I knew about the sykes-picot agreement but I had no idea how much it's shaped our modern world. Shocking really. I can't wait for your alternate timeline video
T. There are vast quantities of oil in Africa though, as well as numerous other resources critical to the existence of our modern world, like the cobalt in our cellphones. As for the house of Saud, we do not have, but we do have numerous greedy piglet politicians who bend over backwards to suck America and China's huge dicks. Nice
green universe I wouldn't say ALL because of Europeans, we Africans ourselves do share in the agency, and thus the blame, but their involvement sure as hell didn't help too much.
Did the entente actually keep their promise to anybody? 1. They didn’t maintain their deal with Itay (balkans and ottoma spartition) 2. They didn’t maintain their deal with Yugoslavia (whom they promised much of the same as Italy) 3. They didn’t maintain what they told the Germans (whom were told that versaille would have revolved around the 14 points) 4. They disn’t maintain their deals to Japan (about equallity and china) 5. Disn’t maintain their deal with Arabia 6 told something to the greeks 7. Something to Bulgaria 7. Promised something else to the turks (same territory as greece and bulgaria) Dude, wtf!
@@leonardodavid2842 Because the fallout of lying to the Arabs was the whole reason The Middle East is in total shambles, maybe it would be still but it wouldn't be this devastating if Britain didn't lie to them. Look at Japan, the Great Powers lied to the Japanese regarding Equality and recognizing China as their backyard, this led to Japan isolating itself to Ultranationalism and Ultramilitarism which gave birth to the Bloodthirsty Empire of Japan we know. Look at Czechoslovakia, Chamberlein and France lied to them that France and Britain would protect the Czechs Territorial Integrity, and what happened? The Munich Betrayal, and it didn't even achieve Peace in our time. Look at the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, Germany and Russia guaranteed Non-Aggression, and Germany provoked Russia, Sure Russia was gonna invade if it weren't for Germany, but Stalin was sure the Nazis won't Invade because he thought Hitler wasn't that suicidal or stupid to cause a Two Front War that led to the demise of his thousand year Reich. Sure, World War II was won, but if you think the Great Powers should continue lying, then let's see the inevitable fallout of those lies.
There is no government on the face of the earth that has not betrayed another to horrible, devastating effect. Worse, there are none who haven't done the same to their own people.
"Lots of the world's problems can be traced back to a mustachio'd Englishman drawing a line on a map like ah yes this should do quite nicely" -John Oliver
You forgot, those countries weren't exactly paradises before they drew those lines or even arrived. The English are like alchohol. They're the cause of and, apparently, solution to all problems.
Im syrian and actually ive always been through wars, ive seen how terrorists slaughter people in an inhumane way. They have made islam known for terrorism, they arent even islamic after what ive seen believe me, and actually syria was a really beautiful country before it got destroyed, i really get sad when people always think about terrorism when syria is mentioned, thousands of inoccent people lost thier lives cuz of the war, im writing this just to tell you that syria was actually a happy place, at least for its people. Much love from syria
It's sad that people always think stereotypically in every middle Eastern country, well growing up i wasn't thinking in that way, i wish peace could occur in this region someday
UA-cam shits itself when it can transcribe "ISIS" or "Al Qaeda" in the video. Plus, having 'Middle East' in the title will automatically set off red-flags for their demonetisation-bot.
This is pretty much what happened to Africa. The dividing of nations without regard to the culture, ethnicities or religion of the different people living there. Africa would be less of a shitshow if one culture wasn't divided up into 3 different nations and if 5 different cultures who historically were great enemies wasn't forced to work together to govern a country.
This is the case in my country. Nigeria. The northern part of the country is like a different country all together. When I hear news from that side, it feels like a neighboring country. So of course our last civil war (the Biafran war) shocked exactly zero people. Worst part is it seems like were due another.
@Dr Sanguine Sunrise still not an excuse I bet they teach u this history in schools so u have loyalty to your country and believe that the British empire was the hero of the world and did colonialism not invasions
Well you'd be irritated too if you discovered a secret pact that fucked over millions of people and set the stage for the longest and bloodiest conflict of the nuclear age.
This is what I hate about your videos. You never blame Westerns and especially America in any of your videos. How America supported Saddam and in the end created an incredibly unstable state. How America supported Afghanistan's Talibans, and created an unstable state. same with the Israel-Palestine-Egypt situation. Yes, Saudia was never a good peanut either. But the fight between Allied and Soviet is what created an unstable Middle East, even after Sykes-Picot Agreement, there were many chances during which America could have easily solved the problem, but it was too busy gaining influence over Soviet. By the end of 1993, there was an unstable Korean border, unstable armenia-azerbaijan, unstable iraq-iran, conservative Iran, conservative Pakistan, unstable Afghanistan, unstable rest of the middle East. Why because one fucking country could not get enough of power. So yeah. Dont blame brits, or Islam, because Koreans are surely not muslims, blame United States of fucking America, and if you think I am so wrong and out of proportion, do make a video about what America and Soviet's Cold war did to the entire region and be fucking honest about rather than doing some Micheal Bay bullshit about HOW FUCKING GREAT YOUR AMERICA IS.
@@banished341 nah, not in the exact sense, especially in the early rise of islam. islam compared to the heathen laws was a fucking treat to the people of arabia, therefore it spread fast after proving legitimate by defeating the quraish tribe and taking mecca. it's really not that simple, there WERE cases of convert-or-leave but no actual convert-or-die early on, and also the biblical religion villages/folk were allowed to keep their religion but paid higher taxes (slightly higher at first but the gap kinda increased as islam spread).
Then they would use that momentum to quickly overrun the far east, topple the Chinese regime, occupy Japan, Indonesia and Malaysia and become a global Empire. So now, we'd all be trying to immitate an Aussie accent coz they would be so cool, and we'd all be watching higlights of Aussie footie and not superbowls or world series. IF ONLY!!!!!!
or, more likly, there just would be fewer/no emus in Australia, and most everything else would be the same. It probably would have happened if they used a competent and properly equipped crew instead of 3 guys with a truck and 10,000 rounds of ammo
Look at that map at 2:39. Do you see a plan for an independent nation for the Kurds? I don't. I see the Arabs wanted control of the region the Kurds are in the whole time. That not Britain's and France's fault.
Let me guess: The arbitrarily drawn borders that separated tribes and ultimately lead to the friction that caused the political instability of the region.
Britain: Arabs you can have your own country with sovereignty if you help us against the Turks! Arabs: Sounds good! After 1918 Arabs: Hey we helped, can we get our country? Britain and France: Oh my god you just got pranked! Arabs:...
“Let’s cut the cake,” said Sykes and Picot, splitting up the remains of the Not-So-Ottoman-Anymore Empire. *EXCEPT TURKEY, TURKEY MAKES A BRAND NEW TURKEY!*
5:55 "these borders only exist because they were strategically important to long gone empires" sounds a lot like another continent that was heavily colonized by Europeans doesn't it? almost like most of the struggle in developing countries was caused by colonialism and the borders that completely ignore the ethnic groups in the area.
@@dude9318 um the countless civil wars in africa and the middle east are because of colonialis where of groups who hate eachother are apart of the same nation because of the wants of colonial empires. Most of the nations on the continent shouldn't even exist
@@dude9318 I feel like you totally missed the point in this video and just refuse to accept that Europe did so much fucking up of nations because you prefer to look down upon them.
Another important point: The British and Americans overthrowing the government of Iran and installing a Psjah who was overthrown turning Iran into a theocratic state (of sorts) and indirectly helping to cause a cold war between Saudi Arabia and Iran.
Arabs are rich and they have oil (: and in ww2 France was invaded by nazi Germany in 3 days so don’t talk and also the British almost got fucked by hitler and nazi Germany
Ser Davos Seaworth funny enough there WAS a plan to divide the middle east in a way that respects cultures ethnicities and religions and it was the king-craine commity. The british didnt like the results so they hid them until after the borders were already drawn
Britain & France: Hey look! New land and it's all ours! USA: ummm no, you guys leave now! Britain & France: But it has oil... USA: *S A Y S I K E R I G H T N O W*
Well they support communism was the motto not they have oil. In fact US launched an attack on democratic Iran because British convience US that Iran is joining communist block .
