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15:20 The British demand was not simply "Surrender or Die." They gave the French fleet four options. First to join with the British Navy and fight alongside them to free their country. Second, they could take their fleet to America, where they could be interred for the rest oft he conflict and kept out of the hands of either side. Third, the could scuttle their ships, ensuring they couldn't be taken and used by the Germans. Lastly, if they refused all of these options, ONLY THEN would the British sink the French Fleet. The French admiral at Mers El Kabir however, being an arrogant and self-entitled moron, didn't communicate this to his superiors and refused to negotiate with the British, because he felt slighted that the officer the British sent to him (Purely on the basis that this officer spoke fluent French), was only a mere Captain. The British absolutely DID NOT want to attack the French Fleet, but their hand was forced by one imbecile's ego and complete disdain for the lives of his men.
That's an interesting insight of the event, but what sources did you use? I really hope it's factual, because that would make more sense than just spontaneously playing turkey shoot with the French navy
@@GAarcher de Gaule just liked talking shit no matter what. Most forget only a tiny amount of French wanted to continue fighting. Many more forget the fact that France would have lost ww1 without Petain
@@robertford1298 That's what makes his case worse than a collaborator, a traitor ; if he was a nobody it would have been « yeah France did put up a puppet to make peace with the germans »
@Person74892 Hitler, has only got one ball The other, is in the Albert Hall! His mother, the dirty scrubber Cut one off, when he was small! She threw it, against the great oak tree It landed, into the deep blue sea The fishes, took out their dishes And had scallops and bollocks for tea!
Hitler has only got one ball, The other is in the Albert Hall, His mother, the dirty bugger, Chopped it off when Hitler was small. She threw it into the apple tree, the wind blew it into the deep blue sea, Where the fishes got out their dishes, And ate scallops and bollocks for tea.
11:27 Actually, both Hitler and Churchill considered operation Sealion (naval invasion of England) as impossible to happen. Hitler only ordered it to be prepared to intimidate British and force them to peace talks. Churchill even sent newly formed tank division to Egypt, while the battle of Britain was going on, because he was a former naval oficer and he knew how much absurd this scenario was. Germany just did not have vessels to ship enough soliders and with no experience in full-scale naval invasions it would've probably been a disaster for them.
The invasion was certainly possible, but they would have to secure the skies to have any real hope. I do agree it be incredible hard for them, but hypothetically possible but extremely risky.
@@JamesTodorovich Right and they failed to secure the skies, and also the only reason they had to secure the skies is so they could sink the Royal navy, so any invasion would have led to certain death.
@JamesTodorovich no no it wasnt the uk at the time had navy 4x as big and 4x as experienced and to add the uk had the largest u biat flet aswell and to top it all off fighting with a home field advantage. A german naval invasion would have never made it 10km from the port of callis
It’s kinda sad tbh, Britain supported Europe by itself for so long. Then at end when all was said and done and Britain’s debt was humongous and not a single country offered to help with their debt. And all voted to end reparation payments
Yeh was a smart descision from America stopped any competition became standard currency they still do it today undermine Europe what can you do if only they didn’t fund Ukraine energy and cost of living would be way lower in Europe and many lives would be saved but what can you stop in the name of freedom
@@AlphaKennyBody12, it's at the very beginning of the video. Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, India, the Polish government-in-exile, the Norwegian government-in-exile, the Belgian government-in-exile, the Free French, Greece, etc. Britain was definitely doing the heavy lifitng in the second half of 1940, but it was not in any sense of the word fighting the Axis all by itself. Especially when you consider that most of the fighting wasn't anywhere near Britain itself.
Something that's implied here but not explicit: British culture sees ourselves as an underdog. As a nation, we don't like to be over confident, we never underestimate others' abilities, and we like to overprepare. It's the mindset of the British Bulldog - we may be small, but if you come into our kennel we're gonna bite.
It's based on our history. It sounds strange considering our colonial history, but Britain/England spent most of its history worried about being invaded. Probably up until Napoleon's defeat that was a constant fear. It was also a big part of why England wanted permanent troops in Scotland and Ireland; so they couldn't be landing bases for an invasion. We've mostly seen ourselves historically as an underdog and under threat from a European power.
@@Sir_Gerald_Nosehairs. This is interesting and makes sense to me! I'm a bit of a linguaphile, and I love noticing the influence of many different languages on English - usually through invasion. I learnt recently that words we use in Yorkshire aren't slang, they're hangover from the Danelaw and Norse influence. E.g. "owt" and "nowt", and even "summat" instead of "something". If you look up their etymology, it's really interesting..!
