Top 30 Worst Decisions in History

[@WatchMojo]

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[@itsa-itsagames]

@11:10 hmmm this sounds AWFULLY familiar ........ hmmmmmm

[@9Achaemenid]

The iranian revolution destabilized the whole middle east region until today and decades to come :(

[@monsutaman1]

The Browns hiring Kevin Stefanski......

[@zanethind3533]

How did Moctezuma welcoming Cortes, Japan's invasion of Asia in WW2, and Hitler's invasion of Poland weren't on this list?

[@zanethind3533]

Still no clue why the Shah refused peace with Genghis Khan. Genghis wanted peace and he accepted two different kingdoms.

[@Leviathan_1.0]

I'd say letting Russell Wilson throw a pass instead of handing the ball over to Marshawn Lynch for a run in SB 49

[@Therealperkyfn]

That is so real

[@KamsPoliticalPredictions]

Could've changed the whole NFL timeline

[@doctorkhumalo7730]

Yep

[@Dalton1294]

I think it was the right call to attempt a pass, I don't agree with the pass play that was called. I would've called a play action pass in that situation

[@Leviathan_1.0]

@@Dalton1294 Nah, Pete Carroll or it's Russell Wilson himself who wants to win the SB MVP not Marshawn Lynch that's why they pass. I'm sorry but You got an unstoppable force at the 1 yard line yet you choose to pass? That was a big mistake

[@javaadaros]

The worst part is the inability to learn lessons from these awful decisions and the events they triggered 🤦‍♀️

[@zanethind3533]

Yeah 😢

[@gandydancer9710]

What lessons?

[@javaadaros]

@@gandydancer9710 that's exactly what I mean

[@ewok40k]

like, half of these is being "lets invade a neighbour, it will be over by Christmas" wars

[@opieangst]

Then there's that crazy Bastard, George Washington: "Let's invade these mf'ers IN THEIR SLEEP. ON CHRISTMAS. Follow me across this frozen river!"

[@nodnarbleahcim5097]

When the Austrians rejected that one amateur artist....

[@dragonweyr44]

Well, he was a bad painter anyway

[@gerarduspoppel2831]

​@@dragonweyr44His paintings were not bad. But the rise of the Picasso and artists like that made it less popular

[@frankieseward8667]

Dred Scott ruling. Seriously that ruling basically set the stage for civil war

[@Dalton1294]

It also lead to the language seen in the 14th Amendment

[@altareggo]

Agree. Worst possible Supreme Court decision .... along with the ones which completely mis-interpreted the 2nd Ammendment, and declared money to be "protected free speech" when it came to politics.

[@tarajh]

Right? How did the Donner parties' shortcut make the list when it only affected them? Soooo many other historical events with far-reaching consequences...

[@gandydancer9710]

@@tarajh That and Hitler invading the USSR don't in any way belong on the same list. A few dozen dead vs a few dozen million? And taking abolitionism out of the Declaration of Independence? It would never have been signed otherwise.

[@cinegoth4144]

Yes, but where is Joker 2?

[@jsutton0010]

A movie can not be called one of the worst decisions in history.

[@josephr4761]

@@jsutton0010 If any movie arguably could, it would be Joker 2

[@2168017]

😂

[@wutrudoin]

0:23 Diocletian splits Rome into East & West 1:16 King Leopold II's rush to Africa 2:20 Sending Diego de Landa to convert the Yucatán peninsula 3:17 Romanos IV recruiting a diverse army 4:16 Jefferson removing an anti-slavery passage from the declaration of independence 6:53 King Charles I dissolving the parliament 8:21 Operation Cyclone 9:38 Lenin installing himself as a dictator 10:46 Louis XVI's financial aid to the USA 12:03 The bay of pigs invasion 13:07 The donner party's "shortcut" 14:10 Churchill decides to invade Gallipoli 15:11 Battle of the Little Bighorn 16:24 Napoleon's invasion of Russia 17:01 The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan 17:42 The Spanish Armada's failed invasion of England 18:45 The Fourth Crusade 19:34 Chernobyl meltdown 20:33 Hernán Cortés' alliance with the Aztecs' enemies 21:37 Mao's great leap forward 22:20 The topping of Mohammad Mosaddegh in Iran 23:02 Escalation of the Vietnam war 24:18 George W Bush invading Iraq in 2003 24:59 Austria-Hungarian invasion of Serbia 25:43 Russian invasion of Ukraine 26:51 Japan bring the USA into World War 2 27:50 Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union 28:25 Angering Genghis Khan 29:22 The victorious allies (mainly France) impose harsh terms on Germany after WW1

[@EVERYGOODNAMEISTAKEN]

L spoilers

[@J.B.Ram1]

Missed 5:45 non-testing of the Titanic.

[@who399]

How Lincoln freeing the slave wasn't #1 I'll never know

[@stephenlitten1789]

@@who399 Because you've not learnt from history: the war was fought by the South to retain slavery (the North fought merely to preserve the Union). Removing slavery revokes a motive to rebel

[@who399]

@stephenlitten1789 Well, Lincoln freeing them seems to have been a huge mistake, or are you not aware of the state of things today?

