Why Didn't the Arab World Unite? (Short Animated Documentary)

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  • @rastalique8114
    @rastalique8114 3 роки тому +2235

    My father worked in Egypt in 1959. The letters he wrote to my grandmother were all from the United Arab Republic so I grew up with the idea that the UAR of Syria and Egypt had lasted decades.

    • @dragonfire9526
      @dragonfire9526 2 роки тому +36

      That’s so cool!

    • @ArabKatib
      @ArabKatib 2 роки тому +29

      Interesting. :^)

    • @a.h.s.3006
      @a.h.s.3006 2 роки тому +110

      Up until 1973, many people in schools still referred to Egypt as the United Arab Republic. It wasn't until Egypt was kicked out of the Arab League that the term became totally unused.

    • @shibolinemress8913
      @shibolinemress8913 2 роки тому +23

      @@a.h.s.3006 Ah, that's why I remember that from school then. Thanks for clarifying!

    • @nourahmed-sh2ox
      @nourahmed-sh2ox Рік тому +1

      It's a bitter sweet dream

  • @garmenlin5990
    @garmenlin5990 4 роки тому +6059

    "United Arab World"
    Paradox Interactive: "Write that down, Write that down!!"

    • @Muhammed552
      @Muhammed552 4 роки тому +203

      next eu4 patch lol 1.31 formable nation

    • @valonyaver600
      @valonyaver600 4 роки тому +243

      Arabia is already a formable nation

    • @oc8636
      @oc8636 4 роки тому +29

      @@valonyaver600 What are the cores though?

    • @Muhammed552
      @Muhammed552 4 роки тому +79

      @@valonyaver600 not a good enough we want
      United arab world lol sound cooler

    • @anakinvoneisenhardt3333
      @anakinvoneisenhardt3333 4 роки тому +34

      @@Muhammed552 That'd be gerat! Roman Empire, United Arab world, America and Great East Asia Empire!

  • @arvedui89
    @arvedui89 3 роки тому +3609

    I find it astonishing how much real men reseblance you can pack into these template-made 2D characters.

    • @royalpotato1908
      @royalpotato1908 3 роки тому +102

      Very much so, its very weird.

    • @kennethnwebb
      @kennethnwebb 3 роки тому +87

      so that shows how we all are just the same...only differences are facial hair etc

    • @FreedomForever2010
      @FreedomForever2010 2 роки тому +65

      The trick is, your subconscious mind helps out

    • @القرنيالازدي-ص5ف
      @القرنيالازدي-ص5ف 2 роки тому +10

      For the video
      Is like if Spain will united all countries speak Spanish
      Same as Middle East
      Arabians for Arabia 🇸🇦 are race culture and traditions
      Other countries are Arabic speaking because of the Arabian invasion 1400 years ago

    • @EV-wp1fj
      @EV-wp1fj 2 роки тому +19

      I love the character design overall. He managed to make humans look like cats, which are also fickle, petty creatures.

  • @georgeamesfort3408
    @georgeamesfort3408 3 роки тому +2389

    So they decided to work together
    "But Im in charge"
    "No Im in charge"
    "No Im in charge"
    "No Im in charge "
    No,Im in charge.
    No,Im in charge.

    • @gabrielagustinhomas
      @gabrielagustinhomas 3 роки тому +103

      And that was too many ouchies for our good friend, the Pan-Arab state, lol.

    • @Colinop
      @Colinop 3 роки тому +119

      is that an.. oversimplified american revolution reference?

    • @janetlazar1188
      @janetlazar1188 3 роки тому +27

      Why don't they make a big council and everyone governs themselves but are still all the same mega nation? This will only contain Arab League and Turkey. Maybe they can divide it up like this:
      Kingdom Of Morrocco
      People's Democratic Republic Of Algeirs
      State Of Berberia
      Western Sarawi Arab Federation
      State of Tobruk
      Islamic Republic Of Libya
      Islamic State Of The Sanai
      Federation Of Western Egypt
      Nile Offical Republic
      State Of East Egypt
      Nubian Arab Republic
      Federal Republic Of Sudan
      Union Of Djobouti
      Federal Repubic Of Somalialand
      Islamic Federal Republic Of Somalia
      State Of Palestine (if Israel allows)
      Union Of The Comoros
      Arab Republic Of Kuwait
      Syrian State
      Yemeni Federal Republic
      Arab Union Of The Aden
      Omani Sultanate
      United Arab Emirates Of The Persian Gulf (Present Day UAE)
      Republic Of The Rub' Al Khali (Empty Quarter In Saudi Arabia)
      Kingdom Of Saudi Arabia
      Second Turkish Republic (The First Was Before The Unification In This World)
      Kingdom Of Iraq
      North Kurdish State (North-Eastern Kurdish Lands In Turkey)
      Emirate Of Bahrain
      Qatari Emirate
      Republic Of Lebanon
      Second Kingdom Of Hejaz
      Just my thoughts

    • @robbieaulia6462
      @robbieaulia6462 3 роки тому +37

      @@janetlazar1188 So basically the Arab version of the absolute cluster fuck that is the Holy Roman Empire is your idea. Got it.

    • @salmansingh66
      @salmansingh66 3 роки тому +4

      @@robbieaulia6462 the holy Roman had no ruling (later on) authority the holy Roman emperor and the pope would try again and again and their were council like political bodies but they held little influence and the holy Roman empire was so little centralized that there wasn't a single moment of non infighting

  • @pridelander06
    @pridelander06 4 роки тому +11927

    Sounds like they needed an Arabic Otto Von Bismarck.

  • @nat1bott
    @nat1bott 4 роки тому +3215

    Syria: so we are equal partners in this union?
    Egypt: *well yes, but actually no*

    • @tavfshl4314
      @tavfshl4314 4 роки тому +140

      failed in 3 wars
      failed to keep the union
      jamal abd naser was the godfather of failures

    • @hassananimations10
      @hassananimations10 4 роки тому +50

      @@tavfshl4314 succeeded politically though, I believe he went down in egyptian history as one of their best leaders...considering the state their in right now I doubt they'd oppose another one of him 🤔

    • @shadyshawkey4048
      @shadyshawkey4048 4 роки тому +62

      @@hassananimations10 gamal abdulnaser is one of the most hated person's in Egypt right now and completely a loser that Egyptians nowadays make memes about him and made him like the god of failure
      He never did anything good for us except talking and left us with a defeat that we paid a lot of our blood to correct it
      No one absolutely miss him and Egypt now is making reforms and getting red of the bad economical system he established and all his bad legacy

    • @theemirofjaffa2266
      @theemirofjaffa2266 4 роки тому +25

      @@hassananimations10 gamal abdel nassar was an absolute good for nothing worthless leader that Egypt was terribly unfortunate of being imposed upon. I know about this and I'm not even Egyptian.

    • @bakr6405
      @bakr6405 4 роки тому +40

      @@shadyshawkey4048 not all Egyptians. many Egyptians still don't consider memes as a historical source.

  • @alialhamad9539
    @alialhamad9539 4 роки тому +4758

    Anybody: let’s uni..
    Syria 🇸🇾: I’m in

  • @alexpotts6520
    @alexpotts6520 3 роки тому +2796

    "Pro-west Iraq" is not a phrase I thought I would ever hear...

    • @somethung8188
      @somethung8188 3 роки тому +292

      So... Lemme guess.. you don't know Iran was pro-west aswell

    • @somethung8188
      @somethung8188 3 роки тому +147

      @Kaz Miller Exactly... they tried to make iran a west puppet and it backfired.

    • @darth3911
      @darth3911 3 роки тому +80

      @@somethung8188 They didn’t want Iran as a puppet they wanted Iran as a ally problem
      is when allies don’t get along with your other allies you have to pick a side.

    • @tarekandnourhan7432
      @tarekandnourhan7432 3 роки тому +267

      @@darth3911 if you want a country as an ally you don't stage a coup and overthrow the democratically elected leader installing a puppet monarchy instead.

    • @manooxi327
      @manooxi327 3 роки тому +44

      @@tarekandnourhan7432 when the "democratically elected leader" chooses policies that are against ure way, they cease to be ure allies :P

  • @blava3155
    @blava3155 4 роки тому +3375

    There's a saying in Arabic: اتفق العرب على ألا يتفقوا. meaning "Arabs agreed to disagree".

    • @crankthetank3581
      @crankthetank3581 4 роки тому +202

      بصراحه معاك حق، معنى عمرى مسمعت المثل ده

    • @samyrandome425
      @samyrandome425 4 роки тому +438

      And it doesn't even have the positive connotation of the English expression like 'yeah we have diffrent opinions' lol it just means that the only thing Arabs could agree on is that they *really* don't agree.

    • @saad.lamrani7446
      @saad.lamrani7446 4 роки тому +28

      @Mohamed Ashrf well i guess i should agree to disagree on your disagreement then 😅

    • @friendlycreature6375
      @friendlycreature6375 4 роки тому +86

      العرب حياتهم كلها و هم يقتلو بعض و يتامروا ضد بعضهم

    • @BazookaLuca
      @BazookaLuca 4 роки тому +40

      I disagree

  • @phasmas1803
    @phasmas1803 3 роки тому +3091

    Man, unlike CGPgrey, he actually delivers when he says it’s a story for another time

    • @vojtechstrnad1
      @vojtechstrnad1 3 роки тому +254

      Still waiting for Indian reservations.

    • @dough2018
      @dough2018 3 роки тому +199

      History matters generally doesn't go in depth in his research, notice how he completely skipped Palestinian, the seven days war, the gulf War and many more.
      All this could have major effects on why they the "Arab world" didn't unite. Yet he doesn't address them out of getting things controversial.
      He also doesn't even specify what the "Arab world" consist of.

    • @Weesee_I
      @Weesee_I 3 роки тому +34

      @@dough2018 On top of that, the country borders he uses aren't always accurate for the time period. Sudan was religiously split north-south, but South Sudan didn't exist until 2011, so the entire country should have been greened in.

    • @eeeertoo2597
      @eeeertoo2597 3 роки тому +93

      @@Weesee_I He’s talking about Arabs, so, he didn’t green the south.

    • @Weesee_I
      @Weesee_I 3 роки тому +34

      @@eeeertoo2597 He's talking about arab *countries,* which Sudan was at the time. If he was talking about arab people, then why would he shade in the regions of Iraq with majority Kurdish population?