(except when it comes to football, then England fans have a tendency to be get on the piss and act like entitled dickheads) ... I say this as a teetotal England fan, it's bloody annoying! But, as an ex-RAF man, you're spot on. The thing is, we KNOW our military is undersized (it was when I served from 2003-2010 and is even smaller now), it's underfunded, the personnel are underpaid (£25k per year on average, when you think that any full time job on minimum wage from April 2025 will earn you £23k per year, they're woefully underpaid), the equipment is pretty shit - the SA80 (L85) was a piece of shit from the off, the A2 variant was a little better and the A3 variant a little better still, but an absolute waste of money when there were a whole bunch of tried and tested weapons available "off the shelf" that would have been cheaper. And lets not even mention the stupidity of some of the contracts! Not sure how true it is, but I remember hearing from some Army guys that we bought some Apache's from the Americans and when they were delivered they didn't include the software to make them work, that hadn't been included in the contract to buy them, we'd only bought the hardware, so had to pay more to get the software.
the intro reminds me of the scene in Anchorman where he's lamenting his loss of his job and his social group and then at the bar it pans out and the news team were there the entire time
If you asked this question to British people at the time, they would definitely talk a lot about the moral cause. It's reasonable to point at other reasons with a historical perspective, but I think that should be included. In history, there's always an assumption that nations only ever act in self-interest, but that isn't really true. People are people, and people like to do what is right.
@theAEDan True that people were against starting the war, but the question is why Britain stayed in it after the initial defeat in France, at which point the brutality of the Germans was clear.
@@cazza358 the brutality of the Germans was clear? Again, false. The Germans deliberately refrained from bombing England, still hoping for peace. Between 1939 and 1942 13 separate peace deals were sent to Britain and Churchill refused to even allow parliament access to their contents to debate them. Not just that but the French army was allowed to march through France after its defeat with full decorations and honours by the German high command, so their “brutality” was very much up in the air. If you mean their combination of combined arms warfare then I think what you would call brutality most would simply refer to as superior tactics and use of technology.
@@cazza358most of that was effective British propaganda though. That’s not to say the people didn’t believe in the cause and were very strong-willed though. And eventually when they saw the fall of france and their cities being hit, that would have riled them up. Also the reason why the people didn’t want war because ww1 was still in the memory.
The sheer thought of a better empire than Britain is what makes us angry. In words of megamind. (Uk to rest of 1900’s Europe) “You’re a villain alright, but not a very good one”
The peace offers suggested by Germany were far from surrender. International finance was desperate to end the German regime and their bought and paid for puppet, Churchill, was happy to oblige them.
i love the emphasis on _alone_ because here in new zealand we aren’t taught much on what we did during the world wars, it’s not really taught unless you ask; which kinda sucks because it _is_ apart of our history. i remember being taught our nations history and then we just skimmed over the two wars, upset at that; i did my own research and our people performed a lot of great feats
Don't worry mucka, same here in England. We got to the treaty of Versailles and German hyperinflation and then jumped all the way across to the founding of the UN.
God damn we was lucky to pick Churchill to lead the way And even luckier for Sir Halifax to not accept the role of prime minister, that dude wanted to surrender from the very get go
If you think the poison gas was mad, you should look into the Petroleum warfare department. Oil reserves were massive in 1940, well beyond what required. If the Germans did come ashore, they had a plan to set fire to the sea, greek fire style and cut off any landing forces. They were alsp responsible for the myriad flame weapons used by britain during the war.
"It was luck that put the english channel between me and the germans" But it wasn't luck who built the largest and most well trained navy in the world. If germany had a better navy, the channel would be an inconvenience and mean a hard naval landing, but it wouldn't be impenetrable for germany as it was in our time
I honestly find it hard to believe that people choose not to subscribe. I'm not saying this to look like a bot or to be noticed but rather that I'm actually disappointed on those people who voluntarily refuse to do so
Maybe because people don’t want notifications on channels they’re unlikely to want to continuously watch and there’s no real reason to subscribe if that’s not what you want
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Just by the opening I can see the existential threat to once powerful colonist ready to fight for their own past arch nemesis in a twist of empathy, holy s&#$!
This 30 minute video does a better job at explaining Britain right after the fall of France then the two hour long interview with Tucker Carlson and Cooper.
