The Dumbest War Nobody Ever Talks About - BlueJay Reaction

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[@kevinneutzling8267]

One of my favorite dumb wars is the cod wars. Basically Iceland flexing the fact that it was strategically essential in NATO’s eyes and giving literally everyone a middle finger.

[@JurasJankauskas]

Even crazier the fact that there were more than 1 of them and Iceland technically won all of them, which is the best kind of win.

[@jeremymott]

Yep giving the UK 3 bouts of Humiliation

[@kineuhansen8629]

ive heard about that one and i wish oversimplified would make a video on it

[@arjusarauis9901]

We are promised Second Punic War videos, but could be cool if OS did it.

[@SylviusTheMad]

How about the Turbot War, between Canada and Spain.

[@landonduvall1553]

"Me likey some Cate Blanchett." VTH, Sept 2023

[@JasonVanderwyk-91Bravo]

Love ❤ Cate Blanchett great job playing Hella too

[@thiagots85]

Chris reacting to something about Brazil? This is a good day. Love from Brazil, Mr. VTH.

[@AlreadyTakenTag]

South America sure doesn't come up often in history videos. The continent really has some underrated historical topics.

[@emeralddragon2980]

Congrats on winning the Lobster War!

[@piratamaia]

Love from Brazil indeed brother

[@Eric6761]

​@@emeralddragon2980 i assure you this, we are going to get a payback on their scargot

[@samuelcameron8215]

As a Newfoundlander this reminds me of our history, just nonstop nations battling over fishing rights

[@ostrowulf]

Especially with Spain in the 90s

[@ZwiekszoneRyzyko]

Nothing beats the conflict that almost escalated into a full-scale war because of shooting of a pig. That one was my personal favourite.

[@shaggyrogers8869]

A classic

[@TheUnspeakableh]

Hey, a lot of potatoes were also hurt, by said pig.

[@joshuawells835]

Anyone else seeing similarities between the French lobster "research" off the coast of Brazil and the premise of Whale Wars, in which the Japanese were hunting whales in the Southern Ocean for "scientific research" before selling the meat?

[@Brenowski2]

Very good to see Brazil at VTH. Sadly South American history is pretty forgotten as usual, but there's a lot of good stuff to watch. Nice reaction as always Chris. Much love from Brazil 🇧🇷

[@TheLibermania]

My throw in for the dumbest war is the famous Whiskey war. The reason why North America has a land border with Europe.

[@momokochama1844]

probably the only war without victims (aside from some bottles of booze 🤣 🍾)

[@RRW359]

Unless Greenland gets independance

[@hugoheavens9863]

Here is a weird fact: In 1972 Arthur Bremer tried to assassinate George Wallace who was running for president at the time. He originally wanted to take out Nixon btw. This story at least partially inspires the screenplay for the movie Taxi Driver. This movie and its casting would inspire John Hinckley Jr to try to assassinate Ronald Reagan in 1981. This can be an example of two strangely connected events.

[@princealigorna7468]

A suggestion: Check out Wendigoon's history videos. He's known more for his horror content, but he has a ton of videos on strange history that would be fun to see reactions to (check out his vids on the assassination of Franz Ferdinand (Principe truly managed to bungle his way to success), the MLK assassination (James Earl Ray was absolutely a patsy and J. Edgar Hoover definitely killed that man), the 38 Minute War, Michael Rockerfeller, and Fordlandia).

[@genericyoutubeaccount579]

I hear what you say about Yellow Journalism in the past. Political parties around the world often started as newspapers that eventually grew into political parties. Adolph Tier, the founder of the French third republic started out editing a newspaper. Vladimir Lenin started the newspaper Iskra before the official Bolshevik party grew out of that tabloid. Plenty of political parties have been founded around newspapers.

[@MrPhilsterable]

I was literally just thinking of watching this BlueJay video again over lunch and I see this video posted only a few minutes ago. That's good timing.

