Why This is the World's Pirate Capital

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[@PolyMatter]

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[@christiandauz3742]

I wish a Time-travel Industrialized Ancient Egypt Africa would be a much better place

[@MarijnRoorda]

I cannot for the life of me figure out why you made this video. Is there some hidden subliminal message somewhere, is there a morale in any of it? Or is just one lengthy video filled with things i couldn't possibly care less about? Perhaps that is the subliminal message. Though i'm not sure whether most viewers will get it then.

[@MushroomMan64]

morning brew sounds nice

[@interstellarsurfer]

Yarr!

[@JBBrickman]

I’ve heard a lot of you tubers talking about this for a while and honestly it sounds worth trying. You just reminded me about it so I’ll go ahead and try it out with your link.

[@napoleonibonaparte7198]

You know your country is in a terrible situation when a terror group finds the place frustrating.

[@Chimailai]

@@staticshockk that makes no sense

[@AxxLAfriku]

ORORORORO!!! I spend half of my day sleeping! ORORORO!!! Then I sometimes get up and tell you that I am a famous content creatorORORORORO!!! Please don't sleep while driving, dear na

[@vg6256]

@@AxxLAfriku ok and?

[@abdiabdi3225]

it wasn't made clear here but the issue that al Qaeda was having was that Somalis while Muslim almost 100% care more about clan than some fight between religious sects this basically meant that the terrorists had to bend over backwards to do the dirty worker for the clans.

[@staticshockk]

@@Chimailai just because it was American ally doesn’t make it less terrorist! They’ve killed bunch of civilians and changed the livelihood of the remaining ones. If you don’t understand it for other reasons then my point was that terror groups find places frustrating without the country being in terrible situation

[@ekmalsukarno2302]

Polymatter, can you please make a video on the Sultan of Brunei and Brunei's oil wealth. Thank you very much.

[@agumon1605]

For real i never got any brunei things in my recommendation, would also interested on that

[@jokinglemon007]

@@agumon1605 here's something kzbin.info/www/bejne/a3XIhWiKiJeSmdU

[@mikhangelouw6618]

Smell something oily here

[@neddiego2570]

@A Z Bull sh*t. It is the biggest car collection in the world. Most of the cars are in good shape.

[@sentriple5120]

@CELINEe-35💎🗡️ lmao wtf

[@SomasAcademy]

~0:20 A Greek-owned, Liberian-flagged, Angolan-chartered oil tanker named after an Indian state. We're on so many layers of national confusion rn

[@captiannemo1587]

We have yet to cover the crew…

[@thekrakenrises9040]

seriously tho what is up with that? Maybe some weird tax-avoidance loophole?

[@SomasAcademy]

@@thekrakenrises9040 That's definitely the reason why it would have a Liberian flag, Liberia is a go-to destination for tax avoidance in the shipping industry.

[@captiannemo1587]

@@thekrakenrises9040 taxes, workers rights or pay avoidance etc...

[@A.S.D442]

@@thekrakenrises9040 yeah, I heard that 50% of all shipping ships are registered in 3 countries only

[@hellothere4858]

considering stories of how olden day piracy used to work, with paperwork and countries turning pirates into informal customs inspector, the story of the people during boring grunt work for pirates doesn't surprise me

[@NeostormXLMAX]

@Neil Deep because they are hypocrites

[@Blox117]

@Neil Deep yeah sure white is bad. and yet all this is happening with what color of people?

[@Blox117]

@@NeostormXLMAX its not a coincidence that darker skinned countries are breeding ground for people like this

[@aturchomicz821]

@@Blox117 No

[@kellynolen498]

@Neil Deep I mean sure there are alot of white people in the us ignoring the distinction between the where they came from all the nation's of Europe primarily the colonizers France Spain england and the Dutch only 57 percent are white as for Christian I guess the current president says he's Catholic but disagrees with the pope and supports abortion which is considered murder by the Catholic Church so that doesn't exactly check out and only 30% go to a church regularly (47% are members) this is expected to go down as older people tend to be more religious and they'll die

[@ycplum7062]

Fundamentally, stamping out piracy requires a strong local government with the means and willingness to enforce laws, plus very low poverty levels.

