What if the U.S Had Annexed Cuba?

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  • The Spanish American War brought brought the U.S onto the global scale. It annexed multiple territories, but not one, Cuba. What if the Americans had annexed the island in this alternate timeline? Here is one scenario.
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  • @awecrafters
    @awecrafters 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3303

    What if emus over threw the Australian government

    • @terrypennington2519
      @terrypennington2519 6 ปีที่แล้ว +232

      Emu dictatorship. WW3

    • @saguntum-iberian-greekkons7014
      @saguntum-iberian-greekkons7014 6 ปีที่แล้ว +239

      Thats the most realistic scenario, but i wouldn't be a Emu dictaorship, no. It would be an Empire, the Emu Empire under the Emu Emperor, Kluklu, and lead Australia to freedom, having a flag with a Emu head on it, breaking relations from britain, freeing the natives in the reserves, and ultimately, INVADING Indonesia and Japan!

    • @finnmccool5272
      @finnmccool5272 6 ปีที่แล้ว +51

      But they already do

    • @dritchart
      @dritchart 6 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      yes

    • @davids1854
      @davids1854 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      You see when austatalia they made a peace desl

  • @iNzynaa
    @iNzynaa 8 ปีที่แล้ว +407

    What if the world was 71% land and 29% water?

    • @waterlight0243
      @waterlight0243 7 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Jason the ocean grows bigger overtime sooo...

    • @Tatusiek_1
      @Tatusiek_1 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Anger Assasin how?

    • @connorneely3458
      @connorneely3458 6 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      But the surface is about 70% water, we're not talking about the mass here

    • @Xo-3130
      @Xo-3130 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Jason W
      The water would have evaporated long ago.

    • @fivesquaredyt2521
      @fivesquaredyt2521 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Jason W the heat though

  • @wilsthelimit
    @wilsthelimit 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1065

    USA:Watches over Cuba
    Cuba:Turns Communist
    USA:I am so disappointed in you

  • @DASCO2136
    @DASCO2136 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1336

    What if Archduke Ferdinand of Austria wasn't assassinated?

    • @ferbthe2gadgetguy
      @ferbthe2gadgetguy 7 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      DASCO2136 I'mma guess WW1 never happens and along our fancy smachncy weapons

    • @ethanc5137
      @ethanc5137 7 ปีที่แล้ว +127

      ferbthe2gadgetguy actually most likely world war 1 would still happen the death of the arch doesn't change the other reasons of war

    • @jullienharris8806
      @jullienharris8806 7 ปีที่แล้ว +94

      Barnie Sanders actually, yeah, the assassination just gave reason for war. tensions were already high between the two countries. Either one just needed a push.

    • @ethanc5137
      @ethanc5137 7 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Jullien Harris wow someone when I say this doesn't get pissed at me AND they agree with me!

    • @zee2826
      @zee2826 7 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      DASCO2136 it would have had happened anyway

  • @poots605
    @poots605 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1511

    Late 19th century = American puberty

    • @obi0914
      @obi0914 6 ปีที่แล้ว +142

      We don't talk about that time..... It was awkward

    • @venios2487
      @venios2487 6 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Haha.

    • @respectfully1924
      @respectfully1924 6 ปีที่แล้ว +94

      America: Oh shut up, I was such a cringey kid...

    • @fulcrum2951
      @fulcrum2951 6 ปีที่แล้ว +48

      It was a.... Phase?

    • @hotep2510
      @hotep2510 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Yep

  • @lennyjudd123
    @lennyjudd123 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1067

    What if I didn't drop out of school and pursued my dreams of creating a currency for dogs and cats

    • @doritofanbaseop6702
      @doritofanbaseop6702 8 ปีที่แล้ว +69

      You would live a normal, dank lief

    • @triforcecollabsjosh2684
      @triforcecollabsjosh2684 8 ปีที่แล้ว +85

      You'd beat Donald Trump in the Republican primary of 2016, being elected into office and beginning your first term in 2017. You would go on to create laws that better equaled the rights now shared between man and animal. This is Josh from the NotAlternateHistoryHub.

    • @AppleBiscuits
      @AppleBiscuits 8 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      MuttBucks (tm) (patent pending) (cc) (fuck off)

    • @dantheman6441
      @dantheman6441 8 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      +lenny judd Welcome to the White House, President Judd.

    • @user-du3jr2gp1o
      @user-du3jr2gp1o 8 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      +Dan TheMan still more logical and thought out than Trump...

  • @ArcticTemper
    @ArcticTemper 8 ปีที่แล้ว +437

    "What if France won the Napoleonic Wars?"

    • @Joshua-hz3cl
      @Joshua-hz3cl 8 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      +ArcticTemper France was against Napoleon and technically they did win, its more of a question if Napoleon had won the war. Just like the question would be if Germany had won WW2, its more what if the Nazi's had won WW2.

    • @ArcticTemper
      @ArcticTemper 8 ปีที่แล้ว +73

      Joshua Feldhacker Nahhh, the Napoleonic Wars made the French the French, it was the war that created French nationality and the sense of unity they have until this day. The French people were certainly behind Napoleon and so the question remains. What if France had won the Napoleonic Wars?

    • @Joshua-hz3cl
      @Joshua-hz3cl 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      ArcticTemper Yeah I guess thats true.

    • @joelmonteiro1419
      @joelmonteiro1419 8 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      This one would be interisting.

    • @tpmiranda
      @tpmiranda 8 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      +ArcticTemper Code Geass

  • @jovyannlao3918
    @jovyannlao3918 8 ปีที่แล้ว +838

    I am a Filipino so I question these:
    1.What if the Philippines was never found by the Spanish?
    2.What if Manuel L. Quezon agreed to the US?
    3.What if the Philippines is a state?

    • @justinp1011
      @justinp1011 7 ปีที่แล้ว +112

      As a Aussie with a Filipino blood, I say this should be done also..
      1. I think any other colonial powers would have colonized the Philippines. Like if the Portuguese King allowed to have Magellan to explore for Portugal.. and the Philippines is now Portuguese?
      2. What agreement?
      3. Filipinos in these days would have better abilities and skills in speaking English, and Philippines could be used as a strategic location for the US Pacific, in Asia, to combat the Chinese and such.

    • @jasatotakouzeno4674
      @jasatotakouzeno4674 7 ปีที่แล้ว +75

      1. My best guess would be that Philippines would become a Portuguese Colony. practically Spain but not Spanish.
      2. We'd probably be redeveloped faster since we are still under American care after World War II. But probably get independence at most by 1970s.
      3. My first definite thought that comes to mind is that Guam would be a state too. Since Philippines is further than Guam. We'd be using the Dollar. We'd be similar to the former Mexican territories in terms of cultural background.

    • @justinp1011
      @justinp1011 7 ปีที่แล้ว +85

      James Satuito
      We're going to build a wall, and make Malaysia pay for it.

    • @tidebleach8215
      @tidebleach8215 7 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      +Justin Patrick it worked with the chinese they practically have no mexicans

    • @keithlee4081
      @keithlee4081 7 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      +Justin Patrick we are going to build a huge navy block all you migrants
      And we are going to make you pay for it

  • @AlternateHistoryHub
    @AlternateHistoryHub  8 ปีที่แล้ว +466

    This video was meant to release last Friday, but there was some glitches with TH-cam that I thought would be resolved but have not. Oh well, show must go on.

    • @augustlundin
      @augustlundin 8 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Alternate History: What if Sweden won the Nordic War?

    • @SpiderkillersInc
      @SpiderkillersInc 8 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      what if the USA collapsed in the 1920's?

    • @kevinpoppe8285
      @kevinpoppe8285 8 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      what if Pearl Harbor never happened?

    • @stevenchoza6391
      @stevenchoza6391 8 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      +AlternateHistoryHub
      How about "What if Boudica's Rebellion succeeded?"

    • @relaetsecyr
      @relaetsecyr 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      +AlternateHistoryHub How about the world of xcom?

  • @Shack11
    @Shack11 7 ปีที่แล้ว +42

    I think this would've been a little more interesting if the alternate history was that, instead, the US traded Cuba for the Philippines, leaving the latter in the same situation that Cuba was in the original timeline. Such an event would give the US less reason to interfere in the Far East, and could greatly change the dynamic between the US and an Imperial Japan that may not see a need to attack the US in World War II, if such a thing still occurs(butterflies and all that).

