The rise and fall of British power
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It's pronounced "shin feign"
Hopefully George Galloway, Andrew Feinstein and others will usher in democracy and human rights for Britons, and expel the Wall Street Totalitarians and M.I.Pricks police state apparatus, ending the mass manipulation, mass mvrder, mass deception, and mass surveillance that undermines British credibility.
The British empire started from Piracy, when Henry Morgan in 1663 embarked on a piracy operation in order to rob Spanish gold in Nicaragua. The British Empire was never lucky in the resources.
You can't talk about this subject honestly without talking about how the country was sold out.
thank u for making this video just so we can laugh at mad british having inferiority complex in the comments 😂😂😂
Great Britain; from an empire where the sun never sets to a soggy little island where the sun rarely shines.
😂😂😂
😂
Great Britain; the country that came up with the very language you are using in this comment.
Great Britain; The country reponsible for the industrial revolution
Great Britain; Conquerors of the earth
Great Brtiain; Builders of the largest empire this world has ever seen
@@MrFriendlyCsgoContent
Great Britain; The country whose people have committed the largest number of atrocities.
Great Britain; The country where if you visit the museums, you will find more offshore items than their own "relics".
PS:- this is written as a joke (even though it is true).
the Mongol empire led by Genghis Khan killed way more people.@@swagatranjansahu3022
A country betrayed by its politicians.
Wrong, the politicians are accountable to capital and doing their job as expected.
The error is believing politicians can be accountable to populations under capitalism
@@b.6603utter bollocks. Politcians are always the same - the elite. Why do you think capitalism is important here
@@tuckerbugeater please, don't forget Blackwater and Vantage.
The U.K. has been around for 1000 years and in various forms. Much of that 1000 years were glorious. They had demographic strength and that was their open secret.
So, what happened after WW2? A certain alien ppl had infiltrated into the U.K.'s halls of power and finance and began mass adulteration of the native population. Thus, the U.K.'s fall was entirely artificial and preventable. To go into detail is impossible because shares the same demographic profile and agenda as the interlopers. I just got out of the SHABAS because they cannot bear being under the harsh light of scrutiny.
@@BlackPill-pu4viLol no
A few outdated facts in this video
1. We didn’t avoid a recession in 2023, we had a mild one over Q3/Q4
2. The Northern Irish executive has now been formed.
3. We were not the worst performing economy in the G7
I think this idiot commentator is sponsored by the EU.
Also Sweden now a NATO member.
Yeah I thought Germany was the worst performer right now
This might be the laziest copy-paste video Shirvan has ever done.
@@cow_tools_ I think so, just jumping on the same bandwagon as all the other videos about the UK at the moment. The situation is not good, but people are really exaggerating how bad it is.
As someone who closely follows UK politics, I have to say this feels quite out of date. The SNP is losing support and is likely to lose a lot of seats to Labour at the next election. This will likely end the Scottish independence debate for a long time. Additionally, Brexit has been and gone, it won’t be part of the upcoming election campaign with both main parties wanting to move beyond it. The chances of the UK breaking into separate nations is very unlikely.
As someone who has followed both UK *and* Scottish politics, I reckon you’re dead wrong. Yes, Labour will probably take more Westminster seats at the next UK GE, but given those seats are virtually useless to the independence cause we won’t miss them.
Meanwhile, support for independence is still too close to call and Westminster is still running so scared (oh yes they are…) of Indyref2 the Tory cowards are preventing it happening because they know they’ll be beaten.
Over in soon to be United Ireland Sinn Fein are steadily gaining in both the North and South, with an SF First Minister in Belfast for the first time in history and even in Wales support is growing for an Indy referendum.
Your union is finished, and good riddance to it. Who wants to be in a union of 4 nations where only one (guess which) can leave whenever they choose?
@@229andymonAs someone who lives here and follows UK politics, you’re wrong.
Wales wants to overwhelmingly stay part of the union. Only 27% want independence in the latest poll from last month.
I doubt we will ever see a united Ireland. There is still a majority support of N.Ireland to remain in the UK and even if they did become part of a united Ireland, you would see the mass reemergence of such loyalist paramilitary groups like the UVF and UDA looking at targeting the republic in protest.
Scotland has always been close to wanting independence and that’s the one that will probably happen in our lifetime, but there is way too much division at the moment for it to be put on the table. It will be a long time before they ever do get independence.
I voted to remain in the EU and personally think it’s a disaster, but our economy is actually showing bigger and faster growth in terms of GDP than countries like Germany.
The UK isn’t the powerhouse it used to be, every empire falls.
@@gbrown546 in truth I’m not saying anything is inevitable, nothing is, but I’ve been watching the rise of Indy support in Scotland since the 70s and Irish unification for as long, and I disagree. Indy support goes up and down, but if you look at it over the long term the trajectory is pointing one way only. Sure it may stop where it is now, and what a horrible prospect that would be, eh? But, why assume it will stop, at 50/50? No, I think UK will split and I also believe the UK nations will be the better for it.
@@gbrown546 Meant to add that while I agree Germany is in trouble at this time, that’s due to other factors, like the rise of Chinese auto industry and the effects of no more cheap piped gas coming from Russia. Germany’s travails are nothing to do with the EU.
In the long term UK will suffer badly from Brexit. Why? Because the whole ethos of the EU is to promote inter-EU trade and where possible avoid external trade. Unlike UK, which has no “members”, there are 26 other EU members each nation in the EU can trade with and will in time want to replace UK trade with. There is (almost) nothing positive about Brexit and I believe my country (Scotland) needs to Foxtrot Oscar out the union before we get dragged along with the isolationist, xenophobic Brit state to the decline it’s heading to.
Yes as is typical of videos you find on the problems with the UK there is way too much emphasis on Brexit. No mention of other events that were arguably more damaging such as Margaret Thatcher, Black Wednesday or Austerity. The largest problem with the UK to put simply is the lack of investment we consistently rank amongst the lowest in investment in the OECD for the last 30 years and now that is beginning to show.
POV: you’re playing EU4 and are England in 1520.
Did u choose Colonialism and Expansion for your first two ideas, or did u go more for Offensive and say Trade? 😋😆
@@ryangrant9885 Dont go for either. Real players go for maritime and espionage
You do realise the “British” Empire, or atleast its origins was started by Welsh people (Britons)? Elizabeth the 1st, John Dee, and Richard Ap Meryck. They are the three who funded, influenced and Established the colonies in North America. Using an ancient Brythonic legend to justify to the Pope why they deserved the land of Spain or France.
@@HeyItsJakegaming yeah maritime and naval 💪 because when needs land army's when u can dominate at sea 🌊 😏
Elizabeth the first, John Dee, and Richard Ap Meryck founded the British Empire. All originally from the Britons (Welsh).
"our time has come" -British person after spending 30 minutes on the copium mask
Anyone one with a shred of optimism gets hit with that term from gen Z’ers😂🙄
Maybe the average English nationalist can turn it into a catchphrase. Maybe "Our Day Will Come" will work...
Sun has set for the british.Go to sleep already.
@@RaviKiran-uq8np and what back water country do you come from? Jealous of our rich history of conquering the earth? Don't hate the nation that put your people under its boot, embrace it. So many peoples were brought from the tribal era because of us, you should be greatful.
England was a colony of rome.Read what romans thought about you.They considered you a full joke.@@MrFriendlyCsgoContent
".....Although the UK is seemingly expected to avoid recession..."
Morgan Freeman: The UK did in fact not avoid a recession
An ok summary but you should have also covered the immense social tensions caused by mass immigration into the UK. It's an internal conflict just waiting to explode.
