British Guy Reacts to The USA's Global Influence: What If The US Never Existed Part 1

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  • Опубликовано: 9 янв 2025

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  • @kennandunn7533
    @kennandunn7533 4 года назад +361

    No Luka, The US and USSR were not on "Good" terms during world war II, at best it was more like: "We agree to temporarily attack the same country and not each other until the war is over." Both sides knew that after that, all bets were off.

    • @masternoobjunior3486
      @masternoobjunior3486 4 года назад

      Yes roast tf out of lav

    • @Good_Hot_Chocolate
      @Good_Hot_Chocolate 4 года назад +5

      @@masternoobjunior3486 ?

    • @uninterruptedrhythm4104
      @uninterruptedrhythm4104 4 года назад +37

      @@masternoobjunior3486 he's not roasting him, thats just informing him

    • @johnalden5821
      @johnalden5821 4 года назад +16

      There had certainly been previous history of bad relations between the U.S. and USSR in the 1920s and 1930s. The US was suspicious of Soviet attempts to spread communist ideology. I don't think the full impact of the purges and famines in 1930s USSR was known in America, but government officials knew enough to be wary of the Soviets. However, Nazi Germany loomed as a rapidly growing threat, so it was a matter of backing the USSR in order to defeat the Nazis and the fascists. Once that was accomplished, though, the British and American governments rapidly pivoted to try to contain Soviet influence in Europe.

    • @g-ma_of_8
      @g-ma_of_8 4 года назад +7

      True. In fact, America's initial involvement was primarily to make sure Russia limited the fighting in Europe, thus protecting our best friend, England.

  • @skylerlavy
    @skylerlavy 4 года назад +582

    If America didn't exist..... There would be no American sports meaning Luka's channel wouldn't have started

    • @masternoobjunior3486
      @masternoobjunior3486 4 года назад +12

      Wow good thinking

    • @sicily7220
      @sicily7220 4 года назад +11

      There will be no RUclips, twitter, Facebook. Oh god.....future historians will destroy us. Someone take us out now...before someone in the US invents another type RUclips, fb or Twitter 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @jlee6404
      @jlee6404 4 года назад

      Exept Basketball was made by a Canadian and Hockey

    • @michaels8816
      @michaels8816 4 года назад

      @BenDover 69x O kmomo o k

    • @michaels8816
      @michaels8816 4 года назад +2

      @BenDover 69x Lmfaooooo I fell asleep on my phone

  • @LeveyHere
    @LeveyHere 4 года назад +444

    I think without America, the world wouldn't be doing too well overall. So many inventions, breakthroughs, victories and accomplishments have been from or related to the U.S. . Now it may be patriotism talking kinda, but I believe that. Yeah, we've done good and bad, but I think overall we're mostly needed

    • @masternoobjunior3486
      @masternoobjunior3486 4 года назад +18

      America is the country that will save the world from guns .... oh wait a second

    • @historyrepeat402
      @historyrepeat402 4 года назад +71

      @@masternoobjunior3486 who says America is gonna save the world from guns? It’s written I our constitution to have them? Any one who says that is speaking for themselves not all of America

    • @infamous_richard8732
      @infamous_richard8732 4 года назад +11

      ​@@historyrepeat402 thats the Joke....you know that right?

    • @girlofanimation
      @girlofanimation 4 года назад +13

      Idk about that. Do they mean us citizens cease to exist? Or just the country? Cuz of the butterfly effect, we have no idea what would've happened. Too many variables changed.

    • @infamous_richard8732
      @infamous_richard8732 4 года назад +4

      @@girlofanimation they mean like USA in general everything that is related to USA gone

  • @krisplanker9640
    @krisplanker9640 4 года назад +181

    The United States still funds much of the world. We render foreign aid to countries that diametrically oppose our way of life and are prosperous enough to buy American bonds. Like China.

    • @karennaterez
      @karennaterez 4 года назад +6

      Exactly!

    • @Sora_Nai
      @Sora_Nai 3 года назад +4

      @@midgetydeath China owes America more money then America owes china

    • @vagabondwastrel2361
      @vagabondwastrel2361 3 года назад +1

      @@Sora_Nai yep, they owe Americans a massive amount of money from bonds for their railroad system. @kris Planker the idea was to turn China more capitalist and want to do business and eventually become friends. Sadly communists are batshit crazy and evil.

    • @storiesthroughnumbers4111
      @storiesthroughnumbers4111 3 года назад +2

      @@vagabondwastrel2361 China is not communist. It's just a garbage country.

    • @vagabondwastrel2361
      @vagabondwastrel2361 3 года назад +3

      @@storiesthroughnumbers4111 LOL a state ran economy, no property ownership. It is kinda textbook communist. Granted "communism" is the goal of socialism/fascism. So if you are using that semantical argument..... You should just read more books on history.

  • @aneophyte1199
    @aneophyte1199 3 года назад +28

    Of all the countries that received loans and financial aid from the US during and after WWII, only one country ever paid back fully the money they owed (Finland), all other loans were eventually forgiven by the US.

  • @Dkgow
    @Dkgow 4 года назад +222

    The funny part is that in America, or at least in my history classes, none of this was ever thought. You would think they would want us to know how much America helped before, during, and after to encourage more help.

    • @masternoobjunior3486
      @masternoobjunior3486 4 года назад +25

      Nah America is taught as being a trash country mate

    • @nolaray1062
      @nolaray1062 4 года назад +5

      @@masternoobjunior3486 figures.

    • @masternoobjunior3486
      @masternoobjunior3486 4 года назад +1

      @@nolaray1062 like the statue or the other meaning?

    • @nolaray1062
      @nolaray1062 4 года назад +1

      @@masternoobjunior3486 other

    • @christopherjon1245
      @christopherjon1245 4 года назад +47

      No we teach self hate now.....feeds into the socialist agenda we are heading into

  • @paulstrawbridge4623
    @paulstrawbridge4623 4 года назад +57

    it's true our impact on the planet has been huge...you're curious to know why?...our Bill of Rights and Constitution...plus, a live free or die attitude that's lives in all of us from our time of birth.

