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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.
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
@@JackeyBoyyy 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
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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.
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
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.
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
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.
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
@@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 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.
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.
@@paul1979uk2000 The majority the push to import the negative aspects of the US comes from the aristocrats and the ultra wealthy. This is purely due to them seeing this as a more successful financial/economic model which they believe would allow the UK to become a financial power house again (i.e. British exceptialism). Essentially a hangover from the empire years, which we have still not really come to terms with the end of the empire. The other reason could purely be due to us being so under the sphere of the US cultural influence, that people find it difficult to understand that we are not in the same situation as the US.
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.
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
@sdrawkcabUK both are bad but the Tories are worse. At least Labour doesn’t dance with the anti-democratic far right like many Tory members have recently.
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.
We must confiscate this land ( i do not think anyone should be allowed to “ own” the land we walk and live on ) , and make it public. We must also abolish all Titled Aristocracy as it is retarded and an anachronism in this age .
Everyone needs to realize that this isn't just some unavoidable situation. All of western civilization is declining and so many are just either oblivious to begin with or they shrug their shoulders like, "that's just the way shit goes.." This is entirely the result of horrible governance and an apathetic, ignorant public and could entirely be avoided if people weren't so consumed with consuming and their individuality, being the star of their own movie. And the reason solutions (or identifying the problem) seem so distant, vague and ambiguous is because either nobody realizes or nobody wants to admit that the entire ideology and subsequent philosophies of modern liberalism and the idea that humanity can be perfected by pulling the right social and cultural levers via political means is completely outdated, if it was ever a good idea to begin with. Humanity can never be perfected and I believe we actually reached a point where we were approaching "as good as it gets" a couple decades ago, but in order for progressivism to survive they need to continue pushing for "progress" and they went too far in the pursuit of an unattainable perfection and with a lack of realistic causes to fight for, they started ruining things in the name of fixing something that wasn't as broken as they thought to begin with.
the UN , G7 , these are all history , but none of it is really a problem , kids are the problem , i didnt look but i do not think UK has kids , its evaporating , the only thing keeping it alive is immigrants , this is the real plan of the Rich , get population so mixed up they can hardly unite , but problem is these people getting in are not hard workers , poor workers they are , poor substitute for a worker , in China people work , hard work , so no immigrant avoid China . Hence Chinese way is working and everyone is Chinese , while Western way is i don't know who you are but pay taxes . And they do , call them selves Americans and stuff . But they are poor workers . Just like Roman empire dissolving in chaos from all the hard work , its natural . You get rich you dont want to work , others are poor they want to work . And it goes on . There is no plan , strategy or whatever that can save USA and UK , none . Cant be saved , and it goes down to kids and work , not some railroads ,G7 , NATO , EU ... this and that , do you have children and how much you work is the only thing that matters .
So you propose seizing their property and assets? That sets a pretty dangerous precedent . I'm not British , I have no skin in the game, I'm just curious.
@@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.
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.
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.
@@rossjohnson9098 It was wholly in vain for France and Britain because the only reason they declared war on Germany, at least officially, was to protect the Polish state's integrity and sovereignty. The allies then promptly abandoned their goal of liberating Poland and instead betrayed their allies by handing them and all of Eastern Europe to the Soviet Union on a silver platter, rendering the entire war futile for the western allies and decimating continental European power in the process, establishing the US and USSR as the new global powers. Nobody in Europe benefited from that conflict. In fact, it cemented the end of European power on a global level.
If Hitler's peace offers were accepted by Churchill, the Polish state would continue to exist freely, Europe would be a bulwark against communism, Europe would be free of US and Soviet influence, and Europe would be culturally and economically powerful. Of course, you'd be relying on Hitler's word, but if he hadn't maintained it, a coalition might have formed and easily prevented the Germans from further conquest.
@@rossjohnson9098 How on Earth can you still say it was the right thing to do? The painter predicted exactly what happened to Europe didn't he? You will soon be a hated minority in your own land. How can you still say the painter was wrong????
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.
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?
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.
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.
Three generations. From the 1840's to the 1960's. From then on nothing but decline, slow at first but speeding up as time went by. The country is now living on borrowed time as the rentier form of bankster capitalism known as neoliberalism is unsustainable long term, especially when faced with the dynamic growth of Asia and the economic colossus that is China.
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?
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.
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 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.
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
@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.
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.
Naja. Ganz so leicht ist es nicht. Zwar wächst die deutsche Wirtschaft im Moment kaum, aber zum einen ist die Arbeitslosigkeit immer noch recht gering und zum anderen ist die Staatsverschuldung relativ gering. Vor allem verglichen mit dem Vereinigten Königreich. Daher geht es Deutschland im Vergleich viel besser, da der Staat viel weniger Zinsen abtragen muss und der Arbeitsmarkt die Wirtschaft stabilisiert. Wenn man die Schocks bedenkt, die die deutsche Wirtschaft ausgehalten hat, geht es Deutschland ohnehin überraschend gut. Perfekt läuft es natürlich dennoch nicht. Das Vereinigte Königreich steht jedoch in absolut jedem Bereich vor einem Scherbenhaufen. Das Abwassersystem, die Straßen, das aristokratische korrupte politische System, Importabhängigkeit, Mangel an Industrie, geringe Produktivität, katastrophale Zustand der Krankenkasse, politische Polarisierung, ausländische Firmenübernahnen, hohe Arbeitslosigkeit und Brexit. All das lastet auf der britischen Wirtschaft. Die deutsche Wirtschaft leidet mancherorts auch an Investitionsstaus, vor allem im Bereich der Bahnund sie ist viel zu bürokratisch, doch es ist insgesamt leichter die deutsche Wirtschaft zu reformieren und verbessern als die Britische oder auch die Französische. Denn auch die Franzosen sind überschuldet und zu abhängig von einer zu mächtigen Hauptstadt. Die Deutschen heulen einfach zu viel rum. Das ist ohnehin unser Nationalsport geworden. So schlimm sind die Dinge nicht.
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
@@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.
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!
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
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.
@@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.
@@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.
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?
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.
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
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.
@@DieNibelungenliadyeah 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.
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.
@@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.
It’s crazy that such a small island nation was once the greatest empire in the history of humanity. They will be telling stories about them for thousands of years to come
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.
Patriotism, Nationalism, Deportations & policies of Rooted Progress can cure many ills swiftly. With a huge diaspora, merely taking a serious stance of prioritising it's own Native peoples, cultures & heritage & their sustainable flourishing could fairly easily see a return of growth to both native demographics & economic growth.
"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.
@@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"
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
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.
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.
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...
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
@@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.
@@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.