The Middle East was "ruined" when the Shah Ala ad-Din Muhamman killed mongol emissaries and challenged Ghengis Khan in 1219. That was the moment then the whole region was ruined, it was turning into the greatest center of human knowledge and progress and was never the same.
They where warring tribes, hardly living peacefully, in that era everyone was fighting each other to survive and we judge them with todays lense like fools who have learned nothing of the past.
@@mistershadier8577 The Chinese outlawed the sale of opium in China and the British continued to smuggle it in. The British government even paid smugglers to bring opium into China. When China enforced this law and confiscated British opium supplies at Canton, the British attacked. How is this not forced? Imagine if during the cold war, the USSR smuggled heroin into our country, then continued to smuggle it in after we ordered them to stop. We confiscate their supplies and in response they declare war. This is just as outrageous and barbaric today as it was 180 years ago.
Sean Kauder The Chinese were buying it willingly besides we needed that income we were dealing with a massive trade deficit with China we physically couldn’t afford not to sell opium it would bankrupt our state not saying it’s moral but we couldn’t afford not to have the trade Also this wasn’t an issue of what’s legal you said we forced the Chinese to smoke opium we didn’t all the Chinese people had to do was say no we as a people don’t want opium and they could do this by not buying it thus making opium pointless The illegal drug users aren’t being forced to buy crack by the people selling they are choosing to buy the Americans aren’t being forced to buy from the Mexican drug cartels
Just to clarify things Britain didn’t help hussain they betrayed him at that they were working with saud from the beginning even gave them soldiers weapons and you can see the agreement if search hard enough
@@tonymontana7450 Whether that's the case or not, Poland Island is still correct in his statement. Britain did in fact work with the Sauds. It's not a coincidence that Western countries today have such tight relations with Saudi Arabia. It's a dictatorship in which its government has tons and tons of innocent blood on their hands, but the Western countries do not care. One need to ask himself or herself why this is. And no, it's not because of the oil, because there are more than a dozen countries with vast oil reserves, but Western countries don't seem to treat them as well, such as Syria, Iraq and Lybia.
Daniel Vergara The Saudi government stopped selling oil to the British when they attacked Egypt and in 1973 they did the same to the Americans and the British put hussain son as a king in iraq jordan even syria and hussain son is married to the daughter of a British officer and above all that Lawrence of arabia asked to meet the Saudi king and the Saudi refused
@Just some Forest Ranger with Internet Access Missed this comment for some reason. Yeah, it is a monarchy, but just like China is a dictatorship, Saudi Arabia is too. It's a totalitarian absolute monarchy. From Google: "Saudi Arabia is a totalitarian absolute monarchy, effectively a hereditary dictatorship governed along Islamist lines."
Would united Arabia be more stable, though? Even if Wahhabism wasn't as infuential as it is now, there would be still Sunni-Shiite divide. Yes, united Arabia would be much better and more prosperous than all those Arab states of today are, but there would still be conflicts between Arabs and Kurds, various minorities like Christians, Assyrians, etc.. Or am I wrong? I can definitely see why French and British didn't want that to happen - united Arabia would be a regional power at least. Just imagine how wealthy that state would be if it was formed and survived to this day. Oil in Kuwait or Emirates alone is worth billions, add to that the wealth of modern Saudi state... Wow. I imagine that US or other major power would then use the ethnic and religious conflicts in the region to break that state apart, making it easier to control it.
Vitalis It seemed mostly stable under the Caliphate. Other than minor skirmishes and brief battles that were comprehensively crushed by the Ottomans such as the Wahhabis, ethnic division wasn’t that much of a problem till the last couple hundred years with the rise of nationalism which was exploited by colonialists which tore the region apart
+Corvus Yes, I belive that had there been Arab state composed of well... Arabia, that formed somewhere between the XVII-XVIII centuries, Arabs would have developed national identity on par with the European ones. With the centuries of Arab rule continuing to the modern day, the country would be quite stable. Instead what we got is the Arabs that were dominated by the Turks for whole centuries. Even if the Western powers granted Hashemites whole of Arabia, it would be a new country, without said tradition of nationhood it would be difficult for them to stay stable - not to mention outside forces would always seek to use the ethnic conflicts to destroy the country. It's the same issue as with Africa or even Balkans - had there been continued native rule throughout whole centuries, instead of foreign one, those regions would have a chance to be stable and prosperous, even with many ethnic minorities, because all of them would be integrated in the society by that point.
It would be like modern day Oman Which is actually pretty good Would probably even be a first world nation with all that Oil Perhaps even Super power potential
Why was this never in our history lessons? A tale about the country the United States is fighting *right now*, but one that never came up once in any history classes? This is one of the most important things a U.S. citizen should know, all things considered
It's part of the fallout from WWI. WWI syllabi do include this, at least the better ones do. If some history class is taught in school that leaves out the effects of WWI then that is just a teacher (or school system) not doing their job. It was a long time ago, but I roughly remember learning about the British/French cooperation about this region.
@@lolcatjunior Ah but remember, they weren't *European* Christians. They were those filthy brown Christians with their eastern brown Christianity. Their Bible was in some silly brown peoples language rather than Latin or English, the true languages that Jesus apparently spoke. Because as we know, Jesus was a European Anglo-Saxon white guy with blonde hair who turned bread into fish and chips and water into scotch. Therefore, screwing over the Assyrians, Maronites, Syriacs, and Copts made perfect sense.
Lol what, Iran was looking to be the perfect balance of West meets East before the Government that was placed in power in 1953 was overthrown by Islamic fundamentalists.
You mean the one backed by the American CIA which overthrew the democratically elected president and installed the Shah as it's puppet dictator thereby all but ensuring a religious revolt less than 3 decades later? That one?
It's a two series. He always gives context in the first half of every video he does. The next video will be the alternate history part. It's better to have two 10 minute videos than a single 20 minute one because you can release the first part sooner. UA-cam's algorithm demands as frequent uploads as possible.
10:07 "I want to imagine a world where [the Sykes-Picot agreement] never happened." I know Cody, I know. That's something that I repeat sometimes, like if it was a lost part of "Imagine" by John Lennon.
Bobby Lawson Doesn't change the fact that the Sykes-Picot Agreement was a dick move that turned a potentially friendly relationship into a guaranteed toxic one. Predicting how the present would have been if the past had been different is foolish. Using the mistakes of the past to inform future decisions is wise.
Great potato, well, people can just 1. Stop disliking each other or 2. Separate. There is no imperial power stopping them. It has happened in Europe. Incidentally, when talking about borders cutting through ethnic homelands, I don't see that being much of a problem in Europe with Switzerland and Belgium.
Finally, a video which goes into the actual details instead of just screaming "BLAME THE UNITED STATES" for three to thirty minutes. Thank you for providing a usable history of the issue, we need more channels like this.
There were a lot of things missing from this. The formation of Israel, and the fact that our Cold War foreign policy spread fundamentalism to other countries in the middle east, thereby increasing violence and proxy wars. Previously, fundamentalism was unique to Saudi Arabia.
If for nothing else, Islam is an influencial religion and Islamic cultures helped in the progress of mathematics, medicine, philosophy and other fields of study, and helped the Middle East to become one of the most prosperous and influential areas in the Middle Ages.
Thank you for teaching little known history fairly objectively. Almost all countries, United States included, warp history to maintain certain narratives. It impossible to be completely objective, but you do the best out of other stuff I've seen on UA-cam. Keep it up!
they only have little land to no land in iraq or syria so they really would be a piece of shit country alone,the sides syria and iraq are regional states more than arabic states.
