The parallels between the Assyrians and Nazis are somewhat strong, strangely so. Both were perhaps the perfect example of the power of evil in the human spirit, genociding and conquering their neighbors. Both also ended up destroying their ancient civilization to a large extent. Western Civilization in Europe after the Nazis and Mesopotamia after Assyria were completely altered, traumatized, and unconfident. The entire energies of Europe and Mesopotamia (with Egypt and Babylon rebelling repeatedly) were spent defeating their great evils. But after those evils were vanquished, there was little left. And the regions gradually fell to kind foreign conquerors (Persians and Americans). And so Western Europe and Mesopotamia, which in their heydays ruled the entire civilized worlds, burned brightly in one final fire that consumed almost their entire civilizations.
14:18 "You can't remove the barbarity of the human condition through education" Well said. Schools are one of the few places in Western Civilization where social hierarchies form organically.
'"If the United States had not helped us, we would not have won the war," [Nikita Khrushchev] wrote in his memoirs. "One-on-one against Hitler's Germany, we would not have withstood its onslaught and would have lost the war. No one talks about this officially, and Stalin never, I think, left any written traces of his opinion, but I can say that he expressed this view several times in conversations with me."...
Supplied less than 10% of USSR production.😂😂😂 USSR defeated 80-90% of Germany on the East. The West and US financed and traded with Germany before, during and after the war. Keep dreaming.😂
13:27 I wish the ‘host’ asked Rudyard “Why would you have just let Germany take Poland if you were the prime minister? Do you see an outcome that doesn’t result in war if Germany were to take Poland without war being declared?”
Why would there be a war? The polish and German border is a long way from Britain. That was the last real enclave of German people outside of Germany so when the Germans took that bit, there was no reason left.
Two small points: -De Gaulle had served in Syria before the war but was in France by the time WW2 began. He fought briefly and then escaped to England. He did go to Gabon but that was later once the garrison revolted against Vichy. -Mussolini did not switch sides. The king and some high ranking fascist party members kicked him out of power to negotiate with the Allies. He was freed by a German commando and sent to nothern Italy where he "ruled" the Italian Social Republic.
I don't get why WhatifAlthist has this other guy on, he's just making the same videos he normally does but without the graphics. It's not really a conversation.
I think the main reason the other guy doesn't speak as much is because of time constraints. IIRC, in past episodes he said something along the lines of, 'I would like to ask a question but we have to get through this.' Stuff like that. Seems like a better idea would be to give more time for each episode and give the dude specific time for the dude to ask questions.
@@macknittle1121 he’s paying this guy to sit there and ask the right questions to make it seem like this isn’t whatifalthist talking randomly. He leads him into questions it’s so easy to see. He will not answer the wrong questions. Seen it before
@@gavincrees8603 Yes. But I don´t see anything wrong with that. I would just prefer that the other guy asks him some more questions that viewers might have in that moment.
Germany’s biggest asset in tank warfare was actually simple. The allies learned the wrong lesson from radios in WWI when the Russians were open broadcasting their movements with old world tactics and got annihilated. The Germans realized that two-way radios in tanks in blitzkrieg warfare was more advantageous than disadvantageous, even if they were intercepted in real time. The French had better quality tanks at war’s outset. The Germans also used massed tank columns, the Allies at first used dispersed tanks as infantry support. Hitler decided his soldiers needed a break before Dunkirk and Rommel was furious about it as was most of his staff. Hitler also thought that he could negotiate with the British as he figured that the British would make decent allies, and had no racial or historical qualms with them the way he did with the French. He miscalculated that the British public would agree to this arrangement where Hitler left the Empire alone in exchange for a free hand on the ideas of shared Anglo-Saxon heritage. The Germans needed a negotiated peace in Eastern Europe and that was attainable at several points. Several sources from Russian archives indicate that Stalin was planning to invade Germany/Central Europe sometime in late Summer 1941. The huge German pincer movements were so effective as they caught Soviet armies arrayed for attack instead of in any defensive positions. It also helps explains why Stalin was dead silent for like 40 days after the initial shock, he thought that Hitler had pre-empted his advantage of surprise and he would never get such a good chance again. Even taking Moscow though, Hitler couldnt win by pure conquest. German supply lines were so thin, and the Russians had managed to hastily transport all their industries past the Urals quite effectively. However, if Hitler sat down after his attempt on Moscow failed, or didn’t attack at Kursk in 1943 and set up defensive positions, he could have gotten a favorable peace deal out of Eastern Europe with the Soviets and practically achieved his goals. A great book on this was Adam Tooze’s “Wages of Destruction”. If you look at WW2 from an economic standpoint Hitler was making nearly perfect decisions until late 1942 on how to keep his economic system afloat long term, he just missed in a few tactical aspects in Russia that cost him due to failures in German logistics. For America’s industrial might. By 1945, 53% of all manufactured goods worldwide in 1945 were made in the United States. If every single US ship in both Atlantic and Pacific Fleets was sunk at Pearl Harbor, by mid 1943 the US would still have outnumbered the Japanese Navy 3:1 in ships and still would have outnumbered their carrier groups. Yes I am a huge nerd. I also like WW1 better.
@@deriznohappehquite Massive losses of Soviet manpower in the first several years of the war combined with what felt like a redux of WW1. They didn’t have the true initiative until the German armored backbone was crushed at Kursk. If the Germans had arrayed a defensive line they would have been stuck in a fairly static front for several years, and even through the end of the war the Germans were beating the Russians in the attrition game at a micro level with individual soldiers having a 2 or 3 to one kill ratio.
@@quinnmonnin2172 Nah man, the Soviets took back everything from Stalingrad to Rostov-on-Don. The German counteroffensives took some ground, but as you said they lost at Kursk and from then on they were getting steamrolled.
@@deriznohappehquite so like I said, make a defensive line instead of the Kursk offensive and it’s a static war. Guderian and Manstein had figured out how to stop the Russian attacks and stabilized the line in early 1943. Germany just attacks right into a Russian ambush laid against them at Kursk instead of sitting pat.
I disagree with the notion that the Germans could have won the war by not invading Russia (they needed the oil in the Caucasus), taking Moscow (they needed the oil in the Caucasus), or not declaring war on the USA (they had already failed to take the oil in the Caucasus by the time American help arrived at scale in 1943, and America was supplying the Allies anyway). The Germans couldn’t win in North Africa because they were depending on the Italian fleet for their supplies. The French army didn’t give up because they were cowards, they gave up because the German army was already 100 miles behind them and cut off their supplies, while the French units had no way of catching up with them. The British were able to defeat Italian armies 5 times their size in North Africa because those Italian armies were not motorized and the British units were mechanized. It wasn’t because the Italians didn’t care. The war in the East was such a meat grinder because the Soviets tried to make up for their lack of industrialization and the Germans tried to make up for their lack of natural resources with mediocre horse-mobile infantry units. The Germans in Army Group B were already, not quite starving, but suffering from hunger as they were attacking before they even reached Stalingrad. They were really struggling to get gas to run their tanks. They just couldn’t get supplies that far to the front at a sufficient scale. I’d note the difference between strategic bombing, operational scale bombing, and tactical bombing/close air support. Strategic bombing tends not to work super well. Bombing at the operational scale is extremely powerful.
