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  • @CallMeEzekiel
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    • @ryanthered2060
      @ryanthered2060 Рік тому +4

      Could you do the typing rebellion next?

    • @keannoxyrenceesquivel2349
      @keannoxyrenceesquivel2349 Рік тому

      ​@@ryanthered2060the what?

    • @General_Romesmarck.77
      @General_Romesmarck.77 Рік тому +4

      How about making episodes on the Taiping Rebellion & later the Boxer Rebellion? I would love to see a series dedicated to China’s Century of Humiliation…

    • @Posionfish2
      @Posionfish2 Рік тому +2

      🐶

    • @hadiomidi4829
      @hadiomidi4829 Рік тому

      Video about boxer rebellion when

  • @floridaman484
    @floridaman484 Рік тому +331

    "Most retelling leave out he was almost certainly drunk at the time"
    Isn't specifying an irishmen is drunk redundant?

  • @getfreur2458
    @getfreur2458 Рік тому +575

    I think this is the first time i see a wife and mistress helping each other after their hubby died, instead of butchering each other in a power struggle.

    • @KaiHung-wv3ul
      @KaiHung-wv3ul Рік тому +75

      Oh trust me it didn't last long, not long at all.

    • @captaintitus4637
      @captaintitus4637 Рік тому +54

      @@KaiHung-wv3ul why am I not surprised

    • @GLASSMOSCOWANDBEIJING
      @GLASSMOSCOWANDBEIJING Рік тому +7

      ​@@KaiHung-wv3uleven if that's still kinda nice

    • @commandermcnash5137
      @commandermcnash5137 Рік тому +6

      You haven't watched battle harem animes too much eh?

    • @jamesanderson7243
      @jamesanderson7243 10 місяців тому +2

      Yeah that really confused me as well, especially since the child was the mistress's

  • @Dockboy-ie4yu
    @Dockboy-ie4yu Рік тому +556

    The fact that they saved the dog and gave it to the queen who loved it
    🐶

  • @KonyCurrentYear
    @KonyCurrentYear Рік тому +607

    Qing arrogance and stubbornness really was their downfall.

    • @newguy8288
      @newguy8288 Рік тому

      I don’t really blame the Qing completely; it was the Chinese dynasties in general never really modernizing or working upwards from their own inventions.
      Invent gunpowder? Let’s just use that for basic artillery, riffles and mainly for fireworks
      Early printing press? Use it solely to print out ancient Confucian texts
      An incredibly large navy? Use it mainly to secure the trade and never do much significant exploration
      The Chinese dynasties where mainly driven by tradition, not because intellectuals didn’t exist as rulers mind you, but because the state itself was driven purely by nostalgia

    • @TheMarianadealmeida
      @TheMarianadealmeida Рік тому +33

      No doubt

    • @leaf0nthewind625
      @leaf0nthewind625 Рік тому +1

      In all honesty the Qing were inept to the point of criminality. They had been given so many opportunities to come to terms with the reality on the ground but refused every single opportunity, and everyone suffered for it.

    • @monkofdarktimes
      @monkofdarktimes Рік тому +100

      Han Racism is something else

    • @gadgetboy4717
      @gadgetboy4717 Рік тому +103

      There was a Chinese commercial for laundry detergent where a woman shoved a black man that was hitting on her into a wash machine and he came out as a Han Chinese man. Yikes !

  • @RKNGL
    @RKNGL Рік тому +72

    5:37 Good sir, the intoxication of an Irishmen can always be presumed unless it’s specified he was sober.

    • @lordadorable1140
      @lordadorable1140 Місяць тому

      As an Irishman, I agree with this statement.

  • @msmith1890
    @msmith1890 Рік тому +396

    I am so early the Qing Empire was just Manchuria.

    • @bayarsejar5831
      @bayarsejar5831 Рік тому +7

      They are from Manchuria who then took over china.

