Why did the Middle East's version of NATO Fail? (Short Animated Documentary)

METO (The Middle Eastern Treaty Organisation) was an alliance of countries along the USSR's southern border dedicated to fighting any Soviet interference in the region. Despite the threat still existing in 1979 and the Cold War showing no signs of slowing down why did it dissolve? To find out watch this short and simple animated history documentary.
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[@Rasmus-wr4pz]

a NATO alliance concept in the middle east will always strike me as hilarious, especially with britain being a member state.

[@Houthiandtheblowfish]

it is like create a problem and then solve the problem

[@boomboy4102]

🇩🇰🇩🇰

[@qubed8465]

Even without Britain it’s still funny

[@1ndigo844]

on some hoi4 border gore shit

[@LHelios1805]

UK best Middle East country

[@r.a.acosta6528]

This is my first time hearing about this somewhat short-lived alliance (24 years is actually a lot longer than I would have expected). Thanks, History Matters!

[@kingovharts]

Goes to show how irrelevant it was.

[@waffle6376]

I found it out from emperor tiger star video of it

[@ThatPianoNoob]

sounds like it was an alliance in name only lol. Mutual defence pact unless somebody gets attacked..

[@GT-ry1cv]

I think it just existed during the Shah of Iran's reign.

[@theawesomeman9821]

Me too

[@korok3169]

The fact that there’s an entire military alliance that I’ve just now heard of for the first time reminds me of how much there still is to learn

[@savioblanc]

I'm a bit of a history nerd and love Middle Eastern history and am only now learning of a "Mideast alliance that once included the UK, Turkey, Iran and Pakistan" I really do have so much to learn😅

[@mishydev]

there was also SEATO but that didnt work either

[@shantanutvmediaaccount1492]

Sounds more like a whatsapp group

[@shantanutvmediaaccount1492]

@@savioblanc Nope. Stupid irrelevant things keep happening. I aint any wiser learning about this alliance which was more like a whatsapp group, where some Turkish politician wanted to play Admin

[@savioblanc]

@@shantanutvmediaaccount1492 I still find it interesting. It's one of those "wait, you serious?" meme moments in history

[@snipertrader206]

Imagine today, a military alliance between Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, Turkey and the UK would still exist. It seems almost impossible.

[@user-op8fg3ny3j]

Without the UK, it could be possible. Like a Muslim NATO

[@columnal8067]

unholy but based

[@snipertrader206]

​@@user-op8fg3ny3jWell, maybe, but these countries don't necessarily have the best relationships with each other.

[@IdntknowWhy]

@@snipertrader206 Pakistan and Turkey have excellent relationship

[@theokra]

@@IdntknowWhy Pakistan has a weird obsession with Turkey because of historical TV shows, Turkey barely thinks about Pakistan

[@andrewrogers3067]

There’s also SEATO, or the South East Asian Treaty Organization, which, looking back at it, was probably a bad idea to dissolve.

[@pabcu2507]

Now it would have a purpose due to China

[@user-op8fg3ny3j]

Depends because the military in Thailand and Mynmar aren't exactly very nice

[@lil_jackgamez8992]

Ya the timing and irony of that can not be understated

[@andrewrogers3067]

@@MenosaverusHe was adding to my point, he read my comment just fine.

[@sharkronical]

It would split ASEAN though there's no way Laos would join anything anti-China and the economic threat of completely militarizing against China would be tremendous for all of us. I don't think even the biggest players like Indonesia and Thailand would commit this hard. It'd be at best a Vietnam-Philippines alliance.

[@elitely6748]

NO matter how short a video may be this is awesome for getting an early understanding of topics in history. Would have been really interesting to see what the organization would've been like now though.

[@3of12]

It literally couldn't exist.

[@andrewrogers3067]

How could it exist? Who would it fight? The moment the Soviet Union dissolved, CENTO would be worthless and NATO was thought as being so too until Russia invaded.