Agreed. The will be war if our government keeps on importing the third world. I can already feel it
most important observation which continues to expose the globalization tecknik
Don't be such a bigot
@@user-lp7wo7og4x you forgot the /s
like when the. anglos ans saxons came
the way we've fallen behind in the last 10 years needs to be studied
Edit: Yes you can dispute the time period of which we've dropped off blah blah blah, i just meant this specific period has been a real missed opportunity
We? lmao. Average person in UK does not represents power.
The person running the show don't need "UK", he might just a small castle in UK.
the last 10 years? DID YOU FORGET ABOUT WW2 BUD?
Well all you have to do is look at which party has been in charge that whole time
5 words can sum this up for you - Fourteen years of Tory rule.
@@callumsaunderson1089yes, following on the back of the worst recession in 90 years under Labour. Both are as bad as each other, as you’ll soon found out under Starmer’s rule
As a Portuguese living in Britain, what I notice the most is that quite a few British people that live in the UK and that are from the former colonies, tend to have a deep rooted and taught hatred for the country and seem to enjoy the social divide. The other issue is that a lot of these people don't really like each other due to Post Imperial Britain atrocities some nations committed against each other... Both that and religious contempt for one another.
Yes I really dont understand why they live in the UK if they hate it so much. Like please, go back to your roots and try to make that country great (again?) instead of practically participating in making the UK worse by inciting greater social divide. The same can be said about any immigrant with the same opinions living in any country tbh.
@@Permuh They are probably jewish. They can only destroy that others have built.
Exactly, I get why a lot of these people would hate Britain tbh, but from a practical standpoint they shouldn’t be here, we have so many people here who hate the country and it’s people, in my opinion I think our “multiculturalism” has already crashed and burned and created an ethnically divided society that’s being torn apart
@@Permuh For the money (it isnt complicated).
You guys don't understand Britain enough yet, the English, Scots, Irish, Colonies, Welsh, Auzies, Northerners, the Midlands, Southerners constantly moan and are all very critical of the country and always have been but at the same time you will see the same groups waving the flag feeling proud from time- to time but ...also being quite curiously xenophobic about "others" and engaging in finger pointing... perhaps the UK is not a simple country like Portugal.
Just a minor tidbit - it is the Scottish National Party. Calling it the Scottish National-ist Party is what Boris Johnstone would say to paint the party more negatively
Not sure why people are talking about the UK never being a superpower again. Of course it can't. A country like the UK shouldn't be compared to the likes of the USA or China. The state of California alone has a larger economy than any European country barring Germany. The UK should be compared to similar second tier powers, like Germany, France, Japan and India. Among them, the UK isn't performing all too badly.
Perspective:
US 🇺🇸
China 🇨🇳
Japan 🇯🇵
Germany 🇩🇪
India 🇮🇳
Britain 🇬🇧
France 🇫🇷
Italy 🇮🇹
Brazil 🇧🇷
Canada 🇨🇦
Not exactly the end of the world.
The UK is not country Muppet
As a Brit it is increasingly clear that we need to modernise, or we will be permanently left behind. Out cities (outside of London) have poor infrastructure and awful public transport compared to the UK. We are trying American strategies for growth without the geographical advantages that the US has.
The UK is like a cross of Europe and America, but the problem with that is that it's got many of the bad elements of the US and the truth is, the UK is very European in most ways, to our social policies, to the cars we drive, the sports we play, how our cities are built and countless other things.
I always find it weird how the UK tries to import a lot of the negative aspects of the US, when it's clear that when it comes to quality of life, European countries dominant.
@@paul1979uk2000the whole of Europe became slaves to the banking elite after ww2. That was the cost. Europe died after the war
Public transport is not your issue lol. Your issue is a huge lack of freedom where it matters (namely self defense and speech) and the pathetic immigration policy you've adopted that invited your enemies in and gave them public support rather than keeping them away.
@@paul1979uk2000Europe is the sick man of the world. European quality of life is garbage, you pay out the ass for basic things like water that Americans get for free. Just because you guys don't like to work doesn't mean your quality of life is better. American homes are bigger, cheaper, better built, and more comfortable than euro ones. Our currency is stronger, food is cheaper, we have a better birth rate than the Eurozone as well because people here have more hope and ability to raise a family. Europeans are high on their own farts thinking they're better than America in any way. You guys need to humble yourselves to save yourselves from disaster.
The main problem of the UK is London itself, the city was the economic centre of the EU and kept most of the wealth within the city, they’ve also sacrificed our industries to make sure they had the pretty title and leave the majority with nothing.
UPDATE: The UK did in fact not avoid a recession in 2023.
Correct. This whole video stinks of bad research.
UK is in technical recession only - UK unemployment is extremely low, wages are going up.
I am pretty sure the video said that it would probably avoid recession this year. The year of this year is 2024.
Right?? We all went into one.
THIS YEAR, he means 2024...
Every country, every region inevitably experience an ebb and flow of greatness and obscurity, and it should teach us that there is always a large range of factors that determine who has their place in the sun. At the zenith of the british empire, people would talk about the perceived superiority of british genes and culture, not knowing that superpower status would be lost in a few generations.
True, look at Italy.
@@amh9494Italy as a geographical region ye but you can’t draw a line from todays Italy back to Roman Empire. Just saying..
"Fortress Britain struck out at the world and conquered it" damn that's a cool quote
May I also remind you of the fact that fortress Britain would commit and practice a great many cardinal sins, many of them knowingly, such as centuries-long global;
- 'Colonization',
- 'Genocide',
- 'Slavery',
- 'Colonialism',
- 'Global Warming', etc which benefited them enormously for centuries worldwide; then they would initiate and take a measure to ban those practices worldwide, and take credit for it. (Note: Today's global warming is caused in large part by nearly two centuries of excessive coal burning, mainly in the West).
For plain truths, pls read the supremely informative, insightful, multi-page comment by 'Lonely Alaskan' at, "Complete History Of Indigenous America Before Colonialism/Chronicle":th-cam.com/video/z9SMN59vsGY/w-d-xo.htmlsi=EuprExcga7zJW2UA ., {which by the way, got pushed down below 200 other comments lately).
May I also remind you of the fact that fortress Britain would commit and practice a great many cardinal sins, many of them knowingly, such as centuries-long global;
- 'Colonization',
- 'Genocide',
- 'Slavery',
- 'Colonialism',
- 'Global Warming', etc which benefited them enormously for centuries worldwide; then they would initiate and take a measure to ban those practices worldwide, and take credit for it. (Note: Today's global warming is caused in large part by nearly two centuries of excessive coal burning, mainly in the West).
For plain truths, pls read the supremely informative, insightful, multi-page comment by 'Lonely Alaskan' at, "Complete History Of Indigenous America Before Colonialism/Chronicle", on TH-cam (which by the way, got pushed down below 200 other comments lately).
@@imlovely6522 Thanks for the supremely informative, insightful, multi-page comment by 'Lonely Alaskan' at, "Complete History Of Indigenous America Before Colonialism/Chronicle":th-cam.com/video/z9SMN59vsGY/w-d-xo.htmlsi=EuprExcga7zJW2UA .
The two most sacred Christian doctrines are,
- Thou shalt not kill,
- Thou shalt not steal.
@@imlovely6522so they didn’t the same thing every nation did before 1950 wow amazing
Step one: Go to beach.
Step two: Raise arms HIGH.
Step three: Rule waves.
Should also bring a ruler?
And famines 💀
Canute?
And turnips.
Atrocities
As a former empire myself, this really speaks to me
As an up and coming empire myself, I learned a lot from this.
