Guantanamo Bay: The World's Most Controversial Prison

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[@MC-gj8fg]

Gitmo is a US military installation placed within the borders of a hostile country that the US historically wanted control of while the communist Cuban govt wanted the ejection of the US, Guantanimo always baffled me. 70 years later, and neither the Cubans have militarily attempted to eject the US nor the US using gitmo as a staging area to reclaim the island? You never hear anything about skirmishes either. What is the nature of this bizarre set of circumstances?

[@fumanpoo4725]

The US pays the rent on time, has no late night parties and never thrashes the carpet?

[@rajackson50]

@@fumanpoo4725Nothing I appreciate more than the Status Quo

[@resileaf9501]

Throwing the US out of Cuba is one thing, invading a military base on a separate island is another. Cuba didn't outright want war with the US either.

[@MrThe1234guy]

The only problem with taking over Cuba is it comes with a bunch of Cubans. Not that that matters because they're all coming here anyways

[@jjsc4396]

The whole issue shows how utterly dysfunctional and broken the “checks and balances” farce is.

[@MacandArney]

I tend to ayre3 with th8s, though I might rephrase and say the current dysfunction has had it become a farce.

[@reddog-ex4dx]

And don't forget all that water boarding. Rumsfeld we're looking at you.

[@Jayjay-qe6um]

"I think what's going on in Guantanamo Bay and other places is a disgrace to the U.S.A. I wouldn't say it's the cause of terrorism, but it has given impetus and excuses to potential terrorists to lash out at our country and justify their despicable acts." -- Jimmy Carter

[@bboi1489]

Indeed. The way weve treated the East in this "war on terror" has done nothing but cause disdain towards our country.

[@bethmarriott9292]

Props to Eric for taking that tough topic on for presenting!

[@mwi3865]

How was this a tough topic?

[@TheAssainGuy]

@@mwi3865 shut

[@AlmightyScorchy]

Very interesting and clear video, I had a sudden curiosity about Guantanamo today and found your video and it said everything I needed to know

[@SuperCannibas420]

Does Simon not do these anymore?

[@AnnaAnna-uc2ff]

Who cares?

[@Mike-hu3pp]

Where have you been? And what's the problem with another good narrator?

[@SuperCannibas420]

Well I certainly didn't say anything about the narrator, it was a pretty simple question..

[@danbuckley6584]

​@Mike-hu3pp Simon is better he didn't put a bunch of his own politics in it

[@svenske71]

@@SuperCannibas420 people have no chill

[@dmay4433]

Please please PLEASE do more of the videos. I haven’t watched a GEO in months, but was going to suck it up for this video. I was SO pleasantly surprised to hear a new voice. Thought maybe we got a new full time host, until your last sentence

[@karenreaves3650]

It is just one location for our ongoing Military Tribunals. EO: Blocking the Property of serious human rights abuses and corruption Internationally. ❤

[@poorsvids4738]

Freaky thing is that some prisoners have been there since they were 13.

[@dominicwaghorn6459]

Cosmic horror author? Please tell me more

[@ibtsdad]

I think you could have talked more about the history during the Kennedy years and leading up to 9/11

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

Keep up the good work Eric! You're amazing

[@marcbeebee6969]

👍

[@mikelfunderburk5912]

Nice voice. Good reporting. There's a place not far from my property that was used to house P.O.W's. Its obviously now closed. We used the air strip for drag racing, when I was a kid

[@oliviagonzalezgranados4352]

I also like his voice lol. I listened to this while driving and I listened very intently. I think he is great! The way he presents the points is clear and he has an announcer voice.

[@shotoka81]

I was a Seabee that helped build Camp X-Ray. What a crazy time!! 😂 And the war on terror wasn't a "failure"... there will always be terrorists. Should we just sit back and do nothing, or rely on others?? 🤨

[@unconfirmedemail9428]

If there will always be terrorism then the goals of the "war on terror" was lost before it was ever started.

[@apuntes8883]

In fact the only reason that big prisons may be necessary in different spots of the region is the hypothetical scalation of civil wars that would require to send amounts of combatants to specific security centers. In fact the region hasn't been that far from that scenario in recent years.

[@Supradrew]

OOO I like this guy. Great voice Eric. 🎉

[@marcbeebee6969]

👍

[@mktf5582]

i enjoyed Simon as hosts of these channels and still do on his other channels, but like this new dynamic duo of Karl/Eric and was open minded to begin with, how about the creators just drop the interim and make them permanent now.

[@hollydavid69]

Why are you leaning sideways??

[@awkc63]

Maybe he's gotta fart, but can't. He's leaning hoping it'll come out.

[@bunyipdragon9499]

Comfy in his chair

[@j.a.weishaupt1748]

Why does no one love you?

[@maninashedandyp]

Whoses this Where's our whistle gone

[@waltercv]

Great host. Congrats!

