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[@franciscoacevedo3036]

1:25 USA beating the "3 North Koreas" one for Africa and one for Central Asia in !mpr1sœnment PER CAPITA says a lot about the so called land of the free

[@carkawalakhatulistiwa]

Only Eritrea and usa tax people overseas

[@hmidoknow]

it directs me to the site

[@-guy113]

"No I don't think I will"

[@aurelaurel8222]

Very beautiful woman 👩 Eritrea 🇪🇷

[@boburiinchankludho]

I thought the thumbnail map was showing Vietnam and was confused as to why it was imprisoning its citizens

[@lostdanger37291]

me too man

[@mildlydispleased3221]

Imprisoned in Nike and Samsung factories.

[@socire72]

@@mildlydispleased3221Samsung is in South Korea mate. Also, Bangladesh is where the real sweatshops are

[@mildlydispleased3221]

@tempejkl Most Samsung products are made in Vietnam and sweatshops can be found in many countries mate. Get your facts right before spewing bollocks.

[@nullc0ntext]

Vietnam literally only a couple places above it in the list.

[@Omer1996E.C]

As an Ethiopian, I want to tell you that the Ethiopian government wants to reconquer Eritrea, or any nearby coastal country. IDK, but in the last week, our whole media is just talking about our "legitimate right for sea border" and today there was a minor military parade accompanied by the PM, I just expect the Ethiopian government to start a new war soon, and we're sick of wars honestly. This is a new ambition of this prime minister, along with his extravagant palace project and land confiscations programs Edit: I'd like to reunite with Eritrea, almost our everything is similar, food, culture, language, clothes, traditions, economics, etc... But I'm skeptical about a war, especially with the fact that the Eritrean government will force its all population to war, that'd be a major humanitarian catastrophe

[@Blex_040]

Many points of this sound really simliar to North and South Korea

[@mgntstr]

I think the general populace, the unpromoted shills, the unpaid "Influencers" would all A fucking Agree.

[@poetryflynn3712]

Doesn't Ethiopia have a really bad civil war going on simultaneously though?

[@der6409]

It's just a lil bit of death, get out there soldier, win those beaches back.

[@Nogoodalvarez]

The same thing in countries like Guatemala, Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, Brazil, Argentina, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela, Bolivia, Mexico, Honduras, Suriname and the United States are corrupt countries with human rights abuses with potential political violence, police brutality and war crimes in the Americas.

[@medio-litro]

In the Sacha Baron Cohen movie "The Dictator", the fictional country of Wadiya was depicted with Eritrea's borders. The fact that Eritreans would be better off under Aldeen than Afwerki is really saying something.

[@nathanseper8738]

Ouch. That is a weirdly accurate statement. At least the Supreme Grocer gets you food once in a while.

[@mgntstr]

Supreme grocer supplied by western super-nationals. Fuck these UN deals.

[@Hot_Sky]

you know I thought Wadya is just fictional country that made for the movie, but after watch this I realized it was a real country, just the name of the country is what changed.

[@HermitKing731]

Yet in the movie the country is a very Arab country With very Arab looking people.

[@borrusiamartinez2647]

I thought it was Kazakhstan lol

[@wolfpeeing]

As a Central African I hope Eritrea gets better, at school our professors talked about the situation there. I hope both of our countries the CAF and Eritrea get better. 🇨🇫❤🇪🇷

[@timinator900]

As an Ethiopian-American, I pray the same fate. In fact, I'm hoping there'd be peace among both Ethiopia and Sister Eritrea. My parents were born and raised in Ethiopia and escaped due to tensions going on between Ethiopia and the TPLF under Meles Zenawi's administration.

[@Western_Decline]

The U.S. oppresses Eritrea, let’s get the story straight.

[@booradley6832]

I know Africa is doing pretty well right now but I really hope they(meaning various countries where this is an issue currently) manage to get the high level corruption under control. The entire continent is poised to explode in economic opportunities and living standards, it would be a real shame to have some particularly bad people at the top stifle that for everyone. rooting for you guys.

[@carkawalakhatulistiwa]

@@timinator900 Only Eritrea and usa tax people overseas

[@urgardista]

It won't. The whole world is going downhill.

[@ClintonBooker]

I had a heart attack as a Vietnamese when I saw the thumbnail.

[@MustacheCashStash125]

“You might assume only North Korea could commit such horrific human rights violations against their own people” Pol Pot basically turned his whole country into one giant concentration camp

[@poetcomic1]

And he dreamt up this insane Khmer nightmare while sitting in the cafes of Paris with other radical intellectuals.

