Comments by "MarcosElMalo2" (@MarcosElMalo2) on "Military History Visualized" channel.

  1. Lindy’s bias isn’t an issue for me. My problem is that I don’t like people yelling military history at me.
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  2.  @colincampbell767  I think the support companies and battalions are already stretched to the limit performing the miracle of maintaining all the different vehicles sent by various countries. You cant just throw a complicated new platform like a tank into the mix. You cant just pull out repair crews for training when they are operating 24 hours a day to maintain the vehicles already in use. I honestly don’t think you can train a diesel mechanic on all the tank subsystems in a month.
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  3. Ooooooo! Da Loop! 😄 Yeah, I imagine there are hundreds of videos on the topic if one were to search for OODA loop. Its a principle employable at both the tactical and strategic level. First time I heard about it was in the context of fighter aircraft dogfights. The second time was in the context of small wars/counter insurgencies. This doctrine’s fingerprints are all over the Ukrainian strategy as the counteroffensive unfolds.
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  4. “Second World” refers to Communist Bloc countries during the Cold War, not to economic development. Just so we’re clear—a lot of people misuse the term because of sloppy use of Third World, which indicates non-alignment to First or Second Worlds. If you want to talk about economies, try using the more accurate descriptors Developed, Developing, and Undeveloped. Thanks, and if you were aware of the correct meaning, never mind.
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  5. Ask him about welds.
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  6. Don’t go. There is a surplus of Russian prostitutes, so you won’t find any work.
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  7. All my cheesy Vietnam movies start with “For What It’s Worth” by Buffalo Springfield. (There’s something happening here/What it is ain’t exactly clear)
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  8. And if it’s the welds blowing out, that means their welders aren’t getting full penetration.
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  9.  @noelle3551  The Kremlin’s ongoing rhetoric to justify the Special Military Operation sounds like it was cribbed from Mein Kampf.
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  10.  @3dcomrade  nah. Not even close to being the reason.
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  11. I’ve heard of a “New York Minute”, maybe there’s a metric minute? /s (Yes, I know the minute is already a basic part of the metric system)
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  12. They say Orange County is the place you oughta beeeeeee.
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  13. Grundy Malone So they could retreat 100% and still maintain their front line?
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  14. Scullys Tie As soon as he wrote that I knew he wasn’t worth paying attention to—like the majority of “gamers-with-opinions”.
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  15. Václav Fejt And don’t forget Tropic Thunder, maybe the best movie about the making of a documentary about the making of a movie. Seriously, go see it right now if you haven’t seen it before.
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  16. Even though your unit wasn’t meant to be inserted behind enemy lines, were you given additional training for fluid battlefield? That was one of the things about Vietnam (and I suppose other asymmetrical conflicts) was there was no front line. Just curiosity how much the mil was thinking about asymmetric warfare in the 90s.
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  17. Sure, dog. Aren’t you the one who walked into a saloon, looking for the man that shot your paw?
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  18.  @ReichLife  That’s false. The Mongols creamed the Muscovite Rus, who submitted to Mongol rule. The kingdom of Muscovy was set up, and the “Princes of Moscow Rus” were set up as tax collectors for the Mongols, paying them an additional tribute for the privilege. The vassal kingdom that we today call Russia was created by Mongols to be the bitch of an Asian empire. It’s looking more and more like Russia will return to bitch status to another Asian empire. 😂
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  19.  @chefboyardee2223  What do you mean the freshly mobilized Russian soldiers aren’t trained? The Putin Kommissars put them on a train. There, now they’re trained and ready to be sent to the front lines!
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  20. I’m really good at blitzkrieg sex. Stop saying it’s pre-mature ejaculation.
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  21. Kosta M. This is about the run up to war and the initial operation. The Great Purge affected the RA’s ability to respond. However, by the time of Stalingrad, the RA had gotten its shit together while the German invaders had exhausted many of their own resources (men and material). The RA still had an overwhelming amount of untapped resources.
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  22.  @generationkilled  Of course new tanks get added mid war, usually organically. You have the various iterations of Panzer III and IV at one end. Then you have big platform changes to Tiger II for example. But the big Tigers were few in number and did suffer from logistical issues. The Panzers were still in continuous production. And the resources put into the brand new platforms took resources away from the manufacture and logistics of the older models. Maybe WWII German tanks are a bad example of successful integration 😉 Shall we use the example of the British in North Africa? There were long pauses between operations, allowing for tank crews and repair/maintenance crews to get up to speed on new equipment. These periods entailed more than just build up of forces and accumulation of supplies.
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  23.  @oryxland3994  You make many excellent points. There’s also the matter of where do you find the personnel to train when your repair crews are working around the clock to maintain the equipment already in use. There is a gamer mentality that says, “Just train more crews” like you can flip a switch or spend resource points.
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  24. A lot of Russia’s population are victims of fetal alcohol poisoning. You can’t just compare raw population to determine which side will have more combat effective soldiers.
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  25. Podemos URSS and then push the vowels through their noses.
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  26. Blue Mountain Welcome to the 90s, Blue. They’re never going to end.
