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

  1.  @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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  2.  @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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  3.  @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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  4.  @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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  5.  @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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  6. 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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  7.  @johnwolf2829  Well he got to it and I see you did naught.
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  8. 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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  9. Doesn't make much sense? Large numbers of decisions in the 2nd World War make no bloomin' sense!
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  10.  @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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  11. I think Halder lives and is advising Putin. 🙂
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  12. 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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  13.  @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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  14. 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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  15.  @seesmann638  Because you might get injured otherwise. When the danger subsides; then you can think about it.
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  16. 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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  17.  @michaelmayfield4304  Many have made that point, including Patton.
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  18.  @solomon2439  No, it was a Beck blow that enabled Halder. Do keep up! LOL!
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  19.  @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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  20.  @anatolyl  India ISN'T Britain, you loon.
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  21.  @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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  22. "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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  23.  @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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  24.  @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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  25.  @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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  26. 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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  27. 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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  28.  @cisarovnajosefina4525  Chalk up one for Dolphie! "Hitler killed Hitler, so there is that! LOL!"
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  29. 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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  30.  @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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  31.  @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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  32.  @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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  33.  @steffenb.jrgensen2014  Stopping at roadside petrol stations to fill up helped in the French campaign!
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  34.  @Edax_Royeaux  That was due to a lack of high temperature alloys more than the fuel.
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  35.  @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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  36.  @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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  37.  @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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  38. 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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  39. Ronseal of approval. Does what it says on the... TIK.
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  40. 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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  41.  @TheImperatorKnight  Socialism+God=Judaeo-Xtianity. It just takes longer for the wheels to fall off.
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  42. 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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  43.  @TheDogGoesWoof69  Because other folk are dipsticks.
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  44. ​ @snagletoothscott3729  Cod etymology for the Tuatha Dé Danann - the Goddess Danu's People.
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  45. That was the Great War. WW2 was military incompetence and an Anglo-American drunk.
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  46.  @panzerofthelake506  Most of the cock-up on our part was military.
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  47.  @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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  48. 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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  49. 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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  50. 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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