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It's been years since I have actively watched TV and I cannot thank creators like Johnny enough for helping me make this transition. I went from absorbing unhelpful and mainly useless information to constantly having access to high quality intriguing content. Hats off for another wonderful video!
I agree and also now means you only have to sit through a few seconds of adverts at a time rather than multiple 5-10 mins of ad breaks for every show on tv!
I said the same exact thing on this video! I also stopped watching TV or Netflix years ago because of the wealth of high quality educational videos like this one online. Cheers!
Hey Johnny, About the Suileiman Shah, I made some research on Turkish websites about the story and history of it. (Turkish viewer here), it was in his will to be buried in Biladü'ş-Şam (Ottoman name for todays Syria Region) because he was martyred there. And thats why he is still in Syria even though its right next to the border. And also I believe there is an agreement of some sort to bring him back to his former burial place when things are more settled in the region. Btw I learned there is still a moseloum kind of thing where the dam overflowed his first burial place.
His current burial ground is temporary according to official sources. They plan on returning him to his original place once the war is over. I’m from Syria and I find such monuments to be proof of our shared heritage and brotherhood. I hope someday all this hatred and malice be over with so we could all visit it once this whole ordeal is over.
Wait a minute, I am confused.😀 you said it was in his will to be buried over there because he was martyred there, but how can he state that in his will after being dead. Or I am dumb🤪 as I am not able to comprehend what is written. Please! can someone explain?
@@CharmChampion No. the one you are thinking of is Suleiman the Magnificant. Suleiman Shah died in 1236, whereas Suleiman the Magnificent was born in 1494.
How has he not covered the Aegean borders between mainland Turkey and the Greek islands alredy? I know its a large can of tuna but tons of interesting stuff there to cover, all right up Mr. Harris' alley imo.
Men the Moroccan part of the video is biaised, complete fake news ! No context, no terrain reality, a good video is not just someone doing a wikipedia reasearch and putting western sahara borders on youtube
I really hope it's an honest mistake, the use of the footage from the Moroccan city of Laayoun in 3:31, a city that has representation in the Moroccan parliament and has been thriving economically in the last decade, to represent as you said " The people in the little strip who run their own country." And if you zoom a little, you can see the red and green Moroccan flag in those images. While actually, the seat of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic government is located in Tindouf, Algeria and not inside the little strip.
Condensing such a complex geopolitical conflit into a 2 to 3 minutes segment would require cutting a lot of elements .. Talking about the Sahara Question and not mentioning the Polisario Front, Algeria, Tindouf, the 1991 Armistice. I think he kept the elements of the story that are aligned with his political views, since a lot of these leftist westerners romanticize everything that has the words "freedom, independence..." His biais made him make a lot of mistakes in this video, not only the Laâyoune one.
I was reading comments to see if anyone had anything to say about the incorrect presentation he showed in his video, and luckily, I came across your comment, knowing that he didn't mention Polisario.
My dad a former Kenyan military officer went for peace keeping mission with the UN in Western Sahara and worked at that border. He has so many stories about that border.
Which amount of work, the Moroccan part of the video is biaised, complete fake news ! No context, no terrain reality, a good video is not just someone doing a wikipedia reasearch and putting western sahara borders on youtube
Funny how the first three border disputes are due to Zionists yet he keeps mentioning 'European colonialism'.. But doesn't say anything about how the Morroco/Israel ordeal and the Syria/Israel ordeal and the Iraq/Israel ordeal all involve ONE GROUP OF PEOPLE who are pushing their interests in each theatre.. He should be able to say 'Jewish colonialists' just as easily as 'European colonialists' but has been conditioned by the media and society to never name those perpetrators
@Tala Elise Turkey is named in the Israeli Clean break papers as an Ally to Israel in wanting to break up Syria like the Balkans and controll the Northern districts while Israel does the same with Southern districts surrounding the Golan. Read the papers for yourself if you doubt it...
Please do a full video on Western Sahara, your videos are great and accurate but I don’t think you brought up the whole picture, and I understand. You had 5 minutes to talk about it and it’s a lot to talk about. Please do a full video and bring up the green March, the French and spanish colonization of Morocco. I think you will change your opinion if you look in to the subject a little bit more and maybe visit Morocco. Most people don’t know about this and I think it would be an interesting and educational video.
I would love to see a full video on the Morocco/Western Sahara conflict. it is an insane situation and is very much underreported, and your videos on lesser-known conflicts are amazing
It has never been a Morocco / Western Sahara conflict actually , but a Morocco/ algeria Conflict over Western Sahara as a battlefield. This is something really important to understand the situation.
@@nourbendali2206 don’t try to twist the truth, it is Sahrawi who fought the Moroccan and Mauritani troops after Spain left and split their country between Morocco and Mauritania .. simple facts that can easily be verified
Please go visit the south of Morocco like for example Dakhla and you will see that all the people that live there, they are Moroccans and they are proud to be part of it, because simply Morocco used to be bigger than that and all those people that you are assuming they are claiming to gain that part it's because Algeria is giving them a lot of money for it, just so we don't focus on land that this country named Algeria took from us while we were trying to help them to get out from their colonisation. There is something called Maghreb Union which means Moroccan Union that all those countries who are part of it used to be part of Morocco.. I personally invite you to do a Vlog together in those southern areas and you are more than welcome, you will notice that it's one of the most peaceful ares and beautiful that ever saw in your life..
@@edgzta Bro I am Moroccan and my DNA is 100% North Africa, if you want I already have a TH-cam channel come to Morocco I invite and let's do a Vlog together wherever you want in the South of Morocco. There is also a world Cup in Dakhla in Windsurf, just check on TH-cam there is tons of videos about this.
Why y'all always gotta involve Algeria it's your mess Algeria had nothing to do with it and I know u're gonna say they support them but Algeria has always supported independence movements like Palestine and western sahara
@@oussamaibrir7899 True im moroccan i think Tindouf And Other territories are blame on France.After the Isli war france basically drew borders but the trick is they only drew the northern borders the south they said:"Ooh its just a desert with nothing no need to specify that"and kept adding territory to the algerian colony's territory For me i just want the W.sahara back Algeria can keep the Eastern Sahara
As someone who frequented Baarle-Nassau/Hertog. You're right, it doesn't affect people on a daily basis, until last year. Since Belgium and Netherlands had different pandemic measures, things got....weird. But it's still true people are less affected than the other 3 cases you mentioned.
How about you guys there in Vietnam we can team up I'm from Philippines to fight againts this bully who claim this stupid dash line which does not follow the International law of 200 nautical miles EEZ
Speaking of South China Sea, Indonesia is often left out in the discussion. They have tiny little parts that interfere with so-called “Nine Dash Line”. Even China is not going to let go this small part, which caused bit strained diplomacy with Indonesia. In response, Indonesia updated their map, naming the contested area North Natuna Sea (Natuna being the island chain near the area). Only the contested area though, since Indonesia still call the rest of the sea as South China Sea.
people only know China claims 9dashline, but ignore to mention Taiwan still claims 11dashline today? because PRC inherited from ROC since 1949, and ROC's 11dashline got supported by West and Soviet 1945, even US navy gave warships to Chinese to help ROC took over military control of South China Sea in 1946, so ironically it means Chinese got legitimacy of South China Sea from West since 1946, and Malaysia Phillipines Vietnam didn't oppose because they were still colonies for West,
@@budakbaongsiah when Taiwan's navy is stronger than mainland, Taiwan blocked mainland's trade for 30 years, when Taiwan's navy is weak then Taiwan said: don't bully me?
@@lvjinbin28 Taiwan has never blocked China's trade. It was Mao who banned foreign investments in China. After Mao died in 1976, Deng took power and began decades of economic reform to turn the country into a market-oriented economy. Taiwan had nothing to do with any of this.
Very informative video, we appreciate your hard work. Just one thing that I would like to clear is... You mentioned Spain leaving Western Sahara but you didn't talk about the spanish occupation of the Sahara, it's an important part of the story. The Sahara was part of the Kingdom of Morocco since the 8th century, the spanish only arrived there after the protectorat of Morocco in 1912. Then Morocco gained independence in 1956 (the northern part) and tried to recover its Sahara using diplomacy for 20 years with no luck, then the green march was launched in 1975 forcing the spanish out of the Sahara region. Morocco never colognized the Sahara, they've recovered it.
None of your "facts" matter if there are ACTUAL PEOPLE who rather die than be moroccan. Why would historic borders matter? Things change. Borders change. People cange.
@@Blackgriffonphoenixg There were multiple confrontations between the Moroccan milatary and the Polisario back in the 70's and 80's, the landmines played a key role to stop the sahraoui fighters from mobilizing in the Moroccan Sahara before the wall was built. In other words, mines are left overs from old wars. Morocco is doing its best to clear the mined areas. As for Polisario fighters, the Moroccan army can easily crush them with a click of a button but Morocco choses not to (although they still attack us despite the UN peace treaty), is that what occupants do in your opinion...?
@@Blackgriffonphoenixg Tf you mean? Aren’t we supposed to defend ourselves against literal terrorists? You know that nobody lives on the other side of that border right? All of the Sahrawis under Polisario control live in refugeecamps in Algeria with no basic needs. The only ones who come to the 15% area that Morocco does not control are Polisario terrorist trying to attack Moroccan cities. That’s why there are landmines on the border
@@Blackgriffonphoenixg There is no occupation like who are they supposed to occupy huh? Other Moroccan citizens? You can travel to the Moroccan Sahara and it will be no different than Marrakesh or Casablanca
@@TilmanBaumann Thats the thing ppl do not rather die than be Moroccan cuz that would be insane. The problem is that thousands of Sahrawis are under Polisario control which means they are isolated from the world and live with no basic needs
I am new to your channel. I respect you so much from the start. People who use their name (assuming you are Johnny Harris) on their product are awesome. They OWN their efforts and bring a high quality to their work because of this. Keep on with your quest. Thank you, sir.
Much respect to your content but as a moroccan i should advise you to see the moroccan borders and the real people living there so you may understand the situation. and you can always do more research about the history of this region before Spain took over . But the political events were an opportunity for moroccan government i cant judge morally on them but i can say its a smart political movement.
Hi Johnny, I'm Moroccan and I've been following you since your beginning at Vox. You always delivered accurate analysis but here with Morocco, there's a lot that is missing. I would love to have a full video on Morocco that splains why Morocco has always been Israel's friend and the historical claims that back morocco's sovereignty over Sahara. Merry Chrismas
When you say Morocco has been Israël’s friend, which morocco are you talking about? Because when you say Morocco that means the Moroccans who live in it which are 35 millions Moroccans, and if you ask every true and free Moroccan I emphasise here on FREE Moroccans you know what they think about Israel, so stop trying to shove this untrue political agendas that doesn’t represent morocco nor Moroccans down our throats.
