Why Iraq is Dying

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[@RealLifeLore]

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[@REI-wt5eu]

very cool real life lore

[@3hm5]

Yo

[@fromulus]

I'll check it later today. Thanks for always mentioning it here, I don't always check.

[@Narrowcros]

The birth place of civilization will rise again, just 40 years ago it was more developed than all the gulf. It will recover your lack of understanding of Iraqi politics is hilarious

[@pexreal]

im por :(

[@BHuang92]

General rule of anywhere on Earth, being in the middle where everything is flat sucks when you are invaded constantly.

[@jeremy7372]

To the Russians and Mongolians that was an advantage

[@alexandrosmironis6093]

Russians advantage was wheather, while Mongolians it was hordes so nobody coundnt control them

[@MarqFJA87]

@@alexandrosmironis6093 It's not just the weather, it's the sheer empty expanse of territory that an invading army from the west would have to cross and secure just to reach Russia's economic and political centers, which was further compounded during the Soviet era by the inclusion of the similar Belarusian and Ukrainian territories as well as the buffer provided by the satellite states comprising the Warsaw Pact. The sheer logistical strain would leave the invaders highly vulnerable to counteroffensives, encirclement and partisan raids on the dangerously extended or even overextended supply lines.

[@ewoudalliet1734]

@@jeremy7372 Depends. To the Mongols it was an advantage when they had an army of solely cavalry and horse-back archers led by a genius general that was capable of uniting all Mongols. Currently, I don't see Mongolia enjoying its geography as much. The only reason it's doing pretty well is natural resources (though take a look at Inner Mongolia). To Russia it wasn't so advantageous when the Mongols invaded, or when the Polish invaded (just saying, but they managed to get to Moscow), or... Russia (the Muscovites) just managed to, over time, defeat other states nearby (like Novgorod) and build an enormous buffer with lands in the West that were pretty easy to invade and thus no one was really that interested in (but they were effective just due to their enormous expanse). They did this mostly through opportunistic alliances and heavy military expansion. In their pursuit of warm water ports they managed to colonise the entirety of Siberia and Central Asia and get relatively easy to defend borders as well till the Soviet period. Some other nations worth mentioning in this regard: Poland; Poland is typically known for its shitty geography, but note that they also were feared like the Russians (when their state was about the same size still) for their cavalry. The only thing that beat the Polish state back then was time + neighbouring states working together to weaken it (a similar thing that happened to Russia during the Cold War till now). There's more to it than just that. If I may correct that rule: being surrounded by relatively strong states, whilst having a flat geography (aka little defensible geography) and little to no natural borders is a dangerous weakness/situation. Ahem, Flanders for example - good geography for trade and during peaceful times has always been rich - has a bad geography from a military point of view (like the Netherlands), with France to the south (which wants to secure its northern border) and Germany to the east (which doesn't really care unless it needs to invade France) and the UK to the west (which also doesn't really care unless it wants to attack France; though only will try to act as an ally) and a central and strategically important position in Europe. Yet small and flat, what could go wrong?

[@alexandrosmironis6093]

@@MarqFJA87 first of all i said weather bcs when Belarus, Ukraine satellite states don't exist weather was the biggest weapons.for example Napoleon capture Moska but winter ,weaked significantly french army, and made them trying to desperately leave from the country, while the army was suffering every minute from the cold and frostbites Now in second world war the biggest advantage it was SIBERIA, from this massive teratory,came reinforcement and pushed back Germany. the only way to won them it was while an army invade Russia from West(capture point Mosvka), another invade Siberia and cupture most of lands there.if these two invasions it were successful, Russia would have broken apart.unfortunately for GERMANS, JAPAN didn't have the military strength to invade,cupture and hold one part of Siberia, putting pressure to the russians

[@mhmatbig]

As an Iraqi, this video sums up about everything, good job. It’s quite depressing that this land is so doomed and that we (as the people of iraq) can’t really do anything about it.

[@mhmatbig]

Thanks! I grew up playing minecraft and watching youtube so that kinda helps.

[@enderguardian7443]

@@mhmatbig same here but my arabic was worse unfortunately

[@mhmatbig]

@@enderguardian7443 Yeah same here, I tend to be more expressive and articulate better sentences when speaking in English. Nice to know that there are more people experiencing the same problem as me.

[@mhmatbig]

@@X9523-z3v I haven’t given up yet. I dream to either better Iraq in the future or to leave the country all together in search of a better life. We only have one singular life and succumbing to the current depressing reality would just be a failure to anyone that came before us and tried to give us a better life.

[@mhmatbig]

@@X9523-z3v Thanks!

[@nawfalal-asadi5140]

as an iraqi , watching this documentary is really hurtful as it's very informative about the brutal modern history of our country. i hope this changes in the near future and the iraqi people get a break from wars and economic disasters and finally find some peace.

[@pekkanumminen81]

How about break for overbreeding?

[@De-ou8fl]

Even your name is sad :(

[@ahaansaccount8422]

@@De-ou8fl not funny

[@harrynac6017]

Yeah, I wish you and all Iraqi people who want to just live a normal life the best of luck.

[@jjrod33]

Nah they're going to hit the wall full speed

[@rachelleintexas338]

The water situation is absolutely terrifying. No one country should be allowed to destroy other countries water resources.

[@justicedemocrat9357]

Why not?

[@LeRon832]

@justicedemocrat9357 because it's a war crime and unconscionable

[@dominic5386]

People need to drink water

[@donaldmusabelliu2267]

u should be either british or cold room temperature iq person@@justicedemocrat9357

[@secrets.295]

Yes. I don't understand why Muslim countries have to always fight with each other. Why can't they work together? It's ridiculous. You could actually lift out poverty from each country if you put aside your ego and work together but Muslims choose to destroy each other. Which is sad.

[@RMSAquitaniafan55]

I feel that Iraq is a country that can never get a break. I hope Iraq gets treated better by its neighbors and develops better, it doesn't deserve the crap that it goes through.

[@jr2904]

Life isn't fair

[@arthas640]

The US shouldnt have invaded Iraq in 2003 but most of their problems are of their own making. They adopted a Ba'athism which is described as the last true fascist party since the end of the Cold War (they also had close ties to the Axis powers prior to the Allied invasion), they had numerous coups, they heavily damaged their economy going to war with Iran, illegally used chemical weapons against Iran, they failed to invest in infrastructure or their economy and wasted most of their money, allowed their oil industry to stagnate, used chemical weapons on their own people, were able to win a massive settlement when Kuwait stole some oil (winning back many times the amount they would have gotten from selling the oil themselves), wasted that money, and then brought in the largest invasion since WW2 when they annexed Kuwait which knocked their country back to the stone age. Iraq has tons of oil and they've had good trading ties to Asia and the USSR and they have access to the Gulf, but they've squandered much of those benefits mainly thanks to terrible rulers. Even today they have tons of issues because of their support of violent terrorist organizations and by repressing minorities like the Kurds.

[@watermelonplays1227]

@@arthas640 yea my family is chalden/arbix from iraq I was not born there but my parents war it’s heartbreaking

[@themercifulguard3971]

@@arthas640 The invasion turned Iraq into a hell hole that was its most severe state since the Mongol invasions At least during the rule of the Baathist party despite its nationalist extremism, you had a fully functioning society. You had proper schools, first-world level welfare systems, you can send your kids to school without worrying, you get a decent salary, and all of that got wrecked after the US invasion.

[@sancte3982]

@كل شيء نسبي ياجماعة !! When was that strong phase? U Mean in the year 700?

[@AfroAsiaticLanguages]

I feel depressed for Iraq now, this is so heartbreaking. You don't even have to be Iraqi to be affected by how sad this is.

[@RD-tx9vr]

seriously give us some positive energy we Iraqi ppl 😂

[@itisicountolaf.yournewguar6111]

😭

[@oneeyed1055]

📌 hi I will say this Colonialism has not ended..... it evolved. let me explain. before colonialism " ends " the west chose the leaders of countries to keep their interest in regions take france for example. KZbin censoring the site. and take me for example. i am from the middle east and here our " dictators" have been chosen by the west not by us and here they uneducate people Historically , economically and religiously because that's what sustain their rule and my country is rich ,but money is nothing for me and for us muslims in general and here we eat we drink and we sleep ( not me i always study and seek knowledge in all fronts as best as i can and am a aerospace engineer ) even the cattle eat drinks and sleeps. here🇰🇼 courrption is too obvious and we muslims are in phase one and that's " Realization " to be fully aware from politics to history to religion. and every time a Muslim nation rises the west is unsatisfied and want to overthrow the government. Gaddafi,mursi,Yemeni leader Salah , King faisal in the 70s ( he got assassinated) ....etc way a lot i can't go over them all. HOWEVER, before the Arab spring this i admit was not clear to all of us ,but after the Arab spring EVERYTHING WAS CLEAR. we now came to realize misery is built by the happiness of others and our leaders and boarders were chosen and drawn by the west and we must amd will over throw our governments and stop the western intervention in our lands. sorry forgot ( the western people have nothing to do with their governments in fact we are all slaves to this corrupted system we live under " capitalism " or communism both you use " banks" made you know by who i don't have to explain). now about "slavery has evolved" and this time it favors no race only one in fact 👃 and it favors mostly the dollar. we are born to serve and sustain the system and the system milks the life out of us and we gain " invaluable paper money " in return and sometimes we get in debt which is literally an invisible chain in the neck. basically we are living inside bank and the bank choses who succeed and who doesn't and the bank plays with economy and who built it? "the red shield" known as the rothschilds. our muslim lands are the battlefield of the super powers and when you say next time why refugees are in Europe ask yourself what caused them to be there? that's the correct question. Russia is causing the refugee crisis in Europe by bombing the Syrians and helping Assad to kill his people and the refugees are a toy to send them to Turkey and Europe to weaken their economy and make the left wing fight right wing start wars. Russia has an agenda and don't get wrong Russia, china and America/western Europe are fighting for their agenda to who rules who. all of them are trash. now i want to put it in conclusion. " REALIZATION LEADS TO REVALUATION AND REVELATION LEADS TO REVOLUTION " SOMETIMES IT LEADS TO A VERY DIFFERENT R AND THAT'S RADICALIZATION AND THAT HAPPENS WITHOUT BACKBONE. that's why people go far left or far right. because they are weak in character and btw left wing right wing is a toy for the system no matter who wins the system decides everything not the people nor the government. We muslims are in phase one ,but obviously Turkish people has finished phase three. and we look forward to unite with our Muslim brothers and sisters and no islam is not an Arab please don't let me write about it and Arab is not an ethnicity it's a language. the world is Suffering from western imperialism ( not the people unlike you we understand) most people walk with where the wind pushes them am not like that i hope you understand now.

