Comments by "King Ace" (@kingace6186) on "The Armchair Historian" channel.

  1. It's crazy how in depth the video is. It might have benefited from a longer run time to avoid speed running. Yet, with a modest 15 minutes, we got a thorough analysis of the history of Israel-Palestine via the borders. (Goes to show how important geography is when learning history.)
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  2. A lot is already being said about the conflict itself and the Putin's sneaky rise, so let me just say this: The stellar animation of this video is phenomenal. The animation quality of "The Armchair Historian" 's documentaries is constantly progressing towards excellency. Keep up the great work. I love what you and the Armchair team have been doing and will continue to do. Truth with quality.
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  3. Not just Russian made. Soviet made. Back then, the Soviets used to make the second best military technology in the world. Russian Federation wishes.
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  4.  @gorillaeggs8199  BS. A state have no right to secede from the Union. Especially not over slavery. Moreover, Lincoln guaranteed the South that he wouldn't force abolitionism on the South. Yet, all but 5 slave states seceded.
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  5.  @NgolaNalane  What part of CONSCRIPTED/drafted don't you understand?
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  6. I knew that France's defeat, occupation, subjugation, and exploitation during WW2 were complicated and dark. And I knew about Vichy France's criminal history during the conquest of the nation. But I had no idea just how nuanced and immoral the situation was until now. History classes really need to expand their education, especially about France during World War 2.
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  7. The Armchair Historian animation isn't stiff and is actively giving the viewers a lecture while point at the map?? SO COOL!
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  8. Comparing the two makes you dishonest. 1 sin doesn't weigh the same as a thousand. The Allies were bad guys but Germany, Italy & Japan put all of that into context. That is the truth about the deadliest event in human history.
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  9. LMFAO. Trial and error can often be fatal
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  10. Toyota (used to) shows that quality > quantity. Quantity prolongs wars. Quality wins wars.
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  11. The PLA can be summed up in a sentence: Big in numbers but not in tonnage or experience.
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  12. Now those are war heroes. Gotta love the Marines.
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  13. Certified Gigachad feat.
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  14. Yeah. Even by Geneva standards, those are fair targets. General Sherman tried to avoid civilian casualties while maximizing damage to the Confederate war machine. (His post-Civil War crimes against Natives are different story tho.) HOWEVER, the acts done by Jefferson C Davis count as crimes against humanity.
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  15. Especially Goa.
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  16. Hopefully there is a section in that video for Iran Contra. Reagan's evils are endless.
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  17. Actually, Saddam very cleverly allowed the IAEA to inspect and search for any WMDs. Hell, by 2002, Saddam had ran out of even chemical weapons. But Bush said cap, invaded, then forbade any further inspections by the UN.
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  18. Damn. How tf did he serve that bs to the Kremlin?
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  19. The worst case scenario of WW2. It would have made the pacific war a decades long affair, followed by decades more of counter-insurgency efforts.
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  20. And almost always stemming from British & French foreign policy.
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  21. Honestly, even by Geneva standards, Sherman was no war criminal. (On the other hand, Jefferson C Davis definitely was.)
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  22. ​ @samuraipenguin8120  "Make the Israeli side look a lot worse?" Lol. Sorry buddy. But that's the geopolitical reality. It's a reality worsened by the fact that Israel is so much more powerful than any of its foes. And there is no Israeli or Palestinian side. People are not a monolith.
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  23.  @TheWoollyFrog  Yeah, he kept that same energy when he fought Native Americans after the Civil War.
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  24. 1) Thank you for your service & sacrifice, Private Bernhard Herman Bolt. 2) Once a parent is naturalized, their children (so long as they are still minors), automatically become citizens.
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  25. That is so tragic.
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  26. The flaw in your logic is the fact that submarines are still some of the most lethal weapons in the 21st century. One Seawolf-class nuclear-powered, fast attack submarine could destroy an entire navy or rain nuclear hellfire without ever being detected.
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  27.  @sleepisthecousinofdeath7395  Guess you're gonna count forever.🤡
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  28. I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy. More damning is the fact that they saw firsthand what this meant when Stalin and Hitler teamed up to carve up Poland.
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  29. I also like how he wasn't "just following orders". The March South was his idea, and he did it because that was the quickest and most efficient way to win the war.
