Comments by "Evan" (@MrEvanfriend) on "Sideprojects" channel.

"Shooting trees" and using rusty barbed wire are not by any stretch of the imagination war crimes. If an enemy gets cut on concertina wire that has not been deliberately smeared with a biological agent, what happens if his wound gets infected is by no means the fault of whoever laid that concertina wire. No reasonable person would make such a claim. As for "shooting trees", making this a "war crime" would basically disallow any and all combat in wooded terrain. Banning deliberate deforestation for strategic or tactical purposes is VERY different from banning an artillery strike on an enemy in the woods.
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When I was in the Marines, we had a guy named Reinhardt or Reinhold or some such shit. He was a comm guy. We used to argue about whether he looked like ET or Jason Voorhees, until the movie 300 came out, and we all agreed that he looked like Ephialtes (the hunchback in that movie [and yes, I know that that movie was grossly historically inaccurate and that the real Ephialtes was a local farmer]) This Reinhardt/Reinhold/whatever his name was also had very poor hygiene. Poor to the point where the NCOs directly in charge of him had to make him shower by numbers - as in follow him into the shower, stand outside, and go "wash your armpits. Okay, done. Wash your asscrack...etc"
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@7ofspades7 Neither of those things are even "technically" war crimes. It takes a deliberate misreading of the statutes in question to interpret them as such.
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The P-8A has definitely NOT been exported to North Korea.
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First, there have been a grand total of zero Medal of Honor "winners". It's not a contest, and the medal is generally awarded for the worst - and more often than not the last - day in the recipient's life. Second, most Medals of Honor from before WWI are, at best, suspect. Before WWI, the medal was awarded for any number of things that might get you a Letter of Commendation today. A number of them were awarded for non-combat actions. This is not to say that EVERY Medal of Honor from the pre-WWI era is bullshit, several were awarded to actual heroes for actually heroic acts...but those were a minority (see the examples in the video). On another note, I recently had the honor to meet an actual Medal of Honor recipient, a fellow Marine who fought in Vietnam. I asked him if I could take a picture with him, and he allowed it. He offered me a coin. Now, I've always been of the opinion that challenge coins are kinda gay, and the only one I owned was given to me and every other Marine in my battalion in Iraq. But when a little old man who is an absolute giant despite standing several inches shorter than my own 5'7 frame offers you a coin, you graciously accept it, as I did. I'm not ever parting with that memento of the time I met the kind of Marine who I've always idolized.
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@kristianjohansen5561 Svein. I find people calling Svein Forkbeard "Sweyn" obnoxious. It's an Anglicization that is entirely unnecessary. Knut/Canute is another one, but whatever, it all sounds the same. Don't be gay, stop calling Svein Forkbeard "Sweyn", it sounds ridiculous
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The idea of women vikings has been thoroughly debunked, and is nothing more than foolishness. Yes, women in Viking-Age Scandinavia were allowed to hold political power and were surprisingly autonomous compared to women in contemporary cultures. However, there is literally ZERO evidence of women going on viking raids or fighting. Sure, a politically powerful woman may have been buried with kingly instruments, including a sword and armor. However, the sagas say nothing about female warriors, the Anglo-Saxon/Frankish/Germanic/any other literate peoples raided by Vikings never mention female warriors (and do mention all manner of "these people are different from us" things). Most early medieval Scandinavians were not Vikings. "Viking" is a specific term referring to a raider. Týra may be the wife of Þorvald, and Þorvald may be a prodigious raider, warrior, and slaver, but that does not make Týra a Viking herself. She wasn't.
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The Danish raiders were absolutely a catalyst in English development. From words in the English language (the only one I can immediately think of is "starboard", a nautical/naval term meaning "right" [as opposed to left]) to place names (any English town ending in -by) to the beginnings of English common law. Were it not for the Vikings, the history of the English speaking peoples would be VERY different.
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@Demmrir It was one of the main things in the video.
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My favorite fact about Douglas Bader - after the war, he became a motivational speaker. At one time, he was speaking at a girl's school. He was telling a war story, and talking about how he had some Fokkers in front of him and some Fokkers behind him or some such, and all the girls were giggling. So the headmistress or whatever interrupts and says "ladies, Fokker was a company that made planes for the Germans during the war" and Bader goes "yes, but these fokkers were Messerschmitts"
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