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Комментарии • 716

  • @the_fat_electrician
    @the_fat_electrician 7 дней назад +647

    “Not a perfect system, but its the best one” my man gets it! Great react appreciate the support

    • @european-reacts
      @european-reacts  7 дней назад +121

      Ty so much! Love your stuff.

    • @PiousSlayer
      @PiousSlayer 7 дней назад +30

      I really enjoy both of your content. Keep it up, both of you!

    • @kegr1066
      @kegr1066 7 дней назад +32

      Keyboard Warriors: Real communism hasn't been tried yet😤
      Chubby Electron Guy: Real capitalism hasn't been tried yet😈

    • @menotyou8369
      @menotyou8369 7 дней назад

      @@kegr1066 Unfortunately, humanity isn't ready for communism. We're a bunch of greedy, lazy, a-holes. With that said, the main problems with "communist" countries is the Totalitarian dictators, not the sharing of resources.

    • @marksmadhousemetaphysicalm2938
      @marksmadhousemetaphysicalm2938 6 дней назад +1

      All have mixed economies … pure communism and pure capitalism lead to the same place … no competition and one person with all the money makes the choices and everyone else gets fucked … because no one else has resources. Very few things in life are black and white.

  • @jeffslote9671
    @jeffslote9671 8 дней назад +312

    The USA military is a logistics company that occasionally dabbles in combat. Never question our ability to ship materials. Our logistics systems are so advanced we could devote ships in WW2 to making ice cream 🍦

    • @HistoryNerd808
      @HistoryNerd808 8 дней назад +23

      Just ask Russia and Ukraine. The military: getting you what you need, where you need it, when you need it since November 1775(look up the Noble Artillery Train, also known as the Knox Expedition if you miss the reference.)

    • @Titus-as-the-Roman
      @Titus-as-the-Roman 8 дней назад +14

      I could not have said it better, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Home of the Air Force Logistics Command. spent a good part of my life here.

    • @recoil53
      @recoil53 8 дней назад +14

      It was a lot more than that - the US had 10 mobile Coca-Cola factories, with bottling. Mobile to keep up with the moving front.
      Then there were the Donut Dollies - the US Red Cross sent over a bunch of women, trucks and supplies for the moral of soldiers in Britain and then Europe. Mobile donut & coffee trucks that made both fresh. I mean at a time when everybody else was short of everything, the US had these extra trucks and food just for moral.

    • @dannysarco6743
      @dannysarco6743 7 дней назад +1

      Facts.

    • @KTKacer
      @KTKacer 7 дней назад +1

      And did!

  • @g3719
    @g3719 8 дней назад +176

    7, you do not tell the US you can't do something, we will say hold my beer.

    • @chrispenge5289
      @chrispenge5289 8 дней назад +5

      Hell yea brother 😂 merica

    • @AxelFoleyDetroitLions
      @AxelFoleyDetroitLions 8 дней назад +3

      Thats True!
      Hold My Beer….Trump is a Danger to The World

    • @theghostofthomasjenkins9643
      @theghostofthomasjenkins9643 6 дней назад +6

      we may not succeed, but we're gonna try until it solves itself.

    • @LSFA-KrissyL16
      @LSFA-KrissyL16 День назад +1

      we'll say, "Hold my beer, go get me another for when I get back, move the goal line farther out and tie one of my arms down. See you in a sec."

    • @michaelthompson2474
      @michaelthompson2474 15 часов назад +1

      Hold my beer, and go get a good camera. You're going to want proof that this actually happened

  • @jeffslote9671
    @jeffslote9671 8 дней назад +221

    America will ship an entire Burger King to a combat zone just for morale reasons. Never doubt our logistics

    • @aviator2252
      @aviator2252 8 дней назад +12

      deployed taco bell hits different, not in a good way, but i do miss green bean

    • @bobsyouruncle3075
      @bobsyouruncle3075 8 дней назад +5

      My husband used to go to Green Bean weekly after eating MRE'S. Apparently the tobasco didn't work as well as he hoped. 😊

    • @dixiecyrus8136
      @dixiecyrus8136 8 дней назад +6

      But at least they get ice cream! Wasn't some foriegn general in ww2 amazed by the American logistics involved just for ice cream for the troops? I think Fat Electrician had an episode on that?

    • @keithcraig506
      @keithcraig506 8 дней назад +5

      @@dixiecyrus8136
      Ice cream, I believe, was mostly in the Pacific Theater and, yeah, Japanese leadership was a bit concerned about what ice cream barges implied.
      What had German leadership worried was the fact that our GI's were getting home made baked goods through the GI mail system, and they were still fresh when they arrived at the front lines. I mean home baked, still moist birthday cake kind of fresh.

    • @recoil53
      @recoil53 8 дней назад +2

      @@keithcraig506 What the ice cream barges implied? How about building the world's largest navy by far after starting at #6 and getting wrecked at Pearl Harbor while fighting another war and supplying everybody?

