Gulf War from Iraq's Perspective (ft. EmperorTigerStar) | Animated History
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What about Irak asking if USA would permit the invasion, and US responding that they really wouldn't be mad about it? That was true?
Can you do the 2003 invasion of Iraq please?
@@lisakeitel3957 True. Otherwise Sadam would never have attacked Q8. He was not that dumb.
He was fooled by USA. Twice. And now USA wonders why no one trusts their diplomacy anymore.
Ive never heard of such a low total of death. The total numbers of Iraqi total death was 80,000 to 100,000. In every estimate I ever heard.
@@simonsays80 That is the dumbest bunch of bullshit ever. Congrats dude, you're one of the crazy people.
When you try to be the Middle Eastern Hitler, but you become the Middle Eastern Mussolini.
Epic fail 😂
He was an lion of middle east now everyone loves him
@@johanrod6239
Middle eastern lion 😂
What he did?
amazing comment ahaha
Varun P Kurds aren’t arabs
My grand aunt lived in Kuwait during the invasion. She says she woke up to find tanks and troops in the street, and asked the soldiers what had happened, they said that Iraq had invaded Kuwait. Thinking that they were Kuwaiti soldiers, she wished them luck. Turns out the Iraqis took kuwait so fast the kuwaitis didn’t even know that they were under Iraqi rule.
Denmark in a nutshell
It’s true a lot of Kuwaitis like my aunt and parents did not even realize until almost the end of the war
didnt she notice they were not from Kuwait from their accent though?
@@mija1570 we have similar accents
😀
80s: The world vs Iran
90s: The world vs Iraq
00s: repetition of 80s
Don't forget that Iran take a secret help from. US AND ISRAEL
Ever heard of iran-contra affair?
Iran was supplied by weapons from all over the world. From usa, israel...
@@mohi671 true
@I wasent crazy until I met you before that he was in iraq
You forgot the part where the russian bad guy named Makarov detonates a nuke during operation desert storm.
?????? Lol
COD MW 2!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
MW 1 bro
Not call of duty
The nuke was detonated in 2011.
Fun fact! The Gulf War marked the last time battleships were deployed to combat.
Last time? As in the end of the usage of Battleships?
Or the most recent time Battleships were deployed?
Some Guy the US doesn’t use them anymore. They were inaccurate but did the job for it’s time. Nowadays the navy tends to use missiles and air support instead of those enormous cannons
Some Guy No one uses battleships anymore. They're expensive, and modern weapons technology like aircraft carriers and precision munitions have rendered them obsolete.
@@addisonwelsh it's a shame too because battleships are fucking cool lol. But simply outdated.
@@SomeGuy-lr7ms All us battleships have been decommissioned and are museum pieces.
I think its important to mention that the Abrams had GPS at the time, allowing them to drive strait through the desert with no risk of getting lost
Yeah, no. Many unit commanders had GPS, some others relied on LORAN, but no M1A1 per se, was equipped with GPS.
@@DK-ed7be well I guess I just meant the US forces were able to navigate with GPS at a time when no one else could, I thought I read it was in the tanks but I guess not
I love those hyper specific military trivia
*laughs in advanced military technology*
@@DK-ed7be wait what
Actually, as one of the soldiers that was there 4 days after Saddam invaded Kuwait. The rumour of stealing Iraq's oil is true. Kuwait was slant drilling into Iraq's oil fields.
Can you please tell us more about Kuwait stealing Iraqi oil? This is important for historical purposes.
@@dragon888193ftw There isn't much to tell. When i was out in Saudi, (4 days after saddam invaded kuwait) it seemed to be common knowledge. Everyone knew.
@@chriswood3370 As an Iraqi I was always skeptical of this claim. It is common knowledge but I always assumed that there's a chance Saddam might be lying.
It's crazy how truths like these get buried under mountains of baby incubator propaganda. Saddam shouldn't have invaded Kuwait, but he had every right to.
@@dragon888193ftw I can only apologise for what has been done to your Country and your people. We were lied to. We went to war to protect people and it was turned into something very different. My enemies don't live abroad, they wear suits and live in London. God bless you mate.
The Iraqis made a conceptual mistake though. They didn't realize that we live in an unfair world where Western neo-colonialism still exists.
They should have probably just allowed Kuwait as a US puppet state to steal their oil, which is a relatively small price to pay in order to maintain the freedom to build their own economy using what oil remains to them. In the meantime they could have attempted to improve diplomatic ties with Saudi Arabia and other OPEC states in order to control Kuwait as a larger bloc.
This is hardly told from the Iraqi perspective.
@WorldFlex how so? What is the reality? Genuinely asking
@@SRR-rh7id look at the documentary made by trt, that's the iraqi perspective ua-cam.com/video/aAZoKXOcsmU/v-deo.html
@@ghifarakbar8492 thanks! Will check it out
@@SRR-rh7id Well this isn't. For a prospective, Kuwait is stealing billions of Dollars worth of oil from Iraq and Kuwait is also non existent as Kuwait exists because of the lies of the British some decades ago
Iraq: *Invades Kuwait for its oil*
USA: “....ahhhh you think the oil is your ally? You merely adopted oil. I was born in it... molded by it.”
Bush's hands would be black if they weren't covered with blood.
Moldygreenbean “I didn’t see oil until I was already a Man....by then it was nothing to me!”
@@Nuuk_Nuke_Nook Black gold.
Moldygreenbean It’s not gold it’s a dead fucking meme
Yet, Iraq is still in control, and selling at OPEC prices, to this day. If we were there for the oil we did a bad job.
