Why Laos is the most bombed country in the world
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- Опубликовано: 18 апр 2023
- This video is a remake of an old video, because the old video does not meet my requirements anymore.
If you think about a heavily bombed country, Laos doesn't often come to mind, but during the Vietnam War, the United States dropped about 270 million bombs over the Southeast Asian country, making it the most bombed country per capita in the world.
That is the equivalent of one plane load of bombs every 8 minutes, 24 hours a day, for 9 years.
The goal was to disrupt enemies' supply lines,
or if pilots could not complete their original mission, they also used Laos as a dumping ground to unload the bombs before returning to the base.
About 1/3 of the bombs didn't explode, still posing a threat to this day.
Roughly 50,000 people have been killed by these unexploded bombs since 1964.
However, since 1993, the U.S. has provided Laos with about 5 million USD per year for unexploded ordnance clearance, which sounds like a lot until you realize
that the U.S. spent about 16 million dollars a day for 9 years on bombing Laos.
This video is a remake of an old video, because the old video does not meet my requirements anymore.
Laos was the bad guy in the Vietnam War. They helped North Vietnam invade and conquer the independent country of South Vietnam. They aren’t any different from North Korea or WWII Germany. And they deserved it all
@@0IIIIII they didnt deserve it. Did japan deserve the 2 nukes?
@@0IIIIIIis this what they teach you in American schools?
@@deutschermichel5807 everything I typed is an indisputable. What would you do if you were US or South Vietnamese, and Laos was running weapons to support insurgents in your ally or your country?
@@deutschermichel5807why do you think Loas is the good guy? Would you want to live under them? Or North Vietnam? Look at what they do. They are no different than Germany in WW2
If it is done by the US, it is not a war crime
Yes, they used to dictate wether they will invade any countries and not accountable at all..
@@lynlopez-palma4467why do you think Laos was innocent? The Laotian communists allowed North Vietnam to run weapons of war into South Vietnam. They were the bad guys aiding North Vietnamese war of conquest
Who said this wasn’t a war crime?
@@vihailevagi the US but they rule the world
@@Lidavaz_ The US never said that it was or wasn’t a war crime. The US also help to get rid of the bombs and apologize.
I’m Laotian and my dad would always tell me stories of how him and his family would hide in a dug out bunker my grandfather built and would wait for when the bombs stop falling.
And current generation is busy hauling ass for those very murican firms to earn livelihood😂 what a hypocrite lot.
At that time USA did everything to subdue Vietnam and Laos but we never surrendered 💪🇻🇳❤🇱🇦
It's funny when Americans talk about the warcrimes of countries like Russia , Japan etc but they never talk about the horrible things they committed whether it was killing innocent civilians in Iraq or bombing Laos which has a effect till this day where people are dying because of the bombs they dropped which didn't explode
Sometimes it's funny to see other countries criticized and lectured by the world for warcrimes but never the US.
tbf japan’s war crimes were a LOT worse than the things in iraq and we are giving aid to Laos today
Fun fact, I recently learned that the US has a law in place allowing the us to invade the Netherlands in the case of any US citizens getting arrested by the international court of law. The US talks about war criminals yet is willing to invade the Hague to get American war criminals out
@@013aanikhfds so? It's like saying I broke your leg and here have a dollar
@@shiyian I think we should be paying more to help out but Japan should be paying crazy reparations
It’s not a war crime if you don’t lose
And Americans call others terrorists. 🤨
Almost every country would be considered terrorists
@@sinisterwrecks I dont think it is a competition.. and sayin other countries did that too doesnt means US is less bad
@@sinisterwrecks I dont think it is a competition.. and sayin other countries did that too doesnt means US is less bad
@@user-ti5ze3nj1s I never said it makes the US less bad.
Every country has their own terrorism, sadly...
It's surpising to know that old bombs from the Vietnam War are still dangerous
Why is it surprising? What do you think is surprising? Bombs that didn’t explode are still able to do so, why wouldn’t they be?
Victims still suffers from Agent Orange till to this day
@@jirachi-wishmaker9242 Indeed, even children with deformities are still being born until this day.
@@snipertrader206 the whole country of Vietnam suffers under the authoritarian regime that the US was fighting to extinguish
@@0IIIIII more like the regime that fought for their independence against the French colonizer 😂 as the matter of fact, they didnt suffer, the majority supported the regime. Thats why the insurgence in the South Viet cong existed.