[@genorp]

And Number One: George Lucas sells Star Wars to Disney

[@nicholas-k8j]

YEAH and turning Disney and every great franchise into woke culture .... baning disney from saying ladies and gentlemen and brainwashing the next 200 years of school children making them think there are hundreds of different sexes. Another one is EA buying up every classic PC games company and turning PC game industry into play to win and downloadable content with no inovation since they bacame the biggest PC games company

[@Hellothere77-j2k]

I’m surprised these fruit cakes aren’t mad at you saying that😂 watchMojo‘s community has changed

[@ba1050]

Have you seen episodes 1,2, and 3? Star Wars was no better in George Lucas's hands.

[@Hellothere77-j2k]

@@ba1050 😐 bro you don’t know what you’re talking about. The prequels are freaking good and the best sw in my opinion was pt 5

[@altareggo]

@@ba1050 True. Should have kept it to the original epic trilogy....spare us the likes of Jar-Jar Binks, lol.

[@anthonyminimum]

4:16 The Committee of Five who worked on the Declaration of Independence had no choice but to remove it, if they didn’t, the Southern Colonies would’ve never agreed to join the rebellion and United States. Jefferson put it perfectly: "[Slavery is holding] the wolf by the ears; and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation in the other."

[@scottreyes17]

THIS, is likely the smartest post put on the internet ever...of all time. Priority #1 was to create a united nation. Without the South, England would have crushed the rebellion.

[@lizzlegbfrolf5409]

This is 100 % correct. Jefferson had no choice.

[@DryBones271]

The near extermination of the Native Americans was appalling, and definitely a dark stain on American History!

[@heathrunyon4036]

Native Americans were not externally. They died because their immune system wasn’t able to fight off the infection of malaria and other mosquitoes diseases.

[@dyoung1998]

Mistake was making it "near".

[@loconess72]

@@heathrunyon4036 Yes, that happened but the majority were killed by europeans specially those who settle on the northern part of the continent.

[@guitarlover1370]

That was bad but the Residential school systems here in Canada were the final nail in the coffin for our people, that messed up almost every single Indigenous person to this day

[@JSolar590]

I bet you would rather live under modernity than under the Stone Age, which the Native Americans were stuck in.

[@jonathanlerner2797]

Barbarossa is a much stronger contender for the worst decision of all time. It directly led to Germany losing the war and was completely avoidable. And it was even worse given that there was already the example of Russia humbling Napoleon. #3 isn’t high enough.

[@dragonweyr44]

The problem was that Germany and Hitler NEEDED to invade Russia, not to take over the country for Lebensraum (living space) as they claimed, but for the oil rich Caucus region

[@AdarshYadav-ki8xn]

America did the same Iran ,Iraq vietnam , Afghanistan all failed and the only difference was all of these are weaker nations and people didn’t care enough about middleeast

[@dragonweyr44]

@AdarshYadav-ki8xn Uh, we don't invade Iran,. We did Afghanistan

[@matthewharris517]

Too bad we live in a world where everyone is right Even if people make a mistake they'll almost NEVER own up to it

[@totallybored5526]

Only 51% of the population never admit to making a mistake or being wrong

[@Snatchystashy]

Yes. Accountability is a dying trait these days.

[@michaelbishop1]

@@Snatchystashy Accountability has never been a trait of the human race.

[@zanethind3533]

Sadly it's been going on for centuries

[@relicofgold]

Voters have yet to apologize for installing Dubya the war criminal as US president.......and then re-electing the moron. It is disgusting.

[@MrShaneVicious]

10:00 Lenin had nothing to do with the February Revolution and the Tsar's abdication, because he was in Switzerland at the time. Lenin is responsible for the October Revolution that overthrew Kerensky and the Provisional Government.

[@Shinzon23]

He founded the movement before the exile tho

[@MrShaneVicious]

@Shinzon23 The February Revolution was not a communist revolution. Alexander Kerensky was not a Communist. The Communist Revolution was in October. The Communists overthrew Kerensky's Govt, not the Tsar's. Lenin despised the liberal politicians.

[@stevenkramer3431]

A few other contenders: the mounting of Pickett's Charge at the Battle of Gettysburg (1863); the addition of tetraethyl lead to gasoline (early 1920s); The Smoot-Hawley Tariff (1930); Decca Records rejects the Beatles (1962)

[@xyz061220]

Make sure to show a pic of Dick Rowe ...

[@suzyfarnham3165]

If only all those voters ACTUALLY KNEW about the Smoot Hawley Tariffs? If only they saw what tariffs did during the Depression? Buckle up America......

[@dragonweyr44]

Also British Prime Minister Nevil Chamberlain's Munich Accords paving the way for hitler invading Europe

[@stevenkramer3431]

​@@xyz061220 Exactly! Yeah, in the grand scheme of things, this was indeed a terrible decision, but not exactly world-impacting. A lot of bad business decisions fall into that category: Blockbuster refusing to buy Netflix, Ford introducing the Edsel, so forth. Maybe the most significant in changing the world was DRI refusing to license CP/M to IBM...not sure.

[@stevenkramer3431]

@@suzyfarnham3165 I was actually in favor of tariffs at one point as a way to stimulate the domestic economy - but honestly, given some not-very-deep research and historical lessons such as this, I'm thinking it is generally not a good idea.

[@revanreborn9658]

I would say the lack of communication and transparacy that caused the COVID pandemic to escalate into a global crisis

[@brandonvasser5902]

How about democrats politicizing it and banning any opinion that agreed the evidence pointed to a Wuhan lab leak, which is accepted now. How many had to die because of the misinformation and propaganda to protect the source of the problem.

