Well there is only one last sane thing in a war and that is a song. If it gets gloomy, in which some is gloomy, then what is it but a living hell on earth?

not really. its not as if the men dying were the ones who popularized it. i would guess the governments tried to get cheery songs into the heads of the men, as much as possible

Not the soldiers were the one popularising war, but the plague called Politicians (or monarchs in that timeline). They glorified war and propagandized it like the most honourable thing on earth. And the poor fools in the trenches believed that propaganda. Whats most sad is: Militaries around the globe still do it...Just watch a recruitment video of the military. War is shown almost as a fun time activity, like going on a party with your friends...But i guess if they would show a soldier who stepped on a landmine and whos guts are spilled all over, that wouldn't be got for "buisness". It makes me sick...War is bad, there is no heroism or honour in it. You die physicaly (get shot, etc.) or you die mentally (get PTSD/ traumatized).

A cheery song is sometimes all you have to keep you sane when you're in a hellscape.

@@truewalter4193 True. The military recruiters appeal to young men by emphasizing that the military “serves the country” and by noticing them with help for job training and education. Basically, appeals to their sense of pride and duty. It’s absurd and tragic how many fall victim to this false advertisement. They had to abandon the draft back in 1971 because there was so much resistance to it during the War in Vietnam. Now they mostly rely on poor kids without prospects. Join the Army! Learn a skill! Get finance for your college education! And serve your country”. What a load of BS. Meanwhile, the military industrial complex gets rich off the endless wars while innocent people in foreign countries are killed by the thousands.

Oh it's good bloody fun. I think this is the real reason the Hobbit did not want to go on an "adventure"

@@liampett1313 This is...true...and cursed

when the trees start speaking bismarck

The funny part is that the company commander was probably only 19 and you're probably only 17 in this situation.

@Jacob Wilson @Bacony Cakes as if there would be any remaining foliage outside of Mametz...

@AAFamily99 99 the French front was worse because most Germans actually wanted the French and not the English

Please I ask of you What is the price of a Mile?

@@jakobming4831 "6 miles of ground have been won, half a million men are gone" sadly, my math skills went kaput while trying to figure this out and now I can't do the equation

It's a direct quote, you actual walnuts.

@@PhoenixT70 Yeah, literally no idea what these fucks are arguing about. OP was a phrase from British soldiers who survived Passechendale.

where is this from?

@@postponemalondry7622 Martin Gilberts book The First World War

He’s talking to a body of a private would be the scariest twist...

*fade into dust*

The first Guy Is You And The Second Guy Is Your Teammate Spectating You

Pointless to argue which world war was "worse" but I stand by my conviction that ww1 was the more miserable one combat-wise.

@@jrmungandr WW1 was worse for soldiers (unless you're Soviet), WW2 was worse for civilians

@@luizmatthew1019 It was even more miserable for German soldiers cordoned off in Stalingrad.

they're*

They may be dead, but they're not dismissed!

_Artillery doesn't stop_

I was once on a beach and some rich dumbasses began sending fireworks like if it was a Katyusha rocket launcher (probably not their fault and it was a fail on the mechanism). Thing is we were at night with the lights out and for the first minute it was scary as hell, the sound was heard in all the coast line and then we laughed at it, just before a rain of proyectile rests falling upon us. Cool experience if you think about it, but imagine how a german soldier on ww2 might have felt about the Katyusha rockets blasting their lines.

@@l-nolazck-rn24 Don't worry, I imagine they didn't feel for very long.

You can't switch the channel anymore

@UC9HwXwBaRxrlLWOPHuXTfig Earlier this year some stupid asshole fired a bunch of fireworks while driving in town, and it sounds exactly like a gunfight, luckily that they didn't get the big one.

sounds like the Newfoundland division. They went through hell

@@bigmoniesponge wouldn't surprise me at all, those men had balls of steel

@@bigmoniesponge a normal US company at the time would have 170-200 ppl.

My great great Grandfather was a Lt for them. 1060 men went over the night of July 1st 1916 65 came back the next morning, him included.

There was a French captain who went to the frontline in Verdun with around 200 men. He returned with around 20, most of them turned insane. There's also a Verdun account of a German soldier looking at the men leaving the frontline (the men that his unit is supposed to replace). They looked like ghosts more than humans, with intense, gaping eyes.

whose quato is this

Trauma bonding galore

it really is though

It did and it does

And PTSD

"Good luck, everyone."

