Comments by "Steve Watson" (@stevewatson6839) on "TIKhistory" channel.

  1.  @TheImperatorKnight  That is being against Communist bastards rather than Canucks in general though. 😁
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  2.  @Kaze-30u  England owes Poland big time. You'll always get a pass from me. There are plenty of English folk who are only fluent in Sewer; you are doing well.
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  3.  @samsonsoturian6013  Start your own channel, mate. Where are you anyhow, "feudalism" wasn't the same across Europe, nevermind England. What we had is described as "Bastard Feudalism" which isn't at all the same thing.
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  4.  @henriklarssen1331  Paulus surrendered on the 31st of January. A week earlier on the 24th Roosevelt, at the close of the Casablanca conference, had declared the Allies policy of Unconditional Surrender. Not the brightest idea to have when you are reading your enemies mail and know they know the game is up. No, you offer your enemy a "Golden Bridge of escape" as the maxim from Sun Tzu has it. There is much point made of the inaccuracy of the "Madman Hitler" narrative by Lewis; in contrast this isn't the first bit of Roosevelt bonkers: despite also being able to read the Japanese mail; he had left them misunderstanding American terms for lifting the embargoes that led to the Japanese thinking Pearl Harbor; Strike South; and war with the US, however unlikely to succeed, was their only option. It wasn't only the Axis leaders that bore guilt; in the upper echelons I see no "heros" in WWII on either side.
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  5.  @goldenhide  "My soldiers can eat their belts, but my tanks gotta have gas!" - Some slap-happy Septic general.
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  6. There was a hospital in the American Zone that was still euthanising and sterilising a month or two AFTER the surrender. Doctors doing it off their own bat? Where have I heard of that just recently?
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  7.  @yw1971  Look at the French performance in the initial week of Case Red. They fought a hell of a lot better than they had up to that point. You don't win wars relying on your enemies being perpetually stupid. The BEF was going home without its heavy equipment and just as the Wehrmacht had no conceivable way of crossing the Channel, we had no conceivable way of re-entering Europe. A.H. didn't know Musso would be silly enough to enter the war at this point either.
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  8.  @DoctorMandible  Is there such a thing?
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  9. 50'000 sects and counting. Who's got the time or patience? You all hold to 90% of the same bollocks; the distinguishing balls is neither here nor there.
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  10.  @MisterW0lfe  There is more than enough guilt to go round about "Market Garden". The perils of coalition warfare; the penalties of inter-service rivalries; all accompanied by a boatload of stupid. Rectify a third to a half of the gratuitously silly and things would probably have gone a lot differently. Base problem? Eisenhower was a damned good staff officer but simply not up to commanding in the field; he wasn't a strong enough personality.
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  11.  @axelhopfinger533  He didn't see JC as having anything to do with Judaism. He was in good company: neither did Paul or the author of G. Jn. The rest of the New Testament is littered with material that says the vast majority of Xtians in the 2nd Century, Greco-Romans all, didn't actually give a fig for Judaism either. Xtianity might have begun as a Jewish sect/philosophy; but when it became the first religion it pretty much abandoned all that except as a founding mythology.
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  12.  @etiennepilorget8777  Acts 5: 1-11; the root of all evil. "... and a great fear came upon the whole church". "The Gentiles have a Law to themselves"; "If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother, wife, and children, and his siblings, yes, and his own life also, he cannot be My disciple."; "You come from the father of the Devil; he was a liar, and his father before him". Not a game you can hope to play and win. I saw through Roman Catholicism in Catechesis when I was 9 or 10; before I was 15 I saw Jesus was not Lord; liar; or lunatic; but a literary figure born from a figment of the Apostolic imagination. That is was what happens when any thinking, reflective person born into Chalcedonian/Nicean Xtianity; which ever variant, reads the New Testament, whatever the translation. The Bible makes atheists of everyone who reads it critically and for what it actually says.
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  13.  @duncanmcdonald8726  Judaism, Xtianity, Islam, "Gnosticism", Marxism, Facism, Naziism, etc.; it is all the same religion. They just wear different frocks.
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  14.  @petriew2018  Evil? even that is too simplistic. I'm getting the impression from some of the directly quoting Hitler literature that I've bought from Lewis' bibliography that it was dawning on him that a large number; and maybe most; of his assumptions and guiding principles were deeply flawed. What Lewis' work has brought out too is Hitler never actually had de facto control; there were a large number of competing authorities in the Reich, none of which could be said to be pulling in anything but the vaguest general same direction, and were more often than not in complete disagreement and pursuing their own agendas. A large part of this was Hitlers fault; and by commision as much as omission. It didn't help that the Allies, the UK in particular wouldn't stick to the script! 🙂 Shame about that. NOT.
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  15. Shirer was... a journalist and even Wikipedia writes the original manuscript of his "Berlin Diaries" bore no resemblance in its '34 to 38 entries to what was published. It had been extensively rewritten well into WWII.
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  16. Yeah, sure; Narvik is a short distance from Germany. It is BECAUSE it is a long distance they got away with it. We misread signals as Larvik further south and thought The Twins were going on an Atlantic raid.
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  17.  @andrewjohnston9115  You can't fight a war if you haven't got an army. You can't have an army if you haven't got the men. The BEF wasn't routed; it undertook probably the most dangerous of military manoeuvres: withdrawal in contact. It was largely successful in doing so, and the Navy were dazzlingly successful getting the men off.
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  18.  @kenrudd6362  Lewis is coming to a conclusion bases on the primary and secondary sources before him. If I were to do the same, I would come to the same conclusions. I'm simply thirty years older than him and have had time to incorporate more material is all. We have far more in common than in disagreement. Another set of eyes and intellect never goes amiss.
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  19. Thanks for answering one of my queries TIK. Tripling forces in Denmark makes sense, the Danes resistance was more subtle than blowing things up and you could actually rest and refit troops there, fed from local resources adjacent to the Reichs rail network still and also in a position to reinforce Norway if necessary. The figures I had in my head for Norway were quite a bit larger than you showed here. The Scandinavian deployments make more sense now the exagerated information I was relying on has been corrected. Take your time geting well, it should be obvious from Stalingrad the dire effects of running on empty. You are doing a great job; but YOU are more important than it. TTFN.
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  20. Churchill has a lot in common with Halder: he wrote the histories. I look at his record in government and all I see is one treason after another. The conduct of war after the breakout from Normandy looks very dodgy. Hell the conduct before doesn't make sense after Sicily, we had air superority and command of the sea. The Americans invaded North Africa from North America, so it wasn't as ifdistances were a problem. Why no landing well north of Rome? I don't buy the excuses or the level of stupid. I think there was something very wrong at the top both in Westminster and Washington.
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  21.  @TheImperatorKnight  Take as long as you need and add a month! You should know the worth of going on the offensive with reserves to spare and your corps manned to 120%.😉 We have your back; your sides; your front. We'd bloody well carry you if we could. Even when you are wrong; you are better than most of the rest of YT. Probably of that most combined. We value you as a person and as a historian. Be well.
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  22.  @samsonsoturian6013  On the Gripping hand, I think there is enough work here (The site overall) to award an actual PhD if it were to be put in the required format. I certainly have on my shelves a fair few academic works that are just a waste of good trees in fact - as well as relative, and in comparison, to Lewis' endeavours.
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  23.  @str.77  A typical reaction. However, I can read critically and you don't need anything more than reason. I'm always up to having my mind changed; but the evidence only accumulates to confirming and going far beyond my initial provisional conclusion. If you read with faith coloered specs; you'll come to faith coloured conclusions. The Roman Catholicism I learnt when I was 9 or 10 sounded, and was structured, like a mystery religion; but whatever the original mystery was had gone awol. The various socialisms in their turn are Judeao-Xtian heresy from which God has gone awol leaving only the New Jerusalem. You have to come to both without glasses that distort your vision.
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  24.  @TheImperatorKnight  It's the "Disappearing Commisar" thingie, Lewis. The org behind Wikipedia is Commie after all's said.
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  25. That was Himmler's bag; not Hitler's.
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  26.  @kenrudd6362  No mate, Marx was a "secular" Jew; Marxism is a "secular" Judaism. Acts 5: 1-11 is near as damnit the root of all socialisms, communisms, and third positions. "... and a great fear fell upon the whole Church." And it ALL comes from (misunderstanding?) Plátōn.
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  27.  @Fanakapan222  Most of us are too busy living, mate.
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  28. So much for the rational guy who said Stalingrad must be held because they wouldn't be able to return once it was lost. Adolf really seems to have lost it completely later in the war.
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  29. The intellectual base was... completely fucked.
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  30. Peron and Peronists pretty much make Lewis' argument. You can find a similar fusion of what we ignorantly suppose opposites and rivals in Muhammad 'Abdu (1849-1905) an Egyptian thinker who can be found at the root of both Arab secularism and Sunni Muslim fundamentalism; both claiming him as a founder.
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  31.  @richardmartin7904  And what, pray, might that be? It is criminal to keep it to yourself; makes you as bad as the plonkers we oppose.
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  32.  @charlesentrekin140  Those feelings were reciprocated vigourously. We didn't think much of American tossers either.
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  33. Sounds good... until we find your only source is the Broadcasting Bullshit Corporation.
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  34.  @Liberty-Jamie  That "help" from the US wasn't actually any such thing.
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  35.  @str.77  I'd re-read the New Testament if I were you. Acts 5: 1-11 is socialism and its inevitable outcome of corpses in a nutshell. Look up "New Jerusalem" and the British Labour party for instance. Lewis takes these political ideologies/religions back to Plátōn and the "Hebrew" religion found in LXX and TaNakh turns out to map too closely to Greek political philosophy and Plátōn in particular. None of this is original to either of us in its'. We are basically just pattern matching as with tree-ring dating in Archaeology. As for me being 9; my noticing these things is no different than noticing the contradictions and illogic of Santa and the Tooth Fairy; both of which characters match more than enough typological characteristics to be called gods. Doesn't matter what you might wish if it quacks; waddles; swims; feeds; flys; etc like a duck, it is very probably a duck.
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  36.  @TheImperatorKnight  It is frustrating; but we all do it. You can see thru Halder's distortions but similar distortions of the "Table Talk"? We are all great at bursting others bubbles; our own, not so much. The first person we fool is ourself. Plenty of work has been done by psychologists on how difficult it is not to go along with outright nonsense if everyone around you is hellbent on nonsense and you don't even know you aren't being allowed to see otherwise. After seven or so years of almost everyone going along with barking wibble since it dawned the Donald might actually win the primary and we actually might see off the EUrine, and the even more accelerated and accentuated daft of the last three years; it is actually surprising how many folk have accepted your argument or accepted that you have an argument. I'm surprised you find it surprising you get vehement pushback; especially when you point out how suspiciously often things go tits up and what progress we've been making suddenly goes into reverse. You are fighting human psychology and several ruddy great arses, nevermind a thumb, on the scales.
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  37.  @goodmaro  "Capitalism"; an epithet I gather created by Marx to describe a strawman derived from his defective "economics". Not Free Enterprise, as I understand it. I thought Lewis was going to expand at least briefly on his bare mention of the two being different and standing for Free Enterprise rather than "Capitalism"; one being a praxis and the other an ideology? I think I'm supposed to gather this from the economics primer he showcased. I'm interested in the thinker and his how and why of his synthesis of his sources; not his sources per se. On a couple of subjects I'm familiar with Lewis has gone off on some wild ride of his own into the boonies, and I want to know if he is doing similarly with material I am not, if at all, as familiar with. Nought wrong with wild rides into the boonies when you are auto, or semi-auto, diktat at Lewis' age. I've made similar wild rides myself in the past. It can be rewarding even in the negative in giving you a different part of the elephant to fondle and so a different perspective on the whole; which is great from a personal perspective; but I don't want to be rehearsing my own bollocks. tah very much! 😇🤪
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  38. The greatest swordsman fears the tyro; because the tyro doesn't know "The Rules of the Game" and cannot be predicted. I have a book on WATU and Lindybeige has a video; at one point things were dire and they were tearing their hair out. So an 18 year old WREN got to play against the Admiral and handed him his arse. Panic over; Job Jobbed; Roll on the Rodney! The French high command in 1940; the Japanese Admiralty & Midway. Gamelin and Petain BOTH put their fingers on the Ardennes. Gamelin laid out a plan that looked like he'd breakfasted with Manstein. It was more or less the Sickle Cut. Petain said if they didn't take the necessary precautions in the Ardennes, the Boche would break through. Then when push came to shove the Boche did just as predicted; the Frogs didn't take the precautions; French First Army stuck its' head even further in the sack; the Air Farce wasn't deployed in numbers against the schwerpunkt; and France was to all intents and purposes lost in less than a weeks fighting. The Japs wargamed their Midway plan and it blew up in their faces in the rehearsal. They wouldn't have it and carriers miraculously resurrected and they declared the plan would work. The Americans showed them otherwise; and more or less as the wargame they had disregarded had shown them. There is more to all these realities than just accepting or rejecting the wargames of course. Read "Strange Victory" and " Shattered Sword" for just how messed up the French Army and Japanese Navy were at the top; and "The Rules of the Game" for just how messed up the RN was at the top going into WWI. As far as it could, the RN corrected itself; but there was still The Churchill Factor which would make it all pretty much for nought.
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  39. They can't share mine; it is simply far larger. /s
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  40. ​ @richardcutts196  Unlikely. More likely a Beck-Ribbentrop Pact. The Poles were fools not to come to terms with Hitler in my opinion.
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  41. Class=Commies; Nation=Fascists; Race=Nazis. The rest is commentary; go and study it.
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  42. Trawl the back catalogue; Roosevelt and his Bad Deal are covered in several places.
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  43. "Boris" Johnson's "The Churchil Factor" comes to mind.
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  44. "Boris" Johnson's "The Churchill Factor" comes to mind.
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  45. @LibertarianGalt Does Lewis WANT that? Some platforms are just as negative to Lewis' concerns as YouTube.
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  46.  @junior.von.claire  "Slapping incident per Patton" already has a TIK video. A few years ago now, so you'll have to dig, but it is here.
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  47.  @TheImperatorKnight  TIK, learn from those Lufwaffe centurions and double centurions. Lack of rotation is just as bad, if not worse, than too much.
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  48. Not if a certain arse-whipe general hadn't been put out to grass or transferred to somewhere he couldn't get in the road. The same could be said of one or two other legends in their own lunchtime on the German side. The German General Staff has always been its' own worst enemy.
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  49.  @alexatlantov4569  I suggest you take a look at what Poland-Lithuania looked like before the Commonwealth was partitioned. As TIK succinctly described at the outset Central and Eastern Europe were, and to some extent still are, a mess of interpenetrating ethnicities. The Baltics are not Russia, Belarus is not Russia, Ukraine is not Russia. If Lenin had stuck with Russia and as far as possible let the "Near Abroad" go i.e. pursued a real ethnicities/nationalities policy instead of the sham that he did, perhaps Poland could have sat back. It couldn't. Besides its territorial claims were as just as those of the Russians: Belarus and Ukraine were Commonwealth territory until the partitions after all. I presume you are a Slav of some description; "Ukraine" and "Krajina" both derive from "Borderland" as we say in English i.e disputed territory. I think the inhabitants of all those states/regions just wish their neighbours, ALL OF THEM, would just bugger off and mind their own business.
