Trump's Biggest Failure

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  • Опубликовано: 15 окт 2019
  • Well... this took longer than expected.
    I am sorry you had to wait so long for me to finish this video, I had some reading to do, then write the video, record the audio, and then the editing itself, which took a month and two weeks. But then again, you voted for this video.
    As I described it when I put it up to be voted on, I believe Trump's single biggest failure as a president is his handling of China and the way his ineffective and lack-luster foreign policy allowed for a communist dictatorship to rise and build a superpower within a block of unfree states that can even rival the United States and has by now even found ways to influence the politics of democratic nations.
    I would like to underline one thing though. I despise the "orange man bad!" "Dump Drumpf" political culture developing in the United States, in which even Trump's opposition just constantly meanders about pointless and meaningless things rather than actually criticize the president's stupid policies. With that in mind, videos I will be making about the election as 2020 approaches will be more focused on looking at and critiquing actual policies and not about pedantic nonsense. Because I genuinely believe that Trump has been a terrible president, but the reason why the U.S public complains about him has nothing to do with why he is terrible.
    I hope you enjoy this video. It's long because I believe for people to understand the gravity of the situation one needs to have a basic understanding of Chinese history going back a few thousand years, from the many Dynasties of the Han, Qing and Yuan, to the century of Humiliation, to the brutal civil war between communists and the Kuomintang, to the founding of the Peoples Republic of China, to where we are now, which is China is a world power that actively challenges America's role in the world. The Belt and Road initiative that builds a new silk road, the Chinese Dream policy, and doctrine, the String of Pearls strategy, it's influence of Australian and European politics, and the way it created and opened markets in African nations such as Kenya are all discussed here in a historical context, that I hope will give you much insight. I hope you will enjoy it.
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Комментарии • 39 тыс.

  • @elmerkado
    @elmerkado 4 года назад +27567

    Just wondering why so many chemists become world leaders: Angela Merkel, Xi Jiping, the current Pope, Margaret Thatcher.

    • @Kraut_the_Parrot
      @Kraut_the_Parrot  4 года назад +4399

      Here is an interview with a Chemist who went into politics on that exact topic:
      www.chemistryworld.com/features/political-chemists/3004738.article

    • @unifieddynasty
      @unifieddynasty 4 года назад +4203

      Because they are the danger. 😃

    • @punctuationman334
      @punctuationman334 4 года назад +395

      elmerkado damn he unpinned you.

    • @jasonmartin4775
      @jasonmartin4775 4 года назад +1568

      @@unifieddynasty They are the ones who knock.

    • @unifieddynasty
      @unifieddynasty 4 года назад +213

      @@jasonmartin4775 Ayyyyy lmao

  • @preuisch8171
    @preuisch8171 4 года назад +11268

    "The english and Dutch tried sailing around Russia, where they only found...more Russia"
    lmao

    • @rage_squid9641
      @rage_squid9641 4 года назад +550

      I like the idea of Russia just endlessly expanding, east Russia cannot be stopped

    • @nope1906
      @nope1906 4 года назад +31

      Lol this killed me 😂

    • @Amantducafe
      @Amantducafe 4 года назад +25

      Funniest part is that its true!

    • @lordmike9384
      @lordmike9384 4 года назад +17

      Rage _Squid they need to learn how to make more babies to continue endless expansion in russia.

    • @archiemeijer9978
      @archiemeijer9978 4 года назад +10

      @Bernie love There is a lot to be ashamed of in American history. But there is a beautiful ideal which could truly make American great (for the first time) if we endeavored to live by it.

  • @TheAmazingDolph
    @TheAmazingDolph 4 года назад +10483

    “China is a sleeping giant. Let her sleep, for when she wakes she will move the world.” ― Napoleon Bonaparte

    • @ezzy7151
      @ezzy7151 4 года назад +1176

      @@maverickfalcon4856 yeah dude I'm sure you know more than fucking Napoleon. Goddamn the west has some stupid fucks

    • @MrTeddy12397
      @MrTeddy12397 4 года назад +254

      @Dieu Lui-même it is in chinese culture to cheat and lie.

    • @SmallDoki
      @SmallDoki 4 года назад +368

      @@maverickfalcon4856 ''trust me i know''

    • @yulifts1873
      @yulifts1873 4 года назад +254

      @@MrTeddy12397 Yes its in your culture to eat shit for breakfast

    • @user-nt1pm8dw3q
      @user-nt1pm8dw3q 4 года назад +430

      @@MrTeddy12397 I used to be director of the CIA. We lied, we cheated, we stole. We also have a course dedicated to these, which is the glory of America's continuous exploration and progress.---------------------------彭斯
      Don't worry. We're just copying your American morality

  • @nicholasavasthi9879
    @nicholasavasthi9879 Год назад +729

    Correction on the use of latin in that trade interaction with the British. The latin being used was not Roman latin and it wasn’t because the Chinese thought Europe still spoke latin. It was Ecclesiastical Latin because the Chinese translator was educated by Portuguese missionaries. So he spoke Portuguese and Ecclesiastical Latin but not English. And the English trade mission didn’t speak Portuguese, but they did speak Ecclesiastical Latin which at the time was basically spoken by all high society europeans. So Ecclesiastical Latin was the intermediary language used.

    • @Vitorruy1
      @Vitorruy1 Год назад +84

      thanks, I hate when those mundane stories are exploited for shock effect

    • @lilomorales6181
      @lilomorales6181 Год назад +3

      That's so interesting! Thanks 🎉❤

    • @beentheredonethat1525
      @beentheredonethat1525 Год назад +4

      potato,potarto .. cogito ?

    • @myosotis4507
      @myosotis4507 Год назад +12

      Just hearing it I thought why would they even have learned latin from the Romans when the two civilizations never actually met or established formal diplomatic relations prior to at least the 600s and 700s, when the Roman Empire spoke greek?

    • @PavelSedlak
      @PavelSedlak Год назад +3

      Ecclesiastical Latin and Classical Latin are the same language though, with minor difference in pronunciation, end even smaller difference in grammar and vocabulary.

  • @ikkenoe3086
    @ikkenoe3086 2 года назад +1393

    i would love to see a sequel of this video which takes into account all the unexpected thing that has happened since but also wow the world has changed a lot these last three weeks

    • @giovannarossi5094
      @giovannarossi5094 Год назад +20

      how did the world changed in the last 3 weeks?

    • @hika5251
      @hika5251 Год назад +15

      @@giovannarossi5094 corona

    • @survive7771
      @survive7771 Год назад +70

      *years

    • @ace1767
      @ace1767 Год назад +19

      i agree. Kraut does a good job presenting this information and he is good at finding it.

    • @VijoPlays
      @VijoPlays Год назад +27

      @@hika5251 Ah yes, that one famous Corona outbreak in 2022!

  • @minhacontaize
    @minhacontaize 4 года назад +2667

    "Those who beat, forget it easily,; those who got beaten, never forget it." - Portuguese Saying

    • @goncalocarneiro3043
      @goncalocarneiro3043 4 года назад +21

      Diz-me amigo, diz-me a versão original para saber como soa.

    • @minhacontaize
      @minhacontaize 4 года назад +68

      @@goncalocarneiro3043 "Quem bate esquece, quem apanha não esquece."

    • @rubenneto6198
      @rubenneto6198 4 года назад +28

      @@goncalocarneiro3043 Quem bate nunca se lembra, quem apanha nunca esquecerá.

    • @nfspbarrister5681
      @nfspbarrister5681 4 года назад +38

      Betrayal works too in that analogy

    • @najlepszekiwi8761
      @najlepszekiwi8761 4 года назад +92

      Ah yes, my favorite speaker, Portuguese Saying

  • @leitflux
    @leitflux 4 года назад +3887

    I feel so stressed out. You have singlehandedly changed my viewpoint on how strategic thinking has shaped the world. Many thanks.

    • @ezzy7151
      @ezzy7151 4 года назад +231

      International relations 101

    • @meganh9460
      @meganh9460 4 года назад +35

      check out peter zeihan. He did the same to me.

    • @sasha6454
      @sasha6454 4 года назад +26

      Yes. Check out the Neo-realist school of geopolitics. They definitely manage to stress me out.

    • @andrewduan5123
      @andrewduan5123 4 года назад +171

      @@sasha6454 this isnt really neo-realism as much as it is liberalism at work. When studying international politics I've always noted that China has been very adept at using 21st century concepts of soft power in international relations

    • @infidelheretic923
      @infidelheretic923 4 года назад +80

      Something Trump is decidedly poor at.

  • @TheMCCraftingTable
    @TheMCCraftingTable Год назад +346

    I clicked this video thinking I was going to hear an hour of American history & Trump's foolishness. Instead I got educated on how things came to be and Geopolitics 101 of the 21st century.

  • @RandomLorence
    @RandomLorence 2 года назад +520

    0:00: A Prelude
    5:17: The Beginning of the End
    10:54: A Millennia of Solitude
    14:47: How we Got Here
    20:12: The Story of a Man, and his Nation
    28:11: Old Means, Old Goals, New Dreams
    45:07: Those Pesky Democracies
    58:09: Tom & Jerry
    1:06:23: Conclusion

  • @n484l3iehugtil
    @n484l3iehugtil 3 года назад +3921

    Expected the latest Trump controversy
    Got a lecture in china and world economic history until the last 5 mins instead
    10/10 would get educated again

    • @Corn_Pop
      @Corn_Pop 3 года назад +85

      Dude tries to sound smart, but provides no alternative solutions. High-level Orange Man Bad. "Anyone but Trump" can't be the solution when Beijing Biden is the alternative.

    • @beefstew3927
      @beefstew3927 3 года назад +201

      @@Corn_Pop I don't know about Biden's view on China. A few days back he called China's treatment of the Uighurs genocide, but I actually don't know the full picture.

    • @jgsh8062
      @jgsh8062 3 года назад +498

      @@Corn_Pop The point of the video isn't to provide alternate solutions. What in the title made you expect alternate solutions to be provided? You're supposed to form your own opinion on what should have been done. It's called free thinking - heard of it? It's the basis of our democratic system

    • @treetrr4893
      @treetrr4893 3 года назад +62

      @@Corn_Pop America is in decline from here on out no matter who is president.

