It just struck me the benefits of publishing your failures and suppressing your involvements in successful operations if you are a intelligence agency.
whaaat? No... they would never do that... Also, surely, they would never have successful operations, only to pretend they failed and then blame it all on some politician, right? :)
Not really , it's less you publicizing them and more your rivals , because your rival agency will dig up dirt on yours to publicise in peace time and use it as bargain for their war time
In a democracy you should instead be encouraged to write about things like this. At least when a part of the class and teachers didn't call us conspiracy theorists for saying that the US funded the Taliban against the Soviets.
Exactly. Video leaves out the fact that Tibet was under a system of serfdom..a kind of slavery and the Chinese government went in to break up the slave owning system and free the slaves. Those slave owner fled to other countries and now lead the protests in other countries against China..calling for the “Freedom” of Tibet because they are upset they have lost their slave driving way of life and now have to actually work for a living. The people of Tibet are now happy and truly free from these slave drivers.
While Tibet was “technically” a theocracy under the rule of the Dalali Lama, people tend to forgot that the Dalali Lama was only one of the leaders of Tibet’s various Buddhist sects. Or the fact that Tibet at the time of its annexation by China had a hereditary monarchy that also went into exile.
@@BigBroTejano But nothing you said made it not a theocracy, technically or in practice. That's why putting it in quotes is weird. Whether by the Dalai Lama's decree, a hereditary monarchy, or both, Tibet functioned-- with full support and enforcement by governing powers-- as a nation wherein 95% of its citizens lived under feudal serfdom, officially codified in Tibetan Buddhist terms.
@@mr.beatnskeet6876 ... I didn’t try and claim it wasn’t one... just that there are other factors in Tibet’s government structure that “technically” make calling it a straight up theocracy under the Dalali Lama a tad more complicated. Not false, just more complicated then people tend to describe it as.
This crossed my mind yesterday after the debacle and gross event of what Dalai Lama was trying to apologize for.....Tibet has been a hub for CIA training of paramilitaries and death squads
didn't even mention the British involvement once. quite amazing actually, considering you have to ignore so many events in between Qing dynasty and the modern times
Your favorite history channel 😳DON’T. He purposely failed to add very important historical facts, like Dalia Lama and his friends practice serfdom and inhumane practices.
You could have mentioned that Mongolia was the only country at the time that recognized Tibet as a sovereign state during the period when they were de facto independent from Republic of China. Without recognition or support from many states or major powers like USA or USSR prior to 1949, I think their ability to be independent and recognized on the world stage was doomed from the start. In an alternate history where Nationalists won the Chinese Civil War, Chiang would have done the same thing Mao did in our timeline as a follow up to the Sino-Tibetan conflict of 1930-1932.
This video seem to say that Tibet was only brought back into China during the communist rule time. While Tibet did try to break away under British intervention, when the Qing dynasty collapsed in 1912, it never did achieve legal or political independence. The KMT Party who basically took over the rule of China after the Qing Dynasty until the Communist Party took over in 1959, never let go of Tibet, although the British tried to engineer Tibet's (a part of it actually) separation from China during the Simla Conference 1913. Hence, Tibet being part of China's territory had been continuous for hundreds of years. As is clear from the video, what the Dalai Lama did was an armed rebellion on the instigation of the US, and all countries have the right to put down an armed rebellion within their borders. It is also very clear that the rebels started the bloodshed.
tibet was no more when the royalty failed its rebellion & in consequence, made perished by the mongols. on the other hand, Ming's rebellion was successful thus we chinese are free again from a foreign invader. since then tibet was like a free state usually being ruled by the disintegrated mongols but being contested by us the chinese. and in the end, we won again & administered tibet. some ambitious individual using tibet's past as a former region of its own in order to rule the place by themselves like Dalai Lama.
The part of communist rules can be described better. There were a lot of farming slaves before the communist China entering Tibet. But China had a land revolution and free the slaves later, which made the slave owner very unhappy. So almost all the religional people from Tibet who claim they are depressed by the Chinese government were slave owners.
As a studen in tibetan study I'm impress by how this video summarize briefly the situation of Tibet through decades. Nice job. (By the way read the book of M.GOLDSTEIN in the description. It's short and very interesting)
To attract more Patreon supporters, you should consider a perk that adds their names to the credits of the video itself. Currently the perk credits them in the description below the video, but I think this has a very different feel to it, at least it does to me. To be credited in the video itself would be to be truly immortalized in the very thing they are supporting. The description seems much less tangible: It could be lost if you move or repost your videos elsewhere, or if youtube does away with descriptions entirely like they have with so many other features. In short, it doesn't really feel like being immortalized at all. Just my thoughts.
