I mean, it was the Turks getting anal about ceding their eastern territories to an independent Armenia and Kurdistan that resulted in that half of Turkey being a complete mess today, and made the ethnic tensions in the rest of the Middle East much worse. Had Armenia and Kurdistan been formed, then the Kurds and Armenians that ended up in modern Iraq and Syria would at least have a place to move to instead of being forced to fight for independence, like how Jews and Christians rapidly concentrated in Israel after WWII. You could argue the British should've tried harder to force the Turkish government to agree to their original plan, but that would've likely just resulted in Turkey being even more expansionist and likely turning out as a Soviet rather than NATO ally. Those tensions would've existed regardless of British intervention too: it's not like the Turks suddenly did a 180 on their tolerance of minorities only after the Ottoman Empire fell.
@@theblindwall3207 that's actually not true the Muslims ottomans never have a major massacre event until the western influence nationalistic young Turks rebel against the sultan and expelled the sultan into exile while installed the puppet sultan so that the nationalist western influence young Turks have powers and they become nationalistic and massacre all of the Armenians plus there's no major war in the middle east ever since the ottomans rule the middle east, they didn't divide them if they do there'll be a lot of war in there but no there's no war same with the balkans the fact that there's still a lot of Europeans after the first Balkan war just show that the ottomans didn't massacre them same with middle east, while we massacre a lot of native Americans so much that we never see them ever again same with Africans, Oceania, Asia, etc, and also we shouldn't ignore the religious thirty years war and major wars in Europe including WW2 and even today in France there's a lot of protest and riots everywhere.
@@theblindwall3207 I have read a lot about it since I'm a history nerd I'm sorry if I hurt your feeling by saying the truth but truth don't care about your feeling.
If there’s one thing i have learned about Middle East throughout the years, it’s that Oman is always chilling in the corner amidst all the surrounding chaos.
I'm Syrian-Lebanese on my father's side, I remember first being told that we were Syrian, and then being told we were Lebanese, the answer kept changing depending on the family member I asked. I was very confused why there wasn't a consistent answer and would wonder "are we Lebanese or Syrian?". As I got older and learned more about the Sykes-Picot borders I realized why the inconsistency was there and the answer to which heritage we were was "yes".
Syrian, Lebanese and Iraqi. You guys are one people and you needed to unite long time ago. For centuries all this land was Babylon and Assyria. Because of your ego you are Divided and are a playground for Iran, Turkey, Israel and the west and russia.
Then again, it makes you wonder wether it even matters. I mean, can you live without the knowledge what name to attach to your heritage? If all of a sudden you were told "you are definitely Syrian" - does that change your position on someone who says they are Lebanese (assuming they have the same background)? I think these heritage and origin and 'historical claim' things are stupid and overrated. It creates nothing but conflict. We're you were born, that's where you are from. Nothing more, nothing less.
@@vffa you are a typical cosmopolite. Tell me are you supporter of LHBTIQ and BLM movements? Of course you are! You do not Veluwe the importance of culture and heritage. Just because you don’t know your origin, your gender and your religion, does not mean the rest of the world are wrong. For us this is important. Shame on you.
As a Lebanese-Syrian I have come to accept that we are one people and we should be united as one state. So yes Lebanon is Syria. Edit: challenge: white people try not to seethe about an Arab man’s opinion on his own country (impossible) I as a citizen can have an opinion of my country. You all are Europeans and have nothing to do with us. Go fuck yourselves with Costco donuts or something idk what u fat Americans do
We're all human. Anything other than that exists solely to divide us. You can be proud of where you come from but that pride is often weaponized so it's best to leave that kind of stuff behind.
@@AsyncaQatar isn't so chill either, they just seem chill by comparison since they play both sides. Their state owned media company has been pretty buddy buddy with terrorist networks while also operating across the globe and they operate a lot like an antebellum south
I think the most concise way to convey the difficulties in the area are to overlay maps of geography, ethnicity, culture, historical claims, and natural resources. Doing this reveals there is no combination that doesn't leave a very large number of people very angry about something.
Exactly the same shit we saw with the wars in the balkans in the 90s. Kosovo, Bosnia etc All people there can lay "historic" claims to all those lands, because shit like ethnic cleansing etc was done by the Ottomans there too over the centuries.
then why do those western countries take refugees from middle east who first come in their countries then do a lot of crime, terror attacks and later start separatist movements?
then just restore the ottoman empire, if they can rule over that vast land over there, then, just let them rule the whole clusterf*ck. the war between them are there to stay but at least they can be grouped into one single country, and not dozen of country making mess around
that's kind of the point. the ME is such a patchwork of incredibly complex ethnicities and religious traditions that the European idea of a Nation state is anathema to that world. They function best as provinces under over all imperial rule where each are left to live their lives as they see fit. Nationalism is one of the worst ideas to come out of Europe, a place known for its bad ideas.
Dude the Aliens have allready sent one ship, they brought the religions in like a ruse for us to wipe each other out. I think they come from far away and the transport time is several thousand years so they try to wipe us out with a ruse. (LoOoOoLLLlll)
@@Levo_D_Angelo a physical virus would be much more efficient for your imaginary take, if philosophical creeds are you cup of tea, I'd say the aliens empowered the Europeans so these barbarians spread their poisonous ideals and demonic way of life, inhumane way of life, or else, how come such a boring region that even it's people hated with no resources become prominent? Alien help of course, they chose the most loser faction and gave them power so everyone becomes losers as well, that's how you destroy humanity, and would you look at that, extreme capitalism or extreme communism, Fascism, social degeneracy like public sex and same sex, animal sexual abuse, incest, and many demonic shit exported by the Europeans and the Europe 2.0 (USA)
Not saying British empire is innocent , but middelesterns have been cutting eachothers throats for religious and political purposes long before Britain even existed , just right after jesus dies, Christians are killed by Romans, jews are killed by Romans, then byzantean splits away becomes christian, and start fighting jews, jews killing christians , christians killing jews then Persians killing jews & christians, then the Arabs muslim killing and getting killed from jews christians and Persians 😂, then Arabs turn on them selves sunnis killing shiyates , then Turks appear killing all of those groups its just a huge mess where every single group is fighting the other 20 groups , when British came this place was already a mess
as someone from UAE im really greatful for these videos because they dont teach us history in school, instead we have a whole subject about how the emirates was united and literally no information about the other events that happened
انت اماراتي وتحاول تعرف تاريخك من قنوات اليوتيوب الاجنبية؟؟ الكلام المذكور في المقطع اغلبيته صحيحة لكن انت كإماراتي المفروض ماتاخذ الاجانب كمصدر تاريخي لك لانهم احيانا بيكونون متحيزين لمصالحهم وممكن يزورون التاريخ عشان يخفون جرائمهم ، المؤرخين العرب الموثوقين موجودين والمفروض تعرف تاريخك منهم مو من الاجانب
@@m_oqx Some people just understand it better in English, I know I do. I'm an Arab teenager but I grew up in Britain and am living in the Middle East now. Plus, it's quite boring listening in Arabic. Let them do what they want, it's awesome they're even interested.
@@hearts4dazaiii it doesn't matter if it's boring or not , if you're actually interested in learning your history then learn it the proper way not take it from foreign sources, foreign sources are not always correct and unbiased this video was good but it's not always like this
As a Syrian, it's nice to see this all explained objectively and with no bias. They did teach us some of this in school, but it had bias, and mainly focused on Syria. Keep it up RLL!
@@sterlingmarshel6299I disagree. It's created by bias in other humans and a basic tendency of humans rather. Plus everyone experiencing different things also makes them all have positive and negative bias against things depending on their things they experienced. It's possible what was positive experience to some be negative to others.
People in the West aren't usually very familiar with the 1916 Sykes-Picot Agreement, but I remember being shocked at hearing it mentioned by some ISIS fighters during their period of territorial conquest (c. 2014). A bunch of them had just crossed from Iraq into Syria and one of them said something like "F- the Sykes-Picot Agreement, this is just a line they drew in the sand". The West might not remember, but for some in the region the resentment is so deep that even 100+ years later these arbitrary choices still have major consequences. *edit:* I found it! It's from Ben Anderson for VICE News, titled "Bulldozing the Border Between Iraq and Syria" and posted on August 13, 2014. Two mentions start at 2:50 in that video: "We don't believe in the Sykes-Picot agreement" and "We've broken Sykes-Picot" as they bulldoze the border (not _exactly_ what I remembered, but same idea).
the craziest part about isis is, their leader was kicked out of al qaeda for being too barbaric. i think it’s important to learn about how the boarders were drawn because a lot of it was just stupid. a lot of people in that area are still in their own tribes rather than being under a national identity. i think there are tribes in the hindu kush between afganistan and pakistan, they dont recognize themselves as being afgani or pakistani, they’re just part of their tribe. that’s just one i know of but that’s how it is for a lot of groups of people. there are tribes like that in the amazon too.
I hope you don't think the British drew the borders by accident? Wherever an Englishman touches, expect trouble! Peace will not come until the Anglo-Saxons are expelled from Eurasia.I hope you don't think the British drew the borders by accident? Wherever an Englishman touches, expect trouble! Peace will not come until the Anglo-Saxons are expelled from Eurasia.
No you see that is what you call a scape goat. Some radicals called ISIS who killed mostly fellow Muslims used that as an excuse for their slaughter. Men who flat out stated they goals were to kill every non Muslim, and rule the world no less. No, the Middle East, Africa, and other countries are using history as an excuse for their own behavior. Why is the Falklands better off than Argentina? Why are so many ex colonies sometimes worse? People need to take responsibility for what they do TODAY, and work for a better tomorrow. Yet they don't... They steal, rape, and kill each other. Look at Africa now? Many Muslims are killing non Muslims or were. Some cultures are just worse off. Anyone who thinks the Ottoman Empire was somehow peaceful is insane too. They slaughtered and converted everything that didn't fight back. Some cultures are just more violent. What is even extra silly about the Middle East is that they should be the happiest, and richest mofos in the planet due to wealth from fossil fuels.
I am blown away by the quality of this mini documentary. It’s amazing how much valuable information is weaved together in just over 37 minutes under a coherent narrative without overwhelming the audience with details. Respect!
Ve bu karmakarışık toprakları 400 yıl kadar bir süre karmaşadan uzak bir şekilde yönetebilen Türkler de büyük saygıyı hak ediyor. İngilizler gittikleri her coğrafyayı mahvettiler.
Many areas around world have awkward borders. Only one area has Islamic controlled states. 90% of wars today evolve Muslims. Islam is not compatible with democracy or civilized societies. It never will be.
I learned more about the history of the Middle East in this single 37-minute video than I did in all my years at school! Crazy how easy this actually is to learn and understand once you include visuals alongside the words.
The most important thing is to learn Islam and not to learn the politics of people who follow the devil and want money and power and spread weapons on the poor and weak of faith and spread debauchery and corruption looting
Wait, you mean to tell me that the conflicts of middle east, an ancient land with a long history with many different ethnicities, nationalisties, religions, is more complicated than simply saying that USA is responsible for it? Imagine my shock.
@@osheridan not really, not in the big picture, middle eastern nations always tried to destabilize others(saudi vs yemen war as a small and cute example), but nice try regurgitating the same old delusional narrative to avoid saying that its basically has been the norm in middle eastern countries for over a thousand years if not much more.
Depends on your definition of "responsible" .. They've certainly messed up the region with their Alliances, political maneuvering and outright invasion(S) plural.
As a person who lives in the Middle-East, this is very reassuring! In all seriousness though, politics here are so confusing that even though I've been living here my entire life, I still didn't fully understand it so thanks for the video!
Especially after another conflict is on the horizon between Serbia and the partialy recognized state of Kosovo. And this potential conflict could also influence the much larger conflict in Ukraine given the parties involved - Russia (supporting Serbia) and NATO (supporting Kosovo). And for one Vladimir Putin a distraction for NATO in the Balkans would be perfect as NATO may divert weapons from Ukraine to Kosovo if the conflict there escalates
@@ivaneurope dobra poenta, obrnuto je isto moguce - ukoliko NATOu zafali sredstava, ljudstva i municije, mozda ce ih preusmeriti ka Ukrajini, ili se cak potpuno povuci sa Kosova ukoliko shvate da trace resurse tamo kao sto su se povukli iz Avganistana (mada sumnjam da ce se to dogoditi jer imaju vec dobro ustanovljeno uporiste i vojnu bazu Bondstil)
been travelling the Balkans for a couple months now. been to a bunch of museums and yours, learned a ton. you can learn so much but still there's yet so much you don't know
Italy did not get the Dodecanese (the islands in the video) from the treaty of Sevres, it got them in the Italo-Turkish war of 1911. What Italy was supposed to get was part of southwestern Anatolia, but it ended up making a deal with Turkey who recognised Italian sovereignty over the Dodecanese in exchange for Italy withdrawing its claim on southwestern Anatolia, which went through and then Italy started to sell Turkey weapons which they needed to fight the British, French and Greeks
They were angry that UK decided to give İzmir to Greece, which was actually promised to be in the İtalian zone. British did so thus they could use and greatly support Greece to indirectly fight the Turkish nationalist govt.
Imagine: (how history would be different) All nations agree to not sell guns All nations agree to respect intellectual property All people agree to settle things peacefully
As empires carved up territories, they didn't just split the land; they fragmented cultures, histories, and the lives of countless families, friends, and neighbors. This division sowed chaos and destruction beyond their borders, all in pursuit of influence and economic gain. A pattern that continues to this day.
Very true ...but it is sad despite of knowing history we still chose to live in the chaos than in peace. They can become a single country and accept all ethnicities. But know each ethnicity want to eradicate the other. And you have a handful of then in the region. Ottoman empire had all cultures and ethnicities to flourish....atleast even if you arenot allowed into the palace. Atleast they were part of the empire. Cant middle east bece a place where all the ethnic values survive. They all originated in the same land so they should.learn to coexist.
They should have formed borders by mutual agreement, like they did in India with Pakistan. India and Pakistan don't have any border disputes, just nuclear wars, which is far better. (OK, there was one border dispute between East Pakistan and West Pakistan, but that's been settled.) (OK, there is still a problem with Kashmir and China and Nepal, etc..)
