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How can a power that won WW2 have such difficulty against the army of a smaller country? The Answer is simple The United States no longer had the same army that won WW2.
Tip tip series. Sadly during the live broadcast I didn't note down the email address to send photos and info regarding the Korean war which might be of interest. May I kindly ask what the email address is again.
Did i sleep through some part or was the whole episode filled with quotes from american diplomats? North Koreans just captured Seoul in few days and there is no place for their perspective?
If you were on the Bell telephone system you couldn't use the US made verson of the Ericofone. That meant a majority of the US. Only small independent companies could use them.
@@captainlamp2.076 There was a legal debate at the time about whether the Security Council could make non-procedural decisions in case one or more of the permanent members (Veto powers) were absent. The view of the USSR was they couldn't, so being absent, in their view, was basically a permanent veto on anything, effectively crippling the UN. Too bad for them, everybody else decided they could vote, so the resolutions passed until the soviet ambassador returned in August 1950
My Grandfather was in the 24ID in 1950. Just a few months from getting his points to go home. He was given a choice, go to San Francisco for 6 months and work a supply depot, or 1 month in Korea. He and three others chose San Francisco. They are all that is left of his company after *spoiler alert* the Chinese invasion wiped out the division.
My father was a WWII Army mustang officer. In June of 1950 I was a month short of my first birthday. Our family had orders to transfer from Fort Sill Oklahoma to Japan. We stopped in Idaho to visit my father's family in Shoshone. Back on the road, we got as far as Boise when the North came boiling over the border. My father telegraphed next stage in San Francisco. They gave him 48 hours to dump his wife and two children in Boise and get on a train to Frisco. From there they flew him to Japan, and he'd later land with the Army's 7th Division in Korea, and later be the first liaison officer to the Ethiopian UN contingent in Korea. YP
My grandfather was a marine parachute forward air controller. He took a job doing air traffic control for Andrews Air Force Base with one other member from his squad. The rest of his squad went to Korea and did not come back.
Yeah, I dig it too, but I'm actually most curious about how our Realtime friends will deal with Vietnam, the ultimate betrayal of principles of the Atlantic Charter, which formed the nucleus of "We Why Fight" in WWII and also the UN and the framework of the postwar world. 60 years later, this is still the most controversial conflict in all of American history and the seed of much of the current global discontent.
@@MysticEagle52Probs not since it’s not as impactful internationally compared to the Korean War. Vietnam only really effected the U.S and didn’t really upset the apple cart like Korea did. That being said, if they do cover Vietnam they should probably start when America gets involved officially in 1964 with a few dedicated vids to cover the background.
@@tigertank06 I would argue that the Vietnam war was even more impactful (and relevant today) because its roots were a clear betrayal of those principles of the Atlantic Charter I mentioned. FDR and a very reluctant Churchill promised a postwar world free from empire and corporate exploitation, where every country had the absolute right of self-determination and the freedom to choose whatever form of government it wished. And yet, to our great shame and lasting detriment, the fallout from the Bomb in Hiroshima and Nagasaki hadn't even settled before the Americans so shamelessly betrayed those very specific promises to our allies against the Imperial Japanese in East Asia. By 1946, the American effort to reinstate the colonial rule of Great Britain, France and the Netherlands in the area was already in full swing. This was a very, very pivotal and ominous development. It's one thing to claim to support democracy, but actions always speak louder than words.
@@haeuptlingaberja4927Because those principles were never genuine. It was always about the acquisition of capital for American businesses. That’s what it’s all been about always.
A College Professor of mine was working in Army Intelligence when Korea brewed up. He found himself on a plane bound for the theater with compatriots from the intelligence community. They hashed out how they would go about their jobs, excited at doing it "for real." Upon their arrival they were all handed shovels and made to dig latrines! So much for Military Intelligence!
It's fictional but the William Wharton novel "A Midnight Clear" has at its centre a US Army intelligence and reconnaissance platoon who were put together, eccentrically, from the regiment's highest scorers on the AGCT, the Army's intelligence test. They are attached to a headquarters company but one of their tasks is to dig and maintain the company latrine.
Similar situation with my father. He was 5 years old and lived in Kongju. He couldn't keep up with the pace of the rest of his family and cried the whole day while they were fleeing south, so my grandmother found rice wine from a deserted house and gave him the drink until he passed out. Then his family carried him on their backs, including his 10 year old brother.
@@Hateful_Psycho First Gulf War? Second Gulf War? or the Third Gulf War? (ps First was the Iraq/Iranian war of the very late 70's/early 80's - as reported on by the news outlets at the time).
Of this reason, Seoul after this war is the most fortified city in its history…. Surround around Seoul’s surrounding sectors with more city sector plans! More Apartment blocks! Tank traps and BARs! Whole bunch of A.A weapon’s on the skyscrapers An army cor. Solely dedicated to defend Seoul and Gyeongi province. Seriously, we had made a fort facility to defend Capital and it’s surrounding territory back then… Of course we deconstructed it after we presumed our military superiority…. Anyway, this event was our countries most PTSD still today. 😢
The national capital should have moved from Seoul to a location further south after the outbreak of war in 1950. It's within artillery range of the North.
@@MrShobar well… trying to do that exact thing right now… But remember, our constitution does not have a statement to recognise other’s existents. And ‘Technically’ the war is not over. There was no ‘peace’ treaty, it was Armistices. So… technically (and only in the technical sense) there’s no reason for us to move the capital. Because in our constitution, we are the only country functioning and administrating in this peninsula. So in that sense, moving the capital still means, we are accepting the ‘contrical’ existent of the north, and stepping aside of working on unifying the peninsula that is stated in our constitution. However, the reality is rather different. And there’s more and more opinions of non unification(In my country of course. Can’t survey the north with this nationality lmao). And mixed with opinion’s like your’s We are moving our ‘Administrative’ or rather saying the ‘Gervernmental’ part’s of our country. (Well with the Assembly…. but we have a rich history of having powerful Administrative department in Junta era… so…) of these reasons, this is what can say of your opinion. Technically we can’t but we are doing it very subtly and slowly. It’s more like a London to England I guess. One of our word of saying a capital was (and still) literally ‘Seoul’. So changing it radically would provoke a massive repulsion among the public.
From what I've heard, the ROKAF stores and produces more artillery shells (currently 3 million) than Europe. Nothing is too much if you border Kim Jong Un.
