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Many went with Trump because they want a King to rule justly. The problem is thousands of people who ensure this can't happen in American system. If he was to actually deport all illegals as promised it would be akin to the death of the current American Republic and a new one taking its place. Last time something of that scale occurred was FDR. who was also a three term President 😅

Loving the channel , listened to a few episodes over last couple daus

If your Pods were Video, your Subscription rate would soar.

Thank you Al Murray and James Holand.

When James did his falling bomb impression, it reminded me of the title sequence of "The Comic Strip Presents".

those old victorian schools look very similar to those old victoriana warehouses and docks too 😢

My grandad on my mums side was a fireman in the blitz. Before the war he was a lorry driver around the docks and they needed people who could drive the roads, no map, no lights, roads closed from damage. When they first called him up, they gave him an axe and pointed him to the engine he was driving. He had no safety gear at the time, he only ever said that he lost a crew one day, he never said anything else about it. I never met him, he died in 1983 the year before I was born of lung cancer and asbestosis

I'd love to hear your views on the subject explored in the book "The Secret History of the Blitz" by Joshua Levine which looks into the myth of the "Blitz Spirit"........

Comment section full of rustled trumpers thinking " are we the baddies?"😅

The reasons for the Nazi’s megastructures on the Channel Islands is threefold. 1. For propaganda purposes to keep the German people’s support, by keeping them believing that Britain was being beaten. 2. As a support hub, during a Sealion invasion of Britain. For wounded soldiers to be brought and then ammo and supplies brought to their bridgehead in Britain. 3. If the Allies ever recaptured them, they’d be awed by the megastructures and so believe that even greater structures exist in Germany and elsewhere. Then be more willing to negotiate peace between the Western Allies and Germany. To buy Germany enough time to defeat the USSR and produce enough wonder weapons to win the war.

Why aren’t you filming this?! The hospital is underground, obviously for protection against bombing and to keep secret the nefarious goings on down there. Experimenting on living subjects, brain lobotomies, Frankenstein experiments, torturing and abusing and all kinds of weird fkd up sht. Imagine resident evil X 1000 and you’re in the right ballpark.

Hitler and Eva Braun escaped to Argentina. Watch the docudrama film Greywolf and Mark Felton videos; Find the Fuhrer, if you don’t believe me.

This kind of thinking is why we need to leave NATO yesterday.

Great discussion! People tend to armchair quarterback the Huertgen campaign without considering what U.S. commanders knew at the time, what expectations were from high command, and what other parts of the battle front looked like. So, I especially like James' reminder of those key points. I still think James, Al, and John get a little heavy in the "it was so awful" rhetoric for the Huertgen, and with suggestions that U.S. corps and army commanders should have reconsidered fighting in the forest. I don't mean to downplay the horrors of the campaign, but (as the hosts explain) this podcast essentially stops the story at the end of October 1944 before most of the fighting in the forest occurred and after the 9th Infantry Division had scored significant success. While James said that the 9th Infantry Division's casualties amounted to almost 1 man per yard, that statistic misrepresents the strategic situation. When the division was pulled off the line in late October 1944, it had almost singlehandedly captured around 20 square miles--about 40%--of the Huertgen Forest (from Lammersdorf to Germeter to Schevenhuette). Imagine a U.S. commander having achieved such success, with a single exhausted and stretched infantry division, and then not continuing to pressure the enemy and try to advance. Additionally, what many people fail to realize is that, with very few exceptions, the only places U.S. infantry regiments were really stopped in the Huertgen Forest campaign were in the clearings and villages--NOT the within the heavily wooded forest regions. Apart from the Raffelsbrand and Ochsenkopf area southwest of Simonskall, American forces faced the biggest setbacks at places like Vossenack, Kommerscheidt, Schmidt, Gey, Strass, and Merode. Those were villages, where U.S. infantry were more visible and exposed to German artillery and counterattacks. Even the 109th Infantry Regiment's problems in the wooded plateau north of Germeter occurred because it reached the open ground and full exposure to enemy artillery. So, the regiment stopped and was then subjected to consistent mortar and artillery barrages, as well as counterattacks.

wasnt going to listen to this wish i hadnt now been listening to these two since they first began we have ways and now they have flushed it down the toilet

Good. bit too much giggling on german words

Excellent work guys

like the us in the Saarland, the germans would have reacted violently to a breakout from an Arnhem Bridgehead and stopped a push to encircle the ruhr

Both of them suffered/ suffer with the same mental affliction, but grew up in different times. It’s called Narcissistic Personality Disorder.