Interestingly enough, there was a later chance of a united Middle East under the Hashemites, during 1947, the Syrian Druze were in revolt, and wanted to unite with Jordan, whose king had promised to unite them with Jordan's own Druze in an autonomous region. Jordan's king was Abdullah I, son of Hussein, and brother of Faisal, who had been elected King of Greater Syria. After Faisal's death, he became the head of the Hashemites, and championed repeatedly the idea of a Greater Syria. Not only that, but Jordan's army was the best in the Middle East, and easily capable of taking over Syria. Basically had they managed to exploit the situation to invade, they would have won. It would also have caused the Iraqi monarchy (also Hashemites, Faisal's line) to survive and probably to unite with Syria like it did with Jordan in our timeline. It might have caused an earlier Lebanese Civil War, and Israel being quite different. It's a pretty interesting scenario.
Merritt Animation From my understanding, it could have worked, had it been less Egyptian dominated, the problem is that it would be have been dominated by Egypt in any care, due to it being larger and having a larger population. There's also the fact Syria and Egypt are not contiguous. It doesn't mean something like it would always fail, though, had it been with Sudan and/or Libya, it probably would have survived.
The first oil companies in the Middle East were British in Iran in 1908, New Zealand in Bahrain 1921, and British in Iraq in 1925. U.S. was first into oil in Saudi Arabia in 1938, thirty years after Britain in 1908. So European interests were gobbling up oil in the Middle East. The United States was the largest oil producer in the world until 1950’s...on their own soil. The Middle East was Europe’s oil supply. In the 50’s and 60’s US began producing less, Middle East more, because it was cheaper there. Then there was the 1973 Middle East oil embargo. That’s when U.S. really turned their eyes to needing control of the Middle East oil supply...so that an embargo like that could not happen again. Then in 2000’s fracking was developed. North American oil production soared. Obama administration guided by the environmentalist special interests limited American oil production through regulation. As of 2018, U.S. is again the #1 oil producer in the world! Large reserves available with fracking tech. U.S. has its own oil source. Let Europe worry about getting it from Russia and the Middle East. That should make everyone around the world who keeps accusing the U,S. Of being the oil greedy ones in the Middle East. Europe, with practically no military combined and the ones who started the Middle East mess can have it back. Let those who are holier than thou fix it.
To be fair, I think even a unified Arabian kingdom would not last.But what I could see happening is when that empire dissolved, it would have been much easier for nations to be carved up into more harmonious countries.Something like what happened with Yugoslavia. Sure its volatile, but its NOOO where near as bad as it was before the end of WW1.In fact many are joining the EU. The only real area of contention today is Bosnia, and even then.
The one thing such Arab state has in common with Yugoslavia is the lack of independent native rule. There are examples of confederations made up from different peoples that had worked. Like Switzerland for example. Switzerland had many centuries to work things out, not to mention that it formed due of necessity, the common enemy that were the Habsburgs at the time. Yugoslavia didn't formed out of necessity, there was really no need to form one, big country instead of few smaller ones. They did it, because that's the only way they could've stay relevant. United Yugoslavia is at least minor regional European power, while no Balkans of today could have the same status. But they didn't succeed precisely because they lacked that common history Switzerland had. They lacked history of the native rule. The last time most of those people had their own country was back in the middle ages. Had Yugoslavia formed in the Middle Ages and survived until the modern age, would the religion of various ethnic groups even matter at that point? I doubt it. Not to mention there would be no Muslims in their country, just Catholics and Orthodox. The same thing with Arabia. They, too, were ruled by foreign power for whole centuries prior.(Ironically that power was the same in both cases). Country that had the same government institution for whole centuries is not that easy to topple. That's why UK or France are so stable. That's why Eastern European states are less stable and prosperous than them. Because they were ruled by another power for some time. After few centuries of being a colony of another power it's not that easy to become a superpower again.
Perhaps Yugoslavia could of had an ethnic minority of Muslims? Since if it was a unified kingdom when the ottomans conquered the area, and people probably still would have converted to Islam for practical purposes during occupation, once nationalism came then the unified kingdom would be what would aspire to and that wouldn't necessarily mean they'd kick out the Muslims that existed (though I wouldn't put it past them considering how these things tend to go) since minorities haven't always been kicked out when a majority has united.
That's why history is important. You can't know where we are going unless you know where we have been. People jump to conclusions about places like Africa and the Middle East without realizing why they got that way in the first place. The important thing is to realize this, not make generalizations, and to make sure atrocities like this do not occur again. “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” - George Santayana. No flaw in human history has been more consequential than the ill planned Sykes-Picot Agreement. Santayana actually said this in his book "The Life Of Reason" in 1905, a full decade before that fateful meeting between British and French diplomats Mark Sykes and Francois Georges-Picot was made.
All he did was make a video prettending to make his girlfriend's dog a Nazi because she's always going on about how cute it is and Nazis are the least cute thing he can think of
You didn't mention the Balfour Declaration. That is part of this whole thing. The West betrayed the promise of an Arab homeland, then promised Jews a homeland in the same region and then actually forced it into being. That has been a festering wound.
Britain pretty quickly broke that promise too and tried to prevent further Jewish immigration to Palestine after it became clear that it was sliding towards civil war over Zionism.
@@plumebrisee6206 they managed well enough in medieval times man, at least a part of it, also check out pre islamic persia, it did good in shitty climate
@@Alex-ht5ci also the Islamic Golden Age and how the Abbasid Caliphate was pretty much the scientific and economic center of the world during the Middle Ages
OMG THANK YOU, AHH! I've been trying to explain the political history and importance of WWI to the history of the Middle East to my friends and family for ages. They, not being historians, like to see it all in simple Christian vs. Muslim terms(Never mind that there are many Christian Arabs). This video will be extremely helpful in educating my fellow Americans about the complex history of Arab Nationalism.
You went over it so well that I really hope that some teachers use this to help teach what this section of history is. It's something that too many people don't know about and it's why the whole world is in such a mess today... or at least part of it.
We can see clearly from the comments here that the inter-ethnic conflicts between peoples of the Middle East might have played a bigger role than some lines on a map.
I believe that this is your best video yet. Good to see you’re nuancing why the ME is a chaotic place. Good that you’re educating your watchers. Keep up the nice work :-)
It's funny, I just watched Lawrence of Arabia last week, it helped lay the context for this video which I had no idea was being made. But I really wanted to say thank-you for making this. This is the first video I've watched that clearly explains the instability in the Middle East, and how it came to be like that. I hope a lot of people watch this.
In parts of this video, the phrasing of your sentences (particularly your pauses and the cadences you use) are reminiscent of how Carl Sagan spoke through much of the Cosmos series It draws the listener in with an almost hypnotic quality, and helps in absorbing information (in my opinion) Haven't noticed it so much throughout your other vids, so thought it worth pointing out
Think of this like a prequel. Don't look like a hermit if you're going to be a hermit. It's easy and cheap. www.dollarshaveclub.com/althistory
My parents use dollar shave club. Also... Yay the new video is out! And also... What microphone do you use?
One more thing: Can you make your own subreddit?
May i dab on the controversy
I knew about the sykes-picot agreement but I had no idea how much it's shaped our modern world. Shocking really. I can't wait for your alternate timeline video
But I like my hermit lifestyle
French and British: "These borders will work fine"
Middle Easterners: *confused screaming*
Comrade General Vladimir Pootis reeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Reminds me of how they divided up Africa. "Yes, this straight line won't cause any complications at all!"
Comrade General Vladimir Pootis *autistic confused screaming
pretty much the history of africa
*WHERE AM I?*
Notice how almost every time Britain and France made an agreement during the ww1 era it eventually goes to shit.
I'm beginning to think we should have supported the Central Powers instead.
At least we wouldn't have a war hole in the Middle East....
@@setnakhtekera4259 oh really
@@setnakhtekera4259 wouldn't have nazi germany either lol
@@TheBucketSkill Nazi Germany > Britain and France
This is almost exactly what happened in Africa
True
Thankfully, there was no House of Saud _and_ vast quantities of Oil in Africa...
And india
T. There are vast quantities of oil in Africa though, as well as numerous other resources critical to the existence of our modern world, like the cobalt in our cellphones. As for the house of Saud, we do not have, but we do have numerous greedy piglet politicians who bend over backwards to suck America and China's huge dicks. Nice
green universe I wouldn't say ALL because of Europeans, we Africans ourselves do share in the agency, and thus the blame, but their involvement sure as hell didn't help too much.