Hello everyone. I want to say, i have been here since 1916(2016), all through WW2 and now korea. I will be leaving for basic training for active duty in the army on the 5th of August. I am excited and sad to not ve able to watch these videos as they come out. Keep up the great work indy
Do some cool shit in Ukraine and you'll be mentioned by Indy in "The Ukraine War" in 2056😎😎 Jokes aside: big respect for enlisting when shits going sideways, stay safe🫡
@@Fatherland1871 Talk to your recruiter and tell him/her that you want the airborne option. Get EVERYTHING in writing! Do NOT trust a recruiter!!!! They are under a LOT of pressure because they have quotas to meet and fewer people are joining up nowadays. Thus, they only want your signature. Going airborne also means more money. But they will never tell you that. Good luck.
I am so pumped up for this series. My grandfather was in the 25th infantry division and would never talk about the war. All he would say is “That was coldest I have ever been.” Tell me what happened, Indy!
I started with the Great War, which lacked decent maps, and unit symbols, let alone animated units symbols for a long time. Now there is a detailed map and animated unit symbols already in the first two episodes. It will improve as time passes. In a few weeks WWII will be over, I bet this series will become more detailed by then.
Yes, I don't get why didn't they start with it because they have the ability already, it would make the team look more professional, make the maps easier to understand, and when they have to cover smaller units, their current flag-symbols will just further confuse things. Additionally it's going to mean that Indy's going to have to eventually remake the earlier videos in order to have detailed map symbols.
@@chrisk1208 Thing is that unlike then, they now have a decade of unit symbol experience and right now they have the resources from the WW2 channel to make the unit symbols for this war. For each episode without the unit symbols, they are creating future problems where they will have to work on the same maps twice, wasting time that they could use for other production work or to relax.
It is important to underline that the new North Korean army contained ethnic Korean ex vets of the WW2 USSR red army and they had served in all its aspects. The South Korean army contaiined ethnic Korean ex vets of the Imperial Japanese Army and IJN who had mostly served as little more than conscripted labor construction workers everywhere in the Empire of Japan.
The Americans claimed that the North Korean border troops were dominated by Koreans from the Soviet Union, and the USSR did have a Korean minority in the Soviet Far East. A rather large number of Koreans had fought in China for the PLA and had contributed to its victory in the Civil War, and several KPA divisions were dominated by these veterans. Some of the ROK Army had fought for Japan in WW2, although the Japanese tendency to use Koreans as labourers or POW guards did not do much for their military effectiveness.
I don't think that it is true. Soviet Koreans were deported from the Far East to the Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan in 1937. As a consequence, their civil rites were limited and they were not meant to be conscripted. During the war they served in the "Trudarmiya" (Labor army), serving as constructor workers or other labourers for the military production and didn't had any combat experience. Their role didn't differ much from the role of Koreans in the Japanese army. There were exceptions like Alexandr Min, the only ethnical Korean awarded with a Hero of the Soviet Union, but very few. However, there was also 88th independent rifle brigade at the Far East front made up mostly from Chinese and Koreans who fought against Japanese in Manchuria in the 1930-ies, but had to flee to USSR. Kim Il Sung was a Korean batallion commander in it. It was used for reconnaissance missions at the border and in 1945 they were sent to northern part of the Korea, but not the Soviet Koreans. So, we can't say that there were many Korean WW2 vets in the USSR at all and they were never sent to North Korea.
Ethnic Korean in Russia are also treated like cannon fodder or disposable workers too. The real reason behind KPA's strength are Sino-Japanese/Chinese Civil War veteran who fought since 1930s all the way until the Korean War. Both the rank-and-file and high-ranking officers.
@@ДенисЯсников-ы8я Well, the Americans made the claim about Soviet influence, and like the Americans in the South, the Soviets had military advisers in the North and suddenly found themselves needing people capable of interpreting, liaison duties etc. And Soviet Koreans were arguably ready-made for this role. American analyses credited Ho Ka-i and other Soviet Koreans with considerable background influence in the North. However, this may have been more a case of the USA needing to see Moscow as more definitive of the North's actions than it actually was. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ho_Ka-i
@@stevekaczynski3793 Yes, of course there was big Soviet influence and military advisers were sent as well as some Korean communists. AFAIK, in the early days of DPRK there was kind of 3 communist fractions confronting for power: 1) Those who lived in Korea under Japanese rule. 2) Those who returned from China after fighting against the Japanese there. 3) Those who came or returned from the USSR. However, there was no program for mass relocation of Soviet Koreans to North Korea encouraged and they were not in significant numbers in the KPA. In the USSR border guards were part of the NKVD/KGB structure and NK's Social Security Forces seem to include border troops while being part of the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. It may happen that Soviet influence in it was bigger than in the army.
My father in law was born in Seoul the week prior to the start of hostilities. His parents fled on foot with him and his young siblings south in the great mass of refugees. My mother in law's parents were evacuated by ship from Incheon, but she won't be born for a couple of years yet, in 1952 in a refugee camp near Busan.
My dad was fresh out of the Marines, newly married & had a good job when he got called back in not long after this war started. He stayed stateside filling jobs of Marines that were sent overseas. My mom moved with him & stayed outside of the base where she got a job to help make ends meet. I remember her saying she basically lived off a hamburger a day & lots of coffee.
So glad I can actually catch your work on a release date. You hooked me with WWI, I almost caught up in WWII, now finally can post saying I love your series and work! Thank you for the depth and detail.
Every time I hear KMAG in this series already I think so myself "Boy, that Kevin Magnussen had an interesting career before becoming a Formula 1 driver, huh."
Yo Indy! Thanks! Another great production. The forgotten war. My pops, a WW2 veteran and officer, was glad he did not get called up for this one, had a wife and 2 kids. The guys who were still on the reserve rolls who did get called up or who volunteered were known as "retreads" by the way, lol.
It's also weird to hear "9 T-34s" instead of "500 T-34s of the Soviet Armor Regiment". This is not the vast battle of the eastern front. It's just a regional war.
I just started watching timeghost and I’ve been binging the World War I and two series. I cannot believe I have to wait a week for this. How did you guys do it?
It's best not to binge things. Binging is crazy unhealthy, physically and mentally. Plus, it adds something knowing what you're watching happened in the previous week.
