Who Has The Strongest Army In Europe?

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  • Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
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    Which European country has the most powerful army?
    Is it Germany, Russia or maybe France?
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 509

  • @KedAR_48
    @KedAR_48 Рік тому +179

    Tommy when Germany militarises: 'Prussia's theme comes in'
    Tommy when he hears about Poland becoming the most powerful military: 🤨😳😢😠

  • @williamhaines7876
    @williamhaines7876 Рік тому +279

    8:30 Tommy's reaction to Poland is the most German thing ive ever seen LMAO

    • @official_commanderhale965
      @official_commanderhale965 Рік тому +54

      I laughed so hard, especially with his little patriotic antics just before xD

    • @loryanos1964
      @loryanos1964 Рік тому +5

      Accurate

    • @bgggsht
      @bgggsht Рік тому +6

      We're coming for them and their sausages........and we're not even gay 😎

  • @ganjabandit5074
    @ganjabandit5074 Рік тому +230

    Idk who it’ll be but Finland has a lot better army than most people realize or think about

    • @psychzach1588
      @psychzach1588 Рік тому +29

      As an American I would never want to fight the Finn's, nor the French.

    • @baha3alshamari152
      @baha3alshamari152 Рік тому +1

      But their numbers are so small

    • @ganjabandit5074
      @ganjabandit5074 Рік тому +22

      @@baha3alshamari152 their active army maybe, but they would have more soldiers than Poland at war time because of their conscription they have so much in reserves

    • @annoyedbipolar7424
      @annoyedbipolar7424 Рік тому +8

      @@ganjabandit5074 That may be true but the Finnish have always (by always I mean since the country was founded) designed their military against a Russian invasion. I don't think they could bring an unstoppable force as much as an immovable object.
      Poland would be out of its element either forced into a likely contested naval invasion or going through one of the two big neighbors (Russia) that's already subjugated them.
      That being said if Russia tried to pick on them given how well Ukraine is doing I think Poland or Finland by itself would probably fold Russia.

    • @ganjabandit5074
      @ganjabandit5074 Рік тому +2

      @@annoyedbipolar7424 well I never said they were an offensive country, simply that their military is big. Although they did go on the offensive during ww2 against the Soviet Union to try to reclaim their land

  • @joeygk2990
    @joeygk2990 Рік тому +32

    japan has basically been allowed to rearm because of China. We (USA) just let them convert 2 ships to aircraft carriers for the first time since ww2

    • @chaost4544
      @chaost4544 Рік тому +6

      I get a feeling the peace treaty with them will be drastically reworked within this decade.

    • @yeetneet5334
      @yeetneet5334 Рік тому +1

      plus with japans technology they are very powerful

    • @yeetneet5334
      @yeetneet5334 Рік тому

      @@chaost4544 probably even sooner

    • @architech02
      @architech02 Рік тому +3

      The only problem would be manpower right now Japan doesn't have the best situation when it comes to population

    • @warriorsbandwagon9168
      @warriorsbandwagon9168 Рік тому

      @@architech02 yes grandpas battalion

  • @G31M1
    @G31M1 Рік тому +10

    I know two dudes who are 25 now and served in the Bundeswehr. One of the them didn't even get new army boots upon joining. It's just sad.
    Imagine the state of the vehicles when the budget isn't even allowing every soldier to get his own fucking boots.

  • @tijmenwillard2337
    @tijmenwillard2337 Рік тому +78

    Germany finally decided it was best to stick to the treaty of Versailles. Then the war in Ukraine happened and they realised how outdated it was

    • @Indra-hx5vq
      @Indra-hx5vq Рік тому +8

      France is there anyways who need germany.

    • @tijmenwillard2337
      @tijmenwillard2337 Рік тому +2

      @@Indra-hx5vq thank god for the French army

    • @oc5058
      @oc5058 Рік тому +3

      @@tijmenwillard2337 the surrenderflags

    • @MN-vz8qm
      @MN-vz8qm Рік тому +1

      @@tijmenwillard2337 I see what you did here^^

    • @HyperMODX
      @HyperMODX Рік тому +2

      @@oc5058 this is 2023*

  • @yaboibruce_808
    @yaboibruce_808 Рік тому +10

    8:30 the disgust we he mentions Poland is hilarious

    • @roboparks
      @roboparks Рік тому

      Makes sense for Poland . They have a Border with Belarus which is a Russian Puppet LOL

  • @MN-vz8qm
    @MN-vz8qm Рік тому +11

    Being french I would say that no, France is not scary, it is just the rest of europe which is so pitiful these days.
    At least the UK has increased its spending a lot for quite a few years now, and Germany has just awoken with the ukraine crisis.
    PS: GDP is higly dependent on population size. That is why Germany is cruising in front, and sweden has such a small GDP on the graph.

    • @joeyjojojrshabadoo7462
      @joeyjojojrshabadoo7462 Рік тому

      France isn't competing with Russia and America she is competing with Africa and the Middle East.

    • @MN-vz8qm
      @MN-vz8qm Рік тому +4

      @@joeyjojojrshabadoo7462 nobody is competitive with the US.
      And russia is a sad joke, even historically, it needed the help of the rest of the major powers of the time to survive a german or french invasion.

    • @kkandola9072
      @kkandola9072 Рік тому

      @@joeyjojojrshabadoo7462The point of Europe building up their own militaries is not to compete with the US…. the point is that Europe as a whole should be logistically prepared for and more invested for defense.
      Russia is not even in the picture lol they’re only taken seriously because they have nukes.

