The Nerdy Kid Works For CIA | Charlie Wilson's War

[@johnharris6655]

Mike Vickers ended up being Under Secretary for Defense Intelligence. He worked both for President George W Bush and Obama. Spend 10 years as an officer in the Army special forces. That nerd was a total badass.

[@Pickledsundae]

Thank you so much for that !

[@scotthoran3704]

He was also one 51 former intelligence scumbags who signed a letter stating that the Hunter Biden laptop story was Russian disinformation. So he's a liar on top of all that other stuff you just mentioned

[@joshstiehl1170]

Lol wat that need helped arm both Al qaeda and the resistance forces fighting against them, he along with bush and Obama and all of their entourage helped fuel the never ending fighting in the middle east. Not exactly badass

[@godbluffvdgg]

:)...Nice...As a vet, I thought he was bonafide...Thanks for verifying my opinion...

[@Chair214]

Also signed the letter stating that Hunter's laptop was Russian disinformation

[@iandhr1]

"As a formal naval officer, I should have known better." "As a formal navel officer, I would have been surprised if you had." LMAO

[@Nthsey]

Perfect line for smarmy nerd to clap back. Never been in the USN but like almost every other military force in the history of war, the junior officers think the senior officers are stale old farts and the enlisted think the officers are all too big for their britches. Not in every case, but that’s the vibe I’ve gotten from outside observation.

[@NightCity91]

Your greatest legislative achievement in six terms was getting reelected five times lmao

[@mcs131313]

Hey same for Joe and he made it all the way up

[@goomshill]

Not exactly true. Joe Biden actually had a signature piece of legislation that was his big accomplishment, called the crackhouse law of 2003, it made it so anyone who operates a drug use location can be prosecuted, ie crackhouses. When Joe Biden became president, he ordered his DoJ to refuse to enforce HIS OWN LAW and would not prosecute people violating the crackhouse law as democrats pushed to open public drug use sites at state/local levels. His own agenda directly contradicted his only legislative achievement. I guess the dementia had already set in and he forgot

[@chrisweidner4768]

Always happy when this pops into my feed. Brilliant film. Phillip’s best role. When his voice cracks while dressing down his boss. Perfection. We lost so much with his passing.

[@Rikalonius]

Hoffman indeed was absolutely brilliant in this. I didn't even want to watch it, and then I was glued to it when I started. The dialog is amazing.

[@Omkh4258]

Agreed, like slurping cream corn out of a gravy boat.

[@mattysastropics]

“For the past ten years people have been trying to kill me. People who know how.” I agree with your assessment - peak PSH.

[@joelbabb4752]

@Philip is great in all his roles. Totally great actor with wide range.

[@PaulHenning84]

Okay not Kapote or Boogie Nights, this CIA agrandizing turd is your favorite PSH performance?

[@blakenorquist9843]

"...oh what the fck, he said he was sorry" lmao

[@tom80]

"there's no reason this can't be fun you know" One liners are really good in this movie.

[@johnharris6655]

Tony Mendez of Argo fame was asked if he was upset that Ben Affleck played him because Ben is white and Tony was Hispanic. Well Tony made it clear he was not Hispanic he was Spanish. He said his issue with Affleck is that he was too tall and good looking to be a spy. Ben would stick out like a sore thumb in Tehran, where Tony said he was average height, a little over weigh, dark complected and balding. He looked like almost every other man in Iran and no one gave him a second look. Same with Gust, you would look at him and think no way he was a spy.

[@kentgrady9226]

They say that CIA is the world's largest collection of "sixes". No one remembers sixes. No one notices sixes. Sixes are the grey background in every cityscape on the planet. The only possible reason a spy might be selected for exceptional good looks would be the infiltration of an environment full of beautiful people.

[@ShaggyRogers1]

That's the problem with most spy related movies. Real life spies are recruited for having inconspicuous and "average" physical features. The entire point of their appearance is that they are supposed to be unremarkable and forgettable. It is a hell of a lot easier to avoid getting reported for being in a suspicious location after something has happened when nobody even remembers enough about you to make a report. The ultra fit, attractive spy will be remembered for being ultra fit and attractive. It defeats the purpose of being a spy if your very being attracts attention.

[@deathstar4794]

It would just be common sense....that a spy would be the most ordinary looking chap....'assets' can be whoever....but spies themselves...must be unremarkable to look at least...I think that would be the very first requirement.