The two hour podcast mentioned world War two for a little over 8 minutes, all of which was just bashing Churchill for being a warmongers moron (a truth, he forced Aussies and Kiwis to march to their death at Galipoli)
@@cashisfunsobuythings First, it was actually more like 20 minutes but I’ll give you that. Second, as for Gallipoli, yes, Gallipoli was a disaster, yes, Churchill bears responsibility for it. However, why is it We only talk about Winston Churchill, and his blunder at Gallipoli when the battle on the western front was so much worse. Here’s an example. Commonwealth soldiers at Gallipoli suffered over 115,000 casualties. (killed and wounded). At the Somme they suffered over 300,000. And at Ypres they suffered over 500,000 yet all we remember is Gallipoli as the big disaster in the First World War. Everyone else wasn’t doing so much better either. The Italians got slaughtered fighting the Austrians. The Austrians got slaughtered, fighting the Russians. The Russians got slaughtered fighting the Germans. The French got slaughtered, and the Germans got slaughtered. It was almost as if no one knew how to fight a war on this scale and we’re learning as they went. So before you label Winston Churchill as the worst officer in the entire First World War You might want to take a look at Field Marshal Douglas Haig, field marshal Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf and general Luigi Cadorna just the name a few. 100 times worse than Churchill.
@@thanos9447I think most people focus on Churchill and his screw ups because society paints him as this heroic figure, when in reality he was an incompetent drunken war mongerer who pushed for Britain to join and then continue fighting the war, selling out his empire in the process. The guy was a hack and people like him and FDR need to be reexamined because they were both incompetent fools.
its said that churchill once had a dream where ronald mcdonald and wayne gretzky came down from the heavens smokign a fat blunt and saying "churchill. the US is gonna drop a massive bomb thatll eradicate a huge chunk of a population on one of the axis powers" and then that one guy from squatopia came rolling in and churchill knew his duty
And Churchill said alright, but we'll design it for you and do all the research and you can go ahead and keep it after the war even though we did over 50% of the work and had an agreement
0:50 It's a bit of a sad statement but, if the UK and Germany went through Peace Talks, there's a good chance that the UK would still be a major Superpower in the modern world. Sure, the US would've still rose up eventually, as well as the USSR, but the UK would've been part of a "Big Three" scenario had their Empire not crippled under the weight of BOTH World Wars from start to finish. None of the other major powers of these conflicts did the same... sadly, it cause the British Empire dearly. The Commonwealth is atill alive and well, but it just ain't the same.
so in the end it’s not a thing the UK could have risked, if germany invaded britain successfully, europe would have been doomed likely until the germans eventually lost the cold war to the americans and collapsed
Germany had the advantage of nobody wanting war, and so everyone tried to avoid it. Except Germany. So they had a great headstart with military readiness and combat plans.
usa in the background sure thing uk now here are a bunch of old ships we were about scuttle just sign the dotted line. oh and don't mind the fact they are a bit rusty.
cowards in parliament wanted to abandon western europe and churchil fought for them and wanted to send in the military earlier but obviously we started too late and it ended at dunkirk!
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, i already saw the first 2 minutes on stream so i dont need to pause to write this "A small sea protect me was not in the original script"
You really should put more attention on Canada in the Battle of the Atlantic; we were actively fighting a huge percentage of that battle and I think by war’s end we had like the 3rd or 4th largest navy in the world. (Though I admit my patriotism might be muddling my numbers a bit) As well as the BCATP; we trained at least a plurality of the Commonwealth Air Force for much of the war.
Canada ended the war with the world's third largest navy. In no way a downplay of other empire countries or contributions, but the simple fact is without the Canadians the UK would probably have lost both WWI & WWII.
@ without a doubt. At least the way it’s taught here, we were the primary food and war materials providers in both conflicts until the U.S. joined in. Statistically we also had the highest enlistment rate of the allied powers from what I recall in at least one of them. 2nd war I think it was, Halifax shipyards were putting out a cargo ship per day to keep up with losses to U-Boats. Also, fun fact from my time in high school, following the retreat at Dunkirk, the only fighting strength regular forces large unit in Britain was a Canadian one that had arrived too late to deploy to France. In the battle of Hong Kong, I think, it might have been Shanghai, the last unit to surrender was the Canadian garrison. Held out almost to the last
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15:20 The British demand was not simply "Surrender or Die." They gave the French fleet four options. First to join with the British Navy and fight alongside them to free their country. Second, they could take their fleet to America, where they could be interred for the rest oft he conflict and kept out of the hands of either side. Third, the could scuttle their ships, ensuring they couldn't be taken and used by the Germans. Lastly, if they refused all of these options, ONLY THEN would the British sink the French Fleet.
The French admiral at Mers El Kabir however, being an arrogant and self-entitled moron, didn't communicate this to his superiors and refused to negotiate with the British, because he felt slighted that the officer the British sent to him (Purely on the basis that this officer spoke fluent French), was only a mere Captain. The British absolutely DID NOT want to attack the French Fleet, but their hand was forced by one imbecile's ego and complete disdain for the lives of his men.
