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  • @TheArmchairHistorian
    @TheArmchairHistorian  2 місяці тому +132

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    • @JamaciaMapping6647
      @JamaciaMapping6647 2 місяці тому

      Hi

    • @Maximusb1527
      @Maximusb1527 2 місяці тому

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    • @Malcio
      @Malcio 2 місяці тому

      Hey Griffin can you do a Hürtgen forest animated history video.

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      @Omsk_War_Criminal 2 місяці тому

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      @JamaciaMapping6647 2 місяці тому

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  • @Redacted-one
    @Redacted-one 2 місяці тому +734

    "Getting rid of Saddam would result in a costly and lengthy occupation." As we found out 12 years later that was so true.

    • @2x2is22
      @2x2is22 2 місяці тому +7

      As a percent of the total federal budget and GDP, military spending on the post-9/11 wars never got to what it was during the Cold War or even WWII. All of GWOT was conducted with the US military as-is. They didn't even need to implement conscription.
      So tell me, aside from the human cost, how exactly was Iraq costly?

    • @vermas4654
      @vermas4654 2 місяці тому +36

      @@2x2is22 Compared to spending nothing on no occupation, very

    • @MrHeavy466
      @MrHeavy466 2 місяці тому +34

      @@2x2is22 Fighting ISIS across the globe, dealing with the Syrian civil war, and dealing with the humanitarian crises, like the mass refuge migrations, that arose from both of those things which continues to plague the US and Europe today: all of which directly sprung from the fall of the Iraqi state. Pretty expensive if you ask me.

    • @Crazy_Broke_Asian
      @Crazy_Broke_Asian 2 місяці тому +13

      @@2x2is2230 trillion in added national debt since 1991 seems costly to me idk

    • @Skogebear
      @Skogebear 2 місяці тому +6

      ​@@2x2is22i dont know where you got your information but a quick google shows 8 billion obligated to post 9-11 war vs 4 billion after adjustment for inflation for WW2

  • @larryalvares1369
    @larryalvares1369 2 місяці тому +1101

    Saddam stole the Gardner art
    Those South Park references will never cease to amuse me

    • @jacobleister3055
      @jacobleister3055 2 місяці тому +43

      “Eh buddy. You should take Kuwait, guy!”

    • @PupleAnimations
      @PupleAnimations 2 місяці тому +12

      "!Eh It would be so fucking Cool buddy"

    • @starset4life175
      @starset4life175 2 місяці тому +8

      ⁠@@jacobleister3055”I’m not your guy, pal!”

    • @rachelleventura1026
      @rachelleventura1026 2 місяці тому +6

      @@starset4life175 "I'm not your Pal, Friend"

    • @banksavram
      @banksavram 2 місяці тому +5

      ⁠@@rachelleventura1026”I’m not your friend, buddy!”

  • @ThomFoolery12
    @ThomFoolery12 2 місяці тому +294

    This is like Total War when you easily could’ve auto-resolved but you misclicked so you just go full out.

    • @calexander7495
      @calexander7495 2 місяці тому +17

      See there's the difference.
      Saddam was more of a by the numbers autoresolve kind of general while America always goes Real Time.

  • @TurtleChad1
    @TurtleChad1 2 місяці тому +2456

    The Gulf war was like teaming up with 8 friends to take on an extremely easy computer enemy in command and conquer.

    • @esellipion8157
      @esellipion8157 2 місяці тому +51

      Why are you everywhere

    • @NOT_PSYCHO_A7MEDI
      @NOT_PSYCHO_A7MEDI 2 місяці тому +152

      Easy enemy?Iraq was the fourth in the world in military strength with chemical weapons and was close to manufacturing nuclear weapons...

    • @kiwimerchant121
      @kiwimerchant121 2 місяці тому +291

      ​@@NOT_PSYCHO_A7MEDIKinda easy to forget they were so powerful considering how they got curb stomped so hard 😂

    • @insertsomethingfuni2617
      @insertsomethingfuni2617 2 місяці тому +166

      @@NOT_PSYCHO_A7MEDI then its even more embarrassing that they got bombed back to the stone age within weeks

    • @shutup2751
      @shutup2751 2 місяці тому +77

      @@NOT_PSYCHO_A7MEDI Iraq's tanks were outdated, they had no night vision or anything

  • @THUMPER10
    @THUMPER10 2 місяці тому +490

    My late grandfather served in Vietnam as a medic/phycologist and was discharged as a specialist. He later went on to serve in Operation Desert Storm and Shield at the rank of Captain. By the time the war on terror started he was too old to reenlist even though he wanted to. He always talked about how he didn’t like war, but he knew that the soldiers needed somebody to look out for them and he wanted to be that guy.

    • @michelleladd7394
      @michelleladd7394 2 місяці тому +18

      God bless him.