[@nickcrosby9875]

The proverbial ‘grey man’

[@jonathanisernhagen6515]

John LeCarre's George Smiley's main gift (other than his intellect) was that he could disappear into a crowd faster than anyone Peter Guillam had ever seen.

[@bobbobertbobberton1073]

This was such a criminally underrated movie.

[@drg8687]

I haven't seen it but I will now!

[@donarthiazi2443]

Everything that's ever been done is either _"underrated"_ or _"criminally underrated"_ on KZbin 🙄🙄

[@wspencerwatkins]

@@donarthiazi2443every whiney lil baby with nothing to say points this out

[@donarthiazi2443]

@@wspencerwatkins HaHaHa 👏 I gotta hand it to you, the way you tied your comment to this video was clever. Touché spencer.

[@whatisrealknowtheformula6137]

Doesn’t age well, politically-speaking, but agree.

[@itravellight]

My second favorite scene of this great movie. Nice upload that captured the good stuff!

[@gibu002]

First favorite "That's a thick door!" ???

[@BonsaiBurner]

@@gibu002 Or the glass breaking scene - How did I do gets me every time

[@gibu002]

@@BonsaiBurner Yes very good as well. In that scene, is she the woman having the affair? Is that how he knew the exact details? Or she was just his gossip informant? Or none of that, she's just a work buddy and he used his spy skills for the info?

[@NormAppleton]

Damn I wish Seymour was still among us. He is missed

[@ChrisParsons-i1r]

One hell of a shame, he was a master at his craft.

[@carsondyle1793]

My brother worked in Government during Charlie Wilson’s time. The stories are true…he was “Good Time Charlie”

[@johnpieratt1474]

My dad served in the Texas House with Wilson and he said everyone loved charming Charlie Wilson. No one could stay mad at him and he always had an off color joke handy.

[@beasthunt]

"He said he was sorry" I've been laughing at hat for years.

[@showcaseSampa]

That is a nice stretch of a take. All of the sudden, the scene makes sense.

[@unadventurer_]

Bonkers good take and dolly pull on that walk and talk.

[@NotodayUrsidae]

PSH taking Tom Hanks to acting class in this one

[@JvmCassandra]

He recommended a whole bunch of small arms and light crew served weapons. These are chicken feed for the industrial complex. Basically the strategy is hit and run and train them in asymmetric light infantry forces, which suited the Afghans basically how they fought for centuries. Use mules and horses to traverse difficult terrains.

[@drek7361]

Looks like somebody read the report

[@jacobjorgenson9285]

Same way they drove the dumb yanks out of Afghanistan years later 🤷‍♂️

[@watchmanspector1642]

One of my all time favorite movies, great acting and many of the real people/situations are infamous

[@iandhr1]

I love the line "no reason this can't be fun"

[@Glum1964]

I’m going to go watch this again. I forgot what a great movie this was!!

[@jebbrown8469]

One of my all time favorites !

[@maddogsstar]

The guy at the second chessboard was Tommy from the show Power.

[@MikeJea]

Thinking the same thing. Good eye!!

[@maddogsstar]

@@MikeJea He was also a biker in the first season of True Detective. My wife thinks he looks like Kate Blanchett. Once you see it you can't unsee it.

[@DirtIndustry]

James Barr

[@Renagade2332]

He was also in the first episode of Boardwalk Empire haha

[@Cory798d]

Omg nice

[@pbdye1607]

2:36 - someone's phone got a few Tweets.

[@dobtoronto]

good pickup. Foley guy on the movie putting in stock outdoor sounds

[@lordmanatee439]

Maybe it a real bird?

[@patpat8727]

I read this book during Professional Military Education training in the Air Force. No one really seemed to get the irony. I was disappointed because half of my class was intel assets from Fort Gordon.

[@LTDan-hu5fq]

Mr. Phillip Hoffman was such a fine actor....RIP Gust!

[@PorkotylerClips]

Gust helped the Greek military junta to seize power, oust the royal family and abolish democracy. He also advised them to forcibly intervene in Cyprus, leading to the Turkish invasion and the split of the island in two. Gust was a criminal and a traitor to his people. You should say RIP Phillip Hoffman instead.

