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Fun Fact: The largest Air Force in the world is the U.S. The 2nd largest Air Force in the world is..... The U.S Navy
🤣🤣🤣 I LOVE THIS COMMENT!! Especially as a Veteran who specialized in combat communications (264th CBCS-USAF) Misshoneybee, Thank you for that! 💜😘💜
3rd is the us army
@@bigdogstatus4528 we are too good
The 2nd largest is actually Davis-Monthan Air Force Base AKA (The Boneyard) (4400 aircraft)
Althought these aircraft are "Retired" don't confuse that with outdated, the majority are still newer than active service aircraft in other countries.
So the US has the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd largest airforces.
@@ViolentKisses87 Im 26 and live 3 min from Davis Monthan here in Tucson grew up next to it my whole life, the area is massive and covers half the city
"When I left you, I was but a learner, now I am the master".
"And now you will learn what it is to be a good master"
Only a master of evil darth!!!!
My thoughts exactly
@@philossifer6252 America is good to other countries but not to it’s people 😂
Only a master of evil, Darth Murica!
As a "former" US Marine, I can say, the US and our military LOVE our cousins across the pond, and only something beyond horrible would have to happen before we would ever take up arms against the UK. The English, Irish and Scots are our kinsman by blood, flesh and culture. I pray nothing could ever bring us to war with one another.
I love that you put parentheses around former. True marine.
Scott as a US Marine Corps veteran, I feel the need to remind you, there is no such thing as a former Marine. I think you owe Chesty some pull-ups.
@@jasonmalone6983 I fucking LOVED your comment❤🇺🇸❤🇺🇸❤🇺🇸❤🇺🇸
@@jasonmalone6983 That was the entire reason the " " were used brother.
@@Rogue3269 first of all, my comment was meant to be humorous. Secondly putting quotes on an incorrect statement doesn’t make it okay. So basically you are admitting up front you used a forbidden statement, but used it anyway. Chesty and Dan Daily are having beers discussing this dilemma. In my mind, Al Gray was invited to the table, just for being such a salty bastard.
"Could the U.S. invade the U.K. if it wanted to?"
"Yes. End of video."
Ha ha
But we won't because we're too busy eating cheeseburgers
@@sungjin-woo391 yea, cause that's an American response...
@@sungjin-woo391 we could do both 🤔 but why do that when you can just eat 2 cheeseburgers instead lol.
@@pokeyexpressor4265 idk what y’all on about I’m a be eating double quarter pounder BLT with cheese.
@Matias Martinez Could say “fuck your politics.” And do it anyways it’s a matter of if we really wanted to could we short answer yes, long answer yes with more words.
You over estimated Canada. They have like 3 tanks to attack. And 3 tanks to come behind them and apologize for attacking.
Worse, the population of Canada was like 37-38 million in 2019. That is less than the population of California. They would be asking a vastly out manned military to invade America, one of the largest populations of civilian firearms ownership, in the hopes of forcing the invasion to stop. I'm not sure it would be recalled even if both Canada and Mexico coordinated an attack in secret. With the way intelligence is gathered now of days, the US would see large troop movements on it's border likely weeks if not days before any attack and would move to reinforce, especially with an ongoing war with Britain. Some of the largest US Army and Navy bases are in the Great Lakes and Nevada area. It's just not really feasible for those nations to provide what you are looking for.
The US citizenry guns to Canadian actual Citizen ratio is likely 3-1 or something like that. We literally have more guns in the hands of our citizenry than they have citizens.
@@dalehammers4425 In defense of Canida, by Some estimates put the number of guns in the USA as being higher than the number of US Citizens too.
@@slatondragon lost more than US citizens to be honest.
Yeah and the mexican cartel's aren't going to allow anyone to f@ck with their best customers, so that ain't gonna happen either.
See, part of the reason Afghanistan and Vietnam were "Unwinnable" was because everyone who's invaded took care not to absolutely annihilate the civilian population. Any near-superpower could annihilate either of those nations if they didn't give a shit about civilian casualties. Also, for what it's worth, the Afghan war(uniformed warfare) was won in like 60 days.