[@nomnomxddd7341]

As a Turk I've never heard of this alliance but if someone came to me and said "Menderes tried to make Middle Eastern NATO" I would definitely believe that

[@Octavian999]

Menderes'i yedim

[@AnatolianHittite]

​@@Octavian999NPC

[@Octavian999]

@@AnatolianHittite tapmaya devam et

[@AnatolianHittite]

@@Octavian999 Harbi NPC! Kime niye nasıl bu sonuca vardın yobaz kardeşim?Beni tanımıyosun bile.hahaha

[@milliyetcizuhtu1961]

​@@Octavian999abim asmr izliyor 💀💀💀

[@Daniboy0826]

Iraq: We are having a coup! Help us defeat it! METO: No. Pakistan: We and India are having a war! Help us defeat India! CENTO: No. Türkiye: We are invading Cyprus! Help us with the invasion! CENTO: No. Iran: We are having a revolution! Helps us take it down! CENTO: No. *years later* CENTO: I wonder why everbody left this alliance.

[@HEHSHSHSSHDJ]

The alliance was against the communist and not to help each other with different conflicts

[@andrealibanori3116]

It's called "Turkey"

[@Merennulli]

​@@andrealibanori3116That is an exonym, what some outside the country call it, They're using the endonym, what they call themselves.

[@Iosinyhrh]

The alliance is literally comprised of these nations you mentioned. So ig Britain is the odd one out

[@Merennulli]

@@Iosinyhrh The point is they didn't ever work together. It was never the purpose of the alliance, but most of them tried to invoke it anyway and yet declined when others did the same.

[@No1sFavorite]

Any chance we can get videos on why the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) also failed and why the Northeast Asia Treaty Organization (NEATO) never got past the proposal stage?

[@BS-vx8dg]

Excellent idea.

[@donpollo3154]

Neato idea

[@mickey4125]

There were also plans for a Denmark, Russia, Australia, Iraq, Nigeria-Organisation, but they were blocked from the start...

[@coh2conscript851]

​@@mickey4125DRAINO DRAIN Gang

[@readingking1421]

If those are real things I'll second. Gotta get videos on the full set.

[@RobertJRoman]

If James Bissonnette ever leaves, History Matters will need to do an entire episode about it.

[@n.s.mcmahon6180]

That would result in the dissolution of JBHMTO.

[@RobertJRoman]

​@@n.s.mcmahon6180 Yes, without James in the alliance, it would likely be seen as little more than an extension of Kelly Moneymaker foreign policy.

[@PhedelCastro]

Sky Chapelle seems to have left?

[@wafiqnasna4638]

​@@PhedelCastrohe did

[@seminsulina5954]

another video another thanks to James Bissonette

[@neptun2810]

"To be united by hatred is a fragile alliance at best." ~ Darth Traya.

[@yusuftosun7920]

"We are committed to NATO, CENTO and SPOR-TOTO." a famous statement of the Turkish army

[@chheinrich8486]

Never heard of this organization, thanks for teaching em something completely new, 🙂

[@I_Stole_A_BTR-80]

I feel like METO needs a Yes Minister style sitcom centered around it. It's really too perfect to pass it up I think.

[@captainnoob4]

I just want another Yes Minister style sitcom period. Especially if it can be written and acted to the same standard.

[@ArthurCSchaper]

Please do a video on the following subjects: 1. Why did the people's revolution of 1848 fail in Germany and Spain? 2. Why do people drive on different sides of the road in different countries?

[@TheSkcube]

2. because of the British and it's difficult to change such a thing

[@timmccarthy9917]

You voice-dictated this comment didn't you question mark

[@quuaaarrrk8056]

​@@TheSkcubeYes. Changing the British is something that people have failed to do for 2000 years.

[@luisfilipe2023]

1 because of infighting and poor command structure on the part of the revolutionaries 2 it’s complicated but it basically has to do with how people used to ride horses

[@TheSkcube]

@@quuaaarrrk8056 it's more of changing what people are used to. it's why the metrification in North America stalled for example.