"I have a cunning plan"

“Wibble”

@@ilikemyself1026 "it'll have to wait I'm afraid."

​@@TheOtherguy-bs4ru London, a small town just outside the capitol city, Wibble

Yeah more people may have died but WW1 was a literal meat grinder. I don't think humanity has seen anything that terrific since then. And everyone went to war again in a few years. I guess we never learn lol

oh believe me... it wasn't... it's just the difference that soldiers on the both sides had realized that and didn't really have anything against the soldiers fighting for the other side while in ww2 the reality was completely different where soldiers and civilians from both sides wished the worst and would happily kill the enemy with their own hands

WW2 definitely was more mobile, and was less attrition based (unless you're talking about the Eastern front that is) and took many more millions of Civilian casualties compared to WW1

Have to disagree with that eastern front was brutal and let alone the fighting in the pacific

Really it was just that trench warfare was so stagnant and cruel. On the eastern front there was massive casualties, large battles and atrocities abounding. But never much focus due to the fact that someone won and then lost and such. On the western front, the two sides merely blead each other out for years on end, until the Americans joined the war and the situation changed. Having the possibility of victory (or the ideologies required to ignore certain defeat) changed the emotional impact of the second world war I think.

@Enclave Officer Z324 Yeah, I always feel pure dread and sadness realizing that we can't really do anything about it

These spellings of sergeant is killing me

Worst part is that it's probably true.

>sir >sergeant Pick one

@@thotarojoestar3045 both because i'm stupid

He said it best

Rest easy Harry

At least left of the Social-Democrats like Rosa or Lenin warned about this long before the massacre kicked off......

​@@hst615 ... and then they killed more Russians than Germans in WWI did

@@user-mk6mn6wu7y We comrades don’t talk about the last part. >3>

A good soldier always follows orders.

* whistle sounds above the noise of the shot and shell

Bag pipes start playing

(charges into no man's land fueled by Dutch courage)

*Happy Krieg noises*

Yes and no. WW1 definitely set in motion WW2, the cold war (and consequently the proxy wars), but we went from the biplanes of 1914 that weren't that great to the the giant bombers of 1918 that could be used for a far greater purpose like delivering goods.

@@sumvs5992 The comment was a reference to the book, “Industrial Society and its Future,” in which the book starts with, “The Industrial Revolution and it’s consequences have been a disaster for the human race.”

@@IMP_ROM oh, damn

@@sumvs5992 you basically agreed with him

@Zhong Xi Na deliverance of goods is insignificant? Bro you aren't talking to me in person. You're stalking to me over the internet. That takes a lot of deliverance of raw goods delivered to factories, and the finished products delivered across the world. Not all delivered by plane, but people aren't transporting them by hand drawn cart. We now use engines, and engines have been developed so much since ww1 started to the point that you can now deliver thousands of liters of liquids with a truck and specialised container. Our quality of life has improved significantly to the point that people now basically possess magic items to people even 50 years ago. Even weapons developing so much has technically made war slightly more unlikely through nuclear weapons. Please, take a look at the world today. It is far better than that of a hundred years ago.

in the end everyone called it long rather than short

@@mcsmash4905 By "back in a few short years," he means back to war in World War 2.

It'll be over by Christmas.

damn that hit home

@@hirocheeto7795 Yep, near to 30 years is a few short years

Jesus the way he described that makes it easy to just visualize the whole thing..

As a Turkish Battle of Gallipoli was horrific for both sides. RIP all who died for their country.

And here we are on the precipice of another one.

POV: A level 100 squad joins the enemy team

POV: the enemy gets an airship with all the mark level players on it

**You just got ganked by some rando's over-levelled freinds**

The enemy called in a gunship

Oh god imagine the smell and the body parts just there

Mr. Worldwide

Sent by the british

Though luck. Next time don't get conquered by the bri'ish

This is probably the craziest thing of the past, I can't believe we now even have nukes involved in the mix for ww3

Pretty sure it was voluntary, as the economy of british india was so weak a village's economy could collapse if a single needed man was sent away

still makes me cry, watching it

"I rather hoped I'd get through the whole show"

@@jrmungandr Tim McInnerny I think just about steals that scene with those few seconds of dialogue. Turns Darling from this petty villain, who we'd seen handed his comeuppance by Melchett turned into a sympathetic character.