@@alainbutprepare to be invaded
@@alainbut😂😂😂😂
@@RapturesBounty😂😂
Half of England is owned by less than 1% of its population, It is impossible to penetrate the secrecy that has traditionally surrounded land ownership. It is “astonishingly unequal”, that about 25,000 landowners - typically members of the aristocracy and associated corporations - have control of half of the country. The common population cannot survive and support growth in those circumstances without the exploitation of colonies. And the colonies are mostly gone.
Time to set things right if you want to prosper British commoners. But you can't and you will be the ones to suffer, not the lords.
If UK is dissolved, UN should change it's position as permanent council
Nuclear sun gets a seat in the table which is moored in Scotland
Sub
Britain plans its global comeback... to the EU. 🤣
evil EU must be dissolved
Never going to Happen the EU would never accept the UK without stripping it of all Veto's and opt outs, No one in the UK would ever accept being chained to the Eurozone, Schengen, refugee relocation quotas,.
The only thing will be trade and law adoption akin to Norway but the EU doesn't like that arrangement and wouldn't want to replicate it
Brexit has been an absolute s**t show. I voted stay as I am sane. Even leavers would rejoice at rejoining the EU at this point.
Brexit was clearly an uninformed decision given US might decide one day to go back in its shell
@@ryan-tc3rk lol brits will be fucking grovelling before the EU. Especially once the US realises it's not worth the cost of keeping them as a client state
Surprising that AUKUS was not mentioned, especially in regard to the Asia-Pacific, and Britain's further pivot to the USA.
The UK can't pivot to the US because democrats are antipathetic towards UK and RepuliTrumps are aggressively insular.
he made an AUKUS video a while back and came to the conclusion that it wouldn't really work. And the only way it would work would be for Britain under a American-led economic union which defeats the political purpose of Brexit in the first place.
AUKUS is 100% meaningless lol. It exists solely for the (attempt at) positive public perception it garnered by being announced and shall do nothing beyond that.
What pivot? We've twice rejected a trade deal with the US because the americans are not willing to compromise for our higher food standards. Trump or Biden, it didn't matter. I pray to god the new labour government will have enough balls to at least float the idea of rejoining the single market, otherwise we can get used to worsening living standards and collapsing social services.
@@indonesiansasquatch4926agreed but labour is part of the problem. Both parties need out
*As an Austrian I can assure you Britain is not the worst performing G7 country, that price goes to Germany.*
Britain also lost WW2 when you look at the economy. It was just too expensive and they couldnt hold their empire. The USA succeeded it. Some people still think of the old glory and power but britain now is only a shadow of itself.
Sinn Fein is pronounced Shin Fane
His AI voiceovers he started doing a while back are getting a bit more obvious lol, “boosted about” instead of “boasted about” as well before that. Shirvan, we miss your real voice! Please voice your videos yourself again!
do you mean you listened to the video past the few seconds when you learned he was serious?
It is delusional...
Dipped at 15 seconds myself. This used to be informative, now it's like something made by an uninformed teenager@@ngamashaka4894
Oh good, I'm not the only one twitching over that; Shhin FAY-ne
Yeah but come on even in Ireland 3% of the population actually speak Irish. Cut him some slack.
I just feel sorry for Brits, no-one deserves the appaling leadership they've suffered.
There has never been great leadership in Britain, and it's been left to the people to always save the country.
The fact that ever political party in the country is incapable of properly governing is lowkey impressive
They obviously feel otherwise, having voting in those governments.
British do deserve the current leadership because they are weak, they will not force our leaders to be accountable. It's a result of the class system which still prevails in UK society today.
What? They actually voted for that, and kept voting for that since the late 70s.
At 15:30, a prediction from 2022 for the year 2023 is shown. A bit awkward, us living in March 2024...
Great Britain: A country that conquered for spices, but settled for salt and black pepper.
You mean the UK. Great Britain is the island.
You can't address this issue honestly without talking about how the country was sold out.
Just as our sweden
by who and to whom?
Muslim immigrants….
The electorial process is not even legitimate. Its only an illusion. The nassive financial influences havebbeen plundering Britain and the politicians only play theatre. They disregard the needs and voices if the native citizens. And have just continued on because they are passive so the government does not fear its peoples. This all didnt just happen, very stragtegic in tandem with corruped traitors.
@@bunnystrasse You mean politician falling your country by selling your major industry for the banking industry that is centralized in London city that is famous for their "second British empire" that is famous for money laundering and corruption in the country and corruption schemes rather than focusing to their middle-class work force; the same workforce that doesn't want to work at hard jobs that only immigrants want to take I.e trucking?
Why’s there so many salty comments about Britain here 🤣
The usual reasons: stupidity & ignorance.
Indians
oh my god get over us mate .@@civilengineer3349
@@civilengineer3349yeah they are everywhere crying. to think the uk sacrificed everything to save darker races in ww2 stopping white supremacist ideologies from taking over Europe. and this is how they act towards them and their children today. kinda proves the fascists right lol.
Angry Vishnu's writing comments from their tuktuk carts on the cafe wifi.
The answer is to work together. The British with their skill, capability, acumen, royalty, jam and scones, BBC, beautiful accents, football teams, defense force, landmarks, humour, music, and love of the game, combined with Irish Guinness, Kilkenny, leprechauns, shamrocks, pots of gold, global public holidays, beautiful accents, music, and folklore, as well as the Scottish... contribution... can all rule the world. 🤣
Why are you laughing? You said the truth
@@Letsvisit-Araz1719 No. You are not special. A hard truth about us europeans is that we ruled the world when we had a lot higher population percentage. Britain is just 60 million people today, against 8 bn others. insignificant.
Financially if the UK stops importing oil , coal, gas and electricity and replaces it with home produced power its balance of payments and the national debt will be paid for in 20 years. All countries are changing because of the weather , population growth , and where humans find a place to make a living.
Is it wrong that when I read the title I started laughing.
The only reaction in all the comments : LOL
Its the natural reaction 😂
such a clickbait title :D
If you are British, a belly laugh is in order.
Literally just came in here to write "You must be out of your tiny brain putting that shit on the internet!", but hilariously, they've got in ahead of me and changed the title themselves to something less cringe.
Less clickable too though - like who gives a shit about "The rise and fall of British power"? Isn't that some shit we all were bothered about 15 years ago?
As someone from Britain, there is no comeback
get rid of your right wing idiots and you could be a world power again. But sadly... you wont just as we americans wont. Because money rules politics and the worlds elite think the 18th century was perfection
sadly true
How the hell would you know? Nobody predicted the rise of the East India Company.
@twoeggcups what the hell kind of comparison is that? 😂 the country is done for. We are not better off than we were before the ‘08 crash. Things will not get better and you are deluded if you believe that. Sad but true.
@@twoeggcups because our politicians are useless and there’s no growth in this country
UK technology sector is ranked 3rd in the world, at $820 billion dollars. It is the world's 2nd largest financial centre, and 1/3 world leader were educated in Britain. The UK hasn't fallen yet.
They don't care because they're too busy try to find faults with us, rather than opening their ignorant minds to all the positives. Every country as it's good and bad things
More babble
How much of it is just evaluation? NVIDIA is trading at 100x its PE. tech in general is only worth because they are embedded in the western system, when the western national systems decline, so does the tech. Also worth often does not equal productive.
Yeah, keep Westminster out of the universities and guard them with your life!
NOTHING Lasts Forever.... So 🤷♂
Time we Brits started to learn the Art of Humility Once Again...
Oh and don't worry! Our American allies will also learn this lesson soon enough!!!
That's the first time I've ever heard a Brit say that. It's refreshing.
Click bait? I must have missed the 'planned global comeback' part.
Where does the video or description mention a comeback?
The original title mentioned 'planned global comeback'
As the video mentions the UK is number 2 on the world's soft power ranking list. Think about it...
