00:02All right, today we are diving into a hidden history of World War I.
00:06And let me tell you, it's a version that might just challenge everything you thought you knew
00:11about the Great War. Think about it. What if that whole story you learned in school,
00:16you know, trenches, clashing empires, that one assassination in Sarajevo,
00:20what if that's only scratching the surface? What if there's a completely different story,
00:25a hidden one, that totally flips the script on how our modern world was built?
00:29So, for this explainer, we're going to look at the perspective from just one source,
00:34a YouTube channel called Al-Bashmorek. Now, it lays out a version of World War I that's,
00:39well, it's pretty controversial. You're definitely not going to find this one in your standard history
00:44textbook. Okay, so first up, beyond the assassination. We're going to start with that one event
00:50everyone knows. But according to this source, the real reasons for the war, oh, they go way deeper
00:56and are a lot more calculated than just a single gunshot. Right, so the story we all know is pretty
01:02straightforward. June 28th, 1914, a Serbian nationalist shoots the Archduke Franz Ferdinand,
01:08the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne. And boom, like dominoes, all these alliances kick in,
01:13and Europe is suddenly at war. But here's the twist from this source. It claims that assassination
01:20was just an excuse, a pretext, the spark that finally lit a powder keg that had been getting
01:26packed with gunpowder for like 50 years. So according to this view, the real countdown to war
01:31starts way back. In 1871, Germany unifies, and suddenly there's this new beast on the European
01:37scene, right? And that seriously threatens the dominance of Britain and France. This leads to
01:43the Triple Alliance in 1882 with Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy. Then, in a huge move,
01:48Britain and France, enemies for a thousand years, they team up in 1904 to counter Germany.
01:54And all the while, this source claims Britain was stirring up proxy wars in the Balkans to weaken
01:59the Ottoman Empire, which it calls the Wounded Knight, basically setting all the pieces on the
02:04board for the big show. All right, part two, the war against the Caliphate. Now, this is where we get
02:11to the absolute core of this source's argument. Because in this version of history, the fighting
02:16in the Middle East, that wasn't some sideshow. Nope, it was the main event. So what we have here are
02:22two
02:22totally different wars happening at the same time. On the one hand, you've got the Western Front.
02:28That's the one we always hear about, a brutal, bloody stalemate over territory and power.
02:34But on the other hand, there's the Eastern Front. And this source frames that conflict,
02:38well, it frames it as a war driven by hatred for Islam and its people. It's presented as a kind
02:44of modern crusade with a secret goal to completely destroy the state of Islam and dismantle the
02:50caliphate. And to back this up, the source points to one number, 500,000. That's the staggering number
02:58of allied casualties at the Battle of Gallipoli. For this source, that isn't just a number. It's
03:03proof of just how powerful the Ottoman Empire really was. And here's a direct quote from the source.
03:08At Gallipoli, the Ottomans annihilated half a million of the allies, while the Russian front
03:13completely collapsed. Victory seemed imminent for the central powers. I mean, it sounds like
03:18they were on the brink of winning, right? The Ottomans were holding strong. Russia was falling
03:23apart. So what happened? How did it all turn around? Well, that brings us to Section 3,
03:29a victory lost by betrayal. And this is probably the most explosive claim in this whole narrative.
03:35The argument is that this victory, which seems so close, wasn't lost in the trenches. It was stolen.
03:42Stolen by treachery. So according to the al-Bash-Mawrik channel, the whole thing fell apart
03:48because of two major betrayals. First, there was the Arab revolt. Sharif Hussein of Mecca teamed up
03:54with the British. And this is described as a stab in the back of the Ottoman caliphate, all to create
03:58a kingdom for his family. But the second betrayal is presented as the real knockout blow. It's an
04:04allegation that on the German home front, Jewish financiers and media owners orchestrated a total
04:09collapse of the war effort from the inside. And the source connects these dots by claiming this
04:14supposed internal collapse in Germany was all part of a deal, an exchange for a promise from the
04:21British, a national home in Palestine. Now, to support this claim, the source quotes Adolf Hitler
04:27himself, saying, we were not defeated on the battlefield, but by betrayal. The brave German
04:33soldier dies before the cowardly French soldier only because the latter has ammunition, while we
04:37have nothing. And, you know, this very idea, this stab in the back theory, became a cornerstone of Nazi
04:43ideology. Okay, on to our final section, the legacy of a stolen war. So if the victory was stolen, what
04:50happened next? Well, from this perspective, what followed wasn't about making peace. It was about
04:56methodically carrying out the Allies' real goals for the war. The source lays it out as a clear
05:01chain of events. First, the Treaty of Versailles, which it says was designed specifically to humiliate
05:06and bankrupt Germany, taking away its military and hitting it with impossible debt. Second, the Ottoman
05:12Empire is completely dismantled. The caliphate is abolished, and its lands are just divided up by the
05:16colonial powers. This was all done through the secret Sykes-Picot Agreement, where Britain and France
05:20carved up the Middle East for themselves. And finally, number four, the British supposedly made good on
05:26their promise, facilitating the creation of what the source calls the occupying entity in Palestine.
05:31And let's not forget the unbelievable human cost. I mean, the numbers are just staggering.
05:37Millions and millions of lives lost. According to the figures presented by the source,
05:42Russia lost about 1.8 million people, Germany 1.7 million, Britain and France combined lost about
05:491.5 million, and the Ottoman Empire half a million. And this is a really crucial point in the narrative.
05:56The source argues that the humiliation baked into the Treaty of Versailles didn't actually end a war.
06:03Instead, it created the perfect conditions, and the perfect man, Adolf Hitler, to start the next one.
06:09It wasn't about peace. It was about planting the seeds for another conflict.
06:14So, the source leaves us with this big what-if. What if the Central Powers had won?
06:19Well, in their alternate history, you'd have two massive super-empires.
06:24The Ottoman Empire ruling from the Atlantic all the way to the Gulf.
06:27And Germany in control of all of Europe. A completely different world than the one we have today.
06:32And all of this really leaves us with a big question, doesn't it?
06:36When we dive into alternative histories, like the one we've just explored here, it really makes you think.
06:41How do these different stories we tell about the past, whether they're the ones in the textbooks or the ones
06:46on the fringes,
06:47how do they actually shape our world right now?
06:49How do they define who we see as friends, who we see as enemies, and our whole understanding of the
06:54present?
06:55How do they define what they're getting here?
06:55How do they define them?
06:55How do they define them?
06:55I mean, I don't believe in your story, but I don't think they're firstly trying to frustrate them.
06:55So, the shape of the prophets, where they owns a part in a Shallow Site, the cancer, theived entire world.
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