The Gulf war from Iraq's perspective
*yeah we're screwed*
The mother of all pizzas🍕
America was in full Jason Vorhees mode and Iraq's army was the token 80's pot smoking teenager who just had sex and then checks to see what that noise was out in the dark.
More like the downfall of the us, china leading the world so money will spent dummy.
"Wheres allah?......you guys ever think that maybe...we are the bad guys?"
@@sayingthethingstheywont2619 what?
The Iraqi army didn't just underestimate the allied capabilities, they expected them to drive on highways and line up in front of their objectives, the same way the Iranian army did. They were caught with thwir pants down as the allies drove at them from the deep desert, at night, through a sandstorm.
And with double their effective attack range.
Therefore, underestimating the allied capabilities-
Basically, they expected that the coalition would fight by their rules. In reality, the coalition made its own rules
Definitely underestimated the coalition and their weapons.
i think the fact that Iraq is mostly open plains as opposed to dense jungle had more of an effect than the technology gap
True true, USA didn’t do well in the jungle when it came to Vietnam. I’ve visited the HCM trail and it’s amazing how creative the VC soldiers were..
The technology gap was the biggest factor. That and tactics. The Coalition had a type of GPS, thermal optics, and a far superior air force.
On the tactics side, Iraq was prepared for a defensive strategy that did poorly against the US' blitzkrieg style of offense.
Northren iraq is mountians
Eastren iraq is forests
Middle of iraq is open lands
Westren iraq is deserts
If the atack was from east or north they us would had a bad time there but for their luck the atack was from west and south iraq
In Vietnam the US basically had one hand tied behind its back. Where as in Iraq it was all offensive. That also made a difference.
Iraq: ‘invades Kuwait’
Iraq 5 minutes later: Why do I hear boss music?
lol
MURICA
S T O P I N V A D I N G K U W A I T G I V E I T T O U S
Best comment. Thank you.
Why is Fortunate Son playing?
I can't imagine the feeling of a AC130 stalking you from the sky. Pure helplessness, especially on a retreat.
:- (
Bush told the Iraqi's to leave Kuwait. He did not tell them to take their military vehicles or plunder with them.
You can't imagine it in part because this video was clearly not from an Iraqi perspective.
@@XanderRoseberry Because the Iraqi locals are so willing to reach out to an American UA-camr and discuss their trauma
U wouldn't even knoe
Stupidly, I was hoping for an actual Iraqi perspective.
Andrew Robertson at least you realize this was stupid of you. That’s a decent start.
I’ll give that to you. No problem.
Iraq perspective: we got our ass kicked
@@JK-vc7ie Thanks pal
. I'll file it under 'Full Spectrum Block Head"
@@tonym2513 When will I learn ...
I will told you what was the iraqi perspective
Iraqis think Kuwait belongs to them so they occupied it.
So simple for the iraqis but..
It's not the truth of course
Damn my uncle was in the Iraqi military since the Iraqi-Iranian war and he participated in the gulf war too but he was lucky to get back from kuwait 10 days before the events of the highway of death
The USA made you their bitch
@@thefutureisnowoldman7653 my guy he just told an interesting story about his uncle you dont gotta be so rude and also do you think what the us made iraq what it is today was worth the oil us soliders said that they were lied to and they didnt think the war was all about oil amd they killed 1000s of iraqi civilians as an iraqi i can tell you this saddam was a monster but no more than bush je made iraq a struggling poor corrupted country just for some oil and trump your president whos clueless but knows a bit about the military said the war should never have happened
@XcXcz Thank you man, Glad that your father escaped that war too
الله يحفظ عمك اذا عايش ويرحمه اذا ميت
@@fahadal-ani1334 I actually don't know if the war was over oil, but there were hidden interests.
America is the world's biggest producer of oil and could easily buy it from countries such as Canada, Venezuela, Mexico, etc
Iraq: hippity hoppity your oil is now-
US: my property
Raden Prasetyo it’s funny on how the USA doesn’t need oil
@@aaa-vx8ke Yes doesn't need
IraqiShn the USA ships out most of its oil, if it needed oil it would stop shipments lol
-14 subscribers with no videos thank you, many ppl don’t understand that the US produced more oil than the entire ME combined just about 😂😂
US doesn't take oil from Iraq. Saudi Arabia was the supplier of US Oil.
Saudi Arabia's ARAMCO is the biggest company in the world because of this.
"Iraq's view on the Gulf war"
Current Objective: *SURVIVE*
Achievement Unlocked: *Deserter*
I as an austrian call that Blitzkrieg...😂🇦🇹
😂😂😂😂😂
Blitzkrieg isn't its actual name
Incest
Incest
@@Nietabs No need to say it twice.
Another well done episode! 😊🤙🏼👏🏼
Misleading headline. this is a general recap and no particular insight into the Iraqi viewpoint. Not nearly as good as many of your other efforts.
Cause it didn't appeal to American nationalism?
@@panthir6720 no because he didn't quote Iraqis, didn't show Iraqi leadership tactics, didn't mention any Iraqi generals
Yeah, I was hoping for something way more indepth like "Battle for Midway from Japanese Perspective", really detailed vid, highly recommended
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I'm iraqi and i can tell some see him as a dictator and some see him as a hero to this day ignoring all the mass killing he did to us
Muntadher Khalid I can see him as both cause he was a brutal dictator with all the killings but as a hero to the government since he kept Iraq intact and only when he died Iraq fell into civil war but like u said tho he’s more of a dictator than a hero
Ah the Bradley...
