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  • @TheArmchairHistorian
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      @JamaciaMapping6647 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

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  • @Redacted-one
    @Redacted-one 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +752

    "Getting rid of Saddam would result in a costly and lengthy occupation." As we found out 12 years later that was so true.

    • @2x2is22
      @2x2is22 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      As a percent of the total federal budget and GDP, military spending on the post-9/11 wars never got to what it was during the Cold War or even WWII. All of GWOT was conducted with the US military as-is. They didn't even need to implement conscription.
      So tell me, aside from the human cost, how exactly was Iraq costly?

    • @vermas4654
      @vermas4654 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +37

      @@2x2is22 Compared to spending nothing on no occupation, very

    • @MrHeavy466
      @MrHeavy466 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +35

      @@2x2is22 Fighting ISIS across the globe, dealing with the Syrian civil war, and dealing with the humanitarian crises, like the mass refuge migrations, that arose from both of those things which continues to plague the US and Europe today: all of which directly sprung from the fall of the Iraqi state. Pretty expensive if you ask me.

    • @Crazy_Broke_Asian
      @Crazy_Broke_Asian 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

      @@2x2is2230 trillion in added national debt since 1991 seems costly to me idk

    • @Skogebear
      @Skogebear 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      ​@@2x2is22i dont know where you got your information but a quick google shows 8 billion obligated to post 9-11 war vs 4 billion after adjustment for inflation for WW2

  • @larryalvares1369
    @larryalvares1369 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1106

    Saddam stole the Gardner art
    Those South Park references will never cease to amuse me

    • @jacobleister3055
      @jacobleister3055 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +43

      “Eh buddy. You should take Kuwait, guy!”

    • @PupleAnimations
      @PupleAnimations 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      "!Eh It would be so fucking Cool buddy"

    • @starset4life175
      @starset4life175 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      ⁠@@jacobleister3055”I’m not your guy, pal!”

    • @rachelleventura1026
      @rachelleventura1026 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      @@starset4life175 "I'm not your Pal, Friend"

    • @banksavram
      @banksavram 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      ⁠@@rachelleventura1026”I’m not your friend, buddy!”

  • @ThomFoolery12
    @ThomFoolery12 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +299

    This is like Total War when you easily could’ve auto-resolved but you misclicked so you just go full out.

    • @calexander7495
      @calexander7495 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

      See there's the difference.
      Saddam was more of a by the numbers autoresolve kind of general while America always goes Real Time.

  • @davidsyverson4612
    @davidsyverson4612 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +977

    "Mother of all battles" to "Father of all ass whoopins"

    • @liamdowd4391
      @liamdowd4391 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      😂 lol

    • @paulgoodridge2269
      @paulgoodridge2269 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

      That sir is an understatement

    • @jhapethlloydciron3185
      @jhapethlloydciron3185 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@paulgoodridge2269torture?

    • @paulgoodridge2269
      @paulgoodridge2269 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

      @@jhapethlloydciron3185 now that's an overstatement. More like a one-sided stomp.

    • @RadioStationRail
      @RadioStationRail 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@paulgoodridge2269 Bullying?

  • @THUMPER10
    @THUMPER10 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +495

    My late grandfather served in Vietnam as a medic/phycologist and was discharged as a specialist. He later went on to serve in Operation Desert Storm and Shield at the rank of Captain. By the time the war on terror started he was too old to reenlist even though he wanted to. He always talked about how he didn’t like war, but he knew that the soldiers needed somebody to look out for them and he wanted to be that guy.

    • @michelleladd7394
      @michelleladd7394 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

      God bless him.

    • @stevemc01
      @stevemc01 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +27

      "The soldier doesn't fight for some niche political idea postered at home. He fights for the comrades and family he knows depends on it."
      -- some quote I found in a forgotten Battle of Kursk book

    • @salvadorromero9712
      @salvadorromero9712 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      I'm a bit surprised they wouldn't direct commission a medic at that point or something. (I'm not a veteran and know little about the culture.) I guess they'd take a senator's crackhead son who had done nothing with his life over a prior from two wars' worth of combat; go figure. Hey, if your grandfather were still alive he'd probably have an easier time getting commissioned now than twenty years ago. Anyway enough. May he rest in peace.