Yeah, like there was never wars before that?? It's not the empires that pick the lines - it's local chiefs that see the opportunity to finaly overpower their neighbours WITH THE HELP of the empires. It has always been that way.
I would argue that the partitions were not even based on the Ottoman provinces. Even if you look at the map you see they are not. France and the UK negotiated and picked a border between each other. From there, Britain basically took the region with oil for themselves and said the rest would become autonomous (because they were mostly deserts to them anyway). France took all the important cities in its region and left the rest to become autonomous.
@@dunnowhattoputhere7742 this happened after WW1 and oil was discovered and used at that point. I am not claiming that oil was found in current day Iraq and Kuwait at that point but it was discovered in that region (persian gulf) so obviously there was a high chance of finding oil in the surrounding areas.
Honestly the "Random Lines in the Sand" argument always looks weird when applied to this area, and especially in this video. The various lines things are supposed to be based on and the lines themselves don't match. There are places in Africa where the problem is much much worse, and the original plan even had a Kurdish state in it.
thank you so much for the detailed demonstration. This should be one of the most informative videos I have seen of this topic. Highly appreciate the effort.
@@XY-uc1twand who did Ottomans take it from? Was it empty? Or the people told them “come here take our land and rule us”? It’s so funny Mongolians claiming the land they invaded and they never belonged to as their “homeland”.
😂😂😂😂 their life is very easy if they actually follow the Quran like they say they do....they are so filled with Negativity they cant even tell you exactly what they are mad about
@@theoriginaltroll388 well, which way of quran? Our way is the best you have to die! they are all muslims but kill each other for minimal differencies.
As someone from South American, specifically from Paraguay. It's amazing how ignorant we are related to Middle East and islamic story. In schools youngsters learn about american history, the history of our country ( from the prehistory to the last dictatorship era "1989") and some of european history. So after this extensive introduction, all I wanted to say it's thanks to this video I have learnt more from this region's history than in my entire school years. 😮
So sad to hear that , middle east has rich history with sad parts like siege of baghdad all the way to happy parts like the golden age of babylon , persia and Abbasids and if you love religion then all three Abrahamic religions originated there.
In American schools They only learn french and UK and US history together that's the only European parts even though they don't tell them the fact that indian Americans and African Americans are the only natives Americans and the others where just English Scottish Irish Australian and Dutch and french coumminty who came to the US land And they learn the Soviet union Russian history which is not Europe
@@meralEdwtDawlatly Uh, African Americans are in no way shape or form "native" to what can be considered the US. Indigenous people were, but they were not the founders of the US either, but were prior owners before being conquered by US settlers.
You have provided one of THE most concise and ethno-graphically accurate depictions of both the static and dynamic socio/geo-political drivers in this tangled region! The mention of the adaptation of Sykes-Picot geopolitical borders from that of the Ottomans and the fact that the Ottoman's version had already disregarded the ethnic diversities in their calculations makes it so much more comprehendible to today's observer! Everyone uses something that's already there rather than taking the adequate time to put something together from scratch! Kudos to your good work!
As I always state: Anything called religion is superficial including abrahamic judaism/christianity/islam full of scam. Nothing surprising whole Europe, USA, Western world, Middle East and surrounding were and will always be forever real third world, the poorest nature in the world. Real Rich will never colonize other. Thus not a complete multiracial not multilingual never been living around the world all alone since childhood are just the same never evolved dumb apes stuck inside your tiny boxes your entire life and not learning from the past to evolve better. Indonesia was not, is not and will never be Islamic country. World map is inaccurate since Mercator projection 1569. In reality Indonesia is huge as Russia including our ocean and even much richer than the rest of the world. Even much bigger before West and Middle East came took our former Australia, Singapore, Malaysia+Brunei, South Thailand, The Philippines, Vietnam even Madagascar Africa. Actually countries in Europe are just regencies and provinces in Indonesia. And they're so amateurs because they're just very basic animals. Egypt isn't the oldest, even Egypt is very poor, very dry, far off the center of the Equator line. Most highest humidity on Earth: Indonesia, meaning many much older artifacts has decayed much faster than just few thousands years Egypt. And Judaism/Christianity/Islam are just the same dumb. Even most of people know nothing about much older ancient modern civilization here in Indonesia before mega eruption of Toba supervolcano of Sumatra 75,000 years ago. Including 25,000 years old Gunung Padang pyramid in Indonesia. Hindu isn't from India either. Original Hindu is Indonesia not in India. Hindu in India and in Bali are totally different Indus, Indo, Hindia, Hindu = Indus Islands = Indo Nesos = Indonesia. The same with Astrology came from Indonesia not by the Greeks, Egyptians nor Aramaic/Arabs/Jews. Judaism, Christianity and Islam are just frauds branches of modified Hinduism in India. Real Hindu came from Indonesia not India. Hindu, Hindia, Indus, Indo, etc = Indo Nesos, Indus islands, Indonesia over 17000 islands, exactly on the center of the equator line, the center of all civilization, all Indo around the world came from here especially because of eruption of Toba supervolcano Sumatra 75000 years ago bigger than Yellowstone USA, resulted today world's largest volcanic lake Toba Sumatra. Yet, world map is wrong since Mercator projection 1569, real Indonesia is Huge as Russia and even much richer than the rest of the world. Dutch VOC was much richer than any present day world's richest company. Whole Europe, USA, etc western world in general were built with Indonesia's limitless wealth. Coffee is native in Indonesia not brought by the Dutch. Too many lies they wrote about Indonesia even at formal school books! The fact is whole Europe, USA, western world in general has been built with Indonesia's limitless wealth for centuries long but mentally and intellectually they hasn't changed a bit. But inner the same mediaeval.
There's no way you believe in this bs just Google ottoman empire political divisions then you will know just how different those borders are from the modern borders.
This is a misinformation just Google ottoman empire political divisions than you will know just how different their borders are from the modern borders.
Google ottoman empire administrative divisions that's the actual borders. It looks nothing compare to the modern borders that's created by the British and french.
Oof. Mideast politics and history makes my head swim. I've taken a few good runs at it too. There's just SO much to keep track of. The backstories of the backstories have disputed backstories. Every twist another rabbit hole. Thanks for a great video. This was really concise.
Precisely. And I bet more than 80% of the people there who fuel the conflicts and wars, have as much if not less of an understanding of the whole thing, as you do. Tale as old as time, people fighting conflicts they neither fully understand nor fully support. Yet they die for it.
@@vffa it also doesnt help that a bunch of people are unemployed and have never known a stable and predictable life. people who have more to lose usually dont make rash decisions and throw their life away
Wow, this is incredible. You managed to fill in so many gaps in my knowledge about the region and its history. Growing up, you pick up all of these random factoids from news and school and various media, but never a more complete picture.
If you want to get a fuller picture, a youtuber called Jabzy has been doing a series on Middle Eastern history. At the minute he's covered the period from 1600 to 1800 during Ottoman 'rule' which maked the laat 70 years seem peaceful.
Yes Britain did make enormous mistakes viz India , Canada ,Australia , New Zealand & the USA . During ww2 Churchill had secret meetings with Hitler who in 1941 wanted a fair division of Europe ie Germany kept the East Britan the west , not having that said Churchill , would have been the formation of the E. U & saved many lives . Poor Afghanistan always a killing ground !
I need to just pause and say thank you. These conflicts have been so insane to try and piece together, and you do a wonderful job of re-contextualizing so many important facets of this global affair. Props to you man!
I was deployed to Iraq for a total of three years and I did spend a ton of time chatting with locals. This was by far the best summary of the instability in the region and why. Thank you for this information. 💜
boil it down modern arab nations have bad borders and those nations operate on a tribal basis usually with one or an alliance of them running the nation which means the tribes not in power are mistreated by those in power-stop imposing a rule of law by an outside power they implode esp when the nation has oil wealth to battle over
Yes. I don't regret spending time over there. @@Uneldo7 People are people, regardless of the country or culture. I can't explain it very well here. But the kids were happy, and the families worked hard to provide for their communities. But you could tell there was very deep-seated grudges across the country. Blood feuds. Lots of deep-seated anger as well. You could tell that atrocities were committed on both sides (Shia and Sunni) and the Kurds not even having a country to call their own. I don't agree with their views. But... I can't judge them. They are dealing with the hands they are dealt. I see deep seated blood feuds across Palestine and Israel. And it was further complicated by borders put down that made no sense. The women and children suffer, and the men think they are in the right. Wrong is wrong, and the people that commit the crimes should pay for them. That goes without being said. A bit of understanding could improve things though.
I learnt more about modern British history in this short video than I did with 8+ years of schooling (up to age 18, never studied it at uni) and I’m British. The sheer skew in favour of the Brits was astounding. Pretty sure one of my teacher’s was wistful when talking about how the British Empire used to encompass a quarter of the globe as if that was a good thing
as an Iranian we tell these stories about our current state constantly, and I'm so sick of it if after centuries we can't get our shit together and we are still struggling its on us, not on Brits or anyone else great video btw but we really need to take some responsibility for our current state
I think that's why the west has such a negative opinion of the governments of that area. Yes the brits f*cked you guys up, they f*cked most the world up. But countries such as Canada, NZ, and Australia are slowly starting to work the marginalized Native populations to try and find them more representing. Whilst the middle east seems happy to just shoot instead of talk. Still that being said sorry your in this situation and I hope you and your family stay safe.
@@Mcbignuts yes the sanctions are terribl, but in our schools, in our rallies, every year we shout out death to usa death to isreal and death to any other country that we dont like and our leaders would make speechs about how we like to completely destroy those countries and wipe them off the map not that i like usa or isreal but when you publicly announce you want death to a whole nation i expect nothing less than hostility from them the problem with sanctions are that they are hurting normal people much more than hurting those in charge
@@Mcbignutswhat about Iran’s terror proxies in Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Yemen and all over the Middle East? What about Iran’s funding of Hizbollah, Hamas and the Islamic Jihad. Iran has been contributing to the destabilization of the middle east for many years. It’s a shock to me that sanctions is the only measure being exacted against them.
@@MetalGear1 What's your definition of a "terror proxy"? Iran funds the legitimate Syrian government, it's the Saudis and even the US who funded Islamist terror groups against the government. Also you mention Hizbollah as if they weren't the ones who helped end the Israeli occupation of Lebanese territory.
Just pointing out that the majority of the territory of the ottoman empire was composed by mixed ethnicities and religions even within the cities itself, making impossible to divide 100% of this land in any kind of boundaries that compose of an homogeneous country for each group. In any point in history, once the nationalism reached this area, this conflicts would emerge anyway regardless of what would be done and massive rearrangement of populations would happen the same way.
That's why ethnostates and theocracies are generally bad ideas that inherently oppress minorities within them. Honestly I like the idea of a secular, democratic Arab super state. It makes it less likely that Western powers can easily bully the fragmented region and take oil when they want. It also threatens Israel as a a British/American colony and military base in the region. Which is why the West would never allow it to happen
Thank you! Almost felt alone in realizing he's casually advocating for ethnostates as a solution which would be impossible anyway since all the groups dot the land. The whole video is bunk since it's his entire argument lol.
Of course, except for Iran, Iran is an old country, Iranian nationalism has existed throughout the history of Iran, between all Iranian people and Iranian governments, even all borders of current Iran are old, for example, the western border of Iran. with the current countries of Türkiye and Iraq. In 1639, it was accepted in the Treaty of Zahab with the Ottoman Caliphate, when Iran ceded its old lands, that is, a large part of Iraq and its Kurdistan and Turkish Kurdistan, this border is the oldest remaining border of the Asian and African So don't confuse Iran with the others, Iran, with all its diversity, its people live together without any problems .Iran is the most real country in the region
One point about the Sykes and Pico borders. They used the same reasoning of the Ottoman Empire. A region in conflict with itself can never be at war with the overlords.
Where do you find out about that? It's presented here as "they just plagiarized the Ottomans", but I'm willing to consider that it might be a fair bit more complicated.
It seems that you underestimated the Colonial Empires, masters of divide and conquer. These lines were not made by accident; they were specifically designed to breed perpetual conflict, ensuring that struggling regions never rose up to compete with their empire.
This video is a ray of light in a dark, confusing world. Thanks for laying out the occurrences and drawing connections objectively. You did a great job with this!
As I always state: Anything called religion is superficial including abrahamic judaism/christianity/islam full of scam. Nothing surprising whole Europe, USA, Western world, Middle East and surrounding were and will always be forever real third world, the poorest nature in the world. Real Rich will never colonize other. Thus not a complete multiracial not multilingual never been living around the world all alone since childhood are just the same never evolved dumb apes stuck inside your tiny boxes your entire life and not learning from the past to evolve better. Indonesia was not, is not and will never be Islamic country. World map is inaccurate since Mercator projection 1569. In reality Indonesia is huge as Russia including our ocean and even much richer than the rest of the world. Even much bigger before West and Middle East came took our former Australia, Singapore, Malaysia+Brunei, South Thailand, The Philippines, Vietnam even Madagascar Africa. Actually countries in Europe are just regencies and provinces in Indonesia. And they're so amateurs because they're just very basic animals. Egypt isn't the oldest, even Egypt is very poor, very dry, far off the center of the Equator line. Most highest humidity on Earth: Indonesia, meaning many much older artifacts has decayed much faster than just few thousands years Egypt. And Judaism/Christianity/Islam are just the same dumb. Even most of people know nothing about much older ancient modern civilization here in Indonesia before mega eruption of Toba supervolcano of Sumatra 75,000 years ago. Including 25,000 years old Gunung Padang pyramid in Indonesia. Hindu isn't from India either. Original Hindu is Indonesia not in India. Hindu in India and in Bali are totally different Indus, Indo, Hindia, Hindu = Indus Islands = Indo Nesos = Indonesia. The same with Astrology came from Indonesia not by the Greeks, Egyptians nor Aramaic/Arabs/Jews. Judaism, Christianity and Islam are just frauds branches of modified Hinduism in India. Real Hindu came from Indonesia not India. Hindu, Hindia, Indus, Indo, etc = Indo Nesos, Indus islands, Indonesia over 17000 islands, exactly on the center of the equator line, the center of all civilization, all Indo around the world came from here especially because of eruption of Toba supervolcano Sumatra 75000 years ago bigger than Yellowstone USA, resulted today world's largest volcanic lake Toba Sumatra. Yet, world map is wrong since Mercator projection 1569, real Indonesia is Huge as Russia and even much richer than the rest of the world. Dutch VOC was much richer than any present day world's richest company. Whole Europe, USA, etc western world in general were built with Indonesia's limitless wealth. Coffee is native in Indonesia not brought by the Dutch. Too many lies they wrote about Indonesia even at formal school books! The fact is whole Europe, USA, western world in general has been built with Indonesia's limitless wealth for centuries long but mentally and intellectually they hasn't changed a bit. But inner the same mediaeval.