These are great videos, but I think the video would do a lot better with some better production quality. A few examples would be having the guy on the left be more centered in frame, or adding better microphone quality.
honestly, i think production quality is fine,. What I do think is a problem is the structure. Ss much as I love the whatifalthist long period's of talking, I wish guy on the left had some more questions or was able to structure whatifalthists long periods of speaking with some pauses. Basically, I wish he had a structure that led to to whatifalthist saying the same things, but in some manageable chunks
@@MIKAEL212345 getting a better microphone is not expensive and would improve the production a lot because after all it is a podcast. I don't know why I feel like the guy at the left doesn't care.I understood that not all topics may be interesting to him (for example, the one about Latin America, it was obvious that he didn't give a damn and it offends me in particular because I am from Latin America and I would have liked this WIAH time to have been spent making a more elaborate video talking about of the topic) but the minimum would be to warn Wiah not to talk about these since it seems a bit disrespectful to me.
@@segiraldovi yeah, I was trying to be a bit more empathetic cause I'm not sure if he just doesn't care, or maybe the chemistry just isn't there with WIAH so he seems uninterested
Basically the role that he should fulfill should be a person who enables the presenter (WIAH) to explain the topic through good questions that guide the podcast. And you don't have to be an expert on the topic to ask good questions, the only thing you have to do is have a minimum of interest in the topic. Interesting questions that could have been asked in the last civil war podcast that would have enabled WIAH to go deeper into these topics and not mention them marginally What was the trigger for the tensions between the north and the south? It's clear that the Deep South wanted to maintain slavery, but why did states like Virginia join the confederation? What impact did Lincoln's murder have?
See you say people study WW2 a lot but it's really Germany, Russia, and the Western front people study. Most couldn't tell you anything about the African front, the Italians, Romanian, Finns, Scandinavia, the Balkans. And the Pacific people boil down to pearl harbor, midway, and nukes. Avoiding China, to India, and the various island nations.
Rudyard please I need you to really do a deep dive into military history if your going to go into these topics on major wars. Your a intellectual mastermind when it comes to anthropology and sociology but lack any type of knowledge in the military sphere which is essential when your covering any war especially WW2 of all wars
In this video as well as the WW1 one tend to be very wrong in a lot of your military statements regarding both wars which is why I made the last comment.
Lynch has a gift for pulling together unconventional viewpoints and can be extremely insightful, but his understanding of World War II seems to be limited to older sources like Shrirer and the German generals which were all written before there was access to German or Soviet archives.
Over 50% of German industry was involved in the fight against Great Britain in 1942. Soldiers were fighting in the East, but most of the industry was building anti-aircraft defenses, submarines, etc. Additionally, Russia received enormous aid from the West.
Germany didn’t hyperinflate their currency to pay war reparations; rather hyperinflation was a result of the money printing required to pay it. Good series of videos.
Waiting for my invite to the next. I don’t even need a mic. I can just sit there Interested. Or I could be cleaning my room or something. Idk I think it’s a good idea. JLMK
My grandfather was a young Italian man drafted into the Italian Army in WW2, all he wanted to do was play his guitar and woo women, he didn't want to fight. I may be one of few Americans who had grandparents on both sides.
45:50 mussolini didnt switch sides, britain conquered southern italy and setup a parallel italian government opposed to mussolini, mussolini still remained a german ally, in fact he became practically a german puppet.
1) The other mad thing about how the Normandy landings is that while that made Germany fight on a THIRD front, the Allies completely duped the Nazis into thinking we were going to then land in Norway to open up a fourth. Never happened, and 300,000 or so German soldiers sat out the rest of the war for a landing that never happened. 2) Crete is a weird one. It horrifies Hitler into banning any more parachute assaults, but shocks the Allies into actually forming airborne divisions, and the rest is history. I've even argued with friends who say Germany could never have won that Crete along with France is a microcosm of how they could have won the whole war: a complete Allied catastrofuck. 3) Last one about Crete: the Royal Navy had to evacuate the British Army. Air cover was gone due to carrier losses, Luftwaffe was having a turkey shoot of a time. The British Army told Admiral Cunningham to stop coming back for them in case the RN was wiped out in the Med. He responded roughly: "It takes three years to build a ship. It takes three hundred years to build a tradition. The evacuation will continue".
March 24, 1933 the headline on the top of the daily express: Judea declares war on Germany This doesn’t fit the propaganda I’ve been fed for my entire life. What about you?
@@_Chev_Cheliosyou should probably stop spouting propaganda yourself. The first sentence of the article, right after the headline says “ All Israel is uniting in wrath against the Nazi onslaught on the Jews in Germany.”
He could make multiple videos about that one, the ancient jewish civilization/jews before the diaspora, the diaspora itself, ashkenazi jews, sephardic jews, mezrahi jews. They have an interesting and large history.
15:01 A country that had done nothing wrong!? I'm not trying to justify Nazism at all, but Germans had been raped and expelled from Poland. Ofc this pales in comparison to what the Nazis did to the Poles, but c'mon a country that did nothing wrong? Also, Ik this isn't the same Poland that the Nazis and soviets conquered, but watch my 2nd latest vid to see how poorly the Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth treated the east slavs.
This video is so full of inaccuracies i dont even know whwre to start. But Mussolini switching sides has to be the dumbest one. Mussolini did not switch sides, he was disposed and imprisoned by the new Italian government, not the germans. They Freed Mussolini
Agree. That one was the mistake wich really dents the credibility. Other minor mistakes can be excused by him not thinking through everything he is planning to say.
The sickle cut was not Hitler's plan, it was Manstein's plan. True the rest of the German General Staff when asked by Hitler for a plan to invade France just dusted off the old Schliefen plan from WW1, modified to include the Netherlands this time. However these plans were captured by the French and British after a German staffer's plane crash landed in Belgium. Manstein had already been working on an alternative plan and Guderian convinced him to make the bold strike thru Sedan and the Ardennes Forest straight to the Channel coast. The German Chief of Staff Halder hated Manstein and refused his plan, so Manstein had the plan shown to Hitler via an intermediary (one of Manstein's staff officers was friends with Hitler's army attache). Hitler then ordered Manstein to Berlin to present his plan, which became the operation plan to invade France and the Low Countries.
Agreed. It seems Hitler's arrogance was in believing that he in fact had planned the whole thing and it was his victory. You really start to see his Narcissism at the very end of the war in the comments he makes. He doesn't think anything is his fault and that everyone failed accept him.
I love whatifalthist so I decided to give this podcast a shot but I expected something better honestly, there are a lot of imprecisions, mistakes and misconceptions
What was Mr H's manifesto? Where did he say he wanted to get rid of those two groups? It almost sounds like you've never read MK, assuming that is what you're calling his manifesto.
Everyone likes to criticize Chamberlain's appeasement policy but most forget that it was that policy that helped strengthen the allies and the free world to deal with Germany, Japan and Italy. It enabled Britain to build up and improve their lagging Airforce and navy. It helped bring America away from isolation and into the war buildup. It even led to the eventual cooperation that birthed the United Nations and other geopolitical economic and security blocs. Chamberlain's policy was a good one in retrospect.