  • @HistoryNerd808
    @HistoryNerd808 8 дней назад +101

    "Infantry wins battles, logistics wins wars"
    -John "Blackjack" Pershing, 6 star general(one of only 3 generals given that honor in our history with Washington and Grant) and head of US Expeditionary Forces in World War I.
    Basically our military strategy in one sentence.

    • @billolsen4360
      @billolsen4360 8 дней назад +4

      Love old General Pershing. If we had had sound newsreels in theatres in those days, he would have had the chance to provide a lot of assurance for Americans back home.

    • @anonygent
      @anonygent 8 дней назад +6

      My preference: Amateurs discuss strategy... professionals discuss supply.

    • @seattanf2348
      @seattanf2348 7 дней назад +1

      ​@@anonygent I was getting ready to make the same statement. You beat me to it.

    • @cluny
      @cluny 7 дней назад +1

      Why put a logistics man like Ike in as Allied Supreme Commander in Europe theater ? Oh, that's why.

    • @ssjwes572
      @ssjwes572 7 дней назад

      I was in ROTC so I love Gen Pershing. Wouldn't have had it without him.

  • @ellinganderson5434
    @ellinganderson5434 8 дней назад +92

    The dropping of candy was started by Gail Halverson after walking around the air field in Germany. Seeing kids watching the planes land, he shared the pack of gum in his pocket and was impressed the kids shared without fighting. So he told them for tomorrow to look for a plane that wiggled its wings to drop some more candy and that's how he got the name Uncle Wiggles. His candy dropping was eventually named operation little vittles. It's an interesting story that deserves its own video.

    • @BHuang92
      @BHuang92 7 дней назад +11

      When he passed away, the Germans made it officially as a day of mourning!

    • @clydewilson5907
      @clydewilson5907 4 дня назад +1

      People making a difference in people's lives without even knowing it.

    • @jimreilly917
      @jimreilly917 3 дня назад +2

      FAT Electrician did a video on Halverson. It’s outstanding.

  • @vegas7027
    @vegas7027 8 дней назад +48

    Any video from the Fat Electrician is always a good choice.

  • @alvinhelms2170
    @alvinhelms2170 8 дней назад +51

    Even to this day, with Germany united again, there is still a visible difference in prosperity between what was 'West Germany' and what was 'East Germany'. Communism left lasting damage on the East, like a blight or a plague.

    • @ExecutiveChefLance
      @ExecutiveChefLance День назад

      How is it possible East Germany seems to fully support Russia now? Seems kind of Moronic. Germany between 1900-1930 was the most advanced country on Earth and yet the East Germans think Russians who destroyed and raped East Germany and Prussia (and still occupy Konigsberg) are the Good Guys. Sounds to me like they deserve their Poverty at this point. You can't fix Stupid of that Level.

  • @nathanmcarthur
    @nathanmcarthur 8 дней назад +43

    Loved it! Laughed, sniffled, and was reminded of that incredible feat.
    Something that wasn’t mentioned in the video was that the Berlin Airlift was where modern day air traffic control was invented - from scratch. Up until that point, aircrews navigated their planes to another airport without any significant coordination with any other aircraft or the ground; the altitude, heading, speed was entirely up to the individual pilots. When landing, a pilot eye-balled the situation and decided on whether to land or not, regardless of other aircraft, fuel, emergencies, et al.
    The Berlin Airlift required all of these things be standardized and coordinated, all the time, regardless of a pilot, outfit, or ego getting in the way. The planes’ separation from other planes both horizontally and vertically were all designed, regimented, and coordinated by ground control, for the first time. Because of the airlift, modern air travel was made not only possible but safe and reliable.

    • @LSFA-KrissyL16
      @LSFA-KrissyL16 День назад

      I WONDERED about that!! Thank you for the details! ✌🏼😄

  • @jburnett8152
    @jburnett8152 8 дней назад +28

    I guess the Germans didn't mind Hershey chocolate then. 😂

    • @Wearywastrel
      @Wearywastrel День назад +2

      Hershey's chocolate was probably less plastic than it is today.😅

  • @michaelmorris423
    @michaelmorris423 8 дней назад +20

    You should absolutely watch the Berlin wall video. It is one of Nic's best.

  • @RayWhiting
    @RayWhiting 8 дней назад +30

    7. Yes. learn about the Berlin Wall.

  • @bradsavory6490
    @bradsavory6490 8 дней назад +53

    Great reactions Andre. Love your vibe

    • @european-reacts
      @european-reacts  8 дней назад +6

      Ty so much 🙏

    • @anotherfriend1998
      @anotherfriend1998 8 дней назад +2

      ​@@european-reacts7... keep them coming my brother from another mother from over seas... 😊 7

  • @edwardhall7730
    @edwardhall7730 8 дней назад +7

    You need to watch a video on the candy bomber, how it started, and its progress. Gale, the candy boomer, didn't have permission to do what he did and could have gotten in trouble for it. It all started while he was taking some photos near the fence while his plane was unloaded. He talked to some German kids watching against the fence and on a whim gave them a piece if gum he had in his pocket. Their reaction led to his idea. Every grew member had a small ration of Cady that they could buy, knowing they could get in trouble he talked his grew into joining him, and the program began in secret. That is until a journalist almost got hit on the head with one of the candy bolts, shaped a photo of the plane clearly showing the tail number, and published it in the press. Gail was called into his commanders office and chewed out over this, partly because his camsnder was caught unaware, but because of the press and publics response they couldn't take any action against him. In fact it just exploded from there. To hear Gail talk about it, the letters he received from the kids during it, and his lifelong relationship with them afterwards is one of the funniest yet beautiful stories I've ever heard.