    • @Plainsburner
      @Plainsburner 3 года назад +3

      It is a mix of our culture and geography. Mainland US has the best farmland in the world, the easiest to navigate river system, and plentiful amounts of natural resources. It is partially why the natives were so behind in technology, there wasn't a need for constant competition with their neighbors. Fighting definitely happened, but it was usually against smaller confederations of tribes. USA has all the benefits, but also they are part of a global network which forced competition and encouraged progress.
      European nations colonized so that they would have access to foreign resources, the US enforcing global free trade made colonialization obsolete for the EU, which also reduced the need of competition so the nations could join together. US not providing free trade protections would most likely cause Europe to resume their infighting.
      Free trade is also why a unified China exists today, usually in the past a large China was extremely short lived due to the vastly different geography and large population. They did not have the ability to support an extremely strong centralized power until the global markets encouraged western investment. Their current economy is a result of foreign investment being acquired, then borrowed from to fund other projects to keep their people occupied with paying jobs that are not really necessary. Their economy makes no sense, but the largest institutions in the west are addicted to investing into China's play money system that seems to print them a ton of profit. It is a system that would collapse quickly if those in power had an incentive to destroy it.

  • @CocoTaveras8975
    @CocoTaveras8975 4 года назад +513

    If America was never a thing. This video wouldn’t exist now.
    Think about that.

    • @masternoobjunior3486
      @masternoobjunior3486 4 года назад +3

      Chinese Lunar New Year: Am I not a joke to you?

    • @tomheidtman
      @tomheidtman 4 года назад +29

      @@masternoobjunior3486 yes you are a joke

    • @barryfletcher7136
      @barryfletcher7136 4 года назад +3

      Almost certainly true.

    • @kimjongtrump3493
      @kimjongtrump3493 4 года назад +3

      🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯

    • @KBowWow75
      @KBowWow75 4 года назад +8

      Well iphones, Samsung, LG, RUclips, GPS, pretty much anything tech, Disney, we could go on.

  • @controlZchannel
    @controlZchannel 4 года назад +120

    My hometown of Nashville had a factory which built planes for the British Royal Navy.

    • @masternoobjunior3486
      @masternoobjunior3486 4 года назад +7

      Yoo i live in Memphis. Maybe we can meet up

    • @dustinwalker5481
      @dustinwalker5481 4 года назад +2

      Badass

    • @thiccieredd9606
      @thiccieredd9606 3 года назад

      @@dustinwalker5481 so badass

    • @mrlol2238
      @mrlol2238 3 года назад +1

      There were Ford companies in Germany that built parts and vehicles, with “labor” provided by Germany. Right up till one year after H declared war on US. Citizens didnt want another overseas war, our companies didn’t want war, kind of. It’s seems to be lesser of the evils, heck we pushed Japan into a impossible situation. Being world police sucks.

  • @KBowWow75
    @KBowWow75 4 года назад +68

    They forget that WWII included Japan and was fought not only in Europe. Japan took the entire Pacific for themselves. They had multiple aircraft carriers in the 1940s and China only has one today.

    • @masternoobjunior3486
      @masternoobjunior3486 4 года назад

      Yes you are smart too

    • @maryjoygelizon4268
      @maryjoygelizon4268 4 года назад +8

      Japan would be the eastern version of US and i would guess that germany would be japans russia

    • @KBowWow75
      @KBowWow75 4 года назад +2

      @@maryjoygelizon4268 Japan fought Russia during WWII on Russia's eastern front in Asia. They still have land disputes over it today.

    • @Utoober729
      @Utoober729 4 года назад +1

      Straight out of high school my future dad joined the Navy and was on a battle ship in the Pacific.

    • @PreppingAngel
      @PreppingAngel 3 года назад

      My Uncle was in the European theatre and my dad was Asiatic Pacific.

  • @bpowell7999
    @bpowell7999 4 года назад +11

    My grandmother moved to California to help the war cause of WW2.
    The stories of that generation are incredible and should never be lost.

  • @jasonlucero5359
    @jasonlucero5359 4 года назад +567

    If the U.S never existed I am sure Germany would probably be leading the world

    • @Coffeeisnecessarynowpepper
      @Coffeeisnecessarynowpepper 4 года назад +29

      Adolphin would rule

    • @masternoobjunior3486
      @masternoobjunior3486 4 года назад +5

      Idk what national parks are like in England but they’re probably the same thing as America

    • @CaptiveReefSystems
      @CaptiveReefSystems 4 года назад +69

      @@masternoobjunior3486 ..? 🤨 Uh... What..?

    • @wilsonedwards8189
      @wilsonedwards8189 4 года назад +4

      England and France are pretty good in the area of Nobel prizes. If Germany leads it's a small lead dependent on cooperation.
      Also Germany is particularly vulnerable right now according to Peter Zeihan.

    • @fishead3448
      @fishead3448 4 года назад +2

      Russia still has winter

  • @NachtjagerVII
    @NachtjagerVII 3 года назад +46

    I find it funny that he didn't even talk about what japan would have accomplished in WW2 if the US didn't retaliate so ill explain it for you, Japan would have conquered China and all of the islands in southeast Asia and then moved to help Germany conquer the Soviet Union with the USSR having to fight much like Germany did at the end in a 2 front war that they stood no chance of winning. Plus with rapid technological advances from Germany the Nazi's may have even created the first nuclear bombs and dropped them on the UK negating the need to invade and used it as a show of power to convince the Soviet Union to surrender. Thus we would have a German Europe and a Japanese Asia.

    • @storiesthroughnumbers4111
      @storiesthroughnumbers4111 3 года назад +1

      Wasn't the war in China at a standstill even before Japan bombed Pearl Harbor?

    • @Bismarck46
      @Bismarck46 3 года назад

      @@storiesthroughnumbers4111 yes that’s why they invaded the Dutch East Indies they needed resources to continue the war.

    • @matthewprescott8757
      @matthewprescott8757 3 года назад

      The war in China had already come to a standstill. And Japan would have gotten its ass kicked by the USSR if they tried to invade from the East. In the years leading up to the war the Soviets had already beaten the Japanese in the Battle of Khalkin Gol. Also, it was Norwegian resistance fighters who made sure that Germany didn't create the first atom bombs. See: Operation Gunnerside. You're giving the USA way more credit than it actually deserves.

