The irony, two empires in their twilight initiate actions to save said empires only for the opposite to happen while two cold war adversaries jointly condemn them. Also Mad Mitch's actions during that conflict are quite badass and well worth their own video.
Britain had been making its former colonies independent since 1946 and the British Empire became the British Commonwealth. Aden was a base and little more, when it became too violent to administer the base was closed and the troops went to other friendly countries in the Persian Gulf area. The whole affair was Cold War intrigue rather than colonial.
@@billballbuster7186es after WW2 the USSR ( later Russia) was expanding everywhere so it was a worry . Long time ago I was sitting next to 2 lads on a plane in Saudi from Yemen and they said if the Brits had stayed in the port everything was ok but they expanded ( assuming it's south Yemen ) it then went bad and Mad Mitch was truly mad and cruel . It was America that told the British and French to leave otherwise they'd get no credit from them. The Americans goal after both world wars was to get rid of any empires and they did it by controlling all money's with their Financial Empire.
@@lawrenceglaister4364 The Americans pressured Britain, that was still in hock after WW2, to give up its colonies. Then in the 60s realized only the Soviet Union benefitted, which was too late.
@leaveme3559 I'm happy those colonial bastards died for nothing, their kids won't have a father, their wife won't have a husband, their families will never be able to say a proper goodbye. It's all a win win in my eyes because colonists don't deserve pity or mercy
Having lived in Aden for two years as a child in 1964-66, (my father served in the Royal Air Force) I didn't understand the politics but saw firsthand how the Arab people were regarded by the British. As an adult, I can now understand the hostility. I have long wanted to revisit Aden but sadly there never seems to be a safe time for a Westerner these past decades.
@@realmcafeean PLEASE. Stop justifying Western Imperialism. Fuckers go all over the world treating people like second class citizens in their own homelands and are shocked SHOCKED when they find out they hate us. It's not just the mid-east its EVERYWHERE bro. S America, Africa. Asia, literally everywhere. It's like that old moral: if you have a problem with everyone, YOU'RE THE PROBLEM
I think, when a period of stability can properly take hold in the region, you could be welcomed. I'm a yemeni, and westerners who can see past their mistakes - the injustice of what they did, admit to it - are, in my opinion, always welcome.
Yemen feels like it was better under British rule… the crown only fell to chaos after the weakening of the empire. but what we have now, a 6 away civil war doesn’t sound like its been better without the British.
And Aden has been a cesspool ever since, not to mention the almost ten civil wars that erupted, ever since the Brits left. But hey, let’s blame the White Man, and the Jews for some reason. Self-reflection and self-accountability is out of the question.
Aden started out as a British-Indian base in 1839 and was administered from India. It later became a a port for ships going to India and Australia. In the mid-1950s Nasser of Egypt fired up the Arabs as he wanted to be the ruler of all Arabs. By 1967 violence in Aden made it not worth the effort of defending, so Britain closed the base. The biggest employer in south Yemen was gone and the area has been in decline ever since. Nasser's dream of becoming the new Pan - Arab Pharaoh ended at the same time.
Lmao, Aden is in india and a British city 😮 Arabs appeared out of no where in Aden and attacked the poor British and imaginary Indians on their own land 😂😂😂😂 did I get it right?
@@Rabbi-Jill-kews This is what happens when you can not read English properly, I said when Aden was first established it was Administered from India which was closer.🤣😂🤣
I don't think Britain post WWII had any hope of retaining Aden. Its dismiss was inevitable. With the loss of India and Suez Crisis the writing was on the wall, literally (known Graffiti) and metaphorically. The elite in Britain tried desperately to maintain the colonies but it was just not feasible. It's actually kind of impressive they kept Aden until the 1960's.
We honestly need one on why pan arabism failed. (One on the Egyptian-Syrian Union, the proposed union between Egypt, Syria, and Libya, and one between the baathist Syria and Iraq.) We could've had a unified Arab Republic stretching from Damascus to Cairo, and from Khartoum to Baghdad at one point.
