Why These Countries Are Impossible To Invade

When it comes to military interventions, there are particular countries that rarely, if ever, find themselves on the invasion agenda.

Why?

It could be their strong armed forces, challenging terrain, nuclear capabilities, or various other factors that make them infamously resistant.

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In this video, our military experts explore five of these notoriously hard-to-invade nations and recount past failed attempts.

While there are more deserving countries, we can't cover them all in one video, so share your suggestions for future videos after our military experts weigh in!

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[mercenarygundam]

Me as an Australian: No one wants to invade us because our wildlife is our own natural special forces unit.

[kylejefferson]

I’ll b damned if someone tries to invade and disconnect my Wi-Fi 🇺🇸

[bheckel]

120 per 100 is only the guns they know about.

[joso]

When the SAS trained the Mujaheddin to fight against the Russian occupation they said the Afghans would simply change hats to change sides. So putting on a Black Turban (yes later Taliban) meant they joined the Mujaheddin.
So when the United States evacuated and they wondered where all the Taliban fighters suddenly arrived from you have the explanation - it was just local Afghans changing their hats.

[sethmaki]

The US is basically a 3000 mile wide castle with a 4000 mile wide moat on one side and a 9000 mile wide moat on the other. Oh, and NORAD headquarters is no longer in Colorado Springs, it was moved from Cheyenne Mountain to Omaha.

[zoopdterdoobdter]

Regarding the USA: t's not just raw ownership/capita, but *who* owns them. Not a generation has gone untouched by war and veterans are _by far_ the most likely demo to possess.

[Watchingvideoslikeu]

*correction The reason Israel is so hard to invade is because of The United States of America.

[kaelanreynolds]

I’m a Canadian and I believe that Canada 🇨🇦 is impossible to invade, with crazy climate, rugged mountains, mostly clay soil so it’s heavy and slippery when wet.

[habituallearner]

Italy's geography is a defender's dream. Also Russia's extreme winters and vast size foiled both Napoleon and the Axis.

[davidwenner]

Poorly researched . Vietnam was not invaded by the USA. The USA troops were used to back up the South Vietnam government to stop the invasion by the North Vietnam communist . The VietCong, a gorilla insurgency populist, living in South Vietnam was pretty much whipped by 1968 . This led to the North Vietnam to bring more of there regular soldiers down from the North. They were consider to be very good soldiers.
South Vietnam fell due the invasion by the North . This was because America signed the Paris peace Accords and America was going to replace every bullet or plane or tank the south used to defend itself . America did not back up this agreement with the south.

[xt]

The US is really the only country impossible to invade. Certainly due to many of the factors you mentioned, but another key one is the US alliances. Essentially, to invade the US you'd have to also manage to suborn or destroy most of the other world military powers who are aligned with the US. Something I just don't see happening. The US could be destroyed of course...but I don't see an invasion using any likely nation or coalition of nations being able to successfully invade it. Every other country on your list COULD be invaded if they invading countries were willing to pay the price and had the political will to do so, but not the US. JMHO and all.

[johnmay]

I'd like to see your assessment of an invasion of Australia.

[MrAllenIverson]

No country is impossible to invade. Just not the traditional way the video talks about.

[louisstyrzo]

Nothing is impossible you can invade a country with weapons no weapons with just one simple little item all you got to find is the their weakness or take away one of the important items they need

[YuiFunami]

vietnam was most recently invaded by china and not the US/France

[joso]

Russia used to be considered un-invadable until Prighozin's march. For all its vast size its centralization in Moscow makes success possible. And even the winter Scorched Earth tactic used against Napoleon and Hitler could now be overcome with modern supply logistics. So what are we waiting for?

[delavalmilker]

Well done and refreshingly analytical.

[MuhammadAli-vyoz]

I hope one day someone will see this video and will go, "Oh, this didn't age well".

[mushroomsteve]

Some honorable mentions that did not make the list:
Japan, Thailand, Turkey, Pakistan, India. Especially India, which would be an absolute nightmare for any invaders.

[RiVer-Parish]

Forrest Gump knows all about the Vietnam war and nothing is impossible every Empire can fall history has shown that multiple times.