Comments by "" (@Crashed131963) on "Imperial War Museums" channel.

  1. Need a army that looks good not only on paper .
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  2. India struggled for Independence before the war. Britain becoming bankrupt after the war helped speed up the inevitable.
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  3. Brain Drain made most of Russia's trained young technicians leave the country. Russia has a hard time maintaining army truck tires let alone jets.
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  4. After Kurks in 1943 the Russian were on a unstoppable march to Berlin even if D-Day failed or never happened. This battle sure was not changing things.
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  5.  @jakubkarczynski269  By late 1944 the Russians out numbered Germany in everything even if Germany brought everything over from the Western front. D-Day was just to make sure Stalin did not keep heading west after he took Berlin.
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  6. Like finding out Russia's military is a paper tiger.
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  7. Tell that to Putin when he invaded next door Ukraine almost 2 years ago and counting . Not easy for them .
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  8. How can any country fight the USA, UK and USSR at once and win. If Germany made no mistakes they were still going to be outnumbered in everything and lose.
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  9. What did Russia not think of that while invading Ukraine?? Does not Russia have the 2nd largest Air Force in the world ?
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  10. Stay out of Kuwait .
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  11. That was the 2003 Iraq war. This was the 1991 war to get Iraq out of Kuwait .
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  12. Putin)- "How to take forever to invade a country right next door ."
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  13. Russia can win with the Ukraine right next door . Iraq was on the other side of the world not next door like Mexico and Canada.
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  14.  @maggiessky7482  Like our last fall election in Canada. Our PM won with 68% of the voters not voting for him.
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  15.  @corn1971  Gas was not a game changer for the losing side in WW1. Nukes are a game changer for the losing side. Comparing Chemicals weapons to nukes is like comparing a stone spear to a Vulcan machine gun.
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  16.  @ralphpezda6523  To simplify things No country could beat the US, USSR and UK at once. The US (alone) had 130 million people vs Germany,s 70 million and a manufacturing Capacity 3 times larger than Germany.
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  17.  @curtisaguinaga7021  Impossible by 1944. The allies had "complete" air superiority ,with a air force 8x larger than what Germany had in 1940. It was suicidal to even move ground forces for the Germans in daylight by this stage, The Battle of the Bulge only lasted a week until the weather cleared. Then it was a Typhoon ,P47 free for all turkey shoot. Pulse even if what you say happened ,the Russian has 6 million strong heading to Berlin and nothing was stopping that by 1944 even if the US and Britain quit the war.
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  18.  @princeotahprinceotah119  Even the US alone had a much larger population and 3X the manufacturing capacity of Germany.
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  19.  @murphy7801  With Russia's showing in Ukraine think many countries have a larger and better Air Forces than Russia .
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  20.  @harrymaguire3322  When I say UK I kind of include Canada,Australia and India in those days. How Little Germany lasted for so long is a miracle.
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  21. Kherson was a claimed by Putin to be a Russian City inside Russia before his draftees fled for their lives. Defenders of their countries have no time limit. It took 800 years for the Irish to kick out the British.
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  22.  @ПавелНовиков-х3б  It's on month 10 now with Russia needing the draft and buying weapons from poor countries like Iran and North Korea. The US took out the Iraq government and capital in 4 weeks that was on the other side of the world not right next door.
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  23.  @sumerianfarmer5363  That's what people in North America and Europe do all day . Worry if Iraq will rowboat over and take them over .
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  24. Russia with GDP just above Spain thinks its a military superpower like , China, EU and China. You can't fool math.
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  25. Yes. He thinks let bomb the people until they want to become part of Russia. That's a long wait.
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  26. Now Russia is the invader heading west .
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  27. When untouched Dresden was bombed in 1945 ,the Russians were at the Gates of Berlin. Bombing a city that late in the war was a war crime.
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  28. Remember Russia is a country with a GDP just above Spain playing "keep up" with economic superpowers like China, EU and the US. Russia's shortcuts now are showing themselves ,lack of training , maintenance and corruption. Plus fightin so your country does not become part of Russia with Putin as your new leader is a high motavator. What motivation does a starving cold Russian draftee far from home have?
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  29. Iraq had a larger military than Ukraine if you look it up .
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  30. Its short range was the problem , there was no fixing that.
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  31.  @matpk  The WW2 days of war are over with the invention of Nukes and ICBMs. One Nuclear Sub and take out any nation nowadays. We will never see a WW3. China,USA ,Europe and Russia are not suicidal.
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  32. Sun Tzu says- "Do not fight 3 superpower at the same time ."
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  33. The Pacific war was a American personal project, after Pearl Harbor with one War Room in Washington DC. Nice to know that others were keeping track from the outside.
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  34. Needing a draft is the first bad sign. I do not remember the Americans drafting people to invade Iraq and Iraq was on the other side of the world not next door like Mexico. Where is the russian air force is what I want to know? I really thought Russia would have control of the skies like the US did in Iraq in a week.
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  35.  @spidos1000  Stalin took all of Eastern Europe anyways after the war. B-29 and A-bombs would have made sure Stalin took no more than allowed.
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  36. In Russia's case the invaders were the poorly armed, poorly trained, massively underpowered conscripted opponent, lead by incompetent and corrupt officers.
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  37. The US beat Iraq in 4 weeks and Iraq was 11,175 kms away .