  • @glendatelgenhoff6514
    @glendatelgenhoff6514 8 дней назад +32

    I never knew about this. So proud of my country for caring this much, I'm crying.

    • @walkman1269
      @walkman1269 4 дня назад +4

      I'm sorry the liberal driven US education system glossed this over. Good men properly motivated can do outstanding things. Not a lesson some folks want repeated. Makes you question someone's motivations.

    • @noodlelynoodle.
      @noodlelynoodle. День назад +1

      ​@@walkman1269it has nothing to do with it being liberal or conservative education, both sides try to remove parts of history with conservatives arguably doing it far moreso and I'm saying that as someone who is very conservative in a lot of ways. Something like this though just really isn't super relevant in a general us history class which is what people take in public school because of how much other stuff there is to cover, if it was a WW2 specific class something like this most likely would get covered. Like don't get me wrong it's a great story of a time when the country actually did the right things occasionally but it's not being not covered as some conspiracy like you think

    • @walkman1269
      @walkman1269 19 часов назад

      @@noodlelynoodle. There's very little representation for conservative views at higher levels of Department of Education. It's all about wokeism and DEI. We were not woke back then so it doesn't matter now. They were all just a bunch of Chauvinist racists who killed baby ducks. I sat through American History under a liberal teacher and that's what I got.

    • @septimus7524
      @septimus7524 8 часов назад

      ​@@noodlelynoodle. Nah bro we're straight up infested with communism anymore, there's no denying it.
      We're at the point where Disney has actual rules about portraying Communist characters as villains or bad guys.
      I'm. Not. Kidding.
      As discovered in uncovered Soviet documents after the USSR's collapse, they even went as far as to spend roughly as much as an average American Presidential Campaign, to multiple Hollywood union front organizations, yearly, for 60 years straight. Not to mention the McCarthy Hearings (which had nothing to do with Hollywood btw, it's insane people still equate McCarthy with the Hollywood blacklist stuff-) DID uncover rampant communist influence (often very direct) within the State Department.
      The sad reality is we believed for so long there was no way communism could touch us. We were wrong. Just like the frog in the slowly boiling water, we failed to see we were in danger before it was too late..
      Yet still people will either ignore, never see, or refuse this reality. Everyone's too fixated on "Republicans vs Democrats" that they yet again fail to see the greater danger.
      As a very wise man once said, it's no longer a battle of Red Vs Blue
      "It's The State Vs You" -Razorfist, The Rageaholic (decidedly not family friendly, but I do highly recommend his stuff on just how awash with Communism we really are anymore)

  • @m2hmghb
    @m2hmghb 8 дней назад +28

    Truman was Roosevelt's Vice President and became President when Roosevelt died. He's the one who made the decision to use the nuclear weapons on Japan. Also 7

    • @BrentTJo
      @BrentTJo 5 дней назад +2

      Also to answer his question Roosevelt was one of the best Presidents, Truman was fine, had to make some hard calls and no major strikes against him but considered second or third tier president.

  • @toriblue
    @toriblue 8 дней назад +12

    7 ...It's insane that so many people still endorse Communism considering that there has never been any examples that didn't result in mass genocide and horrific levels of corruption. Capitalism has its flaws but it's the only model that truly embraces human nature ...it allows the best opportunities for upward mobility. Socialism only seems to work when it's backed by Capitalism so it's impossible to consider it a successful model. In America, the biggest threat to Capitalism is the monopolitization of certain industries.

    • @ExecutiveChefLance
      @ExecutiveChefLance День назад +3

      In America, the biggest threat to Capitalism is the monopolitization of certain industries.
      100% I wish more people would realize that we are going down the USSR Path if we continue to allow Monopoly Corruption. Refuse to deal with White Collar Criminals and Bankers etc... We are moving to a weird Social Corporate State and not Capitalism.

  • @daniellekennedy8118
    @daniellekennedy8118 8 дней назад +36

    Honestly? Besides the monsters at the top, I can't think of anyone who "likes" communism -- because it doesn't work for anyone else!! So, please, I'd love to watch the episode about the Berlin Wall with you. This was a great episode, and I learned so much about this episode in our history. Thank you very much for sharing.

