Dr. Cassagranda's lecture on Yemen is very informative, for me it was a new thing that Israel was the aggressor in first two attacks, I thought the first blood was dropped by Arab county. Second now I understand that why Syria has always looked to Russia for support.
You'd be surprised by the things Israel had a thing in, the aggression it started and ensued. But such things are always hidden and never talked about in the media and barely online because it's not trendy to talk about the truth when it comes to Israel. I say this impartially. Because every country and government is a piece of shit in the end, no matter what it is. But Israel is always at the top of the shit list.
As a Muslim woman I thank you for all the lights that you bring on what happened in the Muslim land in the past 100 years or so. I am really sorry that and grateful to you got this vicarious trauma from the research that you had to impose on yourself to uncover these truths. May you be rightly guided and blessed for all as a blessing for your endeavors!
I wish I was his student when I was going to college. He's got a natural talent for teaching, I felt that was actually traveling through time. What an amazing journey. Thank you!
Awesome professor.... cleared so many doubts and a new enlightenment for me... Thanks to the channel for availing such a engrossing and insightful video from Prof Roy.
I'm Egyptian. My late grandfather was actually a Yemen war veteran. He told me that they really didn't know who to fight. He didn't tell me a lot about the war, but it became obvious to me that he was traumatized by it. The only story he told me is that they found a Yemeni guy strolling by them, when he reported it to his superiors, they told him to get rid of him (since they had no way of knowing whether or not he was an enemy). He couldn't do it, but one of his colleagues does it. He never told another story of his time in the war. He was a very intellectual man, not really a soldier. Egypt has obligatory military service since the time of Mohamed Ali, the founder of modern Egypt.
@@brudamonas8208 I would like to think of myself as an intellectual, so I'm against all forms of theocracy, including the Muslim Brotherhood. However, I"m also against brutally killing them and removing them by force from power after they were democratically elected. The current Egyptian president is much worse than the Muslim Brotherhood in my opinion.
@@mohamedsamy1431 But if you are really an intellectual you wouldn't make a blank statement like that. The statement itself isn't intellectual at all. I do hope you grow in your knowledge.
Great lecture, I enjoyed it, and Dr. Casagrande is fun to listen to. As a yemeni, he had some details wrong though. But i can see his viewpoint as an outsider
Let that be a lesson in life. If it wasn’t for the British, the entire Middle East would be a camel farm. Enjoy your electronic devices as you try to throw shade on the west.
Greetings from Yemen, I just stumbled across a lecture of yours appeared on my recommendation and now I nearly finished listening to all of them, I enjoyed every second, thank you for making them online. need more please, wish you all the best. Btw, it's the opposite, 3/4 are sunnis in Yemen, also Saudis and UAE had a part in supporting Alli Saleh who supported Huthis who are the minority to enter sana'a and overthrow the new weak government Actually it's more complex nearly in all Arab spring countries Saudis and UAE had part in making things unstable.. you need to dig deeper regarding this part
@@Spirit5Smilehe's right though. You can start with who is sponsoring RSF in Sudan and why. You can look into who is occupying Socotra and why. Saudi is sitting these ones out.
It was the muslim brotherhood "Islah party" who first alliance with the Huthies to nock off Saleh and asked his vice Hadi to officially apologise for the lunching six war on them. But that was ok with every body then. But when Saleh alliance with them just to defend Yemen against a foreign attack he is the bad guy now. 🤷🏻♀️
@@Spirit5Smile a human is always a learner plus that's not history, it's the current times plus I live there plus there are a lot of easily reachable "independent" documents backing up this. History is more complicated to dig deeper than the current times especially regarding the losing side, and the current times will be later history, we need to make sure it's recorded correctly.
@@astroflyinsights "Actually it's more complex nearly in all Arab spring countries Saudis and UAE had part in making things unstable" why throw in saudi then? this anti-saudi propaganda is so odd
highly recommended Dr Roy history lectures to be included it in the national curriculum for A-LEVELS. So the swathe of generations are well informed about the events took place in the past which have shape their respective countries in good or bad states.
