The Problem With the Middle East's Borders

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  • @MagnaAngemon07
    @MagnaAngemon07 Před 3 lety +6300

    Everyone: "All happening in the Middle East is USA fault"
    France and the UK: "OMG yes it is"

    • @frazierk300
      @frazierk300 Před 3 lety +681

      @@itsparker4253 he’s making a joke about how everyone blames the US fir the problems in the Middle East. The US def ain’t helped to much in the past 20 years tho lol

    • @TWH-lp4bn
      @TWH-lp4bn Před 3 lety +21

      Currently, yes.

    • @caitlinwarren461
      @caitlinwarren461 Před 3 lety +39

      Tbf it's kinda both lol

    • @MarkSmith-vo1vn
      @MarkSmith-vo1vn Před 3 lety +128

      @@secretname4190 I disagree. This is what he left out from a middle eastern. This is not my real name. The British and French aided a Arab fellow and said to him “If you help us defeat the ottomans we will allow you to unite Arabia”. They lied and later on the House of Saud killed that Arab fellow and took what the British and French left over. The Saudis belive In whabbism a radical radical view on Islam. The Iranians are the moderates, but they get blamed for everything. Osma bin laden is from Saudi Arabia, Isis is whabbi. Shias and Sunnis got a long fine with each other for a long time before, there were wars, but not too much. Espically under the ottomans the Shia and Sunnis were fine with one another(considering 800 year rule, there were incidents) Attaturk the founder of the Turkish nation was a Shia Muslim leading a Sunni majority country and the Turks love him till this day. The U.S is the main problem. It bombs counties in defense of Israel, sounds ridiculous but true. They killed 1 million people in Iraq over a lie, it has been 19 years and we still haven't found those weapons of mass destruction. They killed Saddam yet the U.S funded Iraq when it was gassing Iranians during the iran-iraq war, then it invades them for WMD.
      And they are also against Assad because he is against Iseral. For instance, the U.S bombed Assad over use of chemical weapons, however Assad Chllanged them and went to the U.N and said come to Syria and investigate for yourself. However, the U.S bombed him anyway before a U.N investigation took place. The U.S ally is Iseral and everybody hates Iseral that’s the main problem. The Sunni-Shia fights kicked off due to the Saudis, espically when they destroyed imams graves, which is like destroying the grave of Jesus if There was one. The Iranians asked for peace, but no. Then Saudi excuted a Shia and then they cut diplomatic relations.
      On top of that let’s look at Afghanistan. The U.S funded Al Queada and the taliban to fight the Soviet Union when it invaded. It was called the “mujahideen”, which means freedom fighters, so the U.S funded people it did not know. They funded and aided Saudi Arabia, and Osma is from Saudi Arabia, 15/19 hijakers were from Saudi Arabia.
      The problem in the Middle East is: U.S supports Iseral and every one hates Iseral. Saudis are radicals, yet they are still being funded by the U.S. the U.S never takes responsibility and blames Iran for everything. Iran is actual very moderate (for Middle Eastern standards) and has a lot of Jews, but the U.S still calls it terrorist because it's easier to throw the blame on iran. Have you guys every heard of the U.S downing an Iranian passage plane killing 260 civilians?. Nobody mentions that incident, (you can easily look it up for more info). The commander of the ship, that shot down the jet came back to a military parade. The U.S called it an honest accident. However, when Iran did the same thing, it was intentional, and it showed how bad the government was. If Iran makes simple mistake, it is considered intentional, it was just some random dude, who fired the rocket, yet the whole government gets blamed. They should pay compensation of course, but it’s not like the whole government should be judged by one persons actions. What scares me, is that NOBODY knows that the U.S shot down an Iranian civilian plane. Like nobody. It’s not even in the history books.

    • @MarkSmith-vo1vn
      @MarkSmith-vo1vn Před 3 lety +9

      @Galactic Tech Creator my apologies it is APIAC not APAC. That’s the Iserali funded lobbyist group. I mean they are doing this in plain sight. All of this sounds a bit far fetched, but look up APIAC and you will see Republican talking about Iseral. It’s APIAC that funds their campaigns in return they support Iseral.

  • @SirHenryMaximo
    @SirHenryMaximo Před 3 lety +874

    The Habsburg and Ottoman Empires were fierce rivals for centuries, but ironically died fighting together during the First World War.

    • @barrackobama7962
      @barrackobama7962 Před 3 lety +67

      Enemies to lovers

    • @the3zoooz1
      @the3zoooz1 Před 3 lety +158

      Never thought I'd die fighting side by side with an Habsburg.

    • @xKazeshi98x
      @xKazeshi98x Před 3 lety +95

      @@the3zoooz1 What about side by side with an ally?

    • @NoahBodze
      @NoahBodze Před 3 lety +3

      @@the3zoooz1 If you were a Turk, it was the one just thing you did.

    • @Tirocoa
      @Tirocoa Před 3 lety +61

      @@xKazeshi98x
      Aye, I could do that.

  • @illuminaticake4528
    @illuminaticake4528 Před 2 lety +82

    Europe: creates Middle Eastern borders specifically to cause chaos and anarchy
    Middle East: falls into brutal chaos and anarchy
    Europe: *shocked pikachu face*

  • @kaisalhasan2398
    @kaisalhasan2398 Před rokem +98

    I am a syrian refugge who needed to flee the country at the age of 14, I now live in Sweden. I never truly understood what all the conflict was about inside my own country... I've heard about the sykes-picot thing once briefly in some history lesson but I was too young and naive to focus and understand. I am 21 now, and I finally understand.... so truly, from the bottom of my heart, thank you for opening my eyes.

    • @p382742937423y4
      @p382742937423y4 Před 7 měsíci

      And thus the migrants created their own violent conflicts in sweden.
      So rude, so ungrateful, so uncivilized.

  • @5GGL
    @5GGL Před 3 lety +2840

    Britain and France:
    "Hobbies include drawing straight lines on maps."

    • @m4z805
      @m4z805 Před 3 lety +18

      Love the pic of Annie. Gosh she looked so cute when she finally laughed.

    • @Azide_zx
      @Azide_zx Před 3 lety +18

      and the United States*

    • @MrAllanGA
      @MrAllanGA Před 3 lety +53

      Wait but I thought diversity is our strength?! Wouldn’t different religious and ethnic groups make a country stronger?! Sounds pretty racist to suggest otherwise to me! /s

    • @nevergivingup3434
      @nevergivingup3434 Před 3 lety +7

      @Allen, that's mainly why the countries decided to use the European borders.

    • @MrAllanGA
      @MrAllanGA Před 3 lety +43

      @@nevergivingup3434 but then why do the United States, Canada, the UK, France, Germany, Sweden, Australia, New Zealand, and many more “Western” countries preach that diversity and multiculturalism are our greatest strengths? It’s almost like different ethnic groups and different religions divide people and common nationality and religion are what makes a country unfied and strong. Yet this idea is considered white supremacy and white nationalism in the west. Hmm...

  • @hydro0759
    @hydro0759 Před 2 lety +2975

    Everyone: *blaming britain*
    France, who were also involved: *hiding in the corner*

    • @collaborisgaming2190
      @collaborisgaming2190 Před 2 lety +40

      Sykes picot agreement more precisely

    • @ryanovski
      @ryanovski Před 2 lety +7

      LMAO

    • @azmanabdula
      @azmanabdula Před 2 lety +34

      "who were also involved: hiding in the corner
      "
      And pointing their fingers elsewhere

    • @azmanabdula
      @azmanabdula Před 2 lety +74

      Same goes with Vietnam
      USA gets all the shit, when in reality we were defending French territories

    • @fartmaster--po4ti
      @fartmaster--po4ti Před 2 lety +36

      Absolutely none of this has the ottomans to blame. None at all.

  • @iwi127
    @iwi127 Před 2 lety +255

    wow, the first time I see something educational from somebody in the West that is actually so accurate and honest about the Middle East. Well done!

