Valuetainment - July 28, 2025


＂Russia's Drones Are From Iran＂ - Chris Cappy Uncovers EXPLOSIVE Alliance Against The West

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military spending Russia flaunts massive drone war machine
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In this episode, we discuss the differences between China and the United States when it comes to military spending, and why China spends more than the U.S. in terms of military spending. We also talk about who is advancing the most in military technology, and who is catching up.

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00:00:00.000 Who are you noticing, Chris, that's advancing in military the most?
00:00:05.580 I mean, when we look at budgets, right, Rob, if you can go back to that one that you had,
00:00:09.760 you know, because we see this budget here, right?
00:00:12.580 Ours, $8.77.
00:00:15.320 You got China, Russia, India, Saudi, UK, Germany, France, South Korea, Japan, Ukraine combined
00:00:19.920 is not $8.77.
00:00:22.860 They're $8.49, right?
00:00:24.600 I think that this is, it tells a story, an interesting story.
00:00:30.540 It's two years old.
00:00:31.460 It's also, yes.
00:00:33.100 And this ratio has been similar to this for a long time.
00:00:36.980 I would say it doesn't tell the full story because I think China's actually spending a
00:00:43.420 lot more than that because there's so many different ways that you can determine what's
00:00:49.000 military spending and not.
00:00:50.440 There's so many different ways that it's almost an accountant game where China, for 0.78
00:00:55.880 instance, there's large parts of their, what we include in our military budget, like things
00:01:02.340 like the Coast Guard and the National Guard, for instance, the National Guard budget, China
00:01:08.080 does not include their, what you would call their National Guard is not included in their
00:01:13.500 budget.
00:01:13.820 It's a separate thing that they include as part of their accounting for police force because
00:01:18.440 so much of what China does is policing their own people.
00:01:21.880 And so it's called the People's Armed Police.
00:01:26.860 Huge budget.
00:01:27.880 And this is the People's Armed Police, by the way, have flamethrowers and rocket launchers
00:01:34.260 and infantry fighting vehicles.
00:01:36.380 Like it's not a regular police force.
00:01:39.500 It's essentially another part of their military, but they just don't do the accounting that way.
00:01:45.500 So it's one.
00:01:46.500 And there's a bunch of line items that are like that.
00:01:50.440 That's just one example.
00:01:52.140 And also with our 800 something billion dollars, I wonder how much of it is maintaining our
00:01:55.720 780 military bases.
00:01:58.100 Imagine the maintenance of that, the keeping, you know, that afloat.
00:02:03.440 That's got to be a big cost.
00:02:04.780 I would love to see the breakdown of how much the overseas bases are.
00:02:10.480 I would make the argument that those bases are a net benefit to us, but they certainly
00:02:20.160 do cost a lot of money.
00:02:22.860 A lot of times, though, the countries themselves pay for a lot of the stationing of our bases.
00:02:27.640 They want us there.
00:02:28.340 In China, for instance, that budget is much larger also because of something called purchasing
00:02:34.280 power parity.
00:02:35.940 So if you account for it, and this is not a perfect example of how it works, but goods
00:02:43.420 in the United States cost a lot more.
00:02:45.640 So buying an M16 here is different than what China would pay.
00:02:50.220 So if you account for that discrepancy, basically there's a firm, an actual economics firm that
00:02:58.640 ran the numbers, and they assessed that China's budget is probably closer to twice as high as
00:03:03.700 they claim it is.
00:03:05.280 Yeah, or more so.
00:03:06.800 So it's still not at the levels we are.
00:03:08.680 Right.
00:03:10.080 What type of advancement are they making?
00:03:13.120 You see the drone war, right?
00:03:14.860 If you see this other chart that we all see, and again, you're getting me to not question
00:03:18.760 the drone part, the country's set to dominate drone warfare by 2028.
00:03:23.500 See where we are, okay?
00:03:25.940 And then you got, this is by The Guardian, you got China, we're at 1,000, China, 68, Russia,
00:03:31.500 India, Australia, Egypt, Turkey, Malaysia, Indonesia, Israel, okay? 0.57
00:03:35.860 And how are they calculating those numbers, Rob?