This really piss me off
That's an interesting insight of the event, but what sources did you use? I really hope it's factual, because that would make more sense than just spontaneously playing turkey shoot with the French navy
@@MDzmitry I'd recommend Drachnifel's video on the event, he goes into it in great detail
@@weldonwin oh, if I remember correctly he tends to cite his sources.
Thanks for the answer, I'll check it out
Classic French L due to ego
A “Certain Eventuality” is the most British way of saying “you’re cooked, France”
Remember when Petain entered a room and Charles de Gaule said *"The spy has already breached our defenses......"*
@@GAarcher de Gaule just liked talking shit no matter what. Most forget only a tiny amount of French wanted to continue fighting. Many more forget the fact that France would have lost ww1 without Petain
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@@robertford1298 That's what makes his case worse than a collaborator, a traitor ; if he was a nobody it would have been « yeah France did put up a puppet to make peace with the germans »
Hitler has only got one ball,
Göring has two but very small,
Himmler has something sim'lar,
but poor old Goebbels has no balls at all.
U bet me to it
@Person74892 Hitler, has only got one ball
The other, is in the Albert Hall!
His mother, the dirty scrubber
Cut one off, when he was small!
She threw it, against the great oak tree
It landed, into the deep blue sea
The fishes, took out their dishes
And had scallops and bollocks for tea!
Hitler has only got one ball,
The other is in the Albert Hall,
His mother, the dirty bugger,
Chopped it off when Hitler was small.
She threw it into the apple tree,
the wind blew it into the deep blue sea,
Where the fishes got out their dishes,
And ate scallops and bollocks for tea.
*And how many balls do YOU have? I start, two.*
Rommel has four or five
11:27 Actually, both Hitler and Churchill considered operation Sealion (naval invasion of England) as impossible to happen. Hitler only ordered it to be prepared to intimidate British and force them to peace talks. Churchill even sent newly formed tank division to Egypt, while the battle of Britain was going on, because he was a former naval oficer and he knew how much absurd this scenario was. Germany just did not have vessels to ship enough soliders and with no experience in full-scale naval invasions it would've probably been a disaster for them.
This is probably true but there were german marines divisions but they wont really do any help since they're probably have low numbers
They were planning on it, until they lost the battle of britian.
The invasion was certainly possible, but they would have to secure the skies to have any real hope. I do agree it be incredible hard for them, but hypothetically possible but extremely risky.
@@JamesTodorovich Right and they failed to secure the skies, and also the only reason they had to secure the skies is so they could sink the Royal navy, so any invasion would have led to certain death.
@JamesTodorovich no no it wasnt the uk at the time had navy 4x as big and 4x as experienced and to add the uk had the largest u biat flet aswell and to top it all off fighting with a home field advantage. A german naval invasion would have never made it 10km from the port of callis
Hitler: I cannot believe that that tiny island actually stood up to us!
Napoleon: First time?
Kaiser Wilhelm: Are you f*cking kidding me??
All it cost us was everything. Rubber dinghies now do, what the Kriegsmarine didn't even bother to dream of.
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@@nervousmeBecause Polandball
@@Lonka12 ?????
Becoz the country ball universe draws Poland the other way round
It’s kinda sad tbh, Britain supported Europe by itself for so long. Then at end when all was said and done and Britain’s debt was humongous and not a single country offered to help with their debt. And all voted to end reparation payments
Yeh was a smart descision from America stopped any competition became standard currency they still do it today undermine Europe what can you do if only they didn’t fund Ukraine energy and cost of living would be way lower in Europe and many lives would be saved but what can you stop in the name of freedom
Europe always treats Britain like shit, that's why we hate EU😢
@@itsssabhiherefacts
@@itsssabhihere we hate the EU?
Huh, I've always been a European Federalist.
@@robertlavery6896 I am talking about a general perspective not an individual's
Britain did fight alone for about a year. The other countries you mentioned didn’t fight a major battle until 1941
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Yeah, that's a load of bullsh*t.
@@occam7382would you explain how or are you just gonna lie and spread misinformation because u don't like Britain? Or is it the usual America #1
@@AlphaKennyBody12, it's at the very beginning of the video. Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, India, the Polish government-in-exile, the Norwegian government-in-exile, the Belgian government-in-exile, the Free French, Greece, etc. Britain was definitely doing the heavy lifitng in the second half of 1940, but it was not in any sense of the word fighting the Axis all by itself. Especially when you consider that most of the fighting wasn't anywhere near Britain itself.