[@Fuhrerjehova]

And such a government would, hopefully, prevent other countries from illegal fishing or dumping of chemicals, which was (is?) a problem in Somalia.

[@abdiabdi3225]

@@Fuhrerjehova and other governments not constantly buying and help finance corrupt warlords and terrorists like UAE and Saudi Arabia.

[@wanderingthewastes6159]

And what incentive would it had to do it?

[@diabelgrogaty1963]

@@abdiabdi3225 Countries like UAE or Saudi Arabia exist only thanks to oil. Before they were just a backwater barren wastelands. Few powerfull families benefits while milions must work for the comfort and luxurious life of the elites which are elites because they've been born by another elite. Plus Saudia Arabia is strong on wahhabism - a very outdated, racist, aggressive and intolerant branch/sect of Islam - if you think about things like the "incidents" than it's probably wahhabism. They litteraly have a religion which requires from you to live like an ordinary muslim from the 10th or 8th century. "Real" islam consists of many branches and sects - some more or less conservative just like Christianity. "The war on terrorism" isn't about all of the Islam but a few extremist branches.

[@sriharshacv7760]

I think the former is sufficient. There is no piracy in India & Pakistan despite the poverty.

[@laurenconrad1799]

“When you think of piracy, you think of Somalia.” No I think of Johnny Depp.

[@Moepowerplant]

No I think of torrents

[@financeup5443]

somalia is a good country

[@pls1179]

@@financeup5443 you sure bro?

[@cakeisyummy5755]

No, i think of Eastern European Kids Downloading god know how much of god knows what on a Saturday Morning.

[@ilhanyusuf2160]

@@financeup5443 it really isn’t lmaooo

[@VolcyThoughts]

Poverty wasn’t the driver for Somali piracy. It was other countries ignoring Somalia’s maritime border and fishing in their waters and dumping garbage. The fisherman from around that area depended on those waters being clear and they went simply ignored. So Somali fishermen started patrolling their own waters with guns and soon figured out there were other ways to make money. Simply saying “they were poor” ignores the responsibility of other nations to respect maritime borders and the people who depend on it.

[@somalipirates]

jokes aside. most beautiful comment about us. Thank You hahaha

[@pls1179]

@@somalipirates sorry that your country is one of the most corrupt countries in the world. It's very bad there but I hope it gets better

[@snowwonder9814]

In his other video on piracy, he explains how other nation’s fish thievery and illegal dumping takes away Somalia’s most important economic resource - kzbin.info/www/bejne/movLYXVudr6rl8U Him already covering that is probably why he didn’t talk about it in this video.

[@huhummmmmmm]

Thanks for pointing that out.

[@huhummmmmmm]

@@snowwonder9814 That doesn't make sense. He could have mentioned it and then pointed to the other video for further details.

[@TOOSLOWFLASH]

Space pirates will definitely be a thing once asteroid mining becomes common place..

[@GTRRSS]

It already is a thing

[@MindLaboratory]

Samus will save us

[@user-jr9wb7ev9e]

If space exploration would go in american capitalistic way - yes, sure it will be chaos. But if it would be done normally - with fully state control over it, orderly, sistematically, and planned - i.e. in a way of Soviet Union, "space pirates" will be non but a funny joke.

[@ante5544]

@@user-jr9wb7ev9e That doesn't address why piracy happens. Like Polymatter said in the video, piracy pops up whenever it is a viable business - that is to say, it pays better than other jobs and has relatively low risk and cost relative to the profit. Imposing a top-down command economy model on an economic sector (in this case, space mining) does nothing to address that. On another note, neither American Capitalism nor Soviet Socialism is "normal". Normal implies the innate way people exchange goods and services. The closest thing to that "normal" is opportunistic bartering, theft/seizures, and a perpetual exchange of goods, favors, and services between members of a family/clan/tribe/village. Those things seem to be the go-to economic practices of tribal societies, and they have been documented across pretty much all of world history.