Russia's aim in helping to get us ( Britain ) out of Aden was to acquire the airfield at Khormaskar, then spent the next 20 years or so flying arms into the trouble spots in Africa which they had fermented
Lieutenant colonel Colin Mitchel (also known as "Mad Mitch") is a controversial figure to some, but to us Brits he was a hero, regaining control of Crater and recovering the mutilated British Dead in order to be given a proper burial, and at the same time during the recapture somehow managing to avoid bloodshed, without a single person on either side dying. He was extremely hard on his enemy, but fair.
@@ARDA-cb2zr Everyone is allowed to an opinion! Though in rare circumstances such as this, I personally wouldn't even bother listening to yours as you literally have a playlist titled "Flat earth" which gives me enough of an idea on who you are.
the Atlantic charter almost died with FDR, thank goodness it didn't, Yemen, vietnan, India, and many more had to use revolution to break them chain, and end colonialism.
Not really it was just politics the Soviet Union backed Egypt and America didn't want a war it could be dragged into, especially over the desires of fading Imperial powers.
The USA and USSR were both desperate to gain control of the Middle East for themselves by undermining the British. This video implies that they condemned the Anglo-French Suez invasion due to some kind of moral objection, which is laughably implausible !
In 2007 my brother was the force protection attache at the US embassy in Sana'a. In 2015 my friend's son, a US Marine, was in the force that evacuated that same embassy.
Happy to be corrected, but without defending colonialism, Nasser was just as much an imperialist. He didn't want independence for liberated countries long term. He wanted dominion. This would be more obvious had he run unchecked.
The 67 closure of the Suez canal meant there was no point in the Brits hanging around in what had become a cul-de-sac The attack on the surveillance ship Liberty was due to the Israeli's desire to hide something What that something was? is speculated about to this day
Your Bolivar photo is of Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr., an American WW2 general…not the 19th Century South American revolutionary. Buckner’s father was Simon Bolivar Buckner Sr., a Confederate general from Kentucky (both namesakes of the original Bolivar). Try not using Google images!
A quick note on the naming of Royal Marine Commando units: 40 Cdo is the only unit where they would be addressed as numbered, the others (42 & 45) use the individual numbers. So, they would be addressed as Forty Commando, Four Two Commando & Four Five Commando. But otherwise great video on a rather overlooked conflict.
Many of the Aden men worked for British merchant navy vessels doing the hot dirty stoking work , only getting paid a third of their counter parts. I met quite a few of the Aden sea men, and I understood their total frustration they showed, happy to be making money but were semi slaves in a way. Not too impressive by the British at the time, the Brits certainly knew quite a lot of sly cunning tricks.
One feels bad for Yemen, always being played with by external powers. However, I noticed this video does not mention Oman which is next to Yemen, and does not seem to have as many problems.
My Grandad was in the RAOC in this emergency from 1964-66.He’s told me only about the ‘fun’ bits although he did give me a copy of his firing orders in case of emergency. Never ever ask him about it in case he doesn’t want to talk about it and flips out. He probably did see some things because he told me to never join the army if there is a war.
Empires come and go. Brits in 60s were painful singapore malaysia Rhodesia Zambia...... and Hong Kong in civil riot 1967 led by communist. Colonialism will not survive. 1997 Hong Kong closed the final chapter. Falkland......?
I know of one person that posted there and several other "hot spots" near there. He was a navy medic. He stated it was a constant bar room brawl with the lights out. Every side pointed a gun at him at one time, and he was always giving first aid to anybody that needed it.
Someday only one faction will remain and we can talk. Until then, leave them to their own devices and treat them like uncontacted cave people. All we do only makes it worse.
Started from the creation of Wahabi-Salafism by British aid (Lawrence of Arabia and co.). Which still has roots in modern terrorism like Alqaeda,Isis/isil etc etc
A very garbled, generalised and part inaccurate summery from someone who can't even pronounce Aden properly. A fair try, and some accuracies, but publishing history is not the privilege of amateurs, only the wise.