    • @stevemc01
      @stevemc01 2 місяці тому +27

      "The soldier doesn't fight for some niche political idea postered at home. He fights for the comrades and family he knows depends on it."
      -- some quote I found in a forgotten Battle of Kursk book

    • @salvadorromero9712
      @salvadorromero9712 2 місяці тому +3

      I'm a bit surprised they wouldn't direct commission a medic at that point or something. (I'm not a veteran and know little about the culture.) I guess they'd take a senator's crackhead son who had done nothing with his life over a prior from two wars' worth of combat; go figure. Hey, if your grandfather were still alive he'd probably have an easier time getting commissioned now than twenty years ago. Anyway enough. May he rest in peace.

    • @Fast85FoxGT
      @Fast85FoxGT 2 місяці тому +2

      Good man.

    • @farismustafa5389
      @farismustafa5389 2 місяці тому +2

      what does he think of the Vietnam and 2003 Iraq war now politically?

  • @rsookchand919
    @rsookchand919 2 місяці тому +1210

    Love how they keep the South Park style of Saddam

    • @SuspectXX
      @SuspectXX 2 місяці тому +77

      What do you mean, that's exactly what he looked like in real life.

    • @h4bun5
      @h4bun5 2 місяці тому +49

      @@SuspectXX yea he's actually canadian

    • @vervi1jw1
      @vervi1jw1 2 місяці тому +15

      Hey Buddy!

    • @pbibbles
      @pbibbles 2 місяці тому +13

      "Hey, Satan!"

    • @ghost7344
      @ghost7344 2 місяці тому +9

      He is angry and small

  • @davidsyverson4612
    @davidsyverson4612 2 місяці тому +970

    "Mother of all battles" to "Father of all ass whoopins"

  • @Dankcommander45
    @Dankcommander45 2 місяці тому +603

    Clicked on this faster than the American advance into kuwait

    • @NOT_PSYCHO_A7MEDI
      @NOT_PSYCHO_A7MEDI 2 місяці тому +6

      What happened next in Iraq? You invaded Iraq but did not control it because of the Mujahideen.

    • @sunValAsun
      @sunValAsun 2 місяці тому

      ​@@NOT_PSYCHO_A7MEDI What the fukc are you talking about?

    • @scarscar9278
      @scarscar9278 2 місяці тому

      ​@@NOT_PSYCHO_A7MEDISaddam's corrupt dictatorial regime was toppled in just 20 days, so keep crying.

    • @scarscar9278
      @scarscar9278 2 місяці тому

      ​@@NOT_PSYCHO_A7MEDISaddam's corrupt dictatorship was toppled in just 20 days, so keep crying.

    • @KamsiyonnaEzepue
      @KamsiyonnaEzepue 2 місяці тому +74

      ​​​@@NOT_PSYCHO_A7MEDI AHH yes, the Mujahedeen was in Iraq. You are a very smart historian!

  • @awesomehpt8938
    @awesomehpt8938 2 місяці тому +358

    Did anyone get a hole in one during the golf war?

    • @NOT_PSYCHO_A7MEDI
      @NOT_PSYCHO_A7MEDI 2 місяці тому +17

      Ask the Americans at Baghdad and Fallujah

    • @austineisinger8927
      @austineisinger8927 2 місяці тому +23

      I've heard Kim Jong Il did

    • @akend4426
      @akend4426 2 місяці тому +19

      @Ahmed-xf8wk
      You keep referring to the wrong conflict, and I can’t tell if it’s deliberate or not.

    • @rebelroar78
      @rebelroar78 2 місяці тому +13

      When I was little I thought the Gulf War was fought over golf. Then I thought it happened in the Gulf of Mexico. Then the Iraq War happened and I unfortunately got a crash course in geopolitics and nothing has gone right ever since.

    • @JackalEtheriasu
      @JackalEtheriasu 2 місяці тому +4

      ​@@akend4426He is a Wahabist fundamentalist I'm not even jk

  • @DarthKieduss
    @DarthKieduss 2 місяці тому +196

    Thirty seconds in and you got South Park references. Bravo sir.

  • @kronocul3564
    @kronocul3564 2 місяці тому +340

    The one dislike is from Saddam Hussein beyond the grave

    • @abenazerafework4015
      @abenazerafework4015 2 місяці тому +6

      actually there are 43 dislikes

    • @AdmiralPrestonJColeTheGigaChad
      @AdmiralPrestonJColeTheGigaChad 2 місяці тому +30

      ​@@abenazerafework4015Must be the Iraqi Republican Guard divisions that were annihilated during the war.

