This stuff is better than the actual whatifalthist content

I'm happy to see Rudyard enjoying a cigar, but there was something about opening the video with it that made me think of Zuck's "sweet baby rays"

"What I remember about the rise of the Empire is... is how quiet it was. During the waning hours of the Clone Wars, the 501st Legion was discreetly transferred back to Coruscant. It was a silent trip. We all knew what was about to happen, what we were about to do. Did we have any doubts? Any private, traitorous thoughts? Perhaps, but no one said a word. Not on the flight to Coruscant, not when Order 66 came down, and not when we marched into the Jedi Temple. Not a word." - Operation: Knightfall "Knightfall" - Star Wars Battlefront II (2005)

That cigar canoeing so hard bro

Shoutout to Rudy for being too dorky to smoke a cigar properly

A few mistakes I caught: Pearl Harbor was the 7th of December (8th in Japanese time), not the 11th. Midway was in June 1942, not the beginning. The beginning of 1942 was when Japan was getting really good results against the U.S. The Solomon Islands campaign was after Midway, not before. The part about Kamikaze was part right, part wrong. Very few experienced pilots flew Kamikaze, most had died in the Solomon Islands fighting. The bulk of Kamikaze pilots were drafted college students, so the point about throwing away their best and brightest certainly stands.

I really wish Rudyard’s cohost would ask interesting questions, build up the conversation with tidbits that he may know but it wasn’t mentioned, or just flow better with Rudyard’s train of thought. I would rather see either just Rudyard doing this solo or have someone who does “color commentary”, like mentioning interesting facts based on the current topic. As an example, at 2:27 ask something like “why did Japan want to capture China to create a new empire similar to China’s?” As someone who absolutely loves to continue learning about history and who really the topics of @Whatifalthist videos, with how he uses multiple disciplines to present an amazing breakdown of historical events. Maybe get a 3rd host to be the “color commentator”, like how the UFC has Rogan to expand on the events taking place. He doesn’t call the fights, but whenever possible, interjects his thoughts/opinions. That would be a dream job in my opinion 😊

Shout out to general Wainwright the highest ranking American captured, who was the leader when they surrendered in the Philippines. Dude survived the death march and survived the pow camps till the end of the war. Then the dude actually continued his service till he was forced to retire.

Rudyard canoed the fuck out of that cigar

This podcast is so good bro. Keep it up man!

I thought this was the japanese civilization video for a second

15:16 Oh that was my question!! Amazing to see them looking at our comments and using them in the show!!

Bro, we need to get you some better cigars. Your content demands it

I like this series, but you need to get a better recording setup. It is so annoying hearing your neighbors driving around. I think last episode Eric just got up and walked around his house with his laptop in the middle of the podcast.

"Everybody was a good guy in WW1." -laughs in Turkish

Another great video, Rudyard. I noticed Dave isnt present much in the video, which I knew you would address in editing. The cigar really threw me off, but it's funny that you're doing this on what looks like a porch. I don't want to assume, but it looks like that's your first cigar, or at least, you certainly light it like a beginner. You scorched it and it canoed. I'd recommend not heating it up so fast. I wish I had more to say with the rest of your video, other than "Yes", "I agree", or "That's interesting". Sorry for being a bad student. EVERYONE should have a friend like Rudyard!

Rudyard should really start looksmaxing. Bro looks like the Colosal Titan💀

So glad no one ever filmed me smoking my first cigar

You need a new host.

Love these thanks for the upload.

Fix the end. flame the leafy portion on the lit end

Need to put History 102 in the Thumbnail, keep missing them

I would like to elaborate on the time before warlord, RoC and the nationalist You have mentioned multiple times that after the revolution china went straight into warlordism. Practically yes, but that ignores the attempt of making the republic in first decade of RoC It was planed and set up to be a libral democracy, but ultimately failed. For those interested, there's one person that related to a lot of early RoC history, Yuan Shikai(袁世凱), for what I know he is one of the reason why the revolution worked, the set up of the republic and the eventual warlordism. As for why the ideology of the nationalist is inconsistent for what I know one must take into consideration that the party (KMT) was the direct lineage of the revolutionary, which the most well known is Sun Yatsen, but the nature of the revolutionary movement for what I know is more to the anti qing empire than anything else. It's interesting to see that in Taiwanese textbook, RoC(1912-1927) and RoC(1927-1937 or 1949) after Chiang united the warlord is almost considered two separate entity.