Too little space to be an APC,
Too armed to be an IFV,
Too heavy to be a scout,
Too thin to be a tank.
i thought they stopped using them in the 80s but i see i was wrong
But do you know how much the door cost?
Well said. I think the whole IFV concept is a failure.
And enough fire power to take out half of DC!
Bro, not to mention they constantly breakdown. I remember having 5 brads in the platoon and all but one breaking down in one day of training. Things are complete garbage. They tried to make it do so many things it ended up doing nothing
6:40
Missed a great opportunity to call it “Operation Desert Eagle”
Thanks for your hard work making these videos. It is appreciated.
There wasn't much from the Iraqi respective at all.
Indeed, this was just a basic run down of evens. False advertising.
Until I read your comment I forgot that was the subject!
Absolutely agree. This is generic in the description. Cool animation, but not told from any particular sides' perspective at all; more like a repeat of CNN factoids.
The assembly of the missing pfps
Did you see the final clip? It looks like Fox News
Kuwait was not an insignificant target, it was oil-rich. Enforcing Iraq's long standing territorial claim over Kuwait would again, double Iraq's oil revenues, which combined with its now massive military power would have given it the ability to reunite the Arab nation by force, Bismark-style.
He said 'seemed' dude
Plus, I doubt Saddam cared much about other Arabs anyway
@@aaroncabatingan5238 Saddam cared about building the Arab nation that's why unlike so many other dictatorships where the country's money is exported abroad he built up Iraq to be a very highly developed country. If you don't believe this ask anyone who lived there, even the Shia who hated him will admit that, plus there were thousands of westerners who worked there who can tell you too. Schools, hospitals, universities, roads, power stations etc. etc. Why do you think when the US attacked him he sent all his aircraft to his enemy Iran? He knew that Iran's biggest military weakness was it's air force. So that once he was gone, the Iranians could continue fighting the white supremacist imperialist world order. America destroyed 50 years of economic development and reduced Iraq to starvation. No one wants to live in Iraq now. America is just about keeping the white man on top and destroying any progress by other races. Ask anyone who lived in iraq before and after, they will tell you it was better under Saddam, because they at least could live safely with all amenities. Now they can't.
@@bhangrafan4480 lol you think the deep state cares about race? They only care about money and power. They would gladly, and have, sent millions of their own to die in order to increase their own power. Granted more of the other side usually die but that's because money and power equals better weapons. If anything those who rule encourage race based identitarianism as the infighting it creates among the poor distracts them from their real enemy.
@@royriley6282 Yes (but not always tactically, they need co-operation from others) because its the WASPS and their friends who have owned everything for nearly 300 years and they don't want to share it. Wall St & the City of London are dominated by them. The policy is the "Zero Sum Game" if another power benefits in any way this is automatically interpreted as a threat. So we have to destroy China, we have to destroy Iraq, we have to destroy Iran. The Saudis were our puppets but their wealth will one day make them a threat too. The rising financial strength of others is ultimately a threat and will be dealt with. A lot of global capitalism is about wiping out the local national capitalist classes.
@@royriley6282 However I agree with most of what you say, I just think that even today there is a strong racial dimension to it, which is about the heritage of power.
Excellent video, I was a freshman in high school when this occurred. I just subscribed to your channel. I'm looking forward to more videos.
Great videos of history please keep them coming definitely count on my support
It all began when an archduke was killed by a Serbian man...you see Lincoln had federalize the army in the USA and...well, how much do you know about the Gauls?
Lincoln wouldnt have had to do that if those rascals in boston hadnt tossed some tea into the harbor
@@kodingkrusader2765 Those rascals wouldn't have had to do that if some guy hadn't decided to sail west.
@@superexoticshrub that dude wouldn't have to sail west if some some city in the Dardanelles didn't fall to an empire named after furniture.
@@CheemsofRegret I like eating apple pie
I think you gotta start with the Mycenaeans on this one dawg
iraq: forgive us
Kuwait: no
Iraq: *so you have chosen, death*
Bestcool5 no we did not choose death we chose destiny and trust we chose no fear and no mercy we are not going to trust a country without good ruling
America: *_cowabunga it is then_*
@@bestuan no u invaded our oil smh
LMAOOOOOOOO
Jalsumait 965 bruh, the US did all of the work, Kuwait was literally occupied by Iraq, and Iraq had the best ruling in the Middle East, sadam gave free education to his people and I think free healthcare also
To be fair to the T-72 tank, alot of the ones the Iraqis had were downgraded export models. Many of them were also locally produced copies called the Asad Babil which were even worse than the export version.
Asad babil (Lion of Babylon) is high tech version of t72 and its tank of national guards special forces its not a coby its t72 have Modifications include increasing the power of the cannon, improving armor thickness, Adds on reactive armor, thermal sights, and night vision and also modifications for amphibious .
The war status turn badly because france gave all radar system scheme that she build to alliance which us easly neutrilize aircraft and ai defensive support which make Infantry and armored forces in the battle uncovered without backing an easy target
Asad babil was the only good version iraq had
It wasnt localy produced
It was polish t72 that got upgraded with french and norwigan tech
The Iraqi ones were built if ordinary steel when they have to manganese molybdenum alloy to stand a chance
Iraq: Yes I have taken Kuwait!