I like the World War Two channel since it goes through the war week by week. It forces you to change your perspective on things you thought you knew, since you are going through it just like they were and can't jump to the obvious conclusion or make sweeping generalizations. One thing I think should have been mentioned here was Britain's advantage on the tech tree. From everything to Nuclear science, aviation, radar, code breaking, the first computer, antibiotics, medical theory, and even Jet engines; the British often had quite the leg up on their opponents. It was often just the scale and resources that needed to be addressed, which the Americans could bring to bear. A lot of American technology has it's origin in Britain during the war. And the code breaking in Britain changed the war in their favor on more than one occasion. I surprised there is no mention of this considering it's importance. There is a brief period where for around a month or 2 the British aren't cracking Enigma codes in the Atlantic, and the Nazi's sink so much shipping that they thought they were going to have to suspend convoys. Not to mention the number of Battles fought were they knew exactly what the enemy was going to do. (Kursk is a good example.) Code breaking was a massive failure on the side of the Axis and a huge reason the war concluded so quickly. In both instances the Japanese and the Nazi's lost the war ultimately because of their Ideology. Any time there was a good decision, tactical or strategic, that could have been made or understanding they should have had, they went with ideology instead of sound reasoning every time. It made them unable to adapt to the changing reality they faced. They just weren't as good at fighting wars as they thought they were when it began.
The D-Day was an important military event, yet the German army was grinded not in Normandy but in Belarus where the battle between German and Soviet troops (Operation Bagration) involved 10 times (!!) more soldiers precisely at that time. When one reads American history literature one gets an absolutely distorted picture of the events.
Of course because if people knew of the atrocities that the USA did we white people would not want to follow the USA but want to build our own National Socialist empire this time including the slavs.
All they ever did was come into the civilizations that white people built around the world then used usury to buy our elites and then the civilizations die a little like today.
Blitzkrieg is a propaganda term that wasn't actually used. The german generals used the terms "Bewegungskrieg" (war of movement) and combined arms warfare.
A few factual tweaks since I was raised watching WWII movies: (a) DeGaulle was in metropolitan France during the collapse, not Gabon or Syria (b) the French fleet was sunk at Oran, not Toulon (c) the Battle of Britain was 1940, not 1941 (d) Hitler declares war on the US in Dec 1941, not early 1942. And, of course, a bunch of times where Rudyard's going so fast that he says one country when he means another. Still, a much better job than I could do.
By 1944 the US was building a Liberty ship, on average, every 42 days. Yamato knew when the attack at Pearl Harbor failed to get the CVs that they'd only awakened a sleeping giant.
That was their main logistical hub, their political center, population center. And it would be a natural stopping line for the Germans to dig in instead of keep being on the attacking side.
Honestly some yours takes are very wrong. Soo many inaccuracies. Ex. 1. America entering the war and Stalingrad where 1 year apart, not two months. 2. Mussolini did not change side and was captured by the Germans, the italian government a coup amd imprisoned him, before the German freed him amd created a puppet government in the North. 3. The spy that told the Russian Japan was not going to attach wasn't Russian, but a German communist close to the German embassy working undercover for the soviets. 4. Stalingrad didn't involve millions on men, the german where less than 400,000s (soviet slightly more than a million). Others as well. I am no ecpert in WW2 and prefer other hostorical periods, but this video isn't as gpod as the average of this channel IMO
You should do more study on the Soviet vs Nazi. The arguments are very contradictory. If Soviets didn't intend to fight Nazis then why stop supplying the trade? Why bring so many forces to the front? There was that discussion on why Soviets didn't believe Nazis would invade so soon. It is pretty simple, Nazis did bring a reasonable amount of winter gear, which led Stalin to believe that they weren't ready to invade... and Hitler thought he could conquer USSR before winter arrived.
Enjoying the content, but a little hard to watch and listen, with your audio being out of sync - just some constructive feedback. Again, great content.
33:50 You forget about one thing - resources. Western Front was more resource intencive for Germans and so their attention was focused on war with russia resource and production whise only in 1941. It got to the point that in december of 1943 Hitler declared officially Eastern front as second one to incoming invasion of France and that further resources have to be redirected. Also you forgeting about strategic bombing (something russians were unable to do not to mention they were unable to achive air superiority despite advantage 10:1 against secondary luftwaffe forces) that crippled Germany industrial production.
Ignoring the literal nazis in the comments, if u see this, don't rely on this guy for historical information he's either wrong or inaccurate about every other thing in this video.
USSR was planning to invade. Hitler moved first, captured their masses of troops on the border and was right to do so. - Prof Stephen Kotkin (leading expert on Soviet history). War on the Ostfront was inevitable.
You missed the biggest thing people get wrong and in fact repeated the mistake yourself: Nazism and Communism are both socialist, left-wing ideologies. The one and only one thing that Nazism has in common with "right-wing" ideologies is its obsession with race. Every other plank, and policy of Nazism is just a socialist derivation.
Socialism in the current political sense is left-wing but I’d argue that socialism as an economic system is more inclined towards the authoritarian axis than the left/right one.
The Germans got within a few miles of Moscow and only needed to capture Stalingrad to take the Southern Oil fields, which would of secured Germany's fuel supply for the rest of the war.
To be fair you say everyone else thinks they’re ww2 experts but not, meanwhile including numerous misconceptions and mischaracterizations in your lecture
Not trying to say Poland was evil but when you say Poland did “nothing wrong” you sorta ignore the systematic oppression of Germans Ukrainians Lithuanians and Belarusians? Also Germany and the US were already in a defacto state of war prior to the German declaration, with American convoy escorts exchanging fire with U-boats already
Maritime powers encircle eurafrasian supercontinent, once again exploit internal divisions, prevent emergence of dominant landpower once again, subjugating the lone maritime defector along the way. I don't think a single power will ever manage to dominate even Eurasia let alone Eurafrasia, the space is too large, settled by too many peoples who are too numerous to be subjugated. I DO think the north american and european servers can be unified and that the panamerican server is frankly op.
@@rexremedy1733 noobies think Australia is the goto continent for world conquest. In fact, it's south america. Asia is way too tough to subjugate, but pan-america has only three entry points! brazil, greenland and alaska! and its 7 units each and every turn! Yeah, S. America is twice as hard to defend but everyone else is gonna be too busy trying for africa (a suckers move!) or europe (also a suckers move!). Just make sure to conquer at least one country a turn to get your card because otherwise...
National Socialism is different from Fascism and neither ideology is “right-wing,” unless Bolshevism and other forms of communism are also considered right-wing. They’re all forms of authoritarian socialist collectivism and should be placed on the same end of the political spectrum.
If anyone wants an actual indepth breakdown of WW2 related topics which isn't kosher approved by Rudyards jewish handler here, then watch some Zoomer Historian videos particularly the one on the outbreak of WW2, Rudyards cartoonish view of Hitler is comical and honestly makes me question all his other opinions.
