 How powerful is the SCP Foundation really? This is one of those questions that is very strongly tied to which canon version of the SCP Foundation you really follow. Like if you're looking at what happened to site 13's version of the SCP Foundation they're clearly inferior in power to various other incarnations because they get taken over. So I thought I would examine, in a short video today, a real question that a lot of people have about the SCP Foundation. How powerful is it really? Let's get started. So the SCP Foundation in fiction is at its core in fiction, makes it sound like there's some other version of the SCP Foundation, but I'm trying to be clear here because I know people want to be like, oh the SCP Foundation is real. It's not. If it were real, that's the premise of our arguments we're going to be making. If it were real, the SCP Foundation would be a pretty powerful organization because we're talking about something that's international in scope first of all, which can compete with the GOC, at least on mostly equal footing, and the GOC is being backed by the UN. And I'm not going to say that UN organizations are particularly powerful, but some of the intergovernmental organizations I should say that the UN runs are pretty powerful at their core. So the SCP Foundation can compete with something that is supported by the entire international community. The SCP Foundation definitely derives much of its authority from the US government. And as sad as that is to say, that's probably because the authors, a lot of the, not all, but a lot of the authors, early authors anyway, were themselves American. So it just kind of made sense that in their mind that's what was going on. But as it expanded in scope, even though it may get a lot of funding and authority from the federal government of the United States, which is it is reflected in some of the backstory lore for when we talk about like the Omega Seven and Alpha Nine MTFs that involved or any of the programs that involve creating super soldiers, those were for the US government. General Bo was part of the US government's like liaison to the SCP Foundation. So the SCP Foundation has its hands in a lot of pockets and its fingers in a lot of pies. Funding wise, and we have to think about like, what does the SCP Foundation work? How does the funding come down? A lot of it's going to be probably discretionary spending from the US government, probably out of the military budget, if I had money to bet, because that's where if I had money to bet, that's a that's a fun thing to say about when we're talking about the military budget. The US military budget is so large that like a few billion dollars going towards some secret governmental organization could happen and no one would notice if it was done under the right circumstances and the right red tape was cut through properly, which is not too difficult when it comes to covert organizations. But you also imagine that even though it's primarily funded by the US government, it's going to also get its funding out of private industry as well. Because there's going to be a lot of private companies that have a vested interest in ensuring that the the anomalous world doesn't affect their bottom line. So you're going to have some companies involved. We talk about the SEB Foundation's power in the United States and most of the world at this point money is power. So the amount of funding, the reason why we talk about the amount of funding is the amount of funding is strongly reflective of how much power the SEB Foundation is going to be able to wield. It's the reason why MC&D is one of the most powerful GOIs in the in the canon of the SEB Wiki simply because they are the ones who have the money to exert their influence. It's also the reason why the GOC would be particularly powerful because they are funded by the UN. But of course, while the SEB Foundation does have its core in the United States government, like its origins at the very least, it definitely is international in scope. So you've got organizations like the GRU-P, which is the Russian equivalent of the SEB Foundation, except the SEB Foundation has sites in Russia and does operations in Russia. So even though the state of Russia has its own version of the SEB Foundation, the SEB Foundation still is active in Russia, which means that they happen at the very least to be significantly more powerful than that organization or else that organization would keep them out. Same thing goes for the Horizon Initiative, which covers, you know, a large collection of Middle Eastern countries. The SEB Foundation has got to be more powerful than the Horizon Initiative. And in effect, if you're more powerful than the organization supported by those governments, you are more powerful than those governments in a sense. I'm not going to say that if Russia decided it was going to do away with the SEB Foundation, it wouldn't be able to do it. It would be pretty difficult since a lot of it's on U.S. soil, but it wouldn't be impossible. It could be done probably over a long period of time. I believe those and a lot of clandestine work, it could possibly be done. But that's a good measuring stick. If the SEB Foundation can operate with impunity in Russia, even though Russia has a state-sponsored version of the SEB Foundation, then they must be powerful enough that Russia decides it's not going to get involved in trying to stop them. Not to say that Russia couldn't, but that the cost is too high for them to try and stop the SEB Foundation from operating on their soil. So, and that is ultimately, well, we look at the conventional armed forces of, we're going to get into armed forces of Russia. The conventional armed forces of Russia are not incredibly powerful anymore. They are probably one of the most militarily capable countries in the world, but in comparison to the conventional, we're not talking about nuclear weapons here, just talking about the conventional armies and equipment of Russia versus the United States, there is no comparison. Conventionally, Russia would lose a war with the United States very, very quickly. It's the reason why, but it'll never happen because nuclear weapons exist. Part of the reasons why they probably have such a weak conventional military. But they are still, even though they pale in comparison to the conventional military power of the United States, they are very powerful worldwide. And their intelligence services, which is another important aspect of this, are very capable. And I'm only outlining this exactly to make it clear because we have to compare the power of the Russian Federation with the power of the SCP Foundation because I think that's the easiest version of this that we can talk about. But also, other countries have their own versions as well. Like we mentioned the horizon initiative for the Middle Eastern countries, but there's mentions in some canons and some stories about Chinese state security being involved in the containment of SCP, or not SCPs, I'm using the wrong terminology here, of the containment of anomalies in mainland China. And each of these organizations also still tolerate the SCP Foundation's presence in their home countries. Now, when could look at this from the perspective of like say the UIU? The UIU exists. The SCP Foundation exists in the United States. Does that mean that the SCP Foundation is somehow more powerful than US government? No, of course not. The idea of the UI, then that's the reason why the UIU is so often portrayed as so incredibly inept and subservient to the SCP Foundation, in a large sense, is simply because if they weren't, there would be no logical reason why the US government would tolerate the SCP Foundation inside its borders. Because it would just be the UIU's job to do everything that's anomalous. The fact that they don't means that, you know, they believe the SCP Foundation is more capable of doing that. And the FBI is not a weak organization, believe me. I guess that's the best example you can compare the SCP Foundation. How powerful is it at least as powerful as the FBI? At least as powerful on a clandestine nature? At least as powerful as the GRU, you know? At least as powerful as the FBI. Probably least as powerful as the CIA. At least as powerful as the GRU. Think about the most powerful intelligence service that you can think of. The SCP Foundation is at least that powerful. Which is pretty substantial, honestly. Anyway, that's my opinion on this one, I think. I could examine it in a little bit more detail, but I don't want to run as long as I did last time when I asked a question, which the video is almost 20 minutes long and I don't want to keep doing those. So thank you very much for watching. If you enjoyed the video, please hit the subscribe button and then hit the notification bell next to that so you're notified when I upload new videos. And then after that, if you want to continue to support the channel, head on over to patreon.com forward slash de-semerion. Like everybody here on the screen already has, including Lawful Evil, who is at the O5 Council tier, and VV, at the $100 tier, and Dr. J Redacted, also at the $100 tier. 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