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This puts the slave labor meme into a whole new context.

“ then general Buttpopbob Naked back doored the country and got illegal bedrock.”

@@papakarrbear3767 this is the best comment on youtube

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Good

Yeah, Vice made a very good documentary on the situation in Liberia, and even had an interview with some of the former warlords

@@Account-jn7xu Then I guess it's good that he renounced his ways then, isn't it?

@@anon6000 it's convenient, for him

@@luciferangelica Also for the children he's not eating.

Yeah its like if Belgium started a world War by invading France and Germany

Nah it’s more like if Luxemburg Invaded France Germany and Belgium and in the process triggering the us to join the other group

Mad man Lopez killed any chance of a bright future for Paraguay right there! lol We get it.. If the war was against Argentina and Uruguay, they would've probably made it (Argentina couldn't even recruit ppl to fight for Argentina & Uruguay was in scrambles after their civil war), but against Brazil? That was a death sentence. If they wanted access to the sea that bad, they should've aimed south instead of eastwards!

Soon enough someone who consumed horrible historiography will come here saying how the Triple Alliance was cruel and were serving UK's sordid interests by destroying the prosperous and extremely wealthy Paraguayan powerhouse.

You know how bonkers this dude was after knowing how he even relied on children and elderly to go to war for him to gain time 'till the Brazilians could catch him

YES

Yeah but Zanzibar is also in Oman sooo

It is the other way round, the last Sultan of Zanzibar lives in Oman

@@ahmd5 he’s quoting Bill Wurtz, smh. During the time of history he was talking about, the Sultan lived in Zanzibar

@@legowagfles7287 I see, thanks for clarifying that.

Well, they started it. And yes, Argentinian here

Tru, Paraguay had it coming. Hope Solano Lopez is burning in hell right now. Ave Império Vida longa à Pedro II

Not Uruguay tho

@@easytiger6570 shut up, cisplatinian. Go try your treasons with some other tard

Dude chill, treating them like that is what made them leave the empire in the first place. Você tem que subornar eles antes e depois só maltratar ;)

Uzbekistan is a landlocked country in sea of grass. As if there was a point for UK to invade it 😂

Actually - they did... some very, very lost British troops passed through it during the Russian Revolution trying to stop the Socialists -> it did not go well for them.

Well Kim, Britain didn't conquer evey part of the world and Uzbekistan is a country that didn't exist before it got independence from the Soviet.

@@gazibizi9504 Khivan and Bukharan Khanates existed though

That's because Afghanistan was in the way.

For real. Like, just because that society was the victim of European greed doesn't mean that they were saints themselves or that Europeans somehow were the inventors of greed. Humans all around the world have been traveling from one place to the next, conquering and enslaving those who could be conquered and enslaved for as long as there have been humans.

@@ccvcharger Europe just came out on top in the end and built this open free society

@@Anonymous-cm8jy Sucess has been equated with moral wrong. Slave mentality.

While this is true, the issue is that people use this to try to downplay atrocities. "Whataboutism" is one of the dumbest things that we engage in to try to water down statements that trigger us.

@@Anonymous-cm8jy At the expense of many lives, and after much push back from various people over the span of many years. It's not as if they created free open societies out of the kindness of their heart.

Tibet does not exist. There is no Tibet. No, there is not a Chinese agent holding a gun to my head.

Tibet isn't really obscure though

@@user-sy8zt1ty3o says the china man

@@wtp7631 Tibet is really not obscure, most people know at least something about Tibet, but places like Uzbekistán? Nah.

@@wtp7631 Ironically the Chinese treatment of Tibet. Has actually made Tibet decently famous. Just from pop culture like the Simpsons and stuff like that.

At the time Britain didn't have the slave trade, so it would have to be a total reality inversion.

@@carlinthomas9482 Oman takes up Britian's task of abolishing the slave trade globally

That would mean the war would take about 40 minutes. The shortest war ever is The Anglo-Zanzibar War which was between 35 and 43 minutes so that would be unbelievable. Meaning it is perfect for this channel.

@@carlinthomas9482 after seeing britain abolish the slave trade, the leader of oman goes back in time 200 years and invades britian to abolish the slave trade

Oman: All your India are belong to us now!!!