    • @C-Farsene_5
      @C-Farsene_5 2 місяці тому +3

      Nah it was him from his hiding place

    • @teckzilla108
      @teckzilla108 2 місяці тому +1

      LMAOOOO

    • @Mqmn
      @Mqmn 2 місяці тому +1

      @@teckzilla108there’s no way it was that funny bro

  • @Marylandbrony
    @Marylandbrony 2 місяці тому +98

    An alumni of my high school, Reid Wiseman participated in thr post-gulf war bombing campaigns and ended up becoming an astronaut.

    • @DonVigaDeFierro
      @DonVigaDeFierro 2 місяці тому +3

      Woah, I think they bombed too hard, then.

  • @Warriorbob-im5py
    @Warriorbob-im5py 2 місяці тому +108

    You know you fucked up when both the US and the Soviet Union condemn you.

    • @retr07397
      @retr07397 Місяць тому +3

      Britain and France: 👀

    • @SteveInLava
      @SteveInLava 25 днів тому +1

      Soviet Union in 1991: 🫥

  • @merveileuxdushimeshema2188
    @merveileuxdushimeshema2188 2 місяці тому +131

    I like the fact that he gives us how long the ad is. I can skip it all😂😂.

    • @SleepyjoeOG
      @SleepyjoeOG 2 місяці тому +9

      Truly a man of the people

    • @eifelitorn
      @eifelitorn 2 місяці тому +1

      bro use sponsorblock

    • @salvadorromero9712
      @salvadorromero9712 2 місяці тому

      I am sure you are hardly the only person to notice that. You are merely the only person to say you appreciate the courtesy, then go out of your way to ruin it either for us or for him.

    • @matthewjones39
      @matthewjones39 Місяць тому +1

      @@salvadorromero9712How is he ruining anything?

    • @salvadorromero9712
      @salvadorromero9712 Місяць тому

      @@matthewjones39 You didn't appreciate the courtesy of being told how to easily skip the ad? I certainly did, and so apparently did a lot of others

  • @outofturn331
    @outofturn331 2 місяці тому +54

    7:45 stealing that armchair was an outrage

  • @saadhero9107
    @saadhero9107 2 місяці тому +72

    As a Kuwaiti, I thank you for this video.
    It's always scary to know that Kuwait was taken away from us and am quite thankful for all the countries that assisted us.

    • @Justaguyaroslav1234
      @Justaguyaroslav1234 2 місяці тому +6

      I could agree Iran stupidity of invading an perfect ally was idiotic but attacking the people and punishing them is also insane

    • @joesomebody3365
      @joesomebody3365 2 місяці тому +3

      I'm glad you were assisted, though keep in mind it was probably due to oil exports.
      Other countries sometimes get invaded and are not helped, especially not by such an overwhelming amount.

    • @manipulatortrash
      @manipulatortrash 2 місяці тому +2

      ​@joesomebody3365 that's sort of the way all assistance works though. Seems rather reductive to even mention when the commenter is obviously just showing his goodwill

    • @Salim_shahidy
      @Salim_shahidy Місяць тому +1

      @@joesomebody3365 it's all just business. either way it's a win win situation.

    • @Buurba_Jolof
      @Buurba_Jolof Місяць тому

      Kuwait is an Iraqi province.

  • @stephensands3485
    @stephensands3485 2 місяці тому +120

    It’s so easy to forget that Iraq’s army was formidable, well-equipped, and full of experienced, well-trained soldiers (many of whom were veterans of the Iran-Iraq war, a near peer conflict for the Iraqis). It was expected that there would be significant coalition casualties, and that the war would be a tough fight. We look back in hindsight and think to ourselves “wow, what an easy war against a weak enemy” because of how the war went, and I think that really sells the military genius of the U.S. and the coalition short. ,”
    The war was made to *look easy* by excellent planning, tricky tactics, and teamwork on the coalition side. The reality was that coordinating the efforts of 42 countries and 900k troops speaking a variety of languages and with different equipment, training levels, and tactics to pull off a coordinated, combined arms operation was nothing short of brilliance. If you think doing so was easy, look at Russia’s performance during the early days of the Ukraine war. They struggled to perform any combined arms operations with a single military force that all spoke the same language and were part of the same country’s military force. That’s what Desert Storm *could* have looked like, but-for the masterful efforts of Stormin’ Norman Schwarzkopf

    • @GeN56YoS
      @GeN56YoS 2 місяці тому +19

      Iraq was equipped but the tech was more than a generation behind compared to the US, UK and France. It was the biggest factor

    • @shadiafifi54
      @shadiafifi54 2 місяці тому +13

      Iraq had a massive army of conscripts held together by brutal discipline and a few well-trained veterans. It had plenty of operational problems and failures left over from the war against Iran, which they didn't have time to fix. Iran was in the middle of a Stalin-like purge when Iraq invaded, and even towards the end of the war the terrain and lack of armor really hurt the Iranian armed forces.
      The Iraqi military was vastly inflated and had issues all the way down, from outdated weapons to poor training to poor logistics to interservice rivalries that rivaled the Imperial Japanese for how bad it got at times.