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  38. The Spitfire that could fly to Berlin and back , was the P-51.
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  39.  @bw6524  The other cities were bombed throughout the entire war by large raids. Desden never had large scale bombing and like you stated not bombed much and late in the War which 1944 is. By Jan 1945 the Russian were inside Germany getting ready to take Berlin. What did Dresden matter?
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  40. Step #1 Not working for Putin's invasion .
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  41. I notice countries with nukes never get invaded. Ask Taiwan or Ukraine if having nukes would have been handy. China and Putin will not commit suicide over land expansion.
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  42. The 2003 war was larger I think .
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  43. Win= remove the existing government of the county you invaded. Saddam war gone in 2 weeks. Putin is still working on the Ukraine government almost 2 years after invading .
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  44. Had to do it again in 2003.
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  45. West Europe would have been taken over By Hitler or Stalin if it was not for the US.
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  46.  @TheVanillatech  Without US help in WW2 Europe , it was a toss up if Hitler or Stalin would be the person to take over Europe. Germany putting everything against Russia and Russia getting no lend lease from the US.
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  47. Canada ,Australia,South Africa and India were in the British Commonwealth only. The United Kingdom (UK) is North Ireland ,Scotland ,Whales and England only .
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  48. it was betty well understood early that attacking North America is the same as attacking the USA itself. Let the US pay the bills.
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  49.  @Woke_Hammer  Ecorting or not it had 20 minutes fly time and could not go very deep into Britain. They needed their ally Japan to have sent them some Zeros with a 1000 mile range to change things.
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  50.  @Woke_Hammer  The Brits just had to drop back enough to be out of that 20 minute range. The 190 had a longer range for sure. Even the 109 drop tank was not invented during the battle of Britain.
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  51. Close but nope . The landing to retake the Philippines was large too.
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  52. I was wondering where the Russian air force has been for these 9 months. In The Iraq invasion the US first job is to get complete control of the air where the enemy cannot even go above ground during the day. Here you see Ukraine crews in a open fields during the day.
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  53. Tanks are sitting ducks once the other side controls the skies. Tank models will not matter to hellfire missiles .
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  54. Hitler declared war on the US.
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  55.  @bumbyonline  Not close to the scale of the US involvement . The US was the only allied country Japan Physically attacked. Even Germany never attack a US owed landmass. Japan never touch Australian or UK propper . .
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  56. fun fact. With drop tanks both the Corsair and Hellcat could go to Berlin in back also. Navy fighter had to have long range as a requirements for obvious reasons when flying off carriers over a Pacific ocean.
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  57.  @jacktattis  The Thunderbolt held up well in Europe and it had the same Wasp engine as the HellCat .
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  58. It was a un-accurate way to deliver only 1000 lbs of explosives. This video said 1800 lbs but it was not. The larger V2 was only 2000lbs The old Stuka carried 3000lbs in comparison .
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  59. The logistics were tuned into Yachts. Plus Russia is not a wealthy country with a GDP below Canada but playing world superpower at the same time. In the 1979-89 invasion of Afghanistan the USSR went bankrupt and fell over it. This invasion is much more costly.
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  60. China made Nukes in 1964. I think the US would have made nukes no matter what over time. Did a country really think once they made a nuke they could keep them to themselves forever?
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  61. fun fact. With drop tanks both the Corsair and Hellcat could go to Berlin in back also. Navy fighter had to have long range as a requirements for obvious reasons when flying off carriers over a Pacific ocean.
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  62. The war was decided long before 1945 Dresden , Harris is burning in hell with Hitler and Stalin.
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  63. Great information video .
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  64. Dresden being bombed only 2 months before the war ended is impossible to justify.
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  65.  @pnotuner1  The late bombing of Dresden sure did not speed up the Russian in kicking down the door of Hitler's bunker in Berlin. May as well have left the city untouch like they did for the last 5 years of the war.
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  66. We would be on WW4 by now if it was not for nukes.
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  67. Dresden was like 300 V1s hitting the city all at once.
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  68.  @DanLetts97  This was 2 months before the war ended and all the other German cities were already bombed to rubble a long time ago. The total bomb load on london for the entire war was one days bomb load over Germany in 1945.
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  69. What happen to article 5 of Nato. A attack on one is a attack on all. Britain was a Nato member and their land was invaded.
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  70. And Russia stole it to. The US made the A-Bomb so this is really a downgrade to the US in WW2
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  71. It was a old footage video. One Ohio class sub can take out every major city in Russia and China from 10,000 km away while submerged. We would be fighting WW4 by now if it was not for M.A.D .
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  72. Once the Russians won at Kursk in 1943 , the Russians were on a unstoppable march to Berlin even if D-Day never took place. We could have just closed the war room and got out the popcorn and watched the rest.
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  73. It was lucky to hit the city let alone the port inside the city.
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  74. I don't think the 3rd world was ever sailing over to Britain to steal back their assets.
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  75. Great Video I never under stood why Churchill lost . Out of the Big 3 winners Britain was the only country worse off after the war ,compared to before the war. The US got out of the prewar Depression and Russia became a superpower with control of all Eastern Europe and East Germany.
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  76. Even before the war it was well know the US had the largest industrial capacity in the world in the 1930s. Henry Ford's " River Rouge complex" built in 1920 out produced Germany's and England's entire automotive industry. Now you add General Motors, Dodge ,Studebaker and Hudson factories .
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