And then along came Canada... casually making the list of war crimes bigger for the 2nd time now
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Something that's implied here but not explicit: British culture sees ourselves as an underdog. As a nation, we don't like to be over confident, we never underestimate others' abilities, and we like to overprepare. It's the mindset of the British Bulldog - we may be small, but if you come into our kennel we're gonna bite.
It's based on our history. It sounds strange considering our colonial history, but Britain/England spent most of its history worried about being invaded. Probably up until Napoleon's defeat that was a constant fear. It was also a big part of why England wanted permanent troops in Scotland and Ireland; so they couldn't be landing bases for an invasion. We've mostly seen ourselves historically as an underdog and under threat from a European power.
@@Sir_Gerald_Nosehairs. This is interesting and makes sense to me! I'm a bit of a linguaphile, and I love noticing the influence of many different languages on English - usually through invasion. I learnt recently that words we use in Yorkshire aren't slang, they're hangover from the Danelaw and Norse influence. E.g. "owt" and "nowt", and even "summat" instead of "something". If you look up their etymology, it's really interesting..!
(except when it comes to football, then England fans have a tendency to be get on the piss and act like entitled dickheads) ... I say this as a teetotal England fan, it's bloody annoying! But, as an ex-RAF man, you're spot on. The thing is, we KNOW our military is undersized (it was when I served from 2003-2010 and is even smaller now), it's underfunded, the personnel are underpaid (£25k per year on average, when you think that any full time job on minimum wage from April 2025 will earn you £23k per year, they're woefully underpaid), the equipment is pretty shit - the SA80 (L85) was a piece of shit from the off, the A2 variant was a little better and the A3 variant a little better still, but an absolute waste of money when there were a whole bunch of tried and tested weapons available "off the shelf" that would have been cheaper. And lets not even mention the stupidity of some of the contracts! Not sure how true it is, but I remember hearing from some Army guys that we bought some Apache's from the Americans and when they were delivered they didn't include the software to make them work, that hadn't been included in the contract to buy them, we'd only bought the hardware, so had to pay more to get the software.
Also due to our size, we value every person as opposed to just sending in numbers, hence our training was very good, for example the sas
"If the British Empire and its Commonwealth should last for a 1000 years, men will still say, this was their finest hour"
And he was right
British empire didnt last 1000 years
The full quote was the British empire and it’s commonwealth which the commonwealth still exists
@@jeremigawkowski9775 therefore he's vacuously right
@@alfred7846 exactly
Well, it's been downhill ever since at least...
The UK was the equivalent of that one friend who survived the team fight and patiently waits until the right moment to go to the reboot van
then the team mates ran away and left us :(
"your the last one complete the mission"
the intro reminds me of the scene in Anchorman where he's lamenting his loss of his job and his social group and then at the bar it pans out and the news team were there the entire time
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If you asked this question to British people at the time, they would definitely talk a lot about the moral cause. It's reasonable to point at other reasons with a historical perspective, but I think that should be included. In history, there's always an assumption that nations only ever act in self-interest, but that isn't really true. People are people, and people like to do what is right.
The British population was overwhelmingly against war in 1939. Very few people cared about some German city in Poland that Germany wanted.
@theAEDan True that people were against starting the war, but the question is why Britain stayed in it after the initial defeat in France, at which point the brutality of the Germans was clear.
@@cazza358 the brutality of the Germans was clear? Again, false. The Germans deliberately refrained from bombing England, still hoping for peace. Between 1939 and 1942 13 separate peace deals were sent to Britain and Churchill refused to even allow parliament access to their contents to debate them. Not just that but the French army was allowed to march through France after its defeat with full decorations and honours by the German high command, so their “brutality” was very much up in the air. If you mean their combination of combined arms warfare then I think what you would call brutality most would simply refer to as superior tactics and use of technology.
@@cazza358most of that was effective British propaganda though. That’s not to say the people didn’t believe in the cause and were very strong-willed though. And eventually when they saw the fall of france and their cities being hit, that would have riled them up. Also the reason why the people didn’t want war because ww1 was still in the memory.
The sheer thought of a better empire than Britain is what makes us angry. In words of megamind.
(Uk to rest of 1900’s Europe)
“You’re a villain alright, but not a very good one”
Slight correction: the quote is actually, "You're a villain, alright. Just not a super-one."
Britain: I FIGHT ALONE!!!!!
Governments in exile, Polish volunteers, THE REST OF THE EMPIRE: ummm..... we are here?
Britain: … like I said, I FIGHT ALONE!!!!!
Britain: I call upon all of the British watermark gang!
@@XXXTENTAClON227 To be clear, Soviet Union was worst offender here.
