Gulf War from Iraq's Perspective (ft. EmperorTigerStar) | Animated History
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This video is bullshit. Iraqis perspective you can here from real iraqi veterans. Not from an video like this
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Sadam huseen my king
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Border wars had little to no effect on oil .... so no need to invade.... Little did we know until 2017 - 2020 that we had enough oil and gas for us plus to export....
You lack context. The Iraqi retreat from Kuwait was preceded by the SCUD attack in Saudi and “Highway” incident
Lets not forget that they also attacked Israel.
after i heard emperor tigerstar and checked the comments was time to move on......
Where is your armchair????
Kuwait, created by the British in 1922 was used to provoke S. Hussein's Iraq into invading Kuwait egged on by Henry Kissinger for Israel/US dominance of the Middle East.
Sooooo.... this isn't from Iraq's perspective, but rather an overview of the events. Also, when we are referring to a country with an authoritarian leader we would really be referring to the leaders perspective(or the perceived perspective from the point of view of the citizens)
To be fair the soviets ALSO didn't know how inferior the t-72 was to the abrams
Cloud Seeker The T-72s were provided by the soviet union to Iraq. Saddam had interest in producing them in house entirely but obvious shortfalls came to be.
How do you know that? The soviets were never involved.
"Completely worthless" Tell the dead.
And how did the Gulf War resemble Vietnam? Massive field armies conronting themselves in open terrain?
The last war the US had been in was Vietnam. Vietnam was a long war where the US fought an enemy hand to hand without really a path to victory. It was costly in money and in young men. It was a massive stain on the US army and was a shadow of how poorly the US army had become at the time. Vietnam was lost because the US people refused to support it. Saddam Hussein hoped that Vietnam was fresh in peoples memory. That the people should not support it as they did not want their boys to die in some other country for problems they are not involved in. It was also very much the case. For Bush to get support for the war was a hard sale to the US people. Many didn't want it or liked the idea. A major reason the US was even able to go into the war was because Saddam Hussein refused to back down or compromise. If he had compromised on some face saving deal, the US might never gotten support for the war even if it was internationally supported.
"History" might address more than claims - facts for example.
more crap
Crap
10:50 foreshadowing
I genuinely can’t even blame Iraqis for hating the United States.
Dont forget that during the war Iraq launched rockets on Israel
Whos an kuwaiti and saw this video and said *”oh cool”*
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"On behalf of the oil" fixed it :)
I didn't find this to be from anyone's perspective - let alone Iraq's. The depth of understanding and explanation was trivial. This Armchair 'Historian' needs to get off his butt and do some real studying and research.
The Scorched Earth tactic?
This video is horseshit. How was this from the Iraqi's perspective?
Barely mentions the other allies, and their technology. Like most Americans, they need everyone to think they "won the war alone, USA,USA, Without us you would be speaking Arabic?!!!" Ugh.
NICE TO SEE AN IRAQI PERSPECTIVE. IT WAS IN THEIR COUNTRY. BTW, IM A FRMER US ARMY, CAPTAIN, TOOK PART IN THAT PREVIOUS QUAGMIRE CALLED THE PERSIAN GULF WAR... I DISCOVERED, TOO LATE, THAT KUWAIT WAS A FORMER PROVINCE OF IRAQ.
The last great conventional victory Could Iraq have "won" (retaining Kuwait) using asymmetrical tactics and urban warfare?
Poor Iraq
But please does all a favor shut up
Tldr: it was mayweather vs a kindergartner
"If Kuwait exported broccoli, we wouldn't be there now." Joseph S nye Jr, July 1991
He just can't stop saying "Eye-racky"
Many say the reason is the loans Iraq took during the Iran war. Failing oil prices pretty much made Kuwait super rich because Iraq had to pay back. If you ask me, the USA wanted to remove two birds with one stone, 1969 they tried to assassinate Saddam, and by 1979 they the US saw Saddam as best friend. Bullshit this was was planned.
It is interesting that America only done more demage, only America talking about history in the name of Democracy and now what is Americia? Who own it? What irony
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What if saddam didn't halted the invasion of Saudi Arabia? I am sure that US will win at the end but how about the process? Invading Saudi Arabia will give the allied force no space to mustering their army, US and the Allies should choose alternate scenario, can Iraq slowing down their defeat?
