The Day the US Gave Up on Democracy
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- 20th century Iran, where oil flows like water and politics are as stable as a unicycle on a tightrope. Britain gets a bit fussy when Iran takes the oil in Iran, so they throw the Shah a surprise birthday party by overthrowing the elected government with a little help from the CIA.
Music (in order of appearance):
Kevin Macleod - Magic Escape
Sersal Studio - The Violin
JJBA OST - Awaken
V-Audio - Easy Jazzy Shopping
Dirty Flint - Upbeat Corporate Inspiring Uplifting & Sport
GFORSE covering Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up
Matthew Pablo - Deliciously Sour
L'Orchestra Cinematique - The Star-Spangled Banner
Audio Zen - Slow Gangsters Blues
Joker 247o covering John Williams - Imperial March
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Noticed how your views per video were going down these past few months. Why did so many people just stop watching your videos?
Sharia means law my dude
Sharia law means law law
Loved the Imperial March coming in with the Oil baron logos, though I think it's a bit harsh...towards the Galactic Empire. 😁
Can't wait for the next vid!
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“What do the Iranians want with Iran?”
That’s one of the most imperial Britain things ever
Nope. If you're looking for the best example, imperial Britain's problems are best showcased in American kitsch. England moved on and changed their accent to be more Russian since the American revolution. They divided the natives into light skinned ones who would marry them and convert to protestantism (and changing their names) and dark skinned ones who would marry them and convert to protestantism (and changing their names). They said all of the ones who died because of the settlers' anti-socialness were eradicated as part of an ACTUAL ERADICATION OF ALL NATIVES, WHICH THEY SAY ALL OF THE NATIVES DIED IN. If they were still genetically British or Ghanian, they would look quite different 🤷♂️
It wasn't even part of our Empire at that point!
@@eldrago19 it never was
@@eldrago19 uh oh, someones getting sent to the world history -re- education camp
@@seanrowshandel1680 Your comment is complete nonsense, here's why. If your comment were accurate it would imply that there had ever been only one "English" accent but there are a variety of accents/dialects within the country of England where the language English come from, as well as a variety of other English language accents from the other countries that make up the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland but speak other British languages like Scots Gaelic, Welsh, Irish Gaelic and formerly Cornish.
If you're going to type up nonsense about Britain when you clearly know nothing about it, you could at least have the decency to specify which accent you're referring to, is it Scouse, Geordie, Cockney etc?
I'll tell you what you think you're talking about though. You think you're talking about the stereotypical accent that most people use for British people. That's called Received Pronunciation and in fact it started out as a regional accent from the South of England that was specifically taught to the educated upper and middle classes at school because of its clarity, however we know that the British accents are not the ones that have taken on a foreign influences in comparison to the USA because Britain had other colonies other than the USA. If it were the English and no the Americans whose accents had been bastardised, it wouldn't make sense that American English is so different to Universal English as spoken throughout most of the rest of the anglophone world, ie the Commonwealth of Nations excluding Canada which is heavily influenced by the US.
The fact is that's the American accent that was changed and that's by mass migration to the US. That's why Americans have such gigantic mouths. The more bastardised your accent is from the natural sounds of English, the wider the American mouth is. That's why when many Americans speak or smile you can see their back teeth but if you observe other people who speak English natively or even people who speak other languages, no one's mouth naturally pulls back as far as an American. In fact the human mouth should only open so that the canine teeth (if that) are visible and language helps form the shape of the teeth and mouth (that's where accents come from). So because of how Spanish for example has so heavily rounded out your American language, that's why Americans have such gigantic mouths.
As to the other aspect. You seem to be confusing the USA and places where Muslims invaded, like Spain and Portugal where colourism was developed as a direct result, with Britain. That's why what you're talking about is colourism, again as a result of Islamic invasion (remembering that Islam is 600 years younger than Christianity and spread by military conquest) which would be why you mentioned Ghana in relation to Britain, yet it was the Portuguese who contacted what would become Ghana in the late medieval period.
I mean there's no record of the kind of legal miscegenation in Britain, the British West Indies or other parts of the British Empire except in America which as you mentioned took independence quite quickly and then was heavily influenced again by Spanish and Eastern European migration and South Africa which was formerly Dutch.
Stop blaming Britain for other people's bullshit. It's absolutely ridiculous.
"That the man who didn't support Shariah Law was not, in fact, going to implement Shariah Law."
"That the man who didn't support communism, would implement Communism."
These bird-eye views of politics always make you realize how insane politics can be at times.
if there had been no oil in Iran,none of that would have happened !
Sounds like a story line straight out of 1984.
“No, you just don’t understand their absolute genius!”
Not at times but throughout all time, few if any act in the entrest of freedom when self-interest is on the line.
To be fair, you souldnt Single Issue Vote. Different Partys hoped to get more confortable Enviouments for there Ideology trought him.
Sometimes its silly, sometimes you just take the best you get, and hope it moves step by step towards your Ideal.
Love that both you and Sam'o'nella are of one mind as to how Eisenhower reacts to the word "commie".
Sam O'Nella's shadow looms large over history RUclips - portraying Eisenhower any other way would've felt wrong
It is a bit of an exaggeration as he was the only person in the administration to question whether the guy actually was a communist, but obviously caved. The guy pushing it was John Foster Dulles, Secretary of State, with his brother Allen Welsh Dulles. Dwight David Eisenhower was more moderate.
