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I like watching stuff like this could you also perhaps mention the cambodian war? maybe like a small cambodian american war? its fine if you can't but i do love your videos regardless. (vietnam gets invaded by china for invading cambodia, spoiler alert)
As a Vietnamese, this is a very well-explained series from both perspectives of the North and South with their issues and governments. Growing up, history in school seems to be one-sided; for example, they mark the Tet Offensive as a morale victory, even though they lost more troops than ARVN and US forces combined, which didn't make sense for a 12-year-old me back then. Now, I have the privilege to study abroad in the US; I learned a lot from the books, journals, and memoirs from the war, and sure as hell, I was surprised. The background support from the American people to end the war and the political struggle of the South was never heard of ( at least from academic books). Fantastic job on the series, and all the best!!! P/s: Sorry for the horrible grammar lol~.
I hear that Vietnam largely forgives the US and has moved on to become rivals with the PRC. Why the heck would you guys forgive us? I hear it's a cultural thing but even as a Christian, I would find it difficult to forgive someone invading and destroying my country.
@@delano4526 I mean we now look to the US as a potential trade partner and protector since the PRC 9 dash line took most of our sea economic zones and 2 of our oil rigs which we are heavily relied on so the heat started from there. Also the people now is fond of US culture like crazzzzy from fashion to other stuff. So i think we are like totally seeing 🇺🇸 different then back then for sure :3
Tet WAS a morale/political victory. You sound like a woke teenager who read a few more books from the opposite perspective and think that the history textbook "lied", pick up an American history textbook and come back here tell me if they are honest with all the truth in their book. It is a book for teenagers ffs, wtf do you expect?
Thank you for acknowledging the awful things Henry Kissinger did to Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam. In school, I live in America, the standard curriculum only briefly mentioned Kissinger and did not touch much on the civilian sides of things. It was my individual teachers who spoke about the atrocities that the US committed and explained the civilian side of the war. May that devil burn in hell for the lives he destroyed
I agreed with very few ideas of Henry Kissinger, but one thing I absolutely agree with him on was the bombing of eastern Cambodia. If I had been in his position, I too would've been prepared to do almost anything to keep the Khmer Rouge from taking power and push out the invading North Vietnamese Army that was violating Cambodia's sovereignty and actively trying to conquer it. I know as many as 50,000 civilians died due to the bombing campaign, but I don't pretend war isn't hell, but that is no reason to not do what is right for an important ally in need of desperate help with defending themselves against a foreign invader. It's also worth noting that only 17% of all civilian casualties can be attributed to the US bombing campaign, it was not the leading cause of civilian casualties in any way, which is also a reason why I would've supported nearly anything that could've possibly stopped that wretched invasion of North Vietnam that ended up killing so many millions of people.
Man. He along with Dick Cheney are probably the most evil men to come out of the US. And the fact that he lived to a 100 is proof that divine justice doesn’t exist.
Bro, the Khmer Rouge was a direct result of the Cambodian bombings. The Cambodians were left extremely resentful of America after the war, which led to people turning to communism, forming the Khmer Rouge. Also, North Vietnam overthrew the Khmer Rouge due to their brutality, not America.
@@cindychoo7 Lol somehow 8is got every point wrong. North Vietnam only had the Ho Chi Minh trail that goes through Cambodia. The US just decided to bomb the whole country just to be safe. North Vietname invading Cambodia makes zero sense
It's nice he makes it humorous but at serious moments he becomes serious and respects the ones who got affected by the war. Very Similar to oversimplified.
This man is gonna become the next oversimplified. It's kinda sad you only have 30k subscribers but i am sure if you continue like this you will have way more. Keep up the good work
The fact that the US imposed a economic embargo to Laos and Vietnam after bombing their country back to the 18th century and ruining their agricultural land just shows how disgusting the US policies in the Cold War were.
@@StekTM1 My friend! I was not critiquing your English! I was making a little joke that the U.S. policy STILL IS disgusting. I am an American and agree with you! Your English is excellent by the way. Congratulations.
My grandpa said that when he was leaving his mandatory service in Vietnam, they basically implied that he’d be sent back out to fight and die if he told anyone what was happening in Cambodia. And now we know what happened
The funny thing is that Le Duc Tho and Kissinger both got offered the Nobel Peace Prize as the two people who signed the final treaty. Le Duc Tho saw this as a joke and declined the Nobel Prize, while Kissinger was more than happy to receive it.
@@stevenoviedo541Yeah, he could make a 2 part series like this one. The first about the rise of the Khmer Rouge to power and the genocide they inflicted on their population and the second about the Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia...
I know that everyone keeps saying "your the next oversimplied" and they insist on continuing to compare you guys with every new video you upload. But i just wanted to say i love your content on it's own without even thinking about oversimplified. Obviously your content was heavily inspired by his, but despite that the topics you cover, your rapid upload schedule and your demeanor and professionalism in your videos makes me like you more than him. When you upload i dont think "i guess ill watch this cause it reminds mw of this other guy and he hasnt uploaded in a while" im genuinley excited to see your stuff for what it is because you have your own unique way of explaining history that i love. Keep up the good work ❤
Even someone as pro-American as I cannot deny that we were the aggressors in this conflict and that we deserved to lose. Thanks for the content… very enlightening, indeed~
@@stepanotrisal1512 I despise communism with every fiber of my being, but I have enough of a conscience to know that bombing defenseless civilians is an abhorrent war crime and must be condemned as such.
@@InalienableLiberty Did the US do bad things in Vietnam? Yes. Was it always necessary to do those bad things? No. But that's true about almost every side in every war. VC and North Vietnam certainly had no issue bombing, shooting or burning civilians with flamethrowers. I wouldn't say WW2 or American Civil War were simple cases of US agression, even though both were lined with horrifying and often unnecessary massacres perpetrated by US.
