Why America's next war may begin on a small tourist island

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Guam, an island in the northern Pacific, is just 48km long and has a population of about 170,000. So why is it so important to America’s strategy to defend Taiwan from a potential Chinese invasion?
00:00 - Where is Guam?
00:13 - Why is it so important?
01:00 - What makes it vulnerable?
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@guru47pi 3 ай бұрын

Don't forget that America isn't defending the area alone. They're allied with Taiwan, Japan, the Philippines, and many others. There are bases all over latter two, and Taiwan has been preparing for invasion since the 50's. The story is much more complex, and the American position much more secure than just "guam vs China"

@buzz5969 3 ай бұрын

Guam is USA SO what you really mean is USA against Chyna amigo.😊

@Will-pz2fw 3 ай бұрын

You should read some history before marking such comments😂

@arnogericke 3 ай бұрын

Audio SO bad

@DardanellesBy108 3 ай бұрын

I think Okinawa and mainland Japan are going to be more important than Guam as far as US military bases are considered. They’re lots closer and are going to get lots more attention from China. Having said that I hope we don’t go to war and can just F’in get along. We have more than enough wars as is.

@hikakingames9594 3 ай бұрын

However, they(Japanese)have the war allergy which is composed of many elements like tragedy of Hiroshima,Nagasaki and other urban bombing. Of course , the article 9 of their constitution makes their identity. So, if the international politics request Japan to protect Twain, their actions will be delay.

@DardanellesBy108 3 ай бұрын

@@hikakingames9594 Not talking about the Japanese government in this case. There are more US military bases in Japan/Okinawa than any other country outside of the US. What the US does with their military forces in Japan isn’t hindered by the Japanese government.

@gjsoriano1 3 ай бұрын

The advantage of Guam as US military base is having no restrictions in hosting different types of military and naval assets since it is their sovereign territory. Most of the time, when US stations sensitive rockets, anti-rockets, and long-range missiles in South Korea and Japan, they are met with oppositions from locals and from China.

@Will-pz2fw 3 ай бұрын

Why Americans are so into war?

@khaluu2000 3 ай бұрын

Served in Guam, yeah we were pretty annoyed when north korea shot IBM towards Guam for show. It killed the Japanese tourism but for some reason saw an increase in South Korean tourism lol. Anyways yes we’re a stepping block for the pacific fleet mainly to move around for the Navy. Interesting if there will be a bigger air force presence

@paulinotou 2 ай бұрын

I was stationed in South Korea. The South Koreans are very acquainted with being vulnerable to a number of war acts including a land invasion. They are no more less safe on Guam than they are in Seoul. I don't know why Japanese are worried, they are almost definitely going to get attacked at the same time Guam gets attacked.

@DBGE001 3 ай бұрын

Guam is the perfect place to take on the roll that Pearl Harbor did in WW2. According to a Gallup Poll taken after the attack on Pearl Harbor, 97% of Americans approved of declaring war. Less than 25% were in favor to enter the war (WW2) before the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Public support for entering a war is always enforced using this tactic. A great tactic to prevent or mitigate public resistance for war participation is to finance the war through borrowing money instead of finance it through taxes.

@keanudasco2274 3 ай бұрын

Do your research before posting such an idiotic response. Guam was attacked by Japan the same time they attacked Pearl Harbor. And before you say one was the 7th and the other was the 8th it’s because of the different time zones.

@DBGE001 3 ай бұрын

What a coincidence! Or was it not?@@keanudasco2274

@_al_c2638 3 ай бұрын

why are we discussing this? what is the purpose? there is basically no objective information here

@bastardowl 3 ай бұрын

You just need to get off the internet. You're burnt out (which is totally understandable).

@gratitudemodestyhonesty 3 ай бұрын

You are right. This is what I expect from some clickbait vapid youtube channel. Not the economist. But bastardowl is also right in pointing out the general depressing state of the online discourse and the propensity to burn out.

@monsieurdubitatif8567 3 ай бұрын

Its called propaganda. They need to prep the folk to their criminals war that they're cooking.

@BoatsCop 3 ай бұрын

I’d hardly consider Guam a tourist island.

@paulinotou 2 ай бұрын

Its more popular amongst East Asians who want to visit America but maybe don't have money for Hawaii. I'm from and living on Guam, and tourism is definitely a big thing here.

@CHAM0RRITO 3 ай бұрын

Guam is the eastern most part of the USA. It is in the eastern hemisphere.

@ranjitpal9937 3 ай бұрын

Keep Posting ❤

@axelaaronccasanihuachua9073 3 ай бұрын

Free Guam

@MalfosRanger 3 ай бұрын

Wouldn't be the first time. Guam was where the US fired its first shot of WWI on SMS Cormoran II in 1917.