00:03:37.740 Is there a number to it, or what does the 1,000 mean?
00:03:41.720 Do you see it on the bottom, or no?
00:03:42.920 It doesn't say at the bottom.
00:03:44.020 I can find out.
00:03:44.540 Brandon, can you send us what that 1,000 means in calculation?
00:03:47.440 But when you're seeing, you know, drone warfare, future way of going to war, who is advancing
00:03:54.760 in a more modern warfare than others?
00:03:57.940 Are we still ahead of everybody?
00:04:00.000 I think with the drones is probably the, especially the organic to the squad, that level of smaller
00:04:07.300 drone, I think we were caught off guard a little bit by the FPV drones, the first-person view drones that are
00:04:14.060 just for, like, the size of one soldier can use.
00:04:18.020 Because we were, for a long time, and still are, the leaders at the most high-tech and sophisticated
00:04:23.060 drones.
00:04:24.160 But so much of what's happening, so much of the innovation is those lower-level drones.
00:04:29.360 So I think we're now catching up.
00:04:32.040 For instance, we are basically, right now, what's happening in the U.S. military is the
00:04:37.320 largest transformation of how our forces fight since the 1980s.
00:04:43.040 Like, in the 1980s, the military went through a giant overhaul in the Cold War when we got
00:04:49.800 the Bradleys, the Apaches.
00:04:51.160 We got the Big Five systems, the HIMARS or the MLRS rockets.
00:04:57.820 These systems changed our entire military doctrine of how we fight, and we went and we were able
00:05:05.960 to defeat Iraq in several days using these new systems.
00:05:10.820 And now we're doing—this was the land-sea battle doctrine.
00:05:15.440 We're now doing multi-domain task force fighting, which we're seeing were less focus
00:05:25.900 and emphasis on Abrams tanks and heavy tanks, more focus on these light Jeeps called infantry
00:05:32.920 squad vehicles, kind of like going back, basically, to the Humvee of the 80s.
00:05:37.980 And we're going to send troops out in these unarmored Humvees with—
00:05:42.540 These guys.
00:05:42.920 Yeah, yeah, those.
00:05:43.760 And then all those dudes are going to have drones with them. 1.00
00:05:47.420 So this is the new meta, you could say, of how we're going to fight wars.
00:05:52.280 It's fascinating to see.
00:05:53.720 It's so crazy to see an organization like the Army that's so opposed to change, and you
00:05:59.020 really got to twist their arm to get them to make any kind—an institution like that
00:06:04.140 is very traditional and rooted in what works.
00:06:07.000 So they're making massive, radical changes that they—more changes in the time span of
00:06:14.620 two years than usually they make in 20 years.
00:06:17.080 Yeah, so drones, by the way, that 1,000 that we saw, that was 1,000 times 1,000.
00:06:22.800 So we would be essentially at—it's 1,000 individual military drones, not dollars monetary.
00:06:31.500 So 1,000 times 1,000, which means a million, that military drone warfare that's being built.
00:06:36.940 By the way, when you look at—did you see the Russia drones that came out just released
00:06:42.180 two or three days ago?
00:06:43.680 Did you see these black drones that were shown?
00:06:45.860 Rob, I don't know if you have this or not.
00:06:47.860 Russia drones were just released, I think, three days ago, two days ago.
00:06:52.220 Okay, two days ago.
00:06:54.020 And Russia appears to be launching—go a little bit lower, be launching.
00:06:59.740 Oh, from the pickup truck, the Ford pickup trucks?
00:07:02.200 Is that what you're talking about?
00:07:02.680 No, this is not the one, Rob.
00:07:04.000 If you go on X, type in the same phrase you put on there and just put it on X and see what
00:07:09.580 comes up.
00:07:10.060 Russia drones and X and see what it—what shows us.
00:07:13.260 You'll see the way—
00:07:15.880 Right here?
00:07:16.620 The Black B drone group? 0.94
00:07:18.600 July 22nd.
