Comments by "Rob Fraser" (@krashd) on "Wendover Productions" channel.

  1. I remember when the US left RAF Edzell a few miles up the coast from me in 1996 they held a car boot sale (yard sale to you folks) to sell anything they couldn't take home to the US and every appliance on sale had a US plug on it. It seems that when the US goes abroad they decide "Right, let's burn all this local shit and create some America up in this bitch!" Think my dad bought (and subsequently rewired) a circular saw while I almost bought some NTSC games for the SNES.
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  2. The US is the home of capitalism and the NFL is based in America, it's not rocket science to imagine that the sport will be marketed all to hell with profit being the main motivator in all matters (I mean they call each team a franchise, ffs), sadly this disease of money over matter is spreading to Europe now as Stadiums start getting named "Frankie's Quality Goods Emporium" and moronic shit like that. Soon you won't be able to get into an EPL match unless you're wearing the new strip complete with giant foam glove and beer-drinking cap.
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  3. Because they believe their country is the greatest nation on Earth and that nation was founded by a generation of truly great British colonists like Adams, Washington, Franklin and Jefferson. And Hancock with his massive scribblature.
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  4. You've just made the dual assumption that both books and the internet will exist in 1,000, 10,000 or 100,000 years when we've only had the internet for a few decades and books written just a few hundred years ago are jibberish to anyone that no longer speaks the language they were written in.
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  5. We never colonised Hong Kong, it has always been 99% Han Chinese, we just administered it as a trading post. Asian nations never took kindly to westerners just going wherever we wanted (good on them I say) and so refused to trade with us unless we stayed on our ships, the Japanese made us do just that but the Chinese granted us an island to use. As for the opium wars, well, there's a lot of shit we're not proud of.
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  6. In all fairness to the French, Belgians, Dutch, etc their colonies tended to fail because we either stole them or blockaded them until they starved. New York City was originally called New Amsterdam after all, and the Falkland islands which Argentina seem to think are theirs were 'liberated' from the French.
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  7.  @Mr.Byrnes  It's exactly colonialism, rather than integrating with local culture the US sets up little American colonies so its soldiers don't have to experience any of the local culture. It explains why even some of those Americans who have travelled the world via the US military still know nothing about the world, which is something that has baffled non-Americans for eons.
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  8. Makes me wonder if US bases have a "letter of last resort"-type things whereby the occupants get instructions on what to do next if the US was flattened by nukes. Probably everyone is instructed to wait for the Nathan James to take them home :D
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  9.  @dutchpatriot17  No, it's the oldest mantra in recorded history - united we stand, divided we fall. The EU breaking up would make lots of people happy but the majority of them won't be Eurosceptics in europe, no the real parties will be held in the US and China and in emerging economies like Russia, India and Brazil because it's a lot easier to use and abuse a bunch of small economies than it is to get what you want from one giant economy.
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  10. Every developed country in Europe has a strategy to do that, it's called 'total war' production, and it is also enshrined in law thanks to two great wars and the cold war.
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  11. You can't alter someone's belief when they've been brought up since birth to see socialism and communism as the enemy, if there is something wrong with a country an American will refer to it as socialist or communist without fail. You can't fault them for a century of indoctrination.
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  12.  @olympia5758  It's not ugly, it's JC Denton from Deus Ex, one of the coolest videogame characters of all time. I do agree though that it's really fucking unoriginal that every 12 year old and his brother is using it as an avatar but humans are turning into sheep, everyone wants to be identical to everyone else.
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  13. Is that playing on US servers or Asian? Sounds like the latency most of us had around the late 90's when dial-up modems were still the norm :/
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  14.  @robinroos2254  Don't speak for everybody, only the stupid and the gullible want out.
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  15. What use would supply ships or cargo planes be to a nation that doesn't go around invading other nations?
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  16. I imagine Japan would be in a video about Japan and not a video about China. I may be wrong, but I feel it in my gut that I'm right.
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  17.  @nettitus  Never going to happen, too many Europeans would rather be shitty, obscure little nobodies letting the US and China run the world.
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  18. Some places are trickier than others, we gave India industries and enough rail track to wrap around the globe but they still seem to shit in the street.
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  19. Food is better on a sub because there are no windows, even if you are in the middle of nowhere being on a destroyer or carrier you can go up on deck from time to time, on a sub you are isolated from the topside for almost three months and even the hardest submariner will get dips in morale that only curry night can fix.
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  20.  @TheReal_TonaldDrump  Even if you read it slowly it's still 8 years, Russia invaded Ukraine in 2014 when they moved on Crimea. I'm guessing you must be American?
