Why we’re always at war (Documentary)

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    The British Pound had dominated the global economy since the early 19th century. Leaders from 44 countries met at a hotel in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, to decide how the new global economy would run and what it’s financial bedrock would be. The Conference settled on the US Dollar as the de facto global currency. This meant that the paper money printed by one nation was used everywhere.
    After JFK, the US chose a radically different economic path filled with expensive spending. The one nation the world trusted to uphold the entire financial system was drowning in debt.
    Nixon changed the very foundation of the global financial system in a total of 16 seconds. By giving the middle finger to countries wanting their gold back, as a “temporary” measure.
    For the first time in modern history, the world moved from the gold standard, to a global reserve currency not backed by anything at all, just the blind faith that the US dollar was worth something - fiat money.
    OPEC, the cartel of Arabic petroleum exporters, announced an embargo on oil sales to the US and the quadrupling of global oil prices.
    Why was this so devastating? Because oil dominated every aspect of Americans’ daily lives. When OPEC exposed this giant weakness in America by restricting their oil supply, the US had to make sure something like this would never happen again. Enter - The Petrodollar
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  • @jaketran
    @jaketran  Před 3 lety +728

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    • @misterkaren
      @misterkaren Před 3 lety +5

      Third world country really dude really that's so outdated

    • @austinogg
      @austinogg Před 3 lety +6

      Are you going to cover China/America lithium deal in Afghanistan... Biden owns over 10% of contemporary amperex technology
      China's #1 lithium battery maker

    • @sbonisocele2230
      @sbonisocele2230 Před 3 lety +2

      Nice voice man

    • @sorintofan9035
      @sorintofan9035 Před 3 lety +1

      Via Watspk

    • @sorintofan9035
      @sorintofan9035 Před 3 lety +1

      ➕18454509333✒️📟📞☎️

  • @chancerobinson5112
    @chancerobinson5112 Před 3 lety +8358

    Fun Fact: The original title of the invasion was “Operation Iraqi Liberation”, NOT Operation Iraqi Freedom, but was quickly rebranded because its initials spelled OIL!

    • @jaketran
      @jaketran  Před 3 lety +1640

      woahhhh lol

    • @stateofopportunity1286
      @stateofopportunity1286 Před 3 lety +1410

      Some intern had a sense of humor.

    • @abd-co7le
      @abd-co7le Před 3 lety +407

      merican education at its finest

    • @razgriss5882
      @razgriss5882 Před 3 lety +443

      they subconsciously tried to tell us about it

    • @banksterkid5930
      @banksterkid5930 Před 3 lety +139

      It was late night show joke.. maybe Stewart or Letterman not sure. But it was trending in those days

  • @drshowman
    @drshowman Před 3 lety +4407

    This man is the future of documentaries , he literally just reinvented this format into something anyone can watch while simultaneously keeping your interest

    • @factsbykidd4765
      @factsbykidd4765 Před 3 lety +56

      as someone with adhd, this guy can keep my attention.

    • @projectifier
      @projectifier Před 2 lety +10

      Smart to appeal to both anti-war leftist and fiscal conservatives by using the "guns and butter" framework to explain inflationary policies. I don't think that we necessarily need to bring the gold standard back, but that we need an international agreement and cooperation rather than the domination of the world by the Federal Reserve and thier international reserve currency. The constitution prohibits a central back maybe it should have also included the prohibition of an international central bank as possibly fantastical magical thinking.

    • @JellyAntz
      @JellyAntz Před 2 lety +5

      @@projectifier Instead of oil, it should be thorium for thorium reactors for much more sustainable, efficient, safe, and powerful energy source, or at least to reduce the oil monopoly since plastic is so prevalent in modern life.

    • @erikferal
      @erikferal Před 2 lety +5

      Turning Documentaries into World Domination for Dummies.

    • @maggiejetson7904
      @maggiejetson7904 Před 2 lety +2

      @@projectifier To be fair, you cannot keep using gold standard indefinitely when the world productivity is growing like crazy, but the problem is one nation on earth is printing and nobody else can to the same scale.

  • @grapsietv
    @grapsietv Před 3 lety +3232

    *Country:* *sells oil for something other than USD
    *US Government:* “You look like you need assistance. 😇”

    • @thatguy7155
      @thatguy7155 Před 3 lety +163

      President: no we don't need that
      Us goverment: oh look your people hates you now
      President: wait wha-
      Us goverment: You have no right to speak to your ruler

    • @nehemiasaquino9080
      @nehemiasaquino9080 Před 2 lety +85

      For democracy! We’re a fucking joke to the world

    • @danielrobinson3079
      @danielrobinson3079 Před 2 lety +13

      US is a republic not a democracy.

    • @JellyAntz
      @JellyAntz Před 2 lety +46

      @@danielrobinson3079 "democratic republic"

    • @haydenblack5648
      @haydenblack5648 Před 2 lety +16

      @@JellyAntz constitutional republic

  • @itstroy4145
    @itstroy4145 Před 2 lety +251

    Every person in my family was in the military during this time has told me straight up that they were there for oil, nothing more & nothing less. I never believed that we were there for anything else. This is also why I hate how the government is acting so upset over Russia invading Ukraine when they have been doing this for decades.

    • @VorteX_SH
      @VorteX_SH Před 2 lety +20

      It was never about human rights abuse, Russia is wrong but us ain't a good liberator either

    • @abdiazizwarsame5877
      @abdiazizwarsame5877 Před 2 lety +7

      why can't they liberate people of Russia from the danger of putin and the World 😂😂😂
      Putin :Declines the the petrodollar 😂😂😂

    • @Bill-cb4bh
      @Bill-cb4bh Před 2 lety

      Ur family is the problem by joining the military

    • @Inception1338
      @Inception1338 Před rokem

      Only that US is funding and deploying a neo Nazi army with an extremist ukranian government that was created in 2014 by overthrow right at the doorstep of Russia.

    • @awesomejob4209
      @awesomejob4209 Před rokem

      Any yet they do the work of the devil master? I can say the the u.s military are more of the demon than the one who gives them the orders to commit terrorism around the world.

  • @johnrockefeller6893
    @johnrockefeller6893 Před 3 lety +5266

    Thanks for the free business advice, Jake. I am going to use it to expand my oil business.

  • @RebbtheGriot
    @RebbtheGriot Před 3 lety +9909

    Jake, stay safe bro. You’re telling too much truth

    • @GeoLi2
      @GeoLi2 Před 3 lety +264

      lol yeah that's pretty scary

    • @ashisyt8734
      @ashisyt8734 Před 3 lety +95

      @pinned by Jake Tran bro this wont work in jake trans videos .. we 2 woke

    • @GeoLi2
      @GeoLi2 Před 3 lety +37

      @pinned by Jake Tran shut the f up BOT I'm playing Minecraft

    • @dertythegrower
      @dertythegrower Před 3 lety +17

      This report... whoa...

    • @Jonathonson
      @Jonathonson Před 3 lety +172

      He's gonna be ok with telling the truth. What they care about is if you can do something about it, but he can't. Most people can't.

  • @plausiblequotes7643
    @plausiblequotes7643 Před 3 lety +3662

    Country: We feel it is time to reduce our dependency on America.
    USA: Time for some freedom and democracy…

    • @filipebeat
      @filipebeat Před 3 lety +21

      X D

    • @ZZ-qu7bq
      @ZZ-qu7bq Před 2 lety +78

      No wonder why China suddenly has no freedom and democracy in recent years

    • @slayerdeth0705
      @slayerdeth0705 Před 2 lety +29

      @@ZZ-qu7bq China is communist, thats why it has no freedom and democracy.

    • @thean3480
      @thean3480 Před 2 lety +108

      @@slayerdeth0705 You really think China has no freedom right . They do have freedom although it’s not as good as country with so called Democracy .it’s pretty good you can be a coldie as long you dont do anything against the CCP or break the law . I lived in Hangzhou for 5 years .

    • @slayerdeth0705
      @slayerdeth0705 Před 2 lety +6

      @@thean3480 Are you a communist?

  • @mariahuerta8102
    @mariahuerta8102 Před 2 lety +5

    This man should be remember as a great man and tells you things most people don’t talk about and he shows you how we can make the world a better place love you man

  • @kimeen4494
    @kimeen4494 Před 2 lety +1250

    Being the daughter of my Syrian father who always watched the news, I always wondered why my country couldn't be free. I always asked myself and others whom I figured would be aware "Why is there always war?", and thanks to you I finally have the answer to the question I've been asking myself since I was 6. Thank you, Jake Tran, for making pertinent content.

    • @muhammadabdulmateen8473
      @muhammadabdulmateen8473 Před 2 lety +13

      The syria war was nvr about oil.

