13 Dumbest Mistakes That Changed the World Forever
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- Опубликовано: 8 фев 2025
- Throughout history, some decisions have had catastrophic consequences. Join us as we explore the most monumental blunders that dramatically altered the course of human events, from military invasions to political missteps that changed everything forever. Our countdown includes epic fails like Hitler's invasion of Russia, Napoleon's disastrous Russian campaign, the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan that reshaped global politics! Which of these decisions do you think was the dumbest or had the biggest impact on the world?
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Which of these decisions do you think was the dumbest or had the biggest impact on the world?
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And also if trump didn't wear the red hat on his head, mr crocker would've succeeded killing trump on july 13
I mean trump should've took that hat off if he was about to be assassinated on july 13. Trump was stupid, he should've took that hat off before assassinated on that day
Both things French and soviet troops had in common: not thinking smart/strategically
Bush should've never have gone to Iraq in the first place. He said he wanted to free their people but all he did was make things worse. The US made things worse in both the Middle East and in Central/South America
Bush should've never have been involved in Iraq in 2003. He said he was going to free their people but all he had done was make things worse. Not to mention how the US caused harm to the Middle East and Central/South America.
Where’s the Luka Doncic trade
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I was looking for somebody to say this😅
Sure, that is soo important for the world.
Red Sox sell Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees for cash ($25,000)
The moral of the story. Don’t invade Russia, and don’t let Russia invade you.
Hitler's biggest mistake wasn't invading Russia, it was the persecution of the Jews, which ultimately provided the US with a good chunk of the Manhattan Project "brain trust". And as far as places not to invade go, I'd put Afghanistan higher on the list than Russia.
Also apparently Russia has never done anything dumb. They aren’t on this list once. China too and Japan. Pearl Harbor? Not dumb. Covid19? Not dumb. 9/11? Not dumb of Bin Laden apparently
Japan did and won in 1905
Yeah, isn't it weird how many on this short list involve Russia?
If you don't learn history you're doomed to repeat it all over again.
Learn from history*
@@castleanthrax1833 …and if you don’t learn proper syntax you’re bound to look uneducated 😊. Thanks for the correction.
@@donskuse2194
What is wrong with their syntax?
The sentence itself is properly formed. It's just not the quote.
Oh please. We repeat history all the time.
*Side-eyes America re-electing Trump.*
I worked with an Iranian who fought for Khomeini to depose the Shah. He said it was the worst decision of his life, as he quickly realized that as bad as the Shah was, the Muslim theocracy was much worse.
As for the harsh terms inflicted on Germany after WW1, Donald Kagan wrote a brilliant book called "On the Origins of War and the Preservation of Peace" which talks about several cases where a bad resolution of one war caused another, usually worse war in the near future, and how to resolve wars in such a way as to prevent that from happening. This book should be required reading for all world leaders.
Letting some random dude take hold of the treasury for incredibly personal gain should be up there. Makes the whole watergate scandal small scale by comparison
Musk is like the ultimate Bond villain, only not entertaining.
A case could be made for Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor.
Or as it's come to be known. "The day the US said to Japan.. HOLD MY BEER!"
The worst part is that they were operating on the contradictory concept of 'attack all for resources while expecting a quick decisive victory/limited war'.
Another to add: US enter Vietnam war
One of the biggest bonehead chapters of the "Great Leap Forward" was the Four Pests Campaign...enlisting everybody to eradicate rats, mosquitoes, flies and sparrows from the country. While merit can be found in the first three pests...killing a BILLION sparrows opened the door for locust plagues that destroyed agriculture and directly led to between 20-30 million deaths out of the overall famine death toll.
Mao was a moral calamity for China and those leaders who followed him haven’t been much better.
They belatedly changed the fourth target from sparrows to bedbugs!
The Seahawks not running it on the 1
It hurts to put a thumbs up on this but the truth is the truth. Will the pain/shame ever go away???
The first rule of history: never invade Russia.
Both of the Space Shuttle disasters were caused by ridiculously stupid NASA management who disregarded the warnings of many engineers-twice! The engineers had a realistic understanding of the risks and management was too arrogant to listen to skilled professionals.
