Youtube hearted comments of The Zero Line (@The_ZeroLine).

  1. Unlike most of your covered incidents, this seemed much less a Swiss cheese model and much more a tragic plethora of challenges and confusion happening all at once. So sad, since the crew had been so professional and cautious.
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  2. YOU’RE ALEX HOLLINGS!
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  3. They attack us. We ATACMS.
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  4. I love how 🇺🇦 has Russian heads on a swivel. They don’t know which disaster to look at next.
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  5. Just hit over $2,000 in donations to Ukraine today. Slava!
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  6. Us Americans need to start sending form letters again to our reps and the White House to take off restrictions. Also, who cares about the whiners in the comments, Georgi?
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  7. BTW, your interview on John Fink’s Silicon Curtain should be required viewing for political leaders / advisors + military decision makers.
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  8. These sort of terrorist attacks only ensure the allies just accelerate shipment of more powerful weapons.
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  9. Plenty of us are out there pointing out the Western media’s cluelessness and getting a lot of response. So, we’re saving you the need to stress out about it. Just focus on the info. 😂 Slava Georgi!
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  10. And to think Russia just wasted thousands of men and hundreds armored vehicles on a clownish offensive, draining of them needed reserves.
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  11. Russia is suffering so many high profile losses right now, they don’t even know which to lie about first.
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  12. And now they’re exporting most of their oil via smoke rather than pipeline. 😂
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  13. Ukraine itself is just the best.
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  14. I had a duel with Drach at 15 paces. It’s why next time you see him on camera, he’ll be wearing a pirate style eyepatch. I wish more SquareSpace ads actually showed actual functionality demos like this.
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  15. BTW, I’d be surprised if Russia isn’t using ships masquerading as normal civilian ships to transport the majority of the arms they transport by sea.
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  16. It also reduces the amount of S300 missiles Russia can use for ground strikes.
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  17. And HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS lost on the gamble since 2022. Russia: promoting global instability since the 16th century and Europe’s only remaining feudal empire.
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  18. Dude, you’re always trying to expose pictures of people’s Kochs.
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  19. We had a winter in Chicago recently where it got to negative 40 windchill regularly. It was hellish. I can’t imagine what it would be like to have temps that be normal during the winter.
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  20. They paid in blood. Lots of it.
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  21. YT deleted my comment (despite it having the most likes) about how Estonia has given 3x more more in military aid than France despite an economy literally 67x smaller was deleted.
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  22. Russia is just days away from learning what the words “crushing defeat” mean on a truly epic scale.
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  23. If armor gets across in numbers, attacks can take place all winter as the steppe’s ground is mostly sand and gets firmer w/moisture. Schuster will be weeping when Crimea is retaken.
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  24. Heavy losses is Russia’s middle name. BTW, I’m Jewish, but the situation in Ukraine is way more important.
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  25. Terrain masking using waves. What a fantastic idea.
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  26. A stalemate is a reductionist term used by clueless journalists. A stalemate isn’t a big deal if you’re developing your capabilities faster than your enemy and devising better strategies to use them.
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  27. Got Perun, Jake Broe + Suchomimus all talking about you after mentioning you’re the best w/daily tactical updates. Hopefully that’s keep you growing at breakneck speed. BTW, Day 300. What happened to Kiev in 3 days, Putrid?
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  28. Kevin, the man the legend, Hicks. Love this guy. That’s some beautiful country.
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  29. Hi, YouTube! I’m not a bot, but you’re crooks and I’ll cancel my Premium subscription if you keep screwing over Reporting from Ukraine.
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  30. It even destroyed a second ship right next to it and likely took out a ton of sailors and longshoreman. It also shows Russia isn’t operating fixed wing air defense at all or the 🇺🇦 jets wouldn’t have got so close.
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  31. Nice, but it’s game over for 🇷🇺 if 🇺🇦 can setup a pontoon bridge to get mechanized armor over the Dnipro. There’s no way to defend the steppe in southern Kherson besides right alongside the river since there no natural formations or cities on the interior. Best of all, it’s all desert and sandstone because the ground only gets FIRMER when wet.
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  32. We just had our first son and we named him RussoCrusher!
