The rise and fall of British power
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It's pronounced "shin feign"
Hopefully George Galloway, Andrew Feinstein and others will usher in democracy and human rights for Britons, and expel the Wall Street Totalitarians and M.I.Pricks police state apparatus, ending the mass manipulation, mass mvrder, mass deception, and mass surveillance that undermines British credibility.
The British empire started from Piracy, when Henry Morgan in 1663 embarked on a piracy operation in order to rob Spanish gold in Nicaragua. The British Empire was never lucky in the resources.
You can't talk about this subject honestly without talking about how the country was sold out.
thank u for making this video just so we can laugh at mad british having inferiority complex in the comments 😂😂😂
Great Britain; from an empire where the sun never sets to a soggy little island where the sun rarely shines.
😂😂😂
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Great Britain; the country that came up with the very language you are using in this comment.
Great Britain; The country reponsible for the industrial revolution
Great Britain; Conquerors of the earth
Great Brtiain; Builders of the largest empire this world has ever seen
@@MrFriendlyCsgoContent
Great Britain; The country whose people have committed the largest number of atrocities.
Great Britain; The country where if you visit the museums, you will find more offshore items than their own "relics".
PS:- this is written as a joke (even though it is true).
the Mongol empire led by Genghis Khan killed way more people.@@swagatranjansahu3022
POV: you’re playing EU4 and are England in 1520.
Did u choose Colonialism and Expansion for your first two ideas, or did u go more for Offensive and say Trade? 😋😆
@@ryangrant9885 Dont go for either. Real players go for maritime and espionage
You do realise the “British” Empire, or atleast its origins was started by Welsh people (Britons)? Elizabeth the 1st, John Dee, and Richard Ap Meryck. They are the three who funded, influenced and Established the colonies in North America. Using an ancient Brythonic legend to justify to the Pope why they deserved the land of Spain or France.
@@HeyItsJakegaming yeah maritime and naval 💪 because when needs land army's when u can dominate at sea 🌊 😏
Elizabeth the first, John Dee, and Richard Ap Meryck founded the British Empire. All originally from the Britons (Welsh).
A country betrayed by its politicians.
Wrong, the politicians are accountable to capital and doing their job as expected.
The error is believing politicians can be accountable to populations under capitalism
@@b.6603utter bollocks. Politcians are always the same - the elite. Why do you think capitalism is important here
@@tuckerbugeater please, don't forget Blackwater and Vantage.
The U.K. has been around for 1000 years and in various forms. Much of that 1000 years were glorious. They had demographic strength and that was their open secret.
So, what happened after WW2? A certain alien ppl had infiltrated into the U.K.'s halls of power and finance and began mass adulteration of the native population. Thus, the U.K.'s fall was entirely artificial and preventable. To go into detail is impossible because shares the same demographic profile and agenda as the interlopers. I just got out of the SHABAS because they cannot bear being under the harsh light of scrutiny.
@@BlackPill-pu4viLol no
A few outdated facts in this video
1. We didn’t avoid a recession in 2023, we had a mild one over Q3/Q4
2. The Northern Irish executive has now been formed.
3. We were not the worst performing economy in the G7
I think this idiot commentator is sponsored by the EU.
Also Sweden now a NATO member.
Yeah I thought Germany was the worst performer right now
This might be the laziest copy-paste video Shirvan has ever done.
@@cow_tools_ I think so, just jumping on the same bandwagon as all the other videos about the UK at the moment. The situation is not good, but people are really exaggerating how bad it is.
As a Portuguese living in Britain, what I notice the most is that quite a few British people that live in the UK and that are from the former colonies, tend to have a deep rooted and taught hatred for the country and seem to enjoy the social divide. The other issue is that a lot of these people don't really like each other due to Post Imperial Britain atrocities some nations committed against each other... Both that and religious contempt for one another.
Yes I really dont understand why they live in the UK if they hate it so much. Like please, go back to your roots and try to make that country great (again?) instead of practically participating in making the UK worse by inciting greater social divide. The same can be said about any immigrant with the same opinions living in any country tbh.
@@Permuh They are probably jewish. They can only destroy that others have built.
Exactly, I get why a lot of these people would hate Britain tbh, but from a practical standpoint they shouldn’t be here, we have so many people here who hate the country and it’s people, in my opinion I think our “multiculturalism” has already crashed and burned and created an ethnically divided society that’s being torn apart
@@Permuh For the money (it isnt complicated).
You guys don't understand Britain enough yet, the English, Scots, Irish, Colonies, Welsh, Auzies, Northerners, the Midlands, Southerners constantly moan and are all very critical of the country and always have been but at the same time you will see the same groups waving the flag feeling proud from time- to time but ...also being quite curiously xenophobic about "others" and engaging in finger pointing... perhaps the UK is not a simple country like Portugal.
the way we've fallen behind in the last 10 years needs to be studied
Edit: Yes you can dispute the time period of which we've dropped off blah blah blah, i just meant this specific period has been a real missed opportunity
We? lmao. Average person in UK does not represents power.
The person running the show don't need "UK", he might just a small castle in UK.
the last 10 years? DID YOU FORGET ABOUT WW2 BUD?
Well all you have to do is look at which party has been in charge that whole time
5 words can sum this up for you - Fourteen years of Tory rule.
@@callumsaunderson1089yes, following on the back of the worst recession in 90 years under Labour. Both are as bad as each other, as you’ll soon found out under Starmer’s rule
As someone who closely follows UK politics, I have to say this feels quite out of date. The SNP is losing support and is likely to lose a lot of seats to Labour at the next election. This will likely end the Scottish independence debate for a long time. Additionally, Brexit has been and gone, it won’t be part of the upcoming election campaign with both main parties wanting to move beyond it. The chances of the UK breaking into separate nations is very unlikely.
As someone who has followed both UK *and* Scottish politics, I reckon you’re dead wrong. Yes, Labour will probably take more Westminster seats at the next UK GE, but given those seats are virtually useless to the independence cause we won’t miss them.
Meanwhile, support for independence is still too close to call and Westminster is still running so scared (oh yes they are…) of Indyref2 the Tory cowards are preventing it happening because they know they’ll be beaten.
Over in soon to be United Ireland Sinn Fein are steadily gaining in both the North and South, with an SF First Minister in Belfast for the first time in history and even in Wales support is growing for an Indy referendum.
Your union is finished, and good riddance to it. Who wants to be in a union of 4 nations where only one (guess which) can leave whenever they choose?
@@229andymonAs someone who lives here and follows UK politics, you’re wrong.
Wales wants to overwhelmingly stay part of the union. Only 27% want independence in the latest poll from last month.
I doubt we will ever see a united Ireland. There is still a majority support of N.Ireland to remain in the UK and even if they did become part of a united Ireland, you would see the mass reemergence of such loyalist paramilitary groups like the UVF and UDA looking at targeting the republic in protest.
Scotland has always been close to wanting independence and that’s the one that will probably happen in our lifetime, but there is way too much division at the moment for it to be put on the table. It will be a long time before they ever do get independence.
