Comments by "" (@BobSmith-dk8nw) on "American Civil War - River War Pt 2 - With reflections on other naval matters" video.

  1. ​ @SonsOfLorgar  You are completely out of touch with reality. What all human interaction is about - is people doing what they perceive to be in their self interest - at the time. Little or no value is placed on being Moral. People have done what they did - mostly because - they could. Here - no one is any better than anyone else. Your snobbery is silly. You cry and whine about how the Indians were treated - so what? How did they treat each other? By and large the Indian Tribes treated the Whites the same way they had been treating each other for hundreds of years. Think about it. How can you be a Warrior Culture - if you don't have someone to fight? Every now and again - the Braves of a Tribe would get together and for a War Party. They'd go off looking for trouble. They'd come upon a situation and make a judgment call. Can we take them? If we can - how much will it cost? No. These guys are not worth it. We'll go find someone else. And off they'd go. They'd find some one else and it would be: Can we take them? Yes. And we can do it on the cheap. They'll be easy pickings. Then - they'd attack. They'd kill the enemy males, steal their animals, rape their women and then kidnap those of their women and children they thought they might take into their own tribe - putting the wombs of these women to work making babies for THEIR tribe instead of their enemies. The others they didn't want - they'd kill. That is how the Indian Tribes had been treating each other for HUNDREDS if not thousands of years before the Whites ever showed up. Once the Whites did - they treated them no differently. The problem for the Indians - was the Whites were better armed and better organized. That - and Europe was bursting at the seems with people to whom - Owning their own land - was an impossible dream. Those people flooded the New World and died in droves - but more kept coming. These people brought with them a level of technology that the Indians could not hope to match - PLUS - diseases the Indians had less resistance to. Those diseases killed large numbers of the Indians. This was not a plan. These people didn't think this up. They COULD NOT come over here and NOT bring their diseases with them. The other thing about this - is that these people hated each other. Tribe and been victimizing Tribe as far back as any of them could remember. Here - in this hatred - the Whites were just another Tribe - and they hated the Indians who had victimized their families and loved ones and friends and neighbors. So - yeah - they took to slaughtering the Indians when they got the chance - the same way the Indians had been slaughtering them. And - was this anything the Whites here in the New World were only doing to the Indians? No. This was no different than what the Whites had been doing to each other in Europe for thousands of years. Akkadians, Sumerians, Assyrians, Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, Franks, Alans, Huns, Goths, Britons, Scotch, Irish, Welsh, Angles, Saxons, Normans, Vikings, British, French, Dutch, Germans - they'd all been killing each other since the dawn of time. They were no different than the Indians about that. Look at how Cortes Conquered the Aztecs. Do you think that a few hundred Spanish were enough to conquer a nation the size of the Aztecs? No. Cortes conquered the Aztecs - because their neighbors all hated them. The Spanish were Shock Troops for an Alliance of Indian Tribes who - HATED - the Aztecs. During the American Indian Wars - the Lakota and Cheyenne had ganged up on the Crow and taken their land from them. The Crow - hated - them and allied themselves with the Whites. There was an American Army Officer who was trying to create Peace with the Lakota and Cheyenne. A number of their Chiefs came to his Camp to talk to him. The Crow on that base saw these Chiefs - and they killed them. Black Kettle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Kettle summed it up fairly well. He said that there were good White Men and Good Indians and that there were Bad White Men and Bad Indians but the Bad People kept getting the good people killed. At the Battle of the Washita a war party had attacked an Army Communications unit. Captain Benteen of the 7th Cavalry - under Custer - tracked the War Party to Black Kettle's Village, which it has passed through on it's way to it's own village. Whether or not they had done that to throw off the Army - is unknown. Benteen reported back - and the 7th attacked the Village - where Black Kettle was killed. Twice as many Whites were killed in the American Indian Wars as Indians - it's just that that didn't make a mole hills difference. At Little Big Horn, there were 6,000 Indians total with about 1500 Warriors. Custer had about 500 guys total - but only about 235 with him when he was killed. At Gettysburg - there were over 70,000 guys ON EACH SIDE . This isn't the poor victimized Indians being mistreated by the evil, vicious Whites. This just just people being people. The reason the Indians were forced onto Reservations - was to try and stop them from attacking each other and the Whites near by. As long as they were free to migrate north and south with the seasons - they could not be stopped from attacking people - Indian or White. The peoples of the New World were less technologically advanced that those in Europe, had less resistance to European Diseases and were vastly out numbered. Once European Naval Technology became advanced enough for them to begin exploring the World - the Indians of the New World were doomed. Stop being a silly little twit - and see the World the way it really is. .
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