Shutting down the Suez Canal for 8 years is a key detail thats never mentioned during any talks/discussions of the 6-Day War (I wonder how many history books go into details about it, And the impact of it? ). Even in this video he mentions it quickly, but this video is about the whole region and goes over years of history & major events in the region, not about the 6-Day War (plenty other videos on that). That 8 year closure of the Canal impacted economies among many other things for countries in the region and worldwide.
15:50 The British didn't create a Jewish state. The Jewish people did. Britain had no ties to this land, and both Jews and Muslim wanted them to get out.
People who didn't watch the video or read the title will claim he "predicted" the war in Israel 3 months early, when he explains how its been non-stop war for like 5000 years there in this very video
He didn't predict it true , not when the specific "war" happening right now has been happening for decades. Also war is generous if you factually talk about what's going on. Mass extinction of a countrys people is more accurate.
@@Moody.Smiruaiyou’re right, it’s hard to call it a war when a terrorist organization attacks a more militarily advanced country to put its citizens, that appointed that terrorist organization as its government, at risk while it hides away in tunnels. Also, not sure you know what mass extinction is. You should go back to your history books
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The lasting conflicts are caused by the socialists. Arguments that the present borders are somehow "wrong" and that the socialists ought to redraw them through violence is a common Left fascist refrain.
Same is true in most of Africa. A lot of people keep asking why Africa is still so unstable despite most of the countries being independent for many decades now. Well, this video explains it quite well. Most African nations are completely arbitrary and direct results of colonial partitioning with incredible conflict potential in terms of resource and ethnic distribution.
It frustrates me how so many people blame Europeans for creating ethnically/religiously diverse states in the Middle East and Africa while simultaneously arguing that European countries should embrace ethnic and religious diversity in their own countries.
@nicolasleroux5302 I personally don't think that. I think France should leave west Africa alone and kick out those illegal immigrants in their country and also remove those blecks from their world cup team. 😁
@@nicolasleroux5302hey’re entirely different situations. One is a diverse set of countries because the current borders make no fucking sense and toss various native groups and ethnicities together based on how European colonizers wanted to sort out resources they extracted ie Zambia cobalt Ivory Coast chocolate. Western European countries generally have borders which make sense. Some regions close to borders like that if France and Germany have had push and pull over time and have a mix of speakers of both languages on them. Spain has the overwhelming majority of Europe’s Spanish people, same for Netherlands and Dutch, Portugal and Portuguese, Romania and Romanians, Norway and Norwegian, you get the idea. There are some mixed language countries like Belgium and Switzerland, but in many ways they have a history of being some sort of negotiator state (Swiss banks, Belgium EU facilities), so it works out. The instances of major conflict from ethnic/oppressed minorities in these areas like Irelands and Catalonia you could count on one hand and in present time they’re doing quite well for themselves. Nobody is forcing these countries to accept immigrants, they do it themselves. Skilled workers from around the world bring in good experience and taxpaying income, bring new perspectives language culture foods etc, and help to soften the blow of native population decline. Those that don’t want as many immigrants (don’t get it twisted every wealthy country in the world brings in some amount of immigrants) simply don’t have as many like Norway. But once the immigrant are in the country what the hell are you gonna do, totally ignore the culture they bring in by putting them in ethnic minority zones or forcefully assimilating them or both? That’s how you get conflict and issues, like Sweden. Countries around the world that do immigration well integrate the population and cultures like Canada Furthermore, you shouldn’t be assuming the people upset about African borders are the same people who encourage more diversity in x European country as an outsider. And to say it’s some unquantifiable “many people”, relax
Britain banned most Jewish immigration into Palestìne mandate prior to WW2. Not one mention of Jews forced out arab countries after Israel's birth who are now the majority. 6 day war caused by Nasser's closing of Tiran strait.
Jews were forced out of Muslim countries .Not only from Muslim countries .Muslims created problems in secular countries.I know it .Recently one jewish women came to my state to worship their temple for last time.she is allowed because of some local muslims and politicians also stood with muslims because they are 35% of population and big vote share
From other documentaries regarding muslim Israelis, it was the surrounding Arab countries that told those in Israel to leave..only to seize those lands, countries like Lebanon and Jordan, those that refused and stayed where they lived were rolled into Israeli territory
6 day war started by Israel, against the advise of the US who concluded there was no intent from any surrounding Arab countries to attack (a conclusion agreed with by Israel's then Defence Minister). And after several provocations by Israel against Jordan and Syria in the preceding months to force Egypt to act in some way (which it did, with a performative movement of troops and closing of the strait). Hence why global consensus (exempting you) is that Israel started the war and must withdraw from territories it occupied during it.
Being a Syrian myself, there's a major factor (probably the most important) that is quickly glossed over. And that is just the culture itself. People of different sects or religions or even ethnicities ending up in one country is hardly what breaks the camel's back. After all, most countries have such if not bigger population differences. The culture has been dominated by a rigid Islamic hierarchy for a 1000 years. This meant that there are no traditions of social cohesion or nationhood, let alone democracy or even equality before the law or unbiased objective rights. The only country with a strong sense of nationhood is Egypt because of their long history, but especially in the 19th century with Muhammad Ali Pasha modernisation Egypt and pulling its identity away from the Ottomans. If Sykes and Pico never happened but instead the Ottomans just disappeared, I guarantee you that the region will still find ways to start conflicts with itself. That's basically the history of the past 1000 years when no overarching empire is controlling the whole region.
Hey mate as a fellow person with Syrian origin I personally find it infuriating how he always shows the golan heights as part of Israel. I’m just wondering how you’re feeling
@@mario-obeid Honestly, couldn't care less. Israel has been occupying the Golan for 60 years now. There were times in the mid-2000s where some degree of border crossing was allowed from the Golan, and a lot of their apples and fruits were imported. However the people there weren't really big on going back to Syria. The main job of any government is to allow its people to live the best lives they can. This usually involves reducing conflicts to a bare minimum. Clearly Syria missed the memo on that.
@@darthcalanil5333 how did Syria not get the memo? I mean Syria was “relatively peaceful”and stable before the war and the war was and is still being prolonged by outside forces even now the west still tries to prolong the war with sanctions and Americans will keep doing that it’s sad. I mean Syrians have very little access to anything nowadays and how can you blame that on the government I mean no mater on what side you are on the government won and it’s time to rebuild that’s the “natural order” of things no one wants to fight anymore but the us and it’s allies are in control of most of the Syrian oil and imposing crippling sanctions
Culture and religion are ethnicity. The definition of ethnicity is "shared cultural background." Ethnicity is the clothes you grew up wearing, the sports you played, the books you read, what days of the week you had off, what language you spoke, etc.
Extremely disturbed by the reality we’re facing today. My family are Jews who came from two corners of the Ottoman Empire, one Balkan and the other Syria and Iraq. The fall of the empire and rise of colonialism, nazism, zionism, and Arab nationalism made it pretty impossible for them to exist where they had for generations, whether they wanted to leave, were religious, weee nationalists, or Zionists. Here I am two generations later, I’ve lost family and friends to this endless conflict, I’m not religious but had to unlearn so much racism nationalism and hate mongering and understand that me and my families existence is at the whim of layers of interest local and foreign, who only care if we survive for demographic purposes and shame us for not fighting to the death to defend something that wasn’t our choice to create.
I think I learned more in this 30+ mins than 5 years of polotical science. Respect to you for encompassing all the conflicts & battles from the past to modern era in a single video.
@@skippedbail And many other lands and countries, like Ethiopia which is Christian majority, the map is not based on Muslim majority lands or countries, but the lands that these jihadist and extremist Muslims believe are the rightful and historical lands of Muslims, which is basically almost any lands and countris that was under rule of Muslims at some point in history.
@@skippedbail There are plenty of Muslims there, around 200 million (Even though the majority are Hindus). And I think he was just highlighting the population of Muslims around the world, otherwise he wouldn't have included the Uyghurs of China.
As a middle eastern, i appreciate informative videos like this that have no bias. The rest of the world views us in a hostile way and what they teach us where i live is always the glorified and sugarcoated part of history (aka lies) so objective telling of events is always helpful and appreciated.
As an American, I got no problem with you folks. I am pissed that we went to war for 20yrs there didn't do much but hurt you guys then Biden pulled all our troops out just like that... what was it all for?
@@rbanerjee605 well i’m omani so they teach us that the omanis went to zanzibar and they spread islam there which made it a better place and that we helped their economy and so on. But they fail to mention that they also took their homes and enslaved them
I am from Oman , there is no war here :) at least for 50 years now. They call us the Switzerland of the Middle East.. maybe because we act as mediators between the Arab countries/ US / Iran... " neutrality" is one word to describe the foreign policy of Oman.
remember 3 weeks ago? your pathetic sultan came to Iran and became Khameneii's personal lap dog? you chose side, to be with Terrorist Ayatollahs and be against Iranian people
It's very interesting that the US (or English speaking countries) call that region Middle East, in German language it is seen as Near East, the Middle East is seen as the region between Afghanistan and Bangladesh.
weird, in French the Near East is only those countries on the Mediterranean coast + Jordan, with the Middle East extending from Irak to Pakistan do we all have a different idea of how it works?
@@yjlom I think when you just look at the Eastern world in general, which is quite agreed upon that it includes Asia and Oceania, and then dividing it into three parts (i.e. near, middle, far) then it makes sense that Eastern Asia is the "far" part, Western Asia is the "near" part and the middle is the middle part.
@@johnhblaubachea5156 how incorrect is it tho? It's in the middle of the east, and connects the old world (Africa, Europe and Asia) also in Spanish we call it the "Medio Oriente" Medio being middle and Oriente being another world for east so if it changed in English cuz of USA then it was because of Hispanic influence prob
I return to this video because of the actual situation in Jemen. It‘s because this video explains every conflict in the middle east. The content of knowledge in this video is very big.
Are you crazy? How were you able to fit such an informative mini-doc into a sub-40 minute video whilst presenting it in a refreshingly unbiased light? Let this man cook! Netflix sign him!
Being Kuwaiti myself, you don’t know how happy I am to have my country, history, culture, and general region explained so beautifully and in depth, I’d like to think I have a good grasp of the history of my area, but I realize there’s so many details from differing viewpoints that change the perception of things. Hopefully we can all learn from the past for a better future.
@@tughluq8324this comment shows us why we can't have nice things. How could you possible say that after watching this vid. The entire region is thrown into chaos, human rights violations and numerous wars because of the colonial past & chauvinism as well as religious intolerance. Gosh.
@@Dungeonus No the only thing quwait has is a king and his fellows draining all the resources. Nothing else, dont think that can be deemed as a nice thing. Really dont get how you can act like citizens have all the human rights and have a say in the nation.
@@HasanBeefAbiLebanon literally started shooting rockets at Israel on October 8th for almost a year before Israel properly defended themselves. What are you talking about?
@@JohnTheStun somehow both (1) the literal meaning of any country neighboring the terror state that is Israel scene the 1940s having the right to defend itself and (2) the satirical joke of Israel always claiming that it has the right to defend itself while they themselves are the aggressors both flew over your head😂
@@HasanBeefAbi That’s a lot of text without any counter arguments lol Lebanon started the war on October 8th when they started shooting rockets at Israel. And now they FO 🫶🇮🇱
@puckered6036 maybe yours was...Everything in this video I learned in high school reading books but not all schools are equal so your expirence might be different
*looks at tension between christians and muslims*. *looks at both WW* , *looks at the french revolution* , *looks at communism* , *looks at the industrial revolution* , *looks at the implementation of the scientific method* , *looks at the humanism movement* , etc ... yeah, more than anything else... not really.
Why is it taking them so long? Why are they worse than every other place in the world? I wonder if there's one common thing countries in the middle east share that make them like this.
I think the fundamental answer is quite easy: it's the epicenter of our ancient world. Meaning that cultures, rulers, and civilizations fight for their place for a long time. And amplified by the minimal resources.
Having followed the Middle East as an amateur geopolitician for over 4 decades, this is a great wrapup of exactly what has gone on there and what has led to the current conflicts today. I’m also in agreement with you, that this will be a forever war region. There will always be conflict here.
@@PlatonicHesaf Nope. No one was genociding them or anything... Why would they move from their home in the millions, so much that would make them a minority from majority? Say something that makes sense.
@@ChinnuWoW Oh definitely, channel has lots of subs; however, stuff like this isn't the "authoritative news source" (read: corporate news network with a bias I don't agree with) that UA-cam patently signal boosts. If they left it to pure, unfettered meritocracy-- channels like this would blow the corporations out of the water.
@@Amaling Would help, but as history of the region has shown, war and conflict will prevail, especially when there's groups internally trying to weaken their neighbours and conquer, both territorially and religiously, the entire region. It's just days of old in modern times.
Won't happen any time soon. I've seen enough here to tell you, there are deep rooted issues that go so deep it would take total wipeout of all governmental bodies, tradition and religious ideologies to truly restart, in each of these elements there's always an abuser and a power seeker, its a non ending cycle. Maybe it'll heal in time, but i know it wont, propaganda spreads like fire in a dried wheat field here, people are far less educated on modern topics and foreign respect at minimum or the use of critical thinking, funny.. when we're known for our hospitability, not anymore. I'll just fuck off out of this wasteland eventually, it can burn down and i wouldn't care anymore, but not at a full loss, i still admire my Bedouin bloodline's ideologies of kindness and unity, that i will carry with me at least.