    • @Fast85FoxGT
      @Fast85FoxGT 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Good man.

    • @farismustafa5389
      @farismustafa5389 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      what does he think of the Vietnam and 2003 Iraq war now politically?

  • @rsookchand919
    @rsookchand919 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1217

    Love how they keep the South Park style of Saddam

    • @SuspectXX
      @SuspectXX 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +78

      What do you mean, that's exactly what he looked like in real life.

    • @h4bun5
      @h4bun5 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +49

      @@SuspectXX yea he's actually canadian

    • @vervi1jw1
      @vervi1jw1 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

      Hey Buddy!

    • @pbibbles
      @pbibbles 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      "Hey, Satan!"

    • @ghost7344
      @ghost7344 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      He is angry and small

  • @TurtleChad1
    @TurtleChad1 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2464

    The Gulf war was like teaming up with 8 friends to take on an extremely easy computer enemy in command and conquer.

    • @esellipion8157
      @esellipion8157 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +51

      Why are you everywhere

    • @NOT_PSYCHO_A7MEDI
      @NOT_PSYCHO_A7MEDI 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +154

      Easy enemy?Iraq was the fourth in the world in military strength with chemical weapons and was close to manufacturing nuclear weapons...

    • @kiwimerchant121
      @kiwimerchant121 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +292

      ​@@NOT_PSYCHO_A7MEDIKinda easy to forget they were so powerful considering how they got curb stomped so hard 😂

    • @insertsomethingfuni2617
      @insertsomethingfuni2617 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +167

      @@NOT_PSYCHO_A7MEDI then its even more embarrassing that they got bombed back to the stone age within weeks

    • @shutup2751
      @shutup2751 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +78

      @@NOT_PSYCHO_A7MEDI Iraq's tanks were outdated, they had no night vision or anything

  • @Dankcommander45
    @Dankcommander45 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +608

    Clicked on this faster than the American advance into kuwait

    • @NOT_PSYCHO_A7MEDI
      @NOT_PSYCHO_A7MEDI 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      What happened next in Iraq? You invaded Iraq but did not control it because of the Mujahideen.

    • @sunValAsun
      @sunValAsun 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@NOT_PSYCHO_A7MEDI What the fukc are you talking about?

    • @scarscar9278
      @scarscar9278 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@NOT_PSYCHO_A7MEDISaddam's corrupt dictatorial regime was toppled in just 20 days, so keep crying.

    • @scarscar9278
      @scarscar9278 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@NOT_PSYCHO_A7MEDISaddam's corrupt dictatorship was toppled in just 20 days, so keep crying.

    • @KamsiyonnaEzepue
      @KamsiyonnaEzepue 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +74

      ​​​@@NOT_PSYCHO_A7MEDI AHH yes, the Mujahedeen was in Iraq. You are a very smart historian!

  • @awesomehpt8938
    @awesomehpt8938 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +361

    Did anyone get a hole in one during the golf war?

    • @NOT_PSYCHO_A7MEDI
      @NOT_PSYCHO_A7MEDI 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

      Ask the Americans at Baghdad and Fallujah

    • @austineisinger8927
      @austineisinger8927 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

      I've heard Kim Jong Il did

    • @akend4426
      @akend4426 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

      @Ahmed-xf8wk
      You keep referring to the wrong conflict, and I can’t tell if it’s deliberate or not.

    • @rebelroar78
      @rebelroar78 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      When I was little I thought the Gulf War was fought over golf. Then I thought it happened in the Gulf of Mexico. Then the Iraq War happened and I unfortunately got a crash course in geopolitics and nothing has gone right ever since.

    • @JackalEtheriasu
      @JackalEtheriasu 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      ​@@akend4426He is a Wahabist fundamentalist I'm not even jk

  • @kronocul3564
    @kronocul3564 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +342

    The one dislike is from Saddam Hussein beyond the grave

    • @abenazerafework4015
      @abenazerafework4015 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      actually there are 43 dislikes

    • @AdmiralPrestonJColeTheGigaChad
      @AdmiralPrestonJColeTheGigaChad 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +30

      ​@@abenazerafework4015Must be the Iraqi Republican Guard divisions that were annihilated during the war.