Yeah i find it intellectually dishonest that people acknowledge that the victors write history. The victors have, will and continue to lie to their populations. They acknowledge this and then use that same history as a reason they are correct. For people who are supposed to be intelligent, rational and critical thinkers, it's a joke they don't see their own bias.
Churchill's gambit to support Finland against USSR was in reality applying to invade Norway and Sweden unblock the export have iron ore do Germany. This was stupid has Britain had no ski troops or mountain troops.How the royal navy will well prepared to destroy a large part of the cKriegs Marine.
I like the video with the old English dude talking about the second world war I forgot the name of it I think you watch the same one he explained it really well or United States was part of it egg and I on building up Germany etc.
Hyperinflation was about German currency, and reparations were not in German currency, so the two are unrelated. Not that that stopped politicians from blaming hyperinflation on reparations.
All this material is one big stereotype about World War II without any valuable knowledge. The most foolish things: Italians were useless - their navy really fought well, and their troops helped garrison many occupied territories. Their betrayal was a huge blow. Bombing was ineffective - bombings were extremely effective and paralyzed German industry. Bombings paralyzed German industry. They blocked the production of tanks, for instance. Bombings were the key to victory. Doubting their effectiveness comes from misreading statistics. For example, the tank production industry in Germany was destroyed, but the number of tanks produced did not decrease because instead of producing newer tanks, they started producing older generation tanks in the Czech Republic, and when the Allies started bombing the Czech Republic, it also had a great impact.
I love how this is another video where y'all hace buffering issues and talk over one another! It makes it seem like Rudyard is extremely rude unless you know its their internet connection!
This was too scatterbrained. Ww2 is too huge. You need to break it down into regions and then tie it all together. Beginning of war, Europe, the Atlantic. Eastern eaurope, spread of conflict, Mediterranean and North Africa. Middle east and Pacific theatre, japan, siberia, china and pearl harbour. India, Philippines. Russia, Finland, links with Germany at start, stalingrad. Then link all together. Podcasts can be as long or as many as you want. It doesn't have to be rushed and combined into one video, like whatifalthist videos. This could have sparked very interesting discussion, especially with the question about misconceptions people hold.
I’m curious if you’d comment about how you arrived at the opinion that Nazism was a right wing political ideology. I am well aware that Nazi=right wing in many peoples minds, yet they were Socialists. Obviously Hitler’s brand of socialism was different than Marxist/Leninist Communism . Yet, it is still a socialist ideology. Hitler was obviously influenced by Marx. I fail to see how Nazism although Nationalist in nature is drastically different from Marxism. Marx was just as antisemitic as Hitler. The Weimar Republic was a right wing conservative state. Does it really pass the smell test to suggest that Nazism replaced a right wing government with a further right wing regime?
Poland was not an innocent country. Poles discriminated their German population fiercely while the European countries kept mouth shut. Great Britain supported Polish government that confronted fair German demands for protection. Soviet Union had no choice as to make peace agreements with Nazi Germany because the USA and European countries had refused to build an alliance and didn't do anything to prevent the WW2. Rudyard reads more than most Americans about history but FAR from enough for understanding that war.
It would be interesting if it wasn't a basic regurgitation of the cursory, accepted Allied narrative. Check out zoomer historian if you want to hear an interesting counter narrative.
keep in mind that for over 100 years britain france & russiia tried to destroy germany cultural & economic rise germany had no other choice but to go to war to survive both times the 4 largest empires on earth conspired to destroy germany & they did it think about this it took all 4 no one or even 2 could have done it alone
The parallels between the Assyrians and Nazis are somewhat strong, strangely so.
Both were perhaps the perfect example of the power of evil in the human spirit, genociding and conquering their neighbors.
Both also ended up destroying their ancient civilization to a large extent. Western Civilization in Europe after the Nazis and Mesopotamia after Assyria were completely altered, traumatized, and unconfident. The entire energies of Europe and Mesopotamia (with Egypt and Babylon rebelling repeatedly) were spent defeating their great evils. But after those evils were vanquished, there was little left. And the regions gradually fell to kind foreign conquerors (Persians and Americans).
And so Western Europe and Mesopotamia, which in their heydays ruled the entire civilized worlds, burned brightly in one final fire that consumed almost their entire civilizations.
Would the Aztecs, Imperial Japan, the Mongols, and the Timurids be their equivalents in the Mesoamerican, Sinic, and Islamic civilizations?
I like the pfp
@@shadywyvern Thank you dude. :)
When I'm in a simping for Rome competition and my opponent is DarthHoosier3038
I'd be happy if you were to explain zororastrian civilization
No
Yes pleeeaaaseeee
Ah, yes, the original religion of Iran/Persia for millennia before the Muslims came along 🐎
How about Israeli civilization
@@tssc1095 sure why not but Iranian civilization is so mysterious and over shadowed by Islam
14:18 "You can't remove the barbarity of the human condition through education"
Well said. Schools are one of the few places in Western Civilization where social hierarchies form organically.
'"If the United States had not helped us, we would not have won the war," [Nikita Khrushchev] wrote in his memoirs. "One-on-one against Hitler's Germany, we would not have withstood its onslaught and would have lost the war. No one talks about this officially, and Stalin never, I think, left any written traces of his opinion, but I can say that he expressed this view several times in conversations with me."...
I think they are just underselling their own country at that point.
Krushshchev was a traitor who wanted to blame everything in stalin
Supplied less than 10% of USSR production.😂😂😂
USSR defeated 80-90% of Germany on the East.
The West and US financed and traded with Germany before, during and after the war.
Keep dreaming.😂
@jimmytimmy3680 Wrong
@PassionateSpirit88 Amerikkk4ns are funny. 🤣
13:27 I wish the ‘host’ asked Rudyard “Why would you have just let Germany take Poland if you were the prime minister? Do you see an outcome that doesn’t result in war if Germany were to take Poland without war being declared?”
Was also curious about that
Why would there be a war? The polish and German border is a long way from Britain. That was the last real enclave of German people outside of Germany so when the Germans took that bit, there was no reason left.
someone else might have declared war on germany first in that case
No more brother wars
Go tell (((them)))
Sorry but Africa love to fight herself
Two small points:
-De Gaulle had served in Syria before the war but was in France by the time WW2 began. He fought briefly and then escaped to England. He did go to Gabon but that was later once the garrison revolted against Vichy.
-Mussolini did not switch sides. The king and some high ranking fascist party members kicked him out of power to negotiate with the Allies. He was freed by a German commando and sent to nothern Italy where he "ruled" the Italian Social Republic.
Should’ve let me win losers
Real.
True.
I agree. The Universe of Kaiserreich in RL would be 🔥 🔥 🔥
Shouldn't have started 💩 to begin with, Kaiser....
@@Menaceblue3he didn't the Serbs did
I hope the next one you do is WW2 in Asia since far fewer people know even a little bit about it.
Unfortunately because of the Cold War and anti-racism the American really let the Japanese off the hook for most of the atrocities.
Exactly.
Dan Carlin’s Supernova in the East series is pretty good
I don't get why WhatifAlthist has this other guy on, he's just making the same videos he normally does but without the graphics. It's not really a conversation.
By the end hes about to fall over into a pillow.