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  33. The best history podcast in existence let alone YT has a new episode out! Their Assyrian episode is maybe the history feature of any type I’ve ever seen. And I was a history major and TA at UCLA and now work in geopoli intel forecasting, which requires knowing the history of many different nations. So, my interest is more than casual.
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  34. My mom was probably one of Chicago’s first female CEOs of an international company. After a smaller skyscraper on Ontario, she worked in the Standard Oil Building (later Aon Center) on the 65th floor. It’s the huge white skyscraper on the right you see when they pan over the loop from the lakeside (edit: look@6:30). I used to love to visit her in the office because there was always so much stuff I could take (client products). I would later work on the 66th floor and I hated the feeling you would get if you looked straight down for too long. The building also swayed a lot in violent winds, but I got so many beautiful pictures from up there.
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  35. BTW, I always wonder why militaries don’t use more trickery like this. After long periods of battle, commanders and soldiers only see what they expect to see.
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  36. The channel Military Aviation History has a really good video about the state of Russia’s current safety reality done about three weeks ago.
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  37. Sailing for five days in a hurricane?! Insanity. Jesus. I can’t believe the delicious justice/revenge he got on McGee. Guy’s early life was like a movie.
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  38. It’s smart for the AFU to focus on Luhansk while Russia masses all its troops in Kherson and Bakhmut. Attack them where they’re weak.
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  39. Best narrator/writer ever. I still love how GTBT’s audience spoke as one and said, “You want this channel to continue? Then the voice must be you!”
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  40. IMO, Ukraine’s main counter offensive will be a thrust across the Dnipro and not against Melitopol. So, this doesn’t surprise me in the least.
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  41. TAWS alone (the audible “pull up” warning reduced CFIT [controlled flight into terrain] accidents by something like 70%+ overnight. It was mandated in the early ‘70s. And since then SO, SO many systems, including TCAS, RIMCAS, CRM training, startle training, etc. has reduced the chances of dying to more than one-in-a-billion. Now, it takes so many things passing through the “Swiss cheese accident model” for an accident to occur (that is, basically, it requires many mistakes, unlikely events and/or technical malfunctions to all combine to produce an accident).
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  42. So much was happening so quickly, it’s actually been nice to have a tiny break (and I’m just on the couch! lol). The calm before the storm ⛈ that wipes Ukraine clean of orc filth.
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  43. Horses are wildly intelligent. So, yes, the horse 🐎 grave memorial is extremely sad too. That bronze sculpture is quite beautiful.
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  44. I live in Montecito and drive by this place often when I visit Santa Ynez. There’s too much money and interest around to let the property of the world’s most famous man just rot into ruin. Also, the climate here naturally prevents anything from deteriorating quickly. It is why there are soooo many vintage cars driving around in Southern California n
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  45. It’s easy to make a true difference. I’ve donated/raised enough for several drones. And, as we’ve seen, systems worth many millions of dollars are taken out by drones everyday.
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  46. Until it’s confirmed by multiple soldiers/people on the ground, I’d hold back on being sure about this. War is a dynamic place. Even if there are Russian completely around them, it doesn’t mean they’re trapped if some of the perimeter is lightly manned. You can use precision artillery support to keep enemies to only one side while performing exfil.
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  47. Been waiting patiently for this headline.
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  48. Forget about manpower, Russia is losing armor so fast they might reach critical shortages by this spring instead of winter 2025/2026 as projected in late summer. I’m not optimistic on our election however.
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  49. Another amazing analysis. It’s “dead set,” BTW. Not “dead-centered.” Although we all get what you meant.
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  50. What’s crazy is how expensive standard shells have gotten due to the war. Pre-war, you could get 155mm shells for well under $1,000 ea ($1-$1.5k in the West). Now, they’re going for $3,000 - $5,500 each. Excalibur is $100,000 and might be worth it when trying to strike enemy systems since it’s nearly a guaranteed hit with no warning. You could easily expend 20 shells to hit a non-stationary target.
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  51. So happy the retreat for the heroes worked out with help from our community. Makes me feel something besides rage inside temporarily.
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  52. Reporting from Ukraine is growing faster than the counter offensive. Great news all on fronts! Been here since it was about 2.6k subscribers.
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  53. Love the closing song. Some local Indian flavor while making me think of fatherly revenge on the horizon. They should have known this was like kicking a hornet’s nest into their own home.