[@_SpamMe]

One of the many examples that show how extraordinary the lasting cooperation within NATO is, and even more so the level of integration the EU achieved.

[@InfernosReaper]

That's because there's some serious sketchiness to NATO when ya stop to think about it. After all, the Soviet Union's been gone for 30 years, yet NATO still exists? Why?

[@Lollaksyotuube]

You do know what Russia is doing atm?

[@Hangman11]

@@Lollaksyotuube mans been off the internet for the last 504 days

[@hldavlk]

@@InfernosReaperthe members of nato want it to exist more than they want it to dissolve. simple as

[@cm275]

@@InfernosReaperBruh…

[@chrishanzek8930]

I've never even heard of these organizations until today. Well done!

[@richardhussey-cq2se]

You need too read more history books.

[@leonardoleo5740]

Imagine if this still existed today. How awkward would it be to have Pakistan and Iran in the same alliance or Turkey wanting to take power of it? Or worse: Turkey and Saudi Arabia. I never knew about this alliance before.

[@mirzaahmed6589]

Hell, Iran and Iraq in the same alliance?

[@furqanfaisalch]

@@mirzaahmed6589 why would it be awkward to have pakistan and iran to be in the same alliance?

[@Sky-dd4td]

@@furqanfaisalchShia and Sunnis don’t mix well, Iran is mostly Shia while Pakistan is Sunni. Pakistan is also quite friendly with certain factions of the taliban, the taliban and Iran are enemies.

[@parlyramyar]

@@Sky-dd4td the shia sunni divide is highly exaggerated. iran was shia when this alliance happened so no reason it would be awkward

[@conceptualisingdisapproval]

​​@@Sky-dd4tdThis is not true. Pakistan is largely a Sunni majority country but still has many Shia Muslims as a minority. Besides that, Pakistan has religious, cultural, ethnic and linguistic ties with Iran. Pakistan is also keen to keep good relations with Iran, as Iran is our neighbour.

[@liversuccess1420]

The alliance fell apart before what could've arguably been its greatest moment: the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. As this video points out, the members dropped out because either their governments were overthrown, or the rest of the alliance would not support their conflict with a non-Soviet country. But if the Shah had remained in power in Iran, it's likely that they, Pakistan, and Turkey would've cooperated against the Soviets in Afghanistan, which would've been a regional threat even though that country wasn't a CENTO member. Pakistan did end up working coverly against the Soviets, alongside several other Muslim countries so it's not outside the realm of possibility.

[@jeffbenton6183]

That's a good point! Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and the US worked together to support the Mujahideen against the Soviets. I guess you can call that "discount METO/CENTRO".

[@TheManinBlack9054]

I mean you can't just support rebel movements tho. It's not a legitimate government.

[@muslim_first]

@@jeffbenton6183 Soviets helped India in 1971 India Pakistan war so naturally Pakistan wanted end of Soviets.

[@jeffbenton6183]

@@muslim_first I'd say it goes back much further than that - at least as far back as the Sino-Soviet split in the 1960s. India and China were actively hostile with one another, and with the USSR increasingly seeing China as an adversary rather than an ally, they naturally grew closer. Naturally, since Pakistan and India were bitter enemies almost since independence, Pakistan wanted to be closer to China. The USSR supporting India during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 was a result of all that history, not the start of any bad blood between the USSR and Pakistan. Those two had already been on opposite sides of the Cold War for awhile, then and they both knew it.

[@jeffbenton6183]

@@muslim_first Wait, are you Pakistani? You probably know all of this better than me (feel free to tell me if I got anything wrong in my previous reply)

[@mohammedali4417]

I’ve never seen a channel more dedicated to thanking their patron’s

[@mt70092]

The “fellow Middle Easterners” sign had me dying

[@primitiveplanet8202]

This treaty was successor to treaty of Saadabad 1937(name of a palace in tehran) in which Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan and turkey made an anti aggression alliance with blessing of England, which was an anti Bolshevik pact to prevent Soviets from coming south and invading them. It was signed in 1937, came to effect in 1938 and lasted 5 years in 1943 it was extended for another 5 years and after that it was dead.