  • @emperor-thesenate-palpatin5954

    Finland and Poland are 2 most ready for war coutrys in EU. Cuz they know their neighboors very well... whole eastern europe was screaming for 2 decades what is coming , but ofc west thought they know better and they can do business with Putler... well guess who was right all along ?

  • @WilliamTehConqueror
    @WilliamTehConqueror Рік тому +16

    "Sweden has only 5 people" I come for the chat lol

    • @roboparks
      @roboparks Рік тому +5

      Sweden believes that what the Finns are for LOL

  • @GODFRY524
    @GODFRY524 Рік тому +49

    France hands down. After seeing what they've been involved in within the last 40 years. (this is before watching the video)

    • @noelgrippen4707
      @noelgrippen4707 Рік тому +26

      The UK has done larger deployments than the French have and fought a war in the South Atlantic within that time, France needed British and American heavy lift helicopters and transport planes to operate in Mali. With that said though France has a a capable military, but is severely lacking in naval and air logistics. Both have their strengths and weaknesses and neither are really stronger than the other, but I'd say the UK military is better prepared to operate in the modern world due to its expeditionary capabilities and extensive logistics that is second only to the US. I mean for this video the French naval stat is a load of bull, the UK has double the tonnage of the Marine Nationale.

    • @linglingpingping3171
      @linglingpingping3171 Рік тому

      😂 france is the biggest joke

    • @GODFRY524
      @GODFRY524 Рік тому +2

      @@linglingpingping3171 did you ever serve with both?

    • @GODFRY524
      @GODFRY524 Рік тому +7

      @@noelgrippen4707 If we're talking about a war here. Sure the UK has the capability but they couldn't sustain that longer than France could. unless we're talking air superiority but even with that in today's world air defense is absurd and downright scary, and drones have changed the dynamic entirely. Navel power doesn't prove superiority it only allows you to project limited control over a different front.
      Edit: but I see your point. I think the English military has some great ability with the resources they have but fighting the long game its just not possible without the US.

    • @noelgrippen4707
      @noelgrippen4707 Рік тому +4

      @@GODFRY524 Oh yeah I agree, by the British military focusing on logistics more than the French this definitely leads to the French having overall more firepower regionally. I'd say where the British military make up in logistics they sometimes lack in firepower whereas the French make up in firepower sometimes lack in logistics.
      At the moment I wouldn't rate the chances of the RAF against the French air force, with too few in number F35s and not enough Typhoons it wouldn't look great but I'm British so I'm a bit biased :). I think the British military has more cruise missiles than France but I'm not too sure on that I could be wrong, which if I'm correct would definitely be a plus for the British military. However the UK is severely lacking in sophisticated air defence systems, we're only just replacing Rapier with SkySabre and even SkySabre is not an air defence system designed for high end threats like ballistic missiles. Drones are definitely interesting and the UK military is very invested with drones I'm not sure about France though.
      I think something people don't realise is how intertwined the UK and France are militarily, French military contractors do very well in the British market and if I remember correctly about a decade ago there was talk about covering each others nations nuclear deterrent patrols if for whatever reason the other was unable to do theirs which shows a lot of trust at the time but I don't know about now.
      And yeah I agree no country can conduct a sustained war without the US right now, unless France and the UK go total war, in their current peacetime postures it just isn't possible without the US.

  • @lawden210
    @lawden210 Рік тому +2

    The AK-69, not to be confused with the AK-420

  • @gavinnickel7321
    @gavinnickel7321 Рік тому +2

    America since we have troops all over Europe

    • @mathieu722
      @mathieu722 Рік тому +1

      Nothing in France, and i'm happy with that.

  • @frontgamet.v1892
    @frontgamet.v1892 Рік тому +1

    Everyone gangsta until Germany is really building up again

  • @zbyron89
    @zbyron89 Рік тому

    "Peaceful radio station attack"

  • @Kittystag
    @Kittystag Рік тому +3

    I have the strongest army in Europe. Just don't tell anyone!

  • @andreas2610
    @andreas2610 Рік тому

    D/NL is then Deutsch Niederländische Korps. Cool so is it for people for the netherlands or for dutch speaking people like the flemish in Belgium?

    • @dr.wahnsinn9913
      @dr.wahnsinn9913 Рік тому

      its more or less the army of netherlands, integrated in the BW.

  • @teaser6089
    @teaser6089 9 місяців тому

    Damn thise GPD numbers are outdated 9:15
    2021 Dutch GDP was 1 trillion USD and it hasn't shrunk

  • @Jacob-qr8pl
    @Jacob-qr8pl Рік тому +2

    I just read the title and thought America 😅

  • @spyfan62591
    @spyfan62591 11 місяців тому

    Poland will be a powerhouse in 10 years or so.

  • @digge2210
    @digge2210 Рік тому

    You Lost ww2 and got the entire country demilitarized

  • @antoniodemunari3335
    @antoniodemunari3335 Рік тому +2

    Italy?

    • @mattia8327
      @mattia8327 Рік тому +1

      The video is focused on who will become stronger, Italy is unlikely to get A LOT stronger, It will get a little bit stronger and just remain in the current position.
      Germany might become stronger and italy will be in between germany and Poland
      But those lists are wrong. They make 0 sense.

  • @michaelblackshaw6117
    @michaelblackshaw6117 Рік тому

    Its all well and good having all the equipment. Last time I checked the UK has never asked France to help us. France in Vietnam help France in Mali Help

    • @Solveig.Tissot
      @Solveig.Tissot Рік тому +3

      Wanna talk about Dunkirk ?

