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[@starwarsfan9849]

Fun Fact: Liechtenstein actually could have bought Alaska.

[@thedreamscripter4002]

Would have been much more interesting than USA buying it

[@raviolithebest8644]

And this could have prevented both World Wars

[@puff6796]

@@raviolithebest8644 really? How

[@raviolithebest8644]

@@puff6796 Because it didn't have enough money, it could have made and economic alliance with Austria-Hungary and Switzerland. This would have made Austria-Hungary more interested in maritimal expansion, and less interested in appeasing tensions in itself, letting Hungary secede. It could also have colonies (because of it being a maritime power, thus being invited in the Berlin conference about colonisation, which in our timeline didn't happen). And if Hungary seceded, no World War I so no World War II (because no German bitterness about the Versailles Treaty). But this is just speculation, so don't take it as granted.

[@FIVEBASKET]

Drew is in 1 million subscribers KZbin club

[@yolomax]

Yup he finally reached the achievement, good job drew

[@quickloris3050]

Congratulations drew

[@NewfoundMapping]

Been there since 400k

[@BenjaminBallin]

LETSGOO

[@darealstupid]

Before 1m club!

[@ImAltair1]

10:15 the actual joke kinda went over your head (it was talking about the 1890 British Ultimatum) but what you said is also valid

[@mrsarcasm6885]

they even conquered Mascow 👀

[@francelouie]

the what

[@seanbrummfield448]

3:57 When you critique your own work, and you just hate what you've made.

[@christophermichaelclarence6003]

As French. It’s not cool. Just to point out. In WW2, The British did help us for a period time then ran away from Dunkirk But this is more like it 🇫🇷😈 2:01

[@fizziz_1035]

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[@Albent]

"This people from Spain and France" The Basques: *screams in a not Indo-European language*

[@Salty-Doggy]

8:46 you see the problem is he attacked from the west you have to attack Russia from the east like the Mongolians did.

[@Notmyname1593]

Or from the south, like the polish did. Supposedly, one reason Putler wants Ukraine is because only once Russia had it was Moscow safe. So they want "their soft underbelly" back.

[@shanekeenaNYC]

Drew, looking fly with the new haircut! Keep those good looks up, my man!

[@nn_oogermany]

Drew didn't knew about: The Sun King The Iron Lady Shame

[@telmodossantos7081]

The basque fisherman

[@luigitomba6372]

Honestly I don’t think Italy would have sucked as much on the allies side, because the Italians were stuck in the Mediterranean due to British colonies

[@felicepompa1702]

If italy maintained its guarantee on austria war would have never broke out, and if it did italy is extremely defensible from germany (british troops thst were sent in africa and greece would have been sent to italy) also americans would have lend leased the italian army to get them better equipment. Another thing, maybe because of the italian alpine front the germans would have taken more capturing france

[@perfect.player]

and yet Plato described Atlantis too accurately, if he had set allegory over vanity as the main goal, he would not have paid so much attention to Atlantis's height of walls, etc

[@tuerculosisgaming6307]

Hmmnnn...

[@itsytyt5192]

Hy

[@diegone080]

Atlantis is Sardinia

[@tuerculosisgaming6307]

@@diegone080🏴‍☠️

[@domehammer]

Atlantis was a real place but it's either under the sea or under the sands of Sahara. One of the less likely locations was Brasil, a island that existed west of Ireland. All that remains of it is Porcupine Bank. The more likely location is in the Sahara somewhere under the sand. Since when Sahara was green were some of the largest fresh water lakes in the world along with rivers.

[@lamola4414]

Think about it, every country who invaded Russia in the winter died, what did they have in common? They had a navy. The Mongols didn't have a navy so they managed to invade Russia. I think it's time for Bolivia to retake some of that juicy Russian land

[@JamesTundra]

Ukraine gotta get rid of dem navy

[@idoit5067]

@@JamesTundra ukraine scuttled its flagship

[@Askhat08]

What they had in common is they all walked mostly on foot while Mongols entire army was on the horses. Mongols are also well prepared for winter as winters are harsher in Siberia.