Arabs: we are free from the ottomans
Britain and France: more like under new management
No
Edit: I suck
I love when people say no for no reason at all
@Ibrahim Osman whats up dude
@Ibrahim Osman how's ur day
Ok
Did the entente actually keep their promise to anybody?
1. They didn’t maintain their deal with Itay (balkans and ottoma spartition)
2. They didn’t maintain their deal with Yugoslavia (whom they promised much of the same as Italy)
3. They didn’t maintain what they told the Germans (whom were told that versaille would have revolved around the 14 points)
4. They disn’t maintain their deals to Japan (about equallity and china)
5. Disn’t maintain their deal with Arabia
6 told something to the greeks
7. Something to Bulgaria
7. Promised something else to the turks (same territory as greece and bulgaria)
Dude, wtf!
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This is why honesty is perhaps the greatest of virtues.
@@holypaladin4657 I don't get it? They didn't maintain promises, but won the war aniway.
So why should we not lie to everibody?
@@leonardodavid2842 because of the fallout of those lies
@@leonardodavid2842 Because the fallout of lying to the Arabs was the whole reason The Middle East is in total shambles, maybe it would be still but it wouldn't be this devastating if Britain didn't lie to them.
Look at Japan, the Great Powers lied to the Japanese regarding Equality and recognizing China as their backyard, this led to Japan isolating itself to Ultranationalism and Ultramilitarism which gave birth to the Bloodthirsty Empire of Japan we know.
Look at Czechoslovakia, Chamberlein and France lied to them that France and Britain would protect the Czechs Territorial Integrity, and what happened? The Munich Betrayal, and it didn't even achieve Peace in our time.
Look at the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, Germany and Russia guaranteed Non-Aggression, and Germany provoked Russia, Sure Russia was gonna invade if it weren't for Germany, but Stalin was sure the Nazis won't Invade because he thought Hitler wasn't that suicidal or stupid to cause a Two Front War that led to the demise of his thousand year Reich.
Sure, World War II was won, but if you think the Great Powers should continue lying, then let's see the inevitable fallout of those lies.
There is no government on the face of the earth that has not betrayed another to horrible, devastating effect. Worse, there are none who haven't done the same to their own people.
"Lots of the world's problems can be traced back to a mustachio'd Englishman drawing a line on a map like ah yes this should do quite nicely"
-John Oliver
You forgot, those countries weren't exactly paradises before they drew those lines or even arrived. The English are like alchohol. They're the cause of and, apparently, solution to all problems.
@@michaelm3691 middle east was much much better before britain
@@michaelm3691 this and the partition of India. Really fucked with us South Asians.
Like the partition of India
@@shafayat1004 not forgetting the total colonisation of africa creating artificial borders
Im syrian and actually ive always been through wars, ive seen how terrorists slaughter people in an inhumane way. They have made islam known for terrorism, they arent even islamic after what ive seen believe me, and actually syria was a really beautiful country before it got destroyed, i really get sad when people always think about terrorism when syria is mentioned, thousands of inoccent people lost thier lives cuz of the war, im writing this just to tell you that syria was actually a happy place, at least for its people. Much love from syria
It's sad that people always think stereotypically in every middle Eastern country, well growing up i wasn't thinking in that way, i wish peace could occur in this region someday
I sincerely wish you and your people well, dear unknown Syrian fellow youtuber.
Its the sad truth I am an somalin who my father and mother immregetd to suide arabia
I'm so sorry for what my country did to you. I mean that. I wish it hadn't ended like this
Those terrorists use Islam as a means to justify their horrific actions.
The middle east is like the pack of gum that you open in class
Everyone wants a piece of it
Bars
Except eastern countries
Africa is the giant bag of crisps that everyone wants a handful of. Some people don’t like gum but everyone seems to want crisps
Like china (before the civil war) and africa.
@@VergilDarkslayer China is becoming a big player there
I'm curious why this video is age-restricted.
Sameer Hasan racism
Probably
It contains too much facts I guess
Because you can flag something till you fuck it.
UA-cam shits itself when it can transcribe "ISIS" or "Al Qaeda" in the video. Plus, having 'Middle East' in the title will automatically set off red-flags for their demonetisation-bot.
This is pretty much what happened to Africa. The dividing of nations without regard to the culture, ethnicities or religion of the different people living there. Africa would be less of a shitshow if one culture wasn't divided up into 3 different nations and if 5 different cultures who historically were great enemies wasn't forced to work together to govern a country.
How could they take all of your resources if your countries are stable and in a good shape?
But multiculturalism is a good thing. You obviously don't know what you are talking about.
You sound sarcastic but also not. I will just assume you are sarcastic, feel free to correct me otherwise.
Kinda like what happened in those Slavic countries as well. The Soviets messed them over bad.
This is the case in my country. Nigeria. The northern part of the country is like a different country all together. When I hear news from that side, it feels like a neighboring country.
So of course our last civil war (the Biafran war) shocked exactly zero people. Worst part is it seems like were due another.
Sykes-Picot agreement? More like... PSYCHE-Picot agreement.
EmperorTigerstar freaking british man. Always with some jokes (that may or may not cause wars)
No U
Can someone please enlighten me why there are so many people hating on Tigerstar.
Aer0 88 inacurate videos...He is like pewdiepie of the mapping community,his brainwashed fans believe everything from his videos.
THEO the agenda troll lol
Britain and France: *perform Sykes Picot*
Also Britain and France: "wHy dOeS tHe mIdDlE eAsT hAtE uS sO mUcH"
why does islam hate us you mean
@Dr Sanguine Sunrise still not an excuse
I bet they teach u this history in schools so u have loyalty to your country and believe that the British empire was the hero of the world and did colonialism not invasions
@@stevenwarne69 stop being a racist
And bring a Proof that Islam hate non Muslims or don't spread your ideology
@@ahmedikawika2204 your name is 'anti jews' and you're telling other people not to be racist? 💀
@@nerosfreak ty x99 for saying I am racist not anti semitic
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Holy crap, an unbiased explanation of the conflict in the middle east. Cody, you've done the unthinkable and I'm truly impressed.
True, but for some reason he sounds so irritated to me, haha.
Genji Shimada He sounds like he came to win today.
Well you'd be irritated too if you discovered a secret pact that fucked over millions of people and set the stage for the longest and bloodiest conflict of the nuclear age.
This is what I hate about your videos. You never blame Westerns and especially America in any of your videos. How America supported Saddam and in the end created an incredibly unstable state. How America supported Afghanistan's Talibans, and created an unstable state. same with the Israel-Palestine-Egypt situation. Yes, Saudia was never a good peanut either. But the fight between Allied and Soviet is what created an unstable Middle East, even after Sykes-Picot Agreement, there were many chances during which America could have easily solved the problem, but it was too busy gaining influence over Soviet. By the end of 1993, there was an unstable Korean border, unstable armenia-azerbaijan, unstable iraq-iran, conservative Iran, conservative Pakistan, unstable Afghanistan, unstable rest of the middle East. Why because one fucking country could not get enough of power. So yeah. Dont blame brits, or Islam, because Koreans are surely not muslims, blame United States of fucking America, and if you think I am so wrong and out of proportion, do make a video about what America and Soviet's Cold war did to the entire region and be fucking honest about rather than doing some Micheal Bay bullshit about HOW FUCKING GREAT YOUR AMERICA IS.
Osama Anwar
As long it’s not hurting people let people have their own beliefs
Middle east exists
Britain and France : it's free real estate
Anything: exists
Britain and France: *it's free real estate*
@@banished341 nah, not in the exact sense, especially in the early rise of islam.
islam compared to the heathen laws was a fucking treat to the people of arabia, therefore it spread fast after proving legitimate by defeating the quraish tribe and taking mecca.
it's really not that simple, there WERE cases of convert-or-leave but no actual convert-or-die early on, and also the biblical religion villages/folk were allowed to keep their religion but paid higher taxes (slightly higher at first but the gap kinda increased as islam spread).
This dead meme: exists
UA-cam comment section: free real estate
Freeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee *OIL*
@@rameenaayan3248 Did You say oil?