They were fighting alone for a certain time everyone else was defeated or that were just supporting and not actually fighting or being attacked
@@ThemoonsFullofgoons-qn9xlFought alone in the European theatre. Sino-Japanese was ongoing years before this.
Some of the very bunkers which were made in the British Isles in case of an invasion have not been found yet because of that well hidden
I’m British and the quote ‘certain eventuality’ is most formal for British people!
I WILL WAIT ALL NIGHT IF I NEED TO
Im edging
I will poop before that
Am in toilet 🚽
Lil bro went through a whole damn day 💀
@@IkeaOrca569im egging in you
RULE BRITANNIA 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
World war 2 secured the end of Britannias rule, and it was all for international finance.
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14:26 yes yes yes yes 🏳️🏳️🏳️🏳️🏳️🏳️🏳️🏳️🏳️🏳️🏳️🏳️🏳️🏳️🏳️🏳️🏳️🏳️🏳️🏳️🏳️🏳️🏳️🏳️🏳️🏳️🏳️🏳️🏳️🏳️🏳️🏳️🏳️🏳️🏳️🏳️🏳️🏳️🏳️🏳️🏳️🏳️🏳️🏳️
finally
Same
Why y'all hating on my boi france
@@Croissantjean cause they eat frogs and snails and are cowards
@@Croissantjean Jealousy and frustration.
“This confidence came from a very good source… the fact that they were wrong.”
Writing at it’s finest
Poland getting winston motherfucking churchill to say UwU is crazy 😭😭😭😭
I love this wwII series your doing! I hope you continue this🇨🇦
You’re
0:10 you’re not the UK you’re Ezekiel
I like this its simply just fun
No this is Patrick
@@CallMeEzekiel Real
@@CallMeEzekielhello is this the krusty krab?
@@Nugget_Mapping-sg4dl No this is Patrick
Can't wait for another great video, love from America ❤️
As Brit I’ll answer your question….
….BECAUSE WE HAVE BALLS OF BRITISH STEEL 🇬🇧☕️🦁🏏
"YOU CANNOT BARGAIN WITH A TIGER WHEN YOUR HEAD IS IN ITS MOUTH!" -Winston Churchill after someone proposes surrendering
The peace offers suggested by Germany were far from surrender. International finance was desperate to end the German regime and their bought and paid for puppet, Churchill, was happy to oblige them.
i love the emphasis on _alone_ because here in new zealand we aren’t taught much on what we did during the world wars, it’s not really taught unless you ask; which kinda sucks because it _is_ apart of our history. i remember being taught our nations history and then we just skimmed over the two wars, upset at that; i did my own research and our people performed a lot of great feats
one of our nations sports icons had a grandfather who shot down a V1 rocket, isn’t that fucking insane
Don't worry mucka, same here in England. We got to the treaty of Versailles and German hyperinflation and then jumped all the way across to the founding of the UN.
The ppl of UK knows what your country done you ppl are hardcore and that is facts.
@JP_TaVeryMuch Well you can't have people proud of their nation and history, can you? Might make them care about what happen to it
@@iggyzeta9755 Hear hear!
If we're still allowed to say that.
Because the sequel had to be crazier than the original.
real
Didnt expect the big man to be here
*Great War Two: OilFuelled Boogallo*
It begin as tragedy, it repeat as satire. Russia 2022...
man is the typa guy to wanna go back to the sequal
Luxembourg carried the Allies and defeated the Germans single handedly 🇱🇺🇱🇺🇱🇺
You cant forget monaco
Ah yes Monaco they defeated the Italians@@cheezpuffs3734
Spit your shit indeed 🗣️🗣️🔥🔥🔥🔥
Ah yes Monaco defeated the Italians, how could I ever forget 🇲🇨🇲🇨🇲🇨
And how can we forget about Andorra the nation that liberated the entirety of Africa by itself with no assistance GOD SAVE ANDORRA 🇦🇩
you're so underrated man keep up
God damn we was lucky to pick Churchill to lead the way
And even luckier for Sir Halifax to not accept the role of prime minister, that dude wanted to surrender from the very get go
If you think the poison gas was mad, you should look into the Petroleum warfare department. Oil reserves were massive in 1940, well beyond what required. If the Germans did come ashore, they had a plan to set fire to the sea, greek fire style and cut off any landing forces. They were alsp responsible for the myriad flame weapons used by britain during the war.
1:00 Can we say you have some sort of motivational talk? That's a darn motivation!!!
What an excellent documentary. Cheers pal.
Britain didn't give up because Ireland said "If you surrender no balls"
Ireland was neutral
@@JanosBanics it's Ireland
Ireland had to help the U.K put down the IRA as the Germans were helping them with supplies and dropping German operators in the country.
