As a Chilean im always happy when someone takes a look at our history, and from once im glad it isnt someone who glorifies Allendes goverment or the dictatorship, Chile right now has a problem where they treat Allende or Pinoceht( depending on party) as a all knowing hero of the nation and that is just bs
We faced similar issues in Brazil with the rising far right lead by Bolsonaro and his supporters. He praises dictators from our past as heroes and completely subordinated to the US "guidelines" for Latin countries, thus basically scrapping and selling every asset possible for the lowest imaginable amount of money. Our national Petrol company was probably one of the biggest hits. Loads of money into dividends and mass sale of assets, which we then rented for more in short term than we sold it for lol, all that with minimal productive investments and reinvestment in tech and development. It's been dark times for us latins, the more unstable Latin America is, the better for the Northern powers
It’s probably because he’s biased af. His video about Spain was disgusting in it’s partisanship. He’s always available to whitewash the crimes of the left.
Hard to believe that a channel with such high quality videos has not blown up yet. On a sidenote, your accent is quite fascinating, a mix of British and American pronunciations.
That is pretty common among European English speakers. A lot of us learn the language from movies and social media so we pick up elements from both Brits and Yanks.
@@Kronos_LordofTitans that's true for most non native speakers who got a nice touch with Brits English IMHO. I'm Brazilian and started learning the Brit, but by media I developed a mixed accent with some elements from US, Brit, Australian and some Slavic countries (limited to words where a heavy Russian like R can be pronounced like Right, I know it's weird AF, it's involuntary 99% of the time)
Este es el segundo video que veo de tu canal; la calidad de la producción y la investigación son la norma. Gracias por tu esfuerzo, no sé por qué no tienes más suscriptores.
Amazing video, most people here do oversimplify things like US involvement and Allende's idealism, which you have talked about in detail here. Kudos to you!
dude you are the most severely underrated youtuber like ever, this video having A MERE 86K VIEWS ON IT IS CRIMINAL, you deserve several millions at least! Seeing content, which is dwarfed compared to yours by terms of quality and amount of work, get 1000times more views is the real evidence youtube does not want good content to spread. Maybe ur name is fucking with the algoríthm but dont change it, your name is your identity and its a cool one imo
Very interesting, excellent research and presentation. Please can you make sure the music doesn’t drown out your voice when mixing the intro? Otherwise, this is brilliant
Your entire channel has insane production quality, your style reminds me of Hitman 2's cutscenes, and all your videos are really interesting, I hope you enjoy making them :)
Looking at the comment "Commenting for the algorithm to boost the great work" made me comment as well, you deserve millions of subscribes for the work you do and the effort you put into your videos
Great video, went into it quite cynical at first considering its history on youtube (most of it tends to be rubbish) but was pleasantly surprised. I'm just curious, is there any resources which go further into detail evaluating whether Allende could have stayed in power if not for US intervention? In your video you infer not, but because this question is so up for interpretation I want to see the sources first. Additionally a tiny critique - I think Allende was not particularly a Chilean exceptionalist, rather I think the quote of him talking to Castro you cited was more indicative of his strong belief in change through liberal democracy than any exceptionalistic beliefs. To me it seems this was justifying his reformist path to socialism to Castro, as Marxists tend to sternly advocate for revolution. If theres any thing that I'm missing (which I probably am considering other sources) then I'll he glad to be corrected. Great video
Came to comment the same thing. Judging by the majority of other comments, he's certainly pandering towards a particular audience, but I would have hoped for a bit more objectivity in the coverage of such a complex issue.
I’ve been saying for years, the CIA deserves to have a Nuremberg style investigation and trail done for each and every member. True healing and progress happens when we are able to cut out the rot and expose the sickness and corruption.
Yes, deprive the world’s leading superpower of it’s intelligence agency. I’m sure that won’t bring any negative consequences! Life isn’t a Disney movie, and there’s far more important things to consider than “healing”. Goddamn kids.