@@stepanotrisal1512 | This. I as well am pro-US, but frankly, this war was a political one. We really just wanted to get involved because we didn't agree with their politics, and tons and tons of american troops died because of it. My granddad went over because he thought he was going to fight in the next WW2, a heroic war, but he ended up in the 615th MP in '68-'69, and what he told me he saw honestly paints a pretty good picture. The americans commited war crimes, of course they did, I can't deny or defend that, but the VC did equally horrifying stuff. The MPs had to deal with at least two incidents where explosives set up to kill american transport vehicles blew up civilian cars. And then we pulled out of vietnam, left the south to basically fend for itself. We lost millions of men, killed thousands of civilians, spend trillions of dollars, then just left like nothing happened. I consider it one of the first big failures of the modern military.
@@InalienableLiberty there has never been a communist society. You should hate fascism instead. It is the definition of evil and America along with Europe is falling to it, which scares the hell out of me. And no I am not a communist lol, I am just saying that if you read Karl Marx's teachings, then you know that communism has never been achieved. At least communists fight for equality (although many leftists like me also do that), while fascists always fight for genocide.
I commented on the first video my grandfather was an American soldier who was in the 4th infantry division in pleiku from 1968 to 70 he experienced the horrors of searching the jungle and getting attacked off and on and when he wasn’t in the jungle he was in fire base oasis which was overrun during the tet offensive he knows first hand what it was like and I respect him greatly for it and him being able to talk about it. Also my old bus monitor was in the 25th infantry division in plieku the years before my grandfather was there. My grandfather also believes he caught lung cancer from agent orange and other chemicals used during the Vietnam war
@@ThingsICareAboutill be happy if you put the caption english. The auto generated subtitles not matching. Sorry im not england boy so its hard for me to understand it just by listen(maybe there is others like me) :D
Apologies for the delay! I just uploaded the subtitles/captions, so it should be working now! It may take youtube a while to process it, but it will be working any moment now!@@pffttttttt
This is the kind of content oversimplified started with. I really enjoyed his early videos, but he is making his videos get more and more childishly weird. (The potty jokes are getting really out of hand). This channel captures the history very well and has the perfect amount of humor to keep viewers engaged.
I think oversimplified is aiming for a more childish viewership demographic, so it can also be shown in schools and kids learn more about history, rather than actually making a serious video with animations, if you want serious the armchair historian is great with that
@jeancorzo4755 im looking for middle ground. Stuff. Armchair and kings and generals i put in the background while i clean. Oversimplified was for watching. I get he might be trying to target a younger audience, but he is talking about murdering people. (Hannibal) weird topic to make a school video about.
I am proud to be Vietnamese, I am a descendant of Ho Chi Minh. The Vietnamese people are one, no force is allowed to invade. America has done us many bad things, let's put the past behind us but we will never forget the past! 🇻🇳🇻🇳🇻🇳
As a regular Oversimplified watcher, I am so happy to see someone continuing his legacy in his own terms. Team ThingsICareAbout, massive congratulations to you for the superb effort you put in explaining such complicated Geopolitical war such "Oversimplified"ally! ❤️ Congratulations from India!
I’m disappointed in Truman for not responding to Ho Chi Minh who was a true patriot and would have made a great ally. And then Eisenhower let us down. If I ever admired Eisenhower, I’m nuanced now. Had Kennedy lived things might have been different. Again just American government ignorance prevailed. As an American, when i saw people fleeing Vietnam to the helicopters, I felt shame. The whole thing could have been avoided. This was an excellent two part video. Thank you for presenting it.
Great video, I just wish you could have said a few more details about what happened in Cambodia and how the US caused it because it is such a forgotten issue. 1/4 of the population was killed by Pol Pot and almost nobody in the west knows even though they are partly to blame. You did an awesome job showing both sides equally drawing attention to what most people miss.
The US did not cause the Cambodian Genocide in anyway, the US was instrumental in the effort to stop it at any cost. North Vietnam invaded Cambodia and supported and fought with the Khmer Rouge against the Cambodian government, which eventually sent and ultimate that all North Vietnamese soldiers must leave Cambodia (they obviously refused) and together with the US and South Vietnam, they launched the Cambodian Campaign and started bombing their common enemies, the Khmer Rouge and North Vietnam who had no right violating Cambodia's sovereignty. The real tragedy was when the US abandoned Cambodia and thereby gave the North Vietnamese the opportunity to put the Khmer Rouge into power.
@@8is no it's different The US Brought about the situation for the khmer rouge to rise and, without Ho Chi Minh knowing about the genocides, North Vietnam supported them, but the deal was that Vietnam would get some Land of Cambodia, and originally PolPot agreed but he then refused to give It Upon winning, this added to the reveal of the genocides Brought tensions between the two countries that escalated into a war, with China attacking Vietnam in support of the Cambodians and the Americans seeing this as the chance to gain their Little Vietnamese puppet secretely sent men to fight against the Vietnamese on PolPot's side (technically). However Vietnam repelled the Chinese, defeated the Americans and marched on the Cambodian Capital untile the Berlin Wall fell, at that point Vietnam was scared of an eventual collapse of the USSR and pulled out of Cambodia ensuring tho that PolPot leaves Cambodian politics and people get to vote on their government And they voted for a Constitutional Monarchy (it's unsure if the vote was legit tho because of the American influence)
@@8isThe US bombing destabilised Cambodia which let Pol Pot rise to power, the US’s involvement was indirect. However when the Cambodian people overthrew Pol Pot the US and the rest of the world didn’t recognise the new democracy and continued to recognise Pol Pot and even gave him funding during a famine while he was living in luxury in exile. He died in luxury with no one giving him any sort of punishment for the atrocities he committed.
