Uh... *breathes infrequently* ihhh ufff *gasps* i ... hooo my goodness I came *phew* all the way from *taking last deep breath* sanctuary to tell you *A N O T H E R S E T T L E M E N T N E E D S Y O U R H E L P*
@@martinbudinsky8912 is it? the eu effectively acts as a state diplomatically and as a government politically, especially in the eurozone where it sets monetary policy, though spending and such is still run by the local states and governments the eu is kinda diplomatically a single entity
sentient oven Yes, amazing it is in color, I thought they only had black and white film in those days. In any case, just proves that diplomacy and international relations hasn’t changed since then.
What's even funnier is that in political science, the Treaty of Westphalia is literally when the basis for what constitutes a sovereign nation-state was created. It's almost universally understood to be one of the biggest milestones in human political development. ...and Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry still made me giggle like a little kid.
@@Order-Joshua You're confusing two different debates in political science: attributing Westphalia as the first step towards 1) perpetual peace and 2) nationhood. Brady is seemingly talking about the latter, which is a lot more central to our modern understanding of political development. National sovereignty (also called westphalian sovereignty, go figure) essentially means that each nation is free to govern as it sees fit, and no other nation has the right to meddle in another's internal affairs. It might not seem like much, but the idea that each prince has the right to chose their own religion was pretty unheard of in the 1600's. The idea of a nation state in itself was very novel in comparison to the shared sovereignty of feudal monarchies.
@@ForgeBall The idea that the Peace of Westphalia created an international recognition of a state's sovereign right to its affairs falls apart pretty quickly. The religious rights of German feudal lords did not grant them further practical autonomy within the Imperial Estates. In fact the next 200 years would be marked by the dissolution of nearly all those "sovereign" principalities. At best it reaffirmed the precedent made at Augsburg 90 years earlier. And the period between Westphalia and the Congress of Vienna was marked by endless international meddling in the Franco-Dutch War, the Nine Years War, the War of the Spanish Succession, the War of the Polish Succession, the War of the Austrian Succession, the Seven Years War, the American Revolution, and the French Revolution.
@@Turambar_499 There's a reason why I referred to it as a debate. I never claimed this was settled science, I just gave a short description of the theory to Krupa since he seemed to be unfamiliar with it. Unless you think I gave a poor description, we don't disagree.
@Juni Post Oh no! the brits will leave the EU whatever shall the rest of us europeans do without you?I guess that we will go back to the dark ages without the *strong*british empire guiding us :(
One of the best Fry and Laurie sketches, and that's high praise. What really helps this sketch is the three other actors are every bit as good as Hugh and Stephen. The english guy particularly nails it!
As a guy from Bosnia and Herzegowina i feel like this is totally accurate... we have always been kicked around by bigger powers, as a side deal or small gift :D
Pa tako je zato što bi radije da imamo nacionalni ponos i budemo sluge ostalih sila, nego da se držimo zajedno i budemo svoji na svome. Na Balkanu i ovako malo pameti ima, a sada je još izvozimo po svetu...
Pa na kraju za Savage land of Balkans, svi se slože da "Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo go to Great Serbia", ahahaha i kažu "All satisfied! This will guarantee peace forever. Forever!" :)
Meanwhile, the town's people became so skilled at making cute little tax evasion companies out of straw that nowadays everyone would like to have Luxembourg. Or be Luxembourg.
@@tobyforrester The one country that manages to have 7000 registered corporations for each lawyer. Meaning that everyone wants to be registered there because no one will look too closely at the paperwork
Fun fact: Luxembourg remains the smallest country to host Eurovision. They've hosted the contest four times in 1962, 1966, 1973, and 1984. But Monaco was the smallest to win in 1971. They also would've been the smallest to host in 1972 but because Prince Rainier III couldn't provide a venue and the rest of the requirements to host, BBC decided to step in and host the contest in Edinburgh. And another thing, the restaurant with the *LONGEST* wine list is also in Luxembourg...ask for a drink at Restaurant Chiggeri and you could pick from *2,200 different wines*
@@scorpixel1866 my comment had nothing to do with the size of Iceland. It was a reference to the movie Eurovision with Will Ferrell and Rachel McAdams.
I am delighted to discover that the Rocher ad was quoted in this comedic masterpiece. The reason for this is that I am te one who wrote the original, Italian version of the commercial when I was a young copywriter in the '80s. It seems to have reached a cult status as the ultimate corny (or idiotic) advertising. My life wasn't useless, after all.
I was watching this scene with my brain on life saving mode, not focusing at all, but that was the moment i realized the Frech was indeed Hugh Laurie...
A vey FRENCH line from Hugh Laurie. Let’s not kid ourselves. We hate the brits for a millenia, and the germans for even more than that. And we had honestly a quite fun history.
Have you got room for a barrel of herring or two? The kingdom of Sweden would be ever so gratefull if you do! We´ll even employ your humorous dwarf as a herring pickler if you do! What a boon to your local economy!
Absolute genius in evoking great laughter out of centuries old facts. I bet if history were taught like this in school, more kids would understand the roots of many of our issues as well as hopefully figure out now to not repeat them.