@@JackRackam I think it was wrong to portray him that way although as Harry S. Truman noted, he refused to support George Catlett Marshall Jr.
@@JackRackam Shadow? He (quite surprisingly) released a new video yesterday 😂
@@johnnotrealname8168related question: Wasn’t it Clement Attlee who was PM of the UK during all this?
Lol, a modern Middle East history video with a focus on oil and conflict and a "to be continued" at the end is probably one of the most unintentionally ironic things Jack has ever done.
Funny enough, the US is not in this one for the oil. It’s just initially as a favor to Britain, but then things spiral.
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I'm pretty sure it was intentional...and, given that the US is keeping ships in the Sea of Hormuz right now, sheds further light!!*🎉🎉🎉❤🎉
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It is really sad to think how this could've been a much more free, a much more better world if it wasn't for the greed of people.
You will have to fundamentally change human nature for that
@@rogermwilcox but it's also hindering innovation. The best ideas don't always win out; the most profitable ones do. Sometimes they're the same thing, sometimes they're not. And it happens less frequently, particularly because businesses copy the most profitable formulas. Look at the gaming industry for example. When AAA gaming companies realized that they could make bank on live service games with battle passes, they jumped on it, even if it takes the soul or uniqueness out of said game. That's just one example though.
@@rogermwilcox that's not true, pointing that innovation only happens thanks to greed is false. Most technological advancements are done by scientists funded by the government to do unprofitable science. We do our research because we love the topic, not because we are trying to get rich. All the technological advances that promarket fellas claim we done by capitalism simply ignore the ammount of state cash flowing to fund research. Then capitalists make patents based on that knowledge while we could argue that patents made with government money should be public
Greed is part of our evolution, survival of the fittest. Hence, it will always exist
@@marshalLannes1769 the world’s first leaders earned their roles. They did something extra ordinary in order to be in a position of power. That’s the famed “dominance hierarchy”
Because of them, every generation born afterwards was BORN into that wealth and power. They weren’t successful because they worked the hardest or were stronger than everyone else. It was luck of the draw. And when born into wealth, you wanna keep it, horde it. Thus, greed.
Being the “fittest” to survive requires risk. Greed doesn’t take risk because they risk losing money and power. Real innovation comes from sticking your neck out, trying new things, and risking investment. The greedy just wanna make a profit
I was in Iran in 1967. Tehran had streets named after Kennedy and Eisenhower. The Shah emblazoned railway stations with 200 ft long mosaics of his "history". Regular folks hated him. You could feel it all around you but Washington was oblivious to his coming collapse.
how long did you spend at the airport in between your flights in Tehran?
I was in Iran for a month in 1991 and again a month later. Thus 12 - 13 years after the Islamic Revolution. Everyone from taxi drivers to random people in the street would buttonhole me to tell me how much better things were under the Shah (I clearly stood out as a "ferenghi" or foreigner). I was working with nationalised companies in both cases, and the people I was working with expressed the same views, quite openly.
What did the same people think a decade or so earlier? I've no idea, but it might be a case of "beware of what you wish for..."
@@wulfgreyhame6857Well, my ear fetish friend, I appreciate your "man-on-the-street" reporting. Persia has been abused by the West. And from the Soviets, and Tehran itself. It is a shame. Good people. Proud heritage. And pivotal in the story of humanity in the last 2500 years.
Iran was a much better place when Shah was in power, especially when he turned on most of these "superpowers" thats when both the Soviets and the West planned their media attacks on Shah, over night he became a dictator, like the rest of the region was very democratic??? They got very jealous cause not only he rebuilt the lost Iranian glory but he was actually making Iran a superpower again. This did not go down with the rest of the world, they wanted a very weak Iran so they could exploit it. They put the Ayatollahs in charge. Its the best thing to has ever happened for the world powers. They made a boogieman out of Iran and sell their weapons to the Arabs, buy the "sanctioned" Iranian oil for a penny to the dollar through their puppet states in the region such as the UAE. Almost everyone is winning besides the Iranian people. All of this was possible due to uneducated population of Iran before Shah came to power and he couldn't speed up the progress more cause it was not possible to educate a generation that had literally nothing before. This time will be different, once the people overthrow the Islamic government that is being supported by the west and the east and the regional players, this will be one of those historic awakenings. It will be bad news for everyone who exploited the people in that country.
well now we Iranians have realized how stupid our ancestors were and how childish(and communistic) their reasons were for putting away Shah.
everything was so well that Khomeini had no choice but to give promises of a prosperous afterlife and making everything free for people! the guy had no idea what the fuck economy is and neither did his followers. everyone believed they're gonna get free oil, electricity, water, gas, house and free ride to everywhere and that there'll be no such thing as poverty. there was also a period that people believed Khomeini's face is being shown on the moon!! 👀
Iran under Shah was one of the fastest growing economies in the world, in a time when most Asian countries were poor. but Iranians at the time decided they want much more. and here we are with what the most garbage Iranian generation in Iran's history had brought upon us
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The shah didn’t just “team up with the British”
The situation was far more complicated than that and the Shah was basically blackmailed into supporting the coup (the British considered replacing him with the old Qajar dynasty if he didn’t cooperate).