Ours has been the saddest of declines - slow and drawn out. Almost imperceptible at times, but clearly economically devastating in aggregate so that we can’t afford the lifestyle that British citizens expect. The scariest thing is how the desire to remain internationally relevant has led to political and public decision-making with the opposite effect; Brexit being the great example. A separate but related issue is how demographic change has altered societal perception of the UK’s past - it is now an object of shame, which means there isn’t much by way of national pride or a strong historic identity. Instead we self-flagellate.
When you look at those who promote "national pride" and "historic identity" - the likes of Farage, the BNP and even the Tories - who feels like associating with them, other than nostalgists of WW2 and the last days of the British Empire? You are right to mention the importance of these to propel a nation forward, but Britain needs somebody else than those deplorables to express such a vision. Ironically, Western nations having sown those seeds of division in their own lands and suffered the consequences of it are now trying to export that nonsense to developing nations as well, for whom national unity is key in keeping the country together. Undermining other countries through identity politics, forced "democratic" reforms and more.
WWII basically put an end to the empire with a bang and not a whimper. I mean, after that, Britain wasn't even really a super power if it didn't have nukes.
@@oldskoolmusicnostalgia You need to understand that in the UK, there is no such thing as a "right-wing" political ideology that actually has any institutional power or capability of getting it. Our Conservatives are not conservative about anything socially, and economically they are globalist. The only time they get a majority in parliament is when they water themselves down. Literally our current "Conservative" Prime Minister the other day said "diversity is a strength" and Boris Johnson was talking about creating a more "gender-neutral and feminine world" before him. Before him, Theresa May was all about women, gay people and people of colour. Yes, they are parasites, but they aren't conservative. They literally do nothing but occupy government and support pseudo-authoritarian measures. Under Tories, the country gained 2 million immigrants last year, passed massive hate-speech measures, etc. Regardless of anyone's opinion on those specific things, they are hardly "conservative" policies. The BNP has zero political representation here, and hasn't for over a decade. No one cares about them; They're irrelevant. As soon as Nick Griffin appeared on Question time that one time, his support evaporated. Nigel Farage used to be pretty right-leaning, but nowadays tends to just comment on individual issues that come up rather than being all that politically active, hence his constant quitting and returning. There is zero real right-wing or conservative public force in the UK other than a handful of cringe news shows that no one watches, and some Islamists who don't want being gay to be taught in schools.
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. ----------------------------------- "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."* [globalresearch(dot)ca/save-queen/5693500] §§§footnote If you wish to know more about exactly how the British Empire was "being dismantled," respond...
@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 .
@imlovely6522 you're full of it. 'China released around 83 billion tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere between 2014 and 2021, while during the period, 1750 to 2021, the UK emitted about 79 billion tonnes.'
@@amh9494China is the 3rd largest country on the planet with the largest population. Britain is a skidmark of the coast of Europe by comparison. The fact this is even in discussion demonstrates the extent to which Britain has devastated the planets environment.
I see many things making UK comeback as unlikely to happen 1) Divided society by many factors like Brexit, cultural, religion, background roots, UK countries wishes to remain or separate from it. 2) Huge technological competition from US, China, India, South Korea and other countries that make harder to compete in order to became back what UK used to be. 3) USA: As long USA exists it wont allow UK to become strong enough to be a threat for them. UK plans to comeback as it says in the video are very unlikely to happen as that would bring conflict of interests with USA, so not likely to happen. 4) Economy (GDP): Not so long ago, India surpassed UK economy. Now UK is on the 6th place which is not bad but definitely way too far from US or China. Before aspiring to be a top superpower, UK must compete against Germany, France, Japan and even India.
The British people I've met are all ashamed, modernist, or not ethnic British. Their leadership is foreigners or aloof. There's little to unite them and little to lead them. It's not countries that conquer, but nations.
A huge issue with Britain 🇬🇧 is our patriotism. Some people literally think we invented everything and won every war, single handedly. We can’t get better until we recognize our faults and failures. I love the opening statements which recognize British past failures which often are never recognized in the UK. “Britain is protected by being an island but close enough to trade “. We often gloss of this with it’s not a retreat it’s an “evacuation “ “the greatest evacuation ever’”. And the mention that Britain lost the 100 year war to France 🇫🇷 and all chance to European conquest is excellent for laying the setting. Many people in the UK will know of the battle of Avignon but not the outcome of the war,… it’s so ignorant We should strive for the best for ourselves and everyone, not just tell ourselves we are the best.
I wish this talked about Britain’s population explosion, along with Germany’s, as opposed to France’s. Britain controlled the entire subcontinent and used it to control most of the rest of its empire, industrialize itself (yes, this happened after colonizing) and industrialize Germany to contain France. France only really had Vietnam to exploit. Without exploiting its colonies, the industrial REVOLUTION would not have happened anywhere. The economics of colonialism during the industrial revolution are severly understudied and many illuminating records were destroyed by France and Britain.
And Djibouti was French, Not English... Man how the hell can you get so many things wrong when the only thing you have to do is just Google a map of the British Empire?
@@daffyduck780 the thirteen colonies never provided britain troops. Basically refused to pay taxes from day one. Then hit the french up to kick the shit out of britain when we were tired of their shit
@@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.
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.
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.
That's easier said than done. Where are you possibly going to replace the energy imports with? Just look at Germany right now. The UK hardly gets any sun for solar, and energy needs are only going to increase as time passes. The only feasible alternative is nuclear, but for some reason Europe hates nuclear energy. The UK needs to build up new industries and dominate them. Unfortunately, tech innovations are extremely weak in the UK compared to other countries that are similarly sized/wealthy. For example, if the UK became the big player in the AI space, they could import all the energy they need and have plenty of money leftover. The outrageous overdependence on financial services and London to prop up the country are crippling all other industries and making them uncompetitive on the world stage.
@@KingKong11730 Currently 30 percent wind , 5 percent solar, 2 percent hydro in the electricity generating sector. 20 percent nuclear electricity. All of these ways of generating electricity are being built all the time. More efficient use of electricity is cutting its total usage. When will all energy be produced in house? Who knows, but within ten years.
@@alexanderg1935 i didn't say it's all wrong. i said some, for example the uk is doing better than germany and did all last year and instead of being at the bottom of the g7 as the report said it was in the middle. can't be arsed going though the entire thing and show a list.
Correction: The whole of Ireland pursued independence, but the compromise the British demanded was to keep the north with its vital port in Belfast and the ability to govern with an impunity guaranteed by a protestant unionist majority. What was contentiously agreed to led to the Irish Free State; a compromise that sparked the Irish Civil War. Also, the Sinn Fine party? 😂
What the other comment listed Plus AI (deepmind is essentially british), Chip design particularly IOT(ARM is British) art, fashion, music, design and creative services, Film and TV production, littiriture, culture, tourism (London is one of the most visited cities on Earth), Insurance etc etc.