    • @UnholyWrath3277
      @UnholyWrath3277 Před 2 lety

      Your average people in the west are under educated on the subject but never trust our medias view on things. They are bought propaganda machines made to get the narrative they wanna push across. Very few of the average people in the west actually view the middle east as lowly as we are portrayed to

    • @FriedEgg101
      @FriedEgg101 Před 2 lety +8

      @@UnholyWrath3277 History as a subject in the west is under taught in general, although I think this is equally a result of young people struggling to relate to the past, and there is a lot of history to learn. Too much really, alongside the other important subjects. I hated history in school, but have developed an interest in it as I got older. Modern academic historians in the west (and elsewhere) take a fairly scientific approach to history, in that much of it is consensus, based on the best evidence, with peer review. Obviously there are limits to this, meaning history still has more conjecture and dispute than most scientific subjects, but my point is our historical understanding comes from a good faith desire to understand what really happened.
      CZcams is actually my main source of historical information these days, and most of the documentaries I watch seem well researched and balanced, in that they don't shy away from showing the failings of our past. This video being a good example. Critical thinkers from any nation will know that there are always two or more sides to a story. Extreme patriotism is a barrier to this though.

    • @corbeau-_-
      @corbeau-_- Před rokem +6

      you haven't been looking very well... Maybe just on youtube - but that in itself speaks volumes...

    • @joes1429
      @joes1429 Před 7 měsíci

      It could be because your country spends school funds on rockets and ak47s? We already know the women aren’t going to school alalalallalalallalalallalalalla

    • @p382742937423y4
      @p382742937423y4 Před 7 měsíci

      Are they mostly not honoust?

  • @MoeQ_
    @MoeQ_ Před rokem +316

    as a middle eastern who is interested in geopolitics , this is by far the most accurate explanation why is the middle east is so violent and divided, the borders were designed to cripple the middle east and keep it under control ... thank you

    • @charleybarley7148
      @charleybarley7148 Před rokem +17

      Countries in the Middle East today are not unstable simply because of colonial map making or because of religious or ethno-linguistic diversity. With a few exceptions (Israel-Palestine is unique in many ways), instability has to do with the dynamics of state-building and changes in political economy over the decades. Pointing at WW1 as a means to explain today's issues in the region in their totality effectively ignores decades of history, and the notion that cultural diversity leads to instability is not necessarily true, as we can see in other regions.
      The origin of the war in Syria is not sectarian, for example. People mobilize around ethno and religious identities to address and tackle the issues, but it isn't the issue in itself. It had to do with major changes in the state's distributive capacities, state and private investment in nonproductive economic endeavors since the late 1980s, and a failure to meet the challenges of a massive drought and resulting migration of over a million people from the countryside into the major cities in the early 2000s.
      "Redrawing" the map would do little to nothing to bring peace and stability because it wouldn't address the actual material issues driving sectarianism and social-political instability.

    • @darkcreatureinadarkroom1617
      @darkcreatureinadarkroom1617 Před rokem +1

      @@charleybarley7148 But countries without such serious ethnic tensions also suffer from economic and political issues (is any country spared of it at this point? I doubt so...), the difference is that those conflicts don't tend to devolve into bloody affairs or outright civil wars that may span years or even decades of political instability.

    • @charleybarley7148
      @charleybarley7148 Před rokem +5

      @Dark Creature in a Dark Room The idea that the problem is just borders is to ignore decades of history. It is nonsensical also because it is an argument that just goes from A to F with no intermediately variables or explanation. It is an analysis anchored in fate, which doesn't make sense. Having a multiethnic society or "artificial bordere" does not automatically condemn you to violence. There are other elements at play, from the dynamics of political economy to the failure to institutionalize a coherent and inclusive nationalist narrative.

    • @darkcreatureinadarkroom1617
      @darkcreatureinadarkroom1617 Před rokem +1

      @@charleybarley7148 and how on Earth are you supposed to establish a "coherent and inclusive nationalist narrative" when your country is made up of people who share no common cultural or religious background or even language, or share very little, or even hate each other, or have hated each other for the last couple thousand years? True, "redrawing borders" isn't going to solve the socioeconomic problems a society has, but it could help prevent tensions between groups that scapegoat each other or are oppressed by other groups, or are used by foreign powers as a means to gain power in the country, etc. That's the whole point. Of course it's a moot point nowadays that there are so many factors at play (oil reserves, geographic advantages, maritime access, not to mention foreign pressure, etc), so it will probably never be more than just speculation.

    • @charleybarley7148
      @charleybarley7148 Před rokem +3

      @Dark Creature in a Dark Room Youre missing my overall point for a red herring, you see that? But OK, well, there are plenty of.multiethnic countries that have been able to create a unifying narrative with varying degrees of success (like Canada). But again, as I stated, multiethnic societies are not fated to come apart. That is fatalistic nonsense that ignores history and all of the variables that come together (or dont) to establish a functioning multiethnic society.

  • @neolithicchickennugget3414
    @neolithicchickennugget3414 Před 3 lety +11258

    Britain did the literal geopolitical equivalent of farting in an elevator as they were stepping off the elevator

    • @masterofcoin1217
      @masterofcoin1217 Před 3 lety +415

      Lol nice analogy

    • @rogerszmodis
      @rogerszmodis Před 3 lety +188

      OK, draw the borders according to language and cult affiliation. But then what about the inevitable war for control of all of it?
      Imaginary lines aren’t the problem, the primitive superstitions are.

    • @manuelsalazar5257
      @manuelsalazar5257 Před 3 lety +282

      Nah, it's more like putting people who don't like each other in the same group, so that the group will do nothing.
      But all the people there are perfectly able of redrawing the borders as they see fit. They just don't because power play is more important than helping their people.

    • @bjs301
      @bjs301 Před 3 lety +49

      @@rogerszmodis I said roughly the same thing. Except assuming all the problems revolve around religion is just wrong.

    • @gurhanweyrah3930
      @gurhanweyrah3930 Před 3 lety +13

      Nice one 😂😂😂😂

  • @wanali4504
    @wanali4504 Před 3 lety +1347

    “Why is this border so messed up?”
    At that point we are just waiting for a picture of London

    • @Blue-pk4ny
      @Blue-pk4ny Před 3 lety +5

      ikr

    • @tonyh7994
      @tonyh7994 Před 3 lety +4

      Evil

    • @MA_KA_PA_TIE
      @MA_KA_PA_TIE Před 3 lety +16

      Bro all these peoples, religions, and languages were all in the same state prior to the ottoman fall. They literally had more diversity and no borders and there were no problems. The logic train just doesn't work.

    • @vukmilosakovic6895
      @vukmilosakovic6895 Před 3 lety +5

      @@MA_KA_PA_TIE No problems? Ask the Armenians

    • @MA_KA_PA_TIE
      @MA_KA_PA_TIE Před 3 lety +7

      @@vukmilosakovic6895 Well when you want freedom from an empire it requires war, see the americans vs the British Empire. To stop an insurgency it requires attrocities or else you get a Taliban situation where they hide amongst the civilians and blindside you. Its why Ghengis would completely level cities that resisted and kill all in them.

  • @arinlilevjen6114
    @arinlilevjen6114 Před rokem +47

    It's such a shame that CZcams would demonetize a video for talking about Israel and Palestine, as well as all these other countries. This history is important for us all to know, and CZcams should allow it.

    • @lookwhostaking6700
      @lookwhostaking6700 Před 10 měsíci

      This is not history, this is a western version of rewriting history allowed by jews who control the US

    • @mthgul
      @mthgul Před 8 měsíci +10

      it probably wont get demonetized hes just saying that to plug his nebula

  • @carlinthomas9482
    @carlinthomas9482 Před 2 lety +23

    "That a lot of people in the West think it is"
    It's not just Westerners that think like this, stereotypes about the ME exist all over the world.

  • @the.gimper
    @the.gimper Před 3 lety +2013

    "Except Turkey, Turkey makes a brand new Turkey"
    So this was the story behind that

    • @muachraf
      @muachraf Před 3 lety +84

      the fact that i sang it just how he did.

    • @nickgrigoriou1643
      @nickgrigoriou1643 Před 3 lety +52

      He forgot to mention that Turkey was heavily backed and supplied by the Russians, while Armenia and Greece were left stranded by their allies, with Greek troops being 40 km outside Ankara.

    • @greenkoopa
      @greenkoopa Před 3 lety +26

      *ERDOGAN HAS ENTERED THE CHAT*

    • @bobbulat1393
      @bobbulat1393 Před 3 lety +11

      I read that in Bender's voice "We'll make our own Turkey, with blackjacks and hookahs"

    • @luciano2003.
      @luciano2003. Před 3 lety

      Latino?