People are crazy when they believe that the things the US did are exceptionally evil or special. Meddling in elections or being heavily involved in civil wars and unrests is something which every major country has done in its history. Historically, European countries are mostly known for meddling in other countries affairs even on the European continent itself….
I would even go as far as saying that the US is relatively humane in their interventions compared to other countries. (Look at Germany as one European example: Germany‘s bombing of Guernica during the Spanish civil war or Germany‘s bombing of Helsinki during the Finnish civil war or Germany‘s atrocities during the boxer uprising in china)
Here is something strange: After watching your video on Spain and its trauma from its Francoist era I saw this video and put it into my Watch Later playlist for a few days. Today, saw a community post about Augusto Pinochet and I knew literally nothing about the man. Then, I looked into the comments and saw someone talking about his "good deeds" regarding hyperinflation and rooting about communism in Chile. So, I was curious and decided to check on Wikipedia about the person and... yeah it was pretty terrible. And now that I decided to take a look into my Watch Later playlist, I am surprised that I still had this. (Coincidence? Yes.) (Good video? Yes!)
Generally speaking whenever anyone wants to "root out communists", they're either someone with an intense fear of it (many ways this can come about, many which are understandable) or are fascist/lean towards an extreme authoritarian hierarchical system that they think will benefit them and are worried that commies might be able to credibly resist/gather support (it's pretty convincing when you have an underclass or peasantry with little material posessions/conditions to lose and a lot to gain from resisting) . Regardless of what some communist regimes have become, the latter are usually some of the worst humans.
@@GlobstersMessengerNice whitewashing of the millions of deaths caused by communism. Comparing the few thousand deaths under Pinochet to the deaths that would have resulted from a communist dictatorship is ridiculous. Not that I’m a fan of Pinochet, he was a traitor to his oath. What the Army should have done was overthrow Señor Decreto and restore power to the Congress, who could then have gone on to organize new presidential elections, as the constitution mandated. Instead, the bastards got power hungry.
Got recommended this today. Fantastic work, and I hope the dissertation went well on the whole - it's wonderful to see your work remaining so sharp and well-informed years on!
I'm sorry but my country is defently not called "Santo Domingo" that's just the name of our stupid capital, My country is called the Dominican Republic. Not Santo Domingo
There is another reason why the US was heavily invested to cause a coup in Chile. Alliente was attempting an early version of computerized resource based economics, project cybersyn. Despite just barely being implemented project cybersyn was already showing that computerized resource based economics had a superior economic capacity to all systems that were implemented on the planet. The US was, and still is, terrified of domino theory: the fear that if one nation gets a democratic version of socialism that's superior to capitlaism in economic output and living standards then the people of other nations will demand it's implementation until sdaid wave of demand for it's implementation reach it's population. The US is a political system built as an enforcement tool to maximize the power and profit of the capitallist class it was built to serve, thus it's top priority is to eliminate any and all potential challegnes to the economic status quo. This is why the US backs 3/4 of today's dictatorships and is behind the majority of coups of modern history. And if all that fails it then resorts to direct intervention and "regime change". The US has exerted extreme effort to keep the argument of "there is no better alternative" alive by killing any attempt to make something better. And we're already seeng that it's now pushing for the worsening of economic conditions and the death of benefits abroad to eliminate the argument of "they have X there, why cana't we" that we saw duringthe Bernie campaign. As capitlaism reaches it's endpoint the US will move towards complete totaliratianism to retain it's plutocracy. The choices we have is to either implement a democratic alternative to capitlaism before we fully enter the AI age or barbarism.
This is nonsense. As it stands there is no better and more free and efficient alternative to the current system. You seem to be a dedicated ideologue but spare me the Bernie bro talking points.
