Is Afghanistan Really the Graveyard of Empires? (Short Animated Documentary)

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Afghanistan is sometimes referred to as the Graveyard of Empires but just how accurate is that reputation? To find out, watch this short and simple animated history documentary.
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@HistoryMatters 3 года назад

RU-vid decided to include the last twenty seconds of the video this time. Which was nice of them.

@TonyAnimatesStuff 3 года назад

Lol

@FilmSkylar 3 года назад

Oh okay

@LoLFlop 3 года назад

Lol

@sammybeaver9130 3 года назад

RU-vid, ruining my notifications 1 video at a time

@vaclaurus3545 3 года назад

Lol

@the_potatoborn 2 года назад

Well this aged very well, bless the algorithm's sense of humour

@Azulakayes 2 года назад

Yep, here just after the Taliban got into the presidential palace. Afghanistan was too hard for the US as well and NATO, I wonder if Russia will laugh at them during the next UNSC.

@25fpslagger81 2 года назад

"humor" yeah people get raped is humor

@martinogbuigwe7813 2 года назад

Cant really blame the US for this one. They spent 20 years training and arming the Afghans. I guess they didn’t want their freedom as badly as the US thought they did

@thesauce1682 2 года назад

@@25fpslagger81 Lmao, this guy think taliban rape woman. Rape in America is the same thing in Afghanistan.

@naenae669 2 года назад

@@thesauce1682 well America doesn't behead people.

@andrewg3196 2 года назад

Perhaps it's more useful to see failed Afghanistan occupations as a symptom of a declining empire rather than a cause.

@R4in46 2 года назад

Exactly, an empire in its Peak would have no problem occupying Afghanistan

@RADIT-ip3eq 2 года назад

Perhaps

@Magnulus76 2 года назад

Bingo. Divided national policy lead to divided war effort, which ultimately doomed the American project in Afghanistan.

@Osterochse 2 года назад

considering the united states, I'd say that the withdrawal is a sign for the strength of the USA. The united states was smart enough to withdraw after 20 years and didn't fight until the end. They noticed that this is just a waste of time and money. In other words the USA always remained sane enough to not make decisions that would lead to their ultimate defeat. The USA lost a bit of her face because of Afghanistan. But ultimately it cuts its losses and keeps gong its way now. This is a clear sign that the USA will remain a superpower for probably the next 200 years. The opponents of the USA who watch this video will soon notice that the end of US-domination is very far away and you will have to deal with that.

@user-pc7ef5sb6x 2 года назад

@@Osterochse The Americans withdraw means the government is broke. Collapse is coming soon.

@moinakbhattacharya878 2 года назад

Actually it is very difficult to conquer a nation where the concept of "nation" is diminished. It is essentially a geographical area with a set of tribesmen living in their own terms.

@amazingamx1255 2 года назад

Now non-Afghans know more about Afghanistan that actual Afghan

@moinakbhattacharya878 2 года назад

@@amazingamx1255 I am not talking about Afghan food, the statements are specific to socio-political situation.

@jakecommonty2042 2 года назад

Nation is defined as: “a large body of people united by common descent, history, culture, or language, inhabiting a particular country or territory.” Afghanistan fits into that category.

@moinakbhattacharya878 2 года назад

@@jakecommonty2042 And how many years the history should span? ummm... 50 years? 10 years? or 2000 years? When you time travel through history you will see everything in Afghanistan is different - in terms of every dimension you mentioned - descent, culture, language.

@shonenjumpmagneto 2 года назад

It's like telling Switzerland to defend the very idea of a country at the UN 100 Years from now when people wknder why states even exist... They'd be the 1st country to be inhabitable non-state territory if they could be. Always fascinated me how differently The Swiss see the concept of a country & the thought that by no means is 1 framework the only form they take

@cringefairy2687 3 года назад

I never thought that the "Graveyard of Empires" was called that because invading empires would collapse, but because because invading empires would suffer heavy, heavy losses while failing to conquer it.

@localman7017 3 года назад

Seems like that’s only true for the Brits and Ruskies. And for the Brits it’s not even really true since they only lost the first time and the second time they had no trouble conquering it and installing a puppet ruler. The Umayyads, Safavids, Mughals, Mongols, Seljuks, Achaemenids, etc. all did fine there. And not only did Alexander the Great conquer it, Greco-Bactria was also the last remnant of his empire to fall.

@npc3758 3 года назад

No Afganisthan suffered way more lose agaisnt pretty much every empire even US. It's not graveyard of empjre, it's itself a. Graveyard.

@KashanA 3 года назад

You guys are forgetting afghans only have AK 47, nowadays its much harder to fight without technology, the USSR suffered much more due to the technology being supplied to them by Americans.

@LuisBrito-ly1ko 3 года назад

@toki hiko Yeah, counting opium overdose and veteran suicides. How non-biased of you

@thesmuggest6680 3 года назад

@toki hiko the thing about the Taliban and every other terrorist group is, even when they're dead you wouldn't know if he was civilian or combatant.

@YourVintageStick 3 года назад

It’s more like the soap bar of empires, you can’t keep a hold of it

@ungusbungus2486 3 года назад

That seems better

@animalanimal7939 3 года назад

Same for farts.