[@arbendit4348]

What horrific human rights violations has North Korea committed other than unsubstantiated claims by western funded "defectors"

[@jwenting]

If a country happy to see North Vietnam invade them (as the Cambodians were) you know things are very very bad there... And yes, Cambodia was invaded by Vietnam, but only after the Khmer Rouge invaded Vietnam, kidnapped thousands of people, and burnt down numerous border towns.

[@Zetheran.]

To keep you is no profit to lose you is no loss

[@OKingSizeTv]

I met Eritrean refugees while living in Thüringen, Germany. They had clearly been through some shit and were quite withdrawn, but we would play beach volley together. Over time they would begin to open up more and did hear some horrific tales from Eritrea. It's just inhumane.

[@Bell_plejdo568p]

Yes, but what ethopia does is way worse

[@bang0utsc725]

@@Bell_plejdo568p 🤦‍♂️

[@aarongebreslasie7677]

Your video sheds some light to the disastrous situation of my country. As a person who grew-up there it has a long-term impact on me, and the regime is quite happily ruling with an iron fist. Thank you for making this video!

[@zagreus5773]

Did you manage to escape or are you still living there? Sounds very difficult.

[@aarongebreslasie7677]

@@zagreus5773 No, l escaped in 2015, and now living in a safe country. If l was there, l don't think l'll be able to see this video.

[@zagreus5773]

@@aarongebreslasie7677 Congratulations then! Hope you're doing well! May I ask how you managed to escape? I'm just curious.

[@ybarekg9033]

​@@aarongebreslasie7677you would have you just didn't know where to look.

[@alexandregaming8889]

I have a friend that escaped Eritrea to France in 2020, sadly his father couldn’t

[@sashamoore9691]

Why don’t they flee to mooslim countries?? No they always flee to civilized WESTERN countries!

[@littledudefromacrossthestr5755]

😔

[@braendo]

Respect, it's hard being worse than Nord Korea

[@mgntstr]

No. North Koreans live within walking distance of freedom.

[@Separatist777]

Nord Korea VPN

[@Separatist777]

@@mgntstr lol

[@DominoLarry]

Pledging allegiance to the flag every morning, for example

[@rastkobubic4009]

Wait untill you hear prisoner ratio compared to USA 💀

[@railfan_neon]

videos like these make me feel grateful for all that my country has been providing.. Life is so hard for the citizens of these countries 😢

[@__chinmay__]

Long live Democracy ♥ 🇮🇳 ♥

[@railfan_neon]

@@__chinmay__ Jai Hind 🇮🇳❤

[@franciscoacevedo3036]

1:25 USA beating the "3 North Koreas" one for Africa and one for Central Asia in !mpr1sœnment per Capita says a lot about the so called land of the free

[@railfan_neon]

@@franciscoacevedo3036 and yet more than 8 to 900,000 adults are given citizenship of the US each year!

[@robmeagher2443]

Im not a dictator so im no expert but if you made your country nice to live in wouldn't less people WANT to leave? Could save a fortune on surveillance...

[@thefirm4606]

Aaaand that’s why you’re a comment on YT and not an authoritarian regime leader… 😂😂

[@Miss_Twilight]

@@thefirm4606😭😭😭

[@cashewnuttel9054]

Because: - that's: hard work, - they're selfish, - they don't care, - they just use the position to become king and queens, - they want all the money their country makes to themselves.

[@ajc-ff5cm]

The country that most closely mirrors this IMO is Saudi Arabia. They're an absolute theocratic monarchy run under strict religious laws, but they do invest in infrastructure and pay their citizens when needed to keep them happy. (See the Arab Spring or COVID).

[@skywatchers9675]

Your job there is to join army and give free labour your whole life .. there's no leaving military . It's slavery

[@jessetucker1606]

I went to school as a kid with Eritreans, some of the nicest people ever.

[@recoil53]

I took some engineering classes with an Eritrean, back in the 90's. Good guy, eventually moved to another state to be close to his kid.

[@hello-friend990]

Have a local bar run by Eritreans with a few regulars from their country. Agree they're very nice people. They don't deserve this

[@bastiaan7777777]

I lived in Eritrea. Most horrible people ever. Your personal opinion does not reflect everyone.

[@darijus4094]

There were over 580,000 Eritrean refugees and asylum seekers abroad as of the end 2021, and “the overwhelming majority cited the indefinite national service as the principal reason they fled the country,” according to the May 2022 report of the UN special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Eritrea. Not 76000

[@jonnielsen4564]

stop the boats to europe

[@Urkelsam12]

Out of that 580,000 applicants, only 76,000 were actually Eritreans. The rest were mostly northern Ethiopians, and some Sudanese, Yemani, and various west Africans that did not get approved due to fraud and impersonating as Eritreans.