The first disaster was because of Grand Wizard Ronald Reagan demanding a shuttle launch regardless of the weather .
They had evidence that even before the rocket was built with this company. From 1971, Google Thiokol Factory Explosion. They had unsafe practices, and that led to an explosion that killed more people. Yet NASA hired them to keep building rockets.
The tragedy like this always happens, because some stoopid execs want to show how big dingadong they have. ;/
I'm gonna get political and I'm not sorry. Right now an Orange Man is kicking out federal employees who worked for years, and knows all the ins and outs of their professions. Only to be filled by Butt Kissers, Brown Nosers, and Boot Lickers with zero qualifications, or experience. Just to serve one authoritarian! Hey, this sounds just like this Watch Mojo list!
Also, neither of them "changed the world forever". I have no idea how a shuttle disaster would make this list.
Also, I might suggest that the US funding of the Mujehedin during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan is arguably a much bigger mistake than the invasion itself since that decision led directly to bin Laden, 9/11, and the Iraq war you mentioned later.
Sadly those errors can be traced even further back to US supporting Iraq in the Iraq-Iran was. Heck in reality it all sort of started with the CIA's coup in Iran in 1953 and support of the Shah. Its hard to believe how this one event would trigger a series of events/blunders in the area over the next 60+ years
It was, incidentally, a joint CIA, MI6 project suggested by the latter.
@@DavidHowells-d9p Don't give suggestions to the Americans.
Soviet-Afghan war lasted 10 years and it was a disaster for the Soviets? America said, “Hold my beer”.
America: I see your 10 years, and raise you another 10.
The Americans didn't fair so well. In this conflict.
If it wasn't for the Soviet-Afghan War, 9/11 would never have happened.
Lots of beer holding going on throughout history, lol
Vietnam, then Soviets in Afghan, then America says "hold both my beers"
Francis Drake, not Francis Duke.
You didn't mention the 2007 film "Charlie Wilson's War" by Mike Nichols, starring Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts. It tells the true story of Texas congressman Charlie Wilson (1933-2010), who devised the CIA's Operation Cyclone to arm and finance the mujahideen in Afghanistan from 1979 to 1989, as an anti-Soviet function, at a cost of over 500 million dollars. After the defeat of the USSR, the American government refused to finance any cultural and reconstruction program in Afghanistan, effectively abandoning it to religious extremism.
Hard to believe Vietnam and the Gulf of Tonkin didn't make the list ...
As a Vietnamese I cant understand why Russia was mentioned quite a lot here but not the America.
it's intentionally i don't like Russia current government but i know they didn't name u.s intentionally
How about Archduke ferdinand’s trip? I’d say that the straw that broke the camel’s back and started ww1 would at least be mentioned but alas.
Worst wrong turn in the history of everything
The decision on how to divide up the Ottoman Empire at the end of WWI would have covered every Middle Eastern problem on this list. T. E. Lawrence was the English officer who lived among the native people, fought against the Ottomans and told the victors to split the empire along religious and clan areas. The governments decided against his advice and we are still dealing with their stupidity over 100 years later.
The Challenger disaster was a tragedy, but how exactly did it "change the world"?
NEVER piss off Genghis Khan, you will regret it!
Genesis Khan, enjoyed. Get to bang an woman he please. Mostly Virgins. When he ruled, it was said 1 in 10 could be an off spring from her to you!
The French were never the same military wise after Napoleon
For each of these mistakes you could write a science fiction novel: what would have happened if it hadn't happened?
Maginot Line was so stupidly built. They don't extend the line towards the coast, in border with Belgium. They're really stupid for not considering Ardennes was their weakest point.
Ardennes was the reason German Empire was dangerously close to Paris in WW1. They don't consider the forest as useful tactical piece. And the mistake costs them heavily.