@Kordell Swoffer There's no hope for those ideologues. They've been dropped on their heads as children. Yuri Bezmenov warned us in the West in the 80s, and no one listened.
yeah sure buddy all we need to figure out the best system there ever was was a 1970s chilean computer, way way way less capable than the phone on your pocket. but sure
Oh come on with the section of Allende's Missteps... "well, if you really think about it, it's also Allende's fault in this convoluted way of intentions... in hindsight he should've done this and that, he was too ideological, he would have failed anyway" why do people always feel the need to seek a neutrality that does not exist and "both-side" and issue with an obvious and clear answer based on the data and facts we have? And then trying to state an assumption of how it would've been if Chilean democracy succeeded as fact saying that it would've all just failed... all based on a crude analysis of the man's psychology? Come on, that's not being objective, that sort "centrism" or whatever is just as ideological as anything else. Everything with the video was fine with the video until that point
Is just so easy to go "ahcthually both sides were in the wrong!" When you live on literally the other side of the planet. I swear to God is always the same
Thank you to everyone for watching! I hope you enjoyed it - check out the companion website that hosts all of the sources for this video if you're interested in researching a bit further on this topic! - IMPERIAL www.dropbox.com/s/uf0jy9zz90xl4hr/Chile%20Documentary%20Script%201.docx?dl=0
So Allende's problem was that he believed in democracy and rule of law and that made him unfit to be a leader? Are you that much of a psychopath to make that claim?
@Jack Elving No, the claim is that he didn’t commit fully to either constitutionalism or authoritarianism, which meant that he was unable to achieve a stable leadership through either. His attempts at implementing revolution through the constitution were not working, so he employed tactics such as property seizures that were unconstitutional - which were highly unpopular with the opposition. And vice-versa, he refused to act against his opposition militarily. This does not mean that I believe his adherence to democracy meant he was unfit to be leader, just that he was not assertive enough in either categories of constitutionalism or authoritarianism and that meant he was vulnerable to internal opposition eroding his presidency. I am not making a value judgment on Allende, I am only saying that for him it would have been easier to deal with dissent with the butt of a rifle, as Castro had recommended, but he did not. As such, he tried to do it the legitimate way through democracy, but he couldn’t really commit, which made his presidency more unpopular and made his leadership confused and unmoored. His own strategies were also not effective at placating the opposition, and he became quite detached from the political realities of Chile later into his presidency, which made his decision making even less targeted and impactful, even his Chief Military Advisor Carlos Prats believed this. I hope this clarifies my argument. I do not wish to cast aspersions at Allende, personally I think the decision to try and do it democratically was the right thing to do. That does not mean given the context it was the decision that had the highest likelihood of success.
@@IMPERIALYT I thank you for your thoughtful response. I remain unconvinced though. Intentionally or not, your Realpolitik-lens holds is either tacitly condoning American interventionism as a legitimate action (because as your video makes clear, US interventionism was a decisive factor in his downfall) or alternatively that revolutionary dictatorship is the only alternative. There's no sense of any alternative to Allende's actions in your video outside this framework or binary.
Yo, what's your accent bro? I feel like every sentence I listen too, I'm becoming an accomplice to some legally ambiguous but morally unambiguous crime. I can feel myself transferring my wealth to your very prestigious offshore bank accounts as we speak.
I’m sure those russian “separatists” found their T90’s behind the dumpster, too. And that Lukashenko, may he rot in hell, never once forged an election result.
Commenting for the algorithm to boost this great work
Thank you!
Not a bad idea
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As a Chilean im always happy when someone takes a look at our history, and from once im glad it isnt someone who glorifies Allendes goverment or the dictatorship, Chile right now has a problem where they treat Allende or Pinoceht( depending on party) as a all knowing hero of the nation and that is just bs
IMPERIAL's video doesn't portray Allende or Pinochet as "two sides of the same coin" notably.