Iraq seconds later: *WHY DO I HEAR BOSS MUSIC?!?*
US : I'm not Man Enough to fight Mighty Iraqi Forces alone .... So I will take coalition of 32 nations with me...🇺🇲🇺🇳
@@tarunpandey8339 that is how the real world works, gather as many allies as u can to achieve maximum strength
Iraq: Invades Kuwait
39 Countries hundreds of Kilometers away: ARE YOU CHALLENGING ME?!
LOLZ
If it wasent for the oil kuwait will not be seen on the map today
Irony, isn't it
@Acoustic02 _ If I'm going to fight, I don't want it to be fair.
Acoustic02 _ No it’s how smart people fight
Iraq’s perspective apparently is general historical overviews.
@Zenith104 Yeah sure commiting a Warcrime doesn't make you a bad guy
@Zenith104 The US isn't the bad guy here?
Donald Rumsfeld went and shook hands with Saddam and sold him weapons (including chemical) to fight Iran.
The US told Iraq that the US had no position on invading Kuwait when they contacted the US ambassador about their plans.
A US PR firm arranged for a Kuwaiti official's daughter to pretend to be a nurse and lie about seeing Saddam's republican guard throwing babies out of incubators to win the American public's support for the war.
Hundreds of thousands of civilians dying due to destroyed infrastructure and sanctions.
The US munitions and bombs had depleted uranium in them and created a plague of childhood cancers where virtually none existed before.
Then they lied about weapons of mass destruction and finished the rest of the country off.
The US created a power vacuum that created ISIS and chaos that the region is still trying to stabilize.
The US did a great injustice in this war of aggression.
@Zenith104 both did, the highway of dead however, it's one with the highest number of deaths
@Zenith104 It's not a zero sum. They both did. Saddam was a brutal dictator. The US used deception and false PR to commit atrocities. You can't refute one point I made.
"General historic overviews" aka heavily censored western propagandized history..
This is pretty good man. Good job.
I’m Kuwaiti and my uncle almost died at the gulf war and Iraqi soldier kidnapped my grandpa but he’s safe and still alive thankgod on the other hand my grandpa from my dad side he died in the war he was a sleep and then they bombed he’s house my aunt still alive but she’s traumatized and my dad wasn’t home it’s was a hard time for Kuwaitis and they suffered a lot
(today is Kuwait national day 25-26 feb)
My uncle was an American Soldier in the Gulf War
@@damanithegoat9653 that’s coollll thank him for me Americans and Europe and other countries really helped us in the gulf war🥺
@@Reemalfouzan222
kuwait is an american puppet state your country was better under saddam tbh
@@jackal25301 please learn history before speaking I learned a lot of history and took a lot of history classes basically I’m a history nerd
@@Reemalfouzan222
no one gives a damn if you are a history nerd if you have something that add up to the topic say it if you have none then stfu and btw what your american poppet state have of history your country was made by western countries there was nothing called kuwait before britain
This isn't a Iraqi perspective but a run down of events.
Well the same thing happened for both sides
It's not even that
He didn't mentioned boming civilian properties so it's still US perspective
@@DarkTruthPlatform did you even hear the part where he said Baghdad is water and electricity is gone?
How is water a military target again?
@@naoyanaraharjo4693 troops like water🤷🏽♂️ it’s a shame that civilians do too; surrender, would be the over all message
Saddam: Invading Kuwait was easy, nothing will happ....
US: I smell *oil*
Avery The Cuban-American Guns actually and oil for the spoils.
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Actually, it was the Kuwaitis who cried to the UN and exaggerated what the Iraqis were doing that made America declare. Read your history. Most of America's oil comes from north and south America
@@toade1583 Yeah people who say it's about the oil really make themselves look stupid. If America wanted to invade a country for oil, they wouldn't pick the Middle East. The easiest target would be Canada. They are close, have no military, and tons of oil.
Good video! Well explained, nice animations!
Wow! I just happened to stumble upon your channel. I love this stuff!
"The country was merely a product of British colonialism"
And such is the middle east
And Middle East conflicts
.... which the British controlled for 10 years and nothing to do with the Ottoman Empire which had ruled it for the previous 400
@@billbogg3857 in 10 years the British fucked up more than Ottomans... And that's not easy
@Michal Blaszczak yeah but you dont need to make it worse, they just had to make better borders
@Michal Blaszczak they existed, It wasn't nearly as bad tho
Saddam: Are you going to help me create my dictatorial regime or fight it?
America: Yes
Edit: I thought I got 3-5 likes after getting a notification. I check. 706!
Thanks guys!
Sad but true
When your dog goes bad, you have to put him down.
Wait.. I thought the Nazis created the Ba'ath Party in order to ignite rebellions in arabian colonies and weaken France and Britain 🤯
lol exactly
For the US during the cold war, dictatorships were a better alternative to Communists.
Apart from the beginning of this video, what exactly is from the iraqi perspective here? Which iraqi sources were quoted?
Look at this one, ua-cam.com/video/aAZoKXOcsmU/v-deo.html
Check the description pretty sure there was a book from an Iraqi soldier there but I speed read through it so I could be wrong.
Another great video!
This wasn’t really the Iraqi’s perspective....
Milka Bogovac What you said was a very brief passage in a 14 minute video. Not enough to say this is about the Iraqi’s perspective.
Tbh none of his videos really have a perspective. I'm not saying he has no personal biases but he doesn't try to dig into one side's narrative (which I think is a good thing). Idk why he didn't just call it "Gulf War | Animated Mini-Documentary"
King David No thanks
Yeah it would have been cool to see, Iraqis are demonized in this war for some reason even though they were completely justified in invading Kuwait. Especially since the coalition WERE absolutely targeting civilian structures.
