Comments by "AFGuidesHD" (@AFGuidesHD) on "TIKhistory" channel.

  1. And what if France or Britain didn't declare war on Germany ? Then there's no WW2, just like how there's no WW3 since February 2022.
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  2.  @Intreductor  I mean his videos are exceptionally traditional and not at all about "lesser known stories".
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  3. If, upon receiving Russian guarantees, Cuba threatened to bomb Guantanamo, Cuban press ran stories like "guns trained on Guantanamo", with Cuban ambassadors entering Russian embassies boasting of war, if Cuba embargoed Guantanamo etc. etc. would you blame the US for 'starting WW3' if it resorted to military action against Cuba ? Very few Americans would.
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  4.  @patmacken5130  And Germany didn't need a "false flag attack" that's why it's so hotly disputed. What majorly pushed the Germans to military action was what happened in early august, the Polish ultimatum to Danzig of August 4th. Yet interestingly no where are you ever told about these events. You'd have to go through the primary sources yourself to find out about them in "Documents on british foreign policy"
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  5.  @patmacken5130  "very clearly the aggressor" only to an ignorant. The situation between Danzig and Poland was far from rosy and wholesome. If you need someone else to tell you what to think, perhaps you'll find such information in "Germany, Poland, and the Danzig Question" by Rashid A Holloway.
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  6. "no one wanted a war, but Hitler." apart from the majority of the British military leadership and British politicians such as the Eden Group
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  7. And when you read the primary sources you get brilliant telegrams, like the one from the British commissioner to Danzig on September 4th "it still seems in retrospect that the dentente might have been achieved had it not been for the actions of the polish government in sending what amounted to an ultimatum on the night of August 4th"
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  8.  @ЕгорШель-ъ6м  turns out different people have different experiences
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  9.  @КонстантинКругляков-г1у  who doesn't hate soviets apart from commies?
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  10.  @janys6502  If Finland and Russia were previously having amicable negotiations that the Brits wanted to prevent an agreement between them, then yeah.
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  11.  @TheImperatorKnight  It's pretty ironic when you see Hitler talk and write about social justice plenty of times.
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  12. Exactly, Leningrad had far more powerful propaganda reasons to be taken being the birth place of bolshevism than Stalingrad did.
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  13. because demanding the self determination of people, at least for America when it goes to war, is not "aggressive" yet Germany was aggressive for demanding the self determination of Danziger's ? Heck, pretty sure every time the British Empire colonised a country it was for "liberty and freedom"
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  14. People doubt the traditional narrative of how "Hitler started WW2" because the official narrative omits the British encirclement attempt (which is why Germany sought to neutralize Russia with the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact), the Polish threats of war over Danzig (even if Danzig voted to re-join Germany themselves), the détente with Poland which Danzig sought in July 1939, the Polish ultimatum of August 4th, the Polish military mobilizations or even Hitler's numerous offers of an agreement with Poland from 1938-1939 and the fact that it was Poland that refused to return to negotiations in the very last week before the outbreak of war (apart from a vague response from Lipski in literally the last hours before the intervention in Poland).
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  15.  @splifstar85  >Russian Education
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  16. Saying people voted to murder jews in Germany is like saying people voted for the lockdown under Boris Johnson. No one voted for either of those things.
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  17. the redeeming qualities from his fans, usually Americans, are basically "he liked jews and destroyed europe and gave the british empire to america". Unsurprising really, as to why Americans view him as a hero.
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  18. ikr, imagine calling pluto-, I mean, democracy "a cult".
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  19. "We should attack Germany, not in order to save a particular victim, but in order to pull down the bully" - Neville Chamberlain, 20th March. "England is advising France that they should both go to war regardless of Poland." - Joseph Kennedy, 22nd March. "Halifax felt that the inevitability of war sooner or later should be met right now" - Joseph Kennedy, 24th March. "War, and war now with a near eastern front. Without war the desired results may never be achieved. We should do our best to produce a situation that will lead to war" - Noel Mason-MacFarlane, 28th March. "The Foreign Secretary said that it was clear that if action was to be undertaken in circumstances at all favourable to us, or if the threat of action was to be an effective deterrent, Germany must be faced with war on two fronts simultaneously. Poland was therefore key to the situation." - Cabinet Meeting, 29th March "The Prime Minister said that he was somewhat uneasy at the fact that our Ambassador in Warsaw could obtain no information as to the progress of the negotiations between Germany and Poland. One possible, but very distasteful, explanation of this was that Polish negotiators were, in fact, giving way to Germany." - Cabinet Meeting, 30th March. "No doubt it would be impossible to prevent Poland from being overrun. The Chiefs of Staff, indeed, thought that Poland would likely be overrun by Germany within two or three months." - Cabinet Meeting, 30th March. "I gather Mason-MacFarlane will approve our action today." - Alexander Cadogan, 31st March. Explanation: Chamberlain feared that Poland would make an agreement with Germany, settling issues between Germany and Poland. Chamberlain also knew that Britain could do nothing to help Poland in case of a war. As for the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, it was a response to Chamberlain's encirclement policy known as "the peace front", the British were negotiating with the USSR to have their own version of such a pact, only difference is that Russia would be directed against Germany instead of remaining neutral in Germany's favour.