The Shah backed the coup out of a opportunistic stance, both as a way to expand his power but also in order to maintain his dynasty
The USA supporting "democratic coups" in the Mideast was lunacy, as ALL of the America's best allies are monarchies, namely: Britain (monarchy), Japan (monarchy), Saudi Arabia (Monarchy), Jordan (Monarchy), Morocco (Monarchy), the Shah (Monarchy). Finding a truly democratic republic that truly supports America is rare outside of apartheid states like apartheid South Africa. A few european republics do support the USA, but they never fight alongside it significantly. You didn't see many Germans or French fighting in Iraq in Fallujah, for example, but monarchies were right there with us: Britain, Canada, even Japan sent 5,500 troops despite their constitution's ban on it. Meanwhile Germany and France sent nothing. Point is, monarchy tends to be more reliable for the USA. MacArthur letting the Emperor stay in power despite US wishes was arguably the best thing the US did in WW2, if they hadn't let Hirohito stay, Japan would have undoubtedly gone Marxist without a monarch to stabilize their people. Republics suck, generally.
Also, when the USA overthrew the Taliban, the Jirga that formed of all the tribal leaders almost unanimously wanted the former King of Afghanistan to return, but then George W. Bush was "embarrassed" so then he forced the king to renounce it and back Karzai, which was the beginning of the end for the US in Afghanistan. If the USA had let the King return to Afghanistan, it would still be out of the hands of the Taliban. But the USA doesn't want to admit that monarchy is often superior to democracy.
@@TexanIndependence Not every country is ready for Western style democracy. I'm inclined to agree with you about Afganistan. Some form of constitution monarchy might have worked.
More than anything, that country needed a long term pseudo-colonial occupation, ie; nation building. Perhaps a partition with fanatical moslem spin-off states existing within Afganistan, like semi-autonomous homelands.
They could do whatever they wanted but we'd control their borders and their imports and exports. That way the fanatics can live in one place and the normal people could live in places like Kabul and Kandahar. Everybody wins.
@@TexanIndependence"Democracy: the God that Failed" by Hans Herman Hoppe is a brilliant analysis of this theme.
@@TexanIndependencenot to mention many coups supported by US making their democracy turn into autocratic president for life type of democracy. In middle east usually the monarchies have more freedom and stability than their "democratic" counter part.
@@RaptorFromWeegee Where has Western Style Democracy EVER worked? I'd argue all of America's success had NOTHING to do with the republic, and everything to do with the hardworking Protestant Work Ethic and devotion to the Rule of Law (avoiding the quagmire of corruption requires a pious people), when you compare it to South America for example, they had republics for 200 years also but a far different result with the Siesta Mentality vs Protestant Work Ethic and pervasive government corruption (which those officials could go to corrupt priests for absolution on) whereas American government corruption had no such absolution and fearing God's punishment that corruption was abated until secularism took deeper hold in the 1920's and the USA has been on a slow downward decline ever since.
Western Democracy's biggest thing it has going for it was simply that something WORSE came along, Communism, and everyone forgot that Monarchy was an option (and a good one at that!).
Never thought Eisenhower could successfully be portrayed as a puppy. I love it.
It's a Sam o'nella reference
@@emilb6439 I actually forgot about his Eisenhower video. But he doesn't make him a puppy, more like a rabid Hoover pawn
@@WowUrFcknHxC It is an exaggeration. Not totally untrue given that he caved but obfuscating the real players.
@@WowUrFcknHxC Eisenhower had gone bananas for the banana dealers
He was responding to the dog whistle (commies)
We’ve never truly supported democracy abroad, only corporations.
I get that there were altering motives but why did we stay in germany after the war if not to ensure they do the whole capitalism thing instead of damn pinkos.
Now you're go say that capitalism isn't democracy, but we saw them as the sam thing
The u.s, france and england also screwed over the shah during 1979 and supported khomanie. This is well documented.
@@burtan2000 No, you stayed in Germany after the war to keep them occupied out of fear they might come back a third time. The building up part only started once the cold war materialized, if you look up newspapers from the time then you'll see that the allies were very vocal about the fact that they'd nuke Germany into a literal hell if the Soviets crossed the border. The whole bringing democracy part happened more on the side than anything else.
@@burtan2000because the USSR was so democratic in Hungary in 1956 and Czechoslovakia in 1968
@@burtan2000 nothing says democracy like corporations doing whatever the fuck they want
Ah, the good old British Empire, once again showing the compassion, honesty and decency that has made my people so beloved all across the world!
Indeed, truly the greatest amongst nations old boy. Who can forget that time we taught the Chinese the value of economic diplomacy? Truly a magnanimous contribution to their history, and all for the price of a spot of tea. We generously showed China how to conduct diplomacy in the modern age, and the world shall thank us for that for generations!
@@StormShadowHarristhe tea must flow
@@StormShadowHarris I'm sorry, they couldn't have pissed the world off more if they tried - yeah we waged a war for terrible reasons, but you think that the Qing Dynasty was going to last long against the west if it kept constantly insulting us?
Yeah, we had our low moments, but overall our empire gave the world more positives than bad.
@@JamesHall-hj5hc In that era? No. Does this mean that it was necessary or inevitable that China needed Britain to sponsor an opioid epidemic and declare wars of naked imperial aggression, to buy tea? Also no.
Real talk (it’s late, I’m drunk, this might be long), I understand the argument that we weren’t any worse than other nations, or other nations would have done it too, or they were doing just as bad things to each other and we did give them infrastructure that could have contributed to the fact they’re wealthier on average and we shouldn’t feel the need to feel guilty- I get it, I get it all.