@@StimParavane I gather the soft power has been the case for a long while. The original YT title stated 'planned global comeback'.
Shirvan must have heard you
Was this video written by ChatGPT?
It was terrible and my child could have done better
Yeah he speaks more and more less personal, its like someone wrote it for him. Its hilarious actually..
What made you say this?
@@cmilter6360You seem like you long for the past glories, they are gone, let the past go
Are you saying this because the truth hurts?
One other important point in Britain's historic power - the population boom following industrialisation that led to British culture, technology and the English language to all corners of the globe and creating new societies like the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and even arguably Singapore
Surface level geopolitics is meme. This video proves it.
What's wrong with it ?
in denial
Okay britbong, but you are doomed for sure .
The problem is not geopolitics but the fact that Caspian Report now does shallow videos
@@b-92s25 most of it is out of date: support for SNP and Scotish independence collapsed, NI has a government now, UK avoided recesion and recen figures show that it's going to be one of the fastests growing economies in EU. 2nd largest Economy in EU by far, biggest military in EU, highest nominal contributions to nato in EU, involved in Ukraine, Pacific. Working close with the US on AUKUS and Yemen, exercising it's soft power.
Glad to see most of the other comments know how incorrect some of the statements here are as well.
Yeah this video, despite being 20 min long, has basically 0 content. It's like a history lecture with 5 min at the end like: here are some problems the UK faces... Hardly about planning any comeback...
It’s a really poor video
It's pitiful. No understanding of Britain at all. Over 2 years out of date. Missed the self-destruction of the SNP ... missed the resumption of devolved government in Northern Ireland ... I could go on ...
This was my thought as well. Information seemed to be dated and one sided, forgetting about recession in EU countries, cites a projection on performing economies 2022 then subsequent performance have proved it wrong. At no stage mentioning the importance of City of London or the strain of migration on services and taxes in the country.
@@larslarsson4664almost like the video was made with AI
PART II
"What actually occurred was that Britain and other countries became hopelessly indebted to the United States once again (edit: during World War 2) ... *“We have profited by our past mistakes,” announced Roosevelt in a speech delivered on September 3, 1942. “This time we shall know how to make full use of victory.” This time the U.S. Government would conquer its allies in a more enlightened manner, by demanding economic concessions of a legal and political nature instead of futilely seeking repayment of its wartime loans (of World War 1).* The new postwar strategy sought and secured foreign markets for U.S. exports, and new fields for American investment capital in Europe’s raw materials producing colonial areas. Despite Roosevelt’s assurances to the contrary, Britain was compelled, under the Lend-Lease agreements and the terms of the first great U.S. postwar loan to Britain, to relinquish Empire Preference and to open all its markets to U.S. competition, at a time when Britain desperately needed these markets as a means by which to fund its sterling debt. Most important of all, Britain was forced to unblock its sterling and foreign-exchange balances built up by its colonies and other Sterling Area countries during the wartime years. Instead of the Allied Powers as a whole bearing the costs of these wartime credits to British Empire countries, they would be borne by Britain itself. Equally important, they would not be used as “blocked” balances that could be used only to buy British or other Sterling Area exports, but would be freed to purchase exports from any nation. Under postwar conditions this meant that they would be used in large part to purchase U.S. exports." (page 115/116)
"By relinquishing its right to block these balances, Britain gave up its option, while enabling the United States to make full use of its gold stock as the basis for postwar lending to purchased generalized (primarily U.S.) exports. *At a stroke, Britain’s economic power was broken. What Germany as foe had been unable to accomplish in two wars against Britain, the United States accomplished with ease as its ally."* (Page 117)
"Furthermore, under the terms on which it joined the International Monetary Fund, Britain could not devalue the pound sterling so as to dissipate the foreign-exchange value of these balances. Its liability thus was maximized - and so was America’s gain from the pool of liquidity that these balances now represented." ("Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire." -- Michael Hudson, 2nd edition 2003)
In case that seems a bit technical, here is the "nutshell version": Just like the bank takes your house if you don't pay up in the real world, the British Empire was run into the ground by the "best friends" USA, who stole the Empire's markets; hidden behind a whole lot of "technical jargon", thereby taking the means London had to pay its debts. A suitable micro level example would be the bank having an eye on your house, then making sure you get fired so you can't pay your debt. On the macro level the term is "debt trap diplomacy", and on the (privatized) propaganda level the means is "projection: accuse somebody else of being something which one is oneself", and that "being" has started waaaaaay earlier as a matter of own policy. A "debt trap" the Allies walked into after 1916, after they had spent all their own money, and squeezed as much out of their colonies as they could get away with, but refused to come to terms at the negotiating table: another factor usually associated with the Central Powers.
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"At the end of the war [WW2], Britain, physically devastated and financially bankrupt, lacked factories to produce goods for rebuilding, the materials to rebuild the factories or purchase the machines to fill them, or with the money to pay for any of it. Britain’s situation was so dire, the government sent the economist John Maynard Keynes with a delegation to the US to beg for financial assistance, claiming that Britain was facing a "financial Dunkirk”. The Americans were willing to do so, on one condition: They would supply Britain with the financing, goods and materials to rebuild itself, but dictated that Britain must first eliminate those Sterling Balances by repudiating all its debts to its colonies. The alternative was to receive neither assistance nor credit from the US. *Britain, impoverished and in debt, with no natural resources and no credit or ability to pay, had little choice but to capitulate. And of course with all receivables cancelled and since the US could produce today, those colonial nations had no further reason for refusing manufactured goods from the US. The strategy was successful. By the time Britain rebuilt itself, the US had more or less captured all of Britain’s former colonial markets, and for some time after the war’s end the US was manufacturing more than 50% of everything produced in the world. And that was the end of the British Empire, and the beginning of the last stage of America’s rise."*
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3:21 "We've assigned a media bias rating of center to BBC News"
I almost spat my coffee out when I read that.
What do you mean? I don’t understand
@@JoostEurovisionFans BBC is incredibly biased but they also switch sides depending on who's paying. Its very sickening and shows they have 0 integrity.
The BBC have a rather extreme left wing bias and have for decades, this effects how they frame things, but also the very old joke is that they just steal all their points from the guardian newspaper.
@@JoostEurovisionFans The BBC is extremely far left, Not centrist.
@@Cha4kAs someone that's a leftist (not a liberal), BBC is definitely not far left, i wish but this is never possible in the UK with all the liberals and conservatives in positions of power. Centrist is fitting if you look at it objectively.
Ironic that a video sponsored by a news website is already out of date in the section on Northern Ireland 🤔
And in the sections of NATO and Scotland.
They should take London back first
Exactly.
you guys know immigrants are a big part of why these european countries have a relatively stable economy, right? whatever you may think of them culturally
@@Ar1AnX1x Lol. They are the cause of the delapidation and downfall. They use up way more resources than they generate and drive down wages
Nah, I want to see it get worse, separatist movements and all, so that it may serve as a wake up call to the rest of europe and the world.
@@Ar1AnX1x stable? omega lul
This video makes me sad even though I’m from the southern U.S. and about as un-British as it gets. Yet, my family’s ancestral home is Darlington. I would move to the UK tomorrow if it had opportunities in my tech industry.
The video is terribly misleading. I think the TH-camr searched on Google for his content🤦♂️. The union is very strong and our economy is doing better than Germany atm. And thank you for your concern. Darlington in the North East of England is a beautiful area and has a lot of viking heritage
@@AngloSaxonVanguard take off them rose tinted glasses. The Union is crumbling and will be lucky to see another decade. Independence is the only option left for the nations in the UK.
@@AngloSaxonVanguard Lol. Your comment lost all credibility when you said UK economy is doing better than Germany. Germany is a great manufacturing hub. UK is an artifically inflated semi-tax haven finance center.