[@Adam.Langton]

That was largely a result of terrible leadership. Look at the countries who were hot the hardest, and who was in charge. Basically a gaggle of tyrants that don't care about the people they govern.

[@dragonweyr44]

The conspiracy theories about vaccines, the belief that people couldn't breathe with masks on and some moron suggesting that Hydrochloriquin, a lupus medication, Ivermectin, a horse de-wormer, injecting yourself with disinfectant and shinning UV light UNDER THE SKIN didn't help either And now that same moron is going to be in office again in 3 weeks

[@tomace194]

You mean gain of function?

[@gregpetridis3762]

That started from China.

[@stephanleo]

3:50 "Let's just spray paint modern army helmets silver, so they'll look medieval!" 😂

[@nickhampton1753]

To say that invading Ukraine is a worst mistake than the Great Leap Forward is the most out of touch thing I’ve ever heard

[@brandonvasser5902]

I dont think its ranked that hard. The invasion of Afghanistan led to the dissolution of the USSR. But WatchMojo didn’t say that was a disastrous decision. Killing 2 million civilians on the way. They said the US support of the Afghans was the terrible decision. Because they are big terrorist to the US now. It didn’t say the decision to commit 9/11 was a disastrous decision either. It even said France going into debt funding America’s war of independence was a TERRIBLE decision of France because it likely made a french famine worse. Mind you this led to the US becoming France’s biggest ally and hero in WW2 but also the French Revolution. Weird take to say the debt suffered by France was an awful decision considering what they got from it.

[@Jeremy-ql1or]

@@brandonvasser5902 9/11 Wouldn't fit on this list because these ones are all government/citizen sanctioned decisions that were meant to have positive effects instead of the disastrous ones they ended up having. 9/11 had the exact effects it was intended to have by the people who made the decisions.

[@Michele_PoeTreeWitch]

@@brandonvasser5902 I think much like the Romanovs, revolution was going to happen regardless. Louis the 16th’s out of control spending Versailles had the people enraged. It is definitely ironic that his help with the American Revolution was a huge factor in the shortly following French Revolution. Oopsie! 😉

[@SaiyanElf]

@@Jeremy-ql1or Not quite, Osama Bin Laden orchestrated the 9/11 attacks in hopes of stopping and deterring US interference in the Middle East. The exact opposite happened.

[@AmazonicoIndio]

The thing is, we still don't know all the ramifications of this invasion. Maybe this was the event that will led to the third world war, but we can't tell yet.

[@xSirDudex]

The assassination of Archduke Ferdinand in 1914 changed the world to this day. A 19 year old assassin changed the world for the next century to come. Wild!

[@jaleesagreene6800]

Just remember that had Princess Charlotte not died during childbirth, then Leopold would have never been born, and Belgium wouldn't even exist. Shitty medical practices caused a lot damage.

[@TwistedRiffster]

Do you have to talk like trash to make your point?

[@user-em6ie2be7x]

The Iraq War - invading the wrong country. This act of stupidity cost lives on all sides.

[@Adam.Langton]

Well it wasn't really the "wrong" country. Bush knew who was responsible. He had always wanted to attack Iraq. He's responsible for countless deaths, and gets to walk around like he's blameless.

[@Skygrey2943]

It was a deliberate act. They knew Iraq had nothing to do with 9 / 11 and the US wanted their oil.

[@Adam.Langton]

@@user-em6ie2be7x Bush invaded the country he wanted to. A million dead civilians, and he walks around like nothing happened.

[@nodnarbleahcim5097]

Yeah but I deployed 5 times in support of that war plus did a year in Turkey tax free. I made some really good money. War is profitable for sure!

[@Adam.Langton]

@@nodnarbleahcim5097 Yeah, but money can't change you from being a turd of a person, can it?

[@machjiffy4710]

Now we need a "Top 30 BEST Decisions In History", make it happen Mojo!

[@stephanleo]

27:10 "...the USA, Britain and the Dutch, who all had TERRITORY in the pacific ..." - Now that's a euphemism for colonies, isn’t it?

[@ReallyBigBrother]

Yeah but what about Philadelphia getting rid of those cheesecake bars

[@gh3meister]

Omitting that sentence from the declaration of independence wasn't a mistake. It was a product of the times, slavery was everywhere in the world at that time, it isn't like the US was the only country that had them

[@emmanuelkondowe6298]

True even Egypt had slaves of its own people

[@EdmondGuay]

And deleting that sentence was one of the compromises Jefferson and Adams and Franklin had to make to assure that the declaration would be unanimously adopted even by the slave holding states. Without its removal from the declaration, there would have been no United States of America. However, one of the scariest, and obviously most reflective discoveries was a statement Adams made to Franklin. Adam’s vehemently opposed to removing it and said that if it did within a couple generations, it would cause a civil war. He was extraordinarily prophetic.

[@RBF7499]

​@EdmondGuay Another factor was that slaves weren't included in the census count. Keeping that sentence would've given slave states more seats in Govt. Right or wrong, it played a role

[@Cdr_Mansfield_Cumming]

That's where you are wrong. The real reason for the colonists deciding to rebel was because Slavery was going to be outlawed in the British Empire in 1795. Too many colonists, including the American founding fathers, were slave owners. Slavery had already been outlawed in 1708 in Great Britain (England outlawed slavery in 1068) and the influential colonists in every Assembly made the the decision to rebel. Today, we hear the ill-founded belief that the revolution was about taxation and representation. No American having gone through the indoctrination in the US school system believes anything but what they are told. The facts are documented in various letters from the Colonial Office in London to different Colonialists in the 13 Colonies.