Exactly. Realistically the US could win a war really, really easily if it didn't care about killing tens of millions in the process. I'm not saying the US is innocent but there's no question in my mind they're responsible with their power in comparison with other empires who had real power. Does anyone thing Genghis Khan wouldn't have used the nuke if it was available to him? There's a theory that advanced civilizations don't advance beyond the nuclear age because they destroy each other. The world powers thus far have been pretty responsible with their power to the point we're living in one of the most peaceful times in world history.
Our SCOUTS took Baghdad... the 2nd Infantry was the scouts, they literally took the Capital. The 4th (the big boys) were having trouble getting permission from Turkey to move through and so our scouts said fuck it and took it.
Yep and those countries had no real infrastructure to destroy in the first place. Now could the UK outlast the US in a guerrilla war over years until the US withrldrew due to costs and political factors (like Vietnam and Afghanistan)? yes of course. But the country would be rubble and everyone would be living in villages and burnt out cities.
@@rocky2332 Could they really though? Where would they hide? Afghanistan had caves and miles and miles of badlands...Vietnam had jungles...And we already know about Sherwood Forest, so don't think you can skulk about in the environs of Nottingham...there would be a new Sheriff in town.
@Wolong Gong . Defeating a nation in uniform warfare and occupation are two wholly different things. US defeated both Iraq and Afghanistan's uniformed armies in like 39 and 71 days or so. However, it's the occupation that took its toll.
IF you want to count occupation as power of the war itself, then WW2 didn't end until either 1970s on Allies side and 1990s on the Soviet's side.
Further, I already said that if USA wanted to, they could handily win the war, with utter devastation not caring for civilian casualties.
>have fun trying to find them as they pick you off as they hide,Or y'know, you could just blast the entire area off.
The brits are gonna march to the docks and dump Big macs into the harbor.
😆love it
Then watch us drown ourselves trying to get the food?
who will you be pissing off? only macdonalds, the other businesses will be laughing, and the M station will sue.
And then In-n-Out becomes supreme ruler?
Yes please.
@@seanthompson1197 I died doing what I love. Eating.
-An American
I imagine Canada would be begging everyone to stop fighting in this scenario tbh.
Canada would be that girl that's always screaming in a street fight video
@@timhefty504 bruh💀
@@Someguy-il8sy watch any street fight compilation, there's always some girl screaming off camera
Canada has been training the Chinese. They are working in an old base along the US/Canadian border, not sure the distance...
@@DEL061 actually that’s fake news Canada would never and why would the us let China be that close to our border.
I am American and will put in a good word for you three 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Fr fr 😂😂😂😂
Great line!
It would have been the other way round 200 years ago when we had our empire and were at our peak in 1820
@@miscellaneous_man756
Haha, uhhhh... Forgetting about that whole revolutionary war thing? That was in the late 1700s. So, by 1820, y’all were fighting African tribes and India. Hardly the military powerhouse you’re claiming to be. 🤣🤣
@@SmirkingRevenge17 no 5 years before that we the duke of Wellington defeated the great napoleon who had ravaged europe for 15 years
It is a moment of pride knowing your kid surpasses you.
i dont know, being a thug is nothing to be proud of.
@Marco Gonzalez primero que nada, no soy ingles
@Marco Gonzalez
segundo no es tu pais, es la tierra que unos ingleses le robaron a los americanos que vivian en ella.
y tercero cualquier persona que este al tanto de las cosas grandes que pasan en el mundo debe odiar a eeuu. tienen la mas horrible cadena de atrocidades en la historia de la humanidad.
@Marco Gonzalez
"Y tu quien eres para decirme"
soy sabin97. eso es mas que suficiente para decirte lo que sea.
eres un frijolero igual que yo. eso es todo lo eres para ellos. siempre te van a preguntar de donde eres, como si ellos fuesen americanos, cuando realmente tu eres mil veces mas americano que ellos.