  • @RainbowQuartz2.0
    @RainbowQuartz2.0 Před 3 lety +3934

    It wouldn’t be a problem if the entire borders were just Toyota Corollas, just saying.

    • @juliusnepos6013
      @juliusnepos6013 Před 3 lety +34

      Yeah

    • @jay-tk9tm
      @jay-tk9tm Před 3 lety +17

      How would that work

    • @marcello7781
      @marcello7781 Před 3 lety +26

      Moving borders

    • @crazeelazee7524
      @crazeelazee7524 Před 3 lety +129

      The problem with the Middle East IS Toyota. Their black ops marketing team is responsible for every single war there so they can create demand for Toyota pick-up trucks.

    • @oDrashiao
      @oDrashiao Před 3 lety +5

      Yep, you could move it around

  • @Alex-gn2rb
    @Alex-gn2rb Před 2 lety +18

    Really good explanation, I've never heard such a clear breakdown. The countries make a lot more sense to me now.

  • @route2070
    @route2070 Před 7 měsíci +6

    Gee, i wonder whyvthis is recommended again in October of 2023.

  • @ricozepplin
    @ricozepplin Před 3 lety +1906

    "Why were they decided upon that way in the first place"
    -Shows London
    Ah, the usual reason for chaos then

    • @thepubgguy595
      @thepubgguy595 Před 3 lety +29

      Lol so true 😂

    • @Fruitsmymainispomgranates
      @Fruitsmymainispomgranates Před 3 lety +5

      Yes

    • @snare5903
      @snare5903 Před 3 lety +18

      It's sad how many people believe this despite no historical evidence for it and a consensus among historians that it's not true.

    • @Chimailai
      @Chimailai Před 3 lety +112

      @@snare5903 what is there no historical evidence for? The African and most of the middle eastern borders were made by Europeans, there's no denying that

    • @snare5903
      @snare5903 Před 3 lety +17

      @@Chimailai The French and British did not draw borders to cause chaos in the independent countries.
      Is my point.

  • @arcticlaw9198
    @arcticlaw9198 Před 3 lety +2740

    "If there's two fish fighting in a river, know that an Englishman has passed by"

  • @rus.t
    @rus.t Před 8 měsíci +2

    This might need an update soon. But this is probably the first time I actively looked for a specific video of yours. Thanks.

  • @samvimes9510
    @samvimes9510 Před 2 lety +65

    I would just like to point out that the Ottomans' decision to side with Germany wasn't "foolish." Winston Churchill, along with naval admirals and others in the British government, had already decided to invade because they knew they needed to convert from coal to oil. The Ottomans _tried_ to stay out of the war, and in fact had tried to form relationships with Britain and France, but these were rejected. Not only that, but at the end of July 1914, Churchill barred Turks from boarding two of their dreadnoughts being worked on in British shipyards (the Reshadieh and Sultan Osman).
    At the beginning of August, the Ottomans found out that Britain had basically stolen their ships. Since Germany was the one European power that actually had a working relationship with the Ottomans, they sided with them. There is of course more to it than that (lots of shenanigans by the Young Turks and the military leadership, hopes that Germany would protect them from an invasion, etc) but to say they "foolishly" sided with Germany is oversimplifying things.

    • @Caesim9
      @Caesim9 Před rokem +5

      People totally forget how big of a deal Dreadnoughts were back then, and just stealing them was a huge diplomatic affront.
      Also, Britain was meddling in Arabia. They had ports there, iirc they supported some precursor of Saudi Arabia.

  • @mikvan9849
    @mikvan9849 Před 3 lety +5180

    RealLifeLore: "this video was made possible by CuriositySream"
    Me: Nope, it was made possible by the British and French

    • @antonioklaic4839
      @antonioklaic4839 Před 3 lety +93

      It could've been an alt history without them

    • @pitapita6643
      @pitapita6643 Před 3 lety +47

      @@antonioklaic4839 exactly, just imagine how diff it would be

    • @pitapita6643
      @pitapita6643 Před 3 lety +5

      😂😂😂😂

    • @Matei2575Cip
      @Matei2575Cip Před 3 lety +29

      No no by the meteorite that wiped dinasours

    • @antonioklaic4839
      @antonioklaic4839 Před 3 lety +20

      The Carolingian Empire collapse estabilishing modern European borders enabled this event

  • @justelliot4870
    @justelliot4870 Před 3 lety +10525

    Oh boy, time for a wholesome comments section that won't be controversial at all!

    • @hughjass8502
      @hughjass8502 Před 3 lety +203

      I cant wait for all the wholesome coments too

    • @HDTomo
      @HDTomo Před 3 lety +301

      No Jewish or muslim discrimination and racial slurs at all! Totally the opposite!

    • @Justin-cw7zf
      @Justin-cw7zf Před 3 lety +119

      Time to bring out my popcorn to enjoy all the defiantly wholesome comments

    • @raditiyavalendeto4112
      @raditiyavalendeto4112 Před 3 lety +47

      this comment is a milk

    • @juliusnepos6013
      @juliusnepos6013 Před 3 lety +23

      @@raditiyavalendeto4112 yeah

  • @Shockprowl
    @Shockprowl Před rokem +1

    I thought I knew quite a lot of stuff. But every time I watch one of your videos I learn SO MUCH more. Thank you, Real LIfe Lore.

  • @internetuser2721
    @internetuser2721 Před 2 lety +73

    So let me get this straight. We acknowledge that having different ethnicities, cultures, and religions in a same country causes major trouble in the Middle East, while simultaneously we are supposed to cheer diversity and multiculturalism in the West? Seems like a double standard to me.

    • @PK-tt5kk
      @PK-tt5kk Před 2 lety +4

      yeah i had the same thought, with this logic a country like India should not exist where there are 28 states , each having their own language, also different ethnic groups.

    • @internetuser2721
      @internetuser2721 Před 2 lety +8

      @@PK-tt5kk The strength of a nation is measured during its difficult times, not during its good times. Once India's economic growth ends, we will see whether it is genuinely a sustainable country, or whether it is simply a relationship of convenience.

    • @ricardokowalski1579
      @ricardokowalski1579 Před rokem

      Fair question. And three weeks later, not a single SJW or progressive as dared to touch it.
      That in itself is telling.
      Respectfully

    • @internetuser2721
      @internetuser2721 Před rokem +1

      @@ricardokowalski1579 You're right. SJWs are unable to answer logical questions. That's why they keep out.

    • @rulekop
      @rulekop Před rokem +14

      Yeah, it's easy to celebrate diversity and to tolerate others when they are not near.
      Statistically, most of the successful and stable countries in europe are the homogenous ones (ethnicity-wise).
      Edit: It's not that I'm against diversity. It's more about the fact that a group must have an agreed upon shared "story" to make it a group. It so happens that ethnicity supplies a very good communual "story" (but it doesn't have to be the "story" for each group).

  • @duncanmcgee13
    @duncanmcgee13 Před 3 lety +3833

    The same thing happened to Africa. The main difference is the Middle East is both a strategic location and holds major strategic resources.

    • @hooby7045
      @hooby7045 Před 3 lety +153

      Africa has gold and diamonds

    • @hooby7045
      @hooby7045 Před 3 lety +55

      @Eagle Not 100 years ago when Europe conquered Africa

    • @Tawishma
      @Tawishma Před 3 lety +220

      @@hooby7045 very correct, but in the global politics of today the Middle East is much more strategically valuable than Africa because of its oil and geographic location. Which, in turn, is why we hear a lot more about the issues of the Middle East and less about Africa, generally speaking at least

    • @hooby7045
      @hooby7045 Před 3 lety +36

      @@Tawishma Of course, later the oil value will fall, and a new region on earth with a new valuable resource will rise with wealth and with problems

    • @Cindy99765
      @Cindy99765 Před 3 lety +85

      @@Tawishma Countries like Nigeria and Ghana have huge petroleum and crude oil supplies, with some companies being top trading partners with the US. Not to mention the precious cobalt used for cars like Teslas or lithium for phones/electronics that come from Central Africa.

  • @anshulankit6357
    @anshulankit6357 Před 3 lety +814

    "Border problems"
    "Britain"
    Sounds same right?

