, use to love this channel, still want to. But can't do so many interruptions.

[@joelagyeman3146]

Could you report on the Mali coup?

[@hadtrio6629]

it would take a while it's not clear in which camp they're in some say china & Russia is involved or supporting some say it's France again reasserting dominance over their old colonies

[@jamesrodrigues7391]

No Surprises with this video

[@currentcomentor1026]

Do you know the proportion of saudi oil that goes through the gulf of aiden

[@sukeshmishra7916]

How the hell Saudi Arab has the third largest army in the world??

In defense budget, not in power

[@daliborkudrna437]

Because this video is total s hit where a lot of thinks were not true?

[@michaelborror4399]

If I had lots of extra money to spend, I'd probably learn about and be alot more vocal about building good homeless shelters, developing school computer courses, and depending on what you're doing or where you are, I've always liked boom lifts, or different types of equipment for community approved and planned equipment rentals. Even if some people might prefer scaffolding. although I'd try to position myself in more peaceful places in the first place, rather than cultivating the means through which more people might be loyal. And smart drones with grappling hooks on them for emergency services, and a paintball arena that won't even necessarily require hydraulic lifts to lift people into the stadium, lol...? And develope my competitive online Shinobi Ninpei video game, which would be pretty great in and of itself...

[@luisfeliperodriguesalmeida6001]

"This game bitch is about mother fucking miney"-Epic rap battles of history

[@ihaveanametoo]

So what actually happened to Simon? I havent been following the visualpolitiken lore closely enough

[@abdiiabduosman4746]

What good job they have dane

[@walesruels]

$1,000 a DAY for going overseas?! 😮😮

[@M.MahdiBKH]

The chart at 6:20 will be more fair if not be on total defense spending by country in 2020 But be on ( total defense spending/population ) by country in 2020 Or be on ( total defense spending/Area of that country ) by country in 2020

[@YoungKim0705]

Operation Desert "Fox?" Did Rommel fight the war in 1991? Lol Nay, great vodeo ;)

[@theshadowman1398]

Most of them don’t even know how to operate the machinery they purchased.

[@kantbatta880]

Actual video starts at 1:30

[@Roboticpycotic]

10:02 How is it possible to buy a villiage?

[@beattrixer7947]

Buddy, how many ads you got running on a short presentation?

[@igorthelight]

Zero for me. - "Adblock Plus" user ;-)

[@rigoflores6286]

tbh i like this guy better. I can get used to this now :)

[@WorshipinIdols]

LoL. But wait! Why is it then if the $ graph is true, that Israel is the only the regional Super-Power and has a military more high-tech (in those areas it needs then the US) then the US? Israel can clean out any combination of Arab countries in the middle-East.

[@shad0wrune]

Video starts at 1:35

[@J_Stronsky]

The Saudi Military - Proof that money can't buy competency

[@sinarouhi3966]

carter was the reason for all those that happened in the first place.

[@juancamilorojas5528]

one that comes from visualpolitik in spanish

[@AtomicSaunders]

The narrator is participating in a speed reading competition. Breath good sir. Breath, people are trying to follow you.

[@chalpy690]

Why are they not making a video about Belarus? Theres something big happening there and i dont see it covered here

[@Jedi.Toby.M]

The uncomfortable idea, money buys safety...

[@nabeelahmedkhanofficial]

All this money yet their Armies are not that powerful because if they were, Saudi Arabia would not depend on US and Pakistan for military training and protection.

[@rpatel3935]

Very true Bro.

[@kezbo28]

The NFG nailed it >>>

[@robknapp8647]

Operation Desert Fox? You disappoint me.

[@akilsomething]

where is the other guy ?

[@seanlukecorroon]

All the gear and no idearrr

[@user-nu8in3ey8c]

Where is Simon Whistler?

[@le_nopeman8997]

I miss Simon here

[@YoursObedientlyFilms]

Where is Simon?

[@ajayjames8788]

Saudi has the third largest army? How? From what stats?

[@berryh3575]

WHERE IS SIMON???

[@salmanahmed5212]

All arabs armies combine together cannot defeat iran army

[@awaf12]

iraq past army alone almost won against iran if not for saddam arrogant and stupid intervening in strategic matters

[@1moneyking]

@@awaf12 lol With US support

[@saud9073]

One Arabian Tribe is enough for Iran

[@1moneyking]

@@saud9073 nope

[@saud9073]

@Wolf Puppy Dhi Qar😉

[@hymurad9532]

Where is the original guy🤔

[@bigmike9128]

Timely video the uae wants to buy the f35 .