Thank you for acknowledging the territorial disputes in the South China Sea. It's a shame that even the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea can't deter China's claim that was solely based on "historic rights". They're just this big bad bully that nobody can stop. Due to their immense militarization of the islands in the disputed sea, the livelihood of many Filipino fishermen is at risk. I mean, who could fish when you're threatened in your own waters. Truly a terrible situation.
i like how people focus on china and call them the bully because they claim most of the sea, but taiwan literally has the *exact same claim* and also has islands, but people literally dont give a shit because its not china and you should hate china just because everyone else does. also people act as if its only china building islands, but they ignore the fact that vietnam and the philippines have 10 times more islands in there, and they *are also capturing fishermen from other countries* , but they dont care because ITS NOT CHINA AND WE SHOULD ONLY HATE CHINA
the philippines navy are also putting chinese fishermen's livelihoods at risk but it doesnt matter because somehow they will find evidence that they are ccp spies
@@alumpy-acho112 Taiwan has the exact same claim only because it has to to satisfy the one china policy, it's not like Taiwan's actively trying to take those waters. Also what does the country that were there having 10 times more island have to do with China building islands and claiming islands from others, those islands are literally in arms reach. What China is doing is taking them and building new islands, I'm sure building those islands isn't going to have any impact on the environment. Also gimme da sources I wanna read on some. Btw, as far as I know, Taiwan doesn't capture fishermen from other countries, but the Phillipines killed a few fishermen from Taiwan in like 2013 or something and then Taiwan started flexing its naval power. Also China's claims are really ridiculous because it's like a thousand miles away from their actual border, if we're claiming historically, Taiwan should belong to the Netherlands, Spain, or one of the aboriginal groups. And mongolia has claim to the whole world if they go by China's logic.
Hello @Johnny Harris I like the mermaid of well researched videos that you share on your channel and enjoy the in-depth discovery of the different subjects. Concerning the Moroccan sand wall border, I was disappointed you didn't keep your neutral analysis by showing the story of the two sides. I am Moroccan (and have my own biases) and I understand that the sahrawis (the separatist side of them) deserve to present their arguments, nonetheless the depiction of Morocco as the antagonist without showing our arguments such as our historical claims which go back way beyond the Spanish colonization of our sahara and way before the creation of Polisario in 1973 (sahrawi separatist group), can't leave me silent. Morocco has invested a lot in the development of the region at the expense of the entire country. And yes I do acknowledge that we have had our wrongs in the conflict (from a human right perceptive) but different reports have highlighted the improvement of life conditions (economically and in terms of human rights) there throughout the years. I encourage this channel followers to not stop at this simplistic video and to search for themselves and would appreciate if you could mention the lack of research on this topic in your next video. Best of luck for your future. Please note this is a constructive feedback that aims at helping you improve your work. I will continue enjoying your videos.
I agree he should do a video just on this topic. But my no means you can phrase Morrocco as the good guy in the situation. You can't just say we committed human right violations, but hey, at least we built roads to help in the extraction of minerals.
@@franciscobarragancastro4348 thank you for your response. I'm defending neutrality, so you can construct your own opinion on the matter. Furthermore, I didn't say human rights violation was alright, I was trying to build contrast with 2 opposite arguments to highlight the importance of neutrality. Countries around the world did wrong things (exampli: Spain using chemical arms against northern moroccans during their colonization of the region in 1920s and only recently recognizing it and considering to offer compensations) and it is important to acknowledge them. Also, development is not only translated into building roads and mining. The conditions of life for the average saharwis are relatively better to the averages of their northern countrymen.
@Hugh Nelson that's an interesting point you are raising, it's like you are sharing real examples of the Hobbesian vision that the control of the monopoly of violence in once territory is crucial for the survival of the leviathan.
As a Moroccan, I appreciate the interest for the Sahara case but i don’t think you did it justice , there is way more to it than what you presented , and it sound kind of biased. Anyway always happy to see your work
@@edgzta go read history it belongs to morocco, the only reason westen countries don’t want to recognice it is So that they can have a reason to steal our ressources in the future
@@yassinazour9850 Anybody can read the history buddy. The Sahrawis fought off the Spanish and not Moroccans. It is Morocco who is trying to steal the natural resources off the Sahrawi people. Widespread resistance has existed for decades in the region in opposition to Moroccan imperialist aggression. You don't even mention the Sahrawi refugee camps in Algeria. Too embarrassed? Teach me some history.
@@gregholden5172 green walk - map of Morroco before Spain occupation - Polizario only appeared in 1975 aka when Morocco liberated the Sahara - ask people who live here 3:30 here they are from and who built the whole city
Super interesting, we are often hearing about borders between Belgium and Netherland, or India and Pakistanm but your exemples are original. I'm loving your channel, cotinue like that
Hi Johnny, being a subscriber for a long time and really enjoying your content and all efforts to maintain a certain level of objectivity/impartiality. However, having done a thesis on the subject myself, I did find that the part covering Morocco and W. Sahara border lacks indeed some research and it only portrays one version of the story/conflict. Historically, the Sahrawi tribes have always pledged allegiance to the Sultans of Morocco(Current Alawi dynasty founded in the 17th century) before Spanish colonization. There has never been an independent country in the region, and to this day, SADR(founded in 1976 by the Polisario front after Spanish decolonization) is still not recognized as such by the UN and is only considered as a country de facto by mainly Algeria and a small number of countries. It is, therefore, a mistake to say that the population of Western Sahara "run their own country under the militant of Morocco". I think what you were referring to is the Autonomy plan proposed by Morocco to the UN to convince the Polisario (A small part of Sahrawi population that is calling for a referendum on the self-determination and are mainly living in Tinduf camps in Algeria, the other part being the Sahrawis living in the Moroccan controlled Sahara and predominantly consider themselves Moroccans). Today, the call for a referendum on the self-determination is rendered practically inapplicable on the ground as the two countries Algeria (being the host of the Polisario front in Tinduf) and Morocco have inflated the numbers of the inhabitants of both sides. The geopolitical stakes are enormous here which makes this conflict even more complex (too complex to cover in a couple of minutes anyways). This is mainly due to the involvement of the European powers. Which are interested in keeping the situation in a status quo, in order to have the upper hand on the economic contracts of fishing, agricultural products, phosphate... with Morocco and Algerian gas, oil.. Moreover, maintaining the conflict proves to be very efficient when it comes to selling weapons to both countries (In 2019 Algeria spent 9billion$ and Morocco 4 billion which puts them in the 1st and 2nd position respectively of the largest military budgets in Africa).
I’m so happy to see all those Moroccans kicking his arse in the comments, the date of the release of this video is not aleatory its exactly one year after the US recognition Fight back 👊🏻👊🏻
Good luck changing things on youtube buddy, no one match our determination to complete our territorial integrity you can cry and lie all you want the sahara will remain Moroccan until the end of times.
I went to Western Sahara last october in Laayoune it was really fine there but there is nothing to see as a tourist. Im a travel vlogger and I enjoy watching your videos!
@@azeddinelaamry7706 Moroccan military power? Moroccan military is average in the region at best. If the people living there did not see the Moroccan government as legitimate then it would be an independent country.
You got the Morocco thing wrong. "Western Sahara" is not a country its a geographical description. It was a colonized piece of Land by Spain, after the Spanish Left Morocco claimed what was historically theirs. People that live in the Sahara speak the same language, have the same ethnicity, and the same culture as northern moroccans, they are in fact moroccan
@@rogink the difference is, before the french took northern morocco and the spanish took southern morocco (hence the straight border) west sahara was historically in the moroccan kingdom. People indigenous to the western sahara are northafrican berber people, also known as moors or amazigh. This is is the same ethnicity as northern morocco. The movement for a "free western sahara" is called "frente polisario" which is a spanish name. The leader of this movement, is now residing or was risiding in spain. The problem is this northern african piece of land is not european nor spanish, nor arabic, which they claim. Saudia arabia is very far away from that place. The population was always very low in the territory of the western sahara. They are not capable of having an independent state. The Idea is that the Spanish along with the eu and algeria, install a "independent" government in this area so they can cooperate with them to get acces to its resources. Because when Morocco holds control of its desert it can decide about its resources. That is the problem
as a long time fan I'm just wondering where did you get your information about morocco from , there's no other people down there just moroccans like me they're governed just like everybody, this is confusing dude you really should go there and see for yourself
Don’t be surprised, he has strong views against non Western countries. Just look how he covered the Afghanistan issue and then turned off the comments section like a coward. His content is filled with propaganda, don’t just believe him just because he can create a nice video.
I majored in geography in college, and I haven't heard of these borders before. I've heard of all the common weird borders, but the fact that you researched and shed light on the issues surrounding these borders is awesome.
Great video as always, but you've discussed the Moroccan border and forgot to mention why it is built this way? The border is built against Algeria not the natives as Algeria is fighting for the independence of that land in order to have access to the seaside.
I feel sorry for Sahrawi people their dying and being persecuting on their own country like literally no one recognizes Morocco’s claim please stop this oppression
@@daviroza4700 Look, you have to remember, this is'nt persecution, the sahrawi people are not being oppressed, trust me im one of them, it has to do more with Algeria. Algeria is the one pushing the natives for independence, since the sahara is filled with gold, oil, minarals ect. What algeria really wants is the seaside. When the arabs first took over northern africa, a bunch of them married the berbers, the people in the sahara now arent berbers, nor half or quarter, they are just arabs plain and simple, there more simailer to Soudi then Moroccan cultures, most of the people that live there today are just tribes of family members, not city's, not even a village, in the end Algeria just wants a feude.
Dude how did you get to this point where this is your job? Literally living the dream just learning about the world and teaching people like me, I love that I discovered this channel!
I don't remember the last time I learned so much from somewhere since I left school, and can't believe this content is free. Thank you so much Johnny, you are so cool.
Correction regarding the Moroccan case: it's not that Morocco does not want independence, it's that there is so much ambiguity regarding who is elligible to vote in this referendum. Other than that I think u covered the topic brilliantly!
So glad that one of my favorite youtubers is actually talking about my country, the Moroccan borders were a political subject for a very long time now and not the government nor the Moroccan people are willing to abandon our Sahara, but over time we've learned that some (country) are investing billions of dollars just for the sake of keeping this situation as complicated as possible. Again i'm so happy to learn that you came to Morocco you're welcome anytime
But when Spain left the region, UN promised a referendum and nobody respect that right of Sahara's people, the fact that Sahara Is shown in old maps don't make it Marrocan for the fault, Mexico has lots of maps that show all the sothern of USA as mexican but the situation changed and México respects today's borders not XVIII century border.
His narrative about Morocco is so biased I'm truly choked he didn't even research the history of the land before the Spanish occupation of the Moroccan Sahara... Shame on him
i feel like he has ill intentions, the whole segment was about morocco as an aggressor & an occupier. very targeted or amplified for the purpose of the video...