    • @SICARIO1k
      @SICARIO1k Před 2 lety

      @@muhammadabdulmateen8473 it was about getting rid of evil dictators to free the people

    • @muhammadabdulmateen8473
      @muhammadabdulmateen8473 Před 2 lety +75

      @@SICARIO1k lol. Every1 is a dictator except the agressors

    • @alsparkproductions7849
      @alsparkproductions7849 Před 2 lety +34

      @@muhammadabdulmateen8473 it was about oil. And a bunch of other things as well. Was unfortunaly can't be simplified on a 20 minute documentary

    • @malakatan3235
      @malakatan3235 Před 2 lety +8

      It stop after liberators funded by America got enough land with oils 😓

  • @PhilOrth
    @PhilOrth Před 3 lety +1567

    I wish I could have a book of “truths” that had the true story behind everything in the world. I bet there would be some nutty shit in there that would blow peoples minds.

    • @stephonmanny7555
      @stephonmanny7555 Před 3 lety +96

      There probably is but it’s cover or said to misinformation or a conspiracy theory.

    • @gidd
      @gidd Před 3 lety +201

      The wiki leaks guy showed us the truth and ended up losing everything and getting locked up

    • @elvisgriffiths2540
      @elvisgriffiths2540 Před 3 lety

      ➕18454509333✒️📟📞☎️

    • @elvisgriffiths2540
      @elvisgriffiths2540 Před 3 lety

      Via Watspk

    • @elvisgriffiths2540
      @elvisgriffiths2540 Před 3 lety

      ➕18454509333✒️📟📞☎️

  • @125discipline2
    @125discipline2 Před 3 lety +753

    it's sad how someone out there are willing to spell unimaginable suffering just to keep their pride as the richest

    • @filipebeat
      @filipebeat Před 3 lety +6

      sad

    • @MossadDid911
      @MossadDid911 Před 2 lety +24

      @Spliffy Jimmy Americans elect and fight and die for them

    • @lemonheins2720
      @lemonheins2720 Před 2 lety +1

      @Spliffy Jimmy thank you.

    • @bdd2752
      @bdd2752 Před 2 lety +4

      @Spliffy Jimmy so it isnt just everyday regular citizens in the army ?

    • @maggiejetson7904
      @maggiejetson7904 Před 2 lety +4

      Every empire collapsed due to financial collapse and their currencies not accepted. Everyone of them turn into 3rd world and invaded eventually. Persia, Roman, Qing, Germany, etc.

  • @Iwads0
    @Iwads0 Před 2 lety +3

    Russia is currently trading oil in different currencies like Indian Rupee and Chinese Yuan.

  • @hydronpowers9014
    @hydronpowers9014 Před 3 lety +592

    "Hey dude, I'm not going to sell my oil in petrodollars anymore"
    "Ah hell no, somebody get me A-10!"

    • @albanian-moroccan9184
      @albanian-moroccan9184 Před 3 lety +1

      Brrrrrrrrrrrrt

    • @iliass2313
      @iliass2313 Před 3 lety +1

      @@albanian-moroccan9184 ALBANIA N1!!!

    • @ynog0978
      @ynog0978 Před 3 lety

      @@darksoulquis5643 ok

    • @utkarshchoudhary3870
      @utkarshchoudhary3870 Před 2 lety

      ​@@darksoulquis5643 It has dark humor.
      Its on 1 hand pretty amussing
      but on the other, the person in front of its gun could be a soldier, an insurgent or an innocent civilian.
      But such casualties are "acceptable" as per the US government.

    • @johnhenry4844
      @johnhenry4844 Před 2 lety

      @@utkarshchoudhary3870
      If Americas enemies don’t want drones to kill civilians they can’t fight in the open if not they can’t complain

  • @liamrobert2460
    @liamrobert2460 Před 3 lety +597

    When people say the us fights wars for oil they say it so off the cuff and don’t bother explaining (or don’t actually know) what that means. Thank you for actually explaining the scary connection between oil and the USD

    • @KevinJohnson-cv2no
      @KevinJohnson-cv2no Před 3 lety +15

      This video is cool & all but if you want to know the actual geo-political reason for the US constantly intervening in foreign conflicts & affairs, watch this video which provides an objective viewpoint of the phenomena from an actual International Relations perspective: czcams.com/video/uhXFgKEkwbU/video.html
      This video is sadly, like most of Jake's videos, simply trying to affirm populist suspicions for views. If the average joe believes America does everything for oil, it's easy to make a video affirming this uneducated belief, get a lot of views from idiotic laymen who go "hHurRdUrr I knEw It!"; then call it a day.

    • @anhbayar11
      @anhbayar11 Před 3 lety +6

      @@KevinJohnson-cv2no I think you didn't get the view. I hope you will someday.

    • @KevinJohnson-cv2no
      @KevinJohnson-cv2no Před 3 lety +10

      @@anhbayar11 Yeah that's usually what debunked people with no logical response have to say when pushed up against a wall with facts. "You just didn't get it", lmao if the belief is so full of fallacies that stating objective facts is somehow "not getting it" then I'll leave that belief to the masses; seems like the perfect belief system for them.

    • @KevinJohnson-cv2no
      @KevinJohnson-cv2no Před 3 lety +4

      @Oliver Von arx Not knowing does make you idiotic, lol. If you don't know due to your own willingness, or worse, your lack of ability; you are inherently idiotic. Most people espouse the oil belief without choosing to educate themselves on the validity of it, thus making it (& themselves) idiotic.

    • @liamrobert2460
      @liamrobert2460 Před 3 lety +14

      @@KevinJohnson-cv2no I've seen Krauts videos, including the one you linked and they're very informative and well researched. I don't think both views about US foreign policy are mutually exclusive. I think the US's relations with other countries can be attributed to both the influence of the 'petrodollar' and because of post Cold War foreign entanglement, perhaps one is more influential than the other but I believe both factor in.

  • @tomusmc1993
    @tomusmc1993 Před 3 lety +1223

    So, as a person who lived, and participated (1st Gulf War vet) through a good chunk of this timeline. People have been exposing this real time. These facts were pointed out at the time and the people shouting it from the roof tops were labeled conspiracy theorists, and nut jobs.
    While I am glad people are picking up the torch, there were people who were personally destroyed for exposing this.
    Great video though. Keep up the good work.

    • @entropicpedro
      @entropicpedro Před 2 lety

      Link?

    • @tomusmc1993
      @tomusmc1993 Před 2 lety +29

      @@entropicpedro you want a link to articles and stories decrying the 1st Gulf War was waged for oil, and to protect the dollar?

    • @entropicpedro
      @entropicpedro Před 2 lety +5

      @@tomusmc1993 no link of the people destroyed...the ones who first exposed this... other than Assange

    • @tomusmc1993
      @tomusmc1993 Před 2 lety +70

      @@entropicpedro sorry man, I'm not trying to convince you. I lived through it. I don't need a link. Given that this was all going down in '91 through 2000 my guess is you'd have to access archived articles, radio programs and the like. But just as an example I'm pretty sure even Alex Jones was saying this in 2003.

    • @entropicpedro
      @entropicpedro Před 2 lety +12

      @@tomusmc1993 I was like 4 or 5 during 9/11 so I practically grew up knowing(at least when I was mature enough to know) Murica fucked up in the ME. It's just people in the comments saying Jake should stay safe when the people who made this information public were the ones who took the most heat.

  • @mronofrio5070
    @mronofrio5070 Před 2 lety +4

    I love how we always go to “free”people and when we’re done they’re still not free

  • @stardestroyer44
    @stardestroyer44 Před 3 lety +1171

    the sad thing is, i used to watch video's like this in my adolescence. "conspiracy" videos on the truth behind a war triggered by traumatizing terrorist attacks. people called me naive, paranoid, dumb, just because I was a teenager. I'm in my twenties now and it's sad to see how things have unfolded. God help us.

    • @zwykhg364
      @zwykhg364 Před 3 lety +63

      Because most do try to push an agenda, most of the ones you watched were nutty conspiracy videos i bet. Pre 2010s era youtube conspiracy videos were nutty AF.
      You can tell a truth but still spread propaganda.
      This video by Jake Tran is good though, it doesn't have an agenda and is neutral. The title and thumbnail clickbait is a bit reductionary and would have been better off with a more honest combo, but thats not Jake's fault, he is just playing the CZcams game like everyone else.

    • @stardestroyer44
      @stardestroyer44 Před 3 lety +85

      @@zwykhg364 you completely missed the point of my comment.