    • @michaelblackshaw6117
      @michaelblackshaw6117 Рік тому +1

      @@Solveig.Tissot what about it? We where there defending you again. Whilst meeting our agreed promise to.poland both French and British troops held the rear so you can calm down.

    • @MN-vz8qm
      @MN-vz8qm Рік тому +2

      Falkland. According to both the prime minister and minister of defence respectives autobiographies, France was their best ally in this war.
      And Farnce has answered every demands for help from its allies, appart from Vietnam and irak, as it opposed both.
      Your xenophobic non sense is sad

    • @michaelblackshaw6117
      @michaelblackshaw6117 Рік тому +1

      @@MN-vz8qm xenophobic are you saying the French are a different species? 🤔 also last time I checked you didn't hand over the excocet missile frequencies and we lost warships to them. France was a hindrance

    • @MN-vz8qm
      @MN-vz8qm Рік тому

      @@michaelblackshaw6117 you know better than the brit prime minister and minister of defence then, little xenophobic brexiter.

  • @sibelius66
    @sibelius66 5 місяців тому

    Of course FRANCE !!

  • @rpgmafia8363
    @rpgmafia8363 Рік тому

    we need more army

  • @divusmagister3623
    @divusmagister3623 Рік тому

    13:00

  • @aleyx1369
    @aleyx1369 Рік тому

    Finland

  • @VIDireWolfIV
    @VIDireWolfIV Рік тому +3

    I mean democracy and capitalisn does have the means to combat climate change. What people forget is that there's millions of liberal and democratic people wanting to do something but the right doesnt wanna do anything and even occasionally denies it.

    • @burtreynolds8030
      @burtreynolds8030 Рік тому

      Also he ignores the fact that capitalism by far breeds innovation more than any other system, China only has high tech stuff because they steal from the west, it’ll be people like bezos and musk that pay for innovations that will help the climate, because it’ll be very profitable in hundreds of years when the climate is actually in danger

    • @spagooter1807
      @spagooter1807 Рік тому

      That’s why I’m hoping to vote left leaning this upcoming election in the United Stares. But either way I don’t see either side successfully creating a green wave. Geopolitically, we source 85% of rare metals like cobalt from Russia and Ukraine and those are essential for creating solar panels and some of the components we need for electric vehicles. Unfortunately the hard truth of the matter is that if we want to completely go green we need to rely on Russia or work with the cobalt the United States have which is not much of the global supply. This war essentially is going to make it very difficult to rely on nonrenewable energy

  • @Izznogood76
    @Izznogood76 Рік тому

    Wars+Sava=Warszawa, It has nothing to do with war

  • @darksonlolo6039
    @darksonlolo6039 Рік тому

    this guns its polish Grot

  • @Malak-ok7kg
    @Malak-ok7kg Рік тому +3

    Russia is the only rational answer for 1st place. France and UK come next followed by Turkey.

  • @lastword8783
    @lastword8783 3 місяці тому

    Obviously Russia

  • @theboywithathorninhisside.4179

    To behonest.. regarding the FRENCH / BRITISH MILERTY comparison. Even if the FRENCH doubled, tripled its MILERTY spending, doubled its Army personnel. That in reality obviously means nothing. Given BRITISH international Common Wealth consolidation. Political influence. And obviously Tactical ability of its Special Forces.There is no comparison. As when did the French Win a War!. Let alone a FALKLANDS.

  • @canturan4396
    @canturan4396 Рік тому

    Nato's Second stronger country which is Turkey not consider in European in that list, curious 🧐

    • @Uryendel
      @Uryendel Рік тому +3

      Turkey is not in europe (and clearly not the second strongest military in nato)

  • @Pavel-wj7gy
    @Pavel-wj7gy Рік тому

    I don't buy Germans being 16th. Their engineering alone is worth being at least in top 10.

    • @davinnicode
      @davinnicode Рік тому +3

      Engineering yes but they don’t use it due to low budget. Most german engineered military products are exported

  • @NapoleonAquila
    @NapoleonAquila 3 місяці тому

    Russia
    Turkey
    France
    The rest are joke

  • @keetoowah2213
    @keetoowah2213 Рік тому

    Poland solos

  • @gethgod2350
    @gethgod2350 Рік тому

    America

  • @terrifier2845
    @terrifier2845 Рік тому

    zyzz

  • @yaqubebased1961
    @yaqubebased1961 Рік тому

    America.

  • @baha3alshamari152
    @baha3alshamari152 Рік тому

    Russia

  • @colinsmith8584
    @colinsmith8584 Рік тому

    ROFLOL. The strongest Army in Europe is American.

  • @danielefabbro822
    @danielefabbro822 Рік тому

    Go check the ranking of the German army. Then come to say again that Germany have a strong army today.

  • @vladansormaz2934
    @vladansormaz2934 Рік тому +1

    КОСОВО ЈЕ СРБИЈА🇷🇸🇷🇸🇷🇸🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺

  • @IFarmBugs
    @IFarmBugs 3 місяці тому

    Global Warming 🤦‍♂

  • @stalingradstan3450
    @stalingradstan3450 Рік тому +2

    3:30 Tommykay (a capitalist) talking about fixing problems inherent to capitalism through the means of more capitalism, lovely.

  • @lthejustice4255
    @lthejustice4255 Рік тому

    Germany be like I'll be back!

  • @susangoaway
    @susangoaway Рік тому

    hurdur global warming
    You need an update to your program, it's global cooling now.