[@darijus4094]

@@Urkelsam12 dawg or they are fucking Eritreans

[@themasterMi7]

​@@Urkelsam12 it's true, in europe alot of Northern Ethiopian were caught by migration because of impersonating as eritrean.

[@Findgod222]

@@Urkelsam12glad to see Europeans actually realizing this. Many Ethiopians and other Africans pretend to be Eritreans to get to Europe, it’s not fair for the actual Eritreans.

[@flamingkitsune2792]

its weird if you tilt it at an angle it looks like vietnam

[@cxngo8124]

I had 2 friend from Eritrea when I was in high school in 2019. Kinda crazy that they were in my school considering what you are saying.

[@iamsomeone8175]

not really… the majority of the eritrean diaspora r descendants of migrants that left the country before the dictatorship came to power and/or when it was under italian (and technically british) rule

[@cxngo8124]

@@iamsomeone8175 they were immigrants that had arrived a year before.

[@abubekernurahmed8263]

@@iamsomeone8175Not really I have seen a lot people who fled when I was in the refugee camp in 2011. I remember there was 3 camps with over 50,000 people.

[@SupremeLeaderKimJong-un]

Man, I can't believe this Isaias Afwerki guy overthrew Admiral General Aladeen and changed the country's name from Wadiya to Eritrea. 😂I loved it when Admiral General Aladeen arrived in NYC on a camel. Eritrea has a neat flag! The green stands for the agriculture and livestock of the country. Blue stands for the Red Sea and its marine wealth. Red for the bloodshed in the struggle for independence. The yellow wreath symbolizes peace and Eritrean unity. The outer wreaths have 15 leaves on each side, representing the 30 years it took to get independence. There are six leaves total in the center, and the leaves are split into three, with one side representing the 9 ethnic groups of the country and the other side for the 9 national languages. The country's emblem features a camel surrounded by an olive wreath. The camel was the beast of burden used during the war of independence from Ethiopia to transport supplies and goods, and was seen as being instrumental to the movement's success by Eritrean nationalists

[@9b5a]

what are you doing here kim

[@yanmarle2864]

surely you must have some missiles that haven’t been test-fired yet. Shouldn’t you be out there firing them off to see if they work?

[@robbonabbo]

Ex italian colonies try not to be the worst place imaginable challenge:

[@lionelgideom]

Libya would agree

[@bastiaan7777777]

New York agrees.

[@heavent883]

all ex italian colonies are in the worst situation

[@jennadaniels3463]

Meanwhile the UN appointed Eritrea to the human rights council in 2022. This is why I wonder if we should take the UN seriously

[@survive7771]

i would say something about obf accepting a sponsorship by a garbage time sucking game filled with discord mods and no lifes but thank you for making a video on an under reported inhumane prison state that most people don't know much about

[@nullc0ntext]

Sponsorblock can help with that.

[@themageofspace5516]

i suppose they gotta make a living somehow

[@andrewhdz]

It would be worse if no one sponsor would be comfortable to support a video that depicts a dictatorship only by the assumption of "would not be nice to support the delivery of bad/horrific news"

[@Eikenhorst]

I never understood how Ethiopia didn't just take the whole south cost of Eritrea. Eritrea is basically split in half by the Eritrean Highlands, leaving just 1 road to link with the north of the country. Ethiopia can easily walk in through vast flat desert, destroy that single road and the south is cut off and easily taken, giving Ethiopia precious access to the sea.

[@momo-cchi5978]

Been asking myself this exact same question for years. Hell, Ethiopia could even exploit the fact that the Red Sea province is predominantly ethnically Afar so they easily annex it and incorporate it into their own Afar region. They could technically pull that same stunt with Somalia and Djibouti, but I, an ethnic Somali, shudder at thought of inviting 15 million Somalis into my country. 😩🤷🏾

[@echo5935]

@@momo-cchi5978are you suggesting that ethiopia invade somalai?? Traitor. Ethiopia will never take somalia if it even dares they will never see the light of fay again

[@echo5935]

And now your sanctioned

[@rocinante4488]

I’m pretty sure that desert is a very inhospitable place. Marching a modern army across a roadless, unpopulated desert would be quite the logistical feat. And then once it has reached a coastal city, how to maintain its supply lines? Ethiopia would have to airdrop in supplies, make caravans across the desert, or rely on some other country to ship in supplies via sea. All the while Eritrea could just easily send its troops down the highway from its capital heartland. Maybe capturing just the city of Aseb would be doable as there is a road leading there from Ethiopia. I don’t know if that road is good enough to be used by tanks and heavy trucks or if the port of Aseb is a deep water container ship port that would be worth taking

[@sergeantskrtskrt9594]

Afar Depression.