His narrative about Morocco is so biased I'm truly choked he didn't even research the history of the land before the Spanish occupation of the Moroccan Sahara... Shame on him
I am always amazed at how many top notch videos you churn out. These feel like they would take 3 months to make, and yet you pump these out every week and change. Love the content Johnny keep it up! Happy Holidays!
About the Turkish border in Syria They kept the Land inside so that they by the time can claim all the surrounding areas and its a point to expand from there in the future.
Hi Johnny 👋! Great video like usual, we really appreciate the quality of your content. I wanted to point out a few mistakes in this one. Morocco never recognized Israel in the past, but you said they agreed to recognize them “again”. When Suleyman Shah died, the Ottoman Empire didn’t exist yet, and certainly not at that size. I’m not sure who ruled that area when he died, but it wasn’t the Ottomans. In the clip of the Turkish prime minister praying, you said he was praying to the grave. He is praying *for* the dead guy, not *to* him. I hope this comment was helpful in the least, and once again thank you for the amazing videos
His narrative about Morocco is so biased I'm truly choked he didn't even research the history of the land before the Spanish occupation of the Moroccan Sahara... Shame on him
@@aymanekarmadi7352 full disclosure, it came off as biased to me as well since there was no strong opposing view, but I don’t know much about the history of the region to comment on that. Would you like to teach me what was left out of this video?
@@AzH489 yes with great pleasure my friend So before the French and Spanish came that land where morocco is wasn't just empty there was a sovereign state.. an empire called the cherifien Empire of Morocco its territory was much larger than the one we have today including the Sahara.. Morocco's territory was defined from Tangier til Dakar(now Senegal) and Timbuktu (Mali) and all the people within this territory were subjects of the Soltan/king and payed allegiance to him (we still do it now too) they took Mauritania from us (what we called the province of changuit), Telimçan and Eastern Sahara (Bechar and Tindouf) and gave it to Algeria (witch was then conciderd a province of France as french Algeria) because we helped them fight the French but then after their independence they didn't give us Eastern Sahara back after promising to us to give it back as soon as they get independent.. to make it worse they created the Polisario militia to try and decide the country in half and take our Sahara from us and so they can have a short cut to the Pacific Ocean... Sorry if I made it long but that's really summarised 🤗
@@KelticStingray just look it please It's really easy to get this infos man Not everyone saying they want independence are being oppressed, in this case it's really planted by the colonizers to disrupt a nation they see as a threat to their interests and influence in Africa
Hatay wasn't part of Turkey in the 1920s. Also the border wasn't 'drawn' by the French. It was a result of the independence war fought by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. And one of his last campaigns was to include Hatay much later.
Johnny, ive only discovered your.content a couple of months ago and its absolutely fantastic, thank you Sir. Im from England and id love to request you do a video and the history of Northern Ireland, the IRA, its war with England, and the ongoing border dispute. I think youd love it and we'd all be eternally grateful
Loved your videos, but idk about this, you made morocco look like the bad guy.. I think that you didn't searched/studied enough this object because it's a LOT more complicated, if we see the historical territory of morocco before the colonization, it was theirs. And also saharan and moroccans they are all the same, it was at the beginning just a small group but then Algeria came, gave them weapons and just fuckep up everything... I think that you didn't give a subjectif opinion as you should.
@@anotheranon3118 i get that it’s hard to be ignorant but, when we don’t know the reality of things, we better keep our opinions for our selves, unless we want to turn into comedians for a moment.
@@anotheranon3118 actually we don't fucking care, 80% percent of the territory is controlled by Morocco "habibi" and you will never do anything about it. Western Sahara was never a country, the polisario, the group that claims the land was officialy created in 1975, I wonder what they was doing before that, Oh yeah, they are literally moroccans, cause before the spanish colonisation, western sahara was part of the moroccan kingdom. We will fight to the death for our national unity, cry about it
@@anotheranon3118 I mean, in a lot of these cases, it's kinda the fault of colonization... And the North moroccan and the South moroccan are litterally the same, they juste have been separated since the south was spanish and the north french. As I said, we just have to see the territory of morocco, the sahara was theirs, even some parts of algeria and mauritania. I studied this case A LOT, so I think I am the ONE who knows what they talking about
It's funny how you bring Algeria to justify your dirty colonial actions it's your mess don't evolve Algeria as Jhonny said in the vid (you're not real unless you like my friend)
@@anotheranon3118 Bro. You got some points gotta give it to you, but I understand you won't think the same way as he does because you think that it's his "controlled and censurized media" where his knowlege come from. But once again, it's the same from you, y'all have those western media that controls and take any case to another turn. But at the end of the day, it doesn't really matter that much since you trust them and you won't choose carefully and select what YOU trust. Have a good day.
That explanation of the Morocco/West Sahara border was extremely suspect to me. Like "no fucking way, this doesn't sound right, imma immediately google it" sus. And yea, I was right to be suspicious. Smh.
When you talked about Moroccan wall there you made it seem like Morocco is trying to colonize that part as if it was never "Moroccan", you should have also touched on the Moroccan claim and why it's claiming that territory to begin with from a historical perspective and not just political, your view was biased towards the western sahara's side claim only. Also I never heard that showing a cropped map of morocco was illegal, good info I think. Love your content though.
That was not my understanding. I thought it was made pretty obvious that it used to be Morocco, and then they reclaimed it, but appearantly someone doesn't want to rejoin Morocco there. I think he explained it well and simple. Of course it could always be more detailed, because everything is always more complex, but then that would not fit in one video.
As a big fan of your videos, I would like to show some false information that you might get. Before the colonization of Western Sahara by the Spanish that land and including Mauritania was a part of the Alaoui dynasty kingdom, who still rules Morocco. The Sahraoui tribes’ leaders are still showing public allegiance to the throne. The Polisario (who claims to the independence of Western Sahara) is a creation of Algerian military government to create a war so Morocco don’t reclaim its stolen territories by the French during the colonization of Algeria for more than 100 years.The claimed refugees in the Algerian territories are living in terrible poor conditions while their so-called leaders are beneficing of world charity and donate. In the other hand all the cities and its habitant in the Moroccan Sahara are living the best conditions with job opportunities and that other countries that claim to be a ‘regional power’ don’t have.The wall was necessary to stop Polisario raids on Moroccan cities and it did a great job. FYI: many Israeli ministers are from Moroccan origins, and to this day they show their allegiance to the Moroccan throne.
Hey Johnny love your stuff man! Wife always gets annoyed with me when I put you on (she does not like history, politics, geography, etc.). One of the strangest borders or problems developing with multiple nations is the evolving situation over the arctic circle and arctic sovereignty. Would be a pretty interesting topic to be covered! Keep it real my guy!
Historically speaking western Sahara has always been apart of Morocco it was taken by the Spanish and liberated by Moroccan, it's not logical to split a country into two 35 million people in one side and half a million in the other that's crazy. Plus now there a new movement in western Sahara called SADR that claim to be the real Sahrawi people and claim independence from the Polisario (the people that claim it form the selves) and now the Polisario are saying that the SADR are just a joke and that for a few people to claim hundreds of KLM of land is crazy, they don't see the irony in it. The people in Sahara live on horrible condition because their so called government spends all it's money on the military since they are lead by a Dictator.
You saying that historically it was always Moroccan is the same way israelis say Palestine's their land a thousand years not a good excuse to invade a country ...
I just want to say that before talking about something, better to search for it history. The western Sahara belongs to Morocco since 741 A.D, and the people who live there say love being Moroccans because that is there real origins
Cuando los españoles llegaron a Villa Cisneros (Dajla) (1884), hablaron con el sultán de Mauritania y con el mandatario saharaui, pero cuando los españoles llegaron a Sidi Ifni, hablaron con el sultán marroquí, territorio al mando de ese sultán. Por tanto, como dice la resolución del Tribunal de La Haya, a petición de Marruecos y Mauritania con el auspicio de la ONU,está demostrado que cuando los españoles llegaron al Sáhara, ni Mauritania ni Marruecos tenían vínculos de soberanía con el Sáhara. Por ello, utilizando la sentencia del tribunal de La Haya, la resolución 1514 de Naciones Unidas es aplicable en el Sáhara Occidental!. When the Spaniards arrived at Villa Cisneros (Dajla) (1884), they spoke to the Sultan of Mauritania and the Sahrawi Authority; but when the Spaniards arrived at Sidi Ifni, they spoke to the Moroccan Sultan, who was under that Sultan. Thus, as the decision of the Hague Court states, So, as the ruling of the Hague Court says, Morocco and Mauritania with the support of the UN. it has been proved that when the Spanish arrived in the Sahara, neither Mauritania nor Morocco had a sovereign link with the Sahara. Therefore, using the judgment of the Hague Tribunal, United Nations Resolution 1514 is applicable in Western Sahara! Lorsque les Espagnols arrivèrent à la villa Cisneros (Dajla) (1884), ils parlèrent au sultan de Mauritanie et à l'autorité du Sahara, mais lorsque les Espagnols arrivèrent à Sidi Ifni, ils parlèrent au sultan marocain, qui était sous le commandement de ce sultan. Il est donc prouvé, comme l'indique la décision de la Cour de La Haye, Donc, comme le dit la résolution de la Cour de La Haye, le Maroc et la Mauritanie l'ont demandé avec le soutien de l'ONU. que lorsque les Espagnols sont arrivés au Sahara, ni la Mauritanie ni le Maroc n'avaient de lien de souveraineté avec le Sahara. C'est pourquoi, par arrêt du tribunal de La Haye, la résolution 1514 des Nations unies s'applique au Sahara occidental ! elpais.com/diario/1979/08/24/internacional/304293608_850215.html www.lemonde.fr/afrique/article/2023/03/10/le-peuple-sahraoui-doit-exercer-son-droit-a-disposer-de-sa-terre-du-sahara-occidental_6164994_3212.html
im sahraoui and moroccan as are the mayors and regional governors in moroccan sahara, polisario is not the only rappresentative of our people. the majority of us feel moroccan. and if you look up most polisario's chiefs fathers are moroccan soldiers that fought first the spanish and then polisario for the sake of morocco. also the people that die are just soldiers. if you want you can search on youtube about Laayoune or dakhla some sahraoui cities and see how well people live
I always appreciate your Videos, but it seems you are not informed well enough about the Morocco conflict. It is naive to believe that a Independence Movement with the name "Frente Polisario" (Spanish Name) has nothing to do with post colonialism. You also completely omitted the role of Algeria in this conflict. You are right, Morocco is very strict about the showing of the complete map, but if you consider the colonial history of france and spain, of chemical attacks and many other things, you shouldnt really blame them too much by beeing protective of their heritage. I know you probably believe that the moroccan occupation of the western sahara was an offensive act and that the indigenous people - (this is also difficult because they are ethnically and culturally moroccans/northafricans and not arabs as the "sahrawi arab democratic republic" claims) - are beeing opressed. But its not as black and white as it seems. I could talk very much about this conflict, but I dont think it would make sense, because you didn't really dive deep into that issue and you couldnt verify my informations or put them into context. I dont want to attack you, I just wished you'd put the same quality and effort, and also neutrality that you put on other issues.