[@jakarnilson]

Wait. It was still going on even during the Anglo-Soviet occupation of Iran?

[@abdullatifakay4404]

why did you write Turkey's capital T lower but rest of the countries with upper capitalization?

[@eretna2480]

@@abdullatifakay4404 turkey hindi demek ya kanka, oto tamamlamada onu algılamıştır

[@abdullatifakay4404]

@@eretna2480 yok kanka oyle olsa düzeltirdi hepsini büyük yazıp bilerek Türkiye'yi küçük yazmış.

[@eretna2480]

@@abdullatifakay4404 kardeş misal bilerek türkiyenin t sini küçük yazdı dünyanın sonu mu. Salla gitsin

[@valmid5069]

Cant wait for more great historical content from your videos!

[@Galactic-wl6gk]

I never heard of this alliance and it last longer than I expected thanks for the great video 👍

[@itsyoboibrent2553]

Since you covered METO it would be interesting to see you cover SEATO (the Southeast Asian version of NATO)

[@olvustin6671]

Well we gotta take a SEATO for that one

[@dr.victorvs]

Fun fact: "mito" means "myth" in Portuguese, Spanish, and Italian, and this alliance is quite mythical, if anything, indeed.

[@averageperson8882]

I read about this for the first time ever five days ago and then suddenly you release a video on it! It was such a hilarious concept.

[@Xristoforos41493]

Maybe one of the best history channels. So much info explain effectively and effectively 👍

[@cfltheman]

Better than the real History Channel now.

[@DrRiq]

And explained effectively, of course

[@akritasdigenis4831]

​@@DrRiqarap🐒

[@gabrielcastilho4168]

Words About Books Podcast is such a good patreon that HM thanked him twice in the thanks section

[@geisaune793]

Yet another video about something I never knew I wanted to know. Great stuff!

[@nyls1717]

I’ve never heard of this! This is so interesting! Thank you History Matters!

[@BS-vx8dg]

When you introduced METO, methought, "Huh? Don't you mean CENTO?" I'm glad I watched and learned that the organization that I knew for many years as CENTO was, for its first few years, known as METO (which was a much better name).

[@getnohappy]

You get a lot of these "the EU / NATO but elsewhere", while forgetting those were forged after two apocalyptic wars in the span of 30 years and the real possibility of a world ending one happening soon. Those were pretty vital in overcoming, you know, a collective history of mutual antagonism 😅

[@varoonnone7159]

Unified India came to be after a thousand years of Islamic invasions and a century of British Raj

[@patrickkirby6580]

After the collapse of The Abbasid Caliphate, The Ottoman Empire didn’t form until centuries of war with the crusades and mongols and few other states in the Middle East. And don’t forget about China and how many times they collapsed and reformed, even the modern day China is formed after almost a century of War.

[@morceen]

​@@patrickkirby6580 The Ottomans did not fight the Crausaders or the Mongols. The Abbasids did. The Ottomans only fought the Byzantines, and then brutally invaded the Muslim Egypt & Levant under the Abbasid vassel that was the Mamluk Sultanate, and killed the Abbasid Caliph in Cairo, making it thr end of the Islamic Caliphate ever since and the start of a period known as the "Vice-Caliphate" and "Sultanate of Islam". The Ottomans then started fighting the European empires with the same weapons for centuries, and while the Europeans kept advancing, the Ottomans had no scientific research programs or educational institutions like the Arab ones that they destroyed in the Levant & Egypt, the Persian ones that their Timurid cousins destroyed in Iran, and the ones their Mongol cousins destroyed in Iraq, thus they stayed behind until their fate was sealed with turkish nationalism raising, and other nationalist movements raising in the empire in retaliation to thr turkish nationalism, starting from the Greeks to the Armenians to the Kurds and lastly the Arabs (who held the meaningful economic centers of the empire).

