Information on the channel: "USER CREATED" starting on Mar 24th, 2022
Oddly enough, the "content creation" seems to be being done in and posted to YouTube from Panama.
Source: https://socialblade.com/youtube/channel/UC3KfcvCLVi2PW_QY80hEwTA
Second source:
YouTube's own information --- Location: Panama
https://www.youtube.com/@militaryandhistory/about
One learns: 'The channel "Military & History" is monetized! Since Mar 23, 2022, the channel has generated 5,276,689 views. Assuming all views were monetized from day 1* with an average RPM of $3.00, this channel has generated $15,830.07 over 506 days. That's an average of $11,418.92 per year.
Source: https://isthischannelmonetized.com/
His donation information he publishes in the YouTube account -- IBAN tells that his account is in Sparkasse Freyung-Grafenau.
His Patreon page gives his name -- Torsten Heinrich. And the Wiki page on him says: "Torsten Heinrich (* 9. Oktober 1982 in Würzburg)[1] ist ein ehemaliger Politiker der Alternative für Deutschland. Er lebt heute in Panama und betreibt einen Video-Blog zu militärischen und geschichtlichen Themen, insbesondere zum russischen Überfall auf die Ukraine."
He has his own website -- https://mgeschichte.com/ -- but the YouTube and Twitter exposure is obviously more effective.
He says he is "German military historian (M.A. from the University of Würzburg), former German army armored recon within a mountain division, 30 years of first interest, then studying, then working in the fields of military, military history, and geopolitics. I also created a few small companies and was a defense and foreign policy politician in the past. "
Interestingly, the Würzburg university website does not show "military historian" among their "programs." I invite any German speakers to further read through the total list of "Studienangebot von A - Z"
Source: https://www.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/studium/angebot/faecher/
It seems that many, many channels have twigged onto the fact that YouTube monetizes, and passes on 55% of ad revenues, if a viewer watches more than 30 seconds of monetized video.
His Panama-based channel is not a big earner compared to champs like Kanal13, which the above and other analytic sources tells brings in about $565,194.87 per year.
The German guy in Panama -- a "serious-sounding guy with beard stubble" -- needs to step up his YouTibe game to catch US-resident Kanal13.
Money makes the war go round. Click. Click. And donate, too.
Great digging. Thanks.
Its a global world, oh “worldtraveler” :)
Having grown up in an expat society, to me it seems perfectly normal to find Germans in Panama. Or Britons in Taiwan (another channel), or South Africans in China, or formerly so (another channel). And expats are, generally speaking, a very curious and talented lot.
Thanks again for the information. As you’ve pointed out previously, these YouTube “reporters” are in far-flung regions of the world and nowhere near the action. And they’re all making money by putting out these videos.
Where are the on-the-ground reporters?
This is why nobody with any sense believes any of the propaganda being spewed forth from either side.