His narrative about Morocco is so biased I'm truly choked he didn't even research the history of the land before the Spanish occupation of the Moroccan Sahara... Shame on him
Those strange borders are mind boggling. Thank you for shedding some light and information about the West Philippine Sea. We couldn't wait for your new videos for next year (and I miss Iz' channel too). Happy Holidays to your amazing family, Johnny! Sending air hugs from Manila. ✨
As a North African, I don't think any western journalist/reporter had made before such a neutral yet precize explanation of the western Sahara- Morocco war as you just did. Bravo 👌👌👌
Hey Johnny, love the content. Although I found out one minor mistake on the borders of China and Vietnam. Both countries agrees on the middle line of splitting the Tonkin Gulf/Beibu Gulf. So the border should extend from the land.
The summary of the South China Sea is kind of bad. No mention of Taiwan's claims in the SCS (which is coincidentally the exact same as China's) nor how Vietnam and Taiwan have also resorted to making islands in the South China Sea.
We love your videos and appreciate the hard work and 'hands-on' investigating you do to make them. Keep them coming, be careful and stay safe. God bless you and your family.
Hi Johnny, can you do a video explaining your research process please? I’m curious about your process for formulating the right questions and then going on to find accurate answers to those questions. Or is this already available? If yes, how can I get access to it?
Hi Johnny, keep up with the good work! I really enjoy your videos. I was wondering if you have any videos talking about Antarctic. If not, are you planning on doing one? I think it is very interesting how the nations fight over every single piece of terrain but none country has ever claimed any part of Antarctic.
As a Vietnamese citizen I’m glad that my favorite TH-camr is talking about my country. Everything he said is how is it at the sea right now. China just show up out of no where and say it’s their sea. Wherever they can’t claim they will have thousands of fishing boats in that area. Guest why everyone hate china. They have been crashing our fishing boats and leave fisherman drown without a mercy.
Got excited when this showed up in my feed this morning as I guessed you would mention the Western Sahara. Served with Minurso in 1994, northern sector in Mahbas and Smara. Some reports say that this area is becoming hot again. In reality, Morocco has "owned" this land for years...not saying it's right but it's reality. Typical complicated third world scenario here between first and third world parties...the Moroccans, POLISARIO, France, and Spain. No good choices in the middle east and no 'good' guys that I can find. A lot of people that have been taken advantage of. Abraham Accord was working until reversed, we actually made peace around the Palestinians and bypassing the Iranians, as soon as that was reversed we had a protracted battle. Interesting mission in the Western Sahara...for the record...nothing is more corrupt than a UN mission.
I think the only thing which can save the region is the autonomy plan. Morocco wont give up and MINURSO is too weak for Morocco to do a thing. The recognization now makes Morocco the factual leader and the fact that they still give out the autonomy plan is nice.
@@morocco_020fc7 Let's hope for autonomy. Few countries in this region, even if considered to be 'moderate', rarely cede land they believe is theirs / believe is rightfully theirs. It'll be messy.
@@DavidGarcia-zu3hl Same ceding of land happend with Dutch west papua new guinnea. They also would have an referendum but at the end Indonesia took it and no one looked back at the case. Its just the fact that they want to use this against Morocco when it comes to their diplomacy. But yes lets hope for autonomy
I am starting to learn and unlearn more about history and current affairs from Johnny's channel than any other content available, mind boggling details
Johnny I love your videos but please get your facts rights, Western Sahara is the name of the region not a country, there is no such thing as a country called "Western Sahara", there is a certain military-political organization funded and armed by Morocco's eastern neighbor Algeria, called the Polisario who wants to control the region through a republic that they proclaimed to be "SADR" or "Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic" a semi recognized entity by two dozen of countries mostly located in Africa. There was a 15 years war between Morocco and this organization which pushed Morocco to build a defensive berm to stop/freeze/neutralize the Polisario attacks which were causing thousands of casualties, a group armed with main battle tanks, armored transport troops vehicles, anti-tank missiles, anti-air missiles and all sort of artillery, Morocco did not built the berm with the purpose to separate the population, in fact the official stance of the Moroccan gov is that the Sahrawi people who live in the refugee camps are all legitimate resident of the region and need to be resettled. Lastly please before talking about any conflict next time at least do some research about who the heck are the sides fighting in the future. TLDR: The name of the "republic" is "SADR" not Western Sahara (W.S is the name of the region), and the conflict is much more nuanced that "good guys vs bad guys" as you paint it in your head.
The colors used in your videos are truly soothing to the eye , which is another plus point on top of the great story telling skills of Johnny . Pls do keep up the good work & hope to see more informative videos in 2022.
Hello Johnny, I have been a very big fan of your videos for a long time since you were still at Vox as I believed they are very informative and creative, and it doesn't hurt that I too am a geography nerd. However, this video is unfortunately making me question all of your research and findings about all of your previous videos. Trying to squeeze the Western Sahara issue into 3 minutes in that manner and failing to provide further information on the topic is quite frankly an insult to the people who are indeed affected by this long-lasting conflict. I would strongly recommend you do further research and attempt to understand the roots of the conflict and who the Polisario Front is and how they're financially supported. Once you have all the facts and provide the viewers both sides of the story to a conflict that gets very little attention, then maybe your opinion could be valid. You are entitled to your opinion, but please give all the facts before giving it out. P.S. the cities that you showed are part of the Moroccan controlled side and most goods and services are heavily subsidized by the Moroccan government, who has invested billions of dollars (regardless of its own interests) into attempting to make Western Sahara more prosperous for the Moroccans who have immigrated there and the Moroccan Sahrawis who have been living there before Spain relinquished the territory. Best, Hamza
@@imienazwisko4219 I loved his work for very long time but it seems like it’s digging bones from everyone else other than big dog USA. Seems like we are focusing on everyone that scares United States. I’m starting to question his work lately.
@@teocak7202 He has done plenty of videos exposing U.S corruption. He made videos about U.S involvement in Saudi Arabia and West Asia in general, the Banana wars/banana republic in Central America, the illegal overthrow of Hawaii, and domestic corruption in regard to housing and poverty.
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It's been years since I have actively watched TV and I cannot thank creators like Johnny enough for helping me make this transition. I went from absorbing unhelpful and mainly useless information to constantly having access to high quality intriguing content. Hats off for another wonderful video!
I agree and also now means you only have to sit through a few seconds of adverts at a time rather than multiple 5-10 mins of ad breaks for every show on tv!
Sadly, Johnny transmits a lot of false information.
I said the same exact thing on this video! I also stopped watching TV or Netflix years ago because of the wealth of high quality educational videos like this one online. Cheers!
I mean… we still can watch TH-cam on our TV
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Hey Johnny, About the Suileiman Shah, I made some research on Turkish websites about the story and history of it. (Turkish viewer here), it was in his will to be buried in Biladü'ş-Şam (Ottoman name for todays Syria Region) because he was martyred there. And thats why he is still in Syria even though its right next to the border. And also I believe there is an agreement of some sort to bring him back to his former burial place when things are more settled in the region. Btw I learned there is still a moseloum kind of thing where the dam overflowed his first burial place.
You deserve more views and attention because your comment is a pretty important piece of this story
His current burial ground is temporary according to official sources. They plan on returning him to his original place once the war is over. I’m from Syria and I find such monuments to be proof of our shared heritage and brotherhood. I hope someday all this hatred and malice be over with so we could all visit it once this whole ordeal is over.
Wait a minute, I am confused.😀 you said it was in his will to be buried over there because he was martyred there, but how can he state that in his will after being dead.
Or I am dumb🤪 as I am not able to comprehend what is written.
Please! can someone explain?
Is this Hurrem’s Suileiman?
@@CharmChampion No. the one you are thinking of is Suleiman the Magnificant. Suleiman Shah died in 1236, whereas Suleiman the Magnificent was born in 1494.
From Algeria south Africa and other100 country free WESTERN SAHARA 🇪🇭🇪🇭🇪🇭
I’m so glad there’s people like you making content like this.
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Yes, in these days, humiliating China is a booming business for these vbloggers!
@@albertwang5974 china deserves to be humiliated
How has he not covered the Aegean borders between mainland Turkey and the Greek islands alredy? I know its a large can of tuna but tons of interesting stuff there to cover, all right up Mr. Harris' alley imo.
Men the Moroccan part of the video is biaised, complete fake news ! No context, no terrain reality, a good video is not just someone doing a wikipedia reasearch and putting western sahara borders on youtube
I really hope it's an honest mistake, the use of the footage from the Moroccan city of Laayoun in 3:31, a city that has representation in the Moroccan parliament and has been thriving economically in the last decade, to represent as you said " The people in the little strip who run their own country."
And if you zoom a little, you can see the red and green Moroccan flag in those images.
While actually, the seat of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic government is located in Tindouf, Algeria and not inside the little strip.
Condensing such a complex geopolitical conflit into a 2 to 3 minutes segment would require cutting a lot of elements .. Talking about the Sahara Question and not mentioning the Polisario Front, Algeria, Tindouf, the 1991 Armistice. I think he kept the elements of the story that are aligned with his political views, since a lot of these leftist westerners romanticize everything that has the words "freedom, independence..." His biais made him make a lot of mistakes in this video, not only the Laâyoune one.
Yeah! that was some 10/10 BS.
Il passe complètement à côté de la plaque ( Use wikipedia to translate this frensh sentence as u did while u did this stupid video)
I was reading comments to see if anyone had anything to say about the incorrect presentation he showed in his video, and luckily, I came across your comment, knowing that he didn't mention Polisario.
Thank you Marouane, I’ve been trying to reach you out for this video.
This is all so fascinating!
Lol, I'm watching this right after your video about the Mursis
My dad a former Kenyan military officer went for peace keeping mission with the UN in Western Sahara and worked at that border. He has so many stories about that border.
I know this is unrelated but the UN is the worst organisation ever.
Can you tell us some stories if that's okay?
@@_perza compare 1930s Nazi Germany Vs 2020s Communist Chinazi IN YOUR NEXT VIDEO Project before it's too late
No body asked, if you’ve got good stories to tell. Start telling them.
Break us off a piece of something if you can! (Protecting everyone's identities as needed of course)
I can't help but appreciate the amount of work put into a video like this. Your work is an inspiration, Johnny.