[@cartoontraveller]

@historymatters always have loved your stuff. Taken inspiration for my own KZbin channel. Very similar styles 👍🏻

[@dabidibup]

You're the only channel I don't watch at 2.0x speed. Not just because you talk fast, but also you speak concisely

[@eges72]

This is something similar to the Balkan Pact (Also known as Balkan Ententé) a Balkan Alliance founded by Turkey, Greece and Yugoslavia to contain foreign aggression (most notably Italy and Bulgaria) and to erase hostilities after bloody conflicts that have been seen in the past 30 years or so. During WW2 it was dissolved due to the Nazi regime

[@Lobito-qz9pz]

Considering the tension between all Balkan nations today, I find it very hard to believe that at one point in time they were allied with one another

[@joesomebody3365]

Keep up the great work.

[@oliversherman2414]

Great video as always

[@mariotcarreon]

New people mentioned at the end! :D This is the only channel where I listen to the list of patrons. The way they are said is entertaining for some odd reason

[@djdiamondgames1815]

these videos are always fun and to watch and informational

[@Rey__Jan]

Southeast Asia also had its form of NATO in the form of SEATO: the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization, which failed to muster any collective military action because of non-cooperation between members. It strangely had more non-Southeast Asian nations like Australia, New Zealand, Pakistan, UK, France, and the US. The only actual SEA nations present were the Philippines and Thailand, while South Vietnam and Laos were “protected” by SEATO. Burma, Indonesia, and Malaya refused to join.

[@morceen]

Smart Malays. When empires fight, don't pick sides, just watch from far away to grab what you can benefit from anytime.

[@scarymonster5541]

​@@morceenit's pointless if we join

[@itty_224]

you should do a sequel to this video on SEATO(South East Asian Treaty Organization). It seems like a similar idea but at least it had some interesting practical purpose for the vietnam war until it's disbanding.

[@Fam98KK]

I started laughing my ass off when UK joined lmao Hello fellow middle easterns

[@ToastieBRRRN]

Technically still are, depending how you define their part of Cyprus as in the Middle East.

[@ggoddkkiller1342]

Brit love of Turks is too strong🤣🤣

[@emberfist8347]

The British had many protectorates in the Middle East.

[@theshlauf]

​@@ToastieBRRRN Wouldn't that be like saying the United States is Latin American because it controls Guantanamo?

[@ToastieBRRRN]

@@theshlauf Probably Caribbean? More like how the UK is in the Trans-pacific partnership purely due to owning the Pitcairn islands in the pacific ocean.

[@Tomer-oy1hj]

1:27 The character of Ben Gorion and portrait of Hertzl had me dying

[@georgesdelatour]

I'd love a video on the "Stalin Note". Most people interested in the history of the Cold War seem completely unaware of it.

[@genekendrick679]

What's that👀

[@komurluekmek]

@@genekendrick679stalin proposed a unified neutural germany but the us refused

[@siyacer]

​@@komurluekmekbecause we saw how the Soviet treated neutral countries (see Finland, Baltics)

[@user-cx9nc4pj8w]

@@komurluekmek which would've stayed neutral, right until another slightly sus politician came along and the USSR invaded all of it "preventatively". The partition was a better solution.

[@komurluekmek]

@@user-cx9nc4pj8w a nazi would not rise to power, plus even if it did both the soviets and nato would intervene

[@kellymoneymaker3922]

@1:10 These are brilliant interludes in your videos.🤣❤

[@titan1286]

Thank you for this video 🙏

[@akend4426]

This is probably the earliest I’ve ever been to a History Matters video.