Insane and shameful what America did to laos 🇱🇦. Kids still get blown up by those bombs to this day. America needs to help get rid of those 💣
I already thought it is a mind-blowing fact that there still are around 200.000 active land mines in Croatia and Bosnia as a result of the Yugoslav wars, but this is on a whole other level. The US should be held accountable for this horrible war crime. I just feel so terribly sorry for Laos...
Yes, it's crazy
we’re literally paying for bomb clearing operations…
@@013aanikhfds Watch the last ten seconds of the video and you'll realise that the amount of what you "pay" is not much and hardly a reparation. The damage which the US has inflicted on Laos is tremendous.
@@013aanikhfds the usa spent 525.6 times more money bombing laos then they gave in aid
@@013aanikhfds tell me you're ignorant without telling me you're ignorant. It's literally stated at the end of video. Guess you're kind of people that comment first, watch the video later. Smh
USA every 5 years: Let's invade a new country for oil and call it "They need democracy".
Dumb
@ahmadhijaz9194the US was totally justified to attack Laos, they had the Ho Chi Minh Trail and were supporting the North Vietnamese regime
And right on cue, the American's bootlickers :
"The US was totally justified to attack Laos" 😂
@@royalroyal2210well it’s true. The North Vietnamese and Laos started the Vietnam War with the intent to annex South Vietnam
@@0IIIIII to unify them from the hands of the French, dont you dare left out the detail of US colonizer friend after WW2
"Sir we've been bombing a whole different country sir, that is not the vietnam sir"
The Ho Chi Minh Trail ran through Laos, meaning it was a legitimate military target
Worst thing here is that Laos was neutral during the vietnam war
Laos was not neutral during the Vietnam War. The regime was an ally of North Vietnam
@@0IIIIIIDo you know the meaning of “neutral during the war”
@@endless_ch Cambodia and especially Laos were not neutral during the Vietnam War. To say so is to ignore reality. They each ran the Ho Chi Minh Trail through their territories, allowing North Vietnam to arm Viet Cong insurgents.
Bill Maher: Why do they hate us?!
They hate us because they are/were our enemies. They killed people indirectly by helping North Vietnam run weapons to groups like the Viet Cong, and killed South Vietnamese. They are horrible people
Laos nor Vietnam don’t hate the US
@@vihailevagiEveryone does. They just play nice and wait for your inevitable demise.
@@1994mrmysteryman Then why is Vietnam so pro-American?
@@1994mrmysterymanthat’s pretty funny, anyways so who are the ones that are facing population shortages?
That means that there are about 1,134.6 bombs per square kilometers... Crazy
You gotta think Laos has never gone to war yet it’s the most bombed nation in the world.
And westerners now crying about Ukraine like they are peace keeper of the world lmao
Never where and never acted like that
@@Martmij07 westerners are crying about how brutal, evil, fasist Russia is. That makes me wanna vomit because of their hypocrisy. You are one one them aren’t you?
Cry about it. Whatever crimes the us committed in the past doesn’t mean Russia is now free to commit the same crimes
Yes because it’s an invasion of a sovereign nation, The US was DEFENDING the south, now I don’t agree with it either way since the Vietnamese wanted independence but the US declined recognizing it as an independent state the French are to blame here, either way Russia still is in the wrong for invading a sovereign nation
USA be like -It is not war crime .
It is freedom of Bombing 😅
Don't forget the massive anti-war movement
And that the US citizens attacked Vietnam veterans for the atrocities commited
America is ashamed for what they did in during that war
@@CiderVG😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Thankfully, my parents were born in Vientiane, Laos. So I don’t have to weepy about that, but to the people of Laos, I pray that they will not lose the chance of living and hope they dodge death.
They Laos as a bomb dump yard ??? 💀
Yep basically
Japan: I am getting attention!!!!
Laos: Give me attttentiooon!
Malta: pwease see me
Poor Malta
Henry Kissinger
The world : US, how much bombs do you want to waste on innocent people ?
US : Yes
Laos was not an innocent nation, they were running the Ho Chi Minh Trail and were legitimate military targets
@@0IIIIIIthe bombing are still a war crime
@@0IIIIIIso... They were never involved in the war
@@0IIIIIIToo much, Laos gave us some road to transfer weapons and Usa bombed them like that. Too much !!
@@0IIIIIIregardless if it’s not an innocent country, 270 MILLION bombs though?? the United States bombed Japan TWO times.