[@user-jr9wb7ev9e]

@@ante5544 In fact, this directly relates to this issue, since space flights, mining and other types of interstellar activities in that case are becoming not a "business" in which people are trying to benefit, but a matter of national importance that does not depend on "payback" and profitability. And even more so in this case, it is simply impossible for "unaccounted for" vessels that would be physically capable of carrying out this cosmic banditry. This is the whole purpose of control and planning - crime is simply not allowed to be born, and if it does, it is immediately crushed in the bud, without concluding any deals with it and without seeking benefits. In the case of such an organized system, however, officials and performers on the ground will clearly appear, trying to improve their financial situation, organizing arrears and petty embezzlement, and this will have to be fought. So it's really obvious that every economic model has its drawbacks, but going back to the original topic - such measures will definitely effectively solve the problem of open banditry and piracy, which has been proven more than once by history (the entire early Soviet Union's struggle against banditry, homelessness and other aftermath of the civil war as an example will help you).

[@pardy1807]

as an Indian I didn't even know it was possible to pronounce Kerala that way lol

[@alexanderphilip1809]

first time for everything i guess.

[@sambros2]

How do you pronounce it then? I have a friend from Kerala

[@Bobelponge123]

@@sambros2 Care-a-laa

[@PotatoMan007]

I spat out my coffee hearing that XD

[@godwin21318]

Feels nice to be from Kerala

[@MegaBanne]

The fishermen of Somalia began conducting piracy when fishing fleets illegally began to out fish somali waters due to the lack of any coast guard. It was the only alternative. I think the first cases where of fishing boats taken as hostage. Which they found was pretty rewarding to ransom out in the first place.

[@bojiden9470]

Chinese and South Korean fishing boats regularly can be seen off of the coast of Somalia.

[@Praisethesunson]

@@bojiden9470 Lol Chinese fishing boats can be found illegally fishing everywhere from Somalia, to Argentina, to Canada, to the Antarctic, to North Korea and South Korea.

[@ennui9745]

@@Praisethesunson Correct, the Chinese have already totally depleted their coastal waters due to their insatiable greed, so now they've set out to deplete everyone else's.

[@Praisethesunson]

@@ennui9745 Or you know, it takes a lot of squid to feed over a billion people. Hence they go wherever they can to get it.

[@ennui9745]

@@Praisethesunson That doesn't make it right, does it now? Typical Chinese apologist.

[@second2none914]

The Dangote refinery in Nigeria. It is set to end Nigerian oil imports and could have massive effects on Nigeria’s industrialisation and economy. A video on the topic could be interesting. Also you consistently make some of the best videos on Africa.

[@11angells1]

If it is ever completed ...

[@second2none914]

@@11angells1A simple google search would have shown you that its already completed and set to begin production this year. In the first results S&P Global “Africa's largest refinery, Nigeria's Dangote, to start operations in H2 2022” Marketwatch: “African Development Bank President Describes Dangote Refinery as 'Game Changing Initiative” Quote: “The refinery, with a capacity to process 650,000 barrels of crude oil a day, will be commissioned by the end of the year. The refinery also has the capacity to meet all of Nigeria's requirements for refined products with a surplus for export and is the largest single train petroleum refinery in the world, said Aliko Dangote, president and chief executive of the Dangote Group. It is estimated that by 2023, Nigeria will import zero petroleum oil products--down from approximately $50 billion current oil products imports a year, the African Development Bank said in a statement on Sunday.” Why talk on something you know nothing about and have no interest in studying?

[@bababababababa6124]

@@11angells1 I actually dont live too far from there in Lagos and I can tell you that it’s actually nearing completion. Although yes I know our country has a history of not finishing major infrastructure projects quickly enough 🤣

[@MrAnonymousRandom]

Hopefully the refinery doesn't end up like other Nigerian infrastructure projects that failed to be completed because of corruption.

[@gags4u2]

Dangote refinery won't do shit. It'll fail like the rest.

[@daddyleon]

2:13 Also many of the wealthier nations have large fishing ships that essentially empty their seas so they can no longer really catch enough. Sure outside thier EEZ, but the fish gets a lot less withint their EEZ because of it too. It all contributes to the desperateness and the...necessity of piracy to surive.