    • @timothyclark803
      @timothyclark803 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Admittedly, also, it would have been politically less contentious too if the US had negotiated for Phillipino and Guamanian independence in exchange for annexing Cuba and Puerto Rico given both are next to the US. Which, would have indeed largely kept Imperial Japan from attacking since no American intrests existed in the region. Which, means the US just gets dragged into WW2 a different way and likely only has the European front to contend with. And, given our much better military, the Allies would have gotten much further into Europe than the Soviets did. Which then changes the Cold war dynamic as the Soviets just get pushed out of Europe entirely. So, the conflicts get pushed over to Asia.

  • @MattUK36
    @MattUK36 8 ปีที่แล้ว +191

    The funny thing is: Spain was absolutely instrumental and deffinitive in US independence.

    • @robjacobson7041
      @robjacobson7041 6 ปีที่แล้ว +53

      Funny thing is they actually weren't. Their support was very minimal because they didn't want republican colonial revolutions spreading to their own colonies. They recognized the American revolution set a dangerous precedent ( consequently the latin American wars of independence just a few decades later would prove them right). Their support to the Americans was purely geopolitical and their only interest was to gain more territory. Which they did when the treaty of Paris gave them east Florida back.

    • @saguntum-iberian-greekkons7014
      @saguntum-iberian-greekkons7014 6 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      You both right, but Spain wanted a chance to give a bad moment to britain, the usa honored Bernardo de Galvez, Galvezton and it also didn't want republican ideas to spread across his territories, but they definitely wanted to assure a balance of powers to britain, and on the way, recapturing Florida

    • @lordmango545
      @lordmango545 5 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      France helped america WAY more hell you could even say germany helped more since a German trained alot of American soldiers how to fight

    • @Ag3nt0fCha0s
      @Ag3nt0fCha0s 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      France? Surely?

    • @UwU-xk5cx
      @UwU-xk5cx 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I mean they helped a bit, but they werent essential

  • @cheesegaming1699
    @cheesegaming1699 7 ปีที่แล้ว +577

    got one what if we stayed only 13 states

    • @kalvincastro9042
      @kalvincastro9042 7 ปีที่แล้ว +81

      Unlikely since one of the reasons to declare independence was because England didn't let Americans settle west past the borders of the colonies because France and England had a deal that France Louisiana.
      Another unlikely thing is for the US not to take France up on the chance to buy the Louisiana territory, by doing so, they're eventually not going to remain 13 states.
      Simply, the only way for the 13 states to stay the 13 states is if absolutely no one in the states are interested in expanding west or south (Florida).

    • @Tristan7VlogsTristan7Gaming
      @Tristan7VlogsTristan7Gaming 7 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      Kalvin Castro shut. up. nerd.

    • @Echo0221
      @Echo0221 7 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Tipperary then America would be a weak, minor power

    • @hogndog2339
      @hogndog2339 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      The only reason we didn’t stay 13 states is because states that didn’t touch any British territory and only touched other states (Delaware, New Jersey, etc) couldn’t expand

    • @cpmenninga
      @cpmenninga 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Hawaii would be part of Delaware and Alaska would be part of Maine. There would be thirteen thick stripes covering everything to the west coast. There would have been a lot more wars between individual states/colonies.

  • @GT-he4jt
    @GT-he4jt 5 ปีที่แล้ว +313

    Do a what if the bay of pigs invasion succeeded scenario

    • @Robin-jk6wz
      @Robin-jk6wz 4 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      Then the Cubans would be speaking Swine to this day.

    • @anthonyf.3009
      @anthonyf.3009 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@Robin-jk6wz bro....

    • @WebertNelson
      @WebertNelson 4 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      Robert Rich the rebels are hiding in a small house, desperate for food and supplies, suddenly a load roar is heard, the rebels faces going pale.
      *oink* , the sound shatters the eardrums of the partisans, and knowing that they stand no chance they surrender.

    • @Robin-jk6wz
      @Robin-jk6wz 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@WebertNelson They exclaim "shoat, the piggies are here to cutter our sow with boar, and hog us for our grunter, and sell us comics of Peter Porker"

    • @anthonyf.3009
      @anthonyf.3009 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Then Hogwarts would exist

  • @savagelyjoe6815
    @savagelyjoe6815 8 ปีที่แล้ว +47

    hate to be that guy but at 3:02 spain says, "if" instead of sí, which is yes

    • @savagelyjoe6815
      @savagelyjoe6815 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      +Joe Merrill sorry

    • @savagelyjoe6815
      @savagelyjoe6815 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      +Joe Merrill well it could be slang for yup, but I don't think it would have been used in the circumstances

    • @savagelyjoe6815
      @savagelyjoe6815 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      ***** que

    • @savagelyjoe6815
      @savagelyjoe6815 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ***** yeah

    • @MariNate1016
      @MariNate1016 8 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      +Joe Merrill "sí" with an accent is yes, without an accent it means if.

  • @finnbazz6315
    @finnbazz6315 8 ปีที่แล้ว +246

    What if the Great Irish Famine Never Happened?
    You knew I was coming.

    • @finnbazz6315
      @finnbazz6315 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That's if you read my previous comments

    • @kostam.1113
      @kostam.1113 8 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      +Colic Shark Nothing special, just more Irish in Ireland and less in USA.

    • @somalilion3207
      @somalilion3207 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yo stop spamming on every video.

    • @colmryan9289
      @colmryan9289 8 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Personally, I think it would be more interesting to see if Ireland had conquered Britain instead of vice versa.

    • @finnbazz6315
      @finnbazz6315 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Colm Ryan We could have if the Spanish successfully landed in Cirk without being out numbered, or if the French Fleet of over 15,000 soldiers didn't get destroyed by our shit weather so they could help us.

  • @juanmar4712
    @juanmar4712 4 ปีที่แล้ว +355

    The best part of this alternative history: Cuba would have never been ruled by the Castros, so my cuban father would have not had suffered the Castro-Communist dictatorship. Best regards...

    • @556poor7
      @556poor7 4 ปีที่แล้ว +45

      Communist no matter where they come from are evil. The US should grant asylum to any Cuban who wishes to be an American, they know how valuable freedom truly is. Sadly too many in the US don’t seem to appreciate it.

    • @luisenriqueperezperez3193
      @luisenriqueperezperez3193 3 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      @@556poor7 Authoritarian regimes in general tend to be evil. Fascism is essentially Communism with a Capitalist Economy and it still sucks. Striking the balance between Authoritarism and Anarchy is key, the US does that pretty nicely.

    • @willblack7353
      @willblack7353 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@luisenriqueperezperez3193 Fascism is a mix of Nationalism and Socialism. For example, Hitler. He was, as we all know, _extremely_ nationalist. He did privatize a lot of stuff, but it was essentially crony capitalism, socialism but with extra steps.

    • @luisenriqueperezperez3193
      @luisenriqueperezperez3193 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      @@willblack7353 Hitler did not have socialism at all. The only socialist thing in the Naxi party was the name. They privatized EVERYTHING and the only reason they had certain level of welfare was due to the Great Depression. The people in the party were mostly small businessmen, artisans and Military Officers, so people who didn´t give a damn about factory workers.

    • @Ambitwine
      @Ambitwine 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      trading a foreign iron hand rulership for a native iron hand rulership seems like a difficult choice, history hasn't been nice to Cuba has it?

  • @spacecadet28
    @spacecadet28 8 ปีที่แล้ว +683

    if cuba spoke english it would have been annexed.

    • @nicholaswhyte9442
      @nicholaswhyte9442 7 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      Look at belize, it is geographically absurd to annex it

    • @spacecadet28
      @spacecadet28 7 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      I believe if you look at the records/documents of the time, if cuba spoke english it would have been annexed.

    • @SuperRichyrich11
      @SuperRichyrich11 7 ปีที่แล้ว +42

      ... AND if it were protestant instead of Catholic then maybe.... bonus points if most Cubans were European.

