@@KingAgniKai No but when people make jokes about a country (let's just use Russia for example) there are usually people who will comment "I'm Russian and I think this is funny", thereby showing that they are not offended by the jokes and able to laugh about their own nationality. I did the same, I just switched "funny" and "German" as a joke.
@@ryeryeryerye Ah yes! remember the days of "Rule Britannia?' Didn't they take more land than the Romans ever did? Oh but of coarse this was all very benevolent wasn't it?
@@hatinmyselfiscool2879 because he apparently did a pretty good job when he was mayor of one of the cities and people in the phillipines are generally sick of the drug dealers and junkies running rampant so they support him imprisoning or killing them. All the fillipinos i work with really like him.
Ikr. Can't even hold a decent discussion. Government-paid trolls and die hard fans have scripted posts, spread misinformation, and go direct to ad hominem insults when they have nothing else to say.
6:28 France actually argued that, since they are able to jump and oceanic currents carry them for some distance, so they are to be considered FISH. To what Brazil replied, sarcastically: "So, by your logic, a kangaroo is a bird because he jumps."
@@feelingnether158 To think that in the beginning it was just because two dynasties of French culture fought over the crowns. Two sister nations fighting over the same parents.
@@niclasoe Well since U.S citizens pride themselves in calling them America I think it counts since even then Cristopher Columbus didn't even discover it but he discovered the caribbeans.
Me: Hey, What about Mcdonalds? Iceland: I don't know. Also Me and jacknjellify: BFDI power! Iceland: No! The ice turned into ice cube from BFDI! Me: Food power! Iceland: Oooooh! That food is so yummy. Me: Yeah!
There’s also Australia who’s wildlife is so dangerous that they managed to lose a war to a group of flightless birds. “They have begun to employ guerilla tactics” was an actual quote from the Australian captain.
Hey I've learned this before! Oversimplified posted a video called mini wars and the 4th mini war was the Emu war which made me laugh and made me confused
Iceland pulling a Doofenshmirtz. "Little by little, i will increase the size of our fishing area until we rule all of the seas in the Tri state area! Then we can tax everyone else who fishes in our waters giving us the money to import more ice! It's genius!"
Well, their strategy won't going to work in the south hemisphere... Theres very few NATO countries here, and most are on the other side of the world...
ehh, it was less about NATO, and more about Iceland and the US, because the real reason why the US kept intervening was cuz iceland was a strategic location to have a base on, in case ties with the USSR worsened(the cod wars occured during the cold war).
@@metrodaking Back in the day fish was a major part in our economy. Now it's tourism as more tourists visit this country than there are people living in it.
@@doubled57690 they were talking about how all the other issues were kinda expected, but Canada vs Philippines is like an argument about pollution and such. You know how humans only care about that situation when it's almost too late so it's futuristic aka something expected to be set in the future
Derrin Douglas see the thing is the Canadian navy is actually blue water capable we have 12 frigates with 12 more on the way 6-8 AOPVs and 4 submarines that admittedly don’t work but the Philippines currently has 1 frigate with 1 on the way 1 corvette with 2 ordered 0 submarines with 1 ordered and a crap ton of coastal patrol vessels the real problem would be invading as Canada currently has no landing ships or refuelers the Philippines does but getting them across the ocean with only 1 or 2 escorts won’t go well and even if you made it across the ocean the terrain in western Canada is mountainous and cold in the winter not to mention if both sides tried to invade we would have no air support as both Canada and the Philippines have no aircraft carriers
@@FirstnameLastname-uo3yu Philippine culture was mostly based on India and China. The main religions in the country before Islam and Christianity took over were Buddhism, Hinduism, and the local Animism. Heck, even the ancient writing called Baybayin had the Hindu symbol of India. Why Russia tho
*South China Sea in a nutshell* China: *Enters foreign waters* Philippines: _WHAT! You can't fish in our territory!_ China: _What!?_ Vietnam: _What!?_ Malaysia: _What!?_ Brunei: _What!?_ Taiwan: _What!?_
If I became General Secretary of the CCP I would order a withdrawal from the South China Sea because I love coral reefs so much and that part of the world has the greatest reef biodiversity in the world.