But here’s the thing.
Those first two examples don’t matter. We don’t live in a timeline where other countries could have or would have in our place- we live in this one, where we did.
The third doesn’t really justify anything- if the EU invaded England in 2016, occupied it in a long and bloody war- and then eliminated corruption and gave us total high speed Wi-Fi coverage… we wouldn’t feel *grateful* to them for doing that, would we.
And the fourth, is a miscommunication.
No-ones asking you to be *guilty.* Just better. We didn’t commit the crimes ourselves, but they were committed by people in our country and our country benefits whilst others suffer. That’s not *our* fault, you and I. But it is our choice, whether we want that to be our international legacy, or something better.
And if we agree that it was a bad thing to do, then we need to acknowledge it. We need to be able to say “yeah, it was a bad thing, and here’s why.” Not “yeah, it was a bad thing, BUT-“. Because it’s not something we should feel forced to say and justify to ourselves- it’s something we need to be confident to say, because *we’ve moved past it.*
As a history aficianado, I stayed after the clickbait title had caught my interest. This is actually the best 10 minute recap of Persian history in the first half of the 20th century of that I have ever seen/heard. Kudos for as balanced and nuanced 50 year history as is possible given the time limit. I wish you could have found a way to add an extra 2 minutes or so to cover the Russian/Soviet aspects.
@Beazillathe United States has committed coups in plenty of countries, installing dictators for simple greed, before this one.
Abused children crave power and control. Why isn't that part of history?
Hitler was an abused child. The list is very long. Stalin. Putin.
@@RobespierreThePoof I absolutely agree that it's a bit shallow. If you want to argue where to start, you need to go back to the climate and terrain. In fact, the Caspian report has an interesting video on the tensions right now between Iran and Afghanistan, which has to do with water. And a record drought, which brings us to natural climate cycles and influences by humans on climate change. Hmm, I wonder how many videos there are on THAT topic. ;)
Which takes you back to the industrial revolution, and Western Europe. I'm being absurd, and yet I'm not. The starting point is more based on a criticism of US and British policies in the region. Given they are trying to fit this all into a 10-minute video and making it interesting for people who don't know much about late British colonial history and US Cold War policy, I will stand by my original statement.
Best TEN MINUTE recap. I also agree his animations are silly, and I would also argue understanding what aspects of US history molded Eisenhower's abhorrence of communism, the conflation of socialism with communism, has not seen the looting of other countries resources as inherently evil, etc.
In the second half of the 20th century we need to start looking at the Shia-Sunni, which goes back over a thousand years. Choose any of these, you could do an entire video series on the topic.
Not the first time (or the second, for that matter) the US was obnoxious regarding communists or a disappointment for anyone, just ask Ho Chi Minh.
Oh yeah, that guy not only took notes from the US Declaration of Independance while writing the Vietnamese one, but he had actually asked Wilson during the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 if he could try convincing the French to let Vietnam (or Indochina as it was known at the time) be self-governing while still keeping it as a colony.
both sides of the cold war together destroyed a whole lot of reasonable socialist movements, by way of the US asserting that they were all commies, who needed to be dead and also starving, and those people then being forced to ally and to varying degrees assimilate with the soviet union.
Uncle Ho should be smart enough that no one was listening to Wilson at that time.
@@genghiskhan5701 Wilson didn't even bother to PRETEND to consider the idea frankly.
Yah, and then Ho Chi Minh like other dictators ignored the separation of powers and term limits part. Its easy to cherry pick.
As an American, this... sadly doesn't surprise me. Another reason the Vietnam war was a hoot.
You could also call this video "Winston Churchill was always a bad person who just happened to face a Worse Guy once!"
Researching this video definitely made me want to learn more about Churchill and Eisenhower
Just wait till you hear what he did in Ireland
@@JackRackamPlease do both!🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
@@JackDullahanOr India for that matter
I swear he’ll probably talk about Gallipoli, his interment camps in the Raj and just about everything under the yellow sun, but he’ll probably never talk about him planning out the Lusitania or the fact that Churchill wanted the US in the war before 1916 and that his comments in 1936 were him regretting all of their plans to destroy the German Empire.
The Imperial March at the end was a nice touch
The original name for that piece was "The Imperial Death March." I am still sad they changed it
@@dwpetrak They won't even show the swatzerka of course they're going to change it. Pansies.
@@tgs9740 The swastika? Why would they use swastika's in Star Wars? Who are "they"? And why are they pansies?
@@tgs9740 We can't be angering the RUclips algorithm now. They'll defend their dear A$$olf to the bitter end.
"Commiees?"
"Yeah, go get 'em, Dwight!"
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One little note on this one: the British establishment has never really grasped the fact that it stopped having an empire.
Because it still does have one. The commonwealth.
They are aware and they are not happy about it. The French on the other hand
Er excuse me, I think you’ll find that’s the English that still thinks that thank you very much 🧐🏴😉
Unlike France who totally grasped the fact that they still have an empire
@@macbethhm ah yes, i forgot new zealand, australia and canada send 50% of their GDP as tithes to the King
British: We nationalized the oil company
Nasser: Nationalization, now there's an idea...