I think the main reason the other guy doesn't speak as much is because of time constraints. IIRC, in past episodes he said something along the lines of, 'I would like to ask a question but we have to get through this.' Stuff like that. Seems like a better idea would be to give more time for each episode and give the dude specific time for the dude to ask questions.
It does seem too scripted but I think the original point is that WIAH is explaining history to a man with no background knowledge
@@macknittle1121 he’s paying this guy to sit there and ask the right questions to make it seem like this isn’t whatifalthist talking randomly. He leads him into questions it’s so easy to see. He will not answer the wrong questions. Seen it before
@@gavincrees8603 Yes. But I don´t see anything wrong with that. I would just prefer that the other guy asks him some more questions that viewers might have in that moment.
Germany’s biggest asset in tank warfare was actually simple. The allies learned the wrong lesson from radios in WWI when the Russians were open broadcasting their movements with old world tactics and got annihilated. The Germans realized that two-way radios in tanks in blitzkrieg warfare was more advantageous than disadvantageous, even if they were intercepted in real time. The French had better quality tanks at war’s outset. The Germans also used massed tank columns, the Allies at first used dispersed tanks as infantry support.
Hitler decided his soldiers needed a break before Dunkirk and Rommel was furious about it as was most of his staff. Hitler also thought that he could negotiate with the British as he figured that the British would make decent allies, and had no racial or historical qualms with them the way he did with the French. He miscalculated that the British public would agree to this arrangement where Hitler left the Empire alone in exchange for a free hand on the ideas of shared Anglo-Saxon heritage.
The Germans needed a negotiated peace in Eastern Europe and that was attainable at several points. Several sources from Russian archives indicate that Stalin was planning to invade Germany/Central Europe sometime in late Summer 1941. The huge German pincer movements were so effective as they caught Soviet armies arrayed for attack instead of in any defensive positions. It also helps explains why Stalin was dead silent for like 40 days after the initial shock, he thought that Hitler had pre-empted his advantage of surprise and he would never get such a good chance again. Even taking Moscow though, Hitler couldnt win by pure conquest. German supply lines were so thin, and the Russians had managed to hastily transport all their industries past the Urals quite effectively. However, if Hitler sat down after his attempt on Moscow failed, or didn’t attack at Kursk in 1943 and set up defensive positions, he could have gotten a favorable peace deal out of Eastern Europe with the Soviets and practically achieved his goals. A great book on this was Adam Tooze’s “Wages of Destruction”. If you look at WW2 from an economic standpoint Hitler was making nearly perfect decisions until late 1942 on how to keep his economic system afloat long term, he just missed in a few tactical aspects in Russia that cost him due to failures in German logistics.
For America’s industrial might. By 1945, 53% of all manufactured goods worldwide in 1945 were made in the United States. If every single US ship in both Atlantic and Pacific Fleets was sunk at Pearl Harbor, by mid 1943 the US would still have outnumbered the Japanese Navy 3:1 in ships and still would have outnumbered their carrier groups.
Yes I am a huge nerd. I also like WW1 better.
Why would the Soviets make peace when they had the strategic initiative?
@@deriznohappehquite Massive losses of Soviet manpower in the first several years of the war combined with what felt like a redux of WW1. They didn’t have the true initiative until the German armored backbone was crushed at Kursk. If the Germans had arrayed a defensive line they would have been stuck in a fairly static front for several years, and even through the end of the war the Germans were beating the Russians in the attrition game at a micro level with individual soldiers having a 2 or 3 to one kill ratio.
@@quinnmonnin2172 Nah man, the Soviets took back everything from Stalingrad to Rostov-on-Don. The German counteroffensives took some ground, but as you said they lost at Kursk and from then on they were getting steamrolled.
@@deriznohappehquite so like I said, make a defensive line instead of the Kursk offensive and it’s a static war. Guderian and Manstein had figured out how to stop the Russian attacks and stabilized the line in early 1943. Germany just attacks right into a Russian ambush laid against them at Kursk instead of sitting pat.
I disagree with the notion that the Germans could have won the war by not invading Russia (they needed the oil in the Caucasus), taking Moscow (they needed the oil in the Caucasus), or not declaring war on the USA (they had already failed to take the oil in the Caucasus by the time American help arrived at scale in 1943, and America was supplying the Allies anyway).
The Germans couldn’t win in North Africa because they were depending on the Italian fleet for their supplies.
The French army didn’t give up because they were cowards, they gave up because the German army was already 100 miles behind them and cut off their supplies, while the French units had no way of catching up with them.
The British were able to defeat Italian armies 5 times their size in North Africa because those Italian armies were not motorized and the British units were mechanized. It wasn’t because the Italians didn’t care.
The war in the East was such a meat grinder because the Soviets tried to make up for their lack of industrialization and the Germans tried to make up for their lack of natural resources with mediocre horse-mobile infantry units.
The Germans in Army Group B were already, not quite starving, but suffering from hunger as they were attacking before they even reached Stalingrad. They were really struggling to get gas to run their tanks. They just couldn’t get supplies that far to the front at a sufficient scale.
I’d note the difference between strategic bombing, operational scale bombing, and tactical bombing/close air support. Strategic bombing tends not to work super well. Bombing at the operational scale is extremely powerful.
Actually the mistake Hitler did was when he went against the Elites by not wanting to share his power to them but keep it to himself instead.
Dunning Kruger at work right here
@@KitaJabigIncorrect, he’s just right.
@@KitaJabig That is not a counter argument.
@@andrewrogers3067 I would invite counter arguments if people disagree with my position.
Top Ten Sequels that were better than the original
So good the author never finished the trilogy.
@@ZontarDow Not yet
Bruh remember when we thought it would come out in 1962
@@cythereanmapping Remember when we thought it would be released in 2020 after the Qasem Soleimani trailer?
These are great videos, but I think the video would do a lot better with some better production quality. A few examples would be having the guy on the left be more centered in frame, or adding better microphone quality.
I agree, they are shorting themselves in the foot by not paying attention to those small, yet very important details!
honestly, i think production quality is fine,. What I do think is a problem is the structure. Ss much as I love the whatifalthist long period's of talking, I wish guy on the left had some more questions or was able to structure whatifalthists long periods of speaking with some pauses. Basically, I wish he had a structure that led to to whatifalthist saying the same things, but in some manageable chunks
@@MIKAEL212345 getting a better microphone is not expensive and would improve the production a lot because after all it is a podcast.
I don't know why I feel like the guy at the left doesn't care.I understood that not all topics may be interesting to him (for example, the one about Latin America, it was obvious that he didn't give a damn and it offends me in particular because I am from Latin America and I would have liked this WIAH time to have been spent making a more elaborate video talking about of the topic) but the minimum would be to warn Wiah not to talk about these since it seems a bit disrespectful to me.
@@segiraldovi yeah, I was trying to be a bit more empathetic cause I'm not sure if he just doesn't care, or maybe the chemistry just isn't there with WIAH so he seems uninterested
Basically the role that he should fulfill should be a person who enables the presenter (WIAH) to explain the topic through good questions that guide the podcast.
And you don't have to be an expert on the topic to ask good questions, the only thing you have to do is have a minimum of interest in the topic.