Bloody good conversation, bravo! Now please do it again post election results so we get that point of view, pretty please.

Yeh you just lost yourself a viewer on your podcast with this ridiculous analogy, thought you were better than that

To say that this podcast was recorded prior to November 5th, it's message probably wouldn't need to change if recorded just after November 5th.

We Americans have ways of preventing fascism. We aren’t getting imprisoned for social media posts for disagreeing with the government, at least yet.

1. Trump is not Hitler, any comparison is wrong and trivializes the Nazi genocides 2. It's not meaningless to call someone Fascist. We have great scholars like Paxton who have well researched definitions and objectively make arguments with value to warn for people like Trump. Political theory matters. By definitions we can objectively say: what Trump is doing is wrong and it's following a fascist playbook.

Firstly, I am not sure that you are not engaged in glorifying war, something neither of you has been directly involved in or I suspect you would not treat in this lighthearted manner. Second, where are you getting this hogwash from, the "Atlantic", a NeoCon comic, or "a book", written by whom? Third, comparing Trump with Hitler is discreditable. Who are you to say Trump doesn't know what he is talking about? You are spouting a load of anti-Trump nonsense based on no knowledge whatsoever. Trump did not launch any wars during his last Presidency, indeed he stopped the one which the NeoCons wanted to launch against Iran. That may be bad for your podcast, but it is very good for humanity at large.

You guys..that was the ultimate clickbait!! As a Trump voter, the title got me a "little" fired up! BUT...,when I actually listened to it, I couldn't disagree with anything you said! I know Trump has absolutely NO filter, he says what he's thinking, for good or bad. You may not like this, but I personally see similarities between Donald Trump and Winston Churchill. As to current world events in Ukraine, Gaza, and Taiwan, I would say let's see what happens! Under Biden, it seems like they were conditioning us to accept the reality of WW III in the future. Nobody wants that!!!, especially if you're a sane person! That said, (I may be giving up the game here), I don't think the U.S.A. will ever forsake the U.K. or E.U. in any way! Keep up the great work guys! I hope to see you at "We Have Way's Fest" sometime in the future!! Hopefully we can have a pint and a chat in peace!

Thank you Al Murray and James Holland.

Great episode, guys. I'd take anything quoted in that particular book with a grain of salt. I'm personally glad that we have checks and balances built into the Constitution to keep all of our Commanders in Chief in line.

You are both way off the mark on this one gents, sorry. We all know Trump is a wild card and comes out with shit sometimes but he his a 100% better option than KH who is just an empty wetsuit. Keep your political veiws to yourself.

'... given an oaf to Hitler.....'? - If this was on telly he'd have said: Oath.

Keep your political opinions to yourself please.

Strange title.

This is the problem with academia, you know a lot, but, you are too tunnel visioned to apply it correctly. TDS ruins everything just like Woke turns everything to 💩.

This entire episode is based on hearsay. Trump denies that he ever said this. John Kelly has an axe to grind.

What a pair of arseholes! You take a fake news report from an overtly biased publication, and you lefty lovies ruin your podcast over misinformation.

In the 1930's when many nations were edging toward authoritarianism, far right wingers approached former commander of the Australian army in world war one to seize power. His written response was "Australia's best hope for the future is in the ballot box and a good education". Also in the 1890's a German diplomat said to his french counterpart"The problem with you democracies is that you are always changing government so that there is no consistency with your policies ". The Frenchman replied" Actually when you look at history there is more consistency with democracies, it when the power is in the hands of an individual that the policy is uncertain "

A lesson on how to self sabotage your podcast in 36 minutes. 🇬🇧

Unsubscribing from your podcast for this. In '26 we celebrate 250 years of freedom from anything you guys think.

Sry hearing Mackenzie King described as having clear vision when he's notorious for his seances attempting to talk to and consult his mother is well hard to believe :) but perhaps we Canadians are biased.

Aren't there patterns of response of the rhetoric the lying mainstream media and Western governments keep churning out? 🤔

Day late and a dollar short, not that you guys could change anything

Trump never said that he wished he had German Generals. That’s a BS unsubstantiated lie being reported by bias news organizations.