The internet is an awesome place. I recently watched a conversation between Dr Casagrande and a gentleman from SArabia. They were talking about Ibn Khalid. I can’t read or speak any Arabic but thankfully there were subtitles. Technology allows us to communicate on the fly and that’s so much better than interpreting. I thought it was awesome that people in the other side of the world can connect with another culture. We have the ability to talk to each other and learn from each other and not be dependent on the media to get our info. Talking directly to people is the best way to compromise and respect each other. In the Age of Information, Ignorance is a choice.
Absolutely, we tend to forget the that pillaging is common practice during civil war. But I sometimes feel like there could be a better way to affect change. I wish we find out what it is, if it exists.
لكن هل تعرف من الذي أوجد الفوضى لكي يبرر إسقاط مرسي؟ وهل لو أشعل الإخوان اليوم الفوضى في مصر ومسكوا السلطة سوف ترضى بهم حكاما وتتخلى عن العسكر؟ أعرف أن إجابتك هي: لا.. لهذا أنصحك أن تراجع قناعاتك ومبادئك.
Dr Casagranda, please don't have negative sentiments. The resolve of human beings is remarkable beyond comprehension and these failed states will come bouncing back. I am from South Africa and we are proof that you can work thru trauma. We still have a lot of issues to deal with, but we dealing with it in a compassionate manner.
Dr. Casagranda's description of the strange friends comprising the Coalition forces sounds very much like, "Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia."
Correction with all due respect for the professor sunni population is 65 percent and zaidi shia is less like 35 or something depending on Google and wepekidi
Words are not enough to convey my Respect and Gratitude for Professor Casagranda, a Legend who will never know the Extent, or the Ripple effects of his Work, his Passion and Sacrifice on Millions around the world...
Correction: Shia in Yemen is 10% at most. But the majority Sunnies allyed with them against the common enemy (Saudi, USA & Israel) that is why they succeeded so far. Thanks
There are many flaws in his narritive around Yemen since the 1994 onwards, the south of yemen is not actually held by millitary power but by tribal affilations. and around 80% of Yemenies are Sunni Muslims, and the 20% are Zaidis which is a very different sect than shia. Salah was not hit with a rocket but and IED was placed in the worship place he was in and he was forced to resgin in Saudia. There are many flaws in your reading professor I hope you re-visit your references
The students are like lifeless zombies how do you teach people like Roy? Maybe you should try using canned laughter so these seemingly lifeless young people know when it's time to laugh. I wish you would pan the camera angle so we could see their beaming intelligence on their faces.
@@jacobjorgenson9285 C'mon we both know the people below the 49th are just not smart enough to know when to laugh they need to be coached with canned laughter I mean face it
Ive watched all 4 of the Middle east lectures. I never finished college, and even though I had a great history teacher in highschool, talking about world history, we had to Cruise though 5,000 years. My history teacher did his best to not be eurocentristic, but the school curriculum being what it was, we only got to brush on the subject. I feel after watching all 4 of these lectures, I know more about the Middle East than my state politicians. My soul grieves for my brothers in humanity due to such misguided foreign policy decisions.
He's very funny. Yes, it's horrible to even hear about, but if there aren't funny jokes, crying into a coma is a possibility. I hope the trauma he (and the people he's reading about and researching) eases and things get better.
I am an American of Syrian descent, and I am enjoying the details which I never heard before, except the peace preparations by Mr. Kissinger and how he played both Al Assad and Al Sadat, and I disagree on that detail as I was in Syria at that time and I remembered clearly when Sadat came to Damascus and met Assad regarding the deal with Israel and try to convince him, but Assad refuse and the rumors was Al Assad was thinking of holding Al Sadat in Contempt to prevent him from making that deal.