Well, you've convinced me to join Nebula. This video has been one of the clearest explanations about "how we all got into this mess" in the Middle East that I've read, and I've been trying to understand this my entire 72 year old life. I look forward to watching Part 2.
I have to say as informative as this video is, still, the history and politics of the Middle East are too complex. The wars and conflicts are multi-faceted. It's not _that_ easy to just blame the borders. It saddens me that the situation is like that, and even more with living here and not actually being part of a war-torn region, the fact that war and conflict is associated so deeply with the Middle East is extremely unfortunate. The glorious civilizations, the majestic history, the simple and welcoming people, everything nice here could be dismissed because of these horrible events. Yet, I do see light at the end of the tunnel, I feel like newer generations are more of dreamers willing to move towards the best. Having come from different backgrounds and even going through the worst to know not to re-make those same mistakes, they're hoping for a better future. It's unknown and scary but the opportunistic future might be at sight.
It seems to be a trend lately to blame modern conflicts on borders in the Middle East and Africa because they didn't account for ethnic backgrounds... ironically advocating for a homogenous ethnic states. Right from the start of this video it's wrong. the conclusion is flawed because under Ottoman rule there were no borders drawn around ethnic groups either.
It’s interesting we think of the Middle East as a “war torn” region, but it was only about 75 years ago that Europeans were constantly fucking eachother up and drawing everyone into it. A peaceful mostly unified Europe is kind of a new thing. I’m not trying to oversimplify here, just something I was thinking about.
@@eeyun5279 sure, a peaceful Europe is sth that emerged 70 years ago. But to be fair, western europe in the 19th century had already achieved political stability, the problematic region remained eastern Europe ( it actually remains problematic until our days), and that was largely due to Germany and Russia agressive international politics.
This video provides an accurate snd surprisingly unbiased summary of events that are germane to the borders, succession of regimes, wars, oil concerns, and geopolitical situations in the middle east. Every aspect of this region is as complex as a Rubic's Cube, and from my own experience, requires a great deal of research to understand. It is also noteworthy that the data was presented as a coherent series of steps. I watch all of the videos on this channel, and the videos are usually very good. However, I feel that this video rises above!
Ok i think there is a little bias when talking about the partition plan of israel, the palistinian yes had only 32% of the land, but it was the most fertile, the most populated, the riches, at that point, and most of the land was in the desert.
@Nathan-hw7fg I picked up on that as well, and thank you for writing back. Of course, you already know what follows, but I am going to type it out for other readers. In addition to what you said, the authors of the partition plan knew that there would be at least a million Holocaust survivors arriving in Israel within a year, severely altering the population ratio. IIRC, the land split was suggested to be close to 46% Arab/54% Jewish, with the Arabs getting the Galilee and much of the Coastal Plain, which was the vast majority of the arable land. There is a difference between land ownership and sovereignty. Any Arabs who *actually* owned land in what became Israel would still have owned that land, had they not immediately conducted an armed invasion of a recognized nation. As it is, most of the Arabs who could *produce documents* that proved ownership were compensated. However, the odd land ownership laws in Ottoman Palestine, which the British accepted as-is, were a major problem for most of the Arab fellahin, who were operating their farms on what was the equivalent of a lease. Pursuant to WW1, the actual land owners all of whom lived primarily in Syria and Lebanon, experienced difficulties in collecting their lease payments, so after 29 years (1947) of non-payment, it is understandable that the fellahin developed the idea that they actually owned the land. After that land was passed to their offspring, the idea that the land belonged to them. This also happened with buildings in the cities, and there were other complex arrangements that obfuscated the issue of who owned the land. I didn't call out this oversight in the video, because the issue is complex, and I didn't want to spend the time to write it out. Indeed, there is much more that I haven't covered here.
Another small detail that I see so many history channels get wrong is using the word "Palestine" and "Palestinians" when these words did not exist until around the end of the 1950s (a day decade after Israel's declaration of independence). The area was always called Palestina and the people of the area were just called Arabs (since they didn't belong to any nation - they were simply part of empires or the British mandate). They were just locals with no proper name at the time. So technically the Israeli-Palestinian conflict began after the founding of Israel because Palestinians didn't exist prior. I find this detail important because it changes a huge perspective - the local people to the area were not part of a nation; they were just there. They had no say in any decision because they had no governance, meaning whatever the last governing body (Britain) had full authority to decide whatever the fk they wanted with no opposition, making the Jews of the area (that were also nationless) completely at the mercy of the British and their independence and founding of Israel, including the charted borders was not their fault; it was all Britain. Semantics in these kinds of discussions are extremely important because it changes the whole dynamic. If Palestinians exist, it means that moving them is basically an act of war by whoever takes their place, completely changing the narrative resulting in false propaganda for many decades to come. Notes: Europe and the US supported Israel's side of the conflict until 1967 (after the six day war) where suddenly Israel looked strong and this did not generate any sympathy anymore. In Christianity there is an idea of supporting the weak and culturally it still exists today for most ("the meek shall inherit the earth"). The media almost immediately shifted and ever since the world has been mostly anti-Israel in sentiment because it is strong and it goes against the weak (despite 100% of active events happening due to a trigger or proactivity against future conflict - finding weapon bunkers or past terrorists). It's clear whose side I'm on but I have a lot to say on the subject and many small details are the reason for this ideological conflict in the first place, not even mentioning the ethical debates surrounding the general cases of the conflict. I'm not a Zionist and I dislike Zionism and people who defend Israel on those grounds are doing it more harm than good imo. It's the ethical case of property rights where a generation gap between thief and owner needs to be reconciled in court with the new owner, the 3rd party. If I steal your wallet and sell it to a stranger, is that stranger now obligated to give you your wallet back despite being an honest procurer of the wallet? This is at the heart of why I dislike Zionist approach to Israel's justification as a nation because it treats the original owner of the wallet as the absolute owner regardless of how many hands pass it along and in what way. I think owning something 2,000 years ago by your great, great, great,...great grandparents as justification is absolutely absurd.
17:07 I just want to note that it was split this way partly because most of the Negev (the green areas at the bottom of the map) were undeveloped, and nearly no one lived there. thats all I wanted to say
Yeah, even if the Jewish state had more land in theory, the Arab state had more of the actually developed land. Which makes sense. The Jews actually had the irrigation tech to farm in the Negev, something the Arabs lacked.
The ratio does not matter, because the absolute truth is that all this land belongs to the Palestinians. Why should a group of unwanted Jews from their original homelands even share it with them?
@@ShnoogleMan It's not in 'theory', it's factual that the European Jews got most of the land in Palestine even though the indigenous Palestinian Arabs made up the majority of the population in Palestine.
I like how Oman, during all the conflicts around them, was (as far as I know) mostly neutral and peaceful as they just chilled in their corner of Arabia
Because the sultanate of Oman was independent at the time of the ottomans , significantly lost a lot of land but did not made a fuzz about it ( Zanzibar , UAE , Madagascar, Suqatra …. Etc ) but basically remained the same under the same rule .
they’re not neutral and peaceful. theres multiple evidence of them aiding and supporting terror ist organizations like houthis (they were caught smuggling weapons from their border to yemen) and having a relationship with israel. they’re just secretive and discrete about it
@@GhaynY are you actually joking or are you dumb? the amount of death does not change that israel is winning, israel was surprised for longer than it should but that does not change anything
As someone who lived and still lives in this region, this is nicely done. those war memories never left me. just now i head loud noise outside and my brain is ready to take cover in case it's a bomb. what a sad reality we live in
I am humbled by how complex this history is. Now I am quite hesitant to say anything about the ongoing conflicts in the Middle East. Rather I will pray more often.
lesson: never let the British draw borders
or never get colonized by Western Europe (unless it's Netherlands)
I mean, it was the Turks getting anal about ceding their eastern territories to an independent Armenia and Kurdistan that resulted in that half of Turkey being a complete mess today, and made the ethnic tensions in the rest of the Middle East much worse. Had Armenia and Kurdistan been formed, then the Kurds and Armenians that ended up in modern Iraq and Syria would at least have a place to move to instead of being forced to fight for independence, like how Jews and Christians rapidly concentrated in Israel after WWII.
You could argue the British should've tried harder to force the Turkish government to agree to their original plan, but that would've likely just resulted in Turkey being even more expansionist and likely turning out as a Soviet rather than NATO ally. Those tensions would've existed regardless of British intervention too: it's not like the Turks suddenly did a 180 on their tolerance of minorities only after the Ottoman Empire fell.
@@theblindwall3207 that's actually not true the Muslims ottomans never have a major massacre event until the western influence nationalistic young Turks rebel against the sultan and expelled the sultan into exile while installed the puppet sultan so that the nationalist western influence young Turks have powers and they become nationalistic and massacre all of the Armenians plus there's no major war in the middle east ever since the ottomans rule the middle east, they didn't divide them if they do there'll be a lot of war in there but no there's no war same with the balkans the fact that there's still a lot of Europeans after the first Balkan war just show that the ottomans didn't massacre them same with middle east, while we massacre a lot of native Americans so much that we never see them ever again same with Africans, Oceania, Asia, etc, and also we shouldn't ignore the religious thirty years war and major wars in Europe including WW2 and even today in France there's a lot of protest and riots everywhere.
@@dindin8753 your informations are wrong, please read more about them and you will find what they truly were
@@theblindwall3207 I have read a lot about it since I'm a history nerd I'm sorry if I hurt your feeling by saying the truth but truth don't care about your feeling.
If there’s one thing i have learned about Middle East throughout the years, it’s that Oman is always chilling in the corner amidst all the surrounding chaos.
How do you know that I am living there
@@LukHak-w8mthey know all
@@LukHak-w8mits simple! You’re the only one there
Aww that’s sweet 😅
I m living in Oman ...hope it will be also safe in future
I'm Syrian-Lebanese on my father's side, I remember first being told that we were Syrian, and then being told we were Lebanese, the answer kept changing depending on the family member I asked. I was very confused why there wasn't a consistent answer and would wonder "are we Lebanese or Syrian?".
As I got older and learned more about the Sykes-Picot borders I realized why the inconsistency was there and the answer to which heritage we were was "yes".
Syrian, Lebanese and Iraqi. You guys are one people and you needed to unite long time ago. For centuries all this land was Babylon and Assyria. Because of your ego you are
Divided and are a playground for Iran, Turkey, Israel and the west and russia.
Then again, it makes you wonder wether it even matters.
I mean, can you live without the knowledge what name to attach to your heritage?
If all of a sudden you were told "you are definitely Syrian" - does that change your position on someone who says they are Lebanese (assuming they have the same background)?
I think these heritage and origin and 'historical claim' things are stupid and overrated. It creates nothing but conflict.
We're you were born, that's where you are from. Nothing more, nothing less.
@@vffa you are a typical cosmopolite. Tell me are you supporter of LHBTIQ and BLM movements? Of course you are! You do not Veluwe the importance of culture and heritage. Just because you don’t know your origin, your gender and your religion, does not mean the rest of the world are wrong. For us this is important. Shame on you.
As a Lebanese-Syrian I have come to accept that we are one people and we should be united as one state. So yes Lebanon is Syria.
Edit: challenge: white people try not to seethe about an Arab man’s opinion on his own country (impossible) I as a citizen can have an opinion of my country. You all are Europeans and have nothing to do with us. Go fuck yourselves with Costco donuts or something idk what u fat Americans do
We're all human. Anything other than that exists solely to divide us. You can be proud of where you come from but that pride is often weaponized so it's best to leave that kind of stuff behind.
I like how we kinda just have Oman, Bahrain, Qatar and Kuwait chillin'.
kuwait wasnt really chillin'
@@quaintfalopa9724 Loll facts
Oman just minding its own business lmao
@@AsyncaQatar isn't so chill either, they just seem chill by comparison since they play both sides. Their state owned media company has been pretty buddy buddy with terrorist networks while also operating across the globe and they operate a lot like an antebellum south
Europeans just divided richer smaller parts to steal better. Kuwait for example was part of iraq and British kept control of it for Oil
I think the most concise way to convey the difficulties in the area are to overlay maps of geography, ethnicity, culture, historical claims, and natural resources. Doing this reveals there is no combination that doesn't leave a very large number of people very angry about something.
Exactly the same shit we saw with the wars in the balkans in the 90s. Kosovo, Bosnia etc All people there can lay "historic" claims to all those lands, because shit like ethnic cleansing etc was done by the Ottomans there too over the centuries.
I am convinced that if someone made a wish to solve every issue people have in the world. We would immediately start making up new issues.
then why do those western countries take refugees from middle east who first come in their countries then do a lot of crime, terror attacks and later start separatist movements?
then just restore the ottoman empire, if they can rule over that vast land over there,
then, just let them rule the whole clusterf*ck.
the war between them are there to stay
but at least they can be grouped into one single country,
and not dozen of country making mess around
And religious belief keeps the middle east at war.
It’s hard to believe they were all part of a single empire at one time or another. The Persian Empire, The Byzantine Empire, The Ottoman Empire.
that's kind of the point. the ME is such a patchwork of incredibly complex ethnicities and religious traditions that the European idea of a Nation state is anathema to that world. They function best as provinces under over all imperial rule where each are left to live their lives as they see fit. Nationalism is one of the worst ideas to come out of Europe, a place known for its bad ideas.
What nationalism does to a MF
You misspelled Eastern Roman Empire
@@jonjohns8145how is Europe a place of bad ideas?
@@jonjohns8145Europe has invented most things
If aliens land and tell humanity that Earth is their “protectorate” - the British have shown us what that means.
Chocolate rain
Dude the Aliens have allready sent one ship, they brought the religions in like a ruse for us to wipe each other out. I think they come from far away and the transport time is several thousand years so they try to wipe us out with a ruse.