Ikr. Jeez and even by current standards and recent history , compared to most of the world including China , the country i live in, india is actually pretty chill. No ridiculous dictators or major wars or cultural revolutions. It's no developed country. Not yet atleast . But it's very peaceful and stuff. Lol one of my friends was born within about 50 miles of the Pakistani border and she wonders how bad things would have been if she had been born on the other side of it. Oooooof.

I disagree. Considering how quickly the world is changing with new things like internet or worldwide pandemics, I'd say our world is not "magically boring". Especially if you compare it to before where if you were some peasant somewhere your life would most likely barely change from birth to death. On the contrary, I feel like the 21st century will be one of the most interesting on history with events that will dramatically change the world.

Very wise comment, nostalgia for 'glory days' has always been a dangerous lie.

Nice profile picture

@@abhiprakash74999 Living in civilized nations (at least middle class) is pretty good,secondary and primary powers not so much

Corsican Revolution: Impossible mode

the Americans didn't actually have to kill or defeat anyone. they just had to convince the brittish that staying there wasnt worth it

@@shaolinotter...by defeating/killing them

You tryna cause more problems for the U.S? Liberia sounds like hell on earth

Gee, I wonder how they'd vote.

@@ratemate458 it's apparently not as bad but that'd need to take like at least 40 years of industrialization first

​@@alastor8091 D 😅😂😂

But that was only after the power of the Icelanders was destroyed

The Barbary coarsairs weren't really part of the ottoman empire though?🤔

I know, but they were lose vassals of them, and Barbary Corsair doesn't give the same flair as Ottoman Empire.

And the raid was lead by a muslim dutch

@@momo-cchi5978 Official vassals, so yes that was Ottoman territory. We don't treat other monarchies that way: all the diamyo were part of Japan despite being functionally independent, same goes for all the European colonies or feudal vassals

I love TinTin!

wtf how did i forget that tin tin existed?

@@4awhile529 Me too!

I never realized that was the war it was based off of

hey right, I almost forgot they were fighting for that reason all along. ...and never even knew San Theodoros was supposed to be this far south, always thought it was snuck near the Guyanas.

Explain how these cod wars were happening when both countries were in NATO.

@@I_Have_The_Most_Japanese_Music apparently they were fighting over rights to fish in Icelandic water, also it was a diplomatic dispute rather than a war although they had some naval battles

The US has and still does and what has been concluded is that it goes to the pockets of the corrupt politicians .

@@I_Have_The_Most_Japanese_Music That was actually the fact that let us win because we went to the US and threatened to leave NATO if the brits didn't back off

I know what you mean,but Lithunans were the minority not only in the entire Commonwealth,but in their own half of it.Plus Polish hussars steal the spotlight

Well it was inevitable. The Polish have always outnumbered the Lithuanians, so there simply weren't enough Lithuanians to resist the overwhelming Polish influence.

you mean the achaemenids?

He's never covered them, but it's pretty well known how accomplished Cyrus and Darius were. Cyrus was pretty amazing.

r/PersiaiDidNothingWrong

@Luís Andrade Who did they genocide? I know they kinda destroyed the peoples will to identify with themselves (exempt for Armenians and Jews) but I don’t know anything about genocide

Luís Andrade 1.They most certainly are under rated. While among armchair historians they are little known and among the common people they are not known at all. They are only appropriately rated by professional historians. 2. So what if they weren't the Roman Empire? They were still a great empire that had great men and was as influential as the romans. The real reasons Greeks don't like Persia is because they conquered Greek colonies in Black Sea coast and Anatolia and the Persians also tried to conquer Greece. 3. Cyrus and Darius were benevolent rulers who were the very First Nation to treat all religions equally and revolutionised administration and warfare. While Darius did slaughter the population of cities he caught but this was normal at the time, the only rulers who didn't were Saladin, Ashoka, Aurelian, and good old Cyrus the Great. Cyrus the Great was perhaps the second most benevolent ruler in all of history (behind Ashoka of course) he freed any slaves he found in enemy hands and made sure that all slaves in his allies hands would number lowly and would be treated well, he is also famed for freeing the Jews from oppression and lifting them off of their exile. He would not kill captured enemy kings but instead make them advisors. 4. I almost forgot to address your last point. "Quality of life my ass" You made a point without backing it up with any evidence at all. I apologise if I didn't address the real reason you said this but you didn't really say why you said this in the first place so don't blame me. Now, compared to the only other civilisation in the near east which I know enough about to properly compare it to Persia, Greece, there is no doubt that the quality of life is far higher in Persia than Greece because of one simple fact, slaves; while Greeks had a large portion of their population being slaves, Persian has only two percent being slaves, Greek slaves were also treated horribly while Persian slaves were treated like normal workers (other than the stuff that makes a slave a slave of course) Also, Persians built these air conditioning things which used wind to change temperature and the Persians also had massive underground aqueducts; this all made Persian life less uncomfortable and lowered thirst in the population.