    • @rsuriyop
      @rsuriyop 2 года назад +1

      Ah, but you forgot one hugely important fact... If the US didn’t exist, then Japan wouldn’t have become a global power even to begin with. When the US threatened Japan to open up its ports to the world back in the 1850’s it basically caused Japan to modernize itself, including it’s military, so that it wouldn’t be bullied like that ever again. So ironically, the rise of Japan as a global power was all because of the US. But if the US never existed, then...

    • @gruweldaad
      @gruweldaad 2 года назад

      You seriously think Japan could conquer all of China and still have enough troops left over to attack the Soviets through Siberia? Never mind "don't invade Russia in winter"; how about "don't climb to the summits of Tibet and try to conquer them in the winter". I also seriously doubt that Germany would have been able to build the bomb alone, considering that they would have murdered all of the Jews, including Albert Einstein, that made all the scientific discoveries to build the bomb in the first place. You fundamentally misunderstand the destructive nature of Nazism if you can't see that Hitler's objective in killing all of the Jews was to make Europe stupider. In his view, a successful extermination would "resolve" the imaginary problem of "cunning Jews" covertly usurping him. So many of Germany's technological advances before the war were made by Jewish scientists, and the Manhattan Project was staffed by a lot of Jews other than Einstein. You underestimate the degradation of Europe caused by Nazism and overestimate the invincibility of Japan.

  • @guim9802
    @guim9802 4 года назад +111

    Me hearing this now made me realize how watered down our own history is here in America. I swear the Cold War was only ever mentioned when referring to the space race. I for one have almost never heard of the pros, American history for me was always battered with cons

    • @masternoobjunior3486
      @masternoobjunior3486 4 года назад +3

      Cold War? You mean like that cod game?

    • @kimjongtrump3493
      @kimjongtrump3493 4 года назад +3

      I thought the Cold War was an actual war until I was in astronomy🤦‍♀️

    • @brettg274
      @brettg274 4 года назад +40

      There’s a deliberate effort to destroy our history in the US and paint it all bad.

    • @krisplanker9640
      @krisplanker9640 4 года назад +18

      Our education system is a farce, being an instrument of the government. The whole of American achievement was in spite of our broken system, which itself is merely less broken than most, but not all.

    • @adangalvan5712
      @adangalvan5712 4 года назад +9

      All these things are explained in most American schools. If you want to learn it well take AP courses and actually throughly study everything in your highschool history classes.
      Or you may be forced to take even more detailed history and government courses in university, even if you aren't majoring in history.
      In all these courses you should learn and analyze everything about the Cold War, its events and its effects, and afterwards you'll see the good and the bad that the US did through those times.

  • @onefarwanderer
    @onefarwanderer 4 года назад +12

    I thought I knew a good bit about WWII, but I have never heard that FDR required the UK and other European countries to pull out of their colonies. That's something to be very proud of. I wish more Americans knew this. It could quell some of the "racism is an American invention" crap but I really don't think people who believe that will be influenced by any pesky facts.

    • @robertlevy105
      @robertlevy105 3 года назад +1

      The lefty scum will never get over claiming the US is the creator of racism, even though they were the ones that held slaves. Very pathetic on their part, but that is nothing new.

  • @Ms2cents
    @Ms2cents 4 года назад +37

    Don’t forget, we invented a lot of stuff that people around the world are using now

  • @SilvanaDil
    @SilvanaDil 4 года назад +36

    Russia could not defeat Germany and Japan. Not only did the US actively participate in the war, it gave food and equipment to Russia.

    • @shyryTsr2k
      @shyryTsr2k 4 года назад +2

      And supplied the UK too

    • @shyryTsr2k
      @shyryTsr2k 3 года назад

      @Margaret Bush tbh the majority of our sciences and technological advances came from Nazi Germany scientists. In WWII there was an operation called "Operation Paperclip" where the US government hired Nazis to develop missiles, nukes and NASA hired the Nazis as well. Congress tried to get the Department of Defense to tell the truth however they declined and wouldn't say anything about hiring these war criminals which is who they were essentially but were granted amnesty. Most people never hear about this but it's true.

  • @secolerice
    @secolerice 4 года назад +3

    I am grateful to your positive reaction to the WWII help the US gave and the Marshall Plan. I get very angry when Europeans slam us when we did all of this for them. My parents were part of the continuation of the plan as my dad was in the US Army in France and Germany in 1957-1960. I was 3 months old when we moved there. He ended up being part of the formation of the large training center in Grafenwoehr Germany. Our blood, sweat, tears, money, and energy were poured on the European soil and by your reaction you didn't even know. I always think people would know this but there are newer generations that know nothing about this. I am glad that you are finding out. A wonderful book about the manufacturing end of the US war effort is "Freedom's Forge" by Arthur Herman. It is about US business and its gargantuan efforts to create all the planes, tanks, vehicles, etc for the war.

  • @BlueZooTycoon
    @BlueZooTycoon 4 года назад +9

    Sees thumb nail: “Where’s its leg?” ... I just associated Florida as being America‘s leg!😆

  • @JcKramer1991
    @JcKramer1991 3 года назад +29

    You’re welcome Europe. I’m probably still paying for the Marshall plan.

    • @RyanNerd
      @RyanNerd 3 года назад +7

      You still are by extention - - the US still sends billions of dollars of foreign aid on the back of the US tax payers.

    • @michlo3393
      @michlo3393 3 года назад +8

      And yet America is still the "most evil warmongering nation ever" lol

    • @lol-qr1ew
      @lol-qr1ew 3 года назад +7

      @@michlo3393 Exactly it’s so dumb. If China ever becomes the next super power I wouldn’t mind. Since China will have to deal with all that bs. And America can finally work on itself.

    • @scipioafricanus5871
      @scipioafricanus5871 3 года назад

      @@RyanNerd and how much value do you think US corporations are extracting from the third world on a yearly basis?
      Western Foreign aid is peanuts compared to this.

    • @RyanNerd
      @RyanNerd 3 года назад

      @@michlo3393 I actually agree with you. America has no business in any of the world's conflicts. Before the attack on Pearl Harbor America was a "hands off" nation. Since then America is like a blind giant stumbling from one war into another. Most of the budget is spent on the military. This is difficult to justify since it's been about 8 decades since congress declared war.
      America likes to think of itself as the kind oldest brother that tries to help everyone when in reality he's living out of the back of his car trillions of dollars in debt.

