Comments by "Itinerant Patriot" (@itinerantpatriot1196) on "Knowledgia" channel.

  1. One of my cousins was big into genealogy a while back and spent a few years tracing our lineage, even going so far as following breadcrumbs across the pond to the old country. Anyway, word is John Hawkins is in my family tree, one of those cousins 17 times removed or whatever. I'm not sure how true it is but it would explain this overwhelming urge I've had since I was a kid to plunder a Spanish Galleon. 🤔
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  2. Your video is based on a misrepresentation of how war planning works. War plans are just that, plans. Plans are drawn up all the time. There are entire sectors of the defense department devoted to planning. To borrow from Bruce Willis in Armageddon; "They've got guys just sitting around thinking shit up." There was no way the populace of either nation would have supported a war between 1920-1939 and politicians knew that. America became more isolationist and Britain was broke. The U.K. and the U.S. both dismantled their standing armies, hardly an indicator that they saw each other as a threat. Naval power was an issue but the Americans had been building a two ocean navy based on the writings of people like Thayer Mahan for decades by this point. Britain accepted it as a reality. There was tension in the sense that Britain was an imperial power and the U.S. was traditionally anti-colonial but after the Spanish American War and the acquisition of Puerto Rico, Guam, Wake, and The Philippines, American thinking on that had softened as well (at least beyond people like FDR but I digress). The Washington Naval Treaty in the 20's was negotiated to curtail Japanese expansion which worried both Britain and the U.S. more than it was to stave off any war between the U.K. and the U.S. On a side, in this video and the one on the War of 1812 you refer to "The Republicans" when you talk about political parties. This will lead someone not versed in American history to conclude you are referring to the Republican Party that exists today. You should correct this and start referring to the party as the Democratic Republicans which was what they called themselves at the time. The party was a result of the feud between Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson over the role of the federal government and republican in that sense meant supporting states rights. The republican bit was dropped with the election of Andrew Jackson and they have been the Democratic Party ever since. The Republicans of today were created in the 1850s after the collapse of the Whig Party over the issue of slavery. The way you phrase things in your videos you make it sound like the republicans existed in 1812 which is not the case. The Federalist Party opposed the War of 1812 and it led to their demise. Just wanted to set the record straight on that one.
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  3. "We fought a war so we wouldn't have to listen to the_______British." - Kelsey Grammer: The Pentagon War. One of my favorite lines from that movie. 😁
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  4. Later, Nazi's like Himmler would weave this into Aryan lore.
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  5. I'm going to make one final comment on this channel and then I'm done. This is maybe the fourth, or fifth, video I have watched and I've got to say these guys give facts that are...well, not factual to be polite. The Soviet economy was remarkably successful????? What the hell was your source for that? TASS? Chernobyl cause the break up? Give me a break. They make it sound like the Russian people just woke up one day in the 1980s and realized their system sucked and that they had been lied to. That is just this video. Like I say, there are inaccuracies and poor analysis in their other videos as well. I won't be back so if you want to yell at me for saying this channel sucks go ahead. But as a lifelong student of history I find channels like this insulting.
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