    • @dontworry1302
      @dontworry1302 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Belize speaks an English Creole

    • @monarchatto6095
      @monarchatto6095 6 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      If USA can handle Louisiana It can It can handle the language of English and Cuban to

  • @PREDMATEUSZ
    @PREDMATEUSZ 8 ปีที่แล้ว +143

    What if Warsaw Pact invaded Western Europe

    • @GodOfExploding
      @GodOfExploding 8 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      +HUSAR implausible scenario. all warsaw pact war plans were defensive

    • @Corey-ld7os
      @Corey-ld7os 8 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      It doesn't make sense but I'd like to see it done I mean if he can do fallout history and wwz he can do this

    • @xelgringoloco2
      @xelgringoloco2 8 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      +Fernando Cornejo Literally the entire point of this channel is discussing unlikely historical scenario's...

    • @Prevordan
      @Prevordan 8 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      +HUSAR Obviously nuclear war. Everyone in NATO and Warsaw Pact dies. It'd make for a pretty boring video.

    • @Jacob-yg7lz
      @Jacob-yg7lz 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +HUSAR WW3

  • @oddvillainnetwork
    @oddvillainnetwork 7 ปีที่แล้ว +174

    What if Spain won the Spanish-American war?

    • @cloroxbleachjr3047
      @cloroxbleachjr3047 6 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      ODD VILLAIN simple we'll all say hola

    • @josh-kg1rb
      @josh-kg1rb 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@cloroxbleachjr3047 that makes no sense

    • @josh-kg1rb
      @josh-kg1rb 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@gerardthompson3851 if it was they wouldn't have lost dumb

    • @Joridiy
      @Joridiy 4 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      Spain could have won the war but the cost would have been too high.
      Spain would have retained the overseas province of Philippines and the two Autonomous Communities of Cuba and Puerto Rico (they weren't already colonies) but Spain would have ended economically devastated.
      It would eventually led to the independence of Philippines (which without the United-Statesian colonization and without the Japanese genocidal war crimes) would be more Hispanic than it is today and they all would speak Spanish.
      Philippines also would end acquiring the Micronesia, Guam and Mariana Islands (Because legally they were part of them).
      Cuba and Puerto Rico might get more autonomy but eventually they'd get independent two decades later.
      With the war won and no money, the First Spanish Empire wouldn't have died but rather just dissolve into a Spanish state and the Second Spanish Empire (the actual colonial one which centered in Africa) wouldn't have been born and Equatorial Guinea and Spanish Sahara wouldn't exist because Spanish economy would have been way too destroyed to even look at them.

    • @davidp.7620
      @davidp.7620 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      You wake up five minutes later

  • @LocoMenteClaraOne
    @LocoMenteClaraOne 8 ปีที่แล้ว +42

    How about you do one of these on PR Independence or about the realization of Simon Bolivar's dream of uniting ALL of the Spanish-speaking Americas into ONE nation instead of the 19 they eventually became (well 18 and one commonwealth) Great vid!

    • @hackman669
      @hackman669 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      USA number two, the spanish speaking version. Worlds 4th superpower?

    • @mr.battledroid2195
      @mr.battledroid2195 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Simón Bolívar era un genocida masón, y en Puerto Rico había una escuadra enorme y una guarnición aún más grande esperando a los genocidas colombianos, así que eso es imposible

    • @mr.battledroid2195
      @mr.battledroid2195 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@hackman669Mexico was already US number 2… or should I say number 1? If Mexico had not lost the most outrageous and unfair stealing and sacking to the us, Mexico would be one of the most if not the most important nations in the world, and even so, I can tell you that’s impossible because bolivar’s dream is manipulated generally, just seeking the integration of Spanish America to the British crown… and this is real, he went to London and sent a card to the king of Britain seeking said events, additionally he himself and other “libertarians” were masons which got their ideas from the matbly I think it was called which seeked the dismemberment of the Spanish empire through revolutions, this plan was called like that in honor to a Scottish general by the same name, he along Scottish elites as a whole was known for being a mason, just as Wellington was, also of Scottish origin, these 2 gave bolivar said ideas, they were also transmitted to him when bolivar was exiled to Jamaica for his pro-slavery ideals

  • @battaglino77
    @battaglino77 7 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    i love how the US always wears Top Gun aviators lol.

  • @WWNerfman
    @WWNerfman 8 ปีที่แล้ว +144

    Do what if the Russians (USSR) got to the moon first

    • @congealedbox7854
      @congealedbox7854 8 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      Nothing really

    • @adambrash6237
      @adambrash6237 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      +WillXplode i think he did that but he has been remacking some of his videos

    • @Niasall
      @Niasall 8 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      +WillXplode They DID get to the moon first..

    • @Niasall
      @Niasall 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      ***** What, don't tell me you seriously believe US propaganda lol, the USSR landed first, just never got out and went straight back home. So yeah, the 'first' man on the moon thing is true for the US, just the first ship and first one to land? No

    • @JohnSmith-qy2fh
      @JohnSmith-qy2fh 8 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      The USSR had a habit of covering up failed space missions. They likely got to the moon first, but on reentry, the ship burned up (I think so at least).

  • @nucleartriggered3311
    @nucleartriggered3311 7 ปีที่แล้ว +169

    what if homo sapiens were homos

    • @nerisb5495
      @nerisb5495 7 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      Nuclear Triggered Can't reproduce.

    • @saguntum-iberian-greekkons7014
      @saguntum-iberian-greekkons7014 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Lmao

    • @Kanal7Indonesia
      @Kanal7Indonesia 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      They're

    • @livinglifeoutdoorstv6550
      @livinglifeoutdoorstv6550 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Neanderthals rule the world. And since recent discoveries revealed that Neanderthals were basically human with minor physical differences (you couldn’t really tell the two apart in a police line up) the world goes on as it would, maybe with some delayed advancements given a lower average IQ among Neanderthals

    • @ekanshagarwal5125
      @ekanshagarwal5125 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Nuclear Triggered we be dead but dont worry we still have some people who are 😏

  • @Geofiendlux
    @Geofiendlux 4 ปีที่แล้ว +71

    I disagree with your suggestion about the US simply letting Cuba go. Sure decolonization was a thing, but so was the Cold War and America often alongside the colonial powers (most notably the French at the Battle of Dien Bien Phu during the First Indochina War) so they could keep their possessions, in order to prevent the spread of communism. That, alongside Cuba's strategic positioning in the Caribbean (being 90 miles from Florida as you pointed out several times) and the existence of Guantanamo Bay meant that it would remain in US hands throughout the Cold War. By the time that period of history ended, any movement for independence would have long since lost most of their steam, and Cuba would have remained a US possession into the present day with a similar status as Puerto Rico. That is if it already hasn't become a state (and Puerto Rico too, as a result) due to its closeness to the lower 48. Geopolitics, not morals, rules the day in Washington, especially at the height of the Cold War.

    • @UnisRapper
      @UnisRapper ปีที่แล้ว

      But the US let go of the philipines too during the cold war and it was also in a very important location and was near communist china

    • @Geofiendlux
      @Geofiendlux ปีที่แล้ว

      @@UnisRapper Yes, it is also very far away from the US, unlike Cuba.

    • @UnisRapper
      @UnisRapper ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Geofiendlux i think the US will just let Cuba go but just keep tabs on it to make sure its not communist. like they did with japan.

    • @Geofiendlux
      @Geofiendlux ปีที่แล้ว

      @@UnisRapper that depends on whether the Cubans will still want to be independent. Florida saw immense growth and immigration during that period, and there were many American interests on Cuba IRL. At that point, independence might not have economically sound.

  • @ac130GUNSHIPp
    @ac130GUNSHIPp 8 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Alternate history is the most interesting thing to me. I'm always asking myself "what if" in history courses. So thank you AlternateHistoryHub for existing and answering all these questions in a neutral point of view and addressing multiple scenarios very thoroughly. You're the best

  • @N0oDleZ9
    @N0oDleZ9 8 ปีที่แล้ว +135

    What happened to the USA's shades???

    • @theadamant7125
      @theadamant7125 8 ปีที่แล้ว +157

      They got the shades for winning WWII/The Cold War

    • @ryanhawkos
      @ryanhawkos 8 ปีที่แล้ว +52

      The shades show the US as the dominate super we are today. So talking about the US before this = no shades

    • @intricatedesign3559
      @intricatedesign3559 8 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      +Ryan Hawkos That's the reason why the shades pop in and out of the video, depending on when in history Cody is talking about :)

    • @ryanhawkos
      @ryanhawkos 8 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      +IntricateDesign I know it's a cool addition XD

    • @forgefathereli8354
      @forgefathereli8354 8 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      +Biz Nasty The US gets the shades when we become a superpower aka after ww2

  • @abirdofprey3813
    @abirdofprey3813 7 ปีที่แล้ว +57

    What if Abraham Lincoln never got assassinated?