    • @ExecutiveChefLance
      @ExecutiveChefLance День назад

      Originally the Left was Anti-Monarchy and called themselves Republicans. AKA Republic vs. Absolutist Monarchies. The USA is the Richest Country in the History of Humanity and we have people sleeping on the streets. That is why many people believe in Leftism. Only a fraction of Leftist are True Tankies who worship Stalin. Even the author of 1984 called the USSR Right Wing Communism. Why? Because Stalin seemed more like a King then a leader of a Republic. Libertarianism for example which in Europe is more LeftWing comes from the Idea that any grouping of Power destroys Liberty. In America it is more Rightwing but stems from the same Fundamental. Power Corrupts. Havard Business Majors ruining Boeing is one example and is ERRILY similar to Chinese, Russian and Old USSR corruption. We can't have that. USA atm is more like a Socialist Coporate State. Everything is run by Monopolies. Who because they are at the top don't need to Compete or even follow Laws anymore.

  • @pamabernathy8728
    @pamabernathy8728 8 дней назад +14

    My dear husband (together since 1978) was stationed in Germany, while serving in the US Army (1974-77).
    He experienced the raw evil of the Berlin Wall.
    & the Reagan Presidential Library & Museum is an easy drive from where we live.
    A large piece of the Wall has been placed there.
    One side still has faded "grafitti" of flowers, etc.
    The other side is pock marked with bullet holes.

  • @lisal6121
    @lisal6121 8 дней назад +10

    Don’t tell America “you can’t…”

  • @tretre3892
    @tretre3892 8 дней назад +59

    America and Britain are great partners! We love the brits! even though they eat beans on toast 😂

    • @MikeCrowley-vm1ig
      @MikeCrowley-vm1ig 8 дней назад +11

      Everyone knows beans belong on cornbread!

    • @DianeCasanova
      @DianeCasanova 8 дней назад

      Never tried that one. 😊​@@MikeCrowley-vm1ig

    • @bobsyouruncle3075
      @bobsyouruncle3075 8 дней назад +2

      Everyone agreed Americans would cook after the kippers for breakfast.

    • @dannysarco6743
      @dannysarco6743 7 дней назад +2

      As an American, I love the Brits. We're "brothers from another mother". We tease each other like brothers, but will always show up to a fight with our brothers and stand shoulder to shoulder with them.

    • @minecraftfox4384
      @minecraftfox4384 5 дней назад

      ​@@dannysarco6743 you're not Native, you're European. Stop calling yourself American and go back to the UK.

  • @johnathon007
    @johnathon007 8 дней назад +10

    7. Of course you should do the Berlin wall video. Everything Fat Electrician puts out is perfectly educational and entertaining.

  • @rhiahlMT
    @rhiahlMT 8 дней назад +9

    7 I can't tell you how many bags of candy I sent to my husband in Iraq. When the guys were out on patrol they would pass it out to the kids they came across. American soldiers typically do that and other things for kids in war zones. The PX (military store) could keep it in stock. You should watch all the Fat Electricians videos. Don't forget his other channel, The Fat Files.

  • @Tijuanabill
    @Tijuanabill 7 дней назад +7

    If you don't think an American can do something, you might be right, but the last thing you should do is tell them that they can't, and watch them prove you wrong, out of spite.

  • @revgurley
    @revgurley 8 дней назад +10

    Ice Cube was a rapper from California (thus, "the West side is the best side" from one of his songs). He's currently an actor. 7

  • @garycamara9955
    @garycamara9955 8 дней назад +6

    We are not actually all equal we have equal opportunity. But however people have different abilities, to different extents.

  • @joshuamartin2069
    @joshuamartin2069 8 дней назад +7

    i highly recommend watching the Berlin Wall video! 7

  • @gl15col
    @gl15col 8 дней назад +24

    I'm an American, and I'd say most of us love the British. Many of us have ancestors directly from the British isles (I do). And communism goes against human nature. What gives humans the desire to accomplish anything is the chance of getting ahead. Which almost no one can do in communism.

    • @christinezehnle7552
      @christinezehnle7552 6 дней назад

      Free will

    • @dead-claudia
      @dead-claudia 5 дней назад

      all the actual hate went away after the brits stopped trying to force us back into their empire. and they stopped doing that in the early 1800s. and we were allies in ww1.

  • @OkiePeg411
    @OkiePeg411 8 дней назад +29

    Americans and Brits have a sibling rivalry... we may bash each other, but if anyone messes with our brothers/sisters overseas... we bring a ton of A s s whoopin' !!!

    • @minecraftfox4384
      @minecraftfox4384 5 дней назад

      No, we don't.

    • @wilhelmvoidwalker4810
      @wilhelmvoidwalker4810 2 дня назад

      Well Britain is more like our dad and France is our cool Uncle that helped us get emancipated when dad went broke and was raiding our piggy bank.