    • @Pronghornleghorn24
      @Pronghornleghorn24 3 года назад +257

      Corn Pop he never even suggests “anyone but trump” as a solution. He was just stating what he saw as Trumps biggest mistake of his presidency at the time he made the video. As for “sounding smart” he puts more information behind his argument then you tried to in your attempt devalue his claim

  • @aloncorp
    @aloncorp 4 года назад +8809

    Too short. What is this tiktok?!

  • @erichodge567
    @erichodge567 11 месяцев назад +88

    I did not mean to sit here for an hour watching this video, but I did. An absolutely compelling piece of work.

  • @jaarneal
    @jaarneal Год назад +45

    Interesting that this was made 3 years ago, long before the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The final takeaway that capitalism and prosperity does not eliminate authoritarianism is a notion that became much more widespread after that. Particularly in Europe.

    • @youtubeviolatedme7123
      @youtubeviolatedme7123 Год назад +2

      To be honest, we had already seen authoritarian capitalist states before China. Pakistan being the first example that comes to mind.

    • @boozecruiser
      @boozecruiser 11 месяцев назад +6

      Capitalism is an inherently authoritarian system. Property rights as envisioned by capitalists require extensive judicial and law enforcement bodies to enforce the abstract idea of a billionaire thousands of miles away having exclusive control over hundreds of square miles of oil fields, rather than the more intuitive and natural conclusion that the people who work and live on the land are entitled to their share.

    • @boozecruiser
      @boozecruiser 11 месяцев назад

      Capitalism isn't the reason that Europe is largely open and democratic, our history of middle and lower class struggle against the ruling class is what we have to thank for our freedoms

    • @youtubeviolatedme7123
      @youtubeviolatedme7123 11 месяцев назад

      @@boozecruiser
      I agree that most contemporary liberties are a result of common folk victories against the elite class, and that capitalism will fall under the broad umbrella of "authoritarian" ideologies.
      But capital is not necessarily protected through legal institutions. Billionaires get rich through deregulation.

    • @poptraxx418
      @poptraxx418 5 месяцев назад

      @@boozecruiser shut up with your socialist nonsense

  • @lillyie
    @lillyie 3 года назад +5850

    "So, what's trump's biggest failure?"
    It all starts off with England, Spain, Netherlands and Portugal finding a new trade route to China
    "How is this related to trump?"
    *WE GET THERE WHEN WE GET THERE!*

    • @Glace1221
      @Glace1221 3 года назад +421

      1 hour and nine minutes later:
      "And so ends the tale, of our friend, the biggest fuckin idiot to ever run the US."

    • @ALWH1314
      @ALWH1314 3 года назад +298

      @@Glace1221 hence Chinese was hoping for another Trump term, 😂

    • @thatoneneeko2131
      @thatoneneeko2131 3 года назад +108

      @@ALWH1314 hard chinese patriots actually do tho.

    • @gunk2184
      @gunk2184 3 года назад +9

      @@thatoneneeko2131 oh yess

    • @lishalou761
      @lishalou761 3 года назад +138

      @@Glace1221 I am not a trump fan, but if you think he is worse than the idiot we got in office right now you don't know what an idiot is.

  • @serikxen2965
    @serikxen2965 4 года назад +4461

    Humanity's largest problem is underestimating the severity of a problem.

    • @syrehn7684
      @syrehn7684 4 года назад +233

      True. were basically doing this with climate change. And what people in the US are doing with covid.

    • @stevebanks9848
      @stevebanks9848 4 года назад +219

      9 months late sorry
      I say humanity's greatest flaw is that it fails to accept the obvious fact that man is a cooperative species, and not a competitive one
      Once all of mankind decides to cooperate, all of mankind will prosper in ways we never thought possible

    • @monkeydetonation
      @monkeydetonation 4 года назад +20

      In a word, arrogance

    • @fooksengloke3625
      @fooksengloke3625 4 года назад +7

      CraZy That is why there are civilisation states which continue to survive over centuries and nation states which flourish for a hundred years or two and then enter a long period of darkness.

    • @axcel9128
      @axcel9128 4 года назад +6

      CraZy lol when it‘s greedy and selfish to want all people to cooperate shoudln‘t everyone want it and it would completely render your argument about „human nature“ obsolete since you like, contradict yourself?

  • @Vitorruy1
    @Vitorruy1 Год назад +29

    Didn't click on the video despite a billion recommendations because i was tired of hearing about trump all the time, now I wish I clicked on it sooner

  • @fabs3674
    @fabs3674 3 месяца назад +15

    The prologue got me so hooked up that I forgot this was about Trump

  • @GaijinGoombah
    @GaijinGoombah 3 года назад +13348

    This is actually one part history and two parts geopolitics and economy. It's an absolute MUST watch for anyone who cares about either.

    • @ryanmatahari3960
      @ryanmatahari3960 3 года назад +55

      So its three parts?

    • @Borderose
      @Borderose 3 года назад +34

      Hey Goombah.

    • @wisemage0
      @wisemage0 3 года назад +19

      I want to get inside those boombas.

    • @chase9316
      @chase9316 3 года назад +195

      I'm a historian, and can say absolutely that this video, historically, is inaccurate in many aspects.
      It wasn't until the golden age of sail that European, Mediterranean, or African nations could deal with China for it's goods directly. And at that point China's big claim to global economics was the fact that it produced a lot of tea, leading to the opium wars, and the "Golden Age of Humiliation".
      The reason China produced goods that everyone wanted between 200 bce, and 1400 ce, was it produced silk, and no one else had sick worms... it was a technology that they kept secret, until silk worms were smuggled into the Byzantine Empire giving THEM a global monopoly on silk.
      How was it a monopoly if they both produced silk??? Great question. I'll get to that.
      You see... the problem was for the almost 2000 years the fastest way to get from...say... Rome to China would be to ride a horse...
      But it's 6,000 miles to China from Rome... and it's not all empty land. In order for someone to actually go to China from Rome in... say 53 ce, would be extraordinarily difficult. It would be incredibly expensive to keep buying provisions, incredibly dangerous to travel in uncharted lands, and incredibly difficult because after about 100 miles in any direction... languages start getting fuzzy, and you would need to successfully navigate through maybe a hundred different areas of language influence... on a horse... to do so, and...
      THEN YOU WOULD NEED TO DO IT AGAIN TO GO BACK.
      Which raises the question... If it's extremely unlikely that any one person was able to make it from Rome to China, or from China to Rome... How did Chinese silk show up in Rome in 53 ce at the battle of Carrhae?
      Simple... Trade.
      There were dozens of kingdoms, and nations, and peoples along the Eurasian Steppe, and China would trade with one, and that one would trade with the next, and the next... down the line... and a couple hundred years later, you have Silk all the way to Rome.
      But the Romans didn't know about any "China" and the Chinese didn't know about any "Romans". Even though we know there was Roman coin in China, and Chinese silk in Rome...
      To these great nations, the items just came from mysterious lands far far far far away...
      So... to say that early history was economically based on China is logical fallacy. In fact... The more important people, were the ones who were in a position to control the trade of goods... Chinese or otherwise... through centrally located trade, and military might.
      That's why as soon as they had silk worms... the Byzantines got a monopoly on the Silk Trade, being a centrally located nation, with larger networks of trade and military might...
      Who took out the Byzantines? The Muslim Armies... Who controlled the trade after that? The Muslim Armies, and at this point it was more known as the spice trade, than the silk trade anyway... with everyone wanting easy access to Middle East Spices.
      But the Europeans don't like to trade with the Muslims... so in the 1400s, which is a point in history where most people know that China is a thing, but not where it is, or how to get to it... the Portuguese trying to explore the southwest waters in the name of God Gold and Country, find china... The British find them soon later: Opium Wars.
      So there's never really a time in history where China is the focus of Economics, or Geopolitics until the Modern Day Era.
      They were just a small nation that traded with those around them, nothing truly significant. It's not just silk that got traded along the "Silk Road" from china, not just chines goods either, but Salt, Spices, Clothes, Iron, Food, Medicine, Luxury Goods.
      Silk was just one really good Luxury good that china happens to produce, but it was just ONE kind of good. Where hundreds of things changed hands hundreds of times before it got to another nation.
      In short... While china produced Silk... that didn't mean everyone in history was focused on China. The levering for trade routs had nothing to do with the fact that it was Chinese originated goods being traded. There have been lots of wars fought over Spices and Salt, and anything you can think of. This video had over hyped the importance of China in history.
      EDIT 10/17/2021: Lots of good points from comments after I posted this! It's true that the way China sees China and the way the world sees it, especially the western world, often collide... the way the video shows China is closer to how it sees itself in those regards. It's also true that China didn't just produce silk, it also produced other important luxury goods that nobody else did like porcelain, and that in general my comment might be slightly Eurocentric. However, It's still true that this video was inaccurate in many respects, and probably politically motivated...
      Last time I'll be in this thread, stay healthy everyone!

    • @Borderose
      @Borderose 3 года назад +52

      @@chase9316 China's important for the region. A lot of its neighbors were former tributaries and wangdoms of the Chinese Empire.

  • @danielbcd7620
    @danielbcd7620 3 года назад +796

    "Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake." - Napoleon Bonaparte

    • @theclimbto1
      @theclimbto1 3 года назад +44

      Goes back to Sun Tzu, and he likely had heard it long before it was attributed to him. :D

    • @bindukopparapu2795
      @bindukopparapu2795 3 года назад

      @Kiro Nartiti Trump's whole term

    • @JoaoOliveira-dp6xp
      @JoaoOliveira-dp6xp 3 года назад +39

      “Let China Sleep, for when she wakes, she will shake the world" - Napolean. He literally predicted China's rise to world power centuries ago.

    • @thnkng
      @thnkng 3 года назад +17

      If I had a nickel for every time someone quoted napoleon bonaparte on the comments of this video, I'd have to nickels. Which isn't much, but it's weird it happened twice.

