25 Costly Mistakes That Changed the Course of History

If you watched our older video, 25 Mistakes That Changed History Forever, and thought "surely that's all of them"... Well, … it wasn't. History is basically just one long series of unforced errors, and the more you dig, the worse it gets. Kings, generals, entire empires, nobody was safe from their own terrible judgment. So, here we are, back at it again, because, quite frankly, humanity has given us way too much material to work with. These are 25 Costly Mistakes That Changed the Course of History. Grab your copy of What The Facts now, available on Amazon! Click the link to explore over 500 fun and fascinating facts! 👉👉https://www.amazon.com/WHAT-FACTS-ARE-TALKING-ABOUT-ebook/dp/B0DFNR2KHT/ Please support my channel and get access to perks:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWqJpFqlX59OML324QIByZA/join 🔔 Subscribe for more tips just like this: https://bit.ly/3Ewz99H 🚀 Watch our latest List25 Videos: https://www.youtube.com/c/list25/videos 📨 Have a list idea? Submit it here: https://bit.ly/3Mu3gk1 Music: A Revelation - Jeremy Blake 0:00 - Intro 0:38 - The "Liberty" Loan That Killed a King 1:41 - The Land Grab That Left Everyone Broke 2:42 - Austria Lost Every Ally In Three Years 3:47 - The Map That Ended a Monarchy 4:51 - The Tax That Toppled the Iron Lady 5:48 - A Disaster Built On Small Decisions 6:40 - The Fixed Exchange Rate Trap 7:37 - Moscow's Ten-Year Mistake 8:55 - Spain's Brain Drain 9:36 - Don't Disrespect the Mongols 10:31 - Italy's African Disaster 11:27 - Landing On The Wrong Beach 12:15 - Meeting the Spanish Without Defenses 13:07 - Colombia Lost Panama Over a Negotiation 13:59 - Santa Anna's Fateful Nap 14:50 - The Irish Boundary Commission 15:56 - Turning a Routine Upgrade Into a Crisis 16:38 - Operation Barbarossa 17:46 - The Fourth Crusade 19:10 - The Chaco War 20:01 - Venezuela's Empty Pipeline 20:55 - Japan's Lost Decades 21:45 - Revoking Religious Tolerance 22:40 - Giving Up North America 23:20 - Failing to Connect the Dots 🍿 WATCH OUR OTHER VIDEOS: ► 25 Mistakes That Changed History Forever: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUynpmwwT3M ► 25 Most Shocking Translation Mistakes That Changed History: https://youtu.be/IBrIcvp3u7I?si=YMwlGifu782bGJpj List25 Discord: https://discord.gg/ZcKZRspW7f Facebook: http://facebook.com/list25 Instagram: http://instagram.com/list25 Twitter/X: http://twitter.com/list25 Pinterest: http://pinterest.com/list25 Mike Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/michaelbestrin Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DizMeLife Twitter: https://twitter.com/DizMeLife Twitter: https://twitter.com/MichaelBEstrin Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mikeestrin/ Cameo: https://www.cameo.com/michaelbestrin Mike's Other Channel: https://www.youtube.com/dizmelife See more lists on our website: http://list25.com Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research