@@JanosBanics its ireland bro
SAYORI
We literally were talking abput this in history class. Good that i have this video to revise everything
One man, alone! Keeps on fighting!
bro this was the BEST channel about countryballs what i meeted
lovely, was watching this while hungover. ended up violently vomiting while you rambled on about the raf lol
THIS IS A MASTERPIECE!!!!!!!
outstanding video bro keep up the good work and continue to drop videos like this
1:38 yo, Iceland with a top hat!!!
He got sponsored by PolyAI it’s over guys..
Ryan Gosling time.
why what does polyai do? or why is it bad
I use poly so to talk to HILTER😊
I swear that cute little canada in the beginning wrecked my heart.
"It was luck that put the english channel between me and the germans"
But it wasn't luck who built the largest and most well trained navy in the world. If germany had a better navy, the channel would be an inconvenience and mean a hard naval landing, but it wouldn't be impenetrable for germany as it was in our time
4:05 what is Poland texting there 🤨📸
28:19 Iceland mentioned!! That puffin looks amazing
Cant wait for the next video
Omg! Other country skit at 1:00 was amazing!
Thanks dad! ;)
very underrated keep up the good work!
I honestly find it hard to believe that people choose not to subscribe. I'm not saying this to look like a bot or to be noticed but rather that I'm actually disappointed on those people who voluntarily refuse to do so
Maybe because people don’t want notifications on channels they’re unlikely to want to continuously watch and there’s no real reason to subscribe if that’s not what you want
Probably because they’re sick of being fed propaganda.
I like this guy, but i like having no notifications too
RUclips is ran by algorithms now, and if you so much as watch one video then RUclipss algorithm will show you every video they ever make.
Sometimes you don't even need to watch their video, sometimes just hovering your cursor over a thumbnail so that it starts playing is enough for the algorithm to think you're interested, and start recommending you their videos.
I regularly watch around 20 channels that i have not subscribed to or ever turned on notifications for, their new videos just appear on my home page and i can watch from there.
@@commanderdon4300 yeah, but supporting them in someway is nice too.
UNDERRATED VIDEO 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
🏳️ 14:20 look it’s not delusional to hate the French
Well i hate you too :)
Fair🤷♂️
I agree it's not delusional 🏳️🏳️🏳️🏳️🏳️🏳️🏳️🏳️🏳️🏳️🏳️🏳️🏳️🏳️🏳️🏳️🏳️🏳️🏳️🏳️🏳️🏳️🏳️🏳️🏳️🏳️🏳️🏳️🏳️🏳️🏳️🏳️🏳️🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎
The TF2 scout laughter at the scene of Poland with plunger made me laugh
It is so funny with the baaaaals. Thx Subscribed.
24:48- Those 2 planes in the back look a bit clipped. The barber must have taken too much off the back!
Holy hell I hadn't realized this and It made me laugh so hard
They're experimental Wunderwaffen designed to win the final victory
@@CallMeEzekiel will you ever do China during World War II
Edit: will you also talk about before World War II in China
Just by the opening I can see the existential threat to once powerful colonist ready to fight for their own past arch nemesis in a twist of empathy, holy s&#$!
peak cinema
Bro deserves so many more subs
This is one of my favorite videos! 😃
As a british person who was luckily NOT in ww2 nice
1:20 this picture goes hard ngl.
This 30 minute video does a better job at explaining Britain right after the fall of France then the two hour long interview with Tucker Carlson and Cooper.
The two hour podcast mentioned world War two for a little over 8 minutes, all of which was just bashing Churchill for being a warmongers moron (a truth, he forced Aussies and Kiwis to march to their death at Galipoli)
@@cashisfunsobuythings First, it was actually more like 20 minutes but I’ll give you that. Second, as for Gallipoli, yes, Gallipoli was a disaster, yes, Churchill bears responsibility for it. However, why is it We only talk about Winston Churchill, and his blunder at Gallipoli when the battle on the western front was so much worse. Here’s an example. Commonwealth soldiers at Gallipoli suffered over 115,000 casualties. (killed and wounded). At the Somme they suffered over 300,000. And at Ypres they suffered over 500,000 yet all we remember is Gallipoli as the big disaster in the First World War. Everyone else wasn’t doing so much better either. The Italians got slaughtered fighting the Austrians. The Austrians got slaughtered, fighting the Russians. The Russians got slaughtered fighting the Germans. The French got slaughtered, and the Germans got slaughtered. It was almost as if no one knew how to fight a war on this scale and we’re learning as they went. So before you label Winston Churchill as the worst officer in the entire First World War You might want to take a look at Field Marshal Douglas Haig, field marshal Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf and general Luigi Cadorna just the name a few. 100 times worse than Churchill.