(LoOoOoLLLlll)
@@Levo_D_Angelowtf
@@Levo_D_Angelo a physical virus would be much more efficient for your imaginary take, if philosophical creeds are you cup of tea, I'd say the aliens empowered the Europeans so these barbarians spread their poisonous ideals and demonic way of life, inhumane way of life, or else, how come such a boring region that even it's people hated with no resources become prominent? Alien help of course, they chose the most loser faction and gave them power so everyone becomes losers as well, that's how you destroy humanity, and would you look at that, extreme capitalism or extreme communism, Fascism, social degeneracy like public sex and same sex, animal sexual abuse, incest, and many demonic shit exported by the Europeans and the Europe 2.0 (USA)
Not saying British empire is innocent , but middelesterns have been cutting eachothers throats for religious and political purposes long before Britain even existed , just right after jesus dies, Christians are killed by Romans, jews are killed by Romans, then byzantean splits away becomes christian, and start fighting jews, jews killing christians , christians killing jews then Persians killing jews & christians, then the Arabs muslim killing and getting killed from jews christians and Persians 😂, then Arabs turn on them selves sunnis killing shiyates , then Turks appear killing all of those groups its just a huge mess where every single group is fighting the other 20 groups , when British came this place was already a mess
as someone from UAE im really greatful for these videos because they dont teach us history in school, instead we have a whole subject about how the emirates was united and literally no information about the other events that happened
One of the reasons why schools aren't needed anymore
انت اماراتي وتحاول تعرف تاريخك من قنوات اليوتيوب الاجنبية؟؟ الكلام المذكور في المقطع اغلبيته صحيحة لكن انت كإماراتي المفروض ماتاخذ الاجانب كمصدر تاريخي لك لانهم احيانا بيكونون متحيزين لمصالحهم وممكن يزورون التاريخ عشان يخفون جرائمهم ، المؤرخين العرب الموثوقين موجودين والمفروض تعرف تاريخك منهم مو من الاجانب
@@m_oqx Some people just understand it better in English, I know I do. I'm an Arab teenager but I grew up in Britain and am living in the Middle East now. Plus, it's quite boring listening in Arabic. Let them do what they want, it's awesome they're even interested.
@@hearts4dazaiii it doesn't matter if it's boring or not , if you're actually interested in learning your history then learn it the proper way not take it from foreign sources, foreign sources are not always correct and unbiased this video was good but it's not always like this
As a Syrian, it's nice to see this all explained objectively and with no bias. They did teach us some of this in school, but it had bias, and mainly focused on Syria. Keep it up RLL!
So sorry your are Syrian.
bias is only created by religious beliefs
@@sterlingmarshel6299I disagree. It's created by bias in other humans and a basic tendency of humans rather. Plus everyone experiencing different things also makes them all have positive and negative bias against things depending on their things they experienced. It's possible what was positive experience to some be negative to others.
This video has a strong western and imperialist bias.
@@MrCollinGabriel exactly 💯
People in the West aren't usually very familiar with the 1916 Sykes-Picot Agreement, but I remember being shocked at hearing it mentioned by some ISIS fighters during their period of territorial conquest (c. 2014). A bunch of them had just crossed from Iraq into Syria and one of them said something like "F- the Sykes-Picot Agreement, this is just a line they drew in the sand". The West might not remember, but for some in the region the resentment is so deep that even 100+ years later these arbitrary choices still have major consequences.
*edit:* I found it! It's from Ben Anderson for VICE News, titled "Bulldozing the Border Between Iraq and Syria" and posted on August 13, 2014. Two mentions start at 2:50 in that video: "We don't believe in the Sykes-Picot agreement" and "We've broken Sykes-Picot" as they bulldoze the border (not _exactly_ what I remembered, but same idea).
the craziest part about isis is, their leader was kicked out of al qaeda for being too barbaric. i think it’s important to learn about how the boarders were drawn because a lot of it was just stupid. a lot of people in that area are still in their own tribes rather than being under a national identity. i think there are tribes in the hindu kush between afganistan and pakistan, they dont recognize themselves as being afgani or pakistani, they’re just part of their tribe. that’s just one i know of but that’s how it is for a lot of groups of people. there are tribes like that in the amazon too.
I hope you don't think the British drew the borders by accident? Wherever an Englishman touches, expect trouble! Peace will not come until the Anglo-Saxons are expelled from Eurasia.I hope you don't think the British drew the borders by accident? Wherever an Englishman touches, expect trouble! Peace will not come until the Anglo-Saxons are expelled from Eurasia.
No you see that is what you call a scape goat. Some radicals called ISIS who killed mostly fellow Muslims used that as an excuse for their slaughter.
Men who flat out stated they goals were to kill every non Muslim, and rule the world no less.
No, the Middle East, Africa, and other countries are using history as an excuse for their own behavior.
Why is the Falklands better off than Argentina?
Why are so many ex colonies sometimes worse?
People need to take responsibility for what they do TODAY, and work for a better tomorrow. Yet they don't... They steal, rape, and kill each other.
Look at Africa now? Many Muslims are killing non Muslims or were.
Some cultures are just worse off. Anyone who thinks the Ottoman Empire was somehow peaceful is insane too. They slaughtered and converted everything that didn't fight back.
Some cultures are just more violent. What is even extra silly about the Middle East is that they should be the happiest, and richest mofos in the planet due to wealth from fossil fuels.
ISIS was a USA and Israel group dress in black @@syd5604
This region has been at war since modern humanity existed LMAO to say its new is EFFING hillarious
I am blown away by the quality of this mini documentary. It’s amazing how much valuable information is weaved together in just over 37 minutes under a coherent narrative without overwhelming the audience with details. Respect!
Ve bu karmakarışık toprakları 400 yıl kadar bir süre karmaşadan uzak bir şekilde yönetebilen Türkler de büyük saygıyı hak ediyor. İngilizler gittikleri her coğrafyayı mahvettiler.
Yeah to much information 😂
yeah my head was aching after the video.
Many areas around world have awkward borders. Only one area has Islamic controlled states. 90% of wars today evolve Muslims.
Islam is not compatible with democracy or civilized societies. It never will be.
he is not right,,, you may see my comment
None of this would have happened if the Ottomans had access to a 30 day free trial of Nebula.
I learned more about the history of the Middle East in this single 37-minute video than I did in all my years at school! Crazy how easy this actually is to learn and understand once you include visuals alongside the words.
School is BS.
Public schools are just a waste of time because the teachers don't want to be there. They don't give a fuck.
The most important thing is to learn Islam and not to learn the politics of people who follow the devil and want money and power and spread weapons on the poor and weak of faith and spread debauchery and corruption looting
Yea, everyone likes to bash on school. If this was in school you probably wouldnt even pay attention to it.
@@guus5504Maybe maybe not, but I can say 100% this was not taught to me in school… We were never taught why the Middle East is so war torn
Wait, you mean to tell me that the conflicts of middle east, an ancient land with a long history with many different ethnicities, nationalisties, religions, is more complicated than simply saying that USA is responsible for it? Imagine my shock.
The USA has played a major role in destabilising it further, but it's of course much more complex
Heck the US was late to the party.
@@osheridan not really, not in the big picture, middle eastern nations always tried to destabilize others(saudi vs yemen war as a small and cute example), but nice try regurgitating the same old delusional narrative to avoid saying that its basically has been the norm in middle eastern countries for over a thousand years if not much more.
Depends on your definition of "responsible" .. They've certainly messed up the region with their Alliances, political maneuvering and outright invasion(S) plural.
@@sabishiihito You can be late to the party and yet still rip shit up.
As a person who lives in the Middle-East, this is very reassuring! In all seriousness though, politics here are so confusing that even though I've been living here my entire life, I still didn't fully understand it so thanks for the video!
I hope you guys can find peace brothers🤞
@@ABAddonfromHeLL Thank you brother
Politics there is the "Golden Rule".. The Guy with the Gold Makes all the Rules...
@@bikinglikebeckerthat’s pretty much politics in every country. In one form or another it comes down to money.
The US government has instigated many of these wars
Sykes & Picot have a lot to answer in the afterlife 😅
I think a video about the Balkans geography and how that influenced the history and politics of that region would be very interesting.
Especially after another conflict is on the horizon between Serbia and the partialy recognized state of Kosovo. And this potential conflict could also influence the much larger conflict in Ukraine given the parties involved - Russia (supporting Serbia) and NATO (supporting Kosovo). And for one Vladimir Putin a distraction for NATO in the Balkans would be perfect as NATO may divert weapons from Ukraine to Kosovo if the conflict there escalates
this video proves that multiculturalism is not good for stability so Europe will fall soon too :)
@@ivaneurope dobra poenta, obrnuto je isto moguce - ukoliko NATOu zafali sredstava, ljudstva i municije, mozda ce ih preusmeriti ka Ukrajini, ili se cak potpuno povuci sa Kosova ukoliko shvate da trace resurse tamo kao sto su se povukli iz Avganistana (mada sumnjam da ce se to dogoditi jer imaju vec dobro ustanovljeno uporiste i vojnu bazu Bondstil)
been travelling the Balkans for a couple months now. been to a bunch of museums and yours, learned a ton. you can learn so much but still there's yet so much you don't know
At the end of the day it comes down to religion. We all know who is to blame for that.
Italy did not get the Dodecanese (the islands in the video) from the treaty of Sevres, it got them in the Italo-Turkish war of 1911. What Italy was supposed to get was part of southwestern Anatolia, but it ended up making a deal with Turkey who recognised Italian sovereignty over the Dodecanese in exchange for Italy withdrawing its claim on southwestern Anatolia, which went through and then Italy started to sell Turkey weapons which they needed to fight the British, French and Greeks
Along with the soviet union, italy greatly helped the turkish nationalists, because felt cheated by the british
They were angry that UK decided to give İzmir to Greece, which was actually promised to be in the İtalian zone. British did so thus they could use and greatly support Greece to indirectly fight the Turkish nationalist govt.
@@tk5gqj514Also, British thought that they can control Greece more easily then Italy.
The "Rump State" that was originally left for the Turks was a much smaller area, south of the Black Sea, and with no Mediterranean coastlines.
Imagine: (how history would be different)
All nations agree to not sell guns
All nations agree to respect intellectual property
All people agree to settle things peacefully
This is a very much needed unbiased and comprehensive history. Thank you!
I love how RLL is such a good creator he makes even the sex comment bots break character and compliment his vids
They copy other comments
Lmao
They are bots that copy other comments and they are programmed to like each others comments so they get the top comment.
They always compliment videos
@AileDiablo guy you don't have to spam this
As empires carved up territories, they didn't just split the land; they fragmented cultures, histories, and the lives of countless families, friends, and neighbors. This division sowed chaos and destruction beyond their borders, all in pursuit of influence and economic gain. A pattern that continues to this day.
Very true ...but it is sad despite of knowing history we still chose to live in the chaos than in peace. They can become a single country and accept all ethnicities. But know each ethnicity want to eradicate the other. And you have a handful of then in the region. Ottoman empire had all cultures and ethnicities to flourish....atleast even if you arenot allowed into the palace. Atleast they were part of the empire. Cant middle east bece a place where all the ethnic values survive. They all originated in the same land so they should.learn to coexist.
They should have formed borders by mutual agreement, like they did in India with Pakistan. India and Pakistan don't have any border disputes, just nuclear wars, which is far better. (OK, there was one border dispute between East Pakistan and West Pakistan, but that's been settled.) (OK, there is still a problem with Kashmir and China and Nepal, etc..)
Terorist usa UK and EU teror in the face of world. Oil money
No Diversity is their strength 😁
Yeah, like there was never wars before that?? It's not the empires that pick the lines - it's local chiefs that see the opportunity to finaly overpower their neighbours WITH THE HELP of the empires. It has always been that way.
I would argue that the partitions were not even based on the Ottoman provinces. Even if you look at the map you see they are not. France and the UK negotiated and picked a border between each other. From there, Britain basically took the region with oil for themselves and said the rest would become autonomous (because they were mostly deserts to them anyway). France took all the important cities in its region and left the rest to become autonomous.
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Mmmmm dessert
Didn't he say that oil wasn't discovered until after the division?
@@dunnowhattoputhere7742 this happened after WW1 and oil was discovered and used at that point. I am not claiming that oil was found in current day Iraq and Kuwait at that point but it was discovered in that region (persian gulf) so obviously there was a high chance of finding oil in the surrounding areas.
Honestly the "Random Lines in the Sand" argument always looks weird when applied to this area, and especially in this video. The various lines things are supposed to be based on and the lines themselves don't match. There are places in Africa where the problem is much much worse, and the original plan even had a Kurdish state in it.
thank you so much for the detailed demonstration. This should be one of the most informative videos I have seen of this topic. Highly appreciate the effort.
Balkans : We are the most ethnically and religiously complicated area.
Middle east : Hold my beer.
Both of them were stolen lands from the Ottomans. Minorities are still arguing for these lands.
Beer? Probably haram in the Middle East 😂. Say laban maybe (yogurt as a drink)
@@byron197hold my coffee
@@byron197 nope beer isnt haram in middle east. middle east isnt all muslim
@@XY-uc1twand who did Ottomans take it from? Was it empty? Or the people told them “come here take our land and rule us”? It’s so funny Mongolians claiming the land they invaded and they never belonged to as their “homeland”.
Being born in Middle East is like starting the life in very hard mode. If you can survive it, you can survive anywhere.
Would they survive a drag show? 🤣
@@ai.manipulator Well, they would but not sure about the other people present together.
😂😂😂😂 their life is very easy if they actually follow the Quran like they say they do....they are so filled with Negativity they cant even tell you exactly what they are mad about
Can confirm
From lebanon for 30 years to france. I am now in easy mode
@@theoriginaltroll388 well, which way of quran? Our way is the best you have to die! they are all muslims but kill each other for minimal differencies.
As someone from South American, specifically from Paraguay. It's amazing how ignorant we are related to Middle East and islamic story. In schools youngsters learn about american history, the history of our country ( from the prehistory to the last dictatorship era "1989") and some of european history. So after this extensive introduction, all I wanted to say it's thanks to this video I have learnt more from this region's history than in my entire school years. 😮
So sad to hear that , middle east has rich history with sad parts like siege of baghdad all the way to happy parts like the golden age of babylon , persia and Abbasids and if you love religion then all three Abrahamic religions originated there.