  • @emmef7970
    @emmef7970 8 дней назад +4

    Love Fat Electrician Channel! My favorite - Jake “McNasty” McNiece. Hilarious! #7

  • @Cookie-K
    @Cookie-K 8 дней назад +6

    Love these reactions with the Fat Electricion! #7

  • @Telrathian
    @Telrathian 8 дней назад +9

    7. The story of the Berlin Wall is well worth watching.

  • @hardtackbeans9790
    @hardtackbeans9790 8 дней назад +6

    Sure. #7 Watch the next video.

  • @aurorathekitty7854
    @aurorathekitty7854 8 дней назад +4

    The USA till this day maintains the biggest logistics in the world. The USA is the only country capable of moving it's entire armed forces anywhere in the world and keeping them there indefinitely. No other country has that capability.

  • @msgtpauldfreed
    @msgtpauldfreed День назад +1

    Tunner didn't solve the problem. He SMASHED it!

  • @Reblwitoutacause
    @Reblwitoutacause 7 дней назад +6

    "They don't have internet" 😂😂😂

  • @JPMadden
    @JPMadden 8 дней назад +7

    The necessity of flying all the time, no matter the weather, led to the development of modern air traffic control methods.
    As can be seen in this comments section, many Americans correctly understand that communism is terrible but are utterly incapable of identifying who is a communist. I'm a liberal but get accused of being a communist, despite believing in capitalism, democracy, and individual rights. It's quite frustrating.

  • @moxeyjc
    @moxeyjc 8 дней назад +7

    There's a really good video called, Christmas from Heaven: The Candy Bomber Story. It's part of the Tabernacle Choir Christmas concert from about ten years ago. I highly recommend watching it if you like the story about the Candy Bomber.

  • @Live_bet_bill14
    @Live_bet_bill14 8 дней назад +5

    ".. and maybe you'll watch til the end"
    I'm guilty as charged Andre 😂😂😂

  • @billolsen4360
    @billolsen4360 8 дней назад +5

    I was in East Germany in 1969 at age 15. Bleak, mostly empty streets & highways, nothing but old decrepit buildings, people in worn out clothing, trudging along, looking downward. What a change from West Germany, where people moved quickly, heads up, walking with purpose. Nobody smiled on either side, but that's a typical German thing. It wasn't so much capitalism vs communism, as I saw it, it was freedom vs communism. The Mainland Chinese have capitalism these days, but they don't have freedom, unless they make a lot of money.

  • @stephsdlnthms3957
    @stephsdlnthms3957 8 дней назад +7

    “I don’t have them, they don’t have internet.”….literally laughed out loud 😂.

  • @mikefreeman4430
    @mikefreeman4430 8 дней назад +4

    Communism contradicts human nature capitalism rewards it

  • @DaedricGod
    @DaedricGod 18 часов назад +1

    Harry S. Truman (May 8, 1884 - December 26, 1972) was the 33rd president of the United States, serving from 1945 to 1953. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as a United States senator from Missouri from 1935 to 1945 and briefly in 1945 as the 34th vice president under Franklin D. Roosevelt. Assuming the presidency after Roosevelt's death, Truman implemented the Marshall Plan in the wake of World War II to rebuild the economy of Western Europe and established both the Truman Doctrine and NATO to contain the expansion of Soviet communism.
    Pulled this directly off of his wiki page.

  • @TheRagratus
    @TheRagratus 8 дней назад +4

    I want THAT America back.

  • @Blend-24
    @Blend-24 7 дней назад +4

    And when the Soviets built the wall, it was NOT to keep people out, it was to keep people IN.

  • @SpiralDragoon
    @SpiralDragoon 8 дней назад +3

    President Truman was originally the Vice President during President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s fourth term but became the president when FDR died in office shortly after he was elected in April 12, 1945 (FDR was elected in January that year). He served as the 33rd president from 1945-1953

  • @BobSmith-vg3kh
    @BobSmith-vg3kh 6 дней назад +4

    Truman was a good wartime President but he also made it possible for our recovery after the war to last 10 years longer than Europe's recovery. Domestically, he wasn't so great. He also seemed to not care for the Jews in Germany. Even when a ship full of escaping Jews tried to enter the US, Truman refused them sanctuary here and turned them back to a guaranteed death in Germany. Some suggested that he dropped the atomic bomb on Japan because they didn't look as white a Germans & Italians. I don't agree. I think he dropped the bombs on Japan because they attacked us in Peral Harbor, which how we first entered WWII. Truman's original attitude was WWii Europe's problem, not ours. To this day, many in the US feel this too. Europe has a long history of conflicts, riots, and even terrible elections where people either vote for dictators or are beaten into submission by people who want to be dictators. They've allowed their governments to disarm them, then America has to uses military arms to fight for their freedom. Now it's our turn as our own Communist party known as Democrats want to disarm us & promise to make everyone equal....equally poor & destroyed.

  • @boomergames8094
    @boomergames8094 8 дней назад +8

    To fight communism, the anti-communists teamed up and everyone gave what they could - the US, UK, France, and the local Germans all pitched in however they could, without pay, to provide necessities to the Germans. Everyone provided according to their needs, and all the hungry and injured people got what they needed.
    Somewhere around 70-80% of the US military is in some sort of support or logistics. There are five people behind every combatant whose job it is to make sure that they get what they need in order to do their job.
    When the US uses its exorbitant privilege to provide assistance, assistance is given in abundance.