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  50.  @insideoutsideupsidedown2218  Dunno where you get the idea we are besties from. With "friends" like you lot, no one needs enemies.
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  51. Brown is actually orange, Lewis.😉
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  52. Almost everything in a phrase: Folk are just daft. If you don't account for Man the Eejit; you won't go far in any discipline!
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  53. My first history teacher at grammar school accused me of plagiarism in the first term. I wasn't even twelve. I handed him his head. As a child with not the greatest confidence in themself, 'owning' that fool did me a world of good. Si vis pacem, para bellum.
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  54.  @finlaymcdiarmid5832  That was the EUrine from even before the git-go, when it was just a Francophone loon's brain fart.
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  55. Happened before WW1, mate. Look at the 1906 - 1916 "Liberal" govt. A Socialist's wet dream a lot of the time; even the King was half-Commie!
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  56.  @jimmydesouza4375  Your not fathoming comes from the same wellspring as sociopathy and psychopathy.
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  57. @flatdot9036 Lewis is rather Duning-Kruger. I can see why he reasons so badly on Hitler as a Xtian: he began from pedestalling a Randroid interpretation of the reasons for Hitler. Whatever its' saving graces, Objectivism is objectively wrong when used as a lens for interpreting religion or philosophies other than Objectivism. Lewis has for the moment succumbed to Randroid zealotry.
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  58. He's just another Fake Fakir, but in a suit.
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  59. You are carting round a BUF sigel and you are surprised? You are dressing up as a duck and wandering in front of a Punt Gun. What was it gave you away at seven, pray?
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  60. And home of Critical Theory, the basis of Wokism.
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  61.  @noreply-7069  What is this guy saying? I don't see his posts, but others think them meanigful, if OTT.
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  62. I like Belloc; you can't go far wrong with a million rounds of ammunition and a Maxim Gun!
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  63.  @jrton1366  ? Compared to that "Mein Kampf" is a work of towereing intellectual brilliance. You were probably more coherent at 6 months.
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  64.  @jacobbrown6250  That's what I meant. Interesting chap who references interesting folk. I can't quite connect the dots though. A little bit too out of left field for me and there are too few hours in the day. TIKs view of it all would interest me too. Another pair of eyes not looking at it from the usual points of reference.
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  65.  @chaptermasterpedrokantor1623  Got that tee-shirt! Hell is other people.
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  66.  @jpjpjp453  57 men? It almost looks as though someone didn't want the Nazis to win. :-) This op calls for Student, ALL the Fallschirmjaeger, ALL the Transportgeschwaden and AL the Italian equivalent . "A Genius for War" .... Yeah, right. ^-^
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  67.  @KameradVonTurnip  I prefer sticking it to banks myself. 😉
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  68. German Workers Party at 45:20-60? He is having a go at... Socialists. If what appears on screen is an exact transcription of the book; there is no pause here: it is a single thought.
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  69.  @TingTong2568  You forgot the brief war they had the year before. ;-)
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  70.  @fredjohnson9833  Erm... was I talking about some racist slaver rebel?
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  71.  @str.77  Catechesis, son. I went through the whole thing in that brief moment between Vatican II and the RCC falling in on itself as a result. Father Peyton made no sense, and could make no sense of the Catechism, to me. This was several years before I read the NT through in any proper sense. Even then, Robinson in 'Honest to God' had already made noises about what was taught in seminaries not making it into sermons and out of the pulpit to the pews. I'll maintain that you need no more than read "scripture" to defeat the same 'til my dying day, and take Paul at his word that his is the wisdom of fools and we already have "The Law" unto ourselves. Which renders his endeavours more than a little moot and pointless.
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  72. "By focusing on prices as they are, catallactics aimed to avoid the pitfalls of culturally or ideologically biased assumptions, where economic policies are designed around idealized notions of what "ought" to happen" "Economics is not about what ought to be, but about what is. It describes and analyzes the reality of human action, without imposing any personal valuations or ethical imperatives." Von Mises would shake his head; the Viennese market has decided the price of von Mises vis Lueger. Ironically, your stance is 180 that of von Mises.😉
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  73. Why am I not surprised? :-) Mexico understood what being in bed with an Elephant meant. No one gave tuppence about rebellion in Texas or the Intervención Estadounidense en México and the stealing of half their country in a put-up war. They also understood the damage a feckless Hapsburg Emperor could wreak.
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  74. 4 destroyers; half of WW1 vintage; half of 1930 vintage; 1 submarine; 2 minelayers; half a dozen torpedo boats. Conways 'All the World's Fighting Ships 1922-46
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  75.  @RealCeress  Take your comment and TIK's. As you look at the screen they are clearly seperate. Zoom out, you won't be able to tell one from the other. Catch my drift?
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  76.  @IvorMektin1701  Shouldn't that be "Cherman"? 😊
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  77. Franco was a typical Latin caudillo: a conservative authoritarian. The easiest tell is the far lower body-count. Fascists, the Phalange, attached themselves to him, but he wasn't attached to them.
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  78. Poll tax replaced the domestic rates; council tax "replaced" the Poll Tax. More like put a pair of knickers on it imho! The Domestic Rates if I recall properly were a part of Liberal governance before they went off the deep end.
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  79.  @chaptermasterpedrokantor1623  I think he realised this subconciously and that was why cancer quickly saw him off when it all went tits up. His final idiocy was promoting Churchill to the King. Norway was HIS fiasco and the old drunk hadn't put a foot right for 25 or more years. EVERY time he held high office you were guaranteed shit would happen.
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  80.  @chaptermasterpedrokantor1623  No he won't, THERE WAS NO THREAT in 1940/41; at least in the Great War the High Seas Fleet could assault its' gaoler, the Kriegsmarine couldn't even mange that. Sure it could EMBARESS us but no more. I'll draw a veil over the German Airfarce.
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  81.  @richardcutts196  As i said, fools. There was never any chance of that. Even without the Pact.
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  82.  @iambob6590  'In his book, The Devil and Karl Marx, Kengor points out that Marx loved the line that comes from the devil character, Mephistopheles, in Goethe’s Faust: “Everything that exists deserves to perish.”'
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  83. When you are starving the population and killing hundreds as reprisal for ones and twos, i imagine that helps keep the population cowed. Another thing to remember, Belarus and Ukraine had just swapped one jackboot for another. If they didn't have the means to oppose Beria and his thugs, where do you think the means to oppose Himmler's thugs was going to come from? The likes of the Ordnung Polizei existed anyway; totalitarian regimes always have thugs on the books that can't be used as a military resource. If they were, the regime collapses. Stalin also had hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of internal security troops tied up and trains and railways keeping Gulags full when they might have been better used elsewhere. we had the same problem in the Middle East; probably 90% of that command was tied up in occupation duties, admin and logistics. It had a terrible tooth to tail ratio.
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  84. Stalin knew of the Bomb. "The first use will be Moscow" was all that needed to be said.
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  85. Which still failed.
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  86.  @z000ey  AH picks up the 'phone to Madrid. Franco would be attacking Gibraltar whether he wanted or not.
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  87.  @nicholasconder4703  DAK was fighting a holding action until the Caucasus were taken. No one expected Rommel to be that good, nor us to be that bad. Even then Rommel was stopped were you would expect him to be stopped. A Mediterranean strategy might look obvious but you have to start a lot earlier than Ferb '41 to have all your ducks in a row to make it possible.
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  88. Apart from tying up a million+ in flak units; tying up the guns in the flak units; and wasting the ammunition fired by the flak units....
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  89. At no point in the war could the UK be described as threatened with defeat. The Werhmacht was even more incapable of achieving that than the Kaiser's lot. That late in the day the Dresden air raids had zero military justification. Any campaign that results in 45% KIA is criminally stupid in the first place; nevermind when the operational and strategic direction is obtuse to say the least.
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  90. That was explicit in the video - the German bomber commander refers to him as Air Marshal Student (mis-transalation of his Luftwaffe rank)
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  91. STOP PRESS: THE NARRATIVE DEFEATED AT STALINGRAD: NEVER IN THE FIELD OF INTERNET CONFLICT HAVE SO MANY OWED SO MUCH TO ONE MAN. WE HAVE THE LEWIS AND THEY DO NOT.
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  92. Stolen - with accreditation.😏
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  93.  @kenrudd6362  Reading; listening; and connecting the dots. A shred middle term going unnoticed a lot of the time.
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  94. Some odd-ball pronounciation going on in this. 🙂
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  95. He offered it to Churchill, which was no better at best and in my estimation, purely as an Englishman, much worse from the perspective of England and its' Empire.
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  96.  @midnightflier629  Goering was a Nazi. Which bit of "anti-Nazi Plot" are you ignoring? LOL
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  97.  @ruberxwibebadhi  Steady on, mate! Let the lad catch his breath. 🙂
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  98. ​ Deejii Varissuo  Deeji, the Demiurge is straight out of Plato - δημιουργός or dēmiurgós. See Plato's dialogue Timaeus/Τίμαιος/ Timaios. If you know your Plato you should recognise it written down. You probably pronounce it differently or have only ever seen it written down and that is what is throwing you. Anywho, you should have your bearings now and can get as good a grasp of what Lewis was yammering about as any of us.
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  99.  @TheImperatorKnight  Which Saint John? G. Jn., 1 Jn., 2 Jn., 3 Jn, and Rev., are all by different authors. The Johns of Gospels/Acts and Paul are different Johns again and the Apocryphon stands even further apart. If you line the Johannine scripture up in order you'll see the kinship it all has but if you only have the far ends you might be buggered to see what they have to do with one another. You'll have to be clear which writings you are talking about; you appear to be conflating quite a lot and dragging in a boatload of dubious material to boot. I can recognise what you are talking about but it is all very cartoon. Your going to wind up with The da Vinci Code or the The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail in drag if your not careful. I'm sympathetic because I've following you for years, I'm familiar with your argument and your material and I'd already reached some of the same conclusions. Early Xtianities; "Gnosticism";The Hidden Stream and all that are things that have interested me since about 1970. And trust me; on the evidence of this video your trashing both the subject and your own credibility.
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  100.  @aminrodriguez4707  Not quite. Irenaeus, Tertullian, Epiphanius, and several other Early Fathers and Heresiologists had quite a bit to say about about Xtian sectarians of a gnostic bent from the late 2nd to the early 5th century or thereabouts.
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  101.  @TheImperatorKnight  We DEMAND you put us FIRST... and get well properly; nevermind the selfish self-flagellation 😁
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  102. They captured the first 'Enigma' machine; an outsized contribution to victory. Bulldog was in yard hands at Govan at the time of the battle.
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  103.  @Kevin-mx1vi  Evertday heroes, eh? Props to your dad and his shipmates.
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  104. Not the USA. The smoke clears and who is Last Man standing? The US connived in all its' major rivals offing themselves. They've been doing similar since 17776.
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  105.  @dondajulah4168  No, just better if Germany was governed by conservatives/liberals with the support of Heer and Kriegsmarine; or governed by the military with support of conservatives/liberals. Germany wasn't the Germany it would become until Hitler backed the entire country in a corner and made EVERYONE complicit.
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  106. Yes, Voldormort really does seem to believe in The Triumph of The Will. Pity the God-Emperor is having none of it.
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  107. There are a number of those stumbles; we only see them on the page and never hear them.
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  108. “Nota bene that this is not to say that Zitelman’s statements were not reasonable in the light of the then available evidence, but the point is to underline just how much of what historians had considered to be facts about Hitler in reality have turned out to be cleverly devised Nazi propaganda” p23, Hitler Redux, pbk. ed., 2021, Routledge. This immediately follows Nilsson’s reference to Weber (2010) and Joachimsthaler (2000) at the bottom of the facing page. You are being disingenuous, Lewis; you do not have to wait for the book’s Conclusion; Nilsson makes himself clear immediately. You don’t take a mere five pages of three hundred and odd out of context and declare victory either. I could excerpt your rant from 14:27 on and forward it to Dick Carrier along with a couple of others of your very infrequent bloopers, looking to ensure your place on his list of reviled “amateur” “cranks” “who don’t know how to do history” to similar effect. That would be just as unfair to your hundreds of hours of content and 80 hour plus weeks on it’s research and creation as you are being here to Nilsson. I've sent a fuller note to your SubscribeStar. I find both Nilsson and Zitelman very useful, and very useful correctives to the recieved narrative. Much as you are.
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  109.  @hermitoldguy6312  His country and what we stand for. We take it personally what that silly man and his silly piece of paper wrought.
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  110.  @hermitoldguy6312  If you have to ASK, I don't want to know you.
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  111. In the sense of the original sense - false knowledge. It is a coinage of Eirēnaios; not something Valentinus would have identified as.
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  112. There is monarchy and there is monarchy. Henry VIII/Anne would be where I'd fall probably.
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  113. Hitler had goals, how he achieved them wasn't set in concrete. Just as in the fighting the units of the Heer from section to whole would have tactical and strategic goals; but great flexibility as to how those goals were achieved. Hitler's responses appear ad hoc because of this flexibility and its' inherent exploitation of opportunity. We can see in hindsight an erring too far in this with regard to the Werhmacht, which precipitated an erring too far in the opposite direction as Hitler became aware his generals were effectively disobeying his orders.
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  114.  @jussim.konttinen4981  More or less Czar Alexander's approach to Bonaparte, maybe that is why he didn't! What I'd like from TIK is a deep dive into the Continuation War; I've always wondered why there wasn't more emphasis placed on the northern front, on the face of it missed opportunities? I think the centre should have taken third place.
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  115.  @nvelsen1975  "Mit brennender Sorge" was issued in 1937. The Papacy was in rather a cleft stick; a victim of its' own inner contradictions as much as its' pusillanimity.
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  116. 4D more like!
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  117.  @hendriktonisson2915  Are you nuts? Invading others for made up reasons has been a US national pass time since 1776. How many wars are they fighting at the moment and how many hundreds of military base do they have here there and everywhere. Th US is a War Addict.
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  118.  @mikereger1186  I think Lewis is on record that the European war is the one he knows; so any coverage of the Japanese fronts will be limited. I expect if you want critical in-depth coverage of those theatres, you are going to have to look elsewhere.
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  119.  @mikereger1186  TIK is THE measure, to be sure. I'd like myself to see as good content on the Commonwealth and Empire campaigns against Japan. The Forgotten Army needs remembering and Dugout Doug reassessing. A good intetegration of the conflict's pre-history and antecedents wouldn't go amiss either. Just what legitimate interest did the US have that excuses stoking up a war in the first place, for instance?
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  120.  I don't think so  I don't think we need pay attention to folk who quibble The Holocaust and place it uncapitalised in scar quotes.
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  121. You'll probably understand the problem a lot better than most, coming from another non-nation, multi-ethnic, state that has endured the stupidities of "statesmen" from far and wide pratting about with a culture they don't, and don't seem to want to, understand.
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  122.  @robert48044  The French beat us; only to rupture themselves so much as to have their state collapse in revolution and civil war a couple of decades later.
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  123.  @billschauer2240  Who cares?
