DagwoodIII

Good reply. Thanks

If you want to binge a great documentary, Ken Burns’ The Civil War is phenomenal.

There’s a story that says that a Northern quartermaster didn’t want repeating rifles because he didn’t want his troops wasting bullets.

More likely the repeating rifles were more expensive and heavier.

You didn’t challenge anyone to improve themselves. You tried to impose your ideas on other people. There’s a difference.

Cheers.

it could not have happened and would not have happened, for essentially economic reasons.

The interesting alternative histories are ones that turn on a single fortuitous event.

You said it couldn’t happen, then said that there are ways it could have happened.

Also, if you don’t want to be part of the discussion, you are free to stay out. other people are participating and enjoying themselves.

You are contradicting yourself.

Hitler left orders not to be awakened so he slept in on D-Day. Rommel had left his post. Think that wouldn’t have changed things?

Stalin had dozens of warnings that Hitler planned to invade. What if he’d taken even one seriously?

What if Hitler had let the Army get the glory at Dunkirk and steamrolled the troops on the beach?

I can think of dozens of times the course of the War changed by the actions of one person.

iirc they decided to do the reboot after Michelle Trachtenberg died.

I’m not going to speculate about it, but I’d think that Geller and Trachtenberg were friends and I do know that Geller has resisted doing a reboot for years.

https://richardpoe.substack.com/p/how-the-british-caused-the-american

I’ve seen this idea from several sources. The British figured that American ‘Manifest Destiny’ would mean annexing Canada eventually. It didn’t cost the Brits a lot to stir up Southern resentments against the North. So they South got played.

https://richardpoe.substack.com/p/how-the-british-caused-the-american

Many people believe that the British government actively pushed the south to secede in order to weaken the US.

Apples and oranges.

Vietnamese had been fighting for twenty years against the French and Japanese. The South thought they would achieve victory with a few battles.

In the script, the author says that the fight between Inigo and Wesley is the second greatest fight in the history of the movies. The final fight is supposed to be the best ever.

Remember the time Trump walked onto Air Force 1 with toilet paper stuck to his shoe?

The people who take orders directly from him despise him. The Army has plenty of crack units that could put on a great display; the folks in charge put on the weakest show they could.