Much love from Brazil!
his work is filled with lies thou, filled to the brim
@@Yanzdorloph explain
Which amount of work, the Moroccan part of the video is biaised, complete fake news ! No context, no terrain reality, a good video is not just someone doing a wikipedia reasearch and putting western sahara borders on youtube
Funny how the first three border disputes are due to Zionists yet he keeps mentioning 'European colonialism'.. But doesn't say anything about how the Morroco/Israel ordeal and the Syria/Israel ordeal and the Iraq/Israel ordeal all involve ONE GROUP OF PEOPLE who are pushing their interests in each theatre.. He should be able to say 'Jewish colonialists' just as easily as 'European colonialists' but has been conditioned by the media and society to never name those perpetrators
@Tala Elise Turkey is named in the Israeli Clean break papers as an Ally to Israel in wanting to break up Syria like the Balkans and controll the Northern districts while Israel does the same with Southern districts surrounding the Golan. Read the papers for yourself if you doubt it...
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I love hearing about weird borders. This should totally be a series!
I think this is what you're looking for:
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Strangest Borders by RealLifeLore
@MellowSavagez thought that was obvious 🤣🤣
Look to cameroon you will fine many of such
I love how the video URL literally as the word "cringe" in it.
Please do a full video on Western Sahara, your videos are great and accurate but I don’t think you brought up the whole picture, and I understand. You had 5 minutes to talk about it and it’s a lot to talk about. Please do a full video and bring up the green March, the French and spanish colonization of Morocco. I think you will change your opinion if you look in to the subject a little bit more and maybe visit Morocco. Most people don’t know about this and I think it would be an interesting and educational video.
I would love to see a full video on the Morocco/Western Sahara conflict. it is an insane situation and is very much underreported, and your videos on lesser-known conflicts are amazing
It has never been a Morocco / Western Sahara conflict actually , but a Morocco/ algeria Conflict over Western Sahara as a battlefield. This is something really important to understand the situation.
@@nourbendali2206 don’t try to twist the truth, it is Sahrawi who fought the Moroccan and Mauritani troops after Spain left and split their country between Morocco and Mauritania .. simple facts that can easily be verified
@@dahobachir74 the polosario are there in tondouf the host is Algeria that wants to see the atlantic ocean but cant unfortunately hhhh
@@aminegouizine2817 the mouvement was born in Western Sahara, not in Algeria and absolutely not in Morocco
@@dahobachir74 bro if a tiny group of people want to dissocoate from your country what are u going to do?
Please go visit the south of Morocco like for example Dakhla and you will see that all the people that live there, they are Moroccans and they are proud to be part of it, because simply Morocco used to be bigger than that and all those people that you are assuming they are claiming to gain that part it's because Algeria is giving them a lot of money for it, just so we don't focus on land that this country named Algeria took from us while we were trying to help them to get out from their colonisation.
There is something called Maghreb Union which means Moroccan Union that all those countries who are part of it used to be part of Morocco..
I personally invite you to do a Vlog together in those southern areas and you are more than welcome, you will notice that it's one of the most peaceful ares and beautiful that ever saw in your life..
The western Sahara always was part of Morocco 👍
LIES , get OUT of Western SAHARA
@@edgzta Bro I am Moroccan and my DNA is 100% North Africa, if you want I already have a TH-cam channel come to Morocco I invite and let's do a Vlog together wherever you want in the South of Morocco. There is also a world Cup in Dakhla in Windsurf, just check on TH-cam there is tons of videos about this.
Why y'all always gotta involve Algeria it's your mess Algeria had nothing to do with it and I know u're gonna say they support them but Algeria has always supported independence movements like Palestine and western sahara
@@oussamaibrir7899 True im moroccan i think Tindouf And Other territories are blame on France.After the Isli war france basically drew borders but the trick is they only drew the northern borders the south they said:"Ooh its just a desert with nothing no need to specify that"and kept adding territory to the algerian colony's territory
For me i just want the W.sahara back Algeria can keep the Eastern Sahara
As someone who frequented Baarle-Nassau/Hertog. You're right, it doesn't affect people on a daily basis, until last year.
Since Belgium and Netherlands had different pandemic measures, things got....weird. But it's still true people are less affected than the other 3 cases you mentioned.
Whoa fascinating!!
How about you guys there in Vietnam we can team up I'm from Philippines to fight againts this bully who claim this stupid dash line which does not follow the International law of 200 nautical miles EEZ
The effort that goes into producing these videos and research behind it is impeccable.
Speaking of South China Sea, Indonesia is often left out in the discussion. They have tiny little parts that interfere with so-called “Nine Dash Line”. Even China is not going to let go this small part, which caused bit strained diplomacy with Indonesia.
In response, Indonesia updated their map, naming the contested area North Natuna Sea (Natuna being the island chain near the area). Only the contested area though, since Indonesia still call the rest of the sea as South China Sea.
people only know China claims 9dashline, but ignore to mention Taiwan still claims 11dashline today? because PRC inherited from ROC since 1949,
and ROC's 11dashline got supported by West and Soviet 1945, even US navy gave warships to Chinese to help ROC took over military control of South China Sea in 1946,
so ironically it means Chinese got legitimacy of South China Sea from West since 1946, and Malaysia Phillipines Vietnam didn't oppose because they were still colonies for West,
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Taiwan also claims China and even Mongolia, but it doesn't enforce its claims. China does.
@@budakbaongsiah when Taiwan's navy is stronger than mainland, Taiwan blocked mainland's trade for 30 years, when Taiwan's navy is weak then Taiwan said: don't bully me?
@@lvjinbin28 Taiwan has never blocked China's trade. It was Mao who banned foreign investments in China. After Mao died in 1976, Deng took power and began decades of economic reform to turn the country into a market-oriented economy. Taiwan had nothing to do with any of this.
Very informative video, we appreciate your hard work. Just one thing that I would like to clear is... You mentioned Spain leaving Western Sahara but you didn't talk about the spanish occupation of the Sahara, it's an important part of the story. The Sahara was part of the Kingdom of Morocco since the 8th century, the spanish only arrived there after the protectorat of Morocco in 1912. Then Morocco gained independence in 1956 (the northern part) and tried to recover its Sahara using diplomacy for 20 years with no luck, then the green march was launched in 1975 forcing the spanish out of the Sahara region. Morocco never colognized the Sahara, they've recovered it.
None of your "facts" matter if there are ACTUAL PEOPLE who rather die than be moroccan.
Why would historic borders matter? Things change. Borders change. People cange.
@@Blackgriffonphoenixg There were multiple confrontations between the Moroccan milatary and the Polisario back in the 70's and 80's, the landmines played a key role to stop the sahraoui fighters from mobilizing in the Moroccan Sahara before the wall was built. In other words, mines are left overs from old wars. Morocco is doing its best to clear the mined areas. As for Polisario fighters, the Moroccan army can easily crush them with a click of a button but Morocco choses not to (although they still attack us despite the UN peace treaty), is that what occupants do in your opinion...?
@@Blackgriffonphoenixg Tf you mean? Aren’t we supposed to defend ourselves against literal terrorists? You know that nobody lives on the other side of that border right? All of the Sahrawis under Polisario control live in refugeecamps in Algeria with no basic needs. The only ones who come to the 15% area that Morocco does not control are Polisario terrorist trying to attack Moroccan cities. That’s why there are landmines on the border
@@Blackgriffonphoenixg There is no occupation like who are they supposed to occupy huh? Other Moroccan citizens? You can travel to the Moroccan Sahara and it will be no different than Marrakesh or Casablanca
@@TilmanBaumann Thats the thing ppl do not rather die than be Moroccan cuz that would be insane. The problem is that thousands of Sahrawis are under Polisario control which means they are isolated from the world and live with no basic needs
I am new to your channel. I respect you so much from the start. People who use their name (assuming you are Johnny Harris) on their product are awesome. They OWN their efforts and bring a high quality to their work because of this. Keep on with your quest. Thank you, sir.
Much respect to your content but as a moroccan i should advise you to see the moroccan borders and the real people living there so you may understand the situation. and you can always do more research about the history of this region before Spain took over .
But the political events were an opportunity for moroccan government i cant judge morally on them but i can say its a smart political movement.
Couldn't agree more. A lot of details were missed.
Sounds like your against the idea of other people having Freedom
@@douggaudiosi14 so you are okay giving your house to others if they claim it's theirs?
@@douggaudiosi14 bro its just algeria who wants our land .
@@julioatrejo7687 bro i am from western Moroccan sahara and i consider myself Moroccan,
Hi Johnny,
I'm Moroccan and I've been following you since your beginning at Vox. You always delivered accurate analysis but here with Morocco, there's a lot that is missing. I would love to have a full video on Morocco that splains why Morocco has always been Israel's friend and the historical claims that back morocco's sovereignty over Sahara.
Merry Chrismas
Christmas haram 😂
I’d also like too see that, most people talking about Western Sahara doesn’t include the whole picture
@@7addaribaba Not all Moroccans are Muslim.
When you say Morocco has been Israël’s friend, which morocco are you talking about? Because when you say Morocco that means the Moroccans who live in it which are 35 millions Moroccans, and if you ask every true and free Moroccan I emphasise here on FREE Moroccans you know what they think about Israel, so stop trying to shove this untrue political agendas that doesn’t represent morocco nor Moroccans down our throats.
Dude, as a Moroccan, please refrain from saying Morocco has always been Israel's friend. It's not a good look, at all.
As someone born and still living in Syria , your explanation of the situation was incredible and had many important details coverd, thank you brother
Thank you for acknowledging the territorial disputes in the South China Sea. It's a shame that even the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea can't deter China's claim that was solely based on "historic rights". They're just this big bad bully that nobody can stop. Due to their immense militarization of the islands in the disputed sea, the livelihood of many Filipino fishermen is at risk. I mean, who could fish when you're threatened in your own waters. Truly a terrible situation.
i like how people focus on china and call them the bully because they claim most of the sea, but taiwan literally has the *exact same claim* and also has islands, but people literally dont give a shit because its not china and you should hate china just because everyone else does. also people act as if its only china building islands, but they ignore the fact that vietnam and the philippines have 10 times more islands in there, and they *are also capturing fishermen from other countries* , but they dont care because ITS NOT CHINA AND WE SHOULD ONLY HATE CHINA
the philippines navy are also putting chinese fishermen's livelihoods at risk but it doesnt matter because somehow they will find evidence that they are ccp spies
@@alumpy-acho112 Taiwan has the exact same claim only because it has to to satisfy the one china policy, it's not like Taiwan's actively trying to take those waters. Also what does the country that were there having 10 times more island have to do with China building islands and claiming islands from others, those islands are literally in arms reach. What China is doing is taking them and building new islands, I'm sure building those islands isn't going to have any impact on the environment.
Also gimme da sources I wanna read on some.
Btw, as far as I know, Taiwan doesn't capture fishermen from other countries, but the Phillipines killed a few fishermen from Taiwan in like 2013 or something and then Taiwan started flexing its naval power.