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  124. Hurrah! You are completely wrong; and Objectivism IS The Synagogue of Satan but you've found the exit to fulfillment and happiness. IF that were actually true YOU would have STILL been the victor. I'm really happy for Lewis the person. I probably don't share 40% of your values and philosophy, and don't see how you come to a lot of your conclusions. I enjoy helping others and when I can't it makes me depresssed; but if I don't help myself first, I'm not able or in a position to help others. Not being selfish would be bloody stupid on my part. I try to strike a balance; I fail a lot, but you have to keep keeping on! L'chaim fella!
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  125. Those who can, do; those that can't, teach; those that can't teach, work for Ofsted.
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  126.  @eze8970  Unfortunately the evidence from the horses mouth, in Heiber and Glantz in particular (I think we can say these transcripts haven't been got at.) would seem to be against you. Plus the W.Allies made unconditional surrender their policy the week before Paulus surrendered; a daft declaration that was both confounded & compounded by how Hitler saw the world, his weltschaunung. This was a rational actor working within a common, if wrong, thought schema; not some swivel-eyed loon who couldn't actually think. His "Fingerspitzengefühl"; both politically and militarily was very often right even after the Bomb Plot and his loony doctors. "Unconditional Surrender" was all Roosevelt; it is not daft to think even late in the day for Hitler to think he could wring terms if not escape from Wallace or Truman who, though from different directions, wouldn't have run with so self-defeating a policy. "Unternehmen Wacht am Rhein" could have worked; Fall Gelb's "Sichelschnittplan" had been even more unlikely to succeed after all; and it was only luck someone said "Nuts!" and the Herr missed out on the massive WAllied supply dump at Stavelot. Yes, Hitler was a gambler, but not irrationally so: he could actually have confidence that he had made the right call time and time again before the fact based on his own record. After the fact even more of his calls have been revealed correct; despite the later obfuscations of his generals and the twistings of the Big Three.
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  127. Probably only lost in translation. I thought Lewis made it quite clear that was the case.
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  128.  @massimogiuseppesfondrini  I do it myself: I just had to edit a comment I made elsewhere because I made an assumption I only caught going back and re-reading it hours later.
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  129.  @sirteppe  You'll learn by doing, as you would at anything else. Go for it and damn the torpedoes! Finnish by any chance? You've a leg up in a good university sector, and Finns make Spartans look verbose... and bad as soldiers come to think of it too! 😁
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  130.  @sirteppe  I'm sure you'll succed if you put in the work. Creating The Open University was about the only unarguably positive thing achieved by a Labour government in the UK. It still exists but later higher education policies of the last ten to fifteen years have ruined it somewhat.
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  131. 1933. Hitler comes to power in the January; Dachau opens on March 22nd; on May 7th, a whopping 47 days later Himmler is showing Hitler a gushing letter that Dachau works. Does that seem at all likely? I doubt even magical thinkers would answer in the affirmative without deeper examination. This seems to be a daft statement that would be picked up if it were Manstein or Halder making it. This needs more interrogation to fly for me.
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  132. <blockquote>Hitler destroyed Germany, ruined Charlie Chaplin's moustache for everybody and was a middling and amateurish painter at best. But you have to hand it to him. He did kill Hitler, so there's that.</blockquote> - ClockworkFool
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  133.  @kevinbrown4073  He wouldn't be able to ask "But is that actually the case?" if it wasn't. :-)
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  134. And exactly how did England "benefit" from WWII? WWI had already seriously damaged the country; and no serious attempt was made in the intervening years to either repair that damage, never mind rectify the serious deficits waging that war laid bare. It is all very well saying the morale is to the material as 3 is to 1 but if your material is so wanting as to render your war to all intents and purposes impossible of achieving even the least of its objectives; you are being daft to wage it. National suicide is not a strategy for "victory". I'll note also that not only did Poland and Czechoslovakia remain enslaved for the next fifty years; but we managed to get over a dozen other European peoples enslaved for the same duration while we were pursuing this vainglory.
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  135. You aren't looking hard enough. Several good books pushing back against the anti-colonialist narrative have come out in recent years and there has been a constant trickle of British and Commonwealth authors pointing out the "down" on the British Empire that has been a thing of American apologetic since before their revolution.
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  136. The nanny wants age verification. What is offensive to the commies at Google about this film?
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  137. Cocking up food distribution in peacetime; thank god that can't happen today... Oh, wait...
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  138. The Soviets are being daft at this point. After Pitomik had been overrun at the very least, the 6th Army should have just been left to starve. The Soviets had actually been getting soldiers killed and injured to no real purpose since Manstein ground to a halt.
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  139.  @chaptermasterpedrokantor1623  The real spanner is the mountain range between Maikop, Grozny, and any port Jerry might seize. Absent the mountains it'd be worth a punt. Since we are talking Fall Blau they'd probably be leaving from the Crimea and keepin gto the coast. Since there are mountains in the way; it isn't worth the punt. Fall Gelb was the great gamble; 9 times in 10, Jerry would have been stopped in the Ardennes. We would have remained in Narvik; we would probably have attacked and seized the Gällivare iron mines in Sweden. Strangling Jerry's iron supplies was the whole point of Allied ops in Norway. That Jerry held the south would have been of no consequence. All irrelevant of course, Jerry ran out of rope when they fired the first shot.
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  140. Were really good. Now, when there are more admirals than ships and those ships are distressingly sub-par in many areas, not so much. Today's RN is yesterday's Kriegsmarine.
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  141. Thanks for this; this right now is one of those things we all need to be hearing given the disgusting marches in favour of Hamas and "Gas the Jews". Never again. Masada shall not fall again.
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  142.  @davidburland6576  Aye, the Free Companies, the Condottieri, John Hawkwood, etc. Xenophon's Anabasis is the classic example. Markets set up to trde for supply figure prominently.
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  143. WWII: You couln't make it up. We won despite all the stupidity that would get it rejected as fiction on account the story has to make sense. The "Greatest Generation" were feckin' idiots most of the time (Is there ANY era where most aren't?) ; Eisenhower more than most. Glad you got around to this Lewis. It isn't top, but it is top five of my late WWII face-palm moments.
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  144.  @TheImperatorKnight  That'll be grand when you publish it but in the mean time it is something folk can investigate for themselves in preparation. They might not get an answer, however it should result in better questions and even questions that it might not have occurred to them (or others?) to ask in the 1st place..
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  145.  @TheBrianp1  "...there are plenty of people who know their stuff... " You inadvertently put your finger on it. The pomo narrative would be rumbled by people "people who know their stuff" and the narrative is THE point of university education.
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  146.  @Morristown337  Air power v tanks is over-rated. Air power clocks infantry and supply. Without which you are done for, super tanks or no super tanks. I agree going beyond air cover is not a good idea; a similar thing happened to the Egyptian army when it it ventured beyond SAMs in '73. Damned if you do, damned if you don't. All the Nazi's had was a choice of poor options based off poor thinking.
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  147.  @hjalmar4565  You can trust a Scandi not to be taken in by crap spoken of Germany and Russia! You keep a weather eye out of neccessity. :-)
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  148. Congratulations. That is three or four years of your life you will not get back. I thought I needed a Access course to get into uni very late on in life. One of the lecturers acted as if they were scared to have me in thier class; the other admitted they were. I did the first year of uni, only to realise I'd aquired a broader education at a higher level than most of the faculty staff I encountered. I aquired that education pre-internet; now there is even less point to academia per se.
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  149.  @Notdjsbjj  When all Academy has fallen to the Long March Through the Institutions? I'm not so sure about that. At all.
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  150.  @gingernutpreacher  Challenger; Abrams. Not much use to anyone though. We no longer have the ability to build tanks.
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  151. Lewis, The Communist Confession of Faith is bollocks, the Christian Confession of Faith is bollocks. If you want to know what is going with the Garden of Eden, ask a Rabbi. It isn't a Xtian story. You are not "tricking" people about this by using evidence and argument and the other tools of the historical and scientific method; it is other people bullshitting you. While you are digging in the Bible, look at Acts 5:1-11. That's your bridge. Socialism is just Christer bollocks with God stripped out, just as Critical Theory and 'Wokism' are Commie balls with Marx and Lenin cut out. You've probably heard the phrase "Useful Idiots", the Serbo-Croat Korasne Budale is better translated as "Useful Innocents". Socialists are not, as you rightly say, idiots. They are, as you were, naive. They ARE being lied to, but it is the Crenshaws; Diangelos; and Soroses doing the lying and stealing their money; just as it was Engelses; Roosevelts; Scargills; and Atlees in the past. Back when "You Can't Get Me; I'm Part of the Union" could get to No 1, the Postal Workers Union struck. They were out for months, my Mum had to blag that my Dad had buggered off to keep the baliffs at bay. They went back for a ha'penny. A FUCKING HA'PENNY. Meanwhile the Union Leader, Jackson, was swanning about in a Roller. He'd turn up at the picket in a fucking Rolls Royce! Socialist high muckety mucks? Grifters to a man and woman. Scargill was the same, look into the grift that went on there with the Miners Union. Look at the man who screwed his own members for bunce and destroyed whole towns and communities and reduced us to importing crap Polish tailings. "New Jerusalem" my arse. That Hatton chappie deputy leader of the Liverpuddled Council, property developer last I heard. I'm from one of those communities Manchester adjacent where if you stuck a red rosette on a pig, it'd get in. "You are now entering a nuclear freezone", gawd help us. I didn't need that sign, you could tell with your eyes shut you'd entered Socialist Paradise: the A6 turned to shite just past McVitie's. The only good thing about Manchester is the road out of it. You keep on keeping on and pay no mind to arseholes. We have to take back our stolen country and at the root of that must be education, education, and education. The schools are shot; the unis are captured. The MSM? Fucked. Sorry, mate: YOU and others like you are IT. Stop paying attention to the wibble or, better yet, put a call out for others to do that for you. Pay attention to the economics and the history. You've got a YouTube and you know how to use it. To use a metaphor you might recognise; never mind haring of to Breda or the Dyle. The Schwepunkt is Sedan. Let the Tankies get to Arras and then chop the head off the spear. You KNOW how to do this; get on with it and know your back is got.
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  152.  @thurin84  Most of the bad ideas in socio-political and cultural spaces are over subscribed with "secular" Jews; just as Muslim spaces are oversubscribed with Jihadists and subscribers to Sharia. It can't be helped: practically all the ideas of the left are secularised Judaisms. You play the ball - the daft ideology - not the person. Play the person and you are simply a bigot.
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  153. If you don't know history; you won't know Zelenskyy is gaming us.
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  154. Staff officer with no combat experience worth a damn. In later months Ike would be fretting about an "Alpine Redoubt"; something a Devers offensive would probaly have waved away. Logistics? We had thousands of bombers rearranging rubble. It might be worth comparing a German panzer armee's needs on the offensive against the "needs" of an American pansy army. /s LOL!!!
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  155. p488, "Lidell Hart's History of the Second World War" refers to Molotov meeting Ribbentrop in June '43 in Kirovograd, which was behind German lines at this point. His evidence is from German officers who attended as advisors. Molotov wanted restoration of the pre-war borders; Ribbentrop the Dneiper. The talks grounded on this disparity, and broke down when they leaked to the allies. The mention of source probably refers back to his "The Other Side of the Hill", which I haven't seen. I think it rather foolish to think contacts and even talks were not going on even as battle raged. We see this in practically every other conflict; unconconditional surrender seems to be a very particular Mid-Twen-Cen and on US aberration. PRC and ROC have even gone so far as to have very entangled their economies with one another all the while insisting they are each the legitimate government of China. Indirect converstaions are ongoing between Russia and Ukraine; there are EU-Iran conversations; Israeli-Arab negotiations, etc. All seem mired by US intransigence as much as anything else.
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  156. The Libyan oil was already known then and there was no money to do anything. Musso was pissing it up the wall in Ethiopia and Spain.
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  157. Well it is in the name and manifesto. They are literally a nationalist socialist party.
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  158.  Jerry Andersen  Italy invaded Ethiopia in 1935. I think you mean the British invasion of Italy's East African Empire.
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  159. A synthesis between Facism and Communism? Woudn't that be... dun dun drr... National Socialism? :-)
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  160. Four mechanised divisions was all a North African front could have supported. The oil in the Middle East was used to support Mediterranean ops. The fields would have been demolished and the production transport infrastucture wrecked before the Panzers got there. The only bearing North Africa and the Middle East had on our war was that was were we could get at Jerry. Losing the Middle East was not an existential threat.
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  161. This Schell appears to be another NAZI apologist.
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  162.  @MisterBoggins  Yes, pre-1890 Liberals; referenced several times by Lewis. Pay attention at the back and stop trying to look up the girls skirts.
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  163.  @mnk9073  Who is fighting a strawman?
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  164.  @MisterBoggins  Yes, we do. Did I or Lewis say otherwise? You seem to genuinely not know what you are talking about while talking about it. Are there two of you in there?
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  165. Such a video would really underline Lewis' point that Bolshevism, Fascism, and National Socialism were just variants of Socialism. Peronism eventually splitting into "Right" and "Left" variants as I recall.
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  166.  @dougreid2351  Mexico: so far from God; so close to the USA. For both Ho Chi Minh and Castro, the USSR seems to have been second or third choice for sponsor.
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  167. @ChaptermasterPedroKantor-kv5yw Not for want of trying: see Boulanger and Dreyfuss and the lusting for Asace-Lorraine. It never happened because 40 million cheese eating surrender monkeys were never going to overcome the 60 millions of an army with a state without a great deal of help that was never going to be forthcoming.
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  168. But go back to Luther's earlier work and you find him very complimentary and supportive of Jews. Von den Juden und Ihren Lügen/On the Jews and Their Lies, and Vom Schem Hamphoras und vom Geschlecht Christi/On the Holy Name and the Lineage of Christ were written a few years before Luther's death; we can see in these works, and others near his death, show clear signs of neurological impairment and senility.
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  169.  @The-Clockwork-Eye  It'll probably come up, I asked if Lewis had read this and what he thought about the book's premises some time ago. Part of what I asked was covered recently, so this might come up shortly too.
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  170.  @stevewhite3424  Depends on the footwear; but velcro is usually sub-optimal. Why such a random question?
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  171. I don't think you are catching Lewis' drift.
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  172. 🤣🤣🤣 Go back and read it more closely: 9 times out of 10 if a historian doesn't use or reference what I know is a major source, re-reading that source makes a mess of that historian's argument in some way. I'm not saying that is what has happened here, but this is the most cursory post I think Lewis has ever put up.
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  173.  @jrton1366  How old are you and where do you live nation-wise? I've lived through "Trade Union(s) representing the democratic consent of the workers within it, and the ability to use industrial action to enact that will.." At the moment I'm hearing loud echoes of '70 to '78 in the UK. It was not pleasant and bore NO FCUKING RESEMBLANCE to your shite. My Mum had to crack on to bailiffs that my Dad had deserted us; beg from the neighbours; lie to shopkeepers and worse in the 47-day strike in 1971 where the postie TU leader, Tom Jackson, swanned about in a Roller and they went back to work for a HALFPENNY. Things only got worse until the sainted Margaret was elected and broke the backs of the unions generally and totally destroyed the NUM. Go look into Arthur Scargill, what a piece of work he was. Please, just fcuk off and die, you've either not a bloody clue, are seriously loony, or are some raving tankie subversive. You could be all those; I've met plenty of them.