    • @C-Farsene_5
      @C-Farsene_5 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Nah it was him from his hiding place

    • @teckzilla108
      @teckzilla108 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      LMAOOOO

    • @Mqmn
      @Mqmn 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@teckzilla108there’s no way it was that funny bro

  • @DarthKieduss
    @DarthKieduss 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +197

    Thirty seconds in and you got South Park references. Bravo sir.

  • @Marylandbrony
    @Marylandbrony 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +99

    An alumni of my high school, Reid Wiseman participated in thr post-gulf war bombing campaigns and ended up becoming an astronaut.

    • @DonVigaDeFierro
      @DonVigaDeFierro 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Woah, I think they bombed too hard, then.

  • @outofturn331
    @outofturn331 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +55

    7:45 stealing that armchair was an outrage

  • @Warriorbob-im5py
    @Warriorbob-im5py 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +110

    You know you fucked up when both the US and the Soviet Union condemn you.

    • @retr07397
      @retr07397 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Britain and France: 👀

    • @SteveInLava
      @SteveInLava 27 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Soviet Union in 1991: 🫥

  • @merveileuxdushimeshema2188
    @merveileuxdushimeshema2188 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +132

    I like the fact that he gives us how long the ad is. I can skip it all😂😂.

    • @SleepyjoeOG
      @SleepyjoeOG 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      Truly a man of the people

    • @eifelitorn
      @eifelitorn 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      bro use sponsorblock

    • @salvadorromero9712
      @salvadorromero9712 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I am sure you are hardly the only person to notice that. You are merely the only person to say you appreciate the courtesy, then go out of your way to ruin it either for us or for him.

    • @matthewjones39
      @matthewjones39 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@salvadorromero9712How is he ruining anything?

    • @salvadorromero9712
      @salvadorromero9712 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@matthewjones39 You didn't appreciate the courtesy of being told how to easily skip the ad? I certainly did, and so apparently did a lot of others

  • @saadhero9107
    @saadhero9107 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +74

    As a Kuwaiti, I thank you for this video.
    It's always scary to know that Kuwait was taken away from us and am quite thankful for all the countries that assisted us.

    • @Justaguyaroslav1234
      @Justaguyaroslav1234 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      I could agree Iran stupidity of invading an perfect ally was idiotic but attacking the people and punishing them is also insane

    • @joesomebody3365
      @joesomebody3365 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      I'm glad you were assisted, though keep in mind it was probably due to oil exports.
      Other countries sometimes get invaded and are not helped, especially not by such an overwhelming amount.

    • @manipulatortrash
      @manipulatortrash 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      ​@joesomebody3365 that's sort of the way all assistance works though. Seems rather reductive to even mention when the commenter is obviously just showing his goodwill

    • @Salim_shahidy
      @Salim_shahidy หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@joesomebody3365 it's all just business. either way it's a win win situation.

    • @Buurba_Jolof
      @Buurba_Jolof หลายเดือนก่อน

      Kuwait is an Iraqi province.

  • @stephensands3485
    @stephensands3485 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +122

    It’s so easy to forget that Iraq’s army was formidable, well-equipped, and full of experienced, well-trained soldiers (many of whom were veterans of the Iran-Iraq war, a near peer conflict for the Iraqis). It was expected that there would be significant coalition casualties, and that the war would be a tough fight. We look back in hindsight and think to ourselves “wow, what an easy war against a weak enemy” because of how the war went, and I think that really sells the military genius of the U.S. and the coalition short. ,”
    The war was made to *look easy* by excellent planning, tricky tactics, and teamwork on the coalition side. The reality was that coordinating the efforts of 42 countries and 900k troops speaking a variety of languages and with different equipment, training levels, and tactics to pull off a coordinated, combined arms operation was nothing short of brilliance. If you think doing so was easy, look at Russia’s performance during the early days of the Ukraine war. They struggled to perform any combined arms operations with a single military force that all spoke the same language and were part of the same country’s military force. That’s what Desert Storm *could* have looked like, but-for the masterful efforts of Stormin’ Norman Schwarzkopf

    • @GeN56YoS
      @GeN56YoS 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

      Iraq was equipped but the tech was more than a generation behind compared to the US, UK and France. It was the biggest factor

    • @shadiafifi54
      @shadiafifi54 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      Iraq had a massive army of conscripts held together by brutal discipline and a few well-trained veterans. It had plenty of operational problems and failures left over from the war against Iran, which they didn't have time to fix. Iran was in the middle of a Stalin-like purge when Iraq invaded, and even towards the end of the war the terrain and lack of armor really hurt the Iranian armed forces.
      The Iraqi military was vastly inflated and had issues all the way down, from outdated weapons to poor training to poor logistics to interservice rivalries that rivaled the Imperial Japanese for how bad it got at times.