İslam'ı araştırmanızı tavsiye ediyorum, herşey rayına oturacaktır.
In American schools
They only learn french and UK and US history together that's the only European parts even though they don't tell them the fact that indian Americans and African Americans are the only natives Americans and the others where just English Scottish Irish Australian and Dutch and french coumminty who came to the US land
And they learn the Soviet union Russian history which is not Europe
@@meralEdwtDawlatly Uh, African Americans are in no way shape or form "native" to what can be considered the US. Indigenous people were, but they were not the founders of the US either, but were prior owners before being conquered by US settlers.
@@alejandroldavidlagos Try reading my comment again.
In 10:45 you didn't mentioned Jews. At that time there were approximately 150k Jews in iraq and they had huge importance to Iraq's economy.
not only iraq, but all over the ME/and north Africa, thats one of the reasons why people think that israelis are europeans
@soniadurango123 yup
Not surprised. Had a anti-israel and jewish bias throughout the video that could be heard in the way he talked about everything israel related
How? He just speaks the truth impartially @@yonahbierig9518
You have provided one of THE most concise and ethno-graphically accurate depictions of both the static and dynamic socio/geo-political drivers in this tangled region! The mention of the adaptation of Sykes-Picot geopolitical borders from that of the Ottomans and the fact that the Ottoman's version had already disregarded the ethnic diversities in their calculations makes it so much more comprehendible to today's observer! Everyone uses something that's already there rather than taking the adequate time to put something together from scratch! Kudos to your good work!
As I always state:
Anything called religion is superficial including abrahamic judaism/christianity/islam full of scam.
Nothing surprising whole Europe, USA, Western world, Middle East and surrounding were and will always be forever real third world, the poorest nature in the world.
Real Rich will never colonize other.
Thus not a complete multiracial not multilingual never been living around the world all alone since childhood are just the same never evolved dumb apes stuck inside your tiny boxes your entire life and not learning from the past to evolve better.
Indonesia was not, is not and will never be Islamic country.
World map is inaccurate since Mercator projection 1569.
In reality Indonesia is huge as Russia including our ocean and even much richer than the rest of the world.
Even much bigger before West and Middle East came took our former Australia, Singapore, Malaysia+Brunei, South Thailand, The Philippines, Vietnam even Madagascar Africa.
Actually countries in Europe are just regencies and provinces in Indonesia.
And they're so amateurs because they're just very basic animals.
Egypt isn't the oldest, even Egypt is very poor, very dry, far off the center of the Equator line.
Most highest humidity on Earth: Indonesia, meaning many much older artifacts has decayed much faster than just few thousands years Egypt.
And Judaism/Christianity/Islam are just the same dumb.
Even most of people know nothing about much older ancient modern civilization here in Indonesia before mega eruption of Toba supervolcano of Sumatra 75,000 years ago.
Including 25,000 years old Gunung Padang pyramid in Indonesia.
Hindu isn't from India either. Original Hindu is Indonesia not in India.
Hindu in India and in Bali are totally different
Indus, Indo, Hindia, Hindu = Indus Islands = Indo Nesos = Indonesia.
The same with Astrology came from Indonesia not by the Greeks, Egyptians nor Aramaic/Arabs/Jews.
Judaism, Christianity and Islam are just frauds branches of modified Hinduism in India.
Real Hindu came from Indonesia not India.
Hindu, Hindia, Indus, Indo, etc = Indo Nesos, Indus islands, Indonesia over 17000 islands, exactly on the center of the equator line, the center of all civilization, all Indo around the world came from here especially because of eruption of Toba supervolcano Sumatra 75000 years ago bigger than Yellowstone USA, resulted today world's largest volcanic lake Toba Sumatra.
Yet, world map is wrong since Mercator projection 1569, real Indonesia is Huge as Russia and even much richer than the rest of the world.
Dutch VOC was much richer than any present day world's richest company.
Whole Europe, USA, etc western world in general were built with Indonesia's limitless wealth.
Coffee is native in Indonesia not brought by the Dutch.
Too many lies they wrote about Indonesia even at formal school books!
The fact is whole Europe, USA, western world in general has been built with Indonesia's limitless wealth for centuries long but mentally and intellectually they hasn't changed a bit.
But inner the same mediaeval.
There's no way you believe in this bs just Google ottoman empire political divisions then you will know just how different those borders are from the modern borders.
This is a misinformation just Google ottoman empire political divisions than you will know just how different their borders are from the modern borders.
Google ottoman empire administrative divisions that's the actual borders. It looks nothing compare to the modern borders that's created by the British and french.
ALL @@dindin8753
Oof. Mideast politics and history makes my head swim. I've taken a few good runs at it too. There's just SO much to keep track of. The backstories of the backstories have disputed backstories. Every twist another rabbit hole. Thanks for a great video. This was really concise.
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Precisely. And I bet more than 80% of the people there who fuel the conflicts and wars, have as much if not less of an understanding of the whole thing, as you do.
Tale as old as time, people fighting conflicts they neither fully understand nor fully support. Yet they die for it.
@@IraqieGirl541 Then again you probably know most of it.
@@vffa it also doesnt help that a bunch of people are unemployed and have never known a stable and predictable life. people who have more to lose usually dont make rash decisions and throw their life away
Wow, this is incredible. You managed to fill in so many gaps in my knowledge about the region and its history. Growing up, you pick up all of these random factoids from news and school and various media, but never a more complete picture.
If you want to get a fuller picture, a youtuber called Jabzy has been doing a series on Middle Eastern history.
At the minute he's covered the period from 1600 to 1800 during Ottoman 'rule' which maked the laat 70 years seem peaceful.
Yes Britain did make enormous mistakes viz India , Canada ,Australia , New Zealand & the USA . During ww2 Churchill had secret meetings with Hitler who in 1941 wanted a fair division of Europe ie Germany kept the East Britan the west , not having that said Churchill , would have been the formation of the E. U & saved many lives . Poor Afghanistan always a killing ground !
I need to just pause and say thank you. These conflicts have been so insane to try and piece together, and you do a wonderful job of re-contextualizing so many important facets of this global affair. Props to you man!
I was deployed to Iraq for a total of three years and I did spend a ton of time chatting with locals.
This was by far the best summary of the instability in the region and why.
Thank you for this information.
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boil it down modern arab nations have bad borders and those nations operate on a tribal basis usually with one or an alliance of them running the nation which means the tribes not in power are mistreated by those in power-stop imposing a rule of law by an outside power they implode esp when the nation has oil wealth to battle over
Thank you for supporting genocides❤❤
Dang do you feel it was worth your time?
Yes.
I don't regret spending time over there.
@@Uneldo7
People are people, regardless of the country or culture.
I can't explain it very well here.
But the kids were happy, and the families worked hard to provide for their communities.
But you could tell there was very deep-seated grudges across the country. Blood feuds.
Lots of deep-seated anger as well. You could tell that atrocities were committed on both sides (Shia and Sunni) and the Kurds not even having a country to call their own.
I don't agree with their views. But... I can't judge them. They are dealing with the hands they are dealt.
I see deep seated blood feuds across Palestine and Israel. And it was further complicated by borders put down that made no sense.
The women and children suffer, and the men think they are in the right.
Wrong is wrong, and the people that commit the crimes should pay for them. That goes without being said. A bit of understanding could improve things though.
You ignore Islam. Islam is the reason, all others are empty rationalizations
The production quality of this video is excellent. As a history major, it really helped to give a very broad view of the entire conflict
I learnt more about modern British history in this short video than I did with 8+ years of schooling (up to age 18, never studied it at uni) and I’m British. The sheer skew in favour of the Brits was astounding. Pretty sure one of my teacher’s was wistful when talking about how the British Empire used to encompass a quarter of the globe as if that was a good thing
as an Iranian we tell these stories about our current state constantly, and I'm so sick of it
if after centuries we can't get our shit together and we are still struggling its on us, not on Brits or anyone else
great video btw but we really need to take some responsibility for our current state
I think that's why the west has such a negative opinion of the governments of that area. Yes the brits f*cked you guys up, they f*cked most the world up. But countries such as Canada, NZ, and Australia are slowly starting to work the marginalized Native populations to try and find them more representing. Whilst the middle east seems happy to just shoot instead of talk. Still that being said sorry your in this situation and I hope you and your family stay safe.
What about the sanctions placed on Iran by the west on behalf of israel?
Accountability is a good trait, but don't own up stuff that was done to u
@@Mcbignuts yes the sanctions are terribl, but in our schools, in our rallies, every year we shout out death to usa death to isreal and death to any other country that we dont like and our leaders would make speechs about how we like to completely destroy those countries and wipe them off the map
not that i like usa or isreal but when you publicly announce you want death to a whole nation i expect nothing less than hostility from them
the problem with sanctions are that they are hurting normal people much more than hurting those in charge
@@Mcbignutswhat about Iran’s terror proxies in Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Yemen and all over the Middle East? What about Iran’s funding of Hizbollah, Hamas and the Islamic Jihad. Iran has been contributing to the destabilization of the middle east for many years. It’s a shock to me that sanctions is the only measure being exacted against them.
@@MetalGear1 What's your definition of a "terror proxy"? Iran funds the legitimate Syrian government, it's the Saudis and even the US who funded Islamist terror groups against the government. Also you mention Hizbollah as if they weren't the ones who helped end the Israeli occupation of Lebanese territory.
Omg the quality is soooo good
Just pointing out that the majority of the territory of the ottoman empire was composed by mixed ethnicities and religions even within the cities itself, making impossible to divide 100% of this land in any kind of boundaries that compose of an homogeneous country for each group.
In any point in history, once the nationalism reached this area, this conflicts would emerge anyway regardless of what would be done and massive rearrangement of populations would happen the same way.
That's why ethnostates and theocracies are generally bad ideas that inherently oppress minorities within them. Honestly I like the idea of a secular, democratic Arab super state. It makes it less likely that Western powers can easily bully the fragmented region and take oil when they want. It also threatens Israel as a a British/American colony and military base in the region. Which is why the West would never allow it to happen
Thank you! Almost felt alone in realizing he's casually advocating for ethnostates as a solution which would be impossible anyway since all the groups dot the land. The whole video is bunk since it's his entire argument lol.
Of course, except for Iran, Iran is an old country, Iranian nationalism has existed throughout the history of Iran, between all Iranian people and Iranian governments, even all borders of current Iran are old, for example, the western border of Iran. with the current countries of Türkiye and Iraq. In 1639, it was accepted in the Treaty of Zahab with the Ottoman Caliphate, when Iran ceded its old lands, that is, a large part of Iraq and its Kurdistan and Turkish Kurdistan, this border is the oldest remaining border of the Asian and African So don't confuse Iran with the others, Iran, with all its diversity, its people live together without any problems .Iran is the most real country in the region
One point about the Sykes and Pico borders. They used the same reasoning of the Ottoman Empire.
A region in conflict with itself can never be at war with the overlords.
Divide and conquer
@@splintercell5551 damn 25 seconds ago
fkt bring back the caliphate
@@barittos5585 that would stabilise the region, outside powers can't have that.
Where do you find out about that? It's presented here as "they just plagiarized the Ottomans", but I'm willing to consider that it might be a fair bit more complicated.
It seems that you underestimated the Colonial Empires, masters of divide and conquer. These lines were not made by accident; they were specifically designed to breed perpetual conflict, ensuring that struggling regions never rose up to compete with their empire.
He highlights this aspect in other videos about these conflicts.
🛑 deliberately set up so can use ethnicities to cause conflicts
exactly this is what the European colonialism did to Southeast Asia and to Middle East.
It's smart if you look at it purely from a grand chess board perspective
@@rayz6307 And since humans can't possibly keep doing that, they are screaming FREE PALESTINE now.
i love how Oman remains peaceful. that country is amazing, will always be special to me
Jordan too. One answer - smart leadership and even better diplomacy.
This video is a ray of light in a dark, confusing world. Thanks for laying out the occurrences and drawing connections objectively. You did a great job with this!
As I always state:
Anything called religion is superficial including abrahamic judaism/christianity/islam full of scam.
Nothing surprising whole Europe, USA, Western world, Middle East and surrounding were and will always be forever real third world, the poorest nature in the world.
Real Rich will never colonize other.
Thus not a complete multiracial not multilingual never been living around the world all alone since childhood are just the same never evolved dumb apes stuck inside your tiny boxes your entire life and not learning from the past to evolve better.
Indonesia was not, is not and will never be Islamic country.
World map is inaccurate since Mercator projection 1569.
In reality Indonesia is huge as Russia including our ocean and even much richer than the rest of the world.
Even much bigger before West and Middle East came took our former Australia, Singapore, Malaysia+Brunei, South Thailand, The Philippines, Vietnam even Madagascar Africa.
Actually countries in Europe are just regencies and provinces in Indonesia.
And they're so amateurs because they're just very basic animals.
Egypt isn't the oldest, even Egypt is very poor, very dry, far off the center of the Equator line.
Most highest humidity on Earth: Indonesia, meaning many much older artifacts has decayed much faster than just few thousands years Egypt.
And Judaism/Christianity/Islam are just the same dumb.
Even most of people know nothing about much older ancient modern civilization here in Indonesia before mega eruption of Toba supervolcano of Sumatra 75,000 years ago.
Including 25,000 years old Gunung Padang pyramid in Indonesia.
Hindu isn't from India either. Original Hindu is Indonesia not in India.
Hindu in India and in Bali are totally different
Indus, Indo, Hindia, Hindu = Indus Islands = Indo Nesos = Indonesia.
The same with Astrology came from Indonesia not by the Greeks, Egyptians nor Aramaic/Arabs/Jews.
Judaism, Christianity and Islam are just frauds branches of modified Hinduism in India.
Real Hindu came from Indonesia not India.
Hindu, Hindia, Indus, Indo, etc = Indo Nesos, Indus islands, Indonesia over 17000 islands, exactly on the center of the equator line, the center of all civilization, all Indo around the world came from here especially because of eruption of Toba supervolcano Sumatra 75000 years ago bigger than Yellowstone USA, resulted today world's largest volcanic lake Toba Sumatra.