@@cs40660 So Iraq was justified to invade Kuwait because after they took Kuwait the coalition bombed civilian targets? Yea, makes sense.
And how exactly was this from the Iraqi perspective ?
Deckard Whitecalf it’s what actually happened.
That doesn't make any sense. I want to hear from Iraqis.
@@Corey_Brandt
No, Its not.
The vast bulk of those killed on highway 80 were Iraqi migrant workers and their families.
Iraq was broke after the longest proxy war in modern history. (with Iran ) THE REAL GULF WAR.
The loans which Iraq asked Kuwait and Saudi Arabia to forgive was money spent on defending both Iraq and THEM from an Iranian Revolution.
They then dropped the price of oil to cripple Iraqs economy because they could NOT pay back the loans.
He told the justifications for Iraqi invasion, and their strategic thinking that’s how. You must not have been paying attention.
@@Emanresuadeen
NO,
he didnt.
I DID .
Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, with credits and weapons (incl WMDs ) from the USA , fought to the last drop of IRAQI blood.
Kuwait is an artificial state which blocks Iraqs access to the sea. Look at the MAP.
All those countries , from Israel, Yemen , Oman , UAE , were created to control the major Oil produers access to global markets.
With Kuwait there, all you need is a ship to close the Shatt Al Arab, and Iraq is f**ked.
Thats why Kuwait is there.
My dad was stationed in kuwait, he was a helicopter captain and he always said all that oil burning reminded him of hell. He saw many friends died and it changed him for the rest of his life for the worst, but that will always be the father i remember, the hero.
God Bless him and you. Semper Fi!
My father was a tank commander in the Iraqi army at that time (draftee). He told me that without air support, US ground troops would not have been able to make any real advancement, especially against the Elite Republican Guard.
@trublu97 I’m not saying that the Republican guard did not take massive losses but you should look up the battle of Um Qassar in Basra and how Long it took the USMC just to clear that area.
@trublu97 Not sure if you’ve served, but read up on the background of the Fallujah fighters and you’ll be able to understand my point a bit further.
Please do the Iranian Revolution as your next video!
Please! And then the Iran-Iraq war
@@jacksonmacpherson6101
My mum remembers that in school they made her and her friends in Iraq stand up on the command 'qiyyam qaddissiyat Saddam' (that's Arabic for standing for the sacredness of Saddam) and then sit on 'juloos yasqut Al furs Al majoos' (sit and the Iranian Zoroastrians will fall).
Yeah. The Zoroastrians who created the Islamic Republic and started the Islamic Revolution of 1979. And Saddam was eating pork and drinking alcohol and telling Iraqis to worship him instead of God yet he calls himself Muslim!
@@موسى_7 Hate Saddam as an Iranian but I love our fellow Iraqi and Syrian Brothers ❤🇮🇷❤🇮🇶❤🇸🇾❤
Pls upload Hindi torrent with bobs
@@mohammadsab4478 Saddam was an Iranian? Damn, I missed something there.
Iraq: Forgive our debt
Kuwait: No way.
Iraq: By the way, Kuwait, you financed your own invasion.
لقد كان فخ بالاتفاق مع أمريكا والتمويل كان ضيعف لقد سددنا اضعافه للكويت وإيران
Usa is a joke they were against occupation of Kuwait but support Israeli occupation of Palestinians land?
Bruh saddam really said this: "i did this war on behalf of the arab world im your hero forgive the debt, please"
Thanks for the video, we're producing a game on this very subject!
I love those random trolly endings you put on the end of some of these. XD
Once Iraq invaded Iran practically the whole world either officially or unofficially backed it, the Iranian revolutionary regime being perceived as a 'rogue state'. Sunni Jordan became a major supply route from Aqaba port. Endless convoys of supply trucks crossed Jordan into Iraq during the war. The Iraqis were largely supplied with arms by the USSR (about 2/3) and France (about 1/3). European countries supplied dual use technologies, the UK supplied machine tools to make weapons and ammo (see the "Matrix Churchill Affair"), Germany supplied pesticides plants believed to be used to make chemical weapons. By 1983 the USA began to openly support Saddam. Donald Rumsfeld visited Saddam that year. From then the US supplied Iraq with satellite intelligence about Iran's military operations. Oil rich Sunni monarchies, notably Saudi & Kuwait financed Saddam's war as their proxy in the fight against Shia Iran.
This. Saddam was a pet dictator who went off leash. He forgot that his only job was to check the Iranian government which the CIA murder hobos had bungled into existence through their illegal and immoral meddling in Iranian affairs.
@Vlavitir glutginskiya Ssshhhh that doesn't fit with their anti Israel and the west narrative.
@Vlavitir glutginskiya Yes, but they still hoped to control him, which was the original comment you replied to anyways. Nobody said, that he was put in power, but that the Iranian government was put into power, making a point about unnecsessary involvement of the USA.
@@CrazyNikel There is no narrative except yours here. Even Americans should be ashamed of the existence of the CIA.
@@ingratus8160 you should be ashamed all you want but that doesn't get rid of them does it
great info
What its really awesome to see you on this channel. Damn good to see two of my favorite UA-cam experts here.
Hello there
Stg mrgunsngear is everywhere
Yay it’s mr gng!
The desert shield logo thingy
4:23 We really gotta stop using the Red-Tailed Hawk's scream for the Bald Eagle. The real Bald Eagle sounds like a chicken or a seagull lmfao.