"stemming from its departure from the EU" You have no idea. Brexit was a symptom, not a cause. This has been brewing for a lot longer than Brexit. Think mass immigration without any thought for the cultural impact.
The US had mass immigration from the XVIIIth century up until today. They remain the world greatest power. I don't think immigration alone can explain Britain, or Europe's decline.
@alioshax7797, the US and Canada are separated by a huge ocean. Especially the latter, they can choose want immigrants to welcome such as high skilled workers or people who have loved for Canada and their way of life.
@@inbb510 Most immigrants in the US don't come from the ocean. They come from the south. And these are not chosen, I guarantee that. At the end of the day, the US recieves more immigrants per capita than any European country.
The US has a very distinct culture and basically focused their education on reeducation into the national culture and myth. Britain is a settled nation, we are built on ethnic particularity, not ideas.
The country’s fine, I’m reminded of the slogan “ask not what your country can do for you but rather what you can do for your country”. Get an education, work and aim for high standards and enough of you do that we’ll be fine in the future as well. All I got is that we’re not as great as we once used to be and that’s perfectly alright, the world isn’t static there’s always ups and downs and I hope and assume we’ll remain in the top 10 for decades to come looking at new ways of improving our position down the line. Keep calm and carry on folks.
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.
@@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.
If only... you might not become the Empire again, but I want the United Kingdom to be proud again, but with the lessons learned. A beacon of Classical Liberalism that made their former colony, the powerhouse that it is today.
Britain was ahead of the curve because they were first in on the industrial revolution. As soon as America, Germany, and Russia caught up, Britain became less relevant again.
@civilengineer3349 it was the World Wars and the failure to create the "Imperial Federation" that led to the demise of the Empire? It was to be eclipsed at some point, yes, but not to the point of irrelevance if they had dealt their cards right at that time. There is a reason that even now, the UK is middleweight "Great Power" despite all the poor policy choices made since decolonisation.
@@DieNibelungenliad UK was still powerful even when European nations and USA started industrialising. It was only until Europe was ravaged by both ww1 and ww2 and highly indebted that UK and European power fell. USA was essentially completely untouched and also massively profited from both world wars and after it too. 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." Point is, if ww1 and especially ww2 didn't happen, UK and European power would be stronger today.
Our soldiers are well known to be excellent, it's just that there are very few of them, new ones aren't signing up and they don't have the ammo reserves to fight a conventional war anymore.
@@charlesreid9337 sort of! But we did have about 3 million brits serve in world war 2 by the time it was over. Of course most of them were recruited during the war not before it.
"Brexit created social division" You sure about that? I'm pretty sure Brexit was a result of social division that already existed. But if absolves people of the responsibility to attempt to understand what has happened in Britain then so be it. Willful ignorance has never been more fashionable.
It now tilted the division into the favor of the minority of the economic elites....their plan was always to reduce pollution regulation, work safety regulation and in the end....wages, rights and security of the workers.
@@TheEsseboy So the elites plan "was always" to curtail things that weren't even factors prior to the millenium? I would hope that such an ambitious conspiracy would have more demanding goals.
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
The UK making a comeback? They hardly have a domestic industry left and whatever that is left is barely even competitive internationally. The UK had its chance of being a major investment and finanical hub for the EU but it threw that away too. The UK government switches PMs in and out almost as frequently as the Italians do and the one before the current PM almost crashed their own currency. Right now all things point to that the UK will not be able maintain whatever position it has been pushed to in the world stage, after it's empire came to an end.
I would argue that there was no such thing as 'British' power, but only 'English' power. Even the Britain was Great and an empire, it was the English who were in charge. The monarch was English (well, with German heritage), the prime minister was English, England had most of the industrial activity, population and wealth. Scotland, Wales and Ireland (later just Northern Ireland) were just brought along for the ride and no one talks about Cornwall. The unity of these four countries were crucial to England creating its own empire from Britain. Now it seems it's all fracturing.
I would argue otherwise. Cornwall had been in the English kingdom for near 1000 years by the time of the union so I don't see why thats been brought up, Wales has been key to the industrial revolution with it's coal mines among many other things and like the north of England Scotland was an industrial powerhouse for example ship building in Glasgow. Also Scotland's military personnel was and still is well renowned. All parts of Britain have their part and have contributed to our nation
GB was an empire when Elizabeth II became queen and a fractured little island, taken over by its former colonized by the time she died. Did she ever intervene to stop it ?
@@geminiblue6677 Well I doubt she could've done that much. The writing was on the wall for the empire after WW2. The monarch also has in practice very little influence in national and international affairs as well
This is just so wrong and it’s something i always see, Scotland wasn’t some poor colony to England, the Scot’s literally administrated the empire, many viceroys of India were Scottish. The British empire was the best thing to happen to Scotland. Let’s not forgot that Scotland literally started the Union because their own empire failed, and the first monarch was SCOTTISH (King James)
Ww1 was not a german attemped to overthrow GB... people gotta stop blaming germany for ww1 austria (the starter of the war) and germany are 2 different countries, germany started ww2, but neither wanted or started ww1.
Some lack of understanding regarding recent events here. In Scotland, the SNP government is weaker than it has been in the last 12 years or so, with a few scandals involving leaders, and the SNP will struggle to hold half their current seats in this year’s election. Re Northern Ireland - their deadlock has been sorted as of just a month or so. Though their public services are absolutely knackered with no investment or pay rises for some time. However - the general leaning is correct: UK economy is in a post Brexit shambles, and the very English Brexit has went down like a lead balloon in Scotland and NI, leaving feeling about the union in a very weak place. I say this as a Scot that spent years overseas, coming back here in 2018 to nearly a 2nd world economy, and with English in laws (who we see regularly) with polar opposite views on political and economic current events. Referendums on Scottish independence and Irish unity seem inevitable at this point.
I have no idea what to believe anymore. There's quite a few English posters on this comments section claiming independence referendums are not going to be a thing for a long time. Others are calling the UK a world power and on a big upwards trend financially and militarily.
1:10 world’s sixth economy based on GDP where buying and selling hoses that were built 100 years ago counts as economic activity! Do they actually produce any goods? Can they produce any navy ships? How long does it take them to produce enough artillery shells to fight a week in Ukraine? (40,000 shells)
@@RaviKiran-uq8np the brits still think theyre "great britain" because.. well honestly propaganda. England is a tiny country.. britain is a tiny fading empire attached to the US teat. Brits forgot how to just be brits and be happy with that
@@RaviKiran-uq8npyep! And their navy ship breaking down and being superglued and the other one out for month, because they can’t even fix one piece quickly!!