    • @c10lx2_6
      @c10lx2_6 Рік тому

      @@bayarsejar5831it is badly worded but he is right, reread lol

    • @Kasubaz
      @Kasubaz Рік тому +2

      Here before 10K

    • @tubacollossus9619
      @tubacollossus9619 Рік тому +3

      Shame that we didn’t arrive when they formed the Aisin Gioro Clan :(

    • @InquisitorXarius
      @InquisitorXarius Рік тому +6

      Its called the Jurchenland, it was illegally occupied by Russia, illegally occupied by Japan, and is illegally occupied by the Chinese.

  • @DIEGhostfish
    @DIEGhostfish Рік тому +244

    It is quite nice how low-drama the two empresses seemed to be.

    • @lovablesnowman
      @lovablesnowman Рік тому +22

      It does not last....

    • @halorecon95
      @halorecon95 10 місяців тому

      Oh buddy, if only you knew...
      Cixi is the reason the Qing didn't last.

  • @hakopathebro9727
    @hakopathebro9727 Рік тому +134

    Hey man, I’m from New Zealand, small country I know, but our history is quite fascinating. Look up the New Zealand musket wars and the Waikato war. A quick fun fact is Maori who are the natives of New Zealand, used trench warfare against the British, as a Maori I remember playing in the old trenches as a child, we call them Pā. Another interesting fact the might make you interested is that during the war the Maori killed a Prussian officer.

  • @ahorribledude9550
    @ahorribledude9550 Рік тому +218

    Qing dynasty when when the "Western barbarians" burn down the summer palace:

    • @proactiveomnipresentvessel6569
      @proactiveomnipresentvessel6569 Рік тому +26

      Anyone can call anyone a barbarian and anyone can be a barbarian

    • @ProfTricky3168
      @ProfTricky3168 Рік тому +14

      We can all call the French barbarism mercenaries

    • @usaball9190
      @usaball9190 Рік тому +6

      Before that it was the northern barbarian from the steppes. Later on, it will be the island barbarians from the east.

    • @tubacollossus9619
      @tubacollossus9619 Рік тому +46

      TFW your Celestial Heavenly Grand Empire loses 10000000000k soldiers against 5 British Barbarian Tribal scum soldiers (1 of them got a tiny cut after tripping over a rock)

    • @passionfruit7617
      @passionfruit7617 Рік тому +21

      pretty sure the word barbarian is not the right word. I'm chinese and the word we use is 外国人 which actually means "people from countries outside china" which is way less negative than barbarian

  • @MrLuisfrossi
    @MrLuisfrossi Рік тому +50

    The Qing Dinasty or How to Gain the Ire Most Industrial Superpowers in a Few Weeks

  • @CliffCardi
    @CliffCardi Рік тому +76

    So Ezekiel is just not going to cover the Taiping Rebellion? Because that alone killed more people than WWI did.

    • @keannoxyrenceesquivel2349
      @keannoxyrenceesquivel2349 Рік тому +1

      Prolly soon

    • @RIlianP
      @RIlianP Рік тому +37

      I prefer he covers it in a separate video where he can do it justice, or none at all, instead of just gloss it over in the sidelines in a video where its not the main focus.

    • @fiendish9474
      @fiendish9474 Рік тому +1

      Ask and you received, he made a video on it

  • @redbagelpuppies9884
    @redbagelpuppies9884 Рік тому +66

    It’s criminal this channel doesn’t get more attention.

    • @Elenrai
      @Elenrai 4 місяці тому

      The creator was deemed "problematic" by a certain group of self-declared women.
      women being a very loose definition here.
      Same thing happened to Arch and Invicta, Metatron too, oh and Shadiversity the aussie sword enjoyer..
      Almost as if a tiny minority of people are shitting up the internet for the majority, due to the crime of wrong think.
      Seriously the algorithm is still suppressing Eziekiel, cant discuss history without altering it to fit the "modern world" on youtube, otherwise we risk you pointing out inconvenient facts, like the ethnic composition of the Waffen SS being more diverse than most woke people´s social spheres :)

  • @rat_king-
    @rat_king- Рік тому +32

    17:15 Can relate as a british man...

  • @kaiserinvictoria8085
    @kaiserinvictoria8085 Рік тому +62

    As a Mongolian it was such a surprise to see your video including mongols! Thanks lad!