    • @potatopotatoeOG
      @potatopotatoeOG 3 года назад +1

      @@theclimbto1 lol

  • @rickiex
    @rickiex 5 месяцев назад +37

    Did you seriously just explained almost 500 years of history portraying to major issues the current world is facing in one hour?! God dam.
    As an amateur historican, you did an amazing job cover major events that is critical to the topic, amazing work!
    Im honestly hurt you explained something that took me days if not weeks studying in one hour lol

  • @Baurles
    @Baurles 2 года назад +28

    12:30 I am not sure if this is an entirely correct description. The first British trade mission, headed by Macartney, did indeed speak Latin with the Qing but not because the Chinese believed them to be Romans, but rather that was the only language they shared. Jesuit priests and missionaries had been one of the few contacts with China, and therefore some in the Chinese courts were well-versed in Latin, but no one spoke English. And the British ambassadors, as classically learned men, also spoke Latin. It was just the only language they shared. The Chinese therefore spoke Latin beacause of recently-arrived foreign Catholics, not because they had kept educating some scholars in Latin for over 1600 years just in case the Romans would return.

  • @greatscott636
    @greatscott636 3 года назад +5272

    The fact that they kept Latin alive in isolation for a 1000 years is damn impressive.

    • @marcosalexandre3150
      @marcosalexandre3150 3 года назад +214

      Portugal colonizou uma pequena parte da China chamada Macau, levando um pouco de latim vulgar para lá, algo como 0.3% da população de macau hoje em dia fala português.

    • @asuUcKa
      @asuUcKa 3 года назад +74

      @@marcosalexandre3150 amazing

    • @10z20
      @10z20 3 года назад +513

      I'm 99% sure the claim is completely wrong, I can't find that anywhere. This whole video is full of easy inaccuracies. I think Kraut misunderstood the Wikipedia page: "The mission brought along four Chinese Catholic priests as interpreters. Two were from the Collegium Sinicum in Naples, where George Staunton had recruited them. They were familiar with Latin, but not English. The other two were priests returning to China, to whom Staunton offered free passage to Macau.[2]:5[5] The 100-member delegation also included scholars and valets.[6]" The priests knew Italian and Latin but not English, because they were Catholics studying in Naples.

    • @subatenome
      @subatenome 3 года назад +256

      ​@@10z20 I would love to have a look at his sources. He honestly says so many interesting things that I wish I could check out in more depth. It's a shame I suppose....

    • @lunar58071
      @lunar58071 3 года назад +31

      They say its a dead language but I dont think its gonna die anytime soon

  • @holydoggo4822
    @holydoggo4822 4 года назад +3278

    this feels like brain4breakfast and that makes me happy, i miss him

    • @squifftopher
      @squifftopher 4 года назад +165

      me too

    • @theArab__
      @theArab__ 4 года назад +174

      Oh god...he is in a better place, still I can’t help but miss him

    • @jacklee-xc1dj
      @jacklee-xc1dj 4 года назад +19

      @@theArab__ Better place as in...?

    • @holydoggo4822
      @holydoggo4822 4 года назад +147

      @@jacklee-xc1dj he is dead, he passed on to whatever there is after life

    • @MPHJackson7
      @MPHJackson7 4 года назад +189

      I knew I wasn't the only one who got a Brain4breakfast vibe from this.

  • @Tom-iv3nd
    @Tom-iv3nd 6 месяцев назад +9

    Actually that girl that you said was arrested and publicly shamed for criticising the Chinese state wasn’t actually arrested for that, she’d been doing things like running illegal gambling and stuff.

  • @orange8420
    @orange8420 4 месяца назад +32

    classmate, teacher : "why china has a beef with USA ,and why china wants taiwan sooo badly "
    Me : "it all started in the valley of the yellow river in BC 3000"

    • @HWDragonborn
      @HWDragonborn 21 день назад

      Reminds me of Tucker Carlson's interview with Putin

  • @nickplosiveli4927
    @nickplosiveli4927 3 года назад +8559

    I feel like a criminal for watching such quality content for free

    • @dead.pirate325
      @dead.pirate325 3 года назад +219

      Honestly this is more terrifying than entertaining it is like a prophecy all this happened because democratic super power elected a clown. And the risks are higher cuz it only takes one authoritarian clown to push a nuclear button

    • @WhiteNoize01
      @WhiteNoize01 3 года назад +26

      "quality content" the guy in the video literally just shit out neoliberal corporatism talking points. At one point he implied TPP was a good thing lmfao. This is some shit I would expect to see on MSNBC.

    • @Primight
      @Primight 3 года назад +53

      ​@@WhiteNoize01 A good thing for America, not so good for the rest of the countries. But as far as America forcing it's copyright and trade laws on other countries it would have been great from them.

    • @WhiteNoize01
      @WhiteNoize01 3 года назад +23

      @@Primight TPP would have been terrible for the United States. It would have absolutely destroyed all manufacturing jobs and turned the midwest into Detroit. Hell, TPP was so bad it's practically the reason why Trump won in the first place. Voters in the rustbelt refused to vote for Hillary Clinton on the basis that she supported TPP and called it "the golden standard".
      Any time you try to expand trade with 3rd world countries, it screws American workers and benefits corporations. They will always outsource their labour when they can, and TPP was only going to make that easier. Again, the entire video was pretty much neoliberal talking points that you would expect to find on MSNBC.

    • @AdityaDeo-cg6eu
      @AdityaDeo-cg6eu 3 года назад +1

      @@WhiteNoize01 well atleast it was entertaining. I always expect biases. There are so many conflicting opinions that i don't even know what to believe.

  • @JakeMcGrawType10
    @JakeMcGrawType10 4 года назад +1383

    And the Chinese refused the British trade offers, in Latin learned from the Centuries dead Romans.
    Hot damn I just got chills. Awesome history.

    • @luska5522
      @luska5522 4 года назад +99

      Then the British forced Opium into the chinese market using smuglers and then, the east india trading company. The First Opium War began.

    • @ShibalotonSeattle
      @ShibalotonSeattle 4 года назад +147

      This really sounds awesome but sadly it is not what happened. The reason that Chinese were using Latin at that time is because the Qing court had diplomatic relationship with the Holy See, one of the only two western powers who China had contacts with, the other one was Russia.

    • @Heating56
      @Heating56 4 года назад +34

      Imagine? The Romans vanished over a thousand years ago, and your empire just didn’t know or didn’t care. Through the dynastic cycles, even those who knew of Rome must have thought the great empire was simply a traders myth from a thousand years ago

    • @alniseschrenkek6348
      @alniseschrenkek6348 4 года назад +32

      @@Heating56
      Ironically, Europes downfall was caused by the same ignorance, the ignorance towards/of Romes greatness. The moment the renaissance kicked in, we took over the world. The moment we accepted and celebrated the greatness of Rome, was the moment we made China our bitch, over night.

    • @matthewlaurence3121
      @matthewlaurence3121 4 года назад

      A coda or foreshadowing, if it were a work of fiction.
      Now the shoe is on the other foot.

  • @TheCanadianLEGOShow
    @TheCanadianLEGOShow Год назад +10

    What China is critically lacking is freedom. To use a good metaphor, the USSR attempted to burn Europe to get what it wanted, but this only made democracy stronger.
    China uses its soft power, and now rather than that Soviet fire, the Chinese hold democracy under a lighter, and hopes it will melt, but it slowly makes democracy much stronger. We see this after COVID as well that the lighter of China has made our democracy stronger. The public view of China is only getting worse and this is what China cannot get around.

    • @kronicturbo8327
      @kronicturbo8327 Год назад +2

      The public view is getting bad because of your media house lol it was the same propaganda for Japan when Japan was the 2nd biggest economic powerhouse. And your dumb public already shows your racial hate not only to Chinese people in west but to other Asian people in west. lol yellow peril is real y'all are pus*y

    • @dopaminedreams1122
      @dopaminedreams1122 Год назад +2

      @@kronicturbo8327 you sound like an insecure tankie, keep crying about made up issues you micropenis virgin

    • @u2beuser714
      @u2beuser714 4 месяца назад +3

      What makes you assume that they want freedom? Did you watch the video at all? No offense but it clearly stated that what you view as a drawback in china they see it as a strength not everything is viewed by western lences there. Furthermore , so what if more countries view china negatively? There are also many countries specifically in the "global south" that views china positively even according to pew and that doesnt mean that people will view china negatively in the future anyways for example, before covid many countries viewed china positively according to pew research. So the fact that many countries view china negatively says nothing about its potential soft power at all

  • @kl-je3up
    @kl-je3up 9 месяцев назад +6

    crazy to watch this video again 3 years later and look at what has changed since. still an incredible video

  • @astrzt1463
    @astrzt1463 4 года назад +1591

    you know,In Chinese social media there is this meme that trump is a spy for the ccp

    • @UniDeathRaven
      @UniDeathRaven 4 года назад +108

      fake news
      Edit: anime is gay

    • @yuchenliu1140
      @yuchenliu1140 4 года назад +58

      @Santiago Мorena oh man, that would be too many links to give

    • @user-zj7qp8jr7b
      @user-zj7qp8jr7b 4 года назад +251

      @Santiago Мorena It's kind of a tradition from Obama's time.One time he visited China and was given a gift( tiger rune虎符) which is usually given by emperors to their generals .Some people in China think that's funny and make a lot meme about it. When Trump take the presidency the meme continues , that's all

    • @fredwu7169
      @fredwu7169 4 года назад +293

      @Diogo Silva 1. You forgot the 700,000 Chinese oversea students and millions of Chinese immigrants worldwide.
      2. You don't know that VPN is legal in China, some are free, and almost every University in China obtains VPN for scholar researchs.
      3. Nobody need to "propagandize" China if they actually visit and explore it instead of doping anti-China media.
      4. Conspiracy theory no longer work in 2019.

    • @docjaji5071
      @docjaji5071 4 года назад +31

      Fred Wu exactly

  • @zimgodo
    @zimgodo 3 года назад +2070

    "The English and the Dutch tried sailing around Russia, where they only found more Russia"
    lol

    • @zesa9867
      @zesa9867 3 года назад +20

      ikr that one was good lol

    • @emporerjragon2122
      @emporerjragon2122 3 года назад +4

      I read this as he said it.

