Historical Blunders: More Mistakes That Changed the World
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“Unfortunately they were both idiots” is a phrase that proceeds many blunders in history.
I used to think people were generally intelligent, wanting to see best in people. However I've since learned from fb discussions and more recently from TH-cam threads that most people are incredibly and horrifyingly dumb. It's really quite startling how many imbeciles are out there. I'm very disappointed by this
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity - Hanlon's razor.
Hold my beer
Precedes 😅
History in school was a guaranteed nap for the next hour, but if history was taught with a breath of fresh air: “Unfortunately they were both idiots” in an instructional reference or in a deadpan statement in a lecture hall would take the event and put it in front of the student alive in the moment. There is never a moment in time that someone isn't doing something stupid, saying "Oops." The laws of averages alone guarantees that every so often, it's a "Oops" that changes the world. I don't know about you but I actually find that sort of comforting...
Franz Ferdinand's driver running into Gavrilo Princip after evading the previously unsuccessful assasination attempt
That's just freaking too many random parts suddenly somehow connecting.
What are the odds‽
@@Switcharoo12 Yeah, this was not stupidity. It was pure bad luck, on so many levels. Though, to be sure, the Archduke even BEING THERE is the mistake that triggered the entire episode in the first place.
Yeah that's gotta be up there
There was a large organized group of people determined to kill the Archduke during his visit. They were spread throughout the routes he was predicted to take. His assassination was almost guaranteed. It was well known how unpopular he was in Sarajevo, so his visit itself was the blunder.
@@JayM409 Yes, but the fact that they almost failed, in spite of all the planning, is noteworthy. In the end, a stroke of bad luck for the Archduke is what did him in. That's not a good plan at all, if you require LUCK to pull it off!
The Classic Blunders:
1) Getting involved in a land war in Asia
2) Going up against a Sicilian when death is on the line
3) Trying to invade Russia in the winter
4) Wearing white after Labor Day
Exception to #4: if it's "winter white" and there's been enough snow, I believe that is acceptable in most societies. Although I still wouldn't take my chances around Beverly Sutphin.
I don´t know. The Finns in WWII did pretty well in white after Labor day... but thenagain, I don´t think they do Labor day in September.
Number 3 IS number 1. That's the whole point of the joke.
Unless you’re……The Mongols!!!
@@raquellofstedt9713You can't impress Finns with cold weather.
0:35 - Mid roll ads
2:10 - Chapter 1 - The chernobyl disaster
6:10 - Chapter 2 - The spanish armada
9:15 - Chapter 3 - Splitting the roman empire
11:30 - Chapter 4 - Everyone invading russia in winter
Every historian ever: "Invading russia in winter is a blunder?" Mongels: "hold my beer"
"Hold my Airag"
Good one Rosco. I bet Mongols loved beer too ! 😅 Cheers from New Zealand
@@stevelee5724 Once they got to countries that had it. Cheers from Germany.
@@kaltaron1284 Humans have been fermenting grain in water for thousands of years so yes, I think they could get some.
@@kdynski They did in the inner Asian steppes? That's news to me.
The use of gunfire to disable ships instead of ramming was proven 17 years before the Armada at the Battle of Lepanto 1571 (which was probably a more historically important battle for Europe than the Armada). The Venetians pioneered the use of heavy cannons on their galeasses and use them to great effect against the Ottoman galleys, disabling them from a distance. The Spanish took part in that battle on the winning side.
Apparently they didn't learn from that.
The Spanish Armada also had a little problem with the weather.
One book I read alleges that the Spanish king expected God to deliver a miracle to assist the Armada because they were the true Christians
I was taught that aside from the Brits' tactics and such, the Spanish just weren't prepared for the powerful currents and winds in the Channel and some of them were swept up against the cliffs.
"Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness."
-- A.J.P. Taylor
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Considering Simon tries any sponsors products, he probably isn't acting. Allegedly.
Proof he is a robot
To be honest, I think he's like "well, feels good and moisturizes the skin, I guess".
So good enough for him to justify accepting the sponsorship and probably gives a ton of money
The Soviet RMBK reactor is one of the only, if not only, reactor designs that has a Positive Void coefficiency, where the lack of coolant (water) creates an increase in power.
Pressurized Water Reactors, Advanced Cooled Reactors, and Boiling Water Reactors do not have this fatal flaw. They have Negative Void coefficiency designs.