I voted to remain in the EU and personally think it’s a disaster, but our economy is actually showing bigger and faster growth in terms of GDP than countries like Germany.
The UK isn’t the powerhouse it used to be, every empire falls.
@@gbrown546 in truth I’m not saying anything is inevitable, nothing is, but I’ve been watching the rise of Indy support in Scotland since the 70s and Irish unification for as long, and I disagree. Indy support goes up and down, but if you look at it over the long term the trajectory is pointing one way only. Sure it may stop where it is now, and what a horrible prospect that would be, eh? But, why assume it will stop, at 50/50? No, I think UK will split and I also believe the UK nations will be the better for it.
@@gbrown546 Meant to add that while I agree Germany is in trouble at this time, that’s due to other factors, like the rise of Chinese auto industry and the effects of no more cheap piped gas coming from Russia. Germany’s travails are nothing to do with the EU.
In the long term UK will suffer badly from Brexit. Why? Because the whole ethos of the EU is to promote inter-EU trade and where possible avoid external trade. Unlike UK, which has no “members”, there are 26 other EU members each nation in the EU can trade with and will in time want to replace UK trade with. There is (almost) nothing positive about Brexit and I believe my country (Scotland) needs to Foxtrot Oscar out the union before we get dragged along with the isolationist, xenophobic Brit state to the decline it’s heading to.
Yes as is typical of videos you find on the problems with the UK there is way too much emphasis on Brexit. No mention of other events that were arguably more damaging such as Margaret Thatcher, Black Wednesday or Austerity. The largest problem with the UK to put simply is the lack of investment we consistently rank amongst the lowest in investment in the OECD for the last 30 years and now that is beginning to show.
Every country, every region inevitably experience an ebb and flow of greatness and obscurity, and it should teach us that there is always a large range of factors that determine who has their place in the sun. At the zenith of the british empire, people would talk about the perceived superiority of british genes and culture, not knowing that superpower status would be lost in a few generations.
True, look at Italy.
@@amh9494Italy as a geographical region ye but you can’t draw a line from todays Italy back to Roman Empire. Just saying..
"our time has come" -British person after spending 30 minutes on the copium mask
Anyone one with a shred of optimism gets hit with that term from gen Z’ers😂🙄
Maybe the average English nationalist can turn it into a catchphrase. Maybe "Our Day Will Come" will work...
Sun has set for the british.Go to sleep already.
@@RaviKiran-uq8np and what back water country do you come from? Jealous of our rich history of conquering the earth? Don't hate the nation that put your people under its boot, embrace it. So many peoples were brought from the tribal era because of us, you should be greatful.
England was a colony of rome.Read what romans thought about you.They considered you a full joke.@@MrFriendlyCsgoContent
As a Brit it is increasingly clear that we need to modernise, or we will be permanently left behind. Out cities (outside of London) have poor infrastructure and awful public transport compared to the UK. We are trying American strategies for growth without the geographical advantages that the US has.
The UK is like a cross of Europe and America, but the problem with that is that it's got many of the bad elements of the US and the truth is, the UK is very European in most ways, to our social policies, to the cars we drive, the sports we play, how our cities are built and countless other things.
I always find it weird how the UK tries to import a lot of the negative aspects of the US, when it's clear that when it comes to quality of life, European countries dominant.
@@paul1979uk2000the whole of Europe became slaves to the banking elite after ww2. That was the cost. Europe died after the war
Public transport is not your issue lol. Your issue is a huge lack of freedom where it matters (namely self defense and speech) and the pathetic immigration policy you've adopted that invited your enemies in and gave them public support rather than keeping them away.
@@paul1979uk2000Europe is the sick man of the world. European quality of life is garbage, you pay out the ass for basic things like water that Americans get for free. Just because you guys don't like to work doesn't mean your quality of life is better. American homes are bigger, cheaper, better built, and more comfortable than euro ones. Our currency is stronger, food is cheaper, we have a better birth rate than the Eurozone as well because people here have more hope and ability to raise a family. Europeans are high on their own farts thinking they're better than America in any way. You guys need to humble yourselves to save yourselves from disaster.
The main problem of the UK is London itself, the city was the economic centre of the EU and kept most of the wealth within the city, they’ve also sacrificed our industries to make sure they had the pretty title and leave the majority with nothing.
An ok summary but you should have also covered the immense social tensions caused by mass immigration into the UK. It's an internal conflict just waiting to explode.
Agreed. The will be war if our government keeps on importing the third world. I can already feel it
most important observation which continues to expose the globalization tecknik
Don't be such a bigot
@@user-lp7wo7og4x you forgot the /s
like when the. anglos ans saxons came
"Fortress Britain struck out at the world and conquered it" damn that's a cool quote
May I also remind you of the fact that fortress Britain would commit and practice a great many cardinal sins, many of them knowingly, such as centuries-long global;
- 'Colonization',
- 'Genocide',
- 'Slavery',
- 'Colonialism',
- 'Global Warming', etc which benefited them enormously for centuries worldwide; then they would initiate and take a measure to ban those practices worldwide, and take credit for it. (Note: Today's global warming is caused in large part by nearly two centuries of excessive coal burning, mainly in the West).
For plain truths, pls read the supremely informative, insightful, multi-page comment by 'Lonely Alaskan' at, "Complete History Of Indigenous America Before Colonialism/Chronicle":ua-cam.com/video/z9SMN59vsGY/v-deo.htmlsi=EuprExcga7zJW2UA ., {which by the way, got pushed down below 200 other comments lately).
May I also remind you of the fact that fortress Britain would commit and practice a great many cardinal sins, many of them knowingly, such as centuries-long global;
- 'Colonization',
- 'Genocide',
- 'Slavery',
- 'Colonialism',
- 'Global Warming', etc which benefited them enormously for centuries worldwide; then they would initiate and take a measure to ban those practices worldwide, and take credit for it. (Note: Today's global warming is caused in large part by nearly two centuries of excessive coal burning, mainly in the West).
For plain truths, pls read the supremely informative, insightful, multi-page comment by 'Lonely Alaskan' at, "Complete History Of Indigenous America Before Colonialism/Chronicle", on UA-cam (which by the way, got pushed down below 200 other comments lately).
@@imlovely6522 Thanks for the supremely informative, insightful, multi-page comment by 'Lonely Alaskan' at, "Complete History Of Indigenous America Before Colonialism/Chronicle":ua-cam.com/video/z9SMN59vsGY/v-deo.htmlsi=EuprExcga7zJW2UA .
The two most sacred Christian doctrines are,
- Thou shalt not kill,
- Thou shalt not steal.
@@imlovely6522so they didn’t the same thing every nation did before 1950 wow amazing
UPDATE: The UK did in fact not avoid a recession in 2023.
Correct. This whole video stinks of bad research.
UK is in technical recession only - UK unemployment is extremely low, wages are going up.
I am pretty sure the video said that it would probably avoid recession this year. The year of this year is 2024.
Right?? We all went into one.
THIS YEAR, he means 2024...
