Comments by "Rob Fraser" (@krashd) on "D-Day to Germany: Cameraman Jack Lieb comments on original footage of 1944-45" video.

  1.  @eder6727  Marxism done correctly is man's future, you don't have to accept it but it is inevitable, we accept it or we kill each other. Capitalism and automation are mutually exclusive, once a machine can do 99.5% of jobs there will be no incentive to pay humans and the only way the elites will be able to handle eight or nine billion people who require food and shelter is either to give it to them, or kill them. I can personally see the US opting for the latter method, probably using some sort of anarchy system where the rich lock themselves in their gated, ivory towers and let the cities turn into free-for-all's of people killing each other over a can of food. While Europe will adopt evil, socialist solutions like giving people a home and then giving them food. "But, but.. who will pay for such things?!?" Why would anyone require paying? Machines don't require compensation for their work and the land and it's resources belong ultimately to the nation, regardless of what a little scrap of paper called a 'deed' says. It has always amazed me that the one country that has never had a monarchy is the only one with citizens who will fight to defend someone's right to own half of Nebraska, 900 cars, 30 houses, a 300 foot yacht, etc. Sorry, you probably aren't even American, it's just that it's usually Americans that come out with the "Socialism is teh devil!"-style of indoctrination.
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  2. I'd love to know what would have happened had the UK fell during the Battle of Britain as we were the only major power fighting Germany in 1940, the government and monarch would likely have moved to Canada to operate in exile but would then have to sue for peace if they didn't want the brunt of Germany's forces turning towards the Commonwealth. The lack of a European staging area should the US join the war in 1941 would mean that Germany could afford to send more troops east, plus the likely surrender of commonwealth forces in Africa would have freed up even more troops that Hitler could send east. Russia could have been forced onto the back foot much easier and before they could turn the tide at Stalingrad, possibly leading to a German victory at Moscow. I just wonder how the US involvement would change. The Japanese would still hit Pearl Harbor as they desperately needed Philippine oil fields and knew the US would declare war should they try to take them, Hitler would still declare war on the US as it is what he did, but with no Britain to act as a staging area and no Royal Navy in the Atlantic there would likely be some sort of stalemate on that ocean with neither Germany or the US having any strategy, or need, to cross it. The Japanese would still lose to the far more industrious US, but likely with greater US losses as the commonwealth presence in the Pacific would be diminished and the Manhattan project delayed (unless all of the European scientists that took part had escaped London for North America). The war would then likely devolve into a fractious cold war with the US and European exiles on one side and the German-Italian empire on the other side, with China and whatever was left of Russia signing a non-aggression pact with Hitler. It would be a race for the atomic bomb, one that would very likely still be won by the allies by 1950 but the question would be what to do with it? And what will happen once the Germans have one? Hmm, I should really get around to reading 'The Man in the High Castle' one of these days. 😆
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  3. Actually, "the city" is correct terminology, it just means urban area in this context, nothing at all to do with London. Especially seeing as allied troops were dispersed allover the UK.
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  4. Is it also weird to think that every night they were being bombed by other white people?
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