  • @abualia922
    @abualia922 3 роки тому +927

    Bottom line: "who is in charge?" this is the real reason why not uniting....

    • @La-Illaha-Illa-Allah
      @La-Illaha-Illa-Allah 3 роки тому +35

      There should have been an election, each arabic state choose a rep and they choose there leader based on merits. It is not too late to do it

    • @abualia922
      @abualia922 3 роки тому +3

      @@La-Illaha-Illa-Allah maybe it’s too late to make this election, but what I feel this won’t happen 😂😅💔

    • @mwt2332
      @mwt2332 3 роки тому +15

      @@La-Illaha-Illa-Allah bro thats actually genius

    • @robotube7361
      @robotube7361 3 роки тому +2

      Why not take the EU example?

    • @abualia922
      @abualia922 3 роки тому +6

      @@robotube7361 Corruption

  • @Zethonring23
    @Zethonring23 3 роки тому +945

    There was a similar issue during the crusades, part of the reason it took the Arab world so long to kick the west out of Jerusalem wasn't necessarily because they couldn't beat them, but because a lot of the Arab leaders were too busy feuding with each other to properly deal with them.

    • @AlexanderRM1000
      @AlexanderRM1000 2 роки тому +175

      That's pretty common in most conflicts later seen as a "clash of civilizations", really just individual leaders pursuing their own interests. Even during the crusades Catholic rulers, even with the Pope nominally in charge spent as much or more resources fighting each other in Europe than they did crusading.

    • @nicocola284
      @nicocola284 2 роки тому +30

      That’s what Saladin said

    • @jarveyjaguar4395
      @jarveyjaguar4395 2 роки тому +65

      Until a Kurdish man took matter in hands

    • @zaid9026
      @zaid9026 2 роки тому +91

      @@jarveyjaguar4395 a muslim man .
      It doesnt matter where you are from .
      The messenger of Allah, Muhammad said: there is no difference between Arabic and not Arabic People and between white or black person, but except in piety.( believing in god and doing good deeds and to move away from evil deeds , Obedience to Allah ....)

    • @jarveyjaguar4395
      @jarveyjaguar4395 2 роки тому +31

      @@zaid9026 صدق الله و رسوله

  • @stewiegriffy2928
    @stewiegriffy2928 4 роки тому +1499

    “Let’s unite togather in one nation”
    “Yeah I’m in”
    “But I’m in cgarge”
    “No I’m in charge”
    “No I’m in charge”
    - Oversimplified

    • @handlesarecringe957
      @handlesarecringe957 4 роки тому +36

      Fuck it, HRE-style elective monarchy

    • @ericr.malice318
      @ericr.malice318 4 роки тому +2

      @@handlesarecringe957 ^

    • @kshitijranade5281
      @kshitijranade5281 4 роки тому +5

      I see a fan here

    • @syahrulfauzi6344
      @syahrulfauzi6344 3 роки тому +3

      this only need one main reasons.
      same enemies.
      the problem solved. and whose gonna in charge ?
      the one wo can manipulate all of them yes he will

    • @AmmarYasser_13
      @AmmarYasser_13 3 роки тому

      This is how the f**k our f**king prisdent think he is an idiot

  • @aldotorres1983
    @aldotorres1983 4 роки тому +5063

    Why didn't the Arab World unite?
    Same reason Latin America didn't unite: *"That country has a stupid accent."*

    • @deniswood5271
      @deniswood5271 4 роки тому +250

      Aldo Torres Yeah that’s about right

    • @abdokorib8898
      @abdokorib8898 4 роки тому +95

      This comment is so right

    • @abdulobeid9449
      @abdulobeid9449 4 роки тому +48

      Aldo Torres accurate af 😭

    • @cquiroz7874
      @cquiroz7874 4 роки тому +236

      It goes a little bit deeper than that, at least if you're talking about uniting Mexico, Central America, and S. America on the simple basis that we all speak Spanish.
      The conditions, history, culture, and development of these 3 areas is so different that a united government would be so inefficient as to perpetually be a state on the brink of collapse. Like, for Christ's sake, have you seen how bad our governments' track records are when they're governing the smaller nations we have now? I don't see that changing just because we decided to unite on the sole basis that we all speak Spanish and used to be Spanish colonies.
      That being said, Latin America could very much make use of a trading bloc like the European Union have so that we can't be bullied into unfair trade deals by bigger nations (*cough* USA *cough*), just without the one currency.
      (Yes, people, I know Brazil doesn't speak Spanish. And neither does Hati, Guyana, and etcetera, etc... But I'm talking about a premise where the Spanish speaking countries of Latin America unite, as I'm assuming that is what OP meant. After all, none of those other countries speak Spanish with a funny accent. They don't speak Spanish at all).

    • @Salman.914
      @Salman.914 4 роки тому +90

      lol I’m arab totally agree,Moroccons have a wired accent (me try to be funny don’t get offended)

  • @landlockedcroat1554
    @landlockedcroat1554 4 роки тому +1637

    UK & France: **draw lines on map**
    Middle east: Balkans 2.0

    • @ClipCoyote
      @ClipCoyote 4 роки тому +26

      For real! 🔝💯

    • @Hdusiekwbshsjs
      @Hdusiekwbshsjs 4 роки тому +79

      3.0 if you count the caucuses

    • @ahmadfrhan5265
      @ahmadfrhan5265 4 роки тому +91

      💥Because the west divided our lands and chosen our leaders to keep their interest in the region and everytime we work to unite they intervene.

    • @ahmadfrhan5265
      @ahmadfrhan5265 4 роки тому +6

      @Jason Ryan the west did not Turkey

    • @ahmadfrhan5265
      @ahmadfrhan5265 4 роки тому +21

      @Jason Ryan my friend we muslims have not chosen our leaders and countries , the west chose our leaders and drew our flags and borders. and our leaders work for the interest of the west and America. i am an Arab and am willing to see the only one true flag waves above my head 🇹🇷 we muslims want Turkey and we support Turkey fully. Turkey = Islamic revivalism.
      i am not a radical or a terrorist nor i want war i want the west to piss off and never come back and we know the western governments are responsible not the people. we are aware of this 100%. i hope understand this our lands became battlefield between super powers and we paid the price heavily. we the muslims will oppose capitalism, communism, secularism and all political ideologies came from the west we only take the best of it not all of it and we want to unite muslims again not for war to end war. Turkey in the Eyes of muslims are the last castle of hope and i assure you Turkey can and will pull off this struggle eventually. you must understand please we don't want Europe , there wouldn't be any immigration or refugees if your governments didn't ruin us. sincerely. 🇹🇷 2023

  • @twothreebravo
    @twothreebravo 3 роки тому +688

    Amazingly Gdaffi when his stab at Pan Arabaism failed he also took a stab at Pan Africanism and forming an African Union similar to the EU. He understood the need for these unions to balance the power of the other big states (US & USSR). There is still a growing call for an African Union which could completely transform the economy of the continent.

    • @ahmedabdulkareem5715
      @ahmedabdulkareem5715 3 роки тому +68

      Thata why he got whacked

    • @zealord9425
      @zealord9425 3 роки тому +76

      @@ahmedabdulkareem5715 Yeah, gaddafi was good and does great work at uniting africa but because of how big africa is on political,economic and geopolitical on it. Gaddafi wasn't enough and cannot do it alone

    • @zealord9425
      @zealord9425 3 роки тому +13

      @Trinity Survival Systems EU wasn't a country but a partnership

    • @elseggs6504
      @elseggs6504 3 роки тому +13

      @@zealord9425 They are trying to become a federal government.

    • @zealord9425
      @zealord9425 3 роки тому +5

      @@elseggs6504 yeah fair enough

  • @koatam
    @koatam 4 роки тому +4148

    Long story short: Dictators and Kings don't like to share.

    • @Alaryk111
      @Alaryk111 4 роки тому +21

      Malaysia?UAE?

    • @benyamina8243
      @benyamina8243 4 роки тому +228

      @@Alaryk111 i dont think UAE is considered a democracy.

    • @peepingtom9342
      @peepingtom9342 4 роки тому +39

      Iron Law of Institutions: personal status and influence is more important than the success of an enterprise/institution/country/whatever.

    • @Alaryk111
      @Alaryk111 4 роки тому +48

      @@benyamina8243 That what I meant. He said that kings/dictators don't like to share power but in UAE they could agree to share power among themselves.

    • @vj9086
      @vj9086 4 роки тому +24

      @@Alaryk111
      Not really, There is big names trying to rule alone in UAE

  • @mjp4rker
    @mjp4rker 4 роки тому +464

    Me in the group project:
    But who's in charge? 😂

    • @السراقالمجهول
      @السراقالمجهول 3 роки тому +21

      me: u
      the other kid: no u

    • @rohiths3554
      @rohiths3554 3 роки тому

      No one.
      Each do what you're good at but we stay together and look after and out for each other

    • @rohiths3554
      @rohiths3554 3 роки тому +1

      But whenever I got into a group project all of us be like - not me! You be leader 🤭

    • @achoch
      @achoch 3 роки тому

      thats why i always make vote system when I'm a group project

    • @Faisal-tc4ih
      @Faisal-tc4ih 3 роки тому

      It could be like emirates, just like the Umayyad caliphate did in Spain and Arabia and Egypt and Morocco

  • @bluemountain4181
    @bluemountain4181 4 роки тому +1694

    The Germans had the spectacular victory in the Franco-Prussian war of 1871 which cemented Prussia's position as the dominant German power and gave the German people a leader to rally behind.
    The Arabs had the 1967 Arab-Israeli war where they got wrecked and left with no clear leader.

    • @65tallmax
      @65tallmax 2 роки тому +14

      You must have not read about both world wars..