What if the Australians won the great emu war?
Its basically a civil war at this point
Then they would use that momentum to quickly overrun the far east, topple the Chinese regime, occupy Japan, Indonesia and Malaysia and become a global Empire.
So now, we'd all be trying to immitate an Aussie accent coz they would be so cool, and we'd all be watching higlights of Aussie footie and not superbowls or world series.
IF ONLY!!!!!!
or, more likly, there just would be fewer/no emus in Australia, and most everything else would be the same. It probably would have happened if they used a competent and properly equipped crew instead of 3 guys with a truck and 10,000 rounds of ammo
Donald Trump there wasnt too much room left for humor, the biggest joke in American (if not world) history already made a comment on this post 😛
there would be an earthquake that would summon the tribe of crab people who would start a genocide in Australia.
So basically it was France and Britain’s fault that Kurds don’t have their own nation
Comrade Kino Yh it was promised to them and they didn’t get it, can’t trust the British and French
As a British citizen from Turkish immigrants, I like it.
Myler Wilson lol of course, turks hate kurds
#FreeKurdistan
Look at that map at 2:39. Do you see a plan for an independent nation for the Kurds? I don't. I see the Arabs wanted control of the region the Kurds are in the whole time. That not Britain's and France's fault.
Let me guess: The arbitrarily drawn borders that separated tribes and ultimately lead to the friction that caused the political instability of the region.
Oh hi Africa.
who fucking knew
Not quite Africa, but rather tribes like the Kurds and the Arabs who, yes, still exist.
Calling Kurds and Arabs tribes is kinda like calling Germans and Brits "tribes", though. Sure, you can call it that, but it's pretty outdated.
Yeah, fair enough. While there are some nomadic people out there, for the most part everyone's enjoying modern technology.
Britain: Arabs you can have your own country with sovereignty if you help us against the Turks!
Arabs: Sounds good!
After 1918
Arabs: Hey we helped, can we get our country?
Britain and France: Oh my god you just got pranked!
Arabs:...
Ottomans - it was just a prank bro!!!
The Northie Chill it's just a prank bro, look here's the hidden camera.
The Northie Well they did after a few years.
House of saud - allah akbar
Robrot I feel bad for laughing at this
“Let’s cut the cake,” said Sykes and Picot, splitting up the remains of the Not-So-Ottoman-Anymore Empire.
*EXCEPT TURKEY, TURKEY MAKES A BRAND NEW TURKEY!*
You could make a religion out of this.
Ali_Army107 No don’t. 😂
It’s because the Turks fought after the war in order to keep their land.
Well they are cutting the cake, not the turkey XD
Potato The Turks were far less equipped and had less resources. But hey, we can stick to "The Brits and French weren't bothered" too!
*Turns out, the game was rigged from the start*
Fallout New Vegas reference?
Britain: *draws a straight line*
The Middle East: you weren't supposed to do that.
"Age Restricted"
*An uncontrollable rage builds inside me slowly until it finally tops out*
*Just sighs and moves on with life*
Cool Boy 2006 that’s great but no one really asked
@@CoolBoy-jc8xk Good. Knowledge is power
RojoFern *CRAWLING IN MY SKIN*
-coughs in fathers account-
Because : Border gore I guess
*DEMONETIZED!*
Sad Pepe
On the plus side, Cody has a sponsor to make up the difference.
5:55 "these borders only exist because they were strategically important to long gone empires" sounds a lot like another continent that was heavily colonized by Europeans doesn't it? almost like most of the struggle in developing countries was caused by colonialism and the borders that completely ignore the ethnic groups in the area.
Well you cant blame europe for their problems now.This time its their own fault
@@dude9318 um the countless civil wars in africa and the middle east are because of colonialis where of groups who hate eachother are apart of the same nation because of the wants of colonial empires. Most of the nations on the continent shouldn't even exist
@@dude9318 yeah, our fault that the borders exist. man, fuck colonialism
@@dude9318 I feel like you totally missed the point in this video and just refuse to accept that Europe did so much fucking up of nations because you prefer to look down upon them.
@@KnzoVortex *Western Europe. The East was busy with getting independence
YES CODY YOU MAKE THE SAME KIND OF STYLE VIDEO AS OLD TIMES
"Whachta see woods?"
"Sand.....sand and more fucking sand"
I hate sand...
Gutenberg The Great what a random comment. ( PS i have remembered that scene from COD bo2 for years )
Darth Vader's worst nightmare!
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
This made me smile cheers m8
Another important point: The British and Americans overthrowing the government of Iran and installing a Psjah who was overthrown turning Iran into a theocratic state (of sorts) and indirectly helping to cause a cold war between Saudi Arabia and Iran.
OneOnOne1162 all because of oil. Operation Ajax
That monarch was the son of shah reza and the rightful ruler of my country.sure mosadagh was a great guy but he wasnt bad either
Palestine is the main point of tension in the cold war between Iran, Saudi Arabia and Israel.
OneOnOne1162 Psjah? That's the weirdest Shah spelling i have ever seen
Once
Well, Iran (formerly known as Persia) is not a PsykesPicot product.
Arabs after WWI: Hey man we're fine right?
France and Britain at the same time:
SIKE!
S-pico
Arabs are rich and they have oil (: and in ww2 France was invaded by nazi Germany in 3 days so don’t talk and also the British almost got fucked by hitler and nazi Germany
@@daferfathi7041 are YOU rich?
No but I live good (; alhamdullah
@@daferfathi7041 what if Germany border any of the middle eastern countries it would steamroll them
A video about the middle East sponsored by a razor company... so many lulz
Adam Seay at least it's not an explosives and/or firearms manufacturer
+Eugene InLaw lol at least it wasn't a company founded in the Middle East
Eugene InLaw 😂😂😂 think I've pissed myself. So true. Still the irony is so damn hilarious.
Are you are saying that a perfect line made with carbord ignoring anthing else is not an actual good border? How that can be?
Ser Davos Seaworth the virgin border and ethnic researcher vs the chad imperial liner
Ser Davos Seaworth funny enough there WAS a plan to divide the middle east in a way that respects cultures ethnicities and religions and it was the king-craine commity. The british didnt like the results so they hid them until after the borders were already drawn
THE WALL OF GUNS There's no such thing as a good border in this context.
Oh yeah I heard about that a while back. Too bad they got greedy.
damn if that's true, then that's just shitty
*I can feel enraged comments from other comments pouring in already...*
Want some popcorn?
Palinghufter + Of course ;)
Fried beanies He didn’t. He pointed out how we inadvertently led to the rise of the most radical form of Islam.
got any flaming Doritos?
Put sweetened butter on mines and it's a date
Got some mtn dew
Middle east: phew the ottomans are finally gone-
Sykes and picot: ALLOW US TO INTRODUCE OURSELVES
Age restricted because you mentioned the MIDDLE EAST
@@pimppastry7700 umm stereotypes exist you know and UA-cam is mostly run by whites who would probably freak out if they saw a very peaceful Arab
I just thought UA-cam was making the world look like a paradise and hiding problems.
Said "violent Islam". Definitely cause for demonitization.
UA-cam probably thinks everybody in the middle East is a terrorist
@@VicioRay unfortunately
Poland: being betrayed by France and Britain
Arabs: oh, I heard this before, it is classic
Tmw Japan, a nation on the other side of the Globe, is a better ally to you than the British and French.
Well Britian did had plans to free Poland but that got cancelled
@@brndonlu9635 they didn't, ever.
What if in an alternate timeline Sienfeld still on TV?
Sammy Martin Jerry Seinfield is elected president of the United States
If seinfeld still on TV there would have been no Saudi Arabia
jerry get ipad
It is still on TV.
Sammy Martin world peace
Britain & France: Hey look! New land and it's all ours!
USA: ummm no, you guys leave now!
Britain & France: But it has oil...
USA: *S A Y S I K E R I G H T N O W*
Hahahahahahaha
(33735) Narat Ratanawiphanon -I....pht😂😂😂
Well they support communism was the motto not they have oil. In fact US launched an attack on democratic Iran because British convience US that Iran is joining communist block .