    • @dickinwurfer
      @dickinwurfer Рік тому

      Fake Mongolian I real Mongolian real Mongolian no watch anime Chinese virus

    • @sakurakou2009
      @sakurakou2009 9 місяців тому

      Weren't Manchus and Mongolians of that time allies?

    • @crazydinosaur8945
      @crazydinosaur8945 9 місяців тому

      @@sakurakou2009 the Qing conquered mongolian homeland shortly after their conquest of china. so they were allies in the same sense that the Sikes soldiers whare allies to the british. aka they were subjects

    • @kaiserinvictoria8085
      @kaiserinvictoria8085 9 місяців тому +3

      @@sakurakou2009 Not allies, But Overlord and subject, we were invaded by Manchus like British invasion of India. And even though we were subjects, there were edict of the first Emperor of the Qing that states no Mongols shall leave mongolia, no chinese or manchus shall enter mongolia ( Revoked in 1900 which led to our independence).

    • @wilsonanimates6362
      @wilsonanimates6362 6 місяців тому

      @@kaiserinvictoria8085did u guys also invade china too back then in 1200s I heard about that thing

  • @ShamanMcLamie
    @ShamanMcLamie Рік тому +64

    I visited the Summer Palace back in 2008. Its like a big park. There are a bunch of these empty pedestals that used to have Bhudda statues that were stolen by the allies.

    • @Wormopera
      @Wormopera Рік тому

      ​@@def3ndr887the communists were Chinese.

    • @NightPhoenix.Y
      @NightPhoenix.Y Рік тому +3

      The communists never touched the forbidden palace so I doubt it

    • @def3ndr887
      @def3ndr887 Рік тому +13

      @@NightPhoenix.Y excuse my lack of trust but the with cultural revolution in mind I doubt that

    • @NightPhoenix.Y
      @NightPhoenix.Y Рік тому +3

      @@def3ndr887 yeah ok buddy 👍

  • @manugamer9984
    @manugamer9984 Рік тому +70

    Wow, the Qing Court was sooo ridiculously out of touch... you don’t call two European empires “barbarians” and get on with it

    • @puchy110
      @puchy110 Рік тому +26

      I mean China was the same nation that called the Mongol Empire, the largest contiguous empire in history, a horde of barbarians.

    • @magmat0585
      @magmat0585 Рік тому +28

      China in general viewed any outsiders as "foreign devils". They called themselves the middle kingdom because they believed themselves to be the center of the world, and that idea hasn't completely gone away.

    • @barmybarmecide5390
      @barmybarmecide5390 Рік тому +5

      @punchy110 Civilisations isn't determined by the size of your empire, it's the sum total of your technological and cultural feats. The Mongols were laughably barbaric in comparison to the Muslim and European polities they attacked and in some cases conquered

    • @marcobelli6856
      @marcobelli6856 11 місяців тому +2

      @@barmybarmecide5390yes they were right about the mongols in fact their “Empire” was Short lived

  • @cka2192
    @cka2192 Рік тому +14

    I'm so happy It's up
    also the chinese man at 6:35 is very nervous

  • @lovablesnowman
    @lovablesnowman Рік тому +174

    Despite being a fairly unjust war waged on the chinese its just so hard to have any sympathy for them. It was blind luck that saved Parke and the other ambassadors from execution, not to mention their physical abuse beforehand.
    The chinese tortured those poor soldiers along with Parke to death. The chinese got exactly what they deserved. If anything they got off lightly
    And the chinese had the gall to call the westerners barbarians
    I really hope you continue this China series with the so called "Boxer Rebellion"

    • @ToastieBRRRN
      @ToastieBRRRN Рік тому +73

      Exactly, delay tactics and cowardly torture. Not surprised the Qing got retribution. Like how he emphasised why they chose to burn the Palace but not Peking. Otherwise there would be no Beijing today. Something that most people seem to miss.

    • @Runetrantor
      @Runetrantor Рік тому +38

      Im finding it hard to feel sympathy for either side beyond specific points like for the westerners for the torture part.
      But man, both sides did some shitty stuff.