[@ThatGUY666666]

Love your reactions as always Chris. I have been playing Baldur's Gate 3 for a while now and I can say it is an amazing game. However, I have never played DnD which I understand is the basis of BG3 so I have definitely gotten my teeth kicked in multiple times. That said I have not had much trouble with finding sources on line that have helped me build my knowledge and I am definitely getting better at it. It is not a game for everyone but I can definitely recommend giving it a try to see what you think. Speaking of "not for everyone" I do NOT recommend playing it around small children or anyone squeamish regarding mature content and if you are thinking of doing any videos on your gaming channel you will want to make sure certain options are disabled.

[@MrGforce52]

VTH: "I like Cate Blanchett." Me: "Ah, I see you're a man of culture as well."

[@markbarlin602]

Here in Australia we call the second largest flightless bird Emu [E-myou]. Then we have the dangerous Cassowary [with it's built-in crash helmet].

[@TheUnspeakableh]

Are Cassowary birds or are they just vaguely dinosaur shaped bags of hatred?

[@Letterman0412]

Similar to the “what is a lobster” question is a famous American law case of Frigaliment Importing Co. v. B.N.S. International Sales Corp., which was centered around the question of “what is a chicken?”

[@HistoryNerd808]

Or the (actually a landmark case) case of Nix v. Hedden about whether tomatoes are fruit or vegetables the law is concerned. SCOTUS ruled they were vegetables because public understanding beats technical dictionary definitiin.

[@oliversherman2414]

Imagine if war had actually broken out. It'd be pretty ridiculous to think people almost fought over lobsters

[@CindyDavies]

If lobster aren't worth fighting over, what is?

[@oliversherman2414]

@@CindyDavies Crabs

[@fruit2540]

22:02 It's funny to think that one year later (1964), a coup happened in Brazil (which was backed by the CIA btw) Goulart was majoritarily seen as a communist because of his labour laws, and so, was depicted as such by newspapers since he came into power in 1961 It's easy to imagine that Goulart's attempts to lower tensions in 1963 were possibly used by newspapers to depict him as a weak ruler, helping to lower popular support of his government

[@lofilazy.]

Baldur's Gate 3 is amazing, just don't play it with your kids in the room lol

[@jeffredfern3744]

Every kid has to learn about the goblins and ogres eventually.

[@nikogarcia201]

@@jeffredfern3744Don’t you mean the bugbear and the ogre?😊

[@Ghoast.]

Ayee, Brazil mentioned!! Was hopeful this one would come out

[@michaellamb4001]

Aussie here, Yes going to war with emu’s is dumb, what is even dumber is losing the war to the emu’s.

[@mikepenny8940]

Damn Chris, every time I go online, I see new videos and stuff from you . Keep it up man. I loved your Somme videos and now I'm watching your Ypres videos...amazing and that was so touching when you took those meds to the British soldiers grave

[@spaceviking4966]

Love the Bluejay reaction videos!

[@fruit2540]

If I had a nickel for every time Brazil went into battle because of sea creatures, I'd have two, which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice For context: search Battle of the Porpoises (or Batalha das Toninhas)

[@Maria_Erias]

With regards to the Cuban Missile Crisis, there's a really excellent movie with Kevin Costner called Seven Days. One of my absolute favorite movies of his.

[@Bombadil-ez9ns]

It might be called "Thirteen Days", not "Seven Days".

[@Maria_Erias]

@@Bombadil-ez9ns Maybe? Could be. I saw it years ago on Showtime. It's one of those good movies I always mean to watch again, but never remember.

[@Hypn0s2]

BG3 is pretty good. I'd probably finish Starfield first. If you ever played D&D, you will grab onto BG3 pretty quick.

[@colindehetre5517]

Loved the video! I saw the original one yesterday, but your reaction was very fun!

[@igorbarbosa4044]

I didn't expect a video about Brazil, so cool. Could you react to more videos about us?Love from Brazil

[@antoinedoyen7452]

I love Brazil. I lived in french guiana for 10 years and visited Belem, Manaus, Salvador....Nice people.

