Africa's Vietnam: Rhodesian Bush War | Animated History 

Meh 😑

Hi

I’d love to see more attention put on wars in Africa, the Nigerian civil war, wars in Somalia etc would be really interesting

I hope you do the War in Angola between South Africa and Cuba next. The Battle of Cuito Cunanavale

Hey, good luck on the upcoming game! Looks really promising, I look forward to buying it!

Soldiers: 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Actually did the Rhodies even have a strategy?

More like they didn't understand "Hearts and Minds". Once the ZANU & ZAPU forces were able to control and constrict the populace into not giving any help to the Rhodesians, the Rhodesians weren't able to get decent intelligence anymore. Furthermore, they couldn't offer protection from the opposition (as they would often commit serious acts of violence to keep said populace in line) so when they instead became more cold towards the populace they lost even MORE trust. However in the end (as in all wars) it's much more complicated than that. It had a lot to do with England wanting a good PR show for black majority rule and to maintain their mining contracts in some of the surrounding northern countries (which were putting pressure on England to ensure the Rhodesians lost).

From the moment the white minority made the Unilateral Declaration of Independence in response to decolonisation, its collapse was only a matter of time.

​@nughh3546 Yes, but it goes down like vietnam, a determined people, and an unpopular fight

"Hello, I like money."

International arms dealing🤑🤑🤑🤑

@@sharkz4151hello, I like my diamonds

What a time to release this video when theres a colonial war raging in the Holy Land

Israel ?

I’d love to see a documentary on that as well, I’ve tried to find books on them but there aren’t really that many in English that I’ve been able to find. I’m fascinated by the wars of decolonization.

The Portuguese guinea war was called Portugal Vietnam.

Guinea-Bissau War of Independence is what it’s called

Based guinea-bissau, Angola and mozambique

Yes

It's a long way to jawl!!!!

It's a long way from your hometown

Such a great war song

​@@highpigeon2534But you can have yourselves a ball

​@@renaandou With your Mukkas.

Happened in Liberia and Sierra Leone as well, probably happens everywhere in Africa.

Classic greentext

True African moment 😅

Sub 80 average IQ moment tbh

That’s roughly repeated as well in Brandon Herrera’s video over Kyber pass firearms with another arms guy within the ME. Sights were set to the highest setting on Aks for more power and on ARs people would either pump the forward assist for more power or they would hold down the forward assist so that it would work like a bolt action

And there was nothing wrong with either! The Rhodesians did damn well considering the resources at their disposal. There is no other military force on this planet which could have done it better under the circumstances. Prove me wrong.

​@@Phansikhongolza The British during the Malayan Emergency. Same schtick, but the Malaysian Tories won. The Rhodesians, meanwhile, are just the Confederacy for people who LARP tacticool bullshit. Prove me wrong.

​@@Phansikhongolza the ones who killed them take away air support they be gone in days

Soldiers win battles, politicians lose wars.

@@sluggak1363 your statement makes no sense at all. Please rewrite. In English

And the Algerian war of independence too.

Honestly I want a video on the Oegedan war.

An african 20th centuries series

It's a shame all the violent african intolerance of European immigration had to lead to war.

Second this. I keep waiting for them to post a Mogadishu video tbh

This would be a great video

Well….this brings back debate community memories from 2004

This is a good one considering it’s a complicated conflict that is little known in the west.

​@impulse_xs it's even, in technicality, the longest running civil war that is still ongoing. It started as ethnic conflict in 1948, I believe, escalated in 2021 to full-blown civil war.

Portugals vietnam

Yeah there is almost no content on the portugal colonial war

The Portuguese covered the infrastructure such as water treatment and sewerage in concrete to destroy it as they left Mozambique.

Yeah, I would like to see a video on the Overseas Portugese colonial war tbh

@@kiuk_kiks Good. It's only fitting we Europeans take our technology we graciously given to Africa with us. Africa wants to return to the Stone Age before we enlightened Africa? Let them.

He said Eland wrong too 😂 “E”-Land Not “eL-land”

Did you hear how he said Chimoio?

​@@AlexLeadis it Chimoyo?

If you think that's bad, pay attention to how he pronounced all of the African names...

Also, viscount with the s pronounced...

Your white husband is still in Zimbabwe

Eswatini also can be known as Swaziland and is called such by many South Africans

@@pipipupu5104 My husband is NOT white he is Zulu/Japanese why would you think my husband is white when most of his extended family lives in Eswatini 🇸🇿

@@MayumiC-chan9377so you’re going to be a single mother in the future? #Mudshark

@@pipipupu5104 bro...