Step one: Go to beach.
Step two: Raise arms HIGH.
Step three: Rule waves.
Should also bring a ruler?
And famines 💀
Canute?
And turnips.
Atrocities
At 15:30, a prediction from 2022 for the year 2023 is shown. A bit awkward, us living in March 2024...
If UK is dissolved, UN should change it's position as permanent council
Nuclear sun gets a seat in the table which is moored in Scotland
Sub
As a former empire myself, this really speaks to me
As an up and coming empire myself, I learned a lot from this.
@@alainbutprepare to be invaded
@@alainbut😂😂😂😂
@@RapturesBounty😂😂
Britain plans its global comeback... to the EU. 🤣
evil EU must be dissolved
Never going to Happen the EU would never accept the UK without stripping it of all Veto's and opt outs, No one in the UK would ever accept being chained to the Eurozone, Schengen, refugee relocation quotas,.
The only thing will be trade and law adoption akin to Norway but the EU doesn't like that arrangement and wouldn't want to replicate it
Brexit has been an absolute s**t show. I voted stay as I am sane. Even leavers would rejoice at rejoining the EU at this point.
Brexit was clearly an uninformed decision given US might decide one day to go back in its shell
@@ryan-tc3rk lol brits will be fucking grovelling before the EU. Especially once the US realises it's not worth the cost of keeping them as a client state
how do you quantify soft power? I'm skeptical that this something that can have a number put on it.
Not sure why people are talking about the UK never being a superpower again. Of course it can't. A country like the UK shouldn't be compared to the likes of the USA or China. The state of California alone has a larger economy than any European country barring Germany. The UK should be compared to similar second tier powers, like Germany, France, Japan and India. Among them, the UK isn't performing all too badly.
Perspective:
US 🇺🇸
China 🇨🇳
Japan 🇯🇵
Germany 🇩🇪
India 🇮🇳
Britain 🇬🇧
France 🇫🇷
Italy 🇮🇹
Brazil 🇧🇷
Canada 🇨🇦
Not exactly the end of the world.
The UK is not country Muppet
As someone from Britain, there is no comeback
get rid of your right wing idiots and you could be a world power again. But sadly... you wont just as we americans wont. Because money rules politics and the worlds elite think the 18th century was perfection
sadly true
How the hell would you know? Nobody predicted the rise of the East India Company.
@twoeggcups what the hell kind of comparison is that? 😂 the country is done for. We are not better off than we were before the ‘08 crash. Things will not get better and you are deluded if you believe that. Sad but true.
@@twoeggcups because our politicians are useless and there’s no growth in this country
Surprising that AUKUS was not mentioned, especially in regard to the Asia-Pacific, and Britain's further pivot to the USA.
The UK can't pivot to the US because democrats are antipathetic towards UK and RepuliTrumps are aggressively insular.
he made an AUKUS video a while back and came to the conclusion that it wouldn't really work. And the only way it would work would be for Britain under a American-led economic union which defeats the political purpose of Brexit in the first place.
AUKUS is 100% meaningless lol. It exists solely for the (attempt at) positive public perception it garnered by being announced and shall do nothing beyond that.
What pivot? We've twice rejected a trade deal with the US because the americans are not willing to compromise for our higher food standards. Trump or Biden, it didn't matter. I pray to god the new labour government will have enough balls to at least float the idea of rejoining the single market, otherwise we can get used to worsening living standards and collapsing social services.
@@indonesiansasquatch4926agreed but labour is part of the problem. Both parties need out
Britain also lost WW2 when you look at the economy. It was just too expensive and they couldnt hold their empire. The USA succeeded it. Some people still think of the old glory and power but britain now is only a shadow of itself.
*As an Austrian I can assure you Britain is not the worst performing G7 country, that price goes to Germany.*
You can't address this issue honestly without talking about how the country was sold out.
Just as our sweden
by who and to whom?
Muslim immigrants….
The electorial process is not even legitimate. Its only an illusion. The nassive financial influences havebbeen plundering Britain and the politicians only play theatre. They disregard the needs and voices if the native citizens. And have just continued on because they are passive so the government does not fear its peoples. This all didnt just happen, very stragtegic in tandem with corruped traitors.
@@bunnystrasse You mean politician falling your country by selling your major industry for the banking industry that is centralized in London city that is famous for their "second British empire" that is famous for money laundering and corruption in the country and corruption schemes rather than focusing to their middle-class work force; the same workforce that doesn't want to work at hard jobs that only immigrants want to take I.e trucking?
Surface level geopolitics is meme. This video proves it.
What's wrong with it ?
in denial
Okay britbong, but you are doomed for sure .
The problem is not geopolitics but the fact that Caspian Report now does shallow videos
@@b-92s25 most of it is out of date: support for SNP and Scotish independence collapsed, NI has a government now, UK avoided recesion and recen figures show that it's going to be one of the fastests growing economies in EU. 2nd largest Economy in EU by far, biggest military in EU, highest nominal contributions to nato in EU, involved in Ukraine, Pacific. Working close with the US on AUKUS and Yemen, exercising it's soft power.
Excellent focus on the backstory and geographical reasoning of the British Isles at the start. More and more often people start at the zenith of British power and give no heed to what created it.
Half of England is owned by less than 1% of its population, It is impossible to penetrate the secrecy that has traditionally surrounded land ownership. It is “astonishingly unequal”, that about 25,000 landowners - typically members of the aristocracy and associated corporations - have control of half of the country. The common population cannot survive and support growth in those circumstances without the exploitation of colonies. And the colonies are mostly gone.
Time to set things right if you want to prosper British commoners. But you can't and you will be the ones to suffer, not the lords.
Was this video written by ChatGPT?
It was terrible and my child could have done better
Yeah he speaks more and more less personal, its like someone wrote it for him. Its hilarious actually..
What made you say this?
@@cmilter6360You seem like you long for the past glories, they are gone, let the past go
Are you saying this because the truth hurts?
Glad to see most of the other comments know how incorrect some of the statements here are as well.
Yeah this video, despite being 20 min long, has basically 0 content. It's like a history lecture with 5 min at the end like: here are some problems the UK faces... Hardly about planning any comeback...
It’s a really poor video
It's pitiful. No understanding of Britain at all. Over 2 years out of date. Missed the self-destruction of the SNP ... missed the resumption of devolved government in Northern Ireland ... I could go on ...
This was my thought as well. Information seemed to be dated and one sided, forgetting about recession in EU countries, cites a projection on performing economies 2022 then subsequent performance have proved it wrong. At no stage mentioning the importance of City of London or the strain of migration on services and taxes in the country.
@@larslarsson4664almost like the video was made with AI
I've been following you for years and really enjoy your content. I've always wondered how accurate you are and how much is just opinion.
I was interested with this video as I from the UK. i think your report is excellent and very accurate.
Financially if the UK stops importing oil , coal, gas and electricity and replaces it with home produced power its balance of payments and the national debt will be paid for in 20 years. All countries are changing because of the weather , population growth , and where humans find a place to make a living.