Please have Curtis Yarvin on the show. I can’t recommend him enough. If I have to, I will spam the comments section with requests for the Curtis Yarvin interview

39:45. That reminds me of an old quote from Isoroku Yamamoto in the film, Tora! Tora! Tora! It goes "I fear all we have done is awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with terrible resolve."

Very honorabru

China got more material aid from Germany then Japan got so a situation where China was Axis and Japan somehow remained aligned with the British wouldn't be too hard to write.

Nation of shopkeepers was referred to the British not the Americans

Rudyard rocks the Slavic necklace like a boss.

Nice background change :D!

I still don't understand how this channel differs from WIAH in any substantive way

People keep saying this about Poland with Churchill , very intriguing

Kotkin says there was no lucky break for the Russians; Stalin simply decided he rather has Japan take Siberia than to lose Moscow

“THE MEN ARE FATIGUED MY LORD!! AND SOME MUST REST!!”

-When you spill your spaghetti so hard, you forget how to smoke

Been on a WIAH marathon all day!

Dan Carlin’s podcast Supernova in the East on this topic is legendary. It’s free here on KZfaq which we’re incredibly lucky for, easily worth a buck.

yamamoto went to harvard, not ucla

Good old Rudyard "Of course I like human rights" Lynch

Poor ROC was already fighting the Communists in 1929 before WW2 started.

“SHAMEFURRRR DISPLAYYYYY!!”

23:55 Chiang was captured by the warlord from the North-east (you know where), Zhang Xueliang and Yang hucheng. They were by no means communists but they did want to propose the peace deal.

Im from Bangladesh originally and I have grandparents who loved through the war. The British sprayed herbacide on our land to stop corp growth.

Real life example of fuxk around and find out. Don't touch the boats!

How the hell do say peal harbor happened on December 11th? This episode is sub par you where jumping around to much misdated several events completely disregarded the fact that battle ship where still very much decisive for the entire war

Yamamoto Isoroku studied at Harvard, not UCLA, and hardly even to did whatever he want at IJN (perhaps except briefly between Pearl Harbor and Midway).

We need to see Rudyard smoke weed on next episode

🙂

It seems thats timeline 47, where he started smoking.

I see the Japanese wars of expansion, somewhat similar to Russias today. They're sprinting through a perceived advantageous strategy, for a world that doesn't exist anymore, finding they may be the biggest shark in their reef, but not in the ocean.

blud needs a higher quality cigar and learn how to light it

What should have been the start of Australian civilisation ended up heralding it's demise. It's one of history's greatest mysteries you see. Oh the vulgarity of our fortunes.

Neat

Didn’t say no spoilers

25:52 if their are only 2 books in English but more Chinese literature, couldn't someone just push literature through an online translator to then understand more if only from Chinese perspective.

Based Rudyard 😂

In both the battles the British Indian Army fought against the Japanese, the Indians lost significantly less soldiers than the Japanese. Don't see the human waves here.

I was trying to look into what could possibly posses japan to do what it did during ww2 and it looks like its chalked up to ego and a notice me senpai complex lol Crazy

The pacific to be specific.

How was it that the japanese were struggling against china, but later could fight china and take over all the colonies of the west and fight a land war against the british in india? If they had all thise troops youd think that they could beat china in a war

He used a butane lighter

Debate undead chronic whatifautist

Howdy

This might be Andrew Tate

Owari da

Ah yes, the Co-Poverty Sphere.

Japan did NOT control Manchuria in 1914.

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So you don't think they knew the aircraft carrier was so strong!? You think they made the most expensive craft on accident!?

jfc if you listen closely, you can hear the sound of 10,000 japanese veterans rolling over in there graves...i'm beginning to think he doesn't know what he is talking about lol!

You can thank Darwin for imperial Japan and nasii Germany. Thats where evolutionary biologys end point is. Some are more equal than others.

Didn’t do that much actual genocide? The rape of nanking? The testing on the Chinese? I’m beginning to doubt your knowledge

Rudyard really reporting from the front this time