[@jonathanwilliams1065]

The war between Eritrea and Ethiopia officially ended in 2000 The 2018 agreement was to resolve border disputes from the peace treaty which had caused occasional border clashes, but no official declaration of war occurred

[@iandhr1]

I think all of us lose perspective from time to time. I know I am guilty of it but I can drag myself back to reality. As an American, I know my country is far from perfect, but videos like this remind me how lucky I am.

[@saldownik]

Don't just enjoy your luck, maintain it.

[@XYZ_Vu]

Thanks for reporting on this, I had no idea how deeply the repression was

[@kelvinnkat]

Why are we citing the Heritage Foundation at all, it was so easy to cite anyone else instead

[@memesforplebs7341]

It will make more sense when in a few years the US govt is trying to warmonger against this random country in Africa. Just trying to create hate of a random place so later down the line they can justify war or smt

[@AverytheCubanAmerican]

Eritrea got their independence from Ethiopia in the first place because the Italians colonized Eritrea starting in 1882 (with Assab and they fought a war with the Ethiopians between 1887 and 1889 to expand) and ruled it until 1941. Conquered by the Allies in 1941, Italian East Africa was sub-divided. Eritrea was made a British protectorate from the end of World War II until 1951. However, there was debate as to what should happen with Eritrea after the British left. The British delegation to the UN proposed that Eritrea be divided along religious lines with the Christians to Ethiopia and the Muslims to Sudan. The UN decided on a federation between Eritrea and Ethiopia in 1952, as a compromise to reconcile Ethiopian claims of sovereignty and Eritrean aspirations for independence. About nine years later, Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie dissolved the federation and annexed Eritrea, thus triggering the struggle that lasted three decades. At first, the group fighting for independence was the ELF who got support from Arab countries, however the EPLF became the dominant group after Christians left the ELF due to tensions with Muslim members, and subsequently formed the EPLF and defeated the ELF in 1981. Eritrea got de facto independence in 1991, and official independence in 1993 after a referendum with over 99 percent in support.

[@malcontender6319]

"and official independence in 1993 after a referendum with over 99 percent in support." So, back to corruption then?

[@_damballah]

tankies be like: "nah, but it aint that bad tho"

[@diomuda7903]

I saw Eritrea's map and if you look carefully, it will be like an incomplete Vietnam map haha.

[@KiranKumarBokkesam]

I used to have a colleague from Eritrea and he would get so angry and emotional and refuse to speak about how he escaped from Eritrea 😢

[@Mologust]

My favorite Eritrea fact is that it is one of two countries that taxes its citizens regardless of where they reside. The other is The United States.

[@saldownik]

US you can quit though

[@bastiaan7777777]

Land of the free.

[@ayadhyist]

I thought Hungary did that as well?

[@bastiaan7777777]

@@ayadhyist Expatriation Tax. Many countries do so. But: Unlike all other countries with the exceptions of Eritrea and Hungary (with caveats), the United States taxes its citizens on worldwide income, even if they are permanently resident in another country.

[@guydreamr]

North Korea's new tagline: we're not so bad, we're not Eritrea.

[@VinnyNajera-zn7th]

As a non-african citizen I am born and raised in the United States but to be very clear what he just said about this country in East Africa I am so sorry for these people I know this one person who escaped this country well I'm not saying I know that person I know she has a Twitter account she's primary famous inside her but I don't know where is she living but you know she's living in the United States and I hope she's realized that she watch this video and see how her country and you never know she will find out if they kidnapped her family or her family friends members from her friends family members other side but do you know it cannot be worse than That and I do believe that everyone deserves to live longer but in Reality anyone could suffer no matter what it is.

[@theneccromancer1997]

Man, Iran is also facing the EXACT same problems as Eritrea, specially the mandatory military service (at least 2 years for +18 males), and you have to pay something in the range of 2-5 thousand dollars to the government if u want to leave the borders without finishing military service, the police force infiltrating livelihood of almost the WHOLE nation, many women are hired by human traffickers as Sex workers for neighboring Arab nations. Just like North Korea and Eritrea, Iran's also run by a authoritarian leader since 1989 and only one political party could candidate for elections, while the price of mobile phones are twice as the rest of the world, the usage of the social media is either filtered and impossible to access without VPNs and the so called free medias are also heavily under surveillance by the regime. The government has established a so called "Registration System" to avoid smuggling (but in fact, to collect taxes from importing any product from other countries) and the medium salary of 175 USD (70 million Iranian Rials) compared to the poverty line of 40 million Rials (800 USD) per month, and I'm pretty sure Iran is one of the 6 countries below Eritrea in case of media censorship.