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  174.  @jrton1366  Okay, Tankie.
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  175. @El-Harto Acts 5:1-11.
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  176.  @Michael-Archonaeus  I subjected Xtianity to reason when I was 9. It lost. Badly.
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  177. Don't tell me; it'll be some Septic Stupid.
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  178.  @TheImperatorKnight  You shifted me about it all being Socialism and I'm here for your other material; not the campaign videos, excellent though they are. You and Terry Young are doing a fantastic job. Keep it up, and keep taking my money! :-)
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  179.  @jonathanperry8331  But Stalin DIDN'T go on a rampage unchecked when there was no Hitler. The Guards Armies didnt have to stop on the Oder - Neisse , they could have rolled right on to the channel. FDR proved to be his bitch at Yalta. Stalin was a bully who only picked on the very weakest, otherwise he was cagey as hell about his foreign policy..
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  180. @GREGORY RENK You REALLY need to read Mein Kampf and watch TIK's multiple long videos refuting your bollocks.
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  181.  @Edax_Royeaux  Your morality is best left in the dustbin, mate.
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  182.  @filmaty98  Plan Z would have set us off the way Tipitz's Naval Laws did: a great fuck-off battlefleet has only one purpose - war on England. As has ben stated many time by many people war could only be avoided if Hitler weren't Hitler and Germany could only have won if Hitler weren't Hitler. But Hitler WAS Hitler and defeated himself, despite all the prize opportunities he was handed in English and later Anglo-American stupid. Our strategy could have been clear North Africa; annexation of the French and Italian empires; clear the Med by destr0ying the Regia Marina; maintaining a blockade on Europe; and then basing abattlefleet in the East as a deterrent. Japans was a shoestring operation that only looked succesful because of our stupid. Yamamoto and the Herr's logicians called the outcomes exacly; it was only Chamberlain-Churchilll stupid that allowed things to get so dire in the first place.
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  183.  @2ndTimPlayground  Hitler came to power with a narrow plurality; not a majority. Then he out manouevered his coalition partners; using them as they had thought to use him. The majority of Germans voted other than for the Nazi's.
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  184. @Nicolai Myshkin Trawl the back catalogue..
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  185.  @andrewhoward7200  They didn't get it then; they don't get it now: Mosley and Mussolini were NATIONALISTS. As this video shows, it wouldn't have taken much to get Mussolini back on board. Mosley wasn't about to sell his country out to an invader or surrender it's empire for an uneccessary white peac.; His politics might have been stupid like Mussolini's and Hitler's; his grasp of economics might have been just as bad as theirs; But he wasn't going to sell his country out!
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  186.  @2ndTimPlayground  Not been paying attention have you? Go back to his video about about the terror bombing of Rotterdam; he ends making EXACTLY the point you want him to. Don't be a ruddy numpty.
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  187.  @andrewhoward7200  You missed my saying might hve been. I tend to agree an opportunity was missed Labour alienating him, and him allowing himself to be alienated. The BUF was daft in a British context though.
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  188.  @Edax_Royeaux  I don't know where you got that idea from you ruddy muppet. Bracket me with Himmler to my face and I'd have to kick the living shit out of you.
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  189. Academic Agent?
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  190. Continuing a war that only served US and Soviet interests was daft, if not criminal. Beyond the middle of '41 we were only cutting our own throats.
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  191. The amount of input doesn't matter if you lack the horsepower to process it.
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  192. Calling in the New World to redress the balance of the Old? Where have I heard a line very similar to that before; everyones favourite drunken uncle a plagiarist? Turns out Mosely is quoting/reusing/repurposing Geouge Canning from 1826. Also note everyones favourite drunk uncle also bounces between parties, and malevolently rather than benevolently as I'm getting the strong impression Mosely was doing before he went "wrong". I'm going to have to deep dive this myself. My wallet is NOT going to like you, Lewis! I'm at ~26 mins and this is your most polished and most ehgaged video as far as I can recall. Well done that man!
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  193. Cites please; this is interesting. Thanks.
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  194.  @MAAAAAAAAAA123  How the fuck you make that error I've no idea. They were known as Nelsol and Rodnol because they resembled oil tankers rather than traditional battleships. Was there no 'Janes' in either wardroom?
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  195. And the Transportgeschwaden and Falschirmjaeger are doing what? Capturing refineries intact would seem obvious. It also seems an obvious use for airborne/air-lfted troops. It is also obvious what happens if you get bogged down in a city, obvious THE German problem was reality check, obvious to ask what happens if things go tits-up, obvious etc. Or not. The level of stupid on all sides in this conflict beggars belief. It beggared belief to me me even BEFORE I discovered your channel and your forensic autopsy revealing things were even more mired in stupid than I had thought.
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  196.  @WDeeGee1  As Lewis points out when talking of Mosely, Hitler makes it clear National Socialism is only for Germans and this is one of the reasons. Adolf is slightly more advanced in his thinking here than the Marxist Mong.
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  197. Except he was an ENGLISH nationalist; not a fecking complete mong.
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  198.  Wulf  It IS part of Soviet logistics, they were running loads of trains to the gulags. Hitler's stoopid was cancelled by Stalin's.
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  199. Guys and Gals, just keep TIK's YouTube homepage open in a tab, plus you know the bus comes at five o'clock on a Monday. I do this with ALL the tubers I follow because this shadow-banning happens to ALL of them, even the most innocuous. Then you can check if you have missed something almost immediately you log on. This is like ignoring Murmansk, failing in the maintenance of your aim in Case Blau, and then wondering why you are losing. YouTube is your enemy, don't fight on your enemies terms or with the expectation of your enemy obliging you. They won't: They are your enemy.
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  200. Interesting point. Since the AI is the work of leftist loonies; I'd take those "translations" with a huge pinch of the proverbial. Feed your AI on garbage and you will only get garbage out.
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  201. All paradigm shifts begin like this with folk laughing at you and denouncing you; then twenty-thirty years later they are saying it was obvious and you had very little to do with... switching society's tracks.
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  202. I stick to science, philosophy verified. Most philosophy, like most economics, is bollocks.
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  203. What; the Frannie who knocked about with theJunta back home? The guy is Fash and in bed with murderers himself; not to mention heading up the world's largest paedophile ring. JC said "Suffer the little chidren to come unto me" not "Make the little children suffer and cum in the Padre's mouth". Get lost.
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  204. Understandable reaction from the Jews? So much for the 10% higher 1.Q.; this is like sink-estate numbnuts attacking pediatricians thinking they have something to do with nonces and kiddie-fiddlers. Strange how the attackers always seem to have bought into the bloody stupid when you examine "mostly peaceful demonstrations" in any time or place. Don't give tossers figleafs, Lewis.
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  205. Putin has a hammer; not a rapier. Moscow has been telling us for thirty years they viewed NATO as an existential threat. The USA and its' pet poodles are nowhere near blameless in all this and It has all been entirely predictable.
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  206.  @RAAM855  Ian Kershaw. You've not read the title page; never mind the rest of the book. 🙄
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  207.  @dmitripazlov491  The Algorithm is weird that way.
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  208.  @cyberninjazero5659  I note Jamie didn't actually name the guy: only the nation. YOU generated your own conclusion! I immediately thought Churchill was meant.
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  209.  @cyberninjazero5659  The Phoney Victory; Peter Hitchens, is another.
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  210.  @YouAreLovedxox  Someone totted their death-counts in the bible. The Devil scored ten; God killed all the world bar seven and that was just the beginning, millions more followed!
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  211. They never did map onto Anglosphere politics at all well in the first place. The terms come from an entirely different and deeply bollocks political culture from our perspective.
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  212. It is hard to have that as a neutral thought; but it is true. Jews have an unerring ability to either have bad ideas and mainstream them, or to latch on to bad ideas and mainstream them. It bites them in the bum everytime; but it is what it is.
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  213. No one is. You need folk who steelman The Stupid to get it through to folk that it IS stupid for one. More free speech is ALWAYS the answer. Censorship is NEVER the answer.
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  214.  @DannyBoy777777  I can't help it if some wankers aren't paying attention. Fuck off, mate.
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  215.  @marcnoday4450  Acts 5:1-11 "Great fear seized the whole church and all who heard about these events." What was your prof's point? There is a clear line of descent. Australopithecus Afarensis and Homo Sapiens are wildy dissimilar at first glance; but once you include all Sapiens' ancestors and Afarensis' descendants the connection becomes clear. Crudely; Xtianity="New Jerusalem"=Labour Party. Socialism is what emerges when you shed God from Judeo-Xtianity.
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  216. Wait, TWO brain cells? How'd that happen? 🙂
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  217. The swastika occurs in many churches from Kiev to Amiens and on the stoles of priests and bishops. The swastika is a near-universal symbol found all over the world. Don't be such a prat. Park the Objectivism; it is leading you way off into the boonies and you are, hopefully inadvertently, producing another distortion of what Hitler was about and what Naziism actually was.
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  218. In the early thirties Musso hated Dolphie. This only changed after Munich.
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  219.  @dragosstanciu9866  Oh, yeah? I think you'll find we were changing our minds at the time, as were the French. National leaders; the clue is in the title.
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  220.  @konstantinkelekhsaev302  When 'red' became beautiful because Reds.
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  221.  @andrewjohnston9115  "Strange Victory" by Ernest R. May and "Blitkrieg Legende" by Karl-Heinz Friese should answer most of you questions well enough in the meantime.
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  222.  @fredjohnson9833  Ramsey expected to get less than 30'000 away. He got a third of a million off the mole and beaches. I think that says all that needs saying. Antietam was a Union victory. It was in the exploitation of that victory that McClellan fell short. At Oriskany the Americans achieved their objectives and they were left in possession of the battlefield; the Loyalist having retreated to their own lines. American victory; allbeit pyrrhic. What was the objective and was it or wasn't it achieved? is THE question to be answered. If you were asking about the campaigns these actions occured in, you might get a different answer though. McClellan not exploiting his victory certainly lengthened the war by a year or more; those British troops gotten off would, given 'Madman' Churchill, have meant withdrawals from elsewhere and probably butterflied 'Compass' (Hobart's creation in Egypt was probably the ONLY British force that was an all round match for a panzer/panzer grenadier division.) and thrown a spanner into the early demise of Italian East Africa. Moving on four years, we were out of army reinforcements around D-Day, the absence of those saved from the beaches could conciveably have meant the changing-up of the invasion to following Sicily for want of troops on our part. With all the risks that would have entailed. These things therefore can't be considered in isolation; but if we do so consider I don't see where the arguments lie for failure or defeat in any of these cases.
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  223.  @TheImperatorKnight  History of Economics=History of Philosophy. Neither are Economics or Philosophy; but they do tell where we came from and give you concrete examples of brilliant folk being "dumb" because they couldn't know what was then unknown.
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  224. There is monarchy and there is monarchy. Crown-in-Parliament Queen Anne stylie is a LOT different than today's bollocks for instance.
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  225. We aren't going to read the books for you, son.
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  226.  @randomnepali7772  THIS IS SPARTAHHH!!!
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  227.  @str.77  Yeh; it is voluntary... this is why Ananias and his wife Sapphira are murdered by Peter. 'kin 'ell r u 1 steaming great nit.
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  228.  @pamcollins2178  Unfortunately I've seen, heard, and smelt things that were ENTIRELY generated by my bonce. Perhaps as many as 5% of the population do. With an entirely natural explanation for what the Pillars and Paul claimed being a known fact of brain science; you are on a hiding to nothing.
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  229.  @ponti5882  Triggered much? Glad to have gotten under your skin. ;-)
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  230. You should thak your lucky stars - $8 in parts of Californicationland.
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  231. ​ @soulknife20  Carrying a lamp in daytime; looking for an honest man. Alexander: "What can I do for you?"; Diogenes: "Get out of my light." The guy was based.
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  232.  @aidanm.655  The Socrates of the 'Dialogues' is a fiction. See Xenophon and Aristophanes' different again, and from one anothers, portrayals of Socrates. There is no favouring the one over the others; and all could be wrong altogether.
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  233.  @youtubehatesus2651  Religion is the bollocks before philosophy and philosophy the bollocks before science.
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  234.  @aidanm.655  You misunderstand me. Pontius Pilate was a real person; the character in the Gospels is a literary fiction. The Pilate of Josephos' histories is a totally different animal. We have the same going on with the Dialogues: that Socrates is a fictional portrayal. If you look at the other characters; while real some never met and others didn't even live at the same time. Aristophanes' character is a comic exaggeration. Xenophon's Socrates is dull as ditch water in comparison to both. I think Xenophon's might be the most accurate portrayal; but all of them are distortions; either for scurruious comedy or apologetic..
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  235.  @TheImperatorKnight  Most of the time you are ranking probabilities, so a fair chunk of history does boil down to Bayes. The turning point of WWII? There wasn't one, the Axis had lost when it broke out.
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  236.  @lukenodag5784  Your guys are saints because they murder, rape, enslave, and abuse somewhat fewer people?
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  237.  @Saw_Squatch  New Jerusalem, sunbeam. Communism is just Xtianity without God. Acts 5:1-11
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  238.  @Saw_Squatch  Never picked up a New Testament have we? "Hate your parents; buy a sword"
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  239.  @wolfgang6517  Doesn't get Franz Joseph off the baayonet though. Karl was a good egg but by the time he ascended the throne it was a bit late in the day. We could have done better by the man and I agree Otto would have been a better choice than a either the Fascist Dolfuss regime or Nazi annexation. But only better than those. Anyone with a hard-on for the EUrine is verbotten in my book. :-)
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  240.  Bardia ghanbarzade  Fuck off Nazi.
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  241.  @ottovonbismarck2443  Dina fash; you were more right than wrong and I was nit-picking as much as providing fuller info. 😃
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  242.  @ottovonbismarck2443  I've seen far dafter things, but okay.Extra points for insisting!
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  243.  @Chud_Bud_Supreme  Depends on your Humanist. All we have in common is we put man front and centre and relegate "gods"/"God" to twat waffle.
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  244. That is common amongst freedom absolutists in the British Isles. They came for our games; our comics; they came for "Pop" culture.
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  245.  @TheImperatorKnight  I thought it was the algorithm! Seriously; you can't be too much of a free speech absolutist. If Alphabet do it, you can't go wrong doing the opposite is my rule of thumb.
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  246.  @alphana7055  Marxism is a science in the same way homeopathy is medicine. Just fuck off already; you are making yourself look stupid.
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  247.  @KyleCox404  Conservatism and Liberalism are two sideds of the same coin. They need one another to function in the English political tradition. Unfortunately Liberalism jumped the shark around the turn of the 19/20th centuries and got swallowed by Socialism, which I DO think are JudaeoXtian heresies, instead of the other way around. Whether the CUP would have made a better fist of it if THEY had followed Bismark is moot. That Engels "prophecy" of WWI; is the source material on the web in English and if so do you have a link? From what I can gather already he didn't go much beyond "massive global war" because he thought beyond that matters became too chaotic. If true, kudos to him.