I don't think this would've been taken seriously- that threat was to grab Canada's attention so they'll finally pick up the trash they've been sending. At least that's what I think
There's something reeeeeeeeeeeally important to add in the dispute between Canada and The Philippines that explains a lot: It's a regular practice that has been increasing recently, rich countries send its garbage to poor conuntries, in that way they meet the needs in regulations and laws about garbage control and treatment of solid wastes, first they send small amounts, then a little bit more, until they convert third world countries in their private dump, a lot of times they falsify companies in poor countries, apparently those companies are aimed to "recile" this garbage (justifing the import), but at the end, those companies just left the garbage "in a corner" polluting the poor country, it's a common strategy in European countries, specially Denmark, Germany, France and England, they send a lot of their garbage to African countries. I suppose nobody will be happy if their government allows that, so, well done for Philippine's president. here an example by BBC, I think it's one similar by DW about Germany and Denamark, but in Africa, specially electronic wastes. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-XgUDU-_iJU4.html
I know there were preexisting tensions between Honduras and El Salvador, but the fact they went to war over a football match still kinda cracks me up. Even tho a lot of people died.
Cod is a delicacy in Chinese cuisine (the most expensive fish IIRC) so when I 1st visited the UK I thought it was a waste to mask it's original taste by battering & frying it to form fish & chips
"Countries act like children" "ill try to avoid deciding who's right or wrong, im simply not qualified to make that call" ...but your qualified enough to fully grasp the governance of countries and their diplomacy to label them as childish🤔
@@valdemar91 The Kiel canal is big enough to have container shipping routes. So while there is some part of germany north of the canal, it still makes jutland an island.
@@naafyren88 True, true. Wasn't thinking of the canal, since I was considering making Jutland a seperate island from Germany, and not just a peninsula, with some of Germany on it.
Nathaniel R. Escosia I mean, most of the reasons he was insulting them weren’t because the other countries were “taking advantage.” The Philippines weren’t in any threat throughout the video.
Meanwhile in the 100 cod war Iceland *”We own every sea you can’t fish there”* United Kingdom: *”we send navy”* United States: *”Ok that’s it I’m sending atomic bombs to london”* World war 3 has joined le chat!
10:15 you’ve made a mistake here. To mediate, both parties called in the Germans to decide who gets the islands. The Germans upheld the American border, not a compromised border. San Juan island and the others are American.
Swedens government have dispute with North Korea for them buying 1000 Volvos on onvoice and never paying up. This was like in the early 80s and Sweden still keep sending a formal reminder in the form of a letter each year.
You forgot to mention the conflicts between Norway and Russia. Where both the seaborder between Norway and Russia and the suverenity of Svalbard has been debated through times.
We have the same idea with digging away parts here in Sweden. It’s called ”Gräv bort Skåne från Sverige” and it basically means deleting Skåne out of existence
It really is an over simplification to state Iceland won only by threatening to leave NATO. Icelands strategy in the cod war was to make it impossible for british trollers to make a profit while fishing in Icelandic waters. This included the coast guard dragging knives along the ocea floor cutting nets, arresting british sailors and doing there best to avoid the navy.This was incredibly effective and most trollers just gave up on coming there. Than they played one of histories funniest cat and mouse game where the Icelandic coast guard made fools of the Royal navy time and time again. One of such cases were the use of radios. In the beginning the Brits tried to create a surveillance system where they would try to spot the coast guard vessels and than warn trollers of their whereabouts over the radio and letting them know where it was safe to fish. The Icelandic coast guard simply recorded those transmissions and played them back to the radio at opportune moments. This lead the navy to abonden that tactic and instead tried to protect there trollers by making them travel in large groups surrounded by the navy. This simply made it so that it became damn near impossible to any troller to make a profit from fishing since they were all fishing in a tiny area. All this would eventually lead to the two powers aggressively ramming each others vessels in an attempt to inflict damage upon one annother. Something that turns our the Icelanders were simply better at. At the end of the 3rd cod war 15 out of 22 royal frigates had been badly damaged and one was even decomissioned. 5 out of Icelands 8 vessels were damaged, one of which so much that the crew surrendered to the navy and were brought to England. On the way the Coast guard crew spent some time in the frigates kitchen, the cooks of which were all from Northern Ireland. There the Irish did what they could to convince the Icelanders to go out and atempt to take the ship by force and assured them they would aid them. The two groups spent alot of time discussing strategy and how to approach this matter. In the end the coast guard decided against it on the account of being too outnumbered by the navy even with the Irish help. Any way in the end the Icelanders inflicted heavy economic damage to both the navy and the trollers illegally fishing in their waters and even though the conflicts were ultimately ended by Iceland threatening to leave nato that doesnt mean they did so without a fight and I belive it is more than fair to say that Iceland did simply win those wars both militarily and diplomatically.