They shoved it under the rug because it was the 3rd world, I beg you didn’t know Pablo Escobar wanted to be the president of Colombia and invade USA, insane words but true but shove under the rug since it’s 3rd world countries
Thank you things I care about for delivering this topic with so much attention,detail,and hardwork.This part was absolutely stunning and beautiful as much as the previous one.We will be waiting eagerly for your next future project.Thank you again bro.
Please please pleeeaaaaase do a video on the third Indochina War. It's very rarely discussed and id love to see it get attention. Same with the 1848 revolutions and the Paris Commune
Hey man, love the videos! Just one thing I noticed is that when you show US troops you often show them with an m16a2 instead of the more historically accurate m16a1. A way you can tell the difference is that the m16a1 has a triangular hand guard and a straight 20 round magazine instead of the 30 round curved ones.
I love the way ypu explain things, it makes it so much easier for me to understand what I need to study for my history paper tomorrow! Could you do one on the Cuban Missile Crisis?
I watched a couple other videos of yours and at first I thought "another Oversimplified copycat" from the art / animation style. Then I watched this and the prior Vietnam video and near the end I was like goddamn this is probably the best and most succinct explanation Ive ever seen explaining the history of the US involvement and circumstances leading up to the Vietnam War. Also I was wrong in my Oversimplified copycat comparison. Other than the art / animation looking kinda similar, you have a completely different thing going on. Thanks I learned a lot today. You earned a subscriber.
Knowing how detrimental the war was in terms of casualties and destruction, I came to appriciate our Government even more. Of course there were flaws at times but overall we are doing well, we have adequate infrastructure, sky scrapers, 5G, great technology, and even did so good back in the covid pandemic. I'm so proud to be a Vietnamese
When Oversimplified has a indefinite release date, it's good to know that you picked up the opportunity to make simplified history on TH-cam. Thank you
I think a good thing that this video focused on the fact that the bombing of cambodia is the main reason to the rise of the khmer rouge and the horrible years that followed of genocide
These videos really opened my eyes to how much more confusing the vietnam war actually was, i thought it was something like hoi 4 where it all happened at the parallel. You should add a year counter btw because i have no idea whats happening in what time.
This is actually really oversimplified. Once you realize that both the Cambodian and Laotian Civil Wars are occuring at the same time and being actively exacerbated by the North Vietnamese invasion of Laos and Cambodia and how complicated relationship their respective governments had to their communist insurgents, foreign armies actively fighting them and US support (both covert and explicit) with various minorities like the Hmong people in Laos that fought against the North Vietnamese or the Montagnard in South Vietnam, etc. that's when you realize things are *really* complicated.
4/5 thành viên đứng đầu liên hợp cuốc đã xâm chiếm đất nước chúng tôi nhưng đều đã bị đánh đuổi. Là người Việt Nam tôi cực kỳ tự hào về dân tộc kiên cường của mình, tôi thật không hiểu vì sao cha ông tôi có thể làm được điều phi thường đến thế.
Personally, I really wish you didn't try to be Oversimplified. The video is at its strongest when it shows the seriousness of the events and the attempts at humor undercut that in my impression. I think you can hold people's interest well enough in your own style of talking. Still a very engaging video either way and I look forward to seeing what you have in store next.
Amazing! Just amazing! I can not thank you more for this series as a South Vietnamese person! However, you should of put the Battle of Xuan Loc as a quick thing before Sai Gon because of how crazy it was. Other then that, THANK YOUUUUU!
18:50 From a story I read in the newspaper, Telling about the handshake and peace signing between Vietnam and the US by Duc Tho and Kissinger. They were both awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. While Kissinger received the award with a proud smile, Duc Tho was absent with a letter of refusal with a reason: My country is not yet at peace. How ironic.....
Well done. My grandfather was a pow when he was in south Vietnamese army. Us Viet people are very happy and welcoming to foreigners. Just know the government very strict when coming in. This video went the next mile thank you for sharing.
This war is one of those few times where I am legitimately angry at our country for what we did. This was awful, and also unnecessary! Love this video!
What makes me angry is that the North Vietnamese regime won in the end since they were the ones to deserve it the least because of their brutality and imperialism. I mean, just poor Laos that got a Vietnamese puppet regime that's still in power and poor Cambodia that got the Vietnamese propped up Khmer Rouge that killed a fourth of all Cambodians only to be invaded and occupied by the Vietnam for a decade. Not to mention the treatment of Hmong people that fought against North Vietnam in Laos and South Vietnam or the Montagnard people as well. Or the Hoa people who ran a lot of businesses in South Vietnam whose entire livelihood was destroyed and were brutally repressed, both before and after the Chinese invasion. Not to mention the Vietnamese of South Vietnam that were brutally subjugated by North Vietnam. The UN estimates some 165,000 who died in the "re-education" camps. Things even got so bad that between 1975-1995, some 800,000 Vietnamese were forced to flee their country by boat with some estimating as many as 400,000 who died at sea trying to escape.
@@8is where did you get info about shit like Vietnam propped up khmer rouge? Why would we make up a goverment that tried to invade us? The khmer rouge was the first to launch offense, so all Vietnam did was retaliate, remove the hostile pro-china Polpot goverment, set up a new government that doesn't murder 1/4 of the population, and were accused as invader while doing so. And yeah, the North was brutal in the war, expect no better treatment to traitors, the North was fighting in a disadvantaged position..
@@8isdamn bro that’s wild, if only the gringos hadn’t prolonged a war that never should’ve happened by decades maybe the situation wouldn’t have gotten so violent
@@botelladeaguamediollena4885 Yeah, it was *totally* necessary for North Vietnam to kill those millions of people in three different countries. It’s *totally* the US fault for what North Vietnam did.