Luxembourg comes from Lucilinburhuc (medieval for "Little Fortress") or Bockfiels (German for "fortified promontory"). Basically, it's a big storage bin. :P
'The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything' is a collection of television comedy sketches, produced in 1999, broadcast in two parts on 2 and 4 January 2000 on BBC One. Based on well-known historical events, it took its title and concept from the 1969 London Weekend Television series 'The Complete and Utter History of Britain'. Treaty of Westphalia * Patrick Barlow - Advisor * Robert Bathurst - English Ambassador * James Dreyfus - Swedish Ambassador * Stephen Fry - Ambassador * Hugh Laurie - French Ambassador
The funny thing about this sketch is that everybody actually wanted Luxembourg, because of the bloody great fortress in the middle of it that commanded the high ground well into surrounding countries. The reason the city and the domain exist is because of that fortress. And I speak of it in the past tense, because the Luxemburgers got rid of it so that surrounding countries would stop trying to take it by force.
Partly true. The dismantling of the fortress was decided by the European powers in the Treaty of London. It had the desired effect that Luxemburg lost its strategic significance. The former fortified area is today the city park.
@@leondarcy7367 So it was less "We dismantled this thing to make our city less of a target" and more like the 19th-century equivalent of a strategic arms limitation treaty?
Mark A. Dunham, Jr. I mean, technically he was referring to Stephen Fry's (The Ambassadors) comment upon the single currency, saying that England would opt out of it (for you see, they pay in pound, not in euro), and not what many here seem to think, Brexit. I, however, would contend that this here sketch becomes even more brilliant with recent British political revelations in mind.
@@generalerica4123 to be fair brexxit wasn't realy that hard to predict, england never realy wanted the eu in the first place and basicaly just joint out of peer pressure(fear of european isolationism)
@@tommerker8063 European isolationism? Isolate from what? The Russians? The americans? The Chinese? All of them are quite nationalist countries. Work together in order to not let them surpass you economically is not isolationism.
Continuously since there have been people in the Balkans covers it better. I do not think you could find a period longer than 50 years when there have been no major border changes or uprisings in the Balkans since the fall of Rome.
+Maintenance Renegade - 'several' is more imprecise than it should've been. This was filmed in the same ten-year span as the Balkan conflicts - as in the conflicts of the former-Yugoslavia.
Luxembourger here, and I am here to confirm that there are no more than two hundred citizens in this country, and that the French/Swedish ratio is at a clean 50/50 split. And, yes, 90+% of them can be really butthurt, and all of them have watched this video, even the babies. Please take these jars of pickled herring away from us. They do not make for good house building material, and they are *EVERYWHERE*.
"Is it truely wise to divide a land in so wild and ragged a fashion . . . ." "Oh I don't know I think it will give journalists of the future something to write about." *Remembers basic history of Ireland, Germany, the continent of Africa* Oh I felt that
@@Alystas What's important to remember is that the colonized people weren't just sitting around, perfectly content with their boundaries with neighboring cultures ... there was low-key warfare at all times, testing each others' resolve. Colonization suppressed communication and movement of the native population ... enforcing a sort of truce. Then, when decolonization was complete, the ethic groups could get back into "negotiations" with each other ... now with Western industrial weaponry.
yes they did, after WW1, Serbian ruled state by Serbian king with Serbian police beating Croats, Slovenes and other non-Serbs. Doesnt get much better that that
*meanwhile in Sweden* "My King! France, Brandenburg, the Commonwealth and Russia have joined the coalition against us!" ... ...... ......... ............ ............... "Worrisome..."
Absolute perfection, I can't get enough of it after so many years and views. They should make one about the drawing of the borders of Africa, or even better, of the Middle East too.
2:24 "We don't hate anybody" The Danes, Norwegians, Poles, Lithuanians and Russians of the time would have to disagree with you, Mr Swedish Amabassador.
@@dlein93 Yeah, they should be degenerate bootlickers and trust everything the state and media tells them, because if anyone is trustworthy it's them and their useful idiots.
The sad fact is that those negotiators spent 4 years to end up with most of the borders of 1618 unchanged. The changes were just a few places for the Swedes to stash their herring.
Well and the Alsace-Lorraine or Elsaß-Lothringen area. That messed things up for many years to come. If WW3 ever happens I half expect Germany and France to start fighting over it once more just for the hell of it. Even if they start out on the same side.
I've seen it commented somewhere that there have been many global conflicts, but a war cannot count as a true World War unless Germany invades France through Belgium.
"I think in the future all our petty squabbles over Europe will forgotten, it'll just be one huge state, probably with a single currency!" Britain: "I'm going to have to opt out over that one I'm afraid".
James Witteveen indeed, Germany or more likely Prussia and Austria lost the thirty wars hence they gave territories to the winners mainly France and Sweden
It was the 30 year war, and Germany/Prussia didn't exist at this time. In a way, Austria lost, yes, but the territory that they are giving up here is not Austria's territory itself.