    • @keannoxyrenceesquivel2349
      @keannoxyrenceesquivel2349 Рік тому +1

      Interesting

    • @smaguy64
      @smaguy64 Рік тому +8

      @@Runetrantor That;s history for ya

    • @熊唯嘉
      @熊唯嘉 Рік тому +1

      Those cruelties pale at the horrors of the civil war ongoing in China at that time. Up to 100 million people died within a timespan of 20 years. The opium wars were only a catalyst to the brewing antagonism in dynastic China.

  • @DIEGhostfish
    @DIEGhostfish Рік тому +23

    Looty the Looted dog.

  • @clarafindley6689
    @clarafindley6689 Рік тому +29

    Wake up honey CallMeEzekiel posted a new video all jokes aside love your videos keep up the good work 👍

  • @DIEGhostfish
    @DIEGhostfish Рік тому +14

    I really liked this in the Flashman books.

  • @spiffygonzales5160
    @spiffygonzales5160 Рік тому +47

    I would totally be down for a Phoenix Write style countryballs game

  • @alexrator7674
    @alexrator7674 Рік тому +7

    Never once did I expect that an Irish once kowtowed to a Mongolian

  • @jimmothy3012
    @jimmothy3012 Рік тому +7

    it would be fitting to do that boxer rebellion after this

  • @thekingminn
    @thekingminn Рік тому +16

    Now I want to see a video on the Anglo-Burmese wars.

  • @ingold1470
    @ingold1470 Рік тому +21

    Interesting parallel between Alaric's sack of Rome and the burning of the Summer Palace, both were provoked by atrocities that the empire committed against those of the invaders in their power. Honorius ordered the massacre of the Goths' families living in Rome, and soon after the Gothic foederati rebels sacked Rome for the first time in centuries.

  • @andreyhempburn
    @andreyhempburn 7 місяців тому +1

    Calling the Looted dog Looty is pure genious

  • @yourdaysarenumbered3012
    @yourdaysarenumbered3012 Рік тому +7

    She deadass named that dog Looty

  • @homoe7976
    @homoe7976 Рік тому +11

    Whatever shall we call this looted dog, your highness?

  • @WispyKatt
    @WispyKatt Рік тому +8

    That was likely the single most ominous thumbnail ever lol

  • @External2737
    @External2737 2 місяці тому +1

    Stole a dog and called it "Lootie". Wow...

  • @zurielsss
    @zurielsss Рік тому +12

    Do the Boxer rebellion and Taiping civil war too, it will be interesting

  • @kucimaka8092
    @kucimaka8092 Рік тому +30

    I wish there was a game about this fascinating conflict.

    • @schneejacques3502
      @schneejacques3502 Рік тому +7

      Any game around this time period would be good. Crimean war, opium war, ashanti expedition, boshin war ect.

  • @asianperson104
    @asianperson104 Рік тому +8

    The shocking this is that China was still dealing with the taipings and Muslim rebellions at the same time this was happening. Truly a century of disasters after disasters.

  • @nightazday7988
    @nightazday7988 Рік тому +63

    Cixi has been portrayed horribly by history but in this case I got to admit she has a point

    • @csmth96
      @csmth96 8 місяців тому

      Cixi is poorly portrayed by Chinese historians because at that time women are seen to be completely unfit to rule even as a regent. They have little respect to Queen Victoria either, just because she is a woman. This may be caused by reactionary sentiment during Qing era, because Empress Lü Zhi (呂雉) was generally accepted at Han era.

  • @tomfoolery6080
    @tomfoolery6080 Рік тому +6

    The Apocalypse Now theming is awesome, my favourite film of all time!

  • @vapaus831
    @vapaus831 Рік тому

    8:34 The uniform of the British Soldier is from 1840s instead of the second opium war.

  • @kingdm8315
    @kingdm8315 10 місяців тому +1

    Nice apocalypse now reference

  • @calvin_the_hee4554
    @calvin_the_hee4554 Рік тому +5

    That ace attorney reference at the end was 👌

  • @ticketschreiber3326
    @ticketschreiber3326 Рік тому +9

    Will you continue with the Boxer rebellion?

