Hoi4 Millennium Dawn Nice Guy Iraq Fixes the Middle East

[@Nothing-1w3]

"I control the bulk of worlds oil supply." "WHY IS AMERICA ATTACKING ME???!!"

[@Nerdnumberone]

I wonder if there were ways to get the U.S. on side through diplomacy, propaganda, political change, or economic investment/trade. The Saudis have stayed on good terms with the U.S. despite some rather concerning domestic policies for political and economic reasons. In retrospect, puppeting and assimilating a nation after inciting a coup when the former government was a U.S. ally might have been a dangerous choice. I wonder how difficult it would be to have the game communicate the most significant reasons for the war. I know it's probably based on some numerical values mixed together and some randomness, but the biggest contributors could probably be determined, even if it wasn't always accurate. I suppose this wouldn't apply in multi-player, however.

[@gaskamp2]

@@Nerdnumberone I mean you have to have justification to start a war, just make the AI follow that rule and declare it as well.

[@buddermonger2000]

@Nerdnumberone Yeah now that I think about it that's probably what did it

[@austinperez9408]

@@Nerdnumberone The Saudis and US have worked together for 60 years. Iraq wasn't aggressive towards the Soviet Union and invaded Kuwait over Kuwait laterally drilling into their oilfields.

[@NickSmith-fe7lp]

@@austinperez9408 also important to note that the Saudis and Americans have recently had a fall in relations. It's a changing relationship, and one that likely won't end well for the Saudis

[@dylankornberg4892]

Two terms of George Bush in the White House: no Iraq War Al Gore in office for less than a year: invades Iraq without warning. God I love HOI4 moments like this.

[@alphanoodle1877]

Honestly Sounds about right

[@kanishenanigans]

in this world, bush is regarded as the best president in recent history while al gore is one of the worst

[@RunicRhino22]

In my game, the USA declared on Bosnia without any way to attack them. 5 years staring contest.

[@Enchie]

​@@RunicRhino22 That's Bosnia for you.

[@RunicRhino22]

@@Enchie Bosnian Artillery is led by god

[@lorekeeper8117]

“Nice guy Iraq fixes the Middle East” hooo boy this is gonna be interesting.

[@BRUH-lx3jv]

Yea

[@OddZodd]

Yea

[@Beef_Master_Flex]

Yea

[@ARIEFRAMDHANI02]

23:16 What A Suprise for Me As Indonesian to see that kind Of Land lease Actually Happen In the Game😅

[@walterhartwellwhite8510]

Yea

[@fives5555arc]

22:59 - This how I envision Iraqs reaction to the US declaring on them.

[@TheVoltray]

ahhahahahahha

[@LaVaZ000]

Nah they saw it coming once they invaded Kuwait

[@buddermonger2000]

See the difference here is that the Iraqis didn't actually invade anyone this run.

[@sombertownds149]

Gotta get that oil- er i mean wmd

[@austinperez9408]

@@buddermonger2000 They hadn't invaded anyone in a decade at that point as well. They lost the first one and took that L just fine. 2003 was under the guise of nonexistant WMDs and basically nothing else. Ba'athist Iraq was a powerful force against state sponsored terrorism via Arabic and Iranian influence.

[@Ushmadand]

Serbia was still named Yugoslavia until 2006

[@AnglosArentHuman]

Technically it was only Yugoslavia until 2003, when it became the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro (transition from federation to confederation).

[@8-bitstream379]

Man, stakuyi really had the saddam hussein experience

[@im_back_mods8385]

Absurdly waking up one morning and realizing you are at war with half the world

[@Reaverisgrovy]

​@@im_back_mods8385 reminded of the Blowback podcast bit of Saddam demanding Bush put his dad on the phone to talk it out

[@godlymoose9118]

Hot take, but we wouldn't be having all these issues in the Middle East is Saddam Hussein was still alive

[@NickSmith-fe7lp]

@@godlymoose9118 that's not a hot take, that's just not true in any way you put it

[@godlymoose9118]

@@NickSmith-fe7lp It's true, sorry that you fell for propaganda spoon fed to you by the military-industrial complex. Iraq was invaded for no reason other than they were more stable than the surrounding nations and that's not good for war, or crude oil prices. The US government justified the war by saying there were WMDs in Iraq, but immediately backtracked when the opposite was true. Say what you want about Hussein's Iraq, but it was leagues better than the current Iraq we have now.

