The Falklands War was NOT between Argentina and England. It was between Argentina and the United Kingdom. Please make a correction. A lot of Scots, Welsh, and Irish also died in that conflict.
Fun fact: the Cayman Islands used to be a colony of Jamaica, which itself was a colony of the UK. For most of its history the UK wanted nothing to do with the Cayman Islands because it was too small and insignificant to warrant any attention. So they put its much larger sister island Jamaica directly in charge and then promptly forgot about the Cayman Islands for the next few centuries. The Cayman Islands at this time was nothing more than a small, backwards, sleepy fishing village with just a few thousand inhabitants. It had no natural resources and no infrastructure to speak of. It was directly governed by Jamaica which was responsible for its political administration. Once a month a Jamaican judge would take a boat over to the Cayman Islands, the trip took just over a few hours. He would then hold court, officiate over marriages as well as judge legal and civil disputes. When Jamaica decided to become independent in 1962, this left the Cayman Islands in a bind. They were too small to follow suit and become an independent country, so they decided to revert back to being a colony of the UK. This was the first time that the UK had to take over direct administration of the Cayman Islands. What happened next is nothing short of miraculous - the Cayman Islands, having no natural resources and a very small population, decided to start an offshore banking industry and the rest, as they say, is history. They're now SO FABULOUSLY RICH that their GDP per capita is at least double that of the UK. And just to add insult to injury, their former colonial masters, the Jamaicans, now require visas to visit their former colony. True story!
i wouldn't call the UK a declining regional power, it is still the foremost European power if you exclude Russia. not many countries have aircraft carriers F35's and Nuclear weapons. the recent increases in "defence" spending is makes an already top 5 spender even more powerful. new SLBM Subs new Nuclear attack subs and a complete renewal of it's surface ship fleet with the Type 26 and Type 31 frigates with new Fleet Auxiliary supply ships and tankers. The UK belongs to a special club called the Great powers China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States. the UK has become more isolationist but no less weak if anything it has actually increased in strength slightly over the last few years even with reduced Army manpower. why does an island need a massive land army? the budget has mainly gone to Naval and Air power traditionally 2 areas the UK excels in more than most.
Would say our military is doing worse than the French or German ones. Yea we have nuclear subs & all but we still have been declining. Germany is the biggest rising power in Europe with its importance to the EU & the fact it has nukes thanks to the USA. But maybe a new government bringing us closer again to europe can fix the last 5 years of decline in European spheres.
@@cillianennis9921 Hopefully we will have a vote of no confidence in this joke of a government. Trying to force us back into the EU would be a front against democracy and the majority of our people.
All of the populated British Overseas Territories (and the seperate Crown Dependencies) have their own constitutions and responsible self-government, and UK law does not automatically apply. The laws they pass through their own Governments often directly contradict UK laws. The laws and policies of the BOT/CD Governments can sometimes work against the UK's interests. If any of them voted for Independence or a different constitutional set-up it would be granted to them.
Dylan spot on I lived in Jersey (a Crown Dependency as you say) and they have their own parliament, the UK in my time there never bothered Jersey at all, because they are British.
@@markmh835 Same Sex Marriage is legal in most of the BOTs. In Bermuda it was legal for a time and then they made it illegal again. It's still not legal in the Cayman Islands (though civil partnerships are). Same-Sex Marriage is legal in all of the Crown Dependencies, Sark (part of Guernsey) was the last to make it legal in 2020. Same-Sex Marriage wasn't even legal in Northern Ireland, a full part of the UK, until 2020 (England/Wales & Scotland were in 2014). It would have been a matter for the devolved Assembly, but the UK Government changed the law instead while the Northern Ireland Assembly was suspended.
@@DylanSargesson -- So if I understand your answer correctly, each OT and dependency got to decide for itself and it was not decided for them in London.
@@markmh835 Effectively, yes. In theory, the UK Government/Parliament could overrule (or even completely abolish) the Overseas Territories governments, but in practice, they don't.
How can you say the UK hides its overseas empire? we all know were it is and the people who live live. They enjoy our protection but we do not tell them what to do,
Argentina vs England? The Welsh Guards had the highest losses of the Falklands War, suffering over 140 casualties when RFA Sir Galahad was hit, practically wiping out the 1st Battalion as an effective unit within minutes. Scots, Irish, Welsh, and Nepalese Gurkhas all went down south in 1982. Cymru am Byth 🏴
These territories are not hidden and very much represented and acknowledged. My father is from the Caribbean island of Montserrat. There are lots of Montserratians in Britain and descendants.
@@svans6725 No doubt the REAL reason for our, eh, 'heroic' defence of it ... or was that just to prop up Thatcher at a time when she was being recognised as a crypto-fascist villain, carrying out America's project of being its lapdog in Europe?!
Economic fugitives from my country are living good life in UK such as Vijay Mallya, Nirav Modi and Lalit Modi and Mehul Choksi in Barbados. UK is harbouring fugitives.
