British Guy Reacting to "How the U.S. Stole the Middle East" 

Not just the Soviet Union but other empires too including the British and the U.S. Afghanistan is the graveyard of empires.

Christopher Ehlenfeld damn bro. U know your shit. Respect

And so the Taliban is the Soviet Union's North Vietnam

@Christopher Ehlenfeld Taliban here we are referring to the unrecognised Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (1996-2001). However, the Taliban as a scholastic-militant-political group (turned insurgency) originated initially as a Saudi-funded and -indoctrinated scholastic group of Afghan refugees in Deobandi madrasahs in Pakistan during the Soviet-Afghan War (hence the name 'Taliban' originally from Arabic for 'students'). They combined Deobandi Islamic revivalism, Saudi Wahhabi-Salafism and Muslim Brotherhood ideology (US-funded apex of cooperation in the form of a global geopolitical Pan-Islamist enterprise (Petro-Islam)); Salafi jihadism from the Afghan Arabs (Salafi jihadist Arabs who voluntarily traveled to Afghanistan to fight with the Mujahideen, including Azzam, al-Zawahiri and bin Laden); and Pashtunwali (Pashtun culture and customs).

​@Christopher Ehlenfeld I am not confused, however, I do not understand your confusion. I did not and would not conflate the Taliban and Mujahideen. I am aware of both their histories. I repeat what I said in my comment, "... Taliban as a scholastic-militant-political group (turned insurgency) originated initially as a Saudi-funded and -indoctrinated scholastic group of Afghan refugees in Deobandi madrasahs in Pakistan during the Soviet-Afghan War (hence the name 'Taliban' originally from Arabic for 'students')." ('Turned insurgency' I mean the second militant phase of the Taliban's timeline (2001-present)). I only mentioned the Mujahideen in the small bit of context it has to the doctrine of the two militant phases of the Taliban's timeline (1994-96; 2001-present). Why do you conflate my references to the Taliban and Mujahideen here? I know that the funders and educators of the early formulation of this group would not have put much emphasis on them at that stage as they would only become relevant in 1996. The Taliban originated amongst Afghan Pashtun refugees in Pakistani madrasahs during the Soviet-Afghan War, this is undisputed. Some of the first Taliban militants were teachers, including Mohammed Omar. The Mujahideen, on the other hand, was a loose confederation of guerrilla rebels in Afghanistan fighting for global and regional defensive militant jihadism with some in the group funded and indoctrinated by the US-Saudi-Pakistani wartime economic alliance, most of whom where Pashtuns but many were 'Afghan' Arabs. I am aware of the subsequent three civil wars in Afghanistan after the Soviet Union pulled out (1989-92; 1992-96; 1996-2001), and their differing factions, causes and outcomes.

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There's a reason why this isn't being taught in American schools: It would make the U.S. look bad.

That Guy is the King

@@anisboudrrkbdfj3835 that guy is the biggest shit on earth it gets

@@Eric-fu7yf after Bush

Shows you know little about what happened there. The UN sent in a force of 20,000 US Marines to restore order to Mogadishu and get the supplies of food flowing to its people that Mohamed Farrah Aidid had been seizing. Over 300,000 Somali's died because of this lunatic Aidid. It wasn't until the Marines pulled out that Aidid began targeting Pakastani UN Peacekeepers. Somali's didn't know anything about fighting, and during the incident that shot down those Blackhawks with RPG's, thousands of Somali's died in the process compared to 18 US personnel (Rangers, SOAR and Delta Operatives).

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true the US is #1 when it comes to oil produced but its better to spend the oil of other countries first

​@@ernestogastelum9123 Especially when you're also #1 in oil spent. The US oil reserves aren't sustainable. Not at the current rates.

@@xviper2k not true. The US is now a major exporter of oil and no longer relies on imported oil.

trylikeafool Yeah, there’s also the problem of other countries in the area (like Saddam Hussein) wanting to take over whole countries like Saudi Arabia & would then control 30/40% of the world’s oil market. The Middle East may not like us there, but they probably don’t want us to really leave the region either. At least the powers that be don’t want it.

Is what I heard on the news is that the US did was keep Iraq 's oil from Hussein which the US intention was to give this oil back to the Iraqui's once they ruled .