[@mein_vanil6280]

When you post, I'm happy and when I see you in pain because of all of this countries, I'm even happier.

[@desert_druid_xD]

Anything he does really just sparks happiness 😅

[@irishwristwatch2487]

This was a very realistic run 😂

[@ObiCentral]

What a very realistic even the ending 😂

[@prestonjones1653]

"Why is the United States attacking me?! I didn't do anything?!" Just like the real Saddam!

[@ivankaurin86]

Kinda yea

[@nikoclesceri2267]

Yeah, besides genocideing the Kurds, the various human rights violations on his own people, training and harboring al-Qaeda personal, sadam Husain did nothing wrong

[@theakbars98]

@@nikoclesceri2267 America didn't care about that. The desire to move away from the world banking system seems more likely.

[@DuplexWeevil337]

@@nikoclesceri2267 it's a joke btw

[@killgaet6253]

@@nikoclesceri2267 wasn't the al qaeda thing completely fabricated tho?

[@jamindowney3662]

I do suggest Japan or Australia, you can really twist it using those two from 2000s, plus easy (Slow ish) start, you only get screwed if you ask for it

[@sonal8109]

Yugoslavia was still a thing in 2004. However, it was reduced to just Serbia, Kosovo and Montenegro. Later, Montenegro voted to leave and Kosovo did its thing and that is how we got Serbia.

[@hermesshkurti396]

pretty sure Kosovo left in 2000

[@giantflyinghog3550]

There are a couple things in this mod that I think you haven't noticed yet. If you look a bit down from your leader portrait, you'll see the Ideological Powers button. This allows you to see the unique effects granted by the ideologies various political parties are part of. Second, above the list of political parties, there are two arrows; click on them to open the expanded party view where you can attacks, promote or ban political parties.

[@25geagle]

How to start your morning: 1: a cold bowl of cereal 2: stayuki

[@im_back_mods8385]

Cup of coffee and a biscuit

[@mitchellwright5478]

I mean I have a bowl too it’s just a bong bowl lol

[@joshbell2987]

The world was mostly peaceful until Stak gains control of the world's oil supply as Iraq and then America declares war him lol

[@kuayinal-kadir6846]

“America you’re the one making the terrorists, not me!” Oh how accurate.

[@haithamtarick1884]

I've been waiting for a a iraq video for oh so long

[@g3fr507]

14:48 The portrait of the leader of Jordan is a famous Egyptian actor called Amr Waked

[@Chorutowo]

"Millennium Dawn" and "Middle East" are sentences that should never be combined

[@dionadair8195]

Stakuyi's rapid meltdown in the last four minutes is the funniest thing I've seen all day.

[@IsmailV88]

"The game was rig from the start" - Benny

[@Nerdnumberone]

I wonder if he could have done something differently to keep the U.S. happy. Overthrowing the U.S.-friendly Saudis and absorbing them to control all of the world's oil could have drawn U.S. attention, especially if his attempts to get out of debt through taxes increased oil prices (not sure if the AI is smart enough for that). I don't think he explicitly did anything to increase U.S. relations save for cracking down on terrorists in Iraq originally. Maybe the terrorist population increased after assimilating nations which hadn't cracked down as hard (the coups probably didn't help). Would bailing out potentially anti-U.S. governments impact U.S. relations? He didn't exactly vet them all. But yeah, this game isn't meant to be fair since the world isn't fair. Iraq in 2000 is not in a good spot.

[@RapinatorOhYeah]

11:30 damn this sh!t is insane. Could you imagine this happening in real life

[@fence03]

Stakuyi: announces like goal The community: I’m about to end this man’s whole career

[@Т1000-м1и]

This man singlehandedly making all the interesting hoi4 videos on youtube

[@TheArklyte]

I suggest to: 1)enable economic boosts for AI in the preset. US attacks Kenya over debt wars. It's as widespread in MD as AI going insane to grab their cores in OWB. Can be exploited to get attacked though... 2)manually set AI railroading in preset too; 3)probably use higher difficulty(yes, the unfairness meter) and instead just boost your country in preset to get yourself to position similar to normal difficulty, but thus boosting all AIs to level where they can stop suiciding themselves. Again, in MD AI kind of needs cheat boost to survive \/(-_-)\/

[@UnnamedEmperor]

I love the moment at 23:55 Is that your daughter saying airplanes?