[@anthonykanemd]

@@Cdr_Mansfield_Cumming It sounds like you got this from the 1619 project.

[@kelvinhatcher3285]

Every war at it basics is over “money” The mistake is the “love of money”.

[@Avalon_1991]

George Lucas selling Star Wars to Disney is definitely one of these.

[@dragonweyr44]

Disney has made some good stuff with Star Wars and bad stuff too And the Prequels were all Lucas's fault

[@jsmith1746]

So the lesson from this is invasions are usually a very bad idea.

[@Jeremiah_Rivers76]

Engaging the North Vietnamese was a costly mistake.

[@josephr4761]

That was one of the many consequences of creating a communist superpower in ww2.

[@dragonweyr44]

Engaging the North Vietnamese wasn't the problem, it was how we were fighting the war In past wars, we fought to gain territory to deny it from the enemy. But in Vietnam, we fight to take a hill, lose dozens of men at a time, only to abandon it and let them take it back again, forcing us to take it again and abandoning it again Add to the fact that LBJ and Robert Mcnamara micromanageing the war from 10,000 miles away, William Westmoreland saying he could win the war if he just got a few thousand more men, over and over again, the Rules of Engagement hamstringing us while the enemy doesn't play by our rules and the F4 Phantom which didn't have guns and missiles with a 75% failure rate, didn't help

[@waitwhat69247]

F4 didnt have guns because it shouldnt have needed them the whole point of it was to kill its target well before it got into visual range but as usual politics got in the way they literally forced all bomb runs through a single flight corridor to the north allowing the north to stack air defences at one point and then banned the airforce from attacking the those defences giving the reason that if there was russian or chinese advisors assisting with the weapons it could cause diplomatic issues So just go to hell and back instead

[@dragonweyr44]

@efraincastaneda3586 Considering that we haven't had a domestic war in 160 years, that's unlikely to happen

[@christopherkelly9153]

Right now a whole lot of people are wondering why their marriage isn’t listed here.

[@sophiaclark376]

Or their kids 👀

[@josephr4761]

@@sophiaclark376 Not for most people. My kids are the one positive that came out of my marriage.

[@parkerthomson7130]

I think it’s safe to say that for Afghanistan, it’s safe to say that the soviets were responsible for the start of the Afghan conflict, not to mention the many war crimes that they carried out which involve the massacres of many Afghan of civilians resulting in a whopping 2 million Afghan deaths, and of course, the fact that this would lead to the forever Afghan conflict in general.

[@brandonvasser5902]

And heavily lead to the dissolution of the USSR. But WatchMojo doesn’t seem to think the Russian INVASION of the Afghans was a bad idea.

[@ricardozetino6907]

It would be wise to say the Soviet Afghan war and all the events that happen during it were a major mistake for both the Americans and the Russians. The Soviet Afghan war and the Russians ineffectiveness at fighting against guerrilla warfare and at sustaining financial funding military opreations for a prolonged time length led to the Russians suffering a major full scale completed decisive defeat in Afghanistan and why the Soviet Union effectively completed full scale dissolved as a entire superpower, entire nation state, entire country, and as a entire society. But the US support for the Afghan mujahedeen( A loosely allied coalition of mostly Islamist, Islamic fundamentalist, and Jihadist independent militias) and the Afghan mujahedeen effective completes full scale decisive victory over the Soviets at the end of the Soviet Afghan war and their effective completed full scale military decisive victory over the communist Afghan government during the first Afghan civil war led to the rise of Islamism, Islamic fundamentalism, and Jihadism in the Muslim world(Which includes southeast Asia and the middle east.) Which led to the creations and rise of Al-Qaeda, the Taliban, and ISIS. Which led to the 9/11 attacks and the subsequent US led war on terror campaign. Which is why despite the US effectively achieving an ultimate completed full scale decisive victory over the Soviet Union at the end of the Cold war as the United States effectively still existed but the Soviet Union doesn't in the 21st century. It is also why the US wasn't able to effectively not have to predominantly worry about it foreign policy in the post cold war era after the 1990's ended.

[@bigdoug1558]

The British tried taking Afghanistan, as have many others, it's a strategic piece of land. Problem stems from bigger countries trying to exert their influence.

[@davemathews7890]

In the Congo under Leopold, the primary punishment for disobedience or failing to meet rubber production quotas was having one's hands cut off. These were often cut off by Force Publique soldiers who were made to account for every shot they fired by bringing back the hands of their victims. The baskets of severed hands, set down at the feet of the Belgian post commanders, became the symbol of the Congo Free State.

[@mikememine1423]

GREAT VIDEO! Thanks to Watch Mojo and everyone for thinking of it and following through with it! Especially thanks to the irreplaceable narrator and the fact finders who are just the finest in all of You Tube land. Happy New Year to everyone!

[@jimmeade2976]

In #26, you failed to mention that the passage of slavery in the Declaration of Independence was removed for legitimate political reasons. Had it remained, there would not have been 13 colonies declaring independence. The southern colonies would not have remained with Britain, and the northern colonies alone would have failed in a war with Britain. It was not a mistake to remove the slavery passage ... it allowed the founding of the United States of America to happen.