    • @iljaradenkovs7150
      @iljaradenkovs7150 Před 3 lety +38

      @@zwykhg364 "conspiracy" was sarcastic here

    • @zwykhg364
      @zwykhg364 Před 3 lety +22

      @@stardestroyer44 No i didn't. There weren't many well informed videos on subjects like this on CZcams back 10 years+ ago. It was just nutjobs uploading their own opinions for the most part. I mean i can't know what videos you exactly watched, but well informed videos were the minority. Thats what i get was the reason you got called paranoid and dumb, because most of the videos were made by paranoid and dumb people. Sure, you maybe watched a good video like this, but that wasn't the norm back then...thus the reaction by people.

    • @zwykhg364
      @zwykhg364 Před 3 lety +2

      @@iljaradenkovs7150 Nothing regarding pre-2010s CZcams and "conspiracy" is sarcastic. Read my response to him.

  • @shroder2748
    @shroder2748 Před 3 lety +522

    "And to free it's citizens and to defend the world from a great danger" is probably the most bullshit I have ever heard in my life

    • @jvk35
      @jvk35 Před 3 lety +12

      Lmao
      That's so you know the terrorist thing isn't a valid explanation sometimes XD

    • @rc9719
      @rc9719 Před 2 lety +13

      almost as bullshit as the "fight for my country and protect our freedom that they sold the troops lol "

    • @JohnBrown-wv5lz
      @JohnBrown-wv5lz Před 2 lety +6

      Just look at his eyes
      The way he acts damm

    • @hallow6763
      @hallow6763 Před 2 lety +3

      That's why we fund terror organizations who we create cause we bomb civilians and hold down nations so they can't develope
      But we protect you from the evil terrorists 😇

    • @utkarshchoudhary3870
      @utkarshchoudhary3870 Před 2 lety +6

      At some range thats "sort" of true consideirng what people like saddam and gadafi did
      but...
      the USA really inflicted way more pain and suffering.....

  • @TotheFirstWorld
    @TotheFirstWorld Před 3 lety +334

    “Politics and crime, they are the same thing”
    Michael Corleone

    • @anton3783
      @anton3783 Před 3 lety +4

      So is god and the devil same thing

    • @unclesam5230
      @unclesam5230 Před 3 lety +6

      @@anton3783 completely ignorant statement

    • @NetralFN
      @NetralFN Před 3 lety

      @@anton3783 what do God become a politician

    • @anton3783
      @anton3783 Před 2 lety

      @@NetralFN ask god

  • @nunyafunyuns
    @nunyafunyuns Před rokem +2

    What about before we discovered oil? We were always warring then too. War is in our collective DNA. Put enough of us together in a group and we'll eventually come up with reasons to attack other similar groups. Usually over resources. Oil is just another resource to fight over.

  • @AdamCourville
    @AdamCourville Před 3 lety +572

    Awesome video. The only thing I would say needs clarifying is that when they say “what’s good for America” they mean what’s good for the US government and it’s cronies, at the expense of the American people.

    • @MossadDid911
      @MossadDid911 Před 3 lety +16

      Read my name

    • @fabsmaster5309
      @fabsmaster5309 Před 3 lety +42

      Not just them. It's good for a lot of Americans, painful as it may be to admit.

    • @natashagupta4691
      @natashagupta4691 Před 3 lety +1

      🟠 SERCH ADITYA RATHORE-HE ALSO MAKES INFORMATIVE CONTENT LIKE JAKE TRAN

    • @dontknow1684
      @dontknow1684 Před 3 lety +7

      @@fabsmaster5309 it is good just because US currency is not backed by anything. If the gold standard remained, then you would not say that. Thr cost of lives is much more important than any currency.

    • @carlrodalegrado4104
      @carlrodalegrado4104 Před 3 lety +17

      War is good for business and business is good for America. - some dude at a high class social party

  • @Pokeccc
    @Pokeccc Před 3 lety +2151

    lol just realized how much we got played

  • @bad_money
    @bad_money Před 3 lety +607

    World affairs rule no. 1:
    whenever there is chaos in this world, there will be an American or a British involved.

  • @rupavagetsitdone
    @rupavagetsitdone Před 2 lety +3

    The more I learn about America, the more i understand the terrorists' hate for them.

  • @TrialzGTAS
    @TrialzGTAS Před 3 lety +964

    Love how common knowledge these subjects are, yet nothing is done about it by the US citizens

    • @IFearWork
      @IFearWork Před 3 lety +126

      What exactly are you expecting normal citizens to do? I’m genuinely asking

    • @gidd
      @gidd Před 3 lety +143

      @@IFearWork When normal citizens come together they can demand for change

    • @IFearWork
      @IFearWork Před 3 lety +81

      @@gidd people always come together. Nothing changes.

    • @IFearWork
      @IFearWork Před 3 lety +64

      @Swcho Labib I don’t vote, it means nothing

    • @andreacavaletto5498
      @andreacavaletto5498 Před 3 lety

      ➕18454509333✒️📟📞☎️

  • @emon3791
    @emon3791 Před 3 lety +354

    “Knock, Knock”
    “Who’s there?”
    “Dont worry. We are not CIA.”

  • @f1r3hunt3rz5
    @f1r3hunt3rz5 Před 2 lety +281

    "Wait it's all about the oil?"
    - _"Always has been."_ **BANG!**

    • @Angry-Lynx
      @Angry-Lynx Před 2 lety +5

      Little fighter!!!!
      My fav game from the past ,🤗

    • @ytisfulloffreaks4189
      @ytisfulloffreaks4189 Před 2 lety +1

      Wtf

    • @Anonassassin
      @Anonassassin Před 2 lety

      New networks keep us blind

    • @bryanbell1530
      @bryanbell1530 Před 2 lety

      dumb

    • @thealeons3179
      @thealeons3179 Před 2 lety

      So there was a oil in Germany? There was a oil in Korea? There was oil in Vietnam? There was a oil in Afghanistan? Was there oil in Kosovo? Go back to your video games Andrew American Idol.

  • @scottmescudi3423
    @scottmescudi3423 Před 2 lety +13

    One of Tran’s best videos so far, really an amazing work, helps me a lot to understand what really happened during Bretton Woods, why Nixon ended the system and the real implications of the petrodollar.

  • @finance5186
    @finance5186 Před 3 lety +557

    It’s always been about the petrodollar. Oil is nice but having oil priced in dollars means you basically can print oil

    • @chasejones8302
      @chasejones8302 Před 3 lety +9

      this whole doc is nonsense. US dollar reigns because the alternatives are crappy. Gadaffi was going to price oil in gold? sure... Russia, China, they can change it now if they feel like it. They price their local own corporate debt in us dollars.

    • @nicholasmaniccia1005
      @nicholasmaniccia1005 Před 2 lety +21

      @@chasejones8302 your both going off wild assumptions.

    • @dinsilkhannaz7696
      @dinsilkhannaz7696 Před 2 lety +54

      @@chasejones8302 nonsense?! What crack u smoke boy?
      Us dollar reigns bcoz America push the world to use it in oil trading after cought red handed by not honoring the gold backing agreement

    • @vencano5939
      @vencano5939 Před 2 lety +8

      @@chasejones8302 US dollar doesn’t reign, euros is much better

    • @donovanriley798
      @donovanriley798 Před 2 lety +4

      @@vencano5939 what.... what alternative universe do you come from?

  • @vikkipink1288
    @vikkipink1288 Před 2 lety +726

    I love how in all the schools and colleges in America talk about how we’re always the good guys and so many people never do research that isn’t incredibly biased. American isn’t just always not the good guys, I’ve found that we’re the bad guy the majority of the time. It’s no wonder that so many people hate Americans.

    • @beachboi6196
      @beachboi6196 Před 2 lety +3

      U should been 🤔 none that USA back blood how what steal land people that all ready here enslave poeple to build and wealth of America for few white men who become billionaires of sweat blood others mybe cause other side grew now this mybe u just woke 🤔 up 2

    • @merma9042
      @merma9042 Před 2 lety +86

      @@beachboi6196 I had a stroke reading that but yeah. This country was very much built off the exact thing America claims to fight against.

    • @beachboi6196
      @beachboi6196 Před 2 lety +6

      @@merma9042 😭🤔

    • @chickensoup9869
      @chickensoup9869 Před 2 lety +29

      No worries non-americans know to separate people and government.

    • @gold6813
      @gold6813 Před 2 lety +39

      Not hate the Americans. It's just your government

  • @kimina310
    @kimina310 Před 3 lety +1454

    Then first-world citizens have the balls to ask third world countries to just "develop"

    • @raymondkanga
      @raymondkanga Před 3 lety +259

      Right? But tbh, most of them assume that those of us in Kenya, or other countries in Africa live in mud huts while starving waiting for their aid.