    • @stephensands3485
      @stephensands3485 2 місяці тому +2

      @@shadiafifi54 yes to all of that. Serious issues in their military. The coalition forces weren’t perfect either, but much better and much more professional than the Iraqis. But even the Republican Guard units, which were much better trained, got bamboozled and steamrolled by the coalition forces.

    • @MamaMia-go7co
      @MamaMia-go7co 2 місяці тому +2

      ​@@GeN56YoS Just Soviet technology ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

    • @profinneupane6883
      @profinneupane6883 2 місяці тому +4

      Even tho the Russians performed so badly and still doing so but to their credit at the beginning of the invasion of Ukraine they only had 150-190k troops while Zelenzsky claimed they had 1 million standing force and 800k of them serving in the front unlike the coalition who were 42 countries and 1 million forces..iraqis didn’t get any support like Ukraine and were also poorly trained and exhausted by the Iran-iraq war. So it’s not comparable at all

  • @indianajones4321
    @indianajones4321 2 місяці тому +134

    To expand on the ending, HW Bush had called on the Iraqi military to stage a coup against Saddam Hussein’s regime and did not intend on a popular uprising as the results would be devastating, which was what happened in the 1991 Iraqi Uprisings.

    • @fasfuhknf234
      @fasfuhknf234 2 місяці тому +12

      The uprising was brutal. One of my uncles died while it was occuring.

    • @shutup2751
      @shutup2751 2 місяці тому +9

      Saddam had the elite republican guards on his side recruited from tribes loyals to him and they still had hundreds of T-72 tanks, the decimated army was in no position to stage a coup

    • @manipulatortrash
      @manipulatortrash 2 місяці тому +15

      ​@howiehall4622to be entirely fair to the senior bush, he did not want to intervene inside Iraq whatsoever. He was fine decimating and expelling Iraq from kuwait, but he made it pretty clear that an american invasion or support within Iraq would be harmful to relations with the Arab coalition.

    • @rachelleventura1026
      @rachelleventura1026 2 місяці тому

      @@manipulatortrash TBH, Bush Sr was much Better than George W. Bush

    • @kingace6186
      @kingace6186 2 місяці тому

      I blame the Iraqi military. Cult warriors loyal to Saddam.

  • @shutup2751
    @shutup2751 2 місяці тому +139

    the mother of all one sided battles

    • @itsjustomx1656
      @itsjustomx1656 2 місяці тому +1

      actually not

    • @shutup2751
      @shutup2751 2 місяці тому +16

      @@itsjustomx1656 in terms of casualties and material losses yep

    • @jdam6017
      @jdam6017 2 місяці тому +7

      @@itsjustomx1656 Lol how was it not one sided? It might one of the most lopsided victories in a war between states over the last half a century.

    • @profinneupane6883
      @profinneupane6883 2 місяці тому +6

      @@itsjustomx1656yep in terms of everything, strength, casualties etc

    • @AndrejMelank
      @AndrejMelank Місяць тому

      Nato-yugoslavia '99?

  • @atlantiswolf
    @atlantiswolf 2 місяці тому +16

    The bit at the end mentioning the fires burning in Kuwait gives me real "We did it Patrick, we saved the city!" Energy. Fun little anecdote about the war, I remember hearing somewhere, that at some point, American Bombers took off from an Air Base on the East Coast, flew all the way to Iraq without landing, dropped their payload, and flew all the way back to their home base, without once touching the ground, only refueling while in Mid Air. Theres no strategic reason to do this, America did it to prove one simple thing, that it could.

    • @jonmcgee6987
      @jonmcgee6987 2 місяці тому +3

      B-52's flew from Barksdale AFB in Louisiana to carry out that mission.

  • @propellertoad6137
    @propellertoad6137 2 місяці тому +29

    1:53 Didn't expect a South park Reference 💀

  • @NineteenEighty8
    @NineteenEighty8 2 місяці тому +5

    High quality stuff here. This channel makes better content than major tv networks. Keep them coming, for real!

  • @monkeycat48
    @monkeycat48 2 місяці тому +70

    0:26 South Parks version of Saddam Hussein🤣🤣🤣

  • @clement28300yip
    @clement28300yip 2 місяці тому +17

    5:51 Never thought I'd see BUFF THATCHER

  • @aquatic-protogen
    @aquatic-protogen 2 місяці тому +20

    My States Battleship the USS Wisconsin thought in the Gulf war if I remember correctly. They may be considered obsolete. But those guns must of been hell for the Iraq when she was firing her broadside from the coast.

