Top 20 Worst Decisions in History 

The MS St Louis! Canada, Cuba, and the U.S. rejected Jewish refugees from Europe, and 25% of the passengers eventually died in the Holocaust I believe

"Wars of Aggressors always make bigger, more costly mistakes based on prideful military miscalculations than Wars of Defenders."

Ww3?!

the Battle of Blood River in South Africa. Voortrekker leader Piet Retief attempted to peacefully sign a Land Treaty with the Zulu King Dingane. After signing the treaty, Retief and his entourage was invited by Dingane to a celebration at his home, led into a false sense of security, Retief and his entire entourage was then brutally murdered by the Zulu King's soldiers. This eventually led to the bloody retaliation from the Voortrekkers at the location that is now known as Blood River, because the river became red with the blood of the Zulus. of the 10 000 Zulus, 3000 were killed, while only 3 of the 460 Voortrekkers were actually wounded. Another Historical mistake is the Anglo-Boer Wars. For the first War, it again was a case of "not researching the environment", so the underdog Boer Republics severely spanked the renowned invading British Empire that ran home with it's tail between it's legs. For the Second Boer War, although the Boers lost against the return of the Empire, they did put up one helluva fight with +/- 25 000 dead British soldiers compared to the +/-6 000 dead Afrikaners. So in short, don't pick a fight with an Afrikaner.

Annual Disaster of 1921

I fucks with tht....I tell people all the time, intentions mean nun after the fact

@@thedevilsrockstxr2309 damn straight

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

@@OTMM22 facts

Best way to summarize an anti-villain

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it”=George Santayana

It's still better than not having leaders.

Oh god.

@@heavyartillery-qm5hu This is what the not included parts of the video was about in the beginning of the vid. welp, anyways.

@@heavyartillery-qm5hu I would easily trade Putin for a chimp

Technically, firstly, Austria-Hungary provided Serbia with an ultimatum. The demands were very harsh on Serbia. So Serbia agreed to most of them, but Austria decided to bitch about it.

Well said my good man.

It's not forget, some, well most people never learned it

We have amnesia

Yet these morons are allowed to get through school despite failing the course.

The head professor of a History department told me "History never repeats itself, but it rhymes."

History is already repeating same shit different countries kind of lol

I was thinking about that. Not huge on terms of lives lost but it very nearly was the end of NASA and the space program.

You really believed that bs movie? Search space shuttle challenger alive and hit images, nobody died

Just finished the book af Alan Mcdonal interesting and educational. Can recommend it. It baffles me how careless some people where during those warnings and ultimately tried to pin it on others

In the greater historical context, I think a few people dying on a space launch is totally insignificant. It didn't create any larger impact, just a sad story.

They did say at the start it was about military actions

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No one cares

Bruh, you're most likely not..

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ok thats cool, you should probably go see a therapist rather than leave it on a historical comments section XD

aint no way a cartoon channel posted that

LMAOO

Nice 😅

it is a real tragedy

Did you know she has a VaGinA?!?! 😝

Ooooof 😅😂

The Jews in Wall Street pushed for this Jakob schiff funded the Russian revolution, thus killing thousands is Christian’s

Expansion of NATO was a bigger blunder than Russia fighting Ukraine.

The Russo-Japanese war had a huge and undervalued impact on not only these two countries but the world as a whole.

You are right, but that video would be too long..

Inconceivable!

@@uzzislx23 You Keep Using That Word, I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means

Anybody want a peanut?

Ahahahaha, ahahahahaha, ahahah… thud!

To think all that time the poison was in his glass

Glad to see this in the comments. The Nazi party exaggerated the damage caused by Versailles as a means to gain power and we still repeat their propaganda today.

True, but there was always an undercurrent of "We didn't deserve that treaty" in the land. Couple that with the govt's seeming inability to pull Germany out of the Great Depression - not that other countries were doing much better - and one can see why the German people turned to the loudest voices that were confidently proclaiming, "We can do better for you".