Waiting a week is the best part really. Taking it all in quickly is neat (I did this when joining WWI about halfway through), but actually seeing things unfold in real time, in a way that matches your own experience of time passing, gives a perspective on things that's almost impossible to otherwise replicate.
I've been with you for over a decade Indy. Love the content you all make. I cant put into words how much I appreciate you all for connecting myself with the history. Keep up the amazing work. Your historical accuracy knows no bounds.
Yes this task force was a disaster! Too little and unprepared. General William Dean became the highest ranking US General ever captured. It all happened in the mountains around where I have lived since 2003, the great city of Daejeon.
The biggest difference was that WWII was a "Holy War" and Korea was a "war of the far frontier" such as the Romans used to fight. The latter far harder for (actual) republics to fight...especially using conscripts...who do vastly better in the first type of war. See T.R. Fehrenbach's "This Kind of War" for the best view of all this... YP
Need to highlight the 38th Parallel on that map in something bold so we can clearly see the war progress. Good stuff-but I expected nothing less from you guys 👍 Looking forward to more.
my grandfather was 19 when the war broke out. Lukily, after getting drafted he spent the war stationed in germany and would make it home to meet and marry my grandmother and live until 2005
We are working on it, we will update the episodes when we have the graphics finalised and they will appear in future episodes! We plan to have it ready by the next episode.
I wish I had listened to my uncle more. He was an interpreter in the 8th Army in Japan and was in Seoul learning Korean when the war broke out. He was sent back to Japan and then back to South Korea and was in the Pusan Perimeter. He mostly worked as a liaison with the South Korean forces.
A severe shortage of Korean speakers was a problem for Americans in the late 1940s. In fact the Korean language lacked vocabulary for many modern military terms and American advisers played a role in developing such terms for the Korean language. Sometimes Japanese was used as a link language, as some Western military had picked up at least rudiments of that language in WW2, but though many Koreans understood Japanese, they often resented being addressed in it.
@@stevekaczynski3793 He grew up in the Bronx and spoke Italalian, English, and some Yiddish. He joined the Army in 1938. He was sent to learn German after being in North Africa and Sicily. The he was sent to Japan and Korea. He just seemed to soak up languages.
I served in 5/21 Infantry 7th Infantry Division at Ft. Ord California in 1990. "No more Task Force Smiths" was pushed on the Battalion for training to higher standards and never repeating what happened in tge early stages of the war. My back still hurts from all the training 34 years later.
It is almost a miracle that the Republic of China based on Taiwan was still recognized as the legitimate government of China. Such a decision had huge effects on this war.
Communist states tended to see this as evidence of the UN being dominated by the USA and its allies. On the other hand, the FBI was going after UN employees who were Americans over alleged Communist links.
Actually it kind of makes sense PRC was not the todays powerhouse, despite large territory it was pretty poor, sorta dependant on Soviets and didn't had much in terms of power projection Now ROC, despite being limited to Tawain, had all of the chinese navy under its control as it sides with the nationalists during civil war, Army & Air Force that's worn out for now but still existing and managed to secure & move chinese gold reserves, denying the mainland communist funds that they would much need
@@XOFInfantryman the Chinese Civil War had also recently concluded, and the international community was still kinda iffy about the new guys running the show in Beijing. The east/west split was hardening, with NATO newly-formed and outside of the Eastern Bloc, nobody was going to rush to recognize Mao's government (certainly not while they're joined at the hip with Stalin's USSR). Either way, it did really work out in South Korea's favour that the KMT were still recognized as China's rightful government.
@@flargus7919 SPOILER In December 1950 a representative of the People's Republic will be allowed to address the UN - at that point lots of Chinese are in Korea and heading south and "the next man coming down this road will be Joseph Stalin" (US military policeman warning UN stragglers to hurry up).
@@flargus7919 The United States completely screwed themselves over strategically by not taking the Chinese Civil War seriously until it was over. While China was very underdeveloped, it was well understood even during WW2 that they were a major ally with a lot of manpower. Instead of letting the letting the nationalists fall, the United States should had made the strategic decision to send in their small army when it was clear that the communists were winning. While the american army units were greatly flawed as shown in the video, the American air power along with ground forces could had maintained a foothold in China, allow for the ROCAF and US army to reorganised and then with an strengthened US-Chinese army restored republican control over the country. Their failure to do so enabled the Korean war to be what it is, for communism to rise in Vietnam and it's region, kept the USSR distanced away from Western forces, and ultimately enabled the rise of a strong superpower that the United States has now had to deal with for generations.
Congratulations on another amazing series. I’ve read all the books and heard many stories from relatives but you maps and explanations are the ultimate in educating us layfolk. Thank you so much for your hard work. Cheers from Daz in Australia. 👍🏻👍🏻
The Ericofon was designed at Swedish telecommunications manufacturer LM Ericsson in 48/49, prototypes were made in the following years. In 1953 the final result was presented to the Swedish telecom, Televerket. They went to mass production and entered the market in 54. They quickly became one of the most iconic objects of the second half of the 20th century home appliance design, and were still sold in updated versions until the early 2000s. As TimeGhosts, getting early access to the model was not a problem…
Great presentation, wonderful explanation of the course of events and historic situations, your history channel is my favorite together wit Mark Felton´s. Greetings from Europe from a lover of History!!
@@stevekaczynski3793 And possibly as part of NK spy operations. It was known the army, government were full of NK sympathizers, people on the Soviet payroll, and NK saboteurs. Might have been an NK/Soviet civilian minister who followed Soviet orders to keep the SK army trapped and ordered engineers to do it. Or it might have been panicked, untrained, uncommanded soldiers who were told a tank/NK operatives were already ON the bridge when it was blown. (Rumours were blowing around that NK soldiers were already south of the river by then).
People make fun of Kim but the dictators from SK somehow always end up looking like Robocop corporate villains when i hear about them. I am not surprised they blew up their own people.
First thing I subscribed to in over a decade. Excellent content, well read, well written, and I greatly enjoy the myriad of primary source videos. Super excited for 50more episodes.
The Australian battalion in Japan is 3rd Battalion Royal Australian Regiment, and despite being close to Korea, they’ll actually be the third commonwealth battalion to get there. (Planning on doing research on 27 Commonwealth Brigade so it’s a bit of a nerdy little interest of mine rn)
Love the fact that we are finally getting a coverage of the "Forgotten War". Just a small pet peeve, could we maybe have slightly bigger division icons, alongside their respective identification number in the future?
