Comments by "Zetectic" (@zetectic7968) on "Mark Felton Productions" channel.

  1. King George V actually forced the British government to rescind the offer to the Tsar & family to come to the UK fearing that such a move would imperil the status & security of the Royal family. He left his cousin to his fate.
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  2. The BBC website has a video about the history of the Azoz battalion and it incorporation into the Ukrainian army. release about 4 weeks ago by Ros Atkins. Worth a watch
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  3.  @janwhite6038  In what fantasy does Blair become president 🤣
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  4. You didn't pay attention. Money is diverted in to properties & projects of both Duchies so the Royals benefit by not having to spend their own money.
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  5.  @shadowcrusader7208  Nonsense. The Kaiser backing Admiral Tirpitz & the naval arms race couldn't be anything but a threat to the British & the Royal Navy. The amount of German sea trade in comparison was minute and who would Germany be protecting their mercantile trade from? "Several in the British government wanted a war with the Germans as soon as possible to solidify British supremacy" Who in the UK government & cite your source. The British Empire was at its height & its supremacy was unchallenged except by German naval expansion.
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  6.  @kamilpotato3764  We've been citizens not subjects for over 20 years since the Burgundy passport. Do keep up.
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  7. I remember the "Protect & survive" booklet. Growing up there was an Air Raid siren not 50 yards from my home. Back in the 1990's I watched The War Game but that is now completely out of date with modern nuclear weapons being so much more destructive. We no longer have the actor Patrick Allen to narrate Armageddon.
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  8.  @garyhiggins6718  Maybe you will troll better once you take your meds
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  9. That is a recent change that doesn't apply to both world wars. Didn't listen very well did you 🙄
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  10.  @Crazy__Canuck  only in English
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  11.  @derekweiland1857  Oh look, a troll
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  12. One of my lecturers was a Hungarian refugee. Another was in Prague in 1968 and got shot and his nose broken by a Russian rifle butt. Eisenhower was no friend to the Brits. He threaten to cause a run on the £ unless we withdrew from Suez. The "Special Relationship" has always been 1-sided.
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  13. If it shoots, is reliable and you have ammunition for it, then it can still be deadly.
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  14. Interesting video 👍 I suppose it is redundant to accuse people of living in the past on a history channel. Haters got to hate Blair for the Iraq war but stay mostly silent now and a lot less passionate over Thatcher and the Falklands War.
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  15.  @terry_willis  Geneva Conventions!
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  16. Very interesting. Have you done a video on FANY's?
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  17. All that effort to transport them half way around the world for zero result. I think the more interesting story is how the U-boats made the journey & avoided inception.
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  18. No it doesn't go to the government! It is for the private use of the Royal family.
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  19. Nothing to do with Starmer🙄 Pay ateention to the video.
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  20. W⚓
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  21. Will not happen as China will block it. They don't want US troops on their border. Who do you think has been the biggest supporter of N. Korea
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  22. £ = pound Sterling lb= pound avoirdupois or Imperial pound. Gold in small quantities = Troy ounce
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  23. Never heard of this tank before. Interesting tale.
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  24. These feudal rights should be taken from the moarch & their heirs. We are no longer subjects of the monarch but citizens & it is immoral that they benefit from intestacy, as is them charging the NHS, charities etc "rent". If they keep these ancient rights then the sovereign grant needs to be reduced accordingly.
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  25. Thanks for the update 👍
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  26. A combination of "If it aint broke don't fix it" and why reinvent the wheel.
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  27. Excellent research Dr Felton! I can't recall if it was this channel or somewhere else but I recall that there was determined effort to find any incriminating documents in Germany at the end of the war that would show the Royal Family in a bad light & to make sure they were not disclosed to the public. The Duke of Winsor was shipped off to be governor of the Bahamas due to his & Wallace being friendly with von Ribbentropp & being in Paris at the outbreak of war were thought to be less than circumspect about the company they kept.
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  28.  @hafmaint7557  That was Gordon Brown and he didn't sell ALL the gold reserves. From the Daily Mirror "Between July 1999 and March 2002 Gordon Brown's government sold 395 tonnes of UK gold, about 58% of the government's total reserves of 715 tonnes." So Blair was no longer in power
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  29.  @banedon8087  No it doesn't the figures have been distorted by the building of the 2 white elephant aircraft carriers. The rest of the RN is hollowed out, the Army is at least 20% below target and the RAF has few planes as the video showed and flight hours are restricted due to fuel rationing
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  31. This what happens when you waste money on 2 "white elephant" aircraft carriers: no enough aircraft & pilots,not enough crew ¬ enough vessels to protect them. My argument is who do you use them against? a tier 1 enemy will sink them, with others they are probably overkill. The RAF doesn't have enough fuel to train & keep pilots combat ready. The army once the shooting starts will be like the BEF in 1914.