Very well researched and collated. That’s wor a like and a sub
Was very disappointed to get practically zero insight into the Iraqi perspective from a video that claims to do just that. Where is the historical, religious, ideological and political context of events? Nowhere. All this is is a very crude recap of events. I learned 100 times more about Iraqi perspective by reading Iraqi posts in the comments section lol.
Yeah hes a bean
@@lsd-rickb-1728 I get his point also but lets not be rude.
@@Brendanasdfdsf I don't like beans my guy
LSD-Rick B-172
You don’t like... *BEANS* !?!?
Their point of you was that they thought antique soviet tanks were beasts lol
That wasn't Iraq's perspective, you had quite a couple errors in statics and the formation of the events, and Also the way you're narrating is biased.
right?
Could you give a more accurate rundown of the Iraqi perspective (assuming you're Iraqi yourself)?
Biased in what way ?
How is it biased? Elaborate please
This channel deserves more than a crore subscribers!
That seemed from a neutral prosition. Don't see how that was from Iraq's point of view at all.
Perhaps it was more neutral than it was from Iraq's perspective, but the video focused more on Saddam's reasons for invading Kuwait, how he did it, and what life was like in Baghdad. We didn't much about why the United States formed the coalition or how they invaded.
@@TheArmchairHistorian And its better is neutral because Saddam doesn't reflect the people of Iraq.
@@TheArmchairHistorian Just change the title my love
Not even from a neutral point, it clearly comes from the US perspective , I’m Iraqi by the way
The video did touch on it, but I would've been interested to hear more about why the Iraqis thought it would turn out OK for them.
"From Iraqi perspective"
Proceeds to quote western sources
Kyle Shanahan yeah
I kinda get why, but I do wish they focus more on Iraq's stuffs. Maybe something like a more through explanation about "Who is Saddam Hussein" and "how the Iraqi people feel about the war"
As a comparison, let's say the topic here is "Vietnam War from Vietnam's perspective." There the focus will be more about the politic between the two sides (North and South Vietnam) along with the war from what the Vietnamese communist soldiers did (how do they ambush, the struggle they're in for doing that, etc) and how they feel about the war in general. There might not be source for everything about that, but there should be something at least.
This video feels like nothing would feel different if "Iraq's perspective" is removed completely.
This video is bullshit. Iraqis perspective you can here from real iraqi veterans. Not from an video like this
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Honestly, there's very few Iraqi accounts available, especially to an English-speaking audience. Thankfully there is enough to fill in most of what happened in Iraq during this time, but it comes from the Americans taking the files after invading in 2003 and transcribing them into English.
If you want a really full source using lots of those translated Iraqi documents, you should check out a study called the Iraqi Perspective Project by Kevin Wood. He has a few volumes, including a whole one on the Gulf War
It's not flawless, but if you can read it alongside other sources too it's a great addition to the other side of the coin!
I was in Kuwait when this happened, as a child, I remember seeing the Iraqi army in our street. After Kuwait was free, we returned back from Saudi Arabia only to find guns everywhere and 24/7 night sky due to oil wells fire. No body ever expected that invasion.
Love these videos!
Should get an Iraqi to do this video. No mention of depleted uranium or perpendicular drilling. Hard to say it's an Iraqi perspective
Agreed completelx
What’s the problem with DU? It’s used as an AP round (considering it was mostly tank battles, this makes sense) and it’s main type of radiation only matters if you get it inside of you, and if that happens you have bigger problems to worry about
Sadly a 13 minutes video with 30 seconds of Iraqi perspective XD
Informative and enjoyable
8:55 Man they missed a golden oppertunity they should've called it highway to hell
When a country that's not the US invades another country for oil.
*USA:* Wait, that's illegal.
You just watched the vid and saw that the American invation was not to seize Irak's oil but to keep Kuwait neutral...yet you still spit put that bullshit?
Haters gonna hate. Internet history afficionados tend to be like that.
@@MrAlepedroza Probably referencing the 2003 invasion of Iraq
Levisa Productions At peak production the US received less than 0.9% of our total oil income from Iraq with over 85% of it coming from North Dakota and Canada. This means it would be completely ludicrous to imply that the US invaded Iraq for oil.
@@coles2688 Not really ludicrous at all. If the US was intending to increase its percentage of oil income from Iraq, or if it was looking to seize more control over more sources of oil, then it's very likely the invasion was for oil.
That being said though, I find it more disturbing that the actual purpose and motive behind the Iraq invasion remains a mystery to this day, even though almost two decades have passed since then. It really makes us wonder who was driving the administration to launch such a war.
If the US invades other nations for oil, then why haven't gas prices ever had any sort of significant decrease? Gas prices - adjusted for inflation - have remained the same.
Try using actual logic and thinking about things, rather than just regurgitating bullshit that you hear.
guys,it's not AAIRAN or AAIRAK
It's Iran/Iraq. Like "E"
Like initiate
not AInishiate
This is just how we say it in the United States. If I did authentic pronunciation for every country, I'd also be saying things like "Frahnce" instead of "Frants." Or "Eetaly" instead of "italy." It just comes off as pretentious.
@Godd Howard India English to take over. Bobble head included
@@TheArmchairHistorian not Iraq it's العراق :)
I bet you can’t even pronounce english words really well.
Boy you sure told him
for my aunt who died of brain cancer in april 29, 2021 she served the US army and was deployed in operation desert sheild and desert storm may she rest in peace i’ll miss her
As a kuwaiti i am greatful for her service
You should make one about the Iraq War. That would tie in very well with this episode.
