South America Isn't Good Right Now

[@naverich4603]

The fact that Venezuela is an economic shithole everyone is running from and majority of population can't even afford the basic things AND the government is focused on annexing Guyana instead is just mindboggling lol

[@oldsmelly911]

It's just an easier win I guess. Fixing an economy is a lot of work, making the people think they have a say and can bring a 'victory' is a lot easier

[@GwainSagaFanChannel]

​@@oldsmelly911 basically why Russia invaded Ukraine instead of fixing its economic shithole it tries to distract its population it has as bad living standards as Venezuela

[@julianshepherd2038]

Classic move of a failing governme t. Unite the country by hating on the others.

[@Youtubeisadummy]

Avarege HOI4 player

[@rizzllerr]

Millennium dawn momemt💀

[@Incoming1983]

I've visited Port Stanley a few years ago. It's more british than London.

[@slenropz]

Malvinas argentinas🇦🇷🇦🇷 Piratas sucios

[@FOLIPE]

Given that it isn't even in the UK, that's impossible

[@QH96]

@@FOLIPE the joke is that there's no British people in London

[@aleografics311]

It is a British settlement, it is normal for there to be British. 🙄💅

[@alexpotts6520]

The people who feel the most British are the ones who have had the threat of their Britishness being taken away. See also, Ulster Unionists, who more strongly identify with British identity than just about anyone else in the UK. (See also the European identity in Britain. Nobody ever expressed European identity in Britain until Brexit, but then suddenly there were millions of "remainers" for whom it was a core part of their being. Again, they didn't feel that kinship until it was taken away from them.)

[@lovecraftianwalrus4490]

I’m glad we are looking out for the continents mental health. I was worried South America looked sad recently, so I’m glad you’re addressing it. South America isn’t ok. We can still save them though, I mean, look at Australia, they were super depressed last year, but they went to therapy and now they’re the happiest continent I know!

[@misspat7555]

I dunno, the USA doesn’t seem like a very good candidate to help South America out. We’re having some kind of identity crisis; after nearly 250 years as a proud democracy, a large chunk of our population wants theocracy or just a plain old authoritarian dictatorship or something. 😬

[@realdragao6367]

@@misspat7555i mean, last time the USA came to south america several military dictatorships arrived so i don’t think its a good idea

[@thatsleepybirb]

im an average australia = country, australia = country enjoyer

[@JmKrokY]

Nice

[@eVill420]

@@realdragao6367 maybe now that America is finally battling for authoritarian dictatorships we can make some democracy happen

[@dasha-minecraft]

The Venezuela/Guyana thing is looking awfully similar to Crimea’s 2014 annexation 👀

[@junovzla]

Except Venezuela is in a way worse situation than Russia, we ain't gonna annex anybody lol

[@eVill420]

It's got almost nothing in common from the motivations and justifications to the countries and the territory in question

[@robertsandee3349]

@@eVill420 Actually it has everything in common with it and if you disagree you must be buying the official propaganda narrative of fighting fascism, which makes you Z or Z adjacent.

[@eVill420]

@@robertsandee3349 only thing they have in common is a country claiming territory. Additionally I detest Russia

[@ExploradorMundialX]

@@junovzlaGuyana is much weaker than Ukraine in many ways though

[@hick2.0]

We were never doing okay but the power of meme culture holds us together hahahaha

[@stargazer-elite]

7:25 the thing is NATO had no reason or legal obligation to Help the UK because the Falkland Islands are not in the North Atlantic

[@ronald3836]

Came here to make this comment 🙂

[@Imita0903]

As an Argentine myself I would say that the Falkland/Malvinas werent an important reason to decide who to vote, the current goverment party try to make it like that bcos it was easier to sell Milei as a "bad person" with that. All this election was about the economy. Yet if you voted thinking in the islands your option were voting for the same party that has rule during 16 of the last 20 years and have done nothing to try to take the islands back rather than just cry and say the island are ours and pretending Britain would pay any attention to us. Milei was the first politicion to propose something different about the island, the "Hong Kong style devolution". As I said many people would have vote for Milei anyway just for the economy part but about the islands from the Argentine point of view, unless youre hyperpatriotic and think that the Hongkong-style deal is treason, Milei was also seen as a good option.

[@madmasseur6422]

Wait, what's Mileis policy of Malvinas?

[@livedandletdie]

I mean The people of the Falklands believe themselves to be British, and they're ethnically British, and they're paying taxes to the British government, and they speak English, and they earn a lot more than the Argentinians per capita. Milei is a good option for Argentina, he is the only good option for Argentina. He is the only good option Argentina has had since the 1950s at least I'd say.

[@Altrantis]

Devolution doesn't mean the same as devolución in Spanish, you'd translate it as "des-evolución", o "regreción". The word you're looking for is "return", english doesn't have a specific word like that. In any case, it's a "false friend", a word that seems like it means the same but doesn't.

[@HecClaytos4956]

The Hong Kong thing is something Milei said just to pretend like he cares about the Falklands. Milei is definitely smart enough to know Argentinas claim is bullshit.

[@HecClaytos4956]

@alejandrorauber5953 i dont care about Tierra Del Fuego". It was settled by Britain, and the entire population is British. The fact that it is in your constitution shows how obsessed your cou try is with islands that were never yours.