"si paso eso"
eso "no paso" eso lo hicieron. y los yanquis no han cambiado en nada.
mira la large he ininterrumpida cadena de atrocidades que han cometido desde antes de que francia, espan~a, paises bajos e india(si, india) les regalaran su independencia.
si necesitas ayuda te puedo sugerir algunas, pero vivimos en la era de la informacion, no deberias tener ningun problema consiguiendolas por ti mismo.
And it only takes a Joe to lose it....
We love the British!!!! Will never happen.
thank god after watching this haha
As an US Army Veteran, I do so agree!
We who?
it would be like fighting our cousins
I think a lot of brits don’t feel the same way about us though sadly
That's what you get for taxing us without representation.
Finally a comment I could get in board with.
200+ years later
*VENGEANCE*
Looking at polls that show what Americans want compared what they have I would say you are still being taxed without representation.
@Leon Russell true, but we didn't get representation in the British parliament so we had a revolution.
You had more representation than most Britsh citys
once air superiority is achieved the “war” is over
Yeah that's pretty much modern warfare whoever controls that first it'll all be over sooner rather then later.
That's what we said in Iraq and Afghanistan. Is that really how it worked out though?
@@Tijuanabill Well if it came to it there is the nuclear option. Not against the cites of America though. I'm talking about hitting the fleet en rout. Would give them something to think about.
@@Tijuanabill We (US) haven’t had an all out war since WWII. This video is referring to an all out war. If you want to know what the US could do if it chose, watch the air war against Iraq in 91.
@@JCs-Music Nowhere in the video does it make any mention of changing the current accepted rules of engagement. WWII style wars where we destroy entire civilizations with complete disregard for collateral damage will not be fought any time soon. There also was not an insurgency war fought in Germany, after we defeated the army. The population surrendered. It's not up to the victor of the conventional war, to decide if an insurgency war ensues afterwards.
"While they're attacking us, Mexico will come in lol". As a fellow Texan I do have to say, knowing that a large percentage of the Texan population owns guns (and a lot of guns to be sure), I dont think we'd be all that concerned with a Mexican invasion. As a reply on a post once stated 'The Alamo 2: Mexican Boogaloo' XD
A big thing is that this would be all the stuff america can deploy but theres many mainland defenses that will allow a sustained invasion across an ocean while having the heavier planes and tanks and vehicles defending and even conquering canada and mexico. Attrition us a big thing like how in ww2 america was constantly replacing its losses in he pacific theatre with new carriers and planes while the japanase were not able to replace carriers as easy
Yeah the US homeland is pretty much safe considering you guys have the National Guard AND the very citizenry itself is a militia in and of itself.
@@Wesker1984 Come taste our freedom. It comes in 5.56.
@Hussein Abbas the us airforce alone can overwhelm both countries air power at the same time. The thing with the armed citizenry means if they do successfully occupy a city there will be heavy geurilla warfare since everyones got a gun in some places. Which yes wknt do much vs heavy vehicles but can really disrupt an occupying force and would mean theyll need to use a much larger force to secure a city compared to other countries, which will quickly add up when youre trying to occupy the 3rd largest population nation
@@Hyperfoxeye true at that point it would just be them sabotaging shit untill the usa military comes back and kicks there ass
I served in Germany and trained with British Troops. I cannot imagine EVER fighting them as our hearts would not be in it. We argue and disagree sometimes but when the crap hits the fan, I'll fight along side the Brits every time.
There was a battle once(I dont recall which, I just remember the story) where soldiers were pitted against one another for quite some time, ended up getting tired of the fighting and slowly ceased fire on their "enemies." They were doing all they could to not fight the other side, from what I remember were even sharing friendly gestures, until higher ups got wind of it and sent orders to keep fighting. If anyone remembers what battle it was, please remind me.
@@tyler1988 Sounds like the Christmas Truce in WWI. If it's not that then it's something very similar.
It would take some sort of huge betrayal by UK for us to ever go to outright military war with them.
@@dalehammers4425 there was this one time...
@@spidaman0112 at band camp...
13:26 "Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America." It's not that the US couldn't defeat north Vietnam(in fact they lost nearly 3 times the number of people that we did), it's that the civilians watching it all on TV back home couldn't handle what they were seeing and pressured the government to pull out of the war.