    • @LibShitted
      @LibShitted Před 3 lety +227

      @@raymondkanga Americans view themselves as if their atop of the "food chain"
      They think they are better beings or some bullshit.

    • @dave_riots
      @dave_riots Před 3 lety +225

      @@LibShitted As an American, I can confirm that's exactly what's going on here. Our own impoverished are treated just as badly and are constantly being lectured and told to "stop being poor" and pull themselves up by the bootstraps they don't even have. It's almost like most people here have their heads so deep inside their asses that they think it's possible to become billionaires in the blink of an eye through "hard work". It's absurd!

    • @PumpkinHoard
      @PumpkinHoard Před 3 lety +60

      @@dave_riots The biggest health crisis the "poor" in your country are facing is caused by obesity. You're so-called "poor" are still in the 10% wealthiest people on Earth.

    • @dave_riots
      @dave_riots Před 3 lety +47

      @@PumpkinHoard Not exactly. The biggest problems the poorest people here face may or may not be as severe but they are still similar situations to that experienced by the impoverished in poorer countries. No access to clean drinking water, no access to livable or any sort of housing at all, mental and physical health problems, a lack of well-paying jobs, a lack of well-funded public education, a lack of access to food for some and even lack of access to proper healthcare for quite a few people. Obesity is an issue, but it's nothing more than a symptom.

  • @dw7116
    @dw7116 Před 28 dny +1

    It's not all about oil. It's about forcing everyone on the earth under the same predatory financial system.

  • @sabomarov7279
    @sabomarov7279 Před 2 lety +131

    16:50 you missed a HUGE detail: the US assassinated the previous king as he didn't want to sign the deal

    • @utkarshchoudhary3870
      @utkarshchoudhary3870 Před 2 lety +5

      WHAT?!

    • @starstorm5338
      @starstorm5338 Před 2 lety +3

      That makes it even worst

    • @huseyinbaba8140
      @huseyinbaba8140 Před 2 lety +12

      Very underrated Comment a car bomb killed the King shortly After he refused to sign Business as usual…

    • @BruhMoment-cs6tj
      @BruhMoment-cs6tj Před 2 lety +6

      imagine if China did this instead of US. What would the Western world say?

    • @egg9469
      @egg9469 Před 2 lety +7

      @@huseyinbaba8140 Wait a minute... so America says its fighting terrorists but all the while using tactics that typically terrorists would use. hypocritical, much.

  • @-hiro-5995
    @-hiro-5995 Před 3 lety +340

    ""freeing people" "human rights" is just another excuse to do something even larger, nobody fights a war they cant win and nobody fights a war they cannot afford.

    • @buddermonger2000
      @buddermonger2000 Před 3 lety +2

      Unless of course, the hand is forced

    • @chozer1
      @chozer1 Před 3 lety +4

      They need to be freed and the oil needs to be in the west’s interests

    • @jvk35
      @jvk35 Před 3 lety +5

      Facts
      Also proves the terrorist argument wasn't always true

    • @zhongxina9420
      @zhongxina9420 Před 2 lety +4

      Only time the rage of the eagle was true is pearl harbor

    • @sidvyas8549
      @sidvyas8549 Před 2 lety +2

      He who invokes humanity is cheating, and has reduced the enemy to less than human

  • @kiranks3341
    @kiranks3341 Před 2 lety +396

    Bro seriously, stay safe. You're spreading the truth which the empire doesn't tolerate. And thank you for your work.

    • @dscorpio1626
      @dscorpio1626 Před 2 lety +25

      If someone like jake can find this information on the information. I doubt they even care, he’s just regurgitating info that was already known. He would be in real trouble if he had info no other journalist or source has, which he does not.

    • @Jane-oz7pp
      @Jane-oz7pp Před 2 lety

      bruh it's literally public information, the USA doesn't give a fuck how flimsy and easily deconstructed its excuses are. It IS the hegemony, it doesn't need to fear shit.

    • @shronkler1994
      @shronkler1994 Před 2 lety +1

      he's had this channel for like years and years bro, pretty sure he's fine

    • @magnomliman8114
      @magnomliman8114 Před 2 lety

      stop this bs hes fine. you can letterly google all of this in 5 sc. brain dead ppl.

    • @jjgg3971
      @jjgg3971 Před 2 lety

      people referring to the United States as "The Empire" terrifies the fuck out of me

  • @___fokker___974
    @___fokker___974 Před 2 lety +12

    Been watching back-and-forth many of your video`s. I`m close to watching them all, awesome subjects and production! Keep it up Jake and stay safe, like others here mention in the comment section.

  • @raycamacho4433
    @raycamacho4433 Před 3 lety +794

    “If they can whack a president, they can whack you.” Stay safe out there Jake. Saying I appreciate you is an understatement.

    • @sparkyfister
      @sparkyfister Před 3 lety +21

      yes, because youtubers with under 600k subs are a big target for the CIA. Are you this slow?

    • @user-kg7zr3yl3n
      @user-kg7zr3yl3n Před 3 lety +16

      @@sparkyfister of course he's slow, look at his picture lol

    • @ajmjl9102
      @ajmjl9102 Před 3 lety +4

      Irishman quote

    • @CosmoDawn1398
      @CosmoDawn1398 Před 3 lety +3

      the CIA would rather kill people like Malcolm X or someone that has power

    • @sparkyfister
      @sparkyfister Před 3 lety +2

      @@CosmoDawn1398 [citation needed] you clearly have no clue about Malcolm X's history

  • @MajorPain24
    @MajorPain24 Před 2 lety +1105

    I'm actually impressed with how far the US will go to safeguard it's currency and global leader status even if it's at the expense of foreign potential growing economies or innocent civilians of these countries oblivious to the US reasons.
    Also I cannot imagine the amount of gaslighting the US does to the average American soldier (Sound familiar ? ) to make them fight such wars for no apparent benefits of their own unless ofcourse if it's to actually defend the country (9/11).
    I sympathize with the veterans who have to go through the horrors of these pointless fights and most importantly take part in the senseless culling of the innocent in the name of freedom.

    • @ElectronicCalifornia
      @ElectronicCalifornia Před 2 lety +43

      What is the alternative? What if the alternative is a world currency and global energy run by another country? Would you really allow your own country to be the behest of another country the way America dictates other countries? Most people would not, I am also impressed by the lengths America has gone to acquire and keep hegemony, but I'm not I'm not so surprised. Although, I imagine a world run by some European countries would be far better off..

    • @FormerPessitheRobberfan
      @FormerPessitheRobberfan Před 2 lety +27

      Honestly, I'd fight a war to protect my country's hegemony over the world. How did you think empires existed back then? They're citizens understood how they themselves benefited from maintaining overwhelming power over other nations through military might. Nowadays we do it through mainly economic, partly military might.

    • @cestalia
      @cestalia Před 2 lety +36

      Ikr. Everyday I ask why US spends so many budget to military when most of country use it on education, infrastructure or others. Military is never first on the list.

    • @utkarshchoudhary3870
      @utkarshchoudhary3870 Před 2 lety +34

      Its actually one of the worst humanitarian crisis now
      The United States strikes with heavy ordnance at the expense of Civilians who of course are not American.
      "Acceptable casualties" they say
      yeah, a father loosing his whole family in just a few seconds is very acceptable...
      just watch how the USA will do this again....

    • @sabomarov7279
      @sabomarov7279 Před 2 lety +8

      @@ElectronicCalifornia better off under Europe? OHHHH HELL NAWWWWWWW. Al least the Americans have the courtesy to install friendly governments. The Europeans, like they did with Libya, just bomb the place and use warlords to do their bidding

  • @schalkwijk023city
    @schalkwijk023city Před 3 lety +406

    They got money for wars but can’t feed the poor.

    • @ronald8664
      @ronald8664 Před 3 lety +118

      Feeding poor people is not profitable, war is.
      Priorities people, priorities!!!

    • @gidd
      @gidd Před 3 lety +17

      "freedom"

    • @a1gray1
      @a1gray1 Před 3 lety +5

      -Lil Uzi Vert

    • @donaldrobert53
      @donaldrobert53 Před 3 lety

      ➕18454509333✒️📟📞☎️

    • @donaldrobert53
      @donaldrobert53 Před 3 lety

      Via Watspk

  • @yunoviera
    @yunoviera Před 2 lety +1

    As someone who used to live in Saudia arabia I want to make one thing clear, women do have rights.
    It's just that people from the west mistake the hijab (the head cover) and the ibaya (the black cloth that covers their bodies) as forced.
    It's not forced, we wear it to show modesty just like how nuns wear habit's(their uniform) to show modesty.
    I mean you can't have women walking with their chest areas exposed in a religious country.
    But I do agree with the other two things you said.
    the country was like heaven until this crown prince came and took control.