We faced similar issues in Brazil with the rising far right lead by Bolsonaro and his supporters. He praises dictators from our past as heroes and completely subordinated to the US "guidelines" for Latin countries, thus basically scrapping and selling every asset possible for the lowest imaginable amount of money. Our national Petrol company was probably one of the biggest hits. Loads of money into dividends and mass sale of assets, which we then rented for more in short term than we sold it for lol, all that with minimal productive investments and reinvestment in tech and development. It's been dark times for us latins, the more unstable Latin America is, the better for the Northern powers
@@bellairefondren7389both bad, but one was clearly much, much worse
@@vulpes7079 Trying to reduce poverty and give education is bad apparently
@@moosesandmeese969 "God forbid women do anything"
As a Chilean, I appreciate that you're pronouncing the Chilean tendency to say CH like it was SH
Where does he do this? He doesn’t say ‘shee-lay’ for Chile.
as a Spaniard, you're pronouncing it incorrectly
@@castizopilledno one cares, flaite aweonao ctm 😂
I’ve been watching your whole catalog, your production quality and research quality are insane… how have you not blown up!?
Honestly I'm asking the same
It’s probably because he’s biased af. His video about Spain was disgusting in it’s partisanship. He’s always available to whitewash the crimes of the left.
Hard to believe that a channel with such high quality videos has not blown up yet.
On a sidenote, your accent is quite fascinating, a mix of British and American pronunciations.
That is pretty common among European English speakers. A lot of us learn the language from movies and social media so we pick up elements from both Brits and Yanks.
@@Kronos_LordofTitans that's true for most non native speakers who got a nice touch with Brits English IMHO. I'm Brazilian and started learning the Brit, but by media I developed a mixed accent with some elements from US, Brit, Australian and some Slavic countries (limited to words where a heavy Russian like R can be pronounced like Right, I know it's weird AF, it's involuntary 99% of the time)
He's just English bro.
@@Rando_Shytehe's Swiss
@@christycullen2355ooohhh haha. His accent ooooozes that Swiss Manufactured perfection.
Greetings from Chile, this is one of the best depictions of the process that I have seen. Thank You!
Great documentary with great visuals and narration. Keep going. You will have hundreds of thousands of views
This has some amazing production quality. Are you just one person?
Chinese government
Yep! I completed it over a course of 2 months of editing & about 3 months of research
@@IMPERIALYT what video edit software did you use?
@@cumhugs don’t be stupid.
@@sebahernandezg I used a combination of After Effects and Premiere Pro! (Also a little bit of Cinema 4D)
Este es el segundo video que veo de tu canal; la calidad de la producción y la investigación son la norma. Gracias por tu esfuerzo, no sé por qué no tienes más suscriptores.
The quality of your videos are amazing and the information is on point. Why hasn't this channel blown up yet?
Amazing video, most people here do oversimplify things like US involvement and Allende's idealism, which you have talked about in detail here. Kudos to you!
Este documental es increible, ¡viva Chile!
Awesome channel. Glad I found it very underrated and should be more popular
Whatever you do keep making these videos this was incredible and even more so for such a small channel
Your content is amazing! i hope you the best and let's hope this blow up :)
dude you are the most severely underrated youtuber like ever, this video having A MERE 86K VIEWS ON IT IS CRIMINAL, you deserve several millions at least! Seeing content, which is dwarfed compared to yours by terms of quality and amount of work, get 1000times more views is the real evidence youtube does not want good content to spread. Maybe ur name is fucking with the algoríthm but dont change it, your name is your identity and its a cool one imo
Very interesting, excellent research and presentation. Please can you make sure the music doesn’t drown out your voice when mixing the intro? Otherwise, this is brilliant
Commenting as this channel should be pushed by the algorithm
This channel is underrated af
Your videos are incredible, thank you for sharing
I directly typed in the name of this video and it wouldn’t come up…. Didn’t know UA-cam shadow banned
Woah, was not expecting to find an arguably even higher production value youtube documentary on the Allende years than Plastic Pills's Cybersocialism.
Your entire channel has insane production quality, your style reminds me of Hitman 2's cutscenes, and all your videos are really interesting, I hope you enjoy making them :)
Fantastic quality, and very well researched. Thanks for this video
Looking at the comment "Commenting for the algorithm to boost the great work" made me comment as well, you deserve millions of subscribes for the work you do and the effort you put into your videos
Outstanding presentation! Thank you for sharing this.