    • @humansvd3269
      @humansvd3269 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Reconstruction might have been better, but he'd have held onto to power longer, and the fact he imprisoned people without trial, destroyed printing presses was really bad. It would have set the tone for more abuses.
      Sadly, Wilkes Booth was right.

    • @mrkeller8000
      @mrkeller8000 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The former slaves would have been sent to central america and/or africa

    • @Dalton_stuff
      @Dalton_stuff 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Human svd that really fucked up Abraham Lincoln would never done that he only did the stuff he did because it was war and u like your own reply

  • @TheWhiteLionn
    @TheWhiteLionn 7 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    If anyone was wondering, pic in 1:13 is in catalan.

    • @taylorhamconsumer9008
      @taylorhamconsumer9008 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      The White Lion wow I thought I was the only one who noticed that

  • @madmoblin
    @madmoblin 7 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    0:06 Mentions European cousins
    shows Britian who's clearly America's Mother.

    • @danielray1027
      @danielray1027 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Why not both?

    • @lmao2302
      @lmao2302 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      European countries are our aunts and uncles while Britain is our mother.

    • @madmoblin
      @madmoblin 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      And France is Father.

    • @madmoblin
      @madmoblin 7 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      (The US was illigenimate unlike Canada who was born leagaly)

    • @Heliogabalos
      @Heliogabalos 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      madmoblin France is more of a step-father with Spain just running from responsibility.

  • @ItsAce671
    @ItsAce671 4 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    AlternateHistoryHub: says Guam
    Me a chamoru: THATS MY ISLAND!!!

    • @enotsnavdier6867
      @enotsnavdier6867 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      What do people from Guam call themselves, Guamians?

    • @ItsAce671
      @ItsAce671 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@enotsnavdier6867 Guamanians are what people from Guam specifically are. But our ethnicity is Chamorro

    • @enotsnavdier6867
      @enotsnavdier6867 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ItsAce671 Thanks for the info. Also I wanted to know, what do the people of Guam think about being part of the US?

    • @ItsAce671
      @ItsAce671 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@enotsnavdier6867 well many people do have negative thoughts, the American military here is tearing down major cultural sites of Chamorro history.

    • @imperiumromanum7375
      @imperiumromanum7375 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@ItsAce671 really? The land of the free home of the brave tearing down culture? America used to be great

  • @bluecedar7914
    @bluecedar7914 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    There would be a second Puerta Rico south of the U.S.A. that they could also largely ignore.

    • @bejutz
      @bejutz 9 วันที่ผ่านมา

      HAHAH EXACTLY. VERY GOOD POINT.

  • @brianvulcan5252
    @brianvulcan5252 7 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Here's a multi part idea, what if the US had succeeded in taking Canada in either the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812 and, what if War Plan Red went forward in the 1930s and how would this change World War 2?

    • @marinerproductions1315
      @marinerproductions1315 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      What's "War Plan Red?"

    • @wagadooger
      @wagadooger 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@marinerproductions1315 it was a presumed offensive/defensive plan made by pentagon if they needed to invade Canada

  • @MrGotenYT
    @MrGotenYT 8 ปีที่แล้ว +62

    What if Leon trotsky came back to power?

    • @MrGotenYT
      @MrGotenYT 8 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      or what if Robert Kennedy didn't die?

    • @xelgringoloco2
      @xelgringoloco2 8 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      +100,000 Muslim subscribers but no videos! They're afraid of taking an ice pick to the head?

    • @xelgringoloco2
      @xelgringoloco2 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      *****
      Trotsky was assassinated with an ice pick

    • @steliosmitr8245
      @steliosmitr8245 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The USSR would turn into a revisionist hell hole.Also Trosky would never rose to power in any way.

    • @chadkingoffuckmountain970
      @chadkingoffuckmountain970 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      +BOOM! Explosion he said "what if" not "he could've"

  • @chalk8minecraft
    @chalk8minecraft 8 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Risk is a game of conquering between empires. I would love to see you play a risk and create a entire timeline for it based on territory grabs and battles between territories. A risk extra long special.

  • @Lancynical
    @Lancynical 8 ปีที่แล้ว +128

    What if the US didn't give the Philippines their freedom?

    • @haydendietz1353
      @haydendietz1353 8 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      +James the Hedgehog Because the US annexes middle eastern nations.

    • @DMS-pq8
      @DMS-pq8 8 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      You have no idea what imperialist means

    • @chadkingoffuckmountain970
      @chadkingoffuckmountain970 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +James the Hedgehog ha. no.

    • @carljuvy
      @carljuvy 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Probably there would be a long standoff and war between them, and I honestly think the Philippines would win. O_o

    • @Lancynical
      @Lancynical 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      kar muts
      seems impossible, especially that PH is a sucky country today.

  • @carlorjustcarl3675
    @carlorjustcarl3675 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    🇨🇺: Independence
    🇵🇼: Independence
    🇵🇭: Independence
    🇵🇷: How about me
    🇺🇸:No
    🇬🇺: (Silent)

  • @brosofolympus5350
    @brosofolympus5350 8 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Omg that Uncle Sam comic 1:14 is in Catalan, so proud.

    • @dontworry1302
      @dontworry1302 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      I just found out how similar French and Catalan are

  • @machspeed7610
    @machspeed7610 7 ปีที่แล้ว +78

    What if Hogwarts was discovered

    • @pylonbuffering8523
      @pylonbuffering8523 7 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      life would be far better

    • @madmoblin
      @madmoblin 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The UK goverment and MOM would agree to keep the wizzarding world a secret from the muggle world, while only the leaders on the UK can know about importent events in the wizarding world for safety reasons.

    • @myfuckingwonga4236
      @myfuckingwonga4236 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      madmoblin u have triggered me

    • @Galactipod
      @Galactipod 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      The XCOM project is activated.

    • @lelgie601
      @lelgie601 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Mr Sandwich *You're

  • @GamesLegitament
    @GamesLegitament 8 ปีที่แล้ว +39

    What if the Bourbons dynasty had not been overthrown during the French Revolution?

    • @bunney3272
      @bunney3272 8 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      France would be the most powerful nation in Europe today. Britain and Russia would be the main rivals.
      Instead of a revolution, France would most likely see evolution, like most other countries did.
      Since there won't be Napoleonic wars, Latin America might remain under Spanish or Portuguese administration, at least for quite some time.

    • @anacousticwalrus
      @anacousticwalrus 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      +George Severn also maybe no Louisiana Purchase, so France would still own parts of North America

    • @1redrider100
      @1redrider100 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      +George Severn Actually there would likely be no wave of Liberalism. It was the traction from the revolution that lead to that evolution due to inspiring the intellectuals and peasants as well as terrifying many tyrants. We'd likely still have a few absolute monarchies in Europe to this day.

    • @marvelfannumber1
      @marvelfannumber1 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +GamesLegitament
      YES! I really want to see this, especially a timeline where they won the Seven Years War.

    • @triforcecollabsjosh2684
      @triforcecollabsjosh2684 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +George Severn Nice theory. THERE MUST BE A BOOK! Call it, "Louis LXIV The Mentally retarded (due to inbreeding) and his legacy"

  • @igotchomom87
    @igotchomom87 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I wish you’d have touched on the fact that the cuban missile crisis would never have happened, maybe a follow-up video with the ramifications of that?

  • @MyNameisRevenant
    @MyNameisRevenant 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Anything that the U.S would had done if Cuba was annexed would had been better that anything that Castro did, imagine the possibilities

  • @dallascopp4798
    @dallascopp4798 8 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    So, if America annexed Cuba, the island nation would have been way off better today than it actually is? Like you said it would have probably brought civil rights down into the country, Castro wouldn't come to power, thousands more of people would be alive and the USSR wouldn't have Cuba to place nuclear missiles on during the Cuban missile crisus. So imperialism/colonialism isn't necessarily bad as people think.

    • @raptorfromthe6ix833
      @raptorfromthe6ix833 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      yippyyippy yoyo that's pretty hypocritical but then again America doesn't even follow common sense and create their won laws

    • @dallascopp4798
      @dallascopp4798 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      What did I say that was hypocritical?