No it wasn't all hyperinflation and poverty. There were also riots, political marches that ended in blood, failed coups, record unemployment, and tens of thousands of closing businesses. But perhaps you were referring to the period AFTER the Nazis came to power and all those jobs they created in rearming and modernizing the military? All that took was MASSIVE deficit spending during the Great Depression, dedicating 60%(!) of government spending between 1933 and 1939 to rearmament, and putting the country 38 BILLION Reichsmarks into debt by 1939. And by culture perhaps you meant all the propaganda films Joseph Goebbels made during that time extolling pure Germanic culture and Aryan blood? Or maybe you meant all the Jew hating pamphlets that were printed? Or perhaps you were referring to the book burnings? Or the destruction of thousands of works of art? After they were displayed in "Degenerate Art" exhibitions, of course. Or were you referring to the way the Nazis "protected" their culture by murdering the physically and mentally handicapped? And let's not forget the forced sterilizations of those of "mixed race". Perhaps you were referring to religious culture? Celebrated of course with wholesale theft of Catholic Church property by the state, imprisonment of thousands of priests in concentration camps, "morality" trials of Catholics, desecration of monasteries and convents, and murder of Catholic laymen. And of course we can't forget the German Jews. Remember that great German cultural event of Kristallnacht? When proud German citizens celebrated their "culture" alongside the SA and SS by burning the homes, businesses and Temples of thousands of their fellow German Citizens. So much rich cultural history to choose from during the interwar period!

@@MrAnthimos112 You sound angry and homosexual

@@tellercyde You sound hopeful. Sorry not interested.

I think Hitler beats it since Napolean committed it first and Hitler repeated it.

WRONG

it sacked Moscow atleast

Its so interesting how Russia is always that last piece of what is considered by many to be Europe that nobody can ever quite get. Both times Europe would be won by France or Germany if they had just stopped and fortify for maybe 30 years eventually they would have resources to take Russia.

if Allies punished every nation equally , Fascism , Nazism ,WW2 and Atomic bombing wouldn't have happened

You are not kidding...

Lmfao

But she pronounced "Genghis" wrong 😢

The UN is powerless to enforce anything against the USA, Russia, or China.

Well said!

I think killing all the sparrows was worse for them than melting down the farm tools. Without the farm tools they still had grain, but without sparrows the unchecked insect population destroyed enough of it to cause one of the worst famines in history.

@@shenhurst without the tools they couldn't plow

@@cliffcorson4000 I haven't read anything about a farm tool shortage during the Great Leap Forward, the problem with the smelters was Mao's idea was that China would become a big steel producer with backyard smelters, but the smelters can only really produce pig iron, and they were to prioritize the smelting over the agricultural labor that produces food, which contributed to famine. Also you don't have anything to plow when bugs destroyed all your crops because you killed all the birds that eat bugs. When you melt down farm tools in a smelter, you still have the metal, which you can use to make farm tools. Killing the sparrows contributed more to the famine than the smelting.

The great Leap forward should of been near the top. Tens of millions died because of some stupid decisions.

Wasn't the Cultural Revolution even worse than the Great Leap Forward?

Damn! I never thought of this, but then again the Austrians were super keen to join the Reich.

as a Hungarian, I've been hearing about consequences all my life, mostly about the Treaty of Trianon when after WW I the allies took a lot of territories from the Hungarian Kingdom (which I thought was fair, being on the losing side of the war, but don't tell anyone, it's a super touchy subject here). towards the end of WW II we were also occupied by the Germans, "liberated" by the Soviets, then they stayed here for a nice long time and effed up the entire nation for generations installing a great system of corruption and hardcore trust issues. I'm sure the Austrians didn't escape punishment either, but I don't know their history in depth, especially this shameful bit (then again, most nations don't advertise their major losses).

Facts, they drummed it up

Bro what tf you on? Hungary lost 72% of its territory. Search up Treaty of St Germain that diminished most of Austria's population an territory?

@@bettinarado6197 yeah thats the one Treaty of Trianon Hungary lost 72% of its terriotry and the majority of its population, not to mention the territory that was lost was most of its industrial regions.

Churchill’s plan was to run his surplus battleships through the straights. (Something they repeatedly turned back from attempting despite not taking losses.) He didn’t say they should occupy the peninsula.

That's almost as bad as Woodrow Wilson's wife running the government when he was incapacitated by a stroke. Shouldn't every country have constitutional provisions for what happens when the boss is temporarily sidelined, or permanently sidelined when there is no time to yadda yadda?

​@@dougerrohmerUm, yeah I think it's called the Vice President.

@@amandad802 I'm not so sure that that is actually mandated by the constitution. Yes, when the Prez dies there is a path, but like I said when Woodrow Wilson was drooling in a wheelchair, his wife ran the government at a very crucial stage of world history. Also, sometimes Vice Presidents aren't in the inner circle. When President Roosevelt died in another crucial moment, Truman was sworn in and only then did he even hear about the nukes' existence. By all accounts Roosevelt excluded him from so much that he had to really suddenly think on his feet to make some crucial decisions. This, as well as the balls he showed when he fired MacArthur, makes him one of my most admired world leaders ever.