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  30. Slava Ukraini
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  31. Yeah that happens a lot. The good news is that it showcases this videos lack of bias. Both "sides" will claim that the truth is false because it doesn't match their narrative.
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  32.  @raketny_hvost  And now grammar has jumped out of your window.
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  33. 1) History did not begin on October 7th. All of this started with the Balfour Declaration and the Nakba. 2) One belligerent committing war crimes and crimes against humanity doesn't give another belligerent the right to do that same violation of international law. Civilization has evolved beyond Hammurabi's Code being considered an acceptable legal system. 3) There is never an excuse for genocide. NEVER.
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  34.  @imjustthere9343  Classic bothsideism. FOH.
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  35.  @T-TD-5  During all of the brutal years of the Civil War, not once had a Confederate flag been marched into DC. But in 2021, that flag was marched into the Capitol Building of the Union.
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  36. Don't mess with the Yankees!
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  37. He wanted Confederates to remember that next time they thought "StAtE rIgHtS".
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  38.  @thehaus6998  It honestly seems like you are speaking from a place a bias. In any case, please feel free to tell me which important facts you feel were omitted entirely.
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  39.  @d.s.4952  It didn't. The IDF soldiers were lying. Anyone that reads Arabic (or can use google translate image) can tell you that much.
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  40. You're words say one thing, but the flag in your pfp says another. I am now legitimately confused.
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  41.  @raketny_hvost  What does that even mean!? LMFAOOO
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  42.  @raketny_hvost  Even your comebacks are sad and unfactual.
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  43.  @KazeHorse  Say that to all the civilians the Red Army killed with their scorched-earth bombing campaign. The Red Army literally destroyed more than half of the Afghani countryside.
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  44. lmfao
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  45. Funny enough that was what contributed War to start in Europe again... and also simultaneously on a global scale.
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  46. They just needed time to adapt. After all, President Lincoln was never going unilaterally end slavery in the South. Despite being an abolitionist, he put the Union above all else.
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  47. Most of us just want to learn and be informed.
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  48. I thank him for his service. Sounds like he was a true American.
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  49.  @attilamarics3374  Stop excusing genocide.
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  50. He wasn't. He was also very racist and caused the American-Japanese alliance to fall apart even though Japan sacrificed a lot in WW1 for the sake of internationalism (something Wilson was supposed to be a champion of). He did have some cool ideas though that he couldn't implement because democrats lost their majority in Congress.
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  51. Oil AND India*
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  52. (13:20) Deja Vu
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  53. Remember guys, Griffin Johnsen (the Armchair Historian) is not suicidal! Don't let them tell you anything else, if "anything" happens.
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  54. That's a misconception. At the time, Iraq had one of the largest armies in the world. And thanks to Soviet technology (which was cutting edge back then), it had the best battle-tested air defense in the world. The fact that the Gulf War was so one-sided is a testament to how efficient the Global Coalition was.
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  55. The real new cold war with the actual threat. Not the declawed, naked bear that thinks it's still an empire.
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  56. I am utter surprised that this hasn't happened already (9 hours after it was posted). Like, Wendover Production made a logistics video on the open-air prison status of Gaza, and even that was apparently too much for YouTube's guidelines.
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  57.  @royale7620  "Robbery" or Owning slaves? The greater crime is obvious.
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  58. Well, it worked out for Tunisia ....for a short 7 years.
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  59. Yeah, I like how he didn't romanticize any battles, groups, or individuals. But he didn't do justice to the crimes and atrocities committed by Russian forces. Objectivity would include highlighting the Ukrainian Genocide as well.
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  60. You are literally defending the slaver aristocrats that lived in giant plantations and never had to fight in war that they waged. They just sent poor whites to fight for them. Those are your heroes? Also, Abe Lincoln was literally born in a cabin in the woods so lmfao not "wealthy"
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  61.  @sleepisthecousinofdeath7395  Your denial is noticeable.
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  62. Okay Edgelord. If history was that reductive, why bother even learning it.
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  63. I salute their valor.
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  64. But they are also harder to cover by independent YouTubers because the algorithm suppresses those types of videos. That's why creators use Curiosity Stream and/or Nebula for topics that aren't "Youtube friendly".
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  65.  @Zacharoni4085  LMFAO
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  66.  @TheOriginalTPro  You're spreading misinformation without citing sources. Kick rocks.