I’d disagree, devolution of power weakened the U.K. and then diversification crippled it. USA putting pressure on the U.K. to cut ties with foreign territories since the 1950s also weakened it.
Devolution, from my perspective, is typical of the way that everything in the UK is set up. It’s ad hoc, and comes into conflict with other systems.
They should have federated. Give each region a ‘state’ or ‘provincial’ government, with the federal government in London. Probably split England into various regions.
If they’d done it a century ago they could’ve even kept empire, a global federation with each subject of the empire becoming citizens of empire.
The UK half-arses everything.
@@ziptink1710 federalism wouldn’t work in the UK. First off England would have to devolve powers to regions in England. and then the countries that make up the United kingdom would have the same powers as regions of England. It would just fuel the independence movement. Independence is the only viable option for this outdated backward looking union.
It's Empire lasted a lot longer than some, seems to be missed by a few also.@@ziptink1710
as a British person i find the analysis here off, the separatism and Brexit are both caused by the disconnect between London and the rest of the country.
the non-London parts of the country shot themselves in the chest by voting for Brexit. sheer idiocy to leave a market that provided most of their business.
Did only London vote Remain?
@@OmegaTrooper yes and. money comes and goes, markets crash and business relationships change. for most people regardless of which side of the vote they where it was not about money, it is a cop out used by people, most people who voted remain did not do so for the economic benefits, it was an ideological one, just as leave was an ideological vote.
@@mt508 not if you look at the uk as a whole, but if you look at england the one nation in the uk that doesn't have the option to succeed it was predominantly leave, the only other exceptions being some university towns, some parts of big cities and some wealthy areas of England.
@@Tree_a_Boar I was most of the big cities.
Its entirely up to the people but as an Englishmen with Welsh, Scotish and Irish family connections I would be sad to see any of our brothers leave the union
Honestly, as someone who also has such family connections, I think our respective nations will be able to get along with each other far better if we didn't have to share the same country. My country (Wales) would be able to adopt an independent monetary policy more suited for its comparatively export-led economy, and England would no longer have to subsidize us, saving money for English taxpayers. We in Wales would be forced to face up to our own challenges, as we would no longer need to beg Westminster for more powers. This would enable stronger accountability for government, and would allow us to centre our own interests. England meanwhile would be forced to confront the demise of its colonial identity, and would have no choice but to come up with something new and forward-looking. I think the likelihood of hard borders is low; the UK didn't even have hard borders with the Irish Republic throughout the troubles. So I see no reason for sadness in the dissolution of the UK. What I do find rather sad, is to have to live in a union that is falling backwards, clinging spitefully onto its past.
@@caiwilliams2905 no body knows what is best. The Welsh would have its own problems being independent. They don’t have the power or influence Britain as a whole has. The monetary exchange system would have to be changed. I don’t see the Welsh agreeing to this. The military will not be up to par to be a real deterrent against any foreign threats. They would rely heavily on England. There’s so many issues for its own self determination to retain its control over its relevance in the world. They will have their hands full.
How would wales be better independent in your opinion?
@@EpicAelflaed Nobody said it would be easy, but for me, independence isn't about the next 10 years, but about the long term. The point of independence isn't to be powerful or influential, but to be prosperous - after all, we are already used to the idea of being a small country. For this reason, a powerful military is not a priority. Diplomatic alliances are far more important, and as Ireland demonstrates, you don't need to be big, or to have a powerful military, to achieve this. In terms of prosperity, the UK is holding us back, and not just because the UK is in secular decline. It also relates to the fact that Wales has a more export-oriented economy than the rest of the UK, but has to sell its products using a strong currency that makes those exports uncompetitive (Italy and Greece have had these same problems since joining the Euro). Additionally, we are not getting paid the full value of what we export to England, not least because so many of our resources are English-owned. This includes electricity generation (we export as much as we use, but still pay some of the highest consumer prices in the UK - bad for business competitiveness), and also our foreshore and seabed, which is crown land. And there is also the issue of being ruled by politicians who have to think in the UK's interest, rather than in Wales' interest, despite the fact that our interests diverge so frequently. It would be unfair to suggest that English politicians should always be acting in our interests, so the dissolution of the UK would effectively solve a massive co-ordination problem. I could go on, but that's the gist of it.
@@EpicAelflaed but if all nations agree to a shared nuclear deterrent then what foreign military is going to try and invade?
@@alynwillams4297what are you talking about? Invade? The invasion has already happened, it will spread to most of wales too, just a matter of time. My hometown has been half colonised in just a decade and a half.
The biggest issue with the UK is that it's infrastructure and economic plans are still tailored to the 20th century. Houses are built quick and cheap like it's still 1946, roads are built for cars that the younger generation don't drive and the standard of food quality has dropped significantly since Brexit. A massive shake up is needed to the system if the British govt still wants relevant power
Everything in UK is tailored to 20th and 19th century. This includes architecture, infrastructure but most importantly general philosophy of the average joe
This is a fast evolving world, if unable to adapt and learn to hold to tradition whilst embracing modernity you will be left behind.
That’s why the US went from a British colony to surpass it in 200 years
One has an ultra conservative mindset the other has a progressive 1
@@scentsoftravelmeditationThe US overtook the UK because it has a much larger population, a gigantic landmass with almost unlimited natural resources, some of the best geography in the world, giving it unhindered access to the Pacific and Atlantic trade routes, and hasn't been involved in any serious war on its home front since the civil war.
@@benghiskahn3673 Bro pls
UK had the empire, almost 1 quarter of world surface
@@benghiskahn3673 UK took 60 trillion pounds from India alone
@@benghiskahn3673 UK founded the largest agricultural project of planet in Sudan, managed by my own grandpa
Sinn Fein is pronounced as shin feign.
Opinion is divided as to whether "The British isles" includes the island of Ireland.
I found this video quite jarring in that the real divisions currently afflicting the country are completely glossed over and instead are replaced with historical ones. All western countries are suffering an identity crisis, one manufactured and foisted upon us, this isn't exclusive to England or Britain for that matter. Perhaps you should research the cause of this instead? If one recently became a hard drug addict living on the street, wouldn't the correct line of questioning be to initially question the events leading up to this (lost job, wife left them, became homeless, etc), rather than dissecting their happy childhood?
IDK, the US is doing alright due to recent legislation.
Identity crisis? This is manufactured nonsense, I don't know what you're talking about, people still want what they always wanted.
You want it dissected? Get rid of feminism, globalism, wokeism and all the other forms of marxism. All "identity crisis" problems solved.
Make wmen serve in the military alongside men, or they lose voting rights. You gotta contribute to your country. We'll see how woke they are once they're not funded by taxpayer money. It's reall that simple, put money towards normal families, stop supporting multiculturalism which destroys your culture. None of this is complex really.
@@sayreharder1541 Interesting comment, but all of it is nullified by the fact you say would of instead of would've.
Going from owning 25% of the worlds population to now having an economy smaller than California is the hardest fall off in modern geo politics.
Is it really a fall when they were way over their head to begin with? and California is like half of America's economy to begin with.
@@AshkanPacino13 They were thinking they could rule everything without a fight.
California is around 10% to 14% of the American economy. The USA economy is now close to 10 times larger than the UK economy.
@@ElectrostatiCrow well U.S is literally strongest country on earth
Well UK and Europe were decimated by both ww1 and ww2 and highly indebted from the wars. USA on the other hand was essentially completely untouched by both world wars and also massively profited from both of them. Fun fact: "In World War 2, countries had sold off most of their gold as well as their foreign investments, to pay for the war. By 1947, the United States had accumulated 70% of the world’s gold reserves." So, you can thank European warmongering for why USA is as powerful and undisputed as it is today.