    • @allisondoak9425
      @allisondoak9425 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      There is a racial equality movement in Cuba promoted by the government. And Cuba was far better off than Puerto Rico while the USSR was around and to this day still is in some ways. Their superior health system leads to way better treatment and less babies dying compared to US territories and the US proper as well as a higher life expectancy so perhaps there would be less people.

  • @BadgerCheese94
    @BadgerCheese94 8 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I'd imagine it'd be similar to how Puerto Rico is now, but a closer dynamic. There's already a huge Cuban presence in Florida, and a considerable amount outside the state, and in this scenario it would be even bigger.

    • @jaredvale
      @jaredvale ปีที่แล้ว

      Puerto Rico and Cuba would essentially be sister states, I mean their flags are literally the same just inverted colors.

    • @mr.battledroid2195
      @mr.battledroid2195 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      So basically, Cubans would be abused just as Puerto Ricans and Spanish industries and railways would be razed further, yes?

  • @telesniper2
    @telesniper2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    7:44 not necessarily. Look at the cultural and linguistic evolution of the Philippines after it became a territory of th U.S. after the Spanish American War. The Filipinos LOVE the U.s., many things are modeled on the u.s. there, and English is widely spoken and is an official language.

    • @mr.battledroid2195
      @mr.battledroid2195 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      What are you on? Filipinos speak mainly English because the USA illegalized it and because Spanish wasn’t such a widespread language, additionally the US army followed a doctrine to “Kill all above 13” basically ending most Spanish speakers

  • @MarkZschiegnerII
    @MarkZschiegnerII 7 ปีที่แล้ว +278

    What if Japan won the Second World War?

    • @marcellofesta8678
      @marcellofesta8678 7 ปีที่แล้ว +59

      The Axis would have won?

    • @Sh0cKwavE__
      @Sh0cKwavE__ 7 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Mark AndroidReviewComicBooks Zschiegner II impossible. Americans reck and Soviet could clean up if we get tired

    • @PIERCESTORM
      @PIERCESTORM 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      JDB, Viewer of TH-cam no, he only did Germany, but here is my view based off of my knowledge and not American Propaganda
      Japan would have to win by draining American resources. So after that happens, here is what happens
      Japan and American tensions still run high, as Japan successfully kept Western Powers out of Asia. Japan becomes technologically superior, and keeps a tight hold on east asia. Russia still wants to work on their Soviet Union, but can never get to China or Korea, so they never become Communists, nor Vietnam. The Vietnam War and the Korean War never happens. Russia goes to war with Japan after recovering, but remember, Japan is now technologically superior, and at this point, has developed their own assault rifle, with German assistance, if Germany won as well. Japan and Russia go to war, then Germany declares war. America is still angry with Japan, since they cant make money in China anymore, and is debating to help Russia, but they don't like Russia's Communist Party. The Nuclear Bomb is also never finished because America couldn't afford it the way World War 2 went. This can go 2 ways.
      1. America joins Russia
      America will join Russia, but still most likely is recovering from World War 2. They attack Japan, but start collapsing as the Spanish did, and start becoming a poor nation. They eventually drop out, and Russia, Japan and Germany sign a peace treaty. Germany however, will wait a few years, and then Assault Russia on their own during spring, and every one simply leaves Japan alone, maybe attacking of they want to take territory, but now Japan controls so much, and has so many people joining, no one can capture Japanese Territory.
      2. America doesn't join and waits to recover
      America simply doesn't join and the same things happen with Russia, Japan and Germany.
      However, now a few years later, with Germany and Italy keeping Japan up to date. America attempts vengeance, but soon realizes, how Japan's troops are dug in for defense, and will stop fighting. Japan will eventually just be left alone, as Japan simply wanted Western Piwers out of Asia
      America will still make up lots of propaganda towards Japan, and still make up things like the Rape of Nanking (waiting for shitstorm) and a possible arms race may start as well, but Japan will have so many Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, and Filipino soldiers joining, they will be at peace and no one will want to fight them. They may become the most advanced nation ever, more advanced then they are today.

    • @jullienharris8806
      @jullienharris8806 7 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      Mark AndroidReviewComicBooks Zschiegner II more anime

    • @TheBigSlugger
      @TheBigSlugger 7 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Mark AndroidReviewComicBooks Zschiegner II hentai, hentai everywhere

  • @xcalibrx1653
    @xcalibrx1653 7 ปีที่แล้ว +85

    Id be able to make better spliffs with Cuban cigars.

  • @janitoalevic
    @janitoalevic 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    0:20 "From the tip of Argentina"
    Chile: Am I a joke to you?

    • @looinrims
      @looinrims 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      janitoalevic Argentina has a more southern point

    • @janitoalevic
      @janitoalevic 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@looinrims Diego Ramírez Island and Cabo de Hornos, Chile is southern than Ushuaia. The Antarctic territories of both are disputed as well as the South Georgia Islands

  • @fishfossils8858
    @fishfossils8858 5 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    "Its racial diversity would never allow it to become a state"
    Um excuse me sir...have .-.you never heard of Texas, New Mexico, or Louisiana? Ya know three highly diverse states? No? Well that explains alot

    • @nouhowlmao2809
      @nouhowlmao2809 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Hey do you remember how those states either went through either ethnic cleansing or immediately putted every non white under a white owned business

    • @andod881
      @andod881 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Nou how Lmao
      Well they could have made the same with Cuba then

    • @VinceSlzr
      @VinceSlzr 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      did you know that at the time of statehood;
      New Mexico and Texas were sparsely populated and most had a majority European population
      This is a no-brainer for Louisiana as well. They all spoke english, they all came from europe most of them. I hope you knew that in your uhh 7TH GRADE SOCIAL STUDIES CLASS.

    • @VinceSlzr
      @VinceSlzr 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@nouhowlmao2809 you really don't know for sure since you haven't lived in that time period

    • @fishfossils8858
      @fishfossils8858 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@VinceSlzr I recommend you do your research. Texas was almost non white at its conception, being almost entirely hispanic, black, and Native American. Texas revolution was basically a Mexican civil war. Hispanics fighting Hispanics. And no they were not “sparsely populated”, at least not by the standards of the time, having about 125,000 people and Houston quickly becoming one of the most populated cities in America.
      Texans and New Mexicans were mostly Spanish speaking, news flash you smart aleck, Spanish IS A EUROPEAN LANGUAGE. So is French, German, and Russian. All languages heavily spoken in Louisiana, but mostly French, as Louisiana was purchased from France. Lol good job, you’ve proven to everyone here that you’re a fool.

  • @ZanstepsAxis
    @ZanstepsAxis 8 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    What if the Mormon Church had successfully created their nation of "Deseret" in Utah, and the United States doesn't intervene in this alternate timeline?

    • @dontworry1302
      @dontworry1302 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      He said Mormons, not Irish Catholics

  • @drbright8639
    @drbright8639 7 ปีที่แล้ว +169

    What if the Holy Roman Empire never collapsed

    • @thesharpesttool9666
      @thesharpesttool9666 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      an impossible dream

    • @danielsass1826
      @danielsass1826 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      They did that one

    • @macvena
      @macvena 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire.
      --Voltaire.

    • @vedantthapar3666
      @vedantthapar3666 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      3 years too late, but which one? Charlemagnes or Ottos? Or the Austrian HRE? All have very different outcomes

    • @paulandreig.sahagun34
      @paulandreig.sahagun34 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      A fun-sized French guy would'nt even existed.

  • @tylerjohn2957
    @tylerjohn2957 7 ปีที่แล้ว +411

    Let's annex Canada

    • @tylerjohn2957
      @tylerjohn2957 7 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      A Very Kind Guy i think tf not

    • @tylerjohn2957
      @tylerjohn2957 7 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      A Very Kind Guy Why not my idea?

    • @waterlight0243
      @waterlight0243 7 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      Tylerjohn29 Canada is more liberal. They have a shit load of cultures too which knowing Trumps presidency is gonna be a problem.

    • @muhammadhafiz_h4
      @muhammadhafiz_h4 7 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      1812

    • @joshuachamberlain1485
      @joshuachamberlain1485 7 ปีที่แล้ว +50

      Little do you know wee have made super weapons useing hockey sticks and maple syrup

  • @typhoon8711
    @typhoon8711 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    'Cuba has been annexed'
    Years later: Cuban missile crisis has been cancelled

  • @ericschuldt5553
    @ericschuldt5553 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Imagine a timeline where Spain keeps the Phillippines therefore is attacked by Japan and brought into WW2

  • @CoffeeConnoiseur
    @CoffeeConnoiseur 8 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    what if Napoleon won the battle of Waterloo?