I just feel sorry for Brits, no-one deserves the appaling leadership they've suffered.
There has never been great leadership in Britain, and it's been left to the people to always save the country.
The fact that ever political party in the country is incapable of properly governing is lowkey impressive
They obviously feel otherwise, having voting in those governments.
British do deserve the current leadership because they are weak, they will not force our leaders to be accountable. It's a result of the class system which still prevails in UK society today.
What? They actually voted for that, and kept voting for that since the late 70s.
Is it wrong that when I read the title I started laughing.
The only reaction in all the comments : LOL
Its the natural reaction 😂
such a clickbait title :D
If you are British, a belly laugh is in order.
Literally just came in here to write "You must be out of your tiny brain putting that shit on the internet!", but hilariously, they've got in ahead of me and changed the title themselves to something less cringe.
Less clickable too though - like who gives a shit about "The rise and fall of British power"? Isn't that some shit we all were bothered about 15 years ago?
Just for future episodes, Sinn Féin is pronounced "Shin FANE" with an emphasis on the fane. Helps to be knowledgeable on the particulars of Irish and North Irish politics.
The answer is to work together. The British with their skill, capability, acumen, royalty, jam and scones, BBC, beautiful accents, football teams, defense force, landmarks, humour, music, and love of the game, combined with Irish Guinness, Kilkenny, leprechauns, shamrocks, pots of gold, global public holidays, beautiful accents, music, and folklore, as well as the Scottish... contribution... can all rule the world. 🤣
Why are you laughing? You said the truth
@@Letsvisit-Araz1719 No. You are not special. A hard truth about us europeans is that we ruled the world when we had a lot higher population percentage. Britain is just 60 million people today, against 8 bn others. insignificant.
Not too cold? Not too wet? You've never been there, have you?
bro thinks 0C is COLD lmao.
🤣😂
He's right. It's not as cold as Siberia and definitely not has hot as the Sahara.
INB4; I live in London mate.
In terms of fertile, farmable land - they are perfect conditions. That's one of the reasons the Norse wanted the land so badly.
@@edvardseglitis7128you do understand 0 degrees is by definition freezing…
Caspian Report is getting lazy.
Very much so lol
I smell copium
If this was Russia you will be celeberating too bad theres economic growth with 84% sanctions on earth imagine without
As a Scot I take issue with the word separatist. That only applies to an area of a single country, the UK is a political union. Scotland was an independent country prior to the act of union and will be again.
Oh lord hurry up and leave 🙄
You're not taking the pound though.
@@amh9494 it’s not your pound to take mate. The Scots pound predates 1707. Also we’re taking a share of the assets and of course the North Sea maritime borders mean you get the southern gas fields and that’s it.
@@ewansinclair2893 and you'll get the joy of making the new Scottish pound all over again. 👏🏻
The pound sterling isn't yours at all the only reason Scotland joined the union is because it bankrupted itself, your currency died then.
@@amh9494 aww what’s the matter? Is England too scared to stand on its own two feet? Wasn’t that what you little Brexiteers wanted? The whole world is laughing at you. The Uk is a joke
@@ewansinclair2893 ? That was random. I said you can't take the pound sterling with you, that's entirely unrelated... Strange, certainly stupid enough to be a Scottish nationalist though.
I’d disagree, devolution of power weakened the U.K. and then diversification crippled it. USA putting pressure on the U.K. to cut ties with foreign territories since the 1950s also weakened it.
Devolution, from my perspective, is typical of the way that everything in the UK is set up. It’s ad hoc, and comes into conflict with other systems.
They should have federated. Give each region a ‘state’ or ‘provincial’ government, with the federal government in London. Probably split England into various regions.
If they’d done it a century ago they could’ve even kept empire, a global federation with each subject of the empire becoming citizens of empire.
The UK half-arses everything.
@@ziptink1710 federalism wouldn’t work in the UK. First off England would have to devolve powers to regions in England. and then the countries that make up the United kingdom would have the same powers as regions of England. It would just fuel the independence movement. Independence is the only viable option for this outdated backward looking union.
It's Empire lasted a lot longer than some, seems to be missed by a few also.@@ziptink1710
".....Although the UK is seemingly expected to avoid recession..."
Morgan Freeman: The UK did in fact not avoid a recession
I've always enjoyed Caspian videos but this was fucking dire. You didn't actually say anything at all.
Still you watched it
@@narannavan He said he always enjoyed it in the past so of course he watched.
i agree.. the message was "Brexit created tension" and maybe "Northern Ireland is moving closer to reunification".. and that's it.
It's probably more that you're from the UK. We know less about other countries, and those videos are more enlightening as a result
@@kaneneedham4299 No the info is wrong
This video makes me sad even though I’m from the southern U.S. and about as un-British as it gets. Yet, my family’s ancestral home is Darlington. I would move to the UK tomorrow if it had opportunities in my tech industry.
The video is terribly misleading. I think the UA-camr searched on Google for his content🤦♂️. The union is very strong and our economy is doing better than Germany atm. And thank you for your concern. Darlington in the North East of England is a beautiful area and has a lot of viking heritage
@@AngloSaxonVanguard take off them rose tinted glasses. The Union is crumbling and will be lucky to see another decade. Independence is the only option left for the nations in the UK.
@@AngloSaxonVanguard Lol. Your comment lost all credibility when you said UK economy is doing better than Germany. Germany is a great manufacturing hub. UK is an artifically inflated semi-tax haven finance center.
NOTHING Lasts Forever.... So 🤷♂
Time we Brits started to learn the Art of Humility Once Again...
Oh and don't worry! Our American allies will also learn this lesson soon enough!!!
That's the first time I've ever heard a Brit say that. It's refreshing.
They should take London back first
Exactly.
you guys know immigrants are a big part of why these european countries have a relatively stable economy, right? whatever you may think of them culturally
@@Ar1AnX1x Lol. They are the cause of the delapidation and downfall. They use up way more resources than they generate and drive down wages
Nah, I want to see it get worse, separatist movements and all, so that it may serve as a wake up call to the rest of europe and the world.
@@Ar1AnX1x stable? omega lul
very well said .... "when future looks grim, past looks bright..."
One other important point in Britain's historic power - the population boom following industrialisation that led to British culture, technology and the English language to all corners of the globe and creating new societies like the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and even arguably Singapore
Lmao 🤣
Britain is not making a comeback anytime soon
Nope, it’s an absolute s**t show. The glory days are long gone.
problem is that they still have the mindset that they have the strength of their former empire, they don't , two world wars bankrupted them, and as a country they are barely holding themself together as a consequense
@@koenwaaldeKind of scary how in the long run, Hitler might succeed in destroying Britain (not without some help from the U.K.'s own politicians).
Not with it's current leaders, they are still decades behind the narrative.
@@koenwaaldewell they "won" the last two and lost everything, maybe if they lose badly enough they will become a superpower once again.