I'm reminded of Eddie Izzard's story of traveling the world while being a brit born in Aden, Yemen was a bit of an issue post 9-11. Seeing how it was both a communist and muslim country, I'm sure many people born there without any national identity for the place faced a bit of profiling.
Britain had the largest Empire the world has ever seen, which in part was helped to become that by the locals in these countries hating each other. Divide and Conquer being good practice when forming an Empire and relatively easy to do, when the as already said the locals hate each other because of tribal or religious differences. Which still existed after the British left and so they continue killing each other. Happens with other past colonial powers, France, Belgian, Netherlands, Portugal etc former colonies too.
Civil Wars in ex colonies are mainly because whilst the Europeans were in control, the murderous local factions weren’t allowed to roam around ethnically-cleansing themselves of anyone with an opposing tribal or religious ideal!
This is not a very good video. Basically just reading the Wikipedia entry on the Aden Emergency. Padded out with lots of largely irrelevant details from other conflicts and very biased. The truth is that the British "colonizers" had very little to do with the current state of Yemen, which is driven by tribal conflicts and regional Sunni vs. Shia rivalries.
I chuckled when you said Nasser’s goal was to free the Arab world of its colonial overlords who didn’t care about the Arab people. Nasser didn’t care about them either. He was a power hungry politician looking to get incredibly rich. Also a right wing nationalist who arrested and tortured communists.
@@long-hair-dont-care88. agreed. I believe we should all fight communism with brutality. But to show his hypocrisy, he funded Marxists in Yemen to fight the British. He only didn’t like commies when they threatened his power.
Hey Front, I have a video suggestion for you. What are the craziest or most bizarre air to air kills in history? E.g. the guy in a parachute that shot down a plane with a pistol. Using the propeller to down an enemy aircraft.
I think the british could have consolidated all of their Colonies and territories, Decades earlier and integrated them more into the British nation, Like the French Did with French guinia, (legally a patt of homeland France with all the same rights a d privilages) than i think wed still have a British Empire today
Yet we still see adverts on UK tv Saying "Can you please help by donating x so much to the people of Yemen" they are in dire need of this n that.. My attitude is NEVER , they want to be a failed state let em get on with it. Yet they all want to move to the UK for asylum, NOP NO WAY.
The UK took over 25% of the world and then they complain when their former colonies want to live there. It makes no sense to me. If you don’t want to take care of these countries don’t try to take over the world.
Ahhhh, now I know why my former coworker, who is from Yemen, hates the British. He was old enough to have lived under British rule there. -- Thanks for another interesting video!
Hitler captured the Channel Islands.And sent Jewish people to concentration camps.None came back alive.Also other people as well.. Thousands of slave labour's were worked to death.Building fortifications for the NAZI s.They were bye passed in the D Day landings.And we're one of the last places to be liberated.
Ah us British and the French loved drawing lines on maps and creating countries that, at the time suited our interests and then pretending any trouble was nothing to do with us when things fell apart.
Feeling ashamed or still having pride in their actions? Remember the crimes continue even today but they would be written and acknowledged in centuries to come. One crime which seems very small : my paper note is bigger in value than your paper note coz i said so! Soon this will haunt you too when your paper money turns in garbage too.. The karma for EU is rolling in the East
It's a shame that the British army are shown in a bad light in lots of these videos. I was there with the Royal Engineers 1966/67 building a road through the Habilayn mountain region for the country. A contingent visited villages drilling and putting in fresh water stand pipes for the people. Why is nothing reported on the good things the English did for the people. Every month we, in our ignorance, gave 5000 rounds a ammunition to the local village, Al Milah to protect themselves every full moon we got them all back. But we still kept supplying them. Aren't we kind. It would be nice to show the troops in a good light now and again. Have a go at the politicians that put us there.
Thank you U.S.A. OF COURSE the special relationship has stood the test of time.and bringing about the end of the Empire,and America tells everyone what to do.
I guess it was too much to expect impartiality. Still glad it worked out so well in the end for Yemen. It's doing so well now with all the help they have received from their neighbours !