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  20. Probably, that is if they interpret the "socialist" bit to mean more like "international communism/ Marxism". Hitler never sought to export National Socialism to other countries unlike the Communist plague.
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  21. Exactly, I utterly hate bullies. I witnessed a kid get totally harassed by the types of teachers TIK even mentions in this video. And when I see everyone uniquely blaming Germany for WW2, I look into it, and see as TIK would say "but is that really the case". No. It wasn't. Had Hitler had his evil ways then there wouldn't have even been a German-Polish war. It was the british that needed a war to prevent German influence/ power from coalescing further.
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  22.  @ssgus3682  That's mostly because the Germans barely even tried. The allies were in total war mode since 1939 whilst Germany didn't enter total war until 1943. Even in 1944 the Germans built 10s of thousands of aircraft. The LW performance in 1943 against the combined RAF and USAAF tells me that the LW could easily have defeated the RAF on its own had Germany not declared war on USA and entered total war in 1939 instead of 1943. BoB was a small skirmish compared to the defence of the reich.
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  23. "he saved us" from an utterly ridiculous conflict we should never have been in and THAT HE WANTED AND ARGUED FOR.
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  24. indeed, perhaps strong benevolent states are infact needed to preserve liberty.
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  25. broke: britain started ww2 because it declared war on germany woke: britain started ww2 because it didn't declare war on germany earlier
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  26.  @Saeronor  yes that henderson, i just said war was directly ordered after polish mobilization which was the final "they're obviously not going to negotiate" nail in the coffin. If it did start on 26th i don't know what their line would be. Probably not much different.
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  27.  @Saeronor  Fuhrer directive 1. was ordered on the 31st no? Or do you know if it was created before the 26th ? We simply will never know how Hitler would have justified if he attacked on the 26th as it didn't happen, though as I say i doubt it would be much different to the German reply on the 3rd september. So why was Ribbentrop full of it and what went wron with German-Polish relations? It seemed that the Polish would not budge on Danzig and Hitler clearly couldn't concede on that, the Polish aggression would be press threats on shelling Danzig, local ethnic conflicts in Poland and a polish threat to bomb Danzig that was mentioned. Poland threatened numerous times to the diplomats of all nations that they'd go to war if Danzig either unilaterally voted to rejoin Germany or Germany launched a coup d'etait in Danzig. Could Hitler have just risked a coup ?
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  28. The fire bombing of undefended civilians full stop, not just dresden. Allied apologists like to say that Dresden was used by the military but there are plenty of towns that had zero use militarily that were bombed.
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  29. "nonsense like the invasion of Poland was the result of a border dispute" If you actually read books about the foreign policy of Germany and the outbreak of war, yes, the German-Polish war was majorly a border and sovereignty dispute over Danzig.
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  30.  @officeofpeaceinformation5094  I'm not sure what "death camps" have to do with the Danzig Crisis tbh
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  31. Difference is Eastern Ukraine and Taiwan don't have a 95% support for the invading force (Russia or China). Danzig did. But modern discussion around the German-Polish war wholly ignores this for some reason. Probably because it gives actual legitimacy to German intervention, unlike in the case of, say, the US invasion of Iraq 2003.