It is a unique perspective from an empathetic American but there are so many basic mistakes.. First of all there was no revolution in most of the GCC countries because surprisingly for Westernsthe people are very loyal to their leaders. I am from the UAE and i got know hush hush money to stay quiet so i am not sure where you got this information. Secondly Sheia in Yemen are a minority and ali saleh who controls the army backed them up to spite the elected government. Houthis ended up killing ali saleh. However the basic information of sheia sunni percentage should be verified before giving a whole presentation about the country
It was more like 150 people who protested in the UAE. If I remember correctly. Anyway a protest in UAE wouldn’t pan out like in Egypt. Cause your there you definitely know why. Their lives are far beyond basic necessities it’s luxury and am truly happy for them. I just wish they would make life easier to all those expats. And Yemeni Shia are a lot if you consider Zaidees as Shia
he was also wrong about Egypt’s revolution. he says Egyptians “elected the wrong candidate” twice, but really it’s quite clear that the military (eg Mubarak & Sisi) were always in power anyway. The election (there was only one fair election - which Morsi won) was pointless, and Morsi never really had any power.
1:06.01 🇨🇵 "cares" about Mali because of CAF, Central African Franc yes thats right, all of the Central African nations got "independence" from 🇨🇵 on condition they kept the currency tied to 🇨🇵, in fact the CAF is printed and issued and stored by 🇨🇵
thank you for the lectures although in some lectures there are some miner details that need to be corrected other than that thank you for the beautiful informational lectures Dr.Roy
Nice lecture. One thing though. You never once mentioned the non-aligned movement that Naser helped to establish. Were they in your view that insignificant?
Every sources available say Shia is not the majority in Yemen. It is 65% Sunni and 35% Shia who now rule Yemen. Still it is better than Syria where 15% Shia minority is the ruler. Believe me, minority ruling over majority will never work. It only could because someone help propping it up. But there will be war forever.
Awesome as always. I just want to point out that the entirety of south Egypt and a lot of the north is a black population. We're fairly mixed in the north due to thousands of years of mixing with Greeks, Romans, Persians, Assyrians, Turks and Arabs. But, we are definitely not "white".
Correction !!! Yemenis Shia are a minority representation less than 3% but there is around 30% of zaidis which are much closer to Sunnis than Shia . And houthis wasn’t a revolution but rather a coup against the government that they signed a peace deal and political agreement but turned against it and broke a deal with Ali Abudallh the former dictator that fought houthis for 6 wars . With Ali saleh ambitions to get back in power and houthis hope for power. And Iran hope to install puppet governments in Yemen 🇾🇪 we end up with civil war
One correction, nothing happened in Algeria during the 2011 Arab spring. Algeria had its revolt against the military rule in 1988 but the military reorganized a coup d'etat in 1991 when people voted for an islamiste party in the parliamentary elections in 1990.
Appreciate the efforts of Professor There are many useful and interrelated facts But there is a mistake The people in Egypt did not revolt against President Morsi, but rather the remnants of the followers of the former regime of Hosni Mubarak, with the help of the army, Sisi internally, Israel, America, the Emirates and Saudi Arabia externally, then Sisi carried out a military coup and was not elected.
i really like your lecturing style. However, I am curious to know the references that said US funded Muslim Brotherhood. As far as my reading goes on Hassan Al banna writings, he didn't get any funding from other countries, except from their people. That was the teaching of ukhuwwah (brotherhood).but then, i might be bias, hence i would like to know on your references.
This is the most enlightening video I have ever watched with regards to the situation of my country. It’s amazing how US tyranny created the kernel of all these modern social and political problem. The enemy is clear.
Let's ignore the fact that 50% of the Yemeni people are Sunna, the Yemeni shia are Zaydia Shia, which are FAR closer religiously to Sunna that the Extremest 12er Shia. In fact the 12er Shia consider them disbelevers, and they consider the 12ers the disbelevers too. The 5% Jarudie Shia are allied militarily allied with the 12ers of Iran, and thanks to Obama's nuclear deal with iran, Iran was able to spend all all it's income on the Jarodies (AKA "huthi" rebels), along with hizbolla in Lebanon. Beond killing the population, the huthis capture Saudi and international humanitarian aid, and sell it for weapons and force labor. That, along with holding the oil tanker in disrepair of their cost, and using it as an ecological time bomb, by blocking all efforts to repair it, before it spills it's oil into the Arabian and red seas
Just a small, maybe naive but very relevant question: were there no phones back in the 70s and 80s whereby the local leaders could have talked to each other and figure out that the US is manipulating them into chaos? Notwithstanding what seems as a very knowledgable and sincere analysis, it leaves you with a feeling of pervasive paternalism towards those countries and peoples. How come they are always manipulated in such a substantial way. Where are THEY?
