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The US military keeps the international lanes of commerce working despite 9/11, despite war fronts. There is no other nation that has the capacity to do that. No one talks about that.
I'm a retired US Air Force ELINT Analyst who was stationed at RAF Mildenhall UK and RAF Edzell in Scotland. I can assure you that the United States has a very special relationship with the UK. We share intelligence information and do other things that we don't do with any other nation. Btw I worked with the SR-71 Blackbird while at Mildenhall. It was probably my favorite assignment during a very interesting career.
Absolutely. Thank you for your service. And the US will NOT betray the relationship we have with the UK. NEVER!
@@bluflaam777 NEVER? Your acting like the US and Britain never had a war with each other 😂. Bru you westerners really have amnesia
@@intello8953 We've also had slaves...but that is also gone. Baby brothers can grow up. The UK is too valuable as an ally. So stand down.
@@bluflaam777 that's cute.. I bet those poor bastards in Afghanistan did think the same until they were left behind with the Taliban watching that plain disappear real quick..
@@voodjin doesn't apply.cutie
Start calling them fries, or stand the f*ck by...😂
They always get this one wrong. They say the US has 11 carriers. But in fact we have over 20 carriers including the 11 suppers.
There's only 4/5 on duty at any given moment. We can have 400 of them, if they're not on duty it doesn't matter.
Okay, so my daily carry can only hold 15 rounds in it's mag but I have 40 rounds more in my pocket, they do not matter? Dude come on use some common sense. The total number we have absolutely matters. @@bluflaam777
Lmao the US will mess you guys up don't even try 😂
@@intello8953 No we won't. It simply won't happen.
Who are you talking to? @@intello8953
As an American I can say without a doubt that this scenario will never play out no matter who rises to power. We love you guys. If we take over the world, you'll be right at our side....lol
Like a superhero sidekick
Lol what do you mean if? The US took over the world already. Name one country without a McDonalds xD
@@trevor3013Russia
@@Manuelpiza4819 Its still mcdonalds but without the name lmaooo it only recently was removed from Russia and it was because we removed it
@@Manuelpiza4819 Russia used to have McDonald's until we took them back. They used to have almost 1000 and McDonald's was a sign that Russia was done being it's former Soviet self when the first one opened there. Until it's invasion at least
If the US and UK ever go to war, so many things in the world will have had to have gone wrong that this war would probably be the least of our concerns. Really struggling to think of a scenario where it could happen.
Absolutely. it just won't
I think the point of a thought exercise is exactly that. Just exercise.
And maybe a reminder that self-sufficiency is important in times of crisis
I understand the concept, thank you. I think it’s more interesting to think about how we would get to that point, rather than examine this hypothetical war in isolation.
It would never happen. When 9-11 happened. Canada and the UK were the first to have our backs
As an American I can definately say we would like a stronger U.K. military. We want our allies to be strong.
I agree, at this point texas can invade uk. Uk and Europe need to hold their weight. America is going to drop that baggage eventually
Yes. The stronger the better
You should definitely react to us vs the world. UK is light work
Lmfao exactly.
As an american (who does love his brit friends) it is straight up crazy to hear y'all at the start debating whether its possible considering the absolutely immense gap between our two militaries, its like me fighting a middle schooler.
I grew up in a career US Military Family. My uncles at the US Airforce Academy, and Dad's 35 year Army career including as an instructor at the US armor war school. A similar question was asked of my Dad in one of his classes, Dad said the UK would be one of the last militaries he would want to War plan against. In his words, the UK military historically does more with less than any country in the world, with the exception of Vietnam, and Israel. They have always leaned on superior discipline from the top, to bottom especially on the front line level, innovation, relationsips, and intelligence networks. Being a small Island nation with relatively limited resources, the UK was able to take over a large portion of the world. Dad has always taught me, modern wars are more than just one military defeating another. It's the nation's will to fight, its political will to fight, and the will to fight in your front line units. A military taking territory is one thing, holding territory is another.
This video did not address the biggest problem the UK would face. The UK produces only about 60% of the food it consumes so all the US would need to do is set up a militarized embargo and wait for the UK to surrender. Most British people think they stood alone and faced the Nazis by themselves but they completely ignore the trans-Atlantic conveys that provided food and materials and allowed Britain to hold out. Those convoys were only possible because of Canada coming to Britain's aide along with every other Commonwealth country. Something some Brits conveniently forget.