[@joyeternal2314]

Only God can save these people :(. Please God, will you save one person who needs help most today.

[@ugwuanyicollins6136]

Where is he now sleeping maybe🛌

[@bigi14]

There is no god

[@bastiaan7777777]

God created this situation.

[@thomaspeterson9505]

Intentionally misleading thumbnail, nice video, nice graphics

[@socialistrepublicofvietnam1500]

you mean the fact that the map looked like vietnam? it was just eritrea flipped on its side

[@runajain5773]

​@@socialistrepublicofvietnam1500yeh but it look like a north Vietnam

[@thomaspeterson9505]

@@socialistrepublicofvietnam1500 yes thanks for the update friend

[@roygoodhand1301]

>see thumbnail >"That looks like 'Nam!" TIME FOR UNCLE SAM'S REVENGE!

[@davidstephens189]

I had no idea this country existed.

[@Hudpix16]

You should learn more geography

[@icarus387]

Know I know why my Eritrean co-worker is so grumpy. This video explains why.

[@cuju-virtuose]

thank you for making this accurate vid about my country and its problems. This subject is very underreported and unknown to many.

[@koryhardy9594]

I pray everything gets better for the people of Eritrea 🙏🏻

[@IRosamelia]

Like myself, it's very hard to believe

[@Imightberiding]

Thanks for this informative video. We in free western countries need to see & be made aware of such horrendously evil countries like this to effect change for our fellow brothers & sisters in despotic nations such as this. Without videos & information like this, I nor anyone else would not be aware of the human rights tragedies such as this. Thank you for making this video & thus making so much of the world aware of these tragedies. Big thumbs up & also providing us more fortunate to effect change. Right on!

[@MustacheCashStash125]

It’s too bad Africa’s problems don’t get enough attention. Eritrea should get just as much attention about its human rights violations as North Korea and the stuff Leopold II did in the Congo just as much as what Hitler and Stalin did

[@DavyTwoHands]

No nukes, no oil, so no help from countries that actually could help.

[@ducksareurlords3782]

Ertrean government literally read 1984 and said "yea this is nice"

[@aqua_mc11]

Fun fact: the country in the dictator (wadiya) replaces Eritrea in the map

[@zakuraiyadesu]

Love the videos, man. Keep it up!!!

[@naaat]

The voice on the video is so blurry

[@nullc0ntext]

Fix the mic for real!

[@shakilahmed6915]

you have to add bangladesh also....we bangladeshis are going with extrime situations..

[@BruhBruhson-q4n]

Atleast you guys can leave

[@shakilahmed6915]

@@BruhBruhson-q4n but it needs money to leave what we don't have bro😭😭,,all money is looted by pro indian ruling govt....😭😭,,,we are in trouble like Palestinians... But it is invisible...

[@いただきます-g5u]

​@@shakilahmed6915would it feel better if your money was looted by a pro Pakistan/pro China government instead?

[@phnix6242]

JUST SO YOU KNOw: Our WHO President is a former Secret Police Chief of Eritrea. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (Tigrinya: ቴዎድሮስ አድሓኖም ገብረኢየሱስ, sometimes spelt ቴድሮስ ኣድሓኖም ገብረየሱስ; born 3 March 1965 in Asmara, Eritrea) is an Ethiopian public health official, researcher, and the Director-General of the World Health Organization since 2017.

[@nickpapadopoulos9978]

If I remember correctly, he was also a minister of health under the bloody Communist Megitsu regime in Ethiopia

[@Zeyede_Seyum]

He is TPLF/EPRDF member not EPLF/PFDJ.

[@Urkelsam12]

You guys are so uneducated. Tedros was born/raised in Asmara, but he’s full tigrayan and top executive member of the TPLF. It just blows my mind that the internet exist and people continue to say lies

[@zagreus5773]

WTF are you talking about? He was born in Eritrea when it was still part of Ethiopia and became the Minister of Health of Ethiopia. He was also the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ethiopia and then became Director of the WHO. He seems to have archived a lot of good and he never held any office in Eritrea. What are you talking about?

[@stewart2589]

Remember when a country somewhere has a bad reputation, an African country usually has to outmatch them

[@TheMostAwesomeMan2424]

Wow. I’ve never heard of this country before.