[@bjohnston3659]

If only there was anyone important in the American government who could see beyond a week into the future of likely outcomes

[@jomarabelguilas3945]

0:25 was that James Barnes

[@rkuzmic]

What is with that horrible ADR fill on "plausibly" around 2:32?

[@snypa-ck7hn]

1:10 that is 100% the actor that was frames in Jack Reacher? i have not seen this movie***

[@danielrunyon4830]

duuuuuuuuude you're right

[@MichaelParks-h8d]

Nailed it!! I'm usually fairly accurate with noticing things like this as well. Just wanted to say this observation is extremely impressive. Well played.

[@cbrown8814]

...the can of Tab on the table 😂

[@BubblegumCrash332]

I wish the whole movie was about Guss.

[@lincoln3307]

...all i need is the committee chair. All i need is Doc Long!!!!

[@johncharlton199]

They walk so fast, but move so slow...

[@Blankford777]

I really thought this was the kid from Wedding Crashers (Keir O'Donnell). The actor is actually Chris Denham.

[@shanecagney7451]

Anybody know where this scene was filmed?

[@MichaelSnyder1776]

Nowhere in DC that i know of. Maybe around the state dep in foggy bottom? That frieze you can see when it shows the chess players gotta be a recognizable place

[@ng28]

The North edge of The Rose Garden at Exposition Park just south of Downtown LA - across the street from USC. The Relief in the background commemorate the 1932 Olympics which were held at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum which is about 100 yards out of frame.

[@shanecagney7451]

@ng28 thanks I knew it wasn't DC

[@kevintaylor791]

The Naval Officer I know would have got the joke.

[@makisp.1428]

I didn't get it. Both Charlie and Gust understood the insult.

[@alertgasper]

Had he been a Navy SEAL instead who trained with the Green Berets, that crack about a naval officer would make more sense.

[@HokadoKong]

The joke is that he was a political officer that joined only long enough to put it on his resume

[@siberwolf33]

The guy was a green beret ragging on the Navy. Standard behavior of all enlisted men to besmerch those from a different branch. Thus, I find your comment rather confusing.

[@alertgasper]

@@siberwolf33 The late Richard Marcinko, who created SEAL Team 6, was a maverick officer--he made rank through promotion rather than go thru Annapolis. If you read his series of books, he isn't shy about his strong distaste for the "ring knocker" graduate officers who stuck together against everyone else, calling them a "mafia". But you are correct, there are belittling nicknames each branch has for others.

[@siberwolf33]

@alertgasper I don't see the correlation between your comment and Marcinko's perspective.

[@josephlittle1752]

SOF has little respect for Naval officers because of the behavior you outlined from Marcinko. It makes more sense for a Green Beret to shit talk naval officers than navy officers to shit talk themselves.

[@dtw8446]

Ladies and gentlemen... the Taliban!

[@tisFrancesfault]

Not quite. The Taliban would arise in response to the warlord period.

[@cloudedimpulse]

Tommy Egan plays chess?

[@lucaspeden3727]

The game of life

[@MikeJea]

I saw him too😂😂

[@DroneTroll]

Chess Player is 'James Barr' from the Jack Reacher movie.

[@MdimuMtengeti-Baraka]

What the duece????? Is that Tommy Egan??? 1:10

[@wullie3907]

Just realised it's Tommy from power playing chess 😂

[@The.Civilized.Savage]

the extra playing chess is Tommy from Power tv series..

[@lulumoon6942]

CHICKENS COME HOME TO ROOST.

[@flopofshame2582]

The nerd was a hand to hand combat expert in the special forces

[@BaileysMariner]

2:17 astonishing camerawork

[@mamarine81]

Mike playing chess against the Hooli HR guy.

[@StephenGladue]

"arms dealer in Israel".. that should tell you all you need to know about US politics and who really owns who..

[@eddiebrown687]

There are a lot of feel good movies about America. This isn't one of them.

[@oldpossum57]

The plutocrats are much richer and much more,powerful than they were in the 1970s.

[@RomanEagle32]

We can’t rewrite history, but the writers of this movie made a great movie

[@jonolson4476]

My favorite movie

[@pab1381]

That’s my friends cousin playing the “nerd” lol. I tell anybody that listens 😂

[@TheLastLowe]

Never noticed Joseph Sikora was in this scene.

[@JohnHogue-y5h]

Such a well done movie. Jailbait!!