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  67. Bro Imagine going through with Operation Downfall only for it to be so costly that nukes were needed either way.
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  68. No surprise that the author is of European descent.
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  69. One year later, so did Sweden.
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  70. That's the benefit of complete and unconditional surrender. And we managed to delay the reemergence of fascism for 8 decades.
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  71. The British employed this strategy all across the world. The secret to why it works so well is broken promises.
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  72. Not really the most incredible. The Fall of Constantinople, the Fall of Berlin, the Fall of Rome, the Fall of Okinawa, the Mongol Conquests, and the Liberation of Din Bin Phu were far more epic than 400 Spaniards with plagues, guns, & horses giving false promises to very resentful subjects.
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  73. World War 2 was the most destructive event in human history so I can understand where they come from. I just wish they weren't so willing to talk about things that they don't have enough information on. There is nothing wrong with saying IDK.
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  74. Classic Holyland problems
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  75.  @neoromanempire  Caliph Umar was like: "Don't mind if I do."
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  76. I like how this episode of The Armchair Historian began. Kudos to the animators.
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  77. How kind of those "Native Americans" for giving the ocean a sip of the tea.
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  78. Great production. Sound design has been amazing for a while now.
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  79. Yup. People in West Virginia wanted slavery but didn't want to commit treason by seceding. So it "joined" as a border state.
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  80. I am a huge fan of pilots. My favorite fighters are the F-15 to the F-22, with a lot of love for the F-35. But even I gotta admit, an autonomous 6th generation fighter controlled by a human hybrid AI system backed by a hiveminded fleet of advanced UMV would be the deadliest weapon in the world. Just one unmanned strike force would be unstoppable. Even dog fighting could be done autonomously. And since there is no human pilot, the AI can make the fighter go upwards of however much G Force the material of the plane can handle.
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  81. Yup. But fair representation would mean English politicians willingly sharing power.
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  82.  @fungunsun1  Neutral does not mean "both-sides-ism" or toned down language.
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  83. Oh definitely. Not the warlord pirates that took over piracy later, but the initial fishermen-turned-pirates that just wanted to take back control of their exclusive waters from foreigners taking advantage of a failed state.
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  84. Forever Wars Part 2.
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  85. Respect
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  86. I am not a hundred percent sure but I think they already released a video on the Soviet-Afgan War.
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  87.  @meilingsigma  If 'Whataboutism' is your best argument, then you don't have an argument, to begin with.
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  88. No matter the century, the location, or the politics, appeasement is always a slow spiral to doom and destruction. Moctezuma is often portrayed as a pacificist but his negligence directly led to the eradication of his people. If a foreign military unit strolls right into your territory to leverage unrest, you don't give them gold and invite them into your palace. If this was fiction, it would be cheap writing.
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  89. He was a criminal desperately fleeing the law even if that meant killing and raping thousands. He was no genius; divide and conquer is the oldest trick in the book.
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  90. Buddy, pretty much all American war heroes in the 18th and 19th century. But only a handful of them also freed slaves with military force.
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  91. Tragic how the Fourth French Republic & Charles de Gaulle was desperately clinging to their dying imperial power to the point where they didn't care about starting a 3rd World War. Everyone knew that President Truman's concept of the "Domino Theory" was flawed, but the French fanned the flame of fear and war (despite being utterly decimated in the last Great War). They convinced President Eisenhower that the "Domino Theory" could lead to America becoming an island in an ocean of Communism, starting from Vietnam. In "French Indochina", they advocated to brutal subjugation, fighting until the death, & using tactical nuclear weapons (an option that was taboo amongst the rest of NATO European Allied Command). The legacy of that mentality the French Empire whipped into the United States led countless American soldiers to their graves in the jungles of Vietnam -- while the rest came back with PTSD. And all of it was for nothing; France lost Indochina, thousand of civilians died, US pulled out w/ nothing to show, Ho Chi Minh became vindictive, and Vietnam ended up uniting into a strong deterrence to Chinese expansion -- proving the "Domino Theory" had always been a sham. In truth, an united, indigenous Vietnam (like now) would have made more of a "Western" ally than France. And the worse part is, unlike the American, Russian, German, or British Empire... the French Empire is still alive today. A true eternal legacy of European Colonization and warmongering.