Liberia was doomed to fail from the start. Those slaves were brainwashed & became just like their masters :(

slaves get liberated and boom: worst country in western hemisphere

@@Terence.McKenna Slaves get liberated, no education, unrecognized with diplomacy and trade, and given a shit ton of debt from France that they only payed off in the mid 20th century im pretty sure they acquired the debt at the beginning of the 19th century. Resource extraction economy that only sells sugar.

@@lif3andthings763 It's really sad. It's also home to natural disasters on the many

@@lif3andthings763 Sounds like they should have stayed a French colony. Oh well, lesson learned

WHAT HISTORY?

@@I_Have_The_Most_Japanese_Music did you watch the video

@@I_Have_The_Most_Japanese_Music also its football

@@l.hans0692 He talked about it for like 4 seconds.

@@l.hans0692 San Marino has accomplished nothing in football.

Uzbekistan has a very interesting history. Uzbeks have a lot to be proud of. Uzbekistan was one of the main (if not the main) centres of Persian culture and civilization throughout the Medieval era.

Are you Muslim?

@@mateovazquez6685 Yes

Yes the same for me , this help me so much to understand English

Looks like your english is great!By the way how are things in Iraq ?

@@therandomname69420 It is actually very good, The country is making new buildings and i never hear 1 gunshot my whole life, is very peaceful and everyone know everyone.

And they say anime is unrealistic

Have heard of general mosquito and his rival general mosquito spray?

Quit watching loli.

What kinda animes do you watch. And can you hook me up with some?

He is some kind of preacher nowadays, there is even an interview with him on Vice's channel

The more I learn about Liberia the stranger it gets

The Balkans mix really really well with gunpowder not cheese

I have a feeling he meant most Westerners who actually care about History. Which is a significantly smaller amount of people, sadly.

@@serathaevistille995 Sadly theres the crazy few extremists that make anyone who like history look bad, alienating any chance of enjoying it, such as germans who think all europeans descend from them, therfore making like half the world "owned by germany", or turkish nationalists thinking most or all of asia was once mongolian, which is turk, so turkey should unite them all. Crazy shit like that, not even including nazis and communists.

Balkans: 50 years of peace, then somebody says Rakija is better than Slivovitz...

Tesla was an Albanian. * sneaks out the back door *

Last time I was this early part of my state was under Spanish rule

Sounds like a proposition for a great what-if

Last time i was this early there was a war against drugs in my country

Well if you're a sovereign citizen you believe it's still the law of the land, despite the constitution existing.

Those were the good old days. A tad few too many slaves for my tastes, but an amazing governmental system.

MrMakabar The history of Georgia is relatively well known compared to these on the list.

@@mobeenkhan824 Not at all in the West, might be different where you are.

Yeah that confused me for a sec

Random Really, out of all the thousands of nations in the world, there has got to be at least one that has a history as sad as Liberia and Haiti.

@@mobeenkhan824 thousands of Nations? That's a few thousand to high bud

Joel Jolland I meant all nations to have ever existed. Babylong, saxony and corn wall all used to be actions but no longer exist. Everyone, Cornwall is one word. And it was a real place. And has become a province of England.

@@mobeenkhan824 BABYLONG

@@mobeenkhan824 corn and wall my two favorites

I think vice or something similar covered him in a documentary on liberia

Scilly? Not Sicily?