Yeah it really fully humanizes all the characters, I think about the line "That's a nasty splinter on that ladder, a bloke could hurt himself on that!" every so often, it awesomely exemplifies the human tendency to compartmentalise our problems and to repress the reality of a hopeless situation. (Yes I know this comment is massively gay)

I'd figured that he saw the splinter and would try to cut his trigger hand with it so he wouldn't have to go over.

where is this from

@@postponemalondry7622 IDK, I just made it up, except the las dialogue, that's from Jurassic Park 2 the lost world

"I've been waiting for too long, where are those idiots?" "Who, sir?" "Our reinforcements" "Oh, I know where they are" "You do?" "Yes" "Where?" *Points all over the battlefield*

Those bastards are all over the place

"Over there, there, and down there."

HEY O'CONNEL! IT IS LOOKING TO ME LIKE WE GOT ALL OF THE HORSES!

@@colesontaylor1231 HEY BENNY ! LOOKS TO ME LIKE YOUR ON THE WRONG SIDE OF THE SOOOOOOOOMME !!!

The mummy

really?

A similar thing happened in the Falkland's war with HMS Sheffield. It had been hit by a missile and was sinking and the crew, while waiting to be evacuated, all sang Eric Idle's "always look on the bright side of life"

He did receive medals for his service but unfortunately they were stolen. All we have now is the pocket book, but knowing that saved his life makes it far more valuable

@@Bastion0211 who the fuck out here is stealing war service medals? makes me angry

@@Bastion0211 Hang onto that Pocketbook, thats a very powerful/meaningful talisman.

Respect to him man. I had two great great grandfathers in the military in WW1 but one served in southern England in the Air Force away from combat and the other was discharged on health conditions after over a decade of serving as a professional soldier in 1915 before he could he shipped off luckily. I did family history though and found so many distant uncles who died during this war.

@@MrTh3archangel not even spiritual like that, but yeah, thats gotta be imbued with some kind of luck boost at this point. Fuckin legendary item with passive stat boost or something.

I'll add on to this by making my own quote "the young and naive become the old and bitter then send more young and naive men to repeat the cycle

@@ARandomTrooper amen nice one bro

@@ARandomTrooper how depressingly true. What's it going to take to break the cycle?

I think the audio is actually from another video

The hellriegel at the end gave me flashbacks lol

Lmao you can hear squad mates spawning in

Must be 2:37

Yeah, and a Hellriegel too Note : Well, I just read the reply from Frostwolf.....ANYWAY, THE HELLRIEGEL...

Will look into it

@@jrmungandr I think specifically the reprise version would be best for something like this, since its more emotional.

I'm a former Cav Scout and would love this.

@@dominiquepemberton3935 Respect from your allies in the south, Aussie Cav Scout here.

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fd6HhLVy0curoY0.html Sorry for the wait lads

Thanks brotendo

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/i8-ZdZSVkp-non0.html you might like this too

class comment lmao

Yeah, sir. Just to be sure

Huh, that’s a fair point to make

They position got overruned?

@@gtbest5417 it got destroyed by artillery brigade.

@@Jedssski you hear just out side “GAS!! MASKS ON”

Very underrated comment love it

@@Jedssski I allways hated artillery

against war that could easily be avoided

French high command after being forced to execute nearly entire divisions for "cowardice" when they organize and refuse to walk into killzones, "aight maybe they might be onto something there"

@@blackwoodsecurity531 Also France, complaining why they are running low.on man power

France when 3/5 of their army is in mutiny “bro just go fight the Germans 👁💧👄💧👁

@Communist Memer I think he's referencing the French mutinies toward the end of WW1. I believe either in 1917 or 1918 (maybe both) there began to be very serious issues with desertion and mutiny from sections of the French army, to the point where army command had to crack down even harder than before to discourage any dissension. Could very easily have turned into a Russian Revolution type situation tbh, but it didn't of course

yup your just shell shocked have some rum you'll be better

We have fun

They went looking for glory, all they found was death and mud

French trying to utilize cavalry when there is no side to flank and everywhere is a killzone. "Mon diue zis is nil bon! Bertier save meh!"

@@blackwoodsecurity531 ... Ok ?