    • @magnusthered4946
      @magnusthered4946 3 года назад +37

      Except there even more russia 🇷🇺
      The Dutch and english be like “WHEN DOES IT END "

    • @Nutty151
      @Nutty151 3 года назад +18

      Russia wraps around the Earth.

    • @firestorm-1154
      @firestorm-1154 3 года назад +13

      2:22 - 2:27

  • @Shohaiko
    @Shohaiko 10 месяцев назад +7

    Here in the Czech Republic, our last president Miloš Zeman used to make outrageous claims whenever a newstory about chinese expansion in the Czech Republic broke. Eg.: There was a newstory about chinese spies in the czech nuclear sector, and the day after the story broke, Zeman made a national statement where he adressed the danger of the LGBTQ+ community. Thank god thats past us now!

  • @josiahmodaff6406
    @josiahmodaff6406 Год назад +25

    I would love to see a part two.

  • @jhibbert6627
    @jhibbert6627 4 года назад +2699

    The history of Vietnam is basically just a long series of vibe checks.

    • @melvintirtayasa4497
      @melvintirtayasa4497 4 года назад +315

      And Vietnam passed most of them

    • @jvhousing5576
      @jvhousing5576 4 года назад +191

      Miserable and honorable history of my beloved country 🇻🇳

    • @jhibbert6627
      @jhibbert6627 4 года назад +143

      Melvin T Vietnam was doing the vibe check, China, France and USA all failed and got kicked out of the country.

    • @jackjack7062
      @jackjack7062 4 года назад +65

      @@jhibbert6627 Nah, the us is the only country beaten by vietnam. France made it a colony and China made it a side kick. The infos in this vid is obviously from the us perspective and an anti-trump perspective

    • @user-uk3nh9qx5h
      @user-uk3nh9qx5h 4 года назад +68

      @@jackjack7062 Your are right. Comparing with the ability to rule vietnam, USA is indeed the wrost since vietnam was ruled by china for nearly 1000 years and ruled by french for several decades while USA did not even stand there for ten years...

  • @Ataniphor
    @Ataniphor 4 года назад +3537

    never heard of this channel before but this is the first time Ive ever seen someone just straight up drop a 1 hour long comprehensively edited and researched video just like that. absolutely glorious. didn't think Id actually sit through the whole thing but it was just too well done with many insights Id never considered before.

    • @phantomtq
      @phantomtq 4 года назад +104

      Same here. Too pity western powers seriously underestimated china

    • @stevepreston5742
      @stevepreston5742 4 года назад +171

      @yehoutube My dude, China is committing genocide right now, as we type.

    • @alynthequestseeker3017
      @alynthequestseeker3017 4 года назад +172

      @yehoutube should I go into detail on the massacres of the Han dynasty? The incredible amounts of death and destruction spread by the Shang and Zhou dynasties? No? Then perhaps you'd prefer to observe the cold and calculated campaigns of the cao clan. And note i haven't even started on the mass slaughters of the mode modern Chinese state. The horror that was the communist movement that killed tens of millions.
      So maybe take your oversimplification of the West being evil and kindly shove it up your ass. Humans in power do terrible things on a pretty regular basis. And if we're just counting bodies, the West doesn't even come close to the East.

    • @JohnSmith-hz7te
      @JohnSmith-hz7te 4 года назад +8

      *Very Western - centric*

    • @iouvxz
      @iouvxz 4 года назад +12

      Actually all these talking points are no news to me ,but it's so well researched ,I have to give him a thumb up .

  • @dbacks2023-
    @dbacks2023- 16 дней назад +2

    This video completely formed my view of the world, I feel like I never had one before. My eyes have been opened. Truly opened.

  • @normanclatcher
    @normanclatcher Год назад +27

    This is officially my fourth time watching this video, from start-to-finish.
    It never gets boring.

  • @justinc.5591
    @justinc.5591 3 года назад +2773

    “Are you capitalist or socialist?”
    China: Yes.

    • @pvstee
      @pvstee 3 года назад +49

      they are communist

    • @TheAN94
      @TheAN94 3 года назад +376

      Capitalist economy, socialist government.

    • @pvstee
      @pvstee 3 года назад +19

      kek top they are a communist country there’s no point in arguing

    • @FlammeundFeuer
      @FlammeundFeuer 3 года назад +151

      They're national socialist, basically, from a structural point of view. Seriously, if you take out the race ideology out of historic national socialism and look at how the NSDAP saw the roles of party, state and economy, you can clearly see the parallels.

    • @starman275
      @starman275 3 года назад +15

      They are actually Pinochet 2.0, seriesly, Pinochet went to China to teach.

  • @keephappy114
    @keephappy114 4 года назад +1892

    *watches first few minutes*
    "Hey this isnt about Tru-"
    *"We'll get there when we get there"*

    • @edwardgiovannelli5191
      @edwardgiovannelli5191 4 года назад +112

      the background added a lot of really relevant context and, I think, made the points that much stronger when he got around to them.

    • @denmarkyesh7366
      @denmarkyesh7366 3 года назад +25

      Oh god just realized this is 1 hour long

    • @bindukopparapu2795
      @bindukopparapu2795 3 года назад +29

      @@denmarkyesh7366 You should still watch it

    • @kebman
      @kebman 3 года назад +21

      Except Kraut is wrong about Trump. He has done more to address the situation than fully corrupt people like the Clintons ever could. And if you think big corp puppet Biden will do any better, then you are a special kind of stupid.

    • @keephappy114
      @keephappy114 3 года назад +32

      @@kebman except Trump is being nationalistic and not taking actiom?

  • @BackWhereYouStarted
    @BackWhereYouStarted Год назад +9

    This should be shown in schools.

  • @amandacollyer645
    @amandacollyer645 Месяц назад +3

    “They tried sailing around Russia, and found… more Russia”

  • @Glace1221
    @Glace1221 3 года назад +2093

    Imagine being so shut-in for so long, that the last time you spoke with a foreigner in a second language, it was in Latin.

    • @fren183
      @fren183 3 года назад +154

      The were ‘shut in’ from Europeans - trade still flourished between other Asian countries. Eurocentric view.

    • @battlez9577
      @battlez9577 3 года назад +7

      To have spoken to the Portuguese?

    • @jproductions1739
      @jproductions1739 3 года назад +72

      @@battlez9577 which is what they did. Latin was only used because no one knew both English and Chinese. The Chinese interpreter was priest who knew Latin.

    • @waterandfire5655
      @waterandfire5655 3 года назад +4

      That just sounds like my life tbh

    • @bentroyer1
      @bentroyer1 3 года назад +4

      @@fren183 dude your right that is also absurd ever heard of the concept of what aboutism?

  • @tamanwar203
    @tamanwar203 3 года назад +1321

    As a french, I like how france looks pissed all the time. Very realistic.

    • @JH-zs3bs
      @JH-zs3bs 3 года назад +54

      And carries wine and baguette all the time. Also realistic. The cheese is missing though. Guess Germany took it away :D Or China bought it.

    • @Tigershark_3082
      @Tigershark_3082 3 года назад +4

      France is cool

    • @tmsupreme7763
      @tmsupreme7763 3 года назад +44

      @@JH-zs3bs never ask in a chat of europeans who has the best cheese, it won't end well.

    • @tmsupreme7763
      @tmsupreme7763 3 года назад +12

      @@pineapple6672 nah mate, nothing tops dutch cheese

    • @azmolhossain9244
      @azmolhossain9244 3 года назад +2

      good, now ban hijab and get out of africa.

  • @prichardgs
    @prichardgs Год назад +9

    Wow, this is very thorough and expertly researched-Bravo. Joining.

  • @threelittlelemons
    @threelittlelemons Год назад +3

    I can't believe I just watched an hour long geopolitics video without getting ever bored

  • @blarg35
    @blarg35 3 года назад +1576

    "You do not open new markets or make new friends by calling them shitholes" didn't know this had to be said, but here we are

    • @christianbateman2
      @christianbateman2 3 года назад +31

      And yet pre covid your economy was booming.........

    • @tarfielarchelone2674
      @tarfielarchelone2674 3 года назад +58

      @@christianbateman2 stock went up, stock went down stock went back up lol

    • @nullskull6860
      @nullskull6860 3 года назад +14

      The point was strengthening US not trying to go making friends with useless nations. Those people need to figure out their own stuff and then you can start making friends. Besides wouldn't trying to be "friends" with a third world country be considered colonization or some crap?

    • @applez4life200
      @applez4life200 3 года назад +131

      @@nullskull6860 Geopolitics. These nations aren't useless. They are good sources of free labor or rare minerals for cheap and military strategy

    • @nullskull6860
      @nullskull6860 3 года назад

      @@applez4life200 like i implied i don't think that rich countries should take advantage of them. Plus i doubt what trump said really hurt these countries so bad that they now refuse to do business. lol

  • @loneranger4282
    @loneranger4282 3 года назад +4983

    This doesn't change the fact that in Antarctica there are 21 million penguins and in Malta there are 503,653 inhabitants. So if penguins decide to invade Malta, each Maltese will have to fight 42 penguins.

    • @kamilareeder1493
      @kamilareeder1493 3 года назад +318

      Asking for a friend, what are the penguins invading Malta for land, fish, cute bow ties?? 🇲🇹 🐧

    • @loneranger4282
      @loneranger4282 3 года назад +495

      @@kamilareeder1493 To have an outpost that they can use for their base of operations to later destroy all of humanity

    • @fillername236
      @fillername236 3 года назад +50

      @@loneranger4282 not sure if this is a joke or not. The penguins would die from heat and overextension than anything else. Plus all the predators in the Atlantic and Mediterranean that would have a field day munching some penguin.

    • @flintube2622
      @flintube2622 3 года назад +367

      @@fillername236 No! It was clearly not a joke. The UN and Nato have been warning Malta since 2014 to prepare for an organised antarctican penguin attack!

    • @seanyao7425
      @seanyao7425 3 года назад +21

      The Chinese dont want to fight because they are already scared shitless by your might!
      Long live the American dream! The Glory of world peace!

  • @TroIIingThemSoftly
    @TroIIingThemSoftly Год назад +48

    I'm surprised you managed to condense this into such a short video. This could well have been a 12-part documentary.