[@daxxhex8546]

Great Britain 🇬🇧 took half of the world 🌎 then the table trun on every one

[@abdallaha92]

An old Arab saying "In the West, the army protects the people from foreign enemies. In the Arab World, the army protects the king from the people" Corruption, and promotion based on connections rather than ability basically removes all effort in Arab army thinking. What's the point about being a good soldier if you'll never be promoted due to not having the connections, or the fact the country's ruler doesn't care.

[@peachrabbit8480]

sadly you misunderstand the whole situation, if you didn't know iran proxies are all over, in yemen, syria, iraq, lebanon, the military spending was not that high before the arab spring, which caused a state of chaos surrounding the gulf states, if they weren't capable armies, those gulf countries would have fallen faster than syria did, but they didn't, the video is suggesting in order for those armies to be affective they should prevent any and all irani harrassements, and it's partly true, but not the right way to judge the whole army, one thing they didn't mention, that really contributes to their power, that is having egypt as an ally, part of their spending goes on egyptian equipements, to support the military industry there, as well as strengthening their ties. the stability of the country is for the people's safety, otherwise turkey, iran and other countries would swallow the entire middle east, taking all their ressources and giving them nothing but chants to repeat over and over

[@peachrabbit8480]

@ایران گرایی do you go spreading your opinion as facts for a living? what governments are you talking about? tell me the full extent if their power, does it reach outside their offices? even the strongest of the 3, turkey goes to kill their officers and nothing is done about it, and yemen, tell me who the governement there is fighting against? and the part about saudi arabia creating isis, why did it carry attacks in its homeland, as well as in allied arab countries, that is not to mention worldwide, even israel wouldn't get a pass for it from america

[@peachrabbit8480]

@ایران گرایی your country rushed to syria not to fight against isis, but for the aid of bashar, saudi arabia along with jordan and turkey were the ones who really rid iraq and syria of isis, your country doesn't care about shiaa arabs, even shiaa in iraq had a country wide uprising with their sunni brothers calling iran to step out, you know what your militias did to them, exactly what your officials did to the iranian protestors, before soleimani was killed and both fires were put down

[@wildfire3989]

ایران گرایی no they didnt !! Its usa imperialism and a holywood movieas isis did that so it can force arab gulf stat to make peace with israel! Or else

[@chandrur7905]

Only the timid - shows might.*

[@kabalofthebloodyspoon]

This guy has gravitas in spite of the Hawaiian shirt

[@fvo911]

Are you sure that there is F22 but not F35?

[@availablehage]

Persian gulf on "how do you turn this on" mode

[@Tiberiusncc1701D]

All dressed up and nowhere to go

[@abhishekdas9281]

Money does not necessarily equate to efficiency and more power.

[@MarkRentonreal]

Where is simon?

[@pratikbenali6621]

what will happen when the oil will run out?

[@Zeczam]

Video begins at 1:35

[@Versatilad]

Bring back the guy with the beard

[@lordhighkommandanthq7329]

skip- oh wait this is visual politiks?

[@sharoneboy8849]

How are they so insignificant?

[@1moneyking]

They suck

[@ferdinandfernando1739]

And they finally realized that they are no match not only for Israel but also for Iran. I can see all petrol monarchy in a line to sue for peace with Israelis.

[@uvnok]

can you do rafale deal between india and france .a lot of corruption happened and cover it with national security

[@ArunKumar-xv4qn]

Lol that happened only according to Gandhi family and nobody else

[@mattbowdenuh]

To be honest, if you host a US military base you don't need your military to be combat capable....

[@amalpaulson3971]

To avoid adds 1:26

[@sharnwebster4226]

Not liking the overload in ads. Way way way to many now

[@Crashed131963]

There was a ad? Get adblocker Plus. Solved.

[@totskietodna4196]

they buy those weapon for picture taking only

[@wahid8997]

Americans would invade Anterctica and say penguins are trying to take over the human race if they find oil there

[@H00L3y]

@1:28

[@anuragbhardwaj2900]

Money can only buy powerful army in civilization game

[@jawadad802]

Carter at his worst... I wonder what today carter would say to 1979 Carter?