    • @ritupandey2324
      @ritupandey2324 Před 3 lety +7

      *B*order problems
      *B*ritain

    • @Leo7s1822
      @Leo7s1822 Před 3 lety +5

      @@ritupandey2324 and BBs are ammunition for *toy guns* “*toy wars*”

    • @joshuabarbosa4824
      @joshuabarbosa4824 Před 3 lety +7

      True to an extent. Beyond that it is the fault of the current leaders.

    • @Pax.Britannica
      @Pax.Britannica Před 3 lety +5

      ​@@joshuabarbosa4824 "To an extent"... I mean... You may design the borders to reduce co-operation but you can hardly say that would inevitably lead to war.
      I remember Churchill once said China ought to be split up & divided, he was called a racist, but he was right.
      The very reason Thatcher gave HK to the CCP and not the true successors to the Qing was due to China's power. If you look at HK, Xinjiang, Tibet, & Mongolia, one can hardly help but think China might have been a bit more peaceful had we listened to Churchill.

    • @themercifulguard3971
      @themercifulguard3971 Před 3 lety +1

      @@joshuabarbosa4824 The borders were the seed for future inevitable conflicts
      I can't help but think this was intentional lol

  • @seleukus856
    @seleukus856 Před 2 lety +6

    “Those dirty brits. You heard they call me the boneyman?” - Napoleon from oversimplified

  • @connieh.4212
    @connieh.4212 Před 2 lety +52

    In high school history, I learnt that the British brought slaves over from different tribes in Africa who all spoke different languages and deliberately split them up to different plantations in Jamaica so that they could not communicate with each other and could not see any people they knew from their own tribe, effectively cutting off any chance for the slaves to rebel or escape together. I thought that was devious. It looks like it’s just another old tactic in their handbook.

    • @jackmiseno6940
      @jackmiseno6940 Před rokem

      Stop blaming whites for every problem in the world. Africa is backwards because of the ethnic composition of Africa. Sorry, but that’s the truth

    • @maxmustermann1386
      @maxmustermann1386 Před 10 měsíci

      It can be as old as it is but it's so evil yet efficient their homeland should be divided deliberately by Africans, middle-easterns and indians and sadly many more ... Honestly fuck those few people that made Earth a less hospital place to live in ... Infuriating 😢

    • @Labyrinth6000
      @Labyrinth6000 Před 8 měsíci

      That was the point

  • @kannan991
    @kannan991 Před 3 lety +1304

    Brits in 1947 while drawing the border between India and Pakistan
    "Ah sh*t. Here we go again"

    • @prakhartripathiviii-a4235
      @prakhartripathiviii-a4235 Před 3 lety +14

      They did work that was(and should) going to take years in just few months to shave TIME

    • @npc3758
      @npc3758 Před 3 lety +34

      @@prakhartripathiviii-a4235 if they weren't divided then civil war was inevitable during those times

    • @silverfish2380
      @silverfish2380 Před 3 lety +9

      @@npc3758 now there are more Muslim living in India then Pakistan but India is still stable country if India was not divided Hindu and Muslim population might be fairly be similar and Muslim might got good enough representation in politics but what ever I can't be sure better be here then in that sinario

    • @parkeroof4705
      @parkeroof4705 Před 3 lety +17

      @@silverfish2380 not true

    • @kannadiga_0225
      @kannadiga_0225 Před 3 lety

      @@parkeroof4705 yes it is

  • @draphotube4315
    @draphotube4315 Před 3 lety +3598

    The Problems with the world’s borders:
    *The British slowly sneaks out of the room*
    Because the comment section under this comment needs it:
    *the French; if I don’t move... maybe they won’t see moi*

    • @eps200
      @eps200 Před 3 lety +133

      Ill have you know atleast a third of them are the fault of the French....

    • @draphotube4315
      @draphotube4315 Před 3 lety +24

      @@eps200 yeah true, same could be said of most other western countries...

    • @liamadams5121
      @liamadams5121 Před 3 lety +7

      English, half of the countries that are part of the UK/ Very early British Empire don’t want to be apart of it. And the reason some of our population do is because the English invaded and placed certain people in power whos ancestors still run our countries

    • @64ankka
      @64ankka Před 3 lety +5

      *Mark Sykes and François Georges-Picot sneak out of the room*

    • @draphotube4315
      @draphotube4315 Před 3 lety +23

      @@liamadams5121 The world needs a total border reset, than being done so that fewer tensions will exsist.
      Yet all people care about is, “What will we gain?”
      Peace isn’t something seen as valuable in this world, atleast not by its governments!

  • @kikkzibrahim
    @kikkzibrahim Před rokem +1

    Salute to your honesty man loved the content for sure

  • @johnwiebe4293
    @johnwiebe4293 Před 2 lety +6

    But I thought diversity for the sake of diversity makes a country stronger. 🤔

    • @ellenday2155
      @ellenday2155 Před 2 lety

      That’s only if the country is mainly white.

  • @happyagarwal9506
    @happyagarwal9506 Před 3 lety +4118

    "If two fishes are fighting in a river,a British must have passed by"
    -American native proverb

    • @loremipsum3610
      @loremipsum3610 Před 3 lety +124

      While true, the two fish could still decide to stop fighting by themselves. The colonial powers may have catalysed the conflict, but it's the people (and leaders) there who have continued and maintained it for their own self interest.

    • @KwansuMyDudes
      @KwansuMyDudes Před 3 lety +282

      @@loremipsum3610 You're forgetting the part where those people and leaders are still being pushed to and supported by the same countries who put them in that position in the first place.

    • @invalidaccount6147
      @invalidaccount6147 Před 3 lety +7

      Directly or indirectly
      Literacy rate determines a lot in these matters

    • @offcolour3814
      @offcolour3814 Před 3 lety +116

      ​@@invalidaccount6147 It's hard to be in school when you're too busy worried about... not dying you know.

    • @invalidaccount6147
      @invalidaccount6147 Před 3 lety +4

      @@offcolour3814 I didn't get it

  • @NorroTaku
    @NorroTaku Před 3 lety +480

    "these borders suck and just brew conflict"
    -"yes we designed it that way"

    • @manuelsalazar5257
      @manuelsalazar5257 Před 3 lety +46

      It's not a bug, it's a feature

    • @TasX
      @TasX Před 3 lety +11

      @@manuelsalazar5257 Get the guns and ammo DLC for 1.7 Billion an year

    • @corbinglenn2567
      @corbinglenn2567 Před 3 lety +4

      @@TasX 1.7 trillion

  • @zyadamin
    @zyadamin Před 2 lety +9

    I've been saying this to anyone asking about the Middle Eastern conflict, and I think it was summed up perfectly (missing the whole Palestine/Israel portion obviously).

  • @joeyanny8018
    @joeyanny8018 Před 2 lety +1

    Excellently done documentary. Very much enjoyed your work. 🙏

  • @Monochrome_math
    @Monochrome_math Před 3 lety +1370

    "How many borders do you wanna screw up?"
    Britain: Yes.

    • @goon5757
      @goon5757 Před 3 lety +27

      You realize that there was peace up until Israel was formed right?
      The Arab states all get along, they have this thing called the arab league

    • @Perririri
      @Perririri Před 3 lety

      Normie

    • @goon5757
      @goon5757 Před 3 lety +10

      @@Perririri reddit moment

    • @goon5757
      @goon5757 Před 3 lety +1

      @Mathew John there's 23 other nations in there

    • @goon5757
      @goon5757 Před 3 lety +2

      ​@Mathew John they didn't need America to improve relations they united because of Iran

  • @twojacksandanace3847
    @twojacksandanace3847 Před 3 lety +2117

    Middle East: Blame the US!
    Europe: "Slowly walks out of the room".

    • @Rishi123456789
      @Rishi123456789 Před 3 lety +244

      The US is basically an extension of Europe, culturally speaking. Let's be real here.