I just spent an hour determining that the phones on your desk are an anachronism, as the Ericofon wasn't mass produced until after the principle conflict of the Korean War was over. Thanks! That was fun!
Funfact: The first American aircraft to see combat over Korea will be F-82 Twin Mustangs, a late version of the North American P51 Mustang which had arrived too late to see combat during WW2. These aircraft will score the first three aerial combat victories of the war and will continue to be used until the shortage of spare parts, replacement aircraft and the arrival of Soviet MIG fighter jets will reduce them and other piston engine aircraft mainly to ground support roles.
We are still in the proccess of finalising the map assets for Korea, we should have this by next episode and plan to update the segments in the first two!
I’d vote for their own remake of the song used for MASH, “Suicide is Painless”. That’d be a good opener we all know. I played that for a piano recital as a kid, must have been like 1977/78.
Unlike the past two wars, this is the first one I know almost nothing about going into it. Despite the solemnity the study of war requires, I am very excited to learn more.
Was really looking forward to the Korean war. Got me hyped back in february. I knew it would take a while since the war began in June. Very happy to finally follow these series now!
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So will this be every tusday
How can a power that won WW2 have such difficulty against the army of a smaller country?
The Answer is simple
The United States no longer had the same army that won WW2.
Tip tip series. Sadly during the live broadcast I didn't note down the email address to send photos and info regarding the Korean war which might be of interest. May I kindly ask what the email address is again.
@@007Davis community@timeghost.tv is the email you are looking for!
Did i sleep through some part or was the whole episode filled with quotes from american diplomats?
North Koreans just captured Seoul in few days and there is no place for their perspective?
The use of the telephone clearly shows that things are getting ever more serious.
So much has changed in only 5 years.
The Ericofon.
@jonbaxter2254 ikr! Crzy how fast technology moved!
The Cobra phone began production in 1954....4 years from "now" just a little glitch in the timeline...
If you were on the Bell telephone system you couldn't use the US made verson of the Ericofone. That meant a majority of the US. Only small independent companies could use them.
Well this escalated quickly
Yup
Soul is right near the border, its literally within rocket artillery range of NK territory
It did
Barely a week in
It got out of hand fast
Im sure this is the only time Seoul gets captured this war
(It wasn’t)
@@jtgd insider joke
Of course…surely only this once 🤭
@@jtgddude! Spoilers.
@@jtgdUGH. Spoiled next season...
The USSR boycotting the security council is one big brain moment of the war.
"Let's see them do anything without us!" ~Stalin, possibly
Yeah, that cost them politically.
And it shows why the U.S. should never leave unless the UN is totally dissolved
Why did they do that? It seems like all that did was hurt them politically.
@@captainlamp2.076 There was a legal debate at the time about whether the Security Council could make non-procedural decisions in case one or more of the permanent members (Veto powers) were absent. The view of the USSR was they couldn't, so being absent, in their view, was basically a permanent veto on anything, effectively crippling the UN. Too bad for them, everybody else decided they could vote, so the resolutions passed until the soviet ambassador returned in August 1950
My Grandfather was in the 24ID in 1950. Just a few months from getting his points to go home. He was given a choice, go to San Francisco for 6 months and work a supply depot, or 1 month in Korea. He and three others chose San Francisco. They are all that is left of his company after *spoiler alert* the Chinese invasion wiped out the division.
My father was a WWII Army mustang officer. In June of 1950 I was a month short of my first birthday. Our family had orders to transfer from Fort Sill Oklahoma to Japan. We stopped in Idaho to visit my father's family in Shoshone. Back on the road, we got as far as Boise when the North came boiling over the border. My father telegraphed next stage in San Francisco. They gave him 48 hours to dump his wife and two children in Boise and get on a train to Frisco. From there they flew him to Japan, and he'd later land with the Army's 7th Division in Korea, and later be the first liaison officer to the Ethiopian UN contingent in Korea. YP
@@yankeepapa304that must have been interesting. Liasoning with Ethiopians in Korea.
My grandfather was a marine parachute forward air controller. He took a job doing air traffic control for Andrews Air Force Base with one other member from his squad. The rest of his squad went to Korea and did not come back.
Such a delectable luxury to get two concurring main series, especially as events in WW2 shift towards Korea.
Yeah, I dig it too, but I'm actually most curious about how our Realtime friends will deal with Vietnam, the ultimate betrayal of principles of the Atlantic Charter, which formed the nucleus of "We Why Fight" in WWII and also the UN and the framework of the postwar world. 60 years later, this is still the most controversial conflict in all of American history and the seed of much of the current global discontent.
@@haeuptlingaberja4927will they even do it though? Since its so long
@@MysticEagle52Probs not since it’s not as impactful internationally compared to the Korean War. Vietnam only really effected the U.S and didn’t really upset the apple cart like Korea did.
That being said, if they do cover Vietnam they should probably start when America gets involved officially in 1964 with a few dedicated vids to cover the background.
@@tigertank06
I would argue that the Vietnam war was even more impactful (and relevant today) because its roots were a clear betrayal of those principles of the Atlantic Charter I mentioned. FDR and a very reluctant Churchill promised a postwar world free from empire and corporate exploitation, where every country had the absolute right of self-determination and the freedom to choose whatever form of government it wished. And yet, to our great shame and lasting detriment, the fallout from the Bomb in Hiroshima and Nagasaki hadn't even settled before the Americans so shamelessly betrayed those very specific promises to our allies against the Imperial Japanese in East Asia. By 1946, the American effort to reinstate the colonial rule of Great Britain, France and the Netherlands in the area was already in full swing. This was a very, very pivotal and ominous development. It's one thing to claim to support democracy, but actions always speak louder than words.
@@haeuptlingaberja4927Because those principles were never genuine. It was always about the acquisition of capital for American businesses. That’s what it’s all been about always.
A College Professor of mine was working in Army Intelligence when Korea brewed up. He found himself on a plane bound for the theater with compatriots from the intelligence community. They hashed out how they would go about their jobs, excited at doing it "for real." Upon their arrival they were all handed shovels and made to dig latrines! So much for Military Intelligence!
Frank Burns must have been their CO.
It's fictional but the William Wharton novel "A Midnight Clear" has at its centre a US Army intelligence and reconnaissance platoon who were put together, eccentrically, from the regiment's highest scorers on the AGCT, the Army's intelligence test. They are attached to a headquarters company but one of their tasks is to dig and maintain the company latrine.
