It's hard to forget this... (Countryball Animation Explained) 

Drew: This is basically France's Vietnam right there Vietnam being France's Vietnam: Well yes but actually no

Not just "La Plata", but "Argentina" also means "Silver". The hats are called Phrygian caps and they're a symbol of liberty (especially since the French Revolution). If you look at the flag of West Virginia, you see the day the Hatfields and the McCoys put aside their differences to brutally murder their common enemy Papa Smurf with crude farm implements.

Interesting factoid: handsome was originally a compliment for a horse- being many hands tall was being handsome, and thus, being a majestic unit. People who knew little about horses picked up this terminology as a favourable compliment of appearance. People who did know something about horses went along with it and enjoyed being able to call Phillip horse-faced without being executed for treason.

16:40 Well... the civil wars never really ended, we just traded the weapons for words 😁😁

I think something that wasn't well explained in the Argentina vid is that because the colonists drove out the brits by themselves they realised they didn't need the Spanish for defense

I would gladly let Bulgarian Countryballs teach me World history if it was an actual class in school.

As an Argentinian the video was pretty accurate, would have loved to see a little more about the 80/90/00s like the hyperinflation, the 1 a 1 and the corralito. Either way really good video

brazil has almost always had good diplomatic relations with argentina, the soccer that separetes everyone.

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As Argentinian im proud to see Drew check this well done video about the history of my Country.

As a spaniard i must say. We don't get taught any of this in school lol. especially the war of independence part, we were dealing with our own war of independence and depressed artists movement

Nice vid! I'm argentinian and in school we're taught basically the first 50 years since independence are called "anarchy period"( there where no centralized power instead there where a bunch of porvinces loosely together controlled by regional warlords). About the Falklands in the isles argentinian infantry consisted basically of conscripts of 20 years or so (My father was 19 when he fought the british).

Good on Countryballs for actually portraying the General Belgrano being sunk *outside* the exclusion zone

Chile helped the british during the war. That is a big reason to the Argentinian-Chilean hatred

4:44 "this is basically the Frances Vietnam" bro France had Vietnam at one point (edit) wow tysm for 9 likes

It's suprisingly accurate the depiction of the Uk commiting warcrimes against Argentina in the Falklands/Malvinas conflict. For example, the detail of the ARA Belgrano getting destroyed outside the exclusion zone in 14:45. That ship was carrying injured soldiers and wasn't being used as a warship.

Its a shame that chile, after we helped them independize from Spain, supported the brittish in the Malvinas War, that and the dispute for territory on the south of America are big reasons we don't like each other

Hey Drew, there is a video about the History of Brazil too, is called "A História do Brasil em contryballs"

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"This is basically France's Vietnam" France who literally controlled Vietnam and lost before America ever showed up: *confusion noises*

The video doesn't show that Argentina claimed the Malvinas Islands after independence, nor that it held effective control over them between 1821 and 1833, before the British came down and expelled the local Argentine authorities and settlers and established their own. THAT is the actual source of the dispute.

at this point drew needs to have a purple argentinian flag in his background. i mean look at that beautiful flag

haha, i was expecting something after the video, like a post-credits with argentines cursing all the others south americans in an in-game chat, or something like that

You were right with the war crime thing, the UK actually sunk a ship out of the exclusion zone and killed 300 (War crime) and then went onto execute some of those who had surrendered

Since you watched this one, please watch "An Argentine tango" that one is beautiful

To make the falklands/malvinas problem easier to understand: -Spain had a claim over the islands due to some treaties that were recognized as valid by many countries including UK. -UK had a claim over the LEFT island even when they recognized boths as spanish property. -france reached and colonized the RIGHT side of the islands one year before UK came claiming the left side. -spain kicked out from the islands boths the french and the british from the islands but the british secretly swore to take them back in the future. -argentina inherits boths the LEFT & RIGHT islands from spain when it became independant. -argentina wrote laws for the islands and put in charge a governor, things that the UK never opposed nor protested against but british people in their history books never talks about nor even want to admit that there was an argentine governor there. -the authorities of the islands arrest some american seal hunters for illegally hunting in the islands. -U.S attacks the islands due to the argentine government not releasing the arrested american mens and leaves the islands unprotected and without means to fight back in case of invasion. - U.K upon seeing argentina in middle of civil wars, wars against indigenous tribes and wars against british invasions seizes the opportunity to invade the islands not only taking the LEFT side but also they take the RIGHT side of the island to which they never had any claim before nor valid excuse to take it. - U.K kicks out the argentine authorities and people from the islands the same way they did to the chagos islanders or in the 50s against the argentines and chileans in antarctica which almost ends up in a war. - argentina makes claims to get the islands back since the year the invasion took place until 1982 due to a law of the U.N where if you are in control of a piece of land for 150 years uninterrupted you legally became the legal owner and in 1983 it would have been 150 years exactly, argentina being cornered and seeing u.k not wanting to give the islands back peacefully is forced to invade the islands. -argentina loses the war but managed to be in control of the islands for 5 months reseting the clock and ruining any chances for u.k to legally have full control of the islands.