    • @bobthebuilder3615
      @bobthebuilder3615 Před 3 lety +80

      @@Rishi123456789 I mean we didn't draw the borders

    • @themercifulguard3971
      @themercifulguard3971 Před 3 lety +90

      @@bobthebuilder3615 They started to enter the scene after the borders were drawn

    • @bobthebuilder3615
      @bobthebuilder3615 Před 3 lety +21

      @@themercifulguard3971 yeah I think around 60 years after

    • @Atiq_s
      @Atiq_s Před 3 lety +88

      @@bobthebuilder3615 tell me bob which country caused 911? Where did the majority highjackers come from? Hint: a gulf monarchy. Why that country is thriving while others have been destroyed. Who lied about the nuclear weapons to destroy Iraq. Who changed govt in iran and bring monarchy back there. Yes it's America and some other European countries. No wonder they hate America. And so do many other countries. Thankfully that nation is in decline.

  • @khalimero99
    @khalimero99 Před 2 lety

    Love this channel!! cheers for the nice interesting subjects..

  • @GregTom2
    @GregTom2 Před 2 lety +9

    I almost can't believe that the European colonizers did it on purpose.
    Is there historical evidence that there was an intentionality of fomenting war in the regions when the borders were drawn? I feel like it must have been done by people who were not savvy to the situation just trying to get expedient with signing a peace treaty.
    Why do we blame the British for separating India and Pakistan based on religion, but we also blame them for not separating shia and sunni regions based on religion? Did anyone look into the geopolitic consequences of the redesigned maps?

  • @Foodencio
    @Foodencio Před 3 lety +4144

    I feel bad for all the innocent people that died in this whole mess

    • @speedercat154
      @speedercat154 Před 3 lety +22

      Nah

    • @mavericktheace
      @mavericktheace Před 3 lety +18

      Wow, it's just a youtube video. I mean, maybe it's not perfect, but that's a bit harsh don't you think?

    • @speedercat154
      @speedercat154 Před 3 lety +6

      @Abdullah AlKandari because

    • @speedercat154
      @speedercat154 Před 3 lety +8

      @Abdullah AlKandari because i dont care

    • @tlowry6338
      @tlowry6338 Před 3 lety +172

      @Abdullah AlKandari they're clearly no older than 10 don't even bother

  • @ameliarodriguez7667
    @ameliarodriguez7667 Před 3 lety +2157

    "Middle East's borders are terrible"
    Africa: Hold my civil wars!

  • @Articulate99
    @Articulate99 Před rokem

    Always interesting, thank you.

  • @pieterspruijt2
    @pieterspruijt2 Před 13 dny +1

    Thanks, amazing video!

  • @keksentdecker
    @keksentdecker Před 3 lety +721

    Reads the title: Daring today aren’t we?

    • @ronnie1394
      @ronnie1394 Před 3 lety +16

      Quite risky lol

    • @anotherguy3554
      @anotherguy3554 Před 3 lety +14

      i was expecting hazzards in the comments, but wow, it's actually a lot better than i thought

    • @SF-li9kh
      @SF-li9kh Před 3 lety +3

      Gaza Strip and the West bank were highlighted in the thumbnail, yet the content is only available in Nebula? Here take my downvote

    • @beyondthecage
      @beyondthecage Před 3 lety

      Talking about the Middle East is like walking through a mindfield.

    • @_Sami_H
      @_Sami_H Před 3 lety

      Almost too risky..

  • @zyplixx1415
    @zyplixx1415 Před 3 lety +492

    I swear anytime there is a video about the Middle East, everyone in the comments is now a master in geopolitics

    • @amirroslan2545
      @amirroslan2545 Před 3 lety +47

      its not rocket science. just a bunch of white westerners vibing and being ignorant as usual

    • @off_Planet
      @off_Planet Před 3 lety +7

      @@amirroslan2545 q. e. d.

    • @youareveryannoying9179
      @youareveryannoying9179 Před 3 lety +10

      Maybe because I live there

    • @masterspark9880
      @masterspark9880 Před 3 lety +4

      People like you are now masters of how everyone else is a master of geopolitics

    • @David-sp4tc
      @David-sp4tc Před 3 lety +14

      @@amirroslan2545 “white” yes because no other race is ignorant. Cool bro.

  • @b.newsome8696
    @b.newsome8696 Před 2 lety

    These videos really make me smarter. Thanks!

  • @ramkanjeenterprises5416
    @ramkanjeenterprises5416 Před rokem +1

    Very educative and well rehearsed.

  • @TheGatrGamr
    @TheGatrGamr Před 3 lety +1033

    I'm sure CZcams will love you talking about this.

    • @birb7548
      @birb7548 Před 3 lety +9

      Ye men

    • @HDTomo
      @HDTomo Před 3 lety +2

      It's already demontised actually
      I get the joke just saying

    • @Justin-cw7zf
      @Justin-cw7zf Před 3 lety +23

      CZcams hates anything controversial

    • @daviroza4700
      @daviroza4700 Před 3 lety +1

      Enemy of Islam should be gone

    • @johnpaulabocad6941
      @johnpaulabocad6941 Před 3 lety +9

      @@Justin-cw7zf People at CZcams probably failed history so they're visiting their wrath upon us

  • @thegreatteaman
    @thegreatteaman Před 3 lety +683

    Moral of the story:
    Some Brits and French drew some lines on a map with crayons, and ruined everything.

    • @ah4d47
      @ah4d47 Před 3 lety +6

      Yeah that’s basically it😂

    • @ynnalyl6195
      @ynnalyl6195 Před 3 lety

      @@user-op8fg3ny3j what about Canada? Australia? New Zealand? United States of America? India?

    • @ynnalyl6195
      @ynnalyl6195 Před 3 lety

      :awesome

    • @goodhardlife
      @goodhardlife Před 3 lety +4

      to be fair they also killed, stole, and pillaged.

    • @apmechev
      @apmechev Před 3 lety +7

      The British and the French thought that diversity is strength so they tried to make the Middle Eastern countries as diverse as possible

  • @datboyace13
    @datboyace13 Před 2 lety

    Very educational and eye-opening for a very touchy subject.

  • @genyklemberg
    @genyklemberg Před rokem +34

    Would appreciate if a video would be done about Ichkeria, Ingushetia, Tatarstan, Chuvashia and many more slaved nations

    • @mpforeverunlimited
      @mpforeverunlimited Před rokem +1

      You mean slavic?

    • @genyklemberg
      @genyklemberg Před rokem +1

      @@mpforeverunlimited no, slaved. even Slavic people are slaved there, unfortunately they don't understand that.

  • @ergenekonualkslayanliberal1077

    I like how this channel is slowly turning into geopolitical analysis. Started up as Middle Earth lore ended up in Middle East gore.

  • @cozyvoyage5142
    @cozyvoyage5142 Před 3 lety +592

    Middle East: Americans are the cause for our historical problems
    Europeans: *sweating* haha... yeah

    • @darkhandha9040
      @darkhandha9040 Před 3 lety +76

      It's okay America has still done enough in modern history

    • @KaiserMattTygore927
      @KaiserMattTygore927 Před 3 lety +59

      Don't worry, we're just following our forefather's footsteps :/

    • @thelostbunny6953
      @thelostbunny6953 Před 3 lety +25

      Americans ARE Europeans

    • @cozyvoyage5142
      @cozyvoyage5142 Před 3 lety +83

      @@thelostbunny6953 Descendants of Europeans, Africans, Asians, who have all developed their own unique American identity over the past 300 years

    • @eddixon2015
      @eddixon2015 Před 3 lety +31

      @@thelostbunny6953 that’s not how that works

  • @resetjondoe4344
    @resetjondoe4344 Před 2 lety

    I love these vids keep'em coming.
    Have a nice day 😈

  • @shigetsan
    @shigetsan Před 2 lety

    Amazing video. Thank you

  • @josiahhockenberry9846
    @josiahhockenberry9846 Před 3 lety +633

    As Jessica Rabbit said, "I'm not bad. I'm just drawn that way."

  • @Edward_YT_WEC
    @Edward_YT_WEC Před 3 lety +679

    “Khuzestan makes 57% of Iran's oil”
    United States: 👁👄👁

    • @arhaanaslam5905
      @arhaanaslam5905 Před 3 lety +106

      U.S:Can I intrest you in some freedom Khuzestan?

    • @alfrredd
      @alfrredd Před 3 lety +63

      Also the US: please don't build nukes to defend your land.

    • @imcloud305
      @imcloud305 Před 3 lety +17

      Obviously America will find a reason to Invade iran

    • @muxijim6442
      @muxijim6442 Před 3 lety +3

      Kujistan or Kuzhestan ???