Also China's claims are really ridiculous because it's like a thousand miles away from their actual border, if we're claiming historically, Taiwan should belong to the Netherlands, Spain, or one of the aboriginal groups. And mongolia has claim to the whole world if they go by China's logic.
@@alumpy-acho112 The 300KM aren't enough to fish now?
@@alumpy-acho112 You’re acting as if other countries are hating on China’s actions for no reason when there are many good reasons to do so.
The passion Johnny has for maps is infectious and inspiring. We need more people like this
Hello @Johnny Harris
I like the mermaid of well researched videos that you share on your channel and enjoy the in-depth discovery of the different subjects.
Concerning the Moroccan sand wall border, I was disappointed you didn't keep your neutral analysis by showing the story of the two sides. I am Moroccan (and have my own biases) and I understand that the sahrawis (the separatist side of them) deserve to present their arguments, nonetheless the depiction of Morocco as the antagonist without showing our arguments such as our historical claims which go back way beyond the Spanish colonization of our sahara and way before the creation of Polisario in 1973 (sahrawi separatist group), can't leave me silent.
Morocco has invested a lot in the development of the region at the expense of the entire country. And yes I do acknowledge that we have had our wrongs in the conflict (from a human right perceptive) but different reports have highlighted the improvement of life conditions (economically and in terms of human rights) there throughout the years.
I encourage this channel followers to not stop at this simplistic video and to search for themselves and would appreciate if you could mention the lack of research on this topic in your next video.
Best of luck for your future.
Please note this is a constructive feedback that aims at helping you improve your work. I will continue enjoying your videos.
I totally agree with you 👍Neutrality should be kept at all cost
This is why oversimplifying history , politics , or even science may turning out worse than ignorance itself
I agree he should do a video just on this topic.
But my no means you can phrase Morrocco as the good guy in the situation. You can't just say we committed human right violations, but hey, at least we built roads to help in the extraction of minerals.
@@franciscobarragancastro4348 thank you for your response. I'm defending neutrality, so you can construct your own opinion on the matter.
Furthermore, I didn't say human rights violation was alright, I was trying to build contrast with 2 opposite arguments to highlight the importance of neutrality.
Countries around the world did wrong things (exampli: Spain using chemical arms against northern moroccans during their colonization of the region in 1920s and only recently recognizing it and considering to offer compensations) and it is important to acknowledge them.
Also, development is not only translated into building roads and mining. The conditions of life for the average saharwis are relatively better to the averages of their northern countrymen.
@Hugh Nelson that's an interesting point you are raising, it's like you are sharing real examples of the Hobbesian vision that the control of the monopoly of violence in once territory is crucial for the survival of the leviathan.
As a Moroccan, I appreciate the interest for the Sahara case but i don’t think you did it justice , there is way more to it than what you presented , and it sound kind of biased.
Anyway always happy to see your work
Get out of Western SAHARA
@@edgzta go read history it belongs to morocco, the only reason westen countries don’t want to recognice it is So that they can have a reason to steal our ressources in the future
@@edgzta Only if you get out of peru.
@@yassinazour9850 Anybody can read the history buddy. The Sahrawis fought off the Spanish and not Moroccans. It is Morocco who is trying to steal the natural resources off the Sahrawi people. Widespread resistance has existed for decades in the region in opposition to Moroccan imperialist aggression. You don't even mention the Sahrawi refugee camps in Algeria. Too embarrassed? Teach me some history.
@@gregholden5172
green walk - map of Morroco before Spain occupation - Polizario only appeared in 1975 aka when Morocco liberated the Sahara - ask people who live here 3:30 here they are from and who built the whole city
Super interesting, we are often hearing about borders between Belgium and Netherland, or India and Pakistanm but your exemples are original. I'm loving your channel, cotinue like that
Hi Johnny, being a subscriber for a long time and really enjoying your content and all efforts to maintain a certain level of objectivity/impartiality.
However, having done a thesis on the subject myself, I did find that the part covering Morocco and W. Sahara border lacks indeed some research and it only portrays one version of the story/conflict.
Historically, the Sahrawi tribes have always pledged allegiance to the Sultans of Morocco(Current Alawi dynasty founded in the 17th century) before Spanish colonization. There has never been an independent country in the region, and to this day, SADR(founded in 1976 by the Polisario front after Spanish decolonization) is still not recognized as such by the UN and is only considered as a country de facto by mainly Algeria and a small number of countries. It is, therefore, a mistake to say that the population of Western Sahara "run their own country under the militant of Morocco". I think what you were referring to is the Autonomy plan proposed by Morocco to the UN to convince the Polisario (A small part of Sahrawi population that is calling for a referendum on the self-determination and are mainly living in Tinduf camps in Algeria, the other part being the Sahrawis living in the Moroccan controlled Sahara and predominantly consider themselves Moroccans).
Today, the call for a referendum on the self-determination is rendered practically inapplicable on the ground as the two countries Algeria (being the host of the Polisario front in Tinduf) and Morocco have inflated the numbers of the inhabitants of both sides.
The geopolitical stakes are enormous here which makes this conflict even more complex (too complex to cover in a couple of minutes anyways). This is mainly due to the involvement of the European powers. Which are interested in keeping the situation in a status quo, in order to have the upper hand on the economic contracts of fishing, agricultural products, phosphate... with Morocco and Algerian gas, oil..
Moreover, maintaining the conflict proves to be very efficient when it comes to selling weapons to both countries (In 2019 Algeria spent 9billion$ and Morocco 4 billion which puts them in the 1st and 2nd position respectively of the largest military budgets in Africa).
Nicely said
you said it all 👏🏾
Nicely put 👏🏻
thank you for this!
"Historically, the Sahrawi tribes have always pledged allegiance to the Sultans of Morocco"
Well, what do they say today?
I’m so happy to see all those Moroccans kicking his arse in the comments, the date of the release of this video is not aleatory its exactly one year after the US recognition
Fight back 👊🏻👊🏻
Good luck changing things on youtube buddy, no one match our determination to complete our territorial integrity you can cry and lie all you want the sahara will remain Moroccan until the end of times.
Thanks Johnny and Liz. Hope you and the family have a great 2022!
I went to Western Sahara last october in Laayoune it was really fine there but there is nothing to see as a tourist. Im a travel vlogger and I enjoy watching your videos!
Don't reply to the bots. Someone's attacking Johnny.
I am sure there were Moroccan flags flying over Laayoune and not any of those of the Polisario.
It is because of the moroccan military power
And not because they want to be moroccan
@@azeddinelaamry7706 Moroccan military power? Moroccan military is average in the region at best. If the people living there did not see the Moroccan government as legitimate then it would be an independent country.
I would love to watch a deep dive series on each of these three boarders. Your work is amazing!
Thank you Johnny for all the awesome content throughout this year 👏👍
You got the Morocco thing wrong. "Western Sahara" is not a country its a geographical description. It was a colonized piece of Land by Spain, after the Spanish Left Morocco claimed what was historically theirs.
People that live in the Sahara speak the same language, have the same ethnicity, and the same culture as northern moroccans, they are in fact moroccan
Yeah - just like Russia with Crimea. "These are our people - so we're going take them back (whether they like it or not!)"
@@rogink the difference is, before the french took northern morocco and the spanish took southern morocco (hence the straight border) west sahara was historically in the moroccan kingdom. People indigenous to the western sahara are northafrican berber people, also known as moors or amazigh. This is is the same ethnicity as northern morocco.
The movement for a "free western sahara" is called "frente polisario" which is a spanish name. The leader of this movement, is now residing or was risiding in spain. The problem is this northern african piece of land is not european nor spanish, nor arabic, which they claim. Saudia arabia is very far away from that place.
The population was always very low in the territory of the western sahara. They are not capable of having an independent state. The Idea is that the Spanish along with the eu and algeria, install a "independent" government in this area so they can cooperate with them to get acces to its resources. Because when Morocco holds control of its desert it can decide about its resources. That is the problem
as a long time fan I'm just wondering where did you get your information about morocco from , there's no other people down there just moroccans like me they're governed just like everybody, this is confusing dude you really should go there and see for yourself
Don’t be surprised, he has strong views against non Western countries. Just look how he covered the Afghanistan issue and then turned off the comments section like a coward. His content is filled with propaganda, don’t just believe him just because he can create a nice video.
Now it s my fav channel . Thank you❤🙏🏼
Feeling nostalgic when Johnny Harris talk about borders ... Loved your content 👍👍🇮🇳😊
I have tremendous respect for u, Johnny. Thank you for always being very educational. I really appreciate your efforts!
I majored in geography in college, and I haven't heard of these borders before. I've heard of all the common weird borders, but the fact that you researched and shed light on the issues surrounding these borders is awesome.
How would a geography major not know about the border issues in the South China Sea?
@@ChrDen I heard about those ones.. not about the one in Morocco though.
Great video as always, but you've discussed the Moroccan border and forgot to mention why it is built this way? The border is built against Algeria not the natives as Algeria is fighting for the independence of that land in order to have access to the seaside.
I feel sorry for Sahrawi people their dying and being persecuting on their own country like literally no one recognizes Morocco’s claim please stop this oppression
@@daviroza4700 Look, you have to remember, this is'nt persecution, the sahrawi people are not being oppressed, trust me im one of them, it has to do more with Algeria. Algeria is the one pushing the natives for independence, since the sahara is filled with gold, oil, minarals ect. What algeria really wants is the seaside. When the arabs first took over northern africa, a bunch of them married the berbers, the people in the sahara now arent berbers, nor half or quarter, they are just arabs plain and simple, there more simailer to Soudi then Moroccan cultures, most of the people that live there today are just tribes of family members, not city's, not even a village, in the end Algeria just wants a feude.
Liar , there is no one Algerian fighting in there ! It's natives refusing to bend over to the morrocon king !
@@cheesecakevanila5624
Liar ! It's natives refusing to bend over to the Moroccan king !
@@elrisitas1927 -Lying Algerian
Dude how did you get to this point where this is your job? Literally living the dream just learning about the world and teaching people like me, I love that I discovered this channel!
Hi Johnny…wonderful map animations…they get a complex story over to the audience in such a quick and simple way. Map geeks rock!
I don't remember the last time I learned so much from somewhere since I left school, and can't believe this content is free. Thank you so much Johnny, you are so cool.
Correction regarding the Moroccan case: it's not that Morocco does not want independence, it's that there is so much ambiguity regarding who is elligible to vote in this referendum. Other than that I think u covered the topic brilliantly!
Thank you. Good to see reasonable voices
This is not true. Morocco committed to a referendum nearly 30 years ago. Let them keep their commitment if they are worthy of their word.
@@astronotics531 the refrendum idea is from the past now haha
@@astronotics531 can you elaborate more on how it is not true?
Covered the topic brilliantly? Okayyy
Johnny Harris is a rising Star to journalism to me.