Ah yes the white supremacist enclave

Ww call it zimbabwe now, land of million billionaires. 🇿🇼💰

​@@sakurakou2009 Rhodesia

@@sakurakou2009look at how zimbabwe looks compared to Rhodesia have a TND

​@@Epic_2.0 It is possible to have a functional country without having to be an apartheid state

they don't want you to know what really happened because they are doing the same thing to your once great country

they dont even teach us about our own bush war dawg

White people = prosperity. Case in point Rhodesia vs Zimbabwe. One had mass starvation and the other was stable in spite of communist attacks

@@TPDTND once great my ass, only if you think racism and tyranny are cool

@@TPDTND It's not the White's land or the Bantu's land, it's the Khoisan's land.

I didn’t think I’d find you here.

Very true!

It's not overlooked, it's just not particularly relevant to the world today. The pastefolk were wrong and needed to go. And that's how it played out and that's how the people who matter are going to remember it and teach it 🤷‍♂️

Bush: Damn whoever did it 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

An equitable solution would have been for Smith to allow black majority rule from the start and save the country the whole mess

@@maximipe Britain: Brother, how do you trust the criminals you brought to this land? Do you trust the thief and criminal in your home?

@@maximipe Like Congo?

@@iratepirate3896 the trajectories of Rhodesia and the Belgian Congo are utterly different. Feels like u are trying to make a racially charged comment here but lack the background knowledge to make a coherent point…

As a African American who is a history buff and could never get a good account of the war your approval speaks volumes.✊🏾

@@E-stylz-1967 aye, unfortunately most international medias mainly focus on the Rhodesian perspective of the war, hence, why they call it the "Rhodesian Bush War" when we call our Liberation War. Often trying to justify them and never seeing why so many ordinary folks flocked to fight the Rhodesians despite the abuses and dangers

American here, I find y'all's history fascinating and only wish the best for Zimbabwe going forward.

@@noahjohnson935 thanks mate, means a lot really

It’s pronounced Rhodesia

i mean its only overlooked if you don't have to deal with white supremacists

​@@DarkPuppy9Britain: You mean criminals, brother

Remind me of phantom pain development

@@DarkPuppy9Many Zimbabweans miss Rhodesia because it was the breadbasket of Africa

@@ShotsMerkzAll except Zimbabwea still is? So less weird bullshit in defense of a dead fascist state

Ian Smith = CHAD 💯

smith was a white supremacist

And yet he still lost. These white supremacists have a pretty bad track of winning wars

@@aleksandarvil5718 More like smith knew he could kill Mugabe if he did that and so did Mugabe well claiming proof of his superiority. I.e. it was bait no matter the response he got something out of it.

​@@aleksandarvil5718smith was a racist

Yes! That war is criminally ignored! Can’t believe Portugal had a dictatorship that long as well!

You should come over to South Africa for a visit lots of veterans and stories my grandpa was part of the Rhodesian police but he got killed in the conflict

Living in the U.S., I have had the interesting experience of getting secondhand accounts on both sides of the racial/political divide in the conflict. My father's colleague from work was a White Zimbabwean (Rhodesian citizen) while my roomate's father and mother were Black Zimbabweans who lived through the later stages of the War and the Gukurahundi that followed. While their experience were very different, neither have been well-understood in their entirety to the outside world. I think a lot of this is because this war contemporary with the U.S. Civil Rights Movement and the Boycott South Africa Movement, with many Civil Rights leaders drawing parallels between decolonization and desegregation. Conversely, many detractors of the Civil Rights movement saw the Rhodesian Bush War/Second Chimurenga as a harbinger of what could happen if Whites "gave too much ground", and saw it as evidence that Civil Rights and decolonization were mere shams for the subterfuge of Communist oppression. Neither is totally correct. While the Rhodesian government was a colonial government in nature that implicitly limited Black franchise, there were divisions within racial groups over who to support, why and under what conditions, that made for rather imperfect parallels to overseas civil rights movement; there were idiosyncrasies that made this a war one in which race relations mattered but did not constitute the entire conflict. Practical considerations and personal gain mattered as much as lofty ideology, and local concerns mattered more than most casual international observers appreciated. Foreign influence was not the ultimate reason for the conflict; foreign powers can't plant ideas in anyone's head like magic and brainwash and entire populace into fighting a war. The dysfunction of the Mugabe regime that followed also was not an inevitable outcome of Black-majority rule, as Botswana , Namibia, and Mauritius had done quite well after independence. The Kleptocracy and dysfunction of Mugabe's rule were also real and serious, not figments made up by minority-rule apologists. The failure of the farm-seizure campaign was also more about incompetence, favoritism, and broken promises than vengeful racial animus. While every Black Zimbabwean I've met has seen majority rule as inevitable and ultimately a good thing, I've never felt like they've shown any animus towards White people like myself or White Zimbabweans/Rhodesians. I certainly don't see Zimbabwe as being any kind of harbinger.