Professor you said all of this (back in 2019) but then at the end (of this talk) you said "we've picked the wrong side again", why pick a side to begin with? Sometimes (a lot of the times perhaps) we shouldn't.
You’ve seriously misinformed the people at this lecture, Yemen is by far majority sunni and now endures the rule of an iran back minority that represents nobody but houthis. The shia in yemen are zaydi, not even close to houthis or iran but closer to sunni.. Houthis would never win a referendum, the only control sanaa which is where i am from, and they are by no means popular but they are the current situation. No side is popular, yemenis just want peace. And there is hope. Yemen is not totally destroyed, it is not like afghanistan, my whole family lives okay there and work and get married. And turkey is by no way a third world country good god.. very disappointed by this lecture it’s extremely inaccurate.
Dr. Cassagranda is very knowledgeable and highly entertaining
Yeah..i am just addicted to his lectures
Yeah I like the way he teaches . He's like a role model for me. I'd love to be a great teacher like him .
Pray for yemen
@@solowali10 النصر قادم لا محاله!
Yes he is
I agree with yoi
This is one of the greatest history lectures 👍👍👍👍 I've ever heard. Please do not change your occupation, you are a real historian
51:44 Except there are no concentration camps in India, or China. So, if he lies about this, what else is he lying about?
Turkey a third world country, that's a joke, ok I get it, ha ha ha
White House should be called Tyrants House
@@vgames6792hes not lying lol
@@vgames6792there’s literal evidence of ughyur concentration camps in China
Dr. Cassagranda's lecture on Yemen is very informative, for me it was a new thing that Israel was the aggressor in first two attacks, I thought the first blood was dropped by Arab county. Second now I understand that why Syria has always looked to Russia for support.
You'd be surprised by the things Israel had a thing in, the aggression it started and ensued. But such things are always hidden and never talked about in the media and barely online because it's not trendy to talk about the truth when it comes to Israel. I say this impartially. Because every country and government is a piece of shit in the end, no matter what it is. But Israel is always at the top of the shit list.
As a Muslim woman I thank you for all the lights that you bring on what happened in the Muslim land in the past 100 years or so.
I am really sorry that and grateful to you got this vicarious trauma from the research that you had to impose on yourself to uncover these truths.
May you be rightly guided and blessed for all as a blessing for your endeavors!
I find these lectures fascinating. much obliged!
This man is the epitome of cursed by knowledge
I wish I was his student when I was going to college. He's got a natural talent for teaching, I felt that was actually traveling through time. What an amazing journey. Thank you!
Well this was a summary of the history of the entire Middle East NOT just Yemen! Literally blew my mind!
His lectures are always like that.
Valuable information and a magnificient lecturer, thank you for allowing this to be uploaded Dr. Roy
So grateful to find these lectures online!!! Mr. Casagrande is fascinating...
Awesome professor....
cleared so many doubts and a new enlightenment for me...
Thanks to the channel for availing such a engrossing and insightful video from Prof Roy.
Great storyteller, loved the Kalid ibn Walid lecture 👌
I always enjoy your lectures - thank you so much for putting them on you tube.
So do I
Another amazing video and amazing lecture! Thank you 🙏
Iam from india mumbai .. I just love his talks , I wish he could do weekly , and share his invaluable knowledge
Another amazing piece from Roy! Thank you so much!
I'm Egyptian. My late grandfather was actually a Yemen war veteran. He told me that they really didn't know who to fight. He didn't tell me a lot about the war, but it became obvious to me that he was traumatized by it. The only story he told me is that they found a Yemeni guy strolling by them, when he reported it to his superiors, they told him to get rid of him (since they had no way of knowing whether or not he was an enemy). He couldn't do it, but one of his colleagues does it. He never told another story of his time in the war. He was a very intellectual man, not really a soldier. Egypt has obligatory military service since the time of Mohamed Ali, the founder of modern Egypt.