Oh that's the military for you.
Trains you for war, but really just lets you sweep the floor for now.
At this rate, the war will be over by Christmas
I’ve heard that before
oh man, I dont wanna hear that bs again!
Just how many hopes and dreams must be crushed before this lesson is finally learned I wonder?
Yeah, the ROK stands no chance
Third time's the charm.
My wife was 11months old when the war started and fled Seoul on her mother and older sister back.
It's a miracle she survived, hopefully you're both doing well
Your mother in law is awesome
Similar situation with my father. He was 5 years old and lived in Kongju. He couldn't keep up with the pace of the rest of his family and cried the whole day while they were fleeing south, so my grandmother found rice wine from a deserted house and gave him the drink until he passed out. Then his family carried him on their backs, including his 10 year old brother.
Episode Two: The Fall of Seoul
This was The Korean War. Thank you for watching
Next week: The Vietnam War
Imagine if you were born on the 1st day of the korean war, you'd be 1 week old when it ended
“The Americans lost to farmers that speak tunnel and foliage”
“Next up the Golf war”
@@Hateful_Psycho First Gulf War? Second Gulf War? or the Third Gulf War?
(ps First was the Iraq/Iranian war of the very late 70's/early 80's - as reported on by the news outlets at the time).
Made me chuckle, thanks!
- Jake
Thing is even if you ask the super gunho DPRKoreans they will still not say just cuz they took over Seoul then they won.
Of this reason, Seoul after this war is the most fortified city in its history….
Surround around Seoul’s surrounding sectors with more city sector plans! More Apartment blocks!
Tank traps and BARs!
Whole bunch of A.A weapon’s on the skyscrapers
An army cor. Solely dedicated to defend Seoul and Gyeongi province.
Seriously, we had made a fort facility to defend Capital and it’s surrounding territory back then…
Of course we deconstructed it after we presumed our military superiority….
Anyway, this event was our countries most PTSD still today. 😢
The national capital should have moved from Seoul to a location further south after the outbreak of war in 1950. It's within artillery range of the North.
@@MrShobar well… trying to do that exact thing right now…
But remember, our constitution does not have a statement to recognise other’s existents. And ‘Technically’ the war is not over. There was no ‘peace’ treaty, it was Armistices.
So… technically (and only in the technical sense) there’s no reason for us to move the capital.
Because in our constitution, we are the only country functioning and administrating in this peninsula.
So in that sense, moving the capital still means, we are accepting the ‘contrical’ existent of the north, and stepping aside of working on unifying the peninsula that is stated in our constitution.
However, the reality is rather different. And there’s more and more opinions of non unification(In my country of course. Can’t survey the north with this nationality lmao). And mixed with opinion’s like your’s
We are moving our ‘Administrative’ or rather saying the ‘Gervernmental’ part’s of our country. (Well with the Assembly…. but we have a rich history of having powerful Administrative department in Junta era… so…)
of these reasons, this is what can say of your opinion.
Technically we can’t but we are doing it very subtly and slowly.
It’s more like a London to England I guess. One of our word of saying a capital was (and still) literally ‘Seoul’. So changing it radically would provoke a massive repulsion among the public.
From what I've heard, the ROKAF stores and produces more artillery shells (currently 3 million) than Europe. Nothing is too much if you border Kim Jong Un.
I thought Belgrade was the most fortified city in modern history.
@@Heylanda-fb9xb not comparing to other cities. That’s definitely debatable :). I’m saying, Seoul’s It’s history.
Hello everyone. I want to say, i have been here since 1916(2016), all through WW2 and now korea. I will be leaving for basic training for active duty in the army on the 5th of August. I am excited and sad to not ve able to watch these videos as they come out. Keep up the great work indy
Do some cool shit in Ukraine and you'll be mentioned by Indy in "The Ukraine War" in 2056😎😎
Jokes aside: big respect for enlisting when shits going sideways, stay safe🫡
@@wizardmoto lmaooo🤣🤣. I will try my darndest to get there lol
Go Airborne! I did. It sucks being a leg!!!!!
@@eltonjohnson1724 how do I change?
@@Fatherland1871 Talk to your recruiter and tell him/her that you want the airborne option. Get EVERYTHING in writing! Do NOT trust a recruiter!!!! They are under a LOT of pressure because they have quotas to meet and fewer people are joining up nowadays. Thus, they only want your signature. Going airborne also means more money. But they will never tell you that. Good luck.
5:40 that Officer sure ain’t skipping any rations
"Tell me how your army is corrupted without telling me directly that it is corrupted."
I think that's the ROKA Chief of Staff...
It is crazy how sloppy he looked.
ROK = Republic of K-Ration
Thought to myself "This guy looks a bit like Kim Jong Un!"
This series is shaping up to be first-class, man! Well done!
I am so pumped up for this series. My grandfather was in the 25th infantry division and would never talk about the war. All he would say is “That was coldest I have ever been.” Tell me what happened, Indy!
It would be nice if you could put the unit/division numbers on the map as you do in WW2, makes following the map quite easier.
I started with the Great War, which lacked decent maps, and unit symbols, let alone animated units symbols for a long time. Now there is a detailed map and animated unit symbols already in the first two episodes. It will improve as time passes. In a few weeks WWII will be over, I bet this series will become more detailed by then.
Yes, I don't get why didn't they start with it because they have the ability already, it would make the team look more professional, make the maps easier to understand, and when they have to cover smaller units, their current flag-symbols will just further confuse things. Additionally it's going to mean that Indy's going to have to eventually remake the earlier videos in order to have detailed map symbols.
@@chrisk1208 Thing is that unlike then, they now have a decade of unit symbol experience and right now they have the resources from the WW2 channel to make the unit symbols for this war. For each episode without the unit symbols, they are creating future problems where they will have to work on the same maps twice, wasting time that they could use for other production work or to relax.
We plan to have them ready by next episode and will update these two accordingly.
@@lembitmoislane. I don't mind them releasing the first episode(s) again including unit numbers. Feels like an extra present.
It is important to underline that the new North Korean army contained ethnic Korean ex vets of
the WW2 USSR red army and they had served in all its aspects. The South Korean army contaiined
ethnic Korean ex vets of the Imperial Japanese Army and IJN who had mostly served as little more than conscripted labor construction workers everywhere in the Empire of Japan.