  • @jakegarvin7634
    @jakegarvin7634 Рік тому +1

    9:53 - you'd think they would realize they were losing a war

  • @lordofspearton8643
    @lordofspearton8643 7 місяців тому

    Fun fact I learned not too long ago, the palace depicted at 16:02 and 16:32 was designed by a man named Giuseppe Castiglione. He was as Jesuit Missionary and court painter from Milan for the Qing in the mid 18th century. Like much of the rest of the summer palace it was destroyed.
    Very sad, but also poetic that a palace designed by a European in China, intended as a fusion of the two cultures, should meet its end in a war that drove them further apart.

  • @noobbro3469
    @noobbro3469 Рік тому +1

    Love the apocalypse now reference

  • @nalanhazzard
    @nalanhazzard Рік тому +3

    I was waiting for this love callmeEzekiel

  • @StephanieGegner
    @StephanieGegner Рік тому +12

    Is the next vodeo going to be about the 55 days at peking?

  • @manwithgun9768
    @manwithgun9768 Рік тому +2

    Ooo yeeee, bet that the boxer rebellion is next

  • @Kronos-zj3ei
    @Kronos-zj3ei Рік тому +2

    Wow, interesting that the UK as long history of Pekingese dogs started after the opium wars

  • @jordanlawrie8331
    @jordanlawrie8331 8 місяців тому

    Ultra handsome scots there in the end screen

  • @shawngilliland243
    @shawngilliland243 8 місяців тому +1

    Thank you for telling the truth of Chinese perfidy. Elgin wasn't the most tactful diplomat, that's for certain.

  • @KyleSSamuelson
    @KyleSSamuelson Рік тому +2

    Your channel is so high quality, I love your animations. Just sub’d

  • @DanH-u3f
    @DanH-u3f 9 місяців тому +1

    'Peking' is what the British called Beijing because they couldn't pronounce it properly.

  • @scientistx5717
    @scientistx5717 Рік тому +1

    5:35 Irish gotta Irish

  • @obi3107
    @obi3107 Рік тому +1

    Honestly i have to say i forget this channel has 92000 Subs and not 900000 because the Video Quality is honestly immaculate

  • @nerino_chan
    @nerino_chan Рік тому +2

    Now it’s time for 55 days at peking

  • @Ploxtifs_OldAndDeadAccountXD
    @Ploxtifs_OldAndDeadAccountXD 8 місяців тому

    The Contra Affair, but done right.

  • @heinzguderian628
    @heinzguderian628 Рік тому +6

    Any day is a good day when Ezekiel posts a video

  • @michaelbuchler4380
    @michaelbuchler4380 5 місяців тому +1

    🐶, Looty, what an ironic name

  • @amhuman5138
    @amhuman5138 Рік тому +3

    eziekel has dropped a video

  • @alex.zeze16
    @alex.zeze16 Рік тому +2

    our girl cixi will fuck up real bad in when the boxers would come around

  • @hallelbimpong1901
    @hallelbimpong1901 Рік тому +3

    I just love this channel

  • @redunbreon5911
    @redunbreon5911 Рік тому +2

    I really love the music you use for these videos. From where do you have the music or is it made for the videos ?

  • @thechangeling3851
    @thechangeling3851 Рік тому +2

    Hey Ezekiel will you countinue and follow up on further Chinese history? Mainly the boxer rebelion?

  • @TheFrenchBaguettes
    @TheFrenchBaguettes Рік тому

    12:51 what are those gold boat looking things

  • @normalplayer7377
    @normalplayer7377 Рік тому +1

    Next one: Boxer Rebellion

  • @paulthetyyppi
    @paulthetyyppi 9 місяців тому

    Is that the same Lord Elgin who stole from Parthenon?

  • @benjamincolon5486
    @benjamincolon5486 Рік тому +1

    Hope you do the typing peasant uprising and hong xixuan or or something like that?

  • @fredrikjonsson-bj5ru
    @fredrikjonsson-bj5ru Рік тому +2

    I loved it keep up the excellent content

  • @ラーメンのボス
    @ラーメンのボス Місяць тому

    Can you do a video on the Sino French War?