[@christian88536]

Or the polution in certain fishing areas caused by illegal chemical dumping from western and chinese companies.

[@HailAzathoth]

By wealthier nations you mostly mean china right? Right?

[@Anedoje]

@@HailAzathoth No we mean wealthier nations, europeans and Indians included in that

[@thekrakenrises9040]

@@Anedoje wait a minute, Indian, Chinese and European boats come all the way to Africa to catch fish? Wow that's interesting. But why do they come so far?

[@Gitami]

@@thekrakenrises9040 A) Competition with their regional competitors or they have a large share of already and want more input resource B) Specific type of fishes fetch different prices C) Fewer eyes watching when it's in international water / less likely to run afoul of their own country's laws D) Their country is interested in maintaining the local fishing population so they encourage their corporate fishing industry to fish elsewhere

[@dds5450]

I am from Kerala but not the ship but from an Indian state.

[@flp322]

Did your state get hijacked by pirates?

[@godwin21318]

@@flp322 wtf

[@hriday1341]

@@flp322 no, by communists

[@sura899]

@@flp322 nope...

[@sura899]

Communists in Kerala :- GOV OF INDIA!!!! NUKE THAT F***ING SHIP

[@padmakumarmannathoor9482]

It has to be mentioned that the rise of piracy in Somalia was in fact due to commercial fishing industry which took over the sea around Somalia and deprived the fishermen of Somalia of their only way to live there by forcing them to become pirates to survive

[@sircharlesross537]

11:40 “When Al-Qaeda tried to set up shop in Somalia during the 90’s” love the way you phrase that

[@jimmyadelaja]

So nice that you are updated on the fuel shortages up until this past couple of weeks

[@midimusicforever]

Nigeria sure has an... Interesting future!

[@bababababababa6124]

i live here and its funny hearing westerners shit on our country when things could be a lot worse... that being said things arent the best and could also be a lot better with better leadership

[@midimusicforever]

@@bababababababa6124 What I meant with that comment isn't that Nigeria will crash and burn, but that Nigeria has a ton of challenges and a ton of opportunities. Nigeria has a lot of potential and a lot of problems, lots of natural resources, and a very big, young, and still growing population. This century is predicted to be the African century, and Nigeria is one of the countries that this prediction rides on. Hence, Nigeria has an interesting future.

[@bababababababa6124]

@@midimusicforever I agree 🙌🏾Nigeria will rise at some point, people just need to give it time

[@midimusicforever]

@@bababababababa6124 It won't happen by itself though. I think what you need to focus on beyond everything else is educating the young. I've read that the literacy rate in Nigeria is just 62%. A well educated population is a good foundation for solving other societal challenges.

[@bababababababa6124]

@@midimusicforever exactly, people here aren’t educated enough to make change so they just accept their current situation when it can be much better Although I know that some nigerian states are rapidly improving this with new legislation The electricity situation needs to be solved too

[@PakBallandSami]

In November 2009, pirates hijacked the Liberian-flagged Cancale Star off Benin and killed a Ukrainian officer. The following month, The Ghanaian Navy intercepted the hijacked oil tanker African Prince a week after it had been taken. The pirates escaped; they had killed the ship’s chef. In February 2013, a Filipino crew-member was killed during the hijacking of a Marshall Islands-flagged chemical tanker, Pyxis Delta (owned by the UAE). Finally, on 23 January 2021, one Azerbaijani sailor was killed during the attack on The M/V Mozart, a Turkish cargo ship sailing under a Liberian flag, approximately 98 nautical miles off the coast of Guinea.

[@yourunclejoe9500]

did i ask?

[@pfw4568]

@@yourunclejoe9500 No, but i did

[@rialdaksda9743]

@@yourunclejoe9500 idk but i sure did

[@monarch2387]

@@yourunclejoe9500 cope harder kid go watch cocomelon this video doesn't fit your age range

[@yourunclejoe9500]

@@monarch2387 cry about it

[@lindanib541]

I wonder if the Piracy exchange also gets bubbles

[@valmarsiglia]

Another big problem with Nigeria is that it was designed to fail as a nation by the British, who drew borders that stuck three distinct main populations together who had no business being in the same country: the Igbo (mainly Christian), the Yoruba (mainly animist), and the Hausa (mainly Muslim). It worked in colonial times because of divide-and-rule, but it was a recipe for disaster in the long run.