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  54. I was surprised with some of the info people revealed about the Dnipro front. Disappointing.
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  55. Binary is right. Since day 1, I’ve said this is the rarest and simplest type of war there is: Good vs Evil. It seems we’re putting more effort into finding reasons to justify why Putin has done this than why and how we’re going to stop him.
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  56.  @FallofCivilizations  You’re the one putting in the intensive work. Thank you. Your episode on the Assyrian empire really gave me applicable history on just how deep rooted the regional as well as Sunni and Shia rivalries are. It goes back thousands of years before Christ let alone Islam. Mind blowing!
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  57. I wonder while all the troops are masses in Kherson, if there is some way to land troops across the Dnipro and seize the ZNPP. It sounds like suicide and Russia would probably just intentionally blow it up at that point.
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  58. I’m surprised they’ve been forming wholly new units instead of blending newly mobilized men into the experienced, effective brigades. This isn’t the time to be creating brand new units. That’s a peace time effort.
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  59. Good news: Sweden said they’re sending the Archers finally!
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  60. Happy birthday my similarly furious (over pathetic Western aid) friend. It’s sickening to see Ukraine basically totally out of MANPADS, ATGMs (in some sectors), SAM missiles, artillery, etc.
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  61. Concerningly, it seems like Russia is actually learning from its mistakes and are really rolling over Ukraine in their push to capture Sievierodonetsk. Obviously, overwhelming numbers seems to be a big part and they’ve got a lot of high ground now. So, while it’s good to see videos of Ukrainian successes, it might be worth discussing the actual critical situations in the area.
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  62. You’ve been one of the few YT channels doing interesting interviews with actual combatants in which I’ve heard something new I didn’t already know for the first time in months. These shortages are why I continue to donate both directly to units and also to the state.
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  63. The Russians I meet pretend nothing is going on. They refuse to call it anything except “a situation.” They deny the atrocities, but they can’t meet your eye.
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  64. way not to watch the video, genius.
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  65. Digging is 90% of war. The fact the guy thinks that’s not preparing shows how little training or education these men have.
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  66. BTW, I appreciate how you never glorify war. You pay homage the bravery, camaraderie and sacrifice of those who served while providing vivid insight into the horror of pitched warfare was/is from medieval to modern times. ps - It’s never a bad time to share stories of likely the most respected army of WWI: 🇨🇦.
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  67. Ukraine is just blasting Russia everywhere with innovative new drones and their own long range missiles. It’s so fun to watch.
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  68. Starting a campaign to get supporters to mail their rep + senator to propose a stand alone bill for DPICM since it costs us millions annually to scrap + very effective against 🇷🇺. Since the GOP pretends they only care about saving $ for domestic use it’ll be hard for them to find an excuse for spending $ to NOT give aid. I’ve got a letter they can copy + paste. Hopefully, something’ll come of it, but I doubt it. ps: I’m aware they’ll promote brazen lies like “it’ll cost us a billion!” lol
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  69. We need Jackass to do a whacky stunt where they show what happens to someone’s head when you fire a triple 7 at point blank range (preferably with ol’ Vlady’s).
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  70. He blew up so quickly. I joined when was only at 2.6k viewers. When I first looked at the thumbnails I thought it might be one of those computer voice channels, but it quickly became my most valuable source.
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  71. Utterly fantastic video. I loved the story of the super human effort of the Miri’s temporary avengers. Poor people. Meanwhile, the Battle of Kochin is one of all the time great defenses. They were taking out 2,000+ invaders for each defender.
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  72. I think it’s fair to say that no one in Belarus believed there would ever be anything even resembling a real election again in 2020. So, unless there is an internal coup or a mass revolt, Belarusian leadership is frozen until his death. Then we’ll see if his son can hang onto power. Belarusians are much less meek and kowtowed than Russians. So, that will be a much harder task.