Yet, world map is wrong since Mercator projection 1569, real Indonesia is Huge as Russia and even much richer than the rest of the world.
Dutch VOC was much richer than any present day world's richest company.
Whole Europe, USA, etc western world in general were built with Indonesia's limitless wealth.
Coffee is native in Indonesia not brought by the Dutch.
Too many lies they wrote about Indonesia even at formal school books!
The fact is whole Europe, USA, western world in general has been built with Indonesia's limitless wealth for centuries long but mentally and intellectually they hasn't changed a bit.
But inner the same mediaeval.
Shutting down the Suez Canal for 8 years is a key detail thats never mentioned during any talks/discussions of the 6-Day War (I wonder how many history books go into details about it, And the impact of it? ). Even in this video he mentions it quickly, but this video is about the whole region and goes over years of history & major events in the region, not about the 6-Day War (plenty other videos on that). That 8 year closure of the Canal impacted economies among many other things for countries in the region and worldwide.
Egypt closed the canal.
So true. I never knew that detail until now
Crazy (but shockingly unsurprising) that this came out BEFORE the most recent massive ramp-up/conflict. Just proves how true it is.
15:50 The British didn't create a Jewish state. The Jewish people did.
Britain had no ties to this land, and both Jews and Muslim wanted them to get out.
False this entire thing is because of Britain's miscalculations... the Jews and Arabs were played like pawns by Britain
People who didn't watch the video or read the title will claim he "predicted" the war in Israel 3 months early, when he explains how its been non-stop war for like 5000 years there in this very video
He didn't predict it true , not when the specific "war" happening right now has been happening for decades. Also war is generous if you factually talk about what's going on.
Mass extinction of a countrys people is more accurate.
@@Moody.Smiruai I. Don't. Actually. Care.
@@Moody.Smiruaiyou’re right, it’s hard to call it a war when a terrorist organization attacks a more militarily advanced country to put its citizens, that appointed that terrorist organization as its government, at risk while it hides away in tunnels. Also, not sure you know what mass extinction is. You should go back to your history books
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The lasting conflicts are caused by the socialists. Arguments that the present borders are somehow "wrong" and that the socialists ought to redraw them through violence is a common Left fascist refrain.
Now I know where to stop the video 😊
Thnx
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Same is true in most of Africa. A lot of people keep asking why Africa is still so unstable despite most of the countries being independent for many decades now. Well, this video explains it quite well. Most African nations are completely arbitrary and direct results of colonial partitioning with incredible conflict potential in terms of resource and ethnic distribution.
Europeans don't want to own up to that. They want to make it seem like Sub-Saharan Africa is incompetent.
It frustrates me how so many people blame Europeans for creating ethnically/religiously diverse states in the Middle East and Africa while simultaneously arguing that European countries should embrace ethnic and religious diversity in their own countries.
@nicolasleroux5302 I personally don't think that. I think France should leave west Africa alone and kick out those illegal immigrants in their country and also remove those blecks from their world cup team. 😁
@@nicolasleroux5302 as if with other borders peace is guaranteed.
@@nicolasleroux5302hey’re entirely different situations. One is a diverse set of countries because the current borders make no fucking sense and toss various native groups and ethnicities together based on how European colonizers wanted to sort out resources they extracted ie Zambia cobalt Ivory Coast chocolate. Western European countries generally have borders which make sense. Some regions close to borders like that if France and Germany have had push and pull over time and have a mix of speakers of both languages on them. Spain has the overwhelming majority of Europe’s Spanish people, same for Netherlands and Dutch, Portugal and Portuguese, Romania and Romanians, Norway and Norwegian, you get the idea. There are some mixed language countries like Belgium and Switzerland, but in many ways they have a history of being some sort of negotiator state (Swiss banks, Belgium EU facilities), so it works out. The instances of major conflict from ethnic/oppressed minorities in these areas like Irelands and Catalonia you could count on one hand and in present time they’re doing quite well for themselves.
Nobody is forcing these countries to accept immigrants, they do it themselves. Skilled workers from around the world bring in good experience and taxpaying income, bring new perspectives language culture foods etc, and help to soften the blow of native population decline. Those that don’t want as many immigrants (don’t get it twisted every wealthy country in the world brings in some amount of immigrants) simply don’t have as many like Norway. But once the immigrant are in the country what the hell are you gonna do, totally ignore the culture they bring in by putting them in ethnic minority zones or forcefully assimilating them or both? That’s how you get conflict and issues, like Sweden. Countries around the world that do immigration well integrate the population and cultures like Canada
Furthermore, you shouldn’t be assuming the people upset about African borders are the same people who encourage more diversity in x European country as an outsider. And to say it’s some unquantifiable “many people”, relax
Britain banned most Jewish immigration into Palestìne mandate prior to WW2. Not one mention of Jews forced out arab countries after Israel's birth who are now the majority. 6 day war caused by Nasser's closing of Tiran strait.
Jews were forced out of Muslim countries .Not only from Muslim countries .Muslims created problems in secular countries.I know it .Recently one jewish women came to my state to worship their temple for last time.she is allowed because of some local muslims and politicians also stood with muslims because they are 35% of population and big vote share
From other documentaries regarding muslim Israelis, it was the surrounding Arab countries that told those in Israel to leave..only to seize those lands, countries like Lebanon and Jordan, those that refused and stayed where they lived were rolled into Israeli territory
6 day war started by Israel, against the advise of the US who concluded there was no intent from any surrounding Arab countries to attack (a conclusion agreed with by Israel's then Defence Minister). And after several provocations by Israel against Jordan and Syria in the preceding months to force Egypt to act in some way (which it did, with a performative movement of troops and closing of the strait).
Hence why global consensus (exempting you) is that Israel started the war and must withdraw from territories it occupied during it.
@@gnostic-achamoth wrong
Being a Syrian myself, there's a major factor (probably the most important) that is quickly glossed over. And that is just the culture itself. People of different sects or religions or even ethnicities ending up in one country is hardly what breaks the camel's back. After all, most countries have such if not bigger population differences.
The culture has been dominated by a rigid Islamic hierarchy for a 1000 years. This meant that there are no traditions of social cohesion or nationhood, let alone democracy or even equality before the law or unbiased objective rights.
The only country with a strong sense of nationhood is Egypt because of their long history, but especially in the 19th century with Muhammad Ali Pasha modernisation Egypt and pulling its identity away from the Ottomans.
If Sykes and Pico never happened but instead the Ottomans just disappeared, I guarantee you that the region will still find ways to start conflicts with itself. That's basically the history of the past 1000 years when no overarching empire is controlling the whole region.
Hey mate as a fellow person with Syrian origin I personally find it infuriating how he always shows the golan heights as part of Israel. I’m just wondering how you’re feeling
@@mario-obeid Honestly, couldn't care less. Israel has been occupying the Golan for 60 years now. There were times in the mid-2000s where some degree of border crossing was allowed from the Golan, and a lot of their apples and fruits were imported. However the people there weren't really big on going back to Syria.
The main job of any government is to allow its people to live the best lives they can. This usually involves reducing conflicts to a bare minimum. Clearly Syria missed the memo on that.
@@darthcalanil5333 how did Syria not get the memo? I mean Syria was “relatively peaceful”and stable before the war and the war was and is still being prolonged by outside forces even now the west still tries to prolong the war with sanctions and Americans will keep doing that it’s sad. I mean Syrians have very little access to anything nowadays and how can you blame that on the government I mean no mater on what side you are on the government won and it’s time to rebuild that’s the “natural order” of things no one wants to fight anymore but the us and it’s allies are in control of most of the Syrian oil and imposing crippling sanctions
@@darthcalanil5333
What a load of made up bullshit. Think maybe your white masters who you're pandering to like you a bit more now?
نحن ابرياء منك
Culture and religion are ethnicity.
The definition of ethnicity is "shared cultural background."
Ethnicity is the clothes you grew up wearing, the sports you played, the books you read, what days of the week you had off, what language you spoke, etc.
Extremely disturbed by the reality we’re facing today. My family are Jews who came from two corners of the Ottoman Empire, one Balkan and the other Syria and Iraq. The fall of the empire and rise of colonialism, nazism, zionism, and Arab nationalism made it pretty impossible for them to exist where they had for generations, whether they wanted to leave, were religious, weee nationalists, or Zionists. Here I am two generations later, I’ve lost family and friends to this endless conflict, I’m not religious but had to unlearn so much racism nationalism and hate mongering and understand that me and my families existence is at the whim of layers of interest local and foreign, who only care if we survive for demographic purposes and shame us for not fighting to the death to defend something that wasn’t our choice to create.
I think I learned more in this 30+ mins than 5 years of polotical science. Respect to you for encompassing all the conflicts & battles from the past to modern era in a single video.
same, but he got one thing wrong. When he highlights the Muslim world in yellow at 34:07 he includes India which isn't remotely muslim.
@@skippedbail14% of India is Muslim
@@skippedbail And many other lands and countries, like Ethiopia which is Christian majority, the map is not based on Muslim majority lands or countries, but the lands that these jihadist and extremist Muslims believe are the rightful and historical lands of Muslims, which is basically almost any lands and countris that was under rule of Muslims at some point in history.
@@skippedbail There are plenty of Muslims there, around 200 million (Even though the majority are Hindus). And I think he was just highlighting the population of Muslims around the world, otherwise he wouldn't have included the Uyghurs of China.
Same
I love how on every map you draw that shows Egypt and Sudan, you always give each of them the "you get the bad border" treatment haha
Bir Tawil belongs to *one* of you two.
As a middle eastern, i appreciate informative videos like this that have no bias. The rest of the world views us in a hostile way and what they teach us where i live is always the glorified and sugarcoated part of history (aka lies) so objective telling of events is always helpful and appreciated.
oh, so what kind of history do you learn? I honestly think its pretty much the same everywhere, even in places like the USA, the UK, Japan, and Russia
As an American, I got no problem with you folks. I am pissed that we went to war for 20yrs there didn't do much but hurt you guys then Biden pulled all our troops out just like that... what was it all for?
@@rbanerjee605 well i’m omani so they teach us that the omanis went to zanzibar and they spread islam there which made it a better place and that we helped their economy and so on. But they fail to mention that they also took their homes and enslaved them
@@Thurayaz not like the british do that to us
OMG EXACTLYYY!
Bro i am in syria and thank you for telling me that wars wont stop , really made my day
Sorry man but they might not, you can't escape that 😕 hope you're all ok and safe tho
where ? Damascus?
You guys need to become civilized.
At least it's kind of fun. Think of it as playing Call of Duty in real life! :)
@@ChinnuWoWthats wild
This is a great presentation dude 👍Thank you
Initially, the wars were because of the border creators. Today it is because of the creators' descendants. The world still has lords and serfs.
I am from Oman , there is no war here :) at least for 50 years now. They call us the Switzerland of the Middle East.. maybe because we act as mediators between the Arab countries/ US / Iran...
" neutrality" is one word to describe the foreign policy of Oman.
تحية لعمان من اليمن 🇾🇪❤🇴🇲
what?
dont tell anybody, love oman because of their low profile.
Neutrality is the best position during wars
remember 3 weeks ago? your pathetic sultan came to Iran and became Khameneii's personal lap dog?
you chose side, to be with Terrorist Ayatollahs and be against Iranian people
It's very interesting that the US (or English speaking countries) call that region Middle East, in German language it is seen as Near East, the Middle East is seen as the region between Afghanistan and Bangladesh.
weird, in French the Near East is only those countries on the Mediterranean coast + Jordan, with the Middle East extending from Irak to Pakistan
do we all have a different idea of how it works?
I honestly don’t think it’s very interesting at all… it’s just what the brits called it
@@yjlom I think when you just look at the Eastern world in general, which is quite agreed upon that it includes Asia and Oceania, and then dividing it into three parts (i.e. near, middle, far) then it makes sense that Eastern Asia is the "far" part, Western Asia is the "near" part and the middle is the middle part.
We used to call it tje Near East before the 1970's. Not sure why, common usage changed to a geographically incorrect name.
@@johnhblaubachea5156 how incorrect is it tho? It's in the middle of the east, and connects the old world (Africa, Europe and Asia) also in Spanish we call it the "Medio Oriente" Medio being middle and Oriente being another world for east so if it changed in English cuz of USA then it was because of Hispanic influence prob
I return to this video because of the actual situation in Jemen. It‘s because this video explains every conflict in the middle east. The content of knowledge in this video is very big.
I love how oman just chills in the corner being neutral
This channel is a perfect balance between accessibility and intellectual rigor
Middle East has a lot of history. Respect to you for summarising it in just 30 minutes
Are you crazy? How were you able to fit such an informative mini-doc into a sub-40 minute video whilst presenting it in a refreshingly unbiased light?
Let this man cook! Netflix sign him!
Its amazing the amount information you were able to condense is this one video! I’ve learned SO MUCH. Great content!
The more of these I watch, the more I realize there's a constant game for control going on, everywhere, all the time.
Brilliant. Thank you for such a comprehensive and compelling to watch summation of very complex history
Being Kuwaiti myself, you don’t know how happy I am to have my country, history, culture, and general region explained so beautifully and in depth, I’d like to think I have a good grasp of the history of my area, but I realize there’s so many details from differing viewpoints that change the perception of things. Hopefully we can all learn from the past for a better future.
Kuwait and history? Lol😂
لا احد يهتم فيك ياصديقي
@@tughluq8324?
@@tughluq8324this comment shows us why we can't have nice things.
How could you possible say that after watching this vid. The entire region is thrown into chaos, human rights violations and numerous wars because of the colonial past & chauvinism as well as religious intolerance. Gosh.
@@Dungeonus No the only thing quwait has is a king and his fellows draining all the resources. Nothing else, dont think that can be deemed as a nice thing. Really dont get how you can act like citizens have all the human rights and have a say in the nation.
This video aged very well. He called this even before October 7 hostages. I see nobody commenting on that
Lebanon officially has a right to defend itself
Palestine has the right to defend itself against the expansionist manifest destiny european project.
@@HasanBeefAbiLebanon literally started shooting rockets at Israel on October 8th for almost a year before Israel properly defended themselves.
