Comments by "1IbramGaunt" (@1IbramGaunt) on "Could US military conquer UK if it wanted to? (2019)" video.

Only in these completely unrealistic scenarios where the US would openly attack it's only real ally and NO-ONE ELSE IN THE WORLD would get involved AND neither side uses nukes
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@kristian2150 I think it's pretty obvious all those planes could be used just as is already from the carriers or from on land, regardless of what the MOD says, oh the pilots won't all have had time to familiarise themselves with the platform but a crash-course could be used, any former Harrier pilot in particular would be right at home in one. Something else our resident communist puppet missed was the fact Harriers, attack helicopters and F35's don't NEED intact runways and large airbases to operate, that's a disadvantage fixed-wing VTOL jets were ORIGINALLY DESIGNED to overcome during the Cold War as we KNEW such assets would be the primary targets for any Soviet missile attack, so the Harrier and the F35 that's based on it were intended to be able to operate just about anywhere a helicopter could
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Yeah, good luck with that
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@avalancher360 "kind of destroyed" huh, yeah the Battle Of Britain was definitely won by the Germans after all 😂
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@Regis1995 agreed, although having the sixth strongest military in the world in our own right, a battle-hardened and highly advanced one at that doesn't exactly hurt either; he is right about how Britain would put up a hell of a fight before going down. And there is also the matter of nukes, sure America could easily nuke Britain out of existence, no question about that, but then what would be the point as there's not really a country left to take anymore; and before they could every major American city would have been reduced to radioactive slag, THAAD or no THAAD, as would their entire invasion force
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And I suppose the British military would be COMPLETELY UNAWARE of this and wouldn't have changed anything to make taking it a touch trickier?
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@billmurray9485 as for the Chinese we don't know what they've hacked that the Americans don't want us to know they DID hack
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@sean7625 not really, Britain IS self-sufficient to some extent, if it were that easy to defeat us do you not think they'd have succeeded? We also saved ourselves FROM that happening by defeating the U-Boat threat
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@68arclight not sure I get you there but nice references
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@crummycole7022 true although our other big sport of RUGBY of course, is virtually the same thing AS American Football, just without the padding/armour lol- maybe that's why it's not exactly American-dominated either lol
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@callumdouglas7460 true although just like with the Germans in WW2 there's no way in hell all America's troops, tanks, planes or ships could EVER all come over at once or be used to full effect like that, that numerical advantage wouldn't actually help them much I feel, not while operating that far from home and directly from the sea or air rather than from the land, little thing called the Atlantic Ocean in the way. And regardless, for whatever American forces that DID get here? every single British soldier they DID meet (and they would be meeting them RIGHT AWAY as soon as they arrived mind and immediately engaged in brutal street-to-street, house-to-house fighting), well that British soldier would be fighting with everything they had, balls to the wall tooth-and-nail all-out last stand fighting. They would be fighting on his or her own ground that he or she would know far better than an American EVER would, and fighting not just for his or her country or government or money or resources, but for his or her actual PEOPLE, his or her own freedom and ideals, his or her own home and family, for everything they held dear, everything they believed in. Trust me when I say in that situation they WOULD fight to the last man and the last f*cking round. If America really did commit to doing this you would basically have to kill virtually every Brit, everyone here capable OF fighting back anyway, and certainly destroy pretty much everything and anything of any real value here to win. America would win eventually, sure, through sheer numbers and resources if nothing else, but it would be about as f*cking "easy" as Korea, Iraq or Afghanistan or, for that matter, Vietnam were, or all those little Japanese-held islands in WW2 (and, unlike in those conflicts, our forces are armed with MODERN equipment, vehicles, training and weaponry equal or better to anything the Americans have. Yeah, "easy" my arse). And, even if despite all that they did still indeed win? there likely wouldn't be much of a Britain left WORTH having by the time they finally did. Frankly all that's missing from THAT pretty picture is Bush and his "Mission Accomplished" banner lol. We might be small, we might not have that great old Empire anymore, and of course we might be more politically and socially divided right now than ever, but something like THIS? A massive, full-on, unprovoked outright invasion by a foreign enemy COMBINED with the betrayal of it being formerly our closest allies? it would give us a common foe, make us put aside our differences in the face of a common threat, and the first innocent blood spilled would make us about as ready to give up and surrender at that point as Churchill himself was in 1940. Underestimating a truly determined and united Britain, standing together as one people with a cause to fight for, is never a good idea under ANY circumstances, EVER, and anyone who doubts that frankly needs to go and read a bit more history
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@RKNGL Canada, Australia, New Zealand?
