Comments by "Pottenger\x27s Human" (@LTPottenger) on "Historigraph" channel.

  1. Churchill and defeat, what a surprise.
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  2. Only an absolute chump would support a plan that allowed their country to be completely conquered without any outside assistance lol
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  3. It was a terrible idea and it was outdated long before it was built. They were also delusional about the ability to reinforce troops in Belgium in time so it was doubly worthless. It was also penetrated directly very quickly as well, they did not simply go around it. Modern direct fire weapons and engineer and special forces brigades made it so it was essentially pointless to spend much resources and money making static fortifications. Declaring war on Germany was simply delusional it was certain they would be overrun from the start and the allies didn't gain anything at all from france being in the conflict just the opposite.
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  4. It's hard to have a command failure without an intelligence failure. It's easy to make good decisions when you have all the answers.
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  5. It takes two days to get from scapa flow to the channel and 5 minutes to sink a battleship when you have air superiority. People who think a landing was impossible are just imbeciles with zero idea of military matters and this opinion is a recent one not something taken seriously back then. There's little doubt Germany could get a foothold on England but the longer it waited the less good that would do. Their best chance was right after beating France when there was virtually no defense in place, air superiority or no air superiority, and by mid 1941 it would have been incredibly difficult. Irocially Hitler the big risk taker played it safe in the one route that he could have actually won the war.
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  6. It was a terrible idea and it was outdated long before it was built. They were also delusional about the ability to reinforce troops in Belgium in time so it was doubly worthless. It was also penetrated directly very quickly as well, they did not simply go around it. Modern direct fire weapons and engineer and special forces brigades made it so it was essentially pointless to spend much resources and money making static fortifications. Declaring war on Germany was simply delusional it was certain they would be overrun from the start and the allies didn't gain anything at all from france being in the conflict just the opposite.
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  7.  @Jaydstar101  They did go through it nitwit, and in many places too.
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  8. It was the last major battleship battle, and also the first major battleship battle. It's interesting to me that they had built up this myth about these ships when they seem to have hardly been tested. The myth was certainly dispelled in WW II!
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