@@AshkanPacino13California is half of the US economy? Are ya fuckin stupid mate?
Just for future episodes, Sinn Féin is pronounced "Shin FANE" with an emphasis on the fane. Helps to be knowledgeable on the particulars of Irish and North Irish politics.
It wasn't too bad until you started blaming everything on Brexit. The Scottish referendum happened before the Brexit vote. Being part of the EU seemed to facilitate the break up of the UK.
The UK's issues are.. hard to get anything built because of planning laws. Very short of housing, and the existing housing stock is bad and very expensive.
Too much low skill mass migration, just need the high skill migration.
Too much regulation, too many taxes. Basically Labour and the Conservatives have done much to undo much the competitiveness that Mrs Thatcher achieved.
In other news, starving prisoner plans escape!
Wtfareyoutalkingaboutbro?
@@mr.afrikaans1747 No hope? No ability to escape the prison? No ability to change destiny?
@mr.afrikaans1747
I have no idea, but it's funny.
Just enjoy the joke.
Also, @HarvardSmithDeAngelo6905 might mean that UK's so-called "former colonies" - now "neo-colonies" - are starving, and planning their escape from the prison UK had put them in.
Starving prisoner plans escape; starves
As Bulgarian, really sad that UK left Europe. London was its ivery mportant finance centre. UK has a very cool culture and polite funny people. Even if they blocked us in the past for working there together with the Romanians and bombarded our country, we still have many Brits visiting Bulgaria. Hope you preserve your identity, traditions, humour,, Union Jack flag, etc. Stay safe!
Thanks. Rare to see a foreigner online being complementary to the UK. Unfortunately complete idiots are in charge of our country and have turned it into the sick man of Europe. On the other hand, I've never been to Bulgaria. It sounds quite nice to visit tho, especially in the summer.
I live in the UK and I like a lot of things about mainland Europe. I hope we rejoin the EU.
brexit really screwed us, one day we will rejoin i hope
I'm half British, with a Finnish mother, so I personally never left the EU, but Brexit really was a piss take. It was such a mind numbingly stupid decision I just can't understand why people voted for it. I wish we could be back in...
P.s. I'm sorry the British government had been a prick to Bulgaria in the past, please don't hold it against those of us with brains
London is currently the #1 global finance centre.
Lol the British empire started declining as soon as it lost its colonies. It’s never built a sustainable culture - anglo society rarely has. It’s one built on extraction
how do you quantify soft power? I'm skeptical that this something that can have a number put on it.
We can't restore our civilization with somebody else's babies.
tf does that even mean
@@davidcairns5042they mean immigrants i guess. I think they mean that British people grew too comfortable and don't want to take many kind of jobs and would rather sit on benefits while the immigrants do those jobs.
@@davidcairns5042 he's saying much of Britain's population is foreign born or descendents of thise who migrated in the last 50 years. They don't have any loyalty to Britain other than how much Sterling they can fleece from her
@@davidcairns5042They are arguing that the white British population will be replaced by foreigners, and that this will be reflected in Britain's cultural output etc. Essentially that it will become a completely different country in all but name. Not just in terms of physical apperance, but norms and belief systems etc. Don't shoot the messenger, I'm just explaining this other person's perspective lol.
Fruits of an imperial past. Suffer in silence, if you must
Lmao 🤣
Britain is not making a comeback anytime soon
Nope, it’s an absolute s**t show. The glory days are long gone.
problem is that they still have the mindset that they have the strength of their former empire, they don't , two world wars bankrupted them, and as a country they are barely holding themself together as a consequense
@@koenwaaldeKind of scary how in the long run, Hitler might succeed in destroying Britain (not without some help from the U.K.'s own politicians).
Not with it's current leaders, they are still decades behind the narrative.
@@koenwaaldewell they "won" the last two and lost everything, maybe if they lose badly enough they will become a superpower once again.
Everyone here blames politicians but the issue is the benefits system and NHS and the lazy culture of people
Britain's decline can be summed up in two words - Tony Blair. All the country's present problems can be traced back to his disastrous regime.
Very true. Under him Labour accelerated the use of PFI in the NHS and yet they continually accuse the conservatives of privatisation of the NHS when they were the ones that significantly increased the use of the private sector in our healthcare. They also oversaw a big increase in housing unaffordability. Also dragged us into war which contributed to the rise of ISIS
Britain has been declining ever since it fought in WW2. Two World Wars back to back destroyed the British Empire...but yes Tony bitch just sucked shit
That and the fact the establishment has refused to modernise.
"The rise and fall of British power" I think this title suits the video much better than the previous one. Funnily enough the video thumbnail needs no changing.
Yo, he listened to your advice.
(old title 4 comments below)
what was the old name
Yes, what was the previous title?
@@fr0ntend@MatthewMcVeagh
"Britains Planned Global Comeback" -according to the other people complaining that the title was click-bait.
of which I agree with their complaints, no-where in the video do they explain some kind of recent improvement/plan... just how things can get worse, all because of one foolish 51%/49% "decision"
Yo, need to know too
Nothing more than a client state of the US
But behind the scenes, both are client states of the Rot h child's and rock er fellas
By what metric?
I saw British cane sugar syrup here in a U.S. grocery store and thought, “Who around here is even buying this stuff?” LOL.
@@o_o825 hahah yeh! Well the US imports $100 billion worth of goods and services from the UK every year, that’s went up 121% in 1 year, so that may go beyond sugar cane syrup.
That’s somewhat true of all of the West to be fair
Blair gave them their own Parliament them Cameron promised them an election to get in. They were told the UK wouldn’t leave the EU.
Britain had the whole of Ireland before 1920 not just Northern Ireland
Not too cold? Not too wet? You've never been there, have you?
bro thinks 0C is COLD lmao.
🤣😂
He's right. It's not as cold as Siberia and definitely not has hot as the Sahara.
INB4; I live in London mate.
In terms of fertile, farmable land - they are perfect conditions. That's one of the reasons the Norse wanted the land so badly.
@@edvardseglitis7128you do understand 0 degrees is by definition freezing…
I've always enjoyed Caspian videos but this was fucking dire. You didn't actually say anything at all.
Still you watched it
@@narannavan He said he always enjoyed it in the past so of course he watched.
i agree.. the message was "Brexit created tension" and maybe "Northern Ireland is moving closer to reunification".. and that's it.
It's probably more that you're from the UK. We know less about other countries, and those videos are more enlightening as a result
@@kaneneedham4299 No the info is wrong
there's so many interesting things that could've been said in this video, but weren't, and its overall pretty lazy. The SNP and the campaign for Scottish independence are arguably the weakest they've been in a generation, and Labour (a unionist party) are currently polling higher. Also the notion that Japan would even try, let alone succeed, in taking the UK's seat at the P5 security council is absolutely insane, even though its obvious the Council should be reformed and expanded. Finally, wasn't the NI executive restored the other week as part of a London endorsed deal? This video already seems out of date, which is disappointing.
SNP are being super lazy about independence, but they are still polling at least like 5% above labour consistently in Scottish parliament elections
@@Alexander-vo4gv yeah that's a fair point, I was referring to the Westminster elections where its more or less tied
Britain didn’t lose power they are the financial capital and have a financial empire that has more power that any of the fleets they ever made
This was put up only an hour ago but is well out of date. Also Shirwan seems rather confused about what Britain is or is not.
I’m British and I think this video is basically nonsense. It highlights all of Britains negatives and problems and dials them up to 100 while ignoring all our positives and successes, it’s nonsense.
This video was very shallow... a child could have done better
@@jamesknight6890 I would hope that being constantly reminded of the negatives might finally get our country to start making changes to improve it, rather than doubling down on our own idiocy.
