Comments by "Pottenger\x27s Human" (@LTPottenger) on "Military History Visualized"
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@Doodoofart725 No, he is an absolute idiot and anyone who doesn't see that is also an idiot or else totally uneducated on the subjects he talks about and I am highly educated in my late 40s not some uneducated teenager like you were at the time. First off, he and MHV both admit they never actually read any books, just pick out quotes. That is why they make some massive, glaring factual errors at times. I would hope even a teenager making videos would figure out the actual sequence of events for stalingard for example, but neither of them could even manage that. He also talks about oil shortages for germany being the cause of barbarossa and the reason they lost, when you can look directly in source books and see there was never an oil shortage til the very end when the refineries were bombed out of existence and anyone with a brain can figure out they lost already in 1941 when they failed to capture both moscow and leningrad. A minor detail to miss out on, eh? Actually read the books next time I guess. At the time most things moved by railway or even were drawn by horse. His talk about the battle of hastings and arrow to the eye shows how brainless he is, too. Aside from the fact there is an arrow to the eye pulled out of the stitchings in the bayou tapestry, it's not the place of modern historians to erase history. At most you might say "legendarily" or add an asterix not totally remove it from history as he proposes. It's pretty obviously not flattering to william the conqueror to have that story around so logically it's already been partially deleted from accounts or not put in at all as the official histories would be flattering towards the winner. Studies also show that oral traditions passed down survive in more accurate form than those written down, because simply passing them on takes precedence over making stuff up to add or subtract as happens with historians. Another gem was when he went on about hitler being smart to split up the armor divisions to smaller sizes and points to the italians of all people doing it as proof how smart it was, probably the dumbest thing I have ever heard about ww II. The whole point why hitler did that is to artificially make the number of divisions higher which is also why the italians did it. This increases the logistics issues (which he screams about but is totally clueless about) and the officers requirements (pretty big issues for both italians and germans, don't you think?) for the same number of troops. Now you can argue binary divisions are good for some purposes and in modern divisions the support staff has grown and grown but this is due to modern technology and need to project power a long ways, but no one in a major world war would be doing things that way if they have any clue what they are doing. The whole idea here was that it was a paper change to inflate the apparent size of the armies, at the cost of real functionality and if you do actually read some history books unlike TIK then you would know this and know why it is a joke. He also points to rommel asking for more infantry as 'proof' of this point. I don't know, might the fact he can't even get enough fuel to the frontline in north africa due to convoys getting sunk have something to do with that? He also defended paulus which was hilarious. While paulus was trying to get into stalingrad one russian unit held up the whole army because they did not hear the orders to retreat, so paulus totally obliterated them then held up the army three days and TIK claims he 'had to'. Well his job was to get in stalingrad not fight them at all, to break through. The enemy was not even moving and even in normal circumstances the thing to do would be surround it with a small force and break through to pursue other units and try to surround them - once they are cut off from supply they are effectively neutralized and will have no choice but to surrender. So he knows nothing about warfare and does not even know that actual facts of the situation either. That is why von Weichs and others were screaming at the guy, and just one of the reasons everyone under his command completely hated him from the very beginning right to the bitter end (something you should probably listen to). He says other crazy and ridiculous things, too, but I have not watched anything from that guy in some time since every video I have watched is pretty low quality. In fact I don't think I ever saw a good video from TIK. MHV is a lot better than TIK but he suffers from the same problem in research as TIK and sometimes makes some pretty ridiculous videos like the one about US vs Japan ship production.
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