Sinn Fein is pronounced Shin Fane
His AI voiceovers he started doing a while back are getting a bit more obvious lol, “boosted about” instead of “boasted about” as well before that. Shirvan, we miss your real voice! Please voice your videos yourself again!
do you mean you listened to the video past the few seconds when you learned he was serious?
It is delusional...
Dipped at 15 seconds myself. This used to be informative, now it's like something made by an uninformed teenager@@ngamashaka4894
Oh good, I'm not the only one twitching over that; Shhin FAY-ne
Yeah but come on even in Ireland 3% of the population actually speak Irish. Cut him some slack.
3:21 "We've assigned a media bias rating of center to BBC News"
I almost spat my coffee out when I read that.
What do you mean? I don’t understand
@@JoostEurovisionFans BBC is incredibly biased but they also switch sides depending on who's paying. Its very sickening and shows they have 0 integrity.
The BBC have a rather extreme left wing bias and have for decades, this effects how they frame things, but also the very old joke is that they just steal all their points from the guardian newspaper.
@@JoostEurovisionFans The BBC is extremely far left, Not centrist.
@@Cha4kAs someone that's a leftist (not a liberal), BBC is definitely not far left, i wish but this is never possible in the UK with all the liberals and conservatives in positions of power. Centrist is fitting if you look at it objectively.
I found this video quite jarring in that the real divisions currently afflicting the country are completely glossed over and instead are replaced with historical ones. All western countries are suffering an identity crisis, one manufactured and foisted upon us, this isn't exclusive to England or Britain for that matter. Perhaps you should research the cause of this instead? If one recently became a hard drug addict living on the street, wouldn't the correct line of questioning be to initially question the events leading up to this (lost job, wife left them, became homeless, etc), rather than dissecting their happy childhood?
IDK, the US is doing alright due to recent legislation.
Identity crisis? This is manufactured nonsense, I don't know what you're talking about, people still want what they always wanted.
You want it dissected? Get rid of feminism, globalism, wokeism and all the other forms of marxism. All "identity crisis" problems solved.
Make wmen serve in the military alongside men, or they lose voting rights. You gotta contribute to your country. We'll see how woke they are once they're not funded by taxpayer money. It's reall that simple, put money towards normal families, stop supporting multiculturalism which destroys your culture. None of this is complex really.
@@sayreharder1541 Interesting comment, but all of it is nullified by the fact you say would of instead of would've.
Click bait? I must have missed the 'planned global comeback' part.
Where does the video or description mention a comeback?
The original title mentioned 'planned global comeback'
As the video mentions the UK is number 2 on the world's soft power ranking list. Think about it...
@@StimParavane I gather the soft power has been the case for a long while. The original YT title stated 'planned global comeback'.
Shirvan must have heard you
Sinn Fein is pronounced as shin feign.
Opinion is divided as to whether "The British isles" includes the island of Ireland.
Great Britain: A country that conquered for spices, but settled for salt and black pepper.
You mean the UK. Great Britain is the island.
Ironic that a video sponsored by a news website is already out of date in the section on Northern Ireland 🤔
And in the sections of NATO and Scotland.
As Bulgarian, really sad that UK left Europe. London was its ivery mportant finance centre. UK has a very cool culture and polite funny people. Even if they blocked us in the past for working there together with the Romanians and bombarded our country, we still have many Brits visiting Bulgaria. Hope you preserve your identity, traditions, humour,, Union Jack flag, etc. Stay safe!
Thanks. Rare to see a foreigner online being complementary to the UK. Unfortunately complete idiots are in charge of our country and have turned it into the sick man of Europe. On the other hand, I've never been to Bulgaria. It sounds quite nice to visit tho, especially in the summer.
I live in the UK and I like a lot of things about mainland Europe. I hope we rejoin the EU.
brexit really screwed us, one day we will rejoin i hope
I'm half British, with a Finnish mother, so I personally never left the EU, but Brexit really was a piss take. It was such a mind numbingly stupid decision I just can't understand why people voted for it. I wish we could be back in...
P.s. I'm sorry the British government had been a prick to Bulgaria in the past, please don't hold it against those of us with brains
London is currently the #1 global finance centre.
Just a minor tidbit - it is the Scottish National Party. Calling it the Scottish National-ist Party is what Boris Johnstone would say to paint the party more negatively
I love how you take your videos down and reupload them later. It's great.
Nothing more than a client state of the US
But behind the scenes, both are client states of the Rot h child's and rock er fellas
By what metric?
I saw British cane sugar syrup here in a U.S. grocery store and thought, “Who around here is even buying this stuff?” LOL.
@@o_o825 hahah yeh! Well the US imports $100 billion worth of goods and services from the UK every year, that’s went up 121% in 1 year, so that may go beyond sugar cane syrup.
That’s somewhat true of all of the West to be fair
The Scottish national party is dead.
They have a leader who doesn't seem to care for the normal Scottish man, only for minorities.
The previous leader is looking at jail time, and the leader before that was accused of sexual abuse.
The SNP is having tough times, but support for independence remains high. It only takes for another good SNP leader to restart the entire debate from a strong position. Independence debate is merely dormant now and is no where near going away.
Totally
Lol, the fact that you think Scottish independence is about political personalities shows you don't have the faintest clue about where Scotland is at.
@@Redwitheran It's still a bit less than the unionists/no voters, and in some polls SNP are behind Labour, I suspect SNP an their influence will be a lot smaller once the election comes.
Nicola Sturgeon is a Marxist / globalist. She hates Scottish people. All she wants is power.
such a good and informative video that it has no dislikes
UK technology sector is ranked 3rd in the world, at $820 billion dollars. It is the world's 2nd largest financial centre, and 1/3 world leader were educated in Britain. The UK hasn't fallen yet.
They don't care because they're too busy try to find faults with us, rather than opening their ignorant minds to all the positives. Every country as it's good and bad things
More babble
How much of it is just evaluation? NVIDIA is trading at 100x its PE. tech in general is only worth because they are embedded in the western system, when the western national systems decline, so does the tech. Also worth often does not equal productive.
Yeah, keep Westminster out of the universities and guard them with your life!
In other news, starving prisoner plans escape!
Wtfareyoutalkingaboutbro?
@@mr.afrikaans1747 No hope? No ability to escape the prison? No ability to change destiny?
@mr.afrikaans1747
I have no idea, but it's funny.
Just enjoy the joke.
Also, @HarvardSmithDeAngelo6905 might mean that UK's so-called "former colonies" - now "neo-colonies" - are starving, and planning their escape from the prison UK had put them in.
Starving prisoner plans escape; starves
"The rise and fall of British power" I think this title suits the video much better than the previous one. Funnily enough the video thumbnail needs no changing.
Yo, he listened to your advice.
(old title 4 comments below)
what was the old name
Yes, what was the previous title?