[@GoldenBoyDims]

True Nigeria is not meant to be a country

[@-haclong2366]

Nigeria itself didn't want to be divided after independence, they severely crushed both Biafra and Benin and a more efficient Nigeria would have been divided into at least 20 countries.

[@alaska8429]

Yall better watch the Africans. Their numbers are growing bigger and bigger everyday. If they hijacking boats and shit, don't be too surprise if a bunch of Pirate kingdoms appear in Africa, in the future. Yall aint finding no fear in them yet, but it's being shown, birth numbers are down across the world but they still producing like wildfire.

[@lif3andthings763]

@@-haclong2366 The Hausa need the more rich southern areas to stay afloat.

[@makeytgreatagain6256]

Yoruba are mostly Muslim but many are also Christian they are a mix religiously

[@kisaragi-hiu]

2:02 Life expectancy = N does not at all mean "the average person lives N years" (if you expect a Somalian adult to die at 57 years old, you will be proven wrong no matter how many people you look at). Life expectancy says of _everybody who's been alive_, their life ends in N years *on average*. ("The average person" is someone who has survived childhood and has a much better chance to survive for longer.) If this is impractical to work into the script concisely (as I've failed to do so in this comment), just say "the life expectancy is just 57 years". Concise, and doesn't confuse your viewers further about life expectancy.

[@ayooshiyer8621]

Yeah the difference pretty much is because of infant deaths which is due to a lack of medical infrastructure

[@Usmodlover]

Yes this is absolutely true, but the point isn’t to say “most people you see living in Somalia won’t make it to 58”, it is more an indicator of availability of healthcare and by extension the overall welfare of the country

[@Fuhrerjehova]

It would still confuse people. The average person still believes that the median death age of people in the middle ages were like 40 years. That's the thing though, we should really start to give out the median age instead, because poeple tend to assume that average is close to median, but this is not the case when you have high child mortality.

[@pyrotechnicalbirdman5356]

They don't use that number to compare people to, its to look at country at a whole and to have an actual number to look at.

[@Nedumgottil]

I think the ship is named after a state in India. It’s pronounced like “Care-ahh-lah” like Shangri-La

[@thekrakenrises9040]

nah it's not Named after Kerala the state

[@sura899]

I know right...

[@severinbechtold1873]

Min 3:44 "Since 2018 [...]" but the chart stops at 2013

[@bisimedia]

And you included the current fuel shortage in Nigeria. Men, I love you man. Your channel is a goldmine.

[@Biobele]

It has added protein to your body la

[@sirraulo9002]

Thus, this is how Luffy's story begun.

[@huntermagnuson8062]

Cool stuff; wouldn't have thought governments would risk the wrath of larger nations and their shipping, but people will do anything for money

[@nevoyu]

gotta do something to survive in all honesty.

[@Fuhrerjehova]

Maybe the president wouldn't, he is busy putting tax money and oil company bribes in Swiss banks. But some local chief of police/mayor/whatever might very well be. Especially if the system is so corrupt that punishment is unlikely.

[@FakeAssHandsomeMcGee_]

@@nevoyu But if you piss off the Chinese, Americans, Europeans, etc by doing so?

[@georgebrantley776]

@@FakeAssHandsomeMcGee_ You just move somewhere else. You're a local gang leader that can strike, disappear, and strike somewhere else with quick turnaround. Not an institutionalized crime syndicate with deep roots and low agility.

[@Dracon7601]

@@FakeAssHandsomeMcGee_ The government already poisoned the water with the help of Shell and the British, and now an uptick in Chinese fishing has lead to today's piracy in the Niger Delta. Why would the fishermen care what the government want when they watch whilst oil poisons half the water, whilst the rest is occupied by large foreign fishing trawlers. Got to do what you have to do.