Na that's not why wars like Vietnam and Afghanistan were "lost" (in objectives, not casualties).
Most wars America entered in the 20th century were meant to be sustained. We could have glassed Vietnam or the Middle East in a weekend, but that would put a damper on the CIA's poppy fields, the oil, the precious gems and gold, and the arms contracts.
Regardless, American citizens and soldiers get a bad name due to the puppeteers. Everyone thinks *we* are the warmongers. Truth is, the American public isn't thirsty for war and pretty much never have been. Trump got elected largely due to being anti-war (and kept that promise). Goofy false flag attacks always have to be staged in order to change the sentiment of the populace from anti-war to pro-war.
not 3 times, try more than 50.
you butchered MILLIONS of vietnamese men women and children.
they didnt even kill 60k of your thugs.
@@sabin97 That is only if you blame every single death on the US and completely ignore South Vietnam and the rest of the countries involved, north vietnamese civilian deaths top out around 180 thousand, compared to 430 thousand South vietnamese civilians, so I don't think the other side really has a leg to stand on.
@@kennandunn7533
not every single death. but the majority.
those air strikes were quite effective and your thugs are quite merciless when it comes to butchering men women and children.
MILLIONS vs less than 60k
@@sabin97 reminder, more civilians were killed by the viet cong than the US and South Vietnamese combined, 2 to 3 times as many.
I would spare the blokes. Come out of the copter like arnold just to rescue these three "GET TO THEE CHOPPER!"
Even if the scenario allowed allies, don't count on Canada. The Canadian military makes the UK military look huge by comparison.
Canada just sits there and thanks their lucky stars for their very comfy geographical position.
Canada relies heavily on the defense of US to not need a military. We would have to defend them from any attackers since that would leave us wide open if we allowed it. Canada knows this. Plus I think a massive chunk of Canada would cede to the US given the chance.
@@dalehammers4425 The only issue with that is if an enemy of ours invaded Canada and threatened our safety we would more likely annex canadian territory to secure a buffer zone instead of attempting to defend them. Canada would be the modern equivalent to ww2 poland
@@The_Gray_Fox947 most likely yes, or France if we didnt have enough warning.
The mounties
I think at the beginning they said no allies, so it would just be Britain vs. US. With allies, it gets weird because we have a lot of the same allies, and I'm pretty sure we're each other's biggest ally.
US may be UK's biggest ally, but I'd say Japan and Israel are bigger allies for us than the UK are.
@@dalehammers4425 youre not wrong.
"Why don't we just invade Scotland"
Famous last words.
Even funnier when it was suggested they invade from the north.... they must have forgot the mountains and the lack of road networks 😂
@@edward1903 not to mention us northerners 😂
all i can see are dave getting grumpier and grumpier tru out the video xD
@@edward1903 the US has been fighting on the mountains in Afghanistan for decades so that isnt even a problem. and im pretty sure the US wont have a problem creating road networks once air superiority is achieved
@@sylface86I noticed it too. Dave is just jealous. He can't stand the US. If the US disappeared tomorrow, he wouldn't give a rats a$$. That "special relationship" ain't there anymore, people. Most Brits nowadays hate our guts and I don't give a rats
a$$ either. 🇺🇸
I don’t know how these guys haven’t gotten to Scott Sterling, the keeper and brick wall from North Carolina University
Oh man! This would be great!!
YES!!!... "Scott Sterling... The man! The myth! The legend!"
They have to watch the Scott Sterling videos!
Short answer: Yes
Long answer: Do we add 1 Star to the flag for the UK or 1 star each for England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland.
Well if we added all 4 we could keep it an even number and if we got our shit together to make Puerto Rico a state we’d be back to a divisible of 5.
@@cinnabarmanx4214 In 2020 Puerto Rico voted to weather or not to become a State. There were 655,505 votes in favor of statehood (52.52%) and 592,671 votes opposed (47.48%).
Congress is blocking the process mainly on the Republican side of the aisle.