@@fr0ntend@MatthewMcVeagh
"Britains Planned Global Comeback" -according to the other people complaining that the title was click-bait.
of which I agree with their complaints, no-where in the video do they explain some kind of recent improvement/plan... just how things can get worse, all because of one foolish 51%/49% "decision"
Yo, need to know too
The biggest issue with the UK is that it's infrastructure and economic plans are still tailored to the 20th century. Houses are built quick and cheap like it's still 1946, roads are built for cars that the younger generation don't drive and the standard of food quality has dropped significantly since Brexit. A massive shake up is needed to the system if the British govt still wants relevant power
Everything in UK is tailored to 20th and 19th century. This includes architecture, infrastructure but most importantly general philosophy of the average joe
This is a fast evolving world, if unable to adapt and learn to hold to tradition whilst embracing modernity you will be left behind.
That’s why the US went from a British colony to surpass it in 200 years
One has an ultra conservative mindset the other has a progressive 1
@@scentsoftravelmeditationThe US overtook the UK because it has a much larger population, a gigantic landmass with almost unlimited natural resources, some of the best geography in the world, giving it unhindered access to the Pacific and Atlantic trade routes, and hasn't been involved in any serious war on its home front since the civil war.
@@benghiskahn3673 Bro pls
UK had the empire, almost 1 quarter of world surface
@@benghiskahn3673 UK took 60 trillion pounds from India alone
@@benghiskahn3673 UK founded the largest agricultural project of planet in Sudan, managed by my own grandpa
It wasn't too bad until you started blaming everything on Brexit. The Scottish referendum happened before the Brexit vote. Being part of the EU seemed to facilitate the break up of the UK.
The UK's issues are.. hard to get anything built because of planning laws. Very short of housing, and the existing housing stock is bad and very expensive.
Too much low skill mass migration, just need the high skill migration.
Too much regulation, too many taxes. Basically Labour and the Conservatives have done much to undo much the competitiveness that Mrs Thatcher achieved.
as a British person i find the analysis here off, the separatism and Brexit are both caused by the disconnect between London and the rest of the country.
the non-London parts of the country shot themselves in the chest by voting for Brexit. sheer idiocy to leave a market that provided most of their business.
Did only London vote Remain?
@@OmegaTrooper yes and. money comes and goes, markets crash and business relationships change. for most people regardless of which side of the vote they where it was not about money, it is a cop out used by people, most people who voted remain did not do so for the economic benefits, it was an ideological one, just as leave was an ideological vote.
@@mt508 not if you look at the uk as a whole, but if you look at england the one nation in the uk that doesn't have the option to succeed it was predominantly leave, the only other exceptions being some university towns, some parts of big cities and some wealthy areas of England.
@@Tree_a_Boar I was most of the big cities.
This was put up only an hour ago but is well out of date. Also Shirwan seems rather confused about what Britain is or is not.
I’m British and I think this video is basically nonsense. It highlights all of Britains negatives and problems and dials them up to 100 while ignoring all our positives and successes, it’s nonsense.
This video was very shallow... a child could have done better
@@jamesknight6890 I would hope that being constantly reminded of the negatives might finally get our country to start making changes to improve it, rather than doubling down on our own idiocy.
That NATO map (excluding Sweden) was already out of date before Shirvan's video even landed.
The 'Our hour has come', had me chuckling. The Irish say Tiocfaidh ár lá . A Stuart back on the Throne?
Its entirely up to the people but as an Englishmen with Welsh, Scotish and Irish family connections I would be sad to see any of our brothers leave the union
Honestly, as someone who also has such family connections, I think our respective nations will be able to get along with each other far better if we didn't have to share the same country. My country (Wales) would be able to adopt an independent monetary policy more suited for its comparatively export-led economy, and England would no longer have to subsidize us, saving money for English taxpayers. We in Wales would be forced to face up to our own challenges, as we would no longer need to beg Westminster for more powers. This would enable stronger accountability for government, and would allow us to centre our own interests. England meanwhile would be forced to confront the demise of its colonial identity, and would have no choice but to come up with something new and forward-looking. I think the likelihood of hard borders is low; the UK didn't even have hard borders with the Irish Republic throughout the troubles. So I see no reason for sadness in the dissolution of the UK. What I do find rather sad, is to have to live in a union that is falling backwards, clinging spitefully onto its past.
@@caiwilliams2905 no body knows what is best. The Welsh would have its own problems being independent. They don’t have the power or influence Britain as a whole has. The monetary exchange system would have to be changed. I don’t see the Welsh agreeing to this. The military will not be up to par to be a real deterrent against any foreign threats. They would rely heavily on England. There’s so many issues for its own self determination to retain its control over its relevance in the world. They will have their hands full.
How would wales be better independent in your opinion?
@@EpicAelflaed Nobody said it would be easy, but for me, independence isn't about the next 10 years, but about the long term. The point of independence isn't to be powerful or influential, but to be prosperous - after all, we are already used to the idea of being a small country. For this reason, a powerful military is not a priority. Diplomatic alliances are far more important, and as Ireland demonstrates, you don't need to be big, or to have a powerful military, to achieve this. In terms of prosperity, the UK is holding us back, and not just because the UK is in secular decline. It also relates to the fact that Wales has a more export-oriented economy than the rest of the UK, but has to sell its products using a strong currency that makes those exports uncompetitive (Italy and Greece have had these same problems since joining the Euro). Additionally, we are not getting paid the full value of what we export to England, not least because so many of our resources are English-owned. This includes electricity generation (we export as much as we use, but still pay some of the highest consumer prices in the UK - bad for business competitiveness), and also our foreshore and seabed, which is crown land. And there is also the issue of being ruled by politicians who have to think in the UK's interest, rather than in Wales' interest, despite the fact that our interests diverge so frequently. It would be unfair to suggest that English politicians should always be acting in our interests, so the dissolution of the UK would effectively solve a massive co-ordination problem. I could go on, but that's the gist of it.
@@EpicAelflaed but if all nations agree to a shared nuclear deterrent then what foreign military is going to try and invade?
@@alynwillams4297what are you talking about? Invade? The invasion has already happened, it will spread to most of wales too, just a matter of time. My hometown has been half colonised in just a decade and a half.
Britain is clearly a country in decline. Someone who visited even in the 00s would be shocked at the state of it, esp outside London.
Britain is basically on the road to becoming Portugal or Spain - a has-been country living off the fumes of past glories. Who knows, given the extreme and ever growing inequality we might get to the level of Latin America eventually
I was shocked to see ghettos in London when i visited
Thatcher screwed us over big time
My English friends who emigrated to the US in the mid 1900's used to complain about its decline since WWII, but it seemed to moving in the right direction in the EU, and now...
You say it like decline is inevitable, we are in self inflicted decline and so can pull ourselves out of it.
because of black people?
Thanks for an interesting and informative video.
Interesting that you have not mentioned immigration and its consequences as a cause for internal friction.
Why’s there so many salty comments about Britain here 🤣
The usual reasons: stupidity & ignorance.
Indians
oh my god get over us mate .@@civilengineer3349
@@civilengineer3349yeah they are everywhere crying. to think the uk sacrificed everything to save darker races in ww2 stopping white supremacist ideologies from taking over Europe. and this is how they act towards them and their children today. kinda proves the fascists right lol.