The 9/11 that was way more tragic than the other 9/11
Amazing work, thank you for this.. Great content. Keep this stuff up man..
Sometimes these are hard to watch because one can only suppress so much anger
woohoo! Can’t wait x
Great video, went into it quite cynical at first considering its history on youtube (most of it tends to be rubbish) but was pleasantly surprised. I'm just curious, is there any resources which go further into detail evaluating whether Allende could have stayed in power if not for US intervention? In your video you infer not, but because this question is so up for interpretation I want to see the sources first. Additionally a tiny critique - I think Allende was not particularly a Chilean exceptionalist, rather I think the quote of him talking to Castro you cited was more indicative of his strong belief in change through liberal democracy than any exceptionalistic beliefs. To me it seems this was justifying his reformist path to socialism to Castro, as Marxists tend to sternly advocate for revolution. If theres any thing that I'm missing (which I probably am considering other sources) then I'll he glad to be corrected. Great video
I think you are minimizing the u.s. intervention in the coup of 1973, great video nonetheless
Very much so he is, and that’s highly suspect.
Came to comment the same thing. Judging by the majority of other comments, he's certainly pandering towards a particular audience, but I would have hoped for a bit more objectivity in the coverage of such a complex issue.
@@cjthebeesknees he isn't at all, he's actually exaggerating US involvement entirely, and also simply forgetting KGB involvement
@@randomcloverr what audience is that.
@@randomcloverr lol do one better. "He isn't confirming MY bias so he must have an agenda and he's pondering" Clown
Yo algorithm boost this.
Awesome video, sucks to see that you haven't been picked up by the algorithm yet
My great grandpa was a military intelligence officer sent to Chile in 1962.
i know a good up and coming channel when i see one
I’ve been saying for years, the CIA deserves to have a Nuremberg style investigation and trail done for each and every member.
True healing and progress happens when we are able to cut out the rot and expose the sickness and corruption.
Yes, deprive the world’s leading superpower of it’s intelligence agency. I’m sure that won’t bring any negative consequences!
Life isn’t a Disney movie, and there’s far more important things to consider than “healing”.
Goddamn kids.
People are crazy when they believe that the things the US did are exceptionally evil or special. Meddling in elections or being heavily involved in civil wars and unrests is something which every major country has done in its history. Historically, European countries are mostly known for meddling in other countries affairs even on the European continent itself….
I would even go as far as saying that the US is relatively humane in their interventions compared to other countries. (Look at Germany as one European example:
Germany‘s bombing of Guernica during the Spanish civil war or Germany‘s bombing of Helsinki during the Finnish civil war or Germany‘s atrocities during the boxer uprising in china)
@@feastguy101these children clearly don’t understand how the world works. The U.S. needs to stay powerful for democracy to not shrivel up and die.
@@cactusking4045 This entire video was about the United States literally couping a democratically elected president.
This is excellent work. Bravo.
Great content. Keep this stuff up man.
Here is something strange: After watching your video on Spain and its trauma from its Francoist era I saw this video and put it into my Watch Later playlist for a few days. Today, saw a community post about Augusto Pinochet and I knew literally nothing about the man.
Then, I looked into the comments and saw someone talking about his "good deeds" regarding hyperinflation and rooting about communism in Chile. So, I was curious and decided to check on Wikipedia about the person and... yeah it was pretty terrible.
And now that I decided to take a look into my Watch Later playlist, I am surprised that I still had this.
(Coincidence? Yes.)
(Good video? Yes!)
Generally speaking whenever anyone wants to "root out communists", they're either someone with an intense fear of it (many ways this can come about, many which are understandable) or are fascist/lean towards an extreme authoritarian hierarchical system that they think will benefit them and are worried that commies might be able to credibly resist/gather support (it's pretty convincing when you have an underclass or peasantry with little material posessions/conditions to lose and a lot to gain from resisting) . Regardless of what some communist regimes have become, the latter are usually some of the worst humans.