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  32. Wasn't aware of this. Thanks for shining a light on this overlooked subject that was important fore morale
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  33. The scars are war are still there in places if you know what to look for. When I moved to Hackney in the '80s a new block of flats in the midst of Victorian houses and places that were either allotments or people still living in Prefabs.
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  34. I remember when Blunt was unmasked as the so called 5th man of the Cambridge spies. This story reveals he had a "get out of jail free card". The Duke of Winsor was sent off to the Bahamas during WW2 as he & his wife were suspected of passing secrets to the Nazis while they were living in France and before as Wallace Simpson was rumoured to have had an affair with von Ribbentrop.
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  35. I had 1 of these as a plastic toy(unpainted green, and about half as big again as a Corgi model car). As with so many German weapons, just never enough to make a difference.
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  36. Shades of Dr Stranglove "Our Germans are better than your Germans" :)
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  37. When my father returned from the Far East after the end of the war, his troop ship was getting ready to dock in Liverpool when a rumour circulated. Many soldiers including my father decided to throw the Samurai swords they had collected into the harbour rather than have them confiscated or rather suspected they would end up as a trophy for someone else
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  38.  @craigaust3306  That is 1 example. We gave them Penicillin and the Ultra decrypts. The cut us off from the Manhattan Project after Fuchs was revealed as a spy yet they had spies of their own fed info to the USSR. They have charged us top $ for Polaris and Trident and never shared details of the missiles that have to go back to the US for servicing. They screwed us over Lease-Lend and kept a large chunk of our gold reserves as "security". Whatever we got from the US they have more than got back double from us. There are more examples.
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  39.  @craigaust3306  My point was we had spies and were cut out the intelligence loop but the US also had spies, so we were not unique. And by having to send our nuclear missiles back to the US for servicing means we get overcharged. So you stick to the pro-USA line but I don't buy it and reality doesn't support it. after all we only paid off the WW2 debt in the late Noughties under PM Gordon Brown and the US got more than their pound of flesh in interest.
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  40.  @craigaust3306  Well as you have a troll account I will end by saying that the US only had nearly 24k service members killed than the UK and the colonies and the majority was in the Pacific. As for WW1 it was only 1 year of fighting and many avoidable deaths were cause by Pershing refusing to accept the Allies advice and repeating their mistakes of 1914/15. BTW in WW2 the RAF were fitting US supplied 50 caliber Browning machine guns to their bombers. After Pearl Harbor they cut the supply and refused to allow UK to manufacture under license. Ungrateful no but fawning gratitude certainly not.
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  41.  @craigaust3306  No it isn't. Americans like to crow how great they are. It was McArthur's failed strategy in the Philippines that lead to the surrender at Corregidor of what was it 11k troops and the death march to Bataan and Roosevelt failed to sack him. Then Truman let him almost started a nuclear war with China because f*ed up in Korea. It was the Anglophobe Admiral Ernest King who undermined "Europe first" and refused to use the convoy system at the start of 1943 that lead to the "Second Happy Time" aided by the refusal of East coast states to introduce the blackout. News just in, USA didn't win the war in Europe alone they were "The Arsenal of Democracy" and as I said they charged top $$ for all the Lease-Lend equipment.
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  42.  @craigaust3306  Why did McArthur want to nuke China, because he had disobeyed orders not to cross the Yalu river and had brought the Chinese in to the war, thus losing it and leading to the partition that still exists I know my history & better than you no doubt. The fact remains what I asserted at the start. The US only follows the rules and agreement when it favours them. That is why they have never signed up to the ICC.
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  43.  @craigaust3306  No they are not and you don't understand how study of history works
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  44. Wilson didn't shut ALL the lines in the Beeching report just the majority. Closures start under the Tories who commissioned the report. I think you'll find that some continued to be closed under Heath.
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  45.  @bobtudbury8505  So my point was correct the Wilson government didn't close ALL the Beeching chosen lines. Thank you and goodbye
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  46.  @bobtudbury8505  Go away and flog another dead horse because you bore me rigid with your paltry attempt at a polemic
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  47. It was the height of stupidity by both the RN and the UK government that the U-boat were not studied and used to develop our submarine service as the view was it was an "ungentlemanly way" to wage war. That was why were we so unprepared, again, at the start of WW2. Very interesting what happened to these 3 but feel that they should have been put to better use.
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