@codymills2393 2 года назад

Hahaha funny

@funnyclips4550 2 года назад

@@animalanimal7939 haha

@mirzaaslam1878 2 года назад

True

@vladimiralexanderlagos1477 2 года назад

Afghanistan is not the graveyard of empires, it is just the graveyard of imperial ideas of trying to make it into something else. The Persians tried to make it Persian, but didn't stick. The British tried to make it a happy commonwealth colony, but it didn't. The Soviets tried to make it into a communist utopia, but it didn't, and the Americans tried to make it into a capitalist democracy, which, fun fact... they didn't.

@UnstoppableEmpire 2 года назад

I mean it will be capitalist still.

@game_developer_7382 2 года назад

But this is the same as the cemetery of empires. For example, after the USSR-Afghan war, the USSR enters and splits. Why? Because all the countries occupied by the USSR saw the weakness of the USSR and all the countries decided to leave the USSR. And now the whole world does not trust the power of the USA as before because of the war lost in Afghanistan and this will cause big problems in the future and it has already appeared. Russia invaded Ukraine. Because Russia now looks down on America. And now that they see America's true weakness. The graveyard of empires does not mean that that empire is gone forever. In other words, because they could not reach their goals and for the Afghanistan they are dead and suffered heavy losses and fled from there. And these empires are cemeteries for Afghanistan. But these empires may exist outside Afghanistan, but they died in Afghanistan. I hope you understand what I mean.

@Vivenk88 2 года назад

@@game_developer_7382 The Greeks, the Mauryans, Mongols conquered Afghanistan and held it. In modern history, the British ruled Afghanistan too. Islamic empires invaded and established themselves in Afghanistan too (which is why Afghanistan is Islamic today).

@marufkhelfaredkhan7670 2 года назад

@Shah Lomyon mountain ⛰ for fight 💪 and also afghan always ready for fight 💪

@Sakrya818 2 года назад

@@Vivenk88 British never rule Afghanistan even in Second Afghan Anglo war.

@ernestoglez6725 2 года назад

"We sought physical attrition; our opponents aimed for our psychological exhaustion. In the process we lost sight of one of the cardinal maxims of guerrilla war: the guerrilla wins if he does not lose. The conventional army loses if it does not win." - Henry Kissinger

@randomobserver8168 2 года назад

Kissinger probably understood that his maxim applies best to modern industrial states operating as popular democracies. And, to some extent, tottering tyrannies losing public consent. A surprisingly large number of societies historically have seen conventional armies sustain centuries of warfare against sporadically rebelling peoples.

@dickmonkey-king1271 2 года назад

Maybe western nations need to learn how to operate as guerrilla armies. You put US and UK special forces in the Afghanistan and you can cause huge problems for the Taliban without huge expense.

@apollo1694 2 года назад

The guerilla army loses if it doesn't pussy out in tunnels for 20 years not fighting

@lalehiandeity1649 2 года назад

@@dickmonkey-king1271 Western armies have proven to fundamentally underestimate the importance of stratagem over technology.

@psychokinrazalon 2 года назад

@@apollo1694 Do whatever it takes to win the war.

@rowengarcia3852 3 года назад

He fixed it, who else remembered when the only supporter was James bisonette

@zavionlingo7000 3 года назад

I honestly thought he did it on purpose 😂

@akaJughead 3 года назад

I miss Partyboiko

@O_Tade 3 года назад

@@akaJughead what about Danny Melony?

@tombblades 3 года назад

I thought I was having deja vu but then I got to the end.

@Pyrykala 3 года назад

Those were the days

@cliodeo 3 года назад

Next episode: How James Bissonette's coup d'etat failed within a few hours.

@makutas-v261 3 года назад

"Well, kind of"

@slewone4905 3 года назад

All loyalist!!! We must rally for our Lord, Emperor James Bissonette. Duke of Spinnign three plates is trying to take over the empire.

@beratopcu8474 3 года назад

Who is James Bissonatte?

@cliodeo 3 года назад

@@beratopcu8474 HERESY!

@beratopcu8474 3 года назад

@@cliodeo what the hell is heresy?

@tsarfox3462 2 года назад

Famous last words: "This war will be quick and easy"

@rune.theocracy 2 года назад

"We'll be home by Christmas!"

@tsarfox3462 2 года назад

@@rune.theocracy See they never said which Christmas you'll be home for and in what state of being. That's how they get ya.

@Roach18 2 месяца назад

"You will be home before the leaves fall from the trees."

@Stormchoirs 2 года назад

Look at the events in Afghanistan today. History repeats itself.

@rayh6118 2 года назад

Waiting for the us to split into 12 different pieces

@Stormchoirs 2 года назад

@@rayh6118 that could actual be a good thing.

@Dylan-bc2po 2 года назад

@@Stormchoirs no it wouldn't.

@sergeantsharkseant 2 года назад

@@Dylan-bc2po well kinda One the one hand The US is bad on as it is very imperialistic on the other hand Russia and especially China are way worse

@Dylan-bc2po 2 года назад

@@sergeantsharkseant if we let USA balkanise we are all dead. Just saying. China will take Taiwan, massacre hong Kong, invade Vietnam. North Korea will invade the south. Russia will take Ukraine and the Baltics. Iran will clash with turkey. It would be chaos. Atleast with USA they won't do that, atleast not for a while.