Britain is an overpopulated island with debilitated resources, an ageing population, and in the midst of a stormy see.
And who at fault for making it overpopulated...
"sea"
Actually, the U.K’s land is only 6-10% populated with the rest of the U.K. made up of rural land, agricultural land and national parks. London, Birmingham and Glasgow are the most densely populated but there’s large spaces of unoccupied land. I find it funny that non Brits seem to know more about my country then us Brits.
@@lg5819The towns and cities are grossly overcrowded. Land is expensive.
@@lg5819, so you want us to be a concrete jungle like Tokyo (50%-60% built up).
Yh that'll definitely respect our net-zero commitments.
That's what happens when your capital becomes Londonstan.
Says the guy who was hoping that Brexit would bring prosperity.
@@sherazmalik2179 lol Brexit and Islam are both bad news but who cares about UK, it's dying as a country since 2010
After the colonies became independent then the end of UK . The resources from the colonies allowed it to create the illusion of greatness no longer there. What its left with is empty cane no body pay attention to on the international stage no matter how louder noise it politicians makes.
It's always people that come from insignificant countries like yours that come out with nonsense!!
I live In Oregon and I can't help but WISH we could see a UK and Ireland that was full of lush old growth forests and flourishing ecosystems and habitats.. It sucks how much it's forests habitat was impacted
Ireland once had forests that spanned the entire country but was stripped bare because the English needs timber to build its navy.
The UK has lots of re-wilding projects. And all farmers are paid to keep ‘set asides’ (land which isn’t farmed). To be honest this video is a load of nonsense. Us Brits are not “struggling with our post imperial identity” as he says. And less then 40% of both Northern Ireland and Scotland would vote to separate from the UK. The UK has a trade deal with the EU without having to be in it, and we are creating new trade deals with non-EU countries. We do not yet have a trade deal with the USA but we do now have 7 MoU’s (Memorandums of Understandings) with 7 US states. And we’re working on the rest.
Typical PNWer. Seattleite here. I almost had a heart attack when I first visited San Francisco. I think I would die if I ever get to visit New York. Concrete jungles are not my thing.
Not just forests. Most of the waterways are badly polluted too. But eh, what do I know: the Industrial Revolution is supposed to be Britain's great gift to the world.
@@agentsmidt3209New York is a city Seattle is a suburb there’s a difference. I used to be stationed at Fort Lewis and loved visiting Seattle.
Some of your sources are vastly outdated - predominantly the FT article about economic growth. But also the collapse of the SNP and rise of the Labour Party across all areas of the UK (NI not withstanding).
Agreed, the collapse of the SNP is nothing more than wishfull thinking. Will they be quite as dominant? Probably not but they are still predicted to get a large majority of Scottish seats.
@@SI-vb7hdof course, I mean a collapse in their vote share. They will still be a dominant Scottish party, but very well could fall by the wayside for the next parliament.
@@SI-vb7hd the SNP has been bleeding members by the thousands since the first arrests and they chose the most incompetent and unpopular candidate as leader to score wokepoints as they possibly could have, leading to even more loss of support. The SNP might still be somewhat significant within Scotland, but half of their voters will migrate to Labour, especially for this election.
Still Labour are only increasing now for a Westminster election which means nothing in terms of the independence debate. If Labour manages to maintain to support to 2026 for the Scottish Parliament then that’ll have a bigger impact. Plus declining support for the SNP does not mean declining support for Independence, support for independence is still very high, and not declining. Many wannabe Labour voters support Scottish independence but prefer the short-term goal of getting the Tories out, but aren’t committed to the idea of a UK.
You've been sitting here forever saying that somehow separation is happening. No, it is not. Wales will never be independent in your life and it's a sad and miserable end.@@Redwitheran
As a Scot I take issue with the word separatist. That only applies to an area of a single country, the UK is a political union. Scotland was an independent country prior to the act of union and will be again.
Oh lord hurry up and leave 🙄
You're not taking the pound though.
@@amh9494 it’s not your pound to take mate. The Scots pound predates 1707. Also we’re taking a share of the assets and of course the North Sea maritime borders mean you get the southern gas fields and that’s it.
@@ewansinclair2893 and you'll get the joy of making the new Scottish pound all over again. 👏🏻
The pound sterling isn't yours at all the only reason Scotland joined the union is because it bankrupted itself, your currency died then.
@@amh9494 aww what’s the matter? Is England too scared to stand on its own two feet? Wasn’t that what you little Brexiteers wanted? The whole world is laughing at you. The Uk is a joke
@@ewansinclair2893 ? That was random. I said you can't take the pound sterling with you, that's entirely unrelated... Strange, certainly stupid enough to be a Scottish nationalist though.
I've been following you for years and really enjoy your content. I've always wondered how accurate you are and how much is just opinion.
I was interested with this video as I from the UK. i think your report is excellent and very accurate.
When you're up everyone lines up to kiss your butt. When you're down the same sycophants line up to kick you. Human nature.
He didn't have too much to say in this one. Maybe revisit later
As an American I love the British, they will find a way forward, they always have.
Exactly me friend because we have to
They won't. When you think that you are above the rest and find out that you are not...
It can't because the colonies that finance it economy is no longer there.
@@sherazmalik2179 like Muslims...
The British are being ethnically replaced by people from the third world. Has Detroit found a way back?
Give one last FU to the dying of the light, free Assange in the UK!
As someone living in an ex-colony of East Africa, colonisation is alive and kicking. Its new form, financial colonisation rarily requires boots on the ground, rather funding for a coup is the preferred root when presidents seek meaningful independance. 38% of every salary in East Africa makes its way into the US/EU/UK coffers. A higher percentage than colonial times...
Source : don't worry
natives could not run a bath as independence has shown. You cannot always blame outsiders
@@valuetraveler2026~40% of the french economy comes from africa
@@spawel1 "No source required, it came to me in a dream"
@@w3ss3xFrance à fric: the CFA zone in Africa and neocolonialism by Ian Taylor
They need to take Londonistan back first..
aye
Take your country from isrehelli agents first
I thought its Londongrad
Lol
@@JG-MVtrue but don't change the country's culture unless Britain becomes the US
A Scottish friend once told me her biggest concern about Scottish independence is whatever the Highland clans would do without the UK government or military around to interfere.
Excellent focus on the backstory and geographical reasoning of the British Isles at the start. More and more often people start at the zenith of British power and give no heed to what created it.
The UK is still a small country that punches way above its belt regarding the economy, the military, and international politics. London is the financial capital of the world. Britain's tax havens and world-leading financial services make London the most attractive place for legal/illegal wealth. The truth is that the British Empire never disappeared. Instead of a colonial empire, it became a financial empire.
There is a really good documentary about this on Netflix/TH-cam called The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire.
The finance is concentrated in too few hands and is not circulating throughout the economy as it should. Money is not serving its purpose stashed away in offshore tax havens.
@@billedifier8584 That's my point. It's still an empire. When the British colonial empire was alive and kicking, the average British working-class person had a poor standard of living and never benefited from the trillions of wealth extracted from the world - the British empire was a giant business comprised of many smaller companies. It is no different today. Same empire, different execution.
