THE BAY OF PIGS: The True Story of a Tragic Caribbean Misadventure

[@geographicstravel]

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[@rickschlosser6793]

I’ve been to the Bay of Pigs. My wife went diving there. It’s a beautiful place. A marine park now I believe. I saw the remains of the U2 that was shot down over Cuba during the Missile Crisis, it’s on display in Havana. Good Video. I like that there was no conspiracy stuff here. Just history.

[@conwaytwittyer2667]

“Tragic Caribbean Misadventure” is a weird way to say failed invasion of a sovereign nation.

[@nicholasbova9909]

George Carlin would've loved that description though

[@likebot.]

The world is full of spin-doctor doublespeak. When we take it as normal then the propaganda knob gets set to 11.

[@Gnomezonbacon]

@@nicholasbova9909 OMG Yes he would have. I can just hear him saying "We didn't fail to invade Cuba. We had a tragic carribbean misadventure."

[@ignitionfrn2223]

2:10 - Chapter 1 - The red menace 5:00 - Chapter 2 - A brilliant plan 7:30 - Chapter 3 - The new frontier 10:45 - Chapter 4 - Making a decision 13:15 - Chapter 5 - Disaster & embarassment 16:25 - Chapter 6 - Aftermath 20:10 - Chapter 7 - Legacy of disaster 21:15 - Conclusion

[@orusanen]

Here is an idea for a topic: Raatteentie. This is the place which secured Finland's independence in WW2.

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

Thanks For this! Love this channel

[@geographicstravel]

We'll keep making em if you keep watching em.

[@MiscMitz]

JFK's declassification is an interesting read...

[@limhan3209]

Not watched this channel for ages cos simon annoyed me...your a decent upgrade 👍

[@WendyLouPollock]

Thank you. Well written and well spoken

[@geographicstravel]

We try to be as thorough as possible. Happy you enjoyed it.

[@Darksh0t009]

You’re confused, this is Simon he just grew out his hair and took off his fake glasses.

[@elperrodelautumo7511]

The bay of pigs only escalated Cuba to lean with the Soviets. That was what lead to the Cuban missile crisis. It also escalated Castro’s presidential power to near president for life title.

[@colddogs]

i’m waiting for michael bay’s bay of pigs

[@Lazy_Tim]

Cheers Ben!

[@zjcollins90]

What happened to Simon

[@willdog94]

woah hold on, where's simon. Someone explain, isn't ben a writer? Did he buy the channel or is this a thing they're trying? I'm so confused.

[@brandonwilliams805]

Same, i was wondering if I was watching the same channel.

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

The Biggest failure of JFK's presidency

[@Robotron2084psn]

I kinda think it was motorcade security.

[@daveanderson3805]

​@@Robotron2084psnvalid point

[@ArchangelXCI]

Well the bullet that cut it short didn’t help…

[@davidmilhouscarter8198]

Theodore Roosevelt was the youngest person to be elected president.

[@gerryvalaitis]

He was vice president when he was elevated to president in 1901 due to the assassination of McKinley. He wasn't officially elected to the office until 1905 when he was 45.

[@ericthompson3982]

Safe to say a whole lot of other, ahem, "misadventures" could have been avoided if certain people had simply, I don't know, fostered a relationship with Castro and Cuba, instead of just deciding they knew best what their appropriate fates should be. Man, were huge swaths of the 20th century just *so* dumb.

[@chrisperez9854]

Castro didn’t want better relations, he wanted to be the guy who stood up to the U.S.

[@ericthompson3982]

@chrisperez9854 I don't think that's 100% true. There is some truth to it, but he was also aware that it would be dumb to just be antagonistic to the *massive* superpower directly to the north. There were elements in government and CIA (ahem, Bush Sr.) who decided that Castro and his cadre were too far left for their liking, and so pushed for the sugar embargo, and that was one of the early antagonistic steps. Guevara and Castro both could have been defanged by fostering a relationship, instead of making them boogeyman. It would have spared a ton of the banana republic nonsense that was to come.

[@TheCosmicGuy0111]

Rip

[@barrymaslow8441]

The "deBACKuhl"?! I'm done. "Unsubscribe"

[@izzyperez13]

Bring back Simon Whistler and redo all these topics

[@geographicstravel]

Nah.

[@izzyperez13]

@geographicstravel there were certainly Superior videos when he did it

[@mojothehelpermonkey1176]

@@geographicstravel yeah, why make hundreds of thousands of views when you could have tens of hundreds.