What are you talking about?
@@JohnTheStun somehow both (1) the literal meaning of any country neighboring the terror state that is Israel scene the 1940s having the right to defend itself and (2) the satirical joke of Israel always claiming that it has the right to defend itself while they themselves are the aggressors both flew over your head😂
@@HasanBeefAbi That’s a lot of text without any counter arguments lol
Lebanon started the war on October 8th when they started shooting rockets at Israel. And now they FO 🫶🇮🇱
This video should be included in high school history courses. These events have done more than almost anything else to shape our modern world.
All this is in your history books and library but most people dont care so they gloss over it and you gotta actually look into it to learn
@puckered6036 maybe yours was...Everything in this video I learned in high school reading books but not all schools are equal so your expirence might be different
please stop talking
In which country you were going to high school?
*looks at tension between christians and muslims*. *looks at both WW* , *looks at the french revolution* , *looks at communism* , *looks at the industrial revolution* , *looks at the implementation of the scientific method* , *looks at the humanism movement* , etc ... yeah, more than anything else... not really.
European colonialism, Soviet meddling, American meddling, Russian meddling, Islamists and Oil.
And religious intolerance.
How did North Africa and the Levant become Arab and Turkey Turkish?
Spoiler alert: Settler colonialism and forced assimilation!
or just their culture and religion lol
People often like to blame outside influences exclusively but don't forget important factors like the Sunni/Shia split and so on
Zionists
Europe fought many wars and lost many lives before it stabilized and prospered, and the same applies to the Middle East
And They Have Blood On Their Hands in GOD’S EYES!
@@G.G.276islam invaded Europe first. islam has invaded Europe for longer than Europe has ever invaded islam.
Why is it taking them so long? Why are they worse than every other place in the world? I wonder if there's one common thing countries in the middle east share that make them like this.
Yeh, yeh, we are not dumb
Who doesn't @@G.G.276
You sure were right on the mark with this one.. eerily accurate, well done
Excellent video, I can see that allot of research and effort was put in making it!! This should be played in all schools' history classes!
3:28 tiny mistake, Imperial Germany's eastern border covered greater part of Poland than shown.
Whoever has read this comment I wish you good day
strange to think about how big germany was once
Yeah they forgot to include Poznan area
The higher they get, the harder they fall. This applies to Germany post WW1/2
Incredible how you described the complexity of the region. Thank you!
And it is 1,000,000x more complex....it goes down to the tribal level and this video only explains the regions
@@theoriginaltroll388 how can i learn more about it?
its only complex until Palestine is free from occupation
Crazy how I watched this exact video minutes before October 7th hit the clock at 12:00 AM
I think the fundamental answer is quite easy: it's the epicenter of our ancient world. Meaning that cultures, rulers, and civilizations fight for their place for a long time. And amplified by the minimal resources.
One of the best geopolitics channel!!
Thanks!
Having followed the Middle East as an amateur geopolitician for over 4 decades, this is a great wrapup of exactly what has gone on there and what has led to the current conflicts today. I’m also in agreement with you, that this will be a forever war region. There will always be conflict here.
You made a mistake at 14:35. Only about 33% of the population of Khuzestan province of Iran are Arabs, not the majority.
The largest group in khuzestan are lurs, followed closely by persians, then arabs. There's also a sizeable turkic minority.
@@Handler549 Only 8% of Ahvaz's population are Arab.
Most Iranians don’t even want to identify as Arabs🥱
I think people in Khuzestan when oil was discovered, were mostly arabs then lurs and they moved there in years making them a minority.
@@PlatonicHesaf Nope. No one was genociding them or anything... Why would they move from their home in the millions, so much that would make them a minority from majority? Say something that makes sense.
A great watch--even if you know history and geography well. 200 years of Middle Eastern history well summarized in 35 minutes
This is low-key one of the best geopolitics channel on UA-cam
More like high-key.
@@ChinnuWoW Oh definitely, channel has lots of subs; however, stuff like this isn't the "authoritative news source" (read: corporate news network with a bias I don't agree with) that UA-cam patently signal boosts. If they left it to pure, unfettered meritocracy-- channels like this would blow the corporations out of the water.
Thank you very much. So informative and eye opening. 😊
This is tragic. I genuinely hope they can find peace in the future
Lack of nefarious western interventionism would help
@@Amaling true
love war.
@@Amaling Would help, but as history of the region has shown, war and conflict will prevail, especially when there's groups internally trying to weaken their neighbours and conquer, both territorially and religiously, the entire region. It's just days of old in modern times.
Won't happen any time soon.
I've seen enough here to tell you, there are deep rooted issues that go so deep it would take total wipeout of all governmental bodies, tradition and religious ideologies to truly restart, in each of these elements there's always an abuser and a power seeker, its a non ending cycle.
Maybe it'll heal in time, but i know it wont, propaganda spreads like fire in a dried wheat field here, people are far less educated on modern topics and foreign respect at minimum or the use of critical thinking, funny.. when we're known for our hospitability, not anymore.
I'll just fuck off out of this wasteland eventually, it can burn down and i wouldn't care anymore, but not at a full loss, i still admire my Bedouin bloodline's ideologies of kindness and unity, that i will carry with me at least.
Well, you've convinced me to join Nebula. This video has been one of the clearest explanations about "how we all got into this mess" in the Middle East that I've read, and I've been trying to understand this my entire 72 year old life. I look forward to watching Part 2.
I have to say as informative as this video is, still, the history and politics of the Middle East are too complex. The wars and conflicts are multi-faceted. It's not _that_ easy to just blame the borders.
It saddens me that the situation is like that, and even more with living here and not actually being part of a war-torn region, the fact that war and conflict is associated so deeply with the Middle East is extremely unfortunate. The glorious civilizations, the majestic history, the simple and welcoming people, everything nice here could be dismissed because of these horrible events.
Yet, I do see light at the end of the tunnel, I feel like newer generations are more of dreamers willing to move towards the best. Having come from different backgrounds and even going through the worst to know not to re-make those same mistakes, they're hoping for a better future. It's unknown and scary but the opportunistic future might be at sight.
It seems to be a trend lately to blame modern conflicts on borders in the Middle East and Africa because they didn't account for ethnic backgrounds... ironically advocating for a homogenous ethnic states. Right from the start of this video it's wrong. the conclusion is flawed because under Ottoman rule there were no borders drawn around ethnic groups either.
It’s interesting we think of the Middle East as a “war torn” region, but it was only about 75 years ago that Europeans were constantly fucking eachother up and drawing everyone into it. A peaceful mostly unified Europe is kind of a new thing. I’m not trying to oversimplify here, just something I was thinking about.
@@eeyun5279 sure, a peaceful Europe is sth that emerged 70 years ago. But to be fair, western europe in the 19th century had already achieved political stability, the problematic region remained eastern Europe ( it actually remains problematic until our days), and that was largely due to Germany and Russia agressive international politics.
One of the best things i ever watched, my attention was glued.
This video provides an accurate snd surprisingly unbiased summary of events that are germane to the borders, succession of regimes, wars, oil concerns, and geopolitical situations in the middle east.
Every aspect of this region is as complex as a Rubic's Cube, and from my own experience, requires a great deal of research to understand.
It is also noteworthy that the data was presented as a coherent series of steps.
I watch all of the videos on this channel, and the videos are usually very good. However, I feel that this video rises above!
Ok i think there is a little bias when talking about the partition plan of israel, the palistinian yes had only 32% of the land, but it was the most fertile, the most populated, the riches, at that point, and most of the land was in the desert.
@Nathan-hw7fg I picked up on that as well, and thank you for writing back. Of course, you already know what follows, but I am going to type it out for other readers.
In addition to what you said, the authors of the partition plan knew that there would be at least a million Holocaust survivors arriving in Israel within a year, severely altering the population ratio. IIRC, the land split was suggested to be close to 46% Arab/54% Jewish, with the Arabs getting the Galilee and much of the Coastal Plain, which was the vast majority of the arable land.
There is a difference between land ownership and sovereignty. Any Arabs who *actually* owned land in what became Israel would still have owned that land, had they not immediately conducted an armed invasion of a recognized nation. As it is, most of the Arabs who could *produce documents* that proved ownership were compensated.
However, the odd land ownership laws in Ottoman Palestine, which the British accepted as-is, were a major problem for most of the Arab fellahin, who were operating their farms on what was the equivalent of a lease. Pursuant to WW1, the actual land owners all of whom lived primarily in Syria and Lebanon, experienced difficulties in collecting their lease payments, so after 29 years (1947) of non-payment, it is understandable that the fellahin developed the idea that they actually owned the land. After that land was passed to their offspring, the idea that the land belonged to them. This also happened with buildings in the cities, and there were other complex arrangements that obfuscated the issue of who owned the land.
I didn't call out this oversight in the video, because the issue is complex, and I didn't want to spend the time to write it out. Indeed, there is much more that I haven't covered here.
@@barrybrevik9178 i did not know about some of this stuff, thank you
Another small detail that I see so many history channels get wrong is using the word "Palestine" and "Palestinians" when these words did not exist until around the end of the 1950s (a day decade after Israel's declaration of independence).
The area was always called Palestina and the people of the area were just called Arabs (since they didn't belong to any nation - they were simply part of empires or the British mandate). They were just locals with no proper name at the time. So technically the Israeli-Palestinian conflict began after the founding of Israel because Palestinians didn't exist prior.
I find this detail important because it changes a huge perspective - the local people to the area were not part of a nation; they were just there. They had no say in any decision because they had no governance, meaning whatever the last governing body (Britain) had full authority to decide whatever the fk they wanted with no opposition, making the Jews of the area (that were also nationless) completely at the mercy of the British and their independence and founding of Israel, including the charted borders was not their fault; it was all Britain.
Semantics in these kinds of discussions are extremely important because it changes the whole dynamic. If Palestinians exist, it means that moving them is basically an act of war by whoever takes their place, completely changing the narrative resulting in false propaganda for many decades to come.
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Europe and the US supported Israel's side of the conflict until 1967 (after the six day war) where suddenly Israel looked strong and this did not generate any sympathy anymore. In Christianity there is an idea of supporting the weak and culturally it still exists today for most ("the meek shall inherit the earth"). The media almost immediately shifted and ever since the world has been mostly anti-Israel in sentiment because it is strong and it goes against the weak (despite 100% of active events happening due to a trigger or proactivity against future conflict - finding weapon bunkers or past terrorists). It's clear whose side I'm on but I have a lot to say on the subject and many small details are the reason for this ideological conflict in the first place, not even mentioning the ethical debates surrounding the general cases of the conflict. I'm not a Zionist and I dislike Zionism and people who defend Israel on those grounds are doing it more harm than good imo. It's the ethical case of property rights where a generation gap between thief and owner needs to be reconciled in court with the new owner, the 3rd party. If I steal your wallet and sell it to a stranger, is that stranger now obligated to give you your wallet back despite being an honest procurer of the wallet? This is at the heart of why I dislike Zionist approach to Israel's justification as a nation because it treats the original owner of the wallet as the absolute owner regardless of how many hands pass it along and in what way. I think owning something 2,000 years ago by your great, great, great,...great grandparents as justification is absolutely absurd.
From the word “Phillistim” which means “invader”. Originally applied to the arriving Jews, it was co-opted by Arafat to justify the first intifada.
Who knew dinosaurs dying in that parts of the world millions of years ago would create this monumental instability in this region
In general an excellent video. They should be used in all schools to educate people.
Bro forgot to mention the part where uncle sam was selling weapons to everyone.
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I just want to note that it was split this way partly because most of the Negev (the green areas at the bottom of the map) were undeveloped, and nearly no one lived there.
thats all I wanted to say
Yeah, even if the Jewish state had more land in theory, the Arab state had more of the actually developed land.
Which makes sense. The Jews actually had the irrigation tech to farm in the Negev, something the Arabs lacked.
The ratio does not matter, because the absolute truth is that all this land belongs to the Palestinians. Why should a group of unwanted Jews from their original homelands even share it with them?
@@ShnoogleMan It's not in 'theory', it's factual that the European Jews got most of the land in Palestine even though the indigenous Palestinian Arabs made up the majority of the population in Palestine.
@@SkullDude99SSR The Jews got a lot more desert
@sirialexa9001We are not the same as those arabs you mentioned. We are native ancient canaanites whilst syrians are Arameans.
I like how Oman, during all the conflicts around them, was (as far as I know) mostly neutral and peaceful as they just chilled in their corner of Arabia
Because the sultanate of Oman was independent at the time of the ottomans , significantly lost a lot of land but did not made a fuzz about it ( Zanzibar , UAE , Madagascar, Suqatra …. Etc ) but basically remained the same under the same rule .
they’re not neutral and peaceful. theres multiple evidence of them aiding and supporting terror ist organizations like houthis (they were caught smuggling weapons from their border to yemen) and having a relationship with israel. they’re just secretive and discrete about it
They have their own sect of Islam which is Ibadism.
Ecclesiastes 8:9. All This Waring Over GOD’S Planet!
It’s amazing how unbiased this video is!
Coding is an art
lol, I feel like a clown now. Extremely enlightening and informative. Thanks
Who else is here after the news about Israel vs Hamas ?
Me 🇪🇬❤️🇵🇸
me, israel wins!
@@ChaosEater39 600 killed
2000 wounded
Israel A state based on occupation
@@GhaynY are you actually joking or are you dumb? the amount of death does not change that israel is winning, israel was surprised for longer than it should but that does not change anything
@@ChaosEater39 Can you tell me where the country called Israel came from?
You don't need to increase your voiceover speed to 1.1x in order to boost retention. Your research and geopolitical analysis is enough!
As someone who lived and still lives in this region, this is nicely done.
those war memories never left me. just now i head loud noise outside and my brain is ready to take cover in case it's a bomb.
what a sad reality we live in
Bro that's PTSD and if you are able, seek psychotherapy.
@@Kolektifcs i dont think it's that bad, normal life is harder XD
incredibly well made
I am humbled by how complex this history is. Now I am quite hesitant to say anything about the ongoing conflicts in the Middle East. Rather I will pray more often.