  • @alperenbaser7952
    @alperenbaser7952 Рік тому

    Turkey is shown 13 but didnt get any place in europe?

    • @correctionguy7632
      @correctionguy7632 Рік тому +1

      the TLDR video was only talking about european countries, not overall.

  • @maharlikano9844
    @maharlikano9844 Рік тому

    Strongest army if mobilize mans are not included UK and france? Russia has 800,000non mobilize man

  • @noir1923
    @noir1923 Рік тому

    türkiye nr 13 🥶

  • @gotterdammerung5527
    @gotterdammerung5527 Рік тому +2

    Germany smoked France in 1871
    They smoked them in 19-14 through 16
    Straight whooping them from 1940 to 1945 so I think it's fair to assume they'll whoop them again in any other one-on-one scenario 💀

    • @Solveig.Tissot
      @Solveig.Tissot Рік тому

      Average Virgin Cringe Brainless Fatherless Anti France Troll Fanboy taking Copium over here ⬆️

    • @parappasan
      @parappasan Рік тому +9

      Aside from the wars of Unification against other German kingdoms, the only war the Germans won was in 1871. They have a terrible track record. Compare the record of France over the last thousand years.

    • @noidea5984
      @noidea5984 Рік тому +2

      No they failed their intented quick invasion of France in 1914 at the battle of the Marne and so lost the war.
      In 1944 they were 1.4M French invading Germany so I think you went too far with 1945.
      Now you can talk about how France destroyed and humiliated all Germany ancestors from the west Francia to the HRE and Prussia.
      And trust me if a war were to happen today against Germany France would be at least twice more capable and people willing to avenge the humiliation of 1940, so they better avoid any confrontation

    • @oracle8589
      @oracle8589 Рік тому

      @@parappasan But France have such a padded record, most of those victories were against peasants. When it came to “le crunch” against Britain they got their ass handed to them. Britain beat them, took all their colonies but gave them all back because they were shit lol

    • @parappasan
      @parappasan Рік тому

      @@oracle8589 Actually the house of Angevin was driven completely out and lost all its holdings except the vassal kingdom of England. Remember your king John surrendered even his claim to Brttany and was so weakened in England he was forced to sign the Magna Carta. This is a permanent loss of Angevin / Plantagenet holdings, leaving nothing but England. The current Windsor dynasty in Buckingham Palace holds no French territories.

  • @nillnick5798
    @nillnick5798 Рік тому +1

    I think Russia has the strongest army not only in Europe, but also in the world. If Russia had used aviation and massive missile strikes in Ukraine, then Ukraine would have come to an end on the same day

  • @Lmao-bl9qi
    @Lmao-bl9qi Рік тому

    Tommkay, the number 1 spouter of misinformation 🤣

  • @thegermanempire489
    @thegermanempire489 Рік тому

    Russia and Ukraine probably lol, Russia just got 200 more T-90MS tanks that’s more combat ready tanks then what Germany has lol

    • @mattia8327
      @mattia8327 Рік тому +2

      Yeah but they are t90s, NATO would destroy all of them in second with air power.
      Russia is extremely weak not even comparable to NATO.

    • @thegermanempire489
      @thegermanempire489 Рік тому

      @@mattia8327 dont believe what western media tells you tho lol, only reason Ukraine is still standing is because of Western support, they did muck up a bit in the start, but they are getting there shit together, also the T-90MS is almost as good a Abrams or Leopard, also NATO would have to get air power first, and the Russian Tor-M2 would shred them, the Tor-M2 is responsible for destroy nearly all of Ukraine's air force, atleast in terms of attack drones and fighter jets, Russia had some pretty incompetent Generals at the start, but the new one AKA General Armageddon, is truly becoming a new face on the battle field, and has made some corrections, biggest one was pulling out of Kherson, which was a good idea, because they couldnt supply the city properly, This a war of attrition, a War Russia knows they can win, with there huge manpower pool and industrial capabilities, forget what retarded DW, BBC or CNN say, Russia is still the 2nd biggest arms producer in the world after the US, and thats still with sanctions, just because you sanction Russia doesnt mean jack shit, the EU is fucking retarded in thinking it would work, also they are retarded considering Russia is still making around 10 billion to 20 billion USD a month from selling gas and oil to Europe and other nations lol, dont forget also Russia has a huge resources advantage aswell, Oil, Gas, Coal, Iron, and much more to continue adding to there war effort, Russia does have the equipment to supply there troops, its just the logistics of getting it to there troops thats the problem, in which Russia is as i said, starting to correct, We will have to wait and see how this goes, but i see a massive Russian Winter offensive in the coming weeks or months, most likely to Kiev from Belarus again or to smash into Kharkiv, not to mention Russia has made a addition T-90M's tanks and given them to the Separatists armies in the Donbas region, we need to remember there are Eastern Ukrainians fighting on the side of Russia, not to mention the elite army of Wagner, Bakhmut is weeks or even days away from falling, if Wagner can take the city, they can prove to Putin, that there elite unit is better for storming fortified positions, also Ukraine has ran out of all there soviet era supplies, and are not completely reliant on western aid, which will help but not last, i see Ukraine collapsing in about 6 to 8 months, I am trying to not be bias, i think the war is pointless, but the bias against Russia is retarded, Europe needs to remember it was the Russians who freed them from Nazi aggression, something Europe has forgotten, had Germany not declared war on the USSR and kept the peace deal between each other, it would have been impossible for the Allies to defeat Germany so just remember :)

    • @winstonchurchill5892
      @winstonchurchill5892 Рік тому

      You really tryna say that the modern Leopard-2A6, which estimates it has one of the most fuel efficient engines and has around 2000-3000mm of protection on certain sides is more combat ready that a glorified upgrade kit of a tank that was outdated in the 1980s (referring to the T-72)?