@@nathandixon2066My great grandfather was a ZANU freedom fighter.. 🇿🇼💪🏾

@@augusthoglund6053 Mugabe also hurt different black ethnicities far more than he hurt the white ones. Gukurahundi killed far more members of black ethnic groups. My (white) mother's side of the family lived in Rhodesia then Zimbabwe, and they weren't fond of Ian Smith or Robert Mugabe, that's for sure.

@@bajscast This is a good point' while the displacement of British farmers gets more attention, probably because the (White) diaspora draws more attention to it, I've always found Gukurahindi/Ndebele purges no less important but not nearly discussed enough in illustrating precisely how Mugabe's rot took over Zimbabwe. In an interesting twist, my current roomate has a (Midlands) Shona father (who calls the Gukurahindi a genocide) and an Ndebele mother. My roomate's father has never talked to me about this in too much depth with me but as a Lutheran minister involved with local politics he definitely has some outspoken opinions worth taking note of.

Yea its amazing to see it covered Im also South African and my grandfather which I never got to know served in Rhodesia and died in the conflict

Is he white? Shame if so

If he was rhodesian, glad he was kicked off, he robbed the natives of their land.

My comment keeps getting removed lol Anyway, Rest in Piss if he was white

My friend's family is from Zimbabwe. We went to visit his family there a few years back and stayed at his property, a few hours north of Harare. His grandfather fought the guerillas in the bush wars and it was brutal. In his cigar room he has all sorts of cool stuff like African lion spear, his old FN FAL, Elephant tusk and a bunch of other cool stuff. He always tells my friend that they wouldn't have held out so long if it wasn't for western support. They had support from prominent American and Israeli businesses. Zimbabwe is a beautiful country, will definitely be visiting again.

​@@stoda01How to be Berber and say “bbbb” in one sentence

Not loosely. We cooperated with them until we abandoned them Same enemy

Ja boetie

That weapon selection scene IS from Metal Gear Solid!

Foooox!

Zimbabwe.

METAL GEAR!?!?

@@Atreid3s Yeah, the whole scene looks like the gear selection UI from the game.

Zimbabwean.

The was was over by the time it was zimbabwe 😊 unless of course you are a matabele and who's family were put of the 20000 killed by mugabe if so I'm sorry for your loss the white rhodesians tried to tell the word that that would happen

@@s.wvazim6517 they lived there before during and after the war

We say Rhodesia don’t we?

@@Meyer-gp7nq right now it’s called Zimbabwe

Most of the world’s problems are because white people decided they didnt want to fight in white lands and instead non white lands

@@syednaiel14 Spain was conquered and colonised for 8 centuries by the umayyads, Eastern Europe was conquered and colonised by the ottomans for 4 centuries, all the while both the Islamic and Barbary slave trades resulted in MILLIONS of Europeans getting enslaved all the way to Iceland. Heck European colonialism would have never happened had the ottomans not blocked almost all trade routes to Europe FORCING Europeans to go westward for trade and accidentally discovering America.

@@syednaiel14So by your logic most of the world’s problems were caused by middle easterns not leaving Europeans alone.

Yeah, oppressed, marginalized, and enslaved black people to gain wealth

Africa was fucked long before British and France carved it up. It never had a chance

In extreme poverty

​@@neonwhitea.1548There's extreme poverty globally.

​@neonwhitea.1548 I think thats much better than living under poverty, considered an inferior human being, while all your producitivity goes into enriching the white elites.

you know its funny how the west sanctions a country to hell then later on accuse the same country of failing because of leadership,this nonsense is what ails Zimbabwe to date

@@neonwhitea.1548significantly better then white rule

Rhodesians never die

@@brianfischer9942 Looks pretty dead to me

​@brianfischer9942 I don't know a thing about this war, but I'm pretty sure some Rhodesians died. That tends to happen in wars, even super lopsided ones like Desert Storm have some deaths on the side of the militarily superior force.