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  27. Surprised no one in this thread mentioned biological war.
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  28. Have you ever read Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow? Not an easy read for most people, but if you can plow through military manuals, I don’t think it will give you any problems. The title refers to the trajectory of the V2. “But it is a curve each of them feels, unmistakably. It is the parabola. They must have guessed, once or twice—guessed and refused to believe—that everything, always, collectively, had been moving toward that purified shape latent in the sky, that shape of no surprise, no second chance, no return.” The novel is a twisting narrative, absurd and at times surreal. Have a look!
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  29.  @FatGouf  The Russians First Guard Tank Army is currently storming the gates of heaven, with about the same success they had in Ukraine.
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  30. I think you are partially incorrect about the U.S. immigration laws and policies, either from the 20s or currently. Hitler admired our racist immigration policies. That’s what he was talking about. As far as the maga rhetoric sounding like Hitler, yes it does and it’s horrible. But the current racist rhetoric also mirrors the anti-Asian rhetoric from the second half of the 19th Century and throughout the 20th Century. The talk of “invaders” is a word for word borrowing from how Americans talked about Chinese and Japanese immigrants, and the rhetoric gave rise to massacres and pogroms. Anti-Asian sentiment was shared by both the right and the left. Some of the greatest rabble rousers of anti-Asian violence were socialists and labor leaders. My point is that the maga racists aren’t really importing many words or ideas from Nazi Germany. Our racism is homegrown and once inspired Hitler. Maybe we had 50 or 60 years of reform, but judging by the popular vote of our last election, we are reverting to a racist normal.
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  31.  @charadreemurr8673  Tankies and commie-boos have a positive knee jerk reaction to anything that could be vaguely considered anti-U.S. The credo is “America is always bad”. Anything the U.S. supports is bad, any alliance or coalition in which the U.S. participates is bad. (And according to their thinking, NATO is merely an extension of the U.S. and all the other members are puppets.) So if the U.S. and the NATO alliance is helping Ukraine, Ukraine is bad, and Russia good. And because (in their view) Ukraine is a mere extension of the U.S., any crime committed by the Russians in Ukraine can be justified by historical crimes committed by the U.S. Tankies and commie-boos also make many false comparisons—for example, comparing Russia’s invasion with the Cuban missile crisis. The argument is “turn about is fair play”, but it’s an argument based on a fabrication/falsification of historic events. Are these far leftists intellectually bankrupt? Well, they somehow supported Maduro in Venezuela when he cracked down on the democratic opposition using paramilitary groups and criminal gangs to intimidate them.
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  32.  @mill2712  In my country we say “Grassy Ass”.
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  33. Think of the various artillery platforms and other vehicles already being incorporated. The logistics and support chain, especially repair & maintenance, is already being pushed to the limits.
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  34.  @dominikobora5385  Yup. And the T-62 stores the bulk of its ammunition on the floor under the turret.
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  35. Ryan Grider I’m pretty sure the Germans never hired Japanese aviators to crew their tanks. 😏 Did you just get your medical marijuana prescription refilled? 🤡
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  36. Ryan Grider More like Cryin’ Grinder, amirite?
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  37. Charles Turner What?
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  38. Ryan Grider How can you live with yourself when you can’t even spell The Sipmsons? I mean, the Simpsons.
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  39. “Id like to introduce you to our gunner. We call him nubby.”
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  40. Not shocking numbers wrt offense vs defense, although the number of captured tanks by Ukrainian defenders early on was a little surprising.
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  41. I really don’t want any tank. Not with current gas and diesel prices!
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  42. Not hard to tell them apart. Shrek had a donkey, while the Shreck units had horses.
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  43.  @woltews  What if epoxy was applied to the turret ring so the turret couldn’t move?
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  44. Lol at the finger icon.
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  45. Or rear areas to control the populace and shoot at buildings.
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  46. Gulaschkoenig this was my thought as well when watching that part of the video. Not used for basic tank operation training, but used for company/battalion/division operational training. Combined arms is good for you, but you have to get good at it first.
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  47.  @fullm3taljacket  Says the guy with a dozen comments in each thread. 😂
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  48. If you want a fascinating overview of Russia’s military corruption, look for Perun’s channel and take a look at his video on the topic. Be warned, the video is in the form of a power point presentation and his videos are up to an hour in length. But they don’t seem that long and if you like this channel, you’re likely to enjoy Perun’s videos. I also recommend his video “All Bling, no Basics” (I think it’s called).
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  49. Yes, I think support units are already being stretched to the limit. Maybe there should be a timeout of six months so Ukraine can change to new platforms. Has anyone approached Putin to see if he would be amenable to a timeout?
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  50. That’s not how welding works. It’s very different than wood joinery. In welding, you are bonding two pieces into one solid piece. The weld needs to penetrate the thickness of the metal and you need the proper amperage going through the electrode/filler rod. You are fusing metal together. In a wood joint, increasing the surface gives you more glue surface. That’s what you’re thinking of. The interlocking plates you saw more likely were to aid in more rapid construction—it would allow more rapid positioning of the plates before they were welded.
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