Comments by "Evan" (@MrEvanfriend) on "Australia or Indonesia? Whose military would prevail? (2017)" video.
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Aussie Militant The fact was that you did send your troops to Europe and North Africa. I knew some Australian soldiers, and would never speak ill of the Australian Army, but the fact remains that you were not prepared for the Japanese, who were the type of major power that Australia was not. Whether or not Japan intended to actually invade Australia is irrelevant; both Australia and the US believed that they did. Guadalcanal would have been an excellent staging point for such an invasion, and the American attack on Guadalcanal was meant to stop an invasion of Australia, whether or not such invasion was planned.
I appreciate Australia. You are the only country on earth who has fought alongside Americans in every conflict since WWI. I own an Australian "jelly bean suit" that I traded one of your soldiers for a set of my own cammies. Don't take anything I say as anti-Australian, because it certainly isn't meant that way. But the fact of the matter is, in the Pacific Theater, your contribution to the war effort was negligible compared to that of the United States. You yourself have admitted that the bulk of your army was deployed elsewhere by the time that war broke out. I'm not saying that you didn't fight. I'm just saying that in the wider Pacific war, the Americans did the overwhelming majority of the fighting.
In the planned Operation Downfall, there was to be a single Australian division, plus an air wing, out of 52 total divisions.
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Snowcold Yeah, I pointed out that you had medieval castles. Those are cool. I actually want to see Chateaux Gaillard, but I don't consider it worth going to France to do so. And there are plenty of castles in good countries like Britain and Germany as well.
I'm guessing that joke has something to do with showers, but it doesn't translate. French is the most obnoxious sounding language I'm aware of, including Arabic.
And there's more to a country than UNESCO world heritage sites. The US has very few of them, because we're a very new country. That you have less than twice as many as us when you have about 2,000 years more history than we do is pretty pathetic though. What we do have are outdoor activities though. While you queers are sitting around in a cafe or a wine bar, we have the chance to go camping or hiking, or go to the range and shoot guns, or go fishing, or whatever. All of those beat sitting at a cafe and smugly discussing how us Anglos are so uncultured.
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Ryan Hall Unprepared? The French had a bigger and arguably more modern army when the Germans invaded. The Germans, who were outnumbered and had smaller tanks with less armor and smaller guns, mopped the floor with them. French armor was surrendering to fuckin motorcycle scouts. And let's not forget the Maginot Line - "this will stop the Germans dead in their tracks unless they do the exact same thing they did last time and come in through the Low Countries".
Then, after their disgraceful performance in the face of invasion, the French willingly collaborated with their occupiers. Vichy French troops fought WITH the Germans in North Africa. The French Resistance was minor and ineffective compared to resistance movements basically everywhere else Hitler occupied.
Then let's talk about since WWII. Algeria, Indochina, the French have suffered humiliating military catastrophes against ragtag militias all over the globe. Their best troops are the foreign legion, who, by the way, AREN'T FRENCHMEN, and even they are little more than a group of competing ethnic prison gangs with some rudimentary infantry training.
Read what Rommel, or presumably any other German (probably any Englishman too) has to say about the French military. It's been a joke ever since Napoleon destroyed the Grand Armee by foolishly invading Russia. Think about it, these faggots lost a war to fuckin Mexico.
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Ryan Hall You mean the "Free French" army that did a lot of massacreing prisoners of war and next to no actual fighting? Yeah, real instrumental.
The French resistance barely existed, and, apart from helping downed Allied airmen get to Spain or Switzerland, did virtually nothing of value. The Dutch, Norwegians, Danes, Poles, Soviets, Yugoslavs, and Greeks were all far more active and far more effective. The Norwegians destroyed a heavy water plant, and set Hitler's nuclear ambitions back to the point where they were never realized. They also sank shipping.
Every country had its collaborators. No country but France sent troops to the German war effort. Had America been invaded, it is likely that the American resistance would have surpassed any and all others, simply because of the proliferation of firearms among Americans, which is essentially unique in the world. An Axis government controlling part of the country with Hitler's blessing is unthinkable.
There's a reason the French have such a bad reputation among English and German speaking peoples. They've earned that reputation. When the supposed best army on earth capitulates to a weaker force in like six weeks after barely putting up a fight, their honor is beshitted, and it would take outstanding service in another major powers war to get it back. Seeing as how the French Army has failed at everything they've attempted since, this is highly unlikely.
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