Ils sont fous ces romains … ces SAS … 😁🥸 nicely played with the Asterix/Obelix references. Ty as always, great info. Much appreciated.

Top stuff Gents .. I heard a story from a Mr Tim Gosling ,an absolute diamond of a guy who acasionally writes blogs in the MVT vehicle magazine,and he told me the padre of the 28th div helped evacuate quite a few wounded from the 28th..

Have friends in Schmidt, whose parents and grandparents say that when they returned to the village, it seemed there was not one brick left atop another.

Thank you Al Murray, James Holland and John McManus.

When you look at operations like this, it's pretty clear why Montgomerys reputation was trashed.

Regarding Sallenger (?) consider his experience made him dark and sardonic. Meanwhile the writing that comes out of Tolkien's experience at the Somme is intensely beautiful.

IIRC the 12th Volksgrenadier was not one of the new sucky VGD. It was a proper 1941 Infanteriedivision that won the "Volksgrenadier" label as an honourific. I am fairly certain it also fought in the Ardennes and did fairly well for it insane orders there. I was right and wrong. Feldgrau's article on the 12th VGD is not so good sadly, so we have to rely on Wiki; "The 12th Infantry Division (German: "12. Infanteriedivision") - later known as the 12th Volksgrenadier Division - was a Wehrmacht military unit of Nazi Germany that fought during World War II. The division was formed in 1934. It participated in the invasion of Poland in 1939 and the 1940 campaign in France and the Low Countries. In the Soviet Union, the division joined Operation Barbarossa. The division was destroyed in the Soviet Operation Bagration in the summer of 1944. The division was re-activated in September 1944 and posted to the newly created Western Front." "In 1943, with the German Army on the retreat, the division fought in the Belarusian city of Vitebsk. This resulting deterioration of effectiveness led to its capitulation during the Soviets' Summer Offensive in June 1944, soon after Army Group Centre's collapse in Operation Bagration. Some of the division's men escaped capture; its commanding officer Lieutenant General Rudolf Bamler, who had been in command for only a few weeks, was also captured, but later chose to work for the Soviets.[1][3] Two groups were able to break out and return to German lines before the destruction of the division. Remnants of the Grenadier Regiment 48 commanded by Hauptmann Siegfried Moldenhauser would escape through a corridor east and evade Soviet forces until they reached Polykowischi where Major Osterhold formed a Kampfgruppe which broke out to German lines west. [4] The second group, 1st Battalion, Fusilier Regiment 27. commanded by Major Heinz-Georg Lemm would break through Russian lines 3 kilometers west of Mogilev and from there they would move north of Berezino where they would cross the Berezina river. The division was re-activated in September 1944, where it was sent to the newly created Western Front. Again placed under the command of Colonel Gerhard Engel, the division - at some point being redesignated the "12th Volksgrenadier Division" (German: 12. Volksgrenadier-division) - was at a strength of some 12,800 men.[1] With Allied forces approaching the Siegfried Line, the division was made a line division against the Siegfried Line near Aachen. On September 15, elements of the division arrived at the command post of LXXXI Corps where; in the evening they were given orders by the 7th Army to continue the defence of Aachen and to launch a counterattack on the building Allied forces crossing the Ruhr, by first staging near Eschweiler. The following day, elements of the 9th Panzer Division were added to the 12th Volksgrenadier, which was now well-equipped - at least in comparison to other, starving divisions. It then proceeded to take command of the immediate area around Düren. A meeting between chiefs of staff of the 12th Volksgrenadier and the 9th Panzer Divisions took place on the evening to decide on how to plan their joint-attack on the river Mausbach set for the following day.[6] The division continued to see action on the Western Front in the Ardennes as part of the 6th Panzer Army's I SS-Panzer Corps during the Battle of the Bulge. On January 1, Lieutenant General Engel was seriously wounded by Allied forces, and Colonel Rudolf Langhaeuser assumed temporary command until Engel's return in February. When the offensive failed, the 6th Panzer Army left for Hungary, leaving the division behind to fight off the approaching Americans. The division was encircled near Wuppertal with Army Group B within the Ruhr Pocket. On April 12, Major General Koenig assumed command of the division, having also assumed command of the 272nd Volksgrenadier Division. As the Pocket collapsed, Koenig was captured at Wuppertal on April 18."