    • @stephensands3485
      @stephensands3485 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@shadiafifi54 yes to all of that. Serious issues in their military. The coalition forces weren’t perfect either, but much better and much more professional than the Iraqis. But even the Republican Guard units, which were much better trained, got bamboozled and steamrolled by the coalition forces.

    • @MamaMia-go7co
      @MamaMia-go7co 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      ​@@GeN56YoS Just Soviet technology ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

    • @profinneupane6883
      @profinneupane6883 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Even tho the Russians performed so badly and still doing so but to their credit at the beginning of the invasion of Ukraine they only had 150-190k troops while Zelenzsky claimed they had 1 million standing force and 800k of them serving in the front unlike the coalition who were 42 countries and 1 million forces..iraqis didn’t get any support like Ukraine and were also poorly trained and exhausted by the Iran-iraq war. So it’s not comparable at all

  • @clement28300yip
    @clement28300yip 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

    5:51 Never thought I'd see BUFF THATCHER

  • @indianajones4321
    @indianajones4321 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +135

    To expand on the ending, HW Bush had called on the Iraqi military to stage a coup against Saddam Hussein’s regime and did not intend on a popular uprising as the results would be devastating, which was what happened in the 1991 Iraqi Uprisings.

    • @fasfuhknf234
      @fasfuhknf234 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      The uprising was brutal. One of my uncles died while it was occuring.

    • @shutup2751
      @shutup2751 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      Saddam had the elite republican guards on his side recruited from tribes loyals to him and they still had hundreds of T-72 tanks, the decimated army was in no position to stage a coup

    • @manipulatortrash
      @manipulatortrash 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

      ​@howiehall4622to be entirely fair to the senior bush, he did not want to intervene inside Iraq whatsoever. He was fine decimating and expelling Iraq from kuwait, but he made it pretty clear that an american invasion or support within Iraq would be harmful to relations with the Arab coalition.

    • @rachelleventura1026
      @rachelleventura1026 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@manipulatortrash TBH, Bush Sr was much Better than George W. Bush

    • @kingace6186
      @kingace6186 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I blame the Iraqi military. Cult warriors loyal to Saddam.

  • @NineteenEighty8
    @NineteenEighty8 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    High quality stuff here. This channel makes better content than major tv networks. Keep them coming, for real!

  • @atlantiswolf
    @atlantiswolf 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

    The bit at the end mentioning the fires burning in Kuwait gives me real "We did it Patrick, we saved the city!" Energy. Fun little anecdote about the war, I remember hearing somewhere, that at some point, American Bombers took off from an Air Base on the East Coast, flew all the way to Iraq without landing, dropped their payload, and flew all the way back to their home base, without once touching the ground, only refueling while in Mid Air. Theres no strategic reason to do this, America did it to prove one simple thing, that it could.

    • @jonmcgee6987
      @jonmcgee6987 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      B-52's flew from Barksdale AFB in Louisiana to carry out that mission.

  • @shutup2751
    @shutup2751 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +139

    the mother of all one sided battles

    • @itsjustomx1656
      @itsjustomx1656 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      actually not

    • @shutup2751
      @shutup2751 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      @@itsjustomx1656 in terms of casualties and material losses yep

    • @jdam6017
      @jdam6017 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      @@itsjustomx1656 Lol how was it not one sided? It might one of the most lopsided victories in a war between states over the last half a century.

    • @profinneupane6883
      @profinneupane6883 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      @@itsjustomx1656yep in terms of everything, strength, casualties etc

    • @AndrejMelank
      @AndrejMelank หลายเดือนก่อน

      Nato-yugoslavia '99?