    • @yunoviera
      @yunoviera Před 2 lety +1

      BTW loved the vid it was fun

  • @Danygotaworldtosee
    @Danygotaworldtosee Před 3 lety +996

    Great insights as always jake 🙏🏻🔥😎

    • @jaketran
      @jaketran  Před 3 lety +37

      Thanks my man

    • @Greg-yu4ij
      @Greg-yu4ij Před 3 lety +5

      @@jaketran Jake, its way more complicated than your insights describe. Watch Peter Zeihan “the Fall of China”. The USA built a global order and opened it up to everyone. We started wars, sure. Now Marxists have us by the throat.

    • @cashewnuttel9054
      @cashewnuttel9054 Před 3 lety +1

      This guy's a fraud.

    • @ahmadfrhan5265
      @ahmadfrhan5265 Před 3 lety +4

      ⭕the UN and "human rights " are all based on subjective morality and they can not prove their stand at all.
      therefore all their intervenes weather it's " humane" or not can't be proven morally and they can't prove that's terrorism is good or bad.
      what am trying to say is this system is belt on hypocrisy and when Objective moral people start to realize than they will take action and subjectisim will have no answer when the objective moral people start action and they can't say it's " good or bad ".
      even if objective moral people did wrong the subjective people can't prove it's wrong since it's all subjective.
      even so atheist can't prove what's good or bad in all topics other than morality. for example, an atheist says to someone you are Bac-kward and that someone says is being Back- ward good or bad ? here they can't really answer. they can't prove being whatever is good or bad. and so on and so on.
      what am literally saying now will change the world perception and the moral people will take action. it's inevitable.
      one thing else if they don't have the concept of good or bad of any subject other than morality that means it has no value ( worthless ).
      for example, asking an atheist is science good or bad ? if he/she did reply with good and bad they can't prove it therefore, it's subjective and has no value at all since they don't have the concept of Good and bad.
      therefore, all their " facts" ( which are hypothesis not facts ) are worthless if it has no value ( good and bad ).
      they can't detect which is fact and not if they don't hold on any value and even if they did they can't prove it since it's subjective.
      We live in a world that ran by subjective people who can't prove their value or the value of anything and can't prove even their subjectivsim and it's value! Yet they have the audacity to tell us what's good or bad and what's valuable and not and what's true and not.
      plus slavery is still active it's called debt

    • @ahmadfrhan5265
      @ahmadfrhan5265 Před 3 lety +4

      now about present day😴
      I will say this Colonialism has not ended..... it evolved. let me explain. before colonialism " ends " the west chose the leaders of countries to keep their interest in regions take france for example.
      en / publications / wp / 2019 / f - vrier / france - still - exploiting - africa
      and take me for example. i am from the middle east and here our " dictators" have been chosen by the west not by us and here they uneducate people Historically , economically and religiously because that's what sustain their rule and my country is rich ,but money is nothing for me and for us muslims in general and here we eat we drink and we sleep ( not me i always study and seek knowledge in all fronts as best as i can and am a civil engineer ) even the cattle eat drinks and sleeps. here🇰🇼 courrption is too obvious and we muslims are in phase one and that's " Realization " to be fully aware from politics to history to religion. and every time a Muslim nation rises the west is unsatisfied and want to overthrow the government. Gaddafi,mursi,Yemeni leader Salah , King faisal in the 70s ( he got assassinated) ....etc way a lot i can't go over them all.
      HOWEVER, before the Arab spring this i admit was not clear to all of us ,but after the Arab spring EVERYTHING WAS CLEAR. we now came to realize misery is built by the happiness of others and our leaders and boarders were chosen and drawn by the west and we must amd will over throw our governments and stop the western intervention in our lands. sorry forgot ( the western people have nothing to do with their governments in fact we are all slaves to this corrupted system we live under " capitalism " or communism both you use " banks" made you know by who i don't have to explain).
      now about "slavery has evolved" and this time it favors no race only one in fact 👃 and it favors mostly the dollar. we are born to serve and sustain the system and the system milks the life out of us and we gain " invaluable paper money " in return and sometimes we get in debt which is literally an invisible chain in the neck. basically we are living inside bank and the bank choses who succeed and who doesn't and the bank plays with economy and who built it? "the red shield" known as the rothschilds.
      our muslim lands are the battlefield of the super powers and when you say next time why refugees are in Europe ask yourself what caused them to be there? that's the correct question.
      Russia is causing the refugee crisis in Europe by bombing the Syrians and helping Assad to kill his people and the refugees are a toy to send them to Turkey and Europe to weaken their economy and make the left wing fight right wing start wars. Russia has an agenda and don't get wrong Russia, china and America/western Europe are fighting for their agenda to who rules who. all of them are trash.
      now i want to put it in conclusion. " REALIZATION LEADS TO REVALUATION AND REVELATION LEADS TO REVOLUTION " SOMETIMES IT LEADS TO A VERY DIFFERENT R AND THAT'S RADICALIZATION AND THAT HAPPENS WITHOUT BACKBONE. that's why people go far left or far right. because they are weak in character and btw left wing right wing is a toy for the system no matter who wins the system decides everything not the people nor the government.
      We muslims are in phase one ,but obviously Turkish people has finished phase three. and we look forward to unite with our Muslim brothers and sisters and no islam is not an Arab please don't let me write about it and Arab is not an ethnicity it's a language.
      the world is Suffering from western imperialism ( not the people unlike you we understand) most people walk with where the wind pushes them am not like that i hope you understand now.

  • @connorhowell6027
    @connorhowell6027 Před 3 lety +560

    Hey, it’s been a fun ride. We’ll miss you. Thanks for everything, Jake.

    • @stateofopportunity1286
      @stateofopportunity1286 Před 3 lety +73

      Jake Tran didn't kill himself.

    • @BENDANZHU
      @BENDANZHU Před 3 lety +39

      News article:
      CZcamsr found dead in his home for planned suicide. Cause of death: overdose in sleeping pills.

    • @InternetMoneyPE
      @InternetMoneyPE Před 3 lety +1

      It is what it is I like my life lmao USD USD USD

    • @sandrapark8705
      @sandrapark8705 Před 3 lety +28

      @@BENDANZHU He also shot himself in the back of the head with an AR-15

    • @HaohmaruHL
      @HaohmaruHL Před 3 lety +21

      He just told what everyone already knows. It's jsut americans themselves don't care. They are too busy with another msheu movie gulping bucket of sugary soda and angry tweets.

  • @hunterharbach3317
    @hunterharbach3317 Před 3 lety +1184

    I'm sorry to hear about your suicide next week 🙏🙏🙏. Seriously though, this is deep stuff man. Thank you

    • @derekfrost3076
      @derekfrost3076 Před 3 lety +35

      🤧🤧🤧nail on the head my brother

    • @spencer5028
      @spencer5028 Před 2 lety +48

      He doesn't name the Israeli neo cons, he is actual well within their safe narrative

    • @XMrRex
      @XMrRex Před 2 lety +4

      @@spencer5028 what do israelis have to do with oil?

    • @spencer5028
      @spencer5028 Před 2 lety +23

      @@XMrRex thats the point; the wars have nothing to do with oil. Look at the neocons who pushed the war and the media that assisted ie NYT, vast majority from a certain ethnic background

    • @MetaReplication
      @MetaReplication Před 2 lety +11

      @@spencer5028 J... J.... Juice cartons!

  • @joehook4218
    @joehook4218 Před 2 lety +1

    Dunno if you have done one already but there is alot of info out there about the fact oil is not actually a fossil fuel... its an un ending supply.. I'm not 100% sure about the facts behind it but its interviews with people very high up the the oil industry.. and one of em was filmed in the 80s so if true... they have had knowledge of it and used that knowledge to financially gain through propaganda I.e "scarcity" oil will run out

  • @pyro7358
    @pyro7358 Před 3 lety +93

    It's as old as time, this type of warfare over resources has been happening for thousands of years.

    • @sockmon1
      @sockmon1 Před 2 lety +6

      Basically since large-scale agriculture became common, I like to think the forbidden fruit from the old testament could be a metaphor for the agricultural revolution in the cradle of life.

    • @sockmon1
      @sockmon1 Před 2 lety +4

      It's always been about hording that which others need, keeping them dependant on your exclusive supply.

    • @pyro7358
      @pyro7358 Před 2 lety +1

      @@sockmon1 i mean thats how humans work

    • @Mixajlo
      @Mixajlo Před 2 lety

      Thank you captain obvious

    • @sockmon1
      @sockmon1 Před 2 lety +4

      @@Mixajlo you're welcome sargent shithead, you've made an ironically useless observation.