00:07:19.700 Is that the one?
00:07:20.560 I don't know if that's the one.
00:07:21.640 Go a little bit lower, Rob, to see what we see.
00:07:25.440 There were these drones that were just absolutely—I mean, you can see the—go a little bit lower,
00:07:30.860 Rob.
00:07:33.140 Yeah, I have to find it.
00:07:35.160 Oh, is that the one?
00:07:36.480 What is that right there, Rob?
00:07:37.440 The third one?
00:07:38.280 Russia flaunts its massive drone—that's the one right there, July 22nd.
00:07:41.980 Russia flaunts its massive drone war machine on state TV unveiling—yeah, this is the one.
00:07:48.080 Press play on this one if you can.
00:07:50.200 It's giving you a hard time.
00:07:51.080 Yeah, but hang on one second.
00:07:52.120 I can download it and play it.
00:07:53.700 There we go.
00:07:53.820 These Russians never want us to see these videos. 1.00
00:07:55.780 Look at this.
00:07:56.140 This is it.
00:08:00.520 So they want to play ball.
00:08:03.900 Yeah, they're not joking around.
00:08:05.380 No.
00:08:05.460 It's funny because they got—those Shahed drones are from Iran. 1.00
00:08:09.480 They're Iranian technology. 0.88
00:08:10.780 These drones?
00:08:11.420 Yeah.
00:08:11.760 Are Iranian technology?
00:08:13.080 Oh, yeah, yeah.
00:08:13.720 Iran were the ones that—very famously, Shahed drone is Iran basically set up these production facilities in Russia. 0.84
00:08:22.600 They sent CUDS force operatives to help train them on how to use—because Russia has a lot of very sophisticated—it's kind of like the United States, where they have sophisticated weapon systems.
00:08:34.720 But they had this gap in drone technology, and Iran happened to have the capability and the know-how for these type of explosive drones, and they provided that to Russia.
00:08:48.500 Russia has now since run with it.
00:08:51.280 Yeah, so these guys right here—pull it—zoom a little bit.
00:08:54.960 Yeah, Iran.
00:08:55.560 So place of origin, Iran.
00:08:56.860 Interesting.
00:08:57.280 Iran, North Korea, Communist Chinese Party, all of our allies are funding and helping Russia.
00:09:07.380 They're all getting together and doing everything they can to help Russia, which is part of the reason why I am kind of of the mind that I'm like, maybe it's not such a bad idea for us in the West if all of our enemies—and I consider them our enemies.
00:09:21.620 I think they don't want us to do well—if they're all backing Russia, putting resources in, I would say that's a pretty good argument and evidence for why—or what I would say is a strong evidence for why we should support Ukraine to the degree that it's in American interest. 0.74
00:09:38.900 That's interesting.
00:09:46.780 What else is Iran known for building outside of this?
00:09:50.580 What else is their specialty?
00:09:52.360 Oh, they get everything from, like, old Soviet Russian equipment, Chinese equipment.
00:09:57.400 They get everything from them.
00:09:58.520 What do they produce, though?
00:10:00.340 As far as I know, the drone is their big, like, claim to fame.
00:10:03.460 That's the one, their claim to fame.
00:10:04.920 Manufacturing military weapons, including various types of missiles, armored vehicles, aircraft, and naval vessels.
00:10:11.080 They do also—I should say, actually, that's—maybe that's not accurate.
00:10:14.780 They do a lot for the Houthis.
00:10:16.620 So all of the ballistic missiles that the Houthis use, their anti-ship missiles that they fire in the Red Sea, for instance, all of that is Iranian technology that the Iranians ship to the Houthis. 0.90
00:10:28.400 Hi, I'm Chris Cappy.
00:10:29.600 You probably know me from the YouTube channel Cappy Army.
00:10:32.320 I'm now on Minect.
00:10:33.300 You can find me there, and you can ask me any questions about war corresponding, if you're interested in how to get into that, geopolitics, defense industry, entrepreneurialism, anything you want to chat about, I'm on there.
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