  • @propellertoad6137
    @propellertoad6137 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +29

    1:53 Didn't expect a South park Reference 💀

  • @monkeycat48
    @monkeycat48 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +71

    0:26 South Parks version of Saddam Hussein🤣🤣🤣

  • @TheOhioNews
    @TheOhioNews 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    One of my history professors fought in this war. Great to see you cover it here 👍

  • @aquatic-protogen
    @aquatic-protogen 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

    My States Battleship the USS Wisconsin thought in the Gulf war if I remember correctly. They may be considered obsolete. But those guns must of been hell for the Iraq when she was firing her broadside from the coast.

  • @mrmeme9105
    @mrmeme9105 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    A 'british challenger 1 tank' got the longest tank kill ever. Clearly the fighting spirit of the British empire hasn't gone.

  • @fireironthesecond2909
    @fireironthesecond2909 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    That moment when the largest army in the world destroyed the fourth largest army in the world overnight

  • @jack01234567
    @jack01234567 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

    0:26 Eh guy, relax!

    • @delzav4872
      @delzav4872 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I can change!

    • @xboxgamer196
      @xboxgamer196 หลายเดือนก่อน

      You know, even if the golf war ended, there was still things going on and Iraq throughout the late 90s and early 2000s, the second Gulf War being one of the situations Also known as the Iraq war

  • @MBHpower1
    @MBHpower1 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +84

    Crooked nose thatcher was hilarious

    • @capncake8837
      @capncake8837 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      I thought they were just poking fun at Thatcher, but then they portrayed the Saudi king the same way. 😂

    • @immortalobelisk6302
      @immortalobelisk6302 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

      I think it’s a reference to Spitting Image, a UK comedy show that mocked and caricatured politicians using grotesque puppets

    • @MBHpower1
      @MBHpower1 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@immortalobelisk6302 Cool man the british have a great sense of humour I had a chuckle when they colonised my nation and stole 40 trillion dollars worth from the area

    • @capncake8837
      @capncake8837 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@immortalobelisk6302 Probably. I knew I recognized the style from somewhere, but couldn’t quite remember.

  • @jacobosburne2282
    @jacobosburne2282 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I really love all the pop culture and gaming references to your vids they make it all the edutainment to enjoy them

  • @brianpersons370
    @brianpersons370 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +34

    Incredible South Park reference

  • @tanaka5395
    @tanaka5395 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    "Surrendered to the news crew" 😂😂

  • @conserva-chan2735
    @conserva-chan2735 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    When you try to be the Arab Napoleon but end up the Arab Solano Lopez

    • @rogerkeleshian2215
      @rogerkeleshian2215 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      My ancestor Floriano Peixoto, who was a commander of the Brazilian army fought in that war to depose Solano. He later became president after toppling the empire!

  • @MrLynch-ei4dc
    @MrLynch-ei4dc 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

    Love the southpark nod there. Terrance and philip 😂😂😂😂

  • @MarqBarq
    @MarqBarq 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +70

    Desert Shield / Desert Storm vet here. Good video. The Iraqi soldiers surrendered in such masses we couldn’t process them fast enough when the ground war really got started.

    • @aaravkumar257
      @aaravkumar257 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Can you tell more about your time there?

    • @user-ub5pn9op2q
      @user-ub5pn9op2q 9 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Woah, how were the Kuwaitis when you rescued them?

  • @Clader213
    @Clader213 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

    I was not expecting a south park reference 30 seconds in. Best historian ever!

  • @WonderDiscoverUncover27
    @WonderDiscoverUncover27 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I love how you combine animation and actual footage into your video. Very talented.

  • @lovatojonasfan1
    @lovatojonasfan1 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    Funny thing is the media really hyped up the Republican Guard. My father who guarded POWs during the war said they had plenty of Republican Guard prisoners. He also thinks we should’ve just toppled Saddam’s regime there and then.

    • @tetraxis3011
      @tetraxis3011 6 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Yeah because that would have totally worked and wouldn’t produce the exact same results the 2003 invasion did.

  • @KatakuriUchiha22
    @KatakuriUchiha22 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Thank you so much, this is SO GOOD

  • @hanumantmitv1755
    @hanumantmitv1755 21 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    i am getting ready for black ops 6.......