    • @tommyber8836
      @tommyber8836 Před 3 lety +2

      * *flashback to early 2020* *

  • @syedpacha3515
    @syedpacha3515 Před 2 lety

    Great content and information.

  • @ChoobChoob
    @ChoobChoob Před 2 lety +5

    I would be interested to see one of your maps showing the colour indication of the tribes and clans.
    Edit- Though it's probably going to be very similar to the lingustic map!

  • @Dr._Rizk
    @Dr._Rizk Před 3 lety +1013

    Hello!
    I’m from the Middle East and I agree with everything you said in this video.
    The region is full of culture but ethnicity is what divides everyone.
    Most probably you won’t see my comment, but it would mean a lot if you could do a video on the Beirut blast of August 4th 2020 (the RealLifeLore way).
    This has been a very life changing event for us, and the situation in Lebanon is getting worse by the day. It would mean a lot if you could shed some light on it.
    If not it’s fine! Keep up the great content and stay safe!

    • @riccardoz2953
      @riccardoz2953 Před 3 lety +15

      u can post yourself a video on beirut blast so maybe we in occident can understood what the situation is in real there. still can't belive a government holding chemicals dangerous as explosive in the center of the city.

    • @missaziz9875
      @missaziz9875 Před 3 lety +17

      I am from pakistan . As i seeing this video i really feeling why we Muslim make unity by forgetting all difrences on the basis of one allah one rasool and ine quran pak. Why we dont open our hearts for one another if someone believes slightly differ way in a long way....but the main and basics are same.........i hope so in sha Allah

    • @themercifulguard3971
      @themercifulguard3971 Před 3 lety +13

      @@missaziz9875 TAKBIRR
      This is correct. Islam is what unites us

    • @matan2924
      @matan2924 Před 3 lety +10

      @@riccardoz2953 because its not the government that held explosives there. It was the terror organization Hezbollah. And after the blast the had the audacity to say that they stored fireworks in there

    • @theaveragegamer1719
      @theaveragegamer1719 Před 3 lety +4

      @@themercifulguard3971 islam hates non muslims

  • @icantthinkofaname1975
    @icantthinkofaname1975 Před 3 lety +470

    When you go to the comments expecting beef but they all agreeing that british made the problem

    • @Komnenos83
      @Komnenos83 Před 3 lety +13

      Well, these problems would so some degree exist either way.

    • @SimWyatt
      @SimWyatt Před 3 lety +10

      I'm British and I approve this message..

    • @stoat2
      @stoat2 Před 3 lety

      British Beef bby!

    • @troyarrington5492
      @troyarrington5492 Před 3 lety +15

      @@Komnenos83 they might. Because humans always make conflict. But there isn’t any doubt that the British(and French) made it worse

    • @sanda386
      @sanda386 Před 3 lety

      Exactly

  • @lovenicholson
    @lovenicholson Před rokem

    Great work brother.

  • @zasas777
    @zasas777 Před 2 lety +1

    Good video, i am a big fan

  • @protix9880
    @protix9880 Před 3 lety +350

    havent watched the video yet but all i can say is: Britain.

    • @karyncobra5989
      @karyncobra5989 Před 3 lety +15

      And france

    • @thisismacom3723
      @thisismacom3723 Před 3 lety +18

      @@Lorddonen then who will we gonna blame the Jewz, Arab, creator. Don't deny what the oppressor have done.

    • @axios7603
      @axios7603 Před 3 lety +16

      that was probably a long time ago, I d say britain, france and any other europe country that colonizes these countries are the the ones to blame. But Britain is to blamed mainly solely because it used to be a Empire and essentially can do anything they want. Also look at the pakistan-india situation the british was there too!

    • @hamza-chaudhry
      @hamza-chaudhry Před 3 lety

      You were right

    • @off_Planet
      @off_Planet Před 3 lety

      And ever since noone had any agency in the whole fucking region right?

  • @DC-pe3fr
    @DC-pe3fr Před 2 lety +304

    Britain and France creating the borders: OMG we're so random, can't believe we just did that.

    • @here_we_go_again2571
      @here_we_go_again2571 Před 2 lety +3

      Britain and France also
      made decisions in and
      regarding territory that
      is now in modern Turkey.
      What is now Hatay province
      was given to Turkey (taken
      away from Syria) and the
      Kurdish areas were split
      between Turkey, Syria
      (as well as Iraq, Iran)
      Also: Lebanon was once
      part of Syria. In addition
      during those post-WW2
      "Pan-Arab" years Hafez
      Assad and the then prez.
      of Iraq had wanted to join
      their countries. (When
      this happend, Saddam
      Hussein made a coup
      and took over Iraq)

    • @EchoBravo370
      @EchoBravo370 Před rokem

      Well, you were pissed about WWI. Just guessing.

  • @BumbleBeeTF
    @BumbleBeeTF Před 8 měsíci

    The video you made on Nebula about Isreal should be made public. It is very informative and needs to be seen.

  • @timochyfilix5176
    @timochyfilix5176 Před rokem

    I really appreciate for your pure honesty!

  • @tablet2331
    @tablet2331 Před 3 lety +628

    "When two fish are fighting for territory in a river an english man drank water from the river" - some youtube comment

    • @Perririri
      @Perririri Před 3 lety +7

      Normie

    • @shahan484
      @shahan484 Před 3 lety +7

      g'day innit?

    • @SuperFra2002
      @SuperFra2002 Před 3 lety +6

      Why do I keep seeing this comment in every video about a british former colony? XD youtube invented a new proverb

    • @nayeemhaider8367
      @nayeemhaider8367 Před 3 lety +6

      @@SuperFra2002 Nah I have heard elders speak variations of this one since I was a kid.

    • @thegoldengamer9315
      @thegoldengamer9315 Před 3 lety +3

      Makes sense

  • @levitschetter5288
    @levitschetter5288 Před 3 lety +1945

    Welcome back to another episode of Britain ruins everything

    • @aniketraina7797
      @aniketraina7797 Před 2 lety +104

      Literally in all the videos I've seen on border issues, it's always the british, rarely the other europeans.

    • @offsidev6059
      @offsidev6059 Před 2 lety +118

      Luckily we have the USA to fix it. Oh, wait, that just seems to be Britain 2...

    • @offsidev6059
      @offsidev6059 Před 2 lety +77

      @@aniketraina7797 I guess you missed the part where he mentioned the French were equaly to blame for this? Don't take away their well deserved credit...

    • @malekqaddarah
      @malekqaddarah Před 2 lety +22

      Also the French

    • @fredericksinclair
      @fredericksinclair Před 2 lety +22

      You missed the part where Great Britain was the biggest empire in history, therefore had influence everywhere.

  • @abates49ers
    @abates49ers Před 8 měsíci +2

    where is his new video on the conflict??? I came straight here for an update!

  • @alferdojuaqin4233
    @alferdojuaqin4233 Před rokem +11

    I love when someone says the true real story about the middle east without adding any little of the west's propaganda. Cheers to you bro, I'll share and subscribe and show it to everyone i know!

  • @fish8622
    @fish8622 Před 3 lety +60

    This topic aside I've noticed that some of the seriousness of this channel has returned. I think a good balance has been met.