I don’t understand this obsession with the rise and fall of “British power”. Britain hasn’t been a world power since just after WWII and I know of no British person that actually ponders about this.
@@WealthandGeoPolitics Stupid ignorant statement but so typical. Many other countries around the world “built antagonists” but they certainly don’t get half as much air time. And before you start with the typical “but, but Britain was the worst”, please present evidence to support your ignorant assertion.
So much wrong with this video for instance the only way the UK would lose its permanent seat on the security council is if it along with the other 4 security council member countries agree to it. This is the same reason why countries like India and Brazil will never get such a deserved seat because the 5, China and Russia especially, would not welcome a dilution of their geopolitical power.
@@davidthompson4383 Oh yeah the most populated, fastest growing economy on earth and the largest country in South America don't deserve a seat but a tiny island nation built on loot who's only relevant due to being a US lackey is a superpower. 😂😂 India and even Brazil in many ways has a LOT more influence and geopolitical clout than UK. You're in denial.
@@HemantKumar-id3jg India was always the most populated though lol it means nothing. Nobody outside of India really cares about India. Same can be said of Brazil. As for Britain, well here we all are speaking English. That’s precisely why Britain earned its seat. It built the modern world.
@@HemantKumar-id3jgdon’t bother with him, waste of time. He blabbers about something they did a century ago, like that means something. As even Japan, Korea, Germany are all much more deserving. Frankly even Ireland is more suited at this point as their economy is not a dumpster fire. The uk has no foreign policy, a failing economy, and basically non existent military, might as well give one place to Venezuela, since apparently that is what it takes to be a “relevant”.
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!!!
Screw your humility. Britain shall be great and make its people proud again. You Brits need to grow a spine, you are being driven out of your cities and nobody cares! Nobody bats an eye! Stand up for yourselves you fools. You conquered 1/4 of the globe but can’t even stand up for yourselves.
Do Brits not realize that the downfall of the US would mean an even greater decline for the UK and Western Europe? Is pride really that important to you?
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.
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.
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 an avid CANZUK 🇨🇦🇦🇺🇳🇿🇬🇧 Advocate i think we should try to first fix our home island but look into the CANZUK initiative in order give us a new alternative to the EU 🇪🇺 which we sadly probably will never rejoin despite that being the most logical option. I know some will tell me that’s impossible and I should just accept my country’s fate. But no despite its only flaw being the horrible politics I see the values of Britain and I believe CANZUK is perhaps the only real Post Brexit plan that can actually be feasible. If we can settle things peacefully within our home island first trying to keep the Union together we can focus then on improving our relations elsewhere which is why I genuinely believe CANZUK is a good idea.
Just a little note from your sponsor segment, Sinn Féin isn’t pronounced Sin Fine, it’s more like Shin Fayne. It translates in Irish to “we ourselves” historically looking for an independent and united Ireland
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
Government has losts its ways too weak and woke. army becoming so low. Not even class two. Rich get richer while the poor get forgotten by asylum seekers
Weak and woke are really not core issues with the current government, the primary problem is poor management, outsourcing of core services for personal gain, and generally greed and power squabbling. Also a severely misplaced exaggerated sense of nationalism is tearing Britain apart.
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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.
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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
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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
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.
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 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.
@@paul1979uk2000 The majority the push to import the negative aspects of the US comes from the aristocrats and the ultra wealthy. This is purely due to them seeing this as a more successful financial/economic model which they believe would allow the UK to become a financial power house again (i.e. British exceptialism).
Essentially a hangover from the empire years, which we have still not really come to terms with the end of the empire.
The other reason could purely be due to us being so under the sphere of the US cultural influence, that people find it difficult to understand that we are not in the same situation as the US.
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).
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.
@sdrawkcabUK both are bad but the Tories are worse. At least Labour doesn’t dance with the anti-democratic far right like many Tory members have recently.
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.
We must confiscate this land ( i do not think anyone should be allowed to “ own” the land we walk and live on ) , and make it public.
We must also abolish all Titled Aristocracy as it is retarded and an anachronism in this age .
Everyone needs to realize that this isn't just some unavoidable situation. All of western civilization is declining and so many are just either oblivious to begin with or they shrug their shoulders like, "that's just the way shit goes.." This is entirely the result of horrible governance and an apathetic, ignorant public and could entirely be avoided if people weren't so consumed with consuming and their individuality, being the star of their own movie. And the reason solutions (or identifying the problem) seem so distant, vague and ambiguous is because either nobody realizes or nobody wants to admit that the entire ideology and subsequent philosophies of modern liberalism and the idea that humanity can be perfected by pulling the right social and cultural levers via political means is completely outdated, if it was ever a good idea to begin with. Humanity can never be perfected and I believe we actually reached a point where we were approaching "as good as it gets" a couple decades ago, but in order for progressivism to survive they need to continue pushing for "progress" and they went too far in the pursuit of an unattainable perfection and with a lack of realistic causes to fight for, they started ruining things in the name of fixing something that wasn't as broken as they thought to begin with.
the UN , G7 , these are all history , but none of it is really a problem , kids are the problem , i didnt look but i do not think UK has kids , its evaporating , the only thing keeping it alive is immigrants , this is the real plan of the Rich , get population so mixed up they can hardly unite , but problem is these people getting in are not hard workers , poor workers they are , poor substitute for a worker , in China people work , hard work , so no immigrant avoid China . Hence Chinese way is working and everyone is Chinese , while Western way is i don't know who you are but pay taxes . And they do , call them selves Americans and stuff . But they are poor workers . Just like Roman empire dissolving in chaos from all the hard work , its natural . You get rich you dont want to work , others are poor they want to work . And it goes on . There is no plan , strategy or whatever that can save USA and UK , none . Cant be saved , and it goes down to kids and work , not some railroads ,G7 , NATO , EU ... this and that , do you have children and how much you work is the only thing that matters .
@@podunkest lucid food for thought
So you propose seizing their property and assets? That sets a pretty dangerous precedent . I'm not British , I have no skin in the game, I'm just curious.
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...
"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.@@JackeyBoyyy
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.
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.
That war was absolutely suicidal for Britain, and there was no good reason for them to stick their nose in it in the first place.
Saying that Britain had no place 'sticking it's nose into WW2' is ridiculous. We suffered but how can you say it wasn't the right thing to do?
