Comments by "Digital Nomad" (@digitalnomad9985) on "Mark Felton Productions" channel.

  1. There was no US Air force in WW2. The US army heavy bombers bombed specific chosen strategic targets in daylight. Sometimes they got the wrong target. This is bound to happen when you are doing things on the scale they were being done.
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  2. A more existential fact is that the "ICBM race" was prior to the "Space Race" and was even more "our Germans" vs "their Germans." If the Soviets had gotten ICBMs before the US did, they would not have hesitated to use them to blackmail the West. If you're in Europe or the Americas or Israel or a citizen of US Pacific allies, and you are ALIVE and FREE, thank Operation Paperclip and Werner Von Braun. A Soviet Moon would have sucked, but at least I wouldn't have been around to see it.
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  3.  @todd3205  " It wasn't until opportunist political candidates figured out that, if they ran on an anti-tax platform, they could always win (well, with a dose of redistricting). The first 'tax' thing to get cut was education, and in education; liberal arts and history." The spending on the public education system is many times what it was when it worked. Throwing more money at the problem has not improved the situation. Two decisions by President Carter, the legalization of public sector unions and the establishment of the federal Department of Education, have ushered in an era of the education system being run as a jobs program for teachers, as well as increasing the classroom time devoted to political indoctrination. A shifting of emphasis from humanities to science in primary and secondary education had already been implemented more than a decade before in response to Sputnik, out of (ill founded) fears that the US was falling behind the Soviets in science and technology.
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  4. They also used all the Czech light tanks they captured in their invasion of Czechoslovakia in their later invasion of France.
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  5. The vid says Hitler threatened to invade, and you can bet the Swiss thought he was crazy enough to try it
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  6. Only fair, they obviously knew all about our types. 😄
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  7. Not even close. Greater dollar equivalent, but the West has more population now, and every worker is WAY more productive. As a percentage of modern GDPs, it's a relative drop in the bucket.
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  8. Modern weapons are more expensive. Modern economies produce a lot more wealth per person and even have more people. Comparing apples and oranges. How about each as a percentage of GDP?
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  9. @lvajkergetok5104 BMP against WW2 tanks would be a glass cannon, unless engaged outside of missile range, then just glass. US GDP 1943 : $203 billion US GDP 2021 : $23 trillion Two orders of magnitude greater. So in proportion to the greater economic power of modern nations, much much smaller operation.
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  10. "62.7% went to Britain and its empire." Well, that's only to be expected. Remember before Barbarossa, the Soviets were helping Germany. I imagine after the Soviets had their side switched for them, the per anum aid balanced out. And don't forget British aid to the USSR.
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  11.  @bobmiller7502  And private American citizens were sending C.A.R.E packages to Britain for years afterward gratis.
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  12.  @headshot6959  No it is a valid point. They had a use for every tank they made. They didn't object to the UK making Valentines, why would they object to them making T-34s?
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  13. Incredible cross country performance might have been useful, but Shermans totally outclassed Japanese tanks.
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  14. Why would the US object to the British making T-34s more than Churchills? That makes no sense.
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  15. The war was absorbing every tank the US and the UK could produce. What is the incentive for the US to pressure the UK on whether to produce UK or USSR designs? They couldn't sell more, the UK was out of money.
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  16. All the Russian, British, and American varieties of tanks, planes and trucks, and they even had Kossack cavalry.
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  17.  @lacki2000  Well it makes more sense as a reply if you read it as Soviets, but you have a point.
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  18.  @ousamadearudesuwa  " the way Americans did it gave them even more troubles for those that are not supposed to be affected" More than WHAT? No, daytime precision bombing (even with the technological limitations of the time) was NOT more likely to maximize "collateral damage" than night bombing of blacked out cities, and thank you for asking.
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  19. Yes, but we valued the materials.
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  20. Well, they sure used captured Czech light tanks against France, so it makes sense.
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  21.  @rubbishmodeller  They all came with radios, too. Only the command tank in a T-34 tank formation had a radio. It is possible that the T-34 had the less mechanically experience Soviet soldier in mind in it's design. In US and British experience, the Sherman was quite mechanically reliable.
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