This is very reductionist. The maginot line was built very intricately for the time and based on the French experience during ww1. The Belgians were supposed to help build the other half of the line but didn't. France's man power was low, their financial situation awful and had no way to fight a mechanized war with Germany. Who wasn't really mechanized either considering their large number of horses used throughout the war. Historical hindsight is something we all gotta watch out for when speaking about decisions made
The Belgium's had their own version of Maginot line along the Albert Canal, the plan was that if the Germans violated Belgian sovereignty and neutrality the allied powers would enter Belgium from the French border and take positions along the Belgian lines on the Albert canal. What actually happened was that the Germans used airborne troops to land across the Albert canal strong points before the British and French troops could arrive to support the Belgians.
The Ardennes was considered impassable due to narrow roads and mountains so it was assumed that tanks and logistics would be impossible to use or pass that area.
However the reason why the failure to anticipate the Ardennes offensive in WW2 can't be seen as a mistake is because it looks more like a tactical and strategic brilliant plan by the Germans.
Decision to topled taliban to change with taliban after 20 years, decision to support south vietnam and lose after 20 years. That was the dumbest
To post this after the Luka/AD trade is straight diabolical
Who's Francis Duke? Did he work with Francis DRAKE?
I was thinking that, Janners aren't going to like this one
Duke Francis? Nooo, I think you’re right. DRAKE. Francis Drake…
*War. War never changes.*
- Fallout
Countries invading each other & wars have had the biggest impact on the world
Biggest negative impact*
This video is about the dumbest mistakes, which implies negative impact
@@ericrussell6065 War & invading countries is dumb cause all it does is bring pain and suffering
@CandiceVidito32 yeah no shit Sherlock 😂 that's a good one
@@ericrussell6065 If you're just going to be rude leave now.
I’d throw in the 4th Crusade: instead of going to the Levant to fight they laid siege to Zara and sacked Constantinople, weakening the Byzantine Empire so much, they never recovered and slowly fell to the Ottomans within 250 years.
That time when an Austrian painter was rejected from art school
Can we change this to 14, since the americans have made the same one, twice.
Another worst decision in military history is sadden Hussein’s Iraqi🇮🇶 invasion of Kuwait. 🇰🇼
This were results in the catastrophic downfall for Iraq for both these people and its economy and would alt would label Saddam Hussein as public enemy number one not to mention that this would lead to Saddam Hussein‘s demise in 2006 after the 2003 invasion the invasion of Kuwait was both a terrible decision and And the cause of the gulf war
voting for trump in 2016 and again in 2024 will prove to be one of the biggest mistakes ever made by americans
It’s impossible to imagine Hitler’s not invading the Soviet Union. For various related ideological and practical reasons it was the whole point of the war for him. As to the first war, Germany did secretly give Austria a “blank check” to crush Serbia, asked for impossible guarantees from France, and then invaded France through neutral Belgium. Napoleon could have and should have stayed in Moscow through the winter.
One that is often overlooked is the destruction of almost the entire hundreds of years of written recorded history and knowledge created by the Maya, during the Spanish conquest.
British/French/American policy in the middle east has to be up there. The creation of Israel, their unhesitating support by the US in the face of illegal acts, etc
#11 Japan's attack on the US in 1941.
FAFO
They fucked around and found out
Where's Canada electing justin trudeau???????
While the Challenger disaster was caused by flawed decisions, how does it fit the title as impacting the world?
I was questioning myself about it, as soon as I saw it on the list.
*_We ALL cried for Christie!!_*
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#HorribleWaste! #BeautifulPerson!
Voting tRump for a second term.
Without the draconian peace accord of WWI, we may not have had WWII. Therefore, I say that is the biggest blunder in the 20th century, and it still has impacts today.
Advancing on Moscow is always a mistake. “With winter approaching” is suicidally stupid…..
About the Mao china famine, he also launch war against sparrow which regard as pests. The people of China are encouraged to hunt sparrows down until it was killed in millions. THis caused the famine worsen since many insects feast on the crops which cause failure of the crops. The sparrows are there to kill the pests.
Sparrows aren't "there to kill pests."
That would imply they were put there by someone. They are just there AND they kill pests.
Re-electing Trump, obviously
My thoughts exactly!
Why? He's done more in 2 weeks then the dems in the last 4 years. Trump is the GOAT
RUclips still in the tank for anti-Trump commenters. Congratulations.