They were lions led by donkeys

@@gilchrist8909 Not donkeys, humans. All sides of the war adapted remarkably quickly. Technology, strategy and sociology had some of the quickest changes in human history. They were simply very human. Cocky, arrogant, lacking vision on the true scale of things, and wholly unprepared for what was coming. Not much has changed in that regard. When most people imagine a modern war they imagine tanks and infantry, mayby some missles doing the fighting. But the new wars will be nothing like the old. And our strategy's will look outdated to future historians.

@@blackwoodsecurity531Cavalry had an important use in WW1, Lindybeige and The Great War both covered the topic extremely well.

don't think i'd care all that much after being shot and killed tbf

Old men are like that when it comes to needing fresh recruits for their wars.

" Well, allright then...also why are you the only one that showed up? "

“Oh it’s fine I had sent 300,000 men to their deaths let me see”

_they all got scammed_

@@localcrackhead4038 they didn't specify which Christmas tho.

Christmas of 1918!

@@morganv7895 and only 20 percent of you are gonna make it to 1918!

@@yeetjones927 that’s a little forgiving maybe 3%

War doesn't determine who is right, only who is left.

they didnt die in combat they died from an infection...

@@THEROOKIE6666 oh damn

My favourite book

Finished it for the first time last night, and watched the 1930 movie today. It's lost none of its impact. A masterpiece

The damage of industrial society, only the machine rules.

@@Nkrlz Spoken with his industrial phone on his industrial couch in his industrial house with a stuffed belly.

If I were a 1. World soldier, I would instantly have a hole in my head because I was stupid, and in August 1914

Agreed, I'm playing around more with stuff like this in some of my later videos

Will we ever get a remaster of this video?

@@jrmungandr damn fine work soldier

Might be fun to do

It is for me, but my heart’s right there

Or "Wo alle Straßen enden"

@@randomperson8379 allthough a great Song, it is sadly post ww1.

The war had nought to do with your great-grandad being a scumbag at home. I reckon I'm a bit younger than you, as my Great-Grandad fought in WW2 in Italy, but my Grandfather remembers him fondly, and despite dying decades ago I don't think my Grandfather ever got over his death. I'm told he was stern and distant as a result of the war, but honest and fair, as all fathers should be. tl:dr war bad but not an excuse to beat your kids.

@@thatone846 Nothing wrong with beating kids, as long as it's done with good intentions (disciplining). Going overboard with it and doing it for no apparent reason or just for the sake of it is where it gets f*cked up.

@@zajagter2888 Unless a child attacks you, or does something absolutely vile, beating a child isn’t right. There are other methods of addressing problems with kids, that don’t involve leaving imprints and scars.

damn bro

Don't worry lads we'll have a million views by Christmas

So did you piss take in Russia? :D

Its the KZfaq algorithm at work again I assume your going to get even more views soon.

Insanity lmao

Bismarck is a fucking legend

World War 1 will forever stand as an example and above all a warning of what hell can be conjured when the old meets the new, in this case new technology meeting old strategy.

@@jrmungandr the sad thing is that by the end of the war the french and british armies were some of the largest and most strategically advanced armies in the world. They used combined arms tactics in conjunction with fresh american troops to push back the germans towards the middle of 1918. Then they threw all that knowledge away and ended up getting kicked around during the first quarter of ww2.

@@jrmungandr Dude i have a suggeeston for you, can you make Blood Upon the Risers

Getting tons of requests for blood upon the risers, might have to fast-track it

@@jrmungandr old strategies were used initially but were quickly abandoned in favor of trench warfare after military leaders saw how ineffective they were

Narrator: “As it turns out, they could, in fact, stop all of them.”

@@spaceemperorspar4791 Holy shit imma edit that into my comment

German Gunner: "Guten Tag!" German Gun: "BRRRRRRRRRR"

@@Pantology_Enthusiast The irony is that the Germans are gonna do the exact same thing after the British get repelled.

@@project22-ab88 painfully true

Aw shit

They're lucky that they were'nt sent to the Somme

Aren't the brits fought in Ypres?

Still GOAT

I will never forget nor forgive the fact that "walking fire" was considered a good strategy years into the way"

@@OutrightRegent4 because it was effective, during ww1. Machineguns were inaccurate and often misfired. If you advanced while firing, the enemy would think twice before sticking his head above a trench.

agree, but for what did they sacrifice themselves? a bunch of aristocrats who had too big a ego lol

@@Unboxning they died for the yugoslavs

They all died for absolutely nothing

Like almost every war, a great many poor people died because a politician or aristocrat told them they had to fight a different group of poor people. War is a racket, don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.