The British were going to leave Aden anyway. The Adenis knew this and were, at the wishes of Nasser, trying to make it look like they were being driven out.
nice video, i wonder if the aussie narrating realises that from a historical perspective he is also british, the british of australia have simply been rebadged as australians
What about *Toussaint Louverture,* who actually did free his country (Haiti) from it's colonial overlord, the French, then did NOTHING to improve his peoples situation?
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The irony, two empires in their twilight initiate actions to save said empires only for the opposite to happen while two cold war adversaries jointly condemn them. Also Mad Mitch's actions during that conflict are quite badass and well worth their own video.
Britain had been making its former colonies independent since 1946 and the British Empire became the British Commonwealth. Aden was a base and little more, when it became too violent to administer the base was closed and the troops went to other friendly countries in the Persian Gulf area. The whole affair was Cold War intrigue rather than colonial.
@@billballbuster7186es after WW2 the USSR ( later Russia) was expanding everywhere so it was a worry .
Long time ago I was sitting next to 2 lads on a plane in Saudi from Yemen and they said if the Brits had stayed in the port everything was ok but they expanded ( assuming it's south Yemen ) it then went bad and Mad Mitch was truly mad and cruel .
It was America that told the British and French to leave otherwise they'd get no credit from them. The Americans goal after both world wars was to get rid of any empires and they did it by controlling all money's with their Financial Empire.
@@lawrenceglaister4364 The Americans pressured Britain, that was still in hock after WW2, to give up its colonies. Then in the 60s realized only the Soviet Union benefitted, which was too late.
@@billballbuster7186around 100 brits died to maintain it what did they die for?.....nothing
@leaveme3559 I'm happy those colonial bastards died for nothing, their kids won't have a father, their wife won't have a husband, their families will never be able to say a proper goodbye. It's all a win win in my eyes because colonists don't deserve pity or mercy
One thing you didn't mention.
When the british left they stole all the national treasures which the yemen people considered sacred.
Aden not Arden
hoorah the british have gone.....now we can live in peace and tranquility for evermore 😕
🤣🤣🤣
Yeah it didnt happen though.
it is pronounced Aden not Ahden! Get with it!
These British troops are the same people responsible for attrocities in northern Ireland during the 1970s
Never mind the C.I.A allowing them to fundraise in the U.S to allow them to arm themselves to ALSO carry out atrocities and keep the U.K busy???
I guess there would have been many Aden
veterans still in service into the 70's but unlike
the IRA they didn't target non-combatants
Atrocities? What do you call IRA bombings against civilians?
So what's the point?!
And the irish are saints right ?
Otto von Bismarck was really wise
On Foreign Affairs, a genius.
He was. And nowadays Germany has a clown as foreign minister who cant speak a sentence without embarrassing herself
@@juanzulu1318Merkel was out for a WHILE now.
@@WorldArchivistMerkel wasn’t foreign minister.
Its because the enlightenment figures used the time we waste on phones studying history, human nature and the sciences
Having lived in Aden for two years as a child in 1964-66, (my father served in the Royal Air Force) I didn't understand the politics but saw firsthand how the Arab people were regarded by the British. As an adult, I can now understand the hostility. I have long wanted to revisit Aden but sadly there never seems to be a safe time for a Westerner these past decades.
As if Arabs wouldn’t be hostile without that incident^^
@@realmcafeean PLEASE. Stop justifying Western Imperialism. Fuckers go all over the world treating people like second class citizens in their own homelands and are shocked SHOCKED when they find out they hate us. It's not just the mid-east its EVERYWHERE bro. S America, Africa. Asia, literally everywhere. It's like that old moral: if you have a problem with everyone, YOU'RE THE PROBLEM
@@realmcafeeAs any people should be, against foreign colonizers and invaders.
Very interesting and unique perspective. The Suez crisis just started when my grandad left the British Army but he was never recalled to fight.
I think, when a period of stability can properly take hold in the region, you could be welcomed. I'm a yemeni, and westerners who can see past their mistakes - the injustice of what they did, admit to it - are, in my opinion, always welcome.
Yemen feels like it was better under British rule… the crown only fell to chaos after the weakening of the empire.
but what we have now, a 6 away civil war doesn’t sound like its been better without the British.