  • @mrmeme9105
    @mrmeme9105 Місяць тому +6

    A 'british challenger 1 tank' got the longest tank kill ever. Clearly the fighting spirit of the British empire hasn't gone.

  • @brianpersons370
    @brianpersons370 2 місяці тому +33

    Incredible South Park reference

  • @MBHpower1
    @MBHpower1 2 місяці тому +83

    Crooked nose thatcher was hilarious

    • @capncake8837
      @capncake8837 2 місяці тому +11

      I thought they were just poking fun at Thatcher, but then they portrayed the Saudi king the same way. 😂

    • @immortalobelisk6302
      @immortalobelisk6302 2 місяці тому +22

      I think it’s a reference to Spitting Image, a UK comedy show that mocked and caricatured politicians using grotesque puppets

    • @MBHpower1
      @MBHpower1 2 місяці тому

      @@immortalobelisk6302 Cool man the british have a great sense of humour I had a chuckle when they colonised my nation and stole 40 trillion dollars worth from the area

    • @capncake8837
      @capncake8837 2 місяці тому +2

      @@immortalobelisk6302 Probably. I knew I recognized the style from somewhere, but couldn’t quite remember.

  • @TheOhioNews
    @TheOhioNews 2 місяці тому +4

    One of my history professors fought in this war. Great to see you cover it here 👍

  • @fireironthesecond2909
    @fireironthesecond2909 2 місяці тому +15

    That moment when the largest army in the world destroyed the fourth largest army in the world overnight

  • @MarqBarq
    @MarqBarq 2 місяці тому +68

    Desert Shield / Desert Storm vet here. Good video. The Iraqi soldiers surrendered in such masses we couldn’t process them fast enough when the ground war really got started.

    • @aaravkumar257
      @aaravkumar257 2 місяці тому +1

      Can you tell more about your time there?

    • @user-ub5pn9op2q
      @user-ub5pn9op2q 6 днів тому

      Woah, how were the Kuwaitis when you rescued them?

  • @jack01234567
    @jack01234567 2 місяці тому +21

    0:26 Eh guy, relax!

    • @delzav4872
      @delzav4872 2 місяці тому +1

      I can change!

    • @xboxgamer196
      @xboxgamer196 29 днів тому

      You know, even if the golf war ended, there was still things going on and Iraq throughout the late 90s and early 2000s, the second Gulf War being one of the situations Also known as the Iraq war

  • @MrLynch-ei4dc
    @MrLynch-ei4dc 2 місяці тому +16

    Love the southpark nod there. Terrance and philip 😂😂😂😂

  • @jacobosburne2282
    @jacobosburne2282 2 місяці тому +3

    I really love all the pop culture and gaming references to your vids they make it all the edutainment to enjoy them

  • @joegordon5117
    @joegordon5117 2 місяці тому +6

    Reminded of the late, great American stand-up, Bill Hicks, who used to comment that there was no such thing as the Gulf War, because a war is when two armies are fighting 😁

  • @Clader213
    @Clader213 2 місяці тому +23

    I was not expecting a south park reference 30 seconds in. Best historian ever!

  • @itz_ic21gaming97
    @itz_ic21gaming97 2 місяці тому +17

    I love the South park references

  • @bystutter4035
    @bystutter4035 2 місяці тому +6

    Preparing some hot chocolate and settling in for another armchair historian educational video for the weekend ☕😎

  • @tanaka5395
    @tanaka5395 2 місяці тому +8

    "Surrendered to the news crew" 😂😂

  • @conserva-chan2735
    @conserva-chan2735 2 місяці тому +11

    When you try to be the Arab Napoleon but end up the Arab Solano Lopez

    • @rogerkeleshian2215
      @rogerkeleshian2215 Місяць тому +2

      My ancestor Floriano Peixoto, who was a commander of the Brazilian army fought in that war to depose Solano. He later became president after toppling the empire!

  • @rexgriffiths6653
    @rexgriffiths6653 2 місяці тому +10

    The 101st did not conduct an Airborne Op, it was a 62 mile Air Assault behind enemy lines.

    • @nobodyherepal3292
      @nobodyherepal3292 2 місяці тому +2

      The largest in history infact.

    • @Coolidge2329
      @Coolidge2329 2 місяці тому

      Defund Ukraine

    • @rexgriffiths6653
      @rexgriffiths6653 2 місяці тому +4

      @@Coolidge2329 are you incapable of reading? Comment has nothing to do with Ukraine.

  • @skeeterskoville9226
    @skeeterskoville9226 Місяць тому

    I can’t thank you enough for the free history lesson. Keep fighting the good fight! ✊

  • @TH-bj1pb
    @TH-bj1pb 2 місяці тому +11

    6:00 damn Thatchers beak is like the one of a parrot 👃🏾

    • @Compucles
      @Compucles 2 місяці тому +3

      It makes me wonder if Opal, the old lady Gym Leader in Pokémon Sword/Shield, is actually based on Thatcher rather than Queen Elizabeth II.

