to what you made something up and applied it to me. You replied to my comment I never assailed yours. I'm not getting sucked into to your I'm rubber/your glue twaddle. Maybe you should pull your very dense head out of the imaginary histories and take the time to read the actual History of WW II. Again the British demanded Germany 1st then ran everywhere else while there was a war in the pacific that Churchill tried to use the ANZAC troops to hold onto rubber trees in Burma. While close to home Raboul had fallen,Port Moresby was surrounded and the IJF were bombing the their northern port of Darwin. In summary, other than your post being full of shit, AND irrelevant to the subject, it was a good post
You bloviated on how great the british were, you are aware that the British Crown conveniently forgot to repay its loan debt to the US Treasury in the 1st War, yes? The Americans had to shoulder that load, none of the crown jewels were sold off to square up that debt. Whilst the so-called Royals were still fox hunting and playing polo on their estates and drinking tea off of china and silver in their estates as the US Government struggled to fill the financial void. Back then they really had to balance a budget they didn't play parlor tricks and shell games with the National Treasury the way they do today. If you really are in business you'd understand that. Good Riddance\
@MrNubbz , the adults are talking, you don't have a sufficient knowledge base to contribute and I don't have the patience for your ignorance.
If you want to try this all started because you made factually inaccurate statements:
In response to
@Cincydawg 's post about the British Empire you said:
It was also a stack of cards, Unlike a Republic that turned to free enterprise and manufactured their goods the British mostly invaded others and took their shyt.Their fauntleroys officers mostly because they had some sort of connections to aristocrats got their Tommies filleted in 2 WWs
I then pointed out that these are all factually inaccurate statements:
First: "It was also a stack of cards."
I replied:
Britain's empire referred to above as a "stack of cards" was the greatest the world has ever seen and stood more-or-less intact for centuries.
You still have neither acknowledged the falsity of your statement nor presented anything resembling a coherent response.
Second: "...the British mostly invaded others and took their shyt."
I replied:
Contra "invading others and taking things" every former British possession is VASTLY better off than they would be had they never been colonized or had they been colonized by another power. The British lost their empire not because someone took it but because they couldn't afford to maintain it. Ie, it was absolutely NOT a profitable theft operation as you suggest. Instead the British spent a lot of money improving the areas they controlled and eventually simply couldn't afford such spending.
You still have neither acknowledged the falsity of your statement nor presented anything resembling a coherent response.
Third: "Their fauntleroys officers mostly because they had some sort of connections to aristocrats got their Tommies filleted in 2 WW's".
I replied:
I have no doubt that the British Army had some incompetent officers who got their positions based upon who they knew rather than what they knew and their ability to command in combat but that is hardly a uniquely British phenomenon, it happens in EVERY army. The British Army acquitted itself quite well in both WWI and WWII. They were clearly and obviously superior man-for-man to the every army involved in WWI with the exception of the Germans and in WWII while they ultimately couldn't match the volume of both men and material that the US and the USSR supplied they stood alone against the Germans for nearly a year from the fall of France until Barbarossa, beat the Germans in the skies over their island, and as late as 81 years ago tomorrow the British took three of the five beaches in Normandy. American forces took two. If their army had been as bad as you think it was, D-Day would not have gone well considering that they handled the lions share of it.
They also kicked Rommell's ass in North Africa and although we Americans eventually showed up and helped finish that off the British Army was so vastly superior to the American Army early in the campaign that the British internally referred to the Americans as "our Italians" referencing the VAST difference in fighting quality between the Germans and their Italian allies. Unlike the Italians, the Americans eventually overcame their early-war deficiencies but that does not negate the fact that in 1942 a British army unit regardless of size (squad, company, division, whatever) was VASTLY superior to a comparably sized American army unit.
The only response you gave that was even remotely on point for this was Ludendorf's offhand comment about Lions led by Jackasses. Well, Ludendorf lost to those Jackasses but aside from that, the British held their own against the Germans in both WWI and WWII so your implication that their entire army was led by buffoons is clownish.
You are clearly incapable of addressing the corrections that I made to YOUR false statements. Instead you have rambled on about everything you hate about the British in general and Churchill specifically. I am NOT defending the British in general nor Churchill specifically so none of your incoherent rambling is relevant. Address the points or admit that you were wrong, respect your betters, thank me for educating you, and STFU.
Also:
like last year when you went off on one of these dubious diatribes.
Since you brought it up, I'll embarrass you again over your ignorance in that episode:
You claimed that Churchill was personally responsible for the loss of Repulse and PoW.
Here is a
really good video that makes the point that "Churchill was an idiot". Unlike you, TIK knows history and understands command hierarchies so in his half-hour diatribe about Churchill's idiocy, he doesn't mention Repulse, PoW or Force Z because that wasn't a Churchill mistake. This is abundantly obvious to anyone who actually knows anything about it and now you know it too so please:
Respect your betters, thank me for educating you, and STFU.