[@alextorres5886]

Thank you!!!! Someone who actually does their research👍👍

[@SongmakersCry]

I've been really enjoying these videos lately. Very interesting.

[@dearthditch]

Napoleon invading Russia. Germany invading Russia. Just basically remember it’s exceedingly vast and frozen. Also goes for Afghanistan. Which is empty except for rocks

[@RiVer-Parish]

It's crazy to me how Leopald has statues around Belgium quite sad.

[@DeanDecoursey]

The appeasement of Hitler leading to the invasion of Poland

[@Gettingback997]

As a history buff I’ve enjoyed watching this impartial video. Thank you !!

[@littlefluffybushbaby7256]

As a history buff you'll know it's full of errors, right?

[@mccuish]

How is something related to covid not on this list

[@Hellothere77-j2k]

Y’all act like it was the 1347 plague.😂 who would you blame im curious.

[@cba_2442]

It wasn't even that bad.

[@Hellothere77-j2k]

@@cba_2442 fr.

[@muveematic]

My favorite WatchMojo VO Artist

[@KaponoMonster]

Here’s one not on this list: The Emoji Movie

[@frankbrodie5168]

I'd add every single Robin Williams movie. I'm not a fan.

[@luongo7886]

Never mess with the Mongols? Vietnamese: Hold my bowl of Phở. [Sometime later, Vietnam defeated the mighty Mongols FIVE TIMES]

[@chprudhviteja]

Change the title to ' Horrible things done by europe and america'

[@MelonLordha]

U must be from Afganistan

[@littlefluffybushbaby7256]

Mao? This video is entertainment and the creators and consumers are western, so that will be it's emphasis. There are plenty of 'horrible' things done by non-Europeans or Americans. Being 'horrible' is more a human trait than a geographic one. As is slavery, colonization, and having empires (pretty much everywhere on the planet has done that at some point).

[@doctorkhumalo7730]

Dez Braynt caught that ball.

[@Hellothere77-j2k]

100%

[@mrnobody2683]

History MATTERS

[@littlefluffybushbaby7256]

Much of what we think we know about history is just plain wrong, and often just made up. Certainly at the popular level like this. Many of the things that were common beliefs half a century ago and have since been disproved or revised on the basis of new evidence and research are still repeated as true. With just one minute per topic you can't expect a video like this to cover the complexity of the events it covers. So you get a summary that has to skip so many facts it's, at best, meaningless and, at worse, misleading. This is fun not history.

[@RiggsBF]

Only 30? This list should be at least 100.

[@unklejohn7381]

#31 Voting Trump into office, twice.

[@RonPaulPeace]

Yeah, he hasn't started any wars.

[@jasperchance3382]

@@RonPaulPeace what do you think the Abrahams accord lead to?

[@albertfransz]

A few others: The Roman army going into the Teutoburg forest. The 2 Inca brothers more engaging in fighting each other in a civil war than fighting the small conquistador army. The French generals ignoring the Ardennes in May 1940.

[@ARIXANDRE]

When british soldier Henry Tandey spared Pvt. Hitler's life in WW 1...

[@andrewjodon1433]

Well yes. But The treaty of Versailles is what made it extremely easy for Hitler to come into power to begin with.

[@babalonkie]

@@andrewjodon1433 Excuses will never be accepted for voting in and accepting a madman. That will also apply in Russia... and USA.

[@andrewjodon1433]

@@babalonkie did I say it was acceptable? No I did not.

[@caolanmcflynn2412]

Hitler probably made at up no record at he was at that battle

[@Michele_PoeTreeWitch]

@@andrewjodon1433true. If not him, it could have been someone else. I don’t know that the result would be similar but there was already a movement created. Mustache douche joined an already established party

[@nathanialcook5705]

Not a fan of slavery. Thomas Jefferson took the bit about slavery out of the Declaration of Independence, because none of the southern states would have signed it. So the whole revolution would’ve never occurred.

[@Jayk129]

Every single one of these bad decisions in the video, all the ones in the comments and millions of others not listed were all able to happen because of the biggest single mistake in all of human history. Coming down from the trees and learning to walk.

[@brandonvasser5902]

We should include the Hitler-Stalin pact. All it did was give both the go-ahead to wage war on Europe. We saw how that worked out for Germany and Europe. And the USSR doesn’t exist anymore and Finland and the balkans and Ukraine and Poland all hate Russia. Stalin shouldn’t have decided to split up Europe with the Nazis together. Germany ultimately won, they lead the Euro and Putin is seriously struggling to rebuild his empire while his former states try to pull away and join Germany and France.

[@josephr4761]

It shouldn't have been a bad thing for most of Europe. Germany probably didn't expect that Britain would actually declare war when they invaded Poland as Poland had only existed for 20 years. If Britain and France just let it go and didn't declare war on Germany, Germany never would have gone West. Their war with the Soviet Union was inevitable, the war with the West could have been completely avoided.

[@marcuscarberry218]

The reaction people had and the decision people did when Jaws came out. Oceans where never the same since 😢

[@dragonweyr44]

Jaws tapped into our primal fears of certain animals Other animals in those fears include snakes, bears and scorpions to name a few Imagine if it had been about one of them instead Plus jaws tapped into our fear of the ocean as well

[@robirvine6970]

Nonsence.