That may well be, but this is very much a legacy of its former-superpower status (with one of the permanent seats on the UNSC) and the legacy of the U.K. having been the largest Anglophone economy in Europe (and the 2nd largest economy in the EU). This privileged position was already in jeopardy due to the rapid internationalisation and modernisation of Ireland's economy and the U.K.'s decision to strategically align with the U.S. on all foreign affairs. But the benefits of the U.K.'s postcolonial status can still be seen from its accession to the Pacific trade pact 'CPTPP' due U.K. territory in the Indo-Pacific (the sparsely inhabited Pitcairn Islands) - yet even here, this accession benefited the U.S.' geopolitical goals (blocking China's accession) without significantly benefiting the U.K. economically (as the U.K. already had trade deals with most member states before accession). This demonstrates the pitfalls of the U.K.'s balancing act - geoeconomic alignment with the EU put it at the mercy of domestic pressure groups concerned about the ceding of economic and political sovereignty to foreign institutions, whilst geopolitical alignment with the U.S. has led to the destabilisation of the MENA region through the failure of states with toppled regimes creating waves of mass migration across Europe - polarising U.K. and European societies but not affecting the U.S. as much. The U.K. has lost its strategic vision to the extent that its recent Strategic Review was concerned more about securing the South China Sea than securing the Red Sea - Palestine didn't even get a mention - yet scarcely a year later the U.K. finds itself bombing the Middle East with the U.S. yet again, coordinating military responses to secure the Red Sea (yet again) and publicly broadcasting its domestic vulnerabilities re political extremism from the podium of No.10 Downing Street - whilst media headlines on the front of broadsheet newspapers warn that the Houthis are acquiring Weapons of Mass Disruption (hypersonic missiles) and warning of "Iranian influence" in British society - an inverse of the situation several decades ago, when the U.K. had installed a friendly regime in Tehran after invading and occupying Iran in less than a week during WWII. Iran has leveraged its regional power to force a multifaceted crisis upon the U.K. and U.S., which neither power were aware of nor prepared for.
Economically, the U.K. would be best served either by starting negotiations to rejoin the EU in some capacity, or by joining the newly-opened North American USMCA (under the hemispheric accession clause of the 2024 Americas Act), possibly by leveraging its status as an indispensable ally of the U.S., its sovereignty over the South American Falkland Islands (as it has with the Pitcairn Islands for CPTPP accession) and its ability to resolutely block China's accession from the CPTPP independently of geoeconomic calculus. But it will instead do neither - Britain's strategic vision has been eroded by decades of blind strategic alignment with the U.S. and a lost decade-and-a-half of anaemic growth and permanent crisis (financial austerity, waves of mass migration, suicide bombings and other acts of terrorism, Brexit, pandemic state-of-emergencies, the invasion of Ukraine and the Israel-Palestine conflict, etc tbc).
The U.K. is at a crossroads - the upcoming election should restore a semblence of political stability and postpone the threat of Scottish separatism, but the Irish Question will not fade away so easily. A growing Ireland increases economic opportunities for a denervated Wales, particularly for its deindustrialising northern region, which may reduce the appeal of unionism in northern Wales and increase the appeal of the separatist party Plaid Cymru. Britain has clearly lost its footing this past quarter-century - the next few decades will determine if it can get back on track or whether it will become no more relevant than, say, France or Germany, on the world stage.
@@bigfisher4354And then they expect the tax payer to pay their hard earned money to fund reparations to former colonies the common people never benefited from in the first place, all for the purpose of reinforcing relations to benefit this second financial empire run by anyone but the British People.
Did you watch the Joe Rogan Jimmy car episode?
Where exactly is the comeback plan mentioned? What a waste of 20 minutes that would have been had I watched your video instead of just pasting the transcript into chatgpt for a summary
This should be the top comment. This video was a noticeable drop in quality...
There was nothing, and the analysis and history was full of mistakes and omissions. Terrible video.
What a pointless video lmao
I'll tell you why as someone who lives in part of the U.K. He doesn't mention a comeback plan because *there isn't one*, he glosses over just how downhill things have gotten, there is no *fixing* things. The government has no plans or solutions, they are thinking about how to ensure their pockets are filled once they are put out, and/or how they can avoid an election wipeout, there won't be a british comeback, there isn't a solution, its that simple.
Britain continuing as a cohesive state that doesn't turn into an ethnic free for all or an authoritarian dictatorship is a *far* more likely scenario which is already unfolding, compared to a whimsical global resurgence
Realistically the best choice is the USA, it’s going to be a less favourable deal than what we had with the EU but it’s simply the best path forward.
What’s the point in pivoting towards the EU which will force us into deals that we were previously not in and is economically in decline.
Germany (which is by far the most influential economy in Europe) is in extreme danger economically, its economy is built around exporting manufactured goods but without cheap fuel and falling population in Europe (it’s export market) it’s screwed.
The USA is still rapidly growing and is positioned to continuously grow, we’ll become completely dependent on them (like Canada) but if it means we’re safer and richer we should bite the bullet.
What the Brits make to Cyprus now happened in their country!
It cool for your content, but how can Britain plan a comeback with a low birth rates?
Shh nobody is supposed to speak of the western f*rt*lity crisis
@@DiogenesTheFrog Inshallah brudda!
@@MeAndTheBoys_آمیـــــــــــــن یارب العالمین
By God the English will have their home again
It can't, the world has changed where power is being a lot more focused on big power blocks like the EU, US, China and other potentials in the future.
The UK alone can't compete with any of that, even if birth rates were higher because now it's all about economy of scale and economic growth that defines power.
The US got there first with being a modern country with a far bigger population then the rest, but others are quickly catching up, and then we have the EU which is like a hybrid country, political block of countries.
Realistically, I think the best the UK can do is to become part of the EU again and at least that way, they are one cog in the big wheel in shaping the world, as it is now with Brexit, the UK has very little voice, on the one hand, we always hang on the coattail of the US which makes the UK weak, and on the other, we are basically shut out of EU decision-making.
What all this basically means is that the big decisions, both politically and economics around the world on rules, regulations and laws are being decided by the EU and US as their market size commands power that can be used to shape the world, which both the EU and US does.
When did you realized that CaspianReport is just making stuff up for content?
When they made same content but worse for Russia but even more biased. Still alot of things in video are true
Are you onlynsaying this because you cannot accept the facts?
Britons, we need to be made great again!
Britain fell fifty-six years ago and since then has been in managed decline.
I’ve got bad news for you. The United Nations recently reported in its Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) that the UK is now the 4th largest exporter in the world. It has overtaken France and Japan, moving up from 7th in 2021. Only China, USA and Germany export more, but the thing is it only has a population of 67 million.
It’s ironic that you write what you write, using a computer device, on the World Wide Web, in English - all three British inventions - while probably listening at some point to some British pop and rock, completely oblivious to the day-to-day cultural and economic influence on you from that tiny island in its tiny corner.
Caspian Report is getting lazy.
Very much so lol
I smell copium
If this was Russia you will be celeberating too bad theres economic growth with 84% sanctions on earth imagine without
Weird, I can really tell this guy has learned everything about Ireland and the UK by reading about it.
The problem is UK does not want to accept its diminished role in the world, instead of trying to be small but rich like Switzerland its busy trying to be powerful but poor like Russia
Exactly
Russia's trying but not succeeding.
no its immigration. Simple. That combined with Thatcher's decisions to denationalise our gas and electric and public transport alike.
We are run by the Eton gang and their Tufton pals who are too detached from reality to accept that we are not the superpower we once were.
@@ryanreedgibsonRussia is proving to be one thing.
Resilient af.
It’s surviving its own self destructive decisions better than any nation has done thus far. It’s actually concerning how it can make horrific mistake after horrific mistake and just keep working.
This is a good analysis although I think it overstates the risk of the UK's breakup. The reality is the Union is safer now than at any time in recent memory (I say that as a Scotsman). Support for Scottish Independence is at a modern low and the nationalists will almost certainly lose power at the next election. In Northern Ireland they have reached a power sharing agreement - the prospect of a United Ireland is still decades or even generations away (if ever).
As a migrant to Great Britian and a British soldier and veteran this is truly a sad and disturbing to me.