5:20 imagine a world where balls domesticated horses

Damn an other great video from Bulgarian

When drew said the channel name I thought he said "Bulgaria's crusty balls" 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

"This is like Frances Vietnam" Drew Frances Vietnam is Vietnam

Nice video as always Drew, greetings from the city of La Plata, in Argentina!

I chuckled when you said that it was France's Vietnam. As if Vietnam hadn't been already.

"This was basically France's Vietnam" No. Vietnam was France's Vietnam

I'm loving this series. keep up the good work

Drew has teached me about geography with his video and motivated me to take trips to other country's in the future

12:00 I think they aren't THOSE Italians and Germans, they came later

as an argentinian. that video demonstrates alot. but not enough

4:43 I think that Vietnam… was also France’s Vietnam

Fun fact Argentina translate the silver because the Spanish. There was a lot of silver there was I don't know

My great uncle Fought in the Falkland Islands (Argentina side pilot )

I really like that we’re going off to learn countries histories that we don’t know a lot of with drew

“This is going to be France’s Vietnam.” I might be mistaken, but I believe France’s Vietnam was… Vietnam. Or “French Indochina” if you want get technical.

Nice vid bro

I really like your channel, I watch your videos everyday!

Funny how Drew said that Spain was “Napoleonic France’s Vietnam” yet France also had a war with Vietnam lol

Phillip the handsome really lived up to his name

now this was epic

btw the ship being blown up outside the exclusion zone at 14:43 was a reference to the single largest loss of life of the war - more than 300 Argentinians died.

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I just love ur videos ♥️

It amazes me how he was able to understand this countryball animation. It's quite vague, really. It only makes sense if you know some of Argentina's history already. I wish it didn't just focus on the Malvinas War part of the Dictatorship. Loved the part about Perón, though.

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8:17 That country that Argentina was fighting was the Peru-Bolivian Confederation

I did not know that Argentina had so much history. great video to Drew

Nice video

I love it how after Argentina took the British islands the British were PISSED with the Argentina

This does not change the fact that there are 50 million kangaroos in Australia, and in Australia there is only 25 million people each person will have to win a 1v2 but let’s face it the children will all lose guaranteed so the Australians are down at least 5.5 million people and each person left will have to fight a third kangaroo. However the Australians are not known for winning wars against animals if the kangaroos start enlisting the Emus then the Australians will surely fall, their country will fall to animals.

I am watching this with a friend of mine who is FROM Argentina. So, that’s interesting.

There's a mistake in 3:23, the video makes it seem as if the spanish were the ones that kicked out the british, while in reality it was the argentinians, who then realized that, since they had been the ones that kicked them out, and not Spain, they didn't need them anymore and the war of independence began

I love how in one of his videos he called the hand of God as The war between the British and Argentina

In his community page, he made a poll and the History of the Ottoman Empire won. It will be the next video and he confirmed working on it 😁 The Italian and Russian videos are my favourite.

Drew: Whatever is close to Purple Me: Violet

13:24-Did anyone spotted that?

"basically France's Vietnam" uh wait a minute

I love the Austria-hungary flag in his back round

I love drew just buchering the names it a little more spice

the animation does not show what happened in 1833, when the british invaded the malvinas islands, only when spain recovers them and they appear again in 1982 when argentina invaded them. The criollos were expelled but argentina was going through a crisis and could not recover the islands in due time, so they lost them and decades went by, now it is inhabited by the english but they still belong to argentina.

