British Couple Reacts to a World Without the US - Part 1 : What if?

what is up guys welcome back to the channel today's reaction video is what if world without the US part one so if it's interesting enough we'll do a part two I don't know how many parts there is but yeah let's find out let's enter his journey let's get into it a world without us I'd be quite big you know the military power gone the influence gone friends gone holiday's gone oh well you can visit other countries for holidays but U.S holiday is gone when I said friends I guess you absolute Legends as friends as well but I meant the TV program Friends friends so many TV programs so many influential movies TV programs all gone that's really sad what Russia have got to the Moon Hannah Montana yeah oh you right okay yeah a lot of stuff which would miss maybe if a country would have made their own version of it but who knows there's a picture of an astronaut there so maybe Russia would have made it to the moon first what would have happened then England would have been maybe Germany would have won World War II would we all be speak in Germany do I mean I mean that's Madness that is madness because the US has played a massive part smash IB video this kind of content smash the Subscribe button and let's see what it would be like part one by infographics let's go when you're popular everyone loves to hate you and if you're American you should be able to admit that throughout history the US says Dawn things that deserve being hated for and if you're not an American then you should be able to admit that throughout history the US has done things that it deserves being loved for yet as the world's sole superpower the US's influence spreads around the world in both good and bad ways what would happen though if the us something same with every everyone you know I mean same with everyone for that but obviously yours is just a bigger impact didn't exist anymore or at least if its influence across the world stage disappeared overnight World War II ends in a stalemate armchair historians love to point out that the moment Hitler invaded Russia he was doomed to failure and thus World War II would have been won by the Allies even without the U.S yet historical truth is not quite that simple invading Russia was a critical mistake made by Hitler and one worsened when the U.S joined the war and reopened the Western Front in Europe yet what if the U.S had simply shrugged its shoulders when Russia and Britain begged it to join the war effort despite a superior Fleet Britain's War material supply was running dangerously low even with constant American resupply efforts without the U.S to ship war Goods to Britain the best that the United Kingdom could have done is Stave off a German invasion in war games carried out in the early 2000s by a British Think Tank it was discovered that Hitler could never have successfully overcome Britain's fleets the RAF or the Home Guard in a cross-channel Invasion yet this war game was undertaken with with constant U.S resupply efforts underway without these resupply efforts across Channel Invasion would probably still have been disastrous for Germany but then again Germany would have had little need to invade Britain without the U.S supplying it a token defensive Force could have been left behind in France in order to discourage British Invasion and the full might of the Vermont could have been dispatched to the Eastern Front not just reviled as a madman and mass murderer Stalin was also famously a very poor strategic thinker he was so surprised by Hitler's Invasion that in the Years leading up to it he had taken almost zero precautions against German hostility to make matters worse his political purges prior to World War II had decimated the ranks of the Red Army and eliminated most of its experienced commanders despite having exponentially greater numbers and Firepower advantage in the winter war of 1939 against Finland the smaller and much more poorly equipped Finnish Army managed to absolutely decimate the Red Army before overwhelming numbers alone forced to defeat by the time of Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union little had yeah I think having that is a Russian thing in the past is I I don't know too much I obviously we do a World War history so that but it's just sheer numbers gone through no matter how unskilled well and stuff like that I mean in the way of command and control logistical support or even training when Hitler invaded his troops quickly seized many of the Soviet Union's agricultural regions leaving the nation to face Mass starvation if it hadn't been for the US's Lend Lease aid program to the wartime allies providing food raw materials tanks planes ammunition clothing and everything in between the United States provided critical Aid to the Soviet Union in its most desperate hour American raw materials fueled Soviet factories that churned out tanks and thousands of Studebaker trucks helped move Goods around the nation and its troops to the front lines warm winter clothing kept Soviet soldiers from freezing to death and American rations fed both soldiers and civilians alike as Soviet General Georgie zukov said after World War II we didn't have explosives gunpowder we didn't have anything to charge our rifle cartridges with the Americans really saved us with their gunpowder and explosives and how much sheet steel they gave us how could we have produced our tanks without American Steel but now they make it seem as if we had an abundance of all that without American trucks we wouldn't have had anything to pull our artillery with immediately after the invasion of the Soviet Union the United States gave the nation an interest-free loan of one billion or about 17.5 