That makes no real sense until you realize that this was during the Cold War, where Iceland was strategically important if the Sowjet Union ever decided to invade Europe. This card wouldn't work anymore today.
We appologize... it's our prime minister... he has no diplomatic skill and is unfit to lead, but somehow people still vote for him... we're very sorry, really... please don't judge all of us based on one man's moronic behaviours
It really is an over simplification to state Iceland won only by threatening to leave NATO. Icelands strategy in the cod war was to make it impossible for british trollers to make a profit while fishing in Icelandic waters. This included the coast guard dragging knives along the ocea floor cutting nets, arresting british sailors and doing there best to avoid the navy.This was incredibly effective and most trollers just gave up on coming there. Than they played one of histories funniest cat and mouse game where the Icelandic coast guard made fools of the Royal navy time and time again. One of such cases were the use of radios. In the beginning the Brits tried to create a surveillance system where they would try to spot the coast guard vessels and than warn trollers of their whereabouts over the radio and letting them know where it was safe to fish. The Icelandic coast guard simply recorded those transmissions and played them back to the radio at opportune moments. This lead the navy to abonden that tactic and instead tried to protect there trollers by making them travel in large groups surrounded by the navy. This simply made it so that it became damn near impossible to any troller to make a profit from fishing since they were all fishing in a tiny area. All this would eventually lead to the two powers aggressively ramming each others vessels in an attempt to inflict damage upon one annother. Something that turns our the Icelanders were simply better at. At the end of the 3rd cod war 15 out of 22 royal frigates had been badly damaged and one was even decomissioned. 5 out of Icelands 8 vessels were damaged, one of which so much that the crew surrendered to the navy and were brought to England. On the way the Coast guard crew spent some time in the frigates kitchen, the cooks of which were all from Northern Ireland. There the Irish did what they could to convince the Icelanders to go out and atempt to take the ship by force and assured them they would aid them. The two groups spent alot of time discussing strategy and how to approach this matter. In the end the coast guard decided against it on the account of being too outnumbered by the navy even with the Irish help. Any way in the end the Icelanders inflicted heavy economic damage to both the navy and the trollers illegally fishing in their waters and even though the conflicts were ultimately ended by Iceland threatening to leave nato that doesnt mean they did so without a fight and I belive it is more than fair to say that Iceland did simply win those wars both militarily and diplomatically.
@@saltyman1848 I dont know about where exactly you can find it online. To the world ofcourse it's a bit of an obscure war that no one really mentions. But in Iceland it is a matter of great national pride and therefore a lot has been documented about it. The conflict is taught about in school's, documentaries have been made and countless books. That and the fact that I've had the privilege to talk to one of the Captains of the coast guard that served in the cod war personally. Who described the story in great detail.
@@saltyman1848 What you have to underatand is that to many this conflict justified Icelands existence as an independent republic and it is what would define our nation to the world. You see for centuries the Brits had been fishing in Icelandic waters and when the Danes tried to do anything about it Britain deployed their standard gunboat diplomacy and the Danes not wanting to risk a war for litle old Iceland just backed off and ignored the British fishing. At the outbreak of the first cod war, Iceland had only existed as an independent country for 14 years. This was our moment of trial, this was the moment we had to choose what sort of republic we were going to be, were we going to bow down to a greater power that came in our waters to bully us and take away our only resource, or were we going to do what they danes had failed to do for centuries, were we going to prove to the world that this republic had a reason to exist and that we weren't better of in Danish hands (which is a common sentiment even today) Was this republic going to stand up for it's people and fight with all it got, no matter the odds, no matter the consequences. Would we stand up for ourselves? And we did, we gambled everything we had, used every tool at our disposal and we won the day. Today Iceland is Europes second largest producer of fish and our economy is very much defined by our fishing. Right after the cod wars ended we introduced a quota system to keep the fish population in check, A system that has very successfully protected us from overfishing and is likely the sole reason our Fishing grounds are some of the richest in the world. None of this would have been possible had we lost the cod wars and the truth is we would likely be akin to a third world country today if we had.
