Comments by "James the Other One" (@jamestheotherone742) on "General George S. Patton, The Biscari Massacre and The Slapping Incidents" video.

By '43 the US was scrapping the bottom of the barrel for officers. Not so much from losses, but from expansion. Pretty much anyone who could sign his own name and didn't drool to often would make promotion if he were lucky enough to have good NCOs to carry him along and keep him out of trouble.
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@freedomordeath89 "Are you seriously JUSTIFYING and supporting terror tactics and warcrimes?" That is not what he is saying at all. And you are incorrect. The brutal Nazi occupations were terrifyingly effective at controlling local civilian populations who's fighting age males often outnumbered the German garrisons tens of thousands to one. For each of your examples of Medieval sieges that didn't go so well, you can find a bunch where it did work. You don't have to worry about public opinion when you've put the whole population to the sword and sacked and burned the place. The (your) morality doesn't matter because we are talking about real events who's morality was entirely the context of the time. Someone with a "phd in history" ought to know this.
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@freedomordeath89 He was providing the context of the time period not making judgement of them. You know the objectivity they are supposed to teach first year history students. The Germans lost WWII for a lot of reasons, being barbaric was only one of them. For a source of garrison ratios, go look up the populations of the occupied countries. Hint: They are in the tens of millions. A couple hundred thousand doesn't go that far. No, the Nazis really did rationalize the rapin' and plliagin' to themselves. LIkewise, the Vikings, the Crusaders, and every other Caesar, king and petty warlord throughout human history really did rationalize it as being morally reasonable, or they didn't because it was just an accepted part of their culture that they are entitled to kill and take from the "them". Ie: "just business". I guess you didn't get very much from that correspondence course art history degree eh? Here is a tip to save yourself further embarrassment, sit on your hands more when you are in the comments section of serious historical studies channels.
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@freedomordeath89 the Dunning–Kruger effect is strong with you. Not only do you not understand history, you don't even understand my post. Take your pills.
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@freedomordeath89 Did I say that? No, I really didn't. Keep digging.
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@freedomordeath89 No, just smarter and more educated than you. Thanks for point out that you are also a bigot in addition to an idiot.
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@joshjwillway1545 Because they managed to surrender to the side that didn't send them to a gulag to die.
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Wrong channel.
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A squeeky high-pitch voice would have been a more accurate voice for Patton. @34:08 With the privileges of wearing the stars comes the responsibility to not screw up. That's why they make the big bucks.
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Patton was.... eccentric. But he was a good commander, otherwise his career wouldn't have survived the Louisiana Maneuvers, much less "The Slappening". The North Africa and Sicily campaigns built far more experienced field-grades than it broke.
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@stef1896 I didn't say Patton advanced. If there wasn't an Overlord.... there wouldn't have been a need for a great number of people.
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Around 1965.
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Marry Christmas Trump was hardly "a Hitler", not even a Mussolini or a Stalin. He is on his way out of office so you can let your brain breath a little.
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Several of the Allies didn't have much choice in the matter. But thanks for playing.
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Or Native Americans from either continent.
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@ChevyChase301 and EVERY is also a blatantly false statement. A perspective that you don't agree with isn't a lie. Because the Confederacy failed and was incorporated back into the US, its perspective influences what we perceive as the historical narrative.
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@Bama_Law My comment supports your argument, although in a way you don't want to think about. By today's standards everyone WAS racist, in that they just assumed things, like their people were better and others weren't. It wasn't the self-conscious racism of today, it was just taken as a truism. That is why you don't see any literature on it. Its also why that racism and its institutions are taken out of context today. This wasn't restricted to black vs white either, Irish, Italians, also got their turn in the barrel . The only difference is that within a generation they became indistinguisable from "Good English" folk.
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