Vietnam war in a nutshell: America: I dont like red, lets kill them all. North Vietnam: Nah, were just trynna unify ppl but were down to fight if we really have to. America gets rekd* America: Noooooooooooooooooooooooooo stop the war so many lives dead😢
More like: North Vietnam: I am not an imperialist aggressor at all 😉(proceeds to invade three independent and sovereign countries, annexing on of them and putting puppet governments in the other two while occupying one of them for an entire decade until it loses to a actual rice farmers xD).
@@8is why we stayed in cambodia for 10 years is because we had to do it to help cambodia become stronger if we withdraw cambodia will be occupied immediately how many soldiers are left in cambodia we just want peace and business it's that simple
The Vietnam War was the one,as a non American nor Vietnamese, that truly show me a cruel reality. 'It's not a War crime, as long as you are the super power in turn'
keep doing this but PLS don't delay part 2, put them at the same time for x2 views, that's how oversimplified strategy, bcz when you immediately post p2, people will watch it. When you post it a few days after some may lose interest, please don't abandon us like oversimplified
Great videos, very knowledgeble. I have never learned anything on the vietnam war matter, so these videos was really helpful to understand what it was all about - and in the end pointless. It makes me sick, how the americans reacted and feel bad for Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. 😢 I just subbed btw.
Despite all the horrible things that happened, boy am I grateful that Vietnam didn't become another US colony like other Middle Eastern countries and held on until the end despite all the horrible things everyone did (mainly caused by USA)
I believe the reason the Arab countries are still like this is because of the media. During Vietnam, the media was anti-government.. Or.. Truthful Now the media just does what the government wants them to without any push back.. Why do you think so many people saw Muslims as terrorists? When 9/11 was done by a guy that also ironically hated the US foreign politicy. Not to mention, it caused exactly what he hated but against Syria and Iraq. The US is ridiculous, and their support of israel is no different
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I like watching stuff like this
could you also perhaps mention the cambodian war?
maybe like a small cambodian american war?
its fine if you can't
but i do love your videos regardless.
(vietnam gets invaded by china for invading cambodia, spoiler alert)
u need 2 do video on 3rd Indochina war
Do you have a discord server?, it’d be cool to talk to other fans of this amazing channel there and suggest topics for your new videos
I am planning on making one before the next video! So keep an eye out for when it is launched@@Finland_yes
Love ❤u. plz do consider about making videos on the Roman Empire , Byzantine and the ottoman Empire.
Bro really said "fine i'll do it myself" after oversimplifed didn't upload. Props to you, this is super high quality
He teased it with a release date in 2035
he also teased the french revolution in 2027-2030, i think he was joking lol@@hardiystreams9878
😂
What if this is Oversimplified's real voice and he paid someone else to narrate?
imagine. i doubt it though@@sominboy2757
As a Vietnamese, this is a very well-explained series from both perspectives of the North and South with their issues and governments. Growing up, history in school seems to be one-sided; for example, they mark the Tet Offensive as a morale victory, even though they lost more troops than ARVN and US forces combined, which didn't make sense for a 12-year-old me back then. Now, I have the privilege to study abroad in the US; I learned a lot from the books, journals, and memoirs from the war, and sure as hell, I was surprised. The background support from the American people to end the war and the political struggle of the South was never heard of ( at least from academic books). Fantastic job on the series, and all the best!!!
P/s: Sorry for the horrible grammar lol~.
As an American, I bid my condolences to your country and wish for a good recovery decades later.
I hear that Vietnam largely forgives the US and has moved on to become rivals with the PRC. Why the heck would you guys forgive us? I hear it's a cultural thing but even as a Christian, I would find it difficult to forgive someone invading and destroying my country.
@@delano4526 I mean we now look to the US as a potential trade partner and protector since the PRC 9 dash line took most of our sea economic zones and 2 of our oil rigs which we are heavily relied on so the heat started from there. Also the people now is fond of US culture like crazzzzy from fashion to other stuff. So i think we are like totally seeing 🇺🇸 different then back then for sure :3
Tet WAS a morale/political victory. You sound like a woke teenager who read a few more books from the opposite perspective and think that the history textbook "lied", pick up an American history textbook and come back here tell me if they are honest with all the truth in their book. It is a book for teenagers ffs, wtf do you expect?
@@nguyentrunghieu3597 i’m just pointing out the discrepancies and the differences in both side perspectives. I’m sorry if I offended you in anyway :3
Thank you for acknowledging the awful things Henry Kissinger did to Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam.
In school, I live in America, the standard curriculum only briefly mentioned Kissinger and did not touch much on the civilian sides of things. It was my individual teachers who spoke about the atrocities that the US committed and explained the civilian side of the war.
May that devil burn in hell for the lives he destroyed
I agreed with very few ideas of Henry Kissinger, but one thing I absolutely agree with him on was the bombing of eastern Cambodia. If I had been in his position, I too would've been prepared to do almost anything to keep the Khmer Rouge from taking power and push out the invading North Vietnamese Army that was violating Cambodia's sovereignty and actively trying to conquer it. I know as many as 50,000 civilians died due to the bombing campaign, but I don't pretend war isn't hell, but that is no reason to not do what is right for an important ally in need of desperate help with defending themselves against a foreign invader. It's also worth noting that only 17% of all civilian casualties can be attributed to the US bombing campaign, it was not the leading cause of civilian casualties in any way, which is also a reason why I would've supported nearly anything that could've possibly stopped that wretched invasion of North Vietnam that ended up killing so many millions of people.
Man. He along with Dick Cheney are probably the most evil men to come out of the US. And the fact that he lived to a 100 is proof that divine justice doesn’t exist.
THE CIA FUNDED THE KHMER ROUGE MATE@@8is
Bro, the Khmer Rouge was a direct result of the Cambodian bombings. The Cambodians were left extremely resentful of America after the war, which led to people turning to communism, forming the Khmer Rouge. Also, North Vietnam overthrew the Khmer Rouge due to their brutality, not America.