If The US was involved, They would have bombed France and Britain twice like Hiroshima Nagasaki
@@VicioRay your not funny
U.S Military: “Did you say oil?”
OOOOIIIIIIILLLLLLL
I’ll suck peepe for nothing.
Looolllls
World News Updates
oh....
Turkey:Meh we are not in danger there is no oil..
batman(it is a city):Hey I found oil
Turkey:ARE YOU KİDDİNG ME
U.S Military:Oil...OİL İS İN TURKEY
Sykes-pico agreement, also known as "SYKE Arabs, you thought you can PICO how you want your country to be, we decide"
I won't apologize.
Fliyo MB Sykes-Picot where a pair of Sycots..
No need to. It was funny.
Agreed no need to apologize
😂😂😂
So ? Hitler who did destroyd europe what about him lmao
The Middle East was "ruined" when the Shah Ala ad-Din Muhamman killed mongol emissaries and challenged Ghengis Khan in 1219. That was the moment then the whole region was ruined, it was turning into the greatest center of human knowledge and progress and was never the same.
i think Ghengis would still want to Conquer Arabia, even without The Killed Emissaries,
Arabia is my meat and Ghengis is me at 3:00 AM
Space Loyalist
He simply wanted to sign trade aggreements, as he had all the land the Mongols needed. His successors, however...
Human: lives peacefully
Britain and France:I’m about to end this mans whole career..
They where warring tribes, hardly living peacefully, in that era everyone was fighting each other to survive and we judge them with todays lense like fools who have learned nothing of the past.
@@KielanGaming The Chinese were pretty peaceful when Britain forced them into widespread opium addiction
Sean Kauder Nothing was forced they bought it
@@mistershadier8577 The Chinese outlawed the sale of opium in China and the British continued to smuggle it in. The British government even paid smugglers to bring opium into China. When China enforced this law and confiscated British opium supplies at Canton, the British attacked. How is this not forced?
Imagine if during the cold war, the USSR smuggled heroin into our country, then continued to smuggle it in after we ordered them to stop. We confiscate their supplies and in response they declare war. This is just as outrageous and barbaric today as it was 180 years ago.
Sean Kauder The Chinese were buying it willingly besides we needed that income we were dealing with a massive trade deficit with China we physically couldn’t afford not to sell opium it would bankrupt our state not saying it’s moral but we couldn’t afford not to have the trade
Also this wasn’t an issue of what’s legal you said we forced the Chinese to smoke opium we didn’t all the Chinese people had to do was say no we as a people don’t want opium and they could do this by not buying it thus making opium pointless
The illegal drug users aren’t being forced to buy crack by the people selling they are choosing to buy the Americans aren’t being forced to buy from the Mexican drug cartels
Why isn’t this in Knowledge Hub?
you must remember, history is written by a guy named victor
is he the same guy that tells us to vote for wisely?
Fucking victor
At least victor doesn't make many spelling errors
itaybron w if you lose a war you have to accept the consequences
Tipsy Bun unless you got into a war you didn't want in the first place, and forced into by the aggressor.
*They did the same to the African Continent.*
Jill's Sandwiches Yeah but no one really cares about Africa, lol
Well Africa has never been great
Jill's Sandwiches and same to India and Pakistan
Jahnu Das without Britain Pakistan would not exist
Lol and I guess borders in Europe has always been perfectly fine and drawn right guys lol
Just to clarify things Britain didn’t help hussain they betrayed him at that they were working with saud from the beginning even gave them soldiers weapons and you can see the agreement if search hard enough
They were helping hussain they gave him planes crying out loud
@@tonymontana7450 Whether that's the case or not, Poland Island is still correct in his statement. Britain did in fact work with the Sauds. It's not a coincidence that Western countries today have such tight relations with Saudi Arabia. It's a dictatorship in which its government has tons and tons of innocent blood on their hands, but the Western countries do not care. One need to ask himself or herself why this is. And no, it's not because of the oil, because there are more than a dozen countries with vast oil reserves, but Western countries don't seem to treat them as well, such as Syria, Iraq and Lybia.
Daniel Vergara The Saudi government stopped selling oil to the British when they attacked Egypt and in 1973 they did the same to the Americans and the British put hussain son as a king in iraq jordan even syria and hussain son is married to the daughter of a British officer and above all that Lawrence of arabia asked to meet the Saudi king and the Saudi refused
@@Danneman92 and history repeated itself with the US bringing the terrorists to power in afghanistan.
@Just some Forest Ranger with Internet Access Missed this comment for some reason. Yeah, it is a monarchy, but just like China is a dictatorship, Saudi Arabia is too. It's a totalitarian absolute monarchy.
From Google: "Saudi Arabia is a totalitarian absolute monarchy, effectively a hereditary dictatorship governed along Islamist lines."
Why is Dollar shave club pumping out those sponsors?
FJ because straight razors are better
Them neckbeards. They know their audience.
transfroming the world one neckbeard at the time
Money?
Gotta get a lot of buyers to keep that dollar shave club thing a dollar
See guys? Context is good. I actually really liked it
Charles Mazur i like the video too
yeah i enjoy both the context (cause i like history in general) and the alternate history just because thats fun and interesting.
Thanks for the highlight cody :D
I hate sand.
Ha ha star wars reference what fun
nismojutsu should be a IHE video
I hate dust
nismojutsu it’s coarse and it gets everywhere
Dane Dillon i was just about to comment that lmao
Middle east countries: we have oil
Britain and France : Hi there
America: Let me introduce myself
Russia: how about a little more
No more oil from you *^*
@HunterRKS41 underated comment.
Actually, he mentions Britain and France in the 40's and oil dis covered in the 50's so it was more US involvement.
Kurds And Arabs: Finally, we're finally free from the ottoman empire.
France And The United Kingdom: Well yes, but actually no.
Would united Arabia be more stable, though? Even if Wahhabism wasn't as infuential as it is now, there would be still Sunni-Shiite divide. Yes, united Arabia would be much better and more prosperous than all those Arab states of today are, but there would still be conflicts between Arabs and Kurds, various minorities like Christians, Assyrians, etc.. Or am I wrong?
I can definitely see why French and British didn't want that to happen - united Arabia would be a regional power at least. Just imagine how wealthy that state would be if it was formed and survived to this day. Oil in Kuwait or Emirates alone is worth billions, add to that the wealth of modern Saudi state... Wow.
I imagine that US or other major power would then use the ethnic and religious conflicts in the region to break that state apart, making it easier to control it.
It may not be stable but imperialism sure didn’t help
Vitalis It seemed mostly stable under the Caliphate. Other than minor skirmishes and brief battles that were comprehensively crushed by the Ottomans such as the Wahhabis, ethnic division wasn’t that much of a problem till the last couple hundred years with the rise of nationalism which was exploited by colonialists which tore the region apart
+Corvus Yes, I belive that had there been Arab state composed of well... Arabia, that formed somewhere between the XVII-XVIII centuries, Arabs would have developed national identity on par with the European ones. With the centuries of Arab rule continuing to the modern day, the country would be quite stable. Instead what we got is the Arabs that were dominated by the Turks for whole centuries. Even if the Western powers granted Hashemites whole of Arabia, it would be a new country, without said tradition of nationhood it would be difficult for them to stay stable - not to mention outside forces would always seek to use the ethnic conflicts to destroy the country.
It's the same issue as with Africa or even Balkans - had there been continued native rule throughout whole centuries, instead of foreign one, those regions would have a chance to be stable and prosperous, even with many ethnic minorities, because all of them would be integrated in the society by that point.
It would be like modern day Oman
Which is actually pretty good
Would probably even be a first world nation with all that Oil
Perhaps even Super power potential
Vitalis Blacks and Whites of America didnt get along but its gotten much better and still is
Why was this never in our history lessons? A tale about the country the United States is fighting *right now*, but one that never came up once in any history classes? This is one of the most important things a U.S. citizen should know, all things considered
It's part of the fallout from WWI. WWI syllabi do include this, at least the better ones do. If some history class is taught in school that leaves out the effects of WWI then that is just a teacher (or school system) not doing their job. It was a long time ago, but I roughly remember learning about the British/French cooperation about this region.