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@@andyroid5028😂
"Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it" - Treaty of Versailles right after WW1. Congratulations y'all you caused a second WW2 not to mention multiple deaths, genocide, war crimes, etc. And y'all made a precursor/chain reaction that would be set for decades
Re-electing Donald Trump
Where’s America getting involved in the Vietnam war?
Early in the list, if you bothered watching
@ here’s an idea. How about tagging the time the mention is instead of resorting to insults.
@@stephenlitten1789let’s see… halfway through the video and I’m seeing JACK SHIT on Vietnam. I’ll gladly eat my damn words if you tag the time frame and prove me wrong because as of right now, I’m questioning if it was really me out of the two of us who hadn’t paid attention.
@@stephenlitten1789rewatched, yes re-watched, all the way through just to be safe, and still nothing. Seems to have disappeared 🤷♂️
@@spiderpunk94 I honestly thought it was there. I think I've watched too many YT videos over the past couple of days. My bad
Electing Trump
You're clearly delusional
@@germanfernandez6180😂
Allowing democrats on RUclips.
@@seanskelhorn8221😂
@@seanskelhorn8221 allowing you to be born
Can someone explain to me why a country with WMD will invade another because they think it has a WMD of their own, I never understood that
George Lucas selling Star Wars to Disney should be number 1
Actual #1: Making Trump president. TWICE.
You're really going to be butt hurt when we have 2 terms of Vance.
Electing Trump (twice!)
What about the discovery of Penicillin? That was technically a dumb mistake, what with the dirty Petri dishes, but it changed the world for the better.
Accident, not a mistake.
I would call it a lucky break. They were looking for something like penicillin and fortunately found it in a dirty Petri dish.
That was not a mistake, it was pure luck.
A Frenchman discovered penicillin, through a different roundabout route in the 19 c. But was ignored because he was a mere medical student.
@ I had a theory about that it might have been discovered earlier. Thanks for the info.
You could have added the us electing trump a 2nd time.
Making Trump president again
Now do 13 Dumbest Things Trump Did As President!
I'll get you started:
#13 - Trade War
#12 - Wildfire Response
#11 - Election Interference
#10 - Covid Response
🤣
Doesn't need to be that long. Just put "Everything".
Ngl Hitler made quite a few mistakes during WWII
I think reelecting Trump will make lists in the future.
And picking Kamala as vice president running mate
Electing Donald Trump twice.
You're delusional also
@@germanfernandez6180😂
_Aw. Someone needs a hug._
BTW, those tears taste even better this 2nd term.
@@andyroid5028 For real dude these Dems are crying all day long and are finding it hard to cope
@@andyroid5028😂
Speaking of catastrophic,, downfalls, I believe another mistaken. Human history has to be the collapse of Yugoslavia, which resulted in the Yugoslav war when Joseph Bron Tito died their new leader, slow down Milosevich, unfortunately put all the eggs in the basket. This will result in the many ethnic tension, risings, and later result in the collapse of Yugoslavia, and which we became known as the Yugoslav wars 🇷🇸🇭🇷🇧🇦🇸🇰🇲🇰🇽🇰
Milosevic was not a leader of Yugoslavia, he was a leader of one of the states, Serbia.
How could you forget, NBC canceling Star Trek?
You forgot electing Trump. Twice.
Once is forgivable almost but twice is unforgivable!
@@phatphat7089damn straight! I was so mad that Trump won and then came back into office later on
Electing Donald j trump
It also didn't help with how quickly King Leopold III surrendered to the Germans.
For me, these ones:
* Letting a bat forment a virus that affects humans.
* That soldier sparing Adolf Hitler's life.
* Voting dumber than dumb politicians.
* Letting Winnie the Pooh taste power.
That soldier could have had no idea what that unknown German soldier would do so it wasn’t a “dumb” mistake. Agree about Winnie though.
NASA... Need another seven astronauts?
#1 should be allowing Trump to run for president not once but twice 🤦🏾♂️
The West helping the Afghans to beat USSR is what led to the rise of Al-Qaida etc
Trump Tariff.
Electing Donald Trump...Twice.