  • @jtir123
    @jtir123 4 года назад +38

    Wired has a new video on US Accents that's awesome. You should definitely check it out. "Accent Expert gives a tourof U.S. Accents" is the title.

    • @masternoobjunior3486
      @masternoobjunior3486 4 года назад

      Umm cool suggestion but no

    • @solarsl7942
      @solarsl7942 4 года назад +10

      @@masternoobjunior3486 what are you like his personal manager or something he is just making a recommendation

    • @masternoobjunior3486
      @masternoobjunior3486 4 года назад

      @@solarsl7942 actually I’m his vice manager . There’s a difference

    • @Perfectly_Cromulent351
      @Perfectly_Cromulent351 4 года назад +3

      I was about to recommend the same video

    • @Perfectly_Cromulent351
      @Perfectly_Cromulent351 4 года назад +5

      @@masternoobjunior3486 what are you talking about? This is right up Thurston’s alley; he’d love that shit.

  • @darrenmclaughlin1362
    @darrenmclaughlin1362 4 года назад +26

    I don't think North Korea would have conquered South Korea because Japan would have controlled both.

    • @RyanNerd
      @RyanNerd 3 года назад

      I can agree with you that this is a possible outcome, but it would depend on what resources Japan would have at the time for a Korean take-over since their attention may have focused elsewhere.
      What-if history scenarios are fun b/c there are so many factors and possibilities.

  • @topherd1011
    @topherd1011 4 года назад +46

    So now when Donald Trump said EU and NATO countries should pay their commitments in defense spending- he doesn’t sound so unreasonable lol

    • @willsofer3679
      @willsofer3679 4 года назад +16

      It does when you realize this only erodes American soft power, and makes us weaker. They obviously should. But you don't threaten to withdraw from alliances and agreements that make the world safer (and in some cases, actually do it). Trump was an isolationist, and that's simply not an option for a world power in the modern era.

    • @luistigerfox
      @luistigerfox 4 года назад +6

      @@willsofer3679 Indeed. Keeping up alliances and treaties, and even relatively amicable terms with those states that we disagree with really reduces the scale of conflicts and helps to promote a more peaceful world. Global interdependence is great for peace as well.

    • @scottwillcockson6089
      @scottwillcockson6089 4 года назад +3

      @@willsofer3679 exactly. We might pay more, but we're basically buying power. Our treaties, agreements, and money are as crucial to American hegemony as all of our war machines.

    • @757optim
      @757optim 3 года назад +6

      NATO countries AGREED to, i.e., COMMITTED to, pay a percentage of their GDP to fund NATO for THEIR DEFENSE. Trump was right.

  • @EagleFang74
    @EagleFang74 3 года назад +3

    I’m absolutely going to start using “oh my days”. I think you should occasionally throw in an “oh my stars”.

  • @jreyman
    @jreyman 4 года назад +11

    The capability to produce food and quickly manufacture needed supplies is what happens when a country's economic system is purely Capitalistic.

  • @MichaelScheele
    @MichaelScheele 4 года назад +7

    The US and UK helped the Russian White Army fight the Soviets after the Russian revolution.
    It was a matter of "the enemy of my enemy is my friend." It was in the US' interests to help the Soviets fight Nazi Germany. Less of our blood would be needed to defeat the Axis.
    The Soviet Union had spies in the Manhattan Project. That's how they developed nuclear weapons so rapidly after WW II.

  • @Aliciaaa87
    @Aliciaaa87 3 года назад +3

    Is this why Ross's dad called Emily's dad a "thieving, would be speaking German if it weren't for us, cheap little man?" 🤣🤣

  • @RonAnderson
    @RonAnderson 3 года назад +3

    Interesting fact: The US Constitution has aprovision for independendent nations to petition for statehood and its happened three times.

  • @sodaguy
    @sodaguy 4 года назад +41

    You should look at a video called "How Are British English and American English Different?"

    • @masternoobjunior3486
      @masternoobjunior3486 4 года назад

      Ik, they speak differently

    • @ItzIzzyMizzy
      @ItzIzzyMizzy 4 года назад +1

      America takes away the U

    • @pvtrowden
      @pvtrowden 4 года назад +4

      @@ItzIzzyMizzy actually wrong, Britain added the U trying to be posh

    • @Steve-zc9ht
      @Steve-zc9ht 4 года назад

      @@ItzIzzyMizzy lol Americans never had a British accent actually the closest American accent to the American Revolution is the Midwestern accent

    • @pvtrowden
      @pvtrowden 3 года назад

      @Chris T say the same thing about chinese dialects and you'd probably be considered a racist

  • @vindigregorio6697
    @vindigregorio6697 3 года назад

    BRO!! Literally a few months ago you were so happy/grateful getting to 10k.. LOOK AT YOU NOW! You really deserve it, I'm extremely happy for you!

  • @jasonyardley3184
    @jasonyardley3184 4 года назад +25

    My family was in Berkshire and Yorkshire wondering how we made it here in the first place I love merica

    • @masternoobjunior3486
      @masternoobjunior3486 4 года назад

      That isn’t a real place mate or I don’t where that is. I think you meant America tho

    • @solarsl7942
      @solarsl7942 4 года назад +1

      @@masternoobjunior3486 'MERICA fuck yeah

    • @masternoobjunior3486
      @masternoobjunior3486 4 года назад

      @@solarsl7942 :(

    • @jasonyardley3184
      @jasonyardley3184 4 года назад +1

      The good ole red white and blue it's slang

    • @Stinky_Inky
      @Stinky_Inky 4 года назад +3

      @@masternoobjunior3486 MERICA wooooooooo

  • @NuclearWinter69
    @NuclearWinter69 3 года назад +4

    Water freezes In Russia, alcohol doesn’t. Vodka was used as hydration with the added benefit of getting lit.