    • @thatsaboat2882
      @thatsaboat2882 2 роки тому +422

      @@65tallmax Germany already United by the world wars

    • @Zach_Attack1
      @Zach_Attack1 2 роки тому +221

      @@65tallmax by the turn of the century, the German collection of kingdoms had already merged into the German Empire, led by the Prussian King. Im unsure what the WW’s have to do with it

    • @USSFFRU
      @USSFFRU 2 роки тому +23

      @@Zach_Attack1 The Prussian King had a title, it was Emperor of the Germans, reason was German Emperor sounded too close to the Kaiser ruling over all Germans in Germany instead of the German Empire being a Semi-Federal Empire with multiple Monarchies under one Monarchy

    • @mustafanaser9789
      @mustafanaser9789 2 роки тому +2

      Actually saddam Hussain wanted to create a arab Country. Maybe that is one of the reasons why USA sanctioned iraq Back in 1990 or installed a puppet government in iran to make both iraq and iran to fight eachother to distract from these plans

  • @AndrewAMartin
    @AndrewAMartin 3 роки тому +300

    I find it interesting that none of the proposed or attempted Pan-Arab states included the Arabian Peninsula itself. Could it be that the Saudis have no desire to unite with their Arab brothers (and have to share that oil bounty)?

    • @wildec2
      @wildec2 3 роки тому +87

      Im sure thats a big part of it!
      It would surely be the same for Kuwait, UAE, Qatar, and Bahrain, etc as they all have petroleum wealth of varying magnitude.

    • @DaroriDerEinzige
      @DaroriDerEinzige 3 роки тому +40

      The Saudi Arabian Royal Family was also seen as ... I don't know how to put it midly ... not so good by everybody else.
      Still isn't.
      But Money and so, you know? They are also a big factor in the destabilizing of some arabic Countries, founders of the whole "Wahabism"-Stuff which the Taliban, among others, used. A radical islamic belief system, for which they train Imans in Saudi Arabia and send them all over the place, they also having fun in Yemen and so on.
      The only halfway "normal" place in the Arabian Peninsula is probaly Oman, which mostly keeps to itself and probaly prays that they don't get discovered by their neighbours nor by anyone else as "profitable".

    • @wildec2
      @wildec2 3 роки тому +11

      @@DaroriDerEinzige The biggest problem in the way the US perceived geopolitics in the WW2 and post WW2 era is that the Persian Gulf was seen as crucial for global stability. This was an error.
      It may have been essential to maintain control of PERSIAN oil in WW2, but Saudi Oil wasnt important at that point.
      Allowing them to form an oil cartel was one of the biggest mistakes of geopolitics in the history of the world.
      As far as that relates back to the parts of your comment that deal with the prosslatizing (phonetical pronunciation) (ie proselytizing), i totally agree with you: Saudi Arabia, the source of radical islamist wahabbism is a menace to the world, and probably should've been toppled long ago (in an ideal world).
      However, in our world where it is 'woke' to talk about 'first peoples' and 'preferred pronouns', the plight of those beheaded in Riyadh rates way down the list of priorities for the idiots in the West (and sadly im one of them).

    • @DaroriDerEinzige
      @DaroriDerEinzige 3 роки тому +22

      @@wildec2 I agree with you to a certain extend although I wanna point out; Saudi Arabia was needed for the geopolitics as it is.
      Also, in the past we've seen what happens when the Saudis tried to "press" the West with their Oil - and it wasn't pleasant for them. Sure, they have now billions of Dollars, but power isn't defined by the wealth of the individuals.
      In the greater scheme, those conflicts in the near east were needed as a weak Africa is for a liberal capitalistic world order. Otherwise, Europeans would be forced to either trade fairly with certain parts of the world or even cooperate with other parts like Russia.
      Which would mean Europe would probaly become more independent and again focused on ourself.
      It hasn't really to do with "Woke-Culture" to be honest, that's more or less a trend primarly there to focus our attention on other things than "How does lobbyism destroy everything which is good here.".
      Especially Europe suffers under its weak leadership, Politicians don't have to fear anyform of consequences and their main goal - and here the Party doesn't matter - is to gain wealth for their own.
      Things like the Refugee Crysis could have been easily avoided if we wouldn't have intervened in those Regions as we did and destablizied them.
      Also, the arabic Spring was sold to us as something good; it wasn't though.
      The War against Terrorism? The name itself is already a PR Stunt.
      But the crux on the whole thing is, big Cooperations made big money with those conflicts and still do, while Humans suffering.
      Don't get me wrong, I'm not a Communist or anything like that - But personally I think the power should lay in the hands of a democratic State, which reforms and improves itself constantly and not in the Hand of some Cooperations which are mainly concerned with Profits.
      Long story short, yes - it wasn't a great decision to support Saudi Arabia in the way and form we did, but to this day it's needed for US Geopolitics.
      If we would wanna change that, we would've to step up and bring actually peace to some regions and change some things at home.
      We would've to stop to embrace mindless consumerism in order to be able to form a economical system in which labour gets fairly paid in Europe, and paid enough so that certain regions in Africa - for an example - can stabilize and develop themself.
      We've to stop to belief in US American Propaganda which serves the sole reason to shut you up and make you devout to a System which has mainly in mind to exploit you.
      Not everybody can become a Millionair, we all know that - But when the majority of wealth even in the west is concentrated on a few, it's time to wake up.
      We're, and you will find a great study in that regards from the Swiss - so no "Woke Culture"-Stuff in it - in regards to that, which states mathematically proven that we're (from the 1990's forward) the first Generation in History which will have less than their parents no matter how hard we'll work.
      That's an undeniable disgrace to everything Europe stand for - especially if we considering the fact that Europe expierenced one of its biggest economically growths in its History in the decades since the second WW.
      And I think, you don't have to be a "Leftie"/"Communist" or "Socialist" to be angry about that - But in many European states, there's simple no real "Middle" anymore, no real Conservatives.
      Because they got bought, they sold themselfs as the Social Democrats did - and until those things ain't broadly accepted and the people responsible for that development officially charged, we wont change european Politics I think.

    • @_Sami_H
      @_Sami_H 3 роки тому +4

      nope imgaine the tax payment it will take to help rebuild , build infrastructure and all that accross like 8 to 7 essentaily poor or destoryed countries (besides jorden or Egypt or maroco that is )that intotal have more land then Saudia itself and more people too.. Also implement all these people to the working force /economies.. Sorry to say but no country would like to do that if it had a choice

  • @lirachasmody
    @lirachasmody 4 роки тому +695

    1:06 It deosnt say ''Stars, yo''
    My pain is immeasurable and my day is ruined

  • @ChessedGamon
    @ChessedGamon 4 роки тому +3731

    If Arabia united we could have gotten Algebra 2

    • @rydyly1734
      @rydyly1734 4 роки тому +419

      Algebra 2: Electric Boogaloo

    • @x-ray-oh3134
      @x-ray-oh3134 4 роки тому +230

      Except that Algebra was developed by Kharazmi, who was Iranian

    • @Szolrykor
      @Szolrykor 4 роки тому +285

      Algebra is from the Persians
      Arabic numerals were originally from Indians but spread to Europe through Arabs, cus they were in the middle

    • @appleslover
      @appleslover 4 роки тому +257

      Yes, Persian and Indian
      But they flourished under Arab rule in the golden age of Islam just like jews who fled Europe due to religious persecution
      To the United States

    • @syrialak101
      @syrialak101 4 роки тому +8

      apple's lover Wait, what? What does this have to do with Jews?

  • @communistcrab582
    @communistcrab582 4 роки тому +3982

    The most interesting things in history are never taught in school

    • @arcade_wolf494
      @arcade_wolf494 3 роки тому +149

      Most things are left out in high school history cause it can't be covered in a span of 3 semester lol go to college if you want to learn history

    • @arcade_wolf494
      @arcade_wolf494 3 роки тому +7

      @RED RED Its half a year worth of school as theirs about 6-8 different subjects so the school year is divided in 2 and you can focus on 3-4 subjects per semester.

    • @adriandiaz-cabrera1733
      @adriandiaz-cabrera1733 3 роки тому +102

      They are, it's just no longer considered interesting cause now you're being forced to learn it. If we were forced to learn this instead, people would find the current curriculum interesting.

    • @Adroyo
      @Adroyo 3 роки тому +23

      Maybe because history is never ending and there is a limit on history schooling?

    • @alexandrebertrand1069
      @alexandrebertrand1069 3 роки тому +16

      We study this in High School in France. There is a whole chapter about the Middle East from the ottoman empire to the Iraq War

  • @bm9727
    @bm9727 3 роки тому +118

    Deciding a leader to rally around is definitely difficult, but I would usually see it as which of the countries has a richer economy, better infrastructure, more arms, a larger global reach and especially resources (which I assume they all have). Piedmont drove the Italian unification and Prussia drove German unification for these same reasons.

    • @lordofdarkness4204
      @lordofdarkness4204 2 роки тому +2

      Also unfortunately having a strong military would be a very important factor

    • @lorrainemapper7000
      @lorrainemapper7000 2 роки тому +26

      Thats the exact problem, Most of the major arab nations were equal in strength and so there was no nation clearly leading the arab world

    • @Laucron
      @Laucron Рік тому +2

      You could say there were a few same sized crabs in a bucket

    • @anukriti2769
      @anukriti2769 Рік тому

      but ig this would then become the case as is with russia and the other smaller ex-soviet countries

    • @InfernosReaper
      @InfernosReaper Рік тому

      @@lorrainemapper7000 In circumstances of equal strength, something like the EU or pre-1860s US would make more sense

  • @strikeforce1500
    @strikeforce1500 4 роки тому +185

    So basically, everyone wanted to be the Red Ranger

  • @jokegajr2748
    @jokegajr2748 4 роки тому +1984

    Hey history matters interesting subject

  • @royaljanissary4555
    @royaljanissary4555 4 роки тому +293

    -Sees the title
    -Open Victoria 2
    -Play as Egypt
    -Form Arab Union

    • @abdo5615
      @abdo5615 4 роки тому +14

      Fezes off to you, my kamerad!
      Greetings from Misr!

    • @NotKnafo
      @NotKnafo 4 роки тому +1

      lol

    • @math3000
      @math3000 4 роки тому +16

      Me, an Intellectual:
      -Opens HOI4
      -Plays Saudi Arabia
      -Form Arabia

    • @x_croner
      @x_croner 4 роки тому +4

      @@math3000 rt56 fascist iraq is better

    • @JH-zs3bs
      @JH-zs3bs 4 роки тому +1

      you guys are all noobs. why not make it a challenge and form the arab union as Jemen.