  • @jaegerbomb269
    @jaegerbomb269 2 місяці тому +16

    Love the South Park references. 😂 😆

  • @nope-m4f
    @nope-m4f 2 місяці тому +5

    i love the rambo margaret thatcher animation that shits great

  • @unexpected9370
    @unexpected9370 2 місяці тому +6

    Saddam Being drawn like in South Park is my new Favorite Recurring joke

  • @JakeWilcox-yh8xl
    @JakeWilcox-yh8xl 2 місяці тому +5

    You really did Thatcher dirty with that animation mate 💀 Northern Brit here so we don't care lmao

  • @Foreign0817
    @Foreign0817 2 місяці тому +22

    Worked with a Gulf War vet when I was in Bulgaria. Fun guy. Vibed well.

  • @lovatojonasfan1
    @lovatojonasfan1 2 місяці тому +9

    Funny thing is the media really hyped up the Republican Guard. My father who guarded POWs during the war said they had plenty of Republican Guard prisoners. He also thinks we should’ve just toppled Saddam’s regime there and then.

    • @tetraxis3011
      @tetraxis3011 4 дні тому

      Yeah because that would have totally worked and wouldn’t produce the exact same results the 2003 invasion did.

  • @jvbutalid8316
    @jvbutalid8316 2 місяці тому +6

    7:02 To use all necessary memes
    Yo, this is Meme War Zero

  • @FrNMGuy
    @FrNMGuy 2 місяці тому

    You know? I've been watching g for 8 years. You have such a beautiful channel. I only wish I could help with your cause in educating the next generations as you have educated me and my kids. May your thirst for concise education and passion for history never fail you. Thanks, Griffin, for all your years of being MY armchair historian.

  • @cypherdragon773
    @cypherdragon773 2 місяці тому +9

    My dad was there drove a t-72 tank I think he got captured by Saudi soldiers after for a while

  • @WonderDiscoverUncover27
    @WonderDiscoverUncover27 2 місяці тому

    I love how you combine animation and actual footage into your video. Very talented.

  • @mexonexo
    @mexonexo 2 місяці тому +3

    What an coincidence that you uploaded it exactly at the same time as The Operations Room's video of the Desert Storm

  • @joshuabarrett7486
    @joshuabarrett7486 2 місяці тому

    This video was personal to me and part of my family’s military history. This was well done!

  • @hanumantmitv1755
    @hanumantmitv1755 19 днів тому +3

    i am getting ready for black ops 6.......

  • @KatakuriUchiha22
    @KatakuriUchiha22 2 місяці тому +2

    Thank you so much, this is SO GOOD

  • @faileverything8789
    @faileverything8789 2 місяці тому +3

    Ngl, the animator/s Cooked on This one! Love the Caricatures of the British and Saudi Arabia prime ministers!

  • @cainmathewson1857
    @cainmathewson1857 2 місяці тому +2

    My uncle was a marine who participated in Desert Storm. I was only a little kid at the time but I remember him later telling us about how he had managed to get an entire squad of Iraqi soldiers to surrender from a bunker just by offering them the jelly beans we had sent him for Easter. Seeing how hungry they were, he kept his word. He was never right after he came back. For real he was a different person. Something he saw out there...

  • @satopierce4408
    @satopierce4408 2 місяці тому +32

    @4:11 to skip ad

  • @stevemc01
    @stevemc01 2 місяці тому +13

    *Team autobalance has been disabled*

  • @texrex9876
    @texrex9876 2 місяці тому +14

    Can you do a video on WWII from Czechoslovakia’s perspective?

    • @StephenLuke
      @StephenLuke 2 місяці тому +5

      I have to see that!!! 🇨🇿🇨🇿🇨🇿

    • @alissondourado5140
      @alissondourado5140 2 місяці тому +1

      this would be spectacular, in yugoslav perspective too

    • @StephenLuke
      @StephenLuke 2 місяці тому +1

      @@alissondourado5140 I’ll see that too!!!

  • @ConvergingHorizons
    @ConvergingHorizons 2 місяці тому +11

    Please make video on boer wars.

  • @Lets_Talk_Politics
    @Lets_Talk_Politics 2 місяці тому +70

    Thank you for this video, my dad served in the gulf war. I thank my dad for his service 🇺🇲

    • @NOT_PSYCHO_A7MEDI
      @NOT_PSYCHO_A7MEDI 2 місяці тому +16

      War criminal..