    • @thegermanempire489
      @thegermanempire489 Рік тому

      @@winstonchurchill5892 Im talking about that 200 T-90MS tanks produced is more then what Germany has, Germany isnt even a shadow of its former self, even the old east german republic or west german republic would obliterate todays Germany, face it, Germany is fucking weak, and pathetic, the new rising power in Europe is Poland, Poland is more powerful then both Germany and France

    • @borys1960
      @borys1960 Рік тому

      @@thegermanempire489 "Ukraine is still standing is because of Western support" - yeah imagine that, NATO is winning with Russia just by using a fraction of its power...

  • @ImtheHitcher
    @ImtheHitcher Рік тому +99

    UK & France have the most capable militaries in Europe. Poland probably has the, relatively, best land army in terms of size and capability

    • @baha3alshamari152
      @baha3alshamari152 Рік тому +6

      Russia has stronger army than both
      However all of them including Russia don't have sustainable armies and within 30 years none of them will have a decent army anyway

    • @ImtheHitcher
      @ImtheHitcher Рік тому +57

      @@baha3alshamari152 Tell that to private Conscriptovich with his wood stock ak, sheet metal ballistic plate and paper armoured APC who's getting grenades dropped on him from consumer grade drones because the $20m pantsir system that's supposed to protect him can't run due to all the fuel and tyres being sold off by their commander.
      The best! 🤪

    • @baha3alshamari152
      @baha3alshamari152 Рік тому

      @@ImtheHitcher
      You are talking about the mobniks not the professional army
      The mobniks are cannon fodders their purpose is to attack the Ukrainian positions in order to reveal the position of the Ukrainians so the professional soldiers with artillery support can target them
      Russia has 8 millions men unneeded for the society so they can be thrown to the meat grinder without a problem

    • @baha3alshamari152
      @baha3alshamari152 Рік тому +2

      @@ImtheHitcher
      In any case neither Russia nor any other European army will be decent after 30 years so enjoy it while it lasts

    • @walx274
      @walx274 Рік тому +1

      @@baha3alshamari152 Russia has a strong army but awful logistics

  • @BasedBag
    @BasedBag Рік тому +331

    "Who has the strongest army in Europe?"
    America.

    • @siahcount7891
      @siahcount7891 Рік тому +12

      My answer too

    • @lasagna2303
      @lasagna2303 Рік тому +23

      „No no, he has a point"

    • @albens5852
      @albens5852 Рік тому +38

      With all the US bases in Europe that is technically true lol

    • @r.e4161
      @r.e4161 Рік тому +18

      Lol i highly doubt america has more than 205k personel just hanging around in europe, especially considering that would be 1/5th of their army
      Edit: I looked it up and the us has around 64k personnel in europe, which would put them at about 9th place for just personnel, and 200 aircraft which would put them at 11th place in terms of that. So no it is not "technically true lol"

    • @fredriknumse8991
      @fredriknumse8991 Рік тому +15

      @@r.e4161 I bet you remind the teacher about homework

  • @Eglador
    @Eglador Рік тому +48

    Polish rifle is MSBS GROT

  • @spyrospycrab1815
    @spyrospycrab1815 Рік тому +76

    Perun makes good video essays on military expenditures I recommend watching his video on Germanys army expansion.

    • @cheeseninja1115
      @cheeseninja1115 Рік тому +14

      He also has a really good video on how the German procurement prosses works, or rather how it doesn't lmao

    • @jonathanvtorp
      @jonathanvtorp Рік тому +1

      Perun is great, but I believe Tommy is too adhd to watch content in his format

    • @spyrospycrab1815
      @spyrospycrab1815 Рік тому +2

      @@jonathanvtorp yeah i watch his stuff at 2x speed

    • @TopShot501st
      @TopShot501st 9 місяців тому

      ​@@jonathanvtorpdeath by PowerPoint

  • @InAeternumRomaMater
    @InAeternumRomaMater Рік тому +306

    Ey, ginger, Trump was right about Germany to be honest

    • @evilemuempire9550
      @evilemuempire9550 Рік тому +95

      He wasn’t exactly the first American politician to bring it up, just the loudest. Lots of American politicians have been complaining that the rest of NATO, especially Germany and Canada, are not hitting the 2% goal for a while.

    • @Fartoid
      @Fartoid Рік тому +12

      And almost everything else

    • @bruh5361
      @bruh5361 Рік тому +16

      Y'all too young or know too little about US foreign policy if you think that Trump was the first to push Europe to spend more

    • @InAeternumRomaMater
      @InAeternumRomaMater Рік тому +5

      @@bruh5361 Yeah, but you didn't hear Tommy referring to other Presidents before Trump at 0:38? I was commenting on what Tommy said. But of course if I was talking about Obama you wouldn't commented that....

    • @bruh5361
      @bruh5361 Рік тому

      @@InAeternumRomaMater lmao as if I was an Obama fan. He was, after Trump and Bush jr., the president who conducted the dumbest foreign policy. He announced the pivot and then didn't pull through, giving the Chinese an extra 6 years to prepare, he drew red lines but didn't defend them and he didn't pull out of Afghanistan

  • @KainWT
    @KainWT Рік тому +64

    2% has been the NATO “standard” for decades. Trump just simply brought it up.