UK woulda starved during ww2 & had to surrender inevitably if not for food being shipped in from my understanding
No we got 14 over sea territories that would help , plus. The us if they tried. Would be fighting the other 28 countries cause we're part of NATO ,
So no they would be to busy losing to NATO to set up any blockade. Plus. No matter what you choose to tell yourself,
We have the best navy in the world who just wouldn't stand you any sh!T. Remember. The. Us. Feared. The full force of the Nazis. We fought them off also. As mad as Hitler was he even knew that our navy would have absolutely destroyed the Germans,
So get a grip, all so we have trident, dragonfire. And Gurkhas,
As a retired US Army SGM, I find it amusing that this video was put out by a Russian... Most definitely some of the figures are, we'll say "off".
The thing about ramping up war time production is that you need the resources to manufacture those weapons. The US is much more self sufficient than Britain. The video is oversimplified because it doesn’t mention that the US would establish a naval blockade to prevent imports to Britain.
Of course, this all academic as we have a special relationship.
You guys have to react to The Fat Electrician. Absolutely fantastic US historical military people/events stories told fantastically.
Agreed. He is hilarious and I believe possibly was a medic in the US military. His story telling abilities are top shelf. Putting warheads on foreheads is such a good tag line for his merch.
@@brynejordan2877 He said he was an ambulance driver in the unsubscribe podcast.
@@almightybeerman I knew it was something along those lines. I just couldn’t remember exactly what. It’s been awhile since I heard what it actually was. I appreciate the info. Thank you.
My neighbor is a foreigner to The States, and he's said that Americans have no idea how terrifying America is to the rest of the world.
LOL...Its mostly the US media bro..
@@logician3641 He was talking about as a military entity.
@@jacenjustice What country is he from?
@3:50 "...we've more reserve than we do standing military..."
That was pretty much the case about 90 years ago, too. Didn't work out so well last time around.
You guys should react to The United States (USA) vs The World, i preferred The Infographics Show's version over The Military Shows, but they both say almost the exact same thing.
The person who made the video is not quite familiar with the US military. He is only counting US Navy planes for the carriers. US Marines fighters can also operate from the carriers. So all 11 carriers can be manned with fighter squadrons.
It would take months to get all the carriers on duty. Some are purposely being decommissioned/ stripped for parts. We in reality don't have a dozen carriers. I'm all for the US and for truth. I/3 of the carrier fleet is deployed, and the other 2/3 can't deploy for months or a year or ever.
Not to mention in-air refueling lol
the US actually has 20 carriers in total, just only 11 of them are supercarriers, and @bluflaam777 doesnt really know what they are talking about
11 carriers are what is required by law for us to have at all times. Of course we have more. How many, I don't know
@@bruhmann2833we only know what the military tells us. I always expect it to be more
The first sentence on this video should have been.. “ Yes, if we really really wanted to” end of discussion
As an American veteran, I will say that you should not disrespect a country that once basically ruled the world. The phrase, the sun never set on British land wasn't just a joke.
dave show her the infographicsvideo of the us v the world see what she says about that
One thing that almost never gets mentioned is that even with the U.K. being a very close ally, make no mistake, the U.S. has on their books today an account of all of the U.K.s weaknesses, locations of key assets and bases, and strategies for defense. The U.S. will deploy massive amounts of bunker busters to attack U.K. military leadership and enough bombs to level any useable runways for military planes to use as well as naval bases and dry docks. A large part of why Britain didn't surrender during the Blitz in WWII was hope given to them from other countries like the commonwealth but even neutral parties like the U.S. that they would join them and give aid. Playing by the rules in this scenario, you take away all other countries and the aid they can give and you allow the British people to grasp what they are up against, no chance. Not to say the British military is bad, they are amazing. It is just hard to make up the sheer number difference that the U.S. can throw at them.
You need to import Antimony for bullets. So even if you have guns, you’re going to limited with projectiles
Add in other foreign bases, US approx 750 in 80 countries. Britain, France, Russia combined approx 30. US averages per year $ military, about as much as the next 10 countries combined. Registered hunters in Wisconsin, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Idaho are approx 2,308,000, largest army on earth, registered hunters in Texas alone would be the largest standing army. We don’t own just pea flickers, and we don’t own just one, and large amounts of that also reload our own brass. God bless America! And the UK as well!
I commend the respect. I did not join my Navy for harm. I joined for protection. Eh, we will fight for each other. No question.
we love the uk we will always stand together
There’s literally no reason to do it. We definitely could and would win, wouldn’t even be that difficult (relatively speaking), but it would be very pointless.
