It's hard to forget this... (Countryball Animation Explained)

[@arcxjo]

Not just "La Plata", but "Argentina" also means "Silver". The hats are called Phrygian caps and they're a symbol of liberty (especially since the French Revolution). If you look at the flag of West Virginia, you see the day the Hatfields and the McCoys put aside their differences to brutally murder their common enemy Papa Smurf with crude farm implements.

[@Matideka]

Yes, it comes from the latin "Argentum"

[@Mill_Jr]

The Brazilian state of Santa Catarina also has one on the top of the star on their flag

[@maximipe]

Argentinian here and honestly not sure what he is going on about "La plata", there is no region of land called that in the country. Either he refers to the Río de la Plata basin (which is huge and extends to Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay) or to the provincial capital city of La Plata (that didn't exist at this point yet).

[@VALENTI12583]

​@@maximipede refiere al significado del nombre: Argentina => argertum = plata

[@birdedup]

Drew: This is basically France's Vietnam right there Vietnam being France's Vietnam: Well yes but actually no

[@thebandit0256]

*Reminder Drew is from No No America and the No no Black State*

[@GeorgeSemel]

I busted a gut on that one. Drew should talk to the foreign Legion about Frances Vietnam!

[@gustavju4686]

Yeah. 'France's Vietnam before Vietnam' would be a better way to phrase it.

[@Biduck1776]

​@@GeorgeSemel God knows that he has been pooping on the toilet

[@Roronoa_zoro2024.]

I thought Spain was France's Vietnam from the napoleonic

[@ericfernandez908]

16:40 Well... the civil wars never really ended, we just traded the weapons for words 😁😁

[@demo2823]

Interesting factoid: handsome was originally a compliment for a horse- being many hands tall was being handsome, and thus, being a majestic unit. People who knew little about horses picked up this terminology as a favourable compliment of appearance. People who did know something about horses went along with it and enjoyed being able to call Phillip horse-faced without being executed for treason.

[@HF7-AD]

I think something that wasn't well explained in the Argentina vid is that because the colonists drove out the brits by themselves they realised they didn't need the Spanish for defense

[@HolyRomanEmpire962-1806]

Yeah, it was made seem as if Spain pushed the brits out

[@Jelloishereee]

Nice

[@maximipe]

Another thing that wasn't explained is Britain kicking off argentine inhabitants in Malvinas on 1833. Argentina was actively settling on the islands since 1820, arguably being the first country to do it and that's the main reason for the Malvinas war and the permanent claim from Argentina since then.

[@angelcamachodelsolar]

@@HolyRomanEmpire962-1806 Maybe it's because the colonist were Spanish.

[@x2y3a1j5]

@@maximipe Hi, Argie here, not sure if you Argie too, but here it goes anyway: (1) "Active settling in the islands" belongs to France, who were the very first ones to settle there, with 150 families from the town of Saint-Malo in Brittany (people from Saint-Malo are called "Malouins", hence the French place name of "Malouines", which when Hispanized gives "Malvinas"). (2) Spain "buys" the French colony, rights & claims (actually compensates for the trouble) and brings in Spanish settlers. (3) In 1811, Spain recalls the Spanish troops in Malvinas to help defend the mainland from Argentinian rebels, the Spanish & Criollo population is left on their own. (4) In 1816, newly independent Argentina sends their own government officials, some more families, and also launches a penal colony. So French-Spanish-Argentina population. The pirate invaders only had a garrison in Port Egmont, which they evacuated following the EXCHANGE of territorial claims & sovereignity btw the UK and Spain, UK ceding all their legal claims over the Malvinas to Spain in exchange for Spain ceding all their legal claims to Nootka Island in the Canadian Pacific (close to Vancouver) to the UK. This is the result and manifest intention of the 3 (three) successive Nootka Sound Conventions btw the UK and Spain.

[@lucaa204]

As an Argentinian the video was pretty accurate, would have loved to see a little more about the 80/90/00s like the hyperinflation, the 1 a 1 and the corralito. Either way really good video

[@GeorgeSemel]

But Bulgarian Ball left out the most important part of Argentina, the Dove Shooting and Lago Strobel where the Rainbow trout are the size of torpedos oh and that other thing Argentine Beef! Wars come and end but good food wine and trout fishing is forever!