    • @MrSkully49
      @MrSkully49 Рік тому +11

      It may have been the 'standard' but most countries didn't follow it, until Trump came along and piled pressure on the other countries

    • @Skyrimfan002
      @Skyrimfan002 Рік тому

      @@MrSkully49 But didn't the countries which do want to change it simply do it now because of war in Ukraine? When Trump was in office everyone was laughing at him. His geopolitical influence is vastly overstated. He only made the USA less trustworthy in the eyes of his allies...

    • @MrSkully49
      @MrSkully49 Рік тому +1

      @@Skyrimfan002 I mean from 2016 the spending was $262bln and by 2020 it increased to $313bln which is a around a 20% increase over his term, so you can’t say Trump didn’t have a role in that.
      I’d say the recent investments by European countries due to the war Ukraine were because countries such as Germany realised if it came to it, their army is crippled

    • @Skyrimfan002
      @Skyrimfan002 Рік тому

      @@MrSkully49 The spending increased beforehand due to a longwinded disagreement in the past coalition. The CDU wanted to increase spending while the SPD was fairly pacifist and wanted to maintain the status quo. In fact, because the SPD lost some votes in the past, the CDU could increase spending. The spending increase was a very slow trend which already started in 2014. Ukraine accelerated this and kind of forced Scholz to change party policy.
      As always, national policies aren't soley influenced by the USA. Trumps antics were made fun of in the whole political spectrum of Germanys politics.
      If in any way he did influence Germany, he made more here be in favour of Frances policy of strategic indepedence. And even that anti-USA sentiment is already disappearing again since Biden got elected.

    • @Notmyname1593
      @Notmyname1593 Рік тому +2

      @@Skyrimfan002 Also Twumpy Wumpys influence was a bit of a double edged sword as very few took anything he said seriously.

  • @kabakokoksik1996
    @kabakokoksik1996 Рік тому +15

    Its not AK, its MSBS Grot, new Polish rifle. Its a Magpull Masada, ACR Bushmaster grade rifle. Better than AK, one of the best in the world right now, propably.

  • @Torf-Einhart
    @Torf-Einhart Рік тому +84

    France is by far the strongest military power in Europe. Only totally autonomus nuclear power of Europe, Only to master all the needed tech. Second place to UK, the most close one.

    • @carwyngriffiths
      @carwyngriffiths Рік тому +4

      Lmao only autonomous nuclear power in Europe? lmao show me you know nothing without telling me you know nothing

    • @nod1610
      @nod1610 Рік тому +32

      @@carwyngriffiths The french nuclear program has nothing with americans. The French deployed it alone with their own technology. this is why for example France does not need F35 whereas Germany yes.

    • @carwyngriffiths
      @carwyngriffiths Рік тому +5

      @@nod1610 not what we were talking about, British is too an autonomous nuclear power in Europe.

    • @axelscharf2415
      @axelscharf2415 Рік тому

      Nowadays almost all countries could be a nuclear power . Even North Korea has nukes.

    • @Har1ByWorld
      @Har1ByWorld Рік тому +1

      what of that when they surrender

  • @chaost4544
    @chaost4544 Рік тому +14

    The UK and France have an advantage due to the most powerful land force in Europe right now is Poland. They are continuing to get military equipment from the United States including a deal announced in early December where the US approved a $3.7 billion M1-A1 Abrams deal. Poland is becoming a chad land force in Europe.

    • @MrSkully49
      @MrSkully49 Рік тому

      Poland will continue to arm itself heavily until 2039 where it will announce revenge on Germany for events a century prior

  • @utewbd
    @utewbd Рік тому +5

    The United States has the strongest army in Europe.

  • @bluesupremacist3085
    @bluesupremacist3085 Рік тому +5

    God, for the french companies you don't say THALES but it's pronounced "TA LESS"

  • @noelgrippen4707
    @noelgrippen4707 Рік тому +7

    Using global firepower index is a meme.

  • @spudkai97
    @spudkai97 Рік тому +7

    army? france hands down, would kick uk arse, but all of armed forces? geography beets most and UK would end up winning i reckon

    • @blackkray8351
      @blackkray8351 Рік тому +3

      Disagree. Uk has very specialised infantry forces ranging in capabilities

    • @chaost4544
      @chaost4544 Рік тому +1

      I'll put my money on Polish ground forces at this point in history.

    • @oracle8589
      @oracle8589 Рік тому +1

      The french copied UK special forces but it’s not all one way. From what I’ve seen, both countries use eachother as a metric in which to improve themselves

    • @ningen7736
      @ningen7736 Рік тому

      Probably not, crossing the channel is difficult to the point that even the Germans didn’t even want to try despite being the strongest power in Europe to have ever existed.
      If it was only France they were facing the war would likely drag on for a few years but ultimately come to a stalemate, perhaps Britain could dare another Dunkirk invasion but I reckon the French navy must have been studying such things for decades now.

    • @carwyngriffiths
      @carwyngriffiths Рік тому +1

      Elaborate cause at the moment the French defence budget does not even compete with the British ( who have the 4/3rd largest defence budget in the world and the largest in Europe) also the fact they're the only nation on earth other than the United States than can deploy anywhere in the world within 48 hours, including the logistical capabilities that France needed support from the UK with their recent deployment to Mali, oh and the two Supercarriers in His majesty's fleet.