The British paid for all that oil infrastructure. That makes the Iranians thieves. If the Iranians wanted oil infrastructure THEY should have built it rather than stealing it from others. Similarly, the American oil companies funded the development of Venezuelan oil infrastructure. The Venezuelan government took it without a dime of compensation. If the Venezuelans wanted oil infrastructure they should have either built it themselves or justly compensated those they took it from. As this played out in both Iran and Venezuela, it was absolute theft. If you think of it we, as Americans, payed for all that infrastructure in Venezuela and they got it free of charge.
The same thing happens with prescription medicines. How often have you heard European nations say we negotiate with medicine companies over price. That means basically all of the rest of the world gets reduced rates for those medicines and we, as Americans, pay off all the development costs because the rest of the world is freeloading. Those development costs could be spread among billions of people, but instead we 330 million Americans wind up footing that bill all by ourselves. Europeans should be thanking American tourists for their sacrifice every time they see one of us.
Commies!? COMMIES, COMMIES, COMMIES!
That's it. Go get em boy
Literally nationalized a business. Blatantly communist.
For reference, there were commies in the government.
Screw those Commies. Wanting to steal my tea and kettle.
I miss a mention of the Soviet demand for an oil concession in the north of Iran similar to the oil concession of Britain in the south of Iran and how Iran succesfully resisted that demand, while still managing to make the Soviet army leave Iran (by insisting a decision by parliament culd only happen after withdrawal of foreign forces). The succes against the Soviet Union gave Iranians inspiration to become tougher on British oil concessions.
“You’ve shown weakness, now the Iranians think they’re in charge.”
Sad times indeed and we dont seem to learn from our mistakes. Now my Iranian father is 65+ and all he wants is to live his last years in a free Iran. Im not so convinced anymore, dark seems to get darker nowadays.
They’re has been nation wide protests. You can achieve your freedom if you fight for it.
It's always darkest before the dawn.
3:28 don’t for a moment think I didn’t spot that sneaky little Rickroll Jack!
As soon as Dwight showed up I fully expected a repeat of Sam O'Nella's "COMMIE" scream.
Thanks for the education! The world is beyond full of b.s. and hypocrisy! It’s absolutely sickening!
Yep, Too many westerners believe in fairy tales
This is probably one of the best uses of the pillar men theme I have ever heard.
If pillar men dropped into my parliament at random I think I'd get into political science.
The oil must flow
Thank you for covering this significant tidbit of modern US history that 99% of Americans are utterly, astonishingly, stupidly unaware of.
We have states passing laws to banning teaching any negative things that the US has ever done. People focus a lot on how it effects the teaching of slavery e.g., that slaves really benefited from it. But our entire history program is being recolored with this new mandate that the US has never done anything but good.
@@teraxeThat's disturbing. If I ever have children, they'll be homeschooled.
I agree, 99% of of Americans by colonisation are utterly, astonishingly stupid.
Don't blame them, growing up and going through public school it was all too common to have history lessons completely neutered. The only reason I even know anything outside the "norm" is because I've always loved history, so it was enevitable that someone like me would learn these things outside the "classroom" *cough indoctrination gulags cough cough*
The only stupidity here is the idea that the Iranian people ever wanted democracy.
The Eisenhower portrayal is hilarious and perfect.
It is not.
it did kind of set a trend to bankrupt america in the name of avoiding ww3 (which never came) but yeah we lost democracy not just around the world but in america itself in it's pursuit...@@johnnotrealname8168
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@@buzter8135 No.
@@johnnotrealname8168 Yes
Commies? *neocolonial growling noises*
And this backfired spectacularly later on. And some in the USA wonder why they aren’t trusted in large parts of the world.
Yeah, one of my favorite brands of humor is "American media making up reasons for why nations keep steering away from the US"
It did not, although debatable how much of an ally he was the Shah did support israel during the Yom-Kippur War and especially with the oil embargo.
@@johnnotrealname8168 and that's good because???
@JoaoFelipeBLopes Well the oil embargo was pretty bad overall and I do not even like israel but I would take them over the rest of the area.
Most of the world is the US ally. But coping your tanky shit is cool too.
3:36 mcnoney face.
You're truly a wordsmith Jack 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Your video where you do the life and times of everyone but Cromwell was really influential apparently since going over the lives of people as their relevant to the story is what the last 2 videos have been.
So This is the problem why the Iranian have grudge on brit and america. Thank you for this lesson😮
Well sort of, the religious groups use this is a reason to maintain power. The argument is two fold:
1. That the alternative is really bad (This video)
2. That they will get revenge as is gods will.
Really though the average Iranian has very little interest in this stuff, it's taught so most know it but it's more developed into a distrust of the West than a grudge.
The grudge part or revenge part is really just enemy seeking, you kind of need to keep painting someone else as the worse guy when your doing bad guy things.
I am a little disappointed that Kissinger and the Trilateral Commission didn't come up, it shouldn't be this easy to avoid. =D
And then the u.s, france and england also screwed over the shah during 1979 and supported khomanie. This is well documented.
Just wait till they get to the part where Regan/Bush Sr bribed the Iranian hostage takers to keep the hostages so Carter loses the election. And they name stuff after those two treasonous monsters!
Excusing Iran being the number one funded of terrorism and it’s evil government is beyond vile.
@@dibatermanhello there. While you are right about the average Iranian does not care about such things, the one bad trait we have is that we hold grudges for a very long time. Be it 50 years or a 1000 years.
The Anglo-Saxon creating their own enemies is my new favourite historic lesson
Ike is of german descendant
lol we don't care, fight us
@@JamesHall-hj5hc as an anglo canadian, you guys are truly pathetic
@@morganrees3603*pharisetical origin
Anglo saxons we're dead for centuries before eisenhower,don't blame them.