Little Engerland has no compunction about welcoming and looking after economic fugitives and downright international villains. Remember the warm welcome (and even knighthoods!) we gave to the plutocratic robbers from Russia!
Spain - a major imperialist nation - lost that particular war. For Spain to act as victims of colonialism , as they do, is beyond laughable. Ask Moroccans how they feel about Ceuta.
@@SuperMattboxioI've walked down Canal Street and seen what people got upto with some of those wh@res, its no wonder god didn't trust the dirty buggers 😂😂
The Roman Empire became a religion, uk empire became a bank, Russian became gas and oil empire. The list goes on, they just developed into something else
In your first graphic showing the British Empire at its peak all of the island of Ireland should be red as Eire got its independence when the empire was in decline.
It's comments like this that reinforce my belief that we are not the same. In African culture, we have what we call Ubuntu. One must have Ubuntu to be considered a Human Being. britain forcibly removed chagossians from their home. They also executed their pets. Are these actions of a Human Being?
@@zigongosaurus5274My pfp is of an African Hero who restored the land to the Original People. Only Africans can decide who's good in Africa and who's bad in Africa. winston churchil is a hero to you but not to the Kenyan People (he put them in concentration camps).
@@tichaonamugabe7107-- Sorry, but Mugabe's actions in the last decades of his life were not "the actions of a Human Being." This is not a matter of opinion; this is a recognized FACT. How anyone can deplore the killing of pets on the Chagos Islands while condoning and praising the actions of a single man who murdered thousands and destroyed a nation is beyond all logic.
@@Rotebuehl1 Wow a typical hater, the same Britain that is rated top ten in literacy rates and people with a post-HS education. I guess you confused the UK with the US
Ha. The sun set on the British Empire in 1947, when the Raj ended. Britain soon began the decommissioning and wrecking of most of the ships of the British Navy, which had served for more than 350 years as the foundation of imperial power. The Empire finally died an embarrassing public death in 1956, when Eisenhower dictated the end of the British/French invasion of Suez. To even use the word "Empire" as if it still means anything in a British context is a joke.
@@FAngus-ly8lk What makes you think we aren't joking? Course the real jokes on places like Hong Kong, went from a free country to a slave city. Ultimately there are only _two_ true blue water navies. The US Navy and the Royal Navy. But people never understand the punchline...
Quite funny how Overseas Territory is shortened to OT and then the word Territory is used 20 times in the next two minutes, and then it’s followed up by naming each territory…. Is there really any point to shortening it to OT…. It would appear not. 😂😂😅❤ Ps Britain isn’t a shrinking power, it shrank and now it is what it is
An international pariah and embarrassment with no friends anywhere in the world ... just a greedy USA whom will treat (and has already treated) us as a second class Puerto Rico!
All those English-speaking countries in the Caribbean were not countries prior to British colonization. They were territorial possessions. They only turned into countries after Britain granted them independence.
an old saying. the roman empire never disappeared it just morphed into a religion. and the British empire never disappeared it just morphed into a bank.
There was a century between loosing our 1st Empire the USA and controlling most of the world. So in theory by about 2060 the world will probably be asking us back. Mind you the world even now speaks mostly English and plays football
I need to correct the narrator of this video when he said, England went to war with Argentina. No! GT Britain did, including Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales and England. The countries that make up the United Kingdom. After fighting two world wars Britain was broke. In particular, during WW2 when the Luftwaffe bombing raids, including the V2 Rocket and the Doodlebugs, day and night destroyed most of Britain’s critical infrastructure and killed and injured tens of thousands which is why Britain could not develop the worlds first nuclear bomb - atomic bomb and gave the blueprints to develop it, alongside Canadian scientists who contributed to the Americans which was called the Manhattan project. Britain, today is a powerhouse when it comes to innovation, invention and developing cutting edge technologies but our government fails to support our brightest, including scientists, engineers, inventors and entrepreneurs which is why most of British tech ends up being developed by foreign companies. But there is hope and engineers in Britain are calling on the government to come up with an industrial strategy which will see a renaissance in British manufacturing again because financial services can only do so much for an advanced economy and at the end of the day if we want to keep hold of these territories around the globe we need a strong navy built by British ship builders and a stronger military and airforce.
@@aethellstan Does two? Does three? At which point does it officially become an "empire"? It makes sense to date the start of it as the first colonial acquisition, and the end of it as the relinquishment of the last one (which hasn't happened yet so technically it's 400 years and still counting).
@@someguy3766 rubbish. that means there was an english empire, which there hasn't been. britain didn't exist until 1707. this basically means that virtually every country on earth has had an empire. suggest you have a word with yourself as you don't know what you're talking about.
@@someguy3766 dictionary definition (not yours) : A political unit having an extensive territory or comprising a number of territories or nations and ruled by a single supreme authority
It wasn't yours to give in the first place. How can you just come onto someone else's land and straight up evict them? Who does that? Are these actions of a Human Being?