As an International Relations/Diplomacy graduate with two years' worth of Treaty of Westphalia topics, this 100% how Europeans would have been like to each other if they had something close to social media or memes back then.
@BlackDeathViral03 France had been regularly throwing parties on german soil for centuries.... long before "that Corsican bloke" buttraped Prussia though lmao. They got more than great times. Almost half of metropolitan France currently was part of the HRE at some point... and look where all those lands are now.
@BlackDeathViral03 It hasn't been all down hill for the French since Napoleon. Indeed Germany kicked their asses in 1871, but in WW1 France performed just as well as the British against Germany. In WW2 it was the new superpowers the US and USSR that decided the war. Also, ever since the end of WW2, France has been the only real military power in Western Europe. The British and German armies of nowadays are mere shadows of what they used to be and rely heavily on NATO (US).
What makes this funnier is when you remember that while the actual treaties that would make up the peace of Westphalia were being drafted, The war and fighting was STILL going on.
@JZ's Best Friend North America wasn't mentioned, just America. Many modern countries make no distinction between North and South and and South Americans will say that they are Americans. :)
"oh we forget about the balkans" *proceeds to draw random lines for borders "thats good, lets all go get some tea now" this about sums every re-drawing of the balkans ever, since the beginning of time
[CAST] Patrick Barlow - Advisor Robert Bathurst - English Ambassador James Dreyfus - Swedish Ambassador Stephen Fry - Ambassador Hugh Laurie - French Ambassador Thanks for the info, Ben Toth!
bro my ap euro teacher made me watch this once in class in 2021 and now there's no escaping it, it just periodically floats back to the top of my recommended like an old bottle
@@no-ge9gd The BBC produced a show called "The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything" of different sketches, with as one can see comedians of its time like Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry.
And then Napoleon shows up. And they made more treaties that will end Continental European warfare forever. But then came the German Empire, and again more treaties that were to end Continental European warfare forever. Except for this one very angry Austrian with a stupid mustache, who was angry at the Jews for existing...
@@LuckyBird551 To be fair, if anyone was stupid enough to actually believe the Treaty of Versailles was stable enough to end WW1 by just saying "Germany admits they suck and pays for everything everyone broke AFTER we take basically half its territory," then they totally deserve what they set up. At least the lesson got learned: desperation breeds radicalism, radicalism causes war. If you want to stop a war, stop desperation.
"We don't hate anyone." "Well you should. Makes life more fun." "That new high-grade narcotic you're so fond of." Points at Hugh. Hugh smirks. He's like a 17th century French version of Dr. House.
@@MrChillerNo1 I rather had the impression it was Stephen who had the cocaine habit. Didn't he once adjourn to the toilets at Buck House for a refresher?
He didn't mean opt out of European Union. He referred to the single currency. Britain was a member of the EU when the sketch was broadcast but had not replaced its currency. So, I think it's a joke about the euro :-)
Blimey!!!The cameraman was present at the meeting. Well preserved and detailed. That too in colour. Amazing!!!! Hope,The cameraman got the video of the worlds creation too.
"Savage lands of the Balkans" - the West still looks at the Balkans this way. Nothing's changed. "Racism is okay as long as it's against the Slavs" - the entire non-Slavic world
@@whynottalklikeapirat - They opted to be the US Trojan Horse inside the EU. That's why most of EU isn't really worried about Brexit, it is good for us, at least not bad.
“And England.....gets this lovely carriage clock.” “Oh, thank you very much, how very kind.” “Oh really? You didn’t just fancy kicking some German arse?” “That’s what rather appealed to us, too.” Best lines ever.
“In future years there will be Swedish Luxembourgers and French Luxembourgers - Protestant and Catholic - _both_ at each other’s throats!” - “Oh, I dunno, I think that’ll give journalists in the future something to write about”
3:35 As an American, this feels like one of those old family photos were your mom is pregnant with you. I'm not in the Picture, but I'm there in spirit!
3:41 Stephen Fry improvised the “that you are so found of” part and apparently they liked it so much that they kept it. You can find the outtakes on RU-vid.
@@JamesJJSMilton Hanoverians when Queen Victoria ascended the throne: "We're really sorry, Britain, but we just cannot allow a woman to hold our crown. If you'd like, we can try to change our constitution or find another arrangement to continue our personal union?" Leaders of the UK: "Oh thank the heavens, you're finally leaving? We'll throw in the Isle of Man if you do it before the next war explodes. From now on we'll *demand* that our heirs marry commoners so they won't accidentally inherit more impossible-to-defend territories."
@some boby We buildt a nuclear powerplant with bad safety rutines ( greenpeace broke in a few years ago haha ) about 4 miles from their capital Köpenhamn so its all good, we have them in check :)
@some boby Yeah pretty much. The bridge and roads connecting Köpenhamn and the swedish city Malmö in skåne ( scania ) across Öresund strait is about 15,9km. The whole county of scania used to belong to Danmark. Thats probobly why the scanian accent sounds danish. Or as the rest of Sweden thinks, it sounds like they try to talk with their mouths full of porridge.
