If i ever learned anything from channels like History, it’s that the anglo historians are full of overwhelming regret that nazis had lost.
Having above average knowledge of WWII military technology :
is this historical understandingI love to talk about the Russian tanks though. And Stalingrad.
Oh fuck off, you didn’t have to use the best civ game out of seven to call
methis guy out like that 😭I had to check if Dan Carlin and Hardcore History were the same and they are. Literally every Reddit post about history circa 2017-18 would talk about Dan Carlin. I genuinely thought it was some astro turf movement.
Just the echo chamber effect
This is just reddit
MODS MODS MODS I’M BEING DOXXED
Did yuo no taht teh Black slaves were sold to the Americans by there African kings?
As a guy who knows a lot about history, this was partially accurate to me at like age 23
Used to work with this guy.
He also thought that the Kurds working as US proxies were the coolest guys in the world.
Second only to the gurhkas
i think japan would have surrendered
Japan was already surrendering, actually. but it was to the Soviets
They tried twice, one directly to USA but it was refused, and second time they asked USSR for mediation but USSR also refused since they were bound by Tehran promise to attack Japan and were not neutral.
I’ve always thought it would have resulted in two Japans, like how Korea and Germany got split. But I have no idea where the socialists in Japan would have gained power. I know they existed though, like that guy who got killed with a sword on TV.
That’s what Truman and co feared, which is why they staked their claim with the atom bomb. Even against the advice of MacArthur.
Are these specific weapons (and one plane) actually picked for a reason or is it just to reinforce this idea of “Guy who thinks history is just battles and wars” kind of thing?
I think, it is Mauser 98k rifle, although I’m not sure.
I think its a garand. Doesn’t have a bolt handle like the 98k one
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The average person is paradoxically far too knowledgeable for their own good, specifically because they are not knowledgeable enough. The ideal is to be highly educated, but being totally uneducated is far preferable to being slightly educated. Being highly educated allows you to be right. Being slightly educated allows you to be totally wrong while having some scraps of “backup” for your claims. The midwit is far more dangerous than the totally uneducated, because the midwit can be far more effectively weaponized against Communism due to their appearance of “correctness” brought about by knowing some irrelevant trivia.
Not enough paradox games
I thought not invading Russia during winter was genuinely good advice. Did I miss something?
It’s simplistic and lacks nuance. Russia in the spring and early summer is very muddy, and would slow down an invasion more than the winter, and autumn turns to winter very quickly, so there’s only really about a month and half of the year that you could actually “invade”, but it is borderline impossible to actually organise and carry out an invasion of such a massive country in such a short amount of time.
It’s spoken by a lot of these guys as a Truism rather than an actual examination of Russia’s material conditions.
they studied all the brightest military minds!
The problem with (not) invading Russia in the winter is twofold really. It’s so damn cold that invading during winter is a bad idea, but that’s true to a lesser extent just about anywhere. The second problem is that Russia is so goddamn massive that you can’t reasonably invade all or even part of it before winter sets back in. Operation Barbarossa started in June
I mean the most famous case of a successful invasion of Russia is the Mongols, who did in fact invade during the winter. So that “advice” only works in specific contexts and times, it’s not like some self-evident Fact like these folks love to parrot.
I think it goes back to the idea that liberals and fascists believe that the Nazis only failed to conquer the USSR because of the winter, not because of the superior Soviet society they were attempting to destroy. What these modern geniuses fail to recognize is that the Soviets also had to deal with that winter, and unlike the Nazis, they did so successfully.
Hey Matt christman exists too