  • @accountthatillusetocomment3041

    "The sight of so much concentration of wealth in one place left the expedition with no other choice than to loot all of it".
    Literally every single colonial power

    • @thor1829
      @thor1829 Рік тому +12

      Every single conquest in the history of humanity***

    • @graceneilitz7661
      @graceneilitz7661 2 місяці тому

      That is pretty much every army in history.
      It’s extremely predictable.

  • @martinparra3650
    @martinparra3650 Рік тому +1

    🐶I have a pekingese dog!

  • @Manwithnoname1967
    @Manwithnoname1967 Рік тому +3

    Apocalypse Now

  • @amerikarhineland3185
    @amerikarhineland3185 Рік тому +2

    could you do the 55 days at peking since you did this video?

  • @corradoalamanni179
    @corradoalamanni179 Рік тому

    In my headcannon the dog Is called Looting

  • @OneShootYT
    @OneShootYT Рік тому

    Lol, i love how this is a reference to the TNO New Order: Don't Surf

  • @iandoster4680
    @iandoster4680 Рік тому +1

    3:31

  • @GeorgeSemel
    @GeorgeSemel Рік тому +4

    Very good one.🐕‍🦺

  • @clover1475
    @clover1475 Рік тому +20

    I can't believe the Chinese didn't use their vast wealth to buy European weaponry then he might have had fighting chance 🐶

    • @devinsweeting4978
      @devinsweeting4978 Рік тому +26

      A mistake the Japanese did not make.

    • @clover1475
      @clover1475 Рік тому +2

      @@devinsweeting4978 very much true

    • @silverkingisley6438
      @silverkingisley6438 Рік тому +27

      Best part is that even far *far* more impoverished (and at the time nominally occupied) Ethiopia managed to get that part right. ... Granted they were helped greatly by the Italian's own incompetence.

    • @clover1475
      @clover1475 Рік тому +1

      @@silverkingisley6438 oh yeah that was very embarrassing a European country being beaten by Africans 🤣

    • @Taiyama2
      @Taiyama2 Рік тому +6

      As you saw in the video, the Chinese DID have guns. Otherwise they couldn't have lost 75 of them to the Brits in one battle.
      The problem is far more complex. We see often during this time period non-Westerners bringing guns against Westerners and STILL losing with utterly lop-sided casualty figures. I'm not sure why this is, but I have a few guesses. I think that 19th century tactics simply suit Western culture more, as since time immemorial we've always placed an emphasis on close-ordered ranks of infantry. Morale is another possible factor: the British were fighting for their country, which was ruled by a constitutional monarchy, while the Chinese were fighting for Manchu outsider overlords. Also, I think there's simply a factor of institutional experience with a weapons system: the British had well over a century's experience with using guns, cannons, etc. in warfare. The Chinese were johnny-come-lately, and even if they HAD the tools they didn't necessarily know how to use them effectively.

  • @Admiral-General_Aladeen
    @Admiral-General_Aladeen Рік тому +1

    Can't wait for dun dun dun dun dun dun

  • @DrBrightstein
    @DrBrightstein Рік тому +3

    Bruv you’re like the armchair historian, but on a budget. You make VERY impressive videos, keep up the great work!

  • @boomstick7506
    @boomstick7506 Рік тому +1

    55 DAYS AT PEKING!

  • @theluisyoutube
    @theluisyoutube Рік тому +2

    Victoria 2: Heart of Darkness

  • @alltheclovers266
    @alltheclovers266 Рік тому +16

    Wait, the second opium war's treaty made Hong Kong permanently British?
    Then why did they hand it over at the end of the 99 year limit?

    • @Epicrandomness1111
      @Epicrandomness1111 Рік тому

      CCP legal bluffing that the British backed down on, it was more of an agreed pretext for British withdrawal than an actual end of a lease.

    • @jonC1208
      @jonC1208 Рік тому +7

      Because by the time they handed it over they could finish as portuguese india or give it voluntarily

    • @Kirb-kc4vs
      @Kirb-kc4vs Рік тому +23

      Bc at that point britian was no longer a global Power, and the British Goverment knew that keeping Hongkong was impossible.