@abrahamdozer6273 3 ай бұрын

So THAT'S where the USA won WWI!

@neelpatel097 3 ай бұрын

Plaaf source video is actually a mixture of scenes from transformers and Pearl harbour

@jont2576 3 ай бұрын

Poor guam,how many wars have they been involved in involuntarily

@jackma1548 3 ай бұрын

US must not abandon Ukraine just like US abandon Afghanistan and South Vietnam before, US Should support Ukraine 300 billion dollars to build economy and infrastructure and another 400 billion dollar to fight proxies wars with Russia. We Thank you US to support Ukraine.

@phil20_20 3 ай бұрын

We should never have been in South Vietnam. That was France's problem. Afghanistan 🇦🇫 should have been enforced by the UN before we left. That was on Biden for sure, but also on bad intelligence and a weak existing government.

@Connectingdots100 3 ай бұрын

Hi Economist did not see you post any videos lately on South Africa’s submission to ICJ on Israel’s Genocide! I thought you guys are big on rules based order?!

@narayansingh9407 3 ай бұрын

There should never be war. But yet we are here in wars in Gaza, Ukraine 😢

@anonymousanonymous31 3 ай бұрын

There are always wars happening, always have been. Myanmar, Yemen, Syria, Libya, and more have been going on for longer than both Gaza and Ukraine. War has been the natural state of humanity for most of human history.

@deanfirnatine7814 3 ай бұрын

That is a pie in the sky idea, we live in the real world full of evil people who run whole countries, those people start wars when they see any weakness and a opportunity for gain. Being a pacifist or a isolationist encourages people like that to start wars.

@danjohnston9037 3 ай бұрын

so if you're thinking like Pearl Harbor in 1940 the point has been made

@user-ij8rs8mc5q 3 ай бұрын

Ne demek istiyor anlamadım

@danjohnston9037 3 ай бұрын

@@user-ij8rs8mc5q In Effect; a massive surprise attack at the very opening of hostilities to prevent those forces (Guam) from interfering with strategic operations elsewhere.

@AL-lh2ht 3 ай бұрын

@@danjohnston9037of course that would literally force the US to have a military response

@vlhc4642 3 ай бұрын

@@danjohnston9037 China's objective is Taiwan, it's entirely up to America if they stay out of fighting or launch a surprise attack on China. However if US do launch an unprovoked attack on China, they can expect Guam to become a Chinese base.

@yunkil 3 ай бұрын

Can someone tell me how a small island miles away from mainland America became a part of America?

@Will-pz2fw 3 ай бұрын

Some ignorant American politicians think that matters. We shall see if American people really wanted a war with China that will happen next to China? Oh, wait, I thought American people love peace and don’t like wars😂

@scepticalbeliever Ай бұрын

You don't know how to use Google?

@deanfirnatine7814 3 ай бұрын

Do not think for a second the US Military publicly reveals all of Guam's defenses, I can almost guarantee it is defended by the latest top secret missile defense systems by the likes of Raytheon etc(hint).

@nulnoh219 3 ай бұрын

Free Guam. No representation colony.

@alishersabyr6812 3 ай бұрын

Kazakhstan authoritarianism, Kleptocracy, many monopolists

@cstam7516 3 ай бұрын

In what way,how? You magazine put out some false narrative to hookwink only the fools. The pretext is bollards.

@theodoreolson8529 3 ай бұрын

How can this sh** quality video come from a channel with over 3 millions subs. C'mon man stop phoning it in.

@WANDERER0070 3 ай бұрын

Clickbait nonsense,,and youre BLOCKED 😂

@SolaceEasy 3 ай бұрын

WW4 is fought with sticks & stones

@edwinnote655 3 ай бұрын

Stop warmongering, nobody want to attack Guam, Chinese tourists want to visit maybe. Defend contractors already too much money wasted. Please stop to promote more money for them. Please please please we need better Healthcare and education. 1 in 4 children in America don't have enough food. Please stop it

@KarlMarxBR700 3 ай бұрын

Imperialism: highest stage of capitalism. -Lênin

@anonymousanonymous31 3 ай бұрын

USSR was one of the greatest imperialist powers of the previous century, imperialism has nothing to do with capitalism.

@KarlMarxBR700 3 ай бұрын

@@anonymousanonymous31 those were mistakes from the soviets and also caused because they were in war with the imperialist US that didn't let them choose whatever form of government they wanted in the cold war. The USSR was forced to militarize and be "imperialist" to survive. If let alone, that wouldn't be necessary nor wanted.

@AL-lh2ht 3 ай бұрын

@@KarlMarxBR700oh yea when Stalin was commiting ethnic cleansing and more interment camps then the nazis it was the US fault. Cope harder tanky.