[@oneeyed1055]

the UN and "human rights " are all based on subjective morality and they can not prove their stand at all. therefore all their intervenes weather it's " humane" or not can't be proven morally and they can't prove that's terrorism is good or bad. what am trying to say is this system is belt on hypocrisy and when Objective moral people start to realize than they will take action and subjectisim will have no answer when the objective moral people start action and they can't say it's " good or bad ". even if objective moral people did wrong the subjective people can't prove it's wrong since it's all subjective. even so atheist can't prove what's good or bad in all topics other than morality. for example, an atheist says to someone you are Bac-kward and that someone says is being Back- ward good or bad ? here they can't really answer. they can't prove being whatever is good or bad. and so on and so on. what am literally saying now will change the world perception and the moral people will take action. it's inevitable. one thing else if they don't have the concept of good or bad of any subject other than morality that means it has no value ( worthless ). for example, asking an atheist is science good or bad ? if he/she did reply with good and bad they can't prove it therefore, it's subjective and has no value at all since they don't have the concept of Good and bad. therefore, all their " facts" ( which are hypothesis not facts ) are worthless if it has no value ( good and bad ). they can't detect which is fact and not if they don't hold on any value and even if they did they can't prove it since it's subjective. We live in a world that ran by subjective people who can't prove their value or the value of anything and can't prove even their subjectivsim and it's value! Yet they have the audacity to tell us what's good or bad and what's valuable and not and what's true and not.

[@oneeyed1055]

about veto members they control everything and They have last word in UN. UN is toy for America and the west to take actions on countries that don't walk on the way they wish and The UN favors mostly USA and The west . the west now is spreading LGBT, feminism, .....etc because these ideologies ( yes they are ideologies) are materialstic and can be easily controlled. plus they want countries to refuse these ideologies do the west and USA declare wars and sanctions on these countries that refuse to apply these subjective ideologies in their lands. you see? they can't prove anything and want to force everything on us ! and guess who divided the world into capitalism and communism? 🤭 do i have to mention them ?

[@mikerowave1986]

I am now working in Iraq, spending 3 weeks in the country. I can tell that Iraqi people are among the nicest, friendliest, most humble people I’ve ever met. They are always eager to help and the hospitality is awesome. The food is incredible and everywhere I go, I’ve been invited for tea, and have a talk, they keep asking where I’m from, when I tell I’m from Hungary, they seems to know, they call it “ magar” which is pretty strange as we hungarians also refers ourselves as “magyar”. This hospitality is unimaginable in western countries. Iraqi people are indeed aware of the issues you described in the video, they have a pretty realistic view on their country and the world around them. I wish hope and a better future for the people of Iraq!

[@eyadobeid948]

As an arab i can tell there are alot of words in diff languages originate from our beautiful language

[@ankidofree]

thanks for such a nice words Miklos and you are very welcome in Iraq .. the video was really disappointed .

[@shadowgunner2]

Thank you very much good sir I'm also and iraqi

[@RahmanAlasadi]

Thanks a lot for your kind words 👋

[@Gloobus2057]

What iraq have you been to? I live in Iraq and most people here are awful

[@haiyoutube1085]

في بلدنا فيتنام، تعتبر الحكومة والشعب العراقي أصدقاءً وأصحاب فضل كبير ساعدونا كثيرًا في الماضي. تشكر حكومتنا وشعب فيتنام لكم جزيل الشكر. نأمل أن يتجاوز العراق قريبًا الصعوبات والتحديات ليحقق التطور والازدهار والدفء والسعادة. نرسل لكم الحب من فيتنام. In our country of Vietnam, the government and people of Iraq are friends and great benefactors who have helped us a lot in the past. Our government and people of Vietnam thank you very much. We hope Iraq will soon overcome difficulties and challenges to develop prosperity, warmth, and happiness. Sending you love from Vietnam.

[@hehelol-c4l]

🇮🇶🤝🇻🇳 ❤❤❤

[@NEon-hs6ey]

I wish all Iraqi the best and I hope your country will be in peace soon from Philippines 🇵🇭🤝🇮🇶

[@بحراوي-خ1ز]

Thanks🇮🇶🤝🇨🇿

[@evilgenius396]

Never going to happen, but thanks

[@abbas5318]

Thanks 🇮🇶🤝🇵🇭

[@Healer69420]

Thanks 😊

[@LOMK44]

America is a terrorist state and the killers of children in Iraq America supports the Zionist entity in order to kill the Palestinians America is a terrorist state every humane American must overthrow this racist regime

[@aguy1459]

I’m a Assyrian Iraqi and I wanna say peace to all of my Iraqi brothers and sisters of all ethnicities still suffering in the homeland and that it’s heartbreaking to see my country of such diverse civilisation basically doomed

[@Hassan-gc8fi]

We will rise, i have faith in our land ❤️

[@InfinityBS]

@@Hassan-gc8fi as an Iraqi myself, I just want Iraq to collapse at this point. We don’t need any more wars. I kind of want them to just make a new country that’s much better than it is now.

[@WinVisten]

I want to say I can imagine the shit Iraq goes through, but I haven't been through anything even close to similar, so I can't say this. I'm an American who isn't a veteran of a war in the Middle East, so I haven't been in the middle of a war-torn desert. My older brother has, and he did mention how chaotic it was there. We don't hate Iraq, we came in to destroy your evil leader, or at the very least, that's the way I see it. I hope that Iraq can get the help and respect it deserves and that Iraq can live in peace. Nobody deserves to be deprived of everything necessary for their own survival, and especially not having to fight constant wars with people like ISIS who not only kill so many innocent people, but they reinforce racist stereotypes of Middle Eastern people. May peace arrive to Iraq, the people of your country be given what they need, all of the cultures inside befriend one another, and ISIS be forced out of the nation they tried so hard to destroy.

[@hmu05366]

@@WinVisten LOL

[@matjust5523]

The sand people have been fighting over sand for a very very long time

[@JAProductions494]

Part of me is wondering whether the UK’s geography is nearly perfect. It is surrounded by water which makes it really easy to defend (just look at the Napoleonic Wars) and also the weather is significantly warmer compared to other places around the same longitude due to the warmer water from the Caribbean. The only problem is… IT NEVER STOPS RAINING!!!

[@eddieyuen9748]

It would make a good video if rll made one.

[@cbrtdgh4210]

the rain and clouds drove the desire for tea, spices and conquest of the world!

[@MrZxcvbnm22]

You dont need to have the perfect geaography when you can literally invade other lands and have the befits of other geographies... Also, if you create the borders on potential rival countries you can get to choose their handicaps to be able to control them. So again, you dont need perfect geography, you just need to be shameless and dominate other people. So, UK, UK... A very nice country with great poeple but the cause of so much suffering... The best part is that they wont acknowledge it and will never apologize... And not just arabs have suffered because of them, half of the world could ask for an apology...

[@internationalrtg5602]

It actually doesn’t rain as much in the UK as other Northern European countries. This balance creates fertile land that doesn’t flood so easily

[@7rock7]

It’s easy to defend but if they’re ever was a blockade or embargo the UK doesn’t have the food, or many other resources to sustain itself long.

[@kaleoariola]

I miss Iraq did 3 tours there and i miss the people, culture, and food. Growing up in Hawaii I only learned about Iraq and the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers in school and in the news, it felt surreal to be standing on their banks. The people were friendly and caring which reminded me of the aloha spirit with which I was raised. I was always the favorite of the Sheiks which would make my buddies jealous. Someday I hope to revisit and bring my family and hopefully they will love it like i do.

[@justicedemocrat9357]

Which tour company did you use? Was it the contiki tour?

[@VenturaHighwayman]

@@justicedemocrat9357bruh

[@كاظمالجبوري-ث8خ]

Welcome brother in your second country Iraq you are welcome at any time welcome ❤

[@AJTOON-H]

It was the most painful thing to see this in my recommend list, I'm Iraqi, and we're living the nightmare but we're trying to stay strong as much as we can And we have hope ..... for now at least Thank you for sharing this man, it feels good to read all of these comments from people all around the world cheering us up

[@gejamugamlatsoomanam7716]

Stop killing non muslims them

[@q1234]

@@gejamugamlatsoomanam7716 Idiot not every Iraqi are hostile

[@thisusernameisalreadytaken8041]

@@gejamugamlatsoomanam7716 yeah im an iraqi atheist people of younger generations won't hate on you or less but older generations would hate but not kill in most cases depends on the person

[@AJTOON-H]

@@gejamugamlatsoomanam7716 what are you talking about ? We don't kill non Muslims in Iraq, it's full of different religions

[@gejamugamlatsoomanam7716]

@@AJTOON-H yeah right, you people stone people to death for saying merry Christmas

[@timbtamgomez9110]

I met someone from Iraq for the first time recently. They were so full of joy and was happy to meet new people. Probably one of the nicest person I have ever met. It was amazing to see someone from a troubled place full of happiness and I wish for Iraq to become rich, prosperous, and safe.

[@VICTORISAACBABIA]

Wow… That’s nice. For a person who suffers from Turkey and Iran.

[@Ahamad6011]

Can you virtue signal a little harder?

[@kentonbenoit9629]

You get a room with them?? Jesus cringe much 🖕

[@icmull]

Yes, every Iraqi I have ever met has been super nice.

[@jackalope2302]

Suffering will make a person awesome or awful. Its all on how they handle their pain (acceptance or rage).

[@TimeBucks]

Thanks for the awesome content.

[@Qwerty-yp3jq]

Look Verified

[@mnassif3809]

@Max Is not here ^^

[@Idkbro726]

Bro your content is just about how to self promote

[@Memesdotcom]

Ikr

[@rainangloria9060]

Hello

[@craigstergriffin2097]

Keep the info forthcoming.

[@fromexoplanet21]

I live in Iraq and have never been educated about these issues, thank you so much for covering them in so much detail, your video is very informative

[@TheTrue.Patriot]

عايشة بالعراق و ما تدرين بهاي الكارثة غريب ؟ اذا تريدين واحد يسولفلج على الاوضاع اني موجود وبالخدمة

[@rawaj.9115]

Yup it's very sad. I know 3 language and I work in construction I've tried countless times to leave the country any I've been sent back with a bald head

[@sn9720]

The question is; are you willing to travel and re settle abroad?

[@random_an0n]

you need to change the country,the west cant take in the whole middle east,its gonna wind up pissing the natives of europe off and a new hitler will rise...its already starting to go down that route you need to fix your nation from the ground up....you need to revolt

[@icysaracen3054]

Im a western born Arab. Im happy to to come to Iraq but I hate to say I will rule it like a benevolent dictator like tito, before the people mature enough to learn how a democracy works.

[@aaronstanley6914]

great literally wanted to learn more about Iraq this very minute (in particular the war) great timing

[@jg-qj7ts]

Lions Led by Donkeys is a podcast with a very good series on the Iran-Iraq War, and the ways it influenced the Gulf War.