@@thanos9447I think most people focus on Churchill and his screw ups because society paints him as this heroic figure, when in reality he was an incompetent drunken war mongerer who pushed for Britain to join and then continue fighting the war, selling out his empire in the process. The guy was a hack and people like him and FDR need to be reexamined because they were both incompetent fools.
In the skies above the isle, Aces in exile prevail
Its magical how the british empire stood without help of like 25% of the world's population
Completely. Alone. ☕🇬🇧
I was about to play a game, but I saw you upload and I think my priority is watch you first
I like how you put “Hitler has only got one ball” at the end of the video
3:17 Everyday we stray further from God's light.
Because there’s no Tea in surrender
its said that churchill once had a dream where ronald mcdonald and wayne gretzky came down from the heavens smokign a fat blunt and saying "churchill. the US is gonna drop a massive bomb thatll eradicate a huge chunk of a population on one of the axis powers" and then that one guy from squatopia came rolling in and churchill knew his duty
And Churchill said alright, but we'll design it for you and do all the research and you can go ahead and keep it after the war even though we did over 50% of the work and had an agreement
Dang, these vids are solid.
Another amazing Video from you
i wish you could a 2 part series of the philippine revolution and the filipino-american war. That'll gain you alot of views
WHY IS THUMBNAIL SO DAMN BEAUTIFUL
I subscribed
Man, I love these
26:33 damn life just gave him lemons that he couldn't make lemonade out of.
24:50 someone help my plane has been sawed in half
bro is so good keep it up :)
0:50
It's a bit of a sad statement but, if the UK and Germany went through Peace Talks, there's a good chance that the UK would still be a major Superpower in the modern world.
Sure, the US would've still rose up eventually, as well as the USSR, but the UK would've been part of a "Big Three" scenario had their Empire not crippled under the weight of BOTH World Wars from start to finish. None of the other major powers of these conflicts did the same... sadly, it cause the British Empire dearly.
The Commonwealth is atill alive and well, but it just ain't the same.
so in the end it’s not a thing the UK could have risked, if germany invaded britain successfully, europe would have been doomed likely until the germans eventually lost the cold war to the americans and collapsed
I love the colonel bogey march from the Bridge on the River Kwai at the end of the video ❤️🇬🇧
0:15 the context of Europe for 1000 years
"Never in the course of human history was so much owed by so many to so few"
Churchill has always been good at creating myths.
Peak is on the way 🙏🙏🙏
Bush has spoken
Germany had the advantage of nobody wanting war, and so everyone tried to avoid it. Except Germany. So they had a great headstart with military readiness and combat plans.
And greece dont forget bro 1:26
24:51 Erm... I don't think those two planes at the back are airworthy...
usa in the background sure thing uk now here are a bunch of old ships we were about scuttle just sign the dotted line. oh and don't mind the fact they are a bit rusty.
Despite how bad it may have looked, you don't give up when you are destined to win.
3:43 i saw that . . .
😛😛😛
cowards in parliament wanted to abandon western europe and churchil fought for them and wanted to send in the military earlier but obviously we started too late and it ended at dunkirk!
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, i already saw the first 2 minutes on stream so i dont need to pause to write this
"A small sea protect me was not in the original script"
Nah you ain't slick with that ad. I saw that💀💀💀😭😭😭
The moment the plunger stuck onto France, all I could hear is "I am not a TOILET!!!!".
High quality.
You really should put more attention on Canada in the Battle of the Atlantic; we were actively fighting a huge percentage of that battle and I think by war’s end we had like the 3rd or 4th largest navy in the world. (Though I admit my patriotism might be muddling my numbers a bit) As well as the BCATP; we trained at least a plurality of the Commonwealth Air Force for much of the war.
Canada ended the war with the world's third largest navy. In no way a downplay of other empire countries or contributions, but the simple fact is without the Canadians the UK would probably have lost both WWI & WWII.
@ without a doubt. At least the way it’s taught here, we were the primary food and war materials providers in both conflicts until the U.S. joined in. Statistically we also had the highest enlistment rate of the allied powers from what I recall in at least one of them. 2nd war I think it was, Halifax shipyards were putting out a cargo ship per day to keep up with losses to U-Boats.
Also, fun fact from my time in high school, following the retreat at Dunkirk, the only fighting strength regular forces large unit in Britain was a Canadian one that had arrived too late to deploy to France. In the battle of Hong Kong, I think, it might have been Shanghai, the last unit to surrender was the Canadian garrison. Held out almost to the last