It’s a pretty good channel. But he is also usually painfully one-sided and biased so I would recommend looking more into topics he discusses, if you’re interested, to get a better well-rounded picture

just not on the scale that its used to.

And Pakistan is biding its time. As soon as the US leaves, Pakistan will stop resisting the Taliban on both sides of the Durand line, so it can be relieved of the blowback terrorism it has been and is currently experiencing from playing this double-game. Pakistan needs the Taliban in power so it has an ally instead of an enemy (allied to India) on its doorstep. The Taliban have this exact same intention; they once said to the US, 'You have the watches, but we have the time'

HA HA...about that.

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Yeah, ive only ever visited a couple briefly but even in the US these bases feel like some isolated town with neighborhoods and shopping centers and doctors, except it feels super secure because in these bases you're protected by this intensely powerful military.

@zedzed headhead- Dude, he was a CIA asset. He was also on kidney dialysis 20 years ago. People back then didn't live long during that treatment. He was dead loooong before Obama said he got him. Bhutto said he was dead in like '06 and shortly after was assinated in Pakistan. Learn history before you open your stupid mouth.

He was a university student in architecture he dreamed of uniting the Islamic countries under one ruler the khalif. After he got his degree he joined the afghan jihad vs the soviets. After their victory he was considered a hero and many followed him. He went to Sudan where he founded all Qaeda.

Yeah, that's called a "movie" Hollywood's version of the truth. The best example I can give you. Is the movie "Fly Away Home". Hollywood term; "It's based on actual events". A movie about a girl and her dad who build an ultralight plane to have geese follow her. The truth part? Someone bought an ultralight plane and had geese follow them. The facts? Scientist wanted to figure a way to re introduce some endangered migratory birds back to different areas. A group of scientist did this. Not some little girl and her daddy. But a little girl and her dad will make a better movie. Much like "Charlie Wilson's War". Facts about that movie? The war in Afghanistan happened. The rest was made up by the writers of the book/script. By the way, The book is fiction as well.

Good to see there aren't too many of my fellow americans blindly defending imperialism in this comment section

@@ischreiber44 - yeah, I only saw one to be fair

Biased liberal loon content!

30 years and still on

@@subhadeepbanerjee9191 check your math,

Pull them out trump.

@@maciedixon3983 Too busy packing everything onto a U-Haul. Not that he'd ever do it anyway.

us military combat operations ended in 2015

The Jakarta Method by Vincent Bevins is a really good book published earlier this year that tells this story. www.amazon.com/Jakarta-Method-Washingtons-Anticommunist-Crusade/dp/1541742400

he had some understandable grievances, but was a dogmatic monster that killed thousands and thousands because of it. i know that's what you're saying, just backing it up.

@@kinoguy7503 man we are in 2020 and u still think the Skyscraper can be destroyed by Planes ?

@@Dealer_Ss Yes genius, fire can still melt steel, even in 2020. Physics never changes.

@@xviper2k go play minecraft with this thinking

What is the other side? The Saudi Arabia sent an invitation letter for entrepreneur to explore their own desert and land?

Good thing the UK didn't go into vietnam, that would have fucked us up

Yeah his vids hit hard

George Carlin

don't make him react to comedians bro

Thank you for saying that. We cannot just laugh our lives away.

@@solace6700 why not? bill burr would be awesome for him to react to, ive been saying that for awhile

@@NolmDirtyDan dog every fucking reaction channel has reacted to bill burr or Dave Chappell. how many times have you watched the same video over and over through someone else's eye. he doesn't have to be another one of those RU-vidrs its fine if he wants to but like that's been done so fucking much

I was stationed with an Army battalion on an Air Force base in Germany in the 70s. The entire time I was there, I wondered why the hell I was there. After all, Germany had its own military.

You mean who won the war

Toward who?

The person named David Casares in the above comment is obviously lacking the courage to say what he really thinks.

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Well duh

Maybe he's not for war crimes committed by the Israeli government. Seems like a natural reaction.

I mean its just a fact that europeans and the west in general has irreparably damaged the middle east.

@@ischreiber44 - Wasn't exactly a haven of peace before that either.

@@SilvanaDil So that gives them the right to divide it arbitrarily and exploit it?