[@aaronsirkman8375]

Yes, I believe it's a quote from when she ran the USSR during WWII.

[@Dorsidwarf]

Gotta love poorly-implemented hard-coded mod focus trees lmao

[@kennymcneese]

I love the variety of mods being used lately

[@realhawaii5o]

13:45 Yugoslavia still existed until 2006 and consisted of Serbia and Montenegro.

[@borkov7680]

Saw this on my Recommended Page, Very nice video. Keep up the good work!

[@olesmokey3023]

You’re amazing and thank you for the content! Anything you make I watch even if it’s like my little pony hoi lol. You are a good guy and never let anyone silence u!

[@joehill800]

Yugoslavia actually did exist in this timeframe, it didn't form ahistorically. The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, as it was known, was not the whole of the former Yugoslavia, but simply a union of Serbia and Montenegro, existing from the dissolution of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in 1992 until the secession of Montenegro in 2006

[@starcatinum7953]

"WHY IS AMERICA ATTACKING ME" bro's just learning history

[@KahavaveCAPIPI]

Iraq probably doesn't have a focus tree because they spent like six years under complete military occupation and several more under partial occupation. Like, their primary point in MD is basically just to get invaded. Iran has one partially for historical reasons and partially because its a regional power. And that's probably the devs priority; nations that are doing the influencing are probably a lot higher priority than the ones that just get conquered shortly after the start date. It could be interesting to do an Iraq focus tree, but it would basically amount to getting beat up by America, being its puppet for several years, then dealing with rebels for several years, then getting pushed around by more powerful neighbors, then dealing with ISIS, then getting pushed around again, then then dealing with ISIS again while being pushed around. The past 20 years have not been kind to Iraq and while a focus tree might be interesting, it would also be masochistic.

[@fotppd1475]

22:53 just like the real thing. ( they make you think you have options but they make sure you decline so you basically don't, and then the oil fields are free real estate )

[@mountelbert4214]

The reason it hurts the fossil fuels industry to ignore farmers is that fertilizer is made with fossil fuels Explanation: Petroleum and natural gas contain nitrogen and phosphates used to make fertilizers

[@Hippie_King15]

Sweet, so we get to see him do the holy Roman empire. We technically haven’t hit the mark yet, but it’s only been a few hours and we’re about halfway there.

[@Templarkommando]

Dude peacefully unites most of the Middle East, should get a Nobel Peace Prize... gets war declared on him by Al Gore.

[@jonraybon8582]

Peacefully? Er.. there were coups, which are decidedly not peaceful. Coups against Jordan and Saudi, both of whom are US allies. The US invasion was actually very realistic.

[@austinperez9408]

"I didn't do anything! The US attacked me for nothing!" "America, you're the one making the terrorists, not me!" Weapons of mass destruction you don't actually have. It's hilarious listening to you say these things, but not realize its historical.

[@Ashura-Isaac]

أنهو لشئ محزن جدا

[@aubreyhuff46]

Yeah but that doesn't necessarily mean they'd have invaded him for it. He should've had an option that would allow him to bypass it since part of the reason for the US invading in the first place was that the flow of oil stopped from Kuwait, something Stak didn't stop like in our time

[@JustaRandomGuy890]

13:40 Yugo didn’t form it just didn’t collapse yet, at that point it was just Serbia, Kosovo and Montenegro

[@dramaking9559]

Dread it, Run from it, Destiny still arrives

[@tomdayton6492]

Had to pause around 21 minutes in to let the dogs in and was like boy I wonder how many more states he'll puppet.

[@fermemorta2985]

America is the "WoRlD pOlIcE" and Stayuki's Arab Federation was a black guy both did nothing but grow bigger as a person/nation and just gets absolutely choke slammed by usa 😅.

[@Kozu604]

I used this mod to realise my dreams of imperialist madagascar, capturing the entirety of Africa with mostly special forces and a small carrier group with french planes.

[@brodyu153]

Stakuyi, in case you didn’t know, you can gain more research slots through your decision tab once you have enough GDP.