@chrisg4305 3 года назад

James Bisonette received the ransom and finally allowed HM to include the other sponsors

@Diamondman164 3 года назад

And now he will simply reinvest all the ransom back into HM as patronage

@jamesbissonette8002 3 года назад

It’s a vicious cycle

@bread5460 3 года назад

@@jamesbissonette8002 Holy shit, it’s James Bissonette

@jlmc3447 3 года назад

@@jamesbissonette8002 king

@josephstalin133 3 года назад

@@jamesbissonette8002 oh my goodness, it's the legend himself!

@roadhouse6999 3 года назад

"It's been fairly easy to conquer, and has been conquered many times, but holding onto it is another matter entirely." If you look at the way the U.S.'s war in Afghanistan has evolved since 2001, that's all too true.

@AlfaGiuliaQV 3 года назад

They now join the club of humiliation together with the brits and the russians. Who will be next in line to get shafted by mujahedin?

@jome2284 3 года назад

@@AlfaGiuliaQV Probably China, if they're really intent with their "Belt and Road Initiative". Otherwise terrorists will keep derailing Chinese ambitions to achieve continental hegemony over commerce and trade in Asia.

@boomwizardyt7228 3 года назад

@@jome2284 China really underestimating the power of Afghanistan war lords. They will fight until the bitter end

@mirzahamzabaig5667 3 года назад

@@jome2284 I believe they are using Afghans to complete their deals and making amends with Taliban as well...

@haseebbek3300 2 года назад

You can't control it

@simoneranieri5010 2 года назад

Afghanistan: i'm the graveyard of empires Vietnam: *finally a good opponet*

@seanbrummfield448 2 года назад

Vietnam was under multiple empires. You can't claim them to be that.

@funnyclips4550 2 года назад

@@seanbrummfield448 afganistan also

@seanbrummfield448 2 года назад

@@funnyclips4550 Not really. At some points in history, Afghanistan, or at least their region has stood alone.

@27GT3 Год назад

Alexander the Great letter to his mother about Afghanistan: I am involved in the land of a Leonine' (lion-like) and brave people, where every foot of the ground is like a wall of steel, confronting my soldier. You have brought only one Alexander into the world, but every mother in this land has brought an Alexander in the world.

@lavaknight3682 3 года назад

I’m disappointed, History Matters. James Bisonette was *clearly* in the right eating all the other patrons!

@RodolfoGaming 3 года назад

PRECISELY

@leonardofranzinribeiro4220 3 года назад

James bizonette will annex all other patreons, and later, humanity. All Will become James bizonette

@Manuel-gu9ls 3 года назад

In the end of the video it’s James Bisonette

@mshaqed2538 3 года назад

The Jamesian empire of Bissonettea will rise above the competition, and shall rule humanity using it's god emperor's endless fortune.

@fleetwoodcraic4235 3 года назад

Why doesn’t James Bisonette,the largest of the patrons,not simply eat the others?

@patchworkfellow4262 3 года назад

1:14 _“This war will be over by Christmas!”_ *Y’know, I feel like I’ve heard this before...*

@gamer42go21 3 года назад

Looooll

@Wolfeson28 3 года назад

In fairness, it would have been a new idea at the time. :)

@user-bz1mz7su6r 3 года назад

Enemy at the gates?

@Lusitanean 3 года назад

@@user-bz1mz7su6r French and German soldiers mobilizing for WWI.

@joma5721 3 года назад

@@Lusitanean and WWII

@cow_tools_ 2 года назад

Who's watching this again today, when America has officially lost (according to its long term goals), and the Taliban have taken full control.

@ernestoglez6725 2 года назад

The guerrilla wins if he does not lose. The conventional army loses if it does not win

@harrisonofcolorado8886 2 года назад

I am, even Biden himself said that Afghanistan is the graveyard of empires.

@JonatasAdoM 2 года назад

Their goals was to topple the regime and kill BL. They succeeded there. The long term goal was added later. This is like saying the US lost the Korea war because the North was not taken.

@juanmola2000 2 года назад

@@JonatasAdoM The regime they toppled has just got back into power, and the -organization I cant name so the comment isnt deleted- is still active and operating, just under new leadership that has been there from the beggining too... How on earth is that a sucess in any way?

@antiochus87 2 года назад

@@ernestoglez6725 No, you fail to understand, but so did the US. Or maybe they just didn't care about anything but how much they could squeeze from the country. There are more to wars that simply military. The US needed to establish a stable and trustworthy alternative that didn't appear like just a puppet. With all their money and apparent know-how they just funded warlords and encouraged corruption. Then they killed indiscriminately with drones and negotiated with the Taliban without involving the Afghan government. The Taliban leader who looks like he's going to take over was in a Pakistani prison until the Americans made them release him, to try to make the Taliban "partners in peace". Is it any surprise that the government lacked credibility and their enemies could recruit so easily? You could even say this is a "victory" for the US, as it was of their making. They just betrayed everyone and everything they supposedly stood for to achieve it. This will have worse repercussions than Vietnam.

@cyclonegames9215 2 года назад

This video aged like a fine wine. God bless the algorithm.