Sadly, the people who were relocated as a result of the Fukushima meltdown, are having worse outcomes, mentally, and physically then those who were not evacuated. Some people stayed and are living with high levels of radiation, but are not living with the stress of losing everything they had, and having to start their lives over. It was a very interesting video. I suggest you research it. I think it was a Kyle Hill video.
About the same level of background radiation in the 20mile zone as Cornwall UK, interestingly, I didn't know the stat about the differing outcomes, thank you.
There's a difference in those who can't afford to relocate when many things in life cost money, and those who choose to stay for reasons other than that. And if you leave while not being able to afford either situation, it would be best to not return to a dangerous area that risks yours and your family's life. Either way, both are starting lives over again. Not everyone struggles in the same ways...
You also have to realise that most of the relocation was due not to the 'radiation' but to the flooding from the tsunami.
How is relocating a worse outcome than living with high levels of radiation? Are you some kind of idiot?
As far as I've understood it, the problem here is not the fact that they relocated in and of itself, but the psychological strain placed on these people by their compatriots who treat them like trash because they happened to be inside of a 10 mile radius of Fukushima when the disaster happened, for no real understandable reason. Including their own government.
Napoleon lost more troops to typhus in the summer offensive than the winter retreat.
there are, alot of growing inconstiances in the script. Are they using ChatGTP?
@@Inucroftyeah also the statements about chernobyl
Also exposure, starvation, desertion etc.
Video starts at 2:10 , Skip the add 😊
14:08 There is no way that number can be true for Napoleon unless you mean the actual "Fighting," not the whole invasion. The French started with around 600-700k and by the time they even started fighting the Russians BEFORE they retreated they were already down to 100-150k. The summer was way worse than the winter, that was just the final nail in the coffin of that horrendous journey.
“Never get involved in a land war in Asia” Vizzini- The Princess Bride
Napoleon? 1st French empire? I think Charlemagne would like to have a few words with you
Simon didn't mention the technological innovation that made the English fleet faster and more maneuverable than the Spanish Armada. Up until that time, the prevalence of boarding actions meant that ships needed high "castles" at the bow and stern, to make the ship more defensible. (For a long time, the forward part of a ship was called the "forecastle" -- pronounced focs'l -- even if it didn't really exist as an elevated structure.) English ships, on the other hand, were "race-built" or had been "razeed" after construction, meaning the height of the fore and aft castles had been cut down considerably. This meant the ship's freeboard had much less exposure to the wind, and therefore affected the ships maneuverability much less, than the traditional design.
Lithuania has a museum dedicated to the troops that froze to death on the retreat
> Nuclear power is much better option
PREACH!
Attacking russia in winter is less of a factor than the continual inability of European conquerors to understand just how expendable the rulers of Russia regard the population as and their concomitant willingness to let said starve if the other guy starves too.
When invading Russia, take note: do NOT forget the winter kit.
with Chernobyl you completely MISSED a fact about that it was Xenon poisoning, something that prevents reactors from restarting for at least a day and a half.
There were several factors involved. Including the "positive void coefficient" of the graphite moderated, water cooled RBMK reactor. With the formation of steam pockets inside the core increasing both fission and xenon 135 "burning".
And also the overall mistake of the major design flaw with the graphite tips speeding up the reaction when first inserted. While dyatlov messed up, the whole thing was set up for failure to cut costs
The biggest missed fact was that the test failed he said it was a success
One Person has officially died through the Radiation of Fukushima (one of the workers). Overall the Meltdows killed about 1000 people,not because of the meltdown or Radiation, but because of the evacuation. With many old people not surviving the stress and many others through psychological damage and resulting suicide.
Much less would have died if many of the regions would have never been evacuated. Since a lot of the different evacuation regions only were contaminated to the equivalent of taking a few CTs in a year.
And testing is unreliable because how do you know 0 people didnt have a disease in previous years if no one tested for it. And testing doesnt mean fatal. A lot of people could live normal lives and have thyroid problems and not know about it for 50 yrs.
Damn, someone else actually gets it. Nuclear energy is risking, but no where near as risky and damaging then fossile fuel powered energy.
Why would you want either? Renewables are cheaper and safer
@@jyetremlett3071 And wildly unreliable.
@@jyetremlett3071 Not really cheaper, given high installation and maintenence costs , subsidies, and unavailable at night or in conditions of no wind. Apart from that . . .
@@EllieMaes-Grandad yeah it is cheaper look it up
@@EllieMaes-Grandad The environmental costs of cutting or burning down forests (wind turbines and solar farms are being installed in forests. What happens if theres a dry season), having to expand even farther rather than living densely, etc.