American schools doesn't focus on recent world history.
The Assyrians were also promised by French and British of an independent Assyria. Guess that was an excuse.
Sad because Assyrians were christian, showing that colonial powers had no respect for the people they ruled over.
@@lolcatjunior Ah but remember, they weren't *European* Christians. They were those filthy brown Christians with their eastern brown Christianity. Their Bible was in some silly brown peoples language rather than Latin or English, the true languages that Jesus apparently spoke. Because as we know, Jesus was a European Anglo-Saxon white guy with blonde hair who turned bread into fish and chips and water into scotch.
Therefore, screwing over the Assyrians, Maronites, Syriacs, and Copts made perfect sense.
And just so this is clear, I'm being extremely sarcastic.
al Mamlūk To be fair, the French did accept to establish the Modern Lebanese Republic at the Maronites’ request
lolcatjunior remember when they helped them in the crusades
don't forget the 1953 iranian coup and how that ruined the chances for the rest of the middle east
jesse scheepmaker
True
Lol what, Iran was looking to be the perfect balance of West meets East before the Government that was placed in power in 1953 was overthrown by Islamic fundamentalists.
That too
You mean the one backed by the American CIA which overthrew the democratically elected president and installed the Shah as it's puppet dictator thereby all but ensuring a religious revolt less than 3 decades later? That one?
Yes, that one.
9:59..."but instead became 80% history since nobody would actually know what I was talking about"..and how sad is that!
Goes to an alternate history’s channel, happy for the new vid, then finds out that it’s a history video...
“Traitor...”
It's a two series. He always gives context in the first half of every video he does. The next video will be the alternate history part. It's better to have two 10 minute videos than a single 20 minute one because you can release the first part sooner. UA-cam's algorithm demands as frequent uploads as possible.
Lol
Profile pic checks out.
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+Ternimator Turtle Your profile pic is an England flag and it's a video criticising Britain. They're implying that you're upset over that.
Husain-McMahon
Balfour Declaration
Sykes Picot
Why don’t you name the other 2?
This is vastly oversimplified.
Didn't wanna get banned for antisemitism
Banned for criticism of AIPAC
Before watching:
this is probably about the sykes-picot agreement
I sure as well hope it is
Neptune yes I knew that too, well cuz it's true.
Also the thumbnail is the British and French drawing the Middle East’s borders, it kinda obvious if you know about the Sykes-Picot Agreement.
Inquisitor Thomas which unfortunately in the states even at the University level you really don't learn about.
"Strong man dictators usually take hold of unstable societies", sounds very familiar.
İts familiar to lots of cases
I'm sure we can all think of 10 examples lmao
@@ferrice more than 10 lol
Hmmmmm...... Is it that one dude that kept screaming "freedom for everyone" with red and white stripes?
Trash Series You forgot Nazi Germany, Revolutionary France with Napoleon, Communist Russia, and Fascist Italy.
Please make more of these straight history videos. Absolutely love Alternate History, but this is one of my favorite videos you've made.
If two fish are fighting in the pond you know that the English just left there.
10:07 "I want to imagine a world where [the Sykes-Picot agreement] never happened."
I know Cody, I know. That's something that I repeat sometimes, like if it was a lost part of "Imagine" by John Lennon.
It would still have problems. Getting rid of the Sykes-Picot Agreement wouldn't magically solve all the problems in the region.
Bobby Lawson no isreal
Bobby Lawson Doesn't change the fact that the Sykes-Picot Agreement was a dick move that turned a potentially friendly relationship into a guaranteed toxic one. Predicting how the present would have been if the past had been different is foolish. Using the mistakes of the past to inform future decisions is wise.
Bobby Lawson but it would sove the problem of ethnic groups bieng forced to be with others they dont like
Great potato, well, people can just 1. Stop disliking each other or 2. Separate. There is no imperial power stopping them. It has happened in Europe. Incidentally, when talking about borders cutting through ethnic homelands, I don't see that being much of a problem in Europe with Switzerland and Belgium.
Finally, a video which goes into the actual details instead of just screaming "BLAME THE UNITED STATES" for three to thirty minutes.
Thank you for providing a usable history of the issue, we need more channels like this.
Damn right
Your people only feed more fuel to the fire thought
*Mortal Combat Theme starts playing in the comment section*
Damn, I can't believe this is over two years old now. Feels like this was uploaded literally last month.
I’m so happy you looked at this logically. Too many people say it was all Europe’s fault that the world is bad.
As the old saying goes it takes two.
Hey! For once, it's not completely Murica's fault!
It's the British. Even the very existence of America is indirectly the result of the British.
pierrecurie Britain is the indirect cause of everything lmao
well America made shit worse by allying the Saudis, launching a coup in Iran and invading Iraq and Afghanistan.
Note: I said it's not COMPLETELY Muricas fault
John T You mean 'Murica?
Shouldn't the formation of Israel be included in this video?
no there only on contribution is militarily embarrassing the arab world multiple times
Israel was one of the countries made my Sykes and Picot. The whole controversy was due to the Salafism
hlary oh shit
There were a lot of things missing from this. The formation of Israel, and the fact that our Cold War foreign policy spread fundamentalism to other countries in the middle east, thereby increasing violence and proxy wars. Previously, fundamentalism was unique to Saudi Arabia.
No, they still have shit ton of oil
If for nothing else, Islam is an influencial religion and Islamic cultures helped in the progress of mathematics, medicine, philosophy and other fields of study, and helped the Middle East to become one of the most prosperous and influential areas in the Middle Ages.
I'm glad you finally made this video
Thank you for teaching little known history fairly objectively. Almost all countries, United States included, warp history to maintain certain narratives. It impossible to be completely objective, but you do the best out of other stuff I've seen on UA-cam. Keep it up!
why isnt this on knowledge hub
It wouldn't make sense to split a 2 parter between 2 channels if they both contain the same subject.
At the opening, when you said "context" I honestly heard "content" and was about to applaud you for honesty.
In fact lebanon was founded with the demands of the Lebanese during the treaty of Versailles.
And why lebanon is not on the map in the video?
Lebanon was created from the Mandate of Syria after Versailles.
Rayan Hachem exept it wasn't
Too damn small is the answer
No 1 gives a fuk about Lebanon
King of 420 and I don't give about your contry
What about the Assyrians in the middle east? The brittish promised them a state and a safe heaven after they allied with the brittish
Gaben pls ????
Marcus Badenhorst the Assyrians of Northern Iraq, Syria and South Eastern Turkey
they only have little land to no land in iraq or syria so they really would be a piece of shit country alone,the sides syria and iraq are regional states more than arabic states.
Gaben pls dude it's one t 'British'.
do some reading
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assyrian_genocide
You should've released this vid sooner and made a copy of the script, BECAUSE IT WOULD'VE HELPED ME ON MY TEST
if you need this video to pass a test you aren't too bright...
It is a written test in which you sight sources
Jack The muffin this sorta related to an APUSH LEQ that I had. I didnt really think much of the mandates and had no idea of their significance
Jack The muffin you should have learned
What was stopping you from finding other sources?
This is one of your best videos Cody. It tells us where all the violence and instability in the middle east came from.
Thank you
Interestingly enough, there was a later chance of a united Middle East under the Hashemites, during 1947, the Syrian Druze were in revolt, and wanted to unite with Jordan, whose king had promised to unite them with Jordan's own Druze in an autonomous region. Jordan's king was Abdullah I, son of Hussein, and brother of Faisal, who had been elected King of Greater Syria. After Faisal's death, he became the head of the Hashemites, and championed repeatedly the idea of a Greater Syria. Not only that, but Jordan's army was the best in the Middle East, and easily capable of taking over Syria.
Basically had they managed to exploit the situation to invade, they would have won.
It would also have caused the Iraqi monarchy (also Hashemites, Faisal's line) to survive and probably to unite with Syria like it did with Jordan in our timeline.
It might have caused an earlier Lebanese Civil War, and Israel being quite different.
It's a pretty interesting scenario.