The Americans claimed that the North Korean border troops were dominated by Koreans from the Soviet Union, and the USSR did have a Korean minority in the Soviet Far East. A rather large number of Koreans had fought in China for the PLA and had contributed to its victory in the Civil War, and several KPA divisions were dominated by these veterans. Some of the ROK Army had fought for Japan in WW2, although the Japanese tendency to use Koreans as labourers or POW guards did not do much for their military effectiveness.
I don't think that it is true. Soviet Koreans were deported from the Far East to the Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan in 1937. As a consequence, their civil rites were limited and they were not meant to be conscripted. During the war they served in the "Trudarmiya" (Labor army), serving as constructor workers or other labourers for the military production and didn't had any combat experience. Their role didn't differ much from the role of Koreans in the Japanese army. There were exceptions like Alexandr Min, the only ethnical Korean awarded with a Hero of the Soviet Union, but very few. However, there was also 88th independent rifle brigade at the Far East front made up mostly from Chinese and Koreans who fought against Japanese in Manchuria in the 1930-ies, but had to flee to USSR. Kim Il Sung was a Korean batallion commander in it. It was used for reconnaissance missions at the border and in 1945 they were sent to northern part of the Korea, but not the Soviet Koreans. So, we can't say that there were many Korean WW2 vets in the USSR at all and they were never sent to North Korea.
Ethnic Korean in Russia are also treated like cannon fodder or disposable workers too.
The real reason behind KPA's strength are Sino-Japanese/Chinese Civil War veteran who fought since 1930s all the way until the Korean War. Both the rank-and-file and high-ranking officers.
@@ДенисЯсников-ы8я Well, the Americans made the claim about Soviet influence, and like the Americans in the South, the Soviets had military advisers in the North and suddenly found themselves needing people capable of interpreting, liaison duties etc. And Soviet Koreans were arguably ready-made for this role. American analyses credited Ho Ka-i and other Soviet Koreans with considerable background influence in the North. However, this may have been more a case of the USA needing to see Moscow as more definitive of the North's actions than it actually was.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ho_Ka-i
@@stevekaczynski3793 Yes, of course there was big Soviet influence and military advisers were sent as well as some Korean communists. AFAIK, in the early days of DPRK there was kind of 3 communist fractions confronting for power:
1) Those who lived in Korea under Japanese rule.
2) Those who returned from China after fighting against the Japanese there.
3) Those who came or returned from the USSR.
However, there was no program for mass relocation of Soviet Koreans to North Korea encouraged and they were not in significant numbers in the KPA. In the USSR border guards were part of the NKVD/KGB structure and NK's Social Security Forces seem to include border troops while being part of the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. It may happen that Soviet influence in it was bigger than in the army.
My father in law was born in Seoul the week prior to the start of hostilities. His parents fled on foot with him and his young siblings south in the great mass of refugees. My mother in law's parents were evacuated by ship from Incheon, but she won't be born for a couple of years yet, in 1952 in a refugee camp near Busan.
Glad they made it out.
@@jackbharucha1475me too! Or I would never have met my lovely wife or daughter!
Indy. The Korean must not remain America's "forgotten war." I am so glad to see that you have undertaken to remedy this injustice.
My dad was fresh out of the Marines, newly married & had a good job when he got called back in not long after this war started. He stayed stateside filling jobs of Marines that were sent overseas. My mom moved with him & stayed outside of the base where she got a job to help make ends meet. I remember her saying she basically lived off a hamburger a day & lots of coffee.
Beats actually going to the front though?
@@davidw.2791def beats the Frozen Chosin!
Everyone blaming everyone else for blowing up the bridges. Yep, that’s what happens when someone screws up.
Cant wait to watch the full series. My grandfather was with the 7th ID in a 105mm artillery unit during the battle for Porkchop Hill.
my father David Orth volunteered for the Army in 1949 and was assigned to the Second Division as a financial Clerk
So glad I can actually catch your work on a release date. You hooked me with WWI, I almost caught up in WWII, now finally can post saying I love your series and work! Thank you for the depth and detail.
Hopefully see you at some premieres!
"It appears that the DPRK team is going with the 'Hail Mary' play to capture Seoul."
"That's a bold move, Cotton. Let's see if it pays off for them."
Considering how close Seoul is to the border, it's more of a short pass than a Hail Mary.
Kinda did for a while.
@@kemarisiteI’d call it a deep slant.
It worked out well for the KPA, not once but twice.
Impressive considering that Roger Staubach won't coin that phrase for another 15 years
Another amazing series from Timeghost!
Every time I hear KMAG in this series already I think so myself "Boy, that Kevin Magnussen had an interesting career before becoming a Formula 1 driver, huh."
He's paying for his war crimes by driving for Haas
I imagine it as the K-pop version of Time Magazine.
Glad I’m not the only tragic here
Yeh, it's so weird hearing this - everytime he mention KMag, that's who I think off
Where he learnt to drive so defensively
This series is off to an amazing start! Thank you for all your hard work in bringing more attention to "the forgotten war"
Yo Indy! Thanks! Another great production. The forgotten war.
My pops, a WW2 veteran and officer, was glad he did not get called up for this one, had a wife and 2 kids. The guys who were still on the reserve rolls who did get called up or who volunteered were known as "retreads" by the way, lol.
After the vast scale of WWII, it's interesting seeing battles where tanks are measured by the dozen instead of the hundreds.
It's also weird to hear "9 T-34s" instead of "500 T-34s of the Soviet Armor Regiment".
This is not the vast battle of the eastern front. It's just a regional war.
@@Heylanda-fb9xb The KPA only had about 120 T-34s at the outset, plus an uncertain number of SU-76 self-propelled guns.
the quality is truly striking
I just started watching timeghost and I’ve been binging the World War I and two series. I cannot believe I have to wait a week for this. How did you guys do it?
With support from people just like me and you. If you haven't already, please consider joining the Time Ghost Army.
Now you know what I assume it was like to live through these events
Don't think of it as a wait, think of it as the world moving forward, and you are apart of it.
It's best not to binge things. Binging is crazy unhealthy, physically and mentally. Plus, it adds something knowing what you're watching happened in the previous week.
Waiting a week is the best part really. Taking it all in quickly is neat (I did this when joining WWI about halfway through), but actually seeing things unfold in real time, in a way that matches your own experience of time passing, gives a perspective on things that's almost impossible to otherwise replicate.
