Comments by "Vikki McDonough" (@vikkimcdonough6153) on "The Armchair Historian" channel.

  1. 2014 Ukraine: OK we're gonna phase out conscription Russia: invades Ukraine: dammit Russia 2022 Ukraine: OK we're gonna phase out conscription Russia: invades Ukraine: DAMMIT RUSSIA
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  2. It's like a pair of toddlers fighting over a cookie who won't listen to anyone who suggests that they quit with the temper tantrums and just share
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  3. 19:35 - The guy who came very close to obliterating his own country is regarded as a national hero? WTF‽
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  4. 11:35 - To be fair, Russia almost certainly would've won the annexation referendum anyway even if it had been completely free and fair.
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  5. Why don't China and Taiwan just agree to go their separate ways? Refusing to acknowledge what's been the ground truth for nearly three quarters of a century (that the two are two separate countries) just forces them to spend more money on their militaries than they'd otherwise have to and makes both countries look like sulking toddlers having opposing temper tantrums.
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  6. 5:38 - "...as well as simple Anglophobia." I will never understand why so many in France hated the country across the Channel more than the country that was actively invading and conquering France.
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  7. Ah, the Finns: the only people who can out-winter the Russians.
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  8. Congo War 2: Electric Boogaloo; or, Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss
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  9. Dr. Gatling expressed the hope that the Gatling gun would reduce the size of armies. It certainly succeeded in that aspect...
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  10.  @jacegmn3309  Because Putin was greedy and wanted the classic 99% landslide.
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  11. 16:43 - "That's a question for the alternate historians out there." BTW, if anyone's wondering, the answer to that question is "yes".
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  12. Now he's finally helping to pay it back by having his skeleton used by a Brazilian medical school to teach anatomy.
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  13. Italians during Operation Compass: RUN AWAY!!!11!!1!eleven! Italians at El Alamein: RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH
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  14. If only the Allies had moved to exploit the Italian capitulation before the Germans managed to occupy most of the peninsula, we could've had troops breaking into the Balkans and Austria by the end of 1943...
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  15. Slight correction - Darlan was assassinated in December of 1942, not 1943.
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  16. Soviet Union: disappears Swedish diplomat Sweden: "..."
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  17. 3:25 - "With Crete as a base, the British Royal Air Force could attack naval convoys sent to resupply General Erwin Rommel's forces in North Africa, and their bombers could strike at the vital oilfields in Romania." TBH that line of reasoning doesn't make sense, as they could do both of those things anyway thanx to a couple little things called Malta and Cyprus, respectively.
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  18. Hermann Göring: Literal fat cat.
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  19. Francisco Solano Lopez: "Let's fight everybody! What could possibly go wrong‽"
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  20. ATTACK ATTACK ATTACK
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  21. Luigi Cadorna did indeed reform the Italian Army, primarily into very small pieces.
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  22. I didn't know WWI lasted into the 1980s...
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  23. I'm surprised the Allied forces didn't just burn the Hürtgen Forest to the ground and be done with it.
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  24. 8:02 - How's this for an idea: make it legal to plunder ships that fish illegally?
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  25. 9:10 - We should've just told de Gaulle to get stuffed...
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