[@cba2make1up]

Man BlueJay never disappoints. Your reactions at THOSE moments are priceless

[@Lufernaal]

At 16:02, the note says: "Agreement. Sign here agreeing that you're gonna fuck off for real this time. Also, sing here if you're a huge dumb idiot who's ugly and stupid lol". Source: I'm Brazilian, from Rio. Additional info: The note sounds like it was written by an actual Brazilian person, but we don't usually use the phrase: "se foder" (fuck you, fuck off, etc) in that way, so it kind of sounds like a Brazilian person was given an English script to translate from directly. Still, not bad. Also, I have never seen anyone use "jaja" for laughing, and I had to research it myself to know what it was, we usually use "kkkkk" or "rsrsrs" or "shuaushuahs".

[@oliversherman2414]

I love your channel keep up the great stuff

[@devenowens5520]

This was so fast .. thought I would've had to wait a couple weeks ❤

[@JasonVanderwyk-91Bravo]

Lmao. I love the airplane fly by part. Excellent

[@Thraim.]

13:23 Oh god, he did the Vaporeon meme. For the love of god, nobody google it. It's the kind of deep lore that drives people mad in Lovecraft books.

[@thiamay7927]

Omg... i got my shout out... totally was not expecting that lol🎉😅

[@Pure_Havoc]

Great video. Baldur's Gate is great. I work a 4x10 hr job and already have 200 hours on it, it's great. I've been trying to make time for Starfield as well this Labor Day weekend.

[@anlydaly5726]

I want a HOI4 video (or series) that shows what could have happened if the "lobster war" actually became a legitimate war

[@DevilboyScooby]

Completely unrelated to most of the video but yes, Baldur's Gate 3 came out on PC last month and on ps5 in the next few days (deluxe edition playable now). It's pretty great although I keep failing history checks which is annoying 😂

[@goldentoaster9302]

Literally every time you upload I see it around 40 minutes later if I happen to be online.

[@asweettooth1288]

Hey idk, the story of the Conch Republic is pretty insane too lol. They succeed from the union, fired a Cannon and immediately surrendered 😅. Viva La Republi'c!

[@azhimdzulfadhlil5291]

BROOOO, CHRIS IS PLAYING STARFIELD? Mans got so much gamer energy radiating rn

[@Thraim.]

Ironically, Chris from the future is still Chris from the past for us watchers.

[@jameslane2326]

1:45 I am also really enjoying Starfield, so many great side quests! Have you met the "Old Earth Historian" Yet? or been to the living history museum on Titan, moon of Saturn?

[@mrmlea333]

I was introduced to BlueJay by your reaction videos

[@ErenKruger-qx3dt]

Baldur's Gate 3 is indeed out and from what I can tell is an absolute treat of a game

[@tigerqueen1112]

A series I think you, and a lot of people, will REALLY enjoy in extra history, policing London. I slept on it for a long while and it's one of my favorites. It tells you how they did 'policing' before and the twists and turns they had to do before they got the 1st official police force and it's honestly one of their best series and just naturally a bit funny (a long with the tulip mania one) please check that one out bc I would love to learn any more facts you have about the surrounding times or anything else you got!

[@Masonjar94]

“The first one, the one with the Soviets” has me laughing and I don’t know why

[@lightwalker222]

Honestly the football war was a fairly serious war, and it was more about immigration/economics than football - the football match was just when it boiled over.

[@shamargentle5801]

I love your videos I'm so glad you are doing this video I figured you'd love this!!

[@patrickc3419]

Loved your commentary on Shapiro’s ranking the Presidents. Still have it on my favorites. I’m staunchly conservative, but much of his list was ridiculous: -Saying that FDR was one of the worst presidents ever. -Ranking JFK as a C. -It’s at the very end; I don’t think you included it, but saying that Andrew Jackson was an A. 😳😳😳

[@zacharygrouwinkel1534]

FDR is one of the worst presidents. He extended the Great Depression and many of his policies are still ruining the country to this day.

[@andrescanales9719]

Shapiro is first and foremost a partisan hack. It was very clear he dismissed any achievement by more progressive presidents based on bias.

[@sebastianwiedemann326]

Blue Jay: best enjoyed at 0.75speed VTH: best enjoyed at 1.5 Both together: somehow perfect

[@orewaemiliagasukida2262]

14:00 That Vaporeon=NSFW is giving me some major copypasta ptsd

[@jamisonweaver3711]

I feel like Neo right now. *eyes open*, "I know all about the Lobster War now; and I know Kung-Fu"

[@johnlandrigan6578]

The Battle of May Island gets my vote for weirdest battle. So many British ships were damaged and no enemy present.