[@demoneIephant]

It's mad how the president can say he wants something to happen as the president, and Congress can just be like "nah mate not happening"

[@MegaDuckmonster]

and people say the Gulags are Bad.

[@miles2142]

yes they are

[@awkc63]

To be fair, the only people who get charged for committing war crimes and crimes against humanity are people who lose. Countries do things on the daily that we don't know about.

[@Nite-Fox]

Huraaay! Sound is OK! :)

[@mikelfunderburk5912]

My grandfather was pow/mia twice. Crazy stuff. I know it was horrible for him. He escaped both times

[@nathanielcellowenski3176]

Good for ya grandfather, both times.😀

[@spooksshow9454]

when did Simon stop doing these?

[@resileaf9501]

Months ago.

[@ashleyrodd8729]

Once you also have a channel called, Places, can you keep track of both?

[@unconfirmedemail9428]

​@ashleyrodd8729 this was never one of Simon's channel, he was just the host

[@ashleyrodd8729]

@unconfirmedemail9428 what's the difference? He doesn't write them and rarely remembers suggesting them. They're all his. They go off his momentum. Places seems like a reboot of that one he made a few years ago that failed as it was too vague. This... seems the same. Geographics works.

[@unconfirmedemail9428]

@@ashleyrodd8729 I guess the difference would be that he doesn't have to keep track of Geograpics as he no longer works for the company that owns it.

[@johnransom1146]

You know there’s more to Guantanamo than your base. I’m Canadian. I’ve driven by the base on my way to Guantanamo the city. The Cubans also have a naval base there. And listening stations above and below water. Constantly they are watched. So if you want to know about the compounds, ask them. They’ll know exactly.

[@marcbeebee6969]

Wow, we got a new daddy 😮

[@P13586]

Give it a rest!

[@martingautreau5583]

Bring back Simon

[@jonh2538]

Is Simon in Gitmo? The new hosts are good but I like Simons voice better, he's got a voice made for narrating!

[@resileaf9501]

Simon left this channel months ago.

[@triggeredcat120]

Guantanamo is Alcatraz 2.0.

[@Darkflowerchyld718]

That was intense Eric. Excellent job. As always, thanks for everything y'all do at Geographics 💙

[@geographicstravel]

It was indeed! And we do try our hardest. We got some awesome stuff and some new writers in the pipeline. :)

[@YaakovEzraAmiChi]

See I wouldn’t care if they tortured Zarawi or any other high up taliban official. But low level thugs or even innocent people at times, is pretty messed up.

[@minimarine77]

Bias joke.

[@AnnaAnna-uc2ff]

Thanks.

[@hollydavid69]

Where is Simon ?

[@resileaf9501]

He left this channel months ago.

[@jamesmandl9302]

So much for the history of the base and just a bait a switch for a war on terror propaganda piece. 3-5min of inception history and almost straight to 9/11. It's by far the worst video I've seen on this channel.

[@Lykapodium]

Where's Simon?

[@fumanpoo4725]

He is working on his 83rd KZbin channel.

[@WaddedBliss]

He got arrested for shooting a puppy in the face.

[@CaptainHillyan]

Gitmo.

[@WaddedBliss]

@@CaptainHillyan 😂

[@resileaf9501]

He left this channel of his own will months ago.

[@j.a.weishaupt1748]

Ah finally a narrator again without a thick accent so I can actually understand what he’s saying

[@astrobeyondtheworld]

Cover your awrat please

[@charlesdu84]

What the hell is this? Where is Simon? We come here for Simon! Obviously… Stop being lazy Simon, just because you have a life doesn’t mean you don’t belong in the basement as well reading!

[@BirdSpotter43]

New Factboy has too much hair.

[@jermainecosby]

First!!

[@christianalvarez7799]

Obama's favourite prison

[@twonumber22]

The one guy that actually talked about it and made some attempt, however minimal, to do something.

[@pavut2]

Voice way too nasal

[@Mr-G131]

Gave ya 6 months, but after this one I'm out. ✌

[@astrobeyondtheworld]

dont dating ,dating is haram ."I bear witness that there is no deity but Allah, and I bear witness that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah."other religion is wrong ,islam is the truth and Allah is god.killing someone without judgement is haram in Islam

[@ArianeQube]

So worse than Russia's gulags (like the one in which Navalni was recently murdered) or China's concentration camps for the uigurs?

[@strongmermaid4651]

Gonzalo Lera was murdered in Ukraine but hey that's OK right

[@MrTexasDan]

Got 10 seconds in before they started the "USA Bad". Yeah ... no. Bye bye

[@twonumber22]

bye snowflake

[@dandutre]

Where is Whistler?

[@resileaf9501]

He left of his own will months ago and is not coming back.

[@maxriddle604]

Bring Simon back....