The entire US strategy, post WW2, has been to build alliances so that we don’t have to constantly guard against everything all the time. You could argue that Canada is a more important ally strategically, or Japan, or SK, or Israel, but I don’t think you could argue there’s a closer ally.
The UK has been “ride or die” with the USA in basically everything for a century.
Ultimately, as big as the USA military and political influence are, we can’t do everything, and our “western” Allies aren’t anything we want to mess with (most of us that is).
Agreed.
Australia and New Zealand are very close allies as well
@everypitchcounts4875 Of course they are. I think the thing is, though, since they're still part of the commonwealth of Britain, they're automatically included into that alliance. Just like Canada. The Five Eyes Intelligence apparatus.
You're right, that fucking frog is hilarious.
I did find it interesting though that some of the air strikes the British did in Yemen in the past week, they had to fly 8 hours I believe, from a base somewhere in southern Europe or might have even been Turkey, I can't remember, to Yemen to perform the strikes. Meanwhile, most of the US air strikes were from the aircraft carrier in either the Red Sea or Gulf of Aden. Both UK's carriers are at home for maintenance, if I heard correctly.
I heard they flew from Cyprus.
@@hobbiesofstefs7085 could very well be
@@hobbiesofstefs7085 Yep, it's Cyprus.
Even though this is academic, no allies and no nukes but really crippled US with overseas bases? We got 800 of those we can't use? lol j/k this scenario is weird. I am an ex military operator and love the UK operators just will only invade to liberate you not conquer! Just provide the beer!
Whaddya do? "Oh, f*ck, I'm dead"! P.S. I read the Hammer's Slammers books where airpower is obsolete because artillery counter battery fire is shooting the other guy's artillery shells as they're coming out of the tubes...
Kermit the Frog is there to ease Ashes fears that the UK would get Rekt 😁
I do understand what you are saying that it would be VERY hard and also VERY long to invade and take over the UK, but the bottom line is that it will eventually be done. I can completely agree with you that it will be hard to get ships close to the shores and that you can never underestimate british morale but the point that this video is trying to make is that if the U.S. wanted to, it definitely could. It may take 3 years, it may take a decade, but eventually they will take it. However, it's a good thing that we're all friends and share the same interests because trust me when I say, no one in America would ever do that to our brothers and sisters across the pond.
The US Navy is very, very wary of the Astute class subs, in joint exercises they have an almost impossible task locating them. The Royal Navy submarine arm is regarded as the best in the world, and the Astutes are the stealthiest subs in existence.
We're allies with the U.K., there would never be a reason to. And yeah I agree, whoever was the aggressor, would be the ones that were in trouble, and as great as our military is in America, we can still only do so much. Odd video from whomever created this. Need more Bill Burr from you two though. lol
I get what Ash is saying about the Britain holding onto weapons planned to be exported, however, the actual quantity is not that high. The UK generally focuses on expensive systems like missiles, or Eurofighter related exports. They do sell other stuff as well but not in large quantity.
It's also worth noting that the vast majority of countries, including the UK, don't really have large reserves of equipment. They generally have their standing force, and some reserves to act as replacements for current equipment.
The US, Russia, Ukraine, North Korea, South Korea, and China are the only countries with actual large stockpiles of equipment (With Poland and India building up their supplies). Ukraine and Russia inherited theirs from USSR. South and North Korea built up massive quantities as there's always the concern of the other country attacking. China built up a massive stockpile to become the next Superpower. The US keeps huge quantities of reserves as we want to be able to wage 2 major wars with peer militaries at any time.
The reality, however is that we're learning that Russia's stockpiles (the largest in the world) aren't enough for the war in Ukraine. They are the second largest arms exporter and they've started holding all their exports and even buying equipment from other nations. The UK does not have large reserves and from an export standpoint, they're fairly small. If mass mobilization occurred, most troops would be lightly armed as the UK wouldn't have enough equipment on hand.
Also, with US control of air and sea, the US would likely be able to bomb and defensive positions and land relatively unopposed. The UK's best chance would be to retreat and wage a guerrilla war.
@ ):10 That was my same exact expression on my face. My brain to do a hard reset.
Points to Ash for the Discovery Channel bit...
19:18 Where is your other family in, South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe or Kenya?
You guys are the best!
I find it funny you talking about Britains total legal firearms. Texas alone has more firearms than the whole of the UK. Thats not even counting the rest of the US. The amount of civilian guns in the US makes up a military on its on.