    • @Zohairshanteer
      @Zohairshanteer 10 месяцев назад +1

      N@zi

    • @takie9218
      @takie9218 5 месяцев назад

      ​@@Zohairshanteer z Zombie🤡💩

  • @bennyeo3422
    @bennyeo3422 Год назад +10

    idk if you read the comments here but this video is what disillusioned me with trump back in early 2020 before covid so thanks for that i really appreciate it

  • @yourewrong264
    @yourewrong264 3 года назад +531

    “When your enemy doesn’t know they are fighting a war, well they’ve already lost.”
    I think that’s the right phrasing of the quote but regardless it applies.

    • @philiplathrop9250
      @philiplathrop9250 3 года назад +3

      Thank you for realizing the importance of this video

    • @shawnwarrynn8609
      @shawnwarrynn8609 3 года назад +2

      Is that a Sun Tzu quote?

    • @yourewrong264
      @yourewrong264 3 года назад +5

      Maybe, I don’t know but I figured it was a good summary of what China is doing right now.

    • @shawnwarrynn8609
      @shawnwarrynn8609 3 года назад +3

      @@yourewrong264 Well it is a good quote, none the less.
      It just seems like somthing Sun Tzu would have said. Or perhaps it could be a quote by Machiavelli.

    • @yourewrong264
      @yourewrong264 3 года назад +9

      Sun Tzu said something really similar, “Don’t interfere with your enemy if they’re in the process of destroying themselves”

  • @ErikNilsen1337
    @ErikNilsen1337 3 года назад +1492

    "And the Chinese rejected the offer... in Latin. Because that was the language of those Europeans they had the trade deals with."
    I find this humorously unsettling, and I don't know why.

    • @SunnySzetoSz2000
      @SunnySzetoSz2000 3 года назад +6

      sad?

    • @samkul1699
      @samkul1699 3 года назад +107

      its probably because of the fact how little china's outlook had changed while looking at westerners

    • @CockatooDude
      @CockatooDude 3 года назад +133

      Also probably due to the fact that it's insane how entire empires had risen and fell during the time between China making trade deals with Europeans.

    • @bobjones2959
      @bobjones2959 3 года назад +241

      It's actually not entirely true. The reason they rejected it in Latin wasn't because China was so ignorant and ass-backwards that they thought the Brits spoke Latin just because they were from Europe, it was because the Chinese had no one available who knew English and the Brits had no one to translate Chinese. The best they could manage was a Chinese priest from Naples who could speak Chinese and Latin (but not English). He'd translate the Chinese into Latin, and the British guy leading the expedition to China, Lord McCartney, could then understand some of it because he had learnt a bit of Latin in college.

    • @bobjones2959
      @bobjones2959 3 года назад +50

      @@CockatooDude A few different Chinese Empires had also risen and fallen by that point. China's entire history up until the dissolution of Qing is basically a story of dynasties rising and falling, in a very simplistic sense at least.

  • @taliwalt5332
    @taliwalt5332 Год назад +2

    Damn, phenomenal presentation of how the game is played. I think I’ll watch it a dozen more times.

  • @J_cobra
    @J_cobra Год назад +24

    I think you should revisit this video and see what has changed over these past 3 years with everything that has happened. It definitely be worth the watch.

    • @doujinflip
      @doujinflip Год назад +2

      Might be too early to tell still. I'd imagine it will depend on whether Beijing successfully gets foreign investors and tourists to forget about Zero-COVID and all the supply disruptions (i.e. inflation) and put valuable foreign cash back to China's coffers, or if the West continues to divest from single-point-of-failure China and diversify towards a developing world that's eager for competition to what was once a Chinese monopoly on tangible upward opportunity.

    • @user-lg9kh8hg4r
      @user-lg9kh8hg4r Год назад

      ​@@doujinflip美元要死了,我们的领导人一直关注着。西方没有希望了

  • @whcolours9995
    @whcolours9995 4 года назад +761

    History never repeats, it just rhymes.

    • @NocturnalNick
      @NocturnalNick 4 года назад +52

      George Lucas just jizzed himself

    • @orangedalmatian
      @orangedalmatian 4 года назад +21

      Winnie the Xi is the key to all of this.

    • @Tunicofaria
      @Tunicofaria 4 года назад +8

      It's like poetry

    • @NocturnalNick
      @NocturnalNick 4 года назад +18

      Trump is a funnier president then we've ever had before, if we can just get him working...

    • @sydlawson3181
      @sydlawson3181 4 года назад +1

      Like the only worth while Mark Twain quote

  • @user-wv1in4pz2w
    @user-wv1in4pz2w 3 года назад +813

    this is one of the rare videos that will probably age like fine wine.

    • @dl5498
      @dl5498 3 года назад +44

      It's a year old. The eu has already started cracking down on China's influence

    • @donderstorm1845
      @donderstorm1845 3 года назад +80

      @@dl5498 won't change much. they also signed an investment deal with China, even though Biden asked them to wait. that's a signal to the US that they'll go their own way with regards to China.

    • @dl5498
      @dl5498 3 года назад +11

      @@donderstorm1845 that's not good

    • @donderstorm1845
      @donderstorm1845 3 года назад +39

      @@dl5498 yeah not good for the US lol

    • @dl5498
      @dl5498 3 года назад +42

      @@donderstorm1845 Eh, I'd rather have my country support the us over China. No one wants to hear their communist authoritarian bullshit.

  • @icantpursuewhatimtrulypass7335
    @icantpursuewhatimtrulypass7335 Год назад +145

    0:00 Chapter I: Prelude
    - Trading and taxes explained,
    - Rise and fall of China as worlds main trading partner
    5:19 Chapter II: The beginning of the End
    - How the USA rose to the top while China became unimportand
    10:57 Chapter III: A millenia of solitude
    - Explanation for Chapter II regarding China
    14:49 Chapter IV: How we got here
    - More recent development of China
    20:13 Chapter V: The story of a man, and his nation
    - Xi Jinpings life
    28:13 Chapter VI: Old means, old goals, new dreams
    - Cinicization
    - 34:00 How China gets it's power back (world distracted by Trumps election)
    - 41:00 What Chinas plans are for Africa
    45:07 Chapter VII: Those pesky democracies
    - 46:28 Australia as testing ground
    - 49:14 China increasing ownership of Australias drinking water rights
    - 51:40 Chinas european shopping tour
    - 54:07 Dutch and Germans get suspicious of increasing Chinese influence in Europe
    China influences European politics:
    - 54:30 FRA reports stop being made, vetoed by Greek government
    - French president proposes law against China buying strategic industries, vetoed by portugal
    - Mastermind: Chinas chief policy adviser Wang Huning
    58:09 Chapter VIII: Tom & Jerry
    Actual Trump stuff:
    - 00:59:47 A world distracted by Trump gave China the opportunity to expand its influence
    - 01:00:27 Pulling out of TPP
    - 01:00:44 Tariffs on chinese goods
    - 01:03:32 Trump imposing tariffs on Chinas biggest regional rival
    1:06:21 Chapter IX: 结束
    Political prognosis

    • @icantpursuewhatimtrulypass7335
      @icantpursuewhatimtrulypass7335 Год назад +9

      This is where the video gets really good 23:50 because it talks about what modern china is like
      34:40 might be where it starts talking about their strategy
      40:30 This is where it says Trump messed up, in the legislative level I guess
      43:00 China's current plans (Australia, Africa, and trade)
      50:00 europe
      59:10 More Trump, this time in getting attention, foreign relations, and more (really shows the worst of trump's inconsistency in geopolitical decisions)

    • @Meincrakker
      @Meincrakker 10 месяцев назад

      PIN THIS COMMENT !!!

  • @user-wy6mp3dv6v
    @user-wy6mp3dv6v 8 месяцев назад +3

    This was a very interesting, well-produced, great video. Thank you, man. You did a great job with this video.

  • @zixuan1630
    @zixuan1630 4 года назад +1452

    1800: European ports in China
    2020: Chinese ports in Europe

    • @gambitgamboa2685
      @gambitgamboa2685 4 года назад +22

      china getting raped by the world mainlander. huawei is killed by US, south china sea owned by asean alliance and you still couldnt take taiwan after all these years. pathetic country.

    • @nelsoncheng2674
      @nelsoncheng2674 4 года назад +7

      that's great, we can trade with Europeans more efficiently now.

    • @nelsoncheng2674
      @nelsoncheng2674 4 года назад +88

      @@gambitgamboa2685 u? where are you from? All of your self-righteousness is based upon you concealing your nation from the doomed-to-be-one-sided criticism. To say that ASEAN owns the South China sea would be like saying Guam has its own sovereignty. Also, US didn't manage to kill Huawei, it tried. Huawei has already prepared for this scenario for decades and the muricans are only playing into our hands. As for Taiwan, the time to retake Taiwan wasn't there, and it probably won't be here soon either. I know getting serious with you is the same as undermining myself, but your ruthlessly misinformed information makes my heart burn with the fire of justice.

    • @neraklh1017
      @neraklh1017 4 года назад +17

      @@gambitgamboa2685 If you called that rape, what happening in USA is a genocide, comrade Trump gonna head it all over to China in next 4 years.

    • @gambitgamboa2685
      @gambitgamboa2685 4 года назад +2

      ​@@nelsoncheng2674 Rofl yeah like China's claim to the ENTIRE South china sea with the nine dash line has any legitimacy. XI BEGGED Trump to leave Huawei alone via a "favor", maybe you should get caught up on the news that US blocked china from purchasing semi-conductors for Huawei recently. Yes Huawei prepared to commit suicide by cutting off its tech flow, real smart chinese strategy /sarcasm. Remember ZTE? LOL what a joke
      LOOL, the time to retake taiwan wasnt there? Youre out of time mainlander, are you sure you are a real mainlander cause most mainlanders know that china want taiwan taken before their centenary anniversary, which is in a few years and one of the CCP mandate. Not happening anytime soon, maybe you should wake up from all the propaganda from your party, and this will be one of the biggest embarrassment for XI LOOL. Its time to be poor again mainlander, better hone those farming skills cause youre gona need them when the 3 gorges dam breaks and wipes out your city.