Well, from what I've read the Iraqi documents make it pretty clear that the invasion was less of, well, an invasion and more of a raid. They hoped that the capture of Khafji would give them access to Kuwaiti oil supplies, be a propaganda coup, gather Intel on the Coalition, and possibly pre-empt the ground war but that last one was a best case scenario. The Iraqis had limited planning for operations against Saudi Arabia. They had drawn up plans to invade about 100 miles into it, if I remember correctly, but never worked out the logistics for it. Saudi Arabia simply wasn't that much of a target for attack by Saddam. Also, the force used to take Khafji wasn't what would be expected to act as an invasion's vanguard. Normally, the Republican Guard would be used for a thing like that, not a regular division. Also, an entire brigade was being used just to drive in circles around the desert as a diversion. If they really had kept going, tho, I think what happened at Khafji would've played out. For political and strategic reasons, Arab forces as well as the US Marines would have taken the brunt of it, supported by US air power. But really, the Iraqi units involved weren't enough to cause enough mayhem for that. It was a raid which fulfilled it's political goal, but not much else.
Where were all the chemical weapons that America accused Iraq had. America found no chemical weapons in Iraq.
Curse you sadaam Hussain!!! I’m in Kuwait, but I’m lucky I was not born in 1990.
Saddan Hussein should have won.
Maybe Iraq should not have invaded Kuwait
T-72A destroyed T-72 requtation also T-72BU isn't T-90
persian gulf for ever .you may be stupid because your teacher dont teach you name of persian gulf.
i think the fact that Iraq is mostly open plains as opposed to dense jungle had more of an effect than the technology gap
80s: The world vs Iran 90s: The world vs Iraq
So USA just unnecessary killed a 1000 soldiers that were about to retreat and leave the war under a peaceful agreement.🙂
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Yep we sons of mesopotamia we aint desert arabs, we only speak arabic
Sir Percy Cox did not arbitrarily 'take away' Iraq's coastline. Your map is misleading, as there was no 'British Middle East.' Rather, the region was divided into various multiple mandates and protectorates. Kuwait had not been part of the Ottoman Empire for hundreds of years by the time of WWI, and so was not part of the Mandate of Iraq. Rather, it was a protectorate under its own Sheikh.
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I’m actually watching this because Im living in Kuwait and I just want to know
Kuwait only a product of British Imperialism? ALL the countries in the middle east, Iraq included, are products of British and French Imperialism!!
Greetings. Where was the iraqi perspective? Anyrate...l do enjoy your vids.
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'surprisingly friendly fire' I hope that was sarcasm because as a Brit it is well known that our soldiers faced more danger from US friendly fire than from Iraqi forces. I don't know if it is still true but for a good while the US had killed more British soldiers in GW2 than the Iraqi's had.
That's interesting. Can you provide evidence to back that up?
Rest In Peace Kuwait 1521-1990
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Another great video!
Dear IRAQI Brothers N Sisters in Islam, Donot be divided into groups(Sunni/Shia/Kurds)......this is your country, you all have to decidied what is good and what is bad. You need to stand together hand in hand to save and rebuild your country.Please see the meaniing of Shura Bakarah:(8-12) 8. Among the people are those who say, “We believe in God and in the Last Day,” but they are not believers. 9. They seek to deceive God and those who believe, but they deceive none but themselves, though they are not aware. 10. In their hearts is sickness, and God has increased their sickness. They will have a painful punishment because of their denial. 11. And when it is said to them, “Do not make trouble on earth,” they say, “We are only reformers.” 12. In fact, they are the troublemakers, but they are not aware. I think no President of Rulers gone through these line from Sura Bakarah.........Think brothers now its all in your mind and own hand.
Great analysis, as usual! I have to admit, the graphic of the men each carrying and loading a full barrel of oil into trucks gave me a chuckle lol. Thanks for the upload!
Sometime it really sucks to be on the wrong side. Iraq had no chance of resisting the coalition, but if you were a conscript, you had to go and fight anyway. Basically the entire western powers and most middle east power just teamed on one country.
Are we gonna ignore that theres no nuclear found in iraq? God help iraq families
The map of Israel at 3:00 is legally incorrect.
USA is real gangsta.
waw very brave to attack a whole road of retreating solders ,, very honorable
Iraq: can’t pay debt Kuwait: steals oil as reprisal Iraq: Pikachu face
God damn it I wish the west had just left the Middle East alone fucking bush senior
This is a very VERY biased video.. plus Iraq's perspective? While just saying the US victories and quoting western historians? This is clickbait at its finest. Please if you don't have full knowledge about a subject don't talk about it.
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Right now the US is just using bullshit excuse to use their useless trillion dollar army
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