And the CIA not sending the support they promised and let the rebels die on the beach.

@@ClassicStreetIron It's very clear the Bay of Pigs failed because the US wanted to. There was no support and the invading force was ill-equipped. They were going to topple the Cuban communist regime with that militia force? What a joke.

the french military leaders verdict on the treaty of Versailes? "this is not a peace treaty, it is a 20 year ceasefire", ha joke was on him it was 20 years 3 days

Def for the US. Escalating that war was the worst decision in American history in the last 100 years.

No it doesn't. He was super popular in his personal capacity, but the Conservative Party suffered a major backlash when Tommy Atkinson (as the troops in the Brit Army was called) got to vote after eating sh1t from the officer class since 1939.

Someone is letting their Labour Party show.

@@Sohltaker I'm not a Brit and there is no Labour Party where I hang out. The reason for the Conservative Party losing the election is well documented.

The USSR wanted someone whom the people would follow, but they could also control. The other main candidate was out because he was a Christian.

Shit, good point. I didnt even realise he was elected by the soviets, but so was Syngman Rhee tho by the Americans. who was deeply unpopular. The real fault here was the inability of the US and USSR to listen and leave the KPR to self govern. How far would you agree?

@@el_tio_Harry Both choices by the Soviets and America were dumb and stupid. At the cost of many lives, including innocents on both sides But America supported many anti-communist dictators throughout the world so its no surprise that the communists had support in quite a significant way

MacArthur going North to the Yalu River where China would enter the war.

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WatchMojo : talks fancy Regular folks : NEVER INVADE RUSSIA IN WINTER!

Operation Barbarossa was covered.

@@janetbyars84 nobody invaded russia in winter, both napoleon and hitler invaded in the summer

The treaty would have been good if the French would not have imposed on their harsh position against Germany.

@@jerometellenbachk this is wrong common sense

@@alexandrekuritza5685 why?

@@jerometellenbachk One, the treaty that ended the Franco-Prussian war required a harsher payment from France to the new-born German Empire than the treaty of Versailles required, and take not, one was just a "normal" war and the other was the biggest war in all of time up to this point Two, The German industry was relatively untouched by the war itself, it was engaged on France, RuZZia, the Balkans and on the Arabian peninsula, but very little fighting did take place on Germany itself, so it's not like they couldn't produce things to pay out their mild bills Three, the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was harsher on Ruzzia than Versailles was on Germany, so it is not only a double standard, but a triple one, and even worse if you consider other treaties. Muh Versailles Treaty was the cause of ww2 is bs told by the Reichmen to place blame on Jews and everyone else that they didn't like, but in reality Germany was militarily defeated on the field for her inability to fight the whole world at once. Krauts and Ruzzkies can go to hell.

*must

Hitler was a moron?

Frankly the answer to that question is Hitler.

They forgot the biggest lesson of history, never invade Russia in winter

@@janetbyars84 Hitler invaded Russia at the beginning of summer

Clearly, in this instance, "everyone" was a sad exaggeration.

this war would've started no matter what in some other form. Europe was BOILING back then

Prohibition did nothing wrong, alcohol sucks, if they had just trusted in marijuana all would have been fine. It was still a mistake.

@Golden Grin your individual opinion that booze sucks is irrelevant to the wide reaching consequences prohibition had. A group of millions of people is like a single teenager in that if you tell them they absolutely can not do something, they will go out of their way to find the most creative ways to do it anyway- even if they weren't interested in it in the first place. In this case, that that crime went up, that alcoholism went up, that youth delinquency went up, that crime families were allowed to grow and prosper on the back of rum running and hooch production. Had prohibition not been put in place it is very possible that none of these things would have risen that dramatically. I agree with you about alcohol- I don't drink it myself but do believe that others have the right to choose to use it or not and that if you suddenly tell an entire nation of people they no longer have that choice, there are going to be issues.

Agree… if they hit those oil tanks in Pearl it’s hello San Francisco fleet instead of Pacific Fleet

One ought at least acknowledge the reason behind the Japanese decision to cancel the follow up attacks. They had lost the element of surprise, and the second wave took a lot more damage than the first while accomplishing less.

Whatever they tried to do afterwards, they would have lost the war.

Are you seriously trying to convince us that in all of history, some small american battle which ultimately didn't change anything is one of the worst mistakes in human history? You americans are really self centered

Oddly enough there is no proof that Yamamoto said that quote. He was a firm opponent of war with the US from the start. He was educated in the U.S., and knew of the logistics the US could bring to bear. He was prone to say that if they were to attack, it had to be one overwhelming attack, then negotiate a peace.