@federicomauri6208 2 года назад

I try to understand if it's a good or a bad thing.

@red_falcon 3 года назад

Everybody knows James bisonette but everyone forgets Kelly moneymaker...

@CallieMasters5000 3 года назад

Spinning 3 Plates, Oink Oink and Copper Tone disagree.

@ecurewitz 3 года назад

well, she is nowhere near as memorable as James Bissonette

@stevenchoza6391 3 года назад

And Moe... I remember when his name was last and some about how HM said it was funny to me.

@bernietea 3 года назад

And Charles I

@jonmcgee6987 3 года назад

I see once again no mention of The Pastry Section.

@O_Tade 3 года назад

Only legends will remember that once James Bizonette became the only patreon

@maniac7466 3 года назад

ye man

@Zantides 3 года назад

I always quit at jame so didn't even notice the first time lmao.

@Robert399 3 года назад

Initially he was the only patron wasn't he?

@sam08g16 3 года назад

Well, he is the only patreon of our hearts

@Blefiz 3 года назад

@@Robert399 Nope, he was the only mentioned verbally, Christian S. Trenk was mentioned in written.

@jerryeskridge4798 2 года назад

1. The British Empire. 19th century 2. The Soviet Union. 20th century 3 The United States of America. 21st century.

@ProjectEkerTest33 2 года назад

Let's see if China want to have a go in 22nd century.

@rayh6118 2 года назад

@@ProjectEkerTest33 and iran 2300s

@persimmon93 2 года назад

It's kinda like "only an American can rule America." Only an Afghan can rule Afghanistan. Or at least a Muslim.

@edwelndiobel1567 2 года назад

Its just that Aphganistan just isnt that important. And the US got osama bin laden so the missions over. Still they shouldnt have bailed like a bunch of sheep running from a loud noise.

@persimmon93 2 года назад

@@edwelndiobel1567 so the US is suppose to stay for another 20 years?? Gtfo of here.

@nickseebruch8720 2 года назад

I'm addicted to this channel. It clicks with me. I appreciate the effort put into the research, the topics which are sometimes lesser known facts of history, the animated presentation, and of course, the humour. Great work History Matters!

@jlshel42 3 года назад

"Over by Christmas": phrases from history that make me nervous

@harrisonofcolorado8886 2 года назад

If you say,"the war will be over by Christmas" then it drags on longer. The more you say it, the more it drags on.

@JonatasAdoM 2 года назад

@@harrisonofcolorado8886 Same for "it won't go over budget"

@imlivingunderyourbed7845 2 года назад

@@JonatasAdoM "The unsinkable " Seriously, these phrases should just die already.

@ihavetowait90daystochangem67 3 года назад

You can tell it is the graveyard of empires when even History Matters was forced to take the video down about Afghanistan

@azazel688 3 года назад

Afghanistan comin in guns blazing.

@matthewbadley5063 3 года назад

Afghanistan to become graveyard of youtube channels?

@EatMyShortsAU 3 года назад

Yeah Britain, USSR and now the USA all got their asses handed to them after they invaded.

@greenkoopa 3 года назад

😂😂😂

@jerikrazik4707 3 года назад

USSR gor manhandled I guess they corrupted a generation with vodka (hadief) Britian conquered all afganistan for longer than Jerusalem was a kingdom and the USA had a 50 to one ratio in kills with the population suffering mightily when the terrorists took up spots in towns making each town push them to the mountains. to this day Afganistan stands free which shouldn't have happened due to all the factors against it. Also they lost like 20% of their population to migration and fled. The Germans in particular were so deadly they nearly killed the Drug trade making pakistan ask the US when the term of duty was the Germans would go home. Almost all of the Polish forces came home alive and the British accomplished all their objectives in a 1/3rd of the time. If we wage war for regime change know we will always go home, then how do we know if it succeeds. If the attacks dont make news and the regime stands...... so USA crushed Afganistan

@When_did_they_add_handles 2 года назад

"Afghanistan is fairly easy to conquer, stop being weak" - History Matters

@thetruth3405 2 года назад

Easy to conquer But hard to hold

@a.ortega4505 2 года назад

U can't control a country but never their people

@morepower1415 2 года назад

Now that US has withdrew in Afghanistan, let's put them in the list already.

@Seriona1 2 года назад

What does that even mean? All foreign nations have to withdraw unless the annex.

@pleudumes 2 года назад

In 40 years, China is going to invade Afeghanistan and the cycle repeats

@thewolfofswingthat2035 2 года назад

@@pleudumes china is more likely to pay their way out of everything

@arijitmondal9637 2 года назад

@alias moose it doesn't necessarily mean that US will fall like USSR. This much can happen in upcoming decades that the USA's conventional military prowess will be deeply suppressed by missile loving nations like china

@jakobkristensensandvik5588 2 года назад

@@Seriona1 They withdrew without having completed their goal or defeated the enemy.

@plummye005 3 года назад

"We're sorry James, but Kellymoneymaker offered us a deal we simply couldn't refuse" - History Matters

@sam08g16 3 года назад

Also, Spinning Three Plates threatened to drop one of them

@slewone4905 3 года назад

So, it is Treason!!!!!