Didn't see those bloody Sealanders there

This song is basically me just trying to farm some kills while the team is losing 0-200 and im dead inside

Well I mean Tipperary's in Ireland and the original singer was Irish so yeah.

The Irish were plenty active in ww1, sure 80000 irishmen died in ww1, on the 1st day of the somme the 36th Ulster Division along with the inniskillen rifles and other Irish units were the only troops in the british line to take their objective suffered 2000 deaths and 5000 casualties however terrible loss of life

@@Hela03 Yeah two uncles of my Nan died in the tenches and her granddad survived but came back with shellshock or what we would now call PTSD.

@TURANICAN MAPPING lol

Mukumbura is the Rhodie Version of this song, unless your making a joke and my 1 AM brain didn't see it.

I might be making one of these for Mukumbura as well

Sneaks up on ya

@@jrmungandr just like those godless Huns

Had the exact same thought

The change had already happend. It was at this point that the world *realised* it had changed.

Wow, that's incredible.

descent into madness? Would you elaborate (if you dont mind that is)?

@@starliner2498 There are some situations that young teens just shouldn't be in. I don't know exactly what happened to him, but the first letter he wrote was optimistic about fighting for his country and coming home a hero. In the second last letter he said "if I die in my sleep, I won't even be sure if it was the rats that ate me or the gas over the trenches". Not exactly fun

@@Riamoka Oh, i'm sorry for that man. Hopefully he has found his peace now

@@starliner2498 he did, he's a hero in the eyes of our county, country and family. I'm proud to be part of his bloodline

youve botched your apostrophes mate. what your comment says reads as: "we are are the reinforcements?" "you are the reinforcements. sir."

There's a long debate around this on the top comment chain, but I agree.

@@jrmungandr Even though the young lads in the WW didn't deserve to die, there should be no regret in the death of millions of White people from the WWs, and the modern day gun shootings. The Chinese invented gunpowder yet sealed them away from war as it would be nothing but endless slaughter, and sought to fight war with human might. Cold steels clashing, martial prowess and physical skills proving one's finesse and battle scars. It was the unilateral decisions of the upper authorities of Europe to have used the stolen recipes of gunpowder into weapons even children could use. A click of a finger, 30 dead children in a school. Ezpz

@@johnnyMcSheep You cannot blame an entire race for the faillings of a few people. Just because someone in power, or anyone at all, with a specific skin colour or from a specific area did something bad doesn't mean everyone with that skin colour is bad. The son is not guilty of the sins of his father.

@@NuniaBiznaz the son is guilty for the son acts guilty. Also if the son keeps the money that the father stole, and doesnt return said money and use it for himself? The son is pretty guilty

@@johnnyMcSheep oh boy, no one taught you the brutality of medieval warfare did they?

More British, French, and Italian soldiers died in the First World War than in the Second.

its possible that ww1 could've have been worse than ww2 if they weren't stuck in trenches but i could be very wrong too

It’s a long way to holy terra

@@bendackins7211 it's worth every step!

Goddamn...

Thank you for your service Scott, these things shouldn't be happening...

How are you holding up with everything going on? Praying for you and your brothers in arms, man.

What were you doing there in the first place? Nothing but being a slave of your terrorist state.

@@religionandhistory511 Show the man some respect. It wasn't him who decided to send the troops there. I'm from Ireland and I'm anti-war and anti-imperialism. But it wasn't this guys fault that there was a war. Go and blame George Bush or Donald Rumsfeld or one of the other people who made the decisions. You're no better than the pseudo-intellectuals who spat on Vietnam vets and called them baby-killers despite the fact that most of them were drafted and didn't have a choice. And don't make me laugh either because if your country got taken over by a repressive regime or an aggressive foreign enemy you'd be begging for the Yanks to come and help you out. It's not the soldiers fault, it's the leaders you need to blame.

This idea fucks hard, I'll get back to you

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@@jrmungandr thank you!

World war 1 wasn't fought for some heroic cause, it was a dick measuring contest that got out of hand.

@@user-pw9cv1vc5e Yep and at the end the allies had a bigger package Germany was castrated then tbe world plummeted Germany would then get a fake package and say to everyone circumvent of 1939 whose bigger now pause all of that