2:56 for those of you wondering, this represents the time the British literary pillaged the entire country and caused a famine that killed approximately 8 million Iranains. 8 million Iranians starved to death at gunpoint. Anyone who refused the pillaging, rape and theft was executed.
We all hear about how the Nazis were evil and starved people in camps, but yeah, just saying.
Western people will never be told what the English did to Persia
Same story in Bangladesh.
@@drstrangeluv25 I feel for you mate ✊
Same shit different toilet. Speaking from Kenya
Source? Best I can find is a single piece by an agricultural economist at Cornell who says the famine resulted in 4 million but can't find any other stuff regarding the WW2 Iranian hardships.
War is a racket - Smedley D. Butler
Iran is just one of many countries the US "intervene" for "democracy", it's all a façade and finding about it now in the XXI century is like rediscoverying an entire history that has never been told publicly but been present just slightly hidden from the public gaze.
and millions of Americans still think supporting Ukraine is the right thing to do. Instead, it's the current racket. SMH
@@BaikalTii if you can’t separate the two conflicts and just back the Russians conquest of Ukraine because “waahh US bad! Waahhh!” then we’re all glad you don’t control the decision making anywhere.
@@Tmb1112 LOL when you say "we" you're obviously talking about you and all the other low information NPC's that watch CNN.
And I guess the Iranians chose a better government now?
@@BaikalTii and idiots like you think nothing should be done to stop fascism and imperialism. SMH
“The oil must flow” HA! Good tongue and cheek reference to Dune!
7:24 I wasn’t expecting a Sam O’Nella reference
Right? I'm glad I'm not the only one who caught that
COMMIE COMMIE
the USA has never had a Democracy, we have always had a Constitutional Republic.
On paper we have a constitutional republic....... in practice, not so much
We WERE a Republic until May13th, 1912, when Woodrow Wilson ratified the 17th amendment, making the U.S. a Constitutional Democracy.
Seriously, look into the 17th amendment, it is the beginning of the end.
American citizens could fix our country if 100% of the citizens would participate in the voting process. Get registered and vote in every election and support your county sheriff.
I've never owned a dog, only a canine. Latin vs Greek.
This comment chain is, from beginning til end, the dumbest fucking thing I’ve seen in a long time
If Jack goes into the "US being an anti-democratic force in the world" there is a way more "content" than it should :X
Say one bad thing about the US and the swarms of Tankies arrive declaring the US worst most nation ever that has literally done nothing good.
@@bogdanov2395 eeeerrr... yes, but depending on your outlook we might not have the same priorities here "pal" Oo
@@bogdanov2395 oh good good, agree with you on that but that phrasing was so fucking weird dude lmao
It made it appear like you want to have more anti-democratic forces in the world, but yeah the US is doing a good job, *currently*, to promote democracy. Not so much 40+ years ago
The US - "we need to let countries democraticly elect their own leaders."
*country chooses communist government to get rid of imperialist power*
US- *Fry squinting gif*
2 rules to get top tier in the US alliance system.
1) Be Capitalist
2) Be Democracy
Failing number 2 will get you tolerated cause we can make money from you. Failing number 1 will get you a coup cause America likes markets. Failing both gets you on Americas naughty list
@@vmedhe2 Nope. Only being a government that lets US corporations run free. Basically exploitation. They never cared about democracy, the US is the country that more countries destabilized and interviened. The world would be more democratic without the US
@@vmedhe2 This is not exactly true. America was willing to tolerate economically liberal countries as long as they were neutral or sided with them. Definitely not commie but just look at Europe. Of course they would also tolerate corruption *COUGH* Zaire. One can bash them all day but the other side was the other side.
This rarely happened (Maybe Vietnam and I actually sympathise with them a bit (Not becoming commie but America not supporting them early on.).).
@@johnnotrealname8168... liberal does not mean left wing. Also, i think you are ignoring the fact the united states was new dealist for almost the entirety of the cold war. Their own programs were seen as basics of democracy and usually also as a line for what is and isn't going to far. Calling any of europes governments left wing is bonkers tho. They couped the italians for stepping over the predetermined lines. And that is not even mentioning that most of the labour laws and health care basics were introduced before the usa was even a world power like in germany.
In other words stop going around the comments and spreading missinformation. You are in every second comment and every time someone gives you the correct answer you say the stupidest excuse ever "too long didn't read".
You've really nailed it here. And thanks (from the UK) fot not treating Churchill as some kind of saint. 'To be continued' indeed - Iran's tragedy is clearly presaged in your excellent vid. Nicely done.
As an American, learning this history I did not know is distributing. Just like today's events.
Mohammad Mosaddegh's pro-socialist ideas and his connections in the National Front to the communist Tudeh Party of Iran are massively underplayed in this video. The CIA and MI6 wanted him overthrown very much so due to the fact his nationalist policies leaned heavily in favor of the socialists/ communists.
Ok, so was European? Like Norway, Swedish, and German.
@@Coolinteresting876 and look at those countries now, the rape capitals of the world
This is Brilliant. And Very Humours and well thought out.
1:05 Dude, Pillarman reference… I love it!
You're the Pirate's of Penzance of history youtubers! Thanks for all the amazing videos! 🥰
Does it really even matter? (Matter, matter, matter)?