    • @CoffeeConnoiseur
      @CoffeeConnoiseur 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      **just a suggestion**

    • @Freadauk
      @Freadauk 8 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      +Alex castwell Not much, he most likely would have been defeated by the Austrians or Russians later. He would have needed to defeat Russia in 1812 or build a fleet capable of rivaling the British and invade England to win the War.

    • @mathiasbartl9393
      @mathiasbartl9393 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +Alex castwell He would have just defeated one of the armies operating against him out of the coalition of most of the european nations.

    • @hdhale2
      @hdhale2 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +Alex castwell If he beat the combined British-Prussian force, a lot depends upon how decisive the victory was. Merely routing them from the field wasn't enough. He had to crush them sufficiently such that they were no longer a threat any time soon. Let's say that happens. He then faces a combined Austrian-Russian force. That might seem like it would be too much, but remember that he had rather good luck fighting the Austrians and the Russians did not have a good road record, I'll put it that way. If he could delay the combined Austrian-Russian force until his army was finished licking it wounds and been further reinforced (French soldiers were joining his ranks ranks in increasing numbers ever since his return), he could have beaten the Austrian-Russian force as well.
      What would likely follow would be a negotiated settlement, where France would get back some of the territory it lost in 1814, but Napoleon's empire would still have been effectively dissolved. Whether the Nap would have been happy ruling a smaller piece of Europe is an open question, but if he could, he still have had to dealt with German nationalism lead by a hostile Prussia, and a hostile Britain. The former could been resolved by closer ties with Austria (thus no Prussian Zollverein), the latter would have been far more problematic.
      Ultimately World War I, assuming it happens "on schedule" some 100 years later may have featured France, Italy, Turkey, and Germany (including Austria) against Britain, Prussia (essentially northern Germany), and Russia. The U.S. may have stayed out of the war entirely, or feeling the pinch of the Royal Navy on its trade ties in Europe, eventually went to war with Britain. U.S. invades Canada, and we get a nice rematch of the War of 1812, with modern weapons.

    • @mikhailsachena9965
      @mikhailsachena9965 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      Agree with most of your hypothetical until the end with British US war.

  • @jarrettwattenburger1272
    @jarrettwattenburger1272 8 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    What if humans never evolved different skin colours? In other words, what if everyone was black throughout history?

    • @Coolchannels4you
      @Coolchannels4you 8 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      +Jarrett Wattenburger We would be just like the tribes in the middle of Africa.

    • @jarrettwattenburger1272
      @jarrettwattenburger1272 8 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      +Coolchannels4you I feel like not much would be different from our timeline, except that there wouldn't be a racial superiority complex and/or slavery would have been different or nonexistent. It would be interesting to hear Cody's take on it, though

    • @jarrettwattenburger1272
      @jarrettwattenburger1272 8 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      +Sentient tomatoes This is true. Oh well there goes my idea.

    • @sentienttomatoes8507
      @sentienttomatoes8507 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      Jarrett Wattenburger Also to answer your question, I suppose that would mean we never migrated from Africa.

    • @jarrettwattenburger1272
      @jarrettwattenburger1272 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      +Sentient tomatoes No, the way I thought of it was we migrated like we did in our timeline, but just never evolved different skin tones.

  • @christianpenning3886
    @christianpenning3886 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Awesome channel! Keep up the great work man

  • @godemperorofmankind3.091
    @godemperorofmankind3.091 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Please do What if Spain won the Spanish-American war

  • @mykomatos5445
    @mykomatos5445 8 ปีที่แล้ว +116

    What if the Huns never invaded in europe?

    • @lovatojonasfan1
      @lovatojonasfan1 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You mean the Mongols?

    • @mykomatos5445
      @mykomatos5445 8 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Matthew Brunette
      No, the Huns, during the migration era, with Attila

    • @taylorbeckett9686
      @taylorbeckett9686 8 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      +Mykomatos L0l goteem

    • @shen_loves_bouncy_castles4106
      @shen_loves_bouncy_castles4106 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +Taylor Beckett OOOOOOH U GONNA NEED ICE FOR DAT BUUUUUURN!

    • @MrWolfman229
      @MrWolfman229 8 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      +Mykomatos As a lover of the Migration Era, that would be an amazing video.... I would pay money to watch that, maybe just a dollar, but a dollar none the less.... Do you know how how much that would have changed the ethnic make up of Europe on top of history?? Groups such as the Goths may have never settled in Spain, the Franks may have never migrated to Gaul and established France. The Vandals probably never would have established a kingdom in North Africa. Just so many possibilities.... The Huns pushed so many tribes West, it totally changed Western Europe from being predominately Celtic/Roman into being much more Germanic.

  • @Synnerization
    @Synnerization 8 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    The Philippines didn't win their independence. It was given to them. It was always the American intention to give independence to PI. It was a question of how to give them their independence without the country descending into a balkanized quagmire.

    • @doopboop8359
      @doopboop8359 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      And quagmire it became

    • @user-mm4nd4gp8p
      @user-mm4nd4gp8p 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@chesterlloyddoliente4649 true however, after the long war Americans admired the Filipino bravery during the 2nd world war and suggested Filipino independence peacefully with full US support, something very different 50 years after the 1st Philippines declaration of independence. Even now, The Phillipines and America have great relationship both politically(somewhat) and militarily.

  • @itsdomtoo
    @itsdomtoo 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    i like to imagine that if the US annexed Cuba, it would become a state and the US will eventually be not only the mainland US, but also a lot of islands making up more and more states, like the philippines, cuba, puerto rico, hawaii, and more

    • @AntilleanConfederation
      @AntilleanConfederation 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      As a Cuban. I would have actually preferred this over communism. I could visit my family and even live in my native soil. 😢.

  • @posu1882
    @posu1882 8 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    What if Dom Pedro I, accepetd the Crown of Portugal,Spain,Greece and Bolivia? How Would the Brazil today?
    *A ROTTEN ENGLISH WRITTEN BY A PORTUGUESE*

    • @posu1882
      @posu1882 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +Ian Ewald sim.

    • @GeorgePerakis
      @GeorgePerakis 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +ZUMBI Desempregado Greece too? That's my country. Geez, that's one big ass crown.

    • @posu1882
      @posu1882 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +your lord and savior Trump 2016, www.google.com.br/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjy-PHep7TKAhWKgpAKHXVjCRgQFgghMAE&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.revistadehistoria.com.br%2Fsecao%2Fcapa%2Fuma-cabeca-muitas-coroas&usg=AFQjCNHrPeE2egF3R-MzLgsr_GSQ30AarA&sig2=RTFO6UNiLEG1SvEJxJ_aQA

    • @gcircle
      @gcircle 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +ZUMBI Desempregado Holy shit. I didn't know that happened. But I don't think such an empire would last long, since it was a bunch of separated regions, therefore, hard to coordinate. Even it it survives wars, the regions would get independance anyways. Though Portugal and Spain might remain united in one large country for a longer time until falling apart - if Spain has regions wanting independance right now, imagine the combined nation.

  • @TommygunNG
    @TommygunNG 8 ปีที่แล้ว +109

    Upshot: The answer is: Cuba and everyone else would have been and would be now better off if the USA had annexed Cuba. Thank you.

    • @arielgaray302
      @arielgaray302 7 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      TommygunNG
      For me it wouldn't, If this happened Cuba would have been brainwashed the same way way the US brainwashed away the Phillipines hispanic culture and spanish language, (and now they hate everything related to latinamerica and Spain, the Phillipines true brothers and Mother respectively) and that is a world I would never ever want to live in. Although I hate communism, the revolución was better than cubans losing and hating their hispanic identity like the phillipines did

    • @TommygunNG
      @TommygunNG 7 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      Your characterization of the Philippines notwithstanding, your response would be considered "racist" if uttered about a White nation. If it is "racist" for Whites to maintain their language, culture, and identity, then it is for "Hispanics."
      I would note, though, that Filipinos are not Hispanic. They are Asian. The Spanish influence was very limited, even in terms of language. You are either very shoddy in your research and thinking, or you are simply anti-White. In either case, your point is invalid.