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  73. Been racing since the ‘90s and I, along w/fellow racers in the SoCal area, used to run driving courses for the CHP. They had their own training track off the I-5. It was hilarious to train cops in these huge Detroit boats loaded with thousands of pounds of gear. They felt more like powerboats than care. They were always most excited about learning the J-Turns, which was fairly easy in those cars. But teaching them how to maintain pace in cars of that size, which were generally underpowered for their weight, was a lot harder and many vehicles got smashed in the process, a number completely totaled. US Cops, are generally overly macho and a bit arrogant. “I’m already fast. No little racing driver has anything to teach me” was a common, but unspoken attitude. So, in order to get them to actually listen and respect the process, you had to show them how much faster you were than them. We usually did this by either scaring the sh*t out of them in a ride along or if that didn’t work, we’d put them alone in a car behind us and tell them to keep up. Often we could end up lapping them within 5 laps (the circuit was fairly short). Humbled, the learning could begin. Not always smoothly, dozens of cars were totaled.
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  74. I find Macron pretending he’s interested in sending troops to deflect from the fact that 🇫🇷 has provided less aid than Estonia & has been blocking the non-EU shell buy the most infuriating thing.
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  75. I still have most of that stuff in my attic. It’s funny to how long the stylus has been around and how little outside of artists, designers and other specialties, it has ever gained adoption.
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  76. “Is your sense we’re going to cram this down the customer’s throat?” Yes, maybe not you personally, but the companies are definitely going to AND DID. I WOULD PAY A FEE TO TALK TO A HUMAN for issues that cannot be resolved by an automated operator. In 1992, this technology was in its infancy and so far from where it is now, I bet many could not imagine we would get to the place where are now.
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  77. Amazing. I was so in the mood in for a new aviation video of any type and this literally popped up. For it to be a Petter video was even better.
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  78. You cover the unfolding big picture (strategically on the battle field) and the day’s battlefield news each day with elegant conciseness. Even channels that did this somewhat well at some point, slid into the easy show clip and talk about what the video already showed us format.
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  79. I believe Albuquerque knew Almeida was going to duck out in the night and felt letting him go was better than engaging in a civil dispute that would simply weaken Portugal rather than its enemies.
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  80. I like Ukraine taking action into their own hands because none of these people will or would have been prosecuted in any international court.
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  81.  @RFU  Yeah, I immediately edited to say forces or settlements. Either way, thanks for clarifying and I find that mapping very helpful. Presumably, all or most of these settlements contain forces. Another great episode. Thanks!
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  82. It’s 100% fair to judge past CEOs on how the company is doing a decade or more later. It takes a long time for the changes to culture, lack of R&D, selling off assets for glossy short term P&L statements, etc. for their impact to show.
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  83. Vindman: a very rare example of someone in DC who actually sacrificed their position to stand up to and speak out against corrupt and traitorous actions/behavior by DJT at height of his power.
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  84. 3:55 - Hey, I dated a Chola once! They’re still around!
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  85. IMO, easily the hardest large scale (relatively large anyway) operation to judge. As noted, way too many highly trained men were lost, but it seemed to be the crucible in which the AFU’s drone units gained their wings and we have to assume such a huge concentration of some of Russia’s best forces slowed down progress in other areas and likely saved many lives. We’ll really likely never know for sure the balance on the whole, but if we get some tell all books in coming years from both Ukrainian and Russian commanders who knows the exact number of men and equipment lost or even just hung up there and how they believe it impacted other fronts, we may get a better idea.
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  86. This shows how far Europe has moved toward sanity and Ukraine over the past 2.5 years. Though Kallas + the Baltics were always hawks on Russia. Keeping my🤞will be confirmed. It’ll make a huge difference.
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  87. They don’t call him Kevin “the headman” Hicks just cause of his strong axe 🪓 hand. And like most proper Brits, Kevin looks like he could deliver a punishing headbutt. NEVER put your face close to an angry, drunk Englishman. You’re liable to get your nose split. 😅
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  88. Russia already controls world fertilizer supplies and now grain supply. Give them E. Ukraine and they can release tidal waves of war and refugees if their demands are not met. Worse, if it does spur the CCP in Taiwan, all will be lost. It’s not charity to help Ukraine, it’s an investment.
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  89. Imagine how confused ISIS is by the name of this IFV.
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  90. Stop multiplying institutions and just do what you say you’re going to do. Amen. Brussels can’t paperwork their way out of this. Hell, the EU is still wringing their hands over whether they can confiscate interest earned from frozen 🇷🇺 accounts!
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  91. Scaling can be done incredibly quickly in reality, but the manufacturers MUST be given long term purchase contracts or some other nearly iron clad guarantees that demand will remain high for many years.
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  92. Yes! Another good history channel to binge.