  • @seanhunter4297
    @seanhunter4297 4 года назад +4

    Luka you're such a sweet & gracious guy. UK is one of our dearest allies & I hope Biden recently got this message across to your leader. The US, we were angry at you for your king until 1820 or so but you have since become our brothers & sisters. You're a reflection of a classy British person 😎👌

  • @calcifur
    @calcifur 4 года назад +14

    Fun fact left out if US didn't exist then Commodore Perry wouldn't have forced Japan to open it borders possibly preventing the Meji Restoration, and likely removing Japan from the Axis powers. Which also means they wouldve never invaded Korea leaving it unified.

  • @larkatmic
    @larkatmic 4 года назад +116

    The world without America wouldn’t be such a nice place.

    • @colly3333
      @colly3333 4 года назад +4

      Actually, it would be.

    • @erica.7231
      @erica.7231 4 года назад +48

      @@colly3333 No it would be far more packed with colonialism. not that the U.S. wasn't dipping in it. But later, it made the best effort to force countries' hands on letting go of their colonies. Also if you look at the fall of monarchies around the world, it spread after the establishment of the u.s. as a cultural force. Nazi germany would probably still be a thing and a continued unstable europe which itself would crack down on brown people across the world

    • @projectc.j.j3310
      @projectc.j.j3310 4 года назад +38

      @@colly3333 did your dumbass not watch the video😂

    • @RCXDerp
      @RCXDerp 4 года назад +26

      @@projectc.j.j3310 He's just mad he probably got dunked on by some American 12 y.o.

    • @lmfao745
      @lmfao745 3 года назад +9

      @@colly3333 no it wouldn’t

  • @andreiferariu
    @andreiferariu 4 года назад +5

    man, you probably don't remember me but I was one of the first guys on this channel. Requesting basketball and stuff, it's amazing how far you've grown as a channel.

    • @willsofer3679
      @willsofer3679 4 года назад

      He does most of his sports reactions on his other channel. Though that's more on a weekly basis, whereas he uploads here almost daily.

  • @funnybunny2445
    @funnybunny2445 3 года назад +20

    Europeans: we are the greatest
    USA:I made you

    • @lordorangejuice2055
      @lordorangejuice2055 3 года назад +1

      Lol facts

    • @matthewprescott8757
      @matthewprescott8757 3 года назад +1

      Ah, another American who has little to no knowledge of history. Europe MADE YOU, not the other way around, there will be no United States of America today if it wasn't for the European discovery of the American continent. Not to mention that the mass immigration of European businessmen and entrepreneurs during the 1800's turned you into the economic powerhouse that you are today. It's funny just how ignorant most Americans can be when it cones to history.

    • @mysteriousgreenstar
      @mysteriousgreenstar 3 года назад

      @@matthewprescott8757 true true technically as soon as American revolution have turned them into USA and european are more like "oh no what have we done we created monster!" american:* roarrrr* i am going to conquer and revenge * rooooaaaarrr* r 176 years later *USA to European* : drop colony noww!!! *European sign agreement and turn into EU* joke aside it is irony that "monster" did create peace area in Europe area. please excuse my poorly grammar. consider USA are first colony that break out of colonies unless we count ancient roman colony in England? or any earliest ancient colony that revolution i don't know?

    • @hinklefamily1831
      @hinklefamily1831 3 года назад +1

      @@matthewprescott8757 but we aren't, that was one person, I learned all about history both in the US and in foreign countries and I can tell you we learn the same thing. The issue is the loudest people in our country are the ones who sleep in class

  • @jacobwatson1582
    @jacobwatson1582 4 года назад +2

    Near where I live in Metro Detroit we built tanks for the Allied Army and my current employment area (Ford Rouge complex) built bombing fighter jets.

  • @bigussmokesus8866
    @bigussmokesus8866 4 года назад +51

    You should react to “The Roman Empire in 20 minutes”

    • @masternoobjunior3486
      @masternoobjunior3486 4 года назад

      When you say react to other stuff but lav doesn’t see your comment :(

    • @kimjongtrump3493
      @kimjongtrump3493 4 года назад

      I can save u 20 mins
      Really good leader
      Win a lot of wars
      Win so many wars u have too brig of empire
      Forced to split
      Fall

    • @kimjongtrump3493
      @kimjongtrump3493 4 года назад

      @Ashton Todarello welp pretty close😂

    • @willsofer3679
      @willsofer3679 4 года назад

      @@masternoobjunior3486 Dude, why do you waste all your time trolling this channel? I get you're not happy with Luka, but this is ridiculous.

  • @blake7587
    @blake7587 2 года назад

    The super important part of Lend-Lease is the part that says: “Any combat losses are *not* expected to be repaid.”
    That’s a huge deal!

  • @joshualovette8791
    @joshualovette8791 3 года назад +22

    America is the most benevolent super power in history.

    • @mwwq1
      @mwwq1 3 года назад +4

      YEp, an example, we are the only country in history to let enemies bury their dead. No other country does that.

  • @scozz6139
    @scozz6139 4 года назад +2

    Nice reaction Lav Luka, I've been enjoying your reactions to American stuff, for lack of a better word. One thing that caught my attention to this reaction, when the narrator mentions the Marshall Plan being paid by American tax payers, you seemed quite surprised at this.
    I don't understand why, surely you realize National Governments don't have their own money, (unless they print it),,...and that the money that the governments DO have, is money taken from it's citizens in the form of taxes! So, everything America does,... is paid for by American citizens.

  • @JrCards76
    @JrCards76 4 года назад +5

    The video literally is showing the US supplying other countries during WWII
    luka: What war did the US supply us??? I think it was WWI.
    My favorite quote

  • @johndeeregreen4592
    @johndeeregreen4592 4 года назад

    Potatoes are used to make vodka for a couple reasons. Potato skins contain yeast. This yeast, when mixed with sugars it ferments very easily. Potatoes contain a lot of sugars, which are broken out of suspension when mashed and mixed with water. After a couple weeks of fermentation, this combination can produce a potato wine of around 10-12% alcohol by volume. From there, it is then distilled into vodka.

  • @ivancoronado4487
    @ivancoronado4487 4 года назад +53

    Day 28 of asking Luka to watch “The Medic Who Fought a War Without a Weapon” by Simple history

  • @dvr32382
    @dvr32382 3 года назад

    I genuinely love your reaction to the things that have gone on. I’m from the U.S but it is honestly strange to see how history actually affects that of their countries

  • @Fridge56Vet
    @Fridge56Vet 4 года назад +16

    A very good reaction. You're clearly getting sharper on your history. Tho you were right the 1st time - Lend-Lease was WW2. Keep up the good work on the channel - and the beard.