    • @scorpioninpink
      @scorpioninpink 6 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Yes. Honestly, I also hope my country The Philippines just became a state instead of becoming Independent.

    • @emilianotanc4126
      @emilianotanc4126 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      No it would be bad for both countries. For the USA it would hurt our economy and a lot of cubans would head to the mainland for better wages. And the racism is another thing.

    • @Lando-kx6so
      @Lando-kx6so 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Not black cubans

  • @noaho4515
    @noaho4515 8 ปีที่แล้ว +40

    Can you do a "what if the u.s won the war of 1812?"

    • @clayton1117
      @clayton1117 8 ปีที่แล้ว +42

      Nobody really won or lost the war.

    • @clayton1117
      @clayton1117 8 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      It was more like a draw.

    • @TheNutmeg33
      @TheNutmeg33 8 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      Canada would be ours......sooner

    • @Prussian7789
      @Prussian7789 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +B3RSERKER Neither side one

    • @spyro40000
      @spyro40000 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      +Planeguy 58 cdn.history.com/sites/2/2015/04/hith-british-burn-washington-dc-200-years-ago-E.jpeg

  • @yeetingthot9343
    @yeetingthot9343 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Please do more things related to the Philippines and former spanish colonies

  • @bj.bruner
    @bj.bruner 8 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    "Si" without the accent means "if"

  • @stewartsaurus5796
    @stewartsaurus5796 8 ปีที่แล้ว +199

    What if slavery was still legal?

    • @kellywilson-lawson1857
      @kellywilson-lawson1857 8 ปีที่แล้ว +73

      Then I'd have someone sucking my dick and doing my chores XD jk

    • @mr.crouch2782
      @mr.crouch2782 7 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      slavery does exist....

    • @stewartsaurus5796
      @stewartsaurus5796 7 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Mr. Crouch. yeah but it's not as common.

    • @wowwhatadoofus6085
      @wowwhatadoofus6085 7 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      There are actually more slaves today than at any other point in history.

    • @stewartsaurus5796
      @stewartsaurus5796 7 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Really? I thought there would be less with the whole... Illegal thing.

  • @squipy184
    @squipy184 8 ปีที่แล้ว +71

    534,560th

    • @misha2680
      @misha2680 8 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      +Squipy good job!
      that makes me 534,561th comment
      so happy

    • @therealmaskriz5716
      @therealmaskriz5716 8 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      +X6- 22 st*

    • @misha2680
      @misha2680 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      The Real Maskriz LOL
      sorry my english is kinda sh*t
      i'm not english :D

    • @ireallyhatemakingupnamesfo1758
      @ireallyhatemakingupnamesfo1758 8 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      3.57257480475836285835388937963927926396386386...*10^5388639629649874 th

    • @carultch
      @carultch 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +I really hate making up names for this kind of stuff
      Are you calling the Ackermann function with Graham's number just to horrify mathematicians?

  • @brendopls
    @brendopls 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The thing I love to think about with these videos is whether or not there’s another alternatehistoryhub in the alternate realities you create; one who questions what would have happened if things went the way they did in our reality

  • @joes4866
    @joes4866 8 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I would much prefer this timeline than to ours.
    Also, EU4 brought out the imperialist in me.

  • @UwU-xk5cx
    @UwU-xk5cx 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Now I need a "what if spain won the american-spanish war"

  • @Thesurvivour-yl3hd
    @Thesurvivour-yl3hd 7 ปีที่แล้ว +153

    fidel Castro is now ded.

    • @gregthextremegamer2657
      @gregthextremegamer2657 7 ปีที่แล้ว +47

      Thesurvivour2000 good

    • @ottovonbismarck4920
      @ottovonbismarck4920 7 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Anime Is Trash you vile heritic

    • @carlospeiro3965
      @carlospeiro3965 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      RIP my kind of ok President

    • @erick7mz
      @erick7mz 7 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Carlos Peiro, president? Lmao okay bud

    • @darexinfinity
      @darexinfinity 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      And his brother is now President, the Cuban exiles have failed completely. Having multiple leaders under the same government only strengthens their dominance and weakens any chance of an uprising.

  • @andresvaldes5568
    @andresvaldes5568 7 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    There was no need to use the term "White Hispanics" in this video...."White Cubans" would have been a better term to use while differentiating between Black Cubans.
    Just to inform you Cubans hate the terms Hispanic/Latino & almost NEVER use those words to refer to themselves...ONLY non Latin Americans use the words Hispanic/Latino most of the time.
    The terms Hispanic/Latino should stop being used completely in the USA because it confuses most Americans into thinking
    there is a race called Hispanic
    which is separate from "White" when in reality Spanish people from Spain are White while descendants of Spain in Latin America are White as well

    • @geoffreystraw5268
      @geoffreystraw5268 6 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Many hispanic americans call themselves latino. It's not only non latin americans who use the term.

    • @USSCYT
      @USSCYT 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Geoffrey Straw It feels offended so it pulls facts out of it's ass.

    • @twocoyotesav
      @twocoyotesav 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Good to know.

    • @venator8139
      @venator8139 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      But most people from South America and Central America + Mexico have at least 40% native blood in them which is quite a lot.

    • @andrewgreen7473
      @andrewgreen7473 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Nobody cares that you're offended. Get over it. It's just a word

  • @salokin3087
    @salokin3087 8 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    What if Hannibal sacked Rome?

    • @yogsothoth7594
      @yogsothoth7594 8 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      +Salokin Sekwah I don't think he could have but if he did I think Rome wouldn't have recovered. He would have made a personal empire in Italy to expand his families in Iberia. It would be closely allied to old Carthage but would have some independence. It's hard to say what Hannibal would do once he beat Rome, it had basically been his life's goal and I'd guess he'd feel a bit lost and for a few years focusing on hunting down Roman's who fled the destruction of Rome, cementing his control over the peninsular and taking over any Roman allies cities in Iberia. He probably wouldn't head into Gaul much seeing as many tribes there were his allies but he might have played with the idea of doing a joint campaign with his allies in Greece and Macedonia or maybe head further East and make colonies in the middle east and further along the coast into North Africa. Much of his army was mercenaries and Gaul who would probably go home after Rome was beaten so I think he'd have to wait a decade or so before doing anything major but once he was ready he'd definitely be a powerful leader in the Mediterranean.

    • @MsSomeone98
      @MsSomeone98 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      +Gareth Brooks-Martin How he could have done it is actually not that big of an impossibility. All that is needed to have happened is him not losing most of his army in the Alps.

    • @ZORO12ful
      @ZORO12ful 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +Salokin Sekwah
      That would be extremely hard to do in his situation since his army was insufficient to even encircle the capital. The Chartaginian fleet was outnumbered and couldn't have blocaded the port therefore a siege of Rome was pretty much impossible.
      If he somehow did however assault successfully, Carthage would win the war and the world would be a *much* different place without the Roman culture.

  • @CptMann
    @CptMann 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Then Castro wouldnt be able to build his ice cream shop :(

  • @mattedward6155
    @mattedward6155 8 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    I am Puerto Rican and the debate is a big one a while back it was almost brought into statehood congress even planned the 51 star flag but last minute shrugged and chucked it out the window I think it should be brought into statehood because life is hard over there and crime is high and the poorer and lower classed population over there is high united states absorbing it would bring in welfare and better police and in bad cases the options of use of the FBI which would drastically reduce crime and making it a safer healthier environment to live in and it would have an important role in congress and the american government because of it's new stay and I know my views on things are a bit different because I am hispanic and our views are slightly different we are a tough wise population who needs a voice and help with crime independence would not last long such as like AHH(alternatehistoryhub) sated in the video if texas regained independence or never lost independence it would simply fall back to america which would cause tension @AlternateHistoryHub this is what I think would happen with puerto rico or what I think should happen

    • @dragoncatsage3049
      @dragoncatsage3049 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Matt Edward look man that sounds nice but I feel like in order to have Puerto Rico to become a state it would need to actually make a profit and also are you expecting the mainland USA being very happy about poring millions into there new state just so it can make mediocre amounts of cash and also I don't think it's ever going to make money if mass welfare is instructed there I'm sorry as much as it sucks adding Puerto Rico as a state would be like adding another Chicago with the same crime and poverty rates except without all the income it just isn't very practical.

    • @dragoncatsage3049
      @dragoncatsage3049 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Matt Edward wow that came off as really condescending sorry about that.