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  21. If I was German I would not want a constant reminder of the 70 years Germany was under US occupation. The US has smaller bases in the UK and each time one closes we demolish it and return the land to British use.
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  22. John Travolta can afford to purchase his own private jumbo jet but a US football team can't?
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  23.  @alexrodriguez1534  What does any of that have to do with what I said? I was talking about the fact that small nations get pushed around by larger ones, unless you think countries like Peru and Zanzibar are on a par with the US and China. The EU holds it's own against the US and China, the UK on the other hand will just be dictated to by them.
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  24. Compared to the US Russia is a saint, if you don't cowtow to American demands you get sanctions, tarrifs, your assets get frozen, basically every one of the 198 nations on the planet has to follow the US in single-file or you become ostracised. And the three nations that don't fall in line? "The axis of evil" That is bullying, the US doesn't even follow UN treaties any more, it just ratifies anything that is good for America and only America.
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  25. The UK has a presence in Arizona, the reaper drones we bought can only be operated from there so the squadron of pilots has to be based there.
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  26. Wendover is mainly an aircraft-oriented channel.
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  27.  @a8495turtle  Why would China need a base in Russia?
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  28.  @erikziak1249  When Russian nuclear weapons start raining down on Europe you won't see many Europeans thanking Ukraine for the 'favour'.
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  29.  @thenewfireguy5658  No, I'm fairly sure he must be thinking of some other big thing that is happening on that day...
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  30.  @jeanbethencourt1506  Oh look, an anonymous account spouting nonsense. Don't see that on here much.
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  31. The country is unified because you either tow the government line or you get gunned down by tanks in the middle of the most famous square in your nation on live TV. so, yeah, er.. say what you will...
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  32. When we Brits handed HK back to China it came with a 50 year autonomy guarantee so it's up to the people of HK who is allowed to use the islands. Which annoys the hell out of Beijing and is one of the reasons they are so eager to circumvent HK's autonomy. Though I believe it's just a naval refuelling station, if it contained US military personnel or weaponry then the Chinese would scream blue murder at the United Nations until it was removed.
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  33. Napolean reaching Moscow, Hannibal reaching Rome, Ghengis Khan reaching Europe, Julius Caesar reaching Britain and Alexander reaching the Himalayas. There is a definite correlation between distance travelled and historical fame and that just shows that the best generals must have had a talent for logistics.
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  34. Charles De Gaulle kicked the Americans out in the 1960's when France left NATO after an argument with the US.
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  35. "Hello? I'm calling about your ad I saw, I want to offer you a good deal, a great deal on Greenland. It'll be a fantastic deal."
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  36. The bullet train is like 30 years old, keep up.
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  37.  @rentin5836  Our Empire ended in 1948...
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  38.  @dedeferreira98  Then you would be annexed and you would have no country, just like the thousands that no longer exist, Bohemia, Schleswig, Brittany, Corsica, Pomerania, Venice, etc etc etc I would rather be a partner in a union I helped create than become a vassal of someone else, which is what England will be in the second half of this century when all nations have formed continental unions. It's good to see you support independence for the likes of Scotland and Catalonia, etc though.
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  39.  @dedeferreira98  In a union you don't die, but when you are annexed by another nation you do die. Scotland has been in a union since before the USA existed, but we're not dead so that just destroys your argument. The EU is a union, the entity that will likely swallow up England in 2050 or 2060 won't be bringing it in to join a union, they will simply be taking it over. You can stick with your emotions, I'll stay with logic.
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  40. In the same way young folk leave Wisconsin and Nebraska to live in New York or California, but it's still the United States. so the EU = EU.
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  41. Hardly revealing, anyone who wanted to find it has already found it just like Wendover did.
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  42. My god, the amount of Brits in this thread humiliating themselves by making up reasons why we aren't European. We are on the European continent, fact. If you want to argue it then take it up with someone who does geography.
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  43.  @atarvos8686  The EU has done lots for you but you're just to blind or stupid to notice, another ungrateful parasite who is parroting what he has been told to say, you've never seen true hardship for even a day. You remind me of the moochers who have a roof over their head but complain about "real poverty".
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  44. Gamers already use fibre optic cables, how else do you think we communicate over distance?
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  45. Using the internet effectively.
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  46. @Vault Hunter No one in their right mind has ever thought a Chinese island 10,000 miles from Britain was a part of Britain. They were referring to the oppression Hong Kongers now receive at the hands of their 'elected' officials.
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  47. Wendover is an aircraft enthusiast and his earlier videos (well all of his videos until recently) have been aircraft-oriented.
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  48. Sort of...
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  49. You do vote for MEP's. If you haven't then that is because you aren't registered but this Scot has voted for MEP's multiple times.
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  50. In the USA no one votes for the president, the electoral college does.