@njb1126 3 года назад

@@slewone4905 patreon will decide your fate...

@cianseeck8917 3 года назад

@@njb1126 I am the patreon

@njb1126 3 года назад

@@cianseeck8917 not yet

@piercepayumo4212 3 года назад

America: (Begins the War on Terror.) (Years Later) America: (nervous) "Uh..."

@thomasdavis4818 3 года назад

Key words is years later. And at what cost. That is why those empires collapsed after invading or part of the reason. They just keep fighting and fighting and fighting and fighting, etc....

@freshfrozen3035 3 года назад

Laugh at America club, Based in Cambridge And Kabul

@suspicioususer 3 года назад

Sorry, American hemogeny is here to stay

@Jay-qb9gi 3 года назад

Sorry but America isn’t like other old empires, we will stay.

@tameenhaque2285 3 года назад

@@Jay-qb9gi For them opium and hashish.

@risannd 2 года назад

It ages well.

@nitroraptor5316 2 года назад

Me, realizing that the US just lost in Afghanistan: Aww shit, hear we go again

@spinning_ice1487 2 года назад

Nah, they didn't, they just withdrew because the 20 years is done.

@nitroraptor5316 2 года назад

Spinning_ice we absolutely lost, Biden is going to leave people behind, and we didn’t achieve our goal of eliminating the Taliban.

@spinning_ice1487 2 года назад

@@nitroraptor5316 Well yea, you're right. We fought for 20 years against the Taliban and nothing happened, but we didn't totally lose to the Taliban, we just withdrew because our 20 years is done.

@lalehiandeity1649 2 года назад

@@spinning_ice1487 Retreat is a defeat condition.

@spinning_ice1487 2 года назад

@@lalehiandeity1649 Do you even know why US helped Afghanistan?

@kiwisncream3778 3 года назад

"But fun fact, no." best quote ever.

@dusk6159 3 года назад

Especially if used to confute and disprove a famed myth and cherry picked glory like the one of the ''tomb of empires'' when referring to Afghanistan even, of all countries.

@warpcore9681 3 года назад

The wit of a guillotine.

@secret5816 3 года назад

2:35 when the USSR collapses but there is no glass splintering sound - my disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined

@stulog 3 года назад

From now on, when countries fall apart you should totally get a breaking-glass sound effect in there!

@skeetrix5577 3 года назад

laziness on full display

@LowTiertoji 3 года назад

@@skeetrix5577 how is it lazy

@MrWaffle- 2 года назад

Good

@gagandeepsinghgrewal6032 6 месяцев назад

Well now USA is added to the list as well(2023)

@Quareque 5 месяцев назад

US still exist.

@crimson6397 5 месяцев назад

@@Quareque Yeah and our influence is rapidly fading. China is expected to the be the world's next superpower. Time will tell if the "American Empire" will last.

@JonatasAdoM 2 года назад

Surprised youtube didn't put his on trending already. It will certainly start recommending it.

@relix7373 3 года назад

Me an American: starts sweating

@Real-1 3 года назад

@عبدالرحمن yeah but he has private mercenaries there so it ain't changing anything

@casper6405 3 года назад

The Netherlands already left we knew it would be a lost cause

@stc2828 2 года назад

USSR collapsed 2 years after withdraw, so the clock is ticking.

@JayConnor1989 2 года назад

@@Real-1 they aint gonna do shit afghan troops are already surrendering to taliban rn

@Kludgzenjammer 2 года назад

@@Real-1 Preach the good word

@wannabedal-adx458 3 года назад

RU-vid: "I'll cut this video short so that Patrons do not get recognized!!" James Bisonette: "There can be ONLY ONE!!"

@aasimkhalid3754 2 года назад

America: *sweats anxiety*

@rorronoazorro6107 Год назад

You doing an amazing job sir.. please continue

@TheGreatLiberator1209 3 года назад

The Empire also has its own "Afghanistan", it's called Tatooine.

@azazel688 3 года назад

Yeah the landscape of Tatooine look pretty similar to that of Afghanistan, the deserts and mountains. Not sure about who the Taliban are though, the Jawas or the Tusken Raiders?

@TheGreatLiberator1209 3 года назад

@@azazel688 I can care less about Tatooine. It's located in the Outer Rim territories. Why bother? It'll be a waste of resources. Edit: About*

@azazel688 3 года назад

@@TheGreatLiberator1209 had the Empire left them alone, maybe the Tusken wouldn’t have been so hostile, they could just enjoy their endless deserts and brood on their banthas all day.

@supremturtle4491 3 года назад

Should’ve been the Death Star’s first target.

@TheGreatLiberator1209 3 года назад

@@supremturtle4491 agreed, it's a graveyard of it's own and a paradise for bandits and terrorists and other barbaric creatures. Tatooine should've been first, Alderaan second.

@philipkornstein 3 года назад

Your telling me James bissonette isn't the only patreon member?

@nqh4393 3 года назад

You're*

@ehansalman8461 3 года назад

@Big Guy Y’oure

@The_Gerry_Man 3 года назад

@@ehansalman8461 y'o'u'r'e

@Shuja_Khyber 3 года назад

@@The_Gerry_Man y͜͡o͜͡u͜͡’͜͡’͜͡r͜͡e͜͡

@sam08g16 3 года назад

@@Shuja_Khyber Yer'

@thebestingame3197 2 года назад

SEASON 1 : Bri'sh SEASON 2 : USSR SEASON 3 : UNCLE SAM SEASON 4 : CHI..?