[@resileaf9501]

He left of his own will months ago and is not coming back.

[@anthonyC214]

Another woke episode. No thankx

[@twonumber22]

god forbid you learn something

[@Poseidon650]

this is hilariously biased 😂

[@penultimateh766]

All you naysayers criticizing the US, just defend yourselves from Putin alone.

[@goober5713]

I took care of prisoners in Iraq, they didn't want us there, and we didn't want to be there. You can't bitch about one county doing something and then turn around and do it yourself. EVERY US Military base is US property and therefore US land, so even though it happened in Cuba or some other country, it still happened on US land.

[@penultimateh766]

@@goober5713 Wrong. Bases are not US territory. They're not like embassies. And of course nobody likes a ware they're in, big surprise. So when are you moving to Russia?

[@goober5713]

@@penultimateh766 then why can't Cubans go onto gitmo?

[@penultimateh766]

@@goober5713 Because we're militarily occupying it like a hostile army. If it's America, who is the Gitmo senator?

[@goober5713]

@penultimateh766 who are the senators for out bases in Germany, Italy, England, Japan, Spain, and in Ireland ?

[@assarhadon]

I am European so kind of non-partisan in this. I don't particularly like Trump or Biden though. This video made me unsubscribe from the channel, because it has a heavy political bias. I hate that. I don't want campaign, I want data and unbiase view on history and the world. This is not it.

[@CoyTheobalt]

Heavy political Bias? You mean where he said both sides are trash?

[@assarhadon]

@@CoyTheobalt every time he mentioned democrats, it was "they really tried but could not close it", every time he mentioned republicans, it was "give me even more torture and incarceration". With a punchline indicating on coming elections. We all agree torture and extrajudicial incarceration is criminal, and that US doing this is actually the reason why most of the world turned away from them. But sincere historical analysis does not need to paint one side as horrible torturers and the other as weary saviors. I could use honest analysis of why TF Bush administration even begun with it and who were the guilty inmates (not just the horrible cases of innocent people incarcerated for stupid reason), so that we could get somewhat balanced view - you can still infer it was wrong to run this prison. Fine by me, it was wrong overall. But there had to be better reasons than sadism that drove CIA to run this. There had to be reasons why the congress eventually decided on keeping the prison operational. WHY? Even with all the political downfall? Even with the criticism that cost the US its soft power hegemony? What were the reasons to keep this up? We learn nothing of that sort, just "republicans bad, democrats less bad, maybe even excusable". I just cannot believe the bias is a coincidence, therefore: unsubscribe.

[@CoyTheobalt]

@assarhadon that's not bias it is truth

[@rubellites]

I don't like this guy

[@Codeman785]

America has fallen long ago.... Are you struggling to wake up right now in 2024? Because you really need to watch more videos like this then

[@alexsidlauskas9702]

Yeah, for some reason i only listen to Simon's channels to listen to Simon narrate.

[@wunderkind-7724]

The opening paragraph came to conclusions that were unsubstantiated, indicating a strong bias. It rendered the video illegitimate.

[@TheDanEdwards]

"The opening paragraph came to conclusions that were unsubstantiated" - oh please. You just want to deny the truth, that Gitmo was a terribly black mark on the US.

[@hanthony624]

Does it change the objective human rights abuses?

[@jayw6034]

Is this a reference to something?

[@bradlevantis913]

6:39 6:43 6:51 7:21

[@wunderkind-7724]

@@jayw6034 The first few sentences of his monologue.

[@DullBoy23]

When will you guys realize we want Simon back lol views went from 100k on most videos to about 20k after he stopped. This guy is boring af also.

[@resileaf9501]

He left of his own will months ago and is not coming back. You can't force him to return.

[@robbiestansifer1888]

Bad video

[@Ipsissimus]

Anyone that works there or has anything to do with it should carry deep shame. You are monsters.

[@88kiloo]

You don’t get to choose where you are stationed.

[@GlurglePop]

You know how bad you have to be to end up there. You have a lot of growing up to do, and when you grow a pair you can review some of the evidence that landed them there. You will likely not be able to sleep for a while, heads up.

[@TheDanEdwards]

​@@GlurglePop What about those at Gitmo who the US government released after years, because there was no evidence to keep them locked up?

[@GlurglePop]

@@TheDanEdwardsmany of those were guilty as sin, but the small number who MAY have been innocent, they got a vacation away from their hellhole countries.

[@goofyleo3869]

No, armchair warrior. The real monsters are the rag-heads over in the sandbox. If you had been there; you would know.

[@alisterthomas633]

🇯🇴🇯🇴🇯🇴🇯🇴🇯🇴🇯🇴

[@Bulldumbdumb]

Best prisons.

[@DEEJsBEANSrBAKED]

Bring back Simon

[@resileaf9501]

He left of his own will months ago and is not coming back.