  • @barbarasalley
    @barbarasalley 8 дней назад +6

    Never tell us what CAN'T BE DONE!!!! We will find a way!!!

  • @zgreen9673
    @zgreen9673 8 дней назад +2

    7 - Since you watched this episode (about the beggining of the cold war), You HAVE to watch The Fat Files (Nic's other channel) episode about Modern Art (about the cultural aspect of the cold war), and then The Fat Electrician's episode about The Berlin Wall (about the end of the Soviet Union and the 20th century's cold war).

  • @MisterGarp
    @MisterGarp День назад

    The Candy Bomber Gail Halvorsen lived near me and I have met him several times. He only just recently passed away. He would come speak at my kids' school. It was especially touching since I was Stationed in Berlin.

  • @sallyintucson
    @sallyintucson День назад

    7. Yes, watch the falling of The Berlin Wall. I love how this guy covers history. He’s obviously a Veteran and always makes me chuckle.

  • @kylesummers1565
    @kylesummers1565 4 дня назад +2

    Equal opportunity is great. Forcing equal outcomes is not. That is how you kill ingenuity. Peace, Love!!

  • @dominiklehn2866
    @dominiklehn2866 20 часов назад

    Small correction: there was only a single Globemaster taking part in the airlift. While the C-47 Skytrain, the cargo version of the DC-3, was what they had at the beginning, they only had 37 available. The one he likely means when he talks about bigger planes is the C-54 Skymaster, the cargo variant of the DC-4. Its also the one whih is mostly shown in his historical footage, as over 300 of those took part in the operation. At 10 tons capacity theyre not as large as the C-74 Globemaster or the prototype for the C-97 Stratofreighter that also took part as a single plane, but it evidently was enough

  • @ToddCanterberry
    @ToddCanterberry 8 дней назад +5

    I was stationed in Berlin in the early 80’s. I enjoyed this video.

  • @BobSmith-vg3kh
    @BobSmith-vg3kh 6 дней назад +2

    Please do watch the Berlin Wall, but also look at Reagan's speech regarding how he demanded that Gorbechov tear down the Wall. Also, the reunification of East & West wasn't easy. The first 10 years were so bad that Germans regretted the unification.

  • @alexandradeheus
    @alexandradeheus 8 дней назад +2

    I also enjoy when you find one his stories .

  • @DebAGP
    @DebAGP День назад

    Truman was the VP of Roosevelt who stepped in when Roosevelt died. Truman ended WWII with Japan by dropping 2 nuke bombs on Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Japan surrendered the next day and then freed up USA to focus solely on Germany.

  • @jonadabtheunsightly
    @jonadabtheunsightly 8 дней назад +2

    The thing about Truman in this context is, he was President in 1945. The implication of that is, he's the guy who had the final say on the decision to drop Fat Man and Little Boy on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Since that did in fact happen, everybody in the world knew, for sure, that, in principle, given a good reason, he was willing to order an atomic bomb strike. Because he had already done so, twice.
    Needless to say, the Soviets were highly motivated to bring their own atomic bomb development program to fruition, to put themselves back on more or less equal footing.

  • @rowec6472
    @rowec6472 8 дней назад +5

    The Fat Electrician is great. I will watch any video of his you react to just get your personal and Portuguese Perspective good sir.

  • @alfonsomacias1569
    @alfonsomacias1569 8 дней назад +2

    If you can love my comment, then forget about it you make my day 👌

  • @jessedriscoll4447
    @jessedriscoll4447 3 дня назад

    someone get this man a honorary American citizen card, we need him for his genuine happiness.

  • @revgurley
    @revgurley 8 дней назад +33

    Probably too political for your channel to react to, but watch some videos of people asking college students if they prefer socialism or capitalism. To a person, they'll say "socialism." So then they're asked, "Would you share some of your GPA with someone who has a lower GPA (grade point average)?" "Well no! That's different! I worked hard and studied hard to have this high GPA!" Then you sit and wait until all the gears are turning, and they suddenly see the hypocrisy of their opinions.
    Love The Fat Electrician. He's great at story-telling. I'm not even all that interested in military history, but he makes me interested in it.

    • @RoseNZieg
      @RoseNZieg 8 дней назад +8

      those videos are hilarious. they are always generous with other people's stuffs.

    • @kate2create738
      @kate2create738 8 дней назад +3

      At this point, I think most viewers should understand Andre’s point of view as he’s been honest about it. Plus I personally believe in free speech, so I say to Andre:
      Just rip the bandaid, test the waters, and see how it goes! Honestly it’s been a lot of his videos uplifting Americans while a lot of us our feeling very down our country atm has help me be a little more uplifting. Still critical in some cases, but it’s mostly because I actually care about our country and not a nihilist like so many these days.