  • @williamkillingsworth2619
    @williamkillingsworth2619 2 роки тому +17

    I have learned more world history in these videos than I ever learned in High School. Thank you!

  • @pussinjordans8800
    @pussinjordans8800 4 роки тому +819

    Koreans: ok we are now unified, who will be in charge?
    North:
    South:

    • @kalvon
      @kalvon 3 роки тому +36

      South: Eurgh, me obviously, duh, I got so many bitches and maney' and had more higher index.
      North: I got nukes and I don't like everyone, including china. (Because me great)

    • @Wonderhorse9006
      @Wonderhorse9006 3 роки тому +30

      Bill no it’s more like
      South: I have a bigger Economy and I’m more popular
      North: I have nukes, communism and a vendetta against the whole world

    • @Yanzdorloph
      @Yanzdorloph 3 роки тому +5

      @@Wonderhorse9006 the south doesnt even want to be one country with the north, there's no way that could happen just like that, that would destroy the south

    • @Talisman2
      @Talisman2 3 роки тому +1

      the north of poor af

    • @utkarshg.bharti9714
      @utkarshg.bharti9714 3 роки тому +1

      Koreans should just abandon both democracy and Communism and opt for bringing back the monarchy (with some changes) in continuation of the Joseon era. That way, neither side wins but maintains the appearance of a little bit of both.

  • @TheSerec
    @TheSerec 4 роки тому +180

    3:40 Damn, James Castaneda, Gustav Swan, Marcus Ozna and Jordan Longley donated so much they got mentioned twice, good job lads

    • @appleslover
      @appleslover 4 роки тому +9

      I thought I was the only one who heard that

  • @pvzfan4208
    @pvzfan4208 4 роки тому +1809

    Let me make it even shorter:
    No one could agree on who would lead it.
    Edit: Because the replies are pretty spicy, let me tell you here if it wasn’t clear allready, THIS COMMENT IS A JOKE.

    • @markhansen3717
      @markhansen3717 4 роки тому +18

      .... and so it died. THUD

    • @wbbartlett
      @wbbartlett 4 роки тому +35

      Or even shorter again: C.I.A.

    • @h3egypt
      @h3egypt 4 роки тому +26

      Communism ruined any chance of its success.. all turned to dictatorships and failing states

    • @Wasserkaktus
      @Wasserkaktus 4 роки тому +31

      Not to mention "Arabs" are pretty much completely different ethnic groups and nations.

    • @philosoftfurkitusjunkyard2462
      @philosoftfurkitusjunkyard2462 4 роки тому +13

      they can only agree with one thing: off with the infidels!
      otherwise, they are totally clueless.
      that's what you get when your only goal is the afterlife. 72 goals all in the afterlife.

  • @yassinetorjmene9843
    @yassinetorjmene9843 3 роки тому +83

    There was an other attempt in unification for arabs that you didn t tell it was between tunisia and libiya
    Both governments agreed on a unification and quickly made an easy propsition on who rules and all else the only problem is that Tunisian people disagreed with the idea and didn t let it happen (also sorry if there are any mistakes i am not so great in english)

    • @melancholyflow2956
      @melancholyflow2956 3 роки тому +5

      good english btw

    • @yassinetorjmene9843
      @yassinetorjmene9843 3 роки тому +1

      @@melancholyflow2956 thx

    • @sabrina1380m
      @sabrina1380m 2 роки тому +2

      @عبد الخالق١٩٩٤ I doubt he was serious, bourguiba always stressed on Tunisian identity and history as a continuous entity since Carthage

    • @adamelghalmi9771
      @adamelghalmi9771 9 місяців тому +1

      @@sabrina1380m that is so dumb, he is dwelling on past conquests, not letting his people grow for the future

    • @Meeda2000
      @Meeda2000 6 місяців тому +1

      @@sabrina1380mtunisia is made up of both arabs and berbers

  • @vladmamula4532
    @vladmamula4532 4 роки тому +462

    All history conflicts in a nutshell: ' You suck!'

    • @vladmamula4532
      @vladmamula4532 4 роки тому +1

      @Hoàng Nguyên True

    • @ColonelMetus
      @ColonelMetus 4 роки тому +5

      You miss spelled Jews

    • @armahpruski5877
      @armahpruski5877 4 роки тому +4

      Except for that one Mesopotamian war where they fought over wood because "It would make a cool door"

    • @hughseagraves7036
      @hughseagraves7036 3 місяці тому +1

      Or, "We can't trust them"

  • @jbcheema9883
    @jbcheema9883 4 роки тому +184

    There would be a united arab state if the movement was sponsored by Kelly Money Maker.

  • @timothyrice1621
    @timothyrice1621 4 роки тому +266

    1:54 "The Syrian leadership approached NASA"

    • @MPHJackson7
      @MPHJackson7 4 роки тому +93

      SYRIA, IN SPACE

    • @danieleliahushapiro4280
      @danieleliahushapiro4280 4 роки тому +65

      Fun fact, head of the Federal Aviation Agency at the time was Najeeb Halaby, a syrian who was also the father of the queen Noor of Jordan.. he was the one in charge of the american supersonic airliner program ... close...

    • @kabochaVA
      @kabochaVA 4 роки тому +2

      @@danieleliahushapiro4280 Very interesting! 👍

    • @avatardele
      @avatardele 4 роки тому +10

      Nasser,the eqyptian dictator.

    • @ericr.malice318
      @ericr.malice318 4 роки тому

      @@avatardele
      The joke
      You

  • @donniebooshae3880
    @donniebooshae3880 3 роки тому +14

    “Death time”
    It’s these little quips that make me enjoy this channel.

  • @eladazrad107
    @eladazrad107 4 роки тому +855

    "Lets unite together for united Arab world!"
    "ok sure im in"
    ".... wait...who will be in charge?"
    *well so much for that*

    • @openthinker6562
      @openthinker6562 4 роки тому +19

      *Cue outside meeting hall as gunshots echo*

    • @slewone4905
      @slewone4905 4 роки тому +3

      should of done it the Malaysian way.

    • @math3000
      @math3000 4 роки тому +1

      @@slewone4905 you mean that race based system?

    • @landsknecht9941
      @landsknecht9941 4 роки тому

      get an asian guy there

    • @landsknecht9941
      @landsknecht9941 4 роки тому

      @Netherlands Cassava nah only in england really i think

  • @scottwhitley3392
    @scottwhitley3392 4 роки тому +709

    “Why didn’t the Arab world unite”
    The whole world- “looks a Britain”
    Britain-“wat?”

  • @redlion1494
    @redlion1494 4 роки тому +573

    Good video, but it missed some points:
    1) Indigenous non-Arab communities within the so-called 'Arab World', most notably Kurds and Berbers, among others, resisted Pan-Arabism for they saw, and rightly at that, that it would mean forced assimilation and would threaten their already precarious position in increasingly authoritarian and Arabo-centric states.
    2) Many Arabic-speakers, especially amongst the Christians of Lebanon and Shi'is of Iraq, saw Pan-Arabism as a Sunni Muslim project, which, whether Pan-Arabists intended or not, was largely true. So, they also resisted pan-Arabist projects.
    3) Finally, I think the video overestimates how committed Arab leaders were to Pan-Arabism. It must be remembered that most Arab governments were (and still are) filled with corrupt and autocratic elites to the brim. They payed lip service to Arab unity to satisfy the street, but they were never that serious about Pan-Arabism because they knew it would weaken their control in the long run.

    • @jel1951
      @jel1951 4 роки тому +42

      Shera 14 This comment is very accurate.

    • @Darkfawfulx
      @Darkfawfulx 4 роки тому +12

      @@jel1951 Agreed I'm just commenting to save it.

    • @TheSchlunzer
      @TheSchlunzer 4 роки тому +12

      This video plus your points provide a really good answer. Thanks! :-)

    • @yousir1254
      @yousir1254 4 роки тому +27

      Shera 14 i agree but in point 2 shiite arabs are mostly pro pan-arabism( i am an iraqi shia) and christians are too except Maronites in lebanon

    • @redlion1494
      @redlion1494 4 роки тому +23

      @@yousir1254 You're right. I shouldn't have generalized so much. Many Shi'is and Christians (and even some non-Arabs, like the Chaldeans in Iraq, and some Kurds and Berbers) in Iraq, Lebanon and elsewhere were, and still are, fierce believers of Pan-Arabism. Although I doubt most of them envision the same sort of Pan-Arabism that was espoused by Ba'athists and others like them. Also by Pan-Arabism I mean the idea that all Arab-majority countries and regions should dissolve into one state. I don't think that's very popular nowadays, especially in countries with strong national identities, like Iraq, Egypt, and Lebanon.

  • @PHX787
    @PHX787 2 роки тому +7

    2:32 "death time"
    I love this channel

  • @kunwoododd2154
    @kunwoododd2154 4 роки тому +352

    One huge factor is a lot of Arabs did not see other Arabs as part one big ethnic group, in a similar vain to how Norwegians, Swedes, and Danes don't see themselves as one big ethnic group. Too many differences have accumulated up over 1300 years. And each Arab region mixed in a considerable amount of indigenous culture: Berber culture in the Maghreb, Ancient Egyptian culture in Egypt, Aramaic culture in Syria and Iraq etc.

    • @jaif7327
      @jaif7327 2 роки тому +23

      aramaic only in iraq plus ancient egyptian culture had already died out with the advent of hellenism you’re really naive

    • @JoeMCool
      @JoeMCool 2 роки тому

      Precisely! Arabs have never seen themselves as a singular ethnic identity, let alone as a national construct. Such an idea exists only in the fantasy of the Islamic Ummah, which will never happen. Even Muslims cannot agree amongst themselves as to what Islam is supposed to be, exactly.

    • @manawa3832
      @manawa3832 2 роки тому +1

      There is no such thing as "Arabs" for 1300 years. This is ahistorical fantasy. Arabic wasn't even a spoken language for most of the region 200 years ago. Pan-Arabism refers to a cultural and linguistic connection between different ethnic groups. Arabs didn't "mix" with indigenous people, implying the Arabs in those countries today are not indigenous which is patently false.