[@mustafasattar8452]

the armchair historian did vids abot the iran iraq war and 2003 iraq invasion you sod see them the r vare good

[@SevenHunnid]

People say i made the wrong decision by quitting my job to smoke weed on my KZbin channel full time but I believe in my vision 🔥

[@bestly837]

@Human Rights get a life

[@tigerfun8629]

@@SevenHunnid you made the wrong decision

[@Hussain_Zaki]

I love how he proved that we're fucked without even mentioning religious or political matters

[@FBAMAP]

😂 😂

[@J0k3rziNhUBR]

did we watch the same video? this is entirely a political matter being explained here

[@Hussain_Zaki]

@@J0k3rziNhUBR He did a little bit, but not really. Most of it is just geographical and historical reasons. The real shit starts with the currupt government and the poisonous use of religion to control the masses that truly cripple the country from ever achieving it's past glory.

[@KD-oy8qt]

Haha he also didn’t mention the ghosts / fake identity of soldiers in the army 😆 that would have been the cherry 🍒 on top

[@garybrunecz7785]

Don't sweat it, a lot of us around the world are screwed and too dumb and blind to see it coming.

[@pamelasosin8228]

This is phenomenally made! Thank you. I now understand a lot more.

[@ThatsNotVeryFunnyLol]

It's just insane how Iraq, and that whole area is basically where civilization seemingly started and there has been so much prosperity and culture since the beginning of time. This video was very interesting to watch, never would've known I'd enjoy watching something like this.

[@MrWhangdoodles]

Well, since the Renaissance and especially after the Enlightenment that whole region, with few exceptions, has stagnated.

[@taharka3897]

no civilization started in the area's that's now called Egypt, sudan and ethiopia.

[@nanaah4602]

@@taharka3897 no lol civilization started in the middle east so don’t lmao.

[@l-vbordercolliesbryanbaque6237]

@@taharka3897 no it started in Eden

[@TheNewGeneration-wh4kr]

@@l-vbordercolliesbryanbaque6237 Eden?

[@AssadNizam]

My brother in law’s father is Iraqi. He says the Euphrates was always “bitter, salty” but the Tigris was “sweet water”… I bet the increasing salinity of desert agriculture in an area of high evaporation didn’t help. Thousands of years of increasing soil salinity…

[@arthas640]

The amount of water in the middle east has been decreasing for years while the demand for agriculture has skyrocketed. With the possible exception of Turkey and Egypt most of the region has been dealing with rising water/soil salinity, especially as industry demands more water as well and pollutes whats left.

[@Valnotersc]

@@arthas640 Egypt is in massive conflict with Ethiopia over their construction of dams on the upper Nile. So not really save.

[@jarradscarborough7915]

"My brother in law’s father is Iraqi" *_your_* brother-in laws father... so... *_your_* father in-law? your wifes father? or did you mean your brothers father-in-law? your brothers>wifes>father? (i know im a picky little bitch, but had to ask...)

[@nunyabiznes33]

I read somewhere that the region has collapsed before because of the increasing salinity of the soil because of the water.

[@mnassif3809]

@@jarradscarborough7915 ^^

[@ItsNotJustRice]

As a non-Iraqi, this is an incredibly sad, brutal history. I wish I knew more about this earlier in my life. I was only told of the war stories from the 80's and 90's. What does humanity do now?

[@michealtheevilhero2340]

As far as I'm noticing,absolutely nothing

[@inotaarto8719]

Wait fot Jesus and try to get along. The culture must change and people must try to be good neighbors and teach by example.

[@TheThomas010519]

@@inotaarto8719 there’s no Jesus coming and Britain clearly created this problem. It has nothing to do with the culture.

[@iplaygames8090]

@@TheThomas010519 i mean US certainly didnt help

[@nedesp61]

@@inotaarto8719 Wait for Jesus??!?? That is the most ridiculous support to someone that i have ever heard. It's like selling weapons for good money all over the world and then when innocent people get killed by it say 'you are in my thoughts and prayers'. Pathetic. Besides that, they are not a fan of Jesus in Iraq, they have Mohammed, and he didn't do much so far.

[@dorkusmaximus3033]

Thanks!

[@yaseenmousa4441]

As an Iraqi, I feel very unfortunate that my country is going through this, I especially because it’s one of the wealthiest in terms of natural resources, which if you deeply think about it is probably what brought it this much bad luck, hence the United States. They literally changed the Iraq war bane from Operation Iraqi Liberation to Operation Iraqi Freedom because the first names first letters spelled out OIL.

[@michaelfried3123]

oil nations in another decade or two will be poor again. electric cars spell doom for all of the Middle East. I'd leave if I were you (if you can).

[@tobysamir3395]

@@michaelfried3123 you must be a fool to believe that non-renewable energy sources will be completely phased out in a few decades due to electric cars .

[@greenpill9567]

The US is the largest exporter of oil. They didn't invade because of oil.

[@stephenjenkins7971]

@@greenpill9567 Doesn't matter, this is the internet. Feels > Reality.

[@chobai9996]

US didn't come for oil....it came because of stopping a brutal dictatorship that was committing genocide....why do you Iraqis forget this? Saddam was literally killing so many people in Iraq

[@horizon8842]

The most painful video I've seen today. It deeply hurts to be born and raised in this country. What's worst is that, you can't deny the fact that you're wasting your years here in this country as a hopeless depressed person. It really hurts

[@زهراءمحمد-غ7ي7و]

And it seems this country won’t improve 💔

[@parsahesabi863]

Brother, as an Iranian, it might be expected that we would be different, but it’s like you took the words right out of my mouth.

[@educationforblind6362]

europe is more of subcontinent and so many of its border definitions and the areas it include/cover and "adjacent to", is Inaccurate at all.

[@educationforblind6362]

Iraq is gradually recovering from corruption and everything will change for the better.

[@educationforblind6362]

The world map is false and fake, in its locations, sizes and spaces. Iraq is more bigger and more northern.

[@Marta-zm8oe]

I have been working in Iraq for nearly three years in research related to humanitarian and development needs and I always had the feeling that Iraq seems doomed to get worse and worse for the people here. This summarises pretty much the key issues why even with a political reform it would be very difficult for Iraq to prosper. And I hate when some people blame Iraqis for their current situation. Next time I will show them this informative video!

[@LordDaret]

I think for the most part that Iraq’s borders need to either be fixed or it needs to be shattered because the current design I just untenable. It seems to have no way to stabilize itself in the long term.

[@AhmedGhazal1]

We can get the water we need from Turkey We are at their top five importing countries with over 20 billion dollars of annual imports and the majority of foreign investors in real states in Turkey are Iraqis These alone when cut or threatened to cut could result with their total collaboration with our case. The sea port problem could be easily fixed by building a bigger port than Um Qasir and we are building one (Al Faw Grand Port) but the corrupt system the US left us with, Iran interference and Kuwait building a port and won’t let us have ours are not letting this be a smooth process What we are lacking is loyal patriotic people to fix this whole mess up. I won’t deny we are making progress but its so slow I’m afraid we won’t be able to make it to land safe before another disastrous event.

[@S-North]

The whole region, including Iraq is destined to return to how it was before the oil boom. The West is making a huge departure from oil consumption.

[@aaronsanborn4291]

@@AhmedGhazal1 You can blame Obama for leaving Iraq a total mess. I served in Mosul, Tal Afar, Sharqat, Rawa and Tikrit. My first time I was there in 2004-2005 and the second time 2009-2010.

[@AhmedGhazal1]

@@aaronsanborn4291 since you opened this blame thread up I want to throw something I read recently here. Is US to blame? Was Saddam Hussein a US puppet? This may seem like a conspiracy theory but you can always fact check every info mentioned. "He was in some senses a US puppet yes. He had ties with the CIA coming from the time that Abdel Karim Qasim was overthrown in 1963, it was well known that Saddam Hussein was indeed a puppet of the US similar to Manuel Noriega. When the West didn’t like Qasim because Qasim was too close to the USSR and too close to communists within his own country up to the point that he was believed to be on the side of the USSR, along with the fact that he wanted Iraqs oil to be distributed among the populace of Iraq. The Americans and the former occupiers of Iraq (the British) thought this was unacceptable. So they all colluded together to overthrow Qasim and Qasim ended with bullets in his body. It has been believed that Saddam Hussein was on their payroll since 1959 when the Iraqi monarchy was overthrown and Qasim came to power. Like Noriega, Saddam was in power to subvert the cause of the Arabs be it the struggle against Israel or later on when he came to power, the prevention of union with Syria and then later on war with Iran. Saddam rejected Arab nationalism and Pan-Arab thought which were the ideals of the Baath Party in favour of Iraqi Nationalism and later Islamism. Saddam in many ways did exactly what the West wanted him to do and everything he did never advanced the cause of the Arabs in any way but in fact did the opposite whether it be the war with Iran in order to destroy the Iranian revolution in its cradle, the funding of the Muslim Brotherhood against Hafez al-Assad in the 80s or when he hired Abu Nidal to assassinate the Israeli ambassador to the UK in the hopes that Israel would blame the PLO without evidence as they did in order to attack Lebanon just so that Hafez al-Assad would either lose or alternatively save his own troops by not coming to the aid of the PLO in 1982. Saddam also persecuted people the US didn’t like for example the Iraqi Communist Party, elements of the Baath Party that agreed with Hafez al-Assad (i.e. the Arab Nationalist and Pan-Arabist groups), those who supported and even wanted to replicate the Iranian revolution in Iraq, Kurdish Nationalists etc. Saddams major flaw however was the Palestinian issue. He was a genuine believer in the Palestinian issue as were a lot of the Arab leaders at that time. No matter the fact that he was both a huge Anglophile and on the payroll of the Americans, he was still someone who would not submit to being anything but a supporter of the Palestinians. He also lost the war with Iran and the USSR was on the verge of collapse, meant he was no longer needed. Then there was also the fact that he had the most powerful Arab army at the time, which could in many ways subvert US interests in the region if he was left to do what he wanted meant that he had to go. Alongside this, when it comes to Bush, I don’t think he ever forgave Saddam for nearly assassinating his mother. Bush I think wanted him to suffer for that particular attack and was not only willing to go to war for oil as is most commonly mentioned but also revenge for this incident."

[@waverlh]

Very well done summary on Iraq's situation. Appreciate the amount of work that goes into videos like this. Thank you.

[@omar9410]

As a 19 year old teenager born and lived in Iraq, by far I only can say it's getting worse year by year not only because of Iraq's geography, but by the government that's been cold blooded murdering, poor education, electricity n water, probably one of the worst internet services in the world, and many other things Now I'm going to college and there's a lot that I should've learnt in high school but I didn't because of the bad education

[@حسين-ج1ص1ر]

بيا كلية انقبلت 😅

[@exposehim4601]

we should combine iran and iraq, seems like we can solve a lot of problems together

[@tigading2177]

You can thank the US, UK, EU for this. Unfortunatey, Arabs like Asians they are not very bright. When white settlers say, we are bringing freedom and democracy to you, you had better run a mile.