Angry Vishnu's writing comments from their tuktuk carts on the cafe wifi.
He didn't have too much to say in this one. Maybe revisit later
Just a little note from your sponsor segment, Sinn Féin isn’t pronounced Sin Fine, it’s more like Shin Fayne. It translates in Irish to “we ourselves” historically looking for an independent and united Ireland
Whoever did the animation for this video has my respect.
When did you realized that CaspianReport is just making stuff up for content?
When they made same content but worse for Russia but even more biased. Still alot of things in video are true
Are you onlynsaying this because you cannot accept the facts?
"Our time has come"🤣 And I'm British...
We watched in real time, as the Tories sunk the whole of UK. Such a ghastly thing to witness.
Not surprising that you're British. British people love to hate themselves and be self-deprecating about their own country.
Not surprising. Most british people are very pessimistic about their country's future, which is a rather stupid outlook.
@MeAndTheBoys_ Tories here and Democrats in US, two great nations brought to their knees by traitors
@@superkittyshow1782 if you think the democrats are the party most like the tories, i'd suggest you don't know much about either country's politics
Britain had the whole of Ireland before 1920 not just Northern Ireland
there's so many interesting things that could've been said in this video, but weren't, and its overall pretty lazy. The SNP and the campaign for Scottish independence are arguably the weakest they've been in a generation, and Labour (a unionist party) are currently polling higher. Also the notion that Japan would even try, let alone succeed, in taking the UK's seat at the P5 security council is absolutely insane, even though its obvious the Council should be reformed and expanded. Finally, wasn't the NI executive restored the other week as part of a London endorsed deal? This video already seems out of date, which is disappointing.
SNP are being super lazy about independence, but they are still polling at least like 5% above labour consistently in Scottish parliament elections
@@Alexander-vo4gv yeah that's a fair point, I was referring to the Westminster elections where its more or less tied
Going from owning 25% of the worlds population to now having an economy smaller than California is the hardest fall off in modern geo politics.
Is it really a fall when they were way over their head to begin with? and California is like half of America's economy to begin with.
@@AshkanPacino13 They were thinking they could rule everything without a fight.
California is around 10% to 14% of the American economy. The USA economy is now close to 10 times larger than the UK economy.
@@ElectrostatiCrow well U.S is literally strongest country on earth
Well UK and Europe were decimated by both ww1 and ww2 and highly indebted from the wars. USA on the other hand was essentially completely untouched by both world wars and also massively profited from both of them. Fun fact: "In World War 2, countries had sold off most of their gold as well as their foreign investments, to pay for the war. By 1947, the United States had accumulated 70% of the world’s gold reserves." So, you can thank European warmongering for why USA is as powerful and undisputed as it is today.
@@AshkanPacino13California is half of the US economy? Are ya fuckin stupid mate?
I live In Oregon and I can't help but WISH we could see a UK and Ireland that was full of lush old growth forests and flourishing ecosystems and habitats.. It sucks how much it's forests habitat was impacted
Ireland once had forests that spanned the entire country but was stripped bare because the English needs timber to build its navy.
The UK has lots of re-wilding projects. And all farmers are paid to keep ‘set asides’ (land which isn’t farmed). To be honest this video is a load of nonsense. Us Brits are not “struggling with our post imperial identity” as he says. And less then 40% of both Northern Ireland and Scotland would vote to separate from the UK. The UK has a trade deal with the EU without having to be in it, and we are creating new trade deals with non-EU countries. We do not yet have a trade deal with the USA but we do now have 7 MoU’s (Memorandums of Understandings) with 7 US states. And we’re working on the rest.
Typical PNWer. Seattleite here. I almost had a heart attack when I first visited San Francisco. I think I would die if I ever get to visit New York. Concrete jungles are not my thing.
Not just forests. Most of the waterways are badly polluted too. But eh, what do I know: the Industrial Revolution is supposed to be Britain's great gift to the world.
@@agentsmidt3209New York is a city Seattle is a suburb there’s a difference. I used to be stationed at Fort Lewis and loved visiting Seattle.
A Scottish friend once told me her biggest concern about Scottish independence is whatever the Highland clans would do without the UK government or military around to interfere.
That's what happens when your capital becomes Londonstan.
Says the guy who was hoping that Brexit would bring prosperity.
@@sherazmalik2179 lol Brexit and Islam are both bad news but who cares about UK, it's dying as a country since 2010
We can't restore our civilization with somebody else's babies.
tf does that even mean
@@davidcairns5042they mean immigrants i guess. I think they mean that British people grew too comfortable and don't want to take many kind of jobs and would rather sit on benefits while the immigrants do those jobs.
@@davidcairns5042 he's saying much of Britain's population is foreign born or descendents of thise who migrated in the last 50 years. They don't have any loyalty to Britain other than how much Sterling they can fleece from her
@@davidcairns5042They are arguing that the white British population will be replaced by foreigners, and that this will be reflected in Britain's cultural output etc. Essentially that it will become a completely different country in all but name. Not just in terms of physical apperance, but norms and belief systems etc. Don't shoot the messenger, I'm just explaining this other person's perspective lol.
Fruits of an imperial past. Suffer in silence, if you must
When you're up everyone lines up to kiss your butt. When you're down the same sycophants line up to kick you. Human nature.
As a migrant to Great Britian and a British soldier and veteran this is truly a sad and disturbing to me.
PART II
"What actually occurred was that Britain and other countries became hopelessly indebted to the United States once again (edit: during World War 2) ... *“We have profited by our past mistakes,” announced Roosevelt in a speech delivered on September 3, 1942. “This time we shall know how to make full use of victory.” This time the U.S. Government would conquer its allies in a more enlightened manner, by demanding economic concessions of a legal and political nature instead of futilely seeking repayment of its wartime loans (of World War 1).* The new postwar strategy sought and secured foreign markets for U.S. exports, and new fields for American investment capital in Europe’s raw materials producing colonial areas. Despite Roosevelt’s assurances to the contrary, Britain was compelled, under the Lend-Lease agreements and the terms of the first great U.S. postwar loan to Britain, to relinquish Empire Preference and to open all its markets to U.S. competition, at a time when Britain desperately needed these markets as a means by which to fund its sterling debt. Most important of all, Britain was forced to unblock its sterling and foreign-exchange balances built up by its colonies and other Sterling Area countries during the wartime years. Instead of the Allied Powers as a whole bearing the costs of these wartime credits to British Empire countries, they would be borne by Britain itself. Equally important, they would not be used as “blocked” balances that could be used only to buy British or other Sterling Area exports, but would be freed to purchase exports from any nation. Under postwar conditions this meant that they would be used in large part to purchase U.S. exports." (page 115/116)
"By relinquishing its right to block these balances, Britain gave up its option, while enabling the United States to make full use of its gold stock as the basis for postwar lending to purchased generalized (primarily U.S.) exports. *At a stroke, Britain’s economic power was broken. What Germany as foe had been unable to accomplish in two wars against Britain, the United States accomplished with ease as its ally."* (Page 117)
"Furthermore, under the terms on which it joined the International Monetary Fund, Britain could not devalue the pound sterling so as to dissipate the foreign-exchange value of these balances. Its liability thus was maximized - and so was America’s gain from the pool of liquidity that these balances now represented." ("Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire." -- Michael Hudson, 2nd edition 2003)
In case that seems a bit technical, here is the "nutshell version": Just like the bank takes your house if you don't pay up in the real world, the British Empire was run into the ground by the "best friends" USA, who stole the Empire's markets; hidden behind a whole lot of "technical jargon", thereby taking the means London had to pay its debts. A suitable micro level example would be the bank having an eye on your house, then making sure you get fired so you can't pay your debt. On the macro level the term is "debt trap diplomacy", and on the (privatized) propaganda level the means is "projection: accuse somebody else of being something which one is oneself", and that "being" has started waaaaaay earlier as a matter of own policy. A "debt trap" the Allies walked into after 1916, after they had spent all their own money, and squeezed as much out of their colonies as they could get away with, but refused to come to terms at the negotiating table: another factor usually associated with the Central Powers.
