Comments by "" (@VersusARCH) on "Timeline - World History Documentaries" channel.

  1. ... Yet the US waged more wars in the last 70 years than any other country in the world... Most of them not even formally declared exactly to avoid the hassle of bribing/pressuring enough of the congressmen...
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  2. (yawns in Hindi... )
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  3. No. They played a good cop bad cop game with Stalin who paid little attention to it as he knew how many divisions each country has on the ground...
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  4. (Proceeds to lose almost the entire empire. Mostly to US)
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  5. WW11? Man, you are advanced.
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  6. My countrymen fought against the Turks in 1912, against Bulgarians in Greece in 1916-18 and against Italians at home in 1941-43 and won each time.
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  7. It's usually those who sink it that put it there to aggrandize themselves...
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  8. The documentary is mostly right. 1) The Germans had oil in Romania (Ploesti). Although not as much as they wanted. 2) There was no oil drilling or production in North Africa at the time. Italy, Luftwaffe and Kriegsmarine shut the Mediterranean for Allied merchant convoys (save a few, expensive ones to Malta). Merchant ships got re-routed around Africa. 3) North Africa started with Mussolini's stupidity and later turned into UK doing something to show moral support for the USSR's decisive struggle with the Germans, while keeping the cost relatively low... Until USSR and Germany killed each other in sufficient numbers to make taking over Western Europe cheap for the US (UK was already beginning to be a US satellite during the war). Attacking Italy was the continuation of the same game, with an added benefit of being able to hit Ploesti with air raids, starting late 1943. 4) Most of Luftwaffe was bled on the Eastern front. Although not by a large margin. For me, Turkey managing to stay neutral is very interesting. Had the Germans managed to get Turkey on their side they could have damaged Soviet oil facilities in the Caucasus with air raids from Turkey which could have had some serious consequences for the USSR's war effort.
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  9.  @lyndoncmp5751  You misread 3) and are wrong about 4)
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  10. If I had a dollar for every time the narrators say "extraodinary", "outrageous", "unexpected" in historical documentaries nowadays...
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  11. 13:32 - the plane in the background is not an IJN Zero but the IJA Ki-43 Hayabusa which never flew over Guadalcanal. Also the Zero is in wrong color scheme (the one Sakai flew over Guadalcanal was white/light gray). The Zero in the foreground is most probably the late war A6M5 model, not the A6M2 that Sakai flew that day.
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  12. 17:08 Sun truly set on the British Empire that day...
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  13.  @johnmellon1820  adblocker is communism since it restricts capitalism.
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  14. JC deserves a VC.
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  15.  @lyndoncmp5751  Read 3) again 4) Fighters are just a lesser fraction of the total Luftwaffe. Bombers? Strike aircraft? Transports? Liaison arcraft/spotters? Reconnaissance aircraft? Also good aircrew getting killed, maimed or captured were a bigger problem for Germany than losing aircraft... And even the numbers you have are unreliable. And lastly - whatever they had on the eastern front was engaged 24/7 while much of what they had in the west was much less active. Planes in Norway? How often were they engaged?
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  16.  @lyndoncmp5751  As I said fighters figure true or false is just cherry picking and shows a distorted picture. You need figures for all losses.
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  17. The part on Kosovo War is nothing but a propaganda attempt to leave the viewer with an impression that the main goal of NATO was to "save the Kosovo Albanians" rather than to drag Kosovo into US sphere of influence while also punishing Yugoslavia for refusing to join the US sphere of influence.
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  18. Me too. So please erase your above comment to contribute to that end.
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  19. ​ @tomace4898 USSR would have nuked a US ally in return...
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  20. "Flying is for droids..."
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  21. WTF? The Pearl Harbor attack lasted only 1.5 hours...
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  22. And a bit of Elizabeth and William on the side.
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  23. Henry? Yeah, mom? You gona be king! But mom... No buts! You gonna be king! Oh btw marry this gal! BUT MOM! NO BUTS!!! RAISE AN ARMY IN FRANCE AND OFF TO BATTLE YOU GO!!!
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  24. German sinking of RMS Lusitania in 1915. played as much role in US declaring war on Germany in 1917. as the Israeli attack on USS Liberty in 1967. on US declaring war on Israel in 1969.
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  25.  James Henderson  exactly
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  26. Compare Versailles to Potsdam, the latter worked... Whoever says Versailles was too harsh is an idiot.
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