@violenceisfun991 2 года назад

Nks

@keno1069 Год назад

Very interesting. Thanks for posting.

@joermnyc 3 года назад

UK, and USSR: maybe we should leave Afghanistan be. USA: “We’re going in and we’ll be there for twenty years (at least)!

@shadowlord1418 3 года назад

We will leave when we win

@Ancaryvan 3 года назад

Then comes USA citizens selected Trump as President then RUIN EVERYTHING... Blessing Biden picking up pieces.

@joermnyc 3 года назад

@@shadowlord1418 and when exactly will that be? Face it, we lost when we invaded Iraq and diverted too much resources away from Afghanistan.

@nera_kit4566 3 года назад

@@joermnyc dude why even invade Afghanistan USA suck every he war is good

@grondhero 3 года назад

@@Ancaryvan Are you on drugs? That's the stupidest comment on this video.

@appleslover 3 года назад

More like *" the BACKyard of Empires "*

@AshGamer007 3 года назад

Hell yeah

@firstnamelastname.7749 3 года назад

Kinda true. It was the backyard of persian, indian, and other center asian empires

@Nietabs 3 года назад

@grangermontag1824 3 года назад

Nioce

@eatinsomtin9984 3 года назад

@@firstnamelastname.7749 indian? Indians never conqurered afghanistan lol. Its the opposite

@Phonixrmf 2 года назад

Britain ✅ Soviet ✅ USA ✅ Afghanistan (Republic) ✅ Afghanistan (Emirate) China Rusia WHO'S NEXT? YOU DECIDE!

@DelPiero10x1991 2 года назад

You forgot Alexander the Great and Genghis Kahn

@mastermaseeh5949 3 месяца назад

Afghanistan did not exist back then @@DelPiero10x1991

@yep416 2 года назад

the most helpful video for my homework project i have watched. thank youuu

@WarriorPoet01 3 года назад

I’ve never viewed the term “graveyard of empires” as the idea that empires collapsed due to failed military/political engagements in Afghanistan. Rather, to me it meant that this is where empires sent armies/soldiers to die.

@cattysplat 10 месяцев назад

Afghanistan: "Don't try it empire, I have the high ground!" Empire: "You underestimate my power..." Narrator: "Overconfidence is a slow and insidious killer."

@14thbattlegroupcommander 3 года назад

Rome/byzantium: oh THEY are the graveyard of empires huh? Rome/byzantium: **pulls out commically large list** **clears throat** Macedon, seleucids, egypt, etruria, carthage, pontus, bosporan kingdom, epirus , parthia, palmyrian empire(rebels), gaulic empire(rebels)×2, huns(to some extent), bulgarian empire, vandal kingdom, gothic italy, sultanate of rum, latin empire

@jreiland07 3 года назад

The Byzantines are seriously an underrated empire considering their population center was at the confluence of three continents and they somehow managed to survive ten centuries.

@alphagamer9505 3 года назад

@@jreiland07 15 centuries, there is no such thing as a byzantine empire, that was the Roman empire

@user-to2yk7jy6e 3 года назад

@@alphagamer9505 Do you count it as a Roman until the 4th Crusade, or until the Fall of Constantinople in 1453? Because the ERE was roman absolutely for sure up until the 4th Crusade and it was debatable after the Palaiologos restoration.

@akronym4439 3 года назад

@@jreiland07 Byzantines saved Europe multiple times. Its a shame that the crusaders destroyed the capital...

@14thbattlegroupcommander 3 года назад

@@akronym4439 "why let the sacking of the greatest cristhian city get in the way of a good crusade"

@knightornstein5902 2 года назад

Oh algorithm, for a bunch of code you sure have a sense of humor.

@dutchministryofdefence604 2 года назад

this may need a update

@ashleyburns6752 3 года назад

All empires die from within, outside factors are important, but not the determining factor.

@MonsieurDean 3 года назад

(doesn't even watch video) Of course, no country stands a chance against the great state of West Virginia.

@chiarosuburekeni9325 3 года назад

Lol. Afghanistan's panhandle is soo jarring, like both of west Virginia's

@theemperororsomethingidont6897 3 года назад

Damn looks like every history fan boy watches the same videos

@doug814 3 года назад

Go make a mars video. You know the one.....

@Cybernaut551 3 года назад

Indeed, not even the dead CSA.

@Cpt_Boony_Hat 3 года назад

As a current West Virginian there is another. Wyoming

@akiamini4006 3 года назад

Real nice explanations thanks

@gayfroggo 2 года назад

Thanks youtube reccomendations, very cool

@812gingerable 3 года назад

James Bizzonnette personally paid for the last 20 seconds to recognise his fellow patrons

@PHONGNguyen-fz6pq 3 года назад

Afganistan: graveyard of empires Vietnam: i can see

@Blue5wirl 2 года назад

"Holding on to it was another matter entirely" could be the subtitle of any book about any empire.

