I honestly didn't find the points unhinged. If he had made the video it would be rather weird considering looking at his earlier content it would be completely out of character, but he seemed to have a moment of clarity and realized he didn't need to waste time on something that doesn't fit at all with his usual subject matter
Afghanistan's culture can be fixed. However, it will never be fixed by foreigners who have to do it at gunpoint. The Occupation's of Japan and Germany were successful because the majority of local leaders were fine with the reforms and had earned the respect of their respective countries citizens despite losing the war. The Afghanistan of the 1960s and 70s had so much potential, but only because of its leaders. 21st Century Afghanistan had especially terrible leadership simply because they were cronies selected by foreigners.
The Caspian Report is fine but I remember that the guy behind it is an Azeri patriot so take whenever he talks about Azerbaijan, Iran, Armenia, Turkey, Russia, and Isreal with a grain of salt.
really pretentious and very little substance, plus a lot of amateurish speculation.
HistorywithHilbert is a cool dutch guy, I remember first seeing him when he did those Zwarte Piete defense videos
how old is whatifalthist? its shocking that he’s over the age of 15.
I wonder if those were written by the old Spanish narrator or the stuffy-nosed Anglo. The Spanish Empire series was almost Unbiased History: Spain in terms of how much it lionized the 16th century Spaniards, so maybe he's just taking an opportunity to bash the Anglo world order that broke the back of his favourite country.
I remember someone in his own comments section said he had "The arrogance of an Italian, and the bluntness of a German", but I can't find it anymore. I think half of his appeal is like Styxhexenhammer's, the ability to say the most sweeping, outrageous shit in a completely deadpan, matter-of-fact way. It's one thing to hear Alex Jones yelling about chicken-neck nellies, it's another to hear a guy who looks and sounds like he collects Funko Pops talking about how Lobsters and frogposters will inherit North America after leftie technocrats purity spiral themselves out of power in the same tone as a high school teacher reading from a textbook.
Would've been based if instead of an autistic manifesto he made the video.
I said this in the Taliban Offensive thread but the US policy of democracy spreading is a massive shame from it's inception. Afghanistan for example had a very popular exiled king (His exile was the result of his dipshit power hungry cousin taking power while he was abroad for medical reasons and declaring a republic) who was very popular among the tribal groups in the country. Had we let his candidate and the monarchists who wanted him back win the election we would've been better off, but instead Hamid Karzai 'won' and established a US backed regime. Afghanistan would've been far better off as a semi-democratic monarchy with tribal loyalties to the king.
He is pretty good, have you seen his recent Afghanistan videos?
He gets his understanding of events from Swedish Map Games most likely. I mean yes, Vicky 2's economy is complex but I'm not an econ master for getting the money line to go green.
Very cozy videos to binge. Bronze age northern Europe is a subject overlooked amongst history youtubers in favor of the eastern Mediterranean and its very relaxing to listen about not wars or violence but just small communities of villagers whose names have been lost to the mists of time making pretty pottery and eating everything that both moves and doesn't move.