@@scottcraig3816 Either way, that quote hits all the right notes.

The secession and subsequent civil war were inevitable, given the huge insurmountable differences in the ideologies of two sides. If not at Fort Sumter, the war would have started someplace else. It cannot be attributed to one or two bad decisions, since half the country owned slaves and the other half was virulently opposed to the practice.

Scrolling through 300 comments, and yes indeed someone beat me to it. Maybe the US Civil War was inevitable, but it was a mismatch from the start. (The US outlasting the British in the Revolution was apples-to-oranges.) My vote for worst military decision in US history: George Meade allowing Lee's escape from Gettysburg. The War dragged on another two years, until the South was utterly destroyed. Think how successful the South - and USA - would be today, if the War had ended sooner.

The whole world is lying in the power of the wicked one.people chose that over God's kingdom.

If course it was a bad decision to invade Ukraine. All of Russia's foreign reserves are gone - how do you think the reconstruction of Ukraine is gonna get financed? Also note, why were the foreign reserves accessible to be frozen? Because Vladolf Putler (who got his game plan from Adolf 1.0) didn't tell anyone what he was planning, since he thought two days is all it's gonna take because his military was bullshiting him for years about the state of IFV tires.

I think the nuke on Japan was a necessary evil. It saved millions of lives.

Agreed about the Ukraine war. I guess it needed to be added on here since it’s the current bash Russia moment.

@@randabe765 Russia has been for years slowly invading neighbours, messing with democratic elections and referendums, and getting away with it because people thought that there was more substance to Russia than there actually was. So it's a couple of decades of payback that Russia is getting right now. The biggest fallout of Putrid's dumb decision to invade is that Russia is no longer considered to have the 2nd strongest military in the world, but the third strongest in Ukraine.

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Generally if two sides go to war and one is going to lose, one side must have done a grave error of judgement.

Not necessarily, like any fight there is usually a stronger side.

It wasn't anybody's "decision" to start civilization, unlike the events in the video, where one person (or a small group of people) actively made decisions like "Let's attack Russia" (or USA or Iraq or Cuba or England or Genghis Khan ... you get the point).

And they could have learned from history. Beating an enemy nation and then taxing them as reparations is something that has been done many times before and history has shown that if you tax them too heavily it will come back to bite you

The Allies at the time were so angered by Germany's actions that it inadvertently caused a tyrant to rise into power.

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Not really. Reagan was ineligible for re election and all those guys got pardoned by bush sr and some were in office under bush jr. Operation cyclone is the the fuck up you’re looking for.

Nice way to spoil it for the rest of us

@@RabidWolf1966 Well it shouldn't be a surprise it's number one. It lead to Hitler rising in power thus the Holocaust and WWII.

Not to mention the treaty that ended world war one left Italy and Japan with little gain if any despite fighting for the allies which led to Italy and Japan's siding with Hitler in WWII.

I think I heard somewhere Italy was hoping to build the empire Rome lost when the Roman Empire fell with the treaty, which would sorta makes sense since the Ottoman Empire had fallen and if you look at the map of the Ottoman Empire and Eastern Roman Empire much of the Ottoman Empire covered what was the Eastern Roman Empire.

Too be fair, oversight of Italy and Japan's request in return of helping in the war was a hindsight. Not every country that fought with the allies in WWI got something in return and not all of those that got the same treatment as Italy and Japan join the axis powers in WWII. But there is no doubt that blaming Germany for WWI was the domino that fell that set off the chain of events leading to WWII and the holocaust. There were many that even predicted after the treaty was signed that the treaty wouldn't last and another World War was bound to happen. But even they couldn't predict something like the Holocaust be part of the devastation

Bro what? Clemenceau wanted extremely harsh polices like that of complete division of Germany into smaller self autonomous regions and for there to be *no German army* Wilson understood that too harsh a punishment and Germany would come back seeking revenge, as well as Lloyd George, who understood that too harsh a punishment would leave Germany open to falling to Communism. (Which you could sorta say as Bavaria became partly communist)

@@el_tio_Harry---Yes I know. I'm just saying what I heard on a documentary once.

shit’s so interesting yet sad man

politics is history my friend and history is to learn the mistakes of the past

Pandemics are pretty inevitable. Especially with increased globalization and significant populations ignorant to simple solutions established in past ones

It didn't exist? It was made up