@@GlobstersMessengerNice whitewashing of the millions of deaths caused by communism. Comparing the few thousand deaths under Pinochet to the deaths that would have resulted from a communist dictatorship is ridiculous.
Not that I’m a fan of Pinochet, he was a traitor to his oath. What the Army should have done was overthrow Señor Decreto and restore power to the Congress, who could then have gone on to organize new presidential elections, as the constitution mandated. Instead, the bastards got power hungry.
Incredible video!
These videos are so beautiful.
This is awesome! New sub
The best analytics I know. impartially
China and the Soviet had good relationship until the soon Soviet split
This also happened in Argentina, the country next over
Still criminally undersubbed
Great job with this, wverything was explained so well.
Really great work dude...
Can I please ask
How did you maks this video?
What software and material?
Thank you! I made this with After Effects, Premiere Pro & Cinema 4D
@@IMPERIALYT thank you soo much!! The quality is real high and i love your videos
This man is incredibly underrated
Phenomenal content
Hopes this boost algorithm
This is good stuff!
For a follow up of this video you should focus on Stroessner Dictatorship and operation condor in Paraguay at the same time as Pinochet
Got recommended this today. Fantastic work, and I hope the dissertation went well on the whole - it's wonderful to see your work remaining so sharp and well-informed years on!
Awesome video
Fkn great channel man
Of course the US would characterize BRI as a debt trap. They would know because they did the same before.
Commenting because I like the video. Great job!
Thank you.
I'm sorry but my country is defently not called "Santo Domingo" that's just the name of our stupid capital, My country is called the Dominican Republic. Not Santo Domingo
underrated
and then they have the audacity to say "socialism always fails"
because it does but aight
Correct.
I am here from Hoog.
Very nice!
Am I having a stroke?
There is another reason why the US was heavily invested to cause a coup in Chile.
Alliente was attempting an early version of computerized resource based economics, project cybersyn.
Despite just barely being implemented project cybersyn was already showing that computerized resource based economics had a superior economic capacity to all systems that were implemented on the planet.
The US was, and still is, terrified of domino theory: the fear that if one nation gets a democratic version of socialism that's superior to capitlaism in economic output and living standards then the people of other nations will demand it's implementation until sdaid wave of demand for it's implementation reach it's population.
The US is a political system built as an enforcement tool to maximize the power and profit of the capitallist class it was built to serve, thus it's top priority is to eliminate any and all potential challegnes to the economic status quo. This is why the US backs 3/4 of today's dictatorships and is behind the majority of coups of modern history. And if all that fails it then resorts to direct intervention and "regime change".
The US has exerted extreme effort to keep the argument of "there is no better alternative" alive by killing any attempt to make something better.
And we're already seeng that it's now pushing for the worsening of economic conditions and the death of benefits abroad to eliminate the argument of "they have X there, why cana't we" that we saw duringthe Bernie campaign.
As capitlaism reaches it's endpoint the US will move towards complete totaliratianism to retain it's plutocracy.
The choices we have is to either implement a democratic alternative to capitlaism before we fully enter the AI age or barbarism.
This is nonsense. As it stands there is no better and more free and efficient alternative to the current system. You seem to be a dedicated ideologue but spare me the Bernie bro talking points.
@Kordell Swoffer There's no hope for those ideologues. They've been dropped on their heads as children. Yuri Bezmenov warned us in the West in the 80s, and no one listened.
where did you get all this conspiracy theories from?🤣🤣🤣
yeah sure buddy
all we need to figure out the best system there ever was was a 1970s chilean computer, way way way less capable than the phone on your pocket. but sure
Ayy lmao… kids these days will believe anything
Good job
Needs morw views
I need this in spanish:(
Do you make your own music because it’s really good and I was gonna ask if you could link the music anywhere
Greetings from Hoog
great video
This is something incredible
Oh come on with the section of Allende's Missteps... "well, if you really think about it, it's also Allende's fault in this convoluted way of intentions... in hindsight he should've done this and that, he was too ideological, he would have failed anyway" why do people always feel the need to seek a neutrality that does not exist and "both-side" and issue with an obvious and clear answer based on the data and facts we have? And then trying to state an assumption of how it would've been if Chilean democracy succeeded as fact saying that it would've all just failed... all based on a crude analysis of the man's psychology? Come on, that's not being objective, that sort "centrism" or whatever is just as ideological as anything else.