Fact: People don't realize how big the Aztec Empire REALLY WAS! The Aztecs would eat people.) So when the Spanish Empire came around, the other tribes around the Aztecs decided to fight with the Spanish Empire because they wanted the Aztecs gone. (I might've not explained it well)

Flag history Before 1812(Spanish Empire) First flag:1812-1840 Second flag(purple):1840 Current flag(1896 Olympics)

Actually pretty interesting, im an argentinian, and of course some thing need more explanation like the civil war, Julio Roca, UCR, and Juan Peron who was very important and till today stills a very important political figure used by populism, and also you have the 90's and 2001 but it was very good resume, and also shows thing mote relevant than the nono germans

The Argentine Confederation (nothing to do with the Confederate States of America), wanted to make a REAL federative country against the centralismo of Buenos Aires. PD.: The red "caps" in the flag of the Argentine Confederation are actually a reference to "phrygian caps" (a symbol of liberty).

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the red beanie on the flag stands for liberty, west virginia also has a red beanie the same one

day 54 of asking drew to put laser kiwi new zealand flag in the background 🇳🇿 (I might Stop asking since it may be confiremed that he will complete this empire but im still not sure)

I am from the first Slavic Country of Bulgaria! Bulgaria was the first Slavic Country to ever exist! We made the Cyrillic alphabet! Soon conclusion Bulgaria is the mother of the Slavic Family!

Now you definitely need to bring Brazil History by Countryball

14:20 NOOO AGRENTINA DONT TOUCH THE UK'S ROCKS

13:25 Oh My God

"Let's learn the history of Argentina" 1945🥶

I took a nap while watching this chess video on my TV this is what I ended up Auto play was on

only 1 more falklands reference before drew disappears under misterious circumstances!

There are some things to explain about our history: - Yes, we had a lot of civil wars, that's because the first ones the main problem was the discussion of the autonomy of the provinces (like states in the US) from the national government (even now is an issue due the economic and political power of Buenos Aires), but the last ones were for political power or for political rights (for example the right for universal and secret vote, yes we had no secret vote until 1916) - The Malvinas War (or Falklands War for other people) even if both sides have "reasons", it was a movement Made by the dictatorial government (The Military Junta) because they wanted to hide from the news the social impopularity and the economic crisis (in effort to mantain the power), ando obviusly, when we lost the social unrest was so powerful the dictatorship called for democratic elections. - the incident with the pirates from Indonesia was because a man called Hipólito Bouchard was crazy enough to go through the pacific ocean (with the authorization of the government) to explore and help the uprisings and independece movements in other spanish colonies (even he capture the Fort of Los Angeles from Spain for a little time) - The reason for being Neutral in second world War is because the government (before 1943) was pro British but the people was pro German, the UK had many investments in Argentina but we made mistakes and the british take advantages from us (if you wan to know read Roca-Runciman Pact) for that kind of things the people support the German, even in Cold War the Peronism adopt a Third Position because wey know wey can take more advantages if USA, USSR (now Russia) and recently China compete for our support un regional and global matters of their interest Edit: sorry for my english

7:59 french revolution hat

this is weary cool

4:45 France did have their own Vietnam, in Vietnam.

Muchaaaachooos 🎵

I was just wondering why nato article 5 wasn’t activated when Argentina invaded the Falkland Islands and I looked up the reason was the territory wasnt in Europe or North America also the 2nd reason was and I quote “the UK didn’t need help.”

As an Argentinian, they didn't teach me at history class 70% of this video

Drew, can you react to the history of Brazil, please!

Nice.

I Love drew saying Argentina More than 4 times :D 🇦🇷🇦🇷🇦🇷

Frances Vietnam was Vietnam lmao

It is really surprising the Paraguayans almost won the war.😅

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welcome to drews history class

8:18 that's the peru-Bolivian confederation, something like polish-Lithuanian commonwealth

One of the Royal Navy vessels had its nuclear weapons transferred by helicopter to Asencion Island in order to not violate a treaty the UK signed with several South American nations. Also until Ukraine sank the Moskva, The Belgrano was the only flagship sunk since WWII. The UK did it with a submarine.

you should reeaally dig into thw chaos that latinamerica was before, during, and after independence

as a mexican, if I learned something from this video is that all latam was a chaotic goverment mess after the independeces x'D