[@BocVel]

Lmao, as someone who voted for frepap, it was all because of a meme that went too far, people were tired of the stablishment, and memes started circulating about voting for the fish religious party whose leader said he was the reencarnation of jesus, when the day arrived, we were surprised by how many people actually voted for them

[@PkPvre]

Your actions have consequences, when will you learn?

[@puraLusa]

Albeit marxist and not religious pol pot theory also hated city dwelars. In the end of its reign, 25% of the pop was dead and the rest starving. Careful with ur vote, it can end up killing u.

[@Redddragon]

what the hell

[@RERM001]

I mean, a new Taiping heavenly Kingdom doesn't sound that bad. At least you can get nice food.

[@eVill420]

@@RERM001 I'm betting you don't get any food if you're trying to also remove Lima from the map

[@debater452]

Argentina pretty much elected the Chainsaw man into leading the country

[@budisoemantri2303]

Lol what? 😂

[@zac3392]

AFUERA!!

[@eVill420]

@@budisoemantri2303 there's a joke in chainsawman about what he would do if he was elected president and it's really similar to the Argentine dude

[@racool911]

⁠@@eVill420But that was Power, not Denji

[@debater452]

​@@racool911The Argentina president's campain symbol was a chainsaw

[@filipesmits2157]

The British wanted to solve the thing in 1899 in Paris, but Venezuela wasn't allowed to send representation to the arbitration, that's why it fckd up right now

[@imacomi]

The British fucked it up😐

[@AZ-697]

In a few years, after the new leadership can get things going in the right direction, Argentina is going to be one of the best places in the world.

[@a___ab___b9896]

let's hope so

[@tanostrelok2323]

Ten quadrillion tons of stone might want to have something to say about it

[@georgehennen]

looking healthier every year dawg.

[@Juan-vu5jz]

You are the only KZbinr I saw who didn't just show old clips of him in tv, thank u.

[@daikonyum3688]

I’m ethnically Venezuelan however I was born in trinidad since my parents migrated from it when I was young I didn’t understand why but now I truly do Venezuela is run by a brutal dictatorship when I hear about my relatives who live there it’s like a horror story there electricity is taken every night they are upper class in Venezuela but there electricity is still taken every night there water is cut off aswell it sounds like a horror story and maduro just keeps ruining our country everyone is kept silent because if you speak up maduro will trap you 10 feet in the ground and will torture you it’s despicable honestly the bolivar is worth virtually nothing and it’s such a sad story about a country falling from grace because Venezuela could’ve been THE tourist destination around the world it’s a mega diverse country with oil reserves proving to be bigger than Saudi Arabia. Isn’t that crazy Venezuela has so many terrains: desserts, forests and everything but gets what feels like 0 tourists everywhere because the crime rate is so bad. There are cockroaches in the airport it sucks genuinely

[@KingArthurWs]

To call Milei "far-right" isn't really an apt description. He is a radical libertarian, and that is kind of its own thing.

[@12Rosen]

libertarian is a right wing ideology (at least on the political compass). And that's not a bad thing.

[@MJ-eh8er]

the Esequibo situation is a political move for Maduro, recently María Corina Machado was elected as his opponent for the presidential elections and people voted massively to chose María Corina as the opposition leader, Maduro got pissed because literally everyone hates him and is doing this referendum as a political strategy moving people to vote but because no one will vote (unless if it is public workers) he decided to call for these commons cause the Esequibo which is a historical dispute that is very old issue and you can blame the english for that! by the way you should mention that you are biased, because the territorial dispute was never to claim sovereign territory of Guyana is to claim the historical borders of Venezuela and that territory as of now doesn't belong to either Venezuela or Guyana.

[@estraume]

You forgot to mention that ExxonMobil is the largest oil producer in Guyana. I think Uncle Sam is more than willing to help them with some troops at the border if needed. Also: Javier Milei is far more entertaining that Donald Trump!

[@puraLusa]

Trump isn't ancap, so that's a false equivalence.

[@eVill420]

​@@puraLusa well no shit

[@unilajamuha91]

Obamna?🥺

[@puraLusa]

@@unilajamuha91 obama isn't ancap either. There hasn't been an president who is ancap.

[@unilajamuha91]

@@puraLusa It's a meme

[@DOSFS]

Finally, South America can get into exciting with recent HOI4 patch! /oh wait----

[@simon133000]

I don't think Chile is worst than before, we have controlled inflation pretty well, we are kind of a constitucional stagnation but nothing that can destroy our country. Our leaders always have to lean to the center or moderate anyways because that is how chilean politics works. Security has been a big problem recently with the uncontrolled immigration, president Piñera shout out to all venezuelans to come and now our police (Carabineros) says crime rates are less, but committed crimes are worst and more violent. The now president Boric is young and progressive left and we know left doesn't know how to deal with Security as often, but I think he has a advantage that he can get out those criminals and get away from the bad left that is Maduro. There is so much to talk. But anyways, we all had a pandemic, it takes years to recover everything in any country.

[@cabemaru1]

Strongly agree. This could be a huge worst scenario for chile but inflation Is bien controlled, the industrial growth Is about to growth, the economic prediction about a year told a -1% but now Is predicted a null growth, the social riot was resolved in a democratic way (with few deaths compared to another countries in a similar condition)... But a inmigration problema hard to resolve in a shorts Time.

