Comments by "" (@TheDavidlloydjones) on "Knowledgia" channel.

  1. How MacArthur lost the Philippines? It wasn't his fault, it was his Daddy's. Bataan was defended by huge defensive guns intended to sink any navy that hove into sight. MacArthur's Daddy built them, 'cause Dugout Doug got where he was through being born into a military family. The Japanese drove a couple of little destroyers into the bay and shelled the hillsides above Daddy's big guns. The scree slid down the hill and into the gunports. So that was that. Clearly: A whole family of very stable geniuses.
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  2. It's a mixed record. Remember, the United States has been anti-imperialist for much of its existence. The US took part in the Opium Wars against China -- but to its credit, it gave half the extorted settlement money back -- and used it to found what is today the University of Beijing. But only half. Still, there was substantial goodwill left there -- all of which Trump has spent his time in office destroying. The Monroe Doctrine, far from being any imperialist land-grab, was a protection of Latin America from Spanish, Portuguese, English and French interference. It allowed Bolivar and the other Latin revolutionaries to move forward without being crushed by their former European overlords. Did America interfere? Sure, but it's worth remembering that these have been odd interferences. Bush sent the Marines into Haiti to restore an elected Marxist-Leninist, Aristide, to power. Maduro is only President of Venezuela right now because the CIA protected him from his own caudillo wannabes back in the Obama Administration. Your paradigm: When Reagan became President, almost all of Latin America was ruled by militaries, caudillos, or fascists. Eight years later, thanks to his benign Administration, there was only one dictatorship left: Cuba.
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  3.  @lukadinicc2229  I can and did. Some of those wars were pretty crummy. Quite a lot of them were in the cause of defeating empires. The mixture, the opposites, the ironies are well illustrated by the Philippines: the US fought Spain to liberate a colony from an empire. Then it fell into the role of the imperialist. It ain't easy.
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  4.  @joshuapotts6361  This, incidentally, is the story facing Li'l Kim's very big and very expensive guns pointed at Seoul: they get the first shot free -- and on the record of the German bombing of London that suggests a lot of fire damage but only about one death per ton of incoming. After the freebie, the roof falls in. Not good life-insurance statistics for North Korean gunners...
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  5. Poland cannot be ruled. The idea is just not on. "X ruled Poland" is not an English language sentence, it is a mumble of nonsense.
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  6.  @andriesterpstra8796  And lots of S's in USS-SSR.
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  7. "The telegraph. The telegraph. Didn't I tell somebody around here to invent the furshlugginer telegraph?" -- Emperor Iturbide.
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  8. "Why didn't The US Keep Cuba after 1898?" The place was full of Roman Catholics. Duh.
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  9. Awful lot of repetitive blather here (quite apart from the profusion of S's in, e.g. the USS SS R we keep hearing about). In the first six miinutes he asks "Why did...." maybe five times without ever coming within a country mile of answering the question. Net net, shoddy work here.
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  10. If you don't know how to pronounce smething, you can very often get the correct pronunciation from Google. E.g. https://youtu.be/7z4AJzPiimQ is one response from Google to "Pronunciation: holodomor."
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  11. "... training the KMT's elite 88th army." The KMT had an elite army hidden somewhere? Who knew?
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  12. And so the English felt safe enough to remove the words "and spare us from the marauding Dane" from the Church of England's Book of Common Prayer in 1957 -- right away, a mere thousand years later. Whew! Serenity...
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  13. It was full of the Irish. Next question.
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  14. Argentina had a shortage of government murderers and torturers while German has a sudden surplus, due to reduced governmental demand. Where's the question?
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  15.  @trolloftime5340  Oh? Thank you for the correction. You must have some secret information that I've missed. What is it?
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  16.  @BenAHowell754  That's not bad: the same mixture of good intentions, often carried out well, and the occasional outrage.
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  17. These people are unable, for some reason, to identify England, and, separately, the areas of the British Isles once occupied by Rome, on a map. Yet they call themselves "Knowledgia." Feh! More furshlugginer YouTube. America spirals around the drain, on its way to the down and out... Anglo-Saxons did not migrate to England: Angles and Saxons migrated all over everywhere. "Anglo-Saxon" is an aspect of "English," not a person or a people. The Church of England removed the prayer to be spared from the marauding Dane from the Book of Common Prayer in 1957. Too late: we had Danish au pair girls in 1949. Mother being from Yorkshire, our English is flavoured with Erse.
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  18. "The Romans `withdrew' and this left a `hole'"?? Shure. Like Europeans occupied the empty Americas. There was nobody in Siberia before the Russians arrived. And Israel was a land without a people for a people without a land. Who let these people out of grade school? Or did they just get thrown out because the chairs were too small for 22-year-olds?
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  19.  @matthewpavlantos9132  Let this enter History as the Principle of Waxelplacicity. As Einstein and Goedel truly taught us, in The Secret Annex, Waxelplacicity is everywhere.
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