@KarlMarxBR700 3 ай бұрын

@@AL-lh2ht brainwashed, you should study more and consume less murican propaganda

@oneshothunter9877 3 ай бұрын

@@KarlMarxBR700 Are you for real? Muscovit Russia was imperialist even long before the todays USA landmass was discovered by Europeans. Do yourself a favor, read up.

@SalmanovGadzhimurad-pj9qq 3 ай бұрын

Германия и жил как обычный россиянин что вынбываться против Кремля

@jont2576 3 ай бұрын

Asia has not witnessed a major war in the last 40 years, a boon of peace that sadly cant be said to have been enjoyed by the rest of the world.... From 1945 to the 1970s.....most of the wars in asia were somehow initiated or engineered by US...... US is the greatest harbinger of death and destruction not just in Asia in the 50s,60s and 70s but in south america and africa,and the middle east during the 70s,90s and 00s.....with half the countries in middle east tragically destroyed by US wars....from iraq to Afghanistan syria libya yemen lebanon not to mention all the wars involving her proxy israel.... Americas modus operandi has been If war were to break out in Asia again though i seriously doubt it this time ...China will be the greatest bulwark and defense barrier of the region or continent.....u can pretend to pit japan and south korea and whatnot We all know from history who the true devil in disguise is.....

@gratitudemodestyhonesty 3 ай бұрын

Please do better Economist.

@SalmanovGadzhimurad-pj9qq 3 ай бұрын

Дальний восток России подарок мне то на семью надеяться смысла нету это груз

@irritatedanglosaxon1705 3 ай бұрын

It had happened in Korean and Vietnam wars, nothing we can do, just exaggerating it on medias. With 20K US troops surrendered in Hungnam, that's a big slap on the face

@Amandacardosocaldeira 3 ай бұрын

❤😊🎉

@yongjinnkim9207 3 ай бұрын

遠交近攻

@unny611 3 ай бұрын

It's not invade, it's reunion of our country.

@DEVRIMCI2007 3 ай бұрын

nope

@imrannazir6931 3 ай бұрын

Guam = Occupied Polynesia

@johanponken 3 ай бұрын

Gesundheit!

@AL-lh2ht 3 ай бұрын

Yea go visit Guam and ask them how much they hate being part of the US. Cope harder

@SuperMookles 3 ай бұрын

*waits expectantly for Chinese nationalist trolls to pop up*

@Rervant 3 ай бұрын

🇺🇸 W A R M O N G E R 🇺🇸

@anonymousanonymous31 3 ай бұрын

The US brought peace to Europe, hosts the UN, effectively made the Internet and GPS, and defends international shipping that delivered your device to you that you typed your comment on. They're the greatest force for peace human history has ever seen since the Pax Romana. Iran, Russia, Hamas and their allies are the warmongers trying to change the current peaceful and rules-based world order with force.

@jesse89625 3 ай бұрын

@@passurlamer you are anti- free speech ???😂

@jesse89625 3 ай бұрын

@@passurlamer oh yeah, this is free speech and fact: 🇺🇸 W A R M O N G E R 🇺🇸

@unny611 3 ай бұрын

解決台灣問題，屬於中國內政，消滅台獨，是為了祖國統一。

@buzz5969 3 ай бұрын

Guam is in PACIFIC AO SO yes that includes Russia, North Korea, Chyna and Taywan. Thats why we have a whole US CARRIER FLEET and AirForce designated and homeported in Japan since ever since WWII amigos. They Been there since 1940s this is not new. Been lots of other bases built since then, if you served or lived there then ya know, if NOT, then not, and Im guessing the poster is part of the NOT group. 😅😂. We aint scared.😊🇺🇸🍻✌🏻HafaAdai! 🇬🇺

@user-yg6dk9eh8g 3 ай бұрын

The 4 th Marines heloed take back Guam in 46, Wish you were here new Dad

@yahnferral9163 3 ай бұрын

Virtually all de facto governments are under the same trust and jurisdictions. It all political theatre.

@AL-lh2ht 3 ай бұрын

You crazy

@tengchuankhoo6585 3 ай бұрын

Pls change the title to "How the West provokes those not in their interests from Guam"

@shorelord1175 3 ай бұрын

How about America just doesn’t get involved in another war…

@drjamesallen6012 3 ай бұрын

Last I checked, Taiwan is still a Chinese province. The country is called the Republic of… guess what, CHINA. So your theory of “invasion” doesn’t stand.

@amunra5330 3 ай бұрын

I agree with your sentiments.

@VV-hx3hw 3 ай бұрын

British magazine should start looking at the damge the British foreign policy,along with role as major facilitor of international money laundering. London and Dubai, criminal capital of the World..