billion in today's dollars worth of supplies and raw materials the United Kingdom was also given an initial lease of between 40 and 50 destroyers per the terms of the Lend Lease the materials were lent for the duration of the war and expected to be returned or reimbursed only upon War's end if they were attacked for civilian use any combat losses would not be expected to be repaid basically the U.S lent the Allies Surplus military equipment under the condition that it didn't have to be repaid for unless it was kept after the war was over in total the U.S gave the Soviet Union 44 000 Jeeps 375 883 trucks 8000 171 tractors 12 700 tanks one million 541 590 blankets three hundred thirty one thousand sixty six liters of alcohol fifteen million four hundred seventeen thousand pairs of military boots 106 893 tons of cotton two million six hundred seventy thousand tons of petroleum products and Fuel and four million four hundred seventy eight thousand tons of food it's just menu I mean because obviously in today's world obviously optimal well that's when you start getting to the cold war with the Soviet Union USA had this I've been massive issue the war and so far and then obviously what's going on in today's world and so far but you forget that they were fighting on the same side technically about then and 30 years before the Cold War night the US supplied all that which is mental to think if you think about how it is now and how it has been in the past 50 years or whatever that is I mean I completely forgot to be honest with you but when you hear them numbers again it's like Oh my days they used to be not friends I wouldn't say friends but allies yeah allies and obviously the USA really really helped them as well there's any thoughts on that that'd be interesting clear that without the US the best the Allies could have hoped for would have been a stalemate with Germany holding on to the richest part of the Soviet Union oh wow Britain off the mainland no European Union immediately did the second world war Europe found itself in shambles nearly all of its financial and Industrial networks had been destroyed in the fierce fighting an entire National economies had collapsed the war had been the most devastating in human history and the fate of entire nations hung by a threat two and a half years after the end of fighting there was very little sign of recovery from the European Mainland with millions of homeless and out of work then in 1948 the U.S Secretary of State George C Marshall drafted up a four-year plan meant to reinvigorate the European economy the plan would rely on 15 billion dollars of financial aid or a quarter of a trillion dollars in today's dollars wow it would be completely financed by the American taxpayer the first Target of the Marshall Plan as it came to be known would be feeding the European population as a massive famine was threatening the mainland thus food Aid was immediately dispatched to 16 European nations the Soviet Union and its satellite States had been offered assistance as well but it had turned it down due to fears of meddling by the U.S and Internal Affairs the main focus of the Marshall Plan was on the recovery of Europe's largest industrial power such as West Germany France and Great Britain as it was believed that if these great economies were jump started then the effects would spread to other nations attempts to rebuild national shipping fleets Road and Railway infrastructure and reconstruct devastated cities were bolstered by American Aid money though the effect of the Marshall Plan is likely less economic and more political due to the Soviet Union's refusal to party on the U.S you dad came in clutch I mean I didn't know Mozart did you imagine about all the time how much money you guys actually put towards rebuilding Europe and stuff like that let us know if you know that I'm a comment and again it's just how different would have been if none of that because this is all it's all explaining what they did just think what happened if it didn't have it you know I mean it's crazy for that is men all right fair play to you guys again we're best friends remember that and and you guys have definitely done some heavy lifting as well the Reconstruction efforts the Marshall Plan and the 16 Nations it aided helped establish the political framework for what post World War II Europe would look like with the West firmly aligned in solidarity against the Communist East the Marshall Plan ceded the idea of European unity and fostered an intertwining of European interests which was President Truman's greatest goals as only a unified Europe could stand against the Soviet Union but also only a unified Europe could avert Another World War without the Marshall Plan European economies would have taken longer to recover than they did which would have made them more vulnerable to political revolutions fostered by the Soviet Union whose agents were constantly at work attempting to make the ideology of Soviet Revolution abroad or of spreading communist revolutions around the world a reality the Marshall Plan however also laid down the political and economic roots for what would become the European Union and without it it's very likely that Europe would have returned to the old Power way of thinking that had dominated European politics for centuries European colonialism prevails prior to World War II European powers retained colonies across the world and upon entering the second world war President Roosevelt made it extremely clear to the Allies that America's help was dependent on the eventual liberation of the majority of these Colonial Holdings with their feet to the fire Britain and France were forced to agree and after the end of the war President Truman made