  • @QwQw-kk4hg
    @QwQw-kk4hg 3 года назад +1163

    “The English and Dutch tried sailing around Russia, where they only found... more Russia.”
    I’m dying someone call me an ambulance

  • @sebastianstephenson3176
    @sebastianstephenson3176 Год назад +2

    Holy crap, I didn't even think of the points that you made.

  • @jaarneal
    @jaarneal Год назад +2

    15:25 One of the best things about your videos is how succinctly you capture ironies like this

  • @Volvith
    @Volvith 4 года назад +1395

    Moral of the story: If the trees start speaking Vietnamese, your army is going to have a bad time...

    • @andrijastefanovic726
      @andrijastefanovic726 4 года назад +76

      If the snow starts speaking Finnish...wait this is Russia

    • @user-ww7ez2el3q
      @user-ww7ez2el3q 4 года назад +12

      And if the fog or the darkness startS to speak Chinese you are screwed.

    • @4T3hM4kr0n
      @4T3hM4kr0n 4 года назад +11

      @@user-ww7ez2el3q and if your burger starts speaking american english....wait what?

    • @alniseschrenkek6348
      @alniseschrenkek6348 4 года назад +17

      Can we please settle this like adults?
      Afghanistan vs Vietnam *NOW!!!*

    • @olianims
      @olianims 4 года назад +25

      damn, now i know 2 things from history: Never attack Russia in the winter, and never attack Vietnamese rice farmers in the jungle

  • @loxleywindsor3570
    @loxleywindsor3570 2 года назад +2621

    "Americans wouldn't adopt the metric system, but they knew how to use it." That's America in a nutshell.

    • @aayushjha4583
      @aayushjha4583 2 года назад +22

      I was looking for this specific comment 😂

    • @obsideonyx7604
      @obsideonyx7604 2 года назад +102

      I don't understand how someone can shamelessly use some random persons foot size as a unit of measurement.
      Why are Americans still measuring things in fungus feet units??

    • @obsideonyx7604
      @obsideonyx7604 2 года назад +19

      @Sol I'm African. Pretty sure the whole world is inconvenienced when interacting with an American is unavoidable and units _have_ to be used.

    • @jumpscara
      @jumpscara 2 года назад +4

      @@obsideonyx7604 wait we do that 🧍 Im american and I have never heard that term used .

    • @obsideonyx7604
      @obsideonyx7604 2 года назад +8

      @@jumpscara obviously you haven't heard, I'm sure non of you Americans don't want to think about whether the feet you're using to measure things are infected get or not

  • @CTTX89
    @CTTX89 2 года назад +9

    Holy crap…I knew alot of this stuff but when it is all wrapped up with a bow it really makes clear the failings of western democracy.

    • @boozecruiser
      @boozecruiser 11 месяцев назад +3

      Western capitalism*

    • @judith678
      @judith678 10 месяцев назад

      @@boozecruiser getting drunk on that china propaganda

    • @Zohairshanteer
      @Zohairshanteer 10 месяцев назад

      Liberal democracy is destined to fail

  • @silvesta5027
    @silvesta5027 Год назад +55

    This video is incredibly well made and it's fascinating seeing how much its aged in just 3 years. I'd love a follow up at some point!
    Following covid, we now have a China that is less interested in economic growth and international soft power, and more interested in political and social control and Chinese self-sufficiency; almost harkening back to the isolationism that caused China's 'century of humiliation.'

    • @bigbadlara5304
      @bigbadlara5304 Год назад +1

      Isolationism? Don't miss the part where China is trying to overthrow the United States world order. And put into place something the Chinese would call a better world order which really means something that only benefits the mainland Chinese.
      China wants to be more self sufficient but they can't be technologically developed and self sufficient at this moment. They lack most raw resources. Forcing them to maybe cough cough. Expand a little tiny bit.

    • @MrMarinus18
      @MrMarinus18 Год назад +21

      I don't think that's a sign of weakness though. I think that shows that China is no fool and won't try to expand and control others as it's own internal structures are torn apart. If needed it will turn inwards to fix it's internal tensions and when those are resolved it will just pick up where it left off.

    • @truthismycause2800
      @truthismycause2800 Год назад

      Kraut doesn't have a crystal ball to see into the future and predict Covid.
      Imho, Xi is just putting his home in order, then he'll be back.
      I might be wrong though. I see the blocks moving in uncertain directions.
      Only time will tell.

    • @truthismycause2800
      @truthismycause2800 Год назад

      @@bigbadlara5304 I guess the lack of raw materials is not a problem anymore to China since they have Russia grabbed by the balls on this Ukraine bullshitery and they bought Africa, so...

    • @brandonpacheco9713
      @brandonpacheco9713 Год назад

      @@MrMarinus18 I don’t think people understand the impact covid has had on China. It’s projected that in December of 2022 alone almost 200,000 people got covid due to the lifting on the zero covid policy. They are facing a huge wave of infection and death and will likely have to resort back to drastic measures. It’s hard to know what’s going on due to censorship but given the crowded population and the ability for covid to spread rather quickly can be detrimental to social stability.

  • @ariyanzarei7538
    @ariyanzarei7538 4 года назад +797

    I started this video as background noise but ended up glued to it for the entire duration. Just incredible. You just earned yourself a new patreon from a penniless college student.

    • @Kraut_the_Parrot
      @Kraut_the_Parrot  4 года назад +240

      If you are having a hard time, I suggest you keep your hard earned money to sustain yourself much dude.

    • @maxlu8235
      @maxlu8235 4 года назад +20

      Simp

    • @bobamshagiron2204
      @bobamshagiron2204 4 года назад +14

      @@maxlu8235 simp

    • @M-N00
      @M-N00 4 года назад +8

      @@Kraut_the_Parrot subbed

    • @jopolu5509
      @jopolu5509 4 года назад

      haha same

  • @vForVi.21
    @vForVi.21 4 года назад +1823

    I feel like China is playing Civ on Settler difficulty

    • @user-nt1pm8dw3q
      @user-nt1pm8dw3q 4 года назад +132

      China doesn't need to solve the immigration problem. The United States messes up the Middle East, but it has nothing to do with China.
      We are not your allies. We don't care about your problems

    • @kucam12mischablue
      @kucam12mischablue 4 года назад +167

      it was taken down from Warlord to Settler by Trump. wondering if all of this was worth it just ”to trigger the Libs”.

    • @quedtion_marks_kirby_modding
      @quedtion_marks_kirby_modding 4 года назад +220

      @@user-nt1pm8dw3q weird flex, but ok.

    • @methodius8472
      @methodius8472 4 года назад +150

      @世界第一可爱德莉莎
      The U.S. and China are both not innocent. The U.S. uses its military to increase influence, China does it through trade. I’m sure many Chinese people don’t care for the cruelty of their government, look at Hong Kong for example. I know that not all Chinese people are ignorant like you. Both the United States and China have their flaws.

    • @methodius8472
      @methodius8472 4 года назад +80

      @世界第一可爱德莉莎
      You’re not allies with the U.S., but only when it involves trade to increase the wealth of your economy. You’re no different than U.S. dogmatists, two sides of the same coin.

  • @flixelgato1288
    @flixelgato1288 2 года назад +58

    I really don’t understand how people can look at the direct say China has in western democratic processes and say “it’s not a big deal”

    • @gustavohermandio1440
      @gustavohermandio1440 2 года назад +2

      bread and games

    • @boozecruiser
      @boozecruiser 11 месяцев назад +5

      No one's saying it's not a big deal, the absolute shits we've had for leaders in the US/UK have caused so much apathy and resentment amongst people that we're just like "huh, so this is why all those African and Latin American nations resent us"

    • @jkerman5113
      @jkerman5113 7 месяцев назад +3

      Wait til you hear about israel.

  • @Ashortdude1
    @Ashortdude1 2 года назад +1

    absolutely fascinating
    appreciate effort put into this, very well done

  • @trndsttr7585
    @trndsttr7585 3 года назад +2179

    Columbus sailed to find India. That's a testament on how rich both China and India were throughout history.

    • @antargaming1619
      @antargaming1619 3 года назад +172

      thats true, their nations were the big stage players until the rise of the european empires and the rise of the US.

    • @eka1635
      @eka1635 3 года назад +106

      After all, these two countries have more than 3000 years of history

    • @gymrat5014
      @gymrat5014 3 года назад +135

      @@eka1635 India was never a single country thought, it's purely made by the British raj and people from within the country hate each other.

    • @thunderthrust9273
      @thunderthrust9273 3 года назад +197

      @@gymrat5014 well, you can take it like modern day Germany, which was not a nation state until recent century , but was a collection of countries. But the thing is although the various nation states used to fight with each other as every monarch had theri vested interest , the commoners shared much of similar values, faith, culture and language derived from same ancient language sanskrit.

    • @gymrat5014
      @gymrat5014 3 года назад +95

      @Darth India is a subcontinent with different language branches, it's more like Europe rather than Germany or Italy. North and South India share very little as does West and East.

  • @Kalckie
    @Kalckie 3 года назад +1648

    Wow, this is better than most professional documentaries.
    And it has countryballs in it which makes it even better!

    • @SmookieYT
      @SmookieYT 3 года назад +20

      agree

    • @unlimited8410
      @unlimited8410 3 года назад +36

      Just seeing how big Russia's ball is pretty funny in its own right.

    • @bryanekers3472
      @bryanekers3472 3 года назад +4

      It's not in this video but other Kraut vids, Israel isn't a ball but a cube. I've always found this rather mystifying, but I'm sure he has his reasons.

    • @Awkward_Shark
      @Awkward_Shark 3 года назад +14

      @@bryanekers3472 Due to "Jewish Physics" (and im not joking thats the reason polandball.fandom.com/wiki/Israelcube)

    • @bryanekers3472
      @bryanekers3472 3 года назад +12

      @@Awkward_Shark Huh. I thought the countryballs were just simple illustrations Kraut used for his videos. I had no idea there was a whole subculture behind them.

  • @alonsovelez609
    @alonsovelez609 2 года назад +9

    I watched this video around 2 years ago now, at the time it really hit my curiosity, and opened my mind to this topic. Today I´m watching it again, now as a university student (studying political sciences) and I still find it as one of the best videos around the topic of chinese geopolitical rise in influence in the last decades. Wonderful job on this videos, it´ll always be one of my favourites.