Thanks for sharing. Mohamad Sami
i wonder what you think about the muslim brotherhood
@@brudamonas8208 I would like to think of myself as an intellectual, so I'm against all forms of theocracy, including the Muslim Brotherhood. However, I"m also against brutally killing them and removing them by force from power after they were democratically elected. The current Egyptian president is much worse than the Muslim Brotherhood in my opinion.
Yemeni people owe great debt for the Egyptian heroes! Thank you
@@mohamedsamy1431 But if you are really an intellectual you wouldn't make a blank statement like that. The statement itself isn't intellectual at all.
I do hope you grow in your knowledge.
Great lecture, I enjoyed it, and Dr. Casagrande is fun to listen to. As a yemeni, he had some details wrong though. But i can see his viewpoint as an outsider
Roy is the best historian heard..can listen to him for hours 👍
Yeah I like the way he teaches . He's like a role model for me. I'd love to be a great teacher like him .
'' If you ever see two fishes in a pond quarrelling with each other, be sure a British must have passed by the pond''
Iraqi proverb
Let that be a lesson in life. If it wasn’t for the British, the entire Middle East would be a camel farm.
Enjoy your electronic devices as you try to throw shade on the west.
What made me less impressed about this lecture is when Dr Roy stated that most Yemen is Shias. It certainly NOT!!
Greetings from Yemen, I just stumbled across a lecture of yours appeared on my recommendation and now I nearly finished listening to all of them, I enjoyed every second, thank you for making them online. need more please, wish you all the best.
Btw, it's the opposite, 3/4 are sunnis in Yemen, also Saudis and UAE had a part in supporting Alli Saleh who supported Huthis who are the minority to enter sana'a and overthrow the new weak government
Actually it's more complex nearly in all Arab spring countries Saudis and UAE had part in making things unstable.. you need to dig deeper regarding this part
how are you gonna tell a professor on the topic to "dig deeper"? lmao. do you have anything factual backing up these claims?
@@Spirit5Smilehe's right though. You can start with who is sponsoring RSF in Sudan and why. You can look into who is occupying Socotra and why. Saudi is sitting these ones out.
It was the muslim brotherhood "Islah party" who first alliance with the Huthies to nock off Saleh and asked his vice Hadi to officially apologise for the lunching six war on them. But that was ok with every body then. But when Saleh alliance with them just to defend Yemen against a foreign attack he is the bad guy now. 🤷🏻♀️
@@Spirit5Smile a human is always a learner plus that's not history, it's the current times plus I live there plus there are a lot of easily reachable "independent" documents backing up this. History is more complicated to dig deeper than the current times especially regarding the losing side, and the current times will be later history, we need to make sure it's recorded correctly.
@@astroflyinsights "Actually it's more complex nearly in all Arab spring countries Saudis and UAE had part in making things unstable" why throw in saudi then? this anti-saudi propaganda is so odd
highly recommended Dr Roy history lectures to be included it in the national curriculum for A-LEVELS. So the swathe of generations are well informed about the events took place in the past which have shape their respective countries in good or bad states.
Imran
So you dream..
The internet is an awesome place. I recently watched a conversation between Dr Casagrande and a gentleman from SArabia. They were talking about Ibn Khalid. I can’t read or speak any Arabic but thankfully there were subtitles. Technology allows us to communicate on the fly and that’s so much better than interpreting.
I thought it was awesome that people in the other side of the world can connect with another culture. We have the ability to talk to each other and learn from each other and not be dependent on the media to get our info. Talking directly to people is the best way to compromise and respect each other.
In the Age of Information, Ignorance is a choice.
65% Sunni
30% Shia
Yemen Demographics
True, & the houthis aren't even the right representation of shias in yeman.
And the shias in yemen are zaydi, not the same as other shias and not that different from the sunnis
And yet the Shia Yemeni's are the world's favorite Yemenis 💚🤍♥️
Where did he get his info that Yemen's population is 3/4 Shia? That's the opposite of what is widely known.
Better to live under 70 years of tyrrany than 1 day of anarchy. Imam Malik, roughly 1400 years ago.
Absolutely, we tend to forget the that pillaging is common practice during civil war. But I sometimes feel like there could be a better way to affect change. I wish we find out what it is, if it exists.