@@rossjohnson9098 It was wholly in vain for France and Britain because the only reason they declared war on Germany, at least officially, was to protect the Polish state's integrity and sovereignty. The allies then promptly abandoned their goal of liberating Poland and instead betrayed their allies by handing them and all of Eastern Europe to the Soviet Union on a silver platter, rendering the entire war futile for the western allies and decimating continental European power in the process, establishing the US and USSR as the new global powers. Nobody in Europe benefited from that conflict. In fact, it cemented the end of European power on a global level.
If Hitler's peace offers were accepted by Churchill, the Polish state would continue to exist freely, Europe would be a bulwark against communism, Europe would be free of US and Soviet influence, and Europe would be culturally and economically powerful. Of course, you'd be relying on Hitler's word, but if he hadn't maintained it, a coalition might have formed and easily prevented the Germans from further conquest.
@@rossjohnson9098 How on Earth can you still say it was the right thing to do? The painter predicted exactly what happened to Europe didn't he? You will soon be a hated minority in your own land. How can you still say the painter was wrong????
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 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😂😂
'You know, I''m something of an empire myself'
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.
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..
Mongolia is the best example
Three generations. From the 1840's to the 1960's. From then on nothing but decline, slow at first but speeding up as time went by. The country is now living on borrowed time as the rentier form of bankster capitalism known as neoliberalism is unsustainable long term, especially when faced with the dynamic growth of Asia and the economic colossus that is China.
Well, the impact left is undeniable
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
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?
".....Although the UK is seemingly expected to avoid recession..."
Morgan Freeman: The UK did in fact not avoid a recession
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:
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China 🇨🇳
Japan 🇯🇵
Germany 🇩🇪
India 🇮🇳
Britain 🇬🇧
France 🇫🇷
Italy 🇮🇹
Brazil 🇧🇷
Canada 🇨🇦
Not exactly the end of the world.
The UK is not country Muppet
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
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
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.
Great Britain: A country that conquered for spices, but settled for salt and black pepper.
You mean the UK. Great Britain is the island.
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?
@@ImUpYourArse lol
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
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
*As an Austrian I can assure you Britain is not the worst performing G7 country, that price goes to Germany.*
Naja. Ganz so leicht ist es nicht. Zwar wächst die deutsche Wirtschaft im Moment kaum, aber zum einen ist die Arbeitslosigkeit immer noch recht gering und zum anderen ist die Staatsverschuldung relativ gering. Vor allem verglichen mit dem Vereinigten Königreich.
Daher geht es Deutschland im Vergleich viel besser, da der Staat viel weniger Zinsen abtragen muss und der Arbeitsmarkt die Wirtschaft stabilisiert. Wenn man die Schocks bedenkt, die die deutsche Wirtschaft ausgehalten hat, geht es Deutschland ohnehin überraschend gut. Perfekt läuft es natürlich dennoch nicht.
Das Vereinigte Königreich steht jedoch in absolut jedem Bereich vor einem Scherbenhaufen. Das Abwassersystem, die Straßen, das aristokratische korrupte politische System, Importabhängigkeit, Mangel an Industrie, geringe Produktivität, katastrophale Zustand der Krankenkasse, politische Polarisierung, ausländische Firmenübernahnen, hohe Arbeitslosigkeit und Brexit. All das lastet auf der britischen Wirtschaft.
Die deutsche Wirtschaft leidet mancherorts auch an Investitionsstaus, vor allem im Bereich der Bahnund sie ist viel zu bürokratisch, doch es ist insgesamt leichter die deutsche Wirtschaft zu reformieren und verbessern als die Britische oder auch die Französische. Denn auch die Franzosen sind überschuldet und zu abhängig von einer zu mächtigen Hauptstadt.
Die Deutschen heulen einfach zu viel rum. Das ist ohnehin unser Nationalsport geworden. So schlimm sind die Dinge nicht.
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.
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?
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.
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
France is the other big empire. There are large chunks where French is the literal lingua franca.
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.
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.
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?
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
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.
Why’s there so many salty comments about Britain here 🤣
The usual reasons: stupidity & ignorance.
Indians
oh my god get over us mate .@@DieNibelungenliad
@@DieNibelungenliadyeah 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.
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.
It’s crazy that such a small island nation was once the greatest empire in the history of humanity. They will be telling stories about them for thousands of years to come
Smacked up by a few paddy’s
Brought down by Ireland.
It cool for your content, but how can Britain plan a comeback with a low birth rates?
@@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.
Patriotism, Nationalism, Deportations & policies of Rooted Progress can cure many ills swiftly.
With a huge diaspora, merely taking a serious stance of prioritising it's own Native peoples, cultures & heritage & their sustainable flourishing could fairly easily see a return of growth to both native demographics & economic growth.
"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
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.
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
@@ziptink1710😂😂😂😂. You genuinely think it was that easy to ‘keep the empire’ 😂😂😂😂😂😂
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
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
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
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.
@@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.
@@LegendNinja41they think anything even resembling a slightly leftist position is far left lol
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?
At 15:30, a prediction from 2022 for the year 2023 is shown. A bit awkward, us living in March 2024...
Ours has been the saddest of declines - slow and drawn out. Almost imperceptible at times, but clearly economically devastating in aggregate so that we can’t afford the lifestyle that British citizens expect. The scariest thing is how the desire to remain internationally relevant has led to political and public decision-making with the opposite effect; Brexit being the great example.
A separate but related issue is how demographic change has altered societal perception of the UK’s past - it is now an object of shame, which means there isn’t much by way of national pride or a strong historic identity. Instead we self-flagellate.
When you look at those who promote "national pride" and "historic identity" - the likes of Farage, the BNP and even the Tories - who feels like associating with them, other than nostalgists of WW2 and the last days of the British Empire? You are right to mention the importance of these to propel a nation forward, but Britain needs somebody else than those deplorables to express such a vision.
Ironically, Western nations having sown those seeds of division in their own lands and suffered the consequences of it are now trying to export that nonsense to developing nations as well, for whom national unity is key in keeping the country together. Undermining other countries through identity politics, forced "democratic" reforms and more.
WWII basically put an end to the empire with a bang and not a whimper. I mean, after that, Britain wasn't even really a super power if it didn't have nukes.
Diversity is strength. You should allow immigration to increase so that your society becomes more enriched and a lot of your problems will go away.
@@oldskoolmusicnostalgia
You need to understand that in the UK, there is no such thing as a "right-wing" political ideology that actually has any institutional power or capability of getting it.