[@AlsayidHaddosh]

Me too

[@baconhairbacana1964]

*Same lol. 6 minutes late*

[@royale7620]

fr

[@Centristlol]

Most of these Cold War alliances (SEATO is another) failed pretty much because the only thing keeping them together were these large Western powers that wanted to outsource regional security to smaller vassals

[@bartek4321]

as if the soviet threat was not real enough, say what you will about the corruption of south korean regime (even today, duh), it was also kinda their interest to survive the war

[@emberfist8347]

No they just needed nations to be able to defend themselves and remain stable which was too much to ask.

[@Centristlol]

@@bartek4321 Yes, that is true, but most of these countries had too much internal discord to engage in international politics (the example of Hashemite Iraq is given in the video)

[@Centristlol]

@@emberfist8347 Not necessarily, some Cold War western allies acquitted themselves rather well. Oman and Malaysia are examples that come to mind

[@emberfist8347]

@@Centristlol But there is part of the problem. Some of the allies. Having one reliable ally isn't going to keep an alliance going when the others are shooting themselves in the foot.

[@zencefil2848]

Very cool man, you can make a video about Sadabat Pact as well

[@richardthomas5362]

LOL! I always love the paraphrases of all the treaties in each of the videos.

[@mosin_boi]

For those of you that didn't get the 'not you' at 0:51, that is supposed to be ben gurion, hence israel.

[@MiguelPerez-zx2wg]

To be honest, I didn't know there was a METO. This is something new to me.

[@muhammadhabibieamiro3639]

Another amazing video

[@madmonkee6757]

Wow. I have never heard of this before. Learn something new every... few years.

[@nickd3871]

"History Matters" is both factually informative and hilarious. It is not easy to pull that off but these guys are adept at both.

[@AreaEightyNine]

Another main reason why it failed is because they didn't have a FEZ WEARING ITALIAN MAN

[@DonaldDucksRevenge]

Your content is superb.

[@nik65stgt60]

Great content!

[@miscellaneoussarnian5282]

i've never heard of METO until today

[@akend4426]

Maybe do a similar video about why the South East Asian Treaty Organization (aka SEATO) didn’t work out?

[@TK_Brainslug]

wow another thing that I didn't know. Great job

[@Falkriim]

Very interesting, never knew about this

[@dannyarcher6370]

1:11 - If defence pacts were done by the cast of characters from The Full Monty.

[@mardasman428]

Now I finally understood what the Baghdad Pact was and that it was the same thing as METO. I heard about it in Middle Eastern history class, but it struck me as weird, because it seemed so irrelevant and inconsequential and now we see why I was kind of intuitively right.

[@XenoVevo]

Thumbnail really confused me with Turkey and Britain lol. Great video as always.

[@Ballamizan]

Excellent video History Matters!

[@OnlyGrafting]

I love the idea of Britain and Turkey reluctantly watching the entire middle east fall to shit then just calling it a day.

[@lightfootpathfinder8218]

Well you have to keep an eye on the kids don't ya 😂

[@kecukraftwork1988]

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[@Stegosaurus_a_freak_of_nature]

More like Britain only

[@AnatolianHittite]

​@@Stegosaurus_a_freak_of_natureand Turkey

[@patrickkirby6580]

Former colonizers? They wanted to keep control of the region after they withdrew at all costs. The same happened in South East Asia when France withdrew from there.

[@elite_enfield34]

The reason it failed is because James Bissonette refused to do business with them

[@xp8969]

Kelly Money-Maker's bots always blaming the Bissonette faction 4 everything that goes wrong

[@glyptodon_ch]

But words about books podcast pitched in twice

[@HarvestStore]

Great video.

[@privateeyety5735]

History Matters has done it again, answering a question no one asked but we all need the answers to

[@w0lfr0gue53]

With a name like METO, I understand why it’s gone

[@doronaznible7298]

Honestly never even knew they had a version of NATO

[@d3thkn1ghtmcgee74]

South East Asia has their own too. SATO. Was as effective as ME TO but did help build the grounds for the ASEAN organization which is basically a poorer version of the EU.