I've been with you for over a decade Indy. Love the content you all make. I cant put into words how much I appreciate you all for connecting myself with the history. Keep up the amazing work. Your historical accuracy knows no bounds.
No More Task Force Smiths" was the Army Doctrine before Desert Shield/Storm. Looking forward to next week's episode!
Yes this task force was a disaster! Too little and unprepared. General William Dean became the highest ranking US General ever captured. It all happened in the mountains around where I have lived since 2003, the great city of Daejeon.
It would be really cool to see a contrast of WW2 and the Korean war, like what were the differences in tactics, technology, doctrine, etc.
The biggest difference was that WWII was a "Holy War" and Korea was a "war of the far frontier" such as the Romans used to fight. The latter far harder for (actual) republics to fight...especially using conscripts...who do vastly better in the first type of war. See T.R. Fehrenbach's "This Kind of War" for the best view of all this... YP
Great update Indy, and I Love those Ericsson Ericofon / Cobra phones, although they did not come out until 1954, after the war.
Wow, what a great catch! Timeghost needs to get you on for set design! I'm surprised an established "history" business made such an oversight.
They're prototype models.
@@CarrotConsumer Could be, the original design was conceived in the late 1940's :D
The writing and presentation just keeps getting better!
Yall are doing great work. Been following since WW1. Can’t thank yall enough
Thanks for being with us all these years!
The Great War channel: Months of nothing,
World War Two: Big offensive will start in few weeks,
Korean War:
This is modern war
LEEEEEROOOOYYYY-JJJEEEEEENKINSSSS!!!
Things escalated quickly.
Need to highlight the 38th Parallel on that map in something bold so we can clearly see the war progress.
Good stuff-but I expected nothing less from you guys 👍 Looking forward to more.
South Korean bros,it’s so over…
MacArthur's mavericks: We are so back.
my grandfather was 19 when the war broke out. Lukily, after getting drafted he spent the war stationed in germany and would make it home to meet and marry my grandmother and live until 2005
“Do You have any idea how little that narrow’s It down!?”
Incredible work
Good work
You should indicate unit designation/number on the map, it can get quite confusing.
We are working on it, we will update the episodes when we have the graphics finalised and they will appear in future episodes! We plan to have it ready by the next episode.
@@TheKoreanWarbyIndyNeidell Nice, keep up the good work, you’re one of the best if not the best documentary channel out there.
I wish I had listened to my uncle more. He was an interpreter in the 8th Army in Japan and was in Seoul learning Korean when the war broke out. He was sent back to Japan and then back to South Korea and was in the Pusan Perimeter. He mostly worked as a liaison with the South Korean forces.
A severe shortage of Korean speakers was a problem for Americans in the late 1940s. In fact the Korean language lacked vocabulary for many modern military terms and American advisers played a role in developing such terms for the Korean language. Sometimes Japanese was used as a link language, as some Western military had picked up at least rudiments of that language in WW2, but though many Koreans understood Japanese, they often resented being addressed in it.
@@stevekaczynski3793 He grew up in the Bronx and spoke Italalian, English, and some Yiddish. He joined the Army in 1938. He was sent to learn German after being in North Africa and Sicily. The he was sent to Japan and Korea. He just seemed to soak up languages.
The battles at the Pusan Perimeter were frightening and terrible. And the war didn't stop there.
I served in 5/21 Infantry 7th Infantry Division at Ft. Ord California in 1990. "No more Task Force Smiths" was pushed on the Battalion for training to higher standards and never repeating what happened in tge early stages of the war. My back still hurts from all the training 34 years later.
Great video. Thank you.
It is almost a miracle that the Republic of China based on Taiwan was still recognized as the legitimate government of China. Such a decision had huge effects on this war.
Communist states tended to see this as evidence of the UN being dominated by the USA and its allies. On the other hand, the FBI was going after UN employees who were Americans over alleged Communist links.
Actually it kind of makes sense
PRC was not the todays powerhouse, despite large territory it was pretty poor, sorta dependant on Soviets and didn't had much in terms of power projection
Now ROC, despite being limited to Tawain, had all of the chinese navy under its control as it sides with the nationalists during civil war, Army & Air Force that's worn out for now but still existing and managed to secure & move chinese gold reserves, denying the mainland communist funds that they would much need
@@XOFInfantryman the Chinese Civil War had also recently concluded, and the international community was still kinda iffy about the new guys running the show in Beijing. The east/west split was hardening, with NATO newly-formed and outside of the Eastern Bloc, nobody was going to rush to recognize Mao's government (certainly not while they're joined at the hip with Stalin's USSR).
Either way, it did really work out in South Korea's favour that the KMT were still recognized as China's rightful government.
@@flargus7919 SPOILER
In December 1950 a representative of the People's Republic will be allowed to address the UN - at that point lots of Chinese are in Korea and heading south and "the next man coming down this road will be Joseph Stalin" (US military policeman warning UN stragglers to hurry up).
@@flargus7919 The United States completely screwed themselves over strategically by not taking the Chinese Civil War seriously until it was over. While China was very underdeveloped, it was well understood even during WW2 that they were a major ally with a lot of manpower. Instead of letting the letting the nationalists fall, the United States should had made the strategic decision to send in their small army when it was clear that the communists were winning. While the american army units were greatly flawed as shown in the video, the American air power along with ground forces could had maintained a foothold in China, allow for the ROCAF and US army to reorganised and then with an strengthened US-Chinese army restored republican control over the country.
Their failure to do so enabled the Korean war to be what it is, for communism to rise in Vietnam and it's region, kept the USSR distanced away from Western forces, and ultimately enabled the rise of a strong superpower that the United States has now had to deal with for generations.
So interesting watching this during my commute from near Suwon, to work in Seoul.
My great uncle dropped into Korea with the 187th ARCT. I'll definitely be following this.
Congratulations on another amazing series. I’ve read all the books and heard many stories from relatives but you maps and explanations are the ultimate in educating us layfolk. Thank you so much for your hard work. Cheers from Daz in Australia. 👍🏻👍🏻
Thank you very much Daz!
Still confused by the phone designs Indy has set up.