The UK isn't even a first-rate military force anymore, they've made so many cutbacks. Meaning, you're not even capable of defending an attack on the country...
It's mainly because the UK knows their cousins across the pond will come to their defense with the biggest, most dominant military force ever existing on earth.
It's also something that bothers us in the US. Because countries like England and Canada and Germany boast about how "we're better than the US because we put so much more money into social programs". Ignoring the fact they're only able to afford such programs because they don't need a proper military.
Who needs a baseball bat when big brother has a cannon?
Shotguns and 22s lol I have multiple of both plus 2 Aks and a Draco and a AM-15 chambered in 7.62 and a regular AR chambered in 556 and 223 and several bush rifles like 30-30 and 308 and all that good stuff and that’s just my rifles. I have even more pistols. With just the guns I own I could probably arm 2 or 3 dozen people lol
I know her from...something else...haha! keep her around and your channel will do great.
When I was in the USMC in the 90s, we did joint training with the Royal Marines...I'm not sure the statement of British Infantry being undertrained is accurate...Royal Marines are absolute beasts and "mad lads" and can absolutely scrap...I don't know how Royal Marines compare to the British Army...but in a man to man firefight I think it would be very equal...
Let’s not forget that a rather large number of people in the US came here from the UK! Or at least our ancestors did. I had my dna analyzed by my heritage. Com, it came back as 67% England/Whales, 30% Ireland/Scotland and 3% Norway, So I’m basically just an old white guy from the UK!
The U,S. has a population of 338 million, and the military consists of approximately 1% of the population .
15:33...that's Binkov. 😐
😂
Accuracy international is a tier one rifle company
I’m talking like SAS, seal team six, Delta force
what lots of people don't realize is the fact that the american settlers came from the u k we was mostly if not all british until other immigrants came here i am american born and raised but im 81% british by dna so in many cases we kind of see y'all as our cousins in a way of looking at it
I agree the cops could train the civilians to help but keep in mind the training of those additional people will be very very amateur at best and they have the us infantry soldiers coming.
They have the is infantry soldiers coming,
Gurkhas
we went from #1 enemies to #1 allies. who knows the future political views and decisions can change things
It was Jersey that Germans held. Learned that from Time Team.
Speaking of Jersey, y'all might react to the Beesleys....
Us Americans love yall, you're basically like our cousins we'll always love and help whenever you need us
There isn’t anything in the short term that would cause us to fight each other. It would have to be a steady collapse of relations over years to the point where a fight starts seeming likely. Even at that point it would still take something major to cause war.
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Yea… this is never going to happen. If anything it would be the US and UK attacking someone else together like Iraq and Afghanistan.
@8:30 i would be curious what is considered "armed" police in the UK. Because plenty of police foces in the US are better armed than half the worlds militaries lol
Whatever helps you sleep at night !!!
Where Ash's arm is behind you in the beginning it looks like she's a ventriloquist! 🤣
The video didn't really mention much about what either the UK or the USA have stockpiled. I don't know exactly what either have but I did come across an article about the Ukraine recently that said something about that we sent 276 tactical vehicles to tow weapons but has tens of thousands in inventory. If we have that many tow vehicles, I can pretty much guarantee we've also stockpiled the weapons to be towed and I'm sure the UK keeps some caches tucked away too.
Fun thought exercise, but I would say that a conflict between these two countries are the least likely conflict to ever exist. I think that following 1812 things eventually became quite cordial and after WW1, these two were thick as thieves, even sharing in the nuclear program (both countries, I believe, use the same SLBM Trident II)
There's another big factor in this. NORAD is a joint US-Canadian operation. The second in command, about a third of the personnel, and a good percentage of the installations are Canadian. Would Canada remain totally neutral in this? They could really compromise the US' aircraft detection systems, if they wanted to. I don't imagine Canadians would be very pleased if the US decided to try to invade the UK.
You know the answer
The video does not factor that the attack would happen on day 1, but we would have been planning and practicing up to the day of. It wouldnt take a year, it would be a couple months at the most. All of the bombing and missle attacks would be hundreds...daily...for a year.....the entire year.
It would happen so fast and so hard that you wouldnt even believe it, it would be like seeing an alien invasion movie lol.
The US military has weapons and planes/ships that we as american citizens dont know about yet.....
Just think, the f22 and f35 came out in 1997!!!!! And those are the most steathliest and advanced jets in the world, those are like 26 years old.....they have newer stuff, spaceship type of stuff since 2018.