So glad that one of my favorite youtubers is actually talking about my country, the Moroccan borders were a political subject for a very long time now and not the government nor the Moroccan people are willing to abandon our Sahara, but over time we've learned that some (country) are investing billions of dollars just for the sake of keeping this situation as complicated as possible.
Again i'm so happy to learn that you came to Morocco you're welcome anytime
It’s nice that you stated this fact ,another important thing to do is viewing how the borders were before colonization which shows the true
@@am55775 yeah most Moroccan Dynasties territories had The sahara in em
But when Spain left the region, UN promised a referendum and nobody respect that right of Sahara's people, the fact that Sahara Is shown in old maps don't make it Marrocan for the fault, Mexico has lots of maps that show all the sothern of USA as mexican but the situation changed and México respects today's borders not XVIII century border.
His narrative about Morocco is so biased I'm truly choked he didn't even research the history of the land before the Spanish occupation of the Moroccan Sahara... Shame on him
@@thefebi8457 POLISARIO and Morocco coudl'nt come to an agreement but we are talking a region thats been ours since the 8th Century
Thank you, Johnny. The SCS is really big issue. China's military has been patrol expansively until they reach Indonesia's teritory (Natuna Sea).
It makes me happy that Johnny Harris pronounced "Sahara" as sa-ha-ra instead of say-hay-ra.
I feel like you should have mentioned the moroccan-spanish border since you did a whole thing on morocco
i feel like he has ill intentions, the whole segment was about morocco as an aggressor & an occupier. very targeted or amplified for the purpose of the video...
His narrative about Morocco is so biased I'm truly choked he didn't even research the history of the land before the Spanish occupation of the Moroccan Sahara... Shame on him
I am always amazed at how many top notch videos you churn out. These feel like they would take 3 months to make, and yet you pump these out every week and change. Love the content Johnny keep it up! Happy Holidays!
I miss johnny Harris. Hoping for more videos soon!
Vox borders was good but this is something so good that it needs to be funded and made into a series.
I love your obsession with maps and borders. I've learned so much from your years of content on multiple sources. Thank you, Johnny.
About the Turkish border in Syria They kept the Land inside so that they by the time can claim all the surrounding areas and its a point to expand from there in the future.
Hi Johnny 👋! Great video like usual, we really appreciate the quality of your content. I wanted to point out a few mistakes in this one. Morocco never recognized Israel in the past, but you said they agreed to recognize them “again”. When Suleyman Shah died, the Ottoman Empire didn’t exist yet, and certainly not at that size. I’m not sure who ruled that area when he died, but it wasn’t the Ottomans. In the clip of the Turkish prime minister praying, you said he was praying to the grave. He is praying *for* the dead guy, not *to* him. I hope this comment was helpful in the least, and once again thank you for the amazing videos
His narrative about Morocco is so biased I'm truly choked he didn't even research the history of the land before the Spanish occupation of the Moroccan Sahara... Shame on him
@@aymanekarmadi7352 full disclosure, it came off as biased to me as well since there was no strong opposing view, but I don’t know much about the history of the region to comment on that. Would you like to teach me what was left out of this video?
@@AzH489 yes with great pleasure my friend
So before the French and Spanish came that land where morocco is wasn't just empty there was a sovereign state.. an empire called the cherifien Empire of Morocco its territory was much larger than the one we have today including the Sahara.. Morocco's territory was defined from Tangier til Dakar(now Senegal) and Timbuktu (Mali) and all the people within this territory were subjects of the Soltan/king and payed allegiance to him (we still do it now too) they took Mauritania from us (what we called the province of changuit), Telimçan and Eastern Sahara (Bechar and Tindouf) and gave it to Algeria (witch was then conciderd a province of France as french Algeria) because we helped them fight the French but then after their independence they didn't give us Eastern Sahara back after promising to us to give it back as soon as they get independent.. to make it worse they created the Polisario militia to try and decide the country in half and take our Sahara from us and so they can have a short cut to the Pacific Ocean...
Sorry if I made it long but that's really summarised 🤗
@@aymanekarmadi7352 yes because this definitly reads like some with completely unbiased views
@@KelticStingray just look it please
It's really easy to get this infos man
Not everyone saying they want independence are being oppressed, in this case it's really planted by the colonizers to disrupt a nation they see as a threat to their interests and influence in Africa
Vox had a great series on borders, I bet this Johnny Harris guy would appreciate those videos
He is the person who did the border series on Vox.
@@diw9825 dude i think thats the joke
@@diw9825 r/woosh
guess who made those :)))
@@bobbitran1479 r/woosh
Hatay wasn't part of Turkey in the 1920s. Also the border wasn't 'drawn' by the French. It was a result of the independence war fought by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. And one of his last campaigns was to include Hatay much later.
The Turkish grandpa 06:28 was Suleyman Shah , father to Ertugrul and Gundogdu
Next, talk about the unique borders and claims to Antarctica. Would love to see a video on that!
Johnny, ive only discovered your.content a couple of months ago and its absolutely fantastic, thank you Sir.
Im from England and id love to request you do a video and the history of Northern Ireland, the IRA, its war with England, and the ongoing border dispute.
I think youd love it and we'd all be eternally grateful
I feel so lucky to have access to such quality, professional and entertaining content. Thanks Johnny!
Loved your videos, but idk about this, you made morocco look like the bad guy.. I think that you didn't searched/studied enough this object because it's a LOT more complicated, if we see the historical territory of morocco before the colonization, it was theirs. And also saharan and moroccans they are all the same, it was at the beginning just a small group but then Algeria came, gave them weapons and just fuckep up everything... I think that you didn't give a subjectif opinion as you should.
@@anotheranon3118 i get that it’s hard to be ignorant but, when we don’t know the reality of things, we better keep our opinions for our selves, unless we want to turn into comedians for a moment.
@@anotheranon3118 actually we don't fucking care, 80% percent of the territory is controlled by Morocco "habibi" and you will never do anything about it. Western Sahara was never a country, the polisario, the group that claims the land was officialy created in 1975, I wonder what they was doing before that, Oh yeah, they are literally moroccans, cause before the spanish colonisation, western sahara was part of the moroccan kingdom. We will fight to the death for our national unity, cry about it
@@anotheranon3118 I mean, in a lot of these cases, it's kinda the fault of colonization... And the North moroccan and the South moroccan are litterally the same, they juste have been separated since the south was spanish and the north french. As I said, we just have to see the territory of morocco, the sahara was theirs, even some parts of algeria and mauritania. I studied this case A LOT, so I think I am the ONE who knows what they talking about
It's funny how you bring Algeria to justify your dirty colonial actions it's your mess don't evolve Algeria as Jhonny said in the vid (you're not real unless you like my friend)
@@anotheranon3118 Bro. You got some points gotta give it to you, but I understand you won't think the same way as he does because you think that it's his "controlled and censurized media" where his knowlege come from. But once again, it's the same from you, y'all have those western media that controls and take any case to another turn. But at the end of the day, it doesn't really matter that much since you trust them and you won't choose carefully and select what YOU trust. Have a good day.
This would make a great series
That explanation of the Morocco/West Sahara border was extremely suspect to me. Like "no fucking way, this doesn't sound right, imma immediately google it" sus. And yea, I was right to be suspicious. Smh.
Thank you for bringing this to light.
This is a daily problem for our fishermen in the West Philippine Sea in our own legal waters.
Fascinating stuff. Thanks for the video.
When you talked about Moroccan wall there you made it seem like Morocco is trying to colonize that part as if it was never "Moroccan", you should have also touched on the Moroccan claim and why it's claiming that territory to begin with from a historical perspective and not just political, your view was biased towards the western sahara's side claim only.
Also I never heard that showing a cropped map of morocco was illegal, good info I think.
Love your content though.
That was not my understanding. I thought it was made pretty obvious that it used to be Morocco, and then they reclaimed it, but appearantly someone doesn't want to rejoin Morocco there. I think he explained it well and simple. Of course it could always be more detailed, because everything is always more complex, but then that would not fit in one video.
As a big fan of your videos, I would like to show some false information that you might get. Before the colonization of Western Sahara by the Spanish that land and including Mauritania was a part of the Alaoui dynasty kingdom, who still rules Morocco. The Sahraoui tribes’ leaders are still showing public allegiance to the throne. The Polisario (who claims to the independence of Western Sahara) is a creation of Algerian military government to create a war so Morocco don’t reclaim its stolen territories by the French during the colonization of Algeria for more than 100 years.The claimed refugees in the Algerian territories are living in terrible poor conditions while their so-called leaders are beneficing of world charity and donate. In the other hand all the cities and its habitant in the Moroccan Sahara are living the best conditions with job opportunities and that other countries that claim to be a ‘regional power’ don’t have.The wall was necessary to stop Polisario raids on Moroccan cities and it did a great job.
FYI: many Israeli ministers are from Moroccan origins, and to this day they show their allegiance to the Moroccan throne.
@JohnnyHarris
Hey Johnny love your stuff man! Wife always gets annoyed with me when I put you on (she does not like history, politics, geography, etc.). One of the strangest borders or problems developing with multiple nations is the evolving situation over the arctic circle and arctic sovereignty. Would be a pretty interesting topic to be covered! Keep it real my guy!
Historically speaking western Sahara has always been apart of Morocco it was taken by the Spanish and liberated by Moroccan, it's not logical to split a country into two 35 million people in one side and half a million in the other that's crazy.
Plus now there a new movement in western Sahara called SADR that claim to be the real Sahrawi people and claim independence from the Polisario (the people that claim it form the selves) and now the Polisario are saying that the SADR are just a joke and that for a few people to claim hundreds of KLM of land is crazy, they don't see the irony in it.
The people in Sahara live on horrible condition because their so called government spends all it's money on the military since they are lead by a Dictator.
The people in tindouf*, not Sahara
For real
You saying that historically it was always Moroccan is the same way israelis say Palestine's their land a thousand years not a good excuse to invade a country ...
@@oussamaibrir7899 the Sahara is Moroccan
I just want to say that before talking about something, better to search for it history. The western Sahara belongs to Morocco since 741 A.D, and the people who live there say love being Moroccans because that is there real origins
That doesn’t fit his narrative tho 😂
Cuando los españoles llegaron a Villa Cisneros (Dajla) (1884), hablaron con el sultán de Mauritania y con el mandatario saharaui, pero cuando los españoles llegaron a Sidi Ifni, hablaron con el sultán marroquí, territorio al mando de ese sultán. Por tanto, como dice la resolución del Tribunal de La Haya, a petición de Marruecos y Mauritania con el auspicio de la ONU,está demostrado que cuando los españoles llegaron al Sáhara, ni Mauritania ni Marruecos tenían vínculos de soberanía con el Sáhara.
Por ello, utilizando la sentencia del tribunal de La Haya, la resolución 1514 de Naciones Unidas es aplicable en el Sáhara Occidental!.