Interesting questions that could have been asked in the last civil war podcast that would have enabled WIAH to go deeper into these topics and not mention them marginally
What was the trigger for the tensions between the north and the south? It's clear that the Deep South wanted to maintain slavery, but why did states like Virginia join the confederation? What impact did Lincoln's murder have?
Been loving these videos guys
See you say people study WW2 a lot but it's really Germany, Russia, and the Western front people study. Most couldn't tell you anything about the African front, the Italians, Romanian, Finns, Scandinavia, the Balkans. And the Pacific people boil down to pearl harbor, midway, and nukes. Avoiding China, to India, and the various island nations.
Yay! I've been waiting ages for this one!!! This made my day!
Rudyard please I need you to really do a deep dive into military history if your going to go into these topics on major wars. Your a intellectual mastermind when it comes to anthropology and sociology but lack any type of knowledge in the military sphere which is essential when your covering any war especially WW2 of all wars
In this video as well as the WW1 one tend to be very wrong in a lot of your military statements regarding both wars which is why I made the last comment.
Lynch has a gift for pulling together unconventional viewpoints and can be extremely insightful, but his understanding of World War II seems to be limited to older sources like Shrirer and the German generals which were all written before there was access to German or Soviet archives.
Could you do an episode on Japanese civilization?
It's China, but on a shitty ilands. You welcome.
He's cooking one, he said It on Twitter
@@janpol466 🤣
The Gentiles shall rise again
A podcast like this has to be longer guys . If they came this far and will listen to an hour, then we might as well dig in completely.
Over 50% of German industry was involved in the fight against Great Britain in 1942. Soldiers were fighting in the East, but most of the industry was building anti-aircraft defenses, submarines, etc. Additionally, Russia received enormous aid from the West.
Germany didn’t hyperinflate their currency to pay war reparations; rather hyperinflation was a result of the money printing required to pay it. Good series of videos.
Not quite. The hyperinflation wiped out Germany's internal debts; the reparations were unaffected since they had to be paid in foreign currency.
Waiting for my invite to the next. I don’t even need a mic. I can just sit there Interested. Or I could be cleaning my room or something. Idk I think it’s a good idea. JLMK
My grandfather was a young Italian man drafted into the Italian Army in WW2, all he wanted to do was play his guitar and woo women, he didn't want to fight.
I may be one of few Americans who had grandparents on both sides.
45:50 mussolini didnt switch sides, britain conquered southern italy and setup a parallel italian government opposed to mussolini, mussolini still remained a german ally, in fact he became practically a german puppet.
why is the guy on the left even there?
He’s pretty :)
1) The other mad thing about how the Normandy landings is that while that made Germany fight on a THIRD front, the Allies completely duped the Nazis into thinking we were going to then land in Norway to open up a fourth. Never happened, and 300,000 or so German soldiers sat out the rest of the war for a landing that never happened.
2) Crete is a weird one. It horrifies Hitler into banning any more parachute assaults, but shocks the Allies into actually forming airborne divisions, and the rest is history. I've even argued with friends who say Germany could never have won that Crete along with France is a microcosm of how they could have won the whole war: a complete Allied catastrofuck.
3) Last one about Crete: the Royal Navy had to evacuate the British Army. Air cover was gone due to carrier losses, Luftwaffe was having a turkey shoot of a time. The British Army told Admiral Cunningham to stop coming back for them in case the RN was wiped out in the Med. He responded roughly:
"It takes three years to build a ship. It takes three hundred years to build a tradition. The evacuation will continue".
"We defeated the wrong enemy" George S. Patton
March 24, 1933 the headline on the top of the daily express:
Judea declares war on Germany
This doesn’t fit the propaganda I’ve been fed for my entire life. What about you?
"I got my mind on my money and money on my mind...."
[Confucius, probably?]
If you claimed he supported the Nazi's he'd have likely smash a shovel in your face.
@@_Chev_Cheliosyou should probably stop spouting propaganda yourself. The first sentence of the article, right after the headline says “ All Israel is uniting in wrath against the Nazi onslaught on
the Jews in Germany.”
dumb
Do History of Jewish civilization
He could make multiple videos about that one, the ancient jewish civilization/jews before the diaspora, the diaspora itself, ashkenazi jews, sephardic jews, mezrahi jews. They have an interesting and large history.
That's not a civilization
Be a short video, they've never had one last more than 80 years.
After the upcoming civil war, you should do a video on it lol
15:01 A country that had done nothing wrong!? I'm not trying to justify Nazism at all, but Germans had been raped and expelled from Poland. Ofc this pales in comparison to what the Nazis did to the Poles, but c'mon a country that did nothing wrong? Also, Ik this isn't the same Poland that the Nazis and soviets conquered, but watch my 2nd latest vid to see how poorly the Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth treated the east slavs.
I would love an episode on 17th century Europe Aksum Latin American decolonization Indian civilization and the Bronze Age Collapse.
Curious to hear a video on the geopolitics/history of Czechoslovakia
“America was one of the wealthiest countries in Europe”
-Rudyard William Lynch of Whatifalthist
This video is so full of inaccuracies i dont even know whwre to start. But Mussolini switching sides has to be the dumbest one. Mussolini did not switch sides, he was disposed and imprisoned by the new Italian government, not the germans. They Freed Mussolini
Agree. That one was the mistake wich really dents the credibility.
Other minor mistakes can be excused by him not thinking through everything he is planning to say.
The sickle cut was not Hitler's plan, it was Manstein's plan. True the rest of the German General Staff when asked by Hitler for a plan to invade France just dusted off the old Schliefen plan from WW1, modified to include the Netherlands this time. However these plans were captured by the French and British after a German staffer's plane crash landed in Belgium. Manstein had already been working on an alternative plan and Guderian convinced him to make the bold strike thru Sedan and the Ardennes Forest straight to the Channel coast. The German Chief of Staff Halder hated Manstein and refused his plan, so Manstein had the plan shown to Hitler via an intermediary (one of Manstein's staff officers was friends with Hitler's army attache). Hitler then ordered Manstein to Berlin to present his plan, which became the operation plan to invade France and the Low Countries.
Agreed. It seems Hitler's arrogance was in believing that he in fact had planned the whole thing and it was his victory. You really start to see his Narcissism at the very end of the war in the comments he makes. He doesn't think anything is his fault and that everyone failed accept him.
I love whatifalthist so I decided to give this podcast a shot but I expected something better honestly, there are a lot of imprecisions, mistakes and misconceptions
What was Mr H's manifesto? Where did he say he wanted to get rid of those two groups? It almost sounds like you've never read MK, assuming that is what you're calling his manifesto.
He definetly hasn't read MK. To be fair, it's difficult to get probadly even in US.
Quess who are the people who don't want to you have access to it.
@@hursma Its not hard, but the most common translations are not good.
Love this content so much
17:00 you switched up Denmark and the Netherlands
pacific theater would be really neat, the Chinese and Japanese states where very interesting during that time
Can you give a citation for Hitler calling america a nation of shop keepers?
Cause ... yeah.