[@Tdelliex]

doesn't bolivia have a navy on lake?

[@lamola4414]

@@Tdelliex not anymore

[@ЮрийАнанас-э5б]

Åland held a referendum in 1919 on which country they should belong to, and 95% voted to become a part of Sweden. Finland just said no, and continued to occupy them. Then they took the issue to the League of Nations, and in the only major decision the League ever took, they decided to give Åland to Finland in 1921 without regards to the will of the inhabitants.

[@Tingletonttu]

It's not like Sweden was ever gonna give over their Finnish-speaking areas to Finland.

[@Tingletonttu]

Also the 96% percent approval to join Sweden is obviously exaggerated. No referendum was ever held (due to Finland opposing it), but rather names were signed for a petition. There was another movement within Åland that aimed for autonomy within Finland that ended up succeeding.

[@TheSwedishHistorian]

bloody shame. Only thing league of Nations did and it screwed us over

[@unilajamuha91]

Fish eaters can go to Sweden whenever they want, Åland was part of Finland since 3rd century BC

[@ЮрийАнанас-э5б]

@@Tingletonttu Just because the Finnish authorities considered it an illegal referendum does not mean it did not happen. It was organized by the Lagting (the Parliament of Åland).

[@nathanielkleijn2376]

It wasn't our king being lynched and eaten, it were the prime minister and his brother. This scene in Dutch history is also included in the movie "Michiel de Ruyter'.

[@MiguelMC-Yt]

Love your channel from Zaragaoza, Spain

[@ionbooster1422]

Here from Barcelona

[@jaguar_0837]

Here from Tarragona!

[@austrianballproductions6832]

Asturias here

[@MiguelMC-Yt]

Amigos, tremenda comunidad española hay en el canal de este señor 🤣🤣🤣

[@maximilianolimamoreira5002]

@@MiguelMC-Yt también puede incluirme, Miguel, soy mitad Español.

[@JamesThomas-nc5eb]

I have been watching Drew Durnil for a very long time. And because of him I love maps and stuff like that and now I am doing the New England geo bee.

[@lbear9742]

As a Dutch person I think I am allowed to tell you we've moved on from reading our own leaders, and have moved on to others, we're now planning to eat Russian soon

[@JDT-Loadsamoney]

Gonna be that guy here Reading? You gonna open them in half and see if you can find a scripture?

[@Qwweerrtyy]

Ahh yes reading

[@kabuki7038]

I love how the world is freaking out over Putin calling Ukraine a fake country and Drew just casually calls Belgium a fake country and we laugh about it

[@rumeysaongul4765]

Yup! :D

[@Twentenaer]

The difference is that Drew is factually correct

[@yeboxxx_channel_2505]

Nope.. It's just that Putin is invading the country.. causing the hate toward him and thinking he is serious, Drew on the other hand is joking. PS: sorry if those were meant to be jokes

[@kabuki7038]

@@Twentenaer >looks at avi Checks out. Tbh, Belgium has more of a claim to legitimacy than Ukraine, but both need to be removed from the map.

[@ryanclemons1]

One is a joke the other is also joke but with nukes.

[@nkvd8846]

8:54 the Swedish king who failed to invade russia was king Charles the 12th or as he was most known as carolus rex sabaton has a song about him

[@howardbaxter2514]

I love the Carolus Rex Album.

[@niclassemmerow6401]

Pretty surprised Drew has never heard of Louis the 14th. Louis the 14th is like THE example for absolutism in Europe, atleast we learn a lot about him in Germany. Dafuq you guys over there in America even get taught?