  • @Heavenly_Heal
    @Heavenly_Heal 4 года назад +6

    I wouldn’t say the US and Russia were ‘allies’ during WWII, I mean I guess technically, but it was more of a “the enemy of my enemy is my friend” type thing

  • @pacmanc8103
    @pacmanc8103 4 года назад +5

    I believe that the vast majority of supplies and war aid to the UK was non-repayable assistance under Lend Lease, I think, or purchasable at a fraction of cost. At least that’s what I recall from school.

    • @masternoobjunior3486
      @masternoobjunior3486 4 года назад

      I’m in school and I didn’t know a single thing about that so

    • @pacmanc8103
      @pacmanc8103 4 года назад

      A different time!😉

    • @kate2create738
      @kate2create738 4 года назад +1

      I've heard in 2006 the UK finished paying back the loan for the Lend Lease Act.

    • @susanmaggiora4800
      @susanmaggiora4800 4 года назад

      Kate 2 Create Yep.

  • @kennethestrada266
    @kennethestrada266 4 года назад

    Been enjoying your videos a shit ton dude just keep em coming our way

  • @astrogatorjones
    @astrogatorjones 3 года назад +3

    We had a 90% tax rate into the 1960's paying for WWII. Someone maybe got rich... not Americans.

  • @timb7725
    @timb7725 3 года назад

    My dad was on those Navy supply convoys to the UK and the USSR during WW2. Thousands and thousands of Americans died on those supply convoys. My dad was lucky to survive.

  • @2AwesomeDogs
    @2AwesomeDogs 3 года назад +15

    The United States paid a ton of money to rebuild most of Europe's big cities! England 🇬🇧 Germany 🇩🇪 France 🇫🇷 just to name a few. UNITED STATES DON'T GET RICH your dead wrong mate. Taxpayers in the United States paid millions to rebuild Europe and we also opened our country to many during the war for safety such as many English Children and royal Family members. If England would have repaid the massive debt, just what the US Taxpayers paid the Queen would be broke today. But we forgive the Debts Europe as a whole. Like ur video's but please research more facts. Cross the pond sometime

  • @pamelahomeyer748
    @pamelahomeyer748 3 года назад +1

    The United States also played a very big part and rebuilding Germany. What people forget is during the war a lot of people in America were doing without so that we could provide more all around the world. Everything was rationed and every manufacture turned into a military supplier.
    Women ran all of the trains and learned to weld as well as rivet the airplanes. Many women pilots learn to transport as much as they could Stateside and they even went over to Europe to parachute down and spy

  • @wthornton9526
    @wthornton9526 4 года назад +9

    US and Soviet Union as WWII allies....
    “Keep your friends close, keep your enemies closer.”
    Vito Corleone

  • @anonygent
    @anonygent 3 года назад

    In re: the Marshall Plan, one of the important lessons from WWI was the criticality of winning the peace after winning the war. We learned that lesson well and made sure that we won the peace after defeating Germany and Japan in WWII. We have since forgotten that lesson and have failed to win the peace in Afghanistan and Iraq after winning the wars there.

  • @maryjoygelizon4268
    @maryjoygelizon4268 4 года назад +30

    Long story shot if it never existed we would all be fecked

    • @masternoobjunior3486
      @masternoobjunior3486 4 года назад +1

      Umm fecked isn’t a word

    • @davedammitt7691
      @davedammitt7691 4 года назад +14

      @@masternoobjunior3486 neither is 'umm'.

    • @matthewprescott8757
      @matthewprescott8757 4 года назад

      No we won't be fucked, in fact maybe the world would be a much better place if the US didn't exist.

    • @davedammitt7691
      @davedammitt7691 4 года назад +6

      @@matthewprescott8757 Aw. A triggered little lib, still bothered by slavery, that ended 150 years ago. How cute.

    • @matthewprescott8757
      @matthewprescott8757 4 года назад

      @@davedammitt7691 Aww, look at you, accusing me of something that I'm not because you can't construct any valid arguments, I'm not a liberal, nor am I bothered by slavery in America, why don't you actually try making valid points instead of making baseless accusations, that is if your tiny little mind is capable of doing that, which I very much doubt.

  • @johnalden5821
    @johnalden5821 4 года назад

    In addition to the Lend-Lease program, the U.S. helped during WWII to set up an organization called the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, beginning in 1943. This organization had donations from more than 50 countries and provided more than $3.8 billion in aid to displaced people and communities in areas liberated by the Allies. The U.S. contributed more than half of the total amount of aid money, though. But the broad base of donors was designed to set the framework of cooperation that the United Nations itself would employ once it was formed after the war.

  • @Ghoststarrrr
    @Ghoststarrrr 3 года назад +5

    Damn. this made me feel good

    • @Fun-rf9vs
      @Fun-rf9vs 3 года назад +3

      Ikr something bad happens in the US everyone else in the world: OH NO AMERICA IS FALLING and Also thank god I don’t live in America.

  • @shangri-la-la-la
    @shangri-la-la-la 3 года назад +1

    My Grandpa told his story of fighting in the battle of the bulge. He was a US machine gunner, 2 of the guys in his group deserted meaning he and the other guy had to carry all of the supplies. He had enemies firing rounds causing the earth behind him to break behind him because of the guns being fired towards him. Found a group of Germans willing to surrender but as night was falling was strongly considering killing all of them cause he had no idea what they might do during the night. Luckily a US group showed up before night hit allowing the POW's to be taken by someone else and ended up getting trench foot which allowed him to be the one of the most annoying people for the nurses because he was technically sick but not actually sick.

  • @mr.merica6048
    @mr.merica6048 4 года назад +4

    And this is why I say the USA saved the world in ww2 with supplies and then man power

  • @david-1775
    @david-1775 3 года назад +1

    I constantly hear that the Soviet Union could have beaten Germany without American aid. One third to half of all Soviet explosives (bullets, cannon shells, bombs, rockets) came from the US. We also provided 75% of all of the Soviet's trucks.