    • @Murad_el-Kaffas
      @Murad_el-Kaffas 2 роки тому +34

      Ancient egyptian culture in modern egypt? I get what you're trying to say, but I feel like you're forcing in a few examples

    • @jamesportoraro8248
      @jamesportoraro8248 Рік тому +4

      Not to mention the countless tribes and tribal leaders

  • @CB0408
    @CB0408 4 роки тому +574

    Who's in charge?
    In the Arab World, not the people, that's for sure.

    • @saeedvazirian
      @saeedvazirian 4 роки тому +38

      The people were always in charge, but if you want to be an asshole then look to countries like the US and UK, where the people aren't in charge to begin with, then you'll realise you were a hypocritical asshole.

    • @steelbear2063
      @steelbear2063 4 роки тому +29

      @@saeedvazirian
      US? Really?

    • @woolworthspossum4370
      @woolworthspossum4370 4 роки тому +11

      Except our beloved Tunisia

    • @thomastimk9982
      @thomastimk9982 4 роки тому +4

      Isnt thtlat almost everywhere

    • @ahmedabdelkefi4539
      @ahmedabdelkefi4539 4 роки тому +6

      Tunisia am I a joke to you ?

  • @_NeoImperia_
    @_NeoImperia_ 4 роки тому +338

    But what about the droid attack on the wookies?

    • @koboz9321
      @koboz9321 4 роки тому +63

      It is critical we send an attack group there immediately

    • @TheEnabledDisabled
      @TheEnabledDisabled 4 роки тому +53

      @@koboz9321 its a system we cannot afford to lose

    • @TheEnabledDisabled
      @TheEnabledDisabled 4 роки тому +27

      @Gamer Shooter general Kenobi

    • @zakback9937
      @zakback9937 4 роки тому +18

      this is something more important than Arabism.

    • @arthur__lt
      @arthur__lt 4 роки тому +8

      @@TheEnabledDisabled hahaha you are a bold one

  • @Yutaro-Yoshii
    @Yutaro-Yoshii 2 роки тому +27

    3:28 completely irrelevant, but it kinda sounds odd not to hear Kelly Moneymaker's name after James Bissonette

  • @Madridy1996
    @Madridy1996 4 роки тому +380

    Pan-Arabism however has been dying over the last few years. As an Iraqi Arab I can safely say that Arab countries are trying to elaborate what distinguishes them over the other ones, rather than trying to find common causes and goals. Many factors contribute to this, but mostly is the Arab Spring consequences and the many proxy wars currently taking place in the region.
    Feel free to ask me anything regarding this matter..

    • @kinanshmahell8065
      @kinanshmahell8065 4 роки тому +8

      Yes but I think unification on a smaller scale could be possible

    • @shorewall
      @shorewall 4 роки тому +65

      @@kinanshmahell8065 In the modern world, unification isn't necessary. Even countries like the USA, Spain, etc. have internal divisions. And small countries can survive and thrive in the modern paradigm. There's no reason to go wide these days. Even the US which is mostly unchallenged, doesn't annex territory. Go tall. China is missing this lesson, and I think it will be its downfall.

    • @Madridy1996
      @Madridy1996 4 роки тому +31

      @@sabilly1471
      Iraq has been in one big chaos since October. Protests and sit-ins were encountered by lethal force and over 700 people were killed so far plus thousands of injured and arrested. The government resigned few weeks ago and technically we don't have a constitutional government right now. All major parties (Sunnites, Shiite, and Kurds) are fighting to get the most they can from the next period.
      So yes, chaos and separatism are dangerous factors today..

    • @cookiezen8320
      @cookiezen8320 4 роки тому +6

      What do you think about the ssnp?
      A United country without the meddling Arab countries (gulf) Kuwait becomes a province of Iraq and hatay and khuzestan are returned to their rightful ownersn

    • @Madridy1996
      @Madridy1996 4 роки тому +18

      @@cookiezen8320
      As charming as that idea might seem it's almost impossible to work out. Especially under a fascist regime like theirs (despite what they claim we all know that they will turn Third Reich on us once they have power). Also, I can assure you that no Iraqi will accept Syrian dominance, yes Syrian and Iraqis have been always together for millennias but usually Iraq had the upper hand.

  • @SupremeLeaderKimJong-un
    @SupremeLeaderKimJong-un 4 роки тому +405

    Speaking of unity, talk about the short lived West Indies Federation

    • @ministryofwrongthink9847
      @ministryofwrongthink9847 4 роки тому +36

      As a west Indian I am also interested in this topic

    • @ivanamarkotic5398
      @ivanamarkotic5398 4 роки тому +39

      Also,Federal state of Central America?

    • @MuddieRain
      @MuddieRain 4 роки тому +9

      Or North and South Korea........

    • @randomtanker4355
      @randomtanker4355 4 роки тому +24

      There is a cricket team of West Indies which plays in cricket tournaments like the World Cup.
      Simple explaination:
      🇦🇬🇦🇮🇧🇧🇩🇲🇬🇩🇯🇲🇱🇨🇲🇸🇬🇾🇸🇽🇻🇨🇻🇬🇻🇮🇹🇹
      They all make up West Indies team

    • @raptorfromthe6ix833
      @raptorfromthe6ix833 4 роки тому +1

      what about democratic confederal republic of korea?

  • @Rodario10TUNISIAN
    @Rodario10TUNISIAN 3 роки тому +46

    Music video: دا حلمنا، طول عمرنا، حضن يضمنا كلنا كلنا
    Reality: "Yo bro I want my own Soudan"
    "Hey dudes, so uhm, we got oil now so we're no longer like, friends."
    "We gotta get more weaponry because our cousins who look like us, speak the same language, have the same beliefs, and share the same cause and values are getting more weaponry." (Morocco and Algeria)
    And the list goes on

    • @dutchdoggogang6882
      @dutchdoggogang6882 3 роки тому +7

      The arabic part translates to that is our dreem of our life a hug that contains us all idk English very good so sorry for grammer mistakes

  • @TravisBroski
    @TravisBroski 3 роки тому +11

    “Alright, let’s unite our world together to become a national superpower!”
    “Awesome, so I’m in charge then, right?”
    “…”
    “So I’m in charge, right?”

  • @dezodroya
    @dezodroya 4 роки тому +74

    I love that whenever theres a youtube video with a question as the title, people answer the question before even seeing the video. Like its rethoric guys cmon!

    • @jesseberg3271
      @jesseberg3271 4 роки тому

      The scales a bit different.
      It's more like, seven Arab city-states united.

  • @WaqManVR
    @WaqManVR 3 роки тому +135

    That 'death time' post was hilarious 🤣

    • @fransbuijs808
      @fransbuijs808 3 роки тому +1

      I don't know if the character holding up that sign was Saddam Hussein, but it could be him!

    • @nitishkumarjurel241
      @nitishkumarjurel241 3 роки тому +7

      @@fransbuijs808 the coup was instigated by Abd al-Karim Qasim and his "free officers". Saddam didn't come to power until 1979.

    • @morbidsearch
      @morbidsearch 3 роки тому +2

      People dying in History Matters videos is always a treat

  • @aymansss6563
    @aymansss6563 3 роки тому +662

    soooooo...nothing about France, UK or USA butting in to make things even more complicated for their own benefits?... ok.

    • @hassanmohammed6755
      @hassanmohammed6755 3 роки тому +57

      Most of it was our fault actually we couldn't decide on leader and we still can't soo this really nice as dream but can never happen in real life

    • @pecadodeorgullo5963
      @pecadodeorgullo5963 3 роки тому +36

      The british controlled many parts of the Arab States in Asia before the collapse of the ottoman empire and reason for this was due to Britain offering small Arab kingdoms to join their empire since they didn't want to join the ottomans. The only 2 who joined the empire after ww1 was modern day Iraq and Jordan. Both were moderately rich during their time in the british empire and after independence but we all know what happened to little Iraq when uncle Sam got involved.

    • @homosapien.a6364
      @homosapien.a6364 3 роки тому +3

      @@hassanmohammed6755 but you cannot deny the west influence on the Middle East
      Plus people in arabia are so closed mind
      So they can't be someone who can be heard their opinions

    • @swingo3224
      @swingo3224 3 роки тому +18

      @@hassanmohammed6755 as a morrocan i will be horrified if that ever had to happen my freind. the only thing that unites us is religion. nothing more or less.

    • @tecleatortecleator2572
      @tecleatortecleator2572 3 роки тому +4

      @@swingo3224 dna religion culture language, and none of them connects us to the west. Im moroccan too but we are all from the magreb and we fight with the fosfate and petrol dollars instead we should be using it on giving jobs to the people. We even argue in english. You should take one of those boats maybe that way you would start loving your people. You would see them in europe living together and we could do that in our land too but instead we have confused chickens following politicians to poverty fear and hate.

  • @seantomlinson3320
    @seantomlinson3320 9 місяців тому +9

    I worked in Saudi Arabia for two years. I'm an American and man, it was fascinating to hear the casual racism between my colleagues. Nobody likes anybody that's not from their country!

    • @stuffandthings1155
      @stuffandthings1155 7 місяців тому +6

      I work in Saudi Arabia now. It’s definitely a problem. The Saudis don’t even like people from different regions of the same country. Now they are arguing about the fact that any Saudi can apply to any university in Saudi Arabia, unlike before when you could only apply to the universities in your region. “those are our universities“, they say.

    • @Abdessalam3629
      @Abdessalam3629 6 місяців тому +1

      @@stuffandthings1155 As a non-Arab Moroccan, I gotta say it, Saudis (some of them) aren't the best when it comes to dealing with foreigners (non-Arabs), even I who lives in an 'Arab' country and share the same language and religion with them notice racism from them just for not identifying as Arab, some of them dedicate entire tiktok and facebook pages just to slander my people (Amazighs aka Berbers).

    • @Abdessalam3629
      @Abdessalam3629 6 місяців тому +1

      @@stuffandthings1155 And sadly, this doesn't only apply to Saudis, even some Moroccans who consider themselves genetically Arab see us the same way and prefer Arabs from others countries than us who share them the country

    • @ye5170
      @ye5170 2 місяці тому

      As an Iraqi Arab, there are a big number of Saudi’s who have distaste to the rest of us Arabs which is sad but I have known many Saudi’s who aren’t like this

  • @deeipomar2366
    @deeipomar2366 4 роки тому +422

    I'm Arab and this video is quite accurate unlike what I expected...
    Most of the Arabian people in all of the Arabian countries dream of unity and unification under one banner, but our governors have another dream to say the least 😅

    • @raymond2925
      @raymond2925 4 роки тому +30

      The islamic state banner ?