[@philwilson7682]

🇧🇷 Brazil mentioned! 🎉🎉🥳🥳🎉🎉

[@silverninja5218]

We know Chris's celebrity crush lol

[@VloggingThroughHistory]

One of them. You can add Rebecca Ferguson, Emilia Clarke, and Natalie Dormer in there too.

[@anumeon]

France of all nations should remember the power of the press. Think back to Zola and his open letter in the newspaper about the Dreyfus affair.. "J'Accuse"

[@arjunsandhar578]

Great vid

[@HG-vj8kg]

Any chance we'll be seeing you react to the last part of Epic HistoryTV's Napoleon's first campaign?

[@VloggingThroughHistory]

Yes. Soon.

[@MALEMization]

BTW, Baldur's Gate 3 is out and if you want to get your revenge on BlueJay for that Kate Blanchet joke, there is a blue jay in the game: KILL IT!

[@tlcasselman]

Chris's face at 23:24 made me laugh out loud.

[@Squeegee93]

As always, love your videos. I've learned more about European history watching your vids than elsewhere in my 30 years of life (including the 5 years I lived in Germany...) That being said, Baldur's Gate 3 is like a thousand times better than Star Field. You should check it out.

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

Love your videos chris🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤

[@arjunsandhar578]

Love the video

[@antoinedoyen7452]

It s not the only quasi clash....same story with Canada about seezone around the french islands of Saint Pierre et Miquelon near Newfoundland. A most serious problem was between UK and Iceland.

[@terrabranford7485]

I nominated the Cod Fish Wars between the U.K. and Iceland. The THREE Cod Wars as follow-up to this video. Simple History has a short video, but maybe another content creator made a longer and more humorous video.

[@jonrivers7779]

@vlogging through history. You think the first Afghan war was the one against the Soviets (1979-1989)? Us British proudly got our arses kicked long before in the actual 1st Afghanistan war 1838-1842 and the 2nd Afghanistan war 1878-1880. Never mind the Mongol Afghan War 1219 and the Muslim conquest 642-1100 etc.

[@VloggingThroughHistory]

No I don’t think that. But it is the first war that people alive today experienced.

[@parkerjelke8786]

Great video Chris!

[@oakdew]

Thanks for the warning about not being family friendly!!!

[@ondrejvasak1054]

If you want to do something for Cuban missile crisis, Indy Neidell has a great detailed series about it on channel TimeGhost History. Highly recommended.

[@davidvalverde629]

History Matter The Cod Wars is similar to this, great short video to a reaction to.

[@arcxjo]

21:35 isn't there some French saying about their leader being The State?

[@Alysandra20]

Yes, Baldur's Gate is a pretty fantastic game. If you like or know anything about 5th edition Dungeons and Dragons, it's even better

[@Angrenost02]

La Baise definitely can be interpreted as "the fuck" in our modern times but its original meaning is "the kiss".

[@generic_name6302]

Glad to see bluejay again

[@anonnymousperson]

Dumbest war = Pig war, although everyone knows that one since Oversimplified did their video.

[@zsarke2450]

Australian here. Just letting you know, it’s pronounced eem-YOU. We also call them prawns, not shrimp.

[@Buzzy_Bland]

Ayyyyyyy I was gonna suggest this.

[@dinamosflams]

also remember this was right before the US implemented and/or subsidized a lot of dictatorships in south america (including brazil), in what is known as operation condor.

[@jackbucholz4455]

can we please put “me likey some cate blanchett” on a tshirt😂😂

[@theunidentified320]

You've gotta do more content on the Pacific War

[@DJLthoughts]

baldur's gate 3 is out and is so good!

[@charlessapp1835]

Thank you for the warning you did at the beginning VTH. I like Blue Jay's content, he is really good at what he does, but I do wish he was a little cleaner like Oversimplified. Red Skelton always said that you don't need 4 letter words to be funny.