[@Knight_Kin]

@@exposehim4601 I'm sure the Iranians and Iraqis would have a problem with that. In fact to even say such a thing belies their entire history. One would have to conquer the other for that to happen.

[@gloomy3501]

@@exposehim4601 no iraqi are Arabs while iranian are Persian

[@strawberrychco7724]

I'm from Afghanistan and I realized that iraq literally suffer from the same pain that we Afghans suffer like long war and us invasion,but God ,iraq suffer way more than us, we in Afghanistan at least are blessed with our land and our landscape in general is really similar to turkey,Iran and Tajikistan like it's extremely mountainous, cold , lot's of Rivers ,and lots of Rivers literally flow from Afghanistan to neighbouring nations and Talibans always have the ability to block them lmao, and also we many habitable places for living and agriculture and thanks to our mountains Afghanistan in general is way harder to invade , and when it comes to weather Afghanistan is literally opposite of iraq, we in Afghanistan suffer from extremely harsh,freezing Cold weather like literally in kabul alone the temperature drops all the way to -24C while in baghdad the temperature reach all the way to 50C which is literally boiling , and at the end I just wish prosperity for both Afghanistan and Iraq , both of those nations suffered alot🇦🇫🇮🇶❤️😢

[@OkayAnt]

Fr don’t they they call Afghan. The tombstone of empires or somthing like that?

[@crispnhollow7300]

@@OkayAnt The graveyard of empires, I think.

[@cliftonjames785]

How are you holding up since the taliban took over?

[@strawberrychco7724]

@@cliftonjames785 well it's not that bad for now, just the economy have fallen and the prices went higher, 1 billion dollar from Afghanistan is Frozen by the us and NATO

[@nikkifrozen3814]

I think Iraq is in better position than Afghanistan.

[@immalkah]

My home country 😢 thank you for spreading knowledge about our struggles. Especially as an Assyrian Christian-Iraqi, we are heavily persecuted in our homeland and were forced to migrate.

[@yousifwleed1935]

it's your country my friend, keep faith to be back to it one day 🙏🏼

[@مؤملباسمعرار]

كلنا اخوه يا أخي هاذا بلدك ❤

[@حسينالغزي-ص6خ]

حبيبي اخوي هاذه بلدك وراح أضل بلدك

[@muksimulmaad7413]

it makes sad to see stuff like this because our prophet used to have christians jews and pagans living in medina with him alongside the muslims and we are over here massacring and persecuting other religions goes to show how far we have fallen with time

[@leokaboom7747]

@@muksimulmaad7413 nope u dint finish reading his hadiis pedo warlord killed and expelled all jewz and cristions from Arab penensula

[@Sagadali523]

As an Iraqi, people in this country need a freedom.

[@Sajjad6th]

freedom ? huh "freedom" do you mean the American one ? WHAT A FREEDOM

[@Sagadali523]

@@Sajjad6th Get rekt

[@Morty143]

As an Iraqi no matter how I look at my country I always think it's doomed However in my heart I believe Iraq will return to its glorious days. I know I won't be there to see that day not even my grandsons will, but it still gives a good feeling in the future

[@abdirahmanmohamed6567]

Iraq's glory days would be when all the Muslim countries unite and act like one government until then nationalism isn't going to help anyone

[@abdirahmanmohamed6567]

Oh and by the way it's the same story with my country Somalia

[@youngpoormillionaire]

@@abdirahmanmohamed6567 iraq and somalia will rise from its agressors when the mahdi comes inshaAllah ☝️

[@abdirahmanmohamed6567]

@@youngpoormillionaire inshallah

[@lylamatting830]

sending love from somalia

[@Charlie092]

Once the pinnacle of human civilization... it's sad what has happened to Iraq.

[@OlaG-el9zr]

@watup3494 So is there a way you guys can recover your lands? They did the same for a northern region of Nigeria called Hausa land. The Foulanis who claim ancestry from Edom / Arab overran their lands and disposed them of their rulershhip systems. The problem is these guys are trying to overrun the whole country but they are meeting stiff resistance from we in the south who are more enlightened to their tricks and gimmicks.

[@OlaG-el9zr]

Can they recover?

[@hiba.313]

​ 😂🤣 كردي ماعليك عتب العراق من اقدم الدول العربية وكانت عاصمتها الكوفة التي تاسست 638م وكانت معسكر للمسلمين واسسها سعد بن ابي وقاص اما كربلاء فقد سميت نسبة للامام الحسين الذي قتل فيها وتعني كربلاء (كرب، وبلاء) اما بغداد فقد أسسها الخليفة العباسي ابو جعفر المنصور عام 762للميلاد هل كان في تاريخ العراق وسجلة حرب قادها الاكراد؟ شاعر كردي معروف ومشهور؟ او اسطورة من اساطيرها مثل كلكامش ونبوخذ نصر كان كردي؟ لا لم يكن اي ذكرٌ لهم ولاوجود لهم لان العرب هم اصل العراق وساكنيها وتاريخ العراق يشهد بذالك هل كان احد علمائها اكراد او كان لهم ذكر في سجلات العراق؟ لقد نزح القرد في منتصف القرن التاسع عشر من تركيا وايران وسوريا واستوطنو في العراق وهم اقليه معظم مدن كردستان يسكنها العرب.

[@hiba.313]

​ 😂🤣 Kurdish, don't blame me Iraq is one of the oldest Arab countries, and its capital was Kufa, which was founded 638 AD It was a Muslim camp and was founded by Saad bin Abi Waqqas As for Karbala, it was named after Imam Hussein, who was killed there, and Karbala means (distress, calamity). As for Baghdad, it was founded by the Abbasid Caliph Abu Jaafar Al-Mansur in 762 AD Was it in Iraq's history and record? A war led by the Kurds? A well-known and famous Kurdish poet? Or one of its legends, like Gilgamesh and Nebuchadnezzar, who was Kurdish? No, there was no mention of them and they do not exist, because the Arabs are the origin of Iraq and its inhabitants, and the history of Iraq bears witness to that Was one of its scholars Kurdish or were they mentioned in Iraqi records? The monkeys were displaced in the middle of the nineteenth century from Turkey, Iran, and Syria, and they settled in Iraq, and they are a minority. Most of the cities of Kurdistan are inhabited by Arabs.

[@Hkdxcv]

​@@OlaG-el9zr He lies: Baghdad is an Arab city and was part of the Abbasid Empire, which is even older than the Kurds. 😂

[@funkyfreak97]

Videos/topics like these need to be shown/taught in great depth in all schools. This type of conflict isn't only for modern Iraq, and the world would be better off with the knowledge of these struggles, wars, and corruption. I feel nothing short of heartbreak for the people of Iraq.

[@leob4403]

They wont teach you stuff like these in schools, it's all about feminism these days, the only way they would study middle east is as an example of patriarchy and repression of women

[@mehrshadgk2427]

As an iranian (Persian) i did know all of this. Iraq need a powerful regime build by their young men. Curruption is the main problem which can see in our country too. We deserve a better situation as the first civilizations.

[@rebilium4195]

This so painful nobody can’t fathom. Being from Iraq is basically cursed from birth.

[@CedarSmoke14]

Personally I think Iraq might have a good future as long as it can remain stable and keeps good relationships with the west. Its geographical location in terms of geopolitical strategies/interests will attract western investors to keep it stable and healthy and strong. Personally I think Iraq might become the new South Korea. Just my opinion, I have no solid sources to back up my claim. Wish you guys the best whatever happens though.

[@vovoutpublic7194]

@@CedarSmoke14 as someone who's from iraq nah mate we are fucked 😂

[@CedarSmoke14]

@@vovoutpublic7194 Well, you never know. All you can do is hope for the best. Good luck my friend.

[@hivestalker]

Yeaaa its mostly degenerating into a corrupt theocracy, im from iraq myself

[@allcatall3931]

yea, it was the cia backing of hussein, then clinton sanctions of the 90s, bush one's gulf war, bush two's 03 invasion, and more.

[@hasanchoudhurymd]

Iraqi people suffered from the poor leadership and foreign aggression attacks by multiple colonial powers. It is very unfortunate and sad ! People need to learn to live with their own neighbors in side the country and coordinate living with their own people. They are the original civilized people in the world. Best wishes and best regards.

[@AbuBased731]

Minorities need to bow before the majority then we can have "peace"

[@fadhilashemsi6219]

I love my country so much. It’s been through a lot of pain. I want to see Iraq heal and make progress, I want everyone to be safe, healthy, and financially stable.

[@SpooderOfficial]

Facts

[@BenEnlet29]

Blame the British

[@hyj7240]

Iraq has been through that stuff ever since the start of civilization. Your country is strong.

[@Pravar]

I hope things be good

[@Somm1]

I really love Iraq as much as my country, you guys are the strongest, big respect and love from Tunisia 🇹🇳❤️🇮🇶

[@dermaine_]

This is by far top 5 KZbin channels there is. I stand on that.

[@Spaceturtle1704]

As an Iraqi this is just heartbreaking honestly. Its true tho.

[@Uhoh11111]

Prayers and love to my fellow arabs😥❤❤I heard you're reaching out to the Emirates, Egypt and Jordan in making massive megaprojects and infrastructure and water management, hopefully it gets better soon and Saudi starts investing and your economy stabilizes and hopefully grows...

[@muthias4582]

@@Uhoh11111 Amen to that brother surely they must recognize how important it is to do these projects if it is not done this is seriously going to cause serious chaos even more than ever in the area.

[@Buh1444]

Did I ask

[@RYCH3]

@@Buh1444 This isn't about you bro

[@DD-1971]

Merger with Syria is the best solution for this geography problem. The question is "will the west allow it?". A larger country can resist the west and occupiers/oil grabbers much better. Biggest enemy is the sectarianism among the people themselves ....they have to overcome that first. That's the big struggle.

[@kitcutting]

This is sad, knowing that historically, Baghdad was a cultural center for the spread of vast amounts of knowledge, innovation, and information during the Islamic Golden Age.

[@ef2718]

When was that golden age?