[@kevincronk7981]

The Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic front actually isn't particularly radical or anything. They were the ones who overthrew Mengitsu Haile Mariam, the communist guy you saw an event about, but since then until the current Prime Minister disolved the party and made his own, they were simply the (somewhat) democratically elected ruling party of Ethiopia

[@enriquilloastral3463]

Did a game as Mexico, helped the Japanese in their Civil War, Korea became new Japan and joined nato, Korea gets war goals on Japan (communists) SOMEHOW America joins the war and I get absolutely shit on 😭😭👌

[@elaishh3533]

Serious question… didn’t we give biological weapons to Iraq for their war against Iran? So did they use all of them or did we go back at some point and get them back …. Without telling the public because invading a county to get back our weapons is bad for future business (of giving our weapons away to proxy wars) . 🧐

[@Nerdnumberone]

I found an article about the CIA giving chemical weapons to Iraq, not biological. Still a war crime, but a very different weapon. I doubt they could take the weapons back. You can covertly give something to a country, but taking them back is hard enough to do publicly, much less covertly. Considering the unstable nature of the region, no ruler would want to give up a weapon that could help win a future war.

[@DeaconBlues117]

They used all of them. Iran and Iraq fought for ten years, with no real changes during that time. (That was why the Saudis were so desperate for American help during the first Gulf War - they were terrified of the "bloodied Iraqi army", hardened by a decade of war. Then we got there and found out they'd lost all their experienced soldiers during the war with Iran, as well as the vast majority of their war materiel. Any WMDs they hadn't used had long since expired. Did none of the "smoking gun" people ever wonder why those weapons weren't used while we were whipping their butts the first time?)

[@kg7162]

Germany also send chimical weapons to iraq during the iran iraq war

[@DeaconBlues117]

@@kg7162 Point is, what was not used expired - chemical and bioweapons have a _very_ short shelf life.

[@kg7162]

@@DeaconBlues117 Also most of the "WMD" was just chimical weapons and the us took all of them during the first gulf war 1991

[@Kalterkard]

Hearing Stakuyi spout "What the fuck!?" exclusively when playing Millennium Dawn perfectly sums up the mod.

[@Redraws4716]

I love how the Syrian Civil War just come to an end fast

[@Nerdnumberone]

I'm not sure if replaying the same country would be entertaining, but a lot of your vanilla HOI4 content is good because you know the game well enough to destroy the AI most of the time. I wonder if it would be better to replay a country after you learn from your mistakes and have a better grasp of the mechanics in the mod. It makes some sense that expansion in the 1930s-1940s would be harder than in the 2000s. It seems like you may have to think of the game differently.

[@Jacksonville311]

Yugoslavia existed from the start of the game. It did not stop existing until Montenegro got their independence from Serbia.

[@Finka651]

Rump state

[@realhawaii5o]

5:05 you have, click on the 2 green triangles.

[@communistRabbit69420]

That hamas was foreshadowing

[@rt_goblin_hours]

Idk why you don't remember the queen taking over england and reigning till she died in 2016

[@srnonstop9261]

Awesome Video man! You should try playing Sweden in Millennium Dawn, I personally think it's a very interesting country to play as. Hope you have a great day! 😁

[@MDGHOST420]

Please give us more of old world blues. Lord Stakuyi

[@marky9195]

Aye nice, someone who’s really interested to fix my own country ❤️☺️

[@Samurai-hh1bn]

stakuyi finding out how to delcare war and stuff the US : Hello there

[@Susakk]

just shows how america gives out freedom by getting oil 🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅

[@pagancourier4604]

Least controversial Stakyui video:

[@naidrinskyconfederation6363]

22:44 live Iraqi reaction to the US war declaration

[@theiraqicommunist1291]

🇮🇶A very wonderful video. Greetings to you from southern Iraq

[@brandonvortex995]

and now with the latest update of millennium dawn iraq now have a focus tree

[@nocturnenugget]

Me a Jordanian, seeing stakuyi create turmoil in my country ah, fun times, I see in this universe we can't be the one stable country in the levant

[@haithamtarick1884]

I'm from Iraq and that's why I'm so happy

[@freundschaft870]

About Bushra Assad; when her brother, Bassel, died unexpectedly in a car accident, her father and then President Hafez Al-Assad, believed Bushra was the only one capable of being the next in line as Bassel was the one being groomed. Unfortunately, he knew a country like Syria wouldn't been accepting of a female leader so he recalled his ophthalmologist son Bashar from London. Hafez died couple years later and the constitution was changed about the age limit so that Bashar could run in the election.