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  92. Three minutes in and, as usual, thanks Britain, smh...🤣 (9:30) "Zionopoly" is gold.🤣🤣🤣🤣
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  93. (11:05) President Eisenhower, you beautiful, beautiful man.
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  94. But at that point, it would be better to do a WW2 video from the perspective of the entire British Empire (minus the UK). The Empire and the Royal Navy guarding it are the real unsung heroes; from the Indian subcontinent to the Carribeans.
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  95. Okay. Hear me out. I prioritize objectivity, but I can admit to my by subjective pro-Ukrainian/pro-democracy bias. HOWEVER, the Infographics Show does not give a f about neutrality. It's hilarious how over-saturated & overwhelming their feed is now with borderline propaganda. Again, I am biased, so I don't mind too much. Yet, I wouldn't consider the Infographics Show objective and uninfluenced.
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  96.  @mrjamesinblogington  I used to watch their content a few times a week but now I haven't seen their videoes since the Kharkiv Offensive.
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  97. What?
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  98. Occupation of a hostile country with a brainwashed people that was just invaded, poisoned, and maybe even still nuked anyway.
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  99. Charles de Gaulle: "America, please help us in Indochina. Our dying empire is about to lose our colonies in Asia. We keep fighting but we keep losing. There are even big scary evil communists that must be stopped because of the DoMiNo ThEoRy." Also, de Gaulle: "Boo! Yankees go home! You are imperialists who don't have any business in Indochina. Justice for the Vietnamese."
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  100.  @codybailey855  "They're eating people's pet." Yeah, Trump is so cooked. Now, even Texas might turn blue in the Senate.
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  101. 2023 proved that both US politicians are useless freeloaders, and that Pentagon war planners don't know how to fight positional warfare anymore. The description "WW1 with 21st century weapons" is no hyperbole.
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  102.  @javiersanchez67  Why are you not talking about the fact that Spaniards eradicated 75% of all Native Americans with disease? Why are you not talking about the fact that Spaniards raped so many Native American women, they made a whole new ethnicity? The Spanish colonizers were just as cruel as the British colonizers and ruled for longer.
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  103. I am still bewildered by the insanity that is the Nigerian Civil War. NATO members supported opposite sides; the Sino-Soviet split meant that they supported opposite sides; US & USSR were seemingly on the same side, while at the same time not; Africans supported opposite sides; Isreal supported both sides; Europeans were supported opposite sides; Arabs supported one side while Haitians(wtf!!???) supported the other side; and let's not even get started on the foreign mercenaries.
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  104. True.
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  105. He also left out both Minsk Agreements & the Budapest Memorandum, too. But overall great.
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  106. If so it should be followed with the American occupation. (I think he already did the Japanese occupation.)
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  107. Hey, Armchair Historian. You should do a modern battle analysis of Operation Alula Aba Nega (June 18 - 28, 2021), in Tigray, which was fought between the forces of the Tigray Defense Force vs the occupying Anti-Tegaru Coalition (Ethiopia Defense Forces, Amhara Militia, Eritrean Defense Forces, & Somali draftees). Some serious observers of the conflict have called it the "turning point of the war in Tigray" and "one of the greatest rebel offensive in African History". Although, it would have to be a video uploaded to your website due to how recent the battle was and Youtube regulation. But I still recommend exploring the 10-day Oppression named after the 19th-century Tegaru General, Alula Aba Nega.
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  108. Mainly because at the onset of the war, the Imperial Japanese Army proved to be far less competent than the Japanese Navy.
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  109. Johnson could have been that cool president that showed unity and respect in a post-Lincoln Union. But instead, he became the guy almost everybody hated.
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  110.  @commandercorl1544  Gee I wonder why? Surely it wouldn't because THOSE ARE HOSPITAL SHIFTS. In case you didn't know, people usually work at least 5 days a week.
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  111. Away down South in the land of traitors, Rattlesnakes and alligators
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  112. One thing that was lost in this narrative was that this all started with Ukraine being a neutral country. Most people don't remember that. When Ukraine handed over its nuclear weapons, it not only got assurances of not being invaded by Russia but also assurances of not being sanctioned by the United States. During the 2000s, Ukraine still didn't want to join NATO even as the Orange Revolution saw a popular desire to join the EU. (In fact, France wanted both Ukraine and Russia in the EU up until Feb 2022.) NATO expansion in the Black Sea was only focused on Georgia, Romania & Bulgaria w/ . Also, you can't blame NATO for Eastern European countries not trusting Russia because of its past history AND present actions.