Pleeeeeeeease do the Iran-Iraq war. I love me WW1 2: electric boogaloo
have you heard about that time the iraqi's laid a lot of copper wire through a swampy area then just electrocuted all the iranians when they performed a human wave
It was
World vs Iran War
@@Oshin-en8nb the podcast lions led by donkeys made the comparison that "Iran was in an RPG and Iraq was a boss who is scripted to win even though you dont know it"
I didn't fully appreciate the volume of hard work that goes into making these videos until I watched one of your livestreams. Your videos are great and the hard work really shows through all of the drawing/animations and maps. Keep it up!
@@gladonos3384 Why are you invalidating the work of this channel? That's not only rude, but disrespectful.
@@ryanlo3800 ua-cam.com/video/fdSdwExjbWQ/v-deo.html < Skip to 2:42
GLaDOnOS dude STFU
Coalition is just an excuse for an airbase near by.....
Bro I’m from Kuwait 🇰🇼 Iraq got humiliated😂
Iraq fought 33 countries, but Kuwait is part of Iraq
As a retired USAF Veteran of Desert Sheild/Desert Storm who was actually there... there's SOOOOOO MUCH left out that is HUGELY important to why Iraq collapsed so fast. No, i'm not expecting a 2 hour video, but a 15ish-minute video could still cover what was really important in the war as to what was not and what really happened... I'll never forget my time there and what we did in the USAF is always forgotten in the rush to cover that one silly tank battle when the war was already long-over.... there's a very good reason why everyone is in a rush to cover that one tank battle and seem to have nothing else to talk about in the war... but I know what really happened there and why there was only one tank battle. So much is missed in this video.
Would you mind explain the events you were part of, I'm very interested.
Me too, my father was a helicopter captain in the army air force on the front lines, but he doesn't talk very much about what happened...
The gulf war showed us that America is really good at fighting a conventional ground and air war. But when it comes to long term insurgency not so much
Would you ever do a video or series on the Iran-Iraq War? I feel like this is a significant, but little-understood, aspect of modern Middle-Eastern history.
Saddam became the dog that bit the hand that fed it. America and Saudi funded 8 years of war with Iran. 8 full years. This video goes onto say how they defeated Saddams military, but still needed him in power. America did not assist in the Shia uprisings against him. But eventually the man fell. When America's worst nightmare , actual democracy in Iraq finally reared it's face the inevitable finally surmised. A Shi'a Majority Iraq took the reigns to power and most notably, formed an unbreakable alliance with Iran. This is like, Ayatollah Khomein's 1979 revolution in Iran reaping the full fruit of it's eight year sacrificial war against Saddam's regime. The backfired attempts of both Saudi and America resulted in another dirty tactic. The funding of Terrorist Groups backed by the likes of Abu Bakr Baghdadi, like Jabhat Al Nusra and Al Qaedah , to reek absolute havoc in the area. In comes Iranian Military Revolutionary Guard as a consequence. Headed by the most anti American gangster of the lot, General Qassem Soleimani. Dear Lord. America. You can't shake that now. Those groups you funded via Saudi tried to bring Assad of Syria down as a consequence but Iran, Iraq, Syria and ultimately Hezbollah in Lebanon who actually helped Assad regime , just got stronger because of it. Russia also understood what kind of games America had played and still wanted to play, so they took Iran's side and smashed Al Qaedah in Syria for real. Like the video actually states. It wasn't in the American or Saudi interest to see Saddam fall, even though they fought him, and it wasn't in their interest to see Al Qaedah fail in Syria also. Isreal 's expansionist ideology to once again use Lebanon as it's back yard has now become a pipe dream. Meanwhile The apartheid walls of Jerusalem are clearly in the sight of the Eagle. How long do you think that regime is going to last? The pack of cards is going to fall somewhere along the line. Maybe not now. But eventually it will.
@@Aliameem oh my fucking god really just called him a "gangster" 😂
@@JohnAnber
In a Gangster Paradise. As in true hero and loyalist of The Revolution. Love him to bits . Cry when I see his picture.
@@JohnAnber
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Great video and all buuuuuuuuuuuuuuut what was Iraq's perspective? This was an overview of what happened. What was the populations perspective? What was the military's thoughts, reactions, etc.? What was the overall thought of the Iraqi citizens post war? What was life like during and after the war? How did the sanctions affect business and what was the response? What new allies and enemies did they gain?
They starve bc their country was destroyed. But its not good for USA that people know that
Iraqis got fucked over by 13 years of sanctions followed by a brutal war that lead to a power vacuum culminating in the shithole that is the middle east right now
Its propaganda not really educational
How is this propaganda, it’s all entirely true
@@mcarrowtime7095 you can be truthful and spread propaganda at the same time. They’re not mutually exclusive.
The gulf war had just about every major tactic from the 20th century.
Mass arty bombing before moving up? WW1 tactic.
Fast and efficient use of armored vehicles?
Ww2 tactic.
Use of air and arty to support a moving line? Vietnam tactic.
And combined it with the modern advancements in missile, drone and aircraft made at the time, making it a short and very one-sided war.
Idk why so many dislikes..this was so well done! Bravo!
So simply the war was like this: Iraq VS the World
to be exact it iraq vs 33 countrys
It was an invasion not a war, everything was planned by US and Saddam took the wrong decision
Max Smith at this date 30 years ago Iraq the third strongest army in the world invaded my small country Kuwait
Max Smith Kuwait was refusing to let US army get into its land thats why US incited Saddam to invade Kuwait so they can come to its land to liberate it then take good position to invade Iraq in 2003.