[@danmarsh5949]

I'd like to give Milei a chance -- most of the things he's saying are actually the things Argentina (and really, the US or UK) need. My fear for them is that entrenched interests won't let him enact the things he's saying. I mean, the main reason West Germany was so successful postwar is that the occupying powers said "turn off our propping up their economy" and by the time anybody got around to trying to reverse it, it was a done deal. "Get rid of the central bank" just means that they're going to solve their inflation problem by strapping themselves to a bigger economy. They'll probably adopt the dollar, but arguments could be made for the Euro or Yuan. The reason that could be a good thing for them is similar to one of the arguments for a gold standard: It limits the government's ability to borrow beyond their ability to repay.

[@pample_mousse6429]

It’s nice that toy cat did this video in sign language too 🙂

[@gundamzerostrike]

Milei already retreated from all his campaign promisses. He's gonna be your regular neoliberal, meaning, Argentina is gonna by a few times more fucked.

[@jayasuryangoral-maanyan3901]

It has literally been days. See what he does

[@FOLIPE]

​@@jayasuryangoral-maanyan3901He's already saying stuff you can use as indication.

[@g-man2351]

then you must not know economics, neoliberalism (although not the greatest) is much better than socialism, also the first reply

[@alexis_electronic]

buddy we're seeing fascism rise globally unless you're getting behind left wing causes you can start trying to make peace with a world where you have no fucking rights or future, lmao sad to see ibx trying to give milei credit. would love to be something im wrong about. but i won't be.

[@gundamzerostrike]

@@g-man2351 I am historian, my dude. The academic consensus among historians about neoliberalism is that it didnt work. The consensus exists since the late 90's. Nowadays all areas agree with this (economists and everyone else), including the UN and the IMF. Your ideia about comparing to socialism and saying one is better than the other just shows how much of a layman you are, because that not how research works.

[@GwainSagaFanChannel]

Toycat blame the British for there being three Guyanas originally there was only a French and Dutch Guyana

[@GregMcClean]

It's been a while since I've watched a video on this channel, I don't remember you having a 'proper' (if you can call it that) outro.

[@enzonavarro8550]

3:19 so the ones that are friends with Lula and Maduro are "center-left" and the one that is from the right is "far-right"... Not that unexpected though...

[@H-1467]

South America just being South America

[@PHDFlopperr]

thank you for the 3AM upload 🙏

[@DragonFruitXVI]

I don't like how what is pretty much the standard for a government. Being small and not bothering the people is considered extreme. And Toy is just accepting that narrative. That is how America was founded so I guess a Brit would think overwhelming government rule is normal.

[@FOLIPE]

Your words are so biased. You know a country with small government? Somalia. That seems pretty bothersome to people there. Meanwhile government in places like the US and Japan is pretty gigantic. It is very extreme to say the world should look more like Somalia or Yemen to be prosperous.

[@carinaslima]

@@FOLIPEYour words are too. Biased isn’t an argument. Somalia and Yemen may have small government, yes, but is that the source of their problems? I don’t think so. Big government makes the people less free, small government worked for the US before it was replaced, didn’t it?

[@Marzsala]

@@carinaslima no not really.

[@pao5567]

Democratic government exists to serve its people not to sit down and watch the Law of the Jungle unfold

[@eVill420]

a government needs to moderate the territory or they aren't really in charge. HRE is a perfect example of a government that was too decentralized and weak to even handle its territories, USA itself got into trouble originally with the states... you know... going to war with themselves. You have the most completely rose-tinted classes when looking at early USA. it was a shithole, you just don't hear much about that because things improved going into the modern age. Does a place where duels happen daily in the town square sound safe to you? come aboard. Does going hunting for some Indian hides sound fun? you've got free reign! conservation? burn all that forest down it's always grown back before, what's there to worry?

[@IDKisReal2401]

Poor Texas going through so much turbulence

[@TheAutobotPower]

Las Malvinas son Argentinas.

[@masnwrdl0511]

The falkland islands are more British than fucking London lmao

[@hakohito]

According to the plebiscite they are british lol

[@masnwrdl0511]

@@hakohito You definitely made an accurate choice for your profile picture. It suits you.

[@republicadelconosur]

Goverment: We are gonna print 8388481883884 of national divisa for polítical campaing Argentine peso: Yes honey 😥

[@cooperglick4865]

I actually enjoy the new Google map look, but I agree river's and roads are a Lil hard to make out

[@meandyouagainstthealgorith5787]

It would not surprise me if Guyana did not look like a carrot to Venezuela, so that the US and UK would have an excuse to come and take everything. It would also not surprise me if the people of Venezuela already know this and would welcome the idea.

[@mariotheundying]

Ah yes the government using another country to take themselves out of power

[@Legogazer]

The us is definitely behind this and they want to use this to invade and kill innocent ppl. Like usual.

[@ozni]

I think a fact many British ignore regarding the falkland islands is that Argentina at one point had more dominion over those islands than over the patagonia. From their perspective, _they_ got invaded in 1833 when the British came back. Boiling down all their claims to "is close to us, therefore should be ours" is silly, both sides have compelling arguments.