Everything with the video was fine with the video until that point
Right? it's centrist 'both sides' nonsense.
Facts
Is just so easy to go "ahcthually both sides were in the wrong!" When you live on literally the other side of the planet.
I swear to God is always the same
chilean democracy? oh boy, you need to talk to actual marxists from that time. have a nice sit down and ask a few things.
Loved this ❤️
Amazing work!
Politics is a slimy endeavor. So gray an area one can't with any accuracy something as easy as predicting the weather.
Wow! Insanely good!
We need more content
Commenting for the algorithm
Top quality as usual, love your channel
El pueblo unido
just 10k views is criminal
Nice content, you got a new subscriver!
Damn outro song slaps (:
Algo boost
This is great stuff
What’s the name of the song that you used in the intro?
Amazing
I'm not arguing- I'm accusing!
Thank you to everyone for watching! I hope you enjoyed it - check out the companion website that hosts all of the sources for this video if you're interested in researching a bit further on this topic! - IMPERIAL www.dropbox.com/s/uf0jy9zz90xl4hr/Chile%20Documentary%20Script%201.docx?dl=0
The link says “Website Expired” :(
So Allende's problem was that he believed in democracy and rule of law and that made him unfit to be a leader? Are you that much of a psychopath to make that claim?
@Jack Elving No, the claim is that he didn’t commit fully to either constitutionalism or authoritarianism, which meant that he was unable to achieve a stable leadership through either. His attempts at implementing revolution through the constitution were not working, so he employed tactics such as property seizures that were unconstitutional - which were highly unpopular with the opposition. And vice-versa, he refused to act against his opposition militarily. This does not mean that I believe his adherence to democracy meant he was unfit to be leader, just that he was not assertive enough in either categories of constitutionalism or authoritarianism and that meant he was vulnerable to internal opposition eroding his presidency.
I am not making a value judgment on Allende, I am only saying that for him it would have been easier to deal with dissent with the butt of a rifle, as Castro had recommended, but he did not. As such, he tried to do it the legitimate way through democracy, but he couldn’t really commit, which made his presidency more unpopular and made his leadership confused and unmoored. His own strategies were also not effective at placating the opposition, and he became quite detached from the political realities of Chile later into his presidency, which made his decision making even less targeted and impactful, even his Chief Military Advisor Carlos Prats believed this.
I hope this clarifies my argument. I do not wish to cast aspersions at Allende, personally I think the decision to try and do it democratically was the right thing to do. That does not mean given the context it was the decision that had the highest likelihood of success.
@@Zilero Hi there Zilero - I will reactivate the website so that you are able to view the sources.
@@IMPERIALYT I thank you for your thoughtful response. I remain unconvinced though. Intentionally or not, your Realpolitik-lens holds is either tacitly condoning American interventionism as a legitimate action (because as your video makes clear, US interventionism was a decisive factor in his downfall) or alternatively that revolutionary dictatorship is the only alternative. There's no sense of any alternative to Allende's actions in your video outside this framework or binary.
Name at the end got censored?
Yo, what's your accent bro? I feel like every sentence I listen too, I'm becoming an accomplice to some legally ambiguous but morally unambiguous crime.
I can feel myself transferring my wealth to your very prestigious offshore bank accounts as we speak.
Very cool
the Church Comission certified the US participation
I'm just glad the US doesn't do this kind of stuff anymore and had nothing to with the Ukraine coup.
I’m sure those russian “separatists” found their T90’s behind the dumpster, too. And that Lukashenko, may he rot in hell, never once forged an election result.
Kinda like Lemino
Good vid 👍
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