@@tichaonamugabe7107 who does that ? well every civilization since the biggening of time , its called war & conquest & I'm a Fijian which is in the Sth Pacific .Good god some people
@@Lukejb2Butterworth Dude this happened between 1965 and 1973.Not prehistoric times. They threatened to bomb them if they didn't leave. They even excuted their pets. It was effed up what they did. If this was another country like Nigeria or Iran who'd done this you wouldn't be saying "well we've all done it before". Coconut
@@tichaonamugabe7107 Coconut wow not racist at all ??? but as a white Fijian coconut does not fit me any ways . & what else happened between 65 & 73 - the Rhodesia bush war ,the Angolan and Mozambique independence wars , the 6 day & Yom Kippur wars ,the Bangladesh liberation war , the Indo -Pakistani war and the Vietnam war . & next time u spew racist garbage I'll have u removed from u tube for community guideline violation
@@Lukejb2Butterworth Well that explains a lot. And no, not every civilization has done this. Yes warfare is not unique to one group of people. But it's very deceptive to imply that war and evicting people from their land is the same thing. Threatning to bomb men, women and children if they don't leave an island is terrorism. Taking the pets from them and executing the pets is straight up diabolical. Having competions of how far you can kick a babies head (brits did this in australia). No we're not like that. Our nature is different. Africans live by Ubuntu.
Few things i must add as a british citizen for people who are non british. We DO NOT hold any military bases on any of these british overseas territories (apart from the falklands(SA), gibraltar(Eu) and cyprus(Eu) ) and we hold very little real power over most of them so to say they're apart of our current empire is a reach. As for the economy, as i said before, we hold very little power over them and the money we bring in through these territories is extremely minor. And finally, We no longer have a successful military, we're letting out ships to the US because we dont have the manpower to man them. Our airforce is lackluster and our ground forces the same. However this is currently, hopefully in the future the UK can become an industrial and military powerhouse again and start to have a say and a presence worldwide but sadly right now we are but a mere shadow, and a weak one at that lol, of our former selves
Cap. Diego Garcia is British and we use facilities there. Ascension Island has a military listening post there as it is in a good position for spy satellites and cape Canaveral rocket launches. We can also use Royal Australian Defence Forces facilities.
Falkland's wouldn't need one if not for Argentina. we only have them in Cyprus because the US literally pays for us to stay there, otherwise we would have left decades ago. Gibraltar is the only one we want troops at for various reasons, one of which seems to be training for beach landings.
Yall probably aren’t going to shine again. You rose due to the very unique circumstances of early industrialization which isn’t going to happen in your favor again. Just like Italy never recovered from the fall of Rome being stuck as a secondary power. The UK with its corrupt elites that will loot the state then flee the country are going to reduce your nation to a much worse version than its current self and that will probably be the future of the UK.
Britain might claim to own part of Antarctica, but the reality is under UN law no country including the UK own any part of Antarctica. Get your facts straight.
That is not even remotely close to true, you clearly do not have YOUR facts straight. The Antarctic Treaty System restricts militarisation of Antarctica and allows for more or less unrestricted scientific access for all nations. It does NOT however invalidate existing territorial claims, nor does it prevent other nations from making future claims, such as Russia, Brazil, South Africa, Peru or the USA, who all reserve such rights. In fact the only reason the treaty has any enforcement is because all the nations who claim sovereignty over parts of Antarctica are parties to it, and the UK itself was a big proponent of the system. The UN does not take a position on Antarctic sovereignty.
@@nif977 Most countries that actually matter as far as power politics go are signed up though. In any case, show me the international law that says territorial claims on Antarctica are unlawful. Oh wait you can't, because contrary to what you claimed, no such UN law exists.
@@nif977 Oh so now you want to get into a debate on the definition of international law? Let's not pretend either of us are international legal scholars. You stated that territorial claims on Antarctica are unlawful, you claimed the UN has some rules on this, but you can't point to any example because it does not exist. Just admit you're wrong.
how can one man secretly give away british sovereignty without the vote of both the incumbent population and the british public , starmer is the biggest threat to peace in our time with his idiotic give aways. he has to answer for this now.
Falklands is not controversial, we defeated an enemy over them in the 1980s and ever since bankrupted that country through our control of the banking world ( which you don’t mention in your clip) this country whilst being world champions at football (another successful game we gave the world) it has astronomical inflation. Thing is why did we fight for the Falklands and give Hong Kong away!
I wouldn't call a few scattered islands and enclaves with a collective population of under 100,000 people an "empire", it began to die with the Suez crisis and gave its' last breath in '97 with the return of HK to China. The EEZs afforded to the UK from these territories is no joke, particularly the geopolitical leverage afforded to the UK with Gibraltar and the Falklands, but calling it an empire is a huge overstatement.
The collective population is actually more than 250,000 people, and more than half a million if you include the Crown Dependencies (Jersey, Guernsey, Isle of Mann).
What about Canada, Austrailia and New Zealand? These countries have a P.M, Why? Why not a president? Because they are part of the commonwealth and in some part beholding to the UK.