@@cindychoo7 Lol somehow 8is got every point wrong. North Vietnam only had the Ho Chi Minh trail that goes through Cambodia. The US just decided to bomb the whole country just to be safe. North Vietname invading Cambodia makes zero sense
In the absence of OverSimplified himself, it's great that someone else is continuing what he did.
-every Things I Care About commenter ever
Agreed
It's nice he makes it humorous but at serious moments he becomes serious and respects the ones who got affected by the war. Very Similar to oversimplified.
OverSimplified need make this videos.
This man is gonna become the next oversimplified. It's kinda sad you only have 30k subscribers but i am sure if you continue like this you will have way more. Keep up the good work
The fact that the US imposed a economic embargo to Laos and Vietnam after bombing their country back to the 18th century and ruining their agricultural land just shows how disgusting the US policies in the Cold War were.
Still are … Free Palestine 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸
Were? Wrong verb tense, bro
@@ryanimpink13 I'm not a native speaker.
@@StekTM1 My friend! I was not critiquing your English! I was making a little joke that the U.S. policy STILL IS disgusting. I am an American and agree with you! Your English is excellent by the way. Congratulations.
@@ryanimpink13no it isn’t it’s fine
My grandpa said that when he was leaving his mandatory service in Vietnam, they basically implied that he’d be sent back out to fight and die if he told anyone what was happening in Cambodia. And now we know what happened
What happen?
@@redissus8501in the video it talked about Cambodia being bombed,so uhh like more tons of bombs than WW2 was dropped on cambodia
Great video! This was a great 2-part series!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Fancy seeing you here, Mr. Terry! 😊
The funny thing is that Le Duc Tho and Kissinger both got offered the Nobel Peace Prize as the two people who signed the final treaty. Le Duc Tho saw this as a joke and declined the Nobel Prize, while Kissinger was more than happy to receive it.
Because Le Duc felt peace hadn't been achieved yet
Kissinger thật trơ trẽn. Kẻ đi gieo rắc chiến tranh ( cái chết) lại là người nhận giải Nobel hòa bình 😂 thật nực cười.
You definitely have to make sequels for this masterpiece ! The Vietnam-Cambodia War and the Sino-Vietnam War...
Hey don't forget about the Cambodian Genocide. A direct consequence of this conflict.
@@stevenoviedo541Yeah, he could make a 2 part series like this one. The first about the rise of the Khmer Rouge to power and the genocide they inflicted on their population and the second about the Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia...
I know that everyone keeps saying "your the next oversimplied" and they insist on continuing to compare you guys with every new video you upload. But i just wanted to say i love your content on it's own without even thinking about oversimplified. Obviously your content was heavily inspired by his, but despite that the topics you cover, your rapid upload schedule and your demeanor and professionalism in your videos makes me like you more than him. When you upload i dont think "i guess ill watch this cause it reminds mw of this other guy and he hasnt uploaded in a while" im genuinley excited to see your stuff for what it is because you have your own unique way of explaining history that i love. Keep up the good work ❤
Thank you for the kind words, I really appreciate them!
Even someone as pro-American as I cannot deny that we were the aggressors in this conflict and that we deserved to lose.
Thanks for the content… very enlightening, indeed~
So much of an aggressors in fact, that they threw the South Vietnamese border on innocent North Vietnamese soldiers
@@stepanotrisal1512 I despise communism with every fiber of my being, but I have enough of a conscience to know that bombing defenseless civilians is an abhorrent war crime and must be condemned as such.
@@InalienableLiberty Did the US do bad things in Vietnam? Yes. Was it always necessary to do those bad things? No.
But that's true about almost every side in every war. VC and North Vietnam certainly had no issue bombing, shooting or burning civilians with flamethrowers. I wouldn't say WW2 or American Civil War were simple cases of US agression, even though both were lined with horrifying and often unnecessary massacres perpetrated by US.
@@stepanotrisal1512 |
This.
I as well am pro-US, but frankly, this war was a political one. We really just wanted to get involved because we didn't agree with their politics, and tons and tons of american troops died because of it.
My granddad went over because he thought he was going to fight in the next WW2, a heroic war, but he ended up in the 615th MP in '68-'69, and what he told me he saw honestly paints a pretty good picture. The americans commited war crimes, of course they did, I can't deny or defend that, but the VC did equally horrifying stuff. The MPs had to deal with at least two incidents where explosives set up to kill american transport vehicles blew up civilian cars.
And then we pulled out of vietnam, left the south to basically fend for itself. We lost millions of men, killed thousands of civilians, spend trillions of dollars, then just left like nothing happened. I consider it one of the first big failures of the modern military.
@@InalienableLiberty there has never been a communist society. You should hate fascism instead. It is the definition of evil and America along with Europe is falling to it, which scares the hell out of me. And no I am not a communist lol, I am just saying that if you read Karl Marx's teachings, then you know that communism has never been achieved. At least communists fight for equality (although many leftists like me also do that), while fascists always fight for genocide.
Loved every minute of this, thanks mate! Excellent work.
Thank you!
I commented on the first video my grandfather was an American soldier who was in the 4th infantry division in pleiku from 1968 to 70 he experienced the horrors of searching the jungle and getting attacked off and on and when he wasn’t in the jungle he was in fire base oasis which was overrun during the tet offensive he knows first hand what it was like and I respect him greatly for it and him being able to talk about it. Also my old bus monitor was in the 25th infantry division in plieku the years before my grandfather was there. My grandfather also believes he caught lung cancer from agent orange and other chemicals used during the Vietnam war
And the US still had the balls to call the USSR the “bad guys” 💀
This Vietnam War video has been incredible!!! 💯
Excellent work !
Thank you!
