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

  1.  @TheImperatorKnight  We DEMAND you put us FIRST... and get well properly; nevermind the selfish self-flagellation 😁
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  2. 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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  3.  @Kevin-mx1vi  Evertday heroes, eh? Props to your dad and his shipmates.
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  4. 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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  5.  @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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  6. 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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  7. There are a number of those stumbles; we only see them on the page and never hear them.
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  8. “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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  9.  @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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  10.  @hermitoldguy6312  If you have to ASK, I don't want to know you.
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  11. 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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  12. There is monarchy and there is monarchy. Henry VIII/Anne would be where I'd fall probably.
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  13. 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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  14.  @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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  15.  @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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  16. 4D more like!
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  17.  @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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  18.  @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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  19.  @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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  20.  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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  21. 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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  22.  @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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  23.  @billschauer2240  Who cares?
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  24. 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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  25. Those who can, do; those that can't, teach; those that can't teach, work for Ofsted.
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  26.  @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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  27. Probably only lost in translation. I thought Lewis made it quite clear that was the case.
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  28.  @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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  29.  @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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  30.  @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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  31. 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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  32. <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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  33.  @kevinbrown4073  He wouldn't be able to ask "But is that actually the case?" if it wasn't. :-)
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  34. 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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  35. 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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  36. The nanny wants age verification. What is offensive to the commies at Google about this film?
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  37. Cocking up food distribution in peacetime; thank god that can't happen today... Oh, wait...
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  38. 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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  39.  @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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  40. 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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  41. 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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  42.  @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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  43. 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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  44.  @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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  45.  @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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  46.  @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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  47.  @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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  48. 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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  49.  @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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  50.  @gingernutpreacher  Challenger; Abrams. Not much use to anyone though. We no longer have the ability to build tanks.
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