The UK also does not have a president. So Your logic does not make sense. The only part the UK plays is the commonwealth and head of state but that is only ceremonial. Regional governments in these nations are completely self governing. The UK. plays no part in how they are run.
@markmh835 By "american" you mean people from the entire continent? Or you just mean people from the US. If so, you're doing the same thing you're criticizing
Interesting. Avery negative view towards the UK and some very over simplified conclusions made. Yes, it is about Power but they were also earned. The UK spent it's resources claiming some of these territory's and not all were inhabited at the time. Infact, I will have to call the maker of this vid out for being somewhat of an obnoxious Pr@ck from south Africa by the sounds of it.
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The Falklands War was NOT between Argentina and England. It was between Argentina and the United Kingdom. Please make a correction. A lot of Scots, Welsh, and Irish also died in that conflict.
And they died fighting for England
@@jamesmullen3601 the SNP is dead mate
@@jamesmullen3601they died fighting for the freedom of the Falkland citizens, don't down play their deaths
@@metrx330 the Irish were not involved, I presume you mean the northern Irish?
It always grates on me (as an Englishman) when foreign commentators do that.
Fun fact: the Cayman Islands used to be a colony of Jamaica, which itself was a colony of the UK. For most of its history the UK wanted nothing to do with the Cayman Islands because it was too small and insignificant to warrant any attention. So they put its much larger sister island Jamaica directly in charge and then promptly forgot about the Cayman Islands for the next few centuries. The Cayman Islands at this time was nothing more than a small, backwards, sleepy fishing village with just a few thousand inhabitants. It had no natural resources and no infrastructure to speak of. It was directly governed by Jamaica which was responsible for its political administration. Once a month a Jamaican judge would take a boat over to the Cayman Islands, the trip took just over a few hours. He would then hold court, officiate over marriages as well as judge legal and civil disputes.
When Jamaica decided to become independent in 1962, this left the Cayman Islands in a bind. They were too small to follow suit and become an independent country, so they decided to revert back to being a colony of the UK. This was the first time that the UK had to take over direct administration of the Cayman Islands. What happened next is nothing short of miraculous - the Cayman Islands, having no natural resources and a very small population, decided to start an offshore banking industry and the rest, as they say, is history. They're now SO FABULOUSLY RICH that their GDP per capita is at least double that of the UK. And just to add insult to injury, their former colonial masters, the Jamaicans, now require visas to visit their former colony. True story!
One bad Hurricane and it’s game over. I’ll take the UK and its mild climate, no diseases, and no natural disasters anytime
@@AverageWagie2024 We do have diseases they come from 3rd worlders we let in and illegal boat scum.
@@AverageWagie2024A sea level rise of 0.75 metres puts me under water. I live in South Wales.
i wouldn't call the UK a declining regional power, it is still the foremost European power if you exclude Russia. not many countries have aircraft carriers F35's and Nuclear weapons. the recent increases in "defence" spending is makes an already top 5 spender even more powerful. new SLBM Subs new Nuclear attack subs and a complete renewal of it's surface ship fleet with the Type 26 and Type 31 frigates with new Fleet Auxiliary supply ships and tankers. The UK belongs to a special club called the Great powers China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States. the UK has become more isolationist but no less weak if anything it has actually increased in strength slightly over the last few years even with reduced Army manpower. why does an island need a massive land army? the budget has mainly gone to Naval and Air power traditionally 2 areas the UK excels in more than most.
Would say our military is doing worse than the French or German ones. Yea we have nuclear subs & all but we still have been declining. Germany is the biggest rising power in Europe with its importance to the EU & the fact it has nukes thanks to the USA. But maybe a new government bringing us closer again to europe can fix the last 5 years of decline in European spheres.
@@cillianennis9921 Keep funding for the nuclear deterrent separate from conventional warfare spending and we will be doing much better.
Pretty sure Russia excluded Russia.
@@cillianennis9921 Hopefully we will have a vote of no confidence in this joke of a government. Trying to force us back into the EU would be a front against democracy and the majority of our people.
@@cillianennis9921 F the EU. WE are No 1 in Europe why they give us shit we all wasy have to sort their problem's out. like ww1 and 2.
All of the populated British Overseas Territories (and the seperate Crown Dependencies) have their own constitutions and responsible self-government, and UK law does not automatically apply.
The laws they pass through their own Governments often directly contradict UK laws. The laws and policies of the BOT/CD Governments can sometimes work against the UK's interests.
If any of them voted for Independence or a different constitutional set-up it would be granted to them.
Dylan spot on I lived in Jersey (a Crown Dependency as you say) and they have their own parliament, the UK in my time there never bothered Jersey at all, because they are British.
In how many of the BOT/CD is same-sex marriage legal, for instance? Does each location get to decide on its own?
@@markmh835 Same Sex Marriage is legal in most of the BOTs. In Bermuda it was legal for a time and then they made it illegal again. It's still not legal in the Cayman Islands (though civil partnerships are).
Same-Sex Marriage is legal in all of the Crown Dependencies, Sark (part of Guernsey) was the last to make it legal in 2020.