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  248. The panzer III was ordered by AH to have a long 50mm gun. He was ignored. This had a knock on effect by time he discovered he was being lied to. The Germans went east not as well equipped as the could have been. I've also wondered why a panzer IV with a sloped glacis at least wasn't produced. All that aside, the least said about British armour the better. The USA had monster tanks too, only the fact they could not be shipped across the ocean easily, or be used in a landing, stopped them building them.
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  249. Didn't miss your "editor" at all. You found yourself doing more with less; amusingly in describing Rommel winning a battle similarly. Happy New Year; now put your feet up; we don't want you repeating Rommel's next twelve months yourself!
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  250.  @jrton1366  'kin 'ell. Lewis' point about Dickens goes for the Kraut shit too. Too close to the problem and arse about face.
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  251. I'm Aspergers. I can't process what a person is saying with extraneous noise and that is ALL music would be in the case of your videos Lewis: a mentally painful and distracting noise that negates rather than adds. You are actually probably the ONLY historian working in visual media whose work I'd put on a par with those who work in writing. You have the depth and content AND your contextualisation with the rolling map etc. is very often superior; for the reasons you give. I'm glad you are pausing Stalingrad: winning one battle for History isn't worth losing the War for History; or more importantly, your sanity and health. 🙂
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  252. TIK is TIK and labels are for boxes. See his bibliography at the top of the page under the vid. "America's Great Depression" (Two editions); "Man Economy, and State with Power and Market"; and "What has the Government Done to Our Money?" all get a mention. His video "1946: The Greatest Depression in US History (prior to 2020)" and its' specific bibliography will probably answer your questions.
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  253. Didn't even do that in a lot of cases. The Twins were very good at running away! All credit to them covering the Heer and evacuations in the Baltic in '45 though, mettle in adversity.
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  254. Xtians are too much invested in their own bollocks, tah but no tah.
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  255. Lewis is talking about the outcomes of that move; what you are talking about is secondary to his point.
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  256.  @mikereger1186  Fortunately, the wait in George's case has led to some of us realising his opus is actually a bit crap and we are the better for that realisation.
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  257.  @rcwagon  You can't do anything about commies, wehraboos, woke, new agers, the religious, and other delusional foolish people. They should just be mocked or ignored.
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  258.  @ColonelSandersLite  Big differences in dialect; "dialectical" is Hegelian tripe inherited by Marx. Well done: you proved your own point!😉
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  259.  @punishedgloyperstormtroope8098  We might pay attention - except you are a loony.
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  260.  @TheImperatorKnight  Her better ideas were just watered down Powell. I'd be interested in hearing your take on John Enoch someday.
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  261.  @robertskrzynski2768  The Chamberlains should have stayed in local government; that was their's and the Liberal Party's forte.
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  262.  @neiloflongbeck5705  Gort managed a masterful withdrawal in contact but he was as remiss as Gamelin in not using the preceding eight months a quarter as well as was possible.
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  263.  @neiloflongbeck5705  In preparing his army. As for command there were several layers between him and Gamelin. He had EIGHT MONTHS to cotton to the Frogs not being up to snuff EWIGHT MONTHS to sort the clusterfuck of the command arrangements out. But the EIGHT MONTHS not spent honing the BEF, an entirely mechanised army to be the Ententes arm blanche? EIGHT MONTHS to make Arras the settling of the Nah-zees hash instead of of a half-arsed raid. French was a twat but the Ist BEF did exactly what it was supposed to at Mons and Le Cateau and sufficiently discomfitted the Hun to lead them to wreck on the Marne. French and Smith-Dorrien have eight months to save the sum of things for pay?
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  264. Liberalism and Conservatism are specifically ENGLISH, not Western positions. You can stretch this to the Anglosphere; the English-speaking world. American politics do not map on to English politics do not map onto European politics. You can break down French politics not mapping onto other European's politics. "The West" is an artefact if you think there is no granularity to it.
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  265. Excellent map. I second everyone else that Terri and yourself need to copyright each of your works. If there is ONE thing I get tired of hearing about any war's history books it's "The maps are rubbish". This certainly is NOT the case here. Kudos to you both; especially Terri!
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  266. Churchill is my go to guy.
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  267.  @stevengrogan9972  Made up as in constructed; or made up as in fiction, and bad fiction at that? "Mein Kampf" ain't no "The Iron Dream", baby!
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  268. Mellon was Treasury Secretary. "The problem of the government is to fix rates which will bring in a maximum amount of revenue to the Treasury and at the same time bear not too heavily on the taxpayer or on business enterprises. A sound tax policy must take into consideration three factors. It must produce sufficient revenue for the government; it must lessen, so far as possible, the burden of taxation on those least able to bear it; and it must also remove those influences which might retard the continued steady development of business and industry on which, in the last analysis, so much of our prosperity depends. Furthermore, a permanent tax system should be designed, not merely for one or two years nor for the effect it may have on any given class of taxpayers but should be worked out with regard to conditions over a long period and with a view to its ultimate effect on the prosperity of the country as a whole. These are the principles on which the Treasury's tax policy is based, and any revision of taxes which ignores these fundamental principles will prove merely a makeshift and must eventually be replaced by a system based on economic rather than political considerations." "I have never viewed taxation as a means of rewarding one class of taxpayers or punishing another. If such a point of view ever controls our public policy, the traditions of freedom, justice and equality of opportunity, which are the distinguishing characteristics of our American civilization, will have disappeared and in their place we shall have class legislation with all of its attendant evils. The man who seeks to perpetuate prejudice and class hatred is doing America an ill service." Read him. Greider writes for "Rolling Stone"; don't read him.
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  269. Stalin's applause was due to the resistance being commie.
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  270. Tails don't wag dogs; contrary to your impression.
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  271. Bankers; monopoly capitalists and ... China. That I could nod along with. The same and the Soviets? Nah; if that had been the case Gorby would have been an acolyte of Deng Xiaoping and not a promoter of Perestroika. It is probably China pulling the strings of the bankers and monopoly capitalists rather than the other way around though. "Woke" and "The Long March Through the Institutions" looks like the orphan code and zombie processes of Comintern subversion that Peking is taking advantage of opportunistically. Critical Theory bollocks will destroy the the institutions if allowed; not benefit banks and monopoly capitalists that will just be pauperised by them. If Monopoly Capitalists are running a conspiracy it is a singularly incompetent one! :-)
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  272. UKIP are still here. A Nigel Farage does not a political party make.
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  273. You dispute a core argument; yet it is a "Great" video? You are a tad confused, mate.
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  274.  @tristanthamm505  Let's go back before society, eh? How did we handle this when we were just another Great Ape and hadn't ascended to quasi-Godhead? 2 or more beta males would come together (form an association) and overthrow the Alpha who'd "gotten out of his box" so to speak. Our putative "not-a-state" by its very nature has distributed "power" centres delivering those services the state monopolises, multiples of associations in competition/cooperation with one another in a free market. Now this "not-a-state" isn't in a vacuum, there are still states outside of it organised as monopolies. So it follows our "not-a-state" would have analogues of the Free Companies of the Late Mediaevel/Renaissance; and everyone would have a commitment to defending the "not-a-state" and keeping it so analogous of the Israeli/Swiss "Nation-in-Arms". Organised Militias as opposed to the USA's unorganised militia. Lewis spoke of "Mom and Pop"; what we are doing is replicating that kind of organisation up the hierarchy in a non-malevolent manner. So two or more not-so-powerful associations would act against this association of yours that gets out of its box.
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  275.  @TheImperatorKnight  Grab some Graeber and Wengrow; James C Scott; and David W Anthony. The anthropology of the New World; Old Europe; and the highlands of Indo-China is robust riposte to W.I.E.R.D T.I.N.A. There are plenty of roads we w.i.e.r.dos have not taken and that other cultures have explored with gusto and success. I haven't thought about this in any depth for decades. Tah for resuscitating a somewhat moribund mind!
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  276. You should probably pick up a New Testament and read it without the prattlings of your priests getting in the road. Only The Father knows The Son and only The Son The Father. (The Gospels; passim) This was so until the Father chose to reveal The Son to the Apostles. (Paul; passim). The Jews are the brothers of the Devil; sons of a "god" who was always a liar and a murderer. (G.Jn; 8:44). Those that threw the Nicean New Testament together wanted to have their cake and eat it. Xtianity had to be seen to be sufficiently Jewish, and so sufficiently ancient: religio as to be legitimate in Roman eyes; and not a rootless cult de novo: superstitio; while being sufficiently distinguished from Judaismos as to not invite Roman ire at a people seen by the state by the mid-Second Century as the ultimate anti-Romanitas and anti-Hellenismos on steroids. And so we have this kludge to the present day.
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  277.  @faeembrugh  Orangemen don't like to recall that at the Boyne the POPE was on THEIR side. THEY were allied with the Pope.
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  278.  @ozansimitciler5781  "The Irish fight well under White officers", or so I am told. It's an anecdote now: I no longer have the reference for the quote; though it checked out at the time.
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  279. No, a Democrat. Which is true; the Party that is the acme of an ass.
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  280.  @jonathanperry8331  It is a Judaeo-Xtian trope. The thousand year reign of the Messiah on earth; the Millenial Kingdom. All socialisms are Judaeo-Xtian heresies and usurp Judaeo-Xtian mythology; witness the British Labour movement and 'New Jerusalem'. The Volk is an usurpation of The Church as The Chosen People. The Church as Israel is an usurpation of The Chosen People/Israel. This is why the Confessing Church stood for the Creed in church services when they had not done so before AH came to power. They would have no Fuehrer but God. This is why the Jews had to be destroyed: there could be only one Chosen People of God, and guess who they were? I'll be very interested in the videos Lewis makes to tie this altogether on the faith front. I suspect his 'Hitler wasn't a Xtian' argument will be suspiciously similar to the Wehraboo and Tankie arguments that Hitler wasn't a socialist. Xtianity is a very broad phenomenom; it is more truthful to say there were and are many Xtianities. Hitler's was a variant called Positive Xtianity which launched off Gnostic and Marcionite Xtian ideas. The Hidden Rulers in Paul and other Gnostic writings are demons and/or fallen angels.The anti-Semitism finds its blessing in John 8:44, which equates the Jews with the Devil as siblings of the same evil father. Just as Marx and other socialists "secularised" Xtianity, launching off of Acts 5: 1-11 Hitler "secularises" the Demons, hidden rulers of the world, as the Jews, hidden rulers of the world. When we say Jews are demonised, we are speaking the literal truth. A truth validated for several different varieties of Xtianity by G. Jn. Whether Hitler was a Socialist or a Xtian boils down to semantics and whether or not you exclude the middle. Both are distinctions without differences.
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  281.  @TheImperatorKnight  You need the down-time from combat, a pass to the rear areas or even home for some well-earned R & R. 🙂 This is now the TIKhistory channel and you can re-commission HMS TIK from the reserve; re-list your old gaming videos, and have fun. We want you well rested and refreshed when you return to cut off the Tankie salient (I don't think they have a salient argument btw); tidy up the battlefield; and assemble the artillery park for the Final Break-In Offensive before you Thunder Run Das Kapital; raze Highgate Cemetry and sow it with salt. Delenda est!
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  282. See under the video; the sources are listed there and there is also a list of the channel's broader source material.
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  283. More importantly, thanks to you Lewis, we no longer have recourse to the horseshit rations offered by others. Well done and have a super Yule and New Year.
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  284.  @posham219  He's a spammer. I'm only seeing his comment because it is misplaced, LOL!!!
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  285.  @flashgordon6670  You have an attention span that makes goldfish look good. I rest my case and hope this helps. /s
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  286. Putin.
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  287. Open a good dictionary; you'll find every term has half a dozen definitions. You are not a native English-speaker; perhaps the majority of TIK's audience is American, and we are English. That is three different ways of defining things right there; nevermind the different definitions in our respective countries/cultures. Original meaning by all means; but whose?
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  288. The same goes for 1+1 dear. Unsurprisingly Russell wandered into Commie, CND, and all sorts of other dipstick.
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  289.  @darkalan1562 ? Making sense isn't yours
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  290. We're living in a bloody tampon, mate!
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  291.  @TheImperatorKnight  Recommend authors; not texts. Job jobbed.
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  292.  @wolfNov1942  Maybe you think I give a flying fuck for dead krauts. 'Butcher' Harris killed far too many Smiths with his plan of attack... and not enough Schmidts to justify it. That is my major criticism of our war-fighting.
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  293.  Marcin Marczuk  There might not be the granularity for that in what information is available about Soviet forces and the information might be more contradictory.
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  294. First you have to build the assault ships and landing craft, as well as the logistics to support the breakout from the beach head and blah blah blah. Considering 'Torch' though, a direct assault from across the Atlantic if I remember correctly, an Anglo-American assault on that sort of timescale might have been an outside possibility. You have to remember though that Churchill had serious willies about the Krauts - he thought they had used 3000 heavy tanks to take France and had been over-egging the Luftwaffe & U-Boats specifically. Corporal Jones' "Don't panic!" cries in Dad's Army satyrised this.
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  295.  @Darko_CC  Roosevelt was a foockin eejit and probably Stalin's bitch to boot.
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  296.  @bradojacko8247  Just work your way through the recent back catalogue (Apart from the Battlestorms and other military asides, mind.) There is plenty to get your teeth into.
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  297.  @bradojacko8247  Niche topic. It's the crazy du jour, but even if you define things widely; you ain't talking more than 5% of peeps. Ernst Röhm has come up a couple of times; but as a political threat to his knibs. Other things are just incidental. As they are to the vast majority of people the vast majority of the time. Not our community, mate; so not our interest.
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  298. You can't call it a World War until the WHOLE WORLD is involved. If your definition is going to be fighting allover the world between globe spanning empires you'd best call it WWV; the Seven Years War, French Revolutionary War, and the Napoleonic War were global conflicts meeting how you are defining "WWII". The War was confined to Europe until Italy broadened it to North Africa. A couple of brief sideshows in the Middle East hardly extended it to Asia. Even the Soviet Union was basically a European power fighting a European war. Even after Pearl Harbor, Latin America was absent from the rota. Calling it a "World War", regardless of iteration, makes even less sense than the "World Series" in Baseball: that is just semantic error; but if whole continents avoid the fighting for most, if not all, of both you can hardly call either a World War.
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  299.  @TheImperatorKnight  Re: "Hitler's Table Talk"; see Nilsson, Michael (2020). "Hitler Redux: The Incredible History of Hitler's So-Called Table Talks". Abingdon, U.K.: Routledge. Also "Hugh Trevor-Roper and the English Editions of Hitler's Table Talk and Testament"; Mikael Nilsson; Journal of Contemporary History; March 10, 2016; PDF available on Sage; and Carrier, R.C. (2003). "'Hitler's Table Talk': Troubling Finds" German Studies Review 26 (3): 561–576. More at richardcarrier dot.info; search on "Hitler's Table Talk". It is crazy just how untrustworthy the Hitler/NAZI narratives are.
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  300.  @nicholasconder4703  We fought in Cyrenicia in WW1. See "The Sanusi's Little War" by Russell McGurk.
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  301.  @ParabellumStoria  Begin earlier. But, like most answers to Italian problems, the how depends on making Mussolini and the Fascists competent people in the first place; and if they were competent in the first place would they have entered the war or even tied themselves to Adolf at all?
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  302.  @ParabellumStoria  Put a shout out for someone to do Italian to English subtitles for you. I know several channels that have gone the other way, English to whatever, successfully doing this.