Don’t forget the A Bombs
Fun fact, China has a 1.5 million man army, the USA has 100 million gun owners and none of us only have one gun 😊 good thing we are friends the UK😊
The UK & US would dominate if we ever band together again
In the Hawkmoon series by Michael Moorcock, Britain has become an evil empire, but it's all post apocalyptic...
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What if " remember 😮those stories when I was l little
TLDR: easily
You guys need to check out" the fat electrician " you will like his videos he tells about different American military events from history
What’s with the puppet? 🤣🤣🤣
They don't have to the UK is already the 51st state.
Great reaction. And yeah we have a huge military and folks love to criticize the whole "you don't have free healthcare". Well if Europe had to depend 100% on itself to build up full militaries they wouldn't be able to have that either. For most countries their defensive strategy is "call the US". The war in Ukraine has at least lit a fire and more countries are investing more of their resources to both themselves & helping Ukraine and should be commended.
But yeah this is an old video and there's way more than what's mentioned available & coming.
Im sure imports to the UK would be strangled off. So if UK imports oil, war materials, etc….Stock Piles would shrink quickly.
The really intersting war game was the US for the entire world. ITs a pretty fair fight and could go either way.
We would never attack our Brothers and sisters in the U.K. It’ll only be side by side we fight together ❤🇺🇸🇬🇧
I understand that UK asked if the US would be a protectorate of Australia, New Zealand, Canada and Tasmania
"eventually", you had me laughing my ass off. Japan forgot the Golden Rule, don't touch American's boats.
A kindasorta tangent: have y'all watched Reign of Fire?
This wouldn't happen but an interesting thought exercise. We argue like siblings but end up together ❤️
Could or would? The real question is why?
It would not happen, but could it happen, yes.
Realistically the US would never be able to hold the UK because it would be a hostile armed nation but militarily it would be a distinct victory. Also to ashes point of the harsh waters there are many different landing points that could be utilized by the US Military the reason the UK couldnt repel a US beach head landing would be because of the limited anti-air and artillery compared to the US numbers you have a to concentrate most of the UKs artillery and AA guns to just a couple strategic beach heads that are more important you would be forced to give up at least a few beach heads in order to protects the others also take into account that manufacturing would be limited due to continued US conventional strategic bombings. Thanks guys great reaction just wanted to give my opinion.
I agree with Dave 100% on "The Man in the High Castle": Great concept, but I couldn't even make it through the first season because the writers tanked it. The book is far better!
Awesome. You are unable to defend yourself, while your government is additionally looking to ban knives.
Here in the US it takes police over 45 mins to arrive. What should an individual do?
We didn't remove the Japanese emperor at the end of WWII, so I don't think that would happen in this impossible scenario.
Agree with the last comment, everything is about money
lol if the us threatened to take over the uk and make it the 51st state of the union, the uk would be like, WOO HOO! Our lucky day!
this is the funniest comment of all.
In the beginning they are already wrong cruisers and destroyers carry a multitude of different types of missiles and one of them is an anti ship missile
Doesn't the USN use NSM?
I do hope you are correct and can say that none of the Americans i know would ever wish for this scenario. I also agree that you guys have experience and are very good at production in tough times . The main issue with you spooli g up arms and manufacturing is raw materials ....The Us navy is pretty massive and would probably effectively blockade importation or steel iron food and fuel.
Stat: 3 Trafalgar Attack Subs
Me: ROOM! SHAMBLES!
As long as y'all ain't got a stockpile of oil, you're good... probably
It’s common for a American, 1 American to own hundreds of guns
The deciding factor would be how involved British civilians want to be. Citizens may want to stay British, but is it worth dying to prevent American control? Not ideal, but it's not like the Americans would pillage the country. If the US only has to defeat the military with civilians indifferent, it would be over very quickly after invasion.
Don't worry Brits, "Doctor Who" will save you😊
I met a European here in Arizona last week and he was salty AF about Brexit. 🤷♂️
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anyone who fights for freedom never loses..because the alternative might as well be slavery..same thing. Ask any country who is not free when there are defectors to the us..canada..and uk..always the same story..family held hostage forced to fight. their hearts were not in it they wanted the hell out of it..and some had to make sacrifices ..ones we may never think we would do but. my heart goes out to them who had to make rough choices. freedom isnt a dream its a right and dictators take your basic rights through fear and intimidation. so we will always fight for those who want to be free..we dont want to take your country we just want to give it back and stop the ADULTS with the matches ..much love