    • @EpochUnlocked
      @EpochUnlocked 3 года назад +1

      They wouldn't have had the time or materials to create and manufacture sufficient, quality equipment to the point they're production reached 2/3 of total equipment. They were getting run over and over and over.

  • @lilblondiebear
    @lilblondiebear 4 года назад +10

    Makes you wonder...maybe we're not so bad?
    **CNN intensifies**

  • @52montoya
    @52montoya 3 года назад +1

    We gave Europe the money needed to rebuild, but the materials needed came from U.S. producers which resulted in creating much wealth in the U.S. so it was a win win situation.

  • @williamjordan5554
    @williamjordan5554 4 года назад +8

    The alcohol may have been to sterilize medical equipment and treat wounds.

    • @gengoosekhan
      @gengoosekhan 4 года назад +2

      Exactly, people forget how important antiseptics and medical supplies are

    • @ssjwes
      @ssjwes 3 года назад +1

      @@gengoosekhan They only forget because they don't really have to think about it anymore.

  • @johnalden5821
    @johnalden5821 4 года назад

    With regard to WWI, the U.S. mounted a major civilian relief effort beginning at the end of the war in Belgium and northern France. That was followed in 1919 by U.S. creation of the American Relief Administration, which spent about $3 billion in today's dollars to provide roughly 4 million tons of relief supplies in 23 European countries, including Russia. The ARA continued its work through 1923. The effort was led by Herbert Hoover, who later went on to be elected U.S. president in 1928.

  • @TheIkanoKato
    @TheIkanoKato 4 года назад +4

    If you are interested in hearing more US accents, so I would suggest reacting to the WIRED video series "Accent Expert Gives a Tour of U.S. Accents."

    • @robertlevy105
      @robertlevy105 3 года назад

      I keep hearing that I have a Northern midwest accent. What is that? I don't say ey

  • @kid_fi3nd98
    @kid_fi3nd98 4 года назад +2

    I was watching your reacting to the best states to live in video and just realized that you’re 19 😭 thats insane bc Im 20 and thought you were older than me. Im from the US I was born in New York and Ive lived in California, North Carolina, Maryland, New Jersey, Kansas, Missouri, and I currently live in Ohio but I want to leave the country one day honestly. If I ever got to meet you in real life Im sure we’d be friends, keep up the good videos man I love your content❤️

    • @abemelakekebede3642
      @abemelakekebede3642 4 года назад

      to live in another country or visit

    • @kid_fi3nd98
      @kid_fi3nd98 4 года назад +1

      @@abemelakekebede3642 visit more than likely but you never know

    • @hinklefamily1831
      @hinklefamily1831 3 года назад

      I've traveled the world and found the US to be my home, but I get why some people because this country just ain't right for them. I'm not sure what your looking for but if you wanna go somewhere in Asia I'd recommend Singapore cuz it's sorta like the US in it's diversity and really safe. Best if luck to you!

  • @uninterruptedrhythm4104
    @uninterruptedrhythm4104 4 года назад +3

    "Oh My Days"

  • @serpentinewolf7085
    @serpentinewolf7085 3 года назад +2

    If you’re wondering why America has issues feeding its own and giving health care it’s because we’re supporting the rest of the world it seems XD

  • @CaptiveReefSystems
    @CaptiveReefSystems 4 года назад +9

    Is the volume low on all of his videos or is it something on my end..? 😄

    • @masternoobjunior3486
      @masternoobjunior3486 4 года назад

      Dude.... turn your volume up

    • @maryjoygelizon4268
      @maryjoygelizon4268 4 года назад

      Its loud for me get ur phones speaker checked out or wear headphones that or get ur ears checked out

    • @erinmineo830
      @erinmineo830 4 года назад +1

      It's always super low for me too, dunno if that's because I have to listen over my kid talking on his headset but it's frustrating sometimes

    • @CaptiveReefSystems
      @CaptiveReefSystems 4 года назад

      😄 My audio is connected to a 500w+ speaker system, and the volume is absolutely *blaring* on everything else... Just not for the four+ videos that I have watched from this channel... With headphones it's tolerable, but faint compared to other videos... 🤔
      I'm wondering if his volume and gain just turned down when rendering his videos, but figured I would ask someone else here... 🙄

    • @CaptiveReefSystems
      @CaptiveReefSystems 4 года назад +1

      @@erinmineo830 Thank you, Erin! 👍

  • @frazierk300
    @frazierk300 3 года назад

    7:14 that fist pump was hilarious lmao

  • @SpicyTexan64
    @SpicyTexan64 4 года назад +6

    The USA didn't get rich by giving away supplies.

  • @TheAmpharosFreak
    @TheAmpharosFreak 3 года назад

    @ 5:00 it was both world wars. The US industrial might was its biggest weapon.

  • @singood7790
    @singood7790 4 года назад +5

    Smirnoff is a british company lol

  • @carterpritchard5063
    @carterpritchard5063 3 года назад +1

    With out the USA this video wouldn’t be possible not because RUclips wouldn’t be a thing but because the internet itself wouldn’t be, the research program was mostly funded by the American Government, and the two main people who created it were also American, Bob Khan and Ben Cerf.

  • @briankgarland
    @briankgarland 4 года назад +4

    And to this day, America is still the most charitable nation on Earth. By far.

  • @rickreynolds9306
    @rickreynolds9306 3 года назад

    No one would be complaining about this.
    The United States is the top donor country on the Developmental Assistance Committee (DAC), contributing almost $35 billion to foreign aid in 2017.
    This donation amounted to 0.18% of the country's Gross National Income (GNI), far below the official development assistance target of 0.70% GNI.
    Afghanistan ($4.89 billion)
    Israel ($3.3 billion)
    Jordan ($1.72 billion)
    Egypt ($1.46 billion)
    Iraq ($960 billion)
    Ethiopia ($922 million)
    Yemen ($809 million)
    Colombia ($800 million)
    Nigeria ($793 million)
    Lebanon ($790 million)

  • @mayb.3745
    @mayb.3745 4 года назад +13

    You wouldn’t be using google 😂 or reacting to that video.

