Comments by "Guinness" (@GuinessOriginal) on "Imperial War Museums" channel.

@ShineyFX they are Irish, but many don’t see themselves as such. For some reason they think of themselves as British, even though they’re clearly not part of Britain and are part of Ireland. They’re part of the United Kingdom, yes, but not Britain.
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Didn't mention the dreadnaught race between Turkey and Greece or how the Italian war in Libya in 1911 led to the destablisation of the Balkans
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@poneil6442 30 000 troops in armoured cars assisted by tanks is definitely a war.
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@Ghreinos And the Russians wouldn't have mobilized if the Austrians hadn't have insisted on forcing Serbia to accept Austrian control over it's justice system and instead agreed to refer it to the Hauge as the Serbs suggested. The Serbs agreed to every other ultimation, even the outlawing of anti-Austrian sentiment. Kiaser Wilhiem himself said upon reading the ultimation and the Serbian response "“A great moral victory for Austria but with it all reasons for war are removed". And the Austrians would have never insisted upon such an ultimation so obviously designed to create an excuse for war and would never have declared was if it weren't for German assurances that they would back them up.
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@Ghreinos sorry, remind me why Austria had to invade Serbia even though Serbia accepted all but one of their ludicrous demands? The fact is Austria used those demands they knew Serbia wouldn’t agree to as an excuse for an invasion, and Russia had made it quite clear that any such attack on Serbia would be a declaration of war. Not sure why you think Austria has the right to invade Serbia at all. And yes, the Germans were building railways and train stations specifically to mobilise troops quickly for the invasion of France, the did it in secret at night without the knowledge of the civilian population, it’s all in the German archives and common knowledge of you read history, look it up
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@aedanokelly5794 it might surprise people to know that there’s very little support for Northern Ireland to remain part of the United Kingdom in mainland Britain these days.
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@Ghreinos can’t remember, look it up. It’s well known the German generals were apprehensive of Russia modernising its railways and army and by 1917 would be about to move its vast troop numbers to the front rapidly by rail, and the German generals thinking was it was better to have a war in 1914 than 1917, hence the schniffen plan
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@Ghreinos They spend two years building a huge train station on the french border for the specific purpose of disembarking troops
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@JuanPablo-vw7ko happened in both countries. Thatcher was in danger of losing the next election, one she’d had her war she immediately called it and won a landslide. Same reason governments always call elections when they’ve won a football tournament, and never when they’ve lost badly
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There’s gonna be some wars in the Great future judging by the problems we’ve got
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@TheEsuohdla I think it’s more to do with the connotations a strong Ulster accent brings to the table when you’ve grown up with the troubles. I remember sitting outside having breakfast 3 miles from the city centre and hearing the bomb go off in Manchester. The devastation that caused was frightening. When someone with a Belfast accent told you “tell ya ma I said hello” chills went down your spine. Paradoxically that bomb was actually one of the best things to happen to Manchester. A lot of glaziers and builders in the area became millionaires from it.
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What other moments might have prevented war? I'm assuming you're talking about a failure of diplomacy
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@Ghreinos The fact is the Germans were building the rail infrastructure for war with France 2 years before 1914 and Russia mobilising it's troops, that clearly shows intent
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Looks accurate, those guns are about the same size as my 6 inches
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@RichardLionheart12 look it’s an Nazi
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First World War all over
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@davesherry5384 nice armchair comment, about as accurate as the original plan
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@StuartKoehl I thought oerlikons were still popular today?
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