[@MahiAviation]

It’s sad that people only want to talk about humanitarian issues that will get them views (North Korea, etc.) Thank you for being different

[@gabrielalmeida6917]

As a Brazilian, I thought our situation was bad during the american-supported dictatorship. Now I am extremely surprised.

[@brunookami8968]

why would that be even close to some of the worst regimes ocurring right now lol

[@Nogoodalvarez]

Guatemala, Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, Brazil, Argentina, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela, Bolivia, Mexico, Honduras, Suriname and the United States are corrupt countries with human rights abuses with potential political violence, police brutality and war crimes in the Americas.

[@ItalianIrishguy]

I hope you're not talking about Boslonairo. He was democratically elected.

[@davidias9020]

@@ItalianIrishguy Nah, he is talking about 1964-1985 american-supported military dictatorship. And yes Bolsonaro (who always openly supported that dictatorship) was democratically elected but he did tried a coup after losing 2022 election to Lula. It only failed because the Army Generals didn't wanted to, because they didn't have same US support this time.

[@ItalianIrishguy]

Bolsonaro didn't attempt a coup and I supported his brand of Brazilian Nationalism. Now your country has that leftist criminal Lula back in office.

[@JeffreyCC]

Could you please apply a high pass filter for a cleaner voice? It sounds like you are talking through a wall.

[@udy12]

I thought that the country with the largest incarcerated population in the world was the USA

[@eraserboy12345]

Absolutely sad and heartbreaking. I hope the people of Eritrea experience true freedom soon.

[@zizoushifty1483]

Good and very informative video, but it was so obvious you just looked up "Africa" for stock footage and used clips that were obviously not Eritrea. It was really distracting for me and hurt the delivery of the video.

[@eruno_]

Eritrea isn't communist. Neither is North Korea.

[@spicychad55]

NK is about as close to communism, but yes it does allow some capitalism as part of its grey market.

[@eruno_]

@@spicychad55 state control of economy isn't communism.

[@DukeofTxtspeak]

@@eruno_Bruddah, yes it is.

[@eruno_]

@@DukeofTxtspeak According to Marx communism is "free association of producers". It's a post scarcity, post capitalist economic system after withering away of the state itself. It's exact opposite of state control.

[@sylvali1046]

@@DukeofTxtspeak so the incan empire was communist?

[@mgntstr]

The problem: Colonial disinterest. Human nature at full display for all to see.

[@jofujino]

I also feel like the world, or at least the western nations, have grown more isolationist lately and have lost faith in direct interventions having positive effects on severely distressed nations. Who wants to spend tons of money, get some of your citizens killed, and waste years to kick out the existing government only to see it replaced by warlords and religious extremists that are even worse and set the stage for decades more of conflict in the region that will just be an even worse outcome for the citizens there than the current oppressive regime.

[@mowvu]

modern day versions of this are usa and west chyna. if neither of those countries have ransacked your nation then you have nothing worth taking

[@recoil53]

So if Western countries interfere, they are arrogantly imposing their solutions on local problems in a place where they are not wanted. And maintaining the world order that benefits them. If they don't, they callously allow this to happen. Pick a side, accept the costs.

[@TheRatOnFire_]

Ah yes, colonialism is to be blamed for all, as usual.

[@mgntstr]

Yes. If colonialism didn't happen it is colonialisms fault for not trying hard enough.@@TheRatOnFire_

[@hikarikaguraenjoyer9918]

Eritrea does not claim to be Communist

[@redfront6707]

Eritrea isn’t communist and has never been communist

[@asscheeks3212]

Tbf, USA never claim to be Capitalist either, and Israel claim to be secular.

[@anewwaveanewbeginning3606]

As an Eritrean diaspora 🇪🇷 finally!!

[@bluedragontoybash2463]