Our Conservatives are not conservative about anything socially, and economically they are globalist. The only time they get a majority in parliament is when they water themselves down. Literally our current "Conservative" Prime Minister the other day said "diversity is a strength" and Boris Johnson was talking about creating a more "gender-neutral and feminine world" before him. Before him, Theresa May was all about women, gay people and people of colour. Yes, they are parasites, but they aren't conservative. They literally do nothing but occupy government and support pseudo-authoritarian measures. Under Tories, the country gained 2 million immigrants last year, passed massive hate-speech measures, etc. Regardless of anyone's opinion on those specific things, they are hardly "conservative" policies.
The BNP has zero political representation here, and hasn't for over a decade. No one cares about them; They're irrelevant. As soon as Nick Griffin appeared on Question time that one time, his support evaporated.
Nigel Farage used to be pretty right-leaning, but nowadays tends to just comment on individual issues that come up rather than being all that politically active, hence his constant quitting and returning.
There is zero real right-wing or conservative public force in the UK other than a handful of cringe news shows that no one watches, and some Islamists who don't want being gay to be taught in schools.
We sacrificed our empire to protect the world from Nazis during WW2; I can't think of a more noble way to go down than that.
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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"Fortress Britain struck out at the world and conquered it" damn that's a cool quote
@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
@imlovely6522 you're full of it.
'China released around 83 billion tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere between 2014 and 2021, while during the period, 1750 to 2021, the UK emitted about 79 billion tonnes.'
@@amh9494China is the 3rd largest country on the planet with the largest population. Britain is a skidmark of the coast of Europe by comparison. The fact this is even in discussion demonstrates the extent to which Britain has devastated the planets environment.
I see many things making UK comeback as unlikely to happen
1) Divided society by many factors like Brexit, cultural, religion, background roots, UK countries wishes to remain or separate from it.
2) Huge technological competition from US, China, India, South Korea and other countries that make harder to compete in order to became back what UK used to be.
3) USA: As long USA exists it wont allow UK to become strong enough to be a threat for them. UK plans to comeback as it says in the video are very unlikely to happen as that would bring conflict of interests with USA, so not likely to happen.
4) Economy (GDP): Not so long ago, India surpassed UK economy. Now UK is on the 6th place which is not bad but definitely way too far from US or China. Before aspiring to be a top superpower, UK must compete against Germany, France, Japan and even India.
The British people I've met are all ashamed, modernist, or not ethnic British. Their leadership is foreigners or aloof. There's little to unite them and little to lead them. It's not countries that conquer, but nations.
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?
A huge issue with Britain 🇬🇧 is our patriotism. Some people literally think we invented everything and won every war, single handedly. We can’t get better until we recognize our faults and failures.
I love the opening statements which recognize British past failures which often are never recognized in the UK. “Britain is protected by being an island but close enough to trade “.
We often gloss of this with it’s not a retreat it’s an “evacuation “ “the greatest evacuation ever’”. And the mention that Britain lost the 100 year war to France 🇫🇷 and all chance to European conquest is excellent for laying the setting. Many people in the UK will know of the battle of Avignon but not the outcome of the war,… it’s so ignorant
We should strive for the best for ourselves and everyone, not just tell ourselves we are the best.
And “Britishness” is just another word for “Englishness” which forces its culture over the Welsh, Scottish and Irish.
@@alynwillams4297 wrong
I wish this talked about Britain’s population explosion, along with Germany’s, as opposed to France’s. Britain controlled the entire subcontinent and used it to control most of the rest of its empire, industrialize itself (yes, this happened after colonizing) and industrialize Germany to contain France. France only really had Vietnam to exploit. Without exploiting its colonies, the industrial REVOLUTION would not have happened anywhere. The economics of colonialism during the industrial revolution are severly understudied and many illuminating records were destroyed by France and Britain.
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.
The map showing the British Empire at the beginning is failing to Show Iraq, Kuwait and British Somaliland. The Gambia is not shown too.
Qatar,Bahrain and Palestine too...
Who is responsible for this terrible map??
And Djibouti was French, Not English...
Man how the hell can you get so many things wrong when the only thing you have to do is just Google a map of the British Empire?
It depends on when the map represents. After all it doesn't show the 13 colonies.
@@daffyduck780 the thirteen colonies never provided britain troops. Basically refused to pay taxes from day one. Then hit the french up to kick the shit out of britain when we were tired of their shit
Iraq/Kuwait/Somaliland was a protectorate not a colonie like Canada/South Africa/Australia
As a migrant to Great Britian and a British soldier and veteran this is truly a sad and disturbing to me.
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.
@@FictionHubZA 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?
The title is pretty misleading considering this was more of a history lesson. Albeit a very interesting and beautifully visualized one!
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.
That's easier said than done. Where are you possibly going to replace the energy imports with? Just look at Germany right now. The UK hardly gets any sun for solar, and energy needs are only going to increase as time passes. The only feasible alternative is nuclear, but for some reason Europe hates nuclear energy. The UK needs to build up new industries and dominate them. Unfortunately, tech innovations are extremely weak in the UK compared to other countries that are similarly sized/wealthy. For example, if the UK became the big player in the AI space, they could import all the energy they need and have plenty of money leftover. The outrageous overdependence on financial services and London to prop up the country are crippling all other industries and making them uncompetitive on the world stage.
@@KingKong11730 Currently 30 percent wind , 5 percent solar, 2 percent hydro in the electricity generating sector. 20 percent nuclear electricity.
All of these ways of generating electricity are being built all the time. More efficient use of electricity is cutting its total usage.
When will all energy be produced in house? Who knows, but within ten years.
several aspects of this report is wrong i'm afraid. out of date data
Such as?
@@sticktothetruth Like how he said that the DUP is refusing to form an executive with the nationalist parties
Most of it is accurate.
@@alexanderg1935 i didn't say it's all wrong. i said some, for example the uk is doing better than germany and did all last year and instead of being at the bottom of the g7 as the report said it was in the middle. can't be arsed going though the entire thing and show a list.
@@alexanderg1935 btw, by saying most of it is accurate you're admitting that some of it isn't.
"Our time has come"🤣 And I'm British...
We watched in real time, as the Tories sunk the whole of UK. Such a ghastly thing to witness.
Not surprising. Most british people are very pessimistic about their country's future, which is a rather stupid outlook.
@MeAndTheBoys_ Tories here and Democrats in US, two great nations brought to their knees by traitors
@@superkittyshow1782 if you think the democrats are the party most like the tories, i'd suggest you don't know much about either country's politics
Think it means .....to have a beer
Correction: The whole of Ireland pursued independence, but the compromise the British demanded was to keep the north with its vital port in Belfast and the ability to govern with an impunity guaranteed by a protestant unionist majority. What was contentiously agreed to led to the Irish Free State; a compromise that sparked the Irish Civil War. Also, the Sinn Fine party? 😂
Great Vlog ! You laid out the history in a way that makes it easy for someone not familiar with the UK history to follow. 👍👍👍
What are the British products needed on the market? What can Britain offer to the world market?
they literally lead the world in laundering criminal and terrorist money. The bank of england.. which literally rules london.. is based on it
Cornish Pasties
Jet engines, pharmaceuticals, aerospace equipment, vehicles, financial services, what more do you want?