[@riuskiii_1899]

Congrats on World Cup victory ✌️

[@juanmanuelfariasmarroncell2514]

​@@riuskiii_1899 uhhh, the peace simbol means something different in Argentina

[@askatuproductions]

13:59 ✌

[@candygirl101]

@@juanmanuelfariasmarroncell2514 JAJSJAJSJA mal

[@Tumper25]

As Argentinian im proud to see Drew check this well done video about the history of my Country.

[@jackin_it]

I would gladly let Bulgarian Countryballs teach me World history if it was an actual class in school.

[@Mrs52308]

Same. Ive learned much about just one specific country from multiple vidoes, like Russia, Germany, Italy, and Argentina.

[@carolusrex7627]

I defo trust him

[@Mrs52308]

@B3lla It was supposed to be videos, its plural for video (ex. Multippe videos)

[@emikomorimoto444]

Day 20 -Petition for Drew to make a Chad ball and a Romania ball duo

[@Akaims300]

Nice idea dude

[@emikomorimoto444]

Ty

[@z4yn_12]

Day 2 asking Drew to put a Byzantine Empire flag on the background

[@TheTsarr]

Very good very good…

[@RedSpeakerman290]

Nice request

[@tadesubaru1383]

As a spaniard i must say. We don't get taught any of this in school lol. especially the war of independence part, we were dealing with our own war of independence and depressed artists movement

[@askatuproductions]

Yes, Spain used to be a very powerful country.

[@jaimete0589]

They actually teach but they give less importance Edit: para que lo digo en inglés

[@chit_guy]

brazil has almost always had good diplomatic relations with argentina, the soccer that separetes everyone.

[@koltez]

We're more like france and england

[@antonelagalvez9290]

Futbol*

[@mauroguerrero5445]

Nice vid! I'm argentinian and in school we're taught basically the first 50 years since independence are called "anarchy period"( there where no centralized power instead there where a bunch of porvinces loosely together controlled by regional warlords). About the Falklands in the isles argentinian infantry consisted basically of conscripts of 20 years or so (My father was 19 when he fought the british).

[@sebastianmalpica3795]

To make the falklands/malvinas problem easier to understand: -Spain had a claim over the islands due to some treaties that were recognized as valid by many countries including UK. -UK had a claim over the LEFT island even when they recognized boths as spanish property. -france reached and colonized the RIGHT side of the islands one year before UK came claiming the left side. -spain kicked out from the islands boths the french and the british from the islands but the british secretly swore to take them back in the future. -argentina inherits boths the LEFT & RIGHT islands from spain when it became independant. -argentina wrote laws for the islands and put in charge a governor, things that the UK never opposed nor protested against but british people in their history books never talks about nor even want to admit that there was an argentine governor there. -the authorities of the islands arrest some american seal hunters for illegally hunting in the islands. -U.S attacks the islands due to the argentine government not releasing the arrested american mens and leaves the islands unprotected and without means to fight back in case of invasion. - U.K upon seeing argentina in middle of civil wars, wars against indigenous tribes and wars against british invasions seizes the opportunity to invade the islands not only taking the LEFT side but also they take the RIGHT side of the island to which they never had any claim before nor valid excuse to take it. - U.K kicks out the argentine authorities and people from the islands the same way they did to the chagos islanders or in the 50s against the argentines and chileans in antarctica which almost ends up in a war. - argentina makes claims to get the islands back since the year the invasion took place until 1982 due to a law of the U.N where if you are in control of a piece of land for 150 years uninterrupted you legally became the legal owner and in 1983 it would have been 150 years exactly, argentina being cornered and seeing u.k not wanting to give the islands back peacefully is forced to invade the islands. -argentina loses the war but managed to be in control of the islands for 5 months reseting the clock and ruining any chances for u.k to legally have full control of the islands.

[@twinsen1949]

Good on Countryballs for actually portraying the General Belgrano being sunk *outside* the exclusion zone

[@cardozoluciano8362]

Not that it matters much, the sub had already heard from radio that every Argentine vessel had the order to attack.

[@Matideka]

Chile helped the british during the war. That is a big reason to the Argentinian-Chilean hatred

[@askatuproductions]

Yes, and also Argentina and Brazil aren't political enemies, just rivals when it comes to football.