[@iam3336]

@@ef2718 there's no islamic golden age, maybe time machine beliefs that bringing back humanity to prehistoric era. Lol

[@sualtam9509]

@@iam3336 I wouldn't call it the Islamic Golden Age as it was a Golden Age in spite of Islam not because of it. The Arab rulers of the Medieval period were in fact not religious fanatics as the wahabites make them out to be, but very pragmatic and open-mined. See their palaces in Jordan for example; full of wall painting depicting erotic women, wine drinking and other unislamic stuff. They even banned Christians and Jews from converting to Islam in order to gain more tax. There were three prerequisites the Golden Age was build upon: 1. The Arabs conquered places that were already centers of learning for centuries or even millenia like Mesopotamia, Egypt, Andalusia. 2. They conquered Persia and persified their culture, leveling up their culture and connecting the Graeco-Roman and Persian world. Thus the dream of Alexander became finally true. The possibilities of exchange between these two highly advanced cultures who previously were enemies prooved very fruitful. 3. The regions the Golden Age eminated from was religiously and philosophically diverse. Christianity, Judaism and Zoroastrianism as well as Neo-Platonism were still prevelant in these regions. Muslims were only the largest minority. Because of the diversity no one religious authority could supress philosophy and the critique of religion which is the root of all critique and thus of all knowledge. In fact where Islam was the only religion there was no learning. No scientific or philosophical discovery was ever made in Mekka or Medina. While Europe declined with spread of Christianity as the one and only faith and rose again by criticising religion again, the Islamic world rose by criticising religion and declined by becoming more religious ever since.

[@fainitesbarley2245]

@@ef2718 From about 900 to 1200. The Arabs took over the whole of the Persian Empire, half the Roman Empire and about two thirds of India. Although the conquests were brutal and murderous, the resulting empire encompassed a large part of the civilised world and produced a flowering of development in science, medicine and the arts. Didn’t last though. Eventually the dead hand of fundamental Islam crushed everything. Look up the Mutazalites.

[@ibrahims.a1348]

@@fainitesbarley2245educate yourself. It was extremely peaceful Caliphate that was one of the most, if not the most influential Empire that has ever existed. Baghdad was built in 762 AD golden age lasted until 1258 when Mongols invaded Baghdad.

[@Numba003]

I knew Iraq was in a very poor position geopolitically speaking, but I didn't realize just how bad it was. Thank you for the informative video. Stay well out there everybody, and may God bless you friends. :)

[@michaelpettersson4919]

Nations in such situations are typically ending up fighting their neighbours to remedy the problem. For example I live in a province we conquered from Denmark about 400 years ago. We are pretty buddy buddy now but there we are.

[@pekkanumminen81]

Area cant sustain large population. Population Iraq 1960 was 7 million and 2020 just over 40 million.

[@voodoodolll]

God clearly forgot to bless the Iraqi people

[@Numba003]

@@voodoodolll I don't believe it's God's fault that people chose to divide up the lines on the map this way or treat their neighbors poorly. In fact, Jesus told us to love each other. Besides, blessings come in many different forms beyond just geopolitical fortunes.

[@arthas640]

They do have a tough situation but Iran is in an even worse position since they have more ethnic groups and more religious minorities and an equal reliance on oil and little water but they have a larger population and fewer allies and dont try and steal everyone else's oil and dont collapse into civil war over and over.

[@40kwarlord79]

Iraqi here. You video perfectly summarizes what's wrong with our bit of the planet. Well done. We have and will always be at war with eachother and with everyone around us, this is a fact we have learned to come to grips with and it will only get worse with population overgrowth, the scarcity of water and the creeping desertification. I suspect a new war or even a civil war to happen before the decade's end. One sort of gripe I have with your vid is that I can't show it to my friends and family because it doesn't have Arabic translation :( Edit: I forgot to blame Capitalism as the root cause of this, alongside colonialism they go and in hand in destroying us.

[@louayghanjati5056]

Tunisian here. We would contact the channel for this purpose and help them translate it into arabic but we'll have to access the original transcript and then translate it.

[@christopher5846]

I encourage everyone reading this to check a recent post on Iraq subreddit it covers this video and it points out misconceptions and outright lies. In short: It's not that bad. And there is a decent hope for change.

[@polishspy3088]

@@christopher5846 link

[@mohamedabdi3419]

All the problems of Iraq and most 3rd world countries are directly related to ruthless Capitalist Imperialism. The video is very poor quality at getting at the root cause. It only describes the issues at a surface level. In reality, Capitalism is a failure on the global scale. Its not "Overpopulation" or "human evil". It is simply capitalism and the endless search for profit. We need to change this shit system. Profit is killing the planet and humans alike

[@automaticacidemer]

@@christopher5846 link?

[@achoochi]

I hope to one day see my country rise again from the ashes. Love from Iraq ❤️🇮🇶

[@stridsvagn1223]

Yes

[@omarsyr3086]

Inshallah... Have you watched the 100 series ?

[@aryan5593]

Iraq is part of china

[@mansur8451]

@@aryan5593 india is part of nepal

[@rajeshrao5099]

Good hope but your country should be politically stable for that

[@f_r_e_d]

So much history in Iraq. I’d love to visit one day, meet the people, eat their food, and look at their relics. I wish prosperity for all Iraqis

[@khalidalqatrany]

You're always welcome into our Homeland ♥️

[@junrosamura645]

There are many beautiful places to see. During my time there, I often wondered if I would live to see the day when Iraq becomes a popular tourist destination. The food is amazing too!

[@OmarAlikaj]

Ami'yn

[@michealtheevilhero2340]

We appreciate it,really appreciate it so much

[@eduardochavacano]

tigris and the euphrates river is in Iraq

[@maxsmith695]

My barber was born in Bagdad, Iraq in 1985. He left in 2008. After hearing him talk about his life in his native country, and how the US ravaged it, I am left with incredible sadness at what he went though, revulsion at the inhumanity and savagery of the US military towards a peaceful people and culture.

[@Christopher-qq4dl]

Lol

[@smasome]

War is never about the people. It is always about the governments. The more I study history, the more disappointed I am in humanity. Our leaders" seem to be crazy, while the people are just trying to live.

[@OhmeinGottVIIC]

Peaceful people is a pretty hilarious thing to say considering that the country invaded its neighbours two times in the last decades. What happened to them after that was basically the same thing that happened to Germany after their invasions. But Germany thought strategically and made something about it instead of encouraging an environment of corruption and injustice and just complaining about foreign nations.

[@boggle272]

@@OhmeinGottVIIC oh yeah those weapons of mass destruction, would like to hear from some iraqi people who were there and lived through that time

[@Momo-nk6ld]

​@@OhmeinGottVIICthat's a government, you think Iraqi love Saddam Hussein before USA destroy their country?

[@StealthyDead]

Love how he just glosses over blockading the Strait of Hormuz like it's easy as if he didn't do an entire other video on how every country in the area is allied to stop that exact thing.

[@Exxane]

Just let them through... you can blockade one person it's not global

[@sephikong8323]

Or they can also gang up to only blockade the ships going from and to Irak and let each other's ship pass through if they want to

[@bluesideking]

@@sephikong8323 Good luck trying to have Saudi Arabia and Iran working together.

[@sephikong8323]

@@bluesideking It's not to say they will or that it's even likely, but they very well could, and when talking about military preparation you have go acknowledge this sort of scenario (I mean, the US has freaking war plans against New Zealand ffs, militaries always prepare for *anything* just in case)

[@christopherghanem925]

Even though all those allied countries are made to stop such an event, blocking the Strait isn't something impossible, especially when Iran has the political and militaristic might to do something exactly that.

[@glowinqlu]

Poor Iraq, they just can’t seem to catch a break. Sending my prayers to everyone who lives there

[@mystictarotwhispers]

Hi there. how are you🌷 I just graduated from university and I am looking for a job and on the other hand I'm here to earn an income and not be a burden to my family. I want to be able to take better care of both myself and my family because my parents divorced and we are in a difficult situation. My mother cannot work because she had cancer surgery. I work hard here to make my dreams come true. I make these comments to make my voice heard as much as possible. Even if 2-3 people out of this many people support me and join our EAL family, it is enough for me to find courage, thank you in advance…

[@glowinqlu]

@@mystictarotwhispers sorry but I’m only a child, I can’t help you

[@whatagoodname2733]

@@mystictarotwhispers idk

[@isyraqfirdaus5322]

@@glowinqlu they’re a bot, ignore them.

[@glowinqlu]

@@isyraqfirdaus5322 ohhhh

[@remveel2443]

I always ignore and deny the problems of Iraq because I thought they just want war all the time and had different beliefs, but this video definitely gave me better understanding of the situation and felt bad and sorry for misjudging the current problem. Hopefully, things can be more peaceful in those countries where every odds is against them. I also live in a poor country so to speak, but our situation is nowhere near as worse.

[@alimurtaza6318]

Well iraq is just trying to survive but unfortunately it has some really bad neighbours....

[@remveel2443]

@@alimurtaza6318 I don't want to badmouth any country since that's the thing that I learned in this vid. But there must be a reason why it's neighboring countries are hoarding all of the water they have. Seems too greedy to just be a coincidence...

[@alimurtaza6318]

@@remveel2443 but bro remember every country wants benefits for its own people, so I neighbours want benefits for their own use, even tho it's neighbours are muslim countries and in the quran it keeps saying to muslims become like brothers but I guess no one actually likes brotherhood and this is how groups like isis comes, when there is no other option a group of people are forces forces pick up arms and fight for their own rights, this situation is called do or die. So Iraqi people had to fight and succeed or get shot and die.

[@ismailnawzadsahar7873]

its kinda because of UK and USA that iraq is suffering this much if they let iraq take kwait it would have been much better + usa said that iraq had nuclear weapons (iraq didnt) and this made the whole world attack iraq

[@radagast1184]

@@ismailnawzadsahar7873 Lol. You can't let countries invade other countries just because "it's better".

[@mukkah]

Damn, been a rough go for our brothers n sisters in Iraq, man. Pretty sure bunch just wanna chill n vibe like the rest of us. Water bit of the topic was a really interesting think-about. Appreciate the vid!

[@ashamancito4630]

I would say this is a brutal example of "luck of the draw". But it is also British border drawing at its finest, yet again.

[@tyrant-den884]

Yeah, it's not really "luck of the draw" when someone else gets to pick out your cards.

[@ja4309]

Basically whatever dispute the Middle East has is most likely related to whatever shinanigans the British drew up back then

[@robert6106]

Dry your eyes, us British draw nice straight lines on maps and is a sure sign of our impartiality. You have to play the hand you draw in life, no point crying about it, just make the best of it.

[@ja4309]

@@robert6106 Unfortunately some other Middle East countries would like to disagree

[@YukiPyro]

@@ja4309 Saudi Arabia and Iran are big reasons in why Countries like Iraq are where they're at now, Them and of course the US. Nations like the US, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Russia seem to pull the strings and are involved in much of the conflicts in the Middle East.

[@natheermoh9314]

Hello. I am an Iraqi when I’ve seen the title of the video I was sad but Iraq is not that bad tho we still have beautiful things and when I seen people are supporting in the comments I was so happy that people care.