[@Rhotz-ix8ll]

Great flick. Charlie Wilson (RIP) is the sort of politician America needs a lot more of, especially given the selfish, unpatriotic illiterates people are stuck voting for today.

[@oldpossum57]

I think you could find people in both parties whose souls are not for sale, who cannot easily be compromised (Charlie Wilson would today be a victim of Kompromat), who have the interest of the national heart. I can’t think of any that the GOP would get behind. Kinzinger struck as that sort. I see your GOP as the party of plutocrats who have so distracted the electorate with shiny balls that they vote against their own interests. Credit to GOP: they have been working at this without a break since 1972.

[@niharranjanmishra8144]

Does this white shirt guy's statement still make sense in 2024 ? Think. 1:40

[@rickstrahan225]

he was playing chess with Joseph Sikora!

[@williammorris4419]

Good entertaining flick but.. where did that get us? After the Russians pulled out, we went in and also pulled out after losing more American lives. . and..the Taliban took over... Well done.

[@x43902467]

But a lot of defense contractors got paid, and a lot of congressmen got kickbacks... So I guess it's all worth it in the end... Right?

[@mcleanedwards7748]

you’re up yourself

[@mcleanedwards7748]

I don’t

[@adriantepes-qu8wm]

40 million dollars. They now give out 100s of billions without batting an eye.

[@makisp.1428]

They were 1980's dollars. :-)

[@adriantepes-qu8wm]

@@makisp.1428 so ? that would be like 160 million now. Still a drop in a bucket compared to today's budgets.

[@LeaveChildrenAlone]

All while creating inflation. US has nothing to back up all the printing of money it's doing. One day the dollar will crash aand the US will be a 3rd world country.

[@danevertt3210]

@@adriantepes-qu8wmcorrect - your talking about 0.088% of the yearly national budget

[@soapflakes]

@@adriantepes-qu8wmyour math skills are genuinely terrible 😂

[@godbluffvdgg]

PSH was amazing in this...The dude that is a weapons expert seems legit...Great actor otherwise...

[@pauldegregorio6432]

Gust pockets his trash. Well done.

[@makisp.1428]

Vikers insulted Charlie. I didn't get it.

[@Dr.TJ_Eckleburg]

"They can't get caught with American weapons. That's how a cold war turns hot and we want to keep a good lid on that." Boy if only someone would have taken that advice in Ukraine.

[@antonnurwald5700]

Don't get your pants wet. Exactly which of Putin's "Red lines" has had any meaning whatsoever? Today's Russia is not the Soviet Union. It's a gas station run by gangsters who prey on countries they think are weak. Putin had 30 years to fight Nato and he never did. All he does is bomb civilians wherever he goes.

[@sdsmt99]

The Americans have somewhat honored the treaty that took the nukes away from Ukraine. The Soviets didn't, in fact they are solely responsible for this war.

[@Dr.TJ_Eckleburg]

@@sdsmt99 We went from worrying that an Afghan fighter would get caught with an American rifle. Now we're unambiguously allowing Ukraine to launch American cruise missiles directly into the Russian homeland. Really not a great situation.

[@tmoney1876]

The situations are completely different. Ukraine is on the doorstep of NATO and the EU. Putin thought he was going to be done before we could even assist. He's not going to start a wider war. His country would be decimated in a full conflict with NATO... hence the US and the EU aren't worried about supplying weapons openly. Showing that we will provide force to stop Russian aggression is the main point. Otherwise they'll just keep taking and taking.

[@Dr.TJ_Eckleburg]

@@tmoney1876 cool story bro

[@billsblue89]

And then nAfghanistan used all the left over US equipment against the US...who this time left even more equipment behind.....LOLZ KARMA

[@HaragothNAR]

Hollywood's way of writing smart/nerdy people is so cringe.

[@lucaslaino7292]

A navy seal with crack your nose with a bad look but why people despise green berets? i dont get it

[@MarkTheTreeManVann]

Army vs Navy... Green berets have a 98 percent wash out rate... Navy seals have an 80% wash out. It's the same old song and dance about who is the baddest of the bad.

[@Somerandomname1999]

Now such patriots are laughed at and humiliated by prorussiab Trump team.. such a disgrace..