Same-Sex Marriage wasn't even legal in Northern Ireland, a full part of the UK, until 2020 (England/Wales & Scotland were in 2014). It would have been a matter for the devolved Assembly, but the UK Government changed the law instead while the Northern Ireland Assembly was suspended.
@@DylanSargesson -- So if I understand your answer correctly, each OT and dependency got to decide for itself and it was not decided for them in London.
@@markmh835 Effectively, yes.
In theory, the UK Government/Parliament could overrule (or even completely abolish) the Overseas Territories governments, but in practice, they don't.
How can you say the UK hides its overseas empire? we all know were it is and the people who live live. They enjoy our protection but we do not tell them what to do,
Argentina vs England?
The Welsh Guards had the highest losses of the Falklands War, suffering over 140 casualties when RFA Sir Galahad was hit, practically wiping out the 1st Battalion as an effective unit within minutes. Scots, Irish, Welsh, and Nepalese Gurkhas all went down south in 1982.
Cymru am Byth 🏴
Hate to tell you what my friend in 3 para had to say about the Welch guards!
All these people from the colonies willing to die for their master, rather than against their master is very sad.
@@fishyq5077 Pretty sure Goebbels said the same. Do one.
@@fishyq5077 You arent the sharpest tool in the shade I guess
These territories are not hidden and very much represented and acknowledged. My father is from the Caribbean island of Montserrat. There are lots of Montserratians in Britain and descendants.
It gives these Islands a big brother that can come and defend them , after the Falklands what country would attack these countries
it gives rich, shady westerners and not only a place where to launder their money
@@svans6725 No doubt the REAL reason for our, eh, 'heroic' defence of it ... or was that just to prop up Thatcher at a time when she was being recognised as a crypto-fascist villain, carrying out America's project of being its lapdog in Europe?!
This is the UK remember mate, we're too poor, politically divided and stupid to capitalise on these assets
Excellent video, thank you.
Good, make it larger
Economic fugitives from my country are living good life in UK such as Vijay Mallya, Nirav Modi and Lalit Modi and Mehul Choksi in Barbados. UK is harbouring fugitives.
Barbados is not the UK
@@ryandanngetich2524 monarch was head of the state till sometimes back and UK continues to hold significant sway.
@@shashanktrivedi27 They cut off the monarchy and are not being swayed by the UK,, blame the US or Barbados
Little Engerland has no compunction about welcoming and looking after economic fugitives and downright international villains. Remember the warm welcome (and even knighthoods!) we gave to the plutocratic robbers from Russia!
What’s the chances of releasing this video on the day that we give up the Chagos Islands 😂 Bad luck
Gibraltar is not an island.
If you've ever been there, it kind of acts like an island though, the Spanish guard that border like the US guards the Mexican border
@@TheHappyTDFamily I live here, it's not remotely an island haha
Spain - a major imperialist nation - lost that particular war. For Spain to act as victims of colonialism , as they do, is beyond laughable.
Ask Moroccans how they feel about Ceuta.
It is a distinctive peninsula ... and about as British as downtown Madrid!
@@fainitesbarley2245 And don't forget Melilla too!
THE SUN NEVER SETS ON THE BRITISH EMPIRE🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
By the same reasoning, you could say that the sun never rises on the British empire.
It was also once said that this was because God didn't trust the British in the dark 😂
@@SuperMattboxioI've walked down Canal Street and seen what people got upto with some of those wh@res, its no wonder god didn't trust the dirty buggers 😂😂
@@SuperMattboxio
We really are magnificently violent when needs must.
And that's just if the Gurkhas don't get to you first.
😂. Don't let others live in peace.
My brother in Christ Uk overseas territories is public knowledge
The Roman Empire became a religion, uk empire became a bank, Russian became gas and oil empire. The list goes on, they just developed into something else
I wonder what the US will become? A military post? A cultural gimmick?
In your first graphic showing the British Empire at its peak all of the island of Ireland should be red as Eire got its independence when the empire was in decline.
Interesting
Do we hide them???
No
Falkland islands is not very controversial. The Falkland islands are naturally very similar to the British isles anyway.
Because they pumped british citizens there
@@ah8893 regardless, it wasnt stolen from any natives.
@@ah8893Argentina killed natives and tok their land. They should go back to Spain and give back the land
cold wet and full of sheep
@@ah8893
those 'pumped british citizens' have been there centuries and are to all intents and purposes their indigenous people
Just 2 days after this upload and we loose the land in the Indian Ocean…
It's comments like this that reinforce my belief that we are not the same. In African culture, we have what we call Ubuntu. One must have Ubuntu to be considered a Human Being. britain forcibly removed chagossians from their home. They also executed their pets. Are these actions of a Human Being?
@@tichaonamugabe7107Your pfp is a murderous dictator who only stepped down when he was nearly 100. Your opinion is irrelevant.
@@zigongosaurus5274My pfp is of an African Hero who restored the land to the Original People. Only Africans can decide who's good in Africa and who's bad in Africa. winston churchil is a hero to you but not to the Kenyan People (he put them in concentration camps).