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  93. The loss of pilots is even a bigger problem than aircraft. It takes a lot longer to train a pilot let alone an AWACS crew than to make a new jet.
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  94. This channel deserves more subscribers and will no doubt eventually get there. Let me know if you’re looking for historians with more stories and scripts. BTW, Meji is pronounced may-jee.
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  95. You’d think it’d be obvious England is too close to not be impacted by the famine. BTW, I know there was no famine in England at the time, but that it’d be overpacked with too many unwanted immigrants.
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  96. “I was 18 and I was in charge. I was in charge of who would live and who would die. I could call in the United States Air Force for bombs. I could reign steel from the heavens. That’s an awful lot of responsibility for an 18 year old.” “They couldn’t agree about the shape of the table. Sit on the damn floor and talk about peace then.” Love this guy.
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  97. If all envoys of Rome and other empires were as gracious and polite as you wrote its leaders, I’m sure there would have been much less conflict.
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  98. YouTube censorship has gone insane. The fact videos and images need to be stylized or blurred to show destroyed or burning infrastructure. What is their underlying mission? Seems solely to make YT more advertiser friendly.
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  99. Dustin’s brother David, is the new powerhouse in the Hoffman family.
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  100. Until reading the description, I didn’t even realize this one of the many orgs I’ve donated to. There’s almost no such thing as an ordinary Ukrainian who is involved in the fight, except in the sense there are so many Ukrainians willing to fight and/or dedicate their lives to helping the fight, helping displaced Ukrainians, caring for animals who’ve lost their families, etc.
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  101. Your report is basically the only one I wait for with baited breath. Everyone always seems at least 24 hours before you. It always goes way too fast.
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  102. I love how fast this channel has been growing. I joined when it was 2.5k subscribers and it stayed really low for such a long time.
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  103. What a shame the YT algorithm isn’t giving you more play. You’ve got the highest quality interviews by far.
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  104. Western media has done a spectacularly bad job of both reporting on and framing this war as well, frankly, even grasping the basics of it.
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  105. For Saint Crispin and John Cornewaille! The 🇫🇷 attacks down in the Welsh miners’ tunnels are the most terrifying part of the battle. Battling in suffocating heat and dark and often being buried alive.
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  106. It really doesn’t get any more famous than Kelly Johnson and skunkworks.
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  107. Trump shifts his comments hourly. We can’t predict how things’ll play out yet except for him doing whatever he thinks’ll make him + his circle richer. It’s why Zelensky says sure take our resources.
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  108. Moscow Mike Johnson is Putin’s greatest ally. It’s enraging and nauseating as an American to see one little weirdo being able to entirely block a vote he knows he’ll lose.
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  109.  @SiliconCurtain  You’re pretty excellent yourself for the most part in that department too.
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  110. Another fantastic video. Hope you continue providing us updates on the smaller conflicts. Your Myanmar reports have been great as well as greatly appreciated.
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  111. The Eastern Border podcast is an excellent resource for understanding the Russian mindset both the elite and average man.
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  112. People are finally learning and recognizing how smart various animals are. Stingrays are apparently possibly the most intelligent, but crows are the first to be proven learn inter-generationally. For example, they are told a certain person they’ve never seen before can be trusted OR not trusted. And the researchers have verified this.
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  113.  @thehistorysquad It’s about 40 mins from Santa Fe. World class skiing there too if you partake. Cheers.
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  114. A highly relevant yet largely ignored subject (MSM usually only touches on the subject with clickbait headlines and a few paragraphs of massively rehashed speculation). Another fantastic interview choice.
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  115. Clearly, the bomb shelter inspections have nothing to do with ensuring safety standards, but are rather just another not so subtle nuclear threat. But one they won’t get dressed down by China for.
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  116. Few Westerners claiming “Russia was provoked” genuinely believe it. Most are disingenuous conservatives who turned on 🇺🇦 either when Vindman blew the whistle or when the war became heavily politicized and portrayed as a liberal cause. When the dog whistle was blown, the populist conservatives base stopped caring if Russia had any credible justification.
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  117. “Not as bad as Stalin” is the most absurd argument I have ever heard. It’s like finding out your roommate is a serial killer and a friend saying “he’s not as bad as a serial killing cannibal.”