What about that United Arab Republic thing Nasser was doing a bit later on? Could that have worked?
Merritt Animation From my understanding, it could have worked, had it been less Egyptian dominated, the problem is that it would be have been dominated by Egypt in any care, due to it being larger and having a larger population. There's also the fact Syria and Egypt are not contiguous.
It doesn't mean something like it would always fail, though, had it been with Sudan and/or Libya, it probably would have survived.
Usa: Oh look oil
Yeea boi
DID SOMEBODY SAY OIL
That's why they reconige Jerusalem as Israel capital
Not just USA. Europe and USA.
The first oil companies in the Middle East were British in Iran in 1908, New Zealand in Bahrain 1921, and British in Iraq in 1925. U.S. was first into oil in Saudi Arabia in 1938, thirty years after Britain in 1908. So European interests were gobbling up oil in the Middle East. The United States was the largest oil producer in the world until 1950’s...on their own soil. The Middle East was Europe’s oil supply. In the 50’s and 60’s US began producing less, Middle East more, because it was cheaper there. Then there was the 1973 Middle East oil embargo. That’s when U.S. really turned their eyes to needing control of the Middle East oil supply...so that an embargo like that could not happen again. Then in 2000’s fracking was developed. North American oil production soared. Obama administration guided by the environmentalist special interests limited American oil production through regulation. As of 2018, U.S. is again the #1 oil producer in the world! Large reserves available with fracking tech. U.S. has its own oil source. Let Europe worry about getting it from Russia and the Middle East. That should make everyone around the world who keeps accusing the U,S. Of being the oil greedy ones in the Middle East. Europe, with practically no military combined and the ones who started the Middle East mess can have it back. Let those who are holier than thou fix it.
This is great! The only thing missing is the balfour declaration, that was the nail in the coffin.
What blew my mind was photos of Iran from the 50’s. It looked like America. People dressed hip. It’s bizarre that they went so backwards.
To be fair, I think even a unified Arabian kingdom would not last.But what I could see happening is when that empire dissolved, it would have been much easier for nations to be carved up into more harmonious countries.Something like what happened with Yugoslavia. Sure its volatile, but its NOOO where near as bad as it was before the end of WW1.In fact many are joining the EU. The only real area of contention today is Bosnia, and even then.
what a coincidence! bosnia is muslim...
The one thing such Arab state has in common with Yugoslavia is the lack of independent native rule. There are examples of confederations made up from different peoples that had worked. Like Switzerland for example. Switzerland had many centuries to work things out, not to mention that it formed due of necessity, the common enemy that were the Habsburgs at the time.
Yugoslavia didn't formed out of necessity, there was really no need to form one, big country instead of few smaller ones. They did it, because that's the only way they could've stay relevant. United Yugoslavia is at least minor regional European power, while no Balkans of today could have the same status. But they didn't succeed precisely because they lacked that common history Switzerland had. They lacked history of the native rule. The last time most of those people had their own country was back in the middle ages. Had Yugoslavia formed in the Middle Ages and survived until the modern age, would the religion of various ethnic groups even matter at that point? I doubt it. Not to mention there would be no Muslims in their country, just Catholics and Orthodox.
The same thing with Arabia. They, too, were ruled by foreign power for whole centuries prior.(Ironically that power was the same in both cases). Country that had the same government institution for whole centuries is not that easy to topple. That's why UK or France are so stable. That's why Eastern European states are less stable and prosperous than them. Because they were ruled by another power for some time. After few centuries of being a colony of another power it's not that easy to become a superpower again.
Perhaps Yugoslavia could of had an ethnic minority of Muslims? Since if it was a unified kingdom when the ottomans conquered the area, and people probably still would have converted to Islam for practical purposes during occupation, once nationalism came then the unified kingdom would be what would aspire to and that wouldn't necessarily mean they'd kick out the Muslims that existed (though I wouldn't put it past them considering how these things tend to go) since minorities haven't always been kicked out when a majority has united.
Why is this age-restricted
Censorship by british
Too many statements for the bot to understand
Because it rants about terrorism or something offensive to the UK and France
Because it states the facts of why Middle East terrorism is a thing and how US, Frenchmen and Brits fucked Arabs in the ass.
They don't want another generation knowing the real truth.
Well, now I wanna see the alternate history to this.
That's why history is important. You can't know where we are going unless you know where we have been. People jump to conclusions about places like Africa and the Middle East without realizing why they got that way in the first place. The important thing is to realize this, not make generalizations, and to make sure atrocities like this do not occur again. “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” - George Santayana. No flaw in human history has been more consequential than the ill planned Sykes-Picot Agreement. Santayana actually said this in his book "The Life Of Reason" in 1905, a full decade before that fateful meeting between British and French diplomats Mark Sykes and Francois Georges-Picot was made.
This is a point I’ve made many times myself. I’m glad to know I’m not alone in seeing it this way.
GuyNamedSean and what point is that if I may be so bold.
Yes, we that have read history usually have a broader view of conflicts. We can see the reasons behind them, not only the direct causes
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that offended me. TO JAIL WITH YOU!
The UK is really going downhill.
All he did was make a video prettending to make his girlfriend's dog a Nazi because she's always going on about how cute it is and Nazis are the least cute thing he can think of
This is great information. Excellent video
Thanks a lot Sykes and Picot. Y'all nailed this one
*cough cough* Knowledge hub
Herra Vöfflur yes, i wonder why he uploaded this to his main channel
nah mate ur just blind lol
This is directly relevant to his coming alt history video, and so he wanted it visible to the alt history audience.
You didn't mention the Balfour Declaration. That is part of this whole thing. The West betrayed the promise of an Arab homeland, then promised Jews a homeland in the same region and then actually forced it into being. That has been a festering wound.
Britain pretty quickly broke that promise too and tried to prevent further Jewish immigration to Palestine after it became clear that it was sliding towards civil war over Zionism.
The middle east would be such a beautiful and cultural place if it was at peace.
Nop because of desert and shitty climate
@@plumebrisee6206 they managed well enough in medieval times man, at least a part of it, also check out pre islamic persia, it did good in shitty climate
@@Alex-ht5ci also the Islamic Golden Age and how the Abbasid Caliphate was pretty much the scientific and economic center of the world during the Middle Ages
@@user-uz3fk8zq3u Umayyads were better. The Ottoman Empire was also at the centre of science and trade.
@DerBoss fuck the ottomans
Woah, this was age restricted and now I can't watch it, (even though I already have many times). Thanks UA-cam!
I was born in 420 b.c 69
OMG THANK YOU, AHH! I've been trying to explain the political history and importance of WWI to the history of the Middle East to my friends and family for ages. They, not being historians, like to see it all in simple Christian vs. Muslim terms(Never mind that there are many Christian Arabs).
This video will be extremely helpful in educating my fellow Americans about the complex history of Arab Nationalism.
You went over it so well that I really hope that some teachers use this to help teach what this section of history is. It's something that too many people don't know about and it's why the whole world is in such a mess today... or at least part of it.
We can see clearly from the comments here that the inter-ethnic conflicts between peoples of the Middle East might have played a bigger role than some lines on a map.
I believe that this is your best video yet. Good to see you’re nuancing why the ME is a chaotic place. Good that you’re educating your watchers. Keep up the nice work :-)
It's funny, I just watched Lawrence of Arabia last week, it helped lay the context for this video which I had no idea was being made.
But I really wanted to say thank-you for making this. This is the first video I've watched that clearly explains the instability in the Middle East, and how it came to be like that. I hope a lot of people watch this.
*am lebanese*
TRIGGERED
Cody saw the comment and changed the intro
You're Arabic not Lebanese
D Johnson that’s not our fault
CrabbierBull 391 your Isralie
you guys are a fucking shitfest but a lovely one.
knifepony hehe thanks
In parts of this video, the phrasing of your sentences (particularly your pauses and the cadences you use) are reminiscent of how Carl Sagan spoke through much of the Cosmos series
It draws the listener in with an almost hypnotic quality, and helps in absorbing information (in my opinion)
Haven't noticed it so much throughout your other vids, so thought it worth pointing out