Historian Reacts - Suez Crisis (All Parts): Causes, Conflict and Global Repercussions

[@RyanPetersonReacts]

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[@trevdestroyer8209]

Nasser died from a heart attack he had diabetes, was a heavy smoker and had family history of heart attacks with two of his brothers also dying from it in their 50s

[@addickland5656]

For how short it is, one of their best videos imho. Even years later it's still outstanding. Also genuine question since you went there: would you really be in favour of abolishing the UN veto? It existed to get the WW2 superpowers on board with the UN having something approaching actual power (the by 1956 dead Stalin insisted upon soviet veto power, full stop, before joining), so the case has always been that without placing some massive military under sole supervision of the UN (in which case how and who), any superpower that tries to be dictated to will just leave the body like the Axis powers did with the league of nations pre-WW2. Yes if the UN had the power to make leaving very painfull and costly and the veto was abolished, then the international community would be able to prevent a lot of horrors wjich could be stopped but aren't because someone with a veto blocks UN action, but good luck convincing China, Russia or America to surrender sovereignty like that if the world could actually hold them to account for actions that they disliked, even if the chinese or american people and leadership supported them. And let's say that somehow the UN did get those powers; an independent income that cannot be turned off by any one member, an armed force under independent UN command that could viable threaten to roll in and enforce law, order and basic human decency (if say a g-cide is happening somewhere) on most places on Earth (excluding maybe capitals like Washington DC, Paris, Beijing etc.) and the authority to act on its own accord if both a majority of the general assembly and on the security council approve it to do so, well..... that's really starting to get into the realms of a World Government doesn't it? Is that really a Pandora's box we want to open? Or is the idea that this veto-less UN would use the US army to take actions that China would normally veto and the Chinese army to perform actions that the US would normally veto? Why would any major government stand for that? What threat does the UN have to enforce compliance if a superpower like China or America refuses? I don't have an answer myself and I agree that the veto is dumb, but I don't know if there would even be an international body like the UN at all if the superpowers didn't have that damn veto.

[@untruelie2640]

Stalin died in 1953, Chrushtchev managed to win the power struggle that followed.

[@muhammadhabibieamiro3639]

Belisarius is the name of the general

[@magma9000]

Do an epic history video on the Abbasid caliphate

[@flyingeagle3898]

"The one-time the us doesn't support israel" The Us support for Israel was pretty modest in the early days until the 1970s they got far from britain/France and quite a bit from the Soviets. Just like the video US intense involvement in the middle east didn't really start until after this event

[@iKvetch558]

The Epic History series is a decent recounting of the Suez Crisis, but the 7 part series that TimeGhost History put out is definitely superior. It is not surprising, considering how much more thorough it is, but as with their series on the Cuban Missile Crisis, TimeGhost understands that the details matter very much and take time to cover. Also, Britain and France were wrong to take the actions they did in regards to Suez, but it is important to remember that Nasser was an ethno-nationalist. His ideological language was watered down nazism, and Nasser was virulently anti-semitic. So it was somewhat understandable that Nasser brought uncomfortable echoes of Hitler to the minds of European/Western politicians. Another quick note about Khrushchev's threats at 25:04...it was Khrushchev's threats to fire nuke tipped rockets at Paris and London...which Epic mentions...that triggered the events that led to the Cuban Missile Crisis. European nations loudly and publicly demanded nukes be stationed on their territory under the NATO Treaty as a deterrent to the Soviet threats of using nukes on the UK and France, such nations included Turkey...who eventually got their Jupiter missiles in 1961 or 1962...which triggered Khrushchev's plan to put missiles in Cuba in secret...voila, Cuban Missile Crisis.