لكن هل تعرف من الذي أوجد الفوضى لكي يبرر إسقاط مرسي؟ وهل لو أشعل الإخوان اليوم الفوضى في مصر ومسكوا السلطة سوف ترضى بهم حكاما وتتخلى عن العسكر؟ أعرف أن إجابتك هي: لا.. لهذا أنصحك أن تراجع قناعاتك ومبادئك.
I would love so much to attend your classes !
شكرا لكم على رفع المحاضرة
والشكر للمحاضر الكريم
Afwan
Excellent lecture. Thanks, Dr Cassagranda
Dr Casagranda, please don't have negative sentiments. The resolve of human beings is remarkable beyond comprehension and these failed states will come bouncing back.
I am from South Africa and we are proof that you can work thru trauma. We still have a lot of issues to deal with, but we dealing with it in a compassionate manner.
Your lectures are fantastic. Thank you.
I feel like I waited for this new season since 1919.
These people should run the country and politicians should be made to read.
Dr. Casagranda's description of the strange friends comprising the Coalition forces sounds very much like, "Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia."
Correction with all due respect for the professor sunni population is 65 percent and zaidi shia is less like 35 or something depending on Google and wepekidi
thank you so much professor Roy
شكرا يا دكتور رجل رائع❤ يروي الحقيق من قل اليوم ان يحكو التاريخ الحقيقي حتى في مدارس العربية،وهذه امانة،اتمنى له توفيق وهداية ولعائلته الجميلة❤❤❤
I've learnt more from this lecture than 100 mainstream media "news"
Thank you for your storytelling
Words are not enough to convey my Respect and Gratitude for Professor Casagranda, a Legend who will never know the Extent, or the Ripple effects of his Work, his Passion and Sacrifice on Millions around the world...
Great lecture, thank you!
Very good video, thank you Sir . 👍❤️🙏
Hello from munich
I realy like your Stuff**🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸
another lecture wchich i enjoyed thanks to the speaker
Brilliant info.
An excellent lecture. I enjoyed this.
But I can't believe that Dr Casagranda suggested that Trump may have read a book.
Correction: Shia in Yemen is 10% at most. But the majority Sunnies allyed with them against the common enemy (Saudi, USA & Israel) that is why they succeeded so far.
Thanks
Wrong
Your arabic accent is superb👍🏼
There are many flaws in his narritive around Yemen since the 1994 onwards, the south of yemen is not actually held by millitary power but by tribal affilations. and around 80% of Yemenies are Sunni Muslims, and the 20% are Zaidis which is a very different sect than shia. Salah was not hit with a rocket but and IED was placed in the worship place he was in and he was forced to resgin in Saudia. There are many flaws in your reading professor I hope you re-visit your references
Thx for the lecture
The students are like lifeless zombies how do you teach people like Roy? Maybe you should try using canned laughter so these seemingly lifeless young people know when it's time to laugh. I wish you would pan the camera angle so we could see their beaming intelligence on their faces.
There in shock because everything they were taught up to this point was a lie.
It’s a lecture not a comedy club
@@jacobjorgenson9285 C'mon we both know the people below the 49th are just not smart enough to know when to laugh they need to be coached with canned laughter I mean face it
Very informative brilliant...
No Yemen is only 35% Shia, and 65% Sunni!!
I was completely on board until I heard that ruined statistic.
Brilliant 🚹thanks!
Sincerely Michael Foley 🤔
I think that anybody with a inquisitive mind will be suffering from PTSD at this juncture
Yes
I do.
Ive watched all 4 of the Middle east lectures. I never finished college, and even though I had a great history teacher in highschool, talking about world history, we had to Cruise though 5,000 years. My history teacher did his best to not be eurocentristic, but the school curriculum being what it was, we only got to brush on the subject. I feel after watching all 4 of these lectures, I know more about the Middle East than my state politicians. My soul grieves for my brothers in humanity due to such misguided foreign policy decisions.
He's very funny. Yes, it's horrible to even hear about, but if there aren't funny jokes, crying into a coma is a possibility.
I hope the trauma he (and the people he's reading about and researching) eases and things get better.
Lol
Are these lectures open to the public? We would like to know about them in advance to attend!
