Tzar Nikolai II ordered the French to save Serbs who crossed Albania during the great retreat, otherwise the Russians would pull out of the war, and the French did pull ships to move Serbs to Corfu. So, directly or indirectly, the Tzar saved the Serbs
The state of washington should change it’s name. I’m sure the population of that state would have no problem with a different name from a grumpy white plantation owner.
I’m from Washington but people love to assume I mean DC. If I was from DC I would say I’m from DC. And one time on a plane someone from New York tried to tell me Seattle is in California. I’m like no I live in Seattle, it’s in Washington and they still didn’t believe me. Like what kinda geography do they teach on the East coast 💀
And their state's initials are "WA" which can confuse Americans and Australians for our state WA a.k.a. Western Australia 🇦🇺 ♥️ I think you could've added the South American Columbia for added value, or maybe in another video
@@manilpwn There is a city in Pennsylvania named Washington, and a host of other places in the same state with that name and variety of suffixes, like Washington Crossing.
That's why I often have to ask "which Washington?" whenever I hear some say they're going to Washington. Because usually when they say "I'm going to Washington" they mean D.C. if they're going to the state of Washington, they usually refer to which city or otherwise place in the state they are going to like, Seattle or Olympic National Park.
The ship had been sunk once before and refloated, so that's the revived part of "Rediviva." It was the same ship that inspired the patriotic song, _Columbia Gem of the Ocean!_ Great video!!
Thanks man! I just checked out your channel, your graphics are pretty and I like that you seem to research some nice stories quite well, like the early history of Rome which I read Livy’s account of a few years ago, so it’s cool to see you turning that into a modern presentation. Hopefully we both hit 1k soon!
Should've just called it Providence. Their capital can remain Providence so at the City/County/State level it would be Providence Providence Providence. This would be like Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Oklahoma.
No no no. The really funny part of THIS story comes when, in 2020, it is proposed, agreed and decided that the name “plantation” has racist overtones…or is openly racist and needs to be dropped. After 400 years. Gullibility meets Open- mouthed Ignorance and together with their chum Stupidity they decide to virtue signal. To apparent popular acclaim. (And people are saying Peter Griffen is stupid?) Wasn’t 2020 also the same year they tried to get the name of the Masters Golf Tournament in Georgia changed?. For the same “reason”? “Masters”….”Plantation”……..? White Supremacy everywhere…see?
it's funny. one bad leader, one bad war, and a country can be influenced forever, never being able to be free, forever forced to live under old policies that had failed generations. of course, i'm talking about nicholas ii and his incredible incompetence in world war one. the soviet revolution had ruined the future generations forever, installing a love of the union to any and all who endured it, leading to a cycle of generational trauma, spelling the end of any hope for a democratic russia. a military dictatorship is all the people have known for a hundred years, and by the looks of it, a hundred more. russia is truly a sad parable. the same for china.
I'm sorry highlighting Ukraine, Georgia and Armenia as "far more democratic" simply because you like them is hilarious. They can NOT be grouped together with the ACTUALLY far more democratic Baltics. They were all very illiberal democracies to begin with. Armenia in particular was barely democratic at all. It has gotten better but still has a very long way to go. Georgia's already illiberal democracy as a whole is under a lot of threat. It has become a showdown arena of Western influenced population vs Russian influenced government. Azerbaijan, which you clearly don't like, is not democratic at all now but was as "democratic" as the other Caucasian states at the beginning. Ukraine had been an arena for the fight of influences for quite a while and now that it's under the invasion, it has completely abandoned its democracy, at least "for now".
@@manilpwn maybe it's hard to tell through text but I am chill, or so I think. I sincerely hope you're not trying to dismiss my input to the subject by convincing yourself I'm "not chill"~ peace ✌️
@@HOPEfullBoi01 sorry if i misread you but it has nothing to do with whether I 'like' those countries or not. it's a single frame in my attempt at humorously breaking down a complex situation. should i devote any attention to the highlighted countries, it will detract from the value of the videos because ultimately it is irrelevant. i've opted to highlight them because, from a modern standpoint, the past thirty years has shown the highlighted countries to be most associated with the west/freedom/democracy and those remaining uncoloured are not
@@manilpwn I think I understand what you mean here but I would still say there's 1 inconsistency: Armenia. Similar to other trans-Eurasian countries like Georgia, Turkey, Cyprus (and UNLIKE Azerbaijan); Armenia does have some sort of Westernist vision and conflict within itself however it never got to shine. Armenia, since the collapse of the USSR, was always officially the ally of Russia and still is even though it very much does see Russia as highly unreliable. It was never directly associated with the West. It is only *liked* a lot in the West thanks to the Armenian diaspora and its lobby in USA and France using turkophobia as a very useful tool to make their voices heard by the people who still see life as some sort of christian imperialism vs islamic imperialism conflict. And no, that is not to claim the certain crimes against then Ottoman Armenians were never committed; on the contrary, they caused all this. I'm sort of on a long tangent here but I hope it makes sense. TLDR: Armenia was never Western, it's simply just liked a lot in influential parts of the West.
What's also interesting is that Richard Nixon predicted this in a interview before he passed. "The ideals of freedom and democracy are now on trial in Russia."
Man if those soldiers just backed the fuck up and actually contemplated what the hell they were doing, shelling the parliament it might have not ended in such a clusterfuck, I wonder when the "orders are orders" mentality, at what point would they just stop and rethink their life choices. Reminds me of clone troopers in star wars fighting they're inhibitor chips
Its more that people never learned from ww2 and how hitler took power. The education system only talks about how hitler is bad and the different battles. Nothing is really about the environment that gave hitler the ability to take power and how he later concentrated power to himself. History is not taught in a way to make sure we will not repeat its mistake instead more about dates and events. This is why we always will live in a endless cycle of histories mistakes repeating itself. Russians thinks a lot times that they can never be nazis because they defeated the nazis and its just a western thing while reality is it can happen to any nation given the right environment but peoples national arrogance leads to them not being able to self reflect. I people/leaders have the ability to self reflect we would live in a much better world but that is not how reality works. Evert single nation works the exact same way, it can always happen to any other nation but never their own nation.
Yeltsin was president before the fall of the soviet union. Russia was already a country under the soviet union, like England is a country in the United Kingdom. Anyways the guy that sent tanks to a democratically elected deputies was not the good guy in that story.