    • @00darkurza00
      @00darkurza00 6 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      What if periods and commas never existed?

    • @mrbisshie
      @mrbisshie 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      The US isn't a charity, the US should only allow PR to become a state, if PR can offer the US something.
      PR is a bankrupt, corrupted country, with shit infrastructure. It's a shit hole. The US gov tried to help PR with the aftermath of a Hurricane Irma, but the leaders just accused the US of not doing shit, and their leaders just bad mouthed the US' leadership. When in fact, it was their own fault, and their shitty infrastructure.
      If anything, we should just cut them loose, and give them independence, and revoke citizenship from everyone who remains on the island. They voted for their leadership, if the leadership is bad, then too bad.

    • @MrCubFan415
      @MrCubFan415 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      mrbisshie “but the leaders accused the US of doing nothing”
      That’s because Trump did exactly that about Irma: nothing.
      Also, Puerto Rico doesn’t get to vote in US presidential elections. So no, they don’t vote for their federal leadership.

  • @Lordpeyre
    @Lordpeyre 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    This is kind of nitpicky, but in the illustration, the Spanish representative is saying "If" (Si), not "Yes" (Sí).

  • @Dedon33
    @Dedon33 8 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    What if John III Sobieski, who was King of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, would not come to Vienna in 1683?
    PLEASE SUPPORT

  • @dereklogan9097
    @dereklogan9097 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I suggest reading Guerra contra todos los puertorriqueños by Denis Nelson. This book provides a great view as to what has happened between USA and Puerto Rico.

  • @lemadnesspy2828
    @lemadnesspy2828 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Finally, Someone mentioned Puerto Rico

  • @HanakoHaruka
    @HanakoHaruka 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    0:53 as a Filipino, the Revolutionary front are The KKK katipunan (NTBC of kul klux Klan) because they started in 1896 to gain independence from Spain

  • @iiiiitsmagreta1240
    @iiiiitsmagreta1240 8 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Interesting scenario, thanks for this video!
    Out of curiosity, where'd the music go?

  • @shanemize3775
    @shanemize3775 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Cuba should have been made a Commonwealth (territory) of the United States after the war, just like the other territories. All of those folks became American citizens with US courts and laws. And, by the way, the Commonwealth of the Philippine Islands did NOT win it's independence from the United States after WWII. Independence was granted by law passed by Congress before the war, but the process was delayed by the war. Great video, as always. Please keep the outstanding videos coming and God bless you, my friend!

  • @chronenojysk5107
    @chronenojysk5107 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Hah, Puerto Rico becoming a state is like waiting for Half Life 3 to come out.

  • @michaelroach4219
    @michaelroach4219 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    muy interesante.muchisimas gracias para su trabajo.

  • @natewatl9423
    @natewatl9423 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I have never understood why we annexed Puerto Rico as a possession but did not annex Cuba, and yet kept Guantanamo Bay

    • @dennis771
      @dennis771 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Natewatl Cuba would had make more sense

  • @_rk553
    @_rk553 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    We are most likely NEVER going to be a state, since we have a horrible dept to pay ._.
    +most of Puerto Ricans dont care about learning english

    • @looinrims
      @looinrims 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Germany Ball not to mention the crime rate

  • @Euro2610
    @Euro2610 7 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    So what if the Philippines remained a commonwealth or changed to a state to the present?

    • @qehaswe
      @qehaswe 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      but before the official leguage is spanish

    • @alishahzad9141
      @alishahzad9141 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      There are 103.5 million people in the Philippines which would raise the American population from 324,100,000 to 427,600,000 million which is still 3rd if I mean if The Philippines was a state

    • @printertimes
      @printertimes 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Then i would be from U.S.A...
      DREAM COME TRUE

    • @genghiskhan5701
      @genghiskhan5701 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The US will be investing lots of money in the Philippines since it was so close to Communist China and Vietnam if the COld War still happened which would make the Philippines more developed than it is today, maybe like Hawaii.
      Corruption will still exists off course made worse by lobbying and the two party system but hey atleast we have the 2nd Amendment and Popeyes

  • @Patrick-dh5mv
    @Patrick-dh5mv 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I just learned the Spanish American war today in history class. This is a scary coincidence lol

  • @mz9791
    @mz9791 8 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    Can you continue on your carthage beats rome video?

    • @npgabriel
      @npgabriel 8 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      +Sacred Band Urban cohort > sacred band

    • @mz9791
      @mz9791 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Npgabriel u w0t?

    • @npgabriel
      @npgabriel 8 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Sacred Band thats rite m8

    • @npgabriel
      @npgabriel 8 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Sacred Band rome 4eva

    • @xelgringoloco2
      @xelgringoloco2 8 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      +Sacred Band Total War reference

  • @zyanego3170
    @zyanego3170 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    What if the 2020 "Storm on Berlin" escalated into a Riot?

  • @wood4058
    @wood4058 6 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    As a spaniard myself, what if the spanish empire won the spanish american war? Would spain annex us territories or maybe even take back florida? Would the colonists still be fighting or would the government give the colonists the same rights as spaniards? Would the colonies also take apart in the spanish civil war?
    Thanks and greetings from valencia,spain🇪🇸

    • @lordmango545
      @lordmango545 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      I don't think a whole lot would happen other than the Spanish would keep their Territories. The Spanish army was about the same as the Americans at the time it was the u.s navy that won the war so their is no way a Spanish invasion could happen justifying them taking a state or even american teritories.

    • @aaronkitzmann9419
      @aaronkitzmann9419 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Wow, that is incredibly interesting. Hope to see it soon. Greetings from Iowa, USA

  • @shunt0141
    @shunt0141 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I have a suggestion; You should try makoing your country "characters" like how Quality Mapping does his; little globes with eyes. Though, yours are pretty unique. Keep up the great work.

  • @thebandit0256
    @thebandit0256 8 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    What if New Spain didn't end?

  • @aulaw2011
    @aulaw2011 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    What if the US never conquered the Philippines and gives it the same treatment as Cuba? Making it sovereign under American influence, what affect would it have to the Philippines and the rest of Asia?

  • @ladhkay
    @ladhkay 8 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Wish America would have annexed and colonised cuba and mexico

    • @rigbysolid3572
      @rigbysolid3572 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The reason why they didn't is because it's hard to Govern 2 country's worth of land from so far away. That's why Puerto Rico probably will never become a state.

    • @erichobbsphotography
      @erichobbsphotography 8 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      +Rigby Solid what about Hawaii (moron)

    • @codenamehalo9847
      @codenamehalo9847 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Rigby Solid dude, Maxico and Cuba would be easier to Handel than Hawaii, where are you going with this?
      I mean Mexico and Cuba since their are some close to each other I don't think it would be hard and that since they would have been annexed it would become easier since they would become part of the US

  • @Pol-Pot
    @Pol-Pot 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    2:10 Henry Teller?! More like Nick Cage with a time machine!😂

  • @andrewshepherd1633
    @andrewshepherd1633 7 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Personally, I hope Puerto Rico joins us as a full State. That's just me though and I know several people who fall on both sides of the issue (in regards to Commonwealth vs. State)

  • @whatisabercowich
    @whatisabercowich 8 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    What if the Crusaders never defeated the Byzantines in the Fourth Crusade?

  • @nosirrah9207
    @nosirrah9207 7 ปีที่แล้ว +43

    Blame the Maine on Spain

    • @nosirrah9207
      @nosirrah9207 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      - bill Wurtz

    • @moldy4824
      @moldy4824 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Spanish did not have the world's biggest empire. Ever. Britain, mongol, Roman, a lot of empires were FAR FAR bigger.

    • @moldy4824
      @moldy4824 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      The vikings discovered America. The British had an empire. If they didn't, why would they call it the "British Empire"? An Empire is a way of government that has an emporer or king, and that they conquer lots of land. The Spanish, at it's height in 1810, was only about 9% of the world, while the British Empire, at its height in 1920, cover around 24%.
      And does it even matter that Spain was once strong? Spain is an absolute shithole right now.

    • @moldy4824
      @moldy4824 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Im not even British...
      I'm american

    • @ethanwelk2736
      @ethanwelk2736 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      All of this started over a comment meant to be a joke.

  • @samobispo1527
    @samobispo1527 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    6:30 Castro might have become a professional baseball player or a politician.