In my opinion it should have been done decades ago.
@@douglascampbell9809 the vote was also heavily boycotted by Puerto Ricans, which is why it's not going through. This can be seen as the adult population of Puerto Rico is nearly 3 million, compared to the just over 1 million votes using your numbers
Not going to lie as Brit now I'm curious what would be choose.
A year late to this but the answer is none . We would be a colony not a state . We would not even have human rights
I'm an American, and I do like you guys. We'll give you a pass!
Thankfully the two countries enjoy a strong friendship and this situation is very unlikely to ever occur.
Even if the governments despised eachother, I doubt the people would even take up arms for this fight. Most soldiers would tell them to piss off 😂
As much as fantasy is interesting to think about, this likely will never happen. Canada/US/UK are practically all relatives to one another.
To be clear, all I'm saying is there's no need to fear this ever happening, our relations are great and have been for a long time this type of attack on one anothers soil simply won't happen.
You forgot Australia and New Zealand. We Anglophones are thick as thieves.
@@bus6292 Super best friends baby.
We don’t need our entire army to defend against Canada and Mexico.The armed citizens would fight them off.😂
Only if they agreed to openly declare war and show up in uniforms. As a Texan, if Mexico decided to go guerilla on us, it'd be really hard to distinguish between the TONS of them that already live and work here(legals, not even including the illegal ones).
But yeah, they'd be better off going in thru Cali anyways. Cali would probably just bend over and take it, while Texas wouldn't be so willing to just let it happen(remember the Alamo?).
@@tyler1988 If Mexico even went guerilla war on us, I shudder to think what would happen to the ones here already. I have no doubt many of them would side with the Mexican side, but I dont think many people would see loyalty anywhere, as in those loyal to the US, it would just be a masacre.
@@dalehammers4425 sadly you are correct. It's happpend before with the Japanese so there's a good chance it would happen again
@@The_Gray_Fox947 Eh, the Japanese werent massacred during WWII though, they were rounded up and incarcerated yes, but that was also more for their own protection. There would be no chance of that this go round, there are far too many Mexicans here compared to pre-WWII Japanese.
As an American, I think without a doubt, about 99% of us have good feelings about the Brits. Nothing beyond the typical brotherly punches to the gut occasionally ;)
Yeah, I mean after all, Briitian is still our dad.
@Channon Legier Oh, quiet you.
you are a liar...
A lot of people don't know this, but the U.S. never lost a major battle during Vietnam. A few skirmishes and possibly some missions that failed, but no large battle was ever lost. But the politicians lost the will to continue and public opinion was turning against the war. The British government experienced similar loss of faith during Britain's war with the American colonists despite the fact Britain was clearly superior to the U.S. militarily, economically, etc.
This will never happen guys, you are our closest ally.
I'd say Israel and Japan are closer allies than UK.
@Joe Blowe that's not true at all. Where are you getting that?
@@dalehammers4425 if you think isreal is one of our greatest allies your delusional
@@coachfrank1221 More than the UK who often have open disdain for us.
@Dlox I've been all over Europe and I can tell you you're wrong.
Side note from an American about Vietnam that I guess people don’t understand: Vietnam wasn’t actually a war, it was politics. They set boundary zones for the American troops that they didn’t let them cross (often forcing them into the worst case scenario missions and outposts) and very strict rules of engagement. For example the Vietcong would ambush US troops, run away across a boundary river, and taunt them from the other side. The troops couldn’t shoot across it. If no politics had been involved that whole “war” would’ve concluded in victory in about a month and been labeled an operation, rather than a war.
Let's be honest.. The U.S. doesn't need all of that to take the U.K. 🙄
And the crazy part is he limited U.S to certain resources yet still half of that is enough
Facts we don’t even need half of that
@@jaylenflanagan1295you do lol
Lets be truthfully honest you need every bit of that to take us 😂
Republic of Ireland just minding their own business...
"it didn't show them going back did it?" as if the most technologically advanced fighting force in the world would forget to gas up on the way home lmao
Interesting thought experiment, but we Americans love the UK. We got your backs you've got yours. good luck with your own battle for independence with brexit, why any country would want to be governed by another baffles me as an American.