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  51. As long as you still feel the same in decades time when that empire begins to collapse and vultures circle.
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  52. The Act of Union wasn't a referendum.
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  53. I think the video is aimed at Americans, if you don't put the word 'England' after London they think you must be talking about some place in New Jersey.
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  54. We were under Labour. Under the Tories? Not so much, the Tories couldn't organise a bingo night, though they would happily subcontract it to the lowest bidder and then blame someone else when it all goes tits up. I was pleasantly surprised when the Tories created an actual Brexit secretary instead of just contracting a legal firm to do all the messy EU stuff while they quaff champagne and bugger children.
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  55. Because an enemy of the US would never think of doing their own research. If a YouTuber can find something out then anyone can find the same thing out.
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  56.  @Lazy_Tim  Oh so because they are African or South American they can't be democracies? You are a perfect illustration of why half the world thinks Australia is the new America, aka full of idiots.
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  57. Whack-a-mole, you guys should have spanked that bearded tyrant with a giant mallet when he popped his head up from that hole.
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  58.  @莫斯科-c5n  There is, but it's an unmanned refuelling station of the navy.
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  59. They have tried that a few times and it always failed, we had the Scottish Claymores playing out of Edinburgh here in Scotland but it barely lasted two years. The NFL just doesn't give in when there is the smell of cash in the air.
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  60. digs a hole and finds a dirt-covered man with a bright orange face
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  61. And why continentalists love it, if we stopped bickering for five minutes imagine what we could achieve? When everyone else wants you to fail it's usually because they benefit from keeping you in your place.
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  62.    Nope, we go back a lot further than the 1940's.
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  63. When you open your statement with macho nonsense you guarantee the rest of your nonsense goes automatically ignored... Rome's enemies were centuries behind them technologically and if you think Russia and China are centuries behind the US where they live in huts and fight with spears then you're a moron, or probably a child.
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  64. Yes, so they don't really make the host country secure, they make the host country a target. Putin has mentioned on many occasions that he has missiles targeted at every major US base in Europe.
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  65.  @kineticdeath  Comac surpassed Tupolev a long time ago. Though they make mainly narrow body jets at this stage it is predicted that Comac will be up there with Boeing and Airbus by 2030 at the rate they are churning out quality aircraft.
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  66. You need to heat the water enough to generate steam for the turbines, once the rods have cooled to the point that they just warm water rather than boiling it then you can't spin turbines from it any longer.
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  67. The founding fathers were amazing because they were all British :)
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  68. That would be if the EU was voting to allow someone in or to expel someone, but the referendum was not an EU vote, it was a British vote.
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  69. I'm curious as to how the US managed to acquire such an area from the Italians as you would think such a site would be culturally protected.
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  70. Which is probably why it wasn't included with England...
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  71. Until the inevitable war with China when Guam will be turned to ash within the first few hours of the war.
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  72. Prior to the collapse of the USSR much of central and south America were pro-USSR and sponsored by Russia so anytime a nation dropped socialism and got a pro-USA leader the CIA would quickly set up a base in order to spy on neighbouring countries. In the 50's and 60's South America was like a giant 2-player board game, you had Che Guevara going round turning nations red and the CIA going around turning them blue :D
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  73. No one really needs one, the rest of us don't try to police the world. The UK and France have much smaller systems in place for our overseas territories but nowhere nearly as large as the American system and only situated close to those territories.
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  74. Only one of us should pay the bill because only one of us occupies every other member's countries.
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  75. Russia is not at war with Ukraine, thankfully, and for Europe's sake I hope it stays that way.
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  76.  @dutchpatriot17  Reality isn't a delusion, you should never confuse the two unless you are schizophrenic.
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  77. Of course not, no passport no entry.
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  78. Does Russia go around the world invading places? To my knowledge they've only ever attacked their neighbours. What use would such a system be for Russia or any other nation except the imperial US?
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  79. Did you start that tally with a win? The US got chased out of Korea by the Chinese when they stepped over the 49th parallel despite China telling them not to.
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  80. They left out all the stuff about detectives Carter and Lee gatecrashing the handover while searching for the Chinese ambassador's missing daughter.
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  81. Why? All of these countries already have their own bases, why should they also have to pay for the American ones?
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  82. Have you been on edibles?
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  83. The US army is the oldest army in the US? Your drill sergeant sounds like a clever man.
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  84. A nuclear power plant can still have cooling towers though if it doesn't have access to fresh water, and 90% of NPP's are built adjacent to seawater.
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  85. They've tried it dozens of times, we've had countless Gridiron leagues in the UK and they have all failed, the NFL is just persistent and extremely greedy.