  • @mikefruge8589
    @mikefruge8589 Před 2 lety +155

    This was a great video! As an American, I can tell you the vast majority of us are clueless as to how this country operates when it comes to money, oil, and war. We are also in the drug business, if it is profitable for the US, we will recognize no moral boundaries. Unfortunately, our "government serving news media" will never air this type of information and truth.

    • @PerfectionInMotion69
      @PerfectionInMotion69 Před 2 lety

      So you being American somehow makes you knowledgeable ? And you PERSONALLY know the vast majority of Americans to make such a bold claim ? Sit down, moron 😂

    • @alcoyne3333333333333
      @alcoyne3333333333333 Před 2 lety

      Respect. Unfortunately The good people of American people have been brainwashed by TV 📺 . Virtually all Americans believe want the see on TV. I know friends that looked at ( The Tillmam story ) where its showed how the Bush government tried to cover up he was killed by friendly fire . Use him as a hero . But his family didn't fall for it .. they told me the movie showed them something different that the didn't know about the government. But a few days later something was on TV news that was BS and I said that sounds untrue. But they said its on CNN so it's true.. you can't stop year's of programming..

    • @mikearchibald744
      @mikearchibald744 Před 2 lety +9

      Actually, people at the bottom of the food chain generally know EXACTLY what is going on. There isn't much point talking about what you can't change.

    • @portagepete1
      @portagepete1 Před rokem

      You can change it go electric.@@mikearchibald744

    • @josem588
      @josem588 Před 7 měsíci

      @@mikearchibald744 is ridiculous say that they can’t change it when they are the country with most guns in the world and they can just overthrow the government like Mexico in 1910 (even if we in Mexico ended worse than we were before the revolution)

  • @marcosstolfi7418
    @marcosstolfi7418 Před 3 lety +125

    Iraq: what if i sell my oil in euros instead of dollars?
    US: *that's not very freedom of you bro*

  • @Quantum-1157
    @Quantum-1157 Před 2 lety +17

    This is just fantastic. It has been hard to get hold of an objective analysis on what ‘quietly’ happened between 1970 and 1974. Even in Saudi Arabia it is hardly talked about even today in 2022.

  • @ka9202
    @ka9202 Před 3 lety +40

    Thanks, Jake. I knew my eyes weren't lying to me.
    "Real eyes, realize real lies." - Tupac Shakur

  • @erika002
    @erika002 Před 3 lety +297

    So....
    The meme about US invading for oil is actually -technically accurate- (correction) LITERAL?

    • @nerobernardino88
      @nerobernardino88 Před 3 lety +95

      Not just technically, it is accurate.

    • @kinosicemint2251
      @kinosicemint2251 Před 3 lety +73

      What else do you think? Spending US taxpayer's money for other nations' benefits? U r kidding me.

    • @gidd
      @gidd Před 3 lety +32

      what do you mean technically
      it's 100% accurate
      oil is the only reason the US started the wars in the middle east

    • @DecemberGalaxy0
      @DecemberGalaxy0 Před 3 lety +28

      Mate do you think political memes that millions reitarate are lies at all? It's just away if saying the truth and not be hated for it

    • @lore2587
      @lore2587 Před 3 lety +14

      ....always has been....

  • @farooqt541
    @farooqt541 Před 2 lety +157

    The ironic thing is when ever they're talking about the Western Nations or the colonial Nations they are using such kind words but whenever they're talking about the Arabs cutting off the oil, then they start calling them cartels and regimes

    • @utkarshchoudhary3870
      @utkarshchoudhary3870 Před 2 lety +19

      As an Indian, this comment has too much truth.
      No one, and I mean no one who has decided to NOT research themselves knows how horrific British crimes were in India....

    • @effexon
      @effexon Před 2 lety +2

      @@utkarshchoudhary3870 indian story is story of every country who got independence... suffering and abuse of resources behind all of them.... very few exceptions where this didnt happen.

    • @utkarshchoudhary3870
      @utkarshchoudhary3870 Před 2 lety +3

      @@effexon What are you trying to say, It doesn't bare significance?
      The fact that out of any thing you said
      "it was the same for others" is what you say
      instead of saying that the collective suffering of the people was unfair

    • @effexon
      @effexon Před 2 lety +1

      @@utkarshchoudhary3870 I mean this has been very big emotional reason for countries all over in history to seek independence over "mainland", to stop that abuse of resources and riches. People want to stop it when they see no end and no fairness. When there are riches, it is likely weapons and war are needed to gain this.

    • @utkarshchoudhary3870
      @utkarshchoudhary3870 Před 2 lety

      @@effexon Hmm thats a point

  • @ssr5044
    @ssr5044 Před rokem +1

    Idc what no one says I’ve learned more in this channel than Any history class I ever took

  • @Mighty_Deeds
    @Mighty_Deeds Před 3 lety +87

    Damn man! So many people died in those wars, and so many weren’t even granted death when they wished for it.

    • @toronto7670
      @toronto7670 Před 3 lety +2

      Why can’t muslims just unite with china and russia against the united states.

    • @FRISHR
      @FRISHR Před 3 lety +12

      @@toronto7670 not all muslim countries have the same political views, muslim countries like Saudi Arabia and Egypt supports the USA while Afghanistan and Iraq supports Russia and China.

    • @eg12p34
      @eg12p34 Před 3 lety +11

      @@FRISHR But that is mainly because of the US employed dictatorships in those countries, but the citizens are entirely against USA/Isreal.

    • @toronto7670
      @toronto7670 Před 3 lety +4

      @@FRISHR but this would still be a good move. I know china isn’t an angel but USA tortures muslims in a more brutal way than china look at guantanamo.

    • @Jon-eo1lz
      @Jon-eo1lz Před 3 lety +2

      I mean ..look at the OP's profile pic.

  • @rnrtruestories
    @rnrtruestories Před 3 lety +530

    Great video man couldn’t put my phone down

    • @universome511
      @universome511 Před 3 lety +2

      Google Israel then

    • @roguethereaper1192
      @roguethereaper1192 Před 3 lety +2

      @@universome511 yeah USS LIBERTY, their 9/11 involvement the colonization of Palestine, the billions in foreign aid we give them which is technically treason under the nuclear non-proliferation treaty, they are creating proxy armies to destabilize regions around them whilst also promoting degeneracy through our media creating a semi responsive human being who'll go with what they're told. "Just smart enough to push the buttons but dumb enough to not ask questions" -George Carlin

    • @universome511
      @universome511 Před 3 lety

      @@roguethereaper1192 this guy gets it

    • @krijgwat469
      @krijgwat469 Před 3 lety

      I still can't understand why people watch video's on their few square inch size phones.

    • @cranklabexplosion-labcentr8245
      @cranklabexplosion-labcentr8245 Před 2 lety

      Hey! Welcome to the true woke party

  • @cheruzaleming
    @cheruzaleming Před 3 lety +95

    everyone forgets that it was originally "Operation Iraqi Liberation," aka O-I-L

    • @iruleatgames
      @iruleatgames Před 2 lety +2

      This is an example of the "I can see Russia from my house." effect, where something in the late 2000s and early 10s was definitely not true, but naively (or on purpose) repeated enough times to where it's completely removed from its context and any semblance of reality.

  • @craigcolbourn8351
    @craigcolbourn8351 Před 2 lety +2

    By far one of the best vids that sums up America’s currency history in the last century! Oil and military

  • @Learner4FunLifePersona
    @Learner4FunLifePersona Před 3 lety +215

    If you lived through the 1970’s US economic recession, you’d understand why the old politicians have oil price volatility insecurities.

    • @DickCheneyXX
      @DickCheneyXX Před 2 lety +5

      Because they know better than some fucking stupid millennials who think the world will forever run on inertia and will never devolve into a shithole?

    • @chickensoup9869
      @chickensoup9869 Před 2 lety +2

      @@DickCheneyXX millenials know all people need is grow their own food. No petroleum needed for that. All the soldiers were and are tools that got duped. Duped? Nvm some of them enjoy their warcrimes.

    • @brokenvessel4171
      @brokenvessel4171 Před 2 lety

      William Simon or secretary of state Henry Kissinger who brokered the petro dollar?

    • @DickCheneyXX
      @DickCheneyXX Před 2 lety

      @@brokenvessel4171 If Henry Kissinger was in office, the streets of Ukraine would run red with Russian blood. Anyone unwilling to commit war crimes has no place in a high office.

    • @DickCheneyXX
      @DickCheneyXX Před 2 lety

      @@chickensoup9869 >millenials know all people need is grow their own food. No petroleum needed for that
      That is objectively false, there is still no way to sustain our population without fossil fuels. Without fertilizers, half the world population would starve. Without mechanized agriculture? 3/4?