[@Matideka]

@@askatuproductions exactly. If you go to brasil withamd argentinan shirt, they make jokes with you and they are very nice. Argentinians love going to brasil and vice verse. Many many brasilians in Buenos Aires

[@laranjo5152]

Hey Drew, there is a video about the History of Brazil too, is called "A História do Brasil em contryballs"

[@zddxddyddw]

The video doesn't show that Argentina claimed the Malvinas Islands after independence, nor that it held effective control over them between 1821 and 1833, before the British came down and expelled the local Argentine authorities and settlers and established their own. THAT is the actual source of the dispute.

[@doortohell6726]

at this point drew needs to have a purple argentinian flag in his background. i mean look at that beautiful flag

[@Grrizo]

It's suprisingly accurate the depiction of the Uk commiting warcrimes against Argentina in the Falklands/Malvinas conflict. For example, the detail of the ARA Belgrano getting destroyed outside the exclusion zone in 14:45. That ship was carrying injured soldiers and wasn't being used as a warship.

[@imdliamdragonlucha6827]

i now want to nuke the bri'ish haha! just kidding! *i a l w a y s w a n t e d t o n u k e t h e b r i t i s h*

[@mishXY]

really shouldn't have invaded the falklands in the first place. it was a weak political move of a failing government trying to achieve the "rally-around-the-flag" effect. but failed badly

[@ramicane1671]

@@mishXY No one is disputing that, the plan itself was ridiculous and although it wasn’t unrealistic to think that the UK would just let the islands go, the fact that the Military Junta sent just conscripts with little training and equipment shows how little they actually cared, I believe that if actual professional units of the military were deployed the war would have gone on another route, but then again the incompetence of the Military Junta led to the restoration of our democracy, so it’s not all that bad

[@joepopplewell680]

Not a warcrime, the junta lies through it's teeth and started the war, it's like how Russia accuses Ukraine of just about everything they do. Starting the war is a warcrime, bring up this 'factoid' seems like your blaming the victim for fighting back.

[@Grrizo]

@@joepopplewell680 The facts that the anticommunist military junta were a bunch of totalitarians that enjoyed raping and torturing their own civilians and that they were the ones that invaded the islands only for propaganda doesn't change the fact that te UK military performed warcrimes against inexpert conscripts. Everyone knows the ARA Belgrano was outside the conflict zone carrying injured and that there were lots of "KIAs" with just a bullet behind their heads. Those are not factoids. The only victims were the kids sent to fight. Not the juntas, not the british in command. Both Tatcher and Galtieri can burn forever in hell and if anyone defends them it's because they're plainly retarded.

[@Trixzinho]

haha, i was expecting something after the video, like a post-credits with argentines cursing all the others south americans in an in-game chat, or something like that

[@KartingRules]

accurate XD

[@ramaaba]

Its a shame that chile, after we helped them independize from Spain, supported the brittish in the Malvinas War, that and the dispute for territory on the south of America are big reasons we don't like each other

[@petarmarinkovic2634]

13:24-Did anyone spotted that?

[@chaserpro1237]

Yeah lol

[@user-by5xp9yz4q]

4:44 "this is basically the Frances Vietnam" bro France had Vietnam at one point (edit) wow tysm for 9 likes

[@JakePalmerDebut]

That's what I thought

[@IagoSB__0.0]

Exactly

[@thebandit0256]

As an American he's no no American aka Confederate American

[@argentin2306]

Since you watched this one, please watch "An Argentine tango" that one is beautiful

[@Icenri]

I chuckled when you said that it was France's Vietnam. As if Vietnam hadn't been already.

[@emilbrings3462]

5:20 imagine a world where balls domesticated horses

[@Dutchballmapping]

Petition for Drew to put the old Dutch flag on the wall (Day 69+1)

[@Polska-cant-run-from-nepal]

Ehh

[@Polska-cant-run-from-nepal]

Ehah

[@Dutchballmapping]

​@@Polska-cant-run-from-nepal ?

[@Polska-cant-run-from-nepal]

@@Dutchballmapping que?