The control rods needed to manage the positive reactivity coefficient were gone. They lose coolant and thus their moderator. Water flashed to steam and they were royally fucked.
Basically they set themselves up for a single point failure and then initiated the failure.
Thx for not mentioning my marriage 😂😂😂
I can steel feel the effects of it
Lol, same!
No problem Harry. Will u be returning to uk soon?
Actually both Napoleon and Hitler invaded in June, but the size of Russia meant the fight extended until winter - and into later years in case of WW2.
Actually he covered that at the end of the video.
At least Hitler planed to start quite a few weeks earlier. Not sure about Napoleon.
I was told "It isn't a mistake if you can correct it."
2/3rds left of hell to go. Hurry the fuck up time....
Simon has got to be the busiest man on TH-cam.
My hubby asked how many channels Simon has and I said about 7, lol
@@linda10989 All 10 of them are actually mentioned in the description below every video. He does of course have writers and editors doing a bunch of the work for him - I have the impression that it's just his full-time job now to read these scripts to the camera.
The Spanish Armada is actually even more fascinating in that most of the ships lost were due to poor weather and crashed on Irelands shores with crews largely killed by local armys. It was a multitude of factors that resulted in the English victory from Phillip as a monarch and strategist, the generals following plan over opportunity, poor weather, and the cannons on the Spanish ships being land cannons attached to a boat whereas the english fleet largely had naval cannons. The armada was rewritten as an English victory slowly in the late years of Elizabeth I reign through the 20th century whereas it was largely a stalemate. England attempted some armadas against spain that were equally if not more catastrophic on the basis of sheer military strategy.
Humans operating nuclear facilities? Recipe for disaster eventually.
Not to mention the terrible storm the Spanish had the misfortune to encounter as they sailed around the West of England so as to attack from the entrance to the English Channel. A rather costly miscalculation, wouldn’t you think?
Also worthy of consideration:
Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's policy of appeasing Nazi Germany.
The Galipoli Campaign.
Mao's Four Pests campaign, which led to the starvation of 20-30 million people over 4 years.
He covered the China one in the previous video.
Not sure if I can call appeasement a blunder. Yes it didn’t bring world peace as Chamberlain had hoped, but Hitler was gonna Hitler regardless of UK’s policy.
No mention of Thomas Midgley Jr.? Huh.
If your talking about unreasoned fear of Nuclear power meltdowns the blame has to lie with a '70s movie with Jane Fonda and her dad. Right after the 3 mile island incident. In Japan the fear stems from the Godzilla movies maybe.
"International Nuclear Detonations in Japan" - That's an incredibly misleading way to describe those events. lol
I'm not gonna say it's kinda disrespectful; I'll let someone else draw that conclusion.
Clips were shown during this video, but if anyone hasnt seen the HBO miniseries Chernobyl its absolutely still worth checking out.
(I would also suggest checking out one of those 'what HBO got wrong about Chernobyl' as there are a few inaccuracies, overall its a really well done show)
I dig this narrator because his British accent is good enough for American English to understand. All of his shows are excellent by the way...
England and America - two countries divided by a common language...😅
Simon, I imagine you using the Foreo skin care thing. Then I look at you, and I think, where are you using this? Because beard, mustache, eyebrows &etc. .Now I just envision you running it over your scalp, which I must admit seems ever so shiny and smooth.
Wonderful stuff, as always, Simon! You are always a fun ride! I love that in my mind, I buckle into my adventure car, and, um, "Excuse me, sir? Did I hear a loose bolt rattling under my car?" I get Silence, but a glare that said much. "Keep your hands and feet inside the car at all times."
Now, as I shoot down into the blackness of whatever the hell you are going to show and comment on let me get back into my lovin' on these great films you and you team put together.
I love that you can take the sometimes the oblivious like so much of the other things in our lives that we tune out, and make the blur out of our vision, and twist the image until crystal clear. That's the powerful stuff, eh?
The first time I became aware of that fact was when I learned why it is still a law here in the US why all exits of businesses still have a sign that states, "These doors must remain unlocked during business hours." Why? In America, you can tell something horrible led up to signs that are ubiquitous.
Pass hugs you your team and get Mrs. Simon to give you a big one. It's amazing what an effect your videos have on the world. I come from advertising. If your story (they use the same terms) is impactful, those viewers just became free advertising, and better yet, they are better salespeople.
There's only 1 empire that has ever conquered Russia in winter.
The Mongols.