@@tichaonamugabe7107 ‘chagossians’ are people brought to the island by British and Portuguese colonisers to run the plantations. They are not native.
@@tichaonamugabe7107-- Sorry, but Mugabe's actions in the last decades of his life were not "the actions of a Human Being." This is not a matter of opinion; this is a recognized FACT. How anyone can deplore the killing of pets on the Chagos Islands while condoning and praising the actions of a single man who murdered thousands and destroyed a nation is beyond all logic.
Not so hidden you could find them.
Isn’t it odd how most of us Brit’s couldn’t name all the oversea territories
Most of You Brits couldn't name anything at all either!
@@Rotebuehl1 Wow a typical hater, the same Britain that is rated top ten in literacy rates and people with a post-HS education. I guess you confused the UK with the US
UK schools Dumb down the Education that's why no Critical thinking
Ho sentito dire in altri commenti che in Gran Bretagna si studia pochissimo la storia dell'Impero Inglese. Sono molto meravigliata.
@@ryandanngetich2524 ... as today's election result proves beyond a shadow of a doubt!
Just an up to date information: Chagos islands will be no longer part of the oversea territories.
The sun never sets on the British Empire
To this day ❤
Ha. The sun set on the British Empire in 1947, when the Raj ended. Britain soon began the decommissioning and wrecking of most of the ships of the British Navy, which had served for more than 350 years as the foundation of imperial power. The Empire finally died an embarrassing public death in 1956, when Eisenhower dictated the end of the British/French invasion of Suez. To even use the word "Empire" as if it still means anything in a British context is a joke.
@@FAngus-ly8lk The Raj cant even win a single gold medal despite having 1.5 billion people
@@FAngus-ly8lk
What makes you think we aren't joking?
Course the real jokes on places like Hong Kong, went from a free country to a slave city.
Ultimately there are only _two_ true blue water navies.
The US Navy and the Royal Navy.
But people never understand the punchline...
And soon the Chagos Archipelago will be transferred to Mauritius. However, USA base at Diego Garcia will remain as is.
Correction: - Joint UK/USA base at Diego Garcia.
@@gdok6088 Specifically, UK will hold the 99 year lease, but will allow the US to continue using the base.
It wasn’t England and Argentina, it was UK and Argentina that went to war
Bermuda is in the Western Atlantic....some ppl here would fight you if called them Caribbean
That wouldn't be the white supremacists, perchance?!
Quite funny how Overseas Territory is shortened to OT and then the word Territory is used 20 times in the next two minutes, and then it’s followed up by naming each territory…. Is there really any point to shortening it to OT…. It would appear not. 😂😂😅❤
Ps Britain isn’t a shrinking power, it shrank and now it is what it is
Just shrank a little. We're giving BIOT over to Mauritius now, apparently.
An international pariah and embarrassment with no friends anywhere in the world ... just a greedy USA whom will treat (and has already treated) us as a second class Puerto Rico!
Colonisation should stop. They should have freedom. And you should not lick their Boots.
Well you should get a book and understand the realty
All those English-speaking countries in the Caribbean were not countries prior to British colonization. They were territorial possessions. They only turned into countries after Britain granted them independence.
@@opensprings A racist squawks!
Based UK
The British Empire is far from over, it just changed face.
Facts 🎉
It became a financial empire is a common one i hear a lot
an old saying. the roman empire never disappeared it just morphed into a religion. and the British empire never disappeared it just morphed into a bank.
@@rickandy1215 even some old roman families in italy are very powerful today.
There was a century between loosing our 1st Empire the USA and controlling most of the world. So in theory by about 2060 the world will probably be asking us back. Mind you the world even now speaks mostly English and plays football
I need to correct the narrator of this video when he said, England went to war with Argentina. No! GT Britain did, including Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales and England. The countries that make up the United Kingdom. After fighting two world wars Britain was broke. In particular, during WW2 when the Luftwaffe bombing raids, including the V2 Rocket and the Doodlebugs, day and night destroyed most of Britain’s critical infrastructure and killed and injured tens of thousands which is why Britain could not develop the worlds first nuclear bomb - atomic bomb and gave the blueprints to develop it, alongside Canadian scientists who contributed to the Americans which was called the Manhattan project. Britain, today is a powerhouse when it comes to innovation, invention and developing cutting edge technologies but our government fails to support our brightest, including scientists, engineers, inventors and entrepreneurs which is why most of British tech ends up being developed by foreign companies. But there is hope and engineers in Britain are calling on the government to come up with an industrial strategy which will see a renaissance in British manufacturing again because financial services can only do so much for an advanced economy and at the end of the day if we want to keep hold of these territories around the globe we need a strong navy built by British ship builders and a stronger military and airforce.
enough people said this already. give him a break
We do not hide them. You have found them pretty easily!
Big lands means nothing if you can’t make sense of it
The amount of money laundered by the UK and USA is around 10 trillion.