[@OmDahake]

Your thumbnails just keep getting better

[@danparish1344]

My new favorite channel. Binge watching everything.

[@doubleturgutgangnews3649]

Great, already know where Disney is setting their new HQ

[@ravenlord4]

When I saw the thumbnail map near Nigeria, I figured this would be about online piracy. That might be an interesting topic on its own.

[@thomaslove6494]

I love this channel.... It is hands down... No question the best KZbin has to offer.

[@solocom12]

It's interesting that Nigeria has managed to massively reduce piracy within its territorial waters. I wonder what gulf of guinea nation the piract concentration will now shift to because its definitely going to die off in the area

[@omarbatarfi7418]

Great video!

[@DVX_BELLORVM]

Much like in the 18th-century Atlantic, the best way to eliminate piracy is to eliminate the land bases that support piracy. Without places to outfit and repair their ships and markets to fence their stolen goods, pirates have little room in which to operate.

[@PavlosPapageorgiou]

Because it's the 0°0'0'' point. Everyone ends up there if they forget to set their coordinates ;)

[@QingChina1]

👍

[@mahinahmed4002]

Always enjoy your videos ☺️☺️☺️

[@PolyPumpkin]

I thought it was about India because is an Indian State LoL 😅🤣

[@sura899]

My Brain suddenly drained when ship had my state's name(*_*)

[@sharongillesp]

We are all connected - if we deny any group of people a productive livelihood then our livelihood becomes compromised - and rightly so.

[@hoogyoutube]

Great vid

[@alexanderphilip1809]

0:23 the hell. that ships named after my home state.

[@Nedumgottil]

Why does everyone miss pronounce Kerala lol

[@sura899]

every malayali seeing this video will experience a sadness similar to a funeral

[@ziggyzoo4645]

These videos are so good!

[@charleyedwards2121]

piracy is just a symptom of the larger issue of global poverty

[@SpencerGD]

Watched it on Nebula. Watchin' it again because the content is great.

[@SeweSaldanha]

Hi Polymatter, I'm a big fan of your entertaining and informative videos. I just have a humble request, could you please be considerate of your non-American viewers and be using also Metric units. This makes it easy to contextualise your information, which is hampered when you exclusively use Imperial units. Thanks in advance.

[@GeneraI_Motors]

Freedom units 😎

[@HailAzathoth]

I'm american and I would much prefer he use metric.

[@simontay4851]

and say numbers and dates properly as well. Two thousand AND nine, a hundred AND!

[@MP-cq7pm]

Fantastic video

[@sinoroman]

they can make a whole franchise out of this. Pirates of Africa

[@ProfessorTrashuo]

Piracy in Somalia was a consequence of thieving foreign ships which were depriving fisherman of livelihood.

[@lordsiomai]

This reminded me of that one spongebob episode where mr. krab's pirate granddad came to visit him. fearing he'd be mad seeing him running a "weak-ass" restaurant instead of a pirate ship, mr. krabs tried to fake being an actual pirate in command of his own ship. The end, the grandfather discovers that it was really only restaurant. But then to his surprise his dad was actually happy seeing the prices of the burgers, saying something along the lines of "now that's real piracy". come to think of it, what really is piracy, and who are the real pirates?

[@abi_abdurrahman]

What episode is this?

[@lordsiomai]

@@abi_abdurrahman i don't remember the title sorryyy

[@ThomasJHorrego]

"i am d captain now"

[@JaceVibe]

Isn't it time already for PolyMatter to start using metric measurements alongside the American imperial ones? Trying to be objective on one side, while on the other side sticking to a measuring system only a fragment of the world uses.

[@SocratesAth]

I guess he wants to focus on an American audience?

[@PakBallandSami]

“Well, if pirates are bad, And vampires are worse, Then I pray that as long as I be That though I sing of Vampirates I never one shall see. Yea, if pirates are danger And vampires are death, I'll extend my prayer for thee- That thine eyes never see a Vampirate ...and they never lay a hand on thee” ― Justin Somper,

[@pyrotechnicalbirdman5356]

I hope that you find yourself in a lethal situation and don't make it out alive, thank you very much.