I knew an Omani 35 years ago (I used to visit there a lot, working - it’s a great place btw) whose family had come from Zanzibar when the Africans threw them out. He spoke Swahili (first language) Arabic, English and French - he actually spoke English with a slight French accent. I asked him why French? “Because I went to school in Belgium for a while.” Belgium? How many Arabs go to school in Belgium? “Oh, my family in Zanzibar had historical links with Belgium - the Congo, you know. 150 years ago our they were slave traders in Zanzibar and a lot of the slaves came from Congo. Then they grew coffee there - my grandfather had a coffee plantation in eastern Congo when it was under Belgian rule, that’s the connection - but of course we lost that when the Belgians left.” Living history - he was a customer service manager with Oman Air!

The sultan of Oman lives in Zanzibar now

Your saying what I’m thinking

Its you again

@@mr.nugget1217 that's just where he lives

O man finally!

How does no one no this lol. WHy do think afghans look so white

@@eatinsomtin9984 Greeks don't even look that white though the average Greek is olive. The white is more likely due to indo european admixture.

@@eatinsomtin9984 Iranian mixture not Greek

@@eatinsomtin9984 What does it even mean to “look white”?

@@jasonjason6525 did you not watch the video-it’s Greek genetic integration

Oh yea, the Himalayas were in the north, dividing it from China.... Makes sense why the afghans and greeks took the route they di

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Oooof that would be cool too. Hmm my list is 11). New Zealand 10). Australia 9). Namibia 8).Guyana 7). Bahamas 6). Bhutan 5). Singapore 4). Indonesia 3). Maldives 2). Comoros islands 1). Tuvalu

@La nova renaissance Syria seriously! C'mon man! Damascus is the oldest capital city in the world! Tadmor kingdom and Queen Zenobia. Damascus was the capital of the Umayyad empire. Don't forget Canaanites, Aramiac, Assyrians, Romans, Umayyads. I have many things to talk about but the list will be too long then. Actually Syria is so underrated with it's old history and ancient civilisation.

11. Thailand 10. Switzerland 9. Argentina 8. Finland 7. Australia 6. UAE 5. Phillipines 4. Brazil 3. USA 2. Ireland 1. South Africa

@La nova renaissance I would rather add Canada, Iceland, Switzerland...they are popular with lame history

@@abhiprakash74999 >Comoros Islands > Tuvalu >well known

But not that sad, if we take in consideration their own popularity in the regional level For example, maybe like 90% of the world would know a sh*t around Paraguay, but in Latin America is such a known country meme-wise (Due to the war of the Triple Alliance and the fact that it exists), or at least nowadays apreciated by his neighbours

There is a lot of things in this video that might not fit some narratives.

There is just a limit on how much time you can put into teaching history, so the logical solution is to focus most around your local area. I had half my education in europe and half in south america. Each only deal with the cradle of civilization in the middle east and then focus onto the remainder of the history from their view point.

Wow it seems we have a venerated Nostradamus here .

For if Hitler never declared on the usa just would have meant they would have held out fora other 6 onths as the so iets were already pushing them back before d day. Better question is if what if the soviet union never dec.ared on afghanistan

An isolated autarky? The nerve of that guy.

They were enlightened pirates who discovered that the true treasure is not gold or the power of friendship but booty. Unfortunately , materialistic jerks redefined the word to mean gold

@@abhiprakash74999 😂😂😂

It gets rather lonely out at sea.

I'm personally a "Dutch muslim pirate leads kidnappings of Icelanders in the name of the Ottoman Empire." Guy.

@@shadysam7161 Wait did that actually happen?

Both of you are wrong, the Baqt was an exchange of goods of equal value, it wasn’t considered tribute by either parties.

@abbkk do you even which tribe I'm from? Or you just stupid assume something?

@Qalidurut nubians were destroyed by axum before byzantine existed

Damn, you're right. Tunisia deserved to be on this list.

I back you, and not just because I'm a huge Carthage fan.

What kind of “colapse”? That’s not a very clear term. I would love to se wrath video. Let’s hope it’s not impossible to guess or that it devolves into something mentally masturbatory

Martin Mercury do you mean collapse as in civil war, government or Balkanization?

@@zakaryloreto6526 I suppose he wants a civil war followed by a balkanization...

China and Russia: Its free real estate

Absolute shit storm?

It’s mostly debated that they didn’t have a grip on Somalia tho since there isn’t any texts or documents suggesting they had any autonomy and control over Somalia