Comments by "" (@TheArklyte) on "The Armchair Historian" channel.

Leadership only. They had brilliant designers and were among the leading technological powers. They lacked industrial capacity and resources. And poor PARTY leadership had made it an order of magnitude worse. But if we talk about officer core, it also wasn't as bad as people imagine. There were a lot of great commanders. Italy had gotten a reverse of Germany. Germans had a leader, who understood economics, but generals, who believed that USSR will collapse if they take Moscow. Italians had generals, who knew what to do, but a leader, who was borderline mad:(
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Ambitions existing mostly only in his own head due(or maybe he was just delusional) to lack of info about actual state of destabilized USSR economy and failed recruitments, but yeah, pretty much. Still it's nice that Unthinkable was not seen as real option.
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@archibald9260 I love it when you guys rat yourself out so easily:D
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I'm pretty sure that it's the reverse in HoI 4 - in the game fall of Berlin means nothing to Germany with it's massive war support... except signifying that one more position was lost. But Steiner Hirohito is still coming with help any minute!;)
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I still don't get why they were planning to capture Greece that had some sympathy to them in previous years instead of going straight for Yugoslavia with Hungary? Might have even proposed a piece to Greece! Poland gladly accepted a piece of Czechoslovakia with nonagression agreement... before making a surprised Pikachu face a year later:D And to top it off, weren't italians dissapointed in their claims of Anatolia being rejected? Hmm, whom else might have a grudge against Turkey and might want to join in on the fun, hmm? /cough/ just imagine proposing Constantinople to Greece, they'd eat out of your hand. /cough/
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@SepticFuddy and you count "profit" only in monetary value? Specifically in paper?;) Iraq was a net loss for US in terms of money gained/money spent, BUT it is a huge leverage on region and oil market plus it was done mostly to appease Israel and Saudi Arabia, BOTH of whom are ironically best US friends in the region... and not only the region. Both want to get rid of any ME nation that is more powerful then them. They also both have expansion desire and a chip against Iran. The only reason US doesn't want to get military involved with Iran on their behalf is because Iran is involved in Russia/India vs China/Pakistan power struggle in the region and becoming an enemy of all 4 is not a great idea!:D
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Armchair History stop calling "it's own supremacy" as "balance of power", please. This mistake is annoying;)
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Read up on American Civil War in regards to "post was memories of generals". One of the reasons North won is because a certain commander didn't care of how he'd look if he'd run for presidency later, but instead cared for result. And he won the war for US. Can you guess whom it is? American WWII generals are evidently of the other type.
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Legio XXI Rapax "was caught" Was he? Because from the way you lean into some things it seems that you believe that germans had used italians as a distraction of sorts. To what end though?
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>Has better chance with Yugoslavia(with hungarian help) and far better dividends in case of success. >Is somehow adored in Greece, has claims on Yugoslavia and Turkey(Anatolia). Attacks Yugoslavia with hungarian help and promises Greece a piece of the cake as well as Constantinople in the long run? Nope, we're going into Greece, boys! ... ? ?! o_0 Why? Why?! WHY?! WHYYYY?!
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@SepticFuddy not sure if you deleted it or it just doesn't show, so I'll answer the bit I can see in preview: "The oil market trope is a ridiculous one. Our own fracking drives Mideast oil to its knees far more than any invasions can dream of, and our strategic" Reread my comment. Above all else it was a demonstration of power to WHOLE Middle East and a favor to local allies there, who want to leave a clear message about whom is the top dog in the region. And ME as a whole outproduces you as well as helps to control the market by being the "third leg".
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They're already here... and are pointing out how Austria repayed Poland for this help:P
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Poland, poor and feeble: signs nonagression pact with Hitler in 1935, politically supports Hitler in invasions of Czechoslovakia in 1938 and even gets Zaolsie "back", gets surprised by soviets following its example in 1939. France, mighty and powerful: You just had to interfere a year back and allow Hitler to exploit the fact that you were our ally, didn't you?
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@543soldier USSR did its part. There was not just a planned invasion, it was an EXECUTED invasion. But of continental territories! With what were we supposed to invade the islands themselves, huh? T-34-85's don't float, you know? We had neither the (surface) fleet, nor strategic and long range aviation required for it. Explain to me how USSR would invade Japan itself, please? It's just a myth. We had done all we could to fight Japan, the rest was ONLY up to americans. And if you mean provide troops for landing with american support, then why us? There are dozens of millions of chinese, who hated Japan. Arm, train, deliver. Maybe this way China wouldn't suffer such an inglorious continuation of its civil war where not just nationalists as usually seen, but de facto everyone lost and China was denied recovery help.