[@brucewayne5916]

I support Iraq, USA should not have invaded your country

[@zaidaiser1999]

What is the beautiful things

[@montanagal6958]

feel horrible about Bush Jr and what he did

[@brucewayne5916]

, keep up the good work mate

[@zainraza6026]

@@brucewayne5916 bro sadam needed to go he was a horrible human

[@user-qd6dh6ux8t]

I hope to visit Iraq someday. I collect money for travel since 2021, but I am still far away from the goal. I am an university student; my academic interest is focused on the history and culture of Iraq, so it hurts me to see the suffering of the country and its people. Stay strong and positive; better days will surely come. Best regards from Poland ❤

[@mohammedkh4321]

Wow man if you need any help please just tell me I would be grateful to help you and if you don't have money for hotel you can stay in my home ♥️♥️

[@doublem207]

You see, If and whenever you decide to come to Iraq, don't worry about the costs besides the tickets and visa the actual costs of being here is very minimal you won't even need a 1000 dollars even 500 could be enough.

[@yaysuu]

good luck is all i will say

[@aligg575]

As an Iraqi don't visit us I'm telling you OK :)

[@educationforblind6362]

The world map is false and fake, in its locations, sizes and spaces. Iraq is more bigger and more northern.

[@BostonBlues]

I met this kid from Iraq while playing a game called Ark survival evolved, i ended up inviting him into my tribe and we played and talked everyday. Sometimes we would be in the middle of something and he would disappear, he told me the government controlled the electricity and would shut it off at random times throughout the week.

[@AntoniSchonken]

This is not only a well-written and narrated video, but also an extremely well-researched contribution. This has genuinely been one of the most informative and balanced videos about Iraq's unique and difficult challenges that I've seen, thank you for sharing with us. Iraq has such an incredibly rich and old history, that it is sorry to see the country stuck in this impossible situation brought about by international political bullying and poor diplomacy, and difficult internal struggles.

[@Yutani_Crayven]

It's not balanced at all. It falsely treats all of these things as inevitabilities, but geography can be overcome by both politics & infrastructure.

[@AntoniSchonken]

@@Yutani_Crayven the author clearly states which factors are historical, political, and geographical. They're not inevitable, but they are the result of complex factors, as the author also states.

[@OmmerSyssel]

@@AntoniSchonken everything troubled by Islam is always others fault and surely very complicated? 🤮😂

[@igit_7296]

Iraq needs good waters. This video make feel thirsty.

[@roncerjani9063]

@@AntoniSchonken While Iraq's geographic location does indeed suck, there are plenty other countries who geographically have it much worse. Iraq have shown to be very hostile and belligerent, and most of it is caused by extreme islamic doctrine. So Iraq's main problem fundamentally boils down to Islam.

[@morbiddawg]

Hoping Iraq will have peaceful and prosperous years ahead. Sending greetings and love from the Philippines 🇵🇭

[@mohayder10]

Thanks❤

[@OmarAlikaj]

Ami'yn

[@ryanqube9132]

Just imagine how stressful it is to be a leader of Iraq. Your economy can crash at any time if the oil price crash, your access to the outside region is easily blocked, no exotic resources, most of your big city is in danger of being wiped by a flood if a single dam is breached, no rain no water, and hundreds of your unsatisfied citizens wants you dead. Is there even a way to control Iraq without being a dictator? I guess if some countries are willing to continuously inject Iraq's economy to stabilize it.

[@GAndreC]

No the fact is there are too many problems to address and wasting time on addressing the issues of congress and senates on top of the nation’s issue guarantees failure perpetually which could only be kept away by selling out the country piecemeal and taking loans to address today’s problems that will remain tomorrow’s problems just to keep them at bay not solve them. And problems that are more likely to get worse than better if having government of concensus is more important than solutions.

[@bnmaster6174]

Even I in that spot would I just kill everyone

[@Leyrann]

Don't forget about the religious and ethnic tensions. A very smart dictator is indeed probably the easiest way to keep the country stable, but even that wouldn't look pretty. For comparison, look at Tito, who was the dictator of Yugoslavia (which fell apart in an extremely bloody conflict after his death). On the long term... I don't know man. They tried enforcing democracy and that doesn't seem very effective. Perhaps the only way to actually make things work is if the country falls apart into multiple states.

[@mohammedkh4321]

@@Leyrann Absolutely not! The thing that you don't know is Iraq wasn't have any problem about religion, I am Shia from a Sunni father and Shia mother, Kurds, Turkmen, Assyrian Christians, Sabians and Azidis used to live peacefully just like now because after 2017 there was no war and no conflict only between Saudi, Iran and the USA trying to control the country by their allies inside Iraq, all Iraqi parts don't ever want to divided! except of Kurdistan, Mosul, in the North and Basrah in the south all of them people want Baghdad to rule, because any of them will be surrounded by only dessert, Kurdistan it's impossible to be independent because Turkey, Iran and Baghdad never accept and they will be totally close between the mountains, beside that only Iraqi Kurds between Kurds at Iran or Turkey or Syria have all their rights because their language is official and all Iraqis should learn it, their language written at Id, Passport and all official papers by government and many things beside that, Iraq is doing good actually and it was beautiful place before the Gulf war

[@arthas640]

The US, despite their faults and their terrible reasons for invading Iraq, did invest billions into the country trying to rebuild infrastructure and they heavily rebuilt and updated their oil drills, refineries, and other infrastructure relating to the oil industry so Iraq could stand on its own two feet and sell oil to Asia. The US government also gave out tons of micro investments, even giving military units a budget to hand out small $1000 development investments so families and individuals could buy tools to update their farms and small businesses (which doesnt sound like much but the average Iraq makes around $4000 a year so that's a small but very useful investment).

[@simonnachreiner8380]

The most simplified macro explanation for the state of the world and it's politics was given to me by my world history professor. "Geography plays favorites"

[@zmr_heze]

"oil was one of the few late game buffs that iraq was given" little jokes like these make your videos so entertaining, keep the good work up!

[@caelum0061]

Watching this video as an Iraqi makes it even more horrifying , unfotunately I can't argue with anything mentioned in the video because this country is dying for real as we its people can clearly see

[@Isnapthesky]

Man... This is really frustrating even though I'm not from Iraq but it's just so unfair!

[@Maya-sv1pz]

are Iraqis migrating? what was the solution?

[@مقاطعمترجمة-ش8ث]

@@Maya-sv1pz Only Christians allowed .

[@AliFalah-s2l]

People need to be reminded of how a healthy iraq benefits the world. We forget how unearthed trinkets of past civilizations can help us humans understand our ancestry, and iraq has some of the oldest remaining pieces of history to ever be witnessed.

[@sirfijoe450]

@watup3494 That was about 5,000 years ago

[@ibrahims.a1348]

@watup3494Kurds aren’t Sumerians, Baghdad wasn’t Kurdish, it was created in 762 AD by Arabs during Abbasid Caliphate, the area was called Ctesiphon which was the capital of Persian Empire. Btw those “Kurdish” words are actually also Persian. Kurds are descendants of Medes, an Iranian ethnic group which migrated to south-eastern Anatolia and Northern Mesopotamia/Iraq after Assyrian Empire collapsed.

[@Ayoosi]

A further note about water security in Iraq: my area of study was Diyala Province and the river basin. What I saw there, both firsthand and during research, was how water affects politics. Diyala borders Iran, and the Iranians are considered pretty dire enemies by much of the people there (not all, some do have cross-border family ties). But Diyala is largely rural, and mostly watered by the rivers in the Diyala River basin, which flows into the Tigris River. Nearly all the water in Diyala originates in the Zagros Mountains in Iran, and Iran has been busily building dams across these tribuatries. The farms in Diyala suffered greatly following the 2003 invasion and following population shifts. The region was hit by drought around 2006, compounding the problems. Once the breadbasket of Iraq famed for it's citrus crops, agriculturaly production ground to a halt. This brought a lot of desperate young men into the insurgency, and of course Tehran also took opportunity from the chaos to further encroach politically. Long story short-- following Baghdad's utter inability to manage the shared-water sources many in Diyala began to turn to Iran and negotiate/dialogue directly with power brokers in Tehran, further undercutting the influence of Baghdad, despite the historic angst about Iran. Years later NASA data showed the effects of this drought as the precursor to the Syrian civil war where much the same problem happened: agricultural collapse due to drought brought about population shifts and a lot of unemployed young men without futures seeking work, at a time of political instability. A recipe for disaster. Unfortuntaly I have not kept up with Iraq or Diyala and do not know the situation today.

[@Rivenburg-xd5yf]

very interesting data, thank you.

[@thatoneoshawott5826]

This is a straight up essay, well constructed but long

[@Ayoosi]

@@thatoneoshawott5826 Well, yeah. I wanted to eloborate more than just "no water, no good", lol

[@AAKH1361]

Iran, with a large population like Iraq, is suffering from drought and is forced to build a dam The Helmand River in Iran comes from Afghanistan, despite the fact that about 5 million Afghanis have come to Iran But the Afghan government has closed the Helmand River to Iran, and Iran is under a lot of pressure over water resources

[@kirstinstrand6292]

Other countries, world wide, will experience their version of drought and desecration, all brought forth from climate change. No one will avoid the future. Tragically.

[@Peizxcv]

I love how a 2006 report from the US caused Saddam Hussein, who was overthrown by the US in 2003, to construct Badush Dam in 1988 and suspend construction in 1991 due to US sanctions If you know the history of the area, you'd know US encouraged the Iran-Iraq War as response to 1979's Iranian Revolution

[@stephenjenkins7971]

Not quite, if I recall. The US supported Iraq since the latter feared the Iranian Revolution; the US didn't encourage it. US support came BECAUSE of the war to combat Soviet influence.

[@Peizxcv]

@@stephenjenkins7971 You should look up what the US provided Iraq during the war. It went way beyond just materials

[@stephenjenkins7971]

@@Peizxcv I said support, not materials. I'm well aware of the things the US gave Iraq. I don' blame them, since...Cold War, but that doesn't make it moral at all.

[@noboom4025]

Uhhh what exactly was Iraq doing in 1990-1991 when the USA imposed sanctions? They were invading a neighboring country. What else would the USA do? "Hey Iraq, I know your fighting an offensive war against a peaceful nation who didn't want to fight. But were gonna keep trading with you!" Just think a little.

[@pirouz8042]

Absolutely not. Iran's revolution, the destruction of the imperial army and mass murdering of experienced officers had put Iran in a weak state. Also, the revolution was inspiring Iraqi Shias to also revolt too. These reasons were more than enough for Saddam to attack Iran.

[@DynamicUnreal]

It actually makes sense for Iraq to have “started” the wars that they did. Here in the western media they were portrayed as pure evil, but it’s good too see that their actions were reasonable considering the circumstances.