[@JoshuaKevinPerry]

Y u pro war? go sign up

[@Whatsupwiththisname]

@@JoshuaKevinPerry Beeing proRussia-means beeing proWar and antiAmerica

[@Spiewick]

@2:25 on Gus explains what fucken Biden did and now its turning into a actual fucken war 😂

[@oldpossum57]

You watch: Trump will handover American hegemony to China. The man is an idiot.

[@mcleanedwards7748]

I want

[@adamstewart8712]

…

[@Jack-h7m6u]

Sooo corrupted

[@FoxWolfWorld]

God I hate the U.S. government

[@cariboubearmalachy1174]

These people are so unbelievably evil.

[@gregoryprice2593]

AKM(s plural), not A-K-M-S.

[@MOTM1234]

please elaborate. Thank you.

[@MrErizid]

AKMS is a variant of the AKM. It has a metal collapsing stock instead of the full wooden stock.

[@TheStig505]

It's AKM-S's he's referring to, not just AKM's

[@nautilusshell940]

So dumb

[@lisbon1492]

So, the CIA weapon's expert basically just told them that they needed to give the rebels a full suite of weapons to fight a civil war. I don't really think that you needed a weapons expert to tell you this. In all seriousness, this scene speaks to a popular fallacy. It's this idea that if we give a group a certain type of weapon that they'll automatically win the war. War doesn't work that way. Winning a war isn't about any one specific weapon system. It is about developing a coherent, effective strategy to defeat an enemy and procuring very large stockpiles of all sorts of different weapon systems to implement that strategy. In other words, supporting an insurgency against a major power is always going to be an expensive proposition.

[@ZarkowsWorld]

It's not a civil war when the Russians / USSR invades.

[@User47598]

Ha, ha, ha with their help, the Afghans swept the Soviets back to the old & hungry USSR! So stop fussing!

[@NaviRyan]

People conflate America’s role in the Afghan USSR war. America did directly fund many mujahideen fighters, however by and large it was Pakistan and Saudi Arabia that had cash and were directly involved with all of the parties involved. Makes one wonder how the the Taliban aka the students that the Pakistan version of the cia the isi directly funded and created took over Afghanistan. a country which just so happened to have decades of animosity with Pakistan as they had a long standing border dispute that Pakistan would want to completely cripple as a nation playing the mujahideen off each.

[@Duncan_Campbell]

@@NaviRyan Saudi Arabia matched funds with the US, and let the CIA spend it as they wished. The Iran Contra money, was funnelled through the bank account used for this. Pakistan was the path into Afghanistan, they very much wanted their share. From memory in the later years, the British provide a second path in.

[@williammorris4419]

@@User47598 So we could come in and then lose American lives, withdraw, and the Taliban finally take over.. for nothing gained.. Brilliant you aren't

[@chris51lee]

Oops about Afghanistan. Big mistake from the beginning. Not the same as Ukraine. We have to get it to a stalemate on both sides then we can negotiate peace

[@gle062]

huh? what reality you living in? US supporting side against russian controlled govt in entire country, which country has NEVER been controlled by outside country (see England in Afghanistan).. versus US supporting country doing hella good job fighting off invading russia.. that and.. the intelligence US gonna get by providing arms to Ukraine will be significant.. FWIW.. I worked on new army helicopter early this year.. meant to replace 50 year old helicopters. Army cancelled it, realizing drones would be better from what was learned in Ukraine. and.. F-16s to Ukraine. shit, US gonna learn hella lot about russia air defenses.. anyone saying US push Ukraine to cease-fire and they give up some of their country to russia is a dumb fuck that thinks putin in our ally..

[@AoE2Replays]

Both are proxy wars of larger powers. Innocent people dying over the Ego and greed of lunatic world leaders, & the small group of powerful people who support them.

[@angellover02171]

The mistake was not helping them set up a system of government. Most citizens were not part of the taliban. The ones that were were educated in the west.

[@GeneralSamov]

@@angellover02171 The mistake was freeing up the Taliban leaders who promptly took back the reins. As soon as the support provided by the boots on the ground was gone, they practically had complete control. The installed government never had a chance against those battle hardened men. Of course we all know who freed them up.

[@sorryi6685]

​@@angellover02171They were religious extremists revolting against Secular government. One of the biggest reason for the revolt was government trying to ban child marriage and making girls education mandatory

[@simplelogic9090]

Yes at 0:25 was the dude from power

[@okisukmawan]

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