Especially when it's the Germans... not the best optics there, given the last 100 years.
Ok so as a US Air Force veteran this vid kinda pissed me off.
I know its just for fun but the US and the UK are pretty much brothers and everybody knows this would never happen. At least not in our life times. ...or our children's or their children's...
This video is pretty much just a Russian's dream.
Big props to the "Office Blokes"!
I always enjoy content from our hilarious brothers across the pond! 👍
As a Navy vet, same here. 😅
Fun fact about the vietnam war. We didn’t really become best of the best until the cold war and we still were winning in vietnam by an impressive margin. But support for the war was lost at home.
It's no secret that the US military is the most advanced and well-funded one in the world, so of course we could invade any country.
Now holding a country is a different story...That's very hard for any military to do. Also, as a US Army veteran myself, I notice one thing he doesn't mention.
The US and its allies train together all the time, we had plenty of UK military stationed in our US bases for training with us, which means we all know each others capabilities.
This would make invading any ally country at least a little bit more difficult.
Ehh.. I don't know if I buy that. In the era of instant communication, spy satellites, and cell phone cameras nothing really stays a secret any more. Just because you know the size and the weight of the truck barrelling down on you doesn't mean it's damage is preventable. A concentrated effort of the US military to take Britain would be essentially a foregone conclusion.
Also the US is unique in that we rarely if ever hold invaded nations. We pour billions into rebuilding them better than before, and then leave them to govern themselves and go home in 99% of cases.
The US Navy is split into 7 fleets. 3 are in the Atlantic and moving one of the Pacific fleets all the way around the world would be insanely complicated. The US would have about half of its navy available. BUT I guess we are going to ignore the 35,000 US troops in Germany and the US Air Force bases in Germany, the UK, Spain, and Italy. We wouldn't initially need to move troops from North American.
The USA would probably not even actually break a sweat trying to do that. We wouldn't tho. Everyone knows that we aren't enemies
@@deanwainwright4281 except the whole premise is that neither the US or the UK has help from other countries, so your point is irrelevant.
Truss me the us would definitely break a sweat
Seems like the UK is that dude that had a best friend that grew up to be a world champion boxer(US) while he just went to school for finance or some other mundane career. But everyone knows if you mess with the UK your gonna get your teeth knocked out by his friend the boxer.
We're comin for your bangers and mash.
We're comin for your fish and chips.
I'm coming for Daniel Craig.
@@janettamcgee8124 Daniel Craig is now an American citizen. Both he ands his wife, Rachel Weiz (sp) are both naturalized. 🇺🇸
Nothing but love for our UK brothers and sisters from here in Texas, USA!
That one dude on the far right, crazy beats size?
My dude..we are America, we got more crazy just from the state of Florida then your entire country bro.
Source: “trust me bro”
@@eheeb79 maaaan...all I know is as an american I've done some crazy shit myself so...
There's a reason why Canada and Mexico are a very low risk factor to us. Border defenses have long been implemented and regularly upgraded. The automated defenses would be able to hold them off. We wouldn't even need to mobilize to intercept them. Artillery bombardments alone would completely overwhelm them long before they reach the border. And even by some miracle they did happen to slip through all of our defenses, the only thing that would be waiting is pissed off Militia which would be easy to form considering there are over 400 million privately owned guns in this Country. They would literally have to be wary of every citizen they come across, because there's a high chance they would be armed.
I laughed so hard when you said while we were invading the U.K Canada and Mexico attacked the U.S. If you guys think your current "friends" would help you in a war by invading your enemy you really need to reevaluate those friends lmao. It was great hearing the reaction to this video from people who actually live in the U.K to get some honest opinions. this video is interesting I don't think it's done by an American and the numbers aren't accurate nor has he managed to keep up with U.S weapons technology but it is an interesting scenario none the less
You guys held off the Germans, you rock!