It wasnt the Yemen its was Aden
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And Aden has been a cesspool ever since, not to mention the almost ten civil wars that erupted, ever since the Brits left.
But hey, let’s blame the White Man, and the Jews for some reason. Self-reflection and self-accountability is out of the question.
Aden started out as a British-Indian base in 1839 and was administered from India. It later became a a port for ships going to India and Australia. In the mid-1950s Nasser of Egypt fired up the Arabs as he wanted to be the ruler of all Arabs. By 1967 violence in Aden made it not worth the effort of defending, so Britain closed the base. The biggest employer in south Yemen was gone and the area has been in decline ever since. Nasser's dream of becoming the new Pan - Arab Pharaoh ended at the same time.
That's crazy
Your post is more accurate than the 20 minutes of drivel in the video.
Lmao, Aden is in india and a British city 😮 Arabs appeared out of no where in Aden and attacked the poor British and imaginary Indians on their own land 😂😂😂😂 did I get it right?
South yemen post independence is actually pretty good to live in compared to other states in the region and womens rights were the best in the region
@@Rabbi-Jill-kews This is what happens when you can not read English properly, I said when Aden was first established it was Administered from India which was closer.🤣😂🤣
I don't think Britain post WWII had any hope of retaining Aden. Its dismiss was inevitable. With the loss of India and Suez Crisis the writing was on the wall, literally (known Graffiti) and metaphorically. The elite in Britain tried desperately to maintain the colonies but it was just not feasible. It's actually kind of impressive they kept Aden until the 1960's.
Sands and Conflict has a TON of potential videos… if you ever want video ideas for this series I got a lot for you Geetsly’s, keep up the great work!
We honestly need one on why pan arabism failed. (One on the Egyptian-Syrian Union, the proposed union between Egypt, Syria, and Libya, and one between the baathist Syria and Iraq.)
We could've had a unified Arab Republic stretching from Damascus to Cairo, and from Khartoum to Baghdad at one point.
The Brits pronounced it “ay-den” Like Aiden. Thanks for the great video.
Also Canal, not canahl
Thanks for the polite correction🙏🏼
*Aidan
@@TheFrontI would put Michael Collins instead of George Washington
@Tawheed_Taqwa_Tawakkul Thanks
Russia's aim in helping to get us ( Britain ) out of Aden was to acquire the airfield at Khormaskar, then spent the next 20 years or so flying arms into the trouble spots in Africa which they had fermented
Oman watching from the sidelines, gasping "Oh man...".
Thanks for the information. Good video. I think about Yemen vs. Saudi conflict alot
no, its Houthi, Saudi, Iran, Egypte vs Yemen
@@Ahmed-wb7kowhat?
I have a lot to say is Saudi so if I could help it would be my pleasure 😅
Lieutenant colonel Colin Mitchel (also known as "Mad Mitch") is a controversial figure to some, but to us Brits he was a hero, regaining control of Crater and recovering the mutilated British Dead in order to be given a proper burial, and at the same time during the recapture somehow managing to avoid bloodshed, without a single person on either side dying. He was extremely hard on his enemy, but fair.
He was a murderer nothing less
@@ARDA-cb2zr
Nah he wasn't
@@ARDA-cb2zr Everyone is allowed to an opinion! Though in rare circumstances such as this, I personally wouldn't even bother listening to yours as you literally have a playlist titled "Flat earth" which gives me enough of an idea on who you are.
Sad that his regiment disbanded The Argyle and Sutherland Highlanders strong military history❤
@@ARDA-cb2zrYemen Terrorists killed unarmed British police i.e. murdered them 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
Pronounced "A - den". Other than that, a good video.
the Atlantic charter almost died with FDR, thank goodness it didn't, Yemen, vietnan, India, and many more had to use revolution to break them chain, and end colonialism.
And are economic powerhouses like Zimbabwe
Look at Yemen now, ! destroyed.