It really is an over simplification to state Iceland won only by threatening to leave NATO. Icelands strategy in the cod war was to make it impossible for british trollers to make a profit while fishing in Icelandic waters. This included the coast guard dragging knives along the ocea floor cutting nets, arresting british sailors and doing there best to avoid the navy.This was incredibly effective and most trollers just gave up on coming there. Than they played one of histories funniest cat and mouse game where the Icelandic coast guard made fools of the Royal navy time and time again. One of such cases were the use of radios. In the beginning the Brits tried to create a surveillance system where they would try to spot the coast guard vessels and than warn trollers of their whereabouts over the radio and letting them know where it was safe to fish. The Icelandic coast guard simply recorded those transmissions and played them back to the radio at opportune moments. This lead the navy to abonden that tactic and instead tried to protect there trollers by making them travel in large groups surrounded by the navy. This simply made it so that it became damn near impossible to any troller to make a profit from fishing since they were all fishing in a tiny area. All this would eventually lead to the two powers aggressively ramming each others vessels in an attempt to inflict damage upon one annother. Something that turns our the Icelanders were simply better at. At the end of the 3rd cod war 15 out of 22 royal frigates had been badly damaged and one was even decomissioned. 5 out of Icelands 8 vessels were damaged, one of which so much that the crew surrendered to the navy and were brought to England. On the way the Coast guard crew spent some time in the frigates kitchen, the cooks of which were all from Northern Ireland. There the Irish did what they could to convince the Icelanders to go out and atempt to take the ship by force and assured them they would aid them. The two groups spent alot of time discussing strategy and how to approach this matter. In the end the coast guard decided against it on the account of being too outnumbered by the navy even with the Irish help. Any way in the end the Icelanders inflicted heavy economic damage to both the navy and the trollers illegally fishing in their waters and even though the conflicts were ultimately ended by Iceland threatening to leave nato that doesnt mean they did so without a fight and I belive it is more than fair to say that Iceland did simply win those wars both militarily and diplomatically.
@@ffls775 NP. The cod wars over all are an entertaining read. I seriously recommend you read more about them. Since I didnt even cover half the shenanigans that took place in that conflict.
Perhaps that would be good for the fish stock? One of the main reasons why Iceland does not want to join the EU is the fact that EU still looks at fish stock as something you can "politically choose how much you can catch each year" instead of thinking about how large is that stock and what percentage of it is available to us to catch this year so we can maintain it in the future.
Nobody cares much unless it impinges on their economies. Pretty much similar to trolls on youtube, if they don't aim their trolling at you most people don't care.
OTHERWISE! While the rest of the world is building bombs and planning war strategies the nations of Europe are trying to make the catchiest pop song and plan the best hosting of the competition. The concept is priseless bro! We have got the coolest war ever going on here!
@@thetrist333 yeah but still it's like ever since the fall of the Roman empire you guys have been at each other's throats. Exaggerating but still one should've one by nowm
@@looseygoosey1349 I mean, England was close that one time. Until some peasant girl came and kicked them out. Or they ran out of money, pick your version.
Iceland: "You're infringing on human rights!!" Philippines: "You don't have real days and eat ice tho lol. Stay in your lane ice bois." 14 whole countries, apparently: "That's a good point ngl"
@@icelandinreallife2042 Good luck though as all of space beyond Earth is by international law, free for the taking. Meaning you need to get there before Elon Musk does
*Some of the richest fishing grounds in the world. Iceland is Europes second largest producer of fish. There were billions of dollars at stake and at the time pretty much the entire Icelandic economy.
I mean, to be fair, the French ambassador used equaly dumb arguments like "Lobster can float, therefore they are fish". It was basicaly France trying to invade our maritime territories.
The waste thing its Canada‘s fault they lied to the Philippines and send about 100 containers of waste So I think the Philippines are in the rights of the Canadians government should take the waste back since it did lie to the Philippines and refused to take the waste back I’m not trying to be biased but this is technically Canada‘s fault
Oh 100%. As a Canadian, that's incredibly frustrating and frankly massively embarrassing. I'm sorry it happened, because it's frankly complete bullshit that the Philippines got shafted like that.
Tbf, they were kind of seriously overfishing at the coast. It wasn't sustainable to keep letting the countries fish around the coastline if you wanted long term sustainability
Bloody hell... having Iceland crying to the USA, and the USA making Britain play nice, is a bit like my sister crying to my dad, and him putting me in line when we were kids.
I did a similar thing when my son bullied his 4yrs younger sister bumping her forcefully into the point of a corner. He's never forgiven me to this day saying it was her fault, she was about 4 or 5, that was 30yrs ago. 🙄🥱
@The8th Gemmer No that’s not where it was at all. The original border was just north of Hamburg. After the war of 1864 the border was moved up north near my home city of Kolding. Next the border was again moved south. But this time my kingdom only got the northern part of Schleswig. The Kiel canal divides the German Federal State of Schleswig-Holstein. Holstein was the other region lost in the War of 1864.