[@zanesc01]

well what did you expect from a brit channel

[@joplin8433]

I think a fact many Argentinians ignore regarding the Falkland islands is that no one living there wants to be part of Argentina.

[@Aquatarkus96]

What do the people who live on the island want? That should be the most important factor

[@zanesc01]

@@Aquatarkus96 That argument of self-determination is limited by sovereignty in the UN for a reason. If it weren't, developed countries could just come up to any random state/province of a developing nation and go like "heyyy wanna be part of my country instead? we're rich." and gobble up shit and be like "but the people wanted it". That take of "what the people in the island want" is shallow because the real argument in the case of the Malvines/Falklands is wether or not they were ever sovereign Argentine territory under spanish inheritance, which if recognized to have been, it would invalidade brit referendums. This is where the real issue is.

[@joplin8433]

@@zanesc01 So the reasoning "the people want it" is shallow but "they once controlled it 200 years ago" (which is false btw) isn't?

[@kosjeyr]

Eating shoes and rats is a sign of Venezuelan prosperity? Interesting...

[@filipesmits2157]

That isnt happening anymore tho

[@sm1522]

I love the new look of the maps

[@KommentarSpaltenKrieger]

I don't understand the "more/less gov't" perspective. How do you even quantify government? Has a country more gov't if tax rates are high, but gov't services are inefficient or in case of the reverse?

[@agme8045]

I don’t fully understand what you mean. But the thing in Argentina, is that the state has a lot of influence in EVERYTHING that goes on over here. For example, prices are controlled by the government, just like in a communist regime. The government decides how much petrol/gas must cost, how much the public transport fairs cost, they decide the price of milk, meat, even how much shoes and clothing should cost. But it’s not like the government is the one who sells all of these things. They enforce it onto the private sector, onto companies and businesses. In order to do this, they make deals and heavily subsidize everything. The problem is the country is broke, and we have no money to afford all of that. That leads to the government being late in their payments, and also while we have over 10% of monthly inflation, they don’t fix the prices, they remain the same and make businesses lose money. Public companies are all inefficient and are losing money. The government spends literal MILLIONS of DOLLARS in public television and radio, they pay astronomical wages to the employees who barely work a couple of hours per week, and it’s not like we, the citizens, get quality entertainment and content in return, they suck. Every senator and deputy (congress people) get to have chauffeurs, free buffets, they each get dozens of assistants and advisers (who are all paid high salaries). We have whole ministries that literally do nothing for the common good. When we say we want “less government” we mean we want to cut down all of these things. We want the government to interfere less with our lives and allow us to make our own decisions, set our own prices, pay less tax. Most of us who voted for Milei are not against the state per se, we would all love to have free quality education, free quality healthcare, and all of the things people have in Europe, but they simply don’t work in Argentina. Everything is so corrupt, so incompetent. We have the most taxes out of every country, yet we barely see the returns on our lives. We are all forced to send our children to private school, we have to pay for private healthcare, we can’t count on the government on anything, not even for security, we also need to pay for that ourselves.

[@KommentarSpaltenKrieger]

@@agme8045 Well, this all sounds indeed rather negative. I didn't mean to say that all the discontent related to this decision is coming from ideologically motivated spite. Afaik the Argentinian economy is in a difficult situation most of the time. I just think in order to change anything, one would have to start at a deeper level, which is the economy itself. Politics might exacerbate things, but how much of these arrangement are a function of the way how the Argentinian economy is structured? I will certainly not pretend I know enough about this matter to decide, but the things I've heard about the solutions Milei proposes seem like they come from a rather unreasonable place. I don't think any country has ever gotten rich upon following through libertarian principles.

[@agme8045]

@@KommentarSpaltenKrieger he may be a libertarian, but his proposals for the most part aren’t. He has had to tone down his proposals in order to be elected. After all, most people aren’t libertarian either. Not to that extent at least. His most “crazy” proposal was probably closing the central bank, and even that was a figure of speech. He isn’t actually closing it, he’s just taking away some of its capacities (supposedly the ability to print currency, which would thus make us adopt the USD. But even that, dollarizing the country, is an idea that has been floating around for decades. It has been seriously discussed many times by politicians, journalists, economists, and there were those who supported it and those who didn’t. We had a similar sort of thing in the 90s, our currency was pegged to the USD 1 to 1, so there’s even some experience of what it is like (it’s still a quite different thing though, pegging is not the same as adopting an other currency). Idk what other things you may have heard, but keep in mind there was a whole deal of fake news going around boosted by the peronists.

[@draigahan9400]

Yes, you can quantify the government, it depends on how large the percentage of the workforce is in the public sector.

[@tribaltreegoat]

the argentinian president sounds like the argentinian trump but more extreme

[@WeirdAwesomeGeography]

Yay! Another Toycat Geopolitics Video!!! :D

[@Prometheus42]

Us argentinians are pretty happy with our newest president! It's given us hope of potential economic betterment. The right-wing and left-wing, as seen by first worlders, don't have the same meaning over here. The main thing we're worried about is being able to survive and have a currency that's actually worth something, and Milei was the only option that promised to focus on that. It'll take years before we're back on track though (and that's implying our divided congress works in the interest of the nation and not political interest).