  • @oscaralejandrotorresaguila5886
    @oscaralejandrotorresaguila5886 3 года назад

    I’m so proud of you to have that much subscribers

  • @fros7314
    @fros7314 4 года назад +5

    10:20 we still do brotha

  • @noelesquivel6737
    @noelesquivel6737 4 года назад +1

    Love the videos🔥💯 love from new york

  • @LandonDF
    @LandonDF 4 года назад +7

    God, I hate how the infographics show reuses art assets. they'll give a USSR soldier an American Thompson SMG, (example in this video) , and they use the wrong vehicles/uniforms/ships all the time. It is confusing to those that don't know history well, and is not at all proper behavior for an "informative channel".

  • @annwiswall1054
    @annwiswall1054 4 года назад

    The government in the US paid everyone that could work at these factories to make clothing is where my mom did as she was a seamstress and my dad worked but can't remember what his job was and citizens helped making , cars , tanks , planes etc . at that certain time .

  • @quickhistory8637
    @quickhistory8637 4 года назад +3

    You should react to the motivational speech by admiral mcraven in 2014 it is amazing and I think one of the best up there with Arnold Schwarzenegger

  • @shannonhamlin4938
    @shannonhamlin4938 3 года назад

    The US supplied arms, munitions and supplies to BOTH SIDES during BOTH World Wars prior to entering them. The transition from London being the Financial Hub of the world to the New York occurred during WWI.

  • @steventambon2588
    @steventambon2588 4 года назад +12

    Lol we are still paying for it today, so youre welcome!

  • @maryjoygelizon4268
    @maryjoygelizon4268 4 года назад +2

    5:12 i think it was both wars but i could be wrong

  • @sicily7220
    @sicily7220 4 года назад +3

    US lend $ and materials in both WW1 and WW2.

  • @carowells1607
    @carowells1607 3 года назад +1

    If the federal and state governments didn’t exist, I’d have no health insurance.

  • @sovietpuppies3171
    @sovietpuppies3171 4 года назад +6

    Can you react to what if the USA join the axis powers

  • @Jervisdude
    @Jervisdude 4 года назад

    A show on the loss of historic buildings and towns in WWII would be interesting.

  • @daviddickey9762
    @daviddickey9762 4 года назад +4

    we still pay for Europe

    • @masternoobjunior3486
      @masternoobjunior3486 4 года назад

      What about England

    • @joan6096
      @joan6096 4 года назад

      We also supply 1/10 of the worlds food supply and a 1/3 of the worlds medical equipment, and medicine

    • @daviddickey9762
      @daviddickey9762 3 года назад

      @@somethingbeings1068 wrong they are supposed to be paying a certain % but they have not been so the US has been doing it.

    • @daviddickey9762
      @daviddickey9762 2 года назад

      @MI6 look up who pays for most of the budget for nato and the European countries defense

  • @kanaancross317
    @kanaancross317 3 года назад

    There where actually battles fought against Russia in the Cold War but they never actually went into full scale battles

  • @ApolloStarfall
    @ApolloStarfall 4 года назад +3

    American here. Unrelated, but do you watch Doctor Who?

  • @duanewilcox2096
    @duanewilcox2096 4 года назад +2

    Cold War was a War of words that could have quickly escalated into a hot war.

    • @robertlevy105
      @robertlevy105 3 года назад

      The hot wars were Korea and Vietnam...

  • @EricLovesthe80s
    @EricLovesthe80s 4 года назад +3

    america is in everyone's business

    • @masternoobjunior3486
      @masternoobjunior3486 4 года назад

      Yes it’s a free country ... wait a second

    • @artyumdragstov8823
      @artyumdragstov8823 3 года назад +1

      The biggest irony of America. Most americans are anti interventionalist and want the united states to focus on itself but the politicians see globalism as a more prosperous route to go.

    • @lol-qr1ew
      @lol-qr1ew 3 года назад

      Yeah well we have to or the world and Eroupe will literally fall apart. We don’t enjoy being involved in everything but we have to, so we can keep the world stable. Even though everyone hates us and the American people have to pay for everyone else. We’d be better off isolated but the rest of the world would be under China and Russia. Which I don’t really mind because then they can deal with the worlds problems and America can finally rest.

    • @EricLovesthe80s
      @EricLovesthe80s 3 года назад

      @Lem Lovel right sure lol

  • @shaheerdar1534
    @shaheerdar1534 4 года назад +1

    Love your videos bro

  • @sassygrammy1258
    @sassygrammy1258 4 года назад +3

    American tax payers continue to pay taxes to fund countries around the world whether the individual citizen agrees or not.

    • @masternoobjunior3486
      @masternoobjunior3486 4 года назад

      Ok what about British tax payers

    • @maryjoygelizon4268
      @maryjoygelizon4268 4 года назад

      Atleast its going to something good and not just weapons and greedy politicians

    • @sassygrammy1258
      @sassygrammy1258 4 года назад +1

      @@masternoobjunior3486 I have no knowledge about UK taxpayers. I am taxed on EVERYTHING. I am retired and it is alarming when the government needs money, Social Security is always mentioned. I had no choice as to whether I wanted to participate or not. I would rather manage my money rather the government. When SS was established, the money was NEVER to be touched. Had I managed my money I would have a nice retirement income. My husband and I managed to invest a modest amount of money, and were it not for that income, I would have a difficult time making ends meet. Our taxes go to countries around the world to prop them up. They give Israel millions each year, and then, give millions to Palestinians who have vowed to push Israel into the sea. Israel uses the money to create infrastructure and they produce beautiful fruit and vegetables in the desert. Israel is on the cutting edge for great strides in the medical and technology fields. Thousands upon thousands of tourists go to Israel each year and Israel provides guests with modern facilities. The Palestinian’s do very little toward infrastructure. They use the money in ways that could destroy Israel. One can clearly differentiate the Israelis from Palestinian. The Gaza Strip could be one of the most lucrative spots in the area. They could draw thousands of visitors annually. Tell Aviiv built a beautiful city that draws people from around the world. How does the Palestinian government at Gaza use America dollars-they build bombs to fire on Israel. Their people would have better jobs and incomes. I object to giving money to countries that squander it.

    • @dominikmanthei4546
      @dominikmanthei4546 4 года назад

      @@sassygrammy1258 It is the exact same they other way around too

  • @carterpritchard5063
    @carterpritchard5063 3 года назад +1

    I think best way to describe the Cold War is that it was two countries trying to put do the other.