[@_equinox1689]

World history government us history lots of cold war stuff

[@chaosXP3RT]

It doesn't matter because 90% of Americans forget it after the pass the test

[@kazoo.wav_]

They learn abt history that relates to their country, do you learn abt the various aboriginal nations and cultures in Germany? Prolly no since that doesn’t relate to ur home unlike my country Austalia

[@squans69]

Economics, WW2, WW1, cold war, Canada, latin america, American history, etc

[@xenotypos]

@@kazoo.wav_ Not really comparable Louis XIV was the most powerful king in Europe, so arguably the world in a way. Big impact in world history. The only reason not to know about his existance at all, would be to not really like world history.

[@phantomizer3542]

Congrats on a million Drew ! Love your vids ! Makes me happy in all this sadness

[@Piddzle3]

9:23 I love the language called Sweden

[@basantprasadsgarden8365]

Putin: Ukraine was a part of Russia, so we are taking it back! Mongolia with same logic: THROAT SINGING INTENSIFIED*

[@lukko6714]

We better watch for Her Majesty. She'll control 25% of the world

[@lukko6714]

We better watch for Her Majesty. She'll control 25% of the world

[@thebrawlingmemereviewingam7968]

Poland casually waiting for the bird season: 🙂

[@BlueAnimatedArt]

Belgium is not a country. It’s just south Holland and north France.

[@Neanderthal1]

Agreed

[@RedRocketthefirst]

No. Only South Holland.

[@bertalann7214]

10:00 "the George Washington of Rome" - well, Washington was actually a big fan Cincinnatus

[@bertalann7214]

*of

[@howardbaxter2514]

@steven trollface it is.

[@lawden210]

2:36 That is a sacrifice i am willing to make

[@francoislacombe9071]

7:36 Most people centuries ago had skin pockmarked with small pox scars. Actual pimples were not really an issue for them, the small pox scars being far more disfiguring.

[@atruenobody6189]

If Drew is afraid of Goyas paintings, i guess looking at some pictures of Zdzisław Beksiński would make him feel way better :)

[@SlayingPotato]

I'm now scared to Google that

[@screechingcosby]

Underrated reference to an underrated artist

[@dhaz4455]

A man of culture

[@asinglebraincell6584]

I didn't really find his art scary [Zdzisław Beksiński], but extremely awesome and amazing though

[@atruenobody6189]

@@asinglebraincell6584 That's why I recommended it to Drew. Though I have to damit that I can't see, why he would be afraid of Goyas art. When it comes to portay human brutality, cruelty and stupidity, Beksiński surpasses Goya by far, in my insignificant opinion. If you are interested in Beksiński and his work, there is a very interesting video here on youtube, named "The nightmare artist", that analyses his art and what may have influenced him.

[@zijun2731]

5:17 Drew don't you call them weedland.

[@starwarsfan9849]

How Drew didn't knew that King Louis XIV was called the "Sun King" Edit: And how hadn't he hear the nickname "The Iron Lady"

[@sans7591]

Even I didn't man, not a big deal

[@christophermichaelclarence6003]

Our French King Louis IV did call himself the Sun King. Should I say "Le Roi Soleil" ⚜⚜⚜

[@pifdemestre7066]

also he did not know that France won that war again Netherland...

[@Elektr0FenyxMusic]

6:52: A cool fact about Liechtenstein: For a minimum of 2 nights, for only $70,000, you could rent the entire country and stay in it as if it were the average hotel room.

[@NubTasty10]

Congrats on 1m drew! 👏

[@lawden210]

3:15 Ironically, Italy would be getting Crimea

[@asd3601]

based

[@Pasakid]

The real answer to the dispute

[@imawizardneversayeight7340]

7:10 "That's an amazingly long time for a tiny place" San Marino, who was contemporary with the Roman Empire: 🤷

[@cajtinio6084]

3:10 Poland: LITHUANIA TO MOSCOW TOWARZYSZU

[@Mordred952]

He always talks about how poland sieged moscow. but never how the swedish sieged it won stayed there for the winter and left.

[@villagernumber7882]

Plot twist: the real reason why Sweden left Moscow was because it didn't have a good enough supply of IKEA furniture.