[@littlefluffybushbaby7256]

Jaws did for swimming what Psycho did for showers. 😁 Apparently the trouser press is more dangerous than the great white. I'm looking forward to that blockbuster. 😂

[@mamalannightshyaman]

watchmojo saying the titanic sinking was worse than slavery and the civil war

[@Animeguy300]

Can’t wait next year for your lists

[@StanHalen1936]

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[@influentiallegends]

05:01 Imagine if Jefferson had kept the anti-slavery passage in the Declaration of Independence. How different do you think American history would be? Could it have avoided the Civil War altogether?

[@ryanrex297]

I always think of this. I imagine the country would never have formed the way it did. Too radical for the time probably. Too bad, was nearly perfect.

[@junkboxxxxxx]

The USA would have it's southern border along the Potomac

[@brandonvasser5902]

The North would have been forced to invest in southern development. Instead we got a poor agrarian society with slavery that was eventually burned down and then kept down by “carpet baggers” from the North for a generation. There would be less wealth disparity between the states I believe.

[@robertbradbury2526]

The southern colonies would never join the revolution

[@46sn29]

America would have lost the Revolution. The southern states would have never agreed to join the cause if slavery was abolished. The rebellion needed EVERYONE if it was going to stand any kind of chance against the British. So unfortunately, compromises had to be made. That is why it was removed from the initial draft as they chose to let future generations deal with it. Their primary focus was winning the Revolution.

[@junkboxxxxxx]

Rome could have settled the angry Protestants and calmed all Europe for hundreds of years by simply giving up the practice of selling indulgences (ie, paying the Pope to tell God to let you out of hell)

[@andrewedan7]

Why isn’t Terry Pegula becoming owner of the Buffalo Sabres on this list?

[@Michele_PoeTreeWitch]

Instead of the Treaty of Versailles, Germany should have let Austria fight their own war over the assassination of Franz Ferdinand. They were just itching for a reason to go to war with the Balkan states. Blame Gavril Princip for what followed.

[@gerritkorditschke8447]

We should've, but we were contractually bound to assist Austria-Hungary in the case of a war happening. (The Dual Alliance of 1879) The Dual Alliance was a military treaty that had Austria-Hungary and Germany support and aid each other fully in the case of a Russian attack. This was also valid for the case of the attack originating from a country supported by Russia. It was originally designed for five years, and was to be automatically renewed for three years if neither country objected. After Bismarck's treaties broke apart in 1890, this was the only treaty left that was actually valid for Germany.

[@littlefluffybushbaby7256]

I think it was a little more complicated than that. It's worth reading up on. A tale of miscalculations and misunderstandings. It's almost a miracle that the war happened (in a bad sense). Many weak links in the chain of events. It was very far from inevitable. Astro-Hungary wasn't itching to go to war with the Balkan states. Serbia was their issue, and that was because it was a threat. Even when states invade other states they usually do it claiming self defense with some truth (however tenuous or overblown) behind it. For example, Poland 1939, Norway 1940, Pearl Harbor 1941 all the way through to the Gulf Of Tonkin, Iraq and Putin's invasion of Ukraine. Even German's justification for going to war with Russia in WW1 was partially defensive. Wars are often, he hit me first, or he was about to hit me. If you understand kindergarden politics you understand global politics and animal politics. Yes, even dogs are aware of when things 'aren't fair'.

[@brianisaac1575]

Allowing Yoko into the studio.

[@josephr4761]

I would argue that creating a communist Empire in WW2 was one of the biggest mistake ever. Stalin ended up with all of the territory that Germany was going for anyway and more. The Soviet Union became a superpower and was able to fund other communist uprisings around the world. If we didn't do that, there wouldn't be a North Korea, there wouldn't have been a Great Leap Forward in China, there wouldn't be a CCP, there wouldn't have been a Vietnam War or an Afghan war. No Khmer Rouge or killing fields in Cambodia. No Taliban. Easily one of the worst mistakes in history.

[@aidanmargarson8910]

your "reading" of history is just spot on /snark, your understanding of what Marx actually said as compared to what was done in his name.

[@neptune5962]

Saw the title and my first thought was just “Aw Shit, Here we go.”

[@tastefullynerdy1161]

How Franz Ferdinand's driver taking a wrong turn and leading to his assassination isn't number one here is absolutely puzzling

[@zanethind3533]

It definitely is

[@zanethind3533]

Not only that but WW1 even after the assassination could've been stopped but people were irresponsible

[@robirvine6970]

Because it means nothing? The war was absolutely going ro happen. This was just a handy excuse.

[@onkelkonkel5]

Objectively, the treaty of Versailles was pretty run of the mill and Germany lost less than ten percent of its territory. Compare that with Austria-Hungary or the Ottoman Empire which were completely dismantled. But the psychological impact was immense. This goes to show that’s you can’t underestimate the bitterness of an entire nation.

[@josephr4761]

The reparation payments in the Treaty of Versailles were completely unreasonable. Germany couldn't afford to pay them, so France invaded and occupied the Ruhr. To make the next payment, Germany was forced to hyperinflate it's currency which eventually became completely worthless. That economic hardship lasted for more than a decade until mustache man came into power and flipped the German economy

[@robirvine6970]

You aren't educated enough to discuss this.