    • @KatarinaBohtana
      @KatarinaBohtana 3 роки тому +21

      @@raymond2925 Jesus man, lol

    • @havenlyal
      @havenlyal 3 роки тому +25

      Arabian people’s? lol nah most of them are just arabic speaking

    • @yanaynarmon8943
      @yanaynarmon8943 3 роки тому +15

      Imagine how big will be revolts and civil wars in this state.

    • @johannesziaether3916
      @johannesziaether3916 2 роки тому +51

      @@havenlyal
      Being an Arab was never by blood. And even tho, the majority of Arabs are blood related because they come from a shared origin back before Islam and even Christianity.

  • @homosapien.a6364
    @homosapien.a6364 3 роки тому +352

    Our freaking kings are the most kings who like to stay in their chairs forever

    • @crazyrzy4417
      @crazyrzy4417 3 роки тому +38

      Never ending cycle of Arab leaders. true.

    • @os.a.m.a
      @os.a.m.a 3 роки тому +15

      Trump: now I know where to go.

    • @robotube7361
      @robotube7361 3 роки тому +17

      They are western puppets.

    • @scratchy996
      @scratchy996 3 роки тому +3

      That's why Austria didn't unite with Germany. Now they finally got rid of kings, but they are banned from uniting until ww3 breaks out.

    • @cake6852
      @cake6852 3 роки тому +7

      Arab countries are the servants of the westerners. I don't know what they will do when they run out of petroleum
      lol

  • @creatoruser736
    @creatoruser736 4 роки тому +110

    "Because no one can decide who's in charge."
    Everyone who blames European imperialism for breaking the Middle East regularly forget that leaders in the region themselves are plenty responsible for being unable to unify it. Local peoples can screw up the region they live in on their own.

    • @borisradojkov7051
      @borisradojkov7051 4 роки тому +24

      Yes especially when europeans chose the leaders(:

    • @thefedoraguy7575
      @thefedoraguy7575 4 роки тому

      Let me ask u a question if you are a world leader will u give up all your power and for someone else just to make your ppl happy

    • @jonathanredacted3245
      @jonathanredacted3245 4 роки тому +13

      Of course it's not like European and American interest benefit from there not being a superpower there or anything

    • @Hdusiekwbshsjs
      @Hdusiekwbshsjs 4 роки тому +2

      Nah it was the Europeans fault

    • @borisradojkov7051
      @borisradojkov7051 4 роки тому +2

      @@Hdusiekwbshsjs Abdul Nasser: Arab unity
      Israel: NO
      UAR: Imma do it again
      Israel: Imma take sinai and Golan heights.
      Arabs: OK

  • @Nick-hb4pm
    @Nick-hb4pm 3 роки тому +57

    Actually, the USSR proposed to the Western powers a moratorium on meddling in the Middle East numerous time. This included removing troops and bases, as well as a complete embargo of weapons to the region. The West said no.

    • @cardenova
      @cardenova 2 роки тому +10

      Wonder why the USSR proposed that 🤔

    • @dumigamez397
      @dumigamez397 2 роки тому +7

      @@cardenova To get the West weaker.

    • @cardenova
      @cardenova 2 роки тому +27

      @@dumigamez397 it was so that the USSR could have sole influence and power in the region. not out of the kindness of their heart😂

    • @dumigamez397
      @dumigamez397 2 роки тому +3

      @@cardenova That's kind of what I was saying, maybe not well.

    • @cardenova
      @cardenova 2 роки тому +5

      @@dumigamez397 Yeah my response was meant more for the original post, not you, my bad.

  • @wanfu5634
    @wanfu5634 4 роки тому +57

    Arab Leader: "Let's Unite!" Other Arab Leaders: "Yes!" Arab Leader: "I'm #1." Other Arab Leaders: "Wait a sec..."

  • @AnchisesGamer
    @AnchisesGamer 4 роки тому +101

    After watching Band of Brothers again last night, it made me wonder about a topic you should do good sir. I thought about a question, “what did the general German population think of returning German soldiers after WWII and how did they interact?” I thought of it because I realized how well received WWII vets were and still are here in the states, I’ve always wondered how they were received elsewhere in the world

    • @karlscher5170
      @karlscher5170 2 роки тому +52

      Well, 'returning German soldiers' were just half of the 'general German population', because every male between 16 and 60 who could walk was drafted. So in general they were just glad when their relatives returned at all and weren't in a mass grave in russia. Besides there was total destruction and starvation to be faced in post war germany. No time to reflect on patriotic sentiments.

    • @Leyrann
      @Leyrann 2 роки тому +13

      As far as I'm aware (as a Dutch person), Germany's view on WWII is mostly "nazis are bad, don't even go anywhere NEAR being a nazi, and let's not think or talk about the war apart from that".

    • @riveraharper8166
      @riveraharper8166 2 роки тому +10

      “what did the general German population think of returning German soldiers after WWII and how did they interact?”
      They were happy to see their fathers, brothers, sons?

    • @cronchcrunch
      @cronchcrunch 2 роки тому +1

      @@riveraharper8166 Good job at deliberately misinterpreting the question.

    • @riveraharper8166
      @riveraharper8166 2 роки тому +2

      @@cronchcrunch Enlighten me then!
      So it wasn't the usual anglo-saxon crying for nazis then?

  • @Alex_FRD
    @Alex_FRD 4 роки тому +90

    Sounds like the same reason why the Federal Republic of Central America fell apart; nobody wants Guatemala in charge.

  • @Ashod00
    @Ashod00 3 роки тому +8

    a lot of good 1 sentenced summaries here.. i'm gonna knock it up a notch and offer just a single word summary: EGO's.

  • @agactual2
    @agactual2 4 роки тому +18

    I feel like this guy is reading my mind when it comes to videos I want to see.

    • @maninredhelm
      @maninredhelm 4 роки тому +1

      Cool, what's up next?

    • @agactual2
      @agactual2 4 роки тому

      @@maninredhelm Spanish flu?

  • @jasonkinzie8835
    @jasonkinzie8835 4 роки тому +45

    I don't think I've ever heard the adjective 'communisty' before. I like it!

  • @ufhb6649
    @ufhb6649 4 роки тому +73

    Last time I was this early, countries still declared war before attacking.

    • @poyeski37
      @poyeski37 4 роки тому +4

      I think, it's other way around

    • @ChangedNames
      @ChangedNames 4 роки тому

      Yes alif Nah, if we're taking US actions into account

  • @CELTIC1888JINKY
    @CELTIC1888JINKY 3 роки тому +1

    Videos are actual amazing mate the info and animations top class, been glued to your stuff for ages now.

  • @renaissanceweeb
    @renaissanceweeb 4 роки тому +43

    Also the 1967 Arab-Israeli War took a lot of steam out of the pan-arabist engine, Egypt was probably the loudest advocate for union, with more conservative monarchies content with the status quo. The war would see Egypt thoroughly humiliated, however. Israel would take the entirety of the Sinai Peninsula, all the way to the Suez Canal, before returning it in exchange for recognition. The effect is twofold, Egypt loses their might and credibility among the Arab world, and Egypt and Syria's rapprochement with Israel meant forfeiting all claims and ambitions to conquer Israel.

    • @FirstnameSurname738
      @FirstnameSurname738 10 місяців тому

      You forgot about the 1973 Yom Kippur war where almost every Arab country participated in some way against Israel. But yeah the 1979 peace treaty definitely was a huge catalyst in all of this.

  • @Espingol
    @Espingol 4 роки тому +62

    Could you make a video about Scandinavism and why it didn’t succeed

    • @LuckyToasten777
      @LuckyToasten777 4 роки тому +13

      Unlikely he do that since Scandinavia is nothing according to SAS x3

    • @shorewall
      @shorewall 4 роки тому +5

      Same reason as this one. :D Who will be in charge? :P

    • @mardiffv.8775
      @mardiffv.8775 4 роки тому +2

      @@shorewall True, I heard in the 90's that national telephone companies of Norway and Sweden wanted to merge, but it fall through on the question: "In what capital will the head office be located? Oslo or Stockholm?".

    • @mardiffv.8775
      @mardiffv.8775 4 роки тому

      @Hoàng Nguyên The Austrians do not want to lose their independence by joining Germany, since there are only 12 milion Austrians and 80 milion Germans. The Swiss who speak German want to be Swiss with the French, Italian and Rethro Romans, which they are doing for 800 years. And the 80.000 German Belgians want to stay with Belgium. Or when Belgium seize to exist, the GB's will go on with the French speaking Wallonia and not rejoin Germany. And the Dutch are related to Germans, but both languages are different, as is the culture of Germans and Dutch.

    • @readisgooddewaterkant7890
      @readisgooddewaterkant7890 4 роки тому

      It could not succed beacuse the Danish would need to dump their potato

  • @SokolS125
    @SokolS125 4 роки тому +173

    Serbs: *quiet harmonika noises*

  • @PATISLAV
    @PATISLAV 3 роки тому +17

    Forming some kind of EU like union is probably necessary step before unification. The answer to who is in charge should always be: we all are.

    • @bd5585
      @bd5585 3 роки тому

      We already have the Arab league

    • @theunknownpersonism
      @theunknownpersonism 3 роки тому +1

      @@bd5585 isn't Saudi Arabia in charge of the Arab League

    • @theunknownpersonism
      @theunknownpersonism 3 роки тому +3

      That wouldn't work as in the EU both Germany and France are in charge. This is one of the major reasons why Britain left.

    • @bd5585
      @bd5585 3 роки тому +1

      @@theunknownpersonism Of course not,its a league,not some kind of united states,the Arab league is there to improve economic,educational and political relations between arab countries and try to solve their conflicts by peaceful means,wich,like the UN,isn't doing a great a job at it

    • @theunknownpersonism
      @theunknownpersonism 3 роки тому

      @@bd5585 isn't that just in theory and Arab League propaganda. Afterall, in practice the Arab League itself supported many of Saudi Arabia's recent actions such as their intervention in Yemen. Also the Arab League itself suspended Syria which was a political enemy of the Sauds.