[@darnit1944]

​@@d3thkn1ghtmcgee74Not even close. We can't travel without passport and visa check, we don't have common currency, and we frequently have minor border issues with each other (South China sea and other land border issues). Plus we don't have common value to stand for, like Europe's yearn for freedom and democracy. ASEAN is only there to make cooperations easier especially on economy and politics. There's also sports event ASEAN games to help. So, ASEAN is not exactly poorer version than EU. It's much worse than that. But still, ASEAN is a useful organization for cooperations between member states.

[@d3thkn1ghtmcgee74]

@@darnit1944 it was a oversimplification but I was meaning that it was economic forum. The EEC would have been a more accurate description but not as many people would know about the EUs predecessor. There has been talks of adoption of a common currency but I doubt it will come in fruition anytime soon. ASEAN has one uniting value is that they want to do business but I wouldn't say that is much of a foundation.

[@richardhussey-cq2se]

@@d3thkn1ghtmcgee74 SEATO.

[@mijanhoque1740]

@0:46 that ‘Fellow Middle Eastern’ sign had me creasing 😂

[@Goji_Editz6840]

Good job 👍👏

[@gabespiro8902]

UK in METO: Salaam, fellow muslims

[@aidenbuck4765]

Unlike NATO METO wasn’t NEATO

[@Hammi4Real]

Goddamn it.

[@Bandido698]

This was hilarious, thank you

[@LOLERXP]

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[@itzadam9359]

Video Idea as a loyal Patreon supporter: Why did Finland 🇫🇮 gain autonomy in the Russian Empire?

[@Accesdenied109]

Because the Russians were nice enough to grant it

[@Theover4000]

As someone who can’t afford to be a patreon patron; I agree!

[@justalonesoul5825]

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[@Theover4000]

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[@justalonesoul5825]

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[@LyriaSiders]

The UK was like: ''Can you not be involved in a war or undergo a coup... FOR FIVE MINUTES''

[@1899BoerWar]

You should do a video on the second boer war!

[@alexlower505]

I didn't even know that METO existed until now--thanks HM!

[@footvantage06]

Amazing that UK was the last one to leave METO.

[@ct-7822]

I first read it as middle earth and got confused as hell

[@niceguy1197]

It is amazing to see how countries put aside their differences to form defensive alliances against a common enemy. Although they must be functional.

[@thecakeThief]

words about books podcast really supported this one

[@masterostrich8178]

I was literally just reading about this, thank you history matters and thank you James Bizzonette

[@sapphire9145]

How did the Anglo Portuguese alliance start?

[@mirzaahmed6589]

It didn't. It has existed since the Big Bang.

[@frankswarbrick7562]

Never even heard of METO before. Interesting.

[@theexplodingpizza8664]

Good video

[@corey2232]

Follow-up question: "Why did we never know METO ever existed in the first place?"

[@blakebauman9654]

You should make a video on what happens to embassy personnel when their countries' go to war.

[@M0R3gOfF]

Explain baarle-hertog and baarle-naasau next or just the weird borders of Belgium!

[@aguy9771]

Video Idea: The role of East and West Florida in the American Revolution

[@smilingearth5181]

Mom, I wanna join NATO We have NATO at home NATO at home:

[@Dayvit78]

This is one that I never wondered because I never even knew it existed.

[@valcori9555]

Haven't seen the video yet, the the random combo of countries in the thumbnail looks like a fever dream

[@shujah9746]

Only the UK is random, the other three share History, Culture, Religion and are Neighbours.

[@baguette8631]

First ever MeTo movment, who knew the middle east could be so progressiv

[@Chris-ut6eq]

It may have helped shape RU strategy a bit while going, as the USSR would have had to deal with potentially multiple enemies if it invaded. We'll never know if it was anything but a paper scorpion.