The CIA doesn't fund anything. We do. US taxpayers do. So everything they do, good or bad, is on our shoulders. That weight is a crushing burden to those with any sense of responsibility. Not just financially but morally.
@@gio-ko7kf yeah but you're a damned fool if you think THAT money is being used to fund operations. Nah that's silly. That goes into the pocket. Why on earth would they spend "evidence" when they can spend your money, that you give to them willingly.
It was more like the Lama was ALLOWED to flee. Putting him in prison is like keeping the thorn in your flesh. The CCP certainly had no intention of making him a martyr by executing him. Then there is the problem of figuring out what to do with his body. Reminds me why Osama bin Ladin was killed on land and buried at sea. A single tooth or even a strand of hair could be used to make a shrine that could become a powerful symbol.
Adding to the comments to help the algorithm since RU-vid isn’t smart enough to pick you up on quality alone. Great work! PS - the 5 dislikes were all CIA operatives.
@@greenmachine5600 that only works if they support capitalism else they have no rights to make such choice. See cuba as example. Only true sovereign is those with either military power or economic power.
He was already in bed with the communists, so he really had no use for US arms and funding. Nothing noble about that. And when the communists kicked him out, he immediately got those fundings he rejected before. The Dalai Lama isn't a nice person, he's basically an opportunist who is or was friends with Nazis, fashist dictators and other scum of the earth.
@@singularityraptor4022 No? Not in a situation where your opponent is a gazillion times more influential, has a gazillion times more men under weapons, has a gazillion times your funding, a gazillion times your training, a gazillion times more resources and to make it all worse: Nobody on the earth recognizes you over them. Resistance (if wanted) is easier than waging war anyway. That's not too idealistic, that's just Denmark 1940. He could choose if he makes a Denmark or a France. One knew they will lose anyway, so they was no reason to waste people and material. The other one just couldn't stand the thought, so they died for nothing anyway.
0:03 'Our good friends at the CIA' looks suspiciously like a 1980's Mike Harding. With the humour of this site, I'm disinclined to believe it isn't coincidence.
I love your art style so much - obligatory comment about how this channel should be 10x as big :) Can I ask, do you use a voice actor or is it you talking?
Great video! Though I'm not sure about the characterization of the revolts being mainly CIA orchestrated. Here is a passage from a socialist Tibet supporter. "In 1955, the government began land collectivization, forcing nomads to settle. Tibetans met this with major resistance: late that year, fighting spread across both regions, and a major rebellion erupted in Kham in early 1956. The Taiwanese government and the CIA gave some support to the uprising, but these outside forces in no way inspired the movement. The limited arms they delivered made no substantial difference. Nevertheless, American involvement no doubt contributed to China’s determination to strengthen its control over the region." - Charlie Hore
America's goal is to make China smaller, so they don't surpass them in economics and power. America's NED and CIA have funded and trained separatist groups in Tibet, Xinjiang, Hong Kong, Taiwan, etc... Maybe one day Texas, California, New York, Hawaii, etc will separate from America 😅Let's see how they will handle it.
@Bharath G Not just Hawaii, Guam, Marshall Islands,Texas, California, New Mexico all should separate from US. They were all stolen by ur capitalist masters, now it's time for u to pay...😉
@@a7xgh442 right but generally when you discover something in another country you use the word the locals called it, but the mongolian language itself has a word for ocean which implies they came up with one before actually finding an ocean.
The history of the Dalai Lama and Panchen Lama titles is quite fascinating, almost like a far-eastern version of Europe's history with the Popes or Patriarchs.
Here I'm a Napalese, speaking about Tibetan people's misery in the past, we've a very close acquaintance with Tibetan people historically and culturally_Before Tibet was liberated and reunited with China, the dalai lamas, predecessors of current dalai lama even persuaded the serfs (Tibetan people) to eat 'herbal medicine' that was made from his dehydrated feces turned into pills look alike. The serfs then were made to believe it in a true sense that they were indeed medicines. That is how horrible was the situation of Tibetan people in those days.
Just to clarify, both China and Tibet were subjugated by the Mongol Khanate, later renamed "Yuan, " which lasted a couple of centuries, and China only ruled Tibet from 1720 to 1912, less than 200 years - out of a span of 3000 years of history in Tibet.
First of all, Tibet was part of Ming Dynasty after they overthrew the Mongols, which established in 1368, so that would be 544 years. 1720 was when step nomad invaded Tibet and was then repelled by the Qing forces the same year so good try with that disinformation. Secondly, US only ruled the continent for 246 years, less than 250 years - out of a span of 5000 years of history in Native Americans. So your point being?