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You do realise that this scenario could never actually happen right? NO other countries involved and neither side using nukes? The entire US military suddenly attacking Britain, America's only reliable ally, without the British having any warning or prior knowledge whatsoever? It's like Red Dawn, it's about as realistic as the plot of a porn movie
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@jorgeasamul2393 not so sure about that, if incredibly biased YouTube comments existed before WW2 they'd probably be saying that about Germany
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@sercansen4536 and I'M serious that you need to stop believing America's invincible so you're not so disappointed when you find out it's bullshit
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@ptonpc agreed but that just shows how unrealistic it really is as those things are WHY it could never really happen, at least not like that
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You do realise we have a pretty first-class battle-hardened military right? The only way the US could win is with sheer numbers and even then they'd lose a hell of a lot of those numbers to do it, and what's left of Britain afterwards might not be worth the effort it took to get, even less so in a REALISTIC scenario where nukes would be involved, or other countries for that matter, as I think a few might take exception to America suddenly full-on invading a first-world democratic western nation without reason or provacation, and a few others might see an opportunity to attack their hated American foes while so much of it's military resources are focused on attacking us so they'd almost certainly end up fighting a war on two fronts if not several- a completely pointless war they themselves started, and AGAINST their only real ally they could rely on at that
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@billmurray9485 yeeess, I know all that, how does any of that disprove what I was saying?
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@billmurray9485 a realistic scenario by default WOULD involve both nukes and other countries because real life is not a video game
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@billmurray9485 oh really, what other conventional way could they defeat the British military then, exactly? We have every kind of military technology they do just not in the same numbers, our forces are just as well-led, well-trained and well-experienced. What other way besides brute force and overwhelming numbers could they do it? Without any other countries or any nuclear weapons? Which, to answer your other thing you were saying, do nonetheless both exist and matter whether you and he wish to include them or not, to make this feasible they have to be taken out of the equation and my point is that is precisely why it is NOT feasible, exactly like Red Dawn would not be, Britain WOULD immediately call on the international community for help against an act of unprovoked aggression by another major power and WOULD even consider actual tactical use of nuclear weapons as a last resort
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@billmurray9485 we have long range bombers mothballed and short-ranged ones that have only just been taken out of service and would in a circumstance like this be immediately brought back into service and short range is all the British would need in this scenario anyway, besides which we have sub-launched missiles and overseas bases for the aforementioned short range planes for attacking other countries anyway. We don't need Ospreys nor does anyone else as they're a waste of money, we have planes and we have helicopters, we don't need a mixture of the two that can't do either's job quite as well. Military satellites are all well and good but they don't actually do anything in a conventional boots-on-the-ground slugfest where everyone knows where everyone else is already, and the main reason we count as not having any worth mentioning is because the ones we have are shared WITH the Americans, however in that case I say that should mean THEY should not count as having those satellites EITHER
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@billmurray9485 Not having nuclear power or catapults doesn't make a damn bit of difference if you're operating within sight of your own coastline and have VTOL aircraft only on your carriers ANYWAY, hell those F35's and helicopters don't even need to operate FROM the carriers so would probably be held back for RAF use instead of pointlessly sending two carrier's worth against 9, a carrier's a lot easier to hit than a fighter jet and those fighters DON'T NEED obvious-target massive runways or airfields, or massive carriers, unlike the F18 which would still make up the bulk of the enemy carrier-wings
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@billmurray9485 On the experience front anything American troops have done recently British troops have too, anything British troops are lacking in therefore so will their enemy
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@billmurray9485 as for an actually realistic scenario being 'boring' yeah, maybe to you, to each their own I guess
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@billmurray9485 oh and as for civil unrest and rioting what d'you think our police force is for, I think we can keep a lid on some millennials crying about the wi-fi being down, and as for the whole cyber-warfare thing if the Americans can't stop the Chinese or North Koreans or Russians stealing their highest military secrets I don't think we've much to worry about frankly, our infrastructure is pretty damn strong
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@billmurray9485 oh yeah, what happened in the Falklands War then? They made us pay through the nose for those spy-satellite images when they had them and we didn't, but in the end the thing that decided the conflict was just ordinary ships, planes and soldiers shooting at each other, sure we knew what the Argentine forces at home were having for breakfast but it didn't actually make any difference to the fighting
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