Try to contact Austin school they would know the details.
Make
No.
Fabulous lecture
Israel doing it's thing as usual
Beautiful.
Good job
I am an American of Syrian descent, and I am enjoying the details which I never heard before, except the peace preparations by Mr. Kissinger and how he played both Al Assad and Al Sadat, and I disagree on that detail as I was in Syria at that time and I remembered clearly when Sadat came to Damascus and met Assad regarding the deal with Israel and try to convince him, but Assad refuse and the rumors was Al Assad was thinking of holding Al Sadat in Contempt to prevent him from making that deal.
Where can I find his lecture on Iran?
I like your historical episod put the majerty of the population in yemen is Sonah.
OMG! This is intense! I didn't know Egypt profited of US aid to Israel! Thanks for informing us.
It is a unique perspective from an empathetic American but there are so many basic mistakes.. First of all there was no revolution in most of the GCC countries because surprisingly for Westernsthe people are very loyal to their leaders. I am from the UAE and i got know hush hush money to stay quiet so i am not sure where you got this information. Secondly Sheia in Yemen are a minority and ali saleh who controls the army backed them up to spite the elected government. Houthis ended up killing ali saleh. However the basic information of sheia sunni percentage should be verified before giving a whole presentation about the country
It was more like 150 people who protested in the UAE. If I remember correctly. Anyway a protest in UAE wouldn’t pan out like in Egypt. Cause your there you definitely know why. Their lives are far beyond basic necessities it’s luxury and am truly happy for them. I just wish they would make life easier to all those expats.
And Yemeni Shia are a lot if you consider Zaidees as Shia
he was also wrong about Egypt’s revolution. he says Egyptians “elected the wrong candidate” twice, but really it’s quite clear that the military (eg Mubarak & Sisi) were always in power anyway. The election (there was only one fair election - which Morsi won) was pointless, and Morsi never really had any power.
Yes most yemenis are sunni and a sizeable minority are zaydi, not even the same shia as most
1:06.01
🇨🇵 "cares" about Mali because of CAF, Central African Franc
yes thats right, all of the Central African nations got "independence" from 🇨🇵 on condition they kept the currency tied to 🇨🇵, in fact the CAF is printed and issued and stored by 🇨🇵
thank you for the lectures although in some lectures there are some miner details that need to be corrected other than that thank you for the beautiful informational lectures Dr.Roy
Kindly point out. We are waiting. It's a duty you are obliged.
Please make one about Oman and the revolution of dhofar wich and the war crime there between 1968 and 1973
Nice lecture. One thing though. You never once mentioned the non-aligned movement that Naser helped to establish. Were they in your view that insignificant?
I think he went into a little more detail about it in us foreign policy part two
I think, I dont remember
He knows a lot of informations in details.
Surprised that Iran’s great influence on the Houthis and the Shia people not mentioned.
One wrong piece Dr. Casagranda, the majority of Yemeni’s are 66% Sunnis
Every sources available say Shia is not the majority in Yemen.
It is 65% Sunni and 35% Shia who now rule Yemen. Still it is better than Syria where 15% Shia minority is the ruler.
Believe me, minority ruling over majority will never work. It only could because someone help propping it up. But there will be war forever.
You are correct, Shia are a minority in Yemen. Yeah like in Iraq when the minority Sunni ruled.
I'm living in the UAE, what you said had happened in 2011 never did
Awesome as always. I just want to point out that the entirety of south Egypt and a lot of the north is a black population.
We're fairly mixed in the north due to thousands of years of mixing with Greeks, Romans, Persians, Assyrians, Turks and Arabs.
But, we are definitely not "white".
Also kissinger was Jewish... just saying
Also, Sisi staged a coup
How do these guys have no questions? I had so many
Thanks
Thank you 🤓
Correction !!!
Yemenis Shia are a minority representation less than 3% but there is around 30% of zaidis which are much closer to Sunnis than Shia .
And houthis wasn’t a revolution but rather a coup against the government that they signed a peace deal and political agreement but turned against it and broke a deal with Ali Abudallh the former dictator that fought houthis for 6 wars .