[@koomer1065]

8:55 Drew might actually summon angry Sabaton fans for forgetting the name Charles XII (Carolus Rex).

[@poob1716]

I am dutch; I can confirm, we did in fact eat our Prime Minister. (Or king idek) And the next time we do, (Trust me Rutte, it will happen), i hope i'll finally get a piece for myself. I prefer to get the hand.

[@Neanderthal1]

It was our prime minister, and agreed, Rutte is making some Putin moves to stay in power and he tries to lecture Putin about democracy lol 11years in power and 4 more years under his rule. What is the military doing ? I am enlisting for the Koninklijken Landmacht, and it is in such a bad shape, like wtf ?

[@RedRocketthefirst]

I want them toes

[@poob1716]

@@RedRocketthefirst Very understandable

[@snomcultist189]

People: talking about the Nono-Germans and napoleon failing to invade Russia Drew: hey did you guys know Poland sieged Moscow?!

[@Thatoneguy-el8xn]

And Kiev ruled over Moscow?

[@thedreamscripter4002]

@@Thatoneguy-el8xn By the time Moscow was settled Kievan Rus' already fell into the period of feudal fragmentation, thus by that time Kiev was considered to be capital of Rus' only nominally

[@aysenur6761]

4:32 interesting. There's even a pretty famous movie called Iron Lady about Thatcher

[@Crabby447]

Honestly, the best part of the video is the patreons at the end

[@WERTYUIO821]

4:35 Minoan civilization, thousand of years before Romans: Am I a joke to you?

[@lawden210]

4:45 Text: Maestro Drew: Muh-astro

[@beatbox_battle1253]

Congrats on a mil Drew. You deserve it paintbrush man.

[@LocalNoob_2]

my biggest dream as an european is to be asked world geography so i can show off my elementary school education

[@Roachh2877]

Quick Where is Barbados?

[@mrwheat1270]

@@Roachh2877 i know im not the one who you questioning but Barbados is at the carribean, closest neighbors are saint lucia, saint Vincent and antigua and barbuda (Edit: i meant to say saint lucia)

[@mrwheat1270]

@@Roachh2877 wait im trippin Barbados aint part of Carribean 😂 (close enough tho)

[@Roachh2877]

Hah Fail!!!!?

[@mrwheat1270]

@@Roachh2877 wat

[@jamespyle777]

St. Louis, Missouri may have been founded during Louis XIV the sun king's reign in 1764 but it was named after Louis IX, the saint king, who had a statue of him on a horse holding the sword as a cross. It is in front of the art museum where it used to overlook the 1904 World's Fair.

[@MrAlsachti]

@3:18 Gold would have attracted settlers from US and Alaska would have seceded from Russia anyway. So, in retrospect, selling Alaska was a very smart decision.

[@DGAMINGDE]

9:30 Neanderthals were only like 20.000 people at most. We believe they have integrated and that humans have various degrees of Neanderthal genetic code. It is believe that Eurasians have more genomes but that the code doesn't really do much. Their name is based on the German valley Neandertal btw and in Germans that have no idea about them (which isn't that many) would probably guess on the name that they are just humans from a German region.

[@Neanderthal1]

No. We are still here. Homo Sapiens persecuted us !

[@sethheijboer9261]

Hi, Dutch guy here! 8:40 that guy wasn't our king

[@Altpal]

You know what let’s make thick Liechtenstein they wanted Alaska give it them, Switzerland finally broke neutrality Liechtenstein is now the master of neutrality, give them Switzerland.

[@Sooper-Pumpkin]

Drew: Aland's official language is Sweden

[@Zestieee]

Drew got to 2022 without knowing about the nicknames 'Sun King' and 'Iron Lady'. Now that is surprising.

[@tri4ls]

congrats on 1 million drew!!! :D

[@Jaimittt]

you should study about the basque country, it is areally interesting place

[@jarkson2901]

I just wanted to say it again, congrats on 1 mil. I’m glad I’ve been following you for a while.