I think the decision on FEC vs Citizens United is quite a bit more significant in terms of giving up on democracy because it is about the USA giving up democracy within its borders against it's own voters.
You go down the empire route, it's only a matter of time
America is a republic, not a democracy.
What do you think presidential electors are for?
Yep. And now the corporations control us and most Americans are so excited to turn us into a Christian theocracy and dictatorship. Does anybody read history? We are Germany in the 1930s.
It began with this betrayal of humanity. The US capitalists have never been burdened with the faintest of egalitarian leanings. They were (and are now more so than ever) in charge of foreign policy.
Yes, but this does illustrate the beginning of corporate/intelligence community/military industrial complex rule that has defined the West since early cold war era
We do not live in a Democracy. We live in a constitutional republic!
The two terms are not mutually exclusive.
Terrific video.
I’ve always assumed Eisenhower’s support for Britain regaining their stolen oil concessions was because: 1) Britain had nearly all their eggs in one basket concerning Persian oil and 2) After WWII Britain not only could ill afford losing its oil concessions it needed them to pay back war debt incurred.
Britain casually triggered most of modern world's tragedy centuries before the facts.
That’s just insane
@@themk4982 Alright, Democratic Iran as or Radical Discriminatory Iran, which is better?
They also dragged a large part of the world out of the Stone Age so…
@@jordannewman177 A good act does not wash out the bad, nor a bad act the good.
Excellent video as always jack! Cant wait to see the sequel!
Suggestion: do one on Charles XIV of sweden. AKA marshal bernadotte
That's sequel bait was incredible.
We've never had a democracy. We began as a republic.
There is a free game called The Cat and the Coup, which covers these events in an absract artsy way. You play as Mosaddegh's cat which is apparently a CIA asset. The art syle is very good.
Behind every great man, a woman.
Behind every great injustice, the English.
So England is also behind Socrate's death
@@eleonorepb4565 Honestly, it wouldn't surprise me.
no
Dude you just showed the blueprint to more efficient teaching in schools. If videos like this were used when I was in school, I'd have probably done a lot better. First time viewer and your video style is legitimately effective and entertaining.
Indeed. I found it an entertaining way to learn something I didn't know about. Not to mention humorous, which always helps. I'd only add that once you get the kids' attention with a video like this, you gently guide them into some reading and a bit more conventional study of the topic.
If you're suggesting we adopt cute little videos like this, on a mass scale, as a means of teaching in our schools, you're daft.
The kids aren't learning because those who WANT to learn are forced to share their classrooms with those who DON'T want to learn. Before WWII American public education functioned very well.
Children learned in orderly classrooms with desks all pointed toward the blackboard, and children attentively listening and/or taking notes.
Cute little videos don't prepared kids to learn the way they'll be expected to learn in college. With lectures, readings, and problems.
If I still were a kid I would not laugh so much at this
History in school is so boring as it can't contain anything much more than dates and places lest somebody looks bad.
0:56 I BELIEVE THIS IS THE BEGINNING, OF A NEW ERA OF FREEDOM IN THE MIDDLE EAST.
(Seconds later)
Russia and Britain: And I took that personally.
It’s absolutely depressing how this massive stoke of greed is still affecting the country
So we gave up democracy on my birthday? Obviously years before it. But I haven’t even watched the video and I’m already sad because of the day lol
I very much enjoyed that!😂
The animation was very well done and the history narrated seems pretty much spot on.
Congratulations and thank you.
All History is bunk,said Henry Ford,and of course he is right.All of Arabia was just a sandpit until they found oil.And they had no idea what to do with it.Had it been left to them well,take a look at the UAE. Oil made them rich but the British made them civilised. You need to delve a little more in to the whole scenario. Of course the British (and Russians and the rest of Europe)were after the oil. They had a use for it,so of course they were biased. Camels didn't run on oil.
The Sam O'Nella reference reminds me of that Mark Twain quote; history rhymes to the tune of jangling coins
Teach us more, Mr. Internet History Man.
On today’s episode of “How a Western country meddled, destabilized and, halted growth of an Eastern country and later blaming it for being uncivilized”
Eisenhower: "We should not allow the military industrial complex to form."
Also Eisenhower: * proceeds to start the American tradition of in intervention into other countries out of fear of communism."
Is that Chaplin with the Double X on the Flag?
All hail the Phooey
The video was so good i dont have anything to say
I hope your channel gets more popular in the future
Replying here to boost engagement
Well, good to know the US and UK never did this again... wait, what happened in Central and South America again? And Cambodia? And the Middle East again? Wait, we're the baddies, aren't we?
He? How does Cambodia come into this? Also with Central and South-America it is debatable how bad some of those actions were. Chile was arguably justified.
@johnnotrealname8168 the US gave support to Pol Pot for a time. TedEd did a good video on it. Also, none of the interference in Central or South America was necessary, least of all in Chile. The US and UK overthrew democratically elected governments to install ones more favourable to their business interests while using communism as a smokescreen. This is well documented history and the only ones that deny are the ones involved.
@@GallowglassVT *SIGH* That is an allegation. There is no firm ground for that hypothesis. The U.S. did support them diplomatically though. The Americans were horrified at the massacres, if you want to know how much George Stanley McGovern wanted American involvement to end the massacres. Necessary? Perhaps not but justified? I would write it was. The Allende government was really @~?£ like horrible. Many workers hated him and every economic graph was in the red, furthermore he was a communist. The Congress and Judiciary both repudiated him, by this point. Also he won a plurality anyway, legitimate of course but not a majority if that is what you are basing it on. He was doing many unconstitutional actions and, if bad enough, the military is justified in taking over.