It’s not as if Chernobyl handed the oil companies a golden opportunity to crank up the fear pronz of nuclear power to 11, right? They would absolutely never covertly fund activism against it, right?
4:57 to be 100% honest it’s hard to trust government or local governments atm in USA to not just contract this work to the cheapest bidder but then also cut corners. Maybe other places people would and it would be amazing to use it !
I wonder where all that funding came from for the anti-nuclear energy sects…
On operation Barbarossa the German army had already been weakened by significant losses in the Polish and French campaigns (that were not the walkovers that many people believe). They also seriously underestimated Russian resilience and ability to keep fighting despite early losses and setbacks. A mistake mssrs Biden and Johnson seem to have repeated not so long ago.
Not to mention the looses they took in Greece, Crete and North Africa, which was still ongoing.
Enquiry to Radio Erewan: Could the catastrophe of Chernobyl have been avoided?
Answer: In principle, yes. If only the Swedes had shut up.
Was expecting to see the fall of the Berlin Wall mentioned (Schabowski made a mistake in announcing a policy change).
It was an amazing time watching as one country after another left the Soviet Union. And all because of Chernobyl.
Is it just me or is the music playing while he's talking around the 3 minute mark super distracting?
Id say Peter the greats loss of Narwa to Charles 12 was a bigger Blunder then Charles going after Peter.
From the Napoleonic defeat by Russia we get French Bistro! The Russian troops weren't supposed to be getting food while they were out and about (they were probably on duty), so whenever they would order food at local cafes, they would ask for it 'bystro bystro' or 'quickly, quickly.' The term stuck.
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One mistake changed the whole world forever, not just their lives. Sometimes a single blunder ends up with terrible disasters. People learn from errors and take a lesson from it.
11:30: Those who do not learn from the past are doomed to repeat its errors. Those who do learn from the past will find new ways in which to err.
How often you think Simon is rubbing his head with that Foreo doohickey? His head is so smoooooooooth
Spanish Armada's failures led to the English funding a contest to finding latitude with accuracy in the 1720s which led to the chronometer in the 1760s/1770s, before that it was mostly guess work
What's wrong with the graphics. A bunch of clips look like they're melting or being distorted in unsettling ways. If AI was used on those clips, whatever goal the effect was supposed to have; it was missed by a mile
How about any man made disaster that happened because the people in charge decided, "We'll do it this way instead because it's much less expensive."
Well, maybe not, considering these disasters are still happening because of cost cuts.
Statistically speaking someone
watching this video will make one of these historical mistakes....
Dyatlov was most likely a scapegoat just like Bryukhanov. Testimony by surviving Chernobyl staff paints him as a "strict but competent" boss whose orders were not questioned simply because nobody, including Dyatlov, knew any better. Dyatlov himself later stated that he had no way of knowing that even the very numbers for the reactor's operation, the numbers he was basing his decisions on... were a lie.
Also, another major way in which Chernobyl changed the world was the collapse of the Soviet Union, which Gorbachev attributes to a large degree on the enormous economic toll caused by the cleanup operation.
Editor friend can we turn the music down a few notches?
chernobyl disaster was a mistake but the mistakes went back far before the plant was even built. Poor design, Soviet cost & corner cutting, lying to operators about how it worked, etc. Shocking levels of incompetence and cover ups before the plant even went on the grid.
I swear simon's beard gets longer with every video, he's slowly turning into ZZ Top
Survive until winter and have the atlantic convoys re supplying you.
Love your vids mr Whistler
I just finished watching the first video literally seconds ago and i see this lol
the death toll of chernobyl was not only the people at the place when the explosion happened but also the afterward cleaning action, where the SSSR wasted a lot of human personal to clear roofs of debris... okay at that time robotik wasn't a theme but i guess there could have been less deaths if the clearing work would not be this hasted...
One of the biggest blunders also has to be the one that saw Berlins walls torn down
the main issue with Poltava was that the cavalry got lost by a few kilometers, sweden had beat russia several times before being outnumbered in greater numbers
I just realised that you sound like Steve (the older brother) from Arthur Christmas and now I can't unhear it
LED therapy lmao
Simon. Have you been to New Zealand ?
8:50: I believe the phrase is, "God fights on the side with the heaviest artillery."
9:18 hang on. The Roman empire stretched all the way up to northern Waddenzee in the Netherlands? Just in a flash, but I saw it alright. That deserves a vid. I thought they stopped at Utrecht and Leiden.
dude...aachen has been founded by rome. you think they stopped there??