  • @joegordon5117
    @joegordon5117 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Reminded of the late, great American stand-up, Bill Hicks, who used to comment that there was no such thing as the Gulf War, because a war is when two armies are fighting 😁

  • @TH-bj1pb
    @TH-bj1pb 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    6:00 damn Thatchers beak is like the one of a parrot 👃🏾

    • @Compucles
      @Compucles 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      It makes me wonder if Opal, the old lady Gym Leader in Pokémon Sword/Shield, is actually based on Thatcher rather than Queen Elizabeth II.

  • @satopierce4408
    @satopierce4408 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +32

    @4:11 to skip ad

  • @nope-m4f
    @nope-m4f 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    i love the rambo margaret thatcher animation that shits great

  • @bystutter4035
    @bystutter4035 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Preparing some hot chocolate and settling in for another armchair historian educational video for the weekend ☕😎

  • @skeeterskoville9226
    @skeeterskoville9226 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I can’t thank you enough for the free history lesson. Keep fighting the good fight! ✊

  • @itz_ic21gaming97
    @itz_ic21gaming97 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

    I love the South park references

  • @unexpected9370
    @unexpected9370 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Saddam Being drawn like in South Park is my new Favorite Recurring joke

  • @gregsmith1548
    @gregsmith1548 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    12:54 nice touch

  • @joshuabarrett7486
    @joshuabarrett7486 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This video was personal to me and part of my family’s military history. This was well done!

  • @jaegerbomb269
    @jaegerbomb269 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

    Love the South Park references. 😂 😆

  • @JakeWilcox-yh8xl
    @JakeWilcox-yh8xl 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    You really did Thatcher dirty with that animation mate 💀 Northern Brit here so we don't care lmao

  • @Foreign0817
    @Foreign0817 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

    Worked with a Gulf War vet when I was in Bulgaria. Fun guy. Vibed well.

  • @FrNMGuy
    @FrNMGuy 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    You know? I've been watching g for 8 years. You have such a beautiful channel. I only wish I could help with your cause in educating the next generations as you have educated me and my kids. May your thirst for concise education and passion for history never fail you. Thanks, Griffin, for all your years of being MY armchair historian.

  • @jvbutalid8316
    @jvbutalid8316 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    7:02 To use all necessary memes
    Yo, this is Meme War Zero

  • @cultofhampter
    @cultofhampter 26 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    Kuwait: ow he hu-
    USA: *we got an excuse, go in boys take the oil*

    • @user-ub5pn9op2q
      @user-ub5pn9op2q 9 วันที่ผ่านมา

      To be fair, he really made a mistake invading Kuwait and thinking no one will do a thing

  • @mexonexo
    @mexonexo 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    What an coincidence that you uploaded it exactly at the same time as The Operations Room's video of the Desert Storm

  • @cainmathewson1857
    @cainmathewson1857 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    My uncle was a marine who participated in Desert Storm. I was only a little kid at the time but I remember him later telling us about how he had managed to get an entire squad of Iraqi soldiers to surrender from a bunker just by offering them the jelly beans we had sent him for Easter. Seeing how hungry they were, he kept his word. He was never right after he came back. For real he was a different person. Something he saw out there...

  • @rexgriffiths6653
    @rexgriffiths6653 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    The 101st did not conduct an Airborne Op, it was a 62 mile Air Assault behind enemy lines.

    • @nobodyherepal3292
      @nobodyherepal3292 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      The largest in history infact.

    • @Coolidge2329
      @Coolidge2329 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Defund Ukraine

    • @rexgriffiths6653
      @rexgriffiths6653 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@Coolidge2329 are you incapable of reading? Comment has nothing to do with Ukraine.

  • @ConvergingHorizons
    @ConvergingHorizons 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    Please make video on boer wars.

  • @stevemc01
    @stevemc01 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    *Team autobalance has been disabled*

  • @cypherdragon773
    @cypherdragon773 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    My dad was there drove a t-72 tank I think he got captured by Saudi soldiers after for a while

  • @Luckraig97
    @Luckraig97 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Amazing work

  • @rods6405
    @rods6405 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Great video! Those South Park references are great!