@@johnnotrealname8168 I've literally spoken to survivors of the Pinochet regime, but go off, I guess. Also, you're either lying or misinformed about the Allende regime because the available information states that the worst thing to happen under his term as president was inflation that was exacerbated by US-backed strikes. Once again: a democratically elected leader overthrown with the support of the supposed lovers of democracy.
"All your oil is belong to Britain" great spin on a classic there
If this channel is your primary source of history, good luck to you
The fucking elevator being a rick roll is amazing
Oh god, if my world history Junior High School teachers back in the 1970s, had videos like this. My classmates would have been all college level professors, of world history; as their profession. Hilariously history, brought down to brass and tacks. The part when Winston Churchill said, "This was easier when we had an Empire." It made me laugh, because it was oh so true.
Im Iranian and the shah was based and Persianpilled.
Unbased and a western puppet.
Yesh!
We are not a democracy we are a constitutional republic we are run by the people that is what our system is. Well that's what it's supposed to be. But you know you can thank Woodrow Wilson and a few others for that.
And Norway is a democratic monarchy. Republic doesn't make you a non democracy...
It only means you don't have a king
3:35 The RickRoll elavator music was such a good call. I cant even be mad.
CIA: “sir they aren’t actual communists.”
Ike: *sad whimpering noises*
This is the complete opposite of what happened. It was John Foster Dulles and Allen Edit: "Welsh" Dulles pushing it while Dwight David Eisenhower actually took a step back to ask whether they were commies (Definitely not commies as you know.).
"So much easier when we had an empire" 😂
It was a little more complicated than this. The Americans mediated a deal where The British were to be compensated for the infrastructure being left behind and Iran would get their oil rights back.
I get that the oil belonged to Iran, but there was a previous deal, the infrastructure had been invested in, and though Iran was right to feel the oil was theirs….the infrastructure was arguably not.
Deals are meaningless. What matters is what you can defend. If the rigs belonged the British then they would have kept them.
@@dstinnettmusic but also British ran most of the oil and the Iranians didn't have the expertise to run the oil fields
Stfu the oil is irans europe can stay in their swampy foggy caves
@@dstinnettmusic so what they did was correct?
@@dstinnettmusic Uh-oh, David, sounds an awful lot like Might-makes-right diplomacy there. That's Imperial talk, dontcha know. The same logic Britain used to do this shit in the first place. You're invalidating your own argument.
7:56 “you’re under arrest.”
“No, you!”
“Well s**t”
Britain: "Nikki, you muppet! Now look what you've done. You showed weakness and now the Iranians think their in charge."
Russia: "Well that's no fun! What do the Iranians want with Iran."
This was both informative, and entertaining, thank you
Oh nice you have almost 300k subscribers now. Been watching a while. I thought your early videos were a little too "whimsical", not to be rude. But you stepped up your game and were rewarded. Great job
jack I have been watching you since you were an itty bitty little guy on RUclips from the very start really impressed was just going through your vids and was just thinking wow so many many you have made over the past 6 years. your work to bring the characters and history to life is much apricated and i put you on the levels of my great hitory guys Mike dunkan, Patric Wyman, Matt Christman. Sam O Nella.
Also the history of modern Iran while everyone in the west thinks it started in 1979 but yea the context of 100 years of pilfering Iran and treating it as a pawn in their great game. so again thanks for all you do Jack! cant wait to see what whatever or wherever your next story takes you its always a pleasant surprise with the way your videos span all of recorded history.
Yep. And now Iran is the highest funder of terrorism in the world.
Not 100 years, 600 years. From the date that Shia priests entered Iran on behalf of the Pope and England from Lebanon to Iran and England brought Safavids to Iran it has been a pawn in the game. Iran saw a bit of hope when Nader Shah conquered India and brought riches to Iran. But the priests made a conspiracy that his son was a traitor and made him blind him. Nader Shah turned crazy afterwards and ultimately killed by his own soldiers in sleep.
"Every Mullah (Shia priest) must be executed twice, First time for eating people work and money and Second time for being useless as a fly." - Nader Shah Afshar
If you don't understand the gravity of the Great Game, you simply will never understand gravity. FYI.
This is brilliant!! How did I not know about this channel??!!
I cant wait for jimmy carter episode
Great video! Iran deserves this ❤
Loved the little bruva 40k nod😂. You are a light in the darkness of human history and I love you for it. Monty python couldn't make a better animated history comedy than you and your compatriots.
The drop pods...??? heheheheh you won me back Jack!
What a mess we made of Iran. Unless you are big oil.
Having studied Persian history, I find your documentary's 30-thousand-foot view amusing, and pretty darn accurate. I give a 👍
Ooh so this is what rock the cashba is about 😮
By the order of the prophet/ we ban that boogie sound 😅
You getting more cleaver with the jokes 😁
1:09 “All your oil is belong to Britain” 😂
What do the Iranians want with Iran XD
I love how every portrayal of Eisenhower by pretty much every channel depicts him the same way.
Never clicked faster
i really need that rickroll's "waiting room" version
I think the name of the artist is in the description!
Damn this channel is bomb. First video ive watched. VEry entertaining.