Max Smith exactly bro
Iraq's invasion of Iran if successful would have given Iraq control of Iran's oil rich province of Khuzestan. This would have doubled Iraq's oil revenues and given Iraq the wealth and power to reunite the Arab nation into a single state Bismark-style, which seems to have been Saddam's long term goal as a Ba'athist. Ba'athist's rejected the way the French & UK had broken the Arab nation up into lots of little pieces all set against each other in an imperialist 'divide & rule' strategy. The invasion was shortly after the Iranian revolution when the Tehran regime was still full of revolutionary zeal and was seen to be trying to spread its revolution throughout the region, even creating tension over the holy sites in Saudi. Saddam used the pretext of an 'Arabistan' movement wishing to join with Iraq, as there is a high Arab population in Khuzestan. It is not widely recognised in the UK that the siege of the Iranian embassy in 1980 was carried out by Iraqi Army soldiers, to create pro-Arabistan propaganda as a prelude to, and justification of the invasion. It was an opportune moment to invade because the Iranian armed forces were in a very poor state. They were purged of monarchists, who included some of the countries best trained officers. In addition the Iranian armed forces were highly dependent on US supplies of spares , ammo etc., which had been cut off by sanctions.Particularly badly hit was the air force which could only operate a fraction of its combat aircraft due to having the most severe purges of officers and the worst shortages of spares etc. In the end the Iraqi invasion of Iran ground to a halt not because of Iranian resistance but because of poor competence of the Iraqi general staff in logistical planning. The war quickly settled into static fighting and trench warfare. As time time passed Iran's resistance grew till the Iraqis were driven out of nearly all of the country by Iran's regular army within about 2-3 years. At this point the regulars refused to go into Iraqi territory, and left that to the revolutionary guards. These continued fighting till July/August 1988 with no lasting success due to a lack of heavy weapons against Iraq's regulars.
little bhangra this is iran and nobody can destroy it.even mongols alexander didnt.this crazy assholes was nothing and anyone in future will be if they try to bring hand on iranzamin.cyrus is sleeping but we are awake
Bhangra Fan The Iran-Iraq War was absolutely brutal...
@@GrahamCStrouse No one could possibly argue with that. I certainly didn't intend to imply otherwise.
@@bhangrafan4480 he is wrong, many including Alexander and the Mongols (ilkhanids) ruled Iran. Even Safavid dynasty and Qajar dynasty were from Turkic origins.
Most importantly, Iranians are Muslims today because of a battle called Qadisiya and Arab domination of Iran.
@@BoqPrecision Thanks for the useful information. I was aware of these things, but many other viewers might not be.
I love your animations
US lost more people to friendly fire then they did from Iraqs military during that event. That's how lopsided that war was.
There is a general feeling that future wars won't be as one sided Yugoslavia in 1999 was another one sided affair
Iraq invades Kuwait
US invades Iraq
_There's always a bigger fish_
Which fish is coming for the US then :0
@@AltoStratusX1 The huge Russian Belluga, or maybe the north Korean Piranha, lol !
@@AltoStratusX1 china
@@perniciousseizurehellio3438 Bwuahaha
@@AltoStratusX1 Their isn't a bigger fish in our lake.
Good video, but you failed to provide an accurate depiction of the Iraqi POV
The video makes Saddam out less a bad guy as most video's on the topic but it definitely still makes him the bad guy.
brilliant!
From 11:15 great job keeping a straight face; "sanguine" 😂
Iraq: I invaded Kuwait for its oil
USA: Did i hear oil!!?!?
Please make on indo pak wars 1971 in which independent state of bangladesh was formed please make as it will be new to the people
Haha I loved the CS:GO smoke grenade sound effect xD
Both my parents came from the Iraq war. Screwed much up. They went through years of camps, and had to deal with two wars. Pretty much a whole decade of it. So many stories, so many horrible things. My mom had to move 11 times, once even living under a tree with hundreds of other people. Sometimes in trenches.
I was born in 92 my pops fought during this time so I’m trying to learn what my pops never told me.
I’m sorry to tell you this is not the right place to learn
Matt R raped by who? What sides are you talking about?
Matt R nah dude historians write history
My dad was drafted too
My uncle fought in this war
My grandpa is a veteran of the Gulf War. He has tons of stories to tell. He wasn't on the front lines though. He was head of security at a American Hospital that would receive injured us soldiers.
Was he in london
Iraqi survivor of air campaign sits in a dark corner rocking back and forth, mumbling to himself, "Brrrrrrt. . . Brrrrrrt. . ."
Until getting into this comment section, I never realised how animated Middle Eastern political debates were among the people that actually live there.
“The M1 Abrams.”
THE FREEBRAMS!!!!!!!
Love the new theme and the animation just keeps getting better, keep it up!
Today is my nations Independence Day
I come here to witness the bravery of my people to give me a future
I salut to those that have died for me 🇰🇼
🤦🏻 (this is the closet emoji to a salut, sorry)
This also works. o7
You're country is fake
your so called country will vanish as soon as the world no needs the oil, ever wondered how you will be able to pay the employees working the institutions which happen to be 95% foregineers?
@@MesopotamianKnight lmaoo hold your L clown
@@kamakiller1145 🤡
* Sips his Iraqi tea, anticipating another history channel to give the true "Iraqi Perspective" *
American's drink Iced Tea. Wich is usually lighter and is usually grown around the area of Malaysia not Iraq. Does Iraq grow tea? Does Iraq grow anything of export?