  • @khazzen
    @khazzen Před 3 lety +169

    I've played too much Hearts of Iron to know where this is going...

  • @altain574
    @altain574 Před 3 lety +129

    FINALLY someone speaking with meaning, purpose, and clarity

    • @neilmarshall5087
      @neilmarshall5087 Před 2 lety

      ??? I have been watching videos like this for the last 10 years at least....

    • @DickCheneyXX
      @DickCheneyXX Před 2 lety +1

      This is common knowledge and the correct approach to geopolitics to anyone that isn't a fucking hippie.

  • @evanpimental
    @evanpimental Před rokem +1

    Is it also a coincidence that during the 60s Southeast Asia was the world's largest opium producer and in the 2000s the world's largest opium producer was Afghanistan?
    What do both of those countries have in common during the time their opium production was at it's height?

  • @chasingdownchano
    @chasingdownchano Před 3 lety +263

    Jake's video making skills are getting even better 👀👀

  • @cabalerios
    @cabalerios Před 2 lety +50

    The most devious lick of the petrodollar is how the US exports it's inflation as all other nations must use dollars to buy Energy.

    • @ataphelicopter5734
      @ataphelicopter5734 Před 2 lety +4

      Oh boy am I glad to live in Scotland, where we already make 2x as much electricity as we need from wind power alone

  • @nostradamusofgames5508
    @nostradamusofgames5508 Před 3 lety +51

    Fun fact- "Operation Iraqi Freedom" was originally called "Operation Iraqi Liberation", or O.I.L.

  • @nadirrabah6756
    @nadirrabah6756 Před 2 lety +1

    "Guns and Butters" Ving Rhymes in Baby Boy 😂

  • @mystic4215
    @mystic4215 Před 3 lety +235

    This is the best documentary you have ever done Jake. Please continue delivering high quality content.

    • @asma-mushtaq
      @asma-mushtaq Před 3 lety +1

      Agreed.

    • @MrNanah38
      @MrNanah38 Před 2 lety +1

      Agreed

    • @idenree8606
      @idenree8606 Před 2 lety

      If this is the best documentary this guy can offer, then he really does suck at doing some research, doesn't he?

  • @ChaiJung
    @ChaiJung Před 3 lety +25

    The scariest part of this was that the 70s were when the beginning of most of the "global warming secondary to fossil fuels" research started to come out

    • @justinallen2408
      @justinallen2408 Před 3 lety +4

      People still don't care until they lose there homes and lives

    • @sebas8225
      @sebas8225 Před 3 lety +1

      If they gave a rat´s ass about global warming and the environment we would´ve seen actual investments in recycling and Nuclear power, the World doesnt care.

    • @honkhonk8009
      @honkhonk8009 Před 3 lety

      @@sebas8225 Thats because they DID. Who do you think started those mass advertisement campaigns. Who do you think poured TRILLIONS into green investment. Who do you think poured billions 5 years ago into nuclear fusion? Its the US.

  • @donovanburkhard
    @donovanburkhard Před 3 lety +39

    This might be your greatest work yet. love the variety in visuals, how it all fits and how the timeline moves.
    Keep making gold brother, I know you will.

  • @nonamej1591
    @nonamej1591 Před 2 lety +1

    Just found this channel, I can tell imma binge watch alot tomorrow.

  • @swanandjoshi333
    @swanandjoshi333 Před 3 lety +32

    You just outdid yourself man. Hope your channel goes to atleast 1M as it deserves

  • @sujayansamanta889
    @sujayansamanta889 Před 3 lety +71

    Serious concern here.
    How the hell has Jake not been knocked out yet!
    If they can knock dictators, they sure as hell can knock a youtuber.
    Stay safe out there brother.

    • @adityaghag854
      @adityaghag854 Před 3 lety

      Power of free speech I guess

    • @mgarcia
      @mgarcia Před 3 lety +22

      why should they care what a youtuber and a few people on the internet think about this? are you or Jake gonna do something about it, the masses are to dumb to care, you and I my friend have no real power.

    • @mobiuscoreindustries
      @mobiuscoreindustries Před 3 lety +10

      @weed Because Snowden's documents got picked up and spread far and wide, and especially because foreign powers were there to back up his claims and protect the guy.
      What you have here is just a regular guy, on the internet, spreading inconvenient truths about everyone. You think Russia or China will back up the claims of a guy that also shoveled so much dirt on their own practices? lets see the CCP sheltering a guy who has also made videos about the masterclass of disinformation and how the CCP can commit a modern day genocide while being a member of the UN human right council.
      Plus, its not like he has any super secret insights from working at the CIA, he is just a perceptive guy who does his research well. Nothing here is new, as he said himself, everyone is doing it, and its the truth hidden in plain sight, just like so much other stuff related to corruption, lies and the manipulation of information.

    • @kkklover89
      @kkklover89 Před 3 lety

      His views still aren't in the millions.

    • @ThisAutomaton
      @ThisAutomaton Před 3 lety

      Not to belittle Jake's content, but this knowledge isn't new.
      Back when Bush declared the invasion, people were talking about the "war for oil", and that's all anyone can do, talk about it, because who's going to stop the American war machine?

  • @realgoogleuser
    @realgoogleuser Před 3 lety +57

    50 years later: How your money is linked to Data & War

  • @jadenventura8283
    @jadenventura8283 Před 2 lety +1

    This may explained why the two previous water engine inventors were either Poison or shot at because it was a threat to the American economy.

  • @julian23561
    @julian23561 Před 3 lety +18

    Senator Charles Meachum said it best: This is a country, where the Secretary of Defense can go on T.V., and tell the American public, oh, that "This is about freedom! It's not about oil!" And nobody questions him, cuz they don't wanna hear the answer, because it's a lie!

  • @acecosmonaut5559
    @acecosmonaut5559 Před 2 lety +28

    The US Government in a nutshell: the Ron Swanson meme where he has a piece of paper with the words: "I do what I want" printed

    • @MrOzzification
      @MrOzzification Před 2 lety

      Not just "I do what I want" but importantly the US does not let any other nation do what they want.

  • @D0ugh.B0y
    @D0ugh.B0y Před 2 lety +56

    Yeah, it’s absolutely about oil, but more specifically, and Jake hit it on the head in the first 30 seconds, it’s about the oil being sold for anything other than the Petrodollar (US Dollar).
    Jake, you’re an absolute legend! More and more with each video of yours that I watch, my respect level and appreciation for you continues to shoot through the roof. Keep up the great work.
    Kind Regards,
    Joseph

  • @paulgallagher5092
    @paulgallagher5092 Před 2 lety +1

    Its interesting that G Bush looks like he's hiding a smirk or gleeful expression while delivering that war statement

  • @gwappo4852
    @gwappo4852 Před 3 lety +69

    Country: has oil reserve
    The US: Hmmmm?!?!? What did you say?
    Country: ‘Chuckles’ *I’m in Danger*

    • @christianedwards9025
      @christianedwards9025 Před 2 lety +1

      I said boil, we need to boil these vegetables to pair with this meat lol. Don't forget the salt otherwise the veggies will, be bland.

  • @Sigognac1988
    @Sigognac1988 Před 2 lety +85

    I'm actually surprised how big brother allowed this video to be spread. Terrific topic and coverage. I knew something was wrong with the dollar overdominance, but didn't even imagine the scale of problem was this big. Thank you

    • @merajspace_
      @merajspace_ Před 2 lety +2

      you've committed a thought crime!

    • @Hojjiifp
      @Hojjiifp Před 2 lety

      Everyone knows, but What can you do....

    • @dylangraf7459
      @dylangraf7459 Před 2 lety

      Because this isnt fucking 1984 nor is this some super secret classified government shit

    • @PerfectionInMotion69
      @PerfectionInMotion69 Před 2 lety +1

      Because they're smart enough to know nothing will come of it. Why be shocked ?

    • @chrismckimmey2582
      @chrismckimmey2582 Před rokem

      Why are you people mad??? US politicians have committed atrocities so that you can have cheap shit and make a bunch of money for yourself. They do this because the American people demand it.

  • @xXGziAcxMoErRoZXX
    @xXGziAcxMoErRoZXX Před 3 lety +24

    Q - “Why are we at war?”
    A - “because I want something and I will fucking get it”

  • @DnZ3369
    @DnZ3369 Před 2 lety +1

    “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”

  • @sblive7239
    @sblive7239 Před 2 lety +35

    Dude you are amazing, great documentary you should win the Nobel Peace Prize award. You explained everything perfectly, great job on showing how far the American government will actually go to protect their interest even if it means war and putting Americans and others at risk.

  • @deepfreeze1001
    @deepfreeze1001 Před 3 lety +139

    This video purports to explain why the US is “always at war” but it fails to explain major conflicts like the War in Afghanistan or the wars in Bosnia and Kosovo.