Well somebody's got to keep all those banknotes laundered and fresh. We don't want money that smells like a camel's a** as it does in Egypt.
Most of their beneficiaries are Oligarchs, dictators outside their countries tho
6:00 Why is Mauritius grouped with the British overseas territories? Iirc Bahamas has also ditched the British monarchy recently
No, that was Barbados, not the Bahamas.
Maurituis is still part of the commonwealth and Bahamas has not ditched the monarchy
Why's the vid got this creepy ahh music 💀💀
britain did not have an empire for 400 years 200 at the most
What year was Jamestown founded
@@AverageWagie2024 so you're suggesting one location makes an empire?
@@aethellstan Does two? Does three? At which point does it officially become an "empire"? It makes sense to date the start of it as the first colonial acquisition, and the end of it as the relinquishment of the last one (which hasn't happened yet so technically it's 400 years and still counting).
@@someguy3766 rubbish.
that means there was an english empire, which there hasn't been.
britain didn't exist until 1707.
this basically means that virtually every country on earth has had an empire. suggest you have a word with yourself as you don't know what you're talking about.
@@someguy3766 dictionary definition (not yours) :
A political unit having an extensive territory or comprising a number of territories or nations and ruled by a single supreme authority
The UK just signed away the Chacos islands to Mauritius
It wasn't yours to give in the first place. How can you just come onto someone else's land and straight up evict them? Who does that? Are these actions of a Human Being?
@@tichaonamugabe7107 who does that ? well every civilization since the biggening of time , its called war & conquest & I'm a Fijian which is in the Sth Pacific .Good god some people
@@Lukejb2Butterworth Dude this happened between 1965 and 1973.Not prehistoric times. They threatened to bomb them if they didn't leave. They even excuted their pets. It was effed up what they did. If this was another country like Nigeria or Iran who'd done this you wouldn't be saying "well we've all done it before". Coconut
@@tichaonamugabe7107 Coconut wow not racist at all ??? but as a white Fijian coconut does not fit me any ways . & what else happened between 65 & 73 - the Rhodesia bush war ,the Angolan and Mozambique independence wars , the 6 day & Yom Kippur wars ,the Bangladesh liberation war , the Indo -Pakistani war and the Vietnam war . & next time u spew racist garbage I'll have u removed from u tube for community guideline violation
@@Lukejb2Butterworth Well that explains a lot. And no, not every civilization has done this. Yes warfare is not unique to one group of people. But it's very deceptive to imply that war and evicting people from their land is the same thing. Threatning to bomb men, women and children if they don't leave an island is terrorism. Taking the pets from them and executing the pets is straight up diabolical. Having competions of how far you can kick a babies head (brits did this in australia). No we're not like that. Our nature is different. Africans live by Ubuntu.
Few things i must add as a british citizen for people who are non british.
We DO NOT hold any military bases on any of these british overseas territories (apart from the falklands(SA), gibraltar(Eu) and cyprus(Eu) ) and we hold very little real power over most of them so to say they're apart of our current empire is a reach.
As for the economy, as i said before, we hold very little power over them and the money we bring in through these territories is extremely minor.
And finally, We no longer have a successful military, we're letting out ships to the US because we dont have the manpower to man them. Our airforce is lackluster and our ground forces the same.
However this is currently, hopefully in the future the UK can become an industrial and military powerhouse again and start to have a say and a presence worldwide but sadly right now we are but a mere shadow, and a weak one at that lol, of our former selves
There's a British training unit in Alberta that has its own unit in suffield
We have bases in Akrotiri and Dhekelia and British Indian Ocean territory too.
Cap. Diego Garcia is British and we use facilities there. Ascension Island has a military listening post there as it is in a good position for spy satellites and cape Canaveral rocket launches. We can also use Royal Australian Defence Forces facilities.
Falkland's wouldn't need one if not for Argentina.
we only have them in Cyprus because the US literally pays for us to stay there, otherwise we would have left decades ago.
Gibraltar is the only one we want troops at for various reasons, one of which seems to be training for beach landings.
Yall probably aren’t going to shine again. You rose due to the very unique circumstances of early industrialization which isn’t going to happen in your favor again. Just like Italy never recovered from the fall of Rome being stuck as a secondary power. The UK with its corrupt elites that will loot the state then flee the country are going to reduce your nation to a much worse version than its current self and that will probably be the future of the UK.
England v Argentina lol..
Hides? Did ye ever hear of northern Ireland, there's hardly any hiding about it.
Britain might claim to own part of Antarctica, but the reality is under UN law no country including the UK own any part of Antarctica. Get your facts straight.
That is not even remotely close to true, you clearly do not have YOUR facts straight. The Antarctic Treaty System restricts militarisation of Antarctica and allows for more or less unrestricted scientific access for all nations. It does NOT however invalidate existing territorial claims, nor does it prevent other nations from making future claims, such as Russia, Brazil, South Africa, Peru or the USA, who all reserve such rights. In fact the only reason the treaty has any enforcement is because all the nations who claim sovereignty over parts of Antarctica are parties to it, and the UK itself was a big proponent of the system. The UN does not take a position on Antarctic sovereignty.
