Comments by "David Himmelsbach" (@davidhimmelsbach557) on "Not What You Think" channel.

@himbisaquatics No. Check out Vietnam. You're not allowed to just make stuff up. Britain and America are status quo powers. That's why they seem so aligned. They are also the patrons of small powers... frustrating super-tyrants rather consistently. Note the shift in American attitudes towards Xi -- a clone of Mao, Napoleon, Hitler, and Stalin. A tough childhood creates a nasty, nasty tyrant really out to prove himself at the expense of humanity.
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@kms_scharnhorst Germany was defeated by the WEST. The Anglo-Allies destroyed German's war economy. The Reds DIDN'T. The USSR EMPOWERED Nazi Germany from 1939-1941 -- creating the monster. You fail to comprehend how expensive a naval war is. The war against Bolshevism was actually rather cheap in Marks. Why? It was pretty LOW TECH and used cannon fodder -- on the whole -- scarcely trained troops -- barely out of high school -- if that. Naval and Air War can't use such boys. They can't even use the entire spectrum of intelligence. Pilots must be the cream of the crop. So Air War is hugely expensive in quality manpower, quality training, and the resources to build the machines and fund their expenditure of the most expensive fuel. Nazi Germany was defeated by the USAAF and the RAF during the Big Week, February 1944. They destroyed Germany's three main aviation fuel plants. These could not be replaced. Only token amounts of av-gas was available thereafter. The Land War became entirely one-sided after The Big Week. Even at the time, it was obvious to the USAAF// RAF that the war was won. The Luftwaffe simply did not come up to fight -- most days. It was stuck on the ground. Overlord and Bagration were fought without Luftwaffe interference. Hitler lost army groups in the West and the East, PDQ. The huge losses incurred in Russia were SELF INFLICTED. Hitler had frozen his own army to death -- Napoleon style. Yes. The vast majority of critical German injuries were due to German follies. They killed off their own horses, too. The Reds had nothing to do with these losses. Instead, they were inflicting staggering losses upon themselves -- as they didn't support their troops very well at all. During the Winter of 41-42 Soviet losses to the cold were as bad as the Germans. Most of the troops did NOT have the Winter gear that the boys from the Far East brought with them. Further, Stalin was driving his armies into many stupid battles... rigid attacks with untrained troops. At the time, the Reds were THAT desperate. With both armies run by tyrants you end up with the staggering casualties of the Eastern Front. German soldiers at the time were obsessed with the tales of logistical privation... something the extreme opposite of their situation in the West.
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@kms_scharnhorst The USN considered the RN the top dog -- no doubt about it -- in 1940. It had been the top dog since before Napoleon. The USN didn't get global respect until Midway. That battle was a total shocker -- for both friend and foe. It was as stunning as Guderian's march to the sea in 1940.
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Actually, the kicker was that the control loop for a ship at sea is very different than an atomic plant generating base-load power -- which the French already knew extremely well. So that aspect had to be engineered from the ground up. Such efforts are like a pregnancy, you can't speed them up. Such control dynamics bedeviled Rickover in his early period. The USN was intensively working on an atomic plant for about a decade before Nautilus. Safety and Controls were the pacing issues, too. CVNs have to deal with a nasty sea-state. Subs don't, they can just dive under it. So their atomic plants have to be fail-safe to the extreme.
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