Dairy milk chocolate… that’s it
What the other comment listed Plus AI (deepmind is essentially british), Chip design particularly IOT(ARM is British) art, fashion, music, design and creative services, Film and TV production, littiriture, culture, tourism (London is one of the most visited cities on Earth), Insurance etc etc.
"stemming from its departure from the EU"
You have no idea. Brexit was a symptom, not a cause. This has been brewing for a lot longer than Brexit. Think mass immigration without any thought for the cultural impact.
The US had mass immigration from the XVIIIth century up until today. They remain the world greatest power. I don't think immigration alone can explain Britain, or Europe's decline.
@alioshax7797, the US and Canada are separated by a huge ocean. Especially the latter, they can choose want immigrants to welcome such as high skilled workers or people who have loved for Canada and their way of life.
@@inbb510 Most immigrants in the US don't come from the ocean. They come from the south. And these are not chosen, I guarantee that.
At the end of the day, the US recieves more immigrants per capita than any European country.
It's immigration rate has actually INCREASED since Brexit.
The US has a very distinct culture and basically focused their education on reeducation into the national culture and myth.
Britain is a settled nation, we are built on ethnic particularity, not ideas.
The country’s fine, I’m reminded of the slogan “ask not what your country can do for you but rather what you can do for your country”.
Get an education, work and aim for high standards and enough of you do that we’ll be fine in the future as well.
All I got is that we’re not as great as we once used to be and that’s perfectly alright, the world isn’t static there’s always ups and downs and I hope and assume we’ll remain in the top 10 for decades to come looking at new ways of improving our position down the line. Keep calm and carry on folks.
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.
If only... you might not become the Empire again, but I want the United Kingdom to be proud again, but with the lessons learned. A beacon of Classical Liberalism that made their former colony, the powerhouse that it is today.
Britain was ahead of the curve because they were first in on the industrial revolution. As soon as America, Germany, and Russia caught up, Britain became less relevant again.
@civilengineer3349 it was the World Wars and the failure to create the "Imperial Federation" that led to the demise of the Empire? It was to be eclipsed at some point, yes, but not to the point of irrelevance if they had dealt their cards right at that time.
There is a reason that even now, the UK is middleweight "Great Power" despite all the poor policy choices made since decolonisation.
Parliament killed the empire, some 'classical liberalism '. We won't recover until we throw off the stranglehold of the enlightenment.
@@DieNibelungenliad UK was still powerful even when European nations and USA started industrialising. It was only until Europe was ravaged by both ww1 and ww2 and highly indebted that UK and European power fell. USA was essentially completely untouched and also massively profited from both world wars and after it too. 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." Point is, if ww1 and especially ww2 didn't happen, UK and European power would be stronger today.
Just a disclaimer, it's military only ranks so highly because of nuclear weapons.
So true.
Our soldiers are well known to be excellent, it's just that there are very few of them, new ones aren't signing up and they don't have the ammo reserves to fight a conventional war anymore.
@@blortbugman8722 this was also true in ww1. But to be fair.. the tiny number of brits who fought in ww2 were outstanding
@@charlesreid9337 sort of! But we did have about 3 million brits serve in world war 2 by the time it was over. Of course most of them were recruited during the war not before it.
@@charlesreid9337 Not really, should a major war break out. The country could militarize and 18 months down the line churn out a 5 million man army.
"Brexit created social division" You sure about that?
I'm pretty sure Brexit was a result of social division that already existed. But if absolves people of the responsibility to attempt to understand what has happened in Britain then so be it. Willful ignorance has never been more fashionable.
It now tilted the division into the favor of the minority of the economic elites....their plan was always to reduce pollution regulation, work safety regulation and in the end....wages, rights and security of the workers.
@@TheEsseboy So the elites plan "was always" to curtail things that weren't even factors prior to the millenium? I would hope that such an ambitious conspiracy would have more demanding goals.
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
The UK making a comeback? They hardly have a domestic industry left and whatever that is left is barely even competitive internationally. The UK had its chance of being a major investment and finanical hub for the EU but it threw that away too. The UK government switches PMs in and out almost as frequently as the Italians do and the one before the current PM almost crashed their own currency. Right now all things point to that the UK will not be able maintain whatever position it has been pushed to in the world stage, after it's empire came to an end.
Ah I see you're fully up to date with all the MSM talking points. Most in depth
@@curiositycloset2359 bruh what ? What is MSM? Don't even know what you are talking about XD
@justinkim8619 main stream media
Don't worry, their American masters would come to aid.
@@curiositycloset2359that's literally anti MSM narrative
I would argue that there was no such thing as 'British' power, but only 'English' power. Even the Britain was Great and an empire, it was the English who were in charge. The monarch was English (well, with German heritage), the prime minister was English, England had most of the industrial activity, population and wealth. Scotland, Wales and Ireland (later just Northern Ireland) were just brought along for the ride and no one talks about Cornwall. The unity of these four countries were crucial to England creating its own empire from Britain. Now it seems it's all fracturing.
I would argue otherwise.
Cornwall had been in the English kingdom for near 1000 years by the time of the union so I don't see why thats been brought up, Wales has been key to the industrial revolution with it's coal mines among many other things and like the north of England Scotland was an industrial powerhouse for example ship building in Glasgow. Also Scotland's military personnel was and still is well renowned.
All parts of Britain have their part and have contributed to our nation
GB was an empire when Elizabeth II became queen and a fractured little island, taken over by its former colonized by the time she died. Did she ever intervene to stop it ?
@@geminiblue6677 Well I doubt she could've done that much. The writing was on the wall for the empire after WW2. The monarch also has in practice very little influence in national and international affairs as well
@@TheManHimself94 Tell that to Elizabeth 1st!
This is just so wrong and it’s something i always see, Scotland wasn’t some poor colony to England, the Scot’s literally administrated the empire, many viceroys of India were Scottish. The British empire was the best thing to happen to Scotland.
Let’s not forgot that Scotland literally started the Union because their own empire failed, and the first monarch was SCOTTISH (King James)
Ww1 was not a german attemped to overthrow GB... people gotta stop blaming germany for ww1 austria (the starter of the war) and germany are 2 different countries, germany started ww2, but neither wanted or started ww1.