[@radoslawszymula6560]

Thanks for the Poland seized Moscow callout at 8:49!!

[@natospysanchez8938]

6:45 I like how the natives got a sniper rifle

[@mr_bacon42]

somebody noticed the sicilian flag next to durnil? Awesome:D

[@muhammadabuzarkhan7450]

The reason Mongols invaded Russia because Slavs weren't in those regions. They were a lot of land that were just empty.

[@thedreamscripter4002]

Ehh... Wat?

[@Tdelliex]

sort of

[@svensvensson1085]

Well, no. Your wrong... or I'm to autistic to understand the joke.

[@muhammadabuzarkhan7450]

@@svensvensson1085 I am saying the Kievan Rus was still in Eastern Europe and haven't expand eastward yet. It was 1500 when the Slavs invaded Siberia. At the time Mongols came they were in modern day Belarus and Ukraine.

[@NZAnimeManga]

Not knowing something as common like that Thatcher's nickname was "The Iron Lady" (coined by the Soviets) really highlights your ignorance 🤣

[@xenotypos]

And the Sun King, which fought European coalitions idk how many times.

[@lizawatiz]

Congratulations drew you have reach 1million sub

[@Briggie]

A silver lining in all of this war. We get dank history/geopolitics/geography memes!

[@withlessAsbestos]

Nobody: Drew: Their Official Language is SWEDEN tho.

[@ullisbullisully]

Yes that’s true Åland speaks Swedish But did you know the Nordic country with strongest military is Sweden. we also have the most population in the Nordic countries. The coldest temperature ever recorded in the Nordic countries was -52.6 degrees Celsius and was in Sweden. The Nordic country with most GDP is Sweden with 537 600 000 000 USD and is the 11 country with highest GDP in Europe. Did you know all of this?

[@Pasakid]

@@ullisbullisully blah blah blah keeping coping because you don't own Ahvenanmaa /s

[@Pasakid]

@@ullisbullisully Also how does Sweden have a better military than Finland

[@GAMER123GAMING]

@@ullisbullisully wqhat do you think of muslims

[@youzhou3001]

@@ullisbullisully 20k active military and 40k reserve vs 20k active military and 900k reserve. I don’t think it’s the strongest

[@DPNack_]

3:15 also works for France, Germany, poland, lithuania, mongolia, Japan, China, Turkey, Greece, Ethiopia, India, Uk, etc

[@theghostly5514]

My favorite part of the napoleonic era is when multiple European countries declared war on Napoleon Bonaparte, not France, just Napoleon. imagine being so scared of one man that you and all your friends declare war not on the country that man is a part of, you just declare war on the man.

[@ethancash8870]

Byzantine emperor Alexios IV’s painting kind of has pimples

[@MrMuel1205]

There was literally a biopic in 2011 about Thatcher called "The Iron Lady". It's an extremely common epithet for her.

[@kalebthehistorian5928]

Oh my gosh! I was not expecting the Zeus one to be a double meme!

[@mayorwanderer]

3:03 Also that one guy who blinded the captured and send them back.

[@shitalraina7156]

Drew has 50% completed the quest of becoming a giga Chad

[@Thesirjake792]

Congrats on hitting one million

[@hipbubble7685]

The medieval period is not as much of a backdrop as alot of people believe hygiene actually progressed in plenty of aspects unlike what most people believe

[@CountingStars333]

Nah, that's what you like to think.

[@hipbubble7685]

@@CountingStars333 what are you on about 😂

[@noe_cortez]

The Emperor was HERE

[@alert2]

The emperor BOT was here

[@GEO_ANIMATOR]

Emperor protects

[@DinoRicky]

Your first congratulations 🎊🎉🍾🎈

[@five7746]

The emperor was also first

[@satnamgiz4640]

8:51 just another day of drew durnil ignoring lithuania

[@elvinbi1367]

The France with red lightsaber is essentially all of French history before the Franco Prussian war.

[@strasbourgeois1]

True, and a bit after that. WWI, Late WWII.