When the Spaniards arrived at Villa Cisneros (Dajla) (1884), they spoke to the Sultan of Mauritania and the Sahrawi Authority; but when the Spaniards arrived at Sidi Ifni, they spoke to the Moroccan Sultan, who was under that Sultan. Thus, as the decision of the Hague Court states, So, as the ruling of the Hague Court says, Morocco and Mauritania with the support of the UN. it has been proved that when the Spanish arrived in the Sahara, neither Mauritania nor Morocco had a sovereign link with the Sahara.
Therefore, using the judgment of the Hague Tribunal, United Nations Resolution 1514 is applicable in Western Sahara!
Lorsque les Espagnols arrivèrent à la villa Cisneros (Dajla) (1884), ils parlèrent au sultan de Mauritanie et à l'autorité du Sahara, mais lorsque les Espagnols arrivèrent à Sidi Ifni, ils parlèrent au sultan marocain, qui était sous le commandement de ce sultan. Il est donc prouvé, comme l'indique la décision de la Cour de La Haye, Donc, comme le dit la résolution de la Cour de La Haye, le Maroc et la Mauritanie l'ont demandé avec le soutien de l'ONU. que lorsque les Espagnols sont arrivés au Sahara, ni la Mauritanie ni le Maroc n'avaient de lien de souveraineté avec le Sahara.
C'est pourquoi, par arrêt du tribunal de La Haye, la résolution 1514 des Nations unies s'applique au Sahara occidental !
elpais.com/diario/1979/08/24/internacional/304293608_850215.html
www.lemonde.fr/afrique/article/2023/03/10/le-peuple-sahraoui-doit-exercer-son-droit-a-disposer-de-sa-terre-du-sahara-occidental_6164994_3212.html
im sahraoui and moroccan as are the mayors and regional governors in moroccan sahara, polisario is not the only rappresentative of our people. the majority of us feel moroccan. and if you look up most polisario's chiefs fathers are moroccan soldiers that fought first the spanish and then polisario for the sake of morocco. also the people that die are just soldiers. if you want you can search on youtube about Laayoune or dakhla some sahraoui cities and see how well people live
I always appreciate your Videos, but it seems you are not informed well enough about the Morocco conflict.
It is naive to believe that a Independence Movement with the name "Frente Polisario" (Spanish Name) has nothing to do with post colonialism. You also completely omitted the role of Algeria in this conflict.
You are right, Morocco is very strict about the showing of the complete map, but if you consider the colonial history of france and spain, of chemical attacks and many other things, you shouldnt really blame them too much by beeing protective of their heritage.
I know you probably believe that the moroccan occupation of the western sahara was an offensive act and that the indigenous people - (this is also difficult because they are ethnically and culturally moroccans/northafricans and not arabs as the "sahrawi arab democratic republic" claims) - are beeing opressed. But its not as black and white as it seems.
I could talk very much about this conflict, but I dont think it would make sense, because you didn't really dive deep into that issue and you couldnt verify my informations or put them into context.
I dont want to attack you, I just wished you'd put the same quality and effort, and also neutrality that you put on other issues.
His narrative about Morocco is so biased I'm truly choked he didn't even research the history of the land before the Spanish occupation of the Moroccan Sahara... Shame on him
Why bringing algeria to the subject !
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Those strange borders are mind boggling. Thank you for shedding some light and information about the West Philippine Sea. We couldn't wait for your new videos for next year (and I miss Iz' channel too). Happy Holidays to your amazing family, Johnny! Sending air hugs from Manila. ✨
map nerd johnny harris is best johnny harris
Love your videos man, hope you can keep doing what you love and making great content!
As a North African, I don't think any western journalist/reporter had made before such a neutral yet precize explanation of the western Sahara- Morocco war as you just did. Bravo 👌👌👌
So saying Laayoune is close to the sand border is neutral? Damn 😬
Algerians never fail to disappoint
@@casablanca1706 ikr 😂 they hates us so much
I’d love to see an in depth episode on Morocco’s border.
Hey Johnny, love the content. Although I found out one minor mistake on the borders of China and Vietnam. Both countries agrees on the middle line of splitting the Tonkin Gulf/Beibu Gulf. So the border should extend from the land.
The summary of the South China Sea is kind of bad. No mention of Taiwan's claims in the SCS (which is coincidentally the exact same as China's) nor how Vietnam and Taiwan have also resorted to making islands in the South China Sea.
Great storytelling. Great creation
We love your videos and appreciate the hard work and 'hands-on' investigating you do to make them.
Keep them coming, be careful and stay safe.
God bless you and your family.
I'm just getting into film editing and really considering purchasing your LUT pack, as always thabk you Johnny for all the great work you do.
Your videos are top notch. Your focus is educating the people. Thank you John.
Hi Johnny, can you do a video explaining your research process please? I’m curious about your process for formulating the right questions and then going on to find accurate answers to those questions.
Or is this already available? If yes, how can I get access to it?
Johnny is back to the basics!!! Vox Borders throwback. Love to see it and hope to see more border analyses.
Hi Johnny, keep up with the good work! I really enjoy your videos. I was wondering if you have any videos talking about Antarctic. If not, are you planning on doing one? I think it is very interesting how the nations fight over every single piece of terrain but none country has ever claimed any part of Antarctic.
It is always enriching to watch your well researched, creatively designed and interestingly narrated videos.
Love from India 🇮🇳
Thanks 🙏🏻
2 of the 3 weird borders you showed me I had never known before also you really outdone yourself keep up the epic work!
As a Vietnamese citizen I’m glad that my favorite TH-camr is talking about my country. Everything he said is how is it at the sea right now. China just show up out of no where and say it’s their sea. Wherever they can’t claim they will have thousands of fishing boats in that area. Guest why everyone hate china. They have been crashing our fishing boats and leave fisherman drown without a mercy.
Got excited when this showed up in my feed this morning as I guessed you would mention the Western Sahara. Served with Minurso in 1994, northern sector in Mahbas and Smara. Some reports say that this area is becoming hot again. In reality, Morocco has "owned" this land for years...not saying it's right but it's reality. Typical complicated third world scenario here between first and third world parties...the Moroccans, POLISARIO, France, and Spain. No good choices in the middle east and no 'good' guys that I can find. A lot of people that have been taken advantage of. Abraham Accord was working until reversed, we actually made peace around the Palestinians and bypassing the Iranians, as soon as that was reversed we had a protracted battle. Interesting mission in the Western Sahara...for the record...nothing is more corrupt than a UN mission.
I think the only thing which can save the region is the autonomy plan. Morocco wont give up and MINURSO is too weak for Morocco to do a thing. The recognization now makes Morocco the factual leader and the fact that they still give out the autonomy plan is nice.
@@morocco_020fc7 Let's hope for autonomy. Few countries in this region, even if considered to be 'moderate', rarely cede land they believe is theirs / believe is rightfully theirs. It'll be messy.
Autonomy under the Moroccan flag is the only solution. Or, it will be a perpetuate the conflict forever.
@@DavidGarcia-zu3hl Same ceding of land happend with Dutch west papua new guinnea. They also would have an referendum but at the end Indonesia took it and no one looked back at the case. Its just the fact that they want to use this against Morocco when it comes to their diplomacy. But yes lets hope for autonomy
Ay man most of Moroccan Dynasties had The sahara included **I BELIEVE** that there was that one Dynasty that was actually from the sahara
I am starting to learn and unlearn more about history and current affairs from Johnny's channel than any other content available, mind boggling details
it's a good start but you better do some fact checking yourself, some false information can still make its way into a good video like this one ;)
Thanx for explaining all of this in such a simple manner❤️
Johnny I love your videos but please get your facts rights, Western Sahara is the name of the region not a country, there is no such thing as a country called "Western Sahara", there is a certain military-political organization funded and armed by Morocco's eastern neighbor Algeria, called the Polisario who wants to control the region through a republic that they proclaimed to be "SADR" or "Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic" a semi recognized entity by two dozen of countries mostly located in Africa. There was a 15 years war between Morocco and this organization which pushed Morocco to build a defensive berm to stop/freeze/neutralize the Polisario attacks which were causing thousands of casualties, a group armed with main battle tanks, armored transport troops vehicles, anti-tank missiles, anti-air missiles and all sort of artillery, Morocco did not built the berm with the purpose to separate the population, in fact the official stance of the Moroccan gov is that the Sahrawi people who live in the refugee camps are all legitimate resident of the region and need to be resettled. Lastly please before talking about any conflict next time at least do some research about who the heck are the sides fighting in the future. TLDR: The name of the "republic" is "SADR" not Western Sahara (W.S is the name of the region), and the conflict is much more nuanced that "good guys vs bad guys" as you paint it in your head.
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Wow man intresting sounds like you know your stuff to be honest. Are you from Morroco?
@@carldavidsson3896 yes I am, though that is completely irrelevant all these info are easily verifiable.
@@AZMAH777 Yeah I still believe you though
You missed Bangladesh--India enclaves but is settled in 2015
It was also a nightmare Border
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Haha! It was indeed the most crazy fascinating border in the world. Seriously, enclaves within enclaves within enclaves! :-)
The colors used in your videos are truly soothing to the eye , which is another plus point on top of the great story telling skills of Johnny . Pls do keep up the good work & hope to see more informative videos in 2022.
Happy new year to you guys too! Great content, and well connected explanations … as always.
Hello Johnny,
I have been a very big fan of your videos for a long time since you were still at Vox as I believed they are very informative and creative, and it doesn't hurt that I too am a geography nerd. However, this video is unfortunately making me question all of your research and findings about all of your previous videos.
Trying to squeeze the Western Sahara issue into 3 minutes in that manner and failing to provide further information on the topic is quite frankly an insult to the people who are indeed affected by this long-lasting conflict.
I would strongly recommend you do further research and attempt to understand the roots of the conflict and who the Polisario Front is and how they're financially supported. Once you have all the facts and provide the viewers both sides of the story to a conflict that gets very little attention, then maybe your opinion could be valid. You are entitled to your opinion, but please give all the facts before giving it out.
P.S. the cities that you showed are part of the Moroccan controlled side and most goods and services are heavily subsidized by the Moroccan government, who has invested billions of dollars (regardless of its own interests) into attempting to make Western Sahara more prosperous for the Moroccans who have immigrated there and the Moroccan Sahrawis who have been living there before Spain relinquished the territory.
Best,
Hamza
Very well said.
Johnny is paid by Western media to spread misinformation.
@@imienazwisko4219 I loved his work for very long time but it seems like it’s digging bones from everyone else other than big dog USA. Seems like we are focusing on everyone that scares United States. I’m starting to question his work lately.
@@teocak7202 He has done plenty of videos exposing U.S corruption. He made videos about U.S involvement in Saudi Arabia and West Asia in general, the Banana wars/banana republic in Central America, the illegal overthrow of Hawaii, and domestic corruption in regard to housing and poverty.
I look forward to these videos. Every time learn something different
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