Here are 30 bullet points summarizing the content: 1. Title: "How this country imprisons (nearly) its entire population" 2. The video discusses a secret detention facility in Eritrea, northeastern Africa. 3. The facility holds prisoners who opposed the government or tried to flee the country. 4. The existence of the facility became public in 2004. 5. Hundreds or thousands of inmates are held in overcrowded containers. 6. Eritrea has been heavily sanctioned by the UN since 2009. 7. Eritrea is ruled by a one-party government with a communist ideology. 8. Eritrea has poor rankings in terms of freedom of press. 9. Eritrea is compared to North Korea in terms of human rights violations. 10. Movement in and out of Eritrea is severely monitored. 11. The southern border with Ethiopia is heavily patrolled. 12. Leaving the country requires proof of military draft duty completion. 13. Military service is essentially indefinite. 14. Leaving the country also requires a substantial security deposit. 15. A UNESCO report in 2021 revealed severe malnourishment in Eritrea. 16. The mandatory military draft is a major issue in Eritrea. 17. The draft was initially an 18-month conscription for defense and development. 18. The draft consists of 6 months of military training and 12 months of service. 19. In practice, it's much worse, with indefinite extensions. 20. The national service program effectively controls the lives of young Eritreans. 21. Conscription starts before the age of 18 in some cases. 22. Draft dodging is illegal and can lead to arrests and torture. 23. Few refugees have managed to escape Eritrea. 24. Escape is made difficult by harsh climate and terrain. 25. Eritrea's neighboring countries are not ideal options for settlement. 26. Kidnapping and human trafficking are issues on the Eritrean border. 27. The Eritrean government employs a range of surveillance techniques. 28. Social control is maintained through bribery and incentives. 29. Eritrea is ruled by President Isaias Afwerki. 30. Eritrea's political repression is a result of Afwerki's rule, and the country remains isolated.

[@turtlebeach3116]

maybe it still is easier than to make a run in eritrea when compared to north korea ? ?

[@rapidthrash1964]

I suggest a space-style invasion

[@lmmlStudios]

The Audio is a bit muffled, lots of bass

[@eldonhoward7925]

I have never heard of this before.

[@kd4n347]

This might possibly be the worst sponsor section ive ever seen on any video

[@gustavjohansson8562]

12:35 lemmino background music

[@sjoel3982]

Sorry, way too many ads in your production..... couldnt finish

[@turtlebeach3116]

what why does north korea launch nukes into the ocean ?

[@iamsomeone8175]

where else are they gonna test it

[@socialistrepublicofvietnam1500]

​​@@iamsomeone8175seoul

[@turtlebeach3116]

@@iamsomeone8175 in a spot which was nuked previously and not in the ocean

[@iamsomeone8175]

@@turtlebeach3116 what💀 pretty much all nuclear tests ever happen on the countries personal land or in the ocean and north korea is wayyyyy too small to test it on their land so they can pretty much only test in the ocean

[@turtlebeach3116]

@@iamsomeone8175 they can test it in china at best beijing idk but the ocean is far to important to be nuked

[@title9387]

Gosh I never knew this was the situation in Eritrea...it operates like the Stasi.

[@bastiaan7777777]

How to say you are American, without saying you are American.

[@Lwazi9999]

I'm embarrassed seeing my country's flag here

[@ajaxrosso1]

Can you imagine living in a place like that and just knowing the luxuries much of the world has. The wonders of modern world artificially withheld for one sick man's benefit.

[@NovikNikolovic]

Now talk about how Turkmenistan does the same thing.

[@jKLa]

These are what might be called prison countries, -nation's run much like giant prisons, a step beyond even totalitarianism. These country's lack basic freedoms of movement or association and have extreme micro management of not only the economy but many aspects of people's private lives. While far more prosperous and with better life quality, in many ways Saudi Arabia and the UAE are similer in their extreme controls, even though the UAE is of course filled with both permanent and temporary foreigners without hope of citizenship but including many who are quite wealthy and choose to live there. Yet the government micromanages to an extreme degree and has almost total control in limmiting ones life to whatever extent they choose. There are basically no rights in practice these country's, only conditional privileges that can be ended at a moments notice. But there are obligations and mandates and loyalty oaths galore, with extreme punishments often to the pont of death to the disobedient, disloyal or merely unlucky!

[@lordaragorn001]

thought you're gonna talk about israel and the gaza strip

[@Omer1996E.C]

He shouldn't

[@ChiemelaDN]

Should have known from the thumbnail

[@mildlydispleased3221]

I looked at the thumbnail and thought it was Vietnam.

[@MoonBerryShrimp]

The entire Internet is inundated with it, and you just HAD to bring it up here too. 🧐

[@ApplePi1]

💀

[@dmytropershyn8334]

Bro, "don't forget to sign up for a Conflict of Nations - world of global warfare" - feels like a perfect marketing slogan for KZbin, and yeah, I guess we all have free, life-time, no-withdraw-option super-premium subscription 🥶

[@benjisuniverse]

the ad placement is a little... off

[@bastiaan7777777]

No. I now want to play that game to see how it feels to..... yeah.. do what the game does. in this context.

[@AndreOAirton]

Great video as usual, but sources and useful links in the description would be nice

[@vincienzo]

Ok, but fuck the Heritage Foundation as a source for any information, let alone an ranking on freedom and democracy.