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  113. Truman had nothing but impossible choices. That being said I completely disagree with his later escalation of the arms race into hydrogen bombs.
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  114. A great and detailed glance into the history of German Aircraft engineering. Looking forwards to an "Evolution of American Aircraft" video! Everyone knows the USAF is what Congress likes to splurge. Plus, the US has a very long and controversial history with the Military-Industrial Complex, so I know there would be a lot to discuss.
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  115. Gotta hand it to Poland. Regardless of the time (WW1, Inter-War, WW2, Cold War, Post-Cold War, this Ukrainian-Russo War), the Poles have the will to and experience of fighting for their sovereign territory.
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  116. Since the 19th century, the area that we, now, know as the Federal Republic of Germany has almost always been known for being ruled by a state with insane military power. Besides the weak Weimar Republic (followed by the most militant German state -- Nazi Germany), the only time there was an exception to this truth was in the 30 years after the Soviet Union fell. I guess the conclusion I am trying to reach is, now that Germany is remilitarizing more than ever before, I am just glad it isn't under a military dictatorship or a Nazi dictatorship, but under a stable and strong democracy.
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  117. Surprisingly, it mostly is so far.
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  118.  @ethangarland8034  The Gulf War??? Bush's Daddy sent Saddam packing out of Kuwait, thus upholding the global order and securing global oil trade.
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  119.  @spiffygonzales5160  Reread their comment.
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  120. Especially int terms of sound design
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  121.  @anonymousperson9735  Lowkey respectable considering how most empires try to eradicate the cultures of their conquested people.
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  122. Okay. Those Goat Guns model kits are super cool and intricate.
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  123. That is the nature of evolution. Adapt or die. The South become to complacent and stuck in their way, then they reactively started a war that they couldn't win. If it had adapted sooner, so much self-caused suffering wouldn't have happened.
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  124. No they're not. That's only like 5 to 10 percent of the comments.
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  125. In my opinion, the war of containment in Vietnam failed when troops were deployed to an unfamiliar country filled w/ jungles and fierce guerrilla fighters who know the land.
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  126. History must not be censored. Private interests be damned.
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  127. Wait so King George III wasn't evil? Whoops. My bad. Then I guess it's F*ck the PM, instead! Edit: Oh never mind he was just a fickle tyrant. AND he ignored the letters.
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  128. nice
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  129.  @spuldzexx  That is straight disinformation. No refugees were forced to go back. Your lies are meaningless slander.
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  130. There is a difference between current events and a conflict that too place 80 years ago. 80 years is a whole human lifetime.
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  131. Thanks for this informative video on a topic most would simplify and/or glance over.
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  132.  @aleksejssuharevs866  Oh shut up you donut.
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  133.  @josefmengele181  Grammar please. I can't understand your broken rhetoric.
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  134. Honestly, without American troops, France would have been, at least, carved up.
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  135.  @8ball279  If the South didn't want to get burned to the ground, then Confederates shouldn't have committed treason against the Union just to keep their slaves. Womp Womp
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  136.  @_xoma_-yo2zf  You mean how it was the USSR that partnered with Hitler's Germany (Molotov-Ribbon Pact) to invade Poland. In this case, Stalin would be Netanyahu and Nazi Party would be Hamas. That makes Poland the innocent Palestinian and Israeli civilians, the real victims of this war.
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  137.  @sasquatchpatrol9317  More like corporation (YouTube/Google) approved propaganda.
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  138. The fallacy in your thinking is that China is NOT building up its military to protect itself from exploitation. The PLA is being built up so that the PROC project their superpower status. While following the superpower playbook, the CCP chose to use their military to: expand its borders, try to force Taiwan into reunification, try to annex the South China Sea, provoking neighboring states by attacking foreign commercial vessels. The biggest military threat for most Asian nations is a hostile China. From India to the Philippines to Japan.
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  139. Cough Ukraine Cough Cough
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  140. Atatürk is holding on for dear life, meanwhile the Young Turks are too busy committing genocide on the Armenians.
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  141. This animation is really great! (7:15) Now the animators are just flexing for fun.
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  142. The sound quality is stellar.
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  143. Great video!!