@@ThingsICareAboutill be happy if you put the caption english. The auto generated subtitles not matching. Sorry im not england boy so its hard for me to understand it just by listen(maybe there is others like me) :D
Apologies for the delay! I just uploaded the subtitles/captions, so it should be working now! It may take youtube a while to process it, but it will be working any moment now!@@pffttttttt
@@ThingsICareAbout Ill spread your channel as fast as the fake news and thank you so much for notice my commnt 👍🏻😁
Today is a good day. Our man updated a new episode.
Sent from Mr. Terry. I hope you keep growing and find a community that supports you!!
Oustanding channel, hope it keeps growing.
Love from Argentina!!!❤
This is the kind of content oversimplified started with. I really enjoyed his early videos, but he is making his videos get more and more childishly weird. (The potty jokes are getting really out of hand). This channel captures the history very well and has the perfect amount of humor to keep viewers engaged.
Thank you! That is exactly my goal!
I think oversimplified is aiming for a more childish viewership demographic, so it can also be shown in schools and kids learn more about history, rather than actually making a serious video with animations, if you want serious the armchair historian is great with that
@jeancorzo4755 im looking for middle ground. Stuff. Armchair and kings and generals i put in the background while i clean. Oversimplified was for watching. I get he might be trying to target a younger audience, but he is talking about murdering people. (Hannibal) weird topic to make a school video about.
Amazing job keep them coming you glorious GigaChad
Great video with well explaining
I'm happy to see "Things I Care About" being so dedicated to his channel he time-travelled to get to that press conference! 😄 ( 10:53 )
I am proud to be Vietnamese, I am a descendant of Ho Chi Minh. The Vietnamese people are one, no force is allowed to invade. America has done us many bad things, let's put the past behind us but we will never forget the past! 🇻🇳🇻🇳🇻🇳
As a regular Oversimplified watcher, I am so happy to see someone continuing his legacy in his own terms. Team ThingsICareAbout, massive congratulations to you for the superb effort you put in explaining such complicated Geopolitical war such "Oversimplified"ally! ❤️ Congratulations from India!
U r the best - bro followed up on oversimplified and made it better. I subscribed bcs of this
Forgot to mention that punji stakes were often smeared with shit to infect the wound if it was superficially nonlethal
Wait they just shit on the sticks 😂
I love your initiative, your videos are very nice and fun to watch!
A man worthy of being oversimplified’s successor
I hope everything goes well for your channel and you get more subsribers, I just did, you deserve more subs man. Awesome content and very good detail.
Thank you for doing this , I really appreciate it cause I am learning it for my project... ❤
I’m disappointed in Truman for not responding to Ho Chi Minh who was a true patriot and would have made a great ally. And then Eisenhower let us down. If I ever admired Eisenhower, I’m nuanced now. Had Kennedy lived things might have been different. Again just American government ignorance prevailed. As an American, when i saw people fleeing Vietnam to the helicopters, I felt shame. The whole thing could have been avoided. This was an excellent two part video. Thank you for presenting it.
Great video, I just wish you could have said a few more details about what happened in Cambodia and how the US caused it because it is such a forgotten issue. 1/4 of the population was killed by Pol Pot and almost nobody in the west knows even though they are partly to blame.
You did an awesome job showing both sides equally drawing attention to what most people miss.
US wasn't the only one who Pol Pot got his power, it was both North Vietnam and US. Both of them were the instrumentals for Pol Pot rise.
@@jemappllesphan6143 Not to mention PolPot was a huge hypocrite and traitor killing people for no apparente reason and betraying Ho Chi Minh
The US did not cause the Cambodian Genocide in anyway, the US was instrumental in the effort to stop it at any cost. North Vietnam invaded Cambodia and supported and fought with the Khmer Rouge against the Cambodian government, which eventually sent and ultimate that all North Vietnamese soldiers must leave Cambodia (they obviously refused) and together with the US and South Vietnam, they launched the Cambodian Campaign and started bombing their common enemies, the Khmer Rouge and North Vietnam who had no right violating Cambodia's sovereignty. The real tragedy was when the US abandoned Cambodia and thereby gave the North Vietnamese the opportunity to put the Khmer Rouge into power.
@@8is no it's different
The US Brought about the situation for the khmer rouge to rise and, without Ho Chi Minh knowing about the genocides, North Vietnam supported them, but the deal was that Vietnam would get some Land of Cambodia, and originally PolPot agreed but he then refused to give It Upon winning, this added to the reveal of the genocides Brought tensions between the two countries that escalated into a war, with China attacking Vietnam in support of the Cambodians and the Americans seeing this as the chance to gain their Little Vietnamese puppet secretely sent men to fight against the Vietnamese on PolPot's side (technically). However Vietnam repelled the Chinese, defeated the Americans and marched on the Cambodian Capital untile the Berlin Wall fell, at that point Vietnam was scared of an eventual collapse of the USSR and pulled out of Cambodia ensuring tho that PolPot leaves Cambodian politics and people get to vote on their government
And they voted for a Constitutional Monarchy (it's unsure if the vote was legit tho because of the American influence)
@@8isThe US bombing destabilised Cambodia which let Pol Pot rise to power, the US’s involvement was indirect.
However when the Cambodian people overthrew Pol Pot the US and the rest of the world didn’t recognise the new democracy and continued to recognise Pol Pot and even gave him funding during a famine while he was living in luxury in exile. He died in luxury with no one giving him any sort of punishment for the atrocities he committed.
I didn't know Vietnam War was actually this deadly and important to the Cold War, and even to present day. Thank you for sharing.
They shoved it under the rug because it was the 3rd world, I beg you didn’t know Pablo Escobar wanted to be the president of Colombia and invade USA, insane words but true but shove under the rug since it’s 3rd world countries
This was only the beginning. We suffer a lot after the war. Our country was the most devastated soil on the entire earth in the 20th century.