    • @MsGenesisgamer
      @MsGenesisgamer Před 3 lety +23

      because its not about afghanistan bosnia or kosovo?

    • @deepfreeze1001
      @deepfreeze1001 Před 3 lety +25

      @@MsGenesisgamer Did it completely slip your mind that the United States fought in the Bosnian War and the Kosovo War?

    • @deshaunjackson8188
      @deshaunjackson8188 Před 3 lety +23

      @@deepfreeze1001 Stop making sense! Jake trans says the U.S only enters wars for oil... shush!

    • @ralphvitug4537
      @ralphvitug4537 Před 3 lety +7

      Perhaps because that conflict was led moreso from a NATO front rather than driven primarily by U.S strategic interest?

    • @deepfreeze1001
      @deepfreeze1001 Před 3 lety +8

      @@ralphvitug4537 (1) In other words, the United States is *not* “always at war for oil.”
      (2) So was Libya.

  • @Mestador
    @Mestador Před 3 lety +29

    never forget. for us to live comfortably here, there must be someone suffering at the other end of the world. that's how we built this world. its horrendous, but its true.

    • @isakjohansson7134
      @isakjohansson7134 Před 3 lety +8

      "We're a rich country but whats all our wealth built on? The bloody corpses of all these wars."

    • @honkhonk8009
      @honkhonk8009 Před 3 lety

      @@isakjohansson7134 1960s politician moment.
      Modern shit is better. American politicans beleive it or not arent as fucking insane as the boomers were.
      notice how theres a reason to push for green solutions

    • @isakjohansson7134
      @isakjohansson7134 Před 3 lety +3

      @@honkhonk8009 The quote was from a movie but i'd say that both politicians were messed both then and now.

    • @sylfix2680
      @sylfix2680 Před 3 lety +1

      It could totally be different but no some asshole needs a 4th yatch

    • @neilmarshall5087
      @neilmarshall5087 Před 2 lety

      There is no 'must be' like that. You could all live comfortably, and so could the rest of the planet.

  • @owynpham1478
    @owynpham1478 Před rokem +1

    Oil is one factor. But another is central banking. Each of the countries which the US "liberated" since 9/11 didn't have a central back which now does. The only countries left in the world with no central bank are Cuba, Iran and North Korea. The empire is almost complete and the US is just the military arm of this empire.

  • @nord1544
    @nord1544 Před 3 lety +90

    The new guy: Why are we here again?!
    Guy on plane: We're liberating them! Now let out the bombs!

    • @saintblez1773
      @saintblez1773 Před 2 lety

      😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

    • @Sumirevins
      @Sumirevins Před 2 lety

      Well, If you interfere a country without concent, cripple their economy, kill millions of people, start Civil war that'll last Decades you wouldn't exactly be treated as hero, would you!? People won't appreciate that they now have voting rights when they're starving to death. The Afghanistan Case has made it even more clear that peace is just an excuse for powerful men to do whatever they please and in the end who ends up suffering Politicians? Religious extremities? Businessmen? *no* it's the *PEOPLE* that *suffer* the most they always have

    • @utkarshchoudhary3870
      @utkarshchoudhary3870 Před 2 lety

      @@Sumirevins And its a dark and sad truth.
      War's are an event that have and always will bring the most suffering to the People.

  • @landonlee9615
    @landonlee9615 Před 3 lety +88

    Exposing the truth in every video. The more of these videos I watch the more I learn!

    • @person152
      @person152 Před 3 lety +1

      his videos are just mindblowing. quite possibly among the best content on youtube.

    • @Archonsx
      @Archonsx Před 3 lety

      @@person152 not rly, all of us have known the truth for a long time, you gotta be oblivious to your own existence not to see the shenanigans going on in this world.

  • @flashtone2834
    @flashtone2834 Před 3 lety +114

    I cried so much watching this, I cannot believe how “societies anxiety deprived us with all that were blessed with” so this will never stop basically more and more people have to die and starve every day so that someone can be on top it’s so sick, I cannot even believe it. No wonder soldiers always loose their minds the things they have to see are inhuman and will always be inhumane!!!

    • @simonjaz1279
      @simonjaz1279 Před 3 lety +4

      So basically you can't believe you are human?? Its been happening since the start.

    • @psychedoutcasts
      @psychedoutcasts Před 3 lety +13

      That's capitalism for you. There is always a boss and the guy above the glass ceiling will make sure of that for you.

    • @simonjaz1279
      @simonjaz1279 Před 3 lety +8

      @@psychedoutcasts better than socialism at least lol

    • @attackofthelumbie9029
      @attackofthelumbie9029 Před 3 lety +4

      @@simonjaz1279 yes owning my own means of production sure would suck

    • @simonjaz1279
      @simonjaz1279 Před 3 lety +11

      @@attackofthelumbie9029 haha more like giving it all up to the state buddy 😂😂😂 you wouldnt own shit unless you had the means to start something yourself and if you did boom! capitalism works baby!

  • @wealthyblackman2655
    @wealthyblackman2655 Před 2 lety +1

    The book "Ti pan" was the story of some of the oldest trades with massive numbers and massive amounts of changes that altered world events and completely changed societies.. Many governments were overthrown and altered completely.

  • @neanda
    @neanda Před 3 lety +13

    5:15 that has probably got to be the best introduction to a sponsor I've ever seen "you can make a first world wage in a third world country, and thus, transform your life. That's where Skillshare comes in". Now, that is proper good promotion, because it's true and a benefit for all involved

  • @admiralhyperspace0015
    @admiralhyperspace0015 Před 3 lety +34

    "Jake Tran didn't kill himself"

  • @timblu5029
    @timblu5029 Před 3 lety +34

    Please concider doing a video on Koch industries or Cargill and how they grew to be the largest companies in America and globally with out going public.

  • @2likenoother
    @2likenoother Před 2 lety +1

    After 1971 the only option remaining to back the US dollar and print more is oil. If giant producers of oil abondan the currency as a mean of trade the US economy will go back to stone age. Simply because too much dollar is printed compared to its real value, by then the US will go into a doom of inflation never seen before and eventually lose dominance in the financial system.

  • @alexsm3882
    @alexsm3882 Před 3 lety +10

    I keep hearing how every war is about oil and yet I have this backed up stock of olive oil that not a single soul will buy

  • @iHeartPeyton101
    @iHeartPeyton101 Před 3 lety +37

    Probably your best video yet

  • @rhodalayla410
    @rhodalayla410 Před 3 lety +34

    Take care Fearless Jake. You are the only CZcamsr that tackles what really matters. You deserve a Nobel peace prize for your investigative journalism.

    • @anopirsten7565
      @anopirsten7565 Před 3 lety +3

      investigative journalism? tackling what really matters? Doesn't everyone already know that the US goes nuts over oil?

    • @chickensoup9869
      @chickensoup9869 Před 2 lety

      @@anopirsten7565 so popular the facial wash ads all have the USA wanna invade your face joke in the comment sections

    • @greengoblin2460
      @greengoblin2460 Před 2 lety

      This is not investigative journalism. He just compiled other peoples information - relax

  • @asamaabdallah3747
    @asamaabdallah3747 Před 2 lety +1

    This just boils my blood as a kid I would always see news on Al Jazeera about what’s going on in Iraq while in Syria and none of it made sense to me

  • @GiRR007
    @GiRR007 Před 3 lety +15

    is it fair to say that the gold standard was replaced with the oil standard for America ?

    • @dmy_tro
      @dmy_tro Před 3 lety +4

      No. There's no standard at all. The US government has printed trillions of dollars in the last two years almost without any consequences. Because they can

    • @EdGeLV
      @EdGeLV Před 3 lety +3

      @@dmy_tro they can print money because they're a functional superpower, no(?)

    • @conductingintomfoolery9163
      @conductingintomfoolery9163 Před 3 lety

      @@EdGeLV the us can because if anyone says anything they will witness nuclear hell

    • @shezyam460
      @shezyam460 Před 3 lety

      @@EdGeLV we can print money without recourse for the most part because of our fiat currency

  • @MaxPower-ej8mm
    @MaxPower-ej8mm Před 2 lety +4

    I feel sorry for all the fallen soldiers and killed civilians

    • @lillemy5062
      @lillemy5062 Před 2 lety +1

      It really is sad, and to think all of these people suffered through this while civilians in the invading country was laughing at civilian deaths in the M.E. Sometimes people are just shitty

  • @negative6442
    @negative6442 Před 3 lety +19

    Hey Jake, you should do a video on the automotive industry and how they lobbied/bribed their way into turning American cities into highway-filled wastelands.