@@doodi122250:1 KD lol

@@urmum3773 this ain’t cod kid

Recommendations?

Rhodeboos incoming

Ive seen more of these "civil comments inc" comments than anything actually crazy.

*Black, genocidal, supremacists incoming*

@@theguy8729me

Rhodesians never die, that's what they say.

You live in poverty

@@sneeky6869 not really at least that's what mainstream media says. I don't blame them. Our country has problems yes like any other country. The key thing is to realize that blacks and whites are all equal before God and thus there should be no discrimination. We should be able to work side by side with no prejudice or bias. There must be a collective effort to make not only Zimbabwe but the world a better place. This division must fall.

@@tatendaemmanuelmadzime tell that to the EFF in south africa

"English Zimbabwean" Replace it with White Colonizer and its correct

@@YourSocialistAutomaton Are all children doomed to be remembered only by the sins of their forefathers? Or do you mean that he himself took land at the end of a rifle?

@@jonatanlj747 yes

​@@YourSocialistAutomaton so with this knowledge does that mean i should js refer to young german children as nazis? makes no sense

​@@YourSocialistAutomatonexactly... Someone probably employing a minimum of 25 " Zimbabweans" or are you already looting SA?

I wonder if a certain congressman candidate had a hand in that.

It's a Canon event, that every year keeps coming out

cringe and racist

racist cringe

​@TheManinBlack9054 how is that racist?

What does that have to do with the video though?

The consequences of the guerillas winning ​@@ayodejiolowokere1076

@@ayodejiolowokere1076 It's something that happened in the aftermath of the war it would make sense to include it just like it makes sense to include what happened to Germany after the second world war and not just end it on the surrender

@@RaffieFaffie it also had nothing to do with the war.

@@ayodejiolowokere1076 Yes

Ian Smith's government was actually based tho. The leaders of South Vietnam were as corrupt as they come, and Ho Chi Minh was controlled opposition (he worked for the OSS, the precursor to the CIA)

​@@lestergreen2828if Ian Smith was so good, why did he have to deal with an Insurgency?

​@@alfro201 cause e'20th century politics really had a problem with darker shades of skin

​@@jacaredosvudu1638they still do. they can't just shut up about it

​@@alfro201because cringe fake Communism. That's one of the reason why

Yes. You a medic🤔⛑️

@@KonradvonHotzendorf No, It’s a Swiss flag!

@@neutralyodler Ich weiß. Der Witz is antik 😅🇩🇪 Just pulling your leg

Not really. It was a concept that was imposed on a real place by a different name.

Yes? Thats what it says in the maps.

​@@kriysixvector4552r/whoosh lmao

Fantastic movie haha, makes me think of it every time Zimbabwe gets brought up

@@Apenas_Um_Brasileiro I get the joke. Just thought I was being equally funny. Clearly my sense of humor sucks.

NO!!!!! RHODESIA FOREVER !!!!!!!!!!

Wait until you hear about the UN-Katanga war

It's an incredibly interesting conflict. Lots of very... creative ways to fight, so to say. Deserves a video of its own. Sadly it also brought so much pain.

Based UNSC

You misspelled Rhodesia bruh

@@igotfriendsinlowplaces2971 sadly they lost 😞 so much potential wasted with the current corrupt government. Imagine turning the breadbasket of Africa, the hidden jewel, into a poverty stricken ,hyperinflation suffering, corruption ridden nation.

@@alexiel4406 be safe my man

@@sl_ipper it is impossible to legislate equality among blacks and whites as they are unequal

hmm those are intresting tho

dhofar rebellion alongside the aden emergency would be really cool too; the way it ended was pretty awesome, crown prince qaboos coup'd his ultra-reactionary father and forcibly began enacting reforms, outright offering amnesty to the communist rebels alongside government jobs for some of the leadership. due to qaboos' amnesty strategy, the war pretty much fizzled itself out since he actually bothered to listen and reform, his foreign minister from 1999-2020 yusuf bin alawi bin abdullah, was one of the rebel leaders

Forget about it bro. I asked many channel like this to make a video about 13 May 1969. The fact is, nobody cares about us Malaysia

@@crowbirdryuell or the fact that we are too stable rn and that i, a Malaysian. Only knows about it after finding a book about it when i was 11

@@crowbirdryuell or 10 idr