@@someguy3766 The vast majority of countries in the world have not signed this treaty and view it as a load of crap.
@@nif977 Most countries that actually matter as far as power politics go are signed up though. In any case, show me the international law that says territorial claims on Antarctica are unlawful. Oh wait you can't, because contrary to what you claimed, no such UN law exists.
@@someguy3766 The so-called Antarctic Treaty is not law.
@@nif977 Oh so now you want to get into a debate on the definition of international law? Let's not pretend either of us are international legal scholars. You stated that territorial claims on Antarctica are unlawful, you claimed the UN has some rules on this, but you can't point to any example because it does not exist. Just admit you're wrong.
Bermuda is not in the Caribbean ffs 🤦♂️
Bro the amount of ads on this video is overwhelming
Well get a subscription then.
Get an adblocker, I didn't get one advert
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how can one man secretly give away british sovereignty without the vote of both the incumbent population and the british public , starmer is the biggest threat to peace in our time with his idiotic give aways. he has to answer for this now.
Tutti sanno che questa frase l'ha detta Carlo V d'Asburgo. Dovete inventarne un'altra.
Britain brought civilisation to the world
But forgot to bring it to their Monarch's original homeland aka Deutsch reichs
100% fiction! All 'we' brought was slavery, brutal exploitation and misery to all our colonies!
There is nothing contraversial about the Falklands.
There is only for Argentina simps
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Falklands is not controversial, we defeated an enemy over them in the 1980s and ever since bankrupted that country through our control of the banking world ( which you don’t mention in your clip) this country whilst being world champions at football (another successful game we gave the world) it has astronomical inflation. Thing is why did we fight for the Falklands and give Hong Kong away!
Kick licking those boots. You are just cannon fodder to your masters.
I wouldn't call a few scattered islands and enclaves with a collective population of under 100,000 people an "empire", it began to die with the Suez crisis and gave its' last breath in '97 with the return of HK to China. The EEZs afforded to the UK from these territories is no joke, particularly the geopolitical leverage afforded to the UK with Gibraltar and the Falklands, but calling it an empire is a huge overstatement.
The collective population is actually more than 250,000 people, and more than half a million if you include the Crown Dependencies (Jersey, Guernsey, Isle of Mann).
What is your definition of empire
"Hides"?
What about Canada, Austrailia and New Zealand? These countries have a P.M, Why? Why not a president? Because they are part of the commonwealth and in some part beholding to the UK.
We have no power over them besides ceremonial. They could become republics if they wanted
The UK also does not have a president. So Your logic does not make sense. The only part the UK plays is the commonwealth and head of state but that is only ceremonial. Regional governments in these nations are completely self governing. The UK. plays no part in how they are run.
@@MrLeighmanthe UK doesn't have a President because we have a monarchy.
I still love you versed
Makes you laugh all these tax havens we own while us poor English pay through the nose tax, taxed on everything you can think of, everything we touch.
You can say the same about the likes of France and Spain.
The sun has set on the British empire.
False ❌
Somaliland was not part of the British empire. We just signed agreements with them for them to use our sea coast.
Yeah it was, check your facts.
uwu
This is what our relatives did during world war 2.
The british should have retained their colonies
Trinidad has oil. Guyana has oil, gold, bauxite and many other minerals. And the British gave up those two sparsely populated territories.
He Gemony
Tax havens
"England" it's just how everyone I know calls the uk, and they will continue to do so. At least in many countries, they don't even know the name "UK"
And if anyone from the UK got your country's name wrong I'm guessing you would call them as Colonial AHs right???
The OP's so-called "everyone" -- by that he means Americans, who don't learn geography in school.
@markmh835 By "american" you mean people from the entire continent? Or you just mean people from the US. If so, you're doing the same thing you're criticizing
Are you from Antarctica? Who doesnt know the term UK? Dont flash your ignorance please
Uk skint
"you'll see me come back"
-Argentina 🇦🇷😎👌🏻
Lol sort your economy out....
A second beating?
@@jackdunn3235 -an brishit
Best thing ever, the British Empire. Malcontents-- pipe down!
Ok boomer
The source of the trouble. You can pipe down if you want to.
Such an ignorant statement. The British murdered far more than the Nazis...........they are the baddies.
@@fishyq5077 Britain has never done anything wrong. We are morally right, just look at history. Defeated the Nazis
Interesting. Avery negative view towards the UK and some very over simplified conclusions made. Yes, it is about Power but they were also earned. The UK spent it's resources claiming some of these territory's and not all were inhabited at the time. Infact, I will have to call the maker of this vid out for being somewhat of an obnoxious Pr@ck from south Africa by the sounds of it.
Haha the uk has nothing
Apart from all these global territories
@@AverageWagie2024 poverty and nothing else
@@roelwillems.6014 What vanquished nation do you hail from
Nothing? UK is one of the top 10 economies in the world,
@@DavidDoyleOutdoors just poverty all around