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  118. Guy is bang on. I think there’s been some good reasoning for incremental advancing of supplies, but it’s been way too cautious and slow. Moreover, they should have had stuff ready that was being considered for months.
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  119. $20 in 1903 is the equivalent of $715 today if anyone was curious about his reward.
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  120. After The Sears, my mom’s company moved to the Standard Oil building (soaring white one to the right @ 1:30) w/ floors 62-66th, 70 and some lower floors too (for conflict resolution accounts). I found the view from her office (it was either 66 or 62) to be dizzying and the building + its elevators would sway under high winds and the elevator would bounce off the sides of the shaft.
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  121. Their attitude is that anyone who taken the $ has sold their life and will not be allowed to return home ever let alone maimed and a financial burden.
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  122. Weave a toupee from a leaf. lol
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  123. The birth of Agincourt. People need to read Bernard Cromwell’s Agincourt, which is an incredibly historically accurate fictional account of the campaign beginning from the launch to Harfleur and then Agincourt (actually begins even earlier with bowman Nick Hook participating in the Burgundian war in France.
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  124. Meanwhile, Russia is shooting down their own jets again: https://youtu.be/AWKXcXRhiyg What Air Defense Doing?! Shooting down their own planes again.
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  125. I bet Americans loved how you are Russian and met the visual stereotype of Russians for Americans during that time. Like a big bear. I never heard of treating cold with cold.
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  126. Jealous of all the adventures your filmmaking took you on.
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  127. There is nothing to fear about other corrupt leaders and countries withdrawing money from Western banks. There is nowhere else to take their $. They’ve also seen how badly you need to behave before the West even considers seizing your assets.
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  128. I think you got the name wrong BTW. His name was George Hodge. Not Charles. Amazing video nonetheless. I was spellbound throughout.
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  129. The man has fallen in love with his own mind. Thank god the Russians have secured their borders against the Mongols. It’s a joke to believe their “historical memory” is driving any of these actions. I know he qualifies all that by saying Russia is secure and a paranoid fear of hybrid warfare not targeted at him. But his framing, especially the order of discussion, risks giving justification to Russian narratives.
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  130. Wow, your channel subscriber quickly and quietly got absolutely enormous! I am comforted by that fact. I was afraid people were solely interested in clickbait content.
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  131. Context on Time’s new hit piece: beyond its author gloating about being able to use rubles in Crimea after its capture, his previous article titles include “Ukrainians Want Russia to Invade,” “No, Russia Will Not Interfere in Ukraine,” & “Nazis Have Hijacked Ukraine’s Liberal Uprising,” Anyone noticing a theme? It’s amazing Time let a man openly hostile to Ukraine author this story. Finally, his anonymous “sources” included Arestovych whose ambition is to become president. A guy now living in Europe after becoming unpopular when he argued Ukraine should not do away with a Russian centric culture and blamed an AD mssile for civilian deaths after it hit a Russian missile that then fell to the ground in a residential area.
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  132. An offensively bad offensive. It’s like Putin’s throwing valuable resources in a wood chipper. He’s not going to get his politically useful win. He’s been smart to basically announce his candidacy yesterday w/out actually announcing.
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  133. Kevin is a one-man history all himself and real life badass. I hope the Met PD gets to cleaning up their horrible level of corruptions. Anyway, as usual, your stories are fantastic. From Berlin to Cyprus to Bobby on the beat, you’ve lived a fascinating, awesome life.
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  134. Is there any data on kill counts by Stugna-P, Javelin, N-LAW and other ATs? LOVED their Bayraktar song BTW.
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  135. I always cringe when American tourists appear in Kevin’s stories. I always know they’ll be doing something to make us look ridiculous. The Mall of America being located in Minneapolis is no coincidence. It’s so cold in winter, it’s literally deadly, especially for older folks. So, it’s basically a way for people to get out without getting out.
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  136. No yoking, Petter is by far the best civil aviation content creator.
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  137. A great ad for cremation. Anytime I hear about Victorian London, I have no idea how people stayed. No idea why I decided to eat while watching this. 😂
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  138.  @thehistorysquad  Not a big deal. I was kidding. I messaged you as Nick T.
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  139. I need that hoodie, Kev. In black preferably. BTW, 395k subs! You’ve got some of the fastest growth I’ve seen in a channel since the likes of Mr. Ballen. The difference is your content has actual value.