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  303.  @verysilentmouse  The shipping problem would have been solved already if they had been extracting already. The Regia Marina was actually quite successful overall in defending the shipping.
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  304.  @nicholasconder4703  I'm only referring to Cyrenecia where we had boots on the ground and needed accurate intel. What was going onelsewhere in Libya doesn't have any bearing and the two aren't mutually exclusive.
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  305.  @nicholasconder4703  Correct. At the time in question the Italins were pretty much beseiged on the coast, it wasn't safe for them to venture beyond their coastal enclaves.
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  306. Lithuania-Poland rocked.... and then it didn't. The latter is in the top three histories of How NOT to Do Goverment. No current relevance? Ukraine literally means the Polish - Russian border.
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  307.  @johnwolf2829  Well he got to it and I see you did naught.
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  308. The problem isn't unique to you. Get your work out on other platforms. If everyone just moved en masse, the quicker YouTube will fail. If you don't want people to piss you about, don't let them.
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  309. Doesn't make much sense? Large numbers of decisions in the 2nd World War make no bloomin' sense!
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  310.  @grassystars  Like Winnie? He learnt so much from the history HE had a part in making that every decade, if not year, of his life contains some humungous cock-up arising from NOT understanding the history he was a part of, never mind any other.
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  311. I think Halder lives and is advising Putin. 🙂
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  312. Over two millenia of hiving after practically all the worst ideas in the sphere of the socio-political unconsciously (and generating most of the rest as reaction!)? That is straining the credible just a tad.
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  313.  @TheImperatorKnight  Since normal service was resumed in The Borderlands, it has been incumbent on us... Oh, and buy NOW; there is more than just Car Owner virus coming!
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  314. Why? Hitler is of absolutely no relevance other than as a monster-under-the-bed to frighten the children with, and accusations of Nazism a stick to beat the same. The Long Twentieth Century is over; on November 5th we won. Its is time to bin this facile masochism.
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  315.  @seesmann638  Because you might get injured otherwise. When the danger subsides; then you can think about it.
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  316. There are several ways to look at this; none of them can be described as "the proper way". They probably aren't even mutually exclusive. Widen your horizons, eh?
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  317.  @michaelmayfield4304  Many have made that point, including Patton.
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  318.  @solomon2439  No, it was a Beck blow that enabled Halder. Do keep up! LOL!
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  319.  @sorsocksfake  Comedy has ALWAYS commented on and sent up spolotics and politicians. ALWAYS the laugh brings us up short with "YES! That/they is/are daft. From "Ah! the Generals! they are numerous, but not good for much!" - Arcanians; Aristophanes - to 'Private Eye', which combines being the being the best magazine of political satire in the world with being THE Ne Plus Ultra of newspapers. Your Old and Gray Ladies can only dream of the heights Hislop's crowd have conquered. Now GTF out of i,t you pretentious prat.
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  320.  @anatolyl  India ISN'T Britain, you loon.
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  321.  @SchmulKrieger  Before and after. Part of the Liberal Cabinet that began the "Welfare State" and created the trade union legislation that Margaret Thatcher had to repeal. As Chancellor put us back on the Gold Standard at much too high a value, which put the "Great" in the Great Depression. He was more than a criminal; he was a blunderer.
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  322. "You had ought to watch Razörfist's video on Abraham Lincoln as well. Illuminating." .... While keeping in mind this is rhetorical polemic from a geezer with an unneccessary umlaut in their nym. Balanced this faux "rant" isn't; he has quite a bit more than his thumb firmly on the scales. But then this is usually the case for ALL SIDES in this continuation of The American Civil War by other means. Generally whichever view you are punting the facts YOU present in YOUR favour are likely to be true; but it is what YOU leave out that is the problem. Thar's a whole lot of motte and bailey going on... on all sides.
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  323.  @RichardPhillips1066  Critical thinking and a critical skepticism should be everyone's default. That it isn't and you'd all rather be NPC's or turn over and go back to sleep is what is truly disturbing.
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  324.  @postmodernmining  You are conflating Dr Bob, Robert M Price with Dr Richard Carrier. Both are great; but Dr Bob would be the go to guy. Lewis is going to do himself a mischief without a proper guide.
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  325.  @TheImperatorKnight  Again, there are half a dozen "Johns". You and Oscar are talking past one another about at least three of them.
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  326. History is a wooly jumper, you need more than bobbles and a couple of broken threads to unravel it. One such thread is "Hitler's Table Talk", there are serious questions as to its' reliability. See Hitler Redux: The Incredible History of Hitler’s So-Called Table Talks (Routledge Studies in Fascism and the Far Right) by Mikael Nilsson.
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  327. We bear the cost of freedom, this is the English burden. We will spend treasure to see that is so and have done in multiple worldwars since the middle third of the 18th century. WW1 was an error, we usually let the other guys, and our professional military and navy, do the bleeding. The relentless aplication of naval force force and the financing and arming of coalitions always works, WW1 was an error. Case Yellow relied on sheer gall and 99/100 wouldn't succeed. Everytime it has been wargamed at Sandhurst and the like, German victory only occurs if they are given special privelige and the Anglo-French are seriously handicapped. Wihelm said the Elder Moltke would have advised him differently; Hitler asked what they were supposed to do now. Both saw almost immediately they had gambled and lost. If it wasn't in large part for one particular Anlgo-American drunk, both wars would have gone a lot better.
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  328.  @cisarovnajosefina4525  Chalk up one for Dolphie! "Hitler killed Hitler, so there is that! LOL!"
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  329. Xenophon's Anabasis - one of the reason's the Ten Thousand were so F*ck Off storied was because their logistics were markets set up on the way. And why the Rodney were so F*ck Off in the Age of Sail - Prize Money.
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  330.  @jimmydesouza4375  If you don't understand economics you get Churchill's War. Fail to achieve the original war aims and flush your own nation down the loo.
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  331.  @Edax_Royeaux  German jet fuel was basically a diesel, they could actually produce more of it. Piston engine aviation fuel needs even more processing and high-octane fuel even more on top of that. Galland commented on the Battle of Britain that suddenly the Luftwaffe was being confronted by aircraft with a lot more performance than those of the squadrons that fought in France. High octane gasoline was the reason. The Germans had to resort to exotic methods that only boosted performance for ten minutes at most.
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  332.  @QuizmasterLaw  The Battle of the Bulge was deliberately fought in poor weather that kept Allied aircraft grounded. Unfortunately this also grounded the Luftwaffe and so they missed on reconnaissance finding the huge fuel and munitions dump at Stavelot that might have kept German armour and motor transport in the field. The objective of the campaign was thought impossible; but that was said of Case Yellow also, and look how that turned out.
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  333.  @steffenb.jrgensen2014  Stopping at roadside petrol stations to fill up helped in the French campaign!
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  334.  @Edax_Royeaux  That was due to a lack of high temperature alloys more than the fuel.
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  335.  @muskett4108  The thing about horses is they can eat grass from anywhere and be fed German grain. Look up the panjay cart; staple of both Soviet and Nazi logistics.
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  336.  @kimepp2216  What are you wibbling about, the Vickers MG had been in service since since 1912. The Lewis Gun was a water-cooled LMG. It lost its' jacket to be more portable. Water-cooled MGs can fire all day, but are really too heavy for mobile offensive war.
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  337.  @steenkigerrider5340  All the Soviets had to do was keep Jerry away from the Caucasus and lay siege. The Royal Navy blockade and the Anglo-French siege on the Western Front did for Jerry even when the Hun had won in the East in the Great War. LL was stupid. Hand Eastern Europe to Joe on a platter; feckin' brilliant idea.
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  338. Niche? These are amongst the most, if not THE most, important topics for our times. Something is slouching toward Bethlehem as we speak.
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  339. Ronseal of approval. Does what it says on the... TIK.
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  340. I read "House of Dolls" in 1979. FORTY ONE YEARS AGO. There is no claim of ignorance that can stand up here.
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  341.  @TheImperatorKnight  Socialism+God=Judaeo-Xtianity. It just takes longer for the wheels to fall off.
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  342. Victor Davis Hanson is a very chauvinist historian as far as some of his conclusions; but he put in the work and you can therefore correct for that from the texts, notes, and bibliography.
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  343.  @TheDogGoesWoof69  Because other folk are dipsticks.
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  344. ​ @snagletoothscott3729  Cod etymology for the Tuatha Dé Danann - the Goddess Danu's People.
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  345. That was the Great War. WW2 was military incompetence and an Anglo-American drunk.
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  346.  @panzerofthelake506  Most of the cock-up on our part was military.
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  347.  @TheImperatorKnight  🤣🤣🤣. So much for economics being "The Dismal Science"!!! It is often down to the teacher; not what is being taught.
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  348. Hhmm. I've always wondered what the point of the DAK was; in light of your alternate hypothesis it looks like a grandiose demonstration to fix the enemy's attention while the real build-up goes on for an attack elsewhere. So what if a ersatz "forlorn hope" is driven in and the Italians defeated in North Africa? It will still be a long time, if ever, that Imperial and Commonwealth forces can cross either the Med or the Channel; and Germany's wasn't the only economy that was wrecked at this point: we were bankrupt, living on tick and US sufferance. All the while Roosevelt was taking the mickey in a very big way.
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  349. See Glenn Beck's "Antifa Part 4" it'll help you orientate this video in the American context. Perhaps fixated too much on American "Exceptionality" - I'd argue there ain't no such badger - but it's a fair stab.
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  350. What government was the drunken twat waffle part of in 1910 - 11 when the footings and foundations of our labour union woes were dug and put in?
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  351. There is a segment like that in his Continuation War content. The Waffen SS units that fought in Finland were decidely sub-par. They more widely had problems with leadership/command above brigade equivalent. Sepp Dietrich, for example, had the mettle for, but but neither the education, training, or experience, to be commanding at division, nevermind corps, level.
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  352.  @TheImperatorKnight  "sensorship" Even if a spelling mistake; I like that as a neologism. 😉
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  353.  @TheImperatorKnight  "(H)is radical idea that governments should spend money they don't have may have saved capitalism." - Time magazine on Keynes. Cited on Wikipedia; I DO NOT RECALL THAT BEING IN THERE the last time I accessed his article. This may be the most blatently bone-headed statement I've seen on this most blatently bone-headed of internet sites.
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  354. AI Adolf Hitler sounds more like AI Jordan Peterson. Deliberate on the part of these loonies?
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  355.  @ZESAUCEBOSS  Haven't you been paying attention? It is already there, all your institutions are captured. Listen to Brett Weinstein's Dark Horse Podcast, look up what happened at Evergreen College, Portland , Oregon a few years ago. Didn't you see any of the BLM/Antifa rioting, hear about the thirty odd people killed, mostly POC and CHILDREN? The old folk and disabled people that have been attacked during these riots, the livilhoods destroyed and the small businesses and mom n' pop stores that ain't coming back?
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  356. Original Sin is RC doctrine, alien to the Orthodox churches. It comes from that wonderful parent and husband St. Augustine. Lutheranism is another kettle of fish; non-Xtian theologians have argued that Lutheran and Roman Xtianities might as well be different religions distinct from one another altogether. All socialisms are obviously Judeao-Xtian "heresies", as you can see from Acts 5:1-11. Not a lot of private property going on there, is there? Good video: the critics should keep it up if it encourages you to roll your sleeves and focus like this! Have a good one; WE hold you in the highest esteem. ;-)
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  357. Nadir of English national morality. Committing national and imperial suicide didn''t nearly make up for it; in fact didn't achieve ANY of the aims of going to war and GAVE Eastern Europe to Stalin and large parts of Asia would follow. The rest of the world we gave to the USA. Yes it was the right thing to go to war; but Chamberlain should have been shown the door when the Czechs were annexed to the Reich and the Slovaks puppeted. After that we behaved cluelessly as well as spinelessly and wound up with WSC as PM when HE should have been booted. Denmark/Norway was HIS fiasco. Greatest PM my arse; between them Neville and Winnie destroyed my country and plunged the world into a greater darkness large parts of it are still in.
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  358. Promptly chaining yourselves to NATO and the EU for more of the same; this time on stilts! Things have to have been REALLY bad for such a unanimous psychotic break right across Central and Eastern Europe. "Useful Innocents" is a Yugo coinage too!
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  359. This IS Lewis' being short! LOL!!!
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  360.  @TheImperatorKnight  The USA was only ever as in the first in fevered imagination.
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  361.  @robert48044  Without Bolshevism there would have been no Naziism, so it is but in slow motion.
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  362.  @Clueless-political-guy  Russia is doing really badly. The Ukrainians did really badly in 2014 and went back to warschool.
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  363.  @Irys1997 Whooosh! Not his point.
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  364. Jn 8: 44 "You are of the devil's father, and the desires of your father you want. He was a murderer from the beginning, and he did not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. when he speaks a lie, he speaks of himself, because his father is also a liar." The Jesus of G. Jn isn't Jewish. The God of G. Jn isn't Yahweh. G. Jn is a lightly Catholicised "Gnostic" gospel. It is EXACTLY in line with Herr Hitlers 'Positive Xtianity' and probably the source of it; whether he knew that or not. There is quite a bit amiss with Lewis' understanding of "Gnosticism"; it ISN'T another religion, it is a spin put on: first Judaism; and then carried over into Xtianity as part and parcel of the JEWISH sect that fathered/became Xtianity. It was warped into a hateful thing in the Gentile ultra-Pauline Churches that rejected Judaism; Judaisers; and Torah. But Lewis has the gist of it. Obviously, you can't be blamed for your Pastor not telling you what he would probably been taught in seminary/theological college; but now you've been told it would be a sin not to use your God-given reason and intellect to find out what Xtianity was originally about BEFORE the compromise Canon New Testament, nevermind Nicea. You don't even have to go outside the New Testament, as I've just shown, to find you've been fed lies since you were on your Mammie's knee.
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  365. We are talking Fall Blau. Sevastopol has been captured; the Luftwaffe has air supremacy. More of an obstacle: there is a mountain range between the coast and Maikop/Grozny. In Italy with similar control, the Allies operated two army groups either side of the Appenines. They could probably capture a port; it would be much more difficult to break out from it.
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  366. NB: Romanian Navy to Stalingrad - 4 destroyers; half of WW1 vintage; half of 1930 vintage; 1 submarine; 2 minelayers; half a dozen torpedo boats. Conways 'All the World's Fighting Ships 1922-46'. Unfortunately Churchill didn't realise the Turks couldn't give a stuff for Greeks who aren't dead. The friend of my enemy I should take a damn bit of notice of? Churchill was a muppet. The Soviet navy wasn't the Royal Navy. See the state the battleship we lent them came back in. Neither did the Soviets have a Malta in the middle of the Black Sea. They had a good number of subs; they were notably crap at using them. This the one thing constant of the Soviets/Russians to this day: they are noticeably craptastic to everyone except the most deluded tankie. Me, I'd have noticed all those barges and other amphibibious stuff pointlessly accumulated for the Sealion silliness and shipped it down the Rhine and Danube. This topic needs more thought; you are talking about Hitler and Musso; so it seems impracticable and stupid too you? Heads up; impracticable and stupid was A. H.'s middle name - and some of those 'impracticable and stupid' things he pulled off: Norway; France; etc.