[@blacksabre5343]

You had me at EU HRE lol

[@ChrissieBear]

16:34 FYI that's still going on right now IRL.

[@m13regulator45]

Yugoslavia officially dissolved in 2006 when Serbia and Montenegro decided to split ways peacefully as allies seeing no need to be together

[@TheFuri0uswc]

You got desert stormed.

[@Ratich]

Happiness: When Stakuyi uploads a video

[@lezerchil4931]

"Why did USA attack me?" That what Hussein was also wondering... so I guess it is quite cannonical

[@sahilhossain8204]

Lore of Hoi4 Millennium Dawn Nice Guy Iraq Fixes the Middle East momentum 100

[@boomg.f.i2736]

america when he said i control the bulk of world oil “FREEEEEEDOOOOOM IS COMING TO YOU BOY”

[@brobrobear470]

iran playthrough would be cool

[@Nerdnumberone]

"Peacefully expanding" by inciting coups.

[@スノッドグラス恵里奈]

I like your videos more than isorrow productions your hoi4 views are underrated

[@riggy1990]

You never should've been building nukes secretly.

[@aaronjackson2066]

You should put the Queen on the throne and reestablish British dominance

[@IchBinNichtDa]

The woman was from assads family!

[@acanadianchicken]

Stakuyi: When did Yugoslavia form? Yugoslavia officially split in 2006

[@Kova-ow2en]

11:31 That aged well

[@AhmedFahim16]

Yeah man Absolutely it didn't start on oct so 😂😂

[@Albukhshi]

@ 7:38 Ahistorical. Hafez was replaced by his son, Bashar. Bushra is his oldest child (and only daughter).

[@kapikkare]

ah yes he was a nice guy...totally didn't use chemical weapon on innocent populations...cough cough

[@الصمتالمطلق]

25:40 there is nothing we can do

[@الصمتالمطلق]

Thats why US attack iraq

[@Gungnirs_revenge]

"My perfect country is being taken" quoted from Saddam 2003

[@deejayxcrypt]

It is funny how this mod almost makes it seem like more is happening these days on these kinds of fronts. In truth there was always something happening and a lot, and we just didn’t know of these things happening as much as we do these days.

[@bundesautobahn7]

A bit late, but Bushra al-Assad is the only sister of Bashar al-Assad. Basically, instead of Bashar taking over after the death of father Hafez, Bushra became basically the only woman head of state in the Arab world in that timeline.

[@alexvlkvkna]

Bushra al-Assad is Bashar's older sister. She wasn't in power, Hafed was almost instantly succeeded by Bashar.

[@AZELL3]

Try playing Azerbaijan in millennium dawn if you want to challenge yourself. It recently got an update and has a large focus tree, amazing videos btw!

[@Glorytokurdistan]

Heads up the reason the ai sucks as economy is because a setting in the menu states that it can’t build a good economy so you have to change it in custom game rules

[@Swissswoosher]

Oil rich nation in the Middle East: *exists* USA: *Freedom time*

[@CertfiedGooner2]

2001 refrence aint here, this video is certified familly friendly

[@nothinghere9127]

funny thing about this mod is that it discourages war real hard. the more soldiers you have the bigger the money needed to maintain it(like real life XD). especially on Air forces(Like Real Life XD). they need extreme amount of spending than the other 2 branches of the army. also if you plan on playing this mod again, and you still dont know how to control parties, click around the parties list. forgot which one, but there is a button there that opens up a list of extra decision to boost party popularity, block parties from gaining popularity, and even change specific parties because in this mod, an ideology have more than 1 party and you can decide which party rules or not. just saying. its always fun seeing America joining a war out of nowhere.

[@doctorwhat779]

My milennium down challenge idea: play as İran or Turkey and conquer all the middle east (maybe even North Africa) with a secular/leftist goverment

[@svampen7782]

This puts me in physical pain.

[@muster2343]

Iran doesn't have a focus tree, that's a whole forest.

[@comradekommandmentklaus1848]

Stupid idea. Modern day mod Turkey recreates the Ottoman Empire at its highest point

[@plagueratnixon]

Reminds of "I Can Change" From South Park: Bigger, longer, and uncut