[@elvinbi1367]

No, the French government was incompetent in ww2, and the army too And in ww1 the French demographic dominance in Europe was completely gone ( France had more population then all of Russia before)

[@RedRocketthefirst]

Fr*nce 🤢🤮

[@elvinbi1367]

B*bies 🤮 - French people in the 18th century

[@strasbourgeois1]

@@RedRocketthefirst Who

[@francescoboselli6033]

3:40 probably if it reamined under Russia, it would never fell to Soviet control, remaining the last bastion of white Russia (considered that US and Canadian navy would have patrol the Bearing straight to avoid any Soviet conquest of Alaska)

[@lawden210]

3:38 Don't you mean a SINGLE year later

[@Lkyd_]

Congrats on 1 million Drew

[@hitshey8588]

Finally, Drew has mentioned the basque in one of his videos!!!

[@historiahechofacil2590]

Last time i was this early the city of Constantinople didn't fall yet

[@trololopez2437]

5:15, no Drew, you called them Swamp Germans.

[@anonymousunknown4811]

Putin: Ukraine is ours, we're just taking it back Genghis Khan: Oh, can we do it, too?

[@joanhuffman2166]

The Soviets gave Maggie the name Iron Lady.

[@serventir]

thanks for this video, i thing i really needed a rest from all that frontline news

[@Alice1apple]

I’m gonna underestimate these countries

[@-thanawat-8296]

3:54 Alaskan and Cuban Missile Crisis Alaska for the West Coast and Cuba for the East

[@02091992able]

3 times Napoleon defeated a coalition of other empires the 4th one defeated him for good. It was because one spiffy Brit had the high ground. 3:28 true but it also contains lots of gold. True story a Russian politician asked for America to return Alaska to Russia as it belonged to the Russian Empire just recently. I really cannot tell if he was serious or being sarcastic. But since Russia is invading countries based on them being former processions of the Russian Empire. Thing is once you sell something it no longer belongs to you, OJ Simpson found that out. 5:58 that event would kill nearly as much people as ww2.

[@xenotypos]

That was 6 coalitions to defeat Napoleon, even 7 if you count Waterloo (but honestly, he lost way before that). While the 1st and 2nd coalitions weren't part of the Napoleon wars (but of the Revolutionary wars), he still had a lot of influence in it. Especially the 2nd.

[@gamer-buddha7264]

1 MIL SUBS CONGRATS MAN!!!!

[@reignsilvano4990]

Congratulations 👏 for 1millon subscriber drew

[@bogdanbabic6284]

CONGRATS ON 1 MILION SUBS

[@justinianthegreatandnerd6377]

2:19 thank you thank you

[@dudupintarolas5214]

10:10 sad portuguese noises

[@dougfowler1368]

I did a comedy routine with a joke about Animaniacs and yakko's world doing the world in the 1500s. After something, too, I have him saying a couple other places then pointing to the Holy Roman Empire and saying "a fat tub of goo." :-)

[@lawden210]

2:00 Who would be the "General Grievous"?

[@commscan314]

The French adding a massive amount of fine additions to their collection of puppets, obviously.

[@nicocola284]

1:07 he won it taking a part of Flanders

[@RedRocketthefirst]

Belgium is just South Hollandt.

[@Rod2912]

6:39 it's YuGiOh 5Ds, it was when they've introduced the synchro summons. It comes right after YuGiOh GX

[@j.moreno]

Lo que hay que ver, si es que nos meten la leyenda negra hasta en los memes.

[@HistoryandOtherStuffwithBV]

6:41 the one with the best intro theme, next question.

[@ilcanaledegliascensori]

I discovered that in Turin, Italy, a Corso Unione Sovietica (soviet union Avenue) exist

[@ANONYM00SE]

gg on 1 mil subs 😎

[@Deus-omnia-amat]

3:18 The UK standing in the background: 🇬🇧☕️

[@user-jx6nn8xt4i]

Drew looks like a giga chad