With Ali saleh ambitions to get back in power and houthis hope for power. And Iran hope to install puppet governments in Yemen 🇾🇪 we end up with civil war
One correction, nothing happened in Algeria during the 2011 Arab spring. Algeria had its revolt against the military rule in 1988 but the military reorganized a coup d'etat in 1991 when people voted for an islamiste party in the parliamentary elections in 1990.
Appreciate the efforts of Professor There are many useful and interrelated facts
But there is a mistake
The people in Egypt did not revolt against President Morsi, but rather the remnants of the followers of the former regime of Hosni Mubarak, with the help of the army, Sisi internally, Israel, America, the Emirates and Saudi Arabia externally, then Sisi carried out a military coup and was not elected.
Who cares? Non-Muslims are persecuted there.
Bout time we stuck our noses out and developed more mature relationships with them.
i really like your lecturing style. However, I am curious to know the references that said US funded Muslim Brotherhood. As far as my reading goes on Hassan Al banna writings, he didn't get any funding from other countries, except from their people. That was the teaching of ukhuwwah (brotherhood).but then, i might be bias, hence i would like to know on your references.
The US inherited from the UK who started it.
This is the most enlightening video I have ever watched with regards to the situation of my country. It’s amazing how US tyranny created the kernel of all these modern social and political problem. The enemy is clear.
intrigued
Can you do Libya too please?
Or Sudan
Sunnis are 70 % in yemen not 25% .. hothies are less than 25% , i like your way but to say a fundmental information like this wrong ,, i m sad
Yeah even though he has a great way of laying out a lecture...some of historical information are way off!
A lot of his lectures have major faults … I question if all the things if feel he has taught me are wrong ?
Our culture is getting entirely too soft when you have trauma from reading about something.
Yemen is majority Sunni by far. Shia is a minority.
misinformation should be corrected. Yemen is Sunni majority and shia minority. Iran is trying to make it Shia State by helping shia rebels.
Let's ignore the fact that 50% of the Yemeni people are Sunna, the Yemeni shia are Zaydia Shia, which are FAR closer religiously to Sunna that the Extremest 12er Shia. In fact the 12er Shia consider them disbelevers, and they consider the 12ers the disbelevers too. The 5% Jarudie Shia are allied militarily allied with the 12ers of Iran, and thanks to Obama's nuclear deal with iran, Iran was able to spend all all it's income on the Jarodies (AKA "huthi" rebels), along with hizbolla in Lebanon.
Beond killing the population, the huthis capture Saudi and international humanitarian aid, and sell it for weapons and force labor. That, along with holding the oil tanker in disrepair of their cost, and using it as an ecological time bomb, by blocking all efforts to repair it, before it spills it's oil into the Arabian and red seas
52:08 you said majority of Yemenis are Shia... 3 quarters? Wiki is saying its 42% shia and 56% sunni... this is a factual error on your video
Just a small, maybe naive but very relevant question: were there no phones back in the 70s and 80s whereby the local leaders could have talked to each other and figure out that the US is manipulating them into chaos? Notwithstanding what seems as a very knowledgable and sincere analysis, it leaves you with a feeling of pervasive paternalism towards those countries and peoples. How come they are always manipulated in such a substantial way. Where are THEY?
Yeah I’m sure they have, that’s a good Q. At least governments had them of the people didn’t
Professor you said all of this (back in 2019) but then at the end (of this talk) you said "we've picked the wrong side again", why pick a side to begin with? Sometimes (a lot of the times perhaps) we shouldn't.
The US change sides yearly, least reliable state in the world .
You’ve seriously misinformed the people at this lecture, Yemen is by far majority sunni and now endures the rule of an iran back minority that represents nobody but houthis. The shia in yemen are zaydi, not even close to houthis or iran but closer to sunni..
Houthis would never win a referendum, the only control sanaa which is where i am from, and they are by no means popular but they are the current situation. No side is popular, yemenis just want peace.
And there is hope. Yemen is not totally destroyed, it is not like afghanistan, my whole family lives okay there and work and get married.
And turkey is by no way a third world country good god.. very disappointed by this lecture it’s extremely inaccurate.
How come this guy is so good?
Turkey isn't a third world country tho.