Comments by "John Burns" (@johnburns4017) on "PragerU"
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The British were engaged in Europe fighting Napoleon, with the War of 1812 way down the list of priorities. Once Napoleon was beaten the Royal Navy sent a fleets to Washington and New Orleans. When the American marines in Washington saw the British fleet arriving, they fled. The President barely escaped before the Shropshire Light Infantry reached the White House. The British found his dinner had been served being still hot. They ate his meal and burned the White House down. The war ended on that point. The American victory at New Orleans, after peace was declared, with British troops readied for a counter-attack, was inconsequential to the peace treaty that the British awarded the USA.
The peace treaty was very generous to the USA who could have been taken back into the British Empire. The British proposed a line was drawn between Canada and the US, with the USA given everything south of that line, even territory the British had previously claimed. The Americans agreed with the British not to cross north of the line.
The USA shows no shame or embarrassment about abandoning the American capital, allowing the White House to be burned down. Leading American officials immediately ran to Europe seeking a peace treaty as soon as the British fleet arrived in Washington. Prior to the arrival of the fleet the USA was only fighting against the Canadian militia. The Americans could not conquer Canada even though the British were preoccupied with Napoleon in Europe.
The USA should be embarrassed by the war of 181, by sided with Napoleon and attempting to conquer Canada. The Americans hoped that Napoleon would conquer Europe defeating the British Empire. Napoleon assured the USA that he had no desires on controlling the continent of America when he sold the USA Louisiana Purchase. Napoleon gave all of the territories France claimed in America for near nothing. The USA would have been offered for sale Canada from Napoleon If he had conquered the British.
America stated that American countries should not be ruled by Europeans overseas was stated in the Monroe doctrine, unable to enforce it. It was the British who enforced the Monroe doctrine for the USA. The British agreed that the USA should govern themselves. The British rewarded the USA for losing the war, not being brought back into the British empire. America has no shame. They did not have to be engaged in the wars between the British and French in Europe by fighting with Canada in America. Both colonial America and the United States fought against Canada simply because France was fighting Britain in Europe.
Most American historians claim the war was a draw, which is ludicrous. The USA totally failed to achieve its aims, while the British succeeded is achieving theirs.
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Hitler's long term plan was to take the east for its resources creating a United States of Europe. There was no plan to invade the USSR in May 1940.
"In the autumn of 1940 Hitler made a number of dramatic announcements about the benefits that would follow Germany's ultimate victory. Most notably, these included a luxurious housing programme costed optimistically at 63 billion Reichsmarks and a programme of similar dimensions for the modernization of German agriculture. These, however, were post-war projects and this meant, even on optimistic assumptions about Barbarossa, that they could be begun at the earliest in 1942. In the mean time Hitler's priorities as far as the German population was concerned were quite specific: securing the food supply and protecting Germany against aerial attack. And as the war was conceived by Hitler and the military, there was no contradiction between these objectives and the need to further expand the prosecution of the war. On the contrary, the strongest arguments for rushing to conquer the Soviet Union in 1941 were precisely the growing shortage of grain and the need to knock Britain out of the war before it could pose a serious air threat. The significance of the Blitzkrieg strategy adopted in 1940-41 was not that it allowed the overall level of mobilization to be kept to a minimum, but that it allowed the German war effort to be split into two parts. The factories producing for the army directed their efforts towards providing the equipment for a swift, motorized Blitzkrieg against the Soviet Union. Meanwhile, the rest of the German military-industrial complex began to gird itself for the aerial confrontation with Britain and America. "
- THE WAGES OF DESTRUCTION by Prof Adam Tooze
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