  • @Mmjk_12
    @Mmjk_12 Рік тому +100

    I'd like to point out in terms of 'ships". The UK is clear of France. The French as usual love to put on a display and count their tugboats and support vessels as part of their numbers. In reality they have 69 'Ships'

    • @cia5649
      @cia5649 Рік тому +2

      cap

    • @Mmjk_12
      @Mmjk_12 Рік тому +37

      @@cia5649 you've got an internet connection, fucken use it

    • @alextoso100
      @alextoso100 Рік тому +17

      Yes it’s true but the UK has massive manpower shortages. With the 2 new carriers the UK had to cannibalize crew from other ships. So in reality the UK can’t even properly escort its own carriers, that’s an L

    • @walx274
      @walx274 Рік тому +17

      @@alextoso100 i mean manpower shortages wont be nearly as big of an issue in an actual war
      far more people would enlist to join the military and would be able to fill the gaps
      and if mobilisation occurs then there would be more than enough

    • @teddypicker8799
      @teddypicker8799 Рік тому +2

      @@alextoso100 What are you talking about lmao royal navy is missing 6% manpower but has 2 full crews for the carriers...

  • @jonbeingjon
    @jonbeingjon Рік тому +5

    America has the strongest army in eu

  • @bobdiedt00
    @bobdiedt00 Рік тому +8

    “If grandpa would know” got me ded 🤣🤣

  • @GiraffeFeatures
    @GiraffeFeatures Рік тому +4

    It's also impossible because how much equipment (i.e number of APCs, IFVs, etc) a Military has does not necessarily equate to operability, for instance France needed to use the RAF and the UK's Chinook's to help transport their equipment and troops around Mali.

  • @rhummgrand-sorcier7129
    @rhummgrand-sorcier7129 Рік тому +4

    So France is the strongest🇨🇵

    • @JacobLitz
      @JacobLitz Рік тому

      No France army is a joke we all no they throw up white flags

    • @Solveig.Tissot
      @Solveig.Tissot Рік тому +1

      Based France,as it should be ! 🗿🇨🇵❤️

  • @ketiw3456
    @ketiw3456 Рік тому +6

    15:54 it’s the Polish rifle MSBS Grot inspired by HK

    • @Kuki-oe6bp
      @Kuki-oe6bp Рік тому +2

      Not inspired by HK but ACR

  • @ramanujbaruah2200
    @ramanujbaruah2200 Рік тому +6

    artillery is useful when, like russia, your aim is to destroy a smaller opponent military and not necessarily capture ground. but if you want to capture ground you still need tanks etc. which is why at the start of the war there were so many russian tanks moving around in ukraine.

    • @tuluppampam
      @tuluppampam Рік тому

      What you truly desire is a combined arms operation, with airplanes, cavalry (tanks and other armoured vehicles), and infantry
      Russia is doing badly because they forgot that they need to combine arms, else tanks are terrible/tanks are only good in such operations, else they're basically death traps)

    • @johnnotrealname8168
      @johnnotrealname8168 Рік тому

      @@tuluppampam Russia's military is artillery based. If they cannot capture a country quickly they will resort to slowly grinding them down.

  • @naja2270
    @naja2270 Рік тому +27

    To be fair it failed to take note of 2 major developments for the British army,. After a decade of essentially rebuilding the entire navy/air force, its now the armies turn. Everything from body armour, upgraded L85's, Challenger 3's, Boxer and potentially Ajax IFV's along side more M270's, multiple thermal optics per squad and integrated combat networks with drones through the future soldier program are all coming on line by 2030. And that was all before Ukraine, which has seen Parliament expand our military spend up to 3% of GDP by 2030. Thats an increase of 50% which should mean we'll be spending in the vicinity of £70 billion a year. So watch this space, and as always, Germany, sort your shit out lol

    • @Jack-lk7wk
      @Jack-lk7wk Рік тому +3

      Not to mention 2 aircraft carrier and type 83 super destroyers

  • @lego_stopmotion_making9865
    @lego_stopmotion_making9865 Рік тому +3

    9:15 bruh sweden got 10 milion pepole living inside of it and spain got like 40 milion come on tommy

  • @zainkhan69420
    @zainkhan69420 Рік тому +37

    I would never fight for my country unless it is a civil war/revolution or a war with France.

  • @MagiconIce
    @MagiconIce Рік тому +12

    As a German, without having seen the video, I can say the French.
    They haven't ruined their military as far as we can see from the outside, maintain competent forces in all 3 classical branches and they're a nuclear power too and that is just a factor of it's own.
    Modern Day Germany would never build their own nuclear weapons, for one we signed treaties not to, for two the Germans are nowadays highly skeptical of anything that has to do with nuclear power or.... nuclear powered stuff, to put it mildly.

    • @Solveig.Tissot
      @Solveig.Tissot Рік тому +2

      A German saying based things,I never saw that,what an extraordinary specimen !

    • @oracle8589
      @oracle8589 Рік тому

      Germans are woke af now and it’s really sad. Used to be such a great country

  • @19.txmsgr29
    @19.txmsgr29 Рік тому +2

    Italy third european military Power 🇮🇹

  • @kevinisnotscargaming7296
    @kevinisnotscargaming7296 Рік тому +15

    I believe it's France haven't watched the vid yet (The reason I believe it's France was when they conducted a military operation in Africa and absolutely destroyed the rebels aswell as having pretty impressive Military Equipment they made Napoleon proud that's for sure)
    Edit: saw a couple replies questioning as to why it is impressive at all. After all they're rebels not full fledge militaries.
    I'll give you a brief explanation
    The rebels at the time they joined controlled half of Mali I believe is the country France turned the tide immediately with modern tactics additionally it is Africa so supply and attrition would be a problem (If you play hoi4 you know what I'm talking about) so yeah. It isn't Desert Storm levels of impressive but impressive nonetheless

    • @elarmando2954
      @elarmando2954 Рік тому +3

      Yep, you're talking about operation Serval, which was a great demonstration of french modern tactics AND logistics prowess.