[@miscellaneoussarnian5282]

And he’s very anti-China. Which gets him in my good books forthetimebeing

[@remiel_sz]

who's "us argentinians"

[@GwainSagaFanChannel]

​@@remiel_sz it is because he got majority of the votes

[@miscellaneoussarnian5282]

@@remiel_sz people from Argentina, duh

[@Prometheus42]

@@remiel_sz normal people

[@than217]

Argentina: *screaming man with chainsaw wins Presidency* World: "Whoaaaaa. That's messed up!!!" Peru: "FREPAP! FREPAP! FREPAP!!!!" World: "Who's Pap?"

[@rylloima1544]

South America just a lil bit crazy rn, something might actually happen there for once

[@GwainSagaFanChannel]

Last century there literally was a war between Paraguay and Bolivia as well as a war between Peru and Ecuador and not to forget a war between Argentina and Britain so like it has had quite a few wars but most of them being in the Cono Sur or Andean mountauns

[@eVill420]

@@GwainSagaFanChannel Yea but if you look at Europe we were busy with 2 world wars, 20 nations disappearing and reappearing in slightly different places, an European Union, the dissolution of Yugoslavia, the breakdown of USSR and now the Ukraine war In North America nothing technically happened, but USA was the center of the world and decided what happened elsewhere In Africa literally 60 nations gained independence and have had at least 60 civil wars after, with a ton of international wars and some terrorist activity too! In Asia half the continent gained independence, Middle East has been in constant wars, the Koreas are fighting, ww2 happened, all of South East Asia was invaded, India united and de-united, Iran and Iraq are doing stuff and so much more.

[@tanostrelok2323]

​@@GwainSagaFanChannel There hasn't been a single large scale war since 1935, the other two conflicts are just bar brawls when you compare them with what was happening in other parts of the world at the time.

[@gabrielmorato308]

I agree with your solution we need a bordeless south america country it will be the first country in the world to have won 10 world cups

[@dunebuggyslsk6085]

fuck yeah, imagine the national team

[@hakohito]

Nem nos seus sonhos

[@nichi1031]

@@dunebuggyslsk6085 it would only be brasileiros and argentinos with like two uruguayans and maybe a colombian

[@danielutriabrooks477]

​@@nichi1031There's more colombians than argentinians

[@tanostrelok2323]

@@danielutriabrooks477 Colombia is shit at football, though

[@jje7683]

Messi for president

[@loganpeters7543]

It looks like toycat's been working out

[@hyun-shik7327]

You know what we really need? A political world map that’s also a fractal,

[@appa609]

Every accurate map is fractal

[@nathanphillipsgo]

Go Argentina!

[@castorchua]

We're going... straight to hell

[@xandercruz900]

@@castorchua Like were the past 50 years something you miss?

[@castorchua]

@@xandercruz900 Just because things have been shit does not mean that this clown is not capable of making it worse. Many South Africans probably look back at the last few decades with nostalgia and pine for the good old days

[@redboot8]

Is this going to be like venezuela all over again?

[@julianshepherd2038]

Argentina were way ahead of Venezuela.

[@castorchua]

We'll be like Brazil without the money

[@carinaslima]

It already was, I think this is bettrt

[@eVill420]

@@castorchua Brazil already had no money

[@filipesmits2157]

@@julianshepherd2038When?

[@RADZIO895]

when you think about it hard enough, brits also caused the school shootings in usa

[@JasonAtlas]

In what way?

[@RADZIO895]

@@JasonAtlas without them we wouldn't have usa

[@enzonavarro8550]

3:48 ah, you mean the thing that saved Poland's economy

[@DavidSolimano]

Falklands Spoons visit when?

[@iCuddleAfter6]

As an American im conflicted. Ain't nobody want us there but i feel more empathy to south America than a lot of the old continents

[@jorgeabud1133]

South American countries are opposed to US intervention because you guys make corruption way harder. I know that bashing the US is highly popular among political commentators, but it always stems from the desire to freely oppress people. Don't get me wrong, US intervention always goes bad, but it's always better than letting dictators be dictators, not to mention any other countries' interference.

[@MrVitorao]

i want you guys here

[@mariotheundying]

@@MrVitorao nah we dont want American dictators again

[@MrVitorao]

@@mariotheundying wtf does that mean?

[@perkstonshambles1734]

Lol true sorry we just don't like imperialist capitalism XD we still love u

[@magnusroos7493]

As Malvinas são argentinas

[@slenropz]

🇦🇷❤️🇧🇷

[@saintpinewood562]

Gracias makako

[@magnusroos7493]

@@saintpinewood562 de nada, comedor de lixo

[@kacgb5315]

Ya no lmao, u just arent having them, uc an say it when u have it, fix ur country first

[@djunior874]

Come and get them then 🤣🤣🤣 absolutely pathetic

[@juanpedrowallace1117]

At least we own our capital city, londistan 😂😂

[@birisuandrei1551]

Guyana is almost gonna disappear if this happens. 💀....might as well annex the whole country at this point, put it out of it's misery.

[@The_Soviet_Onion]

the vast majority of the population lives in the part that isn’t gonna be annexed

[@carinaslima]

Don’t forget Suriname’s claims!

[@masnwrdl0511]

And the people in the esequibo want to remain guyana.

[@birisuandrei1551]

@@masnwrdl0511 too bad, they're gonna become Sugondese now and nobody can stop it from happening.