The Ericofon was designed at Swedish telecommunications manufacturer LM Ericsson in 48/49, prototypes were made in the following years. In 1953 the final result was presented to the Swedish telecom, Televerket. They went to mass production and entered the market in 54. They quickly became one of the most iconic objects of the second half of the 20th century home appliance design, and were still sold in updated versions until the early 2000s. As TimeGhosts, getting early access to the model was not a problem…
Wow, thanks for the quick response, and I learned something new, too!
I've always loved your content. Started watching you when you were covering ww1. I appreciate the way you approach history.
Thank you for covering the Korean War
And thank you for watching.
So happy you are covering this war!
indy neidell didn't aged at all since 1945.
What could his secret be?
@@Hewhosurprisinglyis We know the secret: He uses TimeGhost!
@@littlekong7685 I should have known.
The secret is probably buried somewhere in those history books! Or maybe time travel? Who knows!
Indy Neidell didn't age at all since 1914 even
Great series so far, up to the usual standard of excellence.
I love the telephones in this series!
Great presentation, wonderful explanation of the course of events and historic situations, your history channel is my favorite together wit Mark Felton´s. Greetings from Europe from a lover of History!!
Thank you TimeGhost. I have very superficial knowledge about the Korean War but I think that's about to change.
Much appreciated, hope you enjoy our new series.
Looking forward to the review of Task Force Smith. We studied that over and over to learn from it.
Thanks
Thank you.
I've been looking forward to this series for a while, and I'm delighted to see Indy Neidell still kicking Historical narrative ass!
The Korean War- a sea of heartbreak!
@@AndrewBlacker-t1d I guess you are not a Clint Eastwood Fan. If you were, you would get the post!
I very much enjoyed your video and I gave it a Thumbs Up
My Father was over in the conflict early and on 4 Sep 1950 he held a grenade to long and lost his right hand.
🙏🏾
God Bless this production value
Incredible Vibery
Not Perfect but some of the Best
Thank You
WOW I didnt know south korean blow their bridge with their OWN people fully packed on it, this is really disturbing, what a mess
Due to chaos, and probably a certain contempt for human life.
@@stevekaczynski3793 And possibly as part of NK spy operations. It was known the army, government were full of NK sympathizers, people on the Soviet payroll, and NK saboteurs. Might have been an NK/Soviet civilian minister who followed Soviet orders to keep the SK army trapped and ordered engineers to do it. Or it might have been panicked, untrained, uncommanded soldiers who were told a tank/NK operatives were already ON the bridge when it was blown. (Rumours were blowing around that NK soldiers were already south of the river by then).
People make fun of Kim but the dictators from SK somehow always end up looking like Robocop corporate villains when i hear about them.
I am not surprised they blew up their own people.
@@robertkalinic335 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Defense_Corps_incident Pretty much part of the pattern...
@@stevekaczynski3793 Jeeeez holy fk, i am fully sold on NK being good guys back then.
I know the overall history of the Korean War, but not many details. I'm really looking forward to this series!
well done. I spent 14 months in Korea as an advisor to a major airline there
Thanks for sharing!
This series is off to a great start! The updated phones are a nice touch!
First thing I subscribed to in over a decade. Excellent content, well read, well written, and I greatly enjoy the myriad of primary source videos. Super excited for 50more episodes.
Much appreciated!
It's kinda crazy how fast it all moves!
Every time you say Uijonbu I think of those plucky surgeons of the 4077th
Same!
Good stuff!! My Uncle, Donald Knox wrote two books on the conflict (oral histories, he also wrote Death March).
The railway bridge being blown immediately makes sense but not the other bridges needed to evacuate civilians and material
Thanks Indy
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This channel came out of nowhere on my feed but I like it
And we like you!
Subscribe and stick around, it is only going to get better.
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I caint wait for more of this show!!
The Australian battalion in Japan is 3rd Battalion Royal Australian Regiment, and despite being close to Korea, they’ll actually be the third commonwealth battalion to get there.
(Planning on doing research on 27 Commonwealth Brigade so it’s a bit of a nerdy little interest of mine rn)
Hi Indy
Another thrilling week.
Thanks for the episode.
The suffering of the Korean people must have been unimaginable.
This is awesome your covering the Korean War. My grandfather served in the airforce there.
Oh looks like the series will be over soon then.
Love the fact that we are finally getting a coverage of the "Forgotten War". Just a small pet peeve, could we maybe have slightly bigger division icons, alongside their respective identification number in the future?
He replied to a similar request that they will start doing so soon, and even update the earlier videos with updated map.
Well, that was a quick war!
What's your next project, Indy??
Haha. Good comment.
Nam perhaps
I just spent an hour determining that the phones on your desk are an anachronism, as the Ericofon wasn't mass produced until after the principle conflict of the Korean War was over.
Thanks! That was fun!
Damn this is going fast
I was stationed in Uijonbou and there was still a lot of old Army equipment lying around.
Funfact: The first American aircraft to see combat over Korea will be F-82 Twin Mustangs, a late version of the North American P51 Mustang which had arrived too late to see combat during WW2. These aircraft will score the first three aerial combat victories of the war and will continue to be used until the shortage of spare parts, replacement aircraft and the arrival of Soviet MIG fighter jets will reduce them and other piston engine aircraft mainly to ground support roles.
This is already incredible. Well done team!
Excellent as always - Just wondering if division numbers will be added to the map in future episodes?
We are still in the proccess of finalising the map assets for Korea, we should have this by next episode and plan to update the segments in the first two!
@@TheKoreanWarbyIndyNeidell Brilliant, thank you!
24:26 slow zoom for effect. Nice
I wonder if Sabaton will do some songs about Korea.
I’d vote for their own remake of the song used for MASH, “Suicide is Painless”. That’d be a good opener we all know.
I played that for a piano recital as a kid, must have been like 1977/78.
Light in the Black is about Korea.
Unlike the past two wars, this is the first one I know almost nothing about going into it. Despite the solemnity the study of war requires, I am very excited to learn more.
Are the World War 2 division number squares coming to the Korean War war maps or are the new visuals here to stay?
Was really looking forward to the Korean war. Got me hyped back in february. I knew it would take a while since the war began in June. Very happy to finally follow these series now!
Holy christ what a convoluted disaster this has turned into, in such a short amount of time
"Things fail slowly, then all at once..." The problems that caused it were pre-existing, systemic.
Don't talk about me like that.
Thank you for consistently providing us with such high quality while also entertaining content! What a time to be alive
Much appreciated, glad you enjoyed!