ADEN not ARDEN there is no R in it. 🇬🇧
Yeah it was bad if the USSR and the USA agreed together on anything back then
Not really it was just politics the Soviet Union backed Egypt and America didn't want a war it could be dragged into, especially over the desires of fading Imperial powers.
The USA and USSR were both desperate to gain control of the Middle East for themselves by undermining the British. This video implies that they condemned the Anglo-French Suez invasion due to some kind of moral objection, which is laughably implausible !
In 2007 my brother was the force protection attache at the US embassy in Sana'a. In 2015 my friend's son, a US Marine, was in the force that evacuated that same embassy.
Looking forwards to the new series. Thanks for the video!
Happy to be corrected, but without defending colonialism, Nasser was just as much an imperialist. He didn't want independence for liberated countries long term. He wanted dominion. This would be more obvious had he run unchecked.
Why no mention of the USS Liberty incident during this time?
The 67 closure of the Suez canal meant there was no point in the Brits hanging around in what had become a cul-de-sac
The attack on the surveillance ship Liberty was due to the Israeli's desire to hide something What that something was?
is speculated about to this day
Might as well have. Would have gotten the video over 20 min.
Your Bolivar photo is of Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr., an American WW2 general…not the 19th Century South American revolutionary. Buckner’s father was Simon Bolivar Buckner Sr., a Confederate general from Kentucky (both namesakes of the original Bolivar). Try not using Google images!
Arden ... Aden! .... A ..Den!
Another example of European countries, trying to hold on to countries that had enough of their brutal reign of terror.
And so what - you think all the terror ended when the British left?
Well better than todays Yemen.
10:00 North and South? More like East and West. It's no wonder why they were so belligerent...
A big reason why Russia came to Egypt's defense was to take people's attention off a rebellion they were putting down in Hungary.
Are you a South African expat by chance?
Parents are👍
@@TheFront Lekker! Your accent is quite unique
Only the British are delusional enough to have family parties in an air base during a full blown conflict like it wont get attacked lmfao
Mmmmm not the full quid.
i was pleased to leave there nov 27 1967 it was and still is a dump.
A quick note on the naming of Royal Marine Commando units: 40 Cdo is the only unit where they would be addressed as numbered, the others (42 & 45) use the individual numbers. So, they would be addressed as Forty Commando, Four Two Commando & Four Five Commando. But otherwise great video on a rather overlooked conflict.
Many of the Aden men worked for British merchant navy vessels doing the hot dirty stoking work , only getting paid a third of their counter parts. I met quite a few of the Aden sea men, and I understood their total frustration they showed, happy to be making money but were semi slaves in a way. Not too impressive by the British at the time, the Brits certainly knew quite a lot of sly cunning tricks.
Otto von Bismarck was really wise
It's pronounce3d A-den nor Ar-den.
Pronounced A-den.
British mispronounce every foreign word they can. It's in the DNA.
@sobieski478 In Arabic, it's pronounced Ah-dehn.
@@petergray7576 nope wrong
One feels bad for Yemen, always being played with by external powers.
However, I noticed this video does not mention Oman which is next to Yemen, and does not seem to have as many problems.
My Grandad was in the RAOC in this emergency from 1964-66.He’s told me only about the ‘fun’ bits although he did give me a copy of his firing orders in case of emergency. Never ever ask him about it in case he doesn’t want to talk about it and flips out. He probably did see some things because he told me to never join the army if there is a war.
Empires come and go. Brits in 60s were painful singapore malaysia Rhodesia Zambia...... and Hong Kong in civil riot 1967 led by communist. Colonialism will not survive. 1997 Hong Kong closed the final chapter. Falkland......?
I know of one person that posted there and several other "hot spots" near there. He was a navy medic. He stated it was a constant bar room brawl with the lights out. Every side pointed a gun at him at one time, and he was always giving first aid to anybody that needed it.
Someday only one faction will remain and we can talk. Until then, leave them to their own devices and treat them like uncontacted cave people.
All we do only makes it worse.
Thank you for that. I had a relative that served there during his national service.
sectarian savagery and tribal infighting is their way of life
But let’s not forget the inbred monarchies that start these conflicts. Divide and Conquer.