[@tanostrelok2323]

what the fuck is a guyana

[@FlorisLD]

if venezuela succesfully invades the 70% of guyana it would look like an elephant splashing water on its head, on the map

[@MJ-eh8er]

i always saw it like a Rhino!

[@cjuicefly]

Guyana also has a disputed border issue with Suriname 🇸🇷. The shape would be different

[@enzonavarro8550]

​@@cjuiceflyalso the British took a part of Brazil's territory, because Italy wasn't that unbiased when arbitrating an agreement, but that's a past issue

[@user-yt3xd2jl6d]

South America, in East Asia, in South Asia, in the Middle East, everyone blames the British Empire, until today we must be in conflict over its spoils

[@yodorob]

Argentina and Uruguay should be highly developed, First World countries much like Australia and New Zealand, but they've impoverished themselves in the past 70 or so years.

[@Will-kt5jk]

Congrats on not mixing up the F and the first P in FREPAP

[@frukola64]

As a Chilean i must say it's kinda depressing to look at how our country has decayed in the last 4 years, to think that there are tourists coming here still with the idea that we are a safe and stable economic oasis, while crime and venezuelan gang violence is on the loose and we're experiencing a very bad economic downfall together with an increase in the cost of living in a stagnant economy, because (among other causes of course) our government simply doesn't seem to care about doing anything effective. Also the aftermath of the 2019's uprising still hasn't brought *anything* positive. Edit: redaction

[@angelcabeza6464]

Venezuelans didnt cause your people to riot tho it was the constitutionalist

[@angelcabeza6464]

also tell your people to stop coming to Mexico

[@simon133000]

​@angelcabeza6464 he said venezuelan gang violence has been bad for Chile, not that it caused the riot. But he is wrong about Chilean economy shrinking or that the government is doing nothing, maybe not as much as it should be, but it is not that easy. Extreme-left call the president fascist so at least we know he is doing something about security.

[@Ariverfish]

You've been voting in socialists for the last couple of decades, and just recently, started constantly swinging the pendulum between left and right. Of course, nothing is going to happen. One party or person does something, another erases and tries to correct it, the government just becomes a Looney Tunes circus. This is one of the signs of economic stagnation, a stark contrast to the high economic growth seen during Pinochet's term. Decades of wrongs cannot be fixed by only four years. The same could be said here in the Philippines, but instead with a literal century of wrongs, while people cope that four years is enough to fix all of it. The current state of government and the presidency is useless, and gives all the more reason to just cut it or abolish it entirely, in favour of a new model. Generational and communal reform is needed to shape a nation, not bigger government.

[@cabemaru1]

Disagree. Far from a very bad economic downfall, this was a correction of a excessive economic burst after COVID crisis (11.1% growth a madness) + a worldwide dependence + ukraine-russia war. And the social riot my opinion was resolved in a very democratic way... Unlike another countries which enter in an internal war AND or they Made a Lot of human death.

[@ChesnokOrNot]

I've been following the Esequibo situation for a couple days now, I'm just hoping Venezuela doesn't invade. I have a friend in Guyana, and even though he's not in Esequibo Im still pretty worried for him.

[@SemiHypercube]

Since when did this channel have an outro

[@geografisica]

Venezuelan here 🇻🇪. Let me tell you my opinion about the Essequibo Dispute. There are strong arguments, proofs and historical reasons to consider that territory as ours. We all Venezuelans, no matter the political affiliation or ideology have had always considered the Essequibo as part of Venezuela so there’s no way the referendum would end up with a “no”, but TBH is unnecessary. I don’t want a war either, that’s horrible and even worse if it’s the dictatorial government to address the problem, especially because they are doing so as a scapegoat for the continued crisis the country is still facing and also for blackmailing people for it: if you don’t vote I get rid of the social programs, if you disagree with the referendum or any military intervention you will be considered as a traitor to the country. There should be other ways and especially other moments and circumstances to solve the dispute, but now it’s totally ridiculous, we need to fix our main territory first before thinking on taking more land. Look at Japan, The Netherlands or Switzerland, they are small and without resources compared to Venezuela and they are still very well developed countries. I will not vote this weekend.

[@Despoina_Nyx]

But like... the people that have live in the esequibo don't get a say? We lost that shit, we haven't had control over it for over 200 years, generations of people have grown there with no Venezuelan identity. It hasn't been ours since our independence basically. Yes it was a travesty what the English did but they are not even english in the Esequibo, it's mainly Natives. It would be as if Spain were to Claim most of Latam america under the same pretext, it once hundreds of years ago was part of us so we get to claim it back, fuck what the people there thinks. It's the same as Putin claiming historical association to annex Crimea and other parts of Ukraine (If not the whole thing). As a Venezuelan but also as someone that believes that territories and the people in them have more say than what external forces have I feel this is just a fucking travesty, we are not in the middle ages anymore, we can't go claming territory out of centuries old grudges. What happened in the past happened. This country is more than capable of functioning if we had a competent goverment, no resonable person should vote yes for such a blantant imperialistic desires.

[@Sp9i]

@@Despoina_Nyx Well said!

[@masnwrdl0511]

​@@Despoina_NyxPeople in the esequibo consider themselves Guyanese, not Venezuelan.