  • @mohamedmoustafa5747
    @mohamedmoustafa5747 4 роки тому +91

    There is a saying, if you want to take down an Arab, convince his brother that he is the problem

    • @RatChad
      @RatChad 3 роки тому +1

      Are you with Arabs or against?

    • @mohamedmoustafa5747
      @mohamedmoustafa5747 3 роки тому +23

      @@RatChad I am an Arab, but I dont like how Arab leaders and Arab nationalists act.

    • @RatChad
      @RatChad 3 роки тому +6

      @@mohamedmoustafa5747 they put their sake before their people I am an Egyptian and saw that happens

    • @mohamedmoustafa5747
      @mohamedmoustafa5747 3 роки тому +6

      @@RatChad I am also Egyptian

    • @mohammedhamoo5481
      @mohammedhamoo5481 3 роки тому

      True

  • @dennismatsson9995
    @dennismatsson9995 3 роки тому +54

    The "sources:" section is empty in the description

    • @Yrkr785
      @Yrkr785 3 роки тому +19

      You don’t sources to explain why it won’t work it’s pretty self explanatory.

    • @robbieaulia6462
      @robbieaulia6462 3 роки тому +1

      @@Yrkr785 You need the word "need" or "require" on your essay sir.

    • @Yrkr785
      @Yrkr785 3 роки тому +3

      @@robbieaulia6462 well sir you need to get to a kindergarten if you think a sentence is an essay

  • @ariamaze9081
    @ariamaze9081 4 роки тому +6

    2:11 ¨Nationalisation¨ I just love that part like the other video ¨Making friends¨

  • @aleksirissanen9791
    @aleksirissanen9791 3 роки тому +7

    This is the same sort of thing happening in the north, there's a notable group that wants to reunite the Nordic nations but the cultural differences between them are too strong to agree on a single leader.

  • @Purple-penguin1
    @Purple-penguin1 4 роки тому +53

    The real reason is the last two sentences that he did not even take 10 seconds to say them lol

    • @altayrstudio
      @altayrstudio 3 роки тому +20

      No one wanted a unified Germany, yet they did it anyway, that is strength, weakness is blaming others for your failures

    • @user-qd2uy4dg3z
      @user-qd2uy4dg3z 3 роки тому +14

      @@altayrstudio to be fair. No one stopped germanys unification. And if a country in the middle east began taking over everyone else Europe woukd certainly inteverne

    • @jameslivanski2914
      @jameslivanski2914 3 роки тому +8

      @@altayrstudio I mean yes and no. They're going to have to unite and try their utmost best for it to work, but it's undeniable that some particular nations and groups are doing THEIR best to stop this from happening

    • @Yanzdorloph
      @Yanzdorloph 3 роки тому +3

      @@altayrstudio tbh in the time of the unification of Germany, no country had half the influence and the reach of the USA or the URSS let alone both.

    • @doodlebug4360
      @doodlebug4360 3 роки тому +9

      @@user-qd2uy4dg3z what are you on about? Nearly all of Germany's neighbours were trying to prevent unification. E.G. France, Austria, Spain, Denmark, PLC (Polish Lithuanian commonwealth) and Russia to name the most prominent examples.

  • @TheCaesar88
    @TheCaesar88 4 роки тому +21

    Hey, I really love your channel and work you do and here I have an idea for another video: how Poland gained it's independence in 1918 and how for the next few years the borders were being created. And also some info about the Polish - Bolshevik war should be added. I don't know how much you know about that but that's a very interesting story and it would make a super rich in data video. Keep up the great work! :]

  • @mustafahussain2118
    @mustafahussain2118 4 роки тому +102

    "Why didn't the Arab world unite?"
    They would probably end up like Yugoslavia sadly

    • @emperorbartu2414
      @emperorbartu2414 4 роки тому +16

      They ended up worse

    • @haitamc5611
      @haitamc5611 4 роки тому +16

      Nah. A good leader can create a unified republic of arab states like the US, that would benefit the whole arab world.

    • @mrbisshie
      @mrbisshie 4 роки тому +5

      A much much much bigger version of Yugoslavia. Maybe they'll get their "Tito".

    • @marks8417
      @marks8417 4 роки тому +21

      @Yugerten Maurizio ⵣ Tamazgha4Imazighen ⵣ okay beta arab

    • @stinkschoenvanhazeltand4121
      @stinkschoenvanhazeltand4121 4 роки тому +2

      @Yugerten Maurizio ⵣ Tamazgha4Imazighen ⵣ I dont speak amargh or that bt I speak magreb I am moroccan

  • @BasemMiraoui011
    @BasemMiraoui011 3 роки тому +2

    Like Ibno khaldoon said in his book al mokadima
    " all civilizations pass through the same stages .
    First stage : power .
    Second stage : weakness.
    third stage: destruction and rebuilding .
    And repeat

  • @christianweibrecht6555
    @christianweibrecht6555 4 роки тому +20

    This reminds me of the drama caused by proposed guild mergers and cooperation in WoW

    • @jonathanwells223
      @jonathanwells223 4 роки тому +4

      Christian Weibrecht The Orcs: “Those trolls have dumb accents!”

  • @cieproject2888
    @cieproject2888 4 роки тому +32

    I like the cameo from The Shah at 3:13

  • @haythambinsliman9205
    @haythambinsliman9205 4 роки тому +186

    From Tunisia , we once were United... and we will again... but not yet...

    • @AR-ng4gr
      @AR-ng4gr 4 роки тому +2

      when? after civilization crashes? thats not the best time.. shows we can only be smart when theres not technology lol

    • @nooramirulikhwan6349
      @nooramirulikhwan6349 4 роки тому +18

      When a new caliphate arise

    • @houseplant1016
      @houseplant1016 4 роки тому +1

      I don't want my country to be colonized....

    • @killer2625
      @killer2625 3 роки тому +3

      We were but our time will back soon

    • @houseplant1016
      @houseplant1016 3 роки тому +7

      @@killer2625 The time that our forefathers were forced to lose their culture,adopt their own culture and fight in foreign lands?

  • @oliversherman2414
    @oliversherman2414 2 роки тому

    I love your channel keep up the great stuff!

  • @tobivan3190
    @tobivan3190 4 роки тому +141

    last time i was this early the arab world was still united

    • @zakback9937
      @zakback9937 4 роки тому +3

      uhhh sorry if you mean Arab world as in not North Africa, then ok. But never happened out of the middle east :p

    • @danny90099
      @danny90099 4 роки тому +1

      You born in Ottoman empire?

    • @salahddinebensebane8429
      @salahddinebensebane8429 4 роки тому +25

      @@zakback9937 herd of the umayyad caliphate

    • @zakback9937
      @zakback9937 4 роки тому +2

      @@salahddinebensebane8429 heard of the great berber revolt.

    • @salahddinebensebane8429
      @salahddinebensebane8429 4 роки тому +3

      @@zakback9937 what are you speaking about the almouahdin?

  • @nikolay4101-s7r
    @nikolay4101-s7r 4 роки тому +105

    We have a quote here in Bulgaria
    Ever since it became independent Bulgaria has only bordered itself (her ethnic borders)

    • @antonk.2748
      @antonk.2748 4 роки тому +14

      So is the moral of that quote that Bulgaria should strive to extend its borders?

    • @zonetropper
      @zonetropper 4 роки тому +3

      @Slavic Soldier which will never happen as you can trace the same amount of macedonians finding heritage in Serbian, Turkish or Greek roots. A language mutability has the same logic as asking Switzerland and Belgium to merge with any of neighbours because of similar language or joint history at some point in the middle ages. As far as the balkans are concerned, any proposal to redefine borders goes unfavored to whoever you ask and causes a domino effect that will shake the other countries that harbour interest to extend their borders.
      Even in an artificial future that macedonia and bulgaria join together it will end up as bad as yugoslavia the moment independence movement appears. Even if you create tito 2 to push for socialist and leftist rhetoric for equality, it falls apart the moment people consider why are they in a country learning about some turkic khans crossbreeding with cumans and tatars that pushed their entonym on the native slavic population to easily conquer it

    • @emelgiefro
      @emelgiefro 4 роки тому +2

      @Slavic Soldier as a croatian i can hear when someone is talking bulgarian or macedonian
      Macedonian sounds like a really funny serbian to me snd bulgarian sounds well like bulgarian i can understand it but it does not sound like macedonian to me

    • @Manouil_III
      @Manouil_III 4 роки тому +2

      @Slavic Soldier (and others) as far as I know, the country's name is North Macedonia. Do you call South Africa simply as "Africa" or Northern Ireland, "Ireland"? Probably not.

    • @randomtanker4355
      @randomtanker4355 4 роки тому

      Bulgarians eh.......... I would love to know more 'bout them by a Bulgarian
      ~ oh yeah and I am from South Asia

  • @burakayan3360
    @burakayan3360 4 роки тому +77

    Apart from foreign influence, i think there is a geograpc barrier that prevents arabs from uniting too.
    For example egypt, yes it is big, it is crowded but people live only places that are next ot near to nile river, this reduces the arable land of mighty egypt to roughly the size of belgium.
    İmagine that 99 milion people live in an area as big as belgium.
    Or lets take iraq, they have euphraes and tigris but turkish dams created huge water shortages throughout the country.
    They are the most lush and arable arabic countries out of the rest.
    What i mean is, the arabic world might seem close yet they are far away from each other since they are scattered to rivers, oasises and valleys.

    • @thunberbolttwo3953
      @thunberbolttwo3953 4 роки тому +25

      dont forget religous barrier to.The sunni and shia really dont like each other.

    • @redacted5657
      @redacted5657 4 роки тому +3

      @@thunberbolttwo3953 that is false, sure they'd work with there side but it is not violant

    • @thunberbolttwo3953
      @thunberbolttwo3953 4 роки тому +17

      @@redacted5657 Except it is true.Syria and yemen are proxy wars between sunni saudi arabia and shia iran.