[@AeroTheVaporeon]

@@pyrotechnicalbirdman5356 why?

[@pyrotechnicalbirdman5356]

@@AeroTheVaporeon you too, but only in greater pain

[@celestialtree8602]

@@pyrotechnicalbirdman5356 can you point me to who asked? i'm having trouble finding them

[@Blox117]

@@pyrotechnicalbirdman5356 technically he will, unless he's immortal

[@lakshayajeetnarasinghani4424]

Perfect Video

[@ngugi-]

You have the best explainer videos on earth.

[@Urlocallordandsavior]

Reminds me of that Jam album "This is the Modern World".

[@ashraile]

8:25 By this metric it would seem that the USA has more crude oil reserves than Saudi Arabia....

[@spatt1997]

A new polymatter video makes any day a good one

[@birrymays]

Somalians were drawn to piracy because fisherman lost their jobs after the coastline of Somalia became a dumping ground of toxic waste from Italian and Swiss companies, as revealed in a landmark green peace study in the 80s.

[@filipbujaroski9221]

Thank you for this awesome work

[@vinsblack2]

hm.. that's interesting.😄 video remind me that 11 years ago Somalia pirates arrested by our navy at the Aden bay while negotiating with regard a ransom of hostage and then transported to S. Korea for stand trial about a case on hijacking vessel. they were satisfaction on served food during detained and said don't wanna go back to their country. as it were, there's no villain by nature but poverty make it that

[@miguelmontenegro3520]

Didn't see a better crossover since the Boxer Rebellion

[@sajidrsheikh]

Can't talk about pirates without mentioning Barbarossa.

[@lonestar6585]

Can you do a video on the mafia cults of Nigeria? I think it would be an amazing video to see.

[@mobashshirkareem976]

Waiting the the continuation of the china series

[@pogdog5858]

What does the text at 13:27 mean?

[@nmarbletoe8210]

I have heard another reason for piracy aroud Somalia: foreign trawlers destroyed their fishing areas

[@yunleung2631]

My treasure? You can have it. I left it all there.

[@abacab87]

When I saw the title, I said "please don't be Nigeria"

[@eisernfront8549]

Look at me. I am the captain now!

[@arep1030]

Maybe the real pirates was the friends we met along the way

[@unrealed]

2:11 I'd love to go to Cote d'ivoiTe some day!

[@ProfessorJayTee]

Snap off the transponders, and most ships would instantly disappear.

[@bensfons]

Current Venezuelan gas cost is 0.5$ per liter. It has been so since the last two to three years.

[@melodywawichi802]

8:49 Okay Venezuela, we need to talk about those prices.

[@SuviTuuliAllan]

I thought Madripoor was the pirate capital of the world.

[@IKEMENOsakaman]

Wow! Beautiful city!

[@pyro226]

When I hear the word "piracy", I think of One Piece.

[@melanineyedoc]

It really is funny hearing Westerners talk about Nigeria

[@keithsj10]

Interesting. Comment added for algorithm 👍

[@allensu9363]

Somalia’s fishing license reminds me of the theory of stationary bandits

[@Libikuroi]

"Doing bookkeeping".. Wait what, you still have to do that stuff even as a pirate. WTF

[@FakeAssHandsomeMcGee_]

All this pirate business has me thinking of the Pirates of the Caribbean. Officer 1: That’s got to be the best pirate I’ve ever seen. 🙂 Officer 2: So it would seem. 😒

[@doctorsketch7476]

LOL

[@Jobe-13]

Aye, matey it be where all the booty be hidden. A sea of gold doubloons awaits! Masters of the 7 seas we’ll be, lads and lassies! These skallywags can’t stop us!

[@pyrotechnicalbirdman5356]

@@Stevie-J lmao, be a funny comment day is never though

[@pyrotechnicalbirdman5356]

@@Stevie-J lol

[@gelgamath_9903]

9:25 lol is that gas station really called "Chicken Republic"

[@filetovictory]

No it's a fast food chain in Nigeria similar to KFC lol

[@GuildsmanPirate]

The perfect place for a Pirate Party

[@-haclong2366]

"When you hear piracy you think of Somalia." South-East Asia: "¿Am I a joke to you?"