Everyone likes to criticize Chamberlain's appeasement policy but most forget that it was that policy that helped strengthen the allies and the free world to deal with Germany, Japan and Italy. It enabled Britain to build up and improve their lagging Airforce and navy. It helped bring America away from isolation and into the war buildup. It even led to the eventual cooperation that birthed the United Nations and other geopolitical economic and security blocs. Chamberlain's policy was a good one in retrospect.
I like the World War Two channel since it goes through the war week by week. It forces you to change your perspective on things you thought you knew, since you are going through it just like they were and can't jump to the obvious conclusion or make sweeping generalizations.
One thing I think should have been mentioned here was Britain's advantage on the tech tree. From everything to Nuclear science, aviation, radar, code breaking, the first computer, antibiotics, medical theory, and even Jet engines; the British often had quite the leg up on their opponents. It was often just the scale and resources that needed to be addressed, which the Americans could bring to bear. A lot of American technology has it's origin in Britain during the war.
And the code breaking in Britain changed the war in their favor on more than one occasion. I surprised there is no mention of this considering it's importance. There is a brief period where for around a month or 2 the British aren't cracking Enigma codes in the Atlantic, and the Nazi's sink so much shipping that they thought they were going to have to suspend convoys. Not to mention the number of Battles fought were they knew exactly what the enemy was going to do. (Kursk is a good example.) Code breaking was a massive failure on the side of the Axis and a huge reason the war concluded so quickly.
In both instances the Japanese and the Nazi's lost the war ultimately because of their Ideology. Any time there was a good decision, tactical or strategic, that could have been made or understanding they should have had, they went with ideology instead of sound reasoning every time. It made them unable to adapt to the changing reality they faced. They just weren't as good at fighting wars as they thought they were when it began.
The D-Day was an important military event, yet the German army was grinded not in Normandy but in Belarus where the battle between German and Soviet troops (Operation Bagration) involved 10 times (!!) more soldiers precisely at that time.
When one reads American history literature one gets an absolutely distorted picture of the events.
Of course because if people knew of the atrocities that the USA did we white people would not want to follow the USA but want to build our own National Socialist empire this time including the slavs.
I'd be happy if you make "the world before and after covid"
Why is the guy on the left there?
Big mystery
Could you do do a video on judeo civilisation
no, we don't want him to get taken down
That's not a civilization
All they ever did was come into the civilizations that white people built around the world then used usury to buy our elites and then the civilizations die a little like today.
History is written by winners
Franz Halder: “Hold my Hugo Boss drip”
No
@@julianwenden6986
Yes.
@history102 can you make a video explaining the british empire please 🙏
@history102 what would the world look like if Hitler only pushed east and take russia before turning west?
Blitzkrieg is a propaganda term that wasn't actually used. The german generals used the terms "Bewegungskrieg" (war of movement) and combined arms warfare.
Does he have a recommended reading list somewhere
A few factual tweaks since I was raised watching WWII movies: (a) DeGaulle was in metropolitan France during the collapse, not Gabon or Syria (b) the French fleet was sunk at Oran, not Toulon (c) the Battle of Britain was 1940, not 1941 (d) Hitler declares war on the US in Dec 1941, not early 1942. And, of course, a bunch of times where Rudyard's going so fast that he says one country when he means another. Still, a much better job than I could do.
Rudyard, what is that shirt you're wearing?
By 1944 the US was building a Liberty ship, on average, every 42 days. Yamato knew when the attack at Pearl Harbor failed to get the CVs that they'd only awakened a sleeping giant.
46:43 Americans brits and Russians and French divided up Germany. It weren’t just you two mate. This is still a very good Summary overall.
Why would the Soviets give up if Hitler took Moscow?
That was their main logistical hub, their political center, population center. And it would be a natural stopping line for the Germans to dig in instead of keep being on the attacking side.
Honestly some yours takes are very wrong. Soo many inaccuracies.
Ex.
1. America entering the war and Stalingrad where 1 year apart, not two months.
2. Mussolini did not change side and was captured by the Germans, the italian government a coup amd imprisoned him, before the German freed him amd created a puppet government in the North.
3. The spy that told the Russian Japan was not going to attach wasn't Russian, but a German communist close to the German embassy working undercover for the soviets.
4. Stalingrad didn't involve millions on men, the german where less than 400,000s (soviet slightly more than a million).
Others as well. I am no ecpert in WW2 and prefer other hostorical periods, but this video isn't as gpod as the average of this channel IMO
You should do more study on the Soviet vs Nazi. The arguments are very contradictory.
If Soviets didn't intend to fight Nazis then why stop supplying the trade? Why bring so many forces to the front?
There was that discussion on why Soviets didn't believe Nazis would invade so soon. It is pretty simple, Nazis did bring a reasonable amount of winter gear, which led Stalin to believe that they weren't ready to invade... and Hitler thought he could conquer USSR before winter arrived.
Rudyard seemed to make a bit more mistakes than usual, but perhaps that is because I know more about ww2 than I know of other eras of history.
Enjoying the content, but a little hard to watch and listen, with your audio being out of sync - just some constructive feedback. Again, great content.
Please do an episode on the Cold War plz!!!
47:45 Bro can't help but smile, who believes that
33:50 You forget about one thing - resources. Western Front was more resource intencive for Germans and so their attention was focused on war with russia resource and production whise only in 1941. It got to the point that in december of 1943 Hitler declared officially Eastern front as second one to incoming invasion of France and that further resources have to be redirected. Also you forgeting about strategic bombing (something russians were unable to do not to mention they were unable to achive air superiority despite advantage 10:1 against secondary luftwaffe forces) that crippled Germany industrial production.
Also forcing Italy out of the war pulled milions of Germans not only on the frontline but also on garrisons milions italians were guarding on Balkans
Ignoring the literal nazis in the comments, if u see this, don't rely on this guy for historical information he's either wrong or inaccurate about every other thing in this video.
Yropa the last battle . Net
Literal nazis😭
So many echoe like simmilarities in narrative between post WWI Germany and Hitler, and post Soviet Russia and Putin.
USSR was planning to invade. Hitler moved first, captured their masses of troops on the border and was right to do so. - Prof Stephen Kotkin (leading expert on Soviet history). War on the Ostfront was inevitable.
Audio is out of synch.
You missed the biggest thing people get wrong and in fact repeated the mistake yourself: Nazism and Communism are both socialist, left-wing ideologies. The one and only one thing that Nazism has in common with "right-wing" ideologies is its obsession with race. Every other plank, and policy of Nazism is just a socialist derivation.
Socialism in the current political sense is left-wing but I’d argue that socialism as an economic system is more inclined towards the authoritarian axis than the left/right one.
Typical American 😂😂😂
The Eastern front is where Germany lost but nearly won, and only lost because of American lend lease.
The Germans got within a few miles of Moscow and only needed to capture Stalingrad to take the Southern Oil fields, which would of secured Germany's fuel supply for the rest of the war.
To be fair you say everyone else thinks they’re ww2 experts but not, meanwhile including numerous misconceptions and mischaracterizations in your lecture
Not trying to say Poland was evil but when you say Poland did “nothing wrong” you sorta ignore the systematic oppression of Germans Ukrainians Lithuanians and Belarusians? Also Germany and the US were already in a defacto state of war prior to the German declaration, with American convoy escorts exchanging fire with U-boats already
"'The Germans are people too', but that turned to be totally wrong."