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  144. Before even watching this video, I doubt the allies could even successfully pull off an amphibious landing that would have dropped. Then the allies + the Soviets would have to subjugated a cult military that is fighting to defend its own mainland. Finally, the occupation woulda taken countless decades of brutal insurgency fighting until the very last man, women, and child thanks to brainwashing. The Romans look like the French compared to the Imperial Japanese.
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  145.  @TheOriginalTPro  That wasn't written on the calendar. You've been duped by your naivete. It weird that you would trust an IDF soldier with incentive to lie over people that can actually read Arabic.
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  146. Airchair Historian doesn't censor.
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  147. And then the bloody Libyan Civil War because a proxy war in the large cold war between Turkey and Russia. Foreign interventions saved Libya from Gaddafi, but it also cursed Libya into downward spiral of chaos. This was also another failure of Obama's "Strategic Patience" doctrine.
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  148. Alvarado: The only conquistador more evil than Hernan Cortes. It was he who instigated the siege by massacring those unarmed generals during an Aztec holiday.
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  149. I agree. I love to see the evolution of this channel.
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  150. (6:26) Best part of any 'The Armchair Historian' video ever!
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  151. Who?
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  152. I knew the mercenaries of PMCs would be integral to 21st-century warfare when the US started contracting Blackwater for the Global War on Terror.
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  153. That is the legacy of the Daughters of the Confederacy. So much for History is written by the winners. It's written by whoever has a platform and an audience.
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  154. Zimmerman Note & U-boats: DO WE MEAN NOTHING TO YOU!?
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  155. It's called doublethink; it's a form of indoctrination.
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  156. How about you pick up a proper history book that doesn't treat you like a dumb ass? The Aztecs were like any other powerful empire at the time, then the Spanish colonizers came, turned their subjects against them, and then became the new overlords.
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  157. Minor Error, but you meant Pres. Franklin D Roosevelt, not Theodore.
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  158. Thank you for this historical video
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  159. Not accurate. Mexicans aren't a monolith. Subjectively, you and many others might think that way. But many more are more connected to their Native or Spanish side. And many more can comfortably. denounce Spanish colonization while fully accepting the Spanish side of them.
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  160.  @KestrelMB  Stop rewriting history pal. Hernan Cortes is a mass murderer and a criminal who broke the laws of the Spanish Empire. 90% of Mexicans are Mestizo only because Hernan and his fellow colonizers mass-raped the Indigenous Aztecs, Mayans, Totonac, and more. The ethnicity, Mestizo, is literally the product of rape. And Hernan Cortez didn't liberate anyone. He and the Spanish Empire oppressed, enslaved, and killed millions more than the Aztec Empire.
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  161.  @assistmans  They weren't preventing interracial marriages because the Spanish loved to rape Native women and make them their slave wives. But the Spanish definitely were responsible for countless genocides. Educate yourself.
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  162. I would have utilized the Finnish sniper units. I mean the great sniper in the world, the White Death, was Finnish after all.
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  163. Then you realize that poor White gladly went to war just so rich plantation owners can keep slavery/free labor. "If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you." --LBJ
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  164. More like effective as long as they are handsomely compensated. Otherwise, they turn on you. And effective isn't true. Wagner only got results because they murdered all the civilians who opposed them and then imported Russian propaganda. Using a PMC in warfare is almost guaranteed to spectacularly backfire. Putin and Bush learned this the hard way.
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  165. In a legal trial, it is "innocent until proven guilty". In a political trial, it is "suspicious enough until proven innocent enough".
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  166. War is hell. Next time, don't betray your country over slavery.
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  167. LMFAOOOOOO They made y'all censor 0:50. How it was bleeped out was hilarious, but it's really sad how history has to be told through a filter because of YouTube's algorithm and policies.
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  168. I blame the Iraqi military. Cult warriors loyal to Saddam.
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  169. I wonder if they are going to start creating a domestic industry for artillery now that the US is seen as unreliable. (Btw, Trump team threatened Starmer with the possibility that US weapons that the UK already bought might suddenly stop working if "you don't do as told".)
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  170. Nazi
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  171. If it was that easy, then the Mongols would have wiped out humanity.