    • @gustavohermandio1440
      @gustavohermandio1440 2 года назад

      ikr! iz da bess

    • @commie5211
      @commie5211 8 месяцев назад

      me too, watching it again after two years. However, don't take it too seriously, many many mistakes and wrong conclusion. It is funny though.

  • @fogrepairshipakashi5834
    @fogrepairshipakashi5834 Год назад +7

    I do love how poor Indonesia has to hold a "Not Poland" sign.

  • @Trenex1000
    @Trenex1000 3 года назад +1542

    Kraut, you may need to make a Part 2 for this. The year 2020 has brought so many developments involving China that need to be addressed.

    • @SkyGardner
      @SkyGardner 3 года назад +38

      “Trump Backpedals His Biggest Failure”

    • @Trenex1000
      @Trenex1000 3 года назад +131

      @@SkyGardner
      To be fair, that is true, but China's power grabs (both within and outside its borders) are getting quite bold. Also, it should be noted how they're ramping up their Communist oppression of its own citizenry.

    • @SkyGardner
      @SkyGardner 3 года назад +34

      TRENEX 379 I don’t disagree at all, AND their influence and stranglehold on culture all around the world is scary to think about. I supported Trump since the beginning for better or worse and I remember EVERYBODY saying he’s hitler, calling me a nazi and shit, asking “is this really how you’d act during ww2”. Now they don’t say anything, especially about this because they’re not told to. Some people are so brainwashed and then on the other side some people think Trump is the next Jesus and they’re so infatuated but I definitely don’t think a healthy American nationalism is bad at all. But just to think how China made corrupt Joe Biden and his whole family rich and you wouldn’t ever hear a peep from any major news source saying anything bad about him, much less that. You see them cheat their party pre-election... it blows my mind and scares me how this is their candidate and it’s AGAIN distracting for China

    • @Trenex1000
      @Trenex1000 3 года назад +71

      @@SkyGardner
      The CCP has been buying people off left and right for quite a while now. But I think they overplayed their hand in many ways, and they've exposed themselves to the world.

    • @SkyGardner
      @SkyGardner 3 года назад +4

      TRENEX 379 and Trumps dumb tariffs kinda helped the exposé ;)

  • @advaitV25
    @advaitV25 4 года назад +1869

    Han language , Han food , Han culture and now, Han sanitiser.

    • @MrBoblo999
      @MrBoblo999 4 года назад +68

      A Han some people indeed

    • @FuckMargaretThatchher
      @FuckMargaretThatchher 4 года назад +36

      @@MrBoblo999 Want some Hanpoo for your hair instead of your shampoo?

    • @jasonreviews
      @jasonreviews 4 года назад +17

      we preferred to be called hua ren. It's means prosperous.

    • @aureavita8653
      @aureavita8653 4 года назад +17

      @@FuckMargaretThatchher you mean sHanpoo?

    • @FuckMargaretThatchher
      @FuckMargaretThatchher 4 года назад +7

      In the Thumbnail China is just smelling the hair of trump.

  • @donnyjay9046
    @donnyjay9046 2 года назад +2

    An absolutely brilliant piece of work, sir. Hats off for feeding my brain.

  • @DFWRailVideos
    @DFWRailVideos Год назад +1

    We're gonna need a part two.

  • @stranded8506
    @stranded8506 4 года назад +545

    That century of humiliation reveal actually gave me chills

    • @sandserpent
      @sandserpent 4 года назад +19

      stranded 850 absolutely same

    • @lijiayi0921
      @lijiayi0921 4 года назад +33

      That century only brought us opium addiction, territory invaded, lifes gone, and some antiquities in European museums. Nothing serious.
      We should not have talked about humiliation to scare you. Sorry for that.

    • @lijiayi0921
      @lijiayi0921 4 года назад +9

      Btw the cinematics didn't do anything to me since I understand that part in Chinese.
      The only times I heard about this word in ten last years, are in foreign documentaries like this one.
      [Edit] just checked, searching "Century of humiliation" gave 3 times more results than "百年国耻". Another overrated exaggeration about China, as it looks.

    • @potatonoodlebear8035
      @potatonoodlebear8035 4 года назад +33

      @Anus13 Oh yeah. CHina is just pure cringe. Ur Americans don't even need to worry about us. We are no match for US. Just letting China do its own things will be our pleasure. 😊

    • @lizexi7115
      @lizexi7115 4 года назад +1

      cus music, erhu is such an awsome instrument

  • @andrewrichesson8627
    @andrewrichesson8627 4 года назад +783

    This video was a huge wake-up call. Americans seem to enjoy arguing over stupid Trump tweets more than the global stage.

    • @MechWarrior894
      @MechWarrior894 4 года назад +58

      It's a distraction, really. We all know the infrastructure of our nation is rotting away yet we have to get everyone to agree on how to fix it. Wouldn't help there's a bunch of people who get off on 'triggering' others while destroying our country.

    • @WayneTwitch
      @WayneTwitch 4 года назад +16

      @Egg T And talk about idiots China's leader is a pussy that banned a cartoon because people made fun of him hes weak. People make fun of are president every day and hes a man and still talks like one.

    • @lolcatjunior
      @lolcatjunior 4 года назад +53

      Because he was the moron Republicans voted in just to own the libs. Every other candidate including republican ones had a plan to contain China but voting in a human meme does little to affect the reality of politics. Trade dominance is key to global dominance, Its because of trade dominance that America enjoys trade deficits that benefit it and cheap products. This is what happens when the majority of Americans get their news from conspiracy theorist crackpots.

    • @rowannyooom6958
      @rowannyooom6958 4 года назад +1

      You're correct, yet you're partially incorrect
      But it doesn't help that some people mistook one of his tweets as a call to arms

    • @jaredouimette1
      @jaredouimette1 4 года назад +8

      @@lolcatjunior No they didn't. They laughed when China was brought up. Then you people went on a rampage about Russia.

  • @samdherring
    @samdherring Год назад

    I am enlightened in more than a few ways after watching this. Thanks. The future is dark as it is bright for us in the West.

  • @Zones33
    @Zones33 Год назад +12

    A good case against democracy is looking at RUclips and Reddit comments

  • @thachnguyen3949
    @thachnguyen3949 3 года назад +2461

    As an Vietnamese, It sounded so nice for Kraut to said of our traditions of kicking out foreigners. Although I do have to admit, Sinonization came very close to a success because it had highly influenced our Language, Culture and Cuisine.

    • @Groza_Sadika
      @Groza_Sadika 3 года назад +116

      Bro, every Vietnamese I meet on the internet is Nguyen! Wtf, why are there so many of you?

    • @thachnguyen3949
      @thachnguyen3949 3 года назад +181

      @@Groza_Sadika I'm not certain but it seems that Nguyen was the safest way to go arounds in the old days. My ancestors move to another province then change their last name to Nguyen, it seems trendy at the time.

    • @awonoto
      @awonoto 3 года назад +123

      @@Groza_Sadika I remember of a cute Vietnamese girl back in college. I remember her name. I tried to google her name and search for her in social media to try to contact her again. Alas......

    • @phank.s.4052
      @phank.s.4052 3 года назад +55

      @@Groza_Sadika From what I've heard, the King was Nguyen so many nobles and people changed their name to that of the King's. My family is named Phan, there are other popular names such as Tran and Pham as well but not even close to Nguyen in popularity.

    • @gonkong5638
      @gonkong5638 3 года назад +4

      @@awonoto always goes full name or no nguyen. LMAO.

  • @tuongpham7609
    @tuongpham7609 4 года назад +4278

    Was expecting normal orange man bad. But this. This is all 100% good criticism of Trump. Well done.

    • @chcknpie04
      @chcknpie04 4 года назад +217

      Every criticism of trump is a good one because the man knows how to do one thing, and that’s rape

    • @jfp589
      @jfp589 4 года назад +738

      @@chcknpie04 orange man bad

    • @chcknpie04
      @chcknpie04 4 года назад +72

      Deauthorize Are you suggesting that raping children is not bad?

    • @cv3566
      @cv3566 4 года назад +367

      @Ben No because there is no evidence that he raped anyone let alone children

    • @tuongpham7609
      @tuongpham7609 3 года назад +601

      @@chcknpie04 There's a difference between constructive criticism and orange man bad. People calling him a racist, sexist, rapist, etc is orange man bad. It's mostly because that's just slandering. Name calling. That doesn't do anything but make people like Trump more. Constructive criticism like this video explains why his policy sucks and why the "clown" personality of Trump is detrimental.

  • @Simon-cx5fc
    @Simon-cx5fc Год назад +1

    Brilliant film! I would love to see an update, given the events since it was published!

  • @dustin9289
    @dustin9289 Год назад +2

    That last comment you made predicting the next cold war would be between an alliance of democracies and an alliance of autocrats seems to be coming to fruition just 3 years later.

  • @muhdfaisaladha5758
    @muhdfaisaladha5758 4 года назад +2415

    I expected a short 10-minute video trash talking Trump. Boy was I wrong.

    • @totheknee
      @totheknee 4 года назад +172

      But we all know that would also be really simple to do since he's an incompetent, narcissistic bully who thinks nobody knew healthcare was complicated as he sits around sowing division with hundreds of thousands of US citizens dying from a "hoax."

    • @unscripted483
      @unscripted483 4 года назад +254

      @@totheknee he didn't call covid a hoax that was the media spin on it. The media and democrats in congress tried to put the blame of covid on trump when he called for china to be held responsible.

    • @damianbylightning6823
      @damianbylightning6823 4 года назад +13

      Yes - it's long, in-depth and subsequent history has proved it to be spectacularly delusional.

    • @yespapa8102
      @yespapa8102 4 года назад +16

      I got my mom to vote for trump. im a trump supporter because him being racist isn't my problem.