@samuel....986 2 года назад

The RU-vid recommended it to me right now damn

@samuel....986 2 года назад

...

@itsblitz4437 3 года назад

Glad you finally found a chance to cover the topic of Afghanistan.

@FaStTurdle 3 года назад

The way this man explains history is wonderful.

@kaizersolze 2 года назад

Can't wait for the update to this one...

@auritro3903 2 года назад

1989: us laughs at ussr for losing a war in Afghanistan. 3 decades later: Instant karma

@nickmcgargill6216 3 года назад

*"I am the Channel."* -James Bissonnette Any form of opposition to his supremacy is treason then.

@njb1126 3 года назад

RU-vid: in the name of patreon and all its HM channel members your wealth is confiscated mr bissonette James: are you threatening me RU-vid? YT: history matters will decide your fate James: I AM HISTORY MATTERS YT: Not yet James: it’s treason then...

@corv3007 3 года назад

@@njb1126 James:"pulls out credit card"

@njb1126 3 года назад

@@corv3007 money talks

@CallieMasters5000 3 года назад

Yeah, but is Afghanistan the Empire of Graveyards? (Seriously, lots of people have been killed there.)

@Chris14_ 3 года назад

don't

@theanglo-lithuanian1768 3 года назад

Its more like the graveyard of.... Pretty much everyone.

@eatinsomtin9984 3 года назад

@@theanglo-lithuanian1768 Lithuanians are very nice

@markuskane7280 3 года назад

Ooh, way to be edgy and have an original opinion

@atalbarak2543 3 года назад

While in fight with pakhtuns in arachosia (now kandahar) and said, I am involved in the land of leonine (lion-like) and brave people, where every foot of the ground is like a well of steel, confronting my soldiers. You have brought only one son into the world but everyone in this land can be called an Alexander. "Alexander The Great" This is a letter Alexander himself wrote to his mother, you can check it in google too. here is a difference between invading and conquering. No one ever conquered it. It was allowed to rule their own area and make their own rules for giving some 🪙 or resources to the invaders. Alexander didn't lose the amount of the troops in his all campaigns than he lost just fighting Backtrians ( today's Pashtoon, Pakhtoon, Pathan, Batan....). . Same was with Mongol and other empires. It was left to rule as they wish and like.

@AsbestosMuffins 2 года назад

man this didn't age well, wait no it did

@rcfrantzen7290 2 года назад

Love the graph of "Success over Time"!!

@jeanlannes4375 3 года назад

I would say Russia deserves the title of graveyard of empires more as it was Russia who ended Napoleons and Hitlers Empire

@RodolfoGaming 3 года назад

ehm more like Napoleon and Hitler shotthemselves in the foot by invading Russia when they didn't have to

@alexjsj3313 3 года назад

Don't forget King Charles the 7th of Sweden

@sackeshi 3 года назад

Only because Hitler split the troops Moscow would have fallen.

@themouthofsauron7550 3 года назад

The Mongols made pretty easy work of it. Poland and Napoleonic France both captured Moscow as well.

@azazel688 3 года назад

I don’t think it would be fair to call Russia a graveyard of empires because it was it’s own empire and quite a large one at that, hence why it wouldn’t really fit them very well.

@LOrco_ 3 года назад

Only the OGs will remember the first upload of this video

@leptismagna9424 2 года назад

So that means how much time left for USA?

@deprogramm 2 года назад

It won’t effect the USA just as it didn’t effect anyone

@Dante.- 2 года назад

Well Britain still exist

@kate1138 2 года назад

I love your Gorbachev, very easy to identify :)

@LahtariFIN 3 года назад

A bit suprised to see an animated version of the Finnish painting "The Wounded Angel" by Hugo Simberg there at the end. Having been independent for only a 100 years, we are a bit lacking in the "famous historical painters" -departement. When asked about historical figures in Finnish culture, Sibelius is usually the only one foreigners are able to mention. But well done, and your animated version does the original painting justice :)

@RealGestumblindi 3 года назад

Well, I'm a foreigner (Swiss), and off the top of my head, I can at least mention Sibelius, Mannerheim, Paavo Nurmi, and Alvar Aalto. Oh, and some other composers than Sibelius, such as Kaija Saariaho, Kalevi Aho, or Aulis Sallinen, but that's probably not typical for a Swiss, I'm just particularly interested in classical music :-)

@arturkarpinski164 3 года назад

Even Alexander the Great was humbled by that region, he took a wife there to make peace!!!!

@funnyclips4550 2 года назад

Plot twist:he invaded because he wanted a girl from that region

@ismailsafi2755 2 года назад

@@funnyclips4550 Did he win?

@rameenaayan3248 2 года назад

@@funnyclips4550 how to get a gf? Google: Tinder ad Bing: Invade Afghanistan

@sowdha79 2 года назад

@@rameenaayan3248 ok man that is seriously dark humour......

@rajrathore2 2 года назад

What about Chandragupta ?

@philcollinson328 Год назад

I love the fast historical facts...but it's the expressions and signs of the cartoon characters make these vids very, very special.