Poland was less industrilized than Germany, but wasn't in pre industrail age. They produce their own fighter planes PLZ
Maritime powers encircle eurafrasian supercontinent, once again exploit internal divisions, prevent emergence of dominant landpower once again, subjugating the lone maritime defector along the way. I don't think a single power will ever manage to dominate even Eurasia let alone Eurafrasia, the space is too large, settled by too many peoples who are too numerous to be subjugated. I DO think the north american and european servers can be unified and that the panamerican server is frankly op.
I am sure that somebody is working an that. Right now...
@@rexremedy1733 I'm avilable for consulting @_@
@@rexremedy1733 noobies think Australia is the goto continent for world conquest. In fact, it's south america. Asia is way too tough to subjugate, but pan-america has only three entry points! brazil, greenland and alaska! and its 7 units each and every turn! Yeah, S. America is twice as hard to defend but everyone else is gonna be too busy trying for africa (a suckers move!) or europe (also a suckers move!). Just make sure to conquer at least one country a turn to get your card because otherwise...
Do an episode on contemporary Israel and read the comments :)
National Socialism is different from Fascism and neither ideology is “right-wing,” unless Bolshevism and other forms of communism are also considered right-wing. They’re all forms of authoritarian socialist collectivism and should be placed on the same end of the political spectrum.
25:54 nah it was 1940. But bombing did continue well after the Battle of Britain.
If anyone wants an actual indepth breakdown of WW2 related topics which isn't kosher approved by Rudyards jewish handler here, then watch some Zoomer Historian videos particularly the one on the outbreak of WW2, Rudyards cartoonish view of Hitler is comical and honestly makes me question all his other opinions.
Dont forget Europa the Last Battle
Did you even watch this? what about his characterization of Hitler is cartoonish?
Spot on
Yeah i find it intellectually dishonest that people acknowledge that the victors write history. The victors have, will and continue to lie to their populations. They acknowledge this and then use that same history as a reason they are correct. For people who are supposed to be intelligent, rational and critical thinkers, it's a joke they don't see their own bias.
There are a lot of things that I love
What if I just asking questions, and keep posting photos of how I looked at 21? 1984, 40 this year, boyo.
Churchill's gambit to support Finland against USSR was in reality applying to invade Norway and Sweden unblock the export have iron ore do Germany. This was stupid has Britain had no ski troops or mountain troops.How the royal navy will well prepared to destroy a large part of the cKriegs Marine.
3:36 *cough* Turkey
I like the video with the old English dude talking about the second world war I forgot the name of it I think you watch the same one he explained it really well or United States was part of it egg and I on building up Germany etc.
This is a rare bad video by Whatifalthist. So many little misconceptions about ww2. Meme-believes even...
Maybe the asian one will be better.
Pretty sure the hyperinflation was just stupid economics, not a stupid repayment scheme but it's certainly a disputed topic
Hyperinflation was about German currency, and reparations were not in German currency, so the two are unrelated. Not that that stopped politicians from blaming hyperinflation on reparations.
Hyperinflation was due to the fact that the Weimar Republic tried to do democratic socialism on a 1920s economy.
WW2 gave russians big lesson. Never invade Finland...
you forgot to talk about the Spanish civil war
Oh mate. There’s plenty he didn’t talk about lol. If you want to talk about every single event this podcast would need to be way more than 1 hour
All this material is one big stereotype about World War II without any valuable knowledge. The most foolish things: Italians were useless - their navy really fought well, and their troops helped garrison many occupied territories. Their betrayal was a huge blow. Bombing was ineffective - bombings were extremely effective and paralyzed German industry. Bombings paralyzed German industry. They blocked the production of tanks, for instance. Bombings were the key to victory. Doubting their effectiveness comes from misreading statistics. For example, the tank production industry in Germany was destroyed, but the number of tanks produced did not decrease because instead of producing newer tanks, they started producing older generation tanks in the Czech Republic, and when the Allies started bombing the Czech Republic, it also had a great impact.
Yes, and germany learned a great deal from these for the future.
@@rexremedy1733 I don't think so.
I love how this is another video where y'all hace buffering issues and talk over one another! It makes it seem like Rudyard is extremely rude unless you know its their internet connection!
People know.
We all know WW2, but I guess I'll watch anyways
This was too scatterbrained. Ww2 is too huge. You need to break it down into regions and then tie it all together.
Beginning of war, Europe, the Atlantic.
Eastern eaurope, spread of conflict, Mediterranean and North Africa.
Middle east and Pacific theatre, japan, siberia, china and pearl harbour. India, Philippines.
Russia, Finland, links with Germany at start, stalingrad.
Then link all together.
Podcasts can be as long or as many as you want. It doesn't have to be rushed and combined into one video, like whatifalthist videos.
This could have sparked very interesting discussion, especially with the question about misconceptions people hold.
Would love a video on jewish civilization and Israel.
Every single number he gives is wrong lol. This is basically like me in high school recounting WW2 from Wikipedia articles from memory.
I’m curious if you’d comment about how you arrived at the opinion that Nazism was a right wing political ideology. I am well aware that Nazi=right wing in many peoples minds, yet they were Socialists. Obviously Hitler’s brand of socialism was different than Marxist/Leninist Communism . Yet, it is still a socialist ideology. Hitler was obviously influenced by Marx. I fail to see how Nazism although Nationalist in nature is drastically different from Marxism. Marx was just as antisemitic as Hitler. The Weimar Republic was a right wing conservative state. Does it really pass the smell test to suggest that Nazism replaced a right wing government with a further right wing regime?
Poland was not an innocent country. Poles discriminated their German population fiercely while the European countries kept mouth shut. Great Britain supported Polish government that confronted fair German demands for protection. Soviet Union had no choice as to make peace agreements with Nazi Germany because the USA and European countries had refused to build an alliance and didn't do anything to prevent the WW2.
Rudyard reads more than most Americans about history but FAR from enough for understanding that war.
Soviet had choice. They could simply have chosen... not to ally themselves with nazi Germany...
Why ? It's the most overtalker subject ever.
Probably because WWII and it's outcomes are what set in play the paradigms we still live under to this day.
It would be interesting if it wasn't a basic regurgitation of the cursory, accepted Allied narrative.
Check out zoomer historian if you want to hear an interesting counter narrative.
@@asahelnettleton9044 His Franco video and Spanish Civil War are nice but his other videos are really not nice
@@joao.fenix1473
Who said anything about nice? I said "interesting."
@@asahelnettleton9044 They are interesting but I hold the opinion that they are not nice (they seem mostly skewed or partially false)
keep in mind that for over 100 years britain france & russiia tried to destroy germany cultural & economic rise germany had no other choice but to go to war to survive both times the 4 largest empires on earth conspired to destroy germany & they did it think about this it took all 4 no one or even 2 could have done it alone
Isnt that all very sad? I find it sad. So what lesson can be learned from this? If history repeats, what does it mean for the future?
This is amazing