[@gejamugamlatsoomanam7716]

Nothing excuses starting wars

[@SuperFriendBFG]

@@gejamugamlatsoomanam7716 Yeah well, when food or water security fails, expect conflict, without fail. Period.

[@gejamugamlatsoomanam7716]

@@SuperFriendBFG thats what negotiation and asking for help is for, not invading

[@SuperFriendBFG]

@@gejamugamlatsoomanam7716 And what happens when those negotiations fall on deaf ears? You just don't get it, if a nation is literally incapable of ensuring their own food security then yeah they're going to be unstable as shit because other nations won't always help. It's easy to be "civilized" on a full stomach. I should clarify, this isn't trying to excuse war. It's just pointing out that when a nation's own situation is as precarious as Iraq, it's damn near absurd to expect stability in the long term. Ideally, there would be negotiations to force neighboring countries to ensure at least a minimum of water flow from the Tigress and Euphrates into Iraq. And yet, even with such an agreement, what happens if one of these neighbors decides to renege on that agreement?

[@alaric_]

@@gejamugamlatsoomanam7716 "Nothing excuses starting wars" Well, history has taught us that there are many valid reasons for starting a war. Winner and history will then decide who was right. Unfortunately for every good reason a war has started, there is hundred bad reasons why a war has started. But on more practical note, there are international agreements on how cutting water is prohibited as it's considered a indiscriminate attack on population and is practically a extortion using people's misery and death as a bargaining chip. And negotiating with dictators and despots have been proven to be extremely hard because they base their negotiating on feelings and not on common sense. So if millions of your population were on the edge of dying from thirst and negotiations really are not doing anything, war might be actually a good thing and might be backed by many other nations. The question is not "black/white" or "right/wrong", in reality it's gradient of grey and neither side is on the extreme side of it. Both are somewhere on the grey area. disclaimer: not a iraqi and our country has never had an issue with lack of water, quite the opposite really. Even i still understand that water is basic necessity and cutting it is vile and evil beyond belief.

[@MadelynHenderson-u2o]

Классный канал, от подачи не устаёшь

[@SupremeLeaderKimJong-un]

Iraq to Kuwait: You're stealing our oil, and your overproduction of oil is destroying our economy. Your fate was deserved USA: *No u*

[@The-ZebraFinch-Channel]

Damn a North Korean memer without replies

[@Briantrenne]

Geopolitics is so interesting. Definitely makes a person look at things differently. The world needs more innovators to solve some of these types of problems. Maybe the world would be a better place if everyone helped their neighbors

[@prostation3844]

But here's the problem man is SELFISH. Everyone wants more..

[@hadiakmal9281]

We could but the elites wont allow us.

[@Briantrenne]

@@hadiakmal9281 maybe we’re not so different u and I

[@luqmansabr1836]

better than that is to earase the fake drawn borders.

[@rsuriyop]

The subject of geopolitics can pretty much be summed up in three words: greed, power, and control.

[@zaram1492]

“The geography of the Iraqi state, pretty much guarantees that it will almost never be a land of piece” Well, as an Iraqi person, i’d like to say.. fuck.

[@jodeda]

The most informative video I have watched on you tube

[@sivansaedsaed2648]

as an iraqi i feel very sad because our country is suffering

[@haywoodjablome7822]

then fix it. Dont just hide from the people making your lives bad. We're not coming back to save you a third time

[@غالب-ب3ص]

Im yemeni n feel same feelings bc our country s already collapsed 😣😣😣

[@muratalisen7990]

İngilizlerle işbirliği yapıp Türkleri arkadan vurmanın bedeli . Hiç bir ihanet cezasız kalmaz.

[@sebasmana5798]

The Cradle of Civilization, the lost memories of our culture and how we became a society will die with Iraq. It is sad to see buildings older than all the countries in the world, being destroyed for nonsense.

[@MateoMPM]

Well that's what happens when Islam infects a prosperous área

[@whengchung90]

My jaw dropped when Joseph finally pronounced "Qatar" correctly. *claps** well done

[@tyrant-den884]

It's like: dude, Geography Now is right there telling you what to do. Laos being pronounced wrong is the one to really bother me; LOOKING AT YOU: King of the Hill!

[@IntrovertedOreo]

@@tyrant-den884 Hank: "So are you Chinese or Japanese?" 😂 I don't know why but the way Hank asked Kahn was pure funny lol

[@tyrant-den884]

@@IntrovertedOreo and then the guy from Laos says Laos wrong! I can't get past that.

[@CaesarSaladeedeedee]

Wild... As someone with a few friends from Iraq, I really feel for them and the situation in their homelands. I had no idea how bad it was. I truly wish them and everyone innocent who lives there, the best. :(

[@FreeBaghdadNow]

Thanks🌼.. wish you a happy life buddy

[@CaesarSaladeedeedee]

@@FreeBaghdadNow You as well! ✌️💖💖

[@theyabiq]

nah i don't need anything except watching manga and chilling in my house while everything on fire out side 😂

[@hussienbintalal91]

This video didn't mention the current Iraqi government which is the main source of misery for Iraqis. To summarise: 1- *curoption is an official government policy it's legalized supported* , every government official and parliament member and even small employers are corrupt. 2- *democracy doesn't work in a tribal and religious society* , in Iraq a tribe leader or a cleric can tell his follower and tribe to elect a specific member of his group and once he's in power they will steal the money together or even bring more people of his tribe in the government so they can steal more money, which is why the Iraqi government is full of clerics and tribes leaders. 3- *foreign influence* , the Iraqi government is a puppet government, the American control the army the the priminester, and Iran controls the parliament and the Shia militias and the money of Iraq is pretty much divided between America and Iran

[@mrnobodyplays147]

Nice👍but may I ask about the 1st point? I thought Iraq had the accountability act which criminalise corruption? 😬

[@hussienbintalal91]

@@mrnobodyplays147 only on paper, you can pretty much do whatever you want bribery, kidnapping, murder without any legal repercussion as long as you don't make enemies with stronger faction or tribe within the government . The Iraqi Ministry of Integrity (the body that supposed to apply this law) is one of the most openly corrupt institutions

[@mrnobodyplays147]

@@hussienbintalal91 ah I see. Thanks for your enlightnent😁

[@hussienbintalal91]

@@mrnobodyplays147 any time pal

[@hussienbintalal91]

@Kal el Iran and usa they both work like mafia, they compete with each and hate each other but don't necessarily fight each other directly . There is a some sort of unspoken argument usa have their share and Iran have their share, if usa or Iran wanted a bigger share then hostility and conflict will happened (recently when usa assassinated general Suleimani) it was a respond to Iran growing power in Iraq and threatening the American interest, 2 weeks after the assassination America installed a new puppet priminester Al-Kadhimi who was more loyal than the previous one

[@Lumiere_]

As an Iraqi from Mosul that is born and raised in Europe, I have to say this video brings tears to my eyes

[@khietnguyen9505]

Need to help people access to education otherwise any country will go down if no educated

[@cenerozzzz]

Yet you and your parents left your fellow countrymen to clean up the shit for themselves. Wow.

[@khietnguyen9505]

@@cenerozzzz there are many ways to help your origin when you live oversea, small head

[@hu6284]

Sorry to hear brother from Somalia, inshallah we will be the generation of revitalizing the region.

[@CardinaliamYT]

Lo siento, camarada. Espero que mejore. Desde México🇲🇽❤️🇮🇶

[@healthyworld408]

Wow amazing channel saying the truth! Thank you!! 💕👍

[@WouldntULikeToKnow.]

Wow, this was an exceptional video. Thank you for sharing. The people and culture of Iraq is beautiful and I hope their situation will improve soon.

[@JimLockwoodShow]

If you had one of these geography politics videos for every country… I would watch every damn one of them. Geo politics is So fascinating. More more more

[@scintillam_dei]

If you like Age of Empires, I do realistic maps. I love to DO geopolitics, not jsut observe.

[@jamesthomashtunkyaw5682]

As a Burmese Australian, this video hits to the nail of my similarly tragic country. Same to Iraq, Burma/Myanmar was a British colony, and the British deliberately designed the border of Burma prior to her independence, mixing our country's Irrawaddy basin of Burmese majority (akin to Iraq's Euphrates and Tikris) with various mountain and coastal tribes that are not Burmese and not loyal to Myanmar, yet full of rich natural resources. Our hero Aung San realised this deliberate attempts to make Myanmar unstable in the near future and he tried to negotiate for a federal treaty, only to be killed by unknown assailants six months before our independence in January 1948. Aftermath? Well, you know what happened to our country - either corrupt civilian officials or green men in charge of our country, whilst ethnic minorities have become less and less interested in a common Burmese identity. The massacre of Rohingya Muslims by the corrupt conservative Burmese army is also a dark reminder of our tragic nation-building failure. Meanwhile, outsiders exploited our troubles to put coercive demands even when Britain left: the Chinese entered Myanmar, building dams for China only and extracted resources from our country by aligning with various ethnic militias, drug cartels and corrupt Generals as these regions de facto become China's territories; Thailand and Malaysia meanwhile prefer an unstable Myanmar so they can continue to attract investors and using our poor cheap labours; India and Bangladesh show no interests in helping us; while Laos is aligned to Vietnam and has no business deals with us. I sincerely share my sympathy to Iraq. For anything pain about Iraq, I feel the same to my beloved Burma.

[@colinsmith2005]

Are you Burmese or Australian ?

[@jamesthomashtunkyaw5682]

@@colinsmith2005 Fled Burma since 2009.

[@colinsmith2005]

@@jamesthomashtunkyaw5682 I'm Australian, Sydney, I fled Australia in 1988 lol. Went for a holiday to New Zealand and stayed, it's a nice place. I'm glad you found a new place to make a home. Conflicts usually make no sense, sharing / giving is the key to peace, maybe ?

[@jamesthomashtunkyaw5682]

@@colinsmith2005 Akin to it, no kidding. Except I feel I could have chosen Kiwi instead.

[@atuljain4477]

Sorry to hear your facts. Pls take care and hope for the best. Minglawa

[@amiraboodi2075]

I watched it multiple times. It is an excellent 👍 👌 job.

[@accurategamer7085]

RealLifeLore: why Iraq is dieing 10 weeks later: *Iraq becomes a superpower*

[@Sonataofsadness]

:/

[@beyondzonee]

As an iraqi i can confirm this

[@ahmadjalout1861]

As an Iraqi I like to think Iraq gets sick often but doesn't die. Hopefully we Iraqis can get a breath of fresh air and live comfortably although as mentioned in the video is near impossible for such a blessed yet also cursed geographical location. We'll see what the future holds

[@Error_-xn7po]

Us Turks will finish Iraq once and for all!