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  140.  @thehistorysquad  Oh, I'm still interested Brigadier Cox.
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  141.  @mariusstanciu8536  thank you.
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  142. While a distasteful business, it helped advance medicine, train doctors to care for the actual living, etc. I’d rather have my useless corpse utilized for some good. Even if it was just soap. You have to respect John Loftis’ hustle. He made use of all the leftovers. As long as they could be discreet and the family was none the wiser, no one was really hurt.
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  143. Try coming to Westfield in Century City (Los Angeles if you like a luxury mall).
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  144. Cannock Chase also has many of the best supernatural stories of anywhere in the world. All types, from your standard ghost stories to aliens to time slips to cryptids. Whether or not they’re BS, they’re very unique and colorful stories rather than being anodyne.
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  145. Did you mention how Charles thought he was made of glass or has that been proven apocryphal? Meanwhile, the Duke of Clarence had a 🧠 of glass. U don’t even go into political fight w/zero ISR let alone a battle.
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  146. You get the new events out way before 99% of other outlets.
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  147. Just donated to the channel. Everyone else should. It’s not really a donation. It’s paying for great content. And not paying enough really.
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  148. Your demo tools take this from great to amazing. I find it funny that many modern people think people in the middle ages went around caked in mud and feces or that medicine in antiquity was all superstition and no trial and error or using scientific observation of the world around them.
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  149. Hey! John Talbot…That’s my dad’s name. Maybe he survived that French attack where he supposedly died and was a lot older than I supposed! 🤔
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  150. I’d give so much just to be able to go back in time and attend just one party when this castle was in its fully glory and listen to the men talking politics, business and war, the women’s gossip and the staff arguing and making jokes about all the pompous aristocrats.
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  151. Wow, the first British soldier to ever see a T-72. Wild. Awesome.
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  152. Can’t imagine the expense of building, but even more expensive, maintaining that beast and paying all the servants. And this is less than half of the original house.
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  153. Edit: wow, it wasn’t until late in the video, I heard her say her dog is the same mix as my four dogs (chiweenie). Anyway, the more care my animals require, the closer I get with them. That’s why it’s so hard when they’ve been old for a long time to lose them. I had a dog named Moose who lived to 23. Her brother (actual brother) made it to 17). Men always dying first. lol Anyway, I cried for every cat, dog and rehab animal I’ve ever taken care when they passed or went back to the wild, but when Moose passed, I wept on and off like a little child for two weeks after losing her because we were so close. I could tell what she was going to do just by a change in atmosphere in the room. She looked like baby yoda. An odd little head with ears almost as big as her family. One of my current chiweenies is blind. Makes him even more adorable.
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  154. You’re a modern mix of Nick Hook and John Cornewaille. It was endlessly amusing that any Englishman or Frenchman thought a ruler based in one or the other could ever rule both.
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  155. Hotspur has to be one the coolest medieval nicknames ever. By the by, a crazy aunt did a family tree all the way back to the Battle of Hastings. The most notable ancestor found was the Earl/Earls of Shrewsbury. My father actually had the same name, by pure coincidence, as “Old Talbot,” the first EOS John.
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  156. Major head/brain injuries almost always result in major character changes, which are almost marked by massive increases in aggression and paranoia. Seems to explain a lot about of Henry VIII.
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  157. I’m so happy for once, the wife was prosecuted too. In most similar stories from the time, only the man is arrested. Edit: just got to the lenient sentences for the husband and son were even more infuriating.
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  158. Poor Suleiman. I hope he was later to rebuild his life and a new family.
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  159. I really pray that no one who got covered by the rubble was still alive after it stopped. That’d be the most horrific fate imaginable. The worst part is that I know some almost certainly were.
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  160. Interviews with sappers, snipers, tankers, etc. provide some of the most useful insights I’ve seen. So, please continue to interview AFU personnel. I learned a lot from multiple interviews with a foreign sapper who operated with AFU SoF for more than a year. You never what small detail will allow you to crack the why and the how of a particular issue.
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  161. This was a fantastic episode.
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  162. When I cross the River Styx, I expect to see Mr. Hix still aboard demonstrating medieval surgery on a dummy to entertain Mistress Styx herself.