[@macaylacayton2915]

dumb wars=emu war, soccer war, pastry war, etc

[@taranbaze1448]

"Im rich and the president of France. I dont get mixed signals I get bitches"😂 19:35

[@osvaldobravo1772]

You mentioned you've been playing Starfield the past few days. I pre-ordered it and haven't been given the option on Steam to play it until the official release date which is in 3 days. I hope you're enjoying the game though, Chris.

[@VloggingThroughHistory]

Yeah you have to get one of the premium editions to get early access.

[@iloveoscarpiastri22]

BG3 is INCREDIBLE

[@emilmodd4816]

We have the lobster war and the cod war... So when is the sea cucumber war dropping?

[@Chris-xz8fm]

You know it was really funny all three of those examples of dumb wars that you gave it the beginning of the video was covered by oversimplified LMAO

[@michaeldavid2553]

That was a dumb dispute indeed. A note on De Gaulle's "stubborn" attitude as described by Americans and the Brits: De Gaulle was right in having NO trust with a) the Brits, who basically broke rank, dropped their guns and fled in front of the enemy in Dunkirk; b) Roosevelt and his clique, who considered De Gaulle illegitimate and wanted to maintain diplomatic ties with Petain. De Gaulle and his administration were successful in preventing the so-called US/UK allied military government of occupied territories (AMGOT), a front for looting occupied countries after the war, to take hold in France. I understand that leaves Americans and Brits bitter. By the way, I hope we soon hear about the Cod wars...

[@eduardol7823]

Who freed France? It wasn't De Gaulle.

[@michaeldavid2553]

@@eduardol7823 Dear Eduardo, I'm not sure about your scholar level, but I do strongly suggest you learn to read and analyse a text. The question here was NOT "who freed France'. The point here was a rebuttal of the US/UK view that De Gaulle was stubborn. Apples and oranges. So, please enroll to a community college near your place, it will change your life.

[@eduardol7823]

An argument from appeal to authority. Give me a break. I suggest your follow your own advice and listen the the program. It was in relation to D-day and not the administration of France after the war.

[@michaeldavid2553]

@@eduardol7823 Another topic you might want to review is Critical Thinking and the definition of fallacies. My argument was never an appeal to authority. It took a statement made by the historian (and shared by most Anglo-Saxons and their minions) that De Gaulle was stubborn. I contradicted this statement with facts. Then I closed with another episode - the AMGOT in France - that further pissed off the US/UK and led them to further disparage De Gaulle. In summary, you lack both understanding of the written word as well as logic. Apart from you not being able to counter my (very simple) argument, this must seriously impact both your professional and personal life. My deep condolences,

[@eduardol7823]

@@michaeldavid2553 Yes, you did. You questioned my level of education imply you were an expert. By the way it is scholarly level., scholar level.

[@vahurjoa210]

21:51 "Tartu" That is my home town in Estonia. What are the odds.

[@dominicward3]

PLEASE stream a play through of Baldurs Gate 3, even if you have to make a “gaming” channel for it. I would love to see how you handle some of the moral dilemmas the game presents. Forewarning, the game is huge, so it could be an elongated, ongoing project. Also just as an afterthought you role playing as Woodrow Wilson and making the worst derisions possible would also be very entertaining. Appreciate the work you put in sir, thank you very much!

[@VloggingThroughHistory]

I...have a gaming channel. In fact it was around for 4 years before I started this one!

[@dominicward3]

@@VloggingThroughHistory Well color me corrected sir! I will head over there and check it out now!

[@dominicward3]

@VloggingThroughHistory oh my gosh, there's so much. Thank you for the correction sir!

[@victornunes900]

Baldur's Gate 3 is out and, honestly? Game of the year.

[@drudenae]

Play Baldur's Gate 3 it's incredible

[@connorjeans6592]

“i… am gonna object to this” 😌

[@MegaCoupie]

Baldurs Gate 3 is out if you have PC and or PS5 it's not out on xbox yet

[@RailroadFanatic-hr6pf]

Charles may not have gotten his gripper snippers easily but at least he has an airport named after him.

[@JKingSniper]

The puns were great

[@tallantballer45]

That probably did cause the escalation because that response to lobsters being fish was epic. Lol

[@iammattc1]

3:19 Yeah, we kinda picked that up.