  • @HDTomo
    @HDTomo Před 3 lety +623

    "Look I know how likely this will be demonitised"
    Me: yes
    "So instead of uploading it to youtube"
    Me: wait
    "I uploaded it as a nebula ORIG-"
    Me: NOOOOOOO

    • @futuregmchess1561
      @futuregmchess1561 Před 3 lety +78

      RLL: Me gonna be demonitized
      Me: ok...
      RLL: So I didn't upload it to youtube
      Me: Then what is the remaining 3 minutes for
      RLL: I uploaded it as a...
      Me: O no. Please. Anything but that. ANYTHING BUT THAT.
      RLL: Neb...
      Me: Please. Please.
      RLL: ula Original!!!!
      Me: *Mental Nukes have detonated*

    • @besher532
      @besher532 Před 3 lety +41

      well this is his job, Imagine working for free

    • @NorroTaku
      @NorroTaku Před 3 lety +30

      I payed like 12 bucks for a year
      currently it's 15 bucks
      I haven't used it much besides "bonus content" that is like 2 min max each
      and the site is super laggy and the app doesn't have 2x
      but if you share an account with s friend it could be worth it

    • @fusiongaming8281
      @fusiongaming8281 Před 3 lety +30

      @@besher532 my dude i watched ads on the video, do you think that they just put them there for decoration?
      Nebula is a horrible value and is for people who have more money than sense anyway, if they could not treat it like a garbage bin to put extra content in, it would almost be decent

    • @HarryTurney
      @HarryTurney Před 3 lety +20

      yea I kinda wanted to watch the video but that's a big turn off. It's not about the price but having to go to another site just to watch one video and from what I heard the site is laggy af

  • @Alpha-gj7rw
    @Alpha-gj7rw Před 2 lety

    amazing video bro

  • @avayeee
    @avayeee Před rokem +2

    The video: 👍😎
    The comments section:
    🔫🔪🥴💀

  • @hughjass8502
    @hughjass8502 Před 3 lety +693

    Somewhere that isnt europe: *exists*
    European powers: So anyway i started dividing

    • @mrbisshie
      @mrbisshie Před 3 lety +9

      Hey now, don't discredit Stalin! He did some border meddling in eastern Europe!

    • @AxxLAfriku
      @AxxLAfriku Před 3 lety

      I recently revealed the genders of my two girlfriends. It got a lot of hate and now has 30 times more dislikes than likes. I am really sad that people can be so mean. Sorry for using your comment to talk about my problems, dear cale

    • @ynnalyl6195
      @ynnalyl6195 Před 3 lety +1

    • @theviniso
      @theviniso Před 3 lety +1

      Hey let's just draw some randon straight lines on this map, I'm sure no one will mind

    • @hughjass8502
      @hughjass8502 Před 3 lety

      @Brownskikuca Just dont reply, hes looking for attention. if you give it too him, he wins

  • @adyanthmallur5422
    @adyanthmallur5422 Před 3 lety +1132

    "blame the British for the world's problems"
    - Art of war Sun Tzu

    • @hughjass8502
      @hughjass8502 Před 3 lety +30

      truly an in inspirational quote

    • @krono5el
      @krono5el Před 3 lety +65

      @@Lorddonen its in the game

    • @dirtypure2023
      @dirtypure2023 Před 3 lety +41

      @@Lorddonen In spite of the terrible and shortsighted decisions of European powers in the twentieth century, we can also that k Europe for the countless and innumerable technological and political innovations throughout history which have enabled things like the internet and representative democracy. It's not as simplistic as "Europe bad" - everything good about the modern world has come with a cost.

    • @toboterxp8155
      @toboterxp8155 Před 3 lety +10

      @@Lorddonen Don't blame germany. We didn't exist for most of it (except ww2. That one's on us).

    • @Chimailai
      @Chimailai Před 3 lety +11

      @@dirtypure2023 we know, but it's funny how so many of the world's conflicts can be traced back to European diplomats drawing a border

  • @fredmac1000
    @fredmac1000 Před 2 lety

    Thank you for your efforts,,,🌷🙏

  • @m3g4_154
    @m3g4_154 Před 2 lety

    I am subsribed and i love your video's.. wish that youtube would let you go further into detail because i wont be able to buy the documentaries.. however it is interesting to find out about these issues with society because im aware of some corrupt politicians.. i am interested in supporting the channel further and finding your videos on some other sites, where do i find them?

  • @matas253
    @matas253 Před 3 lety +1056

    10:29: * Creating borders over religious lines *
    *India 🇮🇳 and Pakistan 🇵🇰: Hey I’ve seen this!*

    • @_Ari__.
      @_Ari__. Před 3 lety +64

      From what I know their dispute is on kashmir region which is Muslim majority and forced to be with India because the ruler decided that even when the people didn't want to be with India.

    • @npc3758
      @npc3758 Před 3 lety +14

      India would have erupted into civil war

    • @AvinashSingh-et9lf
      @AvinashSingh-et9lf Před 3 lety +121

      @@_Ari__. If you go into detail, both king and public wanted azaad Kashmir but when attacked by militants from Pakistan's side under the name of "Aazaad Kashmir Army" the king and the public representative, Sheikh Abdullah most popular Kashmiri leader chose to stay with India with some special requests. So, it wasn't just a Hindu King's decision it was a decision made by Kashmiris with special concessions and protection given to them at that time.

    • @ItsToolintime
      @ItsToolintime Před 3 lety +6

      @@npc3758 Nah

    • @AvinashSingh-et9lf
      @AvinashSingh-et9lf Před 3 lety +45

      @Sadaqat Ali junagarh, ferozpur were not unjust at all, it was public decision, only Hyderabad was occupied with use of force, but about Kashmir, Pakistan itself accepted at UN that he trained savage tribals for "Aazaad Kashmir Army" which tortured, raped and murdered people at baramullah district.

  • @logansmith4492
    @logansmith4492 Před 2 lety +478

    “Armenia and Greece were gonna get some token land tossed their way too.”
    Greece: gets the entirety of Greece

    • @robincoleman1350
      @robincoleman1350 Před 2 lety +30

      Greece was already independent of Turkey before the first world war.

    • @davidbodor1762
      @davidbodor1762 Před 2 lety +39

      I think he meant the little bit of land on the Western side of Turkey

    • @kd4n347
      @kd4n347 Před 2 lety +17

      greece were lucky to get some of greece

    • @furkankorkmaz7991
      @furkankorkmaz7991 Před 2 lety +5

      @AG 2021 loserstantinople was a pathetic fallen city with 30.000 inhabitants, which was initially built on conquered THRACIAN land. Anatolia was HITTITE and LYCIAN, NOT greek. Greek appropriation of ancient lands based on dumb linguistic assimilations ages ago is the dumbest sh** I see in this century.

    • @furkankorkmaz7991
      @furkankorkmaz7991 Před 2 lety +5

      @AG 2021 early 1800’s, greeks ethnically cl**** all non christians with british and french help. Armos try this tactic too thinking ottomans are weak, and collaborate with russians. 2M muslim lives lost, 5.5M Displaced. As a result rebels get deported, some didnt make it, majority survives, they start gncd lobbying with fake numbers to take the lands through political means. Bye.

  • @Digmen1
    @Digmen1 Před rokem

    I have loved history and you did a geat job of explaining all fo this.
    I wonder if some of these borders will ever change!

  • @sup-ht7to
    @sup-ht7to Před 2 lety +3

    Congratulations on getting one additional subscriber."me"... just for the simple fact that you called it palestine.. love the way that you share information without political influence.

    • @lidormizrhai1176
      @lidormizrhai1176 Před 2 lety

      Well it was the geographical name for years. And how everyone called the land, even the Jews (though it was only because Palastine was more known than Israel or Judea)

  • @chickentit251
    @chickentit251 Před 3 lety +270

    “Got me a pen and scribbled some shite”
    -some guy

  • @silentwolf6555
    @silentwolf6555 Před 3 lety +552

    If people looked into videos like yours, people would understand why there’s heavy conflict in the Middle East

    • @tsd5661
      @tsd5661 Před 2 lety +5

      Or they could watch the news or read a news website from time to time.

    • @TheNewblade1
      @TheNewblade1 Před 2 lety +8

      It's easier to watch Fox and blame authoritarian dictatorial communist fascism.

    • @KFC_Pyongyang_AssistantManager
      @KFC_Pyongyang_AssistantManager Před 2 lety +39

      @@tsd5661 the news usually only shows what’s happening currently and doesn’t give much context

    • @carlinthomas9482
      @carlinthomas9482 Před 2 lety +7

      I think this channel gave a poor explanation as to why conflict exists in the middle east. Apparently, none of the tens of millions of people that live in the middle east have any agency for the conflict.

    • @AG-vb6vv
      @AG-vb6vv Před rokem +3

      What does this have to do with ISIS eh.. the main reason is Islamists, plenty of other nations have terrible borders due to colonialism - see South Asia, Africa, perhaps Latin America etc

  • @silwadi08
    @silwadi08 Před 2 lety

    Man your so honest! Thank you

  • @Jeth1093
    @Jeth1093 Před 2 lety +1

    Oil: *exists*
    Almost every country and empire: is for me?

  • @JenniferinIllinois
    @JenniferinIllinois Před 3 lety +309

    When a British dude and a French dude play Risk: Ottoman Empire edition, it never turns out well.