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"At the end of the war [WW2], Britain, physically devastated and financially bankrupt, lacked factories to produce goods for rebuilding, the materials to rebuild the factories or purchase the machines to fill them, or with the money to pay for any of it. Britain’s situation was so dire, the government sent the economist John Maynard Keynes with a delegation to the US to beg for financial assistance, claiming that Britain was facing a "financial Dunkirk”. The Americans were willing to do so, on one condition: They would supply Britain with the financing, goods and materials to rebuild itself, but dictated that Britain must first eliminate those Sterling Balances by repudiating all its debts to its colonies. The alternative was to receive neither assistance nor credit from the US. *Britain, impoverished and in debt, with no natural resources and no credit or ability to pay, had little choice but to capitulate. And of course with all receivables cancelled and since the US could produce today, those colonial nations had no further reason for refusing manufactured goods from the US. The strategy was successful. By the time Britain rebuilt itself, the US had more or less captured all of Britain’s former colonial markets, and for some time after the war’s end the US was manufacturing more than 50% of everything produced in the world. And that was the end of the British Empire, and the beginning of the last stage of America’s rise."*
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The problem is UK does not want to accept its diminished role in the world, instead of trying to be small but rich like Switzerland its busy trying to be powerful but poor like Russia
Exactly
Russia's trying but not succeeding.
no its immigration. Simple. That combined with Thatcher's decisions to denationalise our gas and electric and public transport alike.
We are run by the Eton gang and their Tufton pals who are too detached from reality to accept that we are not the superpower we once were.
@@ryanreedgibsonRussia is proving to be one thing.
Resilient af.
It’s surviving its own self destructive decisions better than any nation has done thus far. It’s actually concerning how it can make horrific mistake after horrific mistake and just keep working.
Where exactly is the comeback plan mentioned? What a waste of 20 minutes that would have been had I watched your video instead of just pasting the transcript into chatgpt for a summary
This should be the top comment. This video was a noticeable drop in quality...
There was nothing, and the analysis and history was full of mistakes and omissions. Terrible video.
What a pointless video lmao
I'll tell you why as someone who lives in part of the U.K. He doesn't mention a comeback plan because *there isn't one*, he glosses over just how downhill things have gotten, there is no *fixing* things. The government has no plans or solutions, they are thinking about how to ensure their pockets are filled once they are put out, and/or how they can avoid an election wipeout, there won't be a british comeback, there isn't a solution, its that simple.
Britain continuing as a cohesive state that doesn't turn into an ethnic free for all or an authoritarian dictatorship is a *far* more likely scenario which is already unfolding, compared to a whimsical global resurgence
Realistically the best choice is the USA, it’s going to be a less favourable deal than what we had with the EU but it’s simply the best path forward.
What’s the point in pivoting towards the EU which will force us into deals that we were previously not in and is economically in decline.
Germany (which is by far the most influential economy in Europe) is in extreme danger economically, its economy is built around exporting manufactured goods but without cheap fuel and falling population in Europe (it’s export market) it’s screwed.
The USA is still rapidly growing and is positioned to continuously grow, we’ll become completely dependent on them (like Canada) but if it means we’re safer and richer we should bite the bullet.
I’m quite happy with this transition. Our history is just that, history. We’ve had our day. I like the idea of shrinking down and focusing on our own selves for a bit, and sorting out a new identity where we can draw all our various different peoples together under a new shared banner. And then just chill for a century and do our own thing whilst everyone else slugs it out to stay top dog. If we are smart and focus on sci tech, education and finance we can do very well on the intellectual supply side whilst keeping out of the fray.
The United Nations recently reported in its Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) that the UK is now the 4th largest exporter in the world. It has overtaken France and Japan, moving up from 7th in 2021. Only China, USA and Germany export more, but the thing is it only has a population of 67 million.
As the saying goes…a leopard doesn’t change its spots.
This is a good analysis although I think it overstates the risk of the UK's breakup. The reality is the Union is safer now than at any time in recent memory (I say that as a Scotsman). Support for Scottish Independence is at a modern low and the nationalists will almost certainly lose power at the next election. In Northern Ireland they have reached a power sharing agreement - the prospect of a United Ireland is still decades or even generations away (if ever).
Britain: "A fortress of elite financial corruption and privileged woke reality detachment."
The most accurate comment I have read for this video so far.
No one worth quoting uses the word “woke” to describe an institution.
Screw people who want civil rights, am I right? It’s the “them” that you want others to fear. They don’t need to be quantified, identified or rationalized if you can throw your hands up at every bad part of your life without thinking critically.
Can’t get a girlfriend? Women are too woke!
Can’t get a job? Corporations are too woke!
Country failing because they exited the European Union? Forget who voted for that, they must just be too woke!
Brilliant 😂
lol surely the tories have been great rulers lmao
lol
I love Americans who are unfathoambly unaware of foreign politics.
Like calling Britain woke despite it being ruled by the conservative party since 1979 with the brief exception of the period in 1997 to 2010 (Tony Blair and Gordon Brown)
Global comeback? Bro can barely keep Scotland and Northern Ireland from seceding 🤣🤣
I mean Scotland has been trying for 10 years now and still hasn’t managed it
@@Sparx632 economics. The second it becomes economically advantageous for scottland and N ireland to become independant they will
When did NI try and secede? Do you know anything about this subject?
Well N.I. hasn't tried and Scotland has CONSISTENTLY failed to leave.
No idea what you're on about.
You're not even British 🤣
@@charlesreid9337 That'll be "never" for Scotland then. It's not really about money for Northern Ireland, is it ?
Excellent Analysis.
... as usual!
Thank you.
Nobody in Ireland considers Ireland to be a part of the British Isles. Phrase is not used or recognised in any way by Irish government. People (mostly British) will now reply it’s a purely geographical term but it expresses dominance and ownership of one island over another and the phrase was also coined by British people.
"North Ireland remains in integral part of the United Kingdom"
Lol good one.
United Kingdom remains an integral part of London