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  32. It probably doesn't motivate you either that you probably made more money on this video than a Battlestorm video lol
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  33. It is not a conspiracy that on the 7th June 2020 Cooper tweeted "This is really important. The strength & depth of response here in UK (& across the world) to the awful murder of #GeorgeFloyd should show us all this is not just about the US - and it’s why we need to do so much more to challenge racism & injustice here & everywhere" which was a retweet of Lammy's "People in this country are not only showing solidarity with George Floyd and other African Americans. We must turn this moment into one of change and justice in the UK too." So why then when Brits show their solidarity with murdered children in Southport is the response to call them "violent far right thugs", deploy "army of police officers" and claim there are now plenty of prison spaces despite claiming the prisons were full just 2 weeks ago.
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  34. indeed, as British foreign secretary Edward Halifax said "the alternative policy of assisting Germany to develop eastern Europe is impossible as long as the present financial system remains in Germany"
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  35. Indeed, there's a reason why Hitler felt comfortable driving down every street in Germany in an open top Mercedes. Unlike the plutocrats who need "The Beast" to travel in their own dominions.
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  36. Germany is clearly the aggressor... when you remove all context and details that may make Britain or Poland look bad. Unlike say, the US invasion of Iraq where there the aggressor literally had no reason other than "I don't like their leader".
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  37. Exactly. Love how Germany had no right to defend Danzig from Polish economic and military pressure, but the good guys had every right to wage war against China when it refused British opium, when the USA made war on Spain because their ship accidentally blew up, or made war against Mexico when they outlawed slavery, or invaded Iraq because.... but Germany had no moral right to defend Danzig from Polish threats.
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  38.  @keithsledger6282  he's talking about manifest destiny, the moral fiber of which the land of the free was formed.
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  39.  @Bingo_Bango_  Head on down to your university library and tell me otherwise. Even in the 1960s Conservatives wrote books literally saying as much "yeah we started WW2 because otherwise Germany would become too powerful". Countless quotes from politicians at the time such as Vansittart who said quite plainly "We entered the war in 1939, like in 1914, not to defeat Fascism but to prevent a German hegemony".
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  40. forcibly taxing people's excess capital is like the opposite of capitalism
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  41. Because contrary to Anglo-American propaganda Hitler wasn't this evil madman unconstrained by public opinion or international diplomatic norms. He only wanted to attack Gibraltar if he got permission from the Spanish government. Similarly "why didn't he just invade the caucuses from Turkey", again because he wasn't successful in getting an agreement from Turkey to do such an operation. He failed to get agreement from the Spanish in part because he didn't want to upset the French by giving the Spanish Morocco which was then part of the French empire. In hindsight it would have been better for him to just give Spain Morocco, invade Turkey and weaponize WMDs like the victors did.
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  42.  @SoMuchFacepalm  Indeed, you ask a good question "did we fear that Panama and America would come to an agreement and went out of our way to provide Panama with military guarantees and 'warned America not to invade' " ? No, we didn't. We did however fear that Poland and Germany would come to an agreement.
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  43. What even is this "credible" shite ? Do you need someone to tell you what to think? Can you not form your own opinion from multiple sources ?
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  44. 34:49 except the Guarantee to Poland was designed not to avoid war or cause one but to frustrate German influence, had there been no guarantee and perhaps even a Treaty of Friendship between Germany and Poland. What then would happen? Germany would continue to "aggressively" peruse favourable economic deals with European countries such as the one it struck with Romania in March 1939. Had this happened then no one would listen to Britain in Europe anymore and that is what Britain feared.
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  45.  @benitolazio8193 Yep Ghandi's friend. From one peace lover to another.
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  46. December just wasn't a good month for the axis was it ? 1939: Graf Spee sunk 1940: Operation Compass 1941: Winter counteroffensive and war with USA 1942: This 1943: Dnieper offensives 1944: everything
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  47.  @aleksanderwielopolski8205  turns out influential MPs such as Churchill are involved in affairs regardless of weather they are currently a minister. Churchill had plenty of meetings and luncheons with Polish diplomats and important folk.
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  48.  @NoPrivateProperty  As Stalin and Zhukov admit, the USA had everything to do with it.
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  49. I don't know what logic you are on about but 'WW2', commonly a misnomer for the Second Anglo-German war literally did not start until 3rd September 1939. Contrary to revisionist history, there was no state of war between Germany and Britain on 1st or 2nd September.
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  50.  @tylerbozinovski427  I see what you mean. However he's still basing his logic on Anglo-Centric history which likes to say it started on 1st September because it relinquishes culpability of the conflict from themselves, even though Chamberlain points out in his speech of 3rd September "a state of war would exist between us" meaning there was indeed no state of war between us on 1st and 2nd.
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