    • @redacted5657
      @redacted5657 4 роки тому +2

      @@thunberbolttwo3953 that is true but it's about ideology,Saudi Arabia is a kingdom, iran is a revolutionary dictatorship

    • @alexs555
      @alexs555 4 роки тому +12

      Lack of ARABle lands prevents ARABs from uniting. Makes sense.
      (but seriously, great point)

  • @SayrosGO
    @SayrosGO 2 роки тому +4

    This, and since my younger age was my dream, to see all those countries under one flag. Although under a dictatorship regimes this is not achievable, a reason why I fought the tunisian dictator backthen in 2010 and put my life in at risk.

  • @JonatasAdoM
    @JonatasAdoM 4 роки тому +9

    1:26 This ought to be the most different hair style featured on the channel.

  • @merrittanimation7721
    @merrittanimation7721 4 роки тому +44

    I expect this to have a pleasant comment section.

    • @abbestaabouri
      @abbestaabouri 4 роки тому +12

      Tbf it isn't as bad as it could've been.

    • @saeedvazirian
      @saeedvazirian 4 роки тому +7

      The funny thing is the comment section mostly has anti-Arabs trying to empty their deep-seated, racist hatreds on Arabs by calling them inept and inadequate. They probably watch Western media. The stupidity is stern and stark, difficult to penetrate. These retards have helmets over their heads.
      I'm Austrian and I'm saying this.

    • @ericr.malice318
      @ericr.malice318 4 роки тому

      @@saeedvazirian and Turks with their illegitimate and illegal nation (The WW1 treaties)

    • @alwaysdisputin9930
      @alwaysdisputin9930 4 роки тому

      @@saeedvazirian But it's fairly obvious that they would be stronger if united. Therefore it's reasonable to say that they are inadequate. They also all do shits. Facts. Not racism. You know how many Large Hadron Colliders UK are going to make outside the EU? Zero.

    • @saeedvazirian
      @saeedvazirian 4 роки тому

      @@alwaysdisputin9930 wrong again. The Arab isn't incompetent when the west is actively bombing them. The europeans relied on middle eastern science to create the LHC, so you owe the Muslims an apology and gratitude.

  • @daplanehuntermanpilot
    @daplanehuntermanpilot 4 роки тому +20

    Biggest question of mankind, *”Who's in charge?”*

    • @UmVtCg
      @UmVtCg 4 роки тому

      As always, White people...

    • @VaxzaLimeIsCool
      @VaxzaLimeIsCool 3 роки тому +1

      @Abdishakur Mukhtar asians are white people now I guess

    • @babyyoda4831
      @babyyoda4831 3 роки тому

      Ask ppl who agreed on Sykes-Picot ...

    • @kalvon
      @kalvon 3 роки тому +1

      @Abdishakur Mukhtar Bruh, no one wants to be ruled by other people, no matter if you're rich or not because if you were ruled by overseas nation the most awful thing that could happen is taxing, unless the land that their conquer has history to their died allied or unwanted civilians in their homeland.

  • @blacklight683
    @blacklight683 Рік тому +4

    As an Arabian I wish if we could actually do it cuz if we are all united then everyone can give each other a hand and we as society can develop much much faster like imagine world peace even for 10year, all of the money that goes in the military can be disturbed to health and education it will allow us as humans to truly start making each other lives better than fear who will attack first
    Sadly people does not want to give power to others and the more counties the more people in power and as long this is the case we might never have true world peace

    • @jump_kid
      @jump_kid Рік тому +1

      The arab ppl deserve to get united

  • @corporalzeph2518
    @corporalzeph2518 4 роки тому +22

    Pretty sure it's because they knew it would just be a discount Moors Empire

  • @blaster829
    @blaster829 4 роки тому +178

    As an Arabic myself, I am....Deeply disappointed.

    • @DEADjo10
      @DEADjo10 4 роки тому +30

      I cry in my bed every time I sleep

    • @homersimpson6585
      @homersimpson6585 4 роки тому +10

      As an arab I am not there’ll be a lot of problems in a united country

    • @elienajem5631
      @elienajem5631 4 роки тому +3

      @@homersimpson6585 ikr if in one country with a lot of different ethnic groups and religions there is war, imagine a country with ALL different arab speakers....it would just be chaos!

    • @appleslover
      @appleslover 4 роки тому +26

      @@elienajem5631 well, I usually look at the U.S. as a role model in such things, they have a wide variety of ethnic groups and a bloody history and still united

    • @math3000
      @math3000 4 роки тому +2

      @@appleslover looks over at USA, well, so much for the American Dream

  • @McRocket
    @McRocket 4 роки тому +13

    Wow...I had no idea at all that Syria and Egypt were joined for a short while.
    Thank you for this video.

    • @robbieaulia6462
      @robbieaulia6462 3 роки тому

      Hmm yes, 2 years is a while although 2019 feels like yesterday.

    • @suleyman8696
      @suleyman8696 3 роки тому +1

      @@robbieaulia6462 3 Years* but yeah

  • @BetaMonk3y
    @BetaMonk3y 3 роки тому +2

    One thing we should probably note in this is that while Ottoman's were muslim they were culturally distinct from the arab world and often had mixed relations with its arab subject during the peek of ottoman power.

  • @andrewdiedrich3097
    @andrewdiedrich3097 4 роки тому +39

    I wonder how different the world would be if many of these large collections of states had formed as a unified people and stayed that way. (USSR, Arab state, HRE, China, Rome, Byzantium, Ottoman Empire, etc..)

    • @borisradojkov7051
      @borisradojkov7051 4 роки тому +5

      All of them collapsed due to ideological weakness e.i subversion and balkanisation.

    • @borisradojkov7051
      @borisradojkov7051 4 роки тому

      @Azoth AceApparently relying on oil to industrialise doesn't help when Oil prices are decided by Saudi Arabia

  • @DaveMiller6042
    @DaveMiller6042 4 роки тому +9

    Unification in a nutshell.
    Country X: hey since we're very similar we should unite as one so we're stronger, richer, and better than our enemies that want to destroy us or influence us for their own gains.
    Country Y: agreed.
    Country Z: alright, but who is in charge?
    Country X: me.
    Country Y: no me.
    Country Z: no me.
    Rinse and repeat until they decide who is in charge or give up.

    • @Mshary5689
      @Mshary5689 4 роки тому

      We know who the ruler is, but unfortunately the governments, some of them are traitors and agents of France, and you, spoilers of the nations (America), and some good ones are afraid of these agents, so they avoid unification.

    • @DaveMiller6042
      @DaveMiller6042 4 роки тому

      @@Mshary5689 ....... did you watch the videos?

  • @abdd.challab7700
    @abdd.challab7700 4 роки тому +4

    Excellent video as always! I just like to add a bit more to what you said: on the 8th of February 1963, a coalition force of right-wing Ba'ath party supports and nationalists army officers staged a coup Against Iraqi prime minister Abdalqarim Qasim (He overthrew the Iraqi monarch on 14th of July 1958). Then a month later, on the 8th of march 1963, the Ba'athists in Syria staged a coup against Syrian President Nadhim al-Kudsi (the Ba'ath still rules Syria to this day).
    Talks of unification between Iraq, Syria and Nasser's Egypt broke out, and a flag was proposed similar to that of the UAR (The UAR had 2 stars, one for Egypt and one for Syria; its Syria's flag today). This new flag would have 3 stars (1 for Iraq 1 for Syria and 1 for Egypt-this became the Iraqi flag until the Ba'ath was overthrown in the 2003 Anglo-American invasion). Nasser, who backed the two coups, refused to unify. He explained himself to the other leaders by saying "You two guys are Ba'athists and I am not. I'm out".

    • @Edmonton-of2ec
      @Edmonton-of2ec 4 роки тому

      Abd D. Challab Cute, really cute. Except the Ba’ath Party were explicitly left-wing. Nice try, but the evils of that regime can consigned to the side of the left, not the right.

    • @abdd.challab7700
      @abdd.challab7700 4 роки тому +1

      @@Edmonton-of2ec Are you saying that a political party cannot have a right and left wings of its own? Look at today's labour party in the UK. The so-called New Labour is right, meanwhile the "Old" labour (i.e. labour of the 80s and Jeremy Corbyn) is left. Both are political wings of a left-leaning political party

  • @killer3000ad
    @killer3000ad 3 роки тому +3

    Arab Guy 1: Let's unit into a great Arab state.
    Arab Guy 2: Ok but i will be in charge.
    Arab Guy 1: This isn't working. Forget it.

  • @StuartLynx
    @StuartLynx 4 роки тому +4

    When you wanna get together with your mates but no one wants to host therefore nothing happens...

  • @TheFiresloth
    @TheFiresloth 4 роки тому +7

    Funny story : when Egypt refused to unite with Gaddafi s Lybia, he sent "protesters" tear down the borders posts. Of course, it was quickly quelled by the egyptian army.

    • @KBShow-bw4lj
      @KBShow-bw4lj 4 роки тому +4

      And then there was this crisis between them , until boumediane of algeria went to tripoli and cairo and tell them to chill the fuck out and it was solved

    • @KBShow-bw4lj
      @KBShow-bw4lj 4 роки тому

      Same thing with Iran and Iraq in algeries peace agreement, until boumediane was dead and saddam ignored it and went to war against iran , if boumediane was alive he would have skinned saddam alive for doing that

    • @dragon888193ftw
      @dragon888193ftw 4 роки тому

      @@KBShow-bw4lj Kinda skipped the fact that Iran overthrew the Shah (the guy Saddam made the deal with) and Khomeini went against the peace deal.

  • @NLTops
    @NLTops 4 роки тому +72

    Kinda reminds me of my ex. We wanted to be united but we could never find any real common ground.
    Ba-dum-psh.

    • @endlessserenade4491
      @endlessserenade4491 3 роки тому +4

      story of my life tbh

    • @robbieaulia6462
      @robbieaulia6462 3 роки тому

      @@endlessserenade4491 Are you saying that your house isn't on a common ground, and instead it's on a slant?

    • @megamaniscoolrightguys2749
      @megamaniscoolrightguys2749 3 роки тому

      Gen X humor 😌👏

    • @NLTops
      @NLTops 3 роки тому

      @@megamaniscoolrightguys2749 Thank you for cringing. That was kind of the whole point of the joke. Hence the ba-dum-psh.

    • @djeieakekseki2058
      @djeieakekseki2058 3 роки тому

      NLTops lol

  • @aaaaaaaa2008-h8z
    @aaaaaaaa2008-h8z 2 роки тому

    Great content!!