Post by simon darkshade on Nov 24, 2022 21:08:36 GMT
Your post is all over the place like a mad woman’s breakfast.
When your second source is Nigel Farage and your third, Counterfire, comes from self described ‘revolutionary socialists’, it isn’t going to be accurate. The Welsh bloke is similarly not a particularly credible expert in the field.
Germans winning the war all along? They had no offensive in the West between Verdun and the 1918 Spring Offensives. The former was when they lost their ability to win the war, whilst the latter was a last gasp offensive that overextended them and set them up for the final knockouts of Amiens and the Hundred Days. An argument, albeit a limited one, could be made for a German advantage in 1915, but they were broken by the combination of Verdun and the Somme the next year.
Contending that there was mass conscription with ‘little or no training’ is just false. The war might have had a logic alien to you, but it was there. The terrible arithmetic of attrition was not simply conjured to justify mad generals moving their drinks cabinets six inches closer to Berlin, as the puerile pop culture version has it. I would recommend the film available on YouTube about ‘The Somme - Defeat into Victory’.
We then go to citing a JSTOR article on Russian war crimes and then shift off. I think you’ll find that they are widely discussed within WW1 scholarship, as are the German ones in kind on the Eastern Front, such as the Sack of Kalisz in August 1914.
Merchants can usually spot submarines because they are underwater? The opposite is true. The Germans temporarily halted USW, then started right back up again with a vengeance
When your second source is Nigel Farage and your third, Counterfire, comes from self described ‘revolutionary socialists’, it isn’t going to be accurate. The Welsh bloke is similarly not a particularly credible expert in the field.
Germans winning the war all along? They had no offensive in the West between Verdun and the 1918 Spring Offensives. The former was when they lost their ability to win the war, whilst the latter was a last gasp offensive that overextended them and set them up for the final knockouts of Amiens and the Hundred Days. An argument, albeit a limited one, could be made for a German advantage in 1915, but they were broken by the combination of Verdun and the Somme the next year.
Contending that there was mass conscription with ‘little or no training’ is just false. The war might have had a logic alien to you, but it was there. The terrible arithmetic of attrition was not simply conjured to justify mad generals moving their drinks cabinets six inches closer to Berlin, as the puerile pop culture version has it. I would recommend the film available on YouTube about ‘The Somme - Defeat into Victory’.
We then go to citing a JSTOR article on Russian war crimes and then shift off. I think you’ll find that they are widely discussed within WW1 scholarship, as are the German ones in kind on the Eastern Front, such as the Sack of Kalisz in August 1914.
Merchants can usually spot submarines because they are underwater? The opposite is true. The Germans temporarily halted USW, then started right back up again with a vengeance