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@jon-erich9752 yep... and now China watches how you eat yourself alive while Middle East is on fire and you're running from your own ally?
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1935 France: Poland, it's okay to have nonagression pact with Hitler, just don't support him, ok? Poland: Ok! 1938 France: Poland, WTF have you just done?! Poland: Hey, guys, I've got Zaolsie back! Isn't it cool? What? What's wrong? It's a rightfull historical polish land with polish majority! 1939 Poland: [SurprisedPikachuFace] I blame you, guys. And will continue doing so forever.
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@streamlinedengine imagine how much worse it could have been if Stalin hadn't died? People blame Khrushev for Cuban Crisis, but that man consolidated all the available resources to get USSR a retaliation capability and THEN used said technological potential not for war, but to create majority of positive political and reputation reserve USSR enjoyed through its existence with space program and his visits to USA. Meanwhile post-WWII era under Stalin was nonstop provocations of one proxy war after another. And while USSR did support NVA, it had neither provoked the conflict, nor take part in it directly, nor undermined everyone and planned to conquer the region like PRC. If the world was unlucky enough to have a doctor with very low morals around that door in 1953, whole of Asia(and likely a lot of Africa and South America) would have been divided and drowned in blood like Korea:( Но нет же, ..ять, Хрущев у них "кукурузник", а Сталин святой. Выблядки авторитарные:( P.S.: ignore the part in russian, just my rage towards Stalin fanboys and authoritarian fetishists.
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@ernestasjarmak9884 plus all the glory stealing poles do when trhey literary call Commonwealth as Poland and nothing more.
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@Brazauskas123 "only proper nationalists hate the Polish" then why is the common case a REACTION to being faced with polish nationalism and called borderline subhuman that lives on "rightfull polish clay", hmm? Well, I guess I'm a nationalist then if I didn't like that:D
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@Rrgr5 "but guys, the Cold War is already over" Take him to infirmary, he's delusional! Cold War is still going on even when Russia(territorialy) and USA(economically) are both pressured by China while EU failed to consolidate as "reborn superpower" thanks to internal political struggles and cultural differences.
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abe Lincoln imagine being one of 40 millions(by South Korean and Taiwanese estimates!) chinese, philipinos, koreans, thai, vietnamese and many other civilians, who died due to "innocent" Hirohito. Japan never admitted, never apologized, overwhelming majority of war criminals(almost all of high ranking ones) were never prosecuted, it is hailed in US, pictured as a victim, teached pure lies about the conflict for generations, all critique in media is villified and 1937 is never seen as start of WWII. Germany did a lot to try to make amends in those 80 years, Japan did nothing and had just only proven that you can be the biggest bastard and no one will care. Because to US and Europe, asians are to this day viewed as subhuman. Just look at this whole comment chain! Wow, such horror, such casualties!
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Dex4Sure ask Kazachstan about Holodomor and poor ukranians. Check the dates too. The sources are easy to find. But I absolutely agree with you, bayonets were more effective source of forcing farmers into the state agrarian production. Soviets should have used those instead of trying to play with food market.
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Dex4Sure and good day to you too;)
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@Rrgr5 was there a difference?Current gripe between "east and west"(in Europe) can be traced back to the very revolutions of 1848-49 that influenced the views of Marx and Bismark among a whole generations of other political figures, writers and so on. But true division can be traced back to underlying cultural differences to the times of Roman/Christian split.
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jesse p did they? Or there is a reason why this war is barely mentioned? Were they scarred by their dick moves at Paris peace conference where France was the "only sane man"?
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@topspot4834 want to discuss christians in 1914-1918 or 1939-1945? I wonder what happened during those dates... and yes, "national socialist" that headed major countries on both sides in latter case DO fall under ideological fanaticism.
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 @LastBrigadier ^^^ 4 month old account, no activity, likely russian bot in training, mark for propaganda of terrorism, do not engage or waste your time
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Italy, Hungary and Romania WEREN'T minor! Bulgaria was though:D
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Legio XXI Rapax no, I mean you make it sound as if germans had made italians pay on purpose. As decoy for... well, I guess only North Africa was active at that moment. Battle of Britain was already lost after Germany overreacted about Berlin raid and lost any cohesive idea about what was the core goal of it:D
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cristopher wong Italy had several thousand tanks. By 1943. Without setting up proper tank industry that they had no time for. And they were better then light tanks of axis and allies that made up majority of tank forces until 1943 and no worse then most medium and cruiser tanks used during it.
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