Fun fact Laos was not even involved in the war 😂
well acktuhaly 🤓🤓
nah legally they weren’t lmao, you right.
They kinda were. They helped North Vietnam by letting them use a trail in there country he even said it in the video
@@mr.bf1107 officially bro relax
@@amoghmannik wym?
@@mr.bf1107 on paper Laos was not taking part in the war
Great powers trying to not commit warcrimes:
How is it a war crime to bomb Laos? They were helping North Vietnam attack South Vietnam
@@0IIIIII Laos wasnt even in war lol.
@@somer573the Vietcong was using Laos as a travelling route to south veitnam
@@ethanschultz960 still its not justifiable to drop millions of bombs on country that didn't participate in the war
@@0IIIIII the same like Iraq bro.
270,000,000 bombs? Are you sure?
80,000,000 of which are still unexploded yes
Thailand: haha I’m the air base🤑
That’s what they get for supporting communist regimes who invade and annex South Vietnam
Vietnam secret Service : Thailand ! Your airport is so beautiful :))
Respect to Laos from Indonesia 🇮🇩🤝🇱🇦
Damn we really are the bad guys aren’t we?
Strange how he didn't mention the fact that the Laotian government wanted us to bomb their invaders being they couldn't effectively fight back
Your government alongside everyone that votes for it are
You assume Laos was an innocent country. They were not. They not only were a corrupt dictatorship, they helped another corrupt dictatorship, North Vietnam, make war upon South Vietnam. Laos was the bad guy
In the Vietnam war not really. There wasn’t a good nor a bad guy in the war.
@vihailevagi they were the bad guys, if vietcong was bad then it means both sides were bad but USA was worse nonetheless
Reading about Pol Pot made me realize just how much of a shit show was happening there. Americans only think of vietnam war from their pov but FAAR deeper shit was going on between various factions across various borders.
The Marqo empire keeps expanding its colonies
How many innocent civilians were killed in those bombing raids?
270 million?? The US dropped around 18 million bombs in total over Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos, so thats literally impossible, i think if we added up every bomb ever created we still wouldnt have 270 million! I think where you are getting that number is that the US dropped an estimated 270 CLUSTER MUNITIONS on Laos as a cluster BOMB usually carries between 100 to 200 bomblets inside it. But 270 million conventional bombs? No way 😂
The bombs are mostly in the sparsely populated areas though.
The planes where not raining bombs but freedom 😂😂
“The US has benign intentions”
The US was fighting the corrupt and cruel regime in Laos. And attacking the Ho Chi Minh Trail. It was all justified. If you were South Vietnamese you would agree.
Just some benign bombs filled with freedom & democracy
@@royalroyal2210why do you think it’s bad to bomb regimes
I am lao just whatching this makes me sad
So 50’000 pp died on Lao my countr.
270 million! are bombs like 5 bucks a piece or something!
They had to scrap Gold Standard in 1971
GUYS , not a war crime
52 billion..
Wie man am Anfang mega stark Hören konnte das du deutsche bist min friend UwU
Für Wasser und Bier
And they still bitching Russia for the Ukraine war
Because the US and Ukraine are democratic, they are morally superior to regimes like Russia and Laos. Wars against regimes are good, wars against democracies are bad. Because democracies are good guys
As they should
Yall really try to justify Russian invasion cus usa did warcrimes too??
This does not justifies Russia's agression against Ukraine.Russia must be held accountable for what it's doing currently 🇺🇦
Laos got that bomb rizz
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Laos deserved it for helping the NVA and VC
And you guys are evil incarnate
Why do you label Hainan Island as "Marqo"?
Its a gag he does
Laos really beat Bosnia
Malta chilling
$5 million, seems accurate and plenty of funding to find and disarm bomb/missiles. much less than the cost of R&D, 96, Transport, Training
And they werent even in the war
Laos was indeed in the war. Laos allowed North Vietnam to run the Ho Chi Minh Trail into South Vietnam. They were running weapons into a sovereign nation to fund Viet Cong terrorists
What's marqo?
It’s his thing he does in his videos, he will put his channel’s name in random places and “claim” them
He puts his pfp over areas as a way of watermarking it and making sure nobody steals his videos
And still up to this day america still shock why they are being terrorize.
Wait .. who exactly is terrorizing America lmaoooo 😂 stfu
Laos was an enemy nation helping another enemy nation, North Vietnam and the Viet Cong, make war against the independent country of South Vietnam.
