Comments by "seneca983" (@seneca983) on "Military History not Visualized" channel.

  1. It was more the torpedo battery rather than the artillery that ultimately sank her.
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  2.  @johnsamu : I think with such pressure gradients the metal will flow like a liquid even if the melting temperature is not reached.
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  3.  @kathibaba7665  If he had just donated equipment would that make him a non state actor in a war? What about people who just donate money to Ukraine? Are they non state actors in a war? Or don't they count because the individual amounts are smaller.
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  4. Lindybeige had an interesting video on berserkers as well (linked below). The most interesting part was when he mentioned the romance "Yvain, the Knight of the Lion" which was written in Old French. The tale was also translated into Norse and the word "champion" was translated using the word "berserker" (or I guess "berserk" or "bärsärk") which tells how the word "berserker" was perceived at the time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBUGQkpk3RE
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  5. To my knowledge, at least some Finns might have wanted also take other regions (basically East Karelia) with Finnic populations in addition to those lost in the Winter War.
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  6. "They wouldn't be called human resources if they weren't meant to be strip-mined."
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  7. Besides Finland, the UK also helped Estonia but the UK also repulsed the Finnish Viena expedition.
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  8.  @nukeout  "yeah they did" Source please? I've only seen news mentioning that planes on lease to Russian airlines were stolen by Russia, not those of foreign airlines. "no foreign airlines are not[sic] flying to Russia as a result" I'm pretty sure e.g. Turkish airlines are flying to Russia. As for Western airlines, they're banned from Russian airspace so they can't take their chances even if they wanted to.
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  9.  @nirfz : "Anything ending with "chen" gets a neutral article" Same goes for the other diminutive suffix which is -lein, like "das Fräulein" for example.
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  10. Q: What do you like about Switzerland? A: Well, the flag is a big plus.
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  11. "the same Crimea that you are forcing back into Ukraine" I don't think anyone's forcing Crimea into Ukraine. Ukraine and many others don't recognize it as a part or Russia but that hardly means that anyone's going to force it back into Ukraine's control. Ukraine pushing militarily into Crimea is unrealistic. "I hope you make a video on why Victoria Nuland was in Kiev among demonstrants in winter of 2013" I don't think why one politician was in a specific demonstration is the kind of subject this channel covers. Where would he even find documentation on why she was there? Those events are probably far too recent anyway.
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  12.  @finlandatwar  Though I don't think that expedition was officially sanctioned by the Finnish government.
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  13.  @ArchOfficial  Both Ukrainian and Russian are widely spoken in Ukraine. Thus I'd say both "Kyiv" and "Kiev" are just fine.
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  14. I'm sure he realized how difficult it would be to prevail against the US in the long run if the Americans choose to fight on in spite of casualties. Probably the Japanese hoped that the Americans would not see the fight worth the cost at some point and would negotiate a peace that's sufficiently favorable to the Japanese. That was the only way for them to save their continental conquests (assuming the Chinese wouldn't just suddenly fold). The right choice would, of course, have been to abandon their conquests but that's not an easy thing to decide when you're not yet actually losing.
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  15.  @SeismicHammer  The Finnish word for swastika is "hakaristi" (lit. "hook-cross").
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  16.  @kathibaba7665  OK, now I understand what you meant. At first I thought you meant that he doesn't count as a non-state actor in this conflict because the US government paid for the equipment rather than it being a donation from him or his company. (I would personally only apply the word "mercenary" to someone who actually works directly in a military role.)
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  17. Two points about Öresund (a.k.a. Øresund). First, you're pronouncing it wrong. The letter 'Ö' is pronounced the same way it's in German (and Danish 'Ø' is the same or at least quite close), so it shouldn't be too hard for you. Secondly, you described Öresund being "between Denmark and Sweden". But wasn't Skåne (the southern part of present-day Sweden) part of Denmark back then?
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  18. "There is absolutely no excuse for this poor performance on their part. The fact that the Red Army as an institution didn't collapse is no major feat either." The point that there were no mass surrenders or mass routs is still a salient point. It might not be a major feat but it's a feat enough that Hitler shouldn't have considered defeating the Red Army to be easy.
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  19. In case you're curious about the pronunciation of Svinhufvud: 1) The 'U' in (Finnish) Swedish is about half-way between the German 'U' and 'Ü'. 2) The 'F' isn't pronounced here. (In modern Swedish, "head" is written "huvud" but this name uses an archaic spelling.)
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  20.  @nvelsen1975  Kosovo recognition/non-recognition is very close to 50%/50% among UN members.