[@Dutchballmapping]

​@@Polska-cant-run-from-nepal I was right in the middle of making a flag map haha

[@Orthane]

"This is basically France's Vietnam" France who literally controlled Vietnam and lost before America ever showed up: *confusion noises*

[@ojo3895]

as an argentinian. that video demonstrates alot. but not enough

[@Gerbalyhegreat]

I'm loving this series. keep up the good work

[@Gerbalyhegreat]

DONT ASK

[@maitre_jx]

Damn an other great video from Bulgarian

[@Denis-Maldonado]

Nice video as always Drew, greetings from the city of La Plata, in Argentina!

[@HolyRomanEmpire962-1806]

You were right with the war crime thing, the UK actually sunk a ship out of the exclusion zone and killed 300 (War crime) and then went onto execute some of those who had surrendered

[@bigenglishmonkey]

well, other than the fact that an Exclusion zone only applies to neutral parties meaning the belgrano was a legitimate sinking, and verified by the captain of the belgrano himself as legitimate. and the killing of surrendered troops depends on the source, since Argentina made many claims of crimes after the war, all proven to be lies through UN investigations.

[@HolyRomanEmpire962-1806]

@@bigenglishmonkey So they can just go and sink ships wherever they want? I don't think so, if Argentina went to war again and sunk a random ship off the coast of England we will surely be punished, but no, the UK has always been the "innocent" since they got no repercussions for the war crimes in Africa, South Asia or Oceania

[@bigenglishmonkey]

@@HolyRomanEmpire962-1806 it was literally a war ship and the captain said he was heading into the exclusion zone to fight British ships. war crimes? even if that was true, what are people gonna charge us with? doing the same thing everyone else has done too?

[@peepeetrain8755]

@@HolyRomanEmpire962-1806 winners are never tried. The war crimes committed by the brits, the yanks, Canadians, aussies etc from ww2 to Afghanistan have never come to surface because they won. Military generals have legit been exposed for war crimes and have faced zero consequences

[@HolyRomanEmpire962-1806]

@@bigenglishmonkey No he didn't, he said that to him it made sense since they were in a context of war. He never said what you're saying

[@AustrySpring]

I really like that we’re going off to learn countries histories that we don’t know a lot of with drew

[@theskyknight4517]

btw the ship being blown up outside the exclusion zone at 14:43 was a reference to the single largest loss of life of the war - more than 300 Argentinians died.

[@mariasiwek882]

now this was epic

[@eliassandoval9601]

Fun fact Argentina translate the silver because the Spanish. There was a lot of silver there was I don't know

[@caolanbreen4460]

I did not know that Argentina had so much history. great video to Drew

[@IronpenWorldbuilding]

13:25 Oh My God

[@francescoantonini9213]

12:00 I think they aren't THOSE Italians and Germans, they came later

[@resonantmelon7915]

Phillip the handsome really lived up to his name

[@S1lence_D]

16:26 emiclowno marclownez

[@nothonourablecanadian]

Funny how Drew said that Spain was “Napoleonic France’s Vietnam” yet France also had a war with Vietnam lol

[@askatuproductions]

It amazes me how he was able to understand this countryball animation. It's quite vague, really. It only makes sense if you know some of Argentina's history already. I wish it didn't just focus on the Malvinas War part of the Dictatorship. Loved the part about Perón, though.

[@controllerplayer2091]

Petition for Drew to make a Yugoslavia plushie and/or put the flag in the background (day 10)

[@sandwichtheog]

“This is going to be France’s Vietnam.” I might be mistaken, but I believe France’s Vietnam was… Vietnam. Or “French Indochina” if you want get technical.

[@PerfectCocoa]

When drew said the channel name I thought he said "Bulgaria's crusty balls" 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

[@nebulous5420]

4:43 I think that Vietnam… was also France’s Vietnam

[@rhfan482]

Drew, can you react to the history of Brazil, please!

[@갴]

8:17 That country that Argentina was fighting was the Peru-Bolivian Confederation

[@Thefanofeveryoneandthing]

There is a video called never be alone again-Country humans I just heard it and it’s so good😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😅😅😅😅😅😅😮😮😮😮😮 😂😂😂😂😂

[@ComradeBobcat39]

"This is like Frances Vietnam" Drew Frances Vietnam is Vietnam

[@user-by5xp9yz4q]

Copied me

[@ComradeBobcat39]

​@@user-by5xp9yz4q where's your copyright to that comment and I didn't see it

[@thebandit0256]

Reminder hes from The Former CSA blame the CSA education SYSTEM

[@user-by5xp9yz4q]

@@thebandit0256 ok

[@pliska6819]

In his community page, he made a poll and the History of the Ottoman Empire won. It will be the next video and he confirmed working on it 😁 The Italian and Russian videos are my favourite.