Because they did a crime like any other country in the world? The groups 'terrorizing' the US and its allies end up getting obliterated.
That’s kind of Laos fault for getting involved in the Vietnam war.
@@0IIIIIILaos wasn't even involved with the war
@@jefferson5772lol read history. Laotian communist regime allowed North Vietnam to run the Ho Chi Minh Trail through Laos into South Vietnam. They deserved everything they got and more for helping the bad guys make war against South Vietnam
Yes
Bro i lived from vietnam💀💀💀💀💀💀💀
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Bombaclap
It's Malta
270 Million? Cmon! Sure there were many dropped but that high. Lol It's actually 2 million tons worth of bombs.
there are roughly 80,000,000 bombs left unexploded, so obviously it was more than 2,000,000
I’m loas but live somewhere else
Cause they want Laos to be there country but Laos military leader is the bravest in Laos and help Laos to be safe there 3 million bombed in Laos it use 9 years 12min and
Japan w w w w w ww
And usa is still safe and act as a good guy
It is? Just because it did a 'crime' in its past like any other country doesn’t mean it’s not.
@@vihailevagi bruh usa is shit
@@TheRustedGentleMan When you saved the world from communism and your aid to different country have save over a 100 million people. And your the global leader in the creation and promotion of human rights. And made the UN and NATO for world peace. And stop Iraq from taking over Kuwait, free Kosovo from Serbia and help Yemen, Somalia, Afghanistan, Ukraine, Taiwan, etc in its war. Your the party to many human rights treaties and, unlike many other nations, abides by those treaty commitments. The U.S. has led the charge to hold violators of human rights to account, including fighting hard for imposing Security Council sanctions on the Sudanese government until it stops supporting the militia groups that are committing genocide in Darfur and helps to restore order to the region. Done more good than any country In the world. Than yes, you are the good guy.
@@vihailevagi exactly
@vihailevagi USA literally when into Iraq and kill innocent citizens
I am laos
ALMIGHTY Kaveeer God
freedom and democracy 😊
Don't forget the massive anti-war movement
And that the US citizens attacked Vietnam veterans for the atrocities commited
America is ashamed for what they did in during that war
I don't see invading another country is freedom...
Tell that to your presidents, invading Ukraine is genocide, but invading Laos is democracy.
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china, us, russia, the eu.. we are truly rules by statnic villians
The amount of people calling this a war crime is astounding. Just because a country you don't like did something you don't like, that doesn't mean it's a war crime. Is it unethical? Yes. But it's not a war crime
Like, the dude didn't even call it a war crime in the video. Anyone calling it such is doing it either by their own volition, or they have been misinformed by others
Lol? So the video's creator has to say something too obvious like that? It's like I would say that it's not a crime stealing or killing people just for money because I don't consider it like that. It's non-sense..
@@Erich_C what? It's the exact opposite of your "example". The US puts itself to higher standards than what the Geneva Convention outlines, and those standards were mainly made after the Vietnam War. The US's rules of engagement don't override the Geneva Convention, they add onto them. In your "example", you ignore the Geneva Convention. Very different things, and an obvious attempt to try and change the meaning of my comment
@@NickSmith-fe7lpDid you ignore the part about 50,000 civilians killed just because of the unexploded bombs.
Such standards. Wow.
@@1994mrmysteryman Did you just ignore the part where I said that most of the new standards were put in place after the war?
Such fine reading skills. Wow.
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The US is a gift that keeps on giving.
fun fact the 6,000,000 pound of bombs dropped in the vietnam war was a toilet
W USA
How? How it a W too commit war crimes on a country
Ginormous L
Didn't the US lost the viethnam war?
Imagine losing having numeric and tecnologic superiority
But its the US so they’ll never be held accountable (:
I am going to take down the US government
Why do people think bombing a hostile nation during a war is a war crime. Do you people know what the point of a war is?
Cause laos is neutral in the Vietnam war
Is like bombing Switzerland in WW2
@@88Expert no Vietnamese troops were pouring through Laos in order to encircle American troops
@@88Expert it’s like bombing Switzerland in WW2 if Nazi forces were moving through it
@@f_homo-s no they were neutral btw calling it an unofficial war is a war crime
Why?
wrong the most bombed is Cambodia
Well dude its laos
the Khmer Rogue were working with the US on disrupting the Viet Minh, this is verifiably false
Bro failed geography