Thank you things I care about for delivering this topic with so much attention,detail,and hardwork.This part was absolutely stunning and beautiful as much as the previous one.We will be waiting eagerly for your next future project.Thank you again bro.
thank you for the kind comment!
@@ThingsICareAbout No problem bro
Learning world history without a blatant US centric perspective is mind-numbingly horrifying.
More, please.
Excellent work bro, keep it up
I suggest you do the gulf war next ir the korean war
Short video of Sino-Vietnamese War (1979)?
Besides that. Excellent done. Well explained.
Great work, hope you continue to grow
Thank you this got me through the hard times when over simplified isn't here continue the good work please.
Please please pleeeaaaaase do a video on the third Indochina War. It's very rarely discussed and id love to see it get attention. Same with the 1848 revolutions and the Paris Commune
Hey man, love the videos! Just one thing I noticed is that when you show US troops you often show them with an m16a2 instead of the more historically accurate m16a1. A way you can tell the difference is that the m16a1 has a triangular hand guard and a straight 20 round magazine instead of the 30 round curved ones.
nice video about the vietnam war, i love this!
Cool series! I’m glad you did it since Oversimplified hasn’t done it yet, but this is really good!
I love the way ypu explain things, it makes it so much easier for me to understand what I need to study for my history paper tomorrow! Could you do one on the Cuban Missile Crisis?
I watched a couple other videos of yours and at first I thought "another Oversimplified copycat" from the art / animation style. Then I watched this and the prior Vietnam video and near the end I was like goddamn this is probably the best and most succinct explanation Ive ever seen explaining the history of the US involvement and circumstances leading up to the Vietnam War. Also I was wrong in my Oversimplified copycat comparison. Other than the art / animation looking kinda similar, you have a completely different thing going on. Thanks I learned a lot today. You earned a subscriber.
Knowing how detrimental the war was in terms of casualties and destruction, I came to appriciate our Government even more. Of course there were flaws at times but overall we are doing well, we have adequate infrastructure, sky scrapers, 5G, great technology, and even did so good back in the covid pandemic. I'm so proud to be a Vietnamese
excellent series. can you please do one about the Afghan war next?
It's crazy to think that this only happened 50 years ago. The brutality and logic is just insane.
I hope you do a video about the 3rd Indochina war as well
When Oversimplified has a indefinite release date, it's good to know that you picked up the opportunity to make simplified history on TH-cam. Thank you
13:21 - 13:28
Legit feels like an Oversimplified joke. XD
Nice work by the way. 👍
I think a good thing that this video focused on the fact that the bombing of cambodia is the main reason to the rise of the khmer rouge and the horrible years that followed of genocide
These videos really opened my eyes to how much more confusing the vietnam war actually was, i thought it was something like hoi 4 where it all happened at the parallel.
You should add a year counter btw because i have no idea whats happening in what time.
This is actually really oversimplified. Once you realize that both the Cambodian and Laotian Civil Wars are occuring at the same time and being actively exacerbated by the North Vietnamese invasion of Laos and Cambodia and how complicated relationship their respective governments had to their communist insurgents, foreign armies actively fighting them and US support (both covert and explicit) with various minorities like the Hmong people in Laos that fought against the North Vietnamese or the Montagnard in South Vietnam, etc. that's when you realize things are *really* complicated.
This should get millons of views
4/5 thành viên đứng đầu liên hợp cuốc đã xâm chiếm đất nước chúng tôi nhưng đều đã bị đánh đuổi. Là người Việt Nam tôi cực kỳ tự hào về dân tộc kiên cường của mình, tôi thật không hiểu vì sao cha ông tôi có thể làm được điều phi thường đến thế.
Personally, I really wish you didn't try to be Oversimplified. The video is at its strongest when it shows the seriousness of the events and the attempts at humor undercut that in my impression. I think you can hold people's interest well enough in your own style of talking. Still a very engaging video either way and I look forward to seeing what you have in store next.
Finally! I was waiting for this
awesome video as always
Amazing! Just amazing! I can not thank you more for this series as a South Vietnamese person! However, you should of put the Battle of Xuan Loc as a quick thing before Sai Gon because of how crazy it was. Other then that, THANK YOUUUUU!
Well done, truth said trough excellent animation!
Bro i love your videos, hope you grow
subscribed. and i love your humor.
I’ve been waiting for this, even though it’s a copy of oversimplified he still does it well and even adds his own element to it.
Your content is amazing thank you for doing it!
18:50 From a story I read in the newspaper, Telling about the handshake and peace signing between Vietnam and the US by Duc Tho and Kissinger. They were both awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. While Kissinger received the award with a proud smile, Duc Tho was absent with a letter of refusal with a reason: My country is not yet at peace.
How ironic.....
The oversimplified 2.0 we got but didn’t deserve
Question: was the thumbnail based off the video: the fall of saigon (april 30th, 1975) - The end of the Vietnam war
Well done. My grandfather was a pow when he was in south Vietnamese army. Us Viet people are very happy and welcoming to foreigners. Just know the government very strict when coming in. This video went the next mile thank you for sharing.
Researching for this video I fell in love with Vietnam! I hope I get to visit your beautiful country one day!
@@ThingsICareAbout thanks a lot! Vietnam is fun. Keep making good videos.
Are you in Vietnam? Just wondering, how are children of arvn soldiers treated?
@@КолзакМикхаылов I am raised in America but have family to Vietnam. Typically if you have money you can get far in government that includes soldiers.
@@hyp3raimz i mean wouldnt your family have experienced ostracization?
This war is one of those few times where I am legitimately angry at our country for what we did. This was awful, and also unnecessary!
Love this video!