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  21.  @gabel0027  "They were, in a sense, aggressive, but an "aggressive defense"" By that logic, the Continuation War can also be called an "aggressive defense".
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  22. But surely letting pockets form is still better than to have those same pockets not be pockets by the virtue of having a connection to the main body of the Soviet forces?
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  23.  @Cythil  I think in "Finlandsvensk" the letter 'U' is always pronounced [ʉ] whether short or long. (In "Riksvensk" the short 'U' is [ɵ].)
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  24. "and possibly many other Slavic) languages" The only Slavic language I've heard of having articles is Bulgarian.
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  25.  @MilitaryHistoryNotVisualized  A non von Neumann architecture isn't special at all. The salient feature (or at least one of them) of von Neumann architecture is that instructions and data are stored in the same memory. This contrasts with with so called Harvard architecture where instructions and data have their own memory and signal pathways. At least today Harvard architecture is mostly limited to microcontrollers and digital signal processors and doesn't occur in anything "bigger" like a desktop computer or a super computer but it is not rare or anything.
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  26. 6:35 It's a bit ironic that they moved to Telegram because its developers are from Russia.
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  27.  @AlexanderSeven : Maybe even the Soviets couldn't be so brazen as to attack without at least a fake justification.
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  28.  @AlexanderSeven : Wouldn't that (the shelling and subsequent correspondence) still leave at least a short window to prepare?
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  29. Isn't it just a different choice in transliteration rather than a typo? In English the sound [ʃ] is written with "sh" but in German it's written with "sch". Similarly the affricate [tʃ] has a separate digraph "ch" in English but in German it would be just written as "tsch".
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  30.  @Custerd1  According to Wikipedia that letter is pronounced [ʃtʃ] in Ukrainian. Presumably the transliteration here was based on the Ukrainian rather the Russian pronunciation.
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  31.  @Custerd1  I have to make the disclaimer that I don't know any Ukrainian either (nor do I know any Russian) so this is all based on Wikipedia.
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  32.  @johanmetreus1268  "Kremlin: shoots down civilian MH17." I think it's more likely that it was shot down by the Russia backed separatist forces (thinking it was a Ukrainian military plane) rather than by Kremlin.
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  33. I think one of the most important questions wasn't asked here. How much is this constraining or will constrain the Russian war effort?
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  34.  @looinrims  That doesn't really tell anything about how large the effect is.
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  35.  @looinrims  Some kind of estimates or guesses can always be made, though uncertainty is of course higher than it will be years after. I think it's a shame this question wasn't asked at all in this video.
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  36. Was the word "wherewithal" to difficult to pronounce?
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  37. Do the rail cars use ball bearings or roller bearings?
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  38.  @kathibaba7665  Maybe, but I think counting leasing equipment would broaden the definition too much.
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  39. I think Germany likely would have lost even if Finland had tried to push into Leningrad.
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  40. To my knowledge, U-boats used their deck guns more often than torpedoes, at least early on.
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  41. Or Dora the Exploder.
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  42.  @princeofcupspoc9073  I think Britain donated 20 and sold 10 Gloster Gladiators to Finland.
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  43. Did the parts of the skirt covering the tracks protect the tracks from damage? If they didn't, why use that part? If they did, why didn't others use skirts to cover their tracks as well even if they wouldn't be necessary for other parts of the tank? Btw, the track covering skirt on at least Panzer IV looks a bit strange. It looks like its shape matches the shape of the tracks and would mostly cover them if it were a bit lower. My OCD (note: not actual OCD) does not approve. 😀
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  44.  AKUJIRULE : Name calling is unnecessary.
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  45. We don't really know how competent the Chinese are. They haven't fought a war on this scale in quite a while.
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  46. Well, "hufvud" is an archaic spelling of "huvud" (similar to e.g. "silfver").
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  47. "If soviet troops try to surrender they would have been shot by their political officers and then their families would have been sent to gulag at best. So they simply haven't any other chance." But that doesn't detract from the main point. If that's true, then that kind of policy did contribute to the Red Army's effectiveness (even if it was horrific policy). In hindsight, the Germans should have considered that.
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  48. Bulgarian has definite articles (though they are suffixes rather than free articles).
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  49.  @mladenmatosevic4591  I don't speak Bulgarian. I'll give you a link in a separate comment (so that in case YouTube doesn't like the link it won't delete this comment).
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  50.  @mladenmatosevic4591  I studied German in school and I struggled to remember the grammatical gender. Even if you always quote words with the article it doesn't feel like a part of the word and it's much harder to remember, or at least that was the case for me.
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