[@MrShaneVicious]

15:35 Custer was a Lt Colonel at the time of Little Big Horn

[@dragonweyr44]

A Lt Colonel is still called colonel by military custom, just like there are 4 ranks of general (formerly 5) but we still call them general The same applies to Admirals and Lt Commanders

[@MrShaneVicious]

@dragonweyr44 my point is he wasn't a General at the time of Little Big Horn. They called him General Custer, when it was actually Colonel Custer.

[@dragonweyr44]

@MrShaneVicious It wasn't really surprising that he did get demoted after the Civil War, many officers who stay in the service after a war got demoted Lewis B "Chesty" Puller was a luitenent in the Marines and got demoted to sergeant after he got his commission before getting promoted again

[@MrShaneVicious]

@dragonweyr44 that was normal, a lot of officers got temporary promotions during the war because of the massive expansion of the Army. When the Army was reduced after the war, it wasn't feasible to keep so many higher ranked officers for such a small army.

[@DarthSoto78]

Not sure it is on this list, but the financial crises of 2008. In 1999 the U.S. Congress had passed legislation intended to expand affordable housing through looser financing. Which the banks took advantage of, they gave housing loans to very, very high risk people, and that caused the 2008 banking crash that we still feel today. Now housing is almost impossible to get for most people. So the bill did the exact opposite to what it was intended to do. Also the banks never really recovered, so we have mass inflation over the last 15+ years or so.

[@junkboxxxxxx]

"Worst decisions in American history"

[@pooryorick831]

Worst decisions history? That's a timely topic.

[@usuckthereturn]

What about the McRib, plastic vomit, and K-Cups?!

[@TamuMalone-b4q]

@@usuckthereturn 🤣🤣🤣

[@At65461]

What is , oh a k-cup is from KFC sorry I'm Scottish and have never been to America but i know how to spell American words, color is colour, phaucet is tap,

[@maddog6620]

You are amazing

[@CandiceVidito32]

I bet a lot of people are going to say letting Donald Trump be president again is going to be one of them.

[@Psymon718]

And all of those people will be wrong.

[@phunkboxx]

It's a horrible idea.

[@toaster2880]

@@Psymon718oh that’s not…

[@Doriangray-b2f]

@@Psymon718 dont bet on it... 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@Psymon718]

@@phunkboxx 🤣

[@engrademafias]

Kanye West signing Big Sean to Donda

[@kendrickvieraramos]

Another worst decision I have In mind 1 Paris 2024 Olympics opening ceremony 2 attempted assassination on trump 3 Israel vs Palestine 4 oye primos ( the disgrace to animation ) being created 5 cancel culture

[@porcupineinapettingzoo]

Hates cancel culture, calls for hate on some actress on the same channel, apart from rain what would make the Paris Olympic opening ceremony appear on any list?

[@FleaRHCP97]

yet another quality list

[@xyz061220]

Actor Ronald Reagan - A Time For Choosing.

[@stephennelmes4557]

3:48 His biggest mistake was recruiting a highly diverse army from various backgrounds with no loyalty who would desert and fight for the other side.... I thought diversity was a strength.

[@josephr4761]

Historically, it ends in disaster every single time.

[@rgsharrer]

This is by far the most underrated comment in the chat.

[@littlefluffybushbaby7256]

Yawn. One in every crowd. What would the internet be like without geniuses like you? I don't know, maybe, pleasant?

[@caolanmcflynn2412]

Stopinng the space race. Making the atom bomb

[@andream61]

A bad decision that had massive consequences for the entire history of the world was that of Hannibal who decided not to attack Rome directly after winning some important battles in the Italian peninsula in the course of the Second Punic War. Had Hannibal conquered Rome and erased the Roman Republic from the map, as the Romans would later do with Carthage, the world history of the last two millennia and our very same civilisation would be entirely different.

[@allen604]

Selling the rights of Spider-man to Sony.

[@dragonweyr44]

Universal got Hulk and the Xmen and Fantastic Four went to 20th Century Fox Fant4stic is what killed them

[@JackSebat]

2025 - Hold my beer.

[@TheSci-fiAnarchist42]

Honorable mention: me eating that burrito from Taco Bell last night.

[@Probablyjimmy]

If only Taco Johns would just swoop in and take over all the Bells, humanity wouldnt suffer

[@evelynneufeld7610]

Some people have called it Gringo Food😂

[@chrismeulen8108]

for the 20th century, the worst decision was the coach driver of Archduke Franz Ferdinand deciding to take a shortcut and drive in to another street where the dude who tried to kill Ferdinand shortly before just happened to be again as well, giving him a 2nd change at murder, causing WW1, without WW1, WW2 would have likely never happened.

[@criminalmindsgirl2936]

Electing George Bush as President in 2000 and again in 2004

[@Jeremy-ql1or]

I'd say France's financial help of the American Revolution was a net positive, even considering the recession it caused in France.

[@usuckthereturn]

Wow….still using the non-threatening term “conversion” when citing genocide…

[@daveerk6573]

KZbin censorship

[@peterwhimster]

Thirty decisions requires thirty chapters. It's a no brainer.

[@ezrommosima2937]

What about Adam and Eve eating the forbidden fruit?

[@Arc618]

#1 for sure lol

[@stephanleo]

The fruit never existed, just like Adam and Eve.