    • @jones877
      @jones877 Рік тому

      Yeah beating african rebels is a big achievement

    • @Solveig.Tissot
      @Solveig.Tissot Рік тому

      @@jones877 Cope harder

    • @Solveig.Tissot
      @Solveig.Tissot Рік тому

      @@Nigsple. Cope harder

  • @NoPantsBaby
    @NoPantsBaby Рік тому +1

    Who has the strongest army? Why of course it's Turkey. It has 20 million sleeper agents settled across Europe who actively vote in Turkish elections and are required by law to answer the draft.

  • @svenrio8521
    @svenrio8521 Рік тому +3

    "I love peace, I love democracy." - Emperor Tommy

  • @Master-il1sk
    @Master-il1sk Рік тому +3

    2:12 round 3 lol

  • @MattiasNilsson6
    @MattiasNilsson6 Рік тому +1

    Tommy is great but he knows absoltuley nothing about modern militaries lol

  • @MIASpartan408
    @MIASpartan408 Рік тому +7

    In actuality the strongest army in the EU is the US European command.

    • @MN-vz8qm
      @MN-vz8qm Рік тому +2

      Mmm... there is about 60.000 US troops in europe. I am sure they are equiped better than any other nation, but still, that doesn't make them the 1st force in Europe.

    • @spagooter1807
      @spagooter1807 Рік тому

      Yeah I believe nato tactics in Poland and Germany in the face of a Russian invasion is to hold the Russians off as long as possible until the United States has the logistics to deploy. But I don’t think Russia has that capability tbh

  • @burtreynolds8030
    @burtreynolds8030 Рік тому +2

    Damn Tommy is becoming German Al Gore

  • @nulnoh219
    @nulnoh219 Рік тому +1

    2022. And we're complaining about Germany NOT Re-arming....

  • @besacciaesteban
    @besacciaesteban Рік тому +1

    Who has the strongest army in europe? The USA 🤣🤣🤣

  • @LoliPolice-bf7mw
    @LoliPolice-bf7mw 7 місяців тому

    Europe: Increases defense spending to 2%
    USA: Still subsidizing European armies
    ?????

  • @emperorofwends8875
    @emperorofwends8875 Рік тому +5

    Strongest Army is europe is the american army

  • @drgonzo1971
    @drgonzo1971 Рік тому +1

    0:38- every other President before him (and I am sure Biden) has made the same point about 2 percent GDP, they were just less oafish about it because they understood the value NATO brings to the US.

  • @alikirjavainen6984
    @alikirjavainen6984 Рік тому +1

    Why Finland always neglected largest artillery im europe..

  • @satyagrahaa
    @satyagrahaa Рік тому +1

    ”I love republic, I love democracy“ I‘ve heard that before somewhere 🤔

  • @Koolkays77
    @Koolkays77 4 місяці тому

    While I was in the marine corps I trained with most European nations and the French were by far the worst

  • @X1ninja12
    @X1ninja12 Рік тому +2

    Dankus does

  • @paweostrzelkowski5805
    @paweostrzelkowski5805 Рік тому +1

    15:55 its not not AK, its GROT rifle

  • @TopShot501st
    @TopShot501st 9 місяців тому

    Tommy should know how pathetic Germany's military is.

  • @anyone7165
    @anyone7165 Рік тому +6

    As a Pole, I would prefer that the Germans did not reinforce their army, they did it twice and both times it did not end well

    • @MN-vz8qm
      @MN-vz8qm Рік тому +3

      You can relax. Germany is not what it used to be.
      The core issue was that Germany was so much more populated than anyone else. They are still the largest nation in europe, but not by the huge margin they used to during the 1850-1950 period.

    • @spagooter1807
      @spagooter1807 Рік тому +1

      Yeah I don’t think we need to worry about Germany in that regard, I’d actually be more worried about any far right in the US going crazy with power

    • @anyone7165
      @anyone7165 Рік тому

      Erm, it was a joke

    • @JohnMacbeth
      @JohnMacbeth Рік тому

      🤣

  • @turkabdulhamitci
    @turkabdulhamitci Рік тому +21

    poland has the most quality to quantity(aka. most well equipped armies, up to date equipment compared to others nations, etc.) ratio, so if a country invades, even germany rn it can probably hold but maybe lose some of the north

    • @razvansfirlogea3134
      @razvansfirlogea3134 Рік тому +20

      This. Poland is the strongest right now, cope and seethe germs and baguettes. I love it and I'm not even polish.

    • @adrien5834
      @adrien5834 Рік тому +2

      @@razvansfirlogea3134 I mean, why would we seethe? We're allies, dude. They clearly need an army more than we do right now...

    • @SchusT45
      @SchusT45 Рік тому +2

      @@razvansfirlogea3134 i dont see why us French would be mad at a strong Poland. That’s what we advocated for years

    • @razvansfirlogea3134
      @razvansfirlogea3134 Рік тому

      @@SchusT45 the French ego is well known around the world

    • @razvansfirlogea3134
      @razvansfirlogea3134 Рік тому

      @@adrien5834 You might consider yourselves allies of Poland but they consider you about as good neighbors as the russians.