    • @ToastieBRRRN
      @ToastieBRRRN Рік тому +18

      It was technically only the new territories that had the 99 year lease. Kowloon and Hong Kong island were held in perpetuity. But were given back together cos it be too much hassle.

    • @kungwu5686
      @kungwu5686 Рік тому +16

      @@ToastieBRRRN All important infrastructure was located on the leased land British could have kept Hong Kong iland but then Chinise could cut the fresh water power ect.. I don't remember if they did but they might threatened it openly.

  • @ethanmcfarland8240
    @ethanmcfarland8240 Рік тому +2

    everything changed when the british empire attacked

  • @hadiomidi4829
    @hadiomidi4829 Рік тому +1

    Do a video about the boxer rebellion next

  • @huabinsitu6459
    @huabinsitu6459 Рік тому +4

    >gets mad about being called barbarians and your people tortured
    >literally drug cartels

  • @BawnzyBun
    @BawnzyBun Рік тому +3

    Here before this blows up

  • @sahilhossian8212
    @sahilhossian8212 Рік тому +1

    Lore of The Second Opium War | Vengeance and Taku, the Summer Palace Burns, Treaty of Peking | Polandball momentum 100

  • @slayermcrx7519
    @slayermcrx7519 Рік тому +1

    didn't the video have a different thumbnail beforehand?

  • @ChariTheAlternate
    @ChariTheAlternate Рік тому +1

    Amazing

  • @PossessedPotatoBird
    @PossessedPotatoBird Рік тому +1

    Could I have a source for the Irish Mongolian thing?

  • @zurielsss
    @zurielsss Рік тому +10

    Looking at today's China, history may not repeat, but it certainly rhymes 😂

    • @tekinet7958
      @tekinet7958 Рік тому +7

      China can literally 2v1 France and UK

    • @amacsizbirkisi
      @amacsizbirkisi Рік тому +5

      Can it also 1v1 US (current world leader de facto)?
      Chinese military is a paper tiger, numbers mean nothing if you can't take over an island right next to you for over 70 years

    • @tekinet7958
      @tekinet7958 Рік тому

      @@amacsizbirkisi red herring. No one mentioned the US

    • @amacsizbirkisi
      @amacsizbirkisi Рік тому +3

      @@tekinet7958
      UK and France were in a position comparable to US of today (global policeforce), thus why I compared it to China which has not changed much its global ranking and status
      You also seem to miss
      >(current world leader de facto)
      part, instead making me write a comment explaining it unnecessarily

    • @tekinet7958
      @tekinet7958 Рік тому +1

      @@amacsizbirkisi so you say that US is an empire and China another victim of their imperialism? Glad we agree on this one

  • @justpreston5583
    @justpreston5583 Рік тому +1

    So is next video about the colapse of the qing?

  • @STbattlefront
    @STbattlefront 10 місяців тому

    Brits save doggo 🐶

  • @lordbusiness-qs4ok
    @lordbusiness-qs4ok Рік тому

    Will you do a video about the hundred day’s reform?

  • @Adam-wg2rf
    @Adam-wg2rf Рік тому +3

    It's only takes ashes for a phoenex to rise, the end of the moron ruler is the start of the a new time of hardship but in the end the phoenex has risen back in a new comminest form.
    And sorry for my spelling chaps.

    • @barmybarmecide5390
      @barmybarmecide5390 Рік тому

      China is weak, ruled by a paranoid authoritarian and insular party, with an ignorant and still poor populace rapidly ageing, and a backwards military that wouldn't even beat France or Britain, let alone the USA. The CCP is afraid to reveal accurate GDP figures but it's likely that China's economy is half the size of the US, and will probably never surpass the EU

  • @Konrad-zc1ve
    @Konrad-zc1ve Рік тому +4

    fine 🐶

  • @oliverj4017
    @oliverj4017 Рік тому +1

    Do tha Finnish Civil war

  • @SubliminalCorp
    @SubliminalCorp Рік тому +5

    Earlier then an hour gang

  • @InquisitorXarius
    @InquisitorXarius Рік тому

    Burn the Foul Summer Palace of Zhongguo’s Arrogance and Malice.