Flip-flops and ghost armies: Andreas Krieg maps Yemen's war for Double Down News

The security analyst's half-hour breakdown passed 800,000 views, and a three-day-old RAF Fairford video arrived close behind it.

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“WE LOST”: Security Insider DROPS BOMBSHELL on Trump, Israel & Saudi’s FAILED War in Yemen

Double Down News posted just two videos this week, and between them they nearly doubled the channel's usual daily audience.

The bigger of the two is a long conversation with Dr. Andreas Krieg, the security analyst who teaches defense studies at King's College London. Its chapters read like a syllabus for a war most viewers only half follow: why Yemen's mountains are so hard to invade, generals pocketing pay for soldiers who never existed, Saudi Arabia and the UAE drifting into two different wars, and the deal that froze the fighting. It drew more than half a million views on its first day and has passed 800,000 since. The comments are mostly about Yemen's fighters themselves, with many viewers returning to the image of the flip-flops in the opening chapter.

The second upload, a video about RAF Fairford billed as the one "they want to ban," went up three days later and is the one bringing in the most views each day now. Its description is a single quoted line, so the title does most of the talking. Further back, Lowkey's investigation into Jeffrey Epstein, Israel and Saudi Arabia, a little over a week old, is still finding viewers.

Among political channels of a similar size, the bigger crowds belong to others. Really American, Legal AF and The Daily Signal are all running at more than double their usual pace, while Breezy Politics is a little below its own. Double Down News added about 10,000 subscribers over the seven days, keeping it at roughly 1.2 million.

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The videos drawing views on Double Down News right now

The RAF Fairford Video They Want To Ban — THIS EXPLAINS EVERYTHING!626,123 views · 2026-09-30 The Epstein Video Saudi Royal Family Wants To Ban - THIS EXPLAINS EVE…631,717 views

The numbers

Here is how the week looked for Double Down News in figures.

views gained this week: this channel and similar channels

Breezy Politics

18,618,787

Legal AF

15,688,694

Really American

10,568,051

The Daily Signal

6,751,685

Jesse Dollemore

4,009,527

Pod Save America

3,062,086

Double Down News

1,975,970

DeVory Darkins

1,943,453

subscribers

1,220,000

▲ 10,000 in the last 7 days

total views

134,778,056

views per day

321,473

typical day: 177,222

first-day views of each video posted this week

“WE LOST”: Security Insider DROPS BOMBS…

529,607

The RAF Fairford Video They Want To Ban…

435,573

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

Jesse Dollemore

1,300,000

Pod Save America

1,290,000

Really American

1,280,000

Legal AF

1,250,000

Breezy Politics

1,230,000

F.D Signifier

1,230,000

Double Down News

1,220,000

The Daily Signal

1,200,000

DeVory Darkins

1,140,000

As of October 3, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.