    • @pacmon5285
      @pacmon5285 7 дней назад +2

      That's a weird way to make a point. It's a bad question. There's basically zero consequence of not sharing their GPA. Like who cares if the other person doesn't have a good GPA. Now, pose the same question but say, that person over there is going to be living on the street and die of starvation if you don't share a little bit. Then see what they say.

    • @lolloblue9646
      @lolloblue9646 6 дней назад

      The GPA bull is straight up manipulation and false equivalence cranked to a thousand, and the uberrich leeches are profiting from making people believe in "hard-earned" anything

    • @noctis6826
      @noctis6826 4 дня назад +2

      So pointless, doesn't make sense, sharing a GPA is something IN US, not something of material purpose, now say that about money, MATERIAL purpose, not something bounded in us, so of course we'd share money and of other hard worked resources if it means to balance out for those in the lesser category, socialism is the better option through and through instead overreaching with greed and leaving the lower ones in the dust and economically and fairness in the world teeters more to being unbalanced like it already is, so nice try at trying to make it point, but no.

  • @marksmadhousemetaphysicalm2938
    @marksmadhousemetaphysicalm2938 6 дней назад +3

    Is it perfect? No, but it IS best … as long as there IS competition … Monopoly IS bad and must be prevented … whether board game or in real life … I do believe this is the one role government has in business. To prevent or bust up artificial monopolies. Competition in capitalism is essential to be a real market, otherwise it just the same as communism…one choice and one individual in control…

    • @ExecutiveChefLance
      @ExecutiveChefLance День назад

      Bingo if people don't start seeing this truth the USA will become some weird Commie Corporate Hybrid. Minus even the Pretense of Progressive Ideals.

  • @calendarpage
    @calendarpage 8 дней назад +1

    I never thought I'd see the fall of the Berlin Wall. When I was a child, there was a girl in class whose family had escaped over the wall. Even as a kid, I knew that was special. Then to see the end of the wall, it's still amazing to me. I don't know about the quality of the video, but it can't hurt to learn more about this pivotal point in history. I've met people from Soviet Russia, Cambodia, and Vietnam. Talk to them about communism. 7

  • @BeatriceLemke-Newman
    @BeatriceLemke-Newman 8 дней назад +18

    This is a Great American & British humanitarian effort!

  • @The_Cranky_Painter
    @The_Cranky_Painter День назад +1

    Late to comment, since I only just saw tis vid, but America did this in Holland as well during WW2. It was called Operation: Manna from Heaven, and my grandfather was a part of it. Still brought hum to tears whenever he spoke of it. The commemerative medal they made and gave out decades later meant more to him than his Bronze Star.

  • @DebAGP
    @DebAGP День назад

    I love his videos too. Wish he was a high school teacher here. Kids would learn so much!

  • @1cowcamehome
    @1cowcamehome 6 часов назад

    Am I wrong? Do most of the commentators believe that communism didn’t fall in Eastern Europe and USSR in the late 80’s or early 90s? The Berlin airlift was very important but Americans didn’t save Berlin the western allies did. It was magnificent with a supply plane landing every 3 to 5 minutes.

  • @joelkrause388
    @joelkrause388 8 дней назад +1

    #7 big ol fat 7. I enjoy his content just as much as I enjoy yours! Keep it Coming Andre!

  • @jabbott6748
    @jabbott6748 14 часов назад

    7, and I think this was the origin of F%$k around and find out.

  • @deborahdanhauer8525
    @deborahdanhauer8525 8 дней назад +1

    I love the fat electrician! He’s one of the best storytellers on UTube. Yes! Listen to the Berlin Wall video.❤️🐝🤗7

  • @srice8959
    @srice8959 7 дней назад +1

    Seven Seven Seven! You DEFINITELY need to do that Wall video Next!! My thoughts on Commies as someone who grew up at the Peak of the Cold War. Is Communism can go ahead and “Eat Shit, and Bark At The Moon”

  • @steelgreyed
    @steelgreyed 5 дней назад +1

    5:00 For the Commie side, printing trillions of currency, fixed the "immediate" problem of a stable "Capitalist State" where the power of the currency stabilizes the economy. Hard to do with super inflation. You have to remember the really didn't like them part as well.

  • @VTXCageSC
    @VTXCageSC 17 часов назад

    "The sole purpose of socialism is to prepare the way for communism."
    ~ V Lenin

  • @Banksy913
    @Banksy913 8 дней назад +1

    Great ambassador for the US.

  • @zgreen9673
    @zgreen9673 8 дней назад

    Truman dropped the Bombs on Japan. Lol, idk about the best, but definitely one if the most concequential.

  • @wikkedspindl
    @wikkedspindl 8 дней назад +1

    I love watching how excited you get while reacting to this legend of a human. I recommend Unsubscribe Clips, another channel he is on often. They have 10 minutes clips of their 2 hour long podcasts. Very funny stuff and a lot of military and war stories. Definitely a must of you are a fan of TFE.

