Comments by "Samson Soturian" (@samsonsoturian6013) on "Eastern vs Western Siegecraft: When the Chinese Besieged a Russian Star Fortress in 1686" video.

  1. Some of these geopolitical maps conflict each other
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  2. The difference is Chinese people viewed soldiers/workers as expendable and lacked the skilled operators for many things common in Europe
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  3. 3/4 of Russians are in Europe, 3/4 of Russia is in Asia
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  4.  @lolasdm6959  It's "stronger" in the way that it's cheap and so the wall can be crazy thick and built by temp workers
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  5. @fus132  some empires were legal fictions
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  6.  @dragonace119  Russia did not have significant iron production at that time and simply used what was available
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  7.  @latte2475  Don't you have a math test to cheat on or something?
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  8. Over 200 years afterwards
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  9. The climate is akin to the southern coast of Alaska, that's our definition of sub-arctic
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  10.  @greghall4836  Lying about what's in the video will get you doxxed
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  11.  @latte2475  Liars get scalped
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  12.  @rodrigorafael.9645  If I said anything else, I would conflict what is in the video
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  13.  @lolasdm6959  Weird exaggerations. The scientific revolution simply never happened in China
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  14.  @lolasdm6959  Doesn't matter when the iron is +1,000 miles away overland. It was cheaper to import finished steel products from England than it was to make them locally. When a railroad connected the Donbas coal mines to the Urals iron mines, Russia became one of the largest steel producers as fast as they could build factories, savvy?
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  15.  @yoshihammerbro435  Besides the video? Chinese armies often have more men than they do weapons and that was the case in the War of the Heavenly Horses and in the Korean War and everything in between, and throughout these armies had a mismatch of armor types based simply one what was available and what they could afford. Mao was on record saying they didn't fear nuclear war as they were willing to lose ten million people. During the warlord period most soldiers had pistols because they couldn't afford rifles and many of the pistols were counterfeit but others were good copies of European guns. Colonial era Europeans complained of the Chinese economy, saying many men were making a living doing things that Europeans left to pack animals, and there was a shortage of skilled trades that could build/repair ships/engines/tools.
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  16.  @brendon1689  The Commies equate themselves with all Chinese dynasties until you speak of their totalitarian tendencies
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