Sinn Fein is pronounced as shin feign.
Opinion is divided as to whether "The British isles" includes the island of Ireland.
Some lack of understanding regarding recent events here.
In Scotland, the SNP government is weaker than it has been in the last 12 years or so, with a few scandals involving leaders, and the SNP will struggle to hold half their current seats in this year’s election.
Re Northern Ireland - their deadlock has been sorted as of just a month or so. Though their public services are absolutely knackered with no investment or pay rises for some time.
However - the general leaning is correct: UK economy is in a post Brexit shambles, and the very English Brexit has went down like a lead balloon in Scotland and NI, leaving feeling about the union in a very weak place. I say this as a Scot that spent years overseas, coming back here in 2018 to nearly a 2nd world economy, and with English in laws (who we see regularly) with polar opposite views on political and economic current events.
Referendums on Scottish independence and Irish unity seem inevitable at this point.
I have no idea what to believe anymore.
There's quite a few English posters on this comments section claiming independence referendums are not going to be a thing for a long time.
Others are calling the UK a world power and on a big upwards trend financially and militarily.
Followed by Wales inevitably. As they’d be stuck with constantly being out voted by England.
1:10 world’s sixth economy based on GDP where buying and selling hoses that were built 100 years ago counts as economic activity! Do they actually produce any goods?
Can they produce any navy ships? How long does it take them to produce enough artillery shells to fight a week in Ukraine? (40,000 shells)
Their ICBM test failed recently for the second time.They have fallen really behind.And dont ask about space program.
@@RaviKiran-uq8np the brits still think theyre "great britain" because.. well honestly propaganda.
England is a tiny country.. britain is a tiny fading empire attached to the US teat. Brits forgot how to just be brits and be happy with that
@@RaviKiran-uq8npyep! And their navy ship breaking down and being superglued and the other one out for month, because they can’t even fix one piece quickly!!
@@RaviKiran-uq8np the ICBM built by the US lol
Fwfeo. www.gov.uk/government/statistics/uk-trade-in-numbers/uk-trade-in-numbers-web-version
how do you quantify soft power? I'm skeptical that this something that can have a number put on it.
37 seconds since posting and I can confirm this is a certifiable classic Caspian Report
I don’t understand this obsession with the rise and fall of “British power”. Britain hasn’t been a world power since just after WWII and I know of no British person that actually ponders about this.
Boris Johnson still believes
He’s a Tory. They’re a ‘special’ breed.
Britain built many antagonists around the world.
@@WealthandGeoPolitics Stupid ignorant statement but so typical. Many other countries around the world “built antagonists” but they certainly don’t get half as much air time.
And before you start with the typical “but, but Britain was the worst”, please present evidence to support your ignorant assertion.
So much wrong with this video for instance the only way the UK would lose its permanent seat on the security council is if it along with the other 4 security council member countries agree to it. This is the same reason why countries like India and Brazil will never get such a deserved seat because the 5, China and Russia especially, would not welcome a dilution of their geopolitical power.
There’s literally no reason that India or Brazil “deserves” a seat. They are both hardly regional powers.
@@davidthompson4383 Oh yeah the most populated, fastest growing economy on earth and the largest country in South America don't deserve a seat but a tiny island nation built on loot who's only relevant due to being a US lackey is a superpower. 😂😂
India and even Brazil in many ways has a LOT more influence and geopolitical clout than UK. You're in denial.
@@HemantKumar-id3jg India was always the most populated though lol it means nothing. Nobody outside of India really cares about India. Same can be said of Brazil. As for Britain, well here we all are speaking English. That’s precisely why Britain earned its seat. It built the modern world.
@@HemantKumar-id3jgdon’t bother with him, waste of time. He blabbers about something they did a century ago, like that means something.
As even Japan, Korea, Germany are all much more deserving.
Frankly even Ireland is more suited at this point as their economy is not a dumpster fire.
The uk has no foreign policy, a failing economy, and basically non existent military, might as well give one place to Venezuela, since apparently that is what it takes to be a “relevant”.
Britain had the whole of Ireland before 1920 not just Northern Ireland
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.
Screw your humility. Britain shall be great and make its people proud again. You Brits need to grow a spine, you are being driven out of your cities and nobody cares! Nobody bats an eye! Stand up for yourselves you fools. You conquered 1/4 of the globe but can’t even stand up for yourselves.
Do Brits not realize that the downfall of the US would mean an even greater decline for the UK and Western Europe? Is pride really that important to you?
@@KingKong11730Dark ages all over again is what will happen in Europe.
The US is too big. Sure, it may not stay at the top, but with the population and resources, the US will always be a top 3 economic and military power.
Interesting that you have not mentioned immigration and its consequences as a cause for internal friction.
Thank you, Shivran from Caspian Report, for being my host. I enjoyed this video.
What does he say in the end?
Saho? What is saho
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!!
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.
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 an avid CANZUK 🇨🇦🇦🇺🇳🇿🇬🇧 Advocate i think we should try to first fix our home island but look into the CANZUK initiative in order give us a new alternative to the EU 🇪🇺 which we sadly probably will never rejoin despite that being the most logical option.
I know some will tell me that’s impossible and I should just accept my country’s fate. But no despite its only flaw being the horrible politics I see the values of Britain and I believe CANZUK is perhaps the only real Post Brexit plan that can actually be feasible.
If we can settle things peacefully within our home island first trying to keep the Union together we can focus then on improving our relations elsewhere which is why I genuinely believe CANZUK is a good idea.
Just a little note from your sponsor segment, Sinn Féin isn’t pronounced Sin Fine, it’s more like Shin Fayne. It translates in Irish to “we ourselves” historically looking for an independent and united Ireland
the absolute state the UK is in is saddening
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.
You forgot UK is home to Pakistani's too! 🇵🇰 ❤
Which can be seen with those crying: 'Paki go home' every chance they get! The UK is a powder keg waiting to blow.
"not too wet" proof this is some right nonsense
Surely too wet is like monsoon
It isn't a rainforest.
@@yougoslavia no shit
Although technically the UK has some Celtic Rainforests
Thats what I thought too immediately, but he probably means it aint tropical rainforest wet.
Government has losts its ways too weak and woke. army becoming so low. Not even class two. Rich get richer while the poor get forgotten by asylum seekers
Exactly , This comment does not have enough 👍🏻
Weak and woke are really not core issues with the current government, the primary problem is poor management, outsourcing of core services for personal gain, and generally greed and power squabbling. Also a severely misplaced exaggerated sense of nationalism is tearing Britain apart.
You reap what you sow. Don't be surprised.