    • @SoldierTheProest
      @SoldierTheProest 2 місяці тому +28

      ⁠@@NOT_PSYCHO_A7MEDIhis dad didnt do anything, he just server there

    • @ConquerousAzeez
      @ConquerousAzeez 2 місяці тому +8

      @@SoldierTheProestI feel bad for his dad.
      He could be a victim of Government Exploitation (which means he also served in the 2003 war)

    • @Lets_Talk_Politics
      @Lets_Talk_Politics 2 місяці тому +36

      @@NOT_PSYCHO_A7MEDI how are you call my pops a war criminal. Serving your nation is not a criminal activity.

    • @Lets_Talk_Politics
      @Lets_Talk_Politics 2 місяці тому

      ​@@ConquerousAzeezthe government did Lie about the war. Bush lied. But doesn't change the fact he risked his life for our family, our God and our nation

  • @cultofhampter
    @cultofhampter 23 дні тому +2

    Kuwait: ow he hu-
    USA: *we got an excuse, go in boys take the oil*

    • @user-ub5pn9op2q
      @user-ub5pn9op2q 6 днів тому

      To be fair, he really made a mistake invading Kuwait and thinking no one will do a thing

  • @wolftaylor
    @wolftaylor 2 місяці тому +3

    LOVE the south park reference

  • @rods6405
    @rods6405 2 місяці тому +2

    Great video! Those South Park references are great!

  • @gregsmith1548
    @gregsmith1548 2 місяці тому +5

    12:54 nice touch

  • @theredeyther7502
    @theredeyther7502 2 місяці тому +1

    In collage I actually learned about another tragedy regarding the highway of death, in that due to the sheer amount of depleted uranium rounds that were fired for a short time after the entire field was radioactive to the point that a journalist reporting on the highway soon after the battle got radiation poisoning.

  • @garretturbaczewski2019
    @garretturbaczewski2019 2 місяці тому +8

    Iraq: Invades Kuwait thinking no one will do anything
    Allied coalition: That was a mistake.

    • @tetraxis3011
      @tetraxis3011 4 дні тому

      I’ve heard rumors that the CIA told Saddam he could invade, so that the US had an excuse to diminish the Iraqui Army.

  • @David-ec2qp
    @David-ec2qp Місяць тому

    I was 11 during the Gulf War came into effect and watched it unfold at home on the TV with my Grandparents. I was though there for Op Jacana and Op Telic.
    Regardless of what is said today by some I was proud and honoured to stand beside my brothers of the US forces on both those tours. 🇬🇧

  • @DoorTechnicianRick
    @DoorTechnicianRick 2 місяці тому +10

    Still found it funny how call of duty said the Highway of Death was Russia's fault 😂

    • @hikatalina
      @hikatalina 2 місяці тому +1

      It was

    • @jack727dave5
      @jack727dave5 Місяць тому

      Yeah, that is messed up.

    • @LOKSTED
      @LOKSTED Місяць тому +1

      Still found it funny some people think Call of Duty is real life

    • @DoorTechnicianRick
      @DoorTechnicianRick Місяць тому

      @@LOKSTED If you base your game on real historical events at least get them right...

  • @HitmanConan
    @HitmanConan 2 місяці тому +2

    I am honestly shocked by how much I did not know about the Gulf War. Never knew about Iraq's debt to Kuwait, the fact they Actually invaded Saudi Arabia, and the tank battles...

  • @marvelgeek9577
    @marvelgeek9577 2 місяці тому +19

    19:51 That mentality was clearly not shared amongst the entire Bush family. 😬

  • @Kingdom_Of_Terrestia
    @Kingdom_Of_Terrestia 2 місяці тому +5

    I love the south park references

  • @Jayjay-qe6um
    @Jayjay-qe6um 2 місяці тому +7

    During the Gulf War, more than 200,000 Palestinians fled Kuwait during the Iraqi occupation of Kuwait due to harassment and intimidation by Iraqi security forces, in addition to getting fired from work by Iraqi authority figures in Kuwait. After the Gulf War, the Kuwaiti authorities forcibly pressured nearly 200,000 Palestinians to leave Kuwait in 1991. Kuwait's policy, which led to this exodus, was a response to alignment of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and PLO with Saddam Hussein.

  • @alfrancisbuada2591
    @alfrancisbuada2591 2 місяці тому

    Always love how you add pop culture to your videos! Love It!

  • @Luckraig97
    @Luckraig97 2 місяці тому +3

    Amazing work

  • @GriffinJohnsonTyler1996
    @GriffinJohnsonTyler1996 2 місяці тому +1

    Those tank stats from them vs the americans was crazy. The part near 17:00

    • @tetraxis3011
      @tetraxis3011 4 дні тому

      Those are false, the real numbers are hidden, for propaganda purposes to destroy Iraqui morale.