[@tonygeffrard2831]

I love how in one of his videos he called the hand of God as The war between the British and Argentina

[@adamnowitzky4816]

You should watch the Falkland war by oversimplified

[@ItalianCountryball11]

I really like your channel, I watch your videos everyday!

[@ericfernandez908]

Why not show the british take over of "the islands" in 1833, they show everything before that.

[@santic3333]

Actually pretty interesting, im an argentinian, and of course some thing need more explanation like the civil war, Julio Roca, UCR, and Juan Peron who was very important and till today stills a very important political figure used by populism, and also you have the 90's and 2001 but it was very good resume, and also shows thing mote relevant than the nono germans

[@alanochedesnudo3127]

The problem with the malvinas war was that Argentina was in a military dictatorship (usa support) from 1976-1983 and 1982 the people was tired of them and they use the old trick of nacionalism and go to war , the soldier were not prepared, hungry, cold and very bad military heads, and if Argentina prepared more and convince other countries not to help the UK we can win the war pretty easy

[@OR56]

I am watching this with a friend of mine who is FROM Argentina. So, that’s interesting.

[@LexiTheUselessLesbian]

"This was basically France's Vietnam" No. Vietnam was France's Vietnam

[@user-by5xp9yz4q]

Copied me

[@Shinyboiiii]

@@user-by5xp9yz4q he commented first tho

[@LexiTheUselessLesbian]

@@user-by5xp9yz4q sorry, I only went back about 20 comments which were all requests to put a certain flag in the background

[@IagoSB__0.0]

Exactly

[@carterpritchard5063]

This does not change the fact that there are 50 million kangaroos in Australia, and in Australia there is only 25 million people each person will have to win a 1v2 but let’s face it the children will all lose guaranteed so the Australians are down at least 5.5 million people and each person left will have to fight a third kangaroo. However the Australians are not known for winning wars against animals if the kangaroos start enlisting the Emus then the Australians will surely fall, their country will fall to animals.

[@themarksmob6788]

I love the Austria-hungary flag in his back round

[@SMGW64]

I love drew just buchering the names it a little more spice

[@THERICEWILLRISE0]

I Love drew saying Argentina More than 4 times :D 🇦🇷🇦🇷🇦🇷

[@themightypotato83]

There's a mistake in 3:23, the video makes it seem as if the spanish were the ones that kicked out the british, while in reality it was the argentinians, who then realized that, since they had been the ones that kicked them out, and not Spain, they didn't need them anymore and the war of independence began

[@kirilvelinov7774]

Flag history Before 1812(Spanish Empire) First flag:1812-1840 Second flag(purple):1840 Current flag(1896 Olympics)

[@kirilvelinov7774]

Falklands 1801-1943(Union Jack) 1943(Sun of May) Current(new flag,2022)

[@GS-qe3pt]

Muchaaaachooos 🎵

[@thebandit0256]

Drew: Whatever is close to Purple Me: Violet

[@Bacopa68]

One of the Royal Navy vessels had its nuclear weapons transferred by helicopter to Asencion Island in order to not violate a treaty the UK signed with several South American nations. Also until Ukraine sank the Moskva, The Belgrano was the only flagship sunk since WWII. The UK did it with a submarine.

[@Waffle77362]

"basically France's Vietnam" uh wait a minute

[@carterpritchard5063]

I was just wondering why nato article 5 wasn’t activated when Argentina invaded the Falkland Islands and I looked up the reason was the territory wasnt in Europe or North America also the 2nd reason was and I quote “the UK didn’t need help.”