[@ahmadjalout1861]

@@Error_-xn7po lol keep dreaming cockroach you cant even beat kurds who are fighting you with soviet era weapons

[@Error_-xn7po]

You are half-american btw like all ir*kurds

[@Ali_313_N]

@@Error_-xn7po Hahahaha in your dreams (! We will crush your country army (!

[@moly7013]

Yes bro Iraq will stay forever ❤

[@WestExplainsBest]

12:48 "Turkey and Syria flexing their dam muscles" Herbert Hoover: Hold my dam beer

[@majd8]

Fr it wasn't we Syrian who did that it was ISIS

[@kasadam85]

@@majd8 yeah yeah, sure sure

[@0ninja213]

@@majd8 mmm totally.....

[@majd8]

@@0ninja213 why would we so it if we sunni aren't even owning the land

[@majd8]

@@kasadam85 you don't believe me but I know more than u about syria

[@amiraboodi2075]

Remarkable. It was fascinating. I learned so many things about Iraq country, it's rivers and dams, enemies and so much other things. So,thank you for sharing videos about modern history and conflicts and complexities of middle east. ❤

[@TheAWOLWarrior]

As an Iraqi I just agree with all other Iraqis here wow there's so many of us. May our country find peace at some point.

[@rawaj.9115]

"at some point"

[@MysleZe]

So stay there and start rebuiding it

[@thehusshisht1708]

@@MysleZe They're just civilians, no matter how rightful that act is, civilians flee when you're killing them

[@saadalipashtun4343]

Allah hu akbar 🤲😊

[@szaiber]

When I left iraq 20 years ago, I told my friends this country will going down very quickly. This video is so accurate and sad at the same time 😢

[@Baresi-Unico-Capitano]

Another sellout.

[@dannyn.6933]

@@Baresi-Unico-Capitano You’d have to have an room temperature IQ to stay in Iraq if you were him.

[@Baresi-Unico-Capitano]

@@dannyn.6933 try and learn how to construct sentences properly before you talk of IQ. 'an room temperature' 😂Dumbass.

[@Melksh1]

Oddly you seem happy about it going down. Getting "told you so" vibes.

[@Baresi-Unico-Capitano]

@@Melksh1 he's just another Arab sellout! Plenty of them around unfortunately! Would sell their soul for a few dollars

[@SlabsolutDjTv]

this was in my suggestions. great video 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@The-ZebraFinch-Channel]

As an Egyptian, I still love Iraq for its history and culture ❤️

[@kentonbenoit9629]

Then move there

[@michaelthomas5433]

Too bad you didn't love the Arab Republic as much. Also you don't control the source of the Nile. So guess you understand Iraq's plight.

[@kentonbenoit9629]

Yea to bad you didt love the Arab Republic as much 😒

[@zelirislalibratum8637]

I'm sorry the other replies have been so rude. As an America, I am grateful for the existence of both Iraq and Egypt. We have so much to thank them for, often times I feel both countries are overlooked. Just would like to see peace for that area of the globe, I have a feeling a second Hurrah for both could be possible

[@suleyman8696]

@@zelirislalibratum8637 don’t forget 🇸🇾🇱🇧🇯🇴🇵🇸

[@sahelikantha93]

Your videos are the best!

[@cbrtdgh4210]

Way #1: create the country with such bad geography in the first place - the British empire shall take all the credit!

[@porcus123]

But look at those straight lines

[@mohammedkh4321]

Iraq is older than British with thousands years ago! All the people here consider themselves Iraqis. Britain never create a nation! These people call themselves Iraqis from 1600 years ago!

[@mohammedkh4321]

@@porcus123 straight line because of the dessert! Lines between Iraq and Iran is older than the USA! Between Iraq and Syria is the historical lines between Iraq and the Levant!

[@davidioanhedges]

The British didn't draw the borders ... The French, British, and Russians did ...

[@boygenius538_8]

@@mohammedkh4321 dude the borders are shit and the country has never existed in the form it is in today. Those are artificial borders.

[@Roberto-REME]

Outstanding video with valuable and interesting information and superbly narrated. Really well done.

[@WONDEROF_ECLIPSE]

I’m from Iraq specially the capital Baghdad and what we have left here we make the most not the best living but I have NEVER regretted being from iraq hey people her are one of the nicest people and caring you’ll meet thank you for reading this.

[@dragonmaster3207]

@watup3494your reaching but hey you do you man.😊

[@christopher5846]

​​@watup3494Kurdish fantasy Kurdistan = Assyria

[@Lana-j7e]

@watup3494Kurd don’t have any history or country they are just a people come and stay in Iraq!!!

[@rahwan1]

@watup3494 what is this propaganda lmfao, no baghdad is not kurdish, no karbala is not kurdish, and no nobody stole your land, history and language. baghdad is an arabic city with a persian name due to it being constructed by abbasid caliphs. abbasids are arabic and persian. the name مدينة السلام is also a meaning of baghdad. making it both arabic and persian. and ahaha the karbala one is sooo funny 😐. karbala is not kurdish aswell. its name comes from the word karb which means "the land which will cause many agonies" and the word bala' "afflictions". notice no kurdish origins in this? i would also like to add kurds dont come from iraq 😂 kurds are indo-persians originating from northwest iran and southeast turkiye, they then later on spread into iraq and syria. a kurdish independant state on iraq will never exist and that is great. you lost your chance you won't get it again. i would also like to add you kurds are NOT sumerian. infact the rest of iraq is. im from basra and guess what? i have sumerian genes. and also you are fucking up timelines (they stole everything from us the arabs!!! along with britian and france!!!) 1. when the arabs came they just spread islam and didnt force arabization, the ones who did were ummayads. 2. most iraqis are not infact arab by blood. most iraqis are sumerians. if you deny this then thats just funny. they look way different than the people in the arabian peninsula and it's clear. and for kirkuk, it is not kurdish and has no kurdish origins. it was mostly constructed by gutians who do not connect to kurds at all. please get propagnda out of your head. you do not own land here. thanks for leading and cleanse your ignorance.

[@jacynthallen1645]

Thank you. This is so interesting and informative.

[@Quondom]

Iraq desperately needs a prolonged period of peace and stability to recover from all the harm that has been done to it. Tragically, it seems doomed to more conflicts, spurred by internal divisions and meddling foreign powers.

[@Davey-Boyd]

Saddam was a psychopath, but... I lived/worked in Iraq for a year and I have to say it is a beautiful country with beautiful people. I wish Iraq all the best. Much love from the UK.

[@arthas640]

He really spent nearly 30 years just running the country straight into the ground and only stayed in power thanks to rising oil prices and help from the Soviets in return for becoming more vocally anti-western.

[@mshara1]

Saddamn was a CIA agent doing a mission.

[@f2ccu]

Saddam my friend he is a proud and honored human who was so shocked that his own people would betray him he gave them something to believe in but these people never let those memories he helped them create he never fought back and he never said anything just stood there and laughed on how his own blood betrayed him

[@scintillam_dei]

Londonistan will speak Arabic soon. In some shariah no-go zones, it already does. GOOD.

[@matthowells6382]

@@scintillam_dei You should stop watching FOX news mate. No such thing as no-go zones in the UK's various multicultural cities or anywhere else in Europe for that matter

[@lordofthehouseofstormcrows8615]

I went as a soldier...I was honestly changed by the experience. I've never experienced anything like springtime along the Euphrates. Such majesty..I was also in the western desert. I've been from Ramadi to Al-Qaim and I think I speak for all when I say there is nothing out there. Such dangerous beauty is a rush of adrenaline. Thankful for the opportunity.

[@bobdylan7432]

Watching the sun dance on the Euphrates in the early mornings was definitely something. To the vast noting that was in between the cities to to the airbase, to the massive Shamal. I’ll never forget

[@AffiliateJunctionBMF]

soldier? nice..how many innocent people u killed there? how many homes your teams blowup? how many orphan did u made while was there? must be nice experience isnt it? u must be living good from army pension now while the country u helped to rape is in agony and chaos..

[@lordofthehouseofstormcrows8615]

@@AffiliateJunctionBMF 0

[@KuK137]

@@lordofthehouseofstormcrows8615 Maybe you did zero, but US army actions murdered hundreds of thousands, a lot of them just as bad as SS reprisals (see Chris Kyle bragging about shooting Iraquis for fun, or the scum pardoned by cheeto pseudo-president). No one was ever sentenced for them. When I hear "tHaNk yOu fOr sErViCe" BS I want to puke...

[@mouricecheeks5215]

@@AffiliateJunctionBMF don't blame the random soldier, blame the us government.

[@TheRomeoSan]

Lets be real, the main reason why Iraq is dying because of the US.

[@hassanherobrine7136]

Agreed 👏

[@lillotusplays]

Yes yes saddam hussein was an angel and did not invade iran and kuwait 👍🏻 and if saudi arabia is doing well, its thanks to the US right? Or is the US the cause ONLY when a country is doing badly?

[@darklord8559]

@@lillotusplays Please, you do not live in Iraq and do not know much about it. I say it honestly and impartially. America is the cause of the destruction and devastation of Iraq to this day.

[@virc.]

Saddam? Iran?

[@Midnight-ACE]

​@@lillotusplays😂😂, its not the US' falut, its the bad map drawing and the creation of kuwait from the british, and a mix of stupid racist pan arabic movements

[@mohammedgeli6722]

I have a friend who lives in Kurdistan (Northern Iraq) and I must say from what he tells me life is tough, but not full of horrific events or other bad things. Living in the area of Kurdistan, which is trying to break away from Iraq, he calls himself a citizen of Kurdistan, a Kurd. The problems of the large cities in the south surprised him when he saw this video, so it occurs to me that either news in the country does not travel fast (hard to believe because even they have modern technology) or that it does not matter to the Kurds what happens in Iraq and large cities like Baghdad and Basra. Whether or not they live in a troubled place, my Kurdish friend is one of the nicest people I have ever met, and from what I have heard, even as a poor country, many Iraqis are generally happy. It is a shame that corruption, violence, and insurgency have all devastated the country in the last half century. Reading many books about the Iran-Iraq War, I have heard of the brutality of the war, like chemical warfare, mines across hundreds of miles, and mass conscription. My heart goes out to the people of Iraq, Kurdistan, and all other countries facing corruption, war, and insurgency that are ignored by the West. The lavish lifestyles of us Americans is something we take for granted, and hopefully we can look more deeply into what we choose to do and say.

[@nunyabiznes33]

For some reason it seem the Kurds were betrayed and their region was split between multiple countries.

[@normalcraftingtable7906]

Well another Stan country then:/

[@phantom-xb6wv]

kurdistan doesnt exist fictional state

[@googleuser9383]

"It is a shame that corruption, violence, and insurgency have all devastated the country in the last half century" Islam: "hold my beer" **Proceeds to wreck the entire middle east for 14 hundred years**

[@blitzwithawais8040]

@@googleuser9383 what does Islam have to do with this ?