Geoguessr pro goes US on Cambodia 🇰🇭 — Transcript

Full transcript

1. 0:00salatar thanks for the 10 gifted Beer
2. 0:02Company Lush foliage wait that looks
3. 0:03like a US Mark 82 bomb we got to be over
4. 0:06here in
5. 0:07America what why are there undetonated
6. 0:10American bombs in the middle of
7. 0:13Cambodia in March 1969 Richard Nixon
8. 0:17initiated a covert bombing campaign of
9. 0:18Cambodia called operation menu Henry
10. 0:21Kissinger firmly believed that striking
11. 0:23the Soviet back North Vietnamese
12. 0:25sanctuaries inside Cambodia would hurt
13. 0:27hano's ability to wage war in South
14. 0:30Vietnam Kissinger Han picked the bombing
15. 0:32targets himself with no consultation
16. 0:34from the Air Force leadership and
17. 0:36despite never having declared war
18. 0:37against Cambodia or its people the US
19. 0:40dropped more bombs on them than it did
20. 0:42during the entire second world war the
21. 0:44bombing barely touched the North
22. 0:46Vietnamese but it did create the chaos
23. 0:48necessary for the rise of Po pot who
24. 0:51also had the backing of the United
25. 0:53States national security advisers bigu
26. 0:56brazinski knew the us could never
27. 0:58support po pot but could he went on the
28. 1:01record saying I encourage the Chinese to
29. 1:03support popot I encourag the tie to help
30. 1:06the Democratic campuchia the Kim Rouge
31. 1:08went on to kill 1 million cambodians
32. 1:11which included the genocide of ethnic
33. 1:13Vietnamese Muslim chams Chinese and
34. 1:16Buddhist monks they often buried the
35. 1:18bodies of those killed in the craters of
36. 1:21bombs dropped by Americans in
37. 1:241973 and to learn more check out
38. 1:27blowback
39. 1:28[Music]