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You are right, he also made one about the DERG in Ethiopia and two about chinese general secretaries
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Derg was interesting though perhaps abit too soft on a regime that directly and indirectly lead to a half million to million+ deaths and a situation that Ethiopia has yet to recover from
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Dumb question for anyone here: Who would win in a hypothetical war from the 1980s, NATO or the Warsaw pact? No Nukes involved. No China stepping in and no uprisings in the soviet territory
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I guess it depends on two assumptions: whether you think NATO could rapidly reinforce Germany before the Warsaw Pact gained significant ground, and whether you think the NATO advantage in technology and training could offset the Warsaw Pact's ~2:1 advantage in numbers.
Anytime before the 80s, I'd say the Warsaw Pact would likely have won a strictly conventional war.
Interesting old documentary which is fairly relevant to the question:
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Decided to actually look into the 'Sleepless Historian' channels instead of just being annoyed by the thumbnails. Theres several of them under slightly different names uploading the same content and it looks like its not just the thumbnails are AI. The entire channel from the voice to the scripts are. Judging by the comments the majority seem unaware although a few of the commenters seem to be bots too. I could definitely see someone being fooled though since its not immediately that obvious except for the thumbnail. A lot of people might just think its just a guy who AI generated the thumbnails but made regular videos.
Its pretty clever targeting not immediately obvious slop as sleep content. With what might be an almost completely automated pipeline dude is pulling tens of thousands to sometimes even millions of views per video on the daily with several videos uploaded per day. A pretty penny for not much effort.
I looked for a way to report the channels, which deserve it for the thumbnails if nothing else. But surprisingly or maybe not that surprisingly Youtube still doesn't seem to offer an obvious way to flag deceptive AI slop despite all the recent controversy over it. Which means for all their rhetoric Google approves of this shit.
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New Extra History shorts talks about the failed Business Plot attempt against FDR then goes into "Muh Trump is a dictator" mode at the end.
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The operations room is doing a series on the fire bombing of Hamburg
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*Alleged* Buisness Plot. There is next to no evidence outside of the word of Smedly Butler.
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Elon Musk is on the outs with Trump and part of his butthurt is that it's now blatantly obvious that Trump didn't actually give him the authority he thought he deserved. Forcing in your seethe about Trump that is at least accurate is one thing, forcing in outdated seethe about Musk puppeting Trump is another thing entirely.
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The seething about January 6th was even more ludicrous. Last time I checked, none of the protesters were armed and mostly just walked around the Capitol for a few hours.
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Youtube historical slop doesn't even talk about the BMAC smh.
They're probably the first victims of the Indo-Iranian peoples.
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Lol...
Basically. Austria-Hungary being retarded and the slow breakdown of the European system that kept the peace.
One part where I disagree with Old Brittania is France. Revanchism over Alsace Lorraine was a very fringe movement. The Boulanger affair is interesting (and arguably the birth of fascism), but it fizzled out after the man shot himself after his girlfriend died. Revanchism influenced French leaders, but it was not some all-encompassing cultural force. It was basically dead by ww1 and came to life through the war.
https://youtu.be/PcMcWuK1cAE?si=SfuWYeWWAkAwwEnX&t=1358
Dance of the Furies is a good book. The "nationalism" myth of ww1 is a myth. Nobody except the Austrian cabinet wanted a war and they did not want a world war. They had delusions of creating a slavic Kingdom in AH to make the country more powerful and stable.
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He does say it basically fizzled out with Boulangers death.
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Well, no. Large sections of the Russian government wanted a war that would result in the amputation of large parts of A-H, if not its outright dissolution, the Serbian government (which was about as insane as the Norks at the time) wanted a war, elements of the German staff wanted war with Russia for a variety of reasons, and while Revanchism wasn't some all-encompassing cultural force like it is portrayed as to retroactively associate Boulanger with Hitler, it was still very much a present cultural phenomenon (amongst the French left and right) and the French spent decades trying to detach Russia from Germany to bring it about. Italy was also chomping at the bit for the first chance it had to take bites out of its neighbors. While nationalism in the sense that people loving their nation brought them to a frothing rage that sent them into mass graves in the trenches is indeed discredited, the Habsburgs were not alone in having a dedicated war party. Cannot recommend Sean McMeekin's July 1914 and The Russian Origins of the First World War enough.