[@socialistrepublicofvietnam1500]

If it is the organization I am thinking of, they probably want America to join Eritrea and North Korea on the rankings 💀

[@franckcolomb5579]

Its not tight enough given the number arriving at Lampedusa and migrating to Europe

[@bfolar9622]

Though informative, the video is quite sloppy, taking images from 1984 famine in Ethiopia, footage of people in Lagos Nigeria, and other sub-saharan countries, in fact the majority of footage is anything but of the subject country, Eritrea. Yes it is hard to get footage from the country, but add a disclaimer to that effect rather than potentially face a backlash for slandering other countries by using unassociated footage, that or just create a podcast. Good luck though and well done.

[@saldownik]

I wondered about this footage. It is indeed dishonest.

[@c.e.robinson1100]

You lost all credibility when you quoted “The Heritage Foundation”

[@toddclean547]

Control your audio. I can't hear you. Goodbye.

[@ronalddykeman9427]

I wonder how many Eritreans favor rejoining Ethiopia? That would probably be an improvement over their current situation. Just think, decades tgey fought for independence from Ethiopia, countless of their people died in that war, and for what!?!? To live in their current shitty situation!?!? They really got had by whoever was behind their secession campaign!!! I bet they were better off under Addis Ababa's rule!!!

[@davidzindler5858]

Your audio mix is really bad and muddy.

[@LazyAndFabulous]

I thought you were talking about Vietnam, because of the thumbnail.

[@pvpcraft2081]

I’m Eritrean and to be honest, this came as a shock

[@JimmyM1975]

Are you living there

[@pvpcraft2081]

No.

[@dl5498]

Were you actually born there?

[@ybarekg9033]

​@@pvpcraft2081he is speaking from a western point of view. Eritrea is against usa with China and Russia and kicked the uk embassy out so the western always hit it with sanctions also un never done nothing but hold space in Eritrea. Eritrea is not divided like he is put it on the map either.

[@rfsl1266]

Thank you for covering about Eritrea, it’s have the most beautiful people but the dictator just pressed lot people to keep quiet about their lives with fears tactics and having other people lies too the secret police.

[@Broken_dish]

the history is pretty interesting the soviet union and cuba got involved

[@ordinarynet6694]

People should start realizing that Human rights, and International law, Does not interest anyone except European's (And UK if you wanna count them seperate) , sometimes the americans and a small amount of Asian countries. They do not stand in most of Africa, Most of Asia, The middle east, Countries in these regions have been ignoring them completely. They are not international , That is a western lie. I am not against them, i think many of these laws could benefit Humanity as a whole, But calling them International is ignorant western hypocrisy, if you want them to be international, then everyone should be held at these values.

[@saldownik]

Correct. They are western values.

[@-Katastrophe]

NGL, I thought this thumbnail was an image of North Korea that got blown up.

[@mooncake387]

why am i seeing the South African flag being carried by their soldiers i hope my country is not complicit in this

[@AuthenticDarren]

To think that hundreds of thousands fought and often died for an independence like that. Fighting for the freedom to live in Hell.

[@saldownik]

If there exist objective evil, this must be close.

[@decus9544]

Eritreans would be significantly better off reunified with Ethiopia, they made a terrible mistake choosing to leave.

[@saldownik]

Your hindsight is quite good 😆

[@IRosamelia]

I literally had no clue this horror was happening in Eritrea. I thought life there would be like in Ethiopia.

[@redfront6707]

Omfg this guy can’t go a sentence without saying North Korea, also he says Eritrea has a communist government and it does not and never has.

[@23o8idlnqdolkqd]

Looks extremely similar to modern Russia, no wonder they are friends

[@oliverlaw02]

Per capita, Chinese, North Korean, Myanmar, and Eritrean incarceration rates are still lower than in the USA. America's population only accounts for less than 4% of people on Earth, yet it has 26% of all the world's prisoners in its jails.

[@ananthakrishnan6106]

Source trust me bro 😂

[@primercommentario]

@@ananthakrishnan6106 It's true, bro. According to the ACLU, "Despite making up close to 5% of the global population, the U.S. has more than 20% of the world’s prison population. Since 1970, our incarcerated population has increased by 500% ­­- 2 million people in jail and prison today, far outpacing population growth and crime." HOWEVER, that doesn't excuse the horrible conditions of prisoners in Eritrea, North Korea, China, and Myanmar.

[@Eric0225]

​@@ananthakrishnan6106"source: trust me bro 🤓" mfers when they actually provide a source 😂😂

[@tħe0]

💀💀@@Eric0225

[@TmanMoneymanISSUPREME]

The thing is that those four countries are often more cruel with their prisoners, especially the latter three

[@mochabear88]

Not sure what the way out is