    • @erinprather3793
      @erinprather3793 4 года назад +114

      Trump is allowing China to surround us and choke us into collapse the way we did the Soviet Union. We are fucked for one simple reason-no one will believe this even when it is in their face. To beat China, we need a Confederation of Nations US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and if we are lucky Japan. All Nations would maintain authority in their own territory, but all Trade Police would be unified. I would also like to see the British, and Northern Europe in this Confederacy. However, my homeland America has an ego problem and it would not even get off the ground. Yes those others have it too, but they seem more interested in survival. Too bad we are too blind by America first to see the writing on the wall. We and the pacific rim and maybe Europe had better clique up soon or we are fucked! We need real leadership, not Trump and not Biden!

  • @superior878
    @superior878 3 года назад +520

    Do you know how hard it is to explain this to my fellow Americans that have no concept of history or geopolitics. It's so frustrating.

    • @bluwasabi7635
      @bluwasabi7635 3 года назад +30

      Lol. Very true. If you can't reach people by explaining things, then perhaps run for a local office and help fix what you can.

    • @Y.d.o.b.o.n
      @Y.d.o.b.o.n 3 года назад +27

      @@bluwasabi7635 I dont think anyone can fix it, its inevitable

    • @costbart
      @costbart 3 года назад +16

      Organising a workers uprise in the USA will most definetly spread to Europe. It'll bring an end to privatisation and selling of infrastructure to foreign inversters. .

    • @steemlenn8797
      @steemlenn8797 3 года назад +1

      @@bluwasabi7635 Read that book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dictator's_Handbook#:~:text=The%20Dictator%27s%20Handbook.%20The%20Dictator%E2%80%99s%20Handbook%3A%20Why%20Bad,discusses%20how%20politicians%20gain%20and%20retain%20political%20power.

    • @MajinMist603
      @MajinMist603 3 года назад +1

      ikr : /

  • @user-py2nw8bp1i
    @user-py2nw8bp1i 8 месяцев назад +4

    How to never lose a war:
    Step 1. be Vietnam

  • @craz5634
    @craz5634 Год назад +1

    This is one of the best videos on this app straight up

  • @gabig9477
    @gabig9477 3 года назад +2711

    Kraut: Talks about the 1300s
    Me: Wait, I thought this was about Donald Tru
    Kraut: WE GET THERE WHEN WE GET THERE

    • @Shadow77999
      @Shadow77999 3 года назад +25

      Lmao

    • @ihk2421
      @ihk2421 3 года назад +22

      In trumps defence he’s really staggered China’s economy.

    • @liamnacinovich8232
      @liamnacinovich8232 3 года назад +45

      @@ihk2421 no he has not all he has done is taken us out of the free trade deals with the pacific. Like kraut said they just sell their goods to other nations or ‘manufacture’ their goods in Vietnam.
      The only thing that has hampered them has been covid but that won’t last forever they will continue to grow their influence as America turns isolationist again especially with another 4 years of trump

    • @HailToFSM
      @HailToFSM 3 года назад +9

      @@liamnacinovich8232 TBH Trumps kinda did stagger China’s economy with his trade war. Let's say before the trade war, in China-US trade, the US pays 10$ and China earns 10$. After the trade war and tariff things, China had to shift production to Vietnam, now the US pays 11$ and China earns 9$, the other 2$ goes to Vietnam. That's definitely a loss for China. Yet it's no gain for the US, but for Vietnam

    • @liamnacinovich8232
      @liamnacinovich8232 3 года назад +4

      @@HailToFSM yeah so it doesn’t bring jobs back to America does it. The whole thing is pointless. If your going to do tariffs it has to be on everyone so you can rebuild your industry then you become the main producer of *superior goods (coincidentally that’s what China and Japan did)

  • @byron-ih2ge
    @byron-ih2ge 3 года назад +1643

    china's historical problem: isolation
    india's historical problem : overloaded lvl of interaction which ends up as literally everyone trying to conquer or plunder you.

    • @theonlyisteve7261
      @theonlyisteve7261 3 года назад +24

      Can you elaborate on the india part, I am an indian myself and would like to know why you think so?

    • @byron-ih2ge
      @byron-ih2ge 3 года назад +199

      @@theonlyisteve7261 because literally everyone in this world has tried to pillage india

    • @theonlyisteve7261
      @theonlyisteve7261 3 года назад +102

      @@byron-ih2ge pillaging has been die to aa lack of unity and cohesion rather than overload of interaction. India as a nation state is relatively new idea. The internal strife has always been enough to give pre ww1 europe arun for its money.

    • @byron-ih2ge
      @byron-ih2ge 3 года назад +99

      @@theonlyisteve7261 no actually from the very start india had an overloaded lvl of interaction with the world and what i said did happen, the india ur talking about came into existence only in the 20th century i was talking about the indian civilization aka modern day "the indian subcontinent"

    • @byron-ih2ge
      @byron-ih2ge 3 года назад +20

      @@theonlyisteve7261 china too suffered from a lack of unity a lot

  • @Deqnkata
    @Deqnkata Год назад

    This is just an amazing video sir ! No other words needed.

  • @balazskiss9252
    @balazskiss9252 Год назад +4

    '20 years from now we will find ourselves in a new cold war' - That escalated quickly

  • @CarthagoMike
    @CarthagoMike 4 года назад +574

    Lesson of the day:
    Whatever the Chinese are doing now, the Dutch have done some time in the past.

    • @YUSUFgamer
      @YUSUFgamer 4 года назад +56

      CarthagoMike yeah bro, the Chinese have the great wall to hold off the Mongols and the Dutch have the Delta works that hold off the water.

    • @zoltancsikos5604
      @zoltancsikos5604 4 года назад

      CarthagoMike Nonsense. Guess we gotta keep crying about colonies, though. Not surprised so many retards enjoy this video.

    • @endme9755
      @endme9755 4 года назад +14

      Zoltan Csikos Baited

    • @endme9755
      @endme9755 4 года назад +2

      Zoltan Csikos There’s another murder on iFunny lmao

    • @itchyscientist0576
      @itchyscientist0576 4 года назад

      The only difference is that the Dutch has a navy to back it up

  • @LeoWang24
    @LeoWang24 3 года назад +625

    This is why learning history is important. Understanding the actions of our predecessors help us to understand the geopolitics in the current world.

    • @jackgabaldon1546
      @jackgabaldon1546 3 года назад +21

      Maybe Im alone in this and missed out on many parts of my history classes. But this video was so in-depth that no ammount of courses could give me the same grasp on the Chinese, americans, and colonial history of all of the European powers.
      I'm honestly trying to get your attention lol. Does anyone know the name of the song played at 23:36?

    • @alecmartin5292
      @alecmartin5292 3 года назад +3

      @@jackgabaldon1546 ruclips.net/video/99L3B1ze1fM/видео.html

    • @schnoz2372
      @schnoz2372 3 года назад +11

      I absolutely lose my mind when people say history doesn't matter

    • @jackgabaldon1546
      @jackgabaldon1546 3 года назад +1

      @@alecmartin5292 thank you so much this will go so well with my assignments on the food chain of madagascar, I really appreciate

    • @EazyDuz18
      @EazyDuz18 3 года назад

      reeeeeeeeeeeee

  • @ViridianEmpire
    @ViridianEmpire 2 года назад

    Tommy C brought me here. Im so glad i found your channel.

  • @g4ppy491
    @g4ppy491 Год назад +82

    this was an INCREDIBLE video. covered everything that would take several university lessons to explain in a clear and unbiased way. loved it

    • @pilotgroosum8314
      @pilotgroosum8314 Год назад

      Yep, let’s criticise the first world leader to stand up to China. Duh

    • @move2003ny
      @move2003ny Год назад +5

      @@pilotgroosum8314the video does not criticise Trump for standing up to China, it simply says he did it in very stupid way, while alienating allies in the process. It seems that it will take US Republicans decades to understand the damage that Trump did to their country AND to their party

    • @boozecruiser
      @boozecruiser 11 месяцев назад +1

      It's still pretty biased from the European POV. It uncritically assumes we're perfectly democratic and fair and have a moral high ground against other countries

    • @koc988
      @koc988 11 месяцев назад +1

      @@boozecruiser it's impossible to be unbiased but he did a good job to keep it to a minimum

    • @koc988
      @koc988 11 месяцев назад +1

      ​@@boozecruiserWell he didn't say that but states are entitled to act in their own best interest why should they bend to a foreign power?

  • @nike7429
    @nike7429 3 года назад +1247

    I'm surprised no one has posted this yet but i got y'all the timestamps. This entire video was gold to me.
    0:00 Chapter 1: Prelude
    8:17 Chapter 2: The Beginning of the End
    10:54 Chapter 3: A Millennia of Solitude
    14:45 Chapter 4: How we got here
    20:10 Chapter 5: The story of a man, and his nation
    28:15 Chapter 6: Old Means, Old Goals, New Dream
    45:10 Chapter 7: Those Pesky Democracies
    58:10 Chapter 8: Tom and Jerry

    • @MrAdhito
      @MrAdhito 3 года назад +3

      thannkss !

    • @MajinMist603
      @MajinMist603 3 года назад +1

      do you know the song names for those chapters ?

    • @nike7429
      @nike7429 3 года назад +1

      @@MajinMist603 Unfortunately i don't know

    • @mikemimson4771
      @mikemimson4771 3 года назад +3

      Don't forget the last chapter at 1:06:20

    • @nike7429
      @nike7429 3 года назад

      @@mikemimson4771 hmm, u didn't consider that a chapter? Do you know what that Chinese symbol means?

  • @peniasd
    @peniasd 4 года назад +302

    What makes us free is not necessarily what makes us wealthy. So much truth.

    • @bi5259
      @bi5259 4 года назад +14

      Freedom is overrated

    • @champagnefroggy3801
      @champagnefroggy3801 3 года назад +37

      @@bi5259 of course that comes from a Chinese that already got his freedoms taken away

    • @stefanosong9314
      @stefanosong9314 3 года назад +10

      Yeah a free country has military bases in every major countries except for China and France

    • @stefanosong9314
      @stefanosong9314 3 года назад +6

      @@champagnefroggy3801 naive

    • @champagnefroggy3801
      @champagnefroggy3801 3 года назад +4

      @@stefanosong9314 you're the one that's naive, country's want the U.S to defend them

  • @gugalaxy7772
    @gugalaxy7772 Год назад +3

    Can you make a 4 year anniversary recap of this? I'd love to see how everything played out in your eyes.