  • @DoorTechnicianRick
    @DoorTechnicianRick 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    Still found it funny how call of duty said the Highway of Death was Russia's fault 😂

    • @hikatalina
      @hikatalina 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      It was

    • @jack727dave5
      @jack727dave5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yeah, that is messed up.

    • @LOKSTED
      @LOKSTED หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Still found it funny some people think Call of Duty is real life

    • @DoorTechnicianRick
      @DoorTechnicianRick หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@LOKSTED If you base your game on real historical events at least get them right...

  • @alfrancisbuada2591
    @alfrancisbuada2591 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Always love how you add pop culture to your videos! Love It!

  • @garretturbaczewski2019
    @garretturbaczewski2019 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    Iraq: Invades Kuwait thinking no one will do anything
    Allied coalition: That was a mistake.

    • @tetraxis3011
      @tetraxis3011 6 วันที่ผ่านมา

      I’ve heard rumors that the CIA told Saddam he could invade, so that the US had an excuse to diminish the Iraqui Army.

  • @wolftaylor
    @wolftaylor 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    LOVE the south park reference

  • @Jayjay-qe6um
    @Jayjay-qe6um 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    During the Gulf War, more than 200,000 Palestinians fled Kuwait during the Iraqi occupation of Kuwait due to harassment and intimidation by Iraqi security forces, in addition to getting fired from work by Iraqi authority figures in Kuwait. After the Gulf War, the Kuwaiti authorities forcibly pressured nearly 200,000 Palestinians to leave Kuwait in 1991. Kuwait's policy, which led to this exodus, was a response to alignment of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and PLO with Saddam Hussein.

    • @shanenonwolfe4109
      @shanenonwolfe4109 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Cool, no one cares.

    • @JamesMargallo-r5s
      @JamesMargallo-r5s 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      aint those palestinians support saddam's invasion of kuwait

    • @emmanuelucrosacosta1845
      @emmanuelucrosacosta1845 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@shanenonwolfe4109 I do

    • @shanenonwolfe4109
      @shanenonwolfe4109 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@emmanuelucrosacosta1845 this has nothing to do with the gulf war though

  • @marvelgeek9577
    @marvelgeek9577 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

    19:51 That mentality was clearly not shared amongst the entire Bush family. 😬

  • @신비로운세상-e7y
    @신비로운세상-e7y 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Nice video👍

  • @Jtizz111
    @Jtizz111 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Another great video

  • @michaellynes3540
    @michaellynes3540 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

    Skip to 4:12

  • @texrex9876
    @texrex9876 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

    Can you do a video on WWII from Czechoslovakia’s perspective?

    • @StephenLuke
      @StephenLuke 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      I have to see that!!! 🇨🇿🇨🇿🇨🇿

    • @alissondourado5140
      @alissondourado5140 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      this would be spectacular, in yugoslav perspective too

    • @StephenLuke
      @StephenLuke 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@alissondourado5140 I’ll see that too!!!

  • @faileverything8789
    @faileverything8789 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Ngl, the animator/s Cooked on This one! Love the Caricatures of the British and Saudi Arabia prime ministers!

  • @mdanmariusalbarina2009
    @mdanmariusalbarina2009 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    I hope this vid doesn't get demonetized. TH-cam has not been very kind to you lately unfortunately.

  • @nevtheskid4579
    @nevtheskid4579 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    5:57 that drawing of Thatcher omg

  • @flamme6827
    @flamme6827 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Incredible reference to South park :D

  • @David-ec2qp
    @David-ec2qp หลายเดือนก่อน

    I was 11 during the Gulf War came into effect and watched it unfold at home on the TV with my Grandparents. I was though there for Op Jacana and Op Telic.
    Regardless of what is said today by some I was proud and honoured to stand beside my brothers of the US forces on both those tours. 🇬🇧

  • @Kingdom_Of_Terrestia
    @Kingdom_Of_Terrestia 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    I love the south park references

  • @Darbocepus907
    @Darbocepus907 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    As a history nerd I can confirm you’re content is flawless

  • @Perhapsawiseman
    @Perhapsawiseman 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    10:55 such Israeli wisdom is a thing of the past.

    • @8001T
      @8001T หลายเดือนก่อน

      Lol neutral😂

  • @HitmanConan
    @HitmanConan 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I am honestly shocked by how much I did not know about the Gulf War. Never knew about Iraq's debt to Kuwait, the fact they Actually invaded Saudi Arabia, and the tank battles...