[@martin_lugones]

There are some things to explain about our history: - Yes, we had a lot of civil wars, that's because the first ones the main problem was the discussion of the autonomy of the provinces (like states in the US) from the national government (even now is an issue due the economic and political power of Buenos Aires), but the last ones were for political power or for political rights (for example the right for universal and secret vote, yes we had no secret vote until 1916) - The Malvinas War (or Falklands War for other people) even if both sides have "reasons", it was a movement Made by the dictatorial government (The Military Junta) because they wanted to hide from the news the social impopularity and the economic crisis (in effort to mantain the power), ando obviusly, when we lost the social unrest was so powerful the dictatorship called for democratic elections. - the incident with the pirates from Indonesia was because a man called Hipólito Bouchard was crazy enough to go through the pacific ocean (with the authorization of the government) to explore and help the uprisings and independece movements in other spanish colonies (even he capture the Fort of Los Angeles from Spain for a little time) - The reason for being Neutral in second world War is because the government (before 1943) was pro British but the people was pro German, the UK had many investments in Argentina but we made mistakes and the british take advantages from us (if you wan to know read Roca-Runciman Pact) for that kind of things the people support the German, even in Cold War the Peronism adopt a Third Position because wey know wey can take more advantages if USA, USSR (now Russia) and recently China compete for our support un regional and global matters of their interest Edit: sorry for my english

[@Tejosarvajna]

U didn't lie drew, this video goood

[@leschatssuperstars1741]

only 1 more falklands reference before drew disappears under misterious circumstances!

[@adesertpolice]

7:59 french revolution hat

[@sebbygamez6999]

Another great video❤

[@danielatchley277]

14:20 NOOO AGRENTINA DONT TOUCH THE UK'S ROCKS

[@The_RandomCrusader]

Drew is learning about his grandfather's culture

[@SUPREETH.]

Nice video

[@whenyourechangloso1405]

day 18 of asking for a countryball show with drew voicing and mrspherical animating

[@user-12309]

43 minutes ago is so beautiful

[@dra_aluxe]

as a mexican, if I learned something from this video is that all latam was a chaotic goverment mess after the independeces x'D

[@nugsnjugs9954]

"The [Peninsular war] was basically France's Vietnam" - Drew Durnil 2023 @4:35

[@gamercousinsch1623]

I took a nap while watching this chess video on my TV this is what I ended up Auto play was on

[@aichaamara392]

Look at adolf eichmann 13:26

[@ARZERS639]

Nice vid bro

[@lulufromdamoon]

Fact: People don't realize how big the Aztec Empire REALLY WAS! The Aztecs would eat people.) So when the Spanish Empire came around, the other tribes around the Aztecs decided to fight with the Spanish Empire because they wanted the Aztecs gone. (I might've not explained it well)

[@dra_aluxe]

the canibalism thing wasn't that common, it was just a ritual thing between priests and high classes. However their constants conquests, flower wars and human sacrifices of prisoners to the gods were enough to other tribes to say "we're done with those bitches, let's support this strangers so we can get rid of the aztecs"

[@tonydai782]

The enemy of my enemy

[@lulufromdamoon]

@@tonydai782 lol

[@thebandit0256]

@@tonydai782 is my Friend

[@krealyesitisbeta5642]

Uruguay’s in ONE PIECE!?

[@ItzJakub77]

Petition for Drew to put the Czech Flag in the background 🇨🇿 (Day 14)

[@ToToTra-iu1mc]

Can you please watch his Bulgarian history video!

[@gabrielleite8029]

Now you definitely need to bring Brazil History by Countryball

[@danielgechev5624]

I am from the first Slavic Country of Bulgaria! Bulgaria was the first Slavic Country to ever exist! We made the Cyrillic alphabet! Soon conclusion Bulgaria is the mother of the Slavic Family!

[@StefaBRAHHHH]

As an Argentinian, they didn't teach me at history class 70% of this video

[@davidbenyo6732]

Did he say "One piece?"

[@Imman1s]

Lol, you care he was called Phillip the Handsome? She was known as "Joanna the Mad"... The red stuff in the corners of the flag I believe are Phrygian caps which are fairly common in heraldry as a symbol of freedom.

[@generaladvance5812]

4:45 France did have their own Vietnam, in Vietnam.

[@xX_KF_Xx]

I love it how after Argentina took the British islands the British were PISSED with the Argentina

[@Theodor5]

day 54 of asking drew to put laser kiwi new zealand flag in the background 🇳🇿 (I might Stop asking since it may be confiremed that he will complete this empire but im still not sure)

[@Daphne70]

I'm same as you Drew lol I don't know that much Argentina history.