Started from the creation of Wahabi-Salafism by British aid (Lawrence of Arabia and co.). Which still has roots in modern terrorism like Alqaeda,Isis/isil etc etc
To quote William Burke "every nation gets the government it deserves"
A very garbled, generalised and part inaccurate summery from someone who can't even pronounce Aden properly. A fair try, and some accuracies, but publishing history is not the privilege of amateurs, only the wise.
I think that British didn't want Aden after Indian independence? Still a useful staging post for presence in the Gulf, but not worth the aggro????
Why don’t you learn how pronounce ADEN IN ENGLISH ,NELLY 🥵
Mad Mitch had his pipers play before the highlanders marched into crater . Legendary
I'm reminded of Eddie Izzard's story of traveling the world while being a brit born in Aden, Yemen was a bit of an issue post 9-11. Seeing how it was both a communist and muslim country, I'm sure many people born there without any national identity for the place faced a bit of profiling.
1st Allegedly!
america better wake up. Instead of Aden. Try Puerto Rico rises up.
Good video spoilt by moronic pronunciation of Aden, France ect etc etc.................
So many modern wars take place in former British colonies. Myanmar, Nigeria, etc.
Not as many as in former French ones
Britain had the largest Empire the world has ever seen, which in part was helped to become that by the locals in these countries hating each other.
Divide and Conquer being good practice when forming an Empire and relatively easy to do, when the as already said the locals hate each other because of tribal or religious differences. Which still existed after the British left and so they continue killing each other.
Happens with other past colonial powers, France, Belgian, Netherlands, Portugal etc former colonies too.
Civil Wars in ex colonies are mainly because whilst the Europeans were in control, the murderous local factions weren’t allowed to roam around ethnically-cleansing themselves of anyone with an opposing tribal or religious ideal!
@@stephenarnold5981 what rubbish
Ah a former Colonist lectures the British on colonization the irony
oh , it's the British Protection Racket . i mean civilization , sorry .
This is not a very good video. Basically just reading the Wikipedia entry on the Aden Emergency. Padded out with lots of largely irrelevant details from other conflicts and very biased.
The truth is that the British "colonizers" had very little to do with the current state of Yemen, which is driven by tribal conflicts and regional Sunni vs. Shia rivalries.
I chuckled when you said Nasser’s goal was to free the Arab world of its colonial overlords who didn’t care about the Arab people.
Nasser didn’t care about them either.
He was a power hungry politician looking to get incredibly rich. Also a right wing nationalist who arrested and tortured communists.
Wow thats bad except the communist stuff thats based.
@@long-hair-dont-care88. agreed. I believe we should all fight communism with brutality. But to show his hypocrisy, he funded Marxists in Yemen to fight the British. He only didn’t like commies when they threatened his power.
He also courted the Soviets
Cry me a river he's Arabian hero shut up
He was terrible except the last part where he did world a favour
Who's gonna tell him about that wrong Bolivar? 😅
Hey Front, I have a video suggestion for you. What are the craziest or most bizarre air to air kills in history?
E.g. the guy in a parachute that shot down a plane with a pistol. Using the propeller to down an enemy aircraft.
Using a Colt 1911!
Good history.
"Bolivar" puts the wrong image
I think the british could have consolidated all of their
Colonies and territories, Decades earlier and integrated them more into the British nation, Like the French Did with French guinia, (legally a patt of homeland France with all the same rights a d privilages) than i think wed still have a British Empire today
you forget that most of the people in your foreign colonies regard anglos as subhuman so i dont think they would be very happy
@@3haAD900 what??
@3habot811 which Colonies are you talking about?
@@Domjot5569 all of them as far as my experience goes
@@3haAD900 I would say the people in the Colonies considered anglos as subhuman
Yet we still see adverts on UK tv
Saying "Can you please help by donating x so much to the people of Yemen" they are in dire need of this n that..
My attitude is NEVER , they want to be a failed state let em get on with it.
Yet they all want to move to the UK for asylum, NOP NO WAY.