  • @jonathanisjohn
    @jonathanisjohn 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Can you make a video about Nagorno-Karabakh conflict ?

  • @guilhermestanczyk
    @guilhermestanczyk 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Yessssssssss i've been waiting so long for this one

  • @KremkauDivide
    @KremkauDivide 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Love the South Park references

  • @ivanruiperezruiz4606
    @ivanruiperezruiz4606 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I have been watching the videos of the evolution of military uniforms and I would like to contribute to the channel by kindly suggesting that you could try it with the evolution of Spanish uniforms since it is a country in Europe that often tends to be underestimated but has an extensive history as well.

  • @Ardaagafilimada
    @Ardaagafilimada 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    Arrived here faster than it took saddam to conquer kuwait

  • @theredeyther7502
    @theredeyther7502 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    In collage I actually learned about another tragedy regarding the highway of death, in that due to the sheer amount of depleted uranium rounds that were fired for a short time after the entire field was radioactive to the point that a journalist reporting on the highway soon after the battle got radiation poisoning.

  • @TheOhioNews
    @TheOhioNews 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Ah yes, the US's victory lap after winning the Cold War

    • @nobodyherepal3292
      @nobodyherepal3292 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      The Cold War was still going on until December

    • @jacobdewey2053
      @jacobdewey2053 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@nobodyherepal3292 It was pretty much over after the Berlin wall fell in 1989. The Soviets were busy with their own dissolution at this time

    • @matthewjones39
      @matthewjones39 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@nobodyherepal3292”the third reich still existed in 1945 so WW2 was not actually essentially over in Europe”

    • @nobodyherepal3292
      @nobodyherepal3292 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@matthewjones39 that statement is factual.

  • @tanaka5395
    @tanaka5395 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I love all your videos, but this one was especially great.
    A 20-minute video felt like it was 5.

  • @mfs-inc22
    @mfs-inc22 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Let’s goooooo! Nothing makes me happier than after a long week of school and cross-country to see a video by armchair historian!

  • @Lets_Talk_Politics
    @Lets_Talk_Politics 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +70

    Thank you for this video, my dad served in the gulf war. I thank my dad for his service 🇺🇲

    • @NOT_PSYCHO_A7MEDI
      @NOT_PSYCHO_A7MEDI 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      War criminal..

    • @SoldierTheProest
      @SoldierTheProest 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +28

      ⁠@@NOT_PSYCHO_A7MEDIhis dad didnt do anything, he just server there

    • @ConquerousAzeez
      @ConquerousAzeez 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      @@SoldierTheProestI feel bad for his dad.
      He could be a victim of Government Exploitation (which means he also served in the 2003 war)

    • @Lets_Talk_Politics
      @Lets_Talk_Politics 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +36

      @@NOT_PSYCHO_A7MEDI how are you call my pops a war criminal. Serving your nation is not a criminal activity.

    • @Lets_Talk_Politics
      @Lets_Talk_Politics 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@ConquerousAzeezthe government did Lie about the war. Bush lied. But doesn't change the fact he risked his life for our family, our God and our nation

  • @C97K
    @C97K 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    هذه رسالة لكل قادة الدول العربية .. التاريخ سوف يتذكر ما فعلتموه الى آخر الزمان .. فلتكن الذكرى طيبة وحسنة

  • @yousifaljanabi281
    @yousifaljanabi281 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Came just in time for BO6

  • @ratnaroy6795
    @ratnaroy6795 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Hey..👋I'm your new subscriber..😊Can you make a video on Bangladesh Liberation war/India-Pakistan war in 1971..?
    I likw your Animation style.So I would like to see the Bangladesh Liberation war/India-Pakistan war explanation.😇

  • @josipbroz-c3k
    @josipbroz-c3k 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    South Park, The oil fields

  • @GriffinJohnsonTyler1996
    @GriffinJohnsonTyler1996 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Those tank stats from them vs the americans was crazy. The part near 17:00

    • @tetraxis3011
      @tetraxis3011 6 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Those are false, the real numbers are hidden, for propaganda purposes to destroy Iraqui morale.