Here Is the Perfect Example of Why The Military Show on Youtube Is Dogshit
- john raymond
- Aug 29
- 2 min read
The Military Show’s latest video on Ukraine’s EU accession illustrates, in perfect clarity, why their channel does not qualify as analysis and should not be treated as such. They begin with sweeping claims—Trump brokered a historic breakthrough, Orbán reversed himself, Putin has suffered a devastating blow.
But by the two-minute mark, the narrator openly concedes that they know nothing about what actually transpired. They do not know what Trump said. They do not know what Orbán received. They do not know if the reporting is even accurate.
This is not a minor flaw. It is the essence of the anti-pattern of bad analysis.
A disciplined analyst recognizes the limits of evidence and stops there. The fact in
would then be the secrecy itself—the manipulation of perception through leaks, omissions, and diplomatic rumor.
But The Military Show treats the absence of evidence as license to invent. Instead of grounding their claims in what can be qualified or quantified, they fill the void with speculation. Did Trump make a threat? Did he promise Orbán something greater than Putin can offer? “We don’t know,” the narrator admits—before constructing a fantasy narrative that assumes he did.
That is not analysis. That is propaganda laundering.
The deeper danger lies in how such speculation serves the asymmetric interests of Trump and Orbán themselves. Both men operate through deception, delay, and manipulation of narrative. They know that leaks and rumors will be picked up by unserious commentators and spun into tales of statesmanship.
By celebrating shadows as substance, The Military Show amplifies precisely the kind of illusion that enables regime actors to mask their true intent. Trump is cast as a geopolitical dealmaker; Orbán as a repentant ally; Putin as the loser. None of this is supported by verifiable evidence, but the video cements the impression anyway.
Real analysis demands verification. It demands that words, leaks, and whispers be treated as noise until actual action is observed.
Orbán has spent years playing both sides of the EU–Russia divide; Trump has spent years serving Kremlin interests. Until those patterns are broken in demonstrable, measurable ways, no analyst should pretend otherwise.
By minute two, The Military Show has already disqualified itself. They confess ignorance, and then they build an entire edifice of speculation atop that ignorance.
That is why they are not merely wrong—they are unwatchable horseshit.
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