it a top priority to ensure that Britain and France as well as other European powers held true to their promises to begin liberating their colonies though the process was slow the end of colonialism was much the result of the economic collapse of Europe's great Powers as it was the sheer determined nation of American presidents to see Europe relinquish its old ways and colonialism would have continued and May in fact have worsened with their economies in shambles European powers would have leaned even harder on their colonial states bleeding their economies dry in an effort to rebuild themselves this would have sparked violent insurgencies around the world which would have brought with them harsh crackdowns by the colonial powers in the end the death of European colonialism would have taken decades more to arrive and the world today May in fact look a lot more like it did during the age of the great Powers Korea unified under the North and Japan Rises as an imperial power once more today South Korea is a vibrant and prosperous Nation while its neighbor to the north is facing Mass starvation and economic desolation yeah North Korea is Legend if you want to do the video on North Korea because I don't know too much I don't know about it I just know it's so private you can't get anything of it out of access to like Facebook support it's all what they control so let us know if you want us to do a video man because I think be pretty interesting yeah you guys are just good guys it seems like yeah I mean the us just like come on everyone get along yeah we'll give you some money we'll help you start it out literally which you don't see it like that you know like it's not portrayed as that no definitely and like when we go with a big miniature and all that and I guess it's peacemakers with us because we're great allies and stuff like that but just don't never heard them stole it was just about which was awesome to hear and also I like I like this video because you're thinking about the title what would happen without us but you're also learning quite a bit yeah definitely like loads of stuff we haven't heard before our Korean Peninsula would look very different today if it were not for the US two days after the start of the war the UN published resolution 83 urging U.N members to lend military aid to the South a U.N Coalition force was ultimately formed but it was the US that would do the heavy lifting the war would end three years later after China's involvement with the US not Desiring to see the situation evolve into another major war that would now include China if the U.S had not been available to defend the South the war would have been won by the north far too quickly for the U.N to Marshal a sizable military response in the entire Peninsula would have been reunited under the north communism would have overtaken the South and while we may be tempted to compare the fate of a communist Peninsula with that shared by the north today it's important to remember that the state of the North's economy is largely the result of us isolate sanction efforts against the Kim regime without the U.S to lead these sanctions and under the protection of a growing China the unified Korean Peninsula would be in a stronger economic State than the North is today it would have been more prosperous than South Korea is today is debatable but what isn't is that a communist Korea wouldn't necessarily be as impoverished as the north is today a communist Korea would have naturally gravitated toward China and become a satellite state this would have upended Asian Politics as we understand them today Japan for one would have been quick to ditch its pacifist ideologies which were only ever truly possible as a result of Japan enjoying the protection of the United States faced with a hostile China Japanese nationalistic hardliners would have upended the Constitution and Rewritten it to allow Japan to once more field a military capable of both offensive and defensive operations even today Japan's prime minister Shinzo Abe is a member of a right-wing nationalistic party which in the past advocated a return to Imperial power Japan would of risen as a military power once more and conflict in Asia would be all but unavoidable the second half of the 20th century would have been dramatically different without U.S intervention and it's likely that communism would have dominated the global stage both militarily and politically whereas today we live in a world of mostly strong Democratic states we could in fact have seen a reverse of this with the world as we know it being made up of a collection of Communist States where the democracies are the minority what would that event for Global civil rights movements we can only guess but in part two we'll take a look at how the world may have looked as it entered the 21st century in a world without the US what do you think would have happened okay I get part two we don't need to say more let us know if you want to check out part two and potentially if you ever pause in there I really enjoyed it that's really interesting again it just shows how different our world could it be I know you could some people will say you could take out quite a lot of countries and things would be different but I just think that it might have influenced us has had a lot of these would have significantly changed you know I mean whereas if you took pull the countries out even put in some parts of History it wouldn't have been as big you know I mean smash the like button if you enjoyed it guys smash that subscribe button anything else yeah and we'll see you Legends in the next one peace

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Length: 15min 14sec (914 seconds)

Published: Fri Sep 16 2022