The UK took over 25% of the world and then they complain when their former colonies want to live there. It makes no sense to me. If you don’t want to take care of these countries don’t try to take over the world.
They broke it, they might as well fix it.
Its Aden not the Yemen
Yes
Ahhhh, now I know why my former coworker, who is from Yemen, hates the British. He was old enough to have lived under British rule there.
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Thanks for another interesting video!
They've got a bit of a love/hate thing going on as indicated by the number of football shirts worn by locals
Same think would have happened if Hitler have captured British land.
Hitler captured the Channel Islands.And sent Jewish people to concentration camps.None came back alive.Also other people as well.. Thousands of slave labour's were worked to death.Building fortifications for the NAZI s.They were bye passed in the D Day landings.And we're one of the last places to be liberated.
Ah us British and the French loved drawing lines on maps and creating countries that, at the time suited our interests and then pretending any trouble was nothing to do with us when things fell apart.
Feeling ashamed or still having pride in their actions?
Remember the crimes continue even today but they would be written and acknowledged in centuries to come.
One crime which seems very small : my paper note is bigger in value than your paper note coz i said so!
Soon this will haunt you too when your paper money turns in garbage too..
The karma for EU is rolling in the East
You must be a wimpy millenial so perfect in everyway.
@@JG-us9lu Yep I was born in the last milleiniium 1960 to be precise but whoose counting.
@@JG-us9lu Yep last millenium as I was born in 1960.
It's a shame that the British army are shown in a bad light in lots of these videos. I was there with the Royal Engineers 1966/67 building a road through the Habilayn mountain region for the country. A contingent visited villages drilling and putting in fresh water stand pipes for the people. Why is nothing reported on the good things the English did for the people. Every month we, in our ignorance, gave 5000 rounds a ammunition to the local village, Al Milah to protect themselves every full moon we got them all back. But we still kept supplying them. Aren't we kind.
It would be nice to show the troops in a good light now and again. Have a go at the politicians that put us there.
Too true I've always found it bazaar how colonial settler nation's pass off the guilt to those who stayed put
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Ay-den mate. Not Ah-Dan.
A- den nor Ar-den
Ay-den not Ahh-den.
Thank you U.S.A. OF COURSE the special relationship has stood the test of time.and bringing about the end of the Empire,and America tells everyone what to do.
And then, to counter secular Arab nationalism, Britain fostered the rise of Islamic extremism, and look what that produced !
I guess it was too much to expect impartiality.
Still glad it worked out so well in the end for Yemen. It's doing so well now with all the help they have received from their neighbours !
Well said
Islamic tribalism.
good video
Sufficient enough?
Pronounced Ayden.
What is the basis of your 'expertise'?
Wow
I thought your voice sounded familiar, so I went to your channels and realized "Ahh it's Geetsly".
WE know it as A dem not Ar dem
Anyone else noticed the rifle that was in the hands of the older gentlemen on the left? At 18:29 I thought it was very cool. Watching from AZ
The British were going to leave Aden anyway. The Adenis knew this and were, at the wishes of Nasser, trying to make it look like they were being driven out.
nice video, i wonder if the aussie narrating realises that from a historical perspective he is also british, the british of australia have simply been rebadged as australians
I knew I recognized that voice I didn’t realize what channel I was watching lmao
Thank you for your presentation , I watched all of it .
~ Crawford D. Smith , in Indiana .
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He did not just call Aun Sung a hero, she's a genocidal maniac.
I think you are mispronouncing Aden. Also mispronouncing Sinai.
Thanks Man
Again
Famed British GUNBOAT diplomacy😢
What about *Toussaint Louverture,* who actually did free his country (Haiti) from it's colonial overlord, the French, then did NOTHING to improve his peoples situation?
I wouldnt call being in debt to the french "free"
The Amazon Prime series the Last Post now makes more sense…
They don’t teach you this history in school, folks.
Canarl, Frence, arden... wut? Arent you strayan?
When you say "Briddin", do you mean "Britain"?
Great story. Thanks for telling it👍👍
Don't you make star wars videos too? Lol