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  163. There are modern horses that have been taught to spell as well. Horses are AMAZINGLY smart and perceptive. What a beautiful story. I both admire and envy all the things Bill Key got to see (except the war). lol, my grandfather’s name was Monk. Just like the dog. lol I agree it was very serendipitous you kept that pamphlet.
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  164. During antiquity and even as recently as the middle ages, doctors used by commoners were often better than high status doctors as the elite doctors tended to be handed their position hereditarily rather than merit and were often dismissive of new discoveries.
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  165. Ancient Constantinople would be near the top of most historians’ and historical enthusiasts’ itineraries if time machines existed.
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  166. Ah, a good distraction from our slide into autocracy. Wood won’t necessarily result in an infection. So, I’d rather risk leaving in the snapped off bit of a sailor.
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  167. A 125cc?! Those cheap b*stards. But wow you’ve saved a life. I’ve been around horses a lot. I’m happy none of the horses got hit. I bet the family would’ve been even more grateful had they know what a struggle you dealt with that.
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  168. I think 50 people in there on a regular basis is likely a significant, even massive, underestimation. You don’t that many kitchens let alone ones of that size for just 50 people. I’d estimate there were hundreds of people when the full entourage was there. If they were preparing for a siege, I’m sure it would have been around a thousand.
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  169. Wish I had gotten to experience the 1970s West Berlin nightlife and explored all the living history.
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  170. Another fantastic video. The words about the engine room officer not feeling like cheering at all when the enemy ship was sunk was touching.
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  171. Nick Hook (the protagonist of Cornwell’s “Azincourt” - I forget why he spelled it liked that instead of Agincourt). A hero for the everyman and a Nick myself. Thank you, Mrs. Hicks, for the camerawork.
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  172. Still going until 1983?! I remember how disappointed I was to find out what Al really was: pure evil. BTW, Kevin, you’re looking smart as a carrot! 🥕
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  173. Oh thank god you didn’t use actual Swedes, Kevin. This was one of my favorite episodes.
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  174. She is clearly very intelligent and more importantly has strong common sense. However, most of the things she “predicted” were already being done. To me, even then, all of this should have been predictable for anyone with intelligence and who had experience (or know about) a decent cross section of professions. And it was. There are thousands of people who predicted the same developments even much earlier when the internet was only for hardcore computing geeks/mostly tech professionals.
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  175. Mr. Hicks was/is an “‘ard man” (as he likes to say), which is why I love that he still gets into the full get up. It really enriches the video.
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  176. Comment 1,000. 🎉 This seems to be more of a for fun project using the excuse we can use it for air defense!
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  177. Like everyone else...just gotta say great dad. He didn’t anticipate computer learning though! lol
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  178. It’s amazing that thing weighs 2,400 lbs. It looks like it’d weight far less.
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  179. All the stories and nonsense gotten up to around Cuthbert’s bones in Cornwell’s stories never fail to make me smile. Oh, father Beocca, what will we do about our Uhtred?!
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  180. 11:00 - puts a whole new meaning on the term poll tax. Disgusting yet hilarious as a pun. No matter how many times I read or hear this story, I feel myself getting inspired. Especially when they decide not to loot.
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  181.  @thehistorysquad in case you missed since I edited it in after posting: I think you’d love the channel HOKC, Kev. They recount the most glorious and epic stories and battles of the tribes, the tribes and the Texas Ranges, the Spanish, US Army, mountain men, etc.
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  182.  @thehistorysquad  Kev on it even before me. He nailed it.
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  183. If the funds were available, I wish they’d reproduce just one of or two the rooms’ interiors so people could see what they looked like at the time as too many people actually think they just lived in cold castles with bare stone walls.
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  184. Seems like it’d be worth for the extra speed and maneuverability. Those tubes are plentiful supply and cheap.
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  185. Hamon of Chigwell is a classic name (conjures a not so handsome face). I’m impressed the court looked into it so it so closely rather than adopting a “good riddance to bad rubbish” attitude as it seems Ralph intentionally avoided trying to kill Roger by only using the flat of his sword to avoid. Maybe an early trial for excessive use of force? That or going alone, which allowed this situation to develop in the first place.
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  186. Wow, sounds like an amazing time. Wish I had been around for the horn sounding. I’d love it on a misty day. Anyway, it always amazes me how little common sense people have.
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