[@Despoina_Nyx]

@@masnwrdl0511 That's what I said

[@geografisica]

@@Despoina_Nyx you can say whatever you want but the UK stole it, so it’s a Venezuelan territory stolen by the British, if after that Guyanese people invaded the area, that doesn’t make the Essequibo theirs. Period!

[@cuttinaboot]

I found a Falkland island penny the another day, 1998, it spells out Queen Elizabeth the second (instead of II ) and has penguins on it. I added it to my coin collection

[@PiranaOutdoors]

Argentina's new President is a based king.

[@danielmichaelfleiss2141]

South America needs some love!!… Africa needs some love!!…

[@ChristusRex081]

Far right isn't always the same around the world, it's not always negative nor positive

[@pdraggy]

lmao! Peru looks like.... finland was it?? lol

[@NIDOKING]

Kissinger really "liked" South America though...

[@cabemaru1]

A kiss from Chile... 😂😅😢😂

[@amogus57]

Argentina is gonna be the worlds first 4th world country

[@williammoran4898]

We're sorry you lost to a more brilliant person.

[@yodorob]

I would put Haiti, Yemen, Afghanistan, and a whole number of sub-Saharan African countries in the Fourth World much before Argentina. At least Argentina, for all its challenges, has an exponentially higher quality of life and per capita GDP than all of those.

[@cabemaru1]

Argentina and venezuela... There are more countries in this part of the world uh

[@Adaguflo]

As a Venezuelan I'm just going to say that the Esequibo Territory has been in dispute since many decades ago and most venezuelans consider it part of the territory, the problem comes from 200 years ago when Venezuela became an independent state and the British kind of arbitrarily drew the line between Venezuela and their territory taking more space than what they previously had, the Venezuela government back then agreed, many decades later another government said no, that's ours and since then, well, there's been this ongoing and somewhat pacific dispute. In my personal opinion Venezuela is currently facing many more urgent issues that require more attention than "taking back" all that piece of land.

[@masnwrdl0511]

But it's not Venezuela. The esequibo population are Guyanese and they speak English, and they want to remain part of Guyana. Venezuela is a bully and they're trying to take over Guyana without consent. All they want is oil.

[@sans_hw187]

@@masnwrdl0511 The Esequibo IS a disputed territory and recognized as such, historically speaking Venezuela is right to be upset and to demand international mediation on the subject, but acting like a bully and invading is of course unacceptable. How is language important, do you think then that Russia has the right to annexe the Russian speaking regions of Ukraine?

[@rustyshackleford234]

I really hate the “but we used to own it so we need it back” argument like every country uses to defend their invasion. I’m American and that would be like us saying we need to invade the Philippines because they used to be one of our territories.

[@Adaguflo]

@@rustyshackleford234 it's not like we need it, we just want it back and that's it UwU y soporta bicha

[@sobrejornalismo]

you were dismissive about the islands being closer to Argentina's territory and also the long history of british brutal colonialism, but I bet that if Argentina claimed ownership over the Isle of Man, I don't think you'd be saying "I don't think soil has feelings who it belongs to".

[@eVill420]

the brutal British colonial history over 1 900 shepherds?

[@djunior874]

Hmm I don't remember them voting to be part of Argentina....In fact I remember them overwhelmingly (99%) voting to be owned by the UK. Just say you hate democracy.

[@sobrejornalismo]

@@djunior874 If argentinians were freely allowed to settle in their own islands (Malvinas), maybe the referendum would be truly democratic.

[@sobrejornalismo]

@@eVill420 On January 3, 1833, the Malvinas Islands were illegally occupied by British forces who expelled the Argentine population

[@eVill420]

@@sobrejornalismo I guess Denmark should also take their rightful claim over England? 1833 is nearly 200 years ago, and the population that lives in the Falklands is Brittish. So, they don't want to join Argentina

[@dunebuggyslsk6085]

yes i am, thanks for asking

[@Emerald_Creeperq]

The outro music 😆

[@ElMundoDeHadesOK]

107% inflation?? :3 we wish hhahaha that's now 140%

[@NihilistSolitude]

If the majority of the population of the nation voted for it, that not the extreme that the moderate position in that nation. It only extreme to individual from the outside trying to impose their policy or will that the people of that nation have rejected or tried and observe it utter failure

[@trthib]

The outside knows this will only make things worse because the outside usually make better choices, and the outside still own argentina's debt and will be asked for more financial help when it is obvious he only made things worse....

[@titi53221]

2:08 Why does everyone keep parroting this myth even though it's simply wrong? Argentina was never the richest country in the world, not in per capita numers and even less so in national gdp numbers. People say this because at the end of the 19th century and early 20th century they had something like the 6th or 7th highest gdp per capita (out of less than 50 countries), but that's because a few aristocratic families held lots of wealth from agricultural exports, and they had a comparatively small population. It's just a statistical bias. Your average farmer and or worker didn't see any of that wealth. They were as poor and uneducated as the rest of Latin America. People say this because there is this myth that Argentina was a liberal paradise before the 1930s, when they had the first democratic elected president, and specially before the rise to power of Juan Domingo Perón during the 1940s. According to these people, like the ones who supported Milei and Milei himself, he was a far left dictator who put "too much government" and drove the country to misery, even though his government was arguibly the peak of argentinian prosperity. So no, Argentina was never rich, nor did they ever have a far left government. This is something people say to stop any form of social justice in Argentina. I'd recommend BadEmpanada video about this topic. He is explains all of this very well.