@arandomperson3015 2 года назад

We are going to need a updated version soon

@jasonshoesmith467 3 года назад

Glad to see I'm not the only one who enjoys hearing the patreon shoutouts. I do though enjoy the history content

@thommunistmanifesto 3 года назад

1:44 The dude on the left lost his arm

@Mur76ad70 2 года назад

Peace be upon you. Greetings from the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan from Afghanistan. Greetings to all of you. My message to the world. Who wants good relations with us, we Afghans are welcome. Or whoever wants to approach our country or occupy it, we will bury him there as we buried Britain, the Russians and America. We are a nation that loves death as you love life. Our nation, our religion, Islam is number one, our dignity, freedom and honor number two, so we are 40 years old fighting for the independence of our country and the freedom of our nation. No one plays with us Afghans because he will regret it

@ericcarson4513 2 года назад

Feels appropriate to rewatch this today.

@abdullahabu6439 3 года назад

I love the breaking glass sound effect everytime he mentions the fall of Empires

@carloscampo9119 3 года назад

Every single History Matters video makes life better.

@TheBuckeyeHistoryGuy1776 2 года назад

0:10 😐 Well…….. it’s was a good 240yr run

@buckshot6481 Год назад

Fascinating sense of humor by YT !

@AlteryxGaming 3 года назад

Reupload for the patreons at the end? Edit: Yup

@CG-yq2xy 3 года назад

The answer to this question (in a paraphrased way) is sort of. Many empires did conquer the region but a close study of the place shows that this form of 'conquest' was basically paying/appointing a local representative to being their vassal and basically leaving them to their own affairs only to call on them in case of serious strife. That's what the Persians, Turkic empires and later on the British did; after the last ones learned the hard way. Any direct rule by foreigners resulted in well, you all know the Soviet and American experience. As far as I can recall only really two people broke that pattern, Alexander the Great (who married into the region) and the Mongols (who had to convert to Islam, after marrying into the region). So yeah.

@atalbarak2543 3 года назад

@aksmex2576 3 года назад

The British paid Afghanistan money to be it's protectorate. While Indian princes had to pay tribute to the British. That says alot. And after ww1 Afghanistan started a war to win it's independence off of Britain, which arguably hurt it because they lost alot of revenue and lost good relations with Britain which is fairly important, considering how large UK was after ww1.

@LuisBrito-ly1ko 3 года назад

The US didn’t want to directly rule Afghanistan. What the fuck 😂

@KaiserMattTygore927 3 года назад

@@LuisBrito-ly1ko we have a million bases over there.

@kabulipalaulecker6928 3 года назад

@@LuisBrito-ly1ko the soldiers acted arrogant you don't do that to an afghan without consequences.

@njb1126 2 года назад

Coming back to this I’ve enjoyed a series of lecture I found here on RU-vid about Afghanistan by a professor named Thomas barfield

@ahmedahm1 2 года назад

Add the US of A please to this animation.

@Reymon_Of_Reymega_life 2 года назад

And NATO

@jadilzoca4971 3 года назад

I've seen this one this one is a classic

@jakecommonty2042 3 года назад

Shut up.

@anttibjorklund1869 3 года назад

@@jakecommonty2042 Stop being rude.

@locomotivesteam9334 3 года назад

History Matters: They became friends, History Matters: Just kidding.

@safiullahshah4848 2 года назад

It has not become graveyard of empires but Graveyard of its own people sadly...

@dwillbecancelledsoon4086 2 года назад

Any people that invent something like bacha bazi is hard to feel sorry for.

@notfunnydidntlaugh4504 2 года назад

I've already watched this, but the algorithm is... funny like that.

@persononyoutube8666 3 года назад

The reign of James Bizonette as the only Patreon is over, may the rest rise to the occasion!

@jm-dv7tl 3 года назад

0:28 I know how large the Mongol Empire is but I just loved this part

@cadhiyemurshid9569 2 года назад

who is here after taliban just seized KABUL and the US totally evacuated. surely Afghanistan yet again proved they are the graveyard of empires.

@highcouncil1302 2 года назад

Not really

@operez6519 2 года назад

Did you not watch the video or just posted for attention?

@cow_tools_ 2 года назад

@@operez6519 It's the graveyard of Empires in that their dreams and soldiers go there to die for nothing, not necessarily that it causes the Empire to collapse.

@operez6519 2 года назад

@@cow_tools_ That can be said in just about anywhere where a war was lost

@cow_tools_ 2 года назад

@@operez6519 In strategy game terms, 'Afghanistan' would be synonymous with 'Max Difficulty'.

@shahedamere6976 Год назад

Afghanistan be like I’m not here with you Your in here with me

@redvorno 3 года назад

You can't fool us, we know that James Bissonette was the only patron here!

@Numba003 3 года назад

That sash at 1:18 is gold lol. Stay well out there everybody, and God bless you friends.😊

@somedipshtinthecomments2507 2 года назад

Empires starting an Asian land war: "Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!!" Empires retreating from said land war after years of inconclusive bloodshed: "Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck."

@Battyj 2 года назад

That's not very accurate, Britain started quite a few wars in Asia and won all of them besides Afghanistan, Afghanistans terrain just needs a nerf it's too op

@Battyj 2 года назад

@علي ياسر what?

@Battyj 2 года назад

@علي ياسر I have no idea what you are trying to say but I'm not American if you think that