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  367.  @grzegorzswist  But when to stop for him was when rverthing between Germany and the Caucasus was either Reich or a sattelite of the Reich.
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  368.  @ethanlynch8275  All History is contingent. Hitler had a @fingertip touch' for politics and diplomacy AS LONG AS HIS OPPONENTS WERE TRANSPARENT IN PEACE. Once we had decided enough was enough that transparency went and adolf could no longer read public,, parliamentary, military, governmental, or diplomatic opinion terribly well, and like all without the chrystal ball of an Open Society at Peace, reverted to wishful thinking. We, the Saxon, are slow to anger; but when we have decided to be angry and to recognise anger can be power and that we know how to use that; you are basically fucked. Because we WILL send a battlefleet to defend a few hundred people far outnumbered by their sheep! We will do things as irrational as burning through our assets, wrecking our Empire and Commonwealth; putting ourselves in hock for the next fifty years and destroying any chance of restoring the nation to anywheree near its antebellum standing to ensure that where it is our wherwithal freedom will reign.
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  369.  @ethanlynch8275  This is true, but in '39 THERE WAS NO EXISTENTIAL THREAT; in the summer+ of '40 THERE WAS NO EXISTENTIAL THREAT. In '41 there WAS an existential threat; BUT a Wren hardly more than a schoolgirl came up with the battle tactics that wrecked Doenitz' Wolf Packs.
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  370. @Butt Munch That made no sense.
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  371.  @jussim.konttinen4981  But they didn't stay achieved. Why bother being co-belligerent when any fool should have been able to see that if you weren't "In it to win it", all that would be achieved would be more dead, widows, orphans, and cripples? That just looks criminal.
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  372.  @TheImperatorKnight  Keep doing that; it shows folk are actually paying at least SOME attention! 😉
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  373. Thank Christ. I had the horrible thought you were going to advance to Breda and this would be your... Stalingrad. 😁
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  374.  terrorbilly684  Adjacent to or causal of pretty much all the grief in Western History. Du Jour it is the Frankfurt School and their Critical Theories bollocks. Clock how many of the crazy French "philosophers" of the 2nd 1/2 of TwenCen were Jewish. The USA immigration problem; guess which community bears the largest reponsibility for altering the law to todays crazy circa 1960? In the upper echelons of Bolshevism Jews were hugely over-represented. Marx himself? Xtianity; the Bible; Islam. If you don't want to be persecuted; don't support toxic ideas and expel from your communities any that do. Wherever you live; thats your home. That is where your loyalties lie; not to a xenophobic; Neo-Nazi Apartheid; and genocidal sectarian ethno-state. This is hardly neuro-science.
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  375. You LACK the vocab, did you misspell that to make the point? :-)
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  376. The Confessing Church is a movement is to be admired but it was clearly a minority position.
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  377. The good bits I already knew; what I didn't know was dubious codswallop. The Discovery Institute and the leading Randroid loony? Give us strength! The world will not be saved from leftie religio-ideological crackpottery by rightie religio-idological crackpottery. Where are you going with this; what is your aim; and what do you hope to achieve? You are just paddling atm and occaisionally stubbing your toe. I suspect whatever it is will need another mega-project of umptie hour documentary and a mega-project of preparation to get you up to speed to do it justice. For what? Take your own advice and apprentice to be a plumber. At least a Post-Grad gets a doctorate at the end of it; I see only brickbats in your future with this.
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  378.  @jimmydesouza4375  Except its bollocks and you'll miss the uniparty in Britain; the Dominions; and USA.
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  379. The sum is greater than the parts. I'm agnostic on how you organise this, Lewis, but these convos are worth having and worth putting up. A question you might ask yourself is "Where is the bulk of my income coming from?". I suspect YT won't be the answer. If that is in fact so, screw 'em and relocate to an at least neutral platform that doesn't screw you over and rob you blind.
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  380.  @TheImperatorKnight  Curiously both the Bible and Economics have to have most of their content binned to get to anything that is actually true!
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  381.  @viktorsalinovic7260  Yup; I couldn't quite recall his name when I wrote! 🙄
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  382. Lewis has the Wikipedia page on screen in the video you bloody numpty and it looks in the video exactly the same as the Wipedia page I have open as I type this. Don't be a fekin' eejit.
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  383. I've haven't seen such a stellar display of hole-digging since... the last 'Woke' stupidity. I lost count of the number of derogatory sterotypes these clowns, ALL OF THEM, reinforced.
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  384.  @TheImperatorKnight  I'd steer well clear. If you think tankies and wehraboos are bad...
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  385. Okay, look at the WHOLE timeline of the channel; the first half of Stalingrad for me was very informative. When you got Paulus into the city, well by then there wasn't really anything that hadn't been deduced already military-wise. The sceenplay/animation business seems to be the crux of the problem with "Stalingrad". If you weren't having to do that; which, lets face it, wasn't there for the first parts of "Stalingrad" or the previous battlestorms. You've first pick-up in Lock-Down March 2020; it falls off toward the end of April 2022. Wasn't that when they called off Lock-Down and the extreme daft? You can't take things in isolation. The real world has to be counted in. You've been railing in recent weeks against a straw-man "Gnosticism" while worshipping The Algorithm Almighty 24/7 for a couple of years, you daft bugger! I can empathise; the Internet is gettiing in the way of me living in the same way: this is being typed at 05:45 in the morning! I forget whether I did the SubscribeStar poll or not; but, whatever reason I had for supporting you in the first place, the politics/economics/philosophy/religion is what is keeping me here. I was done with "Stalingrad" pretty much definitely when Seydlitz inadvertantly scuppered any possibility of a breakout. All that was really left was Nazi/Wehraboo excuses. I'm a Completist; so I'll still watch but the joy went a long time ago. I have mental health problems; I've been around folk with similar for 25 years; take it from one whose been there, done that, and got the tee - and watched dozens of others do the same - you are heading for a breakdown; if not a complete psychotic break and a locked ward if you keep this up. The Internet and the Algorithm isn't life; but death. An addiction; not sustenance. Live, FFS. I didn't and all I have is regrets. I hope that helps.
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  386.  @hendriktonisson2915  Get Paul Kennedy's 'The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers' out of you locaL library. Both Germany and Japan would have been economic superpowers ten or fifteen years earlier without the autarky and lebensraum nonsense both pursued is the short answer.
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  387.  @hendriktonisson2915  Trade normally like everyone else. Not being party to Washington and London, sell major warships to other nations. The Sisters and the Pocket Battleships to the Netherlands for instance. They would be saddled with a bloated armaments sector; while drawing it down, sell to China. That would be awkward for us, not wanting to provoke Japan. Re-arm Eastern Europe and the Balkans and make it secure from Stalin. Basically establish economic hegomony fifty years earlier. They could have had it all being primus inter pares with strong allies to free Russia's 'near abroad' if they so desired. As I said, get Kennedy's book out.
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  388.  @hendriktonisson2915  Yuo're welcome.
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  389.  @ihtfp01  In the light of a raprochment, yes. The Netherlands was about to build a trio of battle cruisers based on the Sisters and their Plan Z successors to defend thw Eat Indies. Commerce raidera designed to interdict British trade would be even more effective against Japan, who were quite clueless regarding commerce warefare.
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  390. We've been governed by feckin' eejits since 1905; and Churchill was one of the original feckin' eejits.
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  391. @ChaptermasterPedroKantor-kv5yw And so we lost the war.
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  392.  @TheImperatorKnight  It might be a reaction to "War by Timetable" Lewis; without the German railways the Long 20th Century might never have happened. 😉
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  393. @TheoHawk316 G. Jn. 8:44 and multiple instances of Only The Father knows The Son; and Only The Son The Father rather blow your argument apart. The early Xtians were trying to have their cake and eat it; to be seen as religio rather than superstitio. I do wish you tools would read your own ruddy "scripture".
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  394. Hitler seems to have believed the Jewish "god" evil; Marcion that the Jewish god was "just". Hitler rather seems to have picked up the thread that leads from G. Jn 8: 44., and thought the Jews brethren of the Devil; both children of this evil "god".
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  395. ​ @Thurman321  Guess who nixed a naval Spitfire when 1st Lord of the Admiralty? Look at the build times for the George V class for when the RN would recieve Lions. What parts of the Z Plan would the Kriegsmarine have been able to implement in this peace pause? More to the point ALL the Italian Vittorio Venetos would have been on line and the Italian army would have completed it's re-organisation as well. You have to look at what your opponets are going to be doing too; they won't be sitting around twiddling their thumbs waiting for you to thump them while they just stand there.
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  396.  @awesomehpt8938  20/20 hindsight vis the "genocide". No one understood the depths of Hitler and Stalin's evil until quite a bit later and even then didn't really believe it until the first camp was liberated.
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  397.  @wessexexplorer  We are talking white peace; not "collaboration".
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  398. We peace out. The threat from Japan goes away when we can send a full fleet east and all the ANZAC too. I don't know what Churchill and Hitler were thinking; but we couldn't actualy attack each other anywhere important at the time. Jerry wasn't an actual threat to us at the time (I'd argue ever). Let them go East: logistics remain logistics and we can still send food and munitions. It is cynical but our policy was ever to supply the geld and let our enemies and frenemies do all the dying. Mass armies and mass bombers are just stupids as far as a seapower is concerned. I don't think we would have been supine in an armistice either; negotiating Jerry out of Scandinavia and demilitarising the Atlantic and Channel coastal zones was probably doable. Has anyone said we need make peace with Musso and Vichy too? I don't think so. There is too much black and white thinking on these matters. We are not obliged to give up all we achieved as a nation; to destroy our own nation; or die for anyone. Least of all Moscow and Washington.
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  399.  @flashgordon6670  More dead Russians? Fine by me.
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  400.  @beaujeste1  How can WSC mention WW2 5-6 years before there was any such thing?
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  401.  @timamos5891  Then why didn't we fight Stalin? These kind of rants always fail when you bring Stalin and Mao in. Are you a swivel-eyed Tankie loon or just an ordinary eejit?
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  402.  @glennpettersson9002  We can go off the drunken 'tard's previous actions in government. The Norway shambles alone disqualified the git; but in practically every govt. department he lead or was involved in he was responsible for truly demic decision making.
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  403.  @Thurman321  I can't tell which of my comments you are replying to; but I think you'll find if you aggregate them we don't have a disagreement.
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  404. National Socialism or Socialism in One Country, there is no difference. Both produce tens of millions of corpses as their only "product" and both eat themselves sooner or later. Neither emotion, ideology, nor 20/20 hindsght or bigotry, have a place in this argument. Just as they should have no place in a discussion In Cabinet. Churchill should not have been PM, you can make that judgement on his past record going back to the Liberal administrations of Campbell Bannerman and Asquith 1906-1915 which set GB on "The Road to Serfdom" (See the trade union legislation following the strikes and near-insurrection in Glasgow which convicts the Liberal Party as crypto-Socialist loonies) Would the 'Holy Fox' have capitulated to Hitler? We are forgetting we have cabinet government and a parliament. Wood would NOT have the whole say or even the largest part off that say. (Besides, he had repudiated the policy of appeasement and demanded 'the destruction of Nazism' in the week previous to Munich.)The mood of neither cabinet nor parliament favoured capitulation and there was no actual threat of invasion to these isles and there was no threat of us actually being defeated by military means in any reasonable timescale. I do not say Hitler cannot come, my lords, only that he cannot come by sea or air. Bigging up threats is a distractor and common means of shoring up leaders who, absent hysterics, are obvioulsy dubious on examination (See Brandon and the Ukraine). There were other options than capitulation and the dozey "Total War" idea, from a White Peace to conducting a limited war that husbands resources until we could wage a more substantial one. A thing to remember is that at the time Chamberlain resigned Fall Gelb hadn't opened and French stupid was a week from being unmasked. There were low-life traitor types like 'Rab' Butler, but they were hardly representative. I believe we could have negotiated Hitler out of Scandinavia and the Low Countries into accepting demilitarisation of the coast between Germany and Spain. Even a peace a la 1870 with France neutralised and castrated, shorn of Alsace-Lorraine and the industrial North East. Some have mentioned the lifting of the blockade, see the measures the US, Britain, and the Netherlands took against Japan for a riposte. It was known Hitler would go east. It was known the Red Army was craptastic. It was known that the Wehrmacht would suffer insurmountable logistics problems. It was known that the Soviet forces in the Far East were an exception to craptastic. It was known that Stalin could just throw near infinite bodies at the problem and that he didn't actually give a fuck about the Soviet peoples. Hitler would probably lose. What then? The possibility of Commies on the Channel coast, well that is something that couldn't be allowed and a threat that must have been honoured. A continuation of hostilities or a resumption of hostilities after a "Peace of Amiens" would have been the inevitable and neccessary conclusion of sober (SWIDT? 🙂!!!)analysis. Absent Churchill and absent France a harder and more pragmatic analysis of reality would have revealed the lack of an invasion threat or of the possibility of defeat in a meaningful timescale. The necessity of clearing the Med and extinguishing the Italian empire and navy should have been obvious. (The Med or South East Asia; we couldn't make war in both at the same time.) The fact of serious financial restraints should have also been obvious. The ideas behind Bomber Command were fallacious. Building heavy bombers and the huge airfields to support them should have been seen as the financial and sunk cost fallacy it was. Conducting war a la outrance without the means and relying on a nation that was at best a "frienemy" to come in and "save" us or "demoracy" was stupid in the extreme and treasonous to boot. My point is there are umpteen better means to kill a cat than drowning it in cream; and feels plus idiotology no way to promote the national interest, or wellbeing and freedom in general.
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  405. LSE - Lunatic Stupid Education. The place is overun with mongs.
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  406.  @toby2581  Look up what the Tavistock clinic is known for today.
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  407. The Luftwaffe had Stukas and the Luchtvaartafdeling had pretty much ceased to exist. Precision bombing of point targets in the FAOB was what Ju 87 was all about. Probably more NAZI BS.
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  408.  @MegaBrzy  YES.
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  409.  @howlingdin9332  Did I write otherwise? I wrote you'd not be able to help others if you weren't selfish; you have to be selfish to be in a position to be altrustic. 😉Be well.
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  410. Somaliland comes to mind. I've come to believe you can have the great English political gift; the 'Common Law' or you can be a shit-tip.
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  411.  @AlRoasteri  You are a communist and we are not interested.
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  412. You are a communist and we are not interested.
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  413.  @kilianklaiber6367  You might have noticed a great number of people rabbiting on about global warming for the last 30-40 years. The climate is ever changing and if you don't account for it you'll be grossly mislead.
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  414.  @slobodankopanja2506  That is just Tito-Commie bullshit.
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  415.  @overdose8329  Sure they did. Most of them weren't dead. /s
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  416.  @TheImperatorKnight  He genuinely had the Blue Max and Iron Crosses (1st and 2nd Class); the Zähringer Lion with swords, the Friedrich Order, the House Order of Hohenzollern with swords third class.; He didn't need to make shite up! Bloody poltroon; Germanyy lost through nationalising and annexing most of the idiot balls, I often think. Would not being shot in the Beerhall Putsch and becoming a druggie in consequence have led him to wake up to being an idiot about Hitler? I hardly see a Göring not on drugs kowtowing to an ex-corporal who'd bigged up his war summat awful for too long. The bloke who'd been forced clod turkey we saw at Nuremburg was a different kettle of fish to the vane pillock of the previous twenty odd years.