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  86. Which makes you wonder why the US elected a giant infant who spent his single term calling all of America's allies unworthy pricks who don't do what he tells them to.
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  87. One other country does that. There's 198 nations and only one of them spends atrociously on their military instead of shit like healthcare and education.
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  88. Really? Have governments taken to building them in secret then? Because demand for them sort of fell through the floor in 1986...
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  89.  @dedeferreira98  Why do you keep referring to the EU as a "they" as if we Brits didn't have a say and weren't a part of every decision? "giving your countrie's autonomy to a foreign state" The EU is not a foreign state if we are a part of it! I wish an IQ test was mandatory before people could vote on the things that could fuck up our nation, but what's done is done and England can enjoy their ruin, we Scots will be back in the EU or the EFTA within a decade.
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  90. ​ @dedeferreira98  In Florida you have to be 18 years old to have sex. In Illinois you have to be 17. In Washington state you only have to be 16. Don't you think that's weird? The US is a single country and yet it has 50 states that all have their own laws, their own customs, their own way of doing things, and their own political leanings, and - if you've ever visited any of them- their own particular cultures and nuances. The only thing that every American will ever agree on is "We're American". They rarely agree on anything else. The US is a single nation by sovereignty but it is and always has been a union of 50 separate entities. For 244 years now they haven't changed it, they have no wish to change it, they have no need to change it, and yet they are 50 different peoples that take the world head-on due to their combined economic, industrial, technological and military strength. And since 1948 they have kicked ass at doing just that - using their combined might to get rid of obstacles in front of them. United you stand, divided you fall. strength in numbers. OK! All of that was off topic, now I'll answer your question. 1. The EU can't make a law that only affects Portugal. Just as the US can't make a law that only affects California. The EU can only make laws that affect every state in the EU and even then they have to be ratified and accepted by three quarters of all member states. Because of this it rarely happens and so far almost every single time it has happened it has been something that has bettered the lives of all of us like agriculture standards, import standards or animal welfare. Individual states still make more than 97% of their own legislation, the 2 or 3% that comes from the EU are mostly to do with free trade and happen to streamline said trade. When we "signed on" to Brussels we lost about 3% of our sovereignty, we still maintain the rest. If we did not then every single thing we have done as the UK since 1973 must not have happened. We Brits fought Argentina without needing permission, we blockaded the Suez canal without needing permission, we opened a new base in Antarctica without needing permission, we launched a dozen satellites without needing permission. Being in the EU does not mean answering to Brussels. It never has. This whole sovereignty excuse is actually an insult to us Scots as we handed about 40% of our sovereignty to London in 1707 but England can't deal with the fact the UK gave around 3% of our combined sovereignty to Brussels in 1973? That's a fucking insult to us Scots. Sovereignty means everything to England but it shouldn't mean anything to Scotland? You can be pro-Union or anti-Union you can't be both, hence why so many of us Scots are fucking disillusioned by Westminster's hypocrisy over the past 4 years. Anyway, long story short - in 40 or 50 years the world will look nothing like it does today and a handful of supernations will have formed out of a need for protectionism against China, there will be an Asian Union, African Union, a South American Union, a North American Union and a European Union. The UK can be a part of one of them or we can be picked apart by all of them. It's completely down to us.
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  91.  @dedeferreira98  Before you fully make your mind up about Portugal exiting the EU I would suggest you watch Britain over the next five years. We have not left the EU yet. We don't leave the EU until the 31st of December. Keep an eye on us and see what happens to Britain next year as we try to survive on our own...
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  92. You have no border control because Norway is an EU member in all but name, they are signatories to both the free movement of goods and free movement of peoples. The UK want the former but not the latter (talk about having your cake and eating it) so will likely have to create border controls between Ireland and Northern Ireland.
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  93. RBMK reactors are still used throughout the former soviet republics, they are dangerous but not imminently.
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  94. The US has a welfare system? Who knew.
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  95. Each hydropower plant takes an area the size of a small country and makes it permanently unusable from that point on, the area that is now under water thanks to the three gorges dams is probably a larger area than Chernobyl and Fukushima's exclusion zones combined, several million Chins had to be relocated.
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  96. Press 'G' to garrison this unit
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  97. He said nothing of aliens, he said "future civilizations" did you also think the romans were aliens when he said "previous civilizations"? He meant that we could enter another dark age and come out the other side unaware of much of our history. I mean he completely alluded to this in the video and yet still you numpties think he meant aliens, lay off the comic books and do some schooling...
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  98. Yeah, it's not even remotely close to that. Germany doesn't have that many fans of the sport and it's at least somewhat popular there.
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  99. Tell that to the Uyghars, Tibetans, Macauns, Hong Kongers, etc
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