Comments by "" (@TheArklyte) on "The Great War" channel.

@MahiMahi-oiasdf "Any recon armored cars were capable of would be worthless in trench warfare." "Any recon jeeps were capable of would be worthless in trench warfare." WWI had fronts OTHER then german-french border, you know?😅
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Tbh I wouldn't be surprised if they'd still be useful today, it's just that I don't recall there being many places where troops can be trained in their use and the equipment of specifically horse cavalry wasn't updated in over a century. In combat by deploying as dragoons nowadays they're potentially the deadliest they could have ever been with widespread availability of MANPADs, GPMGs, light mortars, grenade launchers, hadheld ATGMs to be used on foot and even carbines and PDWs that can be used on the horse. In role of actual cavalry scouts they're slightly worse then they would have been around 1980's. By that I mean that electronic equipment like radios, night vision devices, portable reconnaissance radars and now thermals and drones was all at first too cumbersome for individual soldiers, but can be carried around by the horse and used by the rider more easily. Nowadays minituarization led to there not being a clear benefit a cavalrymen would have in this over infantrymen. Unless a horse can carry an active Starlink terminal while on the move, I guess? Then recon potential of horse cavalry is still ahead of its infantry. Might even also add helmet with HUD for drone control since rider isn't as encumbered by personal equipment as soldier on foot. But then again, I don't recall seeing modern kit for horses being designed or produced anywhere in the world. Do MOLLE standard saddles exist? Are there kevlar vests for horses?😅
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Not five. They covered Greco-Turkish War, Russian Civil War and Irish Independence War as direct continuations of WWI. We're technically still in final phases of timeline of original series.
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@MahiMahi-oiasdf probably because armored car 1)can't travel no man's land; 2)isn't armored from field artillery. It's fun that you've also decided to limit your opinion solely to first sentence. I accept your defeat;)
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ROMAnski serfdom was abolished in 1860's... on paper. But the land ownership situation persisted the previous order. How many peasant rebellions were in that period right after abolishment alone? Plus it's nice of you to try and paint people, who wanted to destroyy new nations like Poland and hang their leaders as traitors to Empire in a posititve light:D
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@kadudeduder5103 intentionally? You mean like when russians "bumped" american ships trespassing and not reacting to warning shots and order in Black Sea several decades ago? Or do you mean as military around the world is once again proving its collective incompetence?:D
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Laughs in Yalta... no, seriously, it gets worse every time:(
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@yaz2928 I don't recall Russian Empire losing 18 million soldiers and 20+ million civilians to fighting Japan in 1905. USSR fighting germans in 1942 though on the other hand... So what were you blubbering about again?:\
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Pff, Red Scare is a constant state of being for yankees and brits, nothing new here. Can't wait for EU to stop playing their flute.
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Entente intervention didn't have the goal to help Whites to begin with, read Churchill's memoires. He de facto admits that the goal was to evacuate gold and to prolong the period of russians killing other russians:D
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@armedwombat6816 well, you can always ignore them. If people see no difference between Third reich, USSR, modern China(I have to admit, for some reason I look at it as megacorp wearing a skin of dead nation. No idea why) and modern Europe then I'd say this is definetly NOT the biggest problem in their lives, not to mention how their only escape from it is to argue about terms and their use on internet in their free time:D
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If that book doesn't start with the events of 1848/49 or earlier with such a title then you can demand your money back:D
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Klaidi Rubiku very sober words from you. Now use that attitude to all sides involved, internal and external included:D
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@luisa.melendezalbizu4459 can you give me sources on where I can read about that?
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So, 1980's? When this name was invented for history books instead of Rzeczpospolita aka Republic to remove historical significance of full name of Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Ruthenia and Samotija compared to Poland, which wasn't a dominant side in the union? Not very early then:D
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@ukaszbiaek6641 Germany asked Romania and Finland for help in attacking USSR because they were "more advanced"? Rome was asking yesterday "barbarians" for help because they were "more advanced"? Are you sure that argument sounded better in your mind?o_0 And please, specify "much more advanced" in context of two neighbouring countries in same geographical area with same climate and topographical properties. Were were HRE and Muskovy on that scale of yours too? Was territory of modern day Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania, Latvia as well as parts of russia and Poland some sort of "mormon black hole" in your opinion?
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We make joke about how bad and dumb treaty was(and how it was premature due to events in Russia and Turkey which were basically sanctioned by Entente genocide), but let's face it, sequel had even worse ending;)
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@brazilianpc6627 just copy 1998 solution and drop US inflation onto somebody else. It's not like Russia or China would fund armed uprising in retaliation if that happens again, right?;)
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Considering the tradition to call AT launchers and ATGMs by standoff polearms like Javelin or Spike(or Spear AGM) it's just a matter of time before Lance appears as a weapon name, likely for something man portable and antiarmor.
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@neiloflongbeck5705 okay... how do we mount it on the horse though?
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Was there brainwashing? Yes, there always is? But at the same time, you're literary quoting a stereotype too:D
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@ukaszbiaek6641 well, look at the map of both states before the union:\
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@Vytautas.Šilinskas there were no officialy existing private typographies with printing press, /cough/ which was invented in China btw /cough/ but books don't need to be printed to exist, be imported or written. Seriously, wtf dude?! That's exactly what I'm talking about you people having a perception of a whole region as technological black hole! And to prove me wrong, you provide a direct example of such worldview you have as an argument. What the literal f@ck?
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@Nikola S. Russia can start to be considered industrialized only by 1960's. For f//cks sake, compare wartime production of USSR and bloody Canada, that has almost no population and no usable land.
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@britainman3459 yeah, but again, training facilities are lost and new cavalry equipment wasn't designed since 1918.
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@parodyclip36 unarmed protesters, who don't fight back, NOT riots. People saying that mounted police is working great against riots had never seen a riot. And cops wouldn't have guts to approach a riot with anything short of a tank:D
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@parodyclip36 they weren't. Because riot implies armed mobs, who won't hesitate to kill cops. Calling everything a riot doesn't change the fact that riot police is used only against unarmed protesters and will run away from actual riots. When actual riot happens, cops and politicians start flinging words like militia and revolution and crying for army to come and save them.
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