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  417. Who got Yugoslavia invaded in the first place?
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  418. Glenn Beck, a recommend from one of your countrymen upthread, gives a pretty clear American perspective in "Antifa Part 4".
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  419. This is why you might be the last but one gen of Chemistry Graduates. You can't do, teach, or learn STEM if neo-Lysenkoism, cod scientism, and critical bollocks have usurped your College. The Western Mind is Closing - Again! WAKE THE FUCK UP.
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  420.  @DaveSCameron  Not quite... I was only 11 after all! 😃
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  421. Whoopie do for you. The USG sets a very high bar... almost as high as the gutter.
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  422.  @mannymejia4339  Fuck a Duck. Explain the Dominate>Dark Ages>Middle Ages/Mediaevel Era and the retreat into unreason. History is rhyming ATM.
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  423.  @paulrevere2379  How come a Jar Head gets it when higher forms of life look at you like you are gone? Kidding of course. Smedley Butler twigged a lot a damn sight earlier than most. I hope it is more than you that remembers it goes "... against ALL enemies, foreign AND DOMESTIC." though
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  424. Sorry mate, your balls just insults the average persons intelligence. Take your 'splaining somewhere else. Here it doesn't wash.
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  425. Doesn't this fuck-up any German war from the start? Totally unrealistic; if it were true Barbarossa would probably have stalled before the end of June '41; certainly by the August.
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  426.  @That_GuyYouTube  We give a crap. Most of our consumer tech is MADE in China the companies that DEVELOP it and major chip fabs are in Taiwan. Why do you think Taipei would do this? If Chy-Nah attacks, they screw themselves; if we don't defend, we screw ourselves.
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  427. Close down the front, wait for your infantry to catch up with you, and your logistics to catch up with your infantry. Tidy up the battlefield; secure your flanks and lines of communication. Tell the Churchill wannabes to knob off. Build up your men, materials, and munitions. Ensure your reserves have reserves, etc. Then launch a stonking artillery offensive in a few months time. Meanwhile let you enemies attack into the teeth of your guns and bog them down in minefields and barbed wire where you can shoot them up at leisure. :-) After all what are you up against? Numpties on the internet; dross Blackshirts and Luftwaffe field divisions commanded by a South African waste of space would roll over. Do all the topics you can wind up in 1/2hr-1hr videos or in ten minute bites of the same. I'm pretty sure there are other Stalingrad mysteries and things that don't square with one another that would benefit you taking the time to research them rather than have them bite you in the bum like here. As for pulling the episode and correcting it, I think you should redo the part in error. Do it the same as you have done, but then ask that question of yours "But is that really the case?" or however it goes. Make the point there is confusion in the sources, briefly state the choices and direct folk to this video. Turning to other topics will refresh you, keep the not-numpties engaged, and most of all give us a rest. I expect we are a knackered from watching as you are from shooting; plus it adds suspense!
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  428.  @TheImperatorKnight  Is that what was happening though? It seems at odds with their own words, and your own in the video for that matter. It might be so; it might not be. Either way needs a sight more evidence beyond bald statements. All the actors are delusional; criminal; and self-serving. You could say the same of all the "historians". If there is one constant it is the narratives fall apart on investigation and it is a feature not a bug. Plato was hardly dead and Diogenes was carrying a lamp in daylight looking for an honest man. I was born red-pilled, matey: cynical of cynics and skeptical of skeptics. You are a newbie; it has sunk in at the intellectual level but you don't fully grok the implications in your heart: EVERYTHING has to be verified. Marx and Hitler sold themselves their own pups; we have to be careful not to do the same.
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  429.  @aquilatempestate9527  Who is this Sutton and where do I find his research?
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  430.    And eternal stupidity in securing those interests, unfortunately.
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  431.  @michelangelobuonarroti4958  Musso was doing his own thang. So what if the Italian Empire in Africa was destroyed, Britain, the Empire, and Commonwealth were in no fit state to invade Italy and, but for selling their souls to the US and the Wehrmacht's own brands of stupid, probably never would have been. Italy's war was a useful distraction, bolstering Hitler's maskirovka on the cheap.
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  432.  @axelhopfinger533  Neither was he excommunicated. The only notable Nazi who was? Goebbels for divorcing. The Paedo Church is full of mongs as well as paedos.
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  433. There is a hell of a difference between the Confessing Church and its' clones in other denominations and the actual mainstream churches of Concordat inclination. The majority of German Xtians were quite happy taking G.Jn 8:44 as Gospel and murdering Jews. Get over yourself.
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  434.  @noreply-7069  Peasant or pedant; either 'll do for you.
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  435.  @kevinbrown4073  You don't say. :-)
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  436. Thinking about every ecological "catastrophe" that never actually happened except in Greenpeace's imagination. In reality a couple of years after Exxon Valdez you coudn't tell there had been a spill. Wildlife is going gangbusters in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. Environmentalists big things up and/or talk bollox most of the time.
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  437.  @adamjaquay4279  And Paris and Berlin WERE IN THE OPPOSITE FUCKING DIRECTION!
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  438. 🤣🤣🤣
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  439. TL;DNW=Reality doesn't give a fcuk. Argue with it only if you are in the running for a Darwin Award.
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  440. Not a Fascist: a typical Latin caudillo with a lot more savvy than most; a conservative authoritarian, monarchist even. King Juan Carlos was his political HEIR, ffs. The body-count, chum. Ir's a rough but distinct tell. Pinochet was in the same vein.
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  441. This is the meeting about the meeting about the agenda about the meeting. A very common distractor. Mosely was wrong in what we need to be doing BUT we need to be DOING.
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  442. Thank you for being the only person here so far to spell Laissez-faire correctly and not confuse it with a cinematic dog or worse!
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  443. If you want a fair take on that kind of thing and the similarities/differences v the USA; see Helen Dale and David Starkey too.
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  444.  @TheImperatorKnight  But is that really so? My priors: 1)Tankies; Fellow Travellers; Korisne Budale; and Wehraboos will be over-represented 2) The Playable Characters will be asking far too many intelligent questions; the NPCs far too many naive ones. 3) There r no stupid questions; only stupid answers. 4) TIK will want to "Tidy up the battlefield" and b late breaking out of the beachhead. 5) TIK will then hive off to Brest for some random reason. This all adds up to: "There will be no 2nd Front this year or next." :-)
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  445. What the hell is productive? Working the land, hunting, fishing, gathering nuts and berries. 99.999% of folk are unproductive all the time they are not doing those things.
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  446.  @weaselworm8681  Go look at The Cheiftain's channel. He's covered your Sherman v Tiger problem in several videos several times over several years ago.
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  447.  @julianshepherd2038  Do you see The Daily Mail in TIK's bibliography for this video? Don't be a muppet. I have to have regular gastroscopies. They required anasthesia in the NHS because with the NHS equpiment you think you are choking and struggle. Half a dozen people and half a day. If I have it done in a contracted private hospital it takes 0 anasthesia, 1/2 an hour, & 1 person. There are better ways to accomplish Single Payer & "Free" at the Point of Delivery.
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  448.  @QuizmasterLaw  TIK didn't actually say the Wehrmacht should have done any of that. He just outlined that that was the efficient means to solve the problem. I think the impossibility of actually doing so should be obvious.
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  449.  @QuizmasterLaw  TIK didn't actually say the Wehrmacht should have done any of that. He just outlined that that was the efficient means to solve the problem. I think the impossibility of actually doing so should be obvious.
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  450.  @goldreserve  The USA is not actually a free market. TIK is describing an ideal; an ideal to be worked for. Ideals can never be actualities, there will always be frictions, but we can work to getting as close to the ideal as possible. We don't actually have to try all the crap alternatives (again!) to do this. We can do better than having one country fouled up one way, a 2nd country fouled up another way, & a third a different way again. I think we have all the data we need for what doesn't work in ways that will eventually doom us all.
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  451.  @agentorange6085  Somehow I don't think Ivan would fall for that; because after all that is what THEY did to Fritz at Kursk.
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  452.  @jackbiliny2435  "My troops can eat their belts but my tanks gotta have gas" - Patton in the pursuit after the Normandy breakout. But for logistics cock-ups, Patton would probably have settled the Huns hash in the West, obviated Monties ludicrous/desperate attempt to 'bounce' the Rhine with Market/Garden, and butterflied the even loonier Ardennes Offensive. 2800 British trucks were found to be defective; 15 million jerry cans simply 'disappeared' and ammuniton was supplied in abundance when what was needed was fuel. All this was compounded by... oversupply, believe it or not, the allied divisions would recieve about 3 1/2 times the tonnage needed to keep a German divsion in the field. An army based on the horse and cart outran armies based on the internal combustion engine. TIK highlights Kraut stupid but the Allies were no slouches in the stupid stakes; and considering the largest part of the genocide took place in the last year of the war, that stupid amounted to criminality.
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  453.  @julianshepherd2038  Cheap and efficient don't neccessarily go together.
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  454.  @julianshepherd2038  A better understanding of just about everything would be needed - but then Nazi's wouldn't have been a thing.
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  455. The answer is a platoon, even on your tabletop. 1 on 1 the Sherman dies 2 miles out.
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  456. Freedom; the Individual, Family and Local Community; Science; Common Law. Or it's just twatwaffle.
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  457. Von Mises and Rothbard almost invariably get a mention in Lewis' eco vids, or anytime an eco point comes up really; if not in the actual vid, you'll find them in his bibliography for the video.
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  458.  @davidburroughs2244  I suggest you look up Coventry and "The Battle of the Beams". Rather nixes your argument.
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  459.  @davidburroughs2244  I'm talking about accurate bombing. The beams rmove one of the Nazi fig-leafs for Coventry NOT being a terror bombing. In the case here, accurate bombing of targets at or just behind the front, the Luftwaffe had the Stuka. In neither cases is inaccuracy an "explanation", nevermind an "excuse".
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  460.  @Dave5843-d9m  No, the West was lost because of stupid. See "Blitzkrieg Legend" and "Strange Victory". Go back and watch TIK's vids on the lead up to and the first year of the war and his backgrounders on the political, diplomatic, ecomomic, historical, and logistical etc. dimensions of the war and the period.
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  461.  @nicholasconder4703  ... to go into a closet with a revolver.
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  462.  @dondajulah4168  The communists also needed a knee on the neck. There might have been blood shed but AH had confiscated the civilians guns. Things might have been ropey for a couple or three months; but the Herr wouldn't be troubled putting it down.
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  463.  @2ndTimPlayground  No the West blew through that and rightly so. You do not even need hindsight to see that.
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  464.  @dondajulah4168  Read "Strange Victory". You are talking out of your bumhole.
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  465. So in large part Hitler and the Nazis defeated themselves. ROTFL!! Sounds a lot like "woke" going broke, don't it?
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  466. @jim Have you looked at his record in government? It is one of stunning incompetence.
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  467. This is in effect that hindsight proposal to split the 6th Army into two corps writ large.
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  468.  @dennisrevarga9875  Source? Kriegspiel doesn't get you any physical means or. as dbassman27 just wrote, mean any preperation or involvement of a higher command. Patton seems to have done similar things before the Ardennes; it didn't mean he could do anything before the Germans attacked, or that he actually took it seriously when they did. Plans are all very well; but implementation is another matter and what higher headquarters will do another thing again. Paulus wasn't commanding in a vacuum
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  469. Quality has a quantity all of its' own.
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  470.  @Neapoleone-Buonaparte  I'm pulling the 'tache of a jerk from Georgia.
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  471. Trouble is your "god" is a pyschopath. You might try opening your Wholly Wibble and reading how your "deity" is characterised.
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  472.  @notbadsince97  If there is one thing fascists are not very good at it is war. TIK demonstrates this ad nauseam.
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  473. Not as "heroic"? Withdrawal in contact is probably the most difficult maneouvre in the manual of arms! All hail the AMERICAN soldiers who undertook this most difficult of tasks! And I say this unreservedly as someone who thinks the world would be a lot better off if the USA had been strangled at birth. 😏
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  474. If Putin had studied history there would probably be shock armies fighting in the ruins of Warsaw as we speak; so there's that. /s 🙃😇
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  475. Richard Owen's Crystal Palace "Dinosaurs" vis the modern understanding or understandings. I can recognise the parts; but this "gnosticism" bears little resemblance to ancient understandings, either from the "inside" or "outside" of such groups as attracted the label; or the modern and largely synthetic and good part artifacted understandings. I'm afraid you've led yourself astray, Lewis. This is just crackpottery.
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  476. Valliant??? Oh dear... Back in the day, we all started from bollocks. Today we have the Interwebs and there are no excuses. Take it from me; crap can't help but become self-evident if you've taken an interest in a topic for fifty-odd years. Now following up dodgy only takes a few clicks. I really don't know why we bother when folk can't or won't do the minimum.
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  477. I could say some of what you have here is wrong, Lewis; but that would be to discard that the best is the enemy of the good. Watching you evolve yourself up by your bootstaps is a joy. Be well, Lewis.
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  478.  @abuseofmainstreammediacanh5713  Do you have reputable sources to back up what you are talking about? Wikipedia is about as shite as you can get.
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  479.  @TheImperatorKnight  Reach out to The Chieftain, Lewis. You and Nicholas could be a boon to one another. He's brought up more than once how individual units of the US Army have a 'budget' they have to 'spend' (Apostrophised because it isn't all monetary!) You'd be healthy correctives to each other. Oh! And he is a professional Cavalry officer who doesn't stick to tanks!
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  480.  @night6724  Racialist Socialists; you'd think they'd already have a name.... Oh, wait.
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  481.  @derrickfield8957  Erm in 1938 there was no common border between Germany and the USSR; neither were the countries of South East Europe in Hitler's back pocket. We didn't actually NEED the Soviets. The French had a fuck-off army and a decent navy; we had the fuck-off navy and a decent army. The simple application of overwhelming economic, military, and naval power would have done the rest. Probably just the image of that power would have seen the Herr do the job for us. I wouldn't have cared; it is our business to make sure it is other than Englishmen who do the bleeding.
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  482.  @jasontrauger8515  No he woudn't; that is the whole point: the Herr and the Anti-Nazi coalition had to know we had their backs.
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  483.  @TheImperatorKnight  BoJo is working from a script. Biden appears to NEED to work from a script. Lots of bull can be worked into a script. Off the cuff WITH sources and WITH notes I'd say CAN be superior. You can lie with a script's wording, you can work out were you contradict yourself with a script and edit it, it is a bit more difficult off the cuff; you can often see the joins more easily. You don't have off-the-cuff propaganda, do you?
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  484. This sort of thing concentrates minds wonderfully. The Folgore division and the Fallschirmjager would have dropped on Malta. The Regia Marina was actully good at protecting the sea lanes to Libya. This was one of the reasons an attack on Malta never went beyond the planning: the cost outweighed the benefit.
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  485. He is Satan, didn't you know?
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  486.  @divingdave2945  I hate to reach for stereotypes; but unfotunately it seems Germans know only how to take a thing too far.
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