[@supahbanana01]

This list is based on events that actually happened in history. Not made up stories proved wrong with modern science.

[@flightmaster999]

Yeah, this video is about real event, not made up shit.

[@djloot916]

The recent remake of "Clash Of The Titans" should have been #1.

[@michaelbishop1]

The Bay of Pigs was an embarrassment but, had no long term consequences.

[@christopherbrochu7492]

Not sure I agree. It led to the Soviet decision to install missiles in Cuba, which prompted a vigorous US response. The resulting confrontation led to substantial efforts at de-escalation, including protocols for direct communications between the leaders of both countries.

[@michaelbishop1]

@ The missile crisis was a substantial event in itself but, we are still dealing with Stalin’s evil empire to this day. So I would not say anything has been resolved and yet no nuclear exchanges so far.

[@christopherbrochu7492]

@@michaelbishop1 It resulted in the hotline between the US president and Soviet premier, and it arguably opened the door to subsequent missile reduction treaties. That said, I would agree that the basic issues at play haven't been resolved.

[@robirvine6970]

It directly lead to the absolute brink of nuclear war. We have NEVER been so close before or after.

[@littlefluffybushbaby7256]

Not exactly true. Maybe not world changing consequences, but it certainly had consequences.

[@lynstrom940]

NASA bosses deciding to launch the Challenger space shuttle, resulting in the engineers warning coming 100% true. The crew and vehicle that were lost, mass trauma of observers (the children in that school room watching a live broadcast) and the later ending of the shuttle program.

[@HolyCross9]

For me, it's allowing Rupert Murdock to establish FOX News in America!

[@jerryf.coffey2671]

How so??? 🤔

[@mulletoutdooradventures6286]

​@@jerryf.coffey2671I gotta hear this reasoning as well 😆. "Cause they hurt my feelings" 😆 🤣 😂

[@0108dylan]

No hurt feelings. They’re a propaganda outlet. See the 780 million settlement with dominion (voting machine company) for an example of their tactics and lies.

[@havanadaurcy1321]

​​@@mulletoutdooradventures6286Because like "leftist" CNN it's EVERYTHING RUPERT HATES WE DO from the viewers. Wake up. He did it to avoid tax evasion. His son Lachlan was not so lucky

[@michaelbishop1]

@@jerryf.coffey2671 People have become so delusional they now hate each other over trivial fairy tales of moral grandeur bringing in a new direction where the US is declining as global power and giving rise to destabilization in the middle east, Europe and expansionist China. Fox has deliberately fueled divisiveness. Fear and loathing is easy to sell. Adult responsibility for events and behavior is a hard sell.

[@jaredquinney204]

I really can't believe that these people made those decisions

[@gerradfoster8777]

2. Electing Donald Trump in 2016. 1. Re-Electing Donald Trump in 2024.

[@doctorwyvern9992]

And what horrible things happened during his first term?

[@RonPaulPeace]

​@@doctorwyvern9992 Not starting any wars.

[@sparkydoodle696]

@@doctorwyvern9992 Tear gassed civvies, sent us into a recession, had a terrorist attack on the capital, made us a laughing stock on the world stage, spent more money than any president in recent history just to golf and have his ego stroked at rallies, bungled the Covid response because he was afraid of the economy tanking, signed an abysmal deal with terrorists just to campaign on it and then not actually following through with the evacuation, just to name a few things

[@TheVegeta27]

I think you hit the nail on the head with the Treaty of Versailles. That decision led to the most horrendous atrocities in human history

[@littlefluffybushbaby7256]

No it didn't. That is very much an outdated myth that just gets repeated over and over. Please read up on it. You are not going to get the full facts from one minute in a youtube video.

[@volairelarp3773]

Trump getting elected to a second term should be #1

[@Adam.Langton]

Oh yeah. Wait for the revamped list a few years down the road. It'll probably just be a list about his ignorant blunders ruined America.

[@ameraguay]

Biden getting elected, then putting Kamala without a primary was one of the democrats biggest mistake ever 😉

[@Adam.Langton]

@ameraguay it's nobodies fault but the voters. Trump oversaw the worst economic period since the depression, and over a million Americans died while he pretended covid wasn't real. This time will be worse. He's promised to eliminate every program, including the department of education, and will cripple America with tariffs. And he certainly won't leave willingly when the time comes. This isn't the fault of a democratic candidate. American will get what it voted for.

[@-_E-_]

I don't disagree but people will be accusing you of copium or start a rhetoric about the Democrats if you say that out loud 😒

[@JuanLegendre-ey9ty]

Actually it would VP Harris getting elected.

[@LapinDebogues]

Totally agree with #1.

[@user-em6ie2be7x]

Elon Musk.....Enough said.

[@katiebonser9712]

Alternate title-30 times People Made the Dumbest Mistakes in History

[@erinmccutcheon3751]

Letting Donald Trump be President.

[@Snatchystashy]

I knew I'd see a couple of these bozo statements

[@Mapletz27]

Cope harder

[@erinmccutcheon3751]

@Snatchystashy Why is it a "bozo" statement?

[@zerofoxactual]

Good one 🤡

[@Snatchystashy]

@erinmccutcheon3751 Because he was already president once. A good one, too. He's exactly what America needed against the wokeness and warmongers. If you could give me a reason why Kamala, that would be a first by any of her voters. Anything other than women's reproductive rights.