  • @KremkauDivide
    @KremkauDivide 2 місяці тому +4

    Love the South Park references

  • @ratnaroy6795
    @ratnaroy6795 2 місяці тому +2

    Hey..👋I'm your new subscriber..😊Can you make a video on Bangladesh Liberation war/India-Pakistan war in 1971..?
    I likw your Animation style.So I would like to see the Bangladesh Liberation war/India-Pakistan war explanation.😇

  • @신비로운세상-e7y
    @신비로운세상-e7y 2 місяці тому +4

    Nice video👍

  • @Darbocepus907
    @Darbocepus907 2 місяці тому

    As a history nerd I can confirm you’re content is flawless

  • @flamme6827
    @flamme6827 2 місяці тому +4

    Incredible reference to South park :D

  • @tanaka5395
    @tanaka5395 2 місяці тому

    I love all your videos, but this one was especially great.
    A 20-minute video felt like it was 5.

  • @mdanmariusalbarina2009
    @mdanmariusalbarina2009 2 місяці тому +4

    I hope this vid doesn't get demonetized. UA-cam has not been very kind to you lately unfortunately.

  • @Jtizz111
    @Jtizz111 2 місяці тому +2

    Another great video

  • @jonathanisjohn
    @jonathanisjohn 2 місяці тому +5

    Can you make a video about Nagorno-Karabakh conflict ?

  • @nevtheskid4579
    @nevtheskid4579 2 місяці тому +2

    5:57 that drawing of Thatcher omg

  • @StephenLuke
    @StephenLuke 2 місяці тому +94

    RIP
    To the 292 Coalition forces, 420 Kuwaiti troops, 1,000 Kuwaiti civilians, 75 civilians from Israel and Saudi Arabia, 20,000-50,000 Ba’ath Iraqi troops, and 3,664 Ba’ath Iraqi civilians who were killed in the Gulf War

    • @fasfuhknf234
      @fasfuhknf234 2 місяці тому

      it was all a lie, less than 5,000 Iraqi deaths.

    • @RedTail1-1
      @RedTail1-1 2 місяці тому +10

      Using death to get likes on the internet. What a compassionate human being you are.

    • @StephenLuke
      @StephenLuke 2 місяці тому +29

      @@RedTail1-1 Not all fatality numbers are accurate, show some respect for the dead for pity's sake!

    • @fasfuhknf234
      @fasfuhknf234 2 місяці тому +4

      @@StephenLuke it was much less than 20 thousand on the iraqi side.

    • @StephenLuke
      @StephenLuke 2 місяці тому +5

      @@fasfuhknf234 I’m not making any more corrections, this is the far as I can go.

  • @ivanruiperezruiz4606
    @ivanruiperezruiz4606 2 місяці тому

    I have been watching the videos of the evolution of military uniforms and I would like to contribute to the channel by kindly suggesting that you could try it with the evolution of Spanish uniforms since it is a country in Europe that often tends to be underestimated but has an extensive history as well.

  • @yousifaljanabi281
    @yousifaljanabi281 2 місяці тому +4

    Came just in time for BO6

  • @The_Russian_Sheisty
    @The_Russian_Sheisty 2 місяці тому +2

    Now he needs to make a video about the Syrian Civil war.

  • @Ardaagafilimada
    @Ardaagafilimada 2 місяці тому +15

    Arrived here faster than it took saddam to conquer kuwait

  • @guilhermestanczyk
    @guilhermestanczyk 2 місяці тому

    Yessssssssss i've been waiting so long for this one

  • @TheOhioNews
    @TheOhioNews 2 місяці тому +6

    Ah yes, the US's victory lap after winning the Cold War

    • @nobodyherepal3292
      @nobodyherepal3292 2 місяці тому +1

      The Cold War was still going on until December

    • @jacobdewey2053
      @jacobdewey2053 2 місяці тому

      @@nobodyherepal3292 It was pretty much over after the Berlin wall fell in 1989. The Soviets were busy with their own dissolution at this time

    • @matthewjones39
      @matthewjones39 Місяць тому

      @@nobodyherepal3292”the third reich still existed in 1945 so WW2 was not actually essentially over in Europe”

    • @nobodyherepal3292
      @nobodyherepal3292 Місяць тому +1

      @@matthewjones39 that statement is factual.

  • @C97K
    @C97K Місяць тому +1

    هذه رسالة لكل قادة الدول العربية .. التاريخ سوف يتذكر ما فعلتموه الى آخر الزمان .. فلتكن الذكرى طيبة وحسنة

  • @Perhapsawiseman
    @Perhapsawiseman 2 місяці тому +4

    10:55 such Israeli wisdom is a thing of the past.

    • @8001T
      @8001T Місяць тому

      Lol neutral😂

  • @juliuszkocinski7478
    @juliuszkocinski7478 2 місяці тому +1

    Probably the best-performed offensive/war/operation, ever. Maybe comparable to battles after Gaius Marius reforms