    • @tahamohammad1741
      @tahamohammad1741 Před 3 lety +5

      And the British guy is Mike Sikes and the French guy is Francois Picot??

    • @abloogywoogywoo
      @abloogywoogywoo Před 3 lety +9

      The Ottomans were bastards too.
      I guess countries suck because people suck.

    • @FTC207
      @FTC207 Před 3 lety +9

      @@abloogywoogywoo no

    • @GLOmar-my6xc
      @GLOmar-my6xc Před 3 lety +1

      @@FTC207 It is the truth. They killed millions of Armenians, Kurds and Arabs

    • @FTC207
      @FTC207 Před 3 lety

      @@GLOmar-my6xc Young turks. You might just learn some history.

  • @tylertate3584
    @tylertate3584 Před 3 lety +156

    “... an independent state of Kurdistan was being discussed...” damn homie, pour one out for the Kurds

    • @davidsuda6110
      @davidsuda6110 Před 3 lety +24

      Turkey is why you will never see an independent Kurdistan.

    • @finnpeterson4335
      @finnpeterson4335 Před 3 lety +26

      **Erdoğan would like to know your location.**

    • @Nukestarmaster
      @Nukestarmaster Před 3 lety +12

      @@davidsuda6110 Yep, there's a reason the European powers didn't even consider it after Turkey, most of Kurdistan is within Turkey's borders.
      And with Turkey being in NATO, that's unlikely to change.

    • @nuzayerov
      @nuzayerov Před 3 lety +12

      @@finnpeterson4335 , Erdogan is still better than the previous Turkish rulers. All Kurdish towns were named in Turkish, and they were forced to mix with Turkish culture. Erdogan on the other hand renamed Kurdish places to traditional Kurdish names and gave more rights to the Kurds.
      I know he might not be perfect, but he is better.

    • @AB-fb7nq
      @AB-fb7nq Před 3 lety +4

      @@nuzayerov no one is perfect. As a Syrian I admire erdogan for what he’s doing. At least for his homeland unlike bashaar

  • @FUNKER420
    @FUNKER420 Před 2 lety +8

    It's scary as a Canadian if the middle easts issue is to much diversity in religion and culture than what happens when your country ditches its identity after having an identity to unite people together under one flag.

    • @siyzerix
      @siyzerix Před 2 lety

      Well, I mean the US is all about diversity and is pretty stable.
      You just have to take in educated people. Not just refugees.

    • @FUNKER420
      @FUNKER420 Před 2 lety

      @@siyzerix canada is built on refugees the problem isn't imagrants, it's imagrants that donr want to take part in our society and want to bring their entire culture with them

    • @siyzerix
      @siyzerix Před 2 lety +1

      @@FUNKER420 Oh I'm not saying canada has anything majorly wrong.
      I was referring to the european refugee crisis. They took in a bunch of people who don't wanna integrate themselves into society as well.
      Generally speaking the more educated immigrants tend to want to integrate themselves.

  • @frostea7043
    @frostea7043 Před 2 lety +7

    I feel like the borders could have been drawn better but I honesly don't know if it's entirely the UK and France's fault. those people have lived together under the Ottoman Empire all those years. Also, multiethnic empires are common back in the day. I feel like the UK and France would have to be really smart and see like decades ahead to intentionally destabilize the region - and that might be giving them too much credit.

    • @HumanitarianTeam
      @HumanitarianTeam Před rokem +1

      You can take a colonial history class and look at primary docs if youre interested in learning

  • @DevSarman
    @DevSarman Před 3 lety +115

    Uploaded right in the event of Suez Canal traffic jam.

    • @dinosolder6454
      @dinosolder6454 Před 3 lety

      Yes we are missing on so much money

    • @ToastieBRRRN
      @ToastieBRRRN Před 3 lety

      Suez Crisis Intensifies

    • @someisraeliguy9570
      @someisraeliguy9570 Před 3 lety +1

      @@ToastieBRRRN *Laughs in Hebrew*

    • @m4z805
      @m4z805 Před 3 lety +4

      Some dude is doing an Austin Power's 1000 point turn on that boat as we speak.

    • @tahahagar7664
      @tahahagar7664 Před 3 lety +1

      @@someisraeliguy9570 yall got smashed in 1955 so sit down

  • @jcxkzhgco3050
    @jcxkzhgco3050 Před 3 lety +164

    Nobody:
    Imperial British officials: now we draw a straight line here and there

  • @zohy98
    @zohy98 Před 2 lety +8

    As someone who's lived her whole life in this region, I always wonder... If suddenly tomorrow all our local leaders gathered to draw entirely new states with the single purpose in mind - make peace among the land, will it even help? Or will we somehow still fall to violence and bloodshed?

    • @amirulhakim9898
      @amirulhakim9898 Před 2 lety +3

      No. Because oil.

    • @kenos911
      @kenos911 Před rokem +1

      Not gonna lie, the calliphate being reformed would be pretty sick too
      But that’s too unrealistic

    • @zohy98
      @zohy98 Před rokem +4

      @@kenos911 I was absolutely not talking about something like that... I was thinking about demolishing colonialized, straight boarders and the scars of war from our maps - and instead - asking the people where and how they want to live. I don't want a 'peace' falsely disguised as another empire, I want us to finally learn from history and make nations that will thrive - both within themselves and along their neighbors. I may sound naive, but I want a peaceful neighborhood of nations that won't fight among themselves for any reason. I want us to live together in this land. If you're Muslim, Jewish or Christian, if you're a conservative or a liberal... We all want happiness in our lives, and unless we work together to achive that, we'll just collapse into bickering again.

    • @kenos911
      @kenos911 Před rokem +1

      @@zohy98 I know that you were talking about that
      I was just being off topic mb
      But I strongly agree with your ideals personally

  • @Senkino5o
    @Senkino5o Před 2 lety +4

    I think this video didn't explore how the ethnic and linguistic areas don't link up well with newly important natural resources like oil, or that they haven't been independent countries and were under empires since the Roman days.

  • @omar47hitman
    @omar47hitman Před 3 lety +235

    I'm a Jordanian, and I want to download your video because I think it might get removed.

    • @RavenFilms
      @RavenFilms Před 3 lety +2

      You can if you have CZcams premium. And I know there are programs out there that will record your screen too.

    • @VenatusUprising
      @VenatusUprising Před 3 lety +9

      @@RavenFilms Wait.. in Iraq downloading videos is free, without CZcams premium.

    • @Void_Dweller7
      @Void_Dweller7 Před 3 lety +1

      @@VenatusUprising You probably have a Free Trial.

    • @z4kry44
      @z4kry44 Před 3 lety +1

      i am also jordanian

    • @WinVisten
      @WinVisten Před 3 lety +2

      There is a Firefox browser extension I use that allows you to download videos. It's called CZcams Downloader. You can use that, and it's free.

  • @carl___________
    @carl___________ Před 3 lety +164

    As a Lebanese myself, I always knew that before we gained independence, the Turks ruled over us for a long time before the French came. However, I never knew that this transition in power was because the Ottoman’s had fallen apart in world war 1. Honestly, so fascinating!

    • @Aztesticals
      @Aztesticals Před 3 lety +15

      As an American. It's nice to find a video that shows how my ancestors as I am ethnicly British really messed up this world. Alot of my country is ignorant but it's nice be be aware of the past. I hope your life is peaceful

    • @realroy999
      @realroy999 Před 3 lety +6

      Happy coming out 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈 be proud!!!!

    • @novacentorium4943
      @novacentorium4943 Před 3 lety +7

      @@realroy999 very confused by this comment

    • @ZK-ff2ru
      @ZK-ff2ru Před 3 lety +4

      @@realroy999 haha i got the joke

    • @hx0d
      @hx0d Před 3 lety +1

      Also adding onto that, the civil war was because of external forces meddling and therefore ruining it, which led to corruption taking over and here we are today

  • @benhac
    @benhac Před 2 lety +2

    You better not trash Israel on nebula or we will get you

  • @thathollow5162
    @thathollow5162 Před 2 lety +1

    I appreciate these videos but every one being 2/3rds the content I want and the last 1/3rd being an ad for a paid service I'll never use/get is almost worse than regular TV ads