That’s a good example! 👍
Facts!
You guys are all delusional
@@germanfernandez6180😂
@@germanfernandez6180 no you are
Francis Duke the English commander in the defeat of the Spanish Armada? Check again man!
You mean Francis DRAKE, check again man!
fun fact: Napoleon was not "short". He was 5'6-5'7. Which would have made him taller than the average French man at that time. Le Petit Caporal = the small corporal. His enemies concocted this name as a way to make him seem smaller. That's it. There is nothing more to it. He was the height of Joe Rogan today. Propaganda was the only way to make your people think lesser of your enemy. It's not like he had a TikTok account where he could have showed off his height to his haters.
Donald Trump will soon be on this list 😂
Allowing Chicago to control Illinois
Objection! His name was Francis DRAKE!! 9:10
Ah ... Brexit .. Duh!
6:58 installing the shah?! He was the shah before and after the coup as his father was. Do some research for your lists.
The way history is told on this video is very much like what we read in the media today: selective facts!
The Balfour Declaration should definitely be on this list. It turned the Middle East into the warzone it is today.
The Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster caused by O-ring failure due to the cold weather and negligence
Russia invading the Ukraine many blood of the innocence is being spilled in war zones in Ukraine and Russia
Former Soviet Union invades Afghanistan in 1979, left so much bloodshed
Nico harrison traded luka doncic for a bag of chips
Fr this is why I clicked on this video
@calvinlent feed knows what it's doing
Amazing video watch mojo,fantastic job.
From the point at which it was clear to me that the Challenge accident was on a par with Alexander the Great, it was clear how silly and dubious it would be, and I stopped.
Hopefully in time we will learn but with the world leaders we have probably not 😢 thanks WatchMojo
Where is ‘voting for Trump’ on the list?
Voting for trump again -3-
Another delusional
@germanfernandez6180 no you're delusional buddy, your idiot president is ruining us and trying to start fights with our biggest trading partners, soon all your stuff will cost more then it ever did, he lied to your faces and you ate it up like the sheep you are
@@germanfernandez6180😂
@@ericrietvelt1970 Cope that you don't think trump is not the current president
@@germanfernandez6180 he's not. He's an idiot and a liar that you voted for while I voted for someone that actually cares about the people
Francis Duke?..😂
Isn't it ironic that many blunders included Russia?
As if attacking the Soviet Union wasn't bad enough, in December 1941 Hitler declared war against the US with absolutely no reason for doing so. According to the Axis powers agreement, Germany wasn't obliged to support Japan because the Japanese started the war. Roosevelt wanted to fight Germany but after Pearl Harbor he couldn't have declared war against Germany as it were the Japanese that attacked Pearl Harbor, not Germany. There had been some incidents between German subs and US ships in the Atlantic already, but they were not enough to declare war. Hitlers decision made it easy for Roosevelt to wage war in Europe as well.
However, US and UK supporting the USSR via Lend Lease in the way they did can also be put on this list of dumbest mistakes. It probably saved lots of British and US soldiers lives, but it gave the Soviets all of Eastern Europe after the war - and they kept it under control for more than four decades.
By the time of the Guadeloupe Conference the Iranian revolution had already become inevitable...
The list is endless, you could pretty much pick out any historic event and it would have some kind of consequence
For real 😅 unlimited even 😅
11:22 MONGOLIAN EMPIRE is the LARGEST empire ever‼️‼️
Where was Chernobyl
What about the Vietnam War?? What about the invasion of Europeans in Native America?
The 2nd one was a success. If it wasn't Europe would have ended up like the other failure invasions. We all know that not what happened.
In what way did the space shuttle disaster changed the world forever?
They should've listened to Charles de Gaulle. If they did they might've won the battle or at least not surrender do quickly. The one time leaders needed to listen to a military expert but they didn't.
What about the Russo-Japanese War of 1905? Didn't that Russian loss lead to the birth of the Soviet Union and the end of Czar Nicholas rule?
No, that didn't lead to the revolution, but it was a factor, small factor.
How about Trump’s tariffs?
NASA = Need Another Seven Astronauts