[@treasureobasuyi894]

Faz um vídeo sobre a economia do Brasil ou mesmo o setor de petróleo na economia, por favor.

[@jonas1015119]

"not enough lawless" is an odd argument to make, trying to make Somalia and Nigeria polar opposites really doesnt work here

[@Benjamin-SD]

I thought this video was about London, England

[@dogstar5572]

If oil companies destroy the fishing industry and pollute all the land and water around you……what would you do?

[@occamschainsaw3450]

Sit there and think why on earth would we base our entire economy on fish, idk

[@dogstar5572]

@@occamschainsaw3450 Food.

[@occamschainsaw3450]

@@dogstar5572 Sure. However when you do obtain food you’re supposed to do something afterwards. It is ridiculous of you to think that you can just eat fish for thousands of years and no one would come knocking.

[@dogstar5572]

@@occamschainsaw3450 So your excusing colonialism? The exploitation of a country’s resources for the wealth of the few. Corrupt politicians and big money ect. I hope we never meet, because by the sound of it; you would rob me if I were weaker…….and call it progress. Someone’s way of life is more important than oil companies bottom line. Let’s just remember why African countries are not as developed as they should be.

[@occamschainsaw3450]

@@dogstar5572 Dude, chill. I didn't say I'm in favor of it or it's how it should be. I merely stating that it's the way of the world - strong will do what they please and weak will suffer what they must. I'm not going to rob you, but not for some high and mighty reason. Both of us exist in the same civilisation, and we both rely on stability our system provides. I'm standing to lose way more by destabilising it then I could possibly get from you. Therefore our environment fosters cooperation and compassion. However, if you exist outside of this boundaries - well, it's another story. For example, we have no issues confining and even killing criminals, because they do precisely that - they undermine the system that we rely upon. Again, understand that it is not how I feel necessarily, but I am a product of our environment - same as you are. And we are like that for exactly the reasons I stated. If the rules of the game would be different and you'd grew up with different rules you would be outraged for mere suggestion that we shouldn't exploit other peoples resources.

[@alparslankorkmaz2964]

Nice video.

[@ultra_gagayay]

They should do another pirates of the carabean movie in Africa

[@marlonmoncrieffe0728]

You know, I would love to see Hollywood make a movie about the Barbary Coast War (1801-05), where the U.S. Marine Corps and hundreds of Arab and Greek mercenaries defeated the Pirates of the Mediterranean from the Barbary state of Tripoli.

[@Moses_VII]

You mean pirates of Africa, because the Caribbean is in America

[@ThatBasedGuy]

8:59 In Venezuela the barrel has more value than the oil

[@lombardo141]

I bet if the ships where required to all have bazookas piracy will drop quick .

[@ImissVine782]

I'm sorry, but the only thing I could think about while watching was that one episode of South Park where Cartman and some of the kids go to Somalia trying to be what kids typically think of when pirates are brought up, and actually end up becoming wildly successful at running there own piracy organization in a slum.

[@illuminatelair8084]

you know things are really bad when even Al-Queda is complaining about lack of security.

[@sheeba4169]

0:20 talking about the ship called "Kerala" Me:- WHAT??? A ship from my State GONE?????... As A Keralite, I'll NUKE whoever stolen that ship

[@shashankgadamsetty508]

no need to nuke. just a ship

[@Baraborn]

Well that's good. I hope those guys/ countries get the rate they deserve for the product taken from there country.

[@samijay]

The thing is those ones ordering all those Piracies in Nigeria are probably some Instagram celebrity everyone is looking up as a role model without us even knowing their business

[@abi_vis_hnu]

The name kerala is also a state in India and i love that he pronounce kerala in a different way lol

[@Moses_VII]

He called it 'Corolla' like the car! So silly! Like Shinzo Abe being pronounced like Abraham!

[@shakiMiki]

You mean wrong. It's not a Greek word, so likely to be named after the world famous Indian state.