Borders were never precise lines, with patrols in areas beyond them. Tax-raising on the other hand . . .
It's always interesting to see that don't invade Russia in winter getting discussed without even mentioning WWI.
I’m not sure Chernobyl qualifies as a “side project”
This is certainly was a mega project. Or “mega disaster”.
A salute to the very brave liquidators and other emergency responders who gave their lives and health to save Europe and the world from disastrous irradiation.
I don't want to diminish the heroism of the men who lost their lives in the cleanup, but to imply that the entire world, or even all of Europe, was ever at risk because of Chernobyl demonstrates a high level of ignorance on your part when it comes to nuclear power and radioactivity. It's true that with no containment effort, a larger area would have been affected, but nowhere near _that_ large. That's an unrealistic fear.
Thanks.
LOL just watched this after watching Simon's "Decoding the Unknown" episode that included a bit about the hacking of the Galileo probe launch. I wonder what order he filmed these.
The places that oil spilled and let nature clean it up ended up thriving with ocean life.
Oh, my!
They're going to put a tiny thermoisotopic generation cell into interstellar space that will no doubt collide with a neighboring star and be incenerated or remain adrift among the galaxies long after decay completion!
The test was not completed successfully the thing blew up as soon as they started the testphase. And they fucked up in more ways than one they landed in a xenon pit because they run it on low power for so long and than they made more dumb moves. Hell the entire things is pretty much a hoe to blow up a reactor task list.
In fact it was void before it even started because the power was to low
Attacking the tropical zone without mosquito nets
The reactors themselves aren’t the poison. The spent fuel rods are a problem we can’t solve.
In addition to disease, combat attrition or drowning the other cause for the Spanish Armada's high casualties was the English policy of no quarter to the survivors washed up on shore. A vast majority of those who made it to land were rounded up and executed sometimes en masse.
To be fair to Charles XII the Swedish winter is pretty insane too. I’d think that the weather wouldn’t be a factor
The music 🎶 is exhausting.
Thanks.
Honestly, i also blame the Simpsons for the antagonization of nuclear power, specially the episodes with the three eyed fish.
15:00 It wasn't because soldiers were expendable (the German high command was actually very concerned about the army's losses up to that point), but because delivering ammunition and fuel to the front was more important than winter clothing considering the widescale Soviet counter attacks during the winter of 1941-42. There's no point in having your soldiers dressed warmly if they have nothing to fight with.
Also bear in mind that getting *any* supplies to the front was difficult because of the poor state of the Soviet road system (even *before* the onset of winter weather) and it makes sense that the Germans prioritized ammunition and fuel over winter clothing.
Then again, all that ammo and nobody to use it. It comes down to balance . . . . pppppp
I appreciate the labeling of AI content. Please don't stop doing that.
The irony of Simon peddling a UFO....
"LED therapy". LOL !
0:03 Nah, screw that mess.
Go big or go home!
😆
Something on SMRs would be interesting
the English had a technological advantage over the Spanish Armada.
Up till then, cannons had different sized bores and so needed the crew to pick the shot to fit the bore of the gun. But the English had developed a way to standardise the making of cannons so that they all had the same sized bore and QED all used the same sized shot. This made for faster loading and consistent ranges for powder.
This has only been discovered relatively recently (last 30 years?) with deep sea archaeology of period cannons in wreaks. It is believed it was such a top secret invention the process of manufacturing these cannons, the English did not record the break through to keep it secret of manufacture from the rest of Europe.
Russians : The winter is coming
France : 💀💀💀💀
Germany :💀💀💀💀
5:37 Greenhouse Gas emissions are not a danger. They are making the planet better with the fertilizer effect. Far more people die from cold than from heat (even in poor and hot India). We have never been safer from climate thanks to abundant energy (98% reduction in deaths in the last 100 years). Very similar people oppose FF and Nuclear - because both provide humans with energy, which allows us to fight brutal and uncontroller nature.
The Peter Principle.
You know, Simon, when you think about it, people always think about Russia - and Moscow in particular - being unconquerable. Well, how about you look at the story of the only people to take control of Moscow from the Russians and HOLD IT FOR A TIME - THE POLISH. Now that would be a story I would love to see.
British making peace with the American mutineers
LFTR liquid fluoride thorium reactor. As old as light water reactors however it cannot be implemented in America or any state will lose their energy grants.
Yeah that Russian tactic of "just surviving the winter" aint working out too good against A REAL guerilla force thats used to that same winter lol