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  172. "The Americans always do the right thing... eventually." -- William Churchill
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  173.  @ЕгорЖитов-н6я  1. Ukraine's 2023 population is 43 Million. 2. The rate of attrition on the frontline is greatly in favor of Ukraine. The Ukrainian Army is gearing up for their counterattack & is playing mind games that have undermined Russian defenses. Not only does Bakhmut still stand, but rn Ukrainian forces are also countering Wagner's failed offensive. All as the incapable Russian MoD bickers with an over-empowered private army; both of which are effectively weak. 3. My point? Forget all of Ukraine. Putin can't even take one small town of strategic or symbolic significance.🤡
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  174. Did they really think that nobody knew how to read Arabic? As far as cover ups, false flags, and planted evidence go, the IDF has been very sloppy. Almost like they don't care enough to hide/justify their crimes better.
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  175. Pentagon expected to fight trench warfare with GWOT strategies.
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  176. Hamas is only a symptom of Israel opposition to a 2 State Solution. Netanyahu himself used to fund Hamas with briefcases full of cash because in his words "a strong Hamas is a weak Palestinian Authority". The PA is the legitimate government of Palestine recognized by the UN, so Netanyahu and extremists resort to 'divide and conquer' to split any hope of Palestinian Statehood. Palestine can never be free until Israel removes its boots off of Palestine's neck.
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  177. It's not famous because it's his own account of his own genocides where he glorifies himself and degrade the Natives.
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  178.  @igormarcos687  Well countries like Germany don't really have a choice. Anything they do will be called "anti-semitic" and "pro-Hamas".
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  179. @chinsaw2727 Respect
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  180.  @baha3alshamari152  Noam Chomsky the appeaser, is that you?
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  181. Lake NATO 😎
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  182. WAY too much credit was given to Menelik II and the whole of "Ethiopia". In truth, the ones responsible for the military force were the ethnic Tigrayans in the north who made up the bulk of the defense force. While Menelik's empire-wide drafts swelled the northern defense, he only thought the conscripts were mainly useful for being incompetent, untrained cannon-fodder. Contrastingly, the Tigrayans had a legacy of being warriors that stretched all the way back to the Axumite Empire and were experienced in dealing with European colonial efforts as they fought w/ Emperors Tewedros II & Yohannes IV. And Tigrayans had an ace... Ras Alula Aba Nega -- a brilliant, veteran general who was responsible for the famous "lure & envelope" tactics of the Battle of Adwa. In conclusion, instead of preaching "Menelik's Ethiopia's" greatness, people should instead appreciate the Tigrayan Warriors and their mighty general, Ras Alula Aba Nega, And as always, it has been a great video
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  183. Uh.....
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  184. Stallin: We should make plans to invade Manchukuo! Pres. Truman: Hits Japan w/ "Little Boy" & "Fatman". Stallin: Immediately declares war on Japan.
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  185. Kinda b*tchmade, don't you think?
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  186. Reconstruction Era was the most consequential period in US History. And if Andrew Johnson had not been too compromised, the reforms implemented in the South would have been even more thorough. And if the Union forces didn't just leave the South without a proper plan/security guarantees, those reforms would NOT have been dismantled.
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  187. Nah Merryweather is only useful when you need to rob a random helicopter.
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  188. Dis/Misinformation is the enemy of truth.
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  189.  @deadlyknights1119  Rational thought matters less in the face of irrationality and potent propaganda.
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  190. This is exactly why logistics are so important. American logistics in Africa are abysmal.
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  191. They literally founded the city of London. Same thing with the Vikings for major countries in the east of Europe, including Ukraine and Russia.
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  192.  @GTAVictor9128  Keep coping, Viktor. Thanking the Romans is one thing, but no one should thank the red leftist fascists.
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  193. It is ashame how the Americans, British, & French were so quick to blame Sweden's acquiesce to all German demands. Sweden was minor power because it was forced into neutrality by the Prussians, British, & Russians. And most importantly, WW2 in Europe would have never occured the way it did if not for the Allies' policy appeasement. You can't blame a small country who was blackmailed by powerful neighboring superpower, but you can blame the great powers/superpowers that allowed tyranny to proliferate on a fragile continent.
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  194. nice
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  195. Given how well you have handled the other videos on this complex subject matter, I have zero doubt that this is a great historical review. It is tough to do that with current events (and lord knows YT hates coverage on recent wars), but Armchair Historian made this piece with tact and proficiency. Thank you so much for waiving the use of a sponsor. It was the mature and considerate thing to do.
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