  • @debbers
    @debbers 6 дней назад +1

    #7 Yes, I'd love to sit in and watch about the Berlin wall with you!

  • @grantharriman284
    @grantharriman284 3 дня назад +1

    Printing money and devaluing the currency is a very specific solution to a very specific problem. If you have a debt, that is explicitly owed as a set amount in that currency, then just printing that much new currency and handing it over does solve that problem. You lose a chunk of the value of all the rest of the money, but then it's over.
    It is very important that this is a one time use option. If you start doing this as a continuous and ongoing method of operation you get nowhere and only succeed in rendering your own reserves and economy worthless.

  • @harrietmiller3982
    @harrietmiller3982 8 дней назад +5

    7! Yes please‼️💯✌️

  • @chrispenge5289
    @chrispenge5289 8 дней назад +1

    7, as an American I can confirm if you put a challenge on the table I will make sure its solved

  • @Arkryal
    @Arkryal 8 дней назад +1

    Great reaction. Love these videos. The Fat Electrician is one of RUclips's best. And it is worth checking out his Merch Store, I got one of the water bottles, and it goes everywhere with me now, lol. Yeah, it's like $30, but honestly, I'd spend that to see a Movie in the theaters for 2 hours, and I've gotten orders of magnitude more than 2 hours of entertainment from his videos.

  • @michaelthompson2474
    @michaelthompson2474 15 часов назад

    President Truman was the president that dropped the atomic bombs on Japan. Which is why the USSR couldn't do anything to protect their airspace because president Truman would drop the sun on Moscow and melt Siberia if they scratched the paint on an American cargo plane

  • @barryfletcher7136
    @barryfletcher7136 8 дней назад +2

    Yes, watch his video about the Berlin Wall, which was actually a wall between Communist eastern Europe and Capitalist western Europe (not just Berlin).

  • @vampiricunicorn791
    @vampiricunicorn791 8 дней назад +1

    Great reaction, and 7, yes! It's a great sequel to this one.

  • @klycan33
    @klycan33 7 дней назад +1

    Always watch to the end! 7. Also I love his videos also. So good!

  • @Tijuanabill
    @Tijuanabill 7 дней назад

    Dear God no, Harry S Truman was not a great American president. He was the villain who dropped nuclear bombs on civilian populations in Japan. He ended our war with Japan, which of course benefitted us. But what a cost in innocent human life to pay, when at that point Japan was no longer a threat to US territories.

  • @Dfourteens
    @Dfourteens 8 дней назад

    Thanks for a new Fat Electrician reaction. Love them and Donut Operator.
    Check out Fat Electrician video about Seargeant Reckless. She was a military horse whose bravery and work made her one of the highest decorated soldiers of her time. Yes, you read that right. She was a horse.

  • @lunamae4718
    @lunamae4718 8 дней назад +1

    I love watching these videos with you ! Many Blessings to you !

  • @wandapease-gi8yo
    @wandapease-gi8yo 8 дней назад +2

    Remember making many trips from the American Sector in West Berlin via Checkpoint Charlie. Even in the 1970’s and 1980’s, with the Russian/East German section trying to paint over the flaws, the East was a sad and still largely war battered place.

  • @gkiferonhs
    @gkiferonhs 8 дней назад +1

    watch anything by the Fat Electrician!

  • @OkayThenAwesome
    @OkayThenAwesome 8 дней назад +3

    7

  • @bobkupi9905
    @bobkupi9905 8 дней назад +2

    Always watch the Fat Electrician videos to the very end. He usually put in bloopers or sarcastic remarks at the very end. >7

  • @Trifler500
    @Trifler500 8 дней назад +2

    No, Truman isn't one of the "best Presidents ever" but he was the US President when WW2 ended. Roosevelt was in office when WW2 started and for most of WW2.

    • @timmethy
      @timmethy 8 дней назад

      He's why the US won the Cold War and why Japan and Germany are thriving democracies now. Historians consider him a great President and he was way under appreciated by many Americans. I think Biden will turn out to be the same.

  • @Tbone1492
    @Tbone1492 8 дней назад +2

    Let's go 7

  • @gk5891
    @gk5891 7 дней назад +3

    Always here for these reactions.
    Truman was FDR's VP and became President when he died (and then was elected as President next election). He is the President that authorized the use of the A Bombs on Japan.

    • @Salty_Balls
      @Salty_Balls 3 дня назад

      I believe it's still the case that the USS Harry Truman isn't welcome in Japan, and the US also doesn't attempt to send her. 😂

  • @TexasEngineer
    @TexasEngineer 8 дней назад +2

    My uncle was a pilot for PanAm Airlines and participated in the Berlin Airlift.

  • @AngelaC.-iz4ts
    @AngelaC.-iz4ts 4 дня назад

    The Americans and Brits are family that have disagreements sometimes, but don’t try and mess with either. We have one another’s back. . The U.S. is often referred to as “the rebellious kid” of The UK.

  • @TXODM
    @TXODM 21 час назад

    You cannot have socialism without communism