What makes me angry is that the North Vietnamese regime won in the end since they were the ones to deserve it the least because of their brutality and imperialism. I mean, just poor Laos that got a Vietnamese puppet regime that's still in power and poor Cambodia that got the Vietnamese propped up Khmer Rouge that killed a fourth of all Cambodians only to be invaded and occupied by the Vietnam for a decade. Not to mention the treatment of Hmong people that fought against North Vietnam in Laos and South Vietnam or the Montagnard people as well. Or the Hoa people who ran a lot of businesses in South Vietnam whose entire livelihood was destroyed and were brutally repressed, both before and after the Chinese invasion. Not to mention the Vietnamese of South Vietnam that were brutally subjugated by North Vietnam. The UN estimates some 165,000 who died in the "re-education" camps. Things even got so bad that between 1975-1995, some 800,000 Vietnamese were forced to flee their country by boat with some estimating as many as 400,000 who died at sea trying to escape.
@@8is where did you get info about shit like Vietnam propped up khmer rouge? Why would we make up a goverment that tried to invade us?
The khmer rouge was the first to launch offense, so all Vietnam did was retaliate, remove the hostile pro-china Polpot goverment, set up a new government that doesn't murder 1/4 of the population, and were accused as invader while doing so.
And yeah, the North was brutal in the war, expect no better treatment to traitors, the North was fighting in a disadvantaged position..
@@8isdamn bro that’s wild, if only the gringos hadn’t prolonged a war that never should’ve happened by decades maybe the situation wouldn’t have gotten so violent
@@botelladeaguamediollena4885 Yeah, it was *totally* necessary for North Vietnam to kill those millions of people in three different countries. It’s *totally* the US fault for what North Vietnam did.
@@botelladeaguamediollena4885 You say gringo yet Latinos can't even sustain an economy for more than a decade 😂😢
Bro is just a better version of oversimplfied who actually has a functional uploading system
Vietnam war in a nutshell:
America: I dont like red, lets kill them all.
North Vietnam: Nah, were just trynna unify ppl but were down to fight if we really have to.
America gets rekd*
America: Noooooooooooooooooooooooooo stop the war so many lives dead😢
More like:
North Vietnam: I am not an imperialist aggressor at all 😉(proceeds to invade three independent and sovereign countries, annexing on of them and putting puppet governments in the other two while occupying one of them for an entire decade until it loses to a actual rice farmers xD).
@@8is why we stayed in cambodia for 10 years is because we had to do it to help cambodia become stronger if we withdraw cambodia will be occupied immediately how many soldiers are left in cambodia we just want peace and business it's that simple
@@DuyPham-jz8uz You killed 100,000 Cambodians in those ten years just to occupy Cambodia so someone else wouldn't occupy Cambodia? Who?
Love your vids!
Great video! I learned quite a bit.
I like how this is just like oversimplified but it’s just the voice that’s different
The Vietnam War was the one,as a non American nor Vietnamese, that truly show me a cruel reality. 'It's not a War crime, as long as you are the super power in turn'
Honestly very good. Really enjoyable
This just needs a veiled intro to a NordVPN ad in the middle :)
Cambodia isn't the most bombed country. It is Laos. Speaking of secrecy, the secret in Cambodia is nothing compared to Laos.
Everyone is right, dude. Keep up the great work!!!!
keep doing this but PLS don't delay part 2, put them at the same time for x2 views, that's how oversimplified strategy, bcz when you immediately post p2, people will watch it. When you post it a few days after some may lose interest, please don't abandon us like oversimplified
Great point, I think you are right. Dont wrry, I am here to stay!
I am so disappointed in my country, and how little I was taught about the atrocities it committed.
Thank you for this video.
Great videos, very knowledgeble. I have never learned anything on the vietnam war matter, so these videos was really helpful to understand what it was all about - and in the end pointless. It makes me sick, how the americans reacted and feel bad for Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. 😢
I just subbed btw.
It is a very good video Mr.brain and thanks for liking my comment waiting for your next video
This is so well made and informative, amazing work!!
thank you!
okay, this is good...
*checks quality (it's 1080p60)*
damn...
*part two posted within a week or so*
Damn...
*accurate pronounciations*
DAMN
Despite all the horrible things that happened, boy am I grateful that Vietnam didn't become another US colony like other Middle Eastern countries and held on until the end despite all the horrible things everyone did (mainly caused by USA)
I believe the reason the Arab countries are still like this is because of the media.
During Vietnam, the media was anti-government.. Or.. Truthful
Now the media just does what the government wants them to without any push back..
Why do you think so many people saw Muslims as terrorists? When 9/11 was done by a guy that also ironically hated the US foreign politicy.
Not to mention, it caused exactly what he hated but against Syria and Iraq.
The US is ridiculous, and their support of israel is no different
Superb video! Thanks
Hey I gave you a paetron suggestion! (Commented on your latest poll)
Yes, I saw it! I will take the day off and go answer patreon tomorrow! Thank you for your patience!
Demanding are we ? 😂
@@2700arne no just a suggestion 😭
The most messenger conversation ever:
If hell is real, Kissinger and Nixon are definitely being spit roasted there rn...
May your wishes be granted
Hell is real but so is heaven which one do you want to go too?
@@Tanknuggets217 the one without Henry Kissinger in it
Baruch Hashem
Hey man great vid
big fan of you sir but is it possible to put subtitles. thanks a bunch!
Thank you for your contribution to youtubes history community
Bruh you’re the only guy from my subscriptions that uploaded today. Thank you for existing :)))
OVERSIMPLIFIED IS GONNA POST
I love these videos
As a Vietnamese 🇻🇳 This is 90% accurate and it tells the truth. Thank “Things I care about”. BTW Diem is call more like “Jiem” or “Ziem” 🇻🇳❤️🇺🇸
Here is my prediction. You will soon have millions of subscribers
Excellent video once again.
Thank you, kind stranger
Wink wink