[@yodorob]

It was the UAE or Qatar of its day, albeit from agricultural rather than oil wealth.

[@ianstarkm]

what's important to understand about Peru, is that no one knows anything. I know, I know, that sounds absurd, but hear me out. The politicians running for office, don't know what their policies mean. The people voting for them, don't know what their policies mean, the political pundits in TV will vote for a super right wing party in the first round of presidential voting, and then vote for a marxist party in the second round. Why? probably because they didn't like how some candidate ate a certain food or because the left wing guy farted and so now they vote for the right. Its actually quite amazing. You may think I'm joking I know. But there was actually a case of a presidential candidate who was second or third in the polls, politely declined some food that someone offered him on TV and the guy lost all of his voters and went to the bottom of the pack because of this. That was it, he didn't eat a snack someone offered him and his political career was literally over. They have asked marxist parties who is Karl Marx, and they have never heard of the guy. No one knows shit or understand anything, people hear left or right but they have no clue what any of that actually entails in a social or economic aspect. This is why you see such huge 'pendulum' swings. You hear European or American commentators bewildered at how fast the pendulum swung, mate, most people don't even know what a pendulum is. People vote or not for a candidate based on the most asinine things such as what clothes they wore, what food they ate, whether they tripped or not, if they use glasses or not. That's why the 'pendulum' swings and western commentators just can't get it but there is no pendulum, its just random all the time.

[@julianshepherd2038]

Venezuela must be looking at Israel and thinking "we could do that."

[@MJ-eh8er]

Venezuela's government is known to always condemn Israel, even Chavéz, as much as i despise him, has a passionate speech about how much he hates Israel.

[@Gingivere]

I'm pretty sure they're more so taking inspiration from Russia...

[@rustyshackleford234]

Dictatorship trying not to invade their neighbors challenge (IMPOSSIBLE)

[@monarchtherapsidsinostran9125]

Far right literally means nothing now. Its a buzzword that describes like 30 drasticly different groups so eh. Rather ancaps than the other people you think of. I hope this works.

[@qwerty-vp1sb]

when did south america do good?

[@euroschmau]

Perhaps the scariest thing happening in South America is a historic Amazon drought that hasn't happened in thousands of years. The Amazon stands a good chance going up in flames in the next decade.

[@MrVitorao]

and yet, deforestation in the brazilian portion of Amazon fell to record lows and the government intends to end it by 2028

[@CrazyPupil70]

This is so funny they couldn't handle the modest reforms of Macri how will the handle the reforms of a self-proclaimed anarcho-capatalist.

[@danielmonteiroferreira2088]

Didn’t even see the vid yet, I’m just responding the thumbnail No

[@kasnickijakub]

I don't like the new google maps :/

[@johnnywoodstock]

Shout out from Aruba

[@livedandletdie]

AFUERA! Javier Milei por President de Mundo! Javier Milei es un Leyenda. Olé Olé Olé por Argentina, Javier por President!

[@Albent]

Since when does Centrist Keynesianism mean "Leaning very far to the left"?

[@quedtion_marks_kirby_modding]

Since wellfare states had a massive crisis in the 70s.

[@Philip-du9uc]

why is the funy cat minecraft guy doing political vids (not complaining, im into politics, i might just question why)

[@LordRahy]

You're so right, South America is such a chaotic continent that is quite sad to live in the most politically and economically stable country in the region

[@user-yt3xd2jl6d]

Argentina is not the most stable country in the region, not even close, the most stable countries are Uruguay and followed by Chile.

[@LordRahy]

@@user-yt3xd2jl6d Yes, I'm actually from Chile (Uruguay is just a prosperous argentinian province)

[@Legogazer]

Lmaoo argentina is stable? Get good.

[@tanostrelok2323]

OP must be from Paraguay

[@dimitrosskrippka2154]

Oh damn Peru is becoming red Cambodia

[@Pmartin7254]

Que? no xdd Why do you say that?

[@yuriyu123]

Geography doesn't help at all as well, from center west side got a tiny desert coast, then a f* gigantic cordillera... followed by a f* gigantic swampland or jungle. Almost the perfect land for a real massive "hunger games", srsly.

[@henrycrystal9740]

As a Brazillian, I am sad :( also you ai generated the thumbnail

[@InugamiTheHound]

i hope usa and canada and eu can stop the war between Venezuela and Guyana. But if not Columbia, Brazil and Guyana would have to fight back against them and invade them.

[@user-yt3xd2jl6d]

Brazil wants to stop Venezuela, but is not willing to enter into a direct war with Venezuela, in the end Lula agrees with Venezuela, despite not agreeing with a war

[@quedtion_marks_kirby_modding]

Colombia*

[@Frogboyaidan]

😅

[@emi_fluffy]

Its always the british behind everything :)

[@Dreju78]

Is it jist me or is the end card very '90's internet' looking?

[@IsYeaYesyup]

when ARE we good??

[@daikonyum3688]

Essequibo is not pronounced Essequibo! It’s pronounced essekibo!!