Eh, they held off part of the German forces. Most of Hitler’s army was fighting Russia at the time since that was his biggest goal. The forces fighting and occupying England were probably around half of that. Not to discredit the English of course, but had hitler dedicated his army to taking out england, and had he never betrayed Stalin, England would’ve been taken. Hitler’s betrayal of Stalin was one of the biggest things that sealed his fate in the war
@@glowhoo9226 That’s not likely. The main reason the Germans couldn’t invade Britain wasn’t cause of a lack of ground troops, it was the inability of the Kriegsmarine and the Luftwaffe to control the channel. The Royal Navy was too big for the Germans to launch an invasion without just being sunk on the way and the RAF had already proven it could destroy the much larger Luftwaffe by winning the Battle of Britain. There’s 2 very nice videos that explain how Germany couldn’t have won WW2 and that was one point he covered. It’s called “Germany Could Not Win WW2” by Potential History, 2 parts.
@@glowhoo9226 British lad. Not England.
Ah our fellow British friends! We love you guys , you guys always have our backs in all of US conflicts!! British and USA friends forever!
The French would be getting drunk and flipping you guys off lol
Fortunately for both sides, we have no need or desire to do that. :)
That part where they talk ab bringing in Mexico and Canada lol just remember
“You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass.”
Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto
*A* rifle behind every blade of grass? Pfft.. rookie numbers.. and I'm not even Texan.
crazy beats size the US has alot more crazy lol.
Japan proved your point in ww2
Have you met the Texans? Who make up almost 1/2 of the military. Texans are hard ass nuts on a normal day. I ought to know I've lived here for over 30 of my 59 years.
@Leon Russell i mean, as the saying goes "don't poke the bear". But then again that can be said about many countries. They can be laid back but once you poke them enough they come out swinging.
@@toodlescae texans definitely dont make up half the military lol
@@kyemerchant5455 I didn't say half but ok. Go look up the stats.
Thank god the US and the UK are friends, cause a war with our oldest ally would be heartbreaking.
WELL you started it... invading countries.
But you're practically our _mum_ so we love you and respect you.
I’m a Yank with UK ties. One Grand Father was a Welsh man and fought in WW2 as Royal Navy sailor (killed in action in the channel). The other was a Sergeant Major in the King’s own Malta Regiment. A war between us would tear me apart.
Lol!! I love y’all’s confidence, but... well. I’ll leave it at that. Gotta have pride. Plus, obviously purely hypothetical. Brits are our friends 😁
Former paratrooper: it would be like asking me to make war on my family members. The UK has had our collective backs for all of modern history. Couldn’t do it, no sir.
😂😂😂 love you guys. This will never happen though. We mean so much to each other that we wouldn’t know what we’d do without each other. We are literally brother and sister countries. We’ve died for each other for over 100 years. That’s a hard bond to break.
@SY ya imma take it you’re a troll because that comment is indefensible on so many levels.
@SY Britain is mother. Rome is the father.
We're the little brother that got a Whole Lot Bigger when He Grew Up
And better looking! 😁🇺🇸
The us would need a real good reason to do this because we could, but the cost would be gigantic
Not just the actual cost, but we’d lose one of our biggest allied and trading partners
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It’d be more profitable to straighten out the Pacific than trade with Europe.
You said call Canada and have them invade. Y'all forget this video didn't include the US Air Force, which is waiting for that. Lol
oh shit... you're right. this literally only included the Navy, didn't it? I don't even think it figured in the Marine Corp or even the army. This was literally just the Navy's military capabilities. That is insane! I might be wrong about that. I'll have to re-watch it and do a little research myself to get a better grip on the numbers. But if that's right, than that makes this even more scary, honestly. I've got some real Justice League, alternate timeline shit going through my head right now.
I recently learned that Accuracy International started basically in a shed making competition rifles till they were commissioned to manufacture for the military
Story I heard was they submitted one of their handmade rifle to the sniper trials on a lark, never expecting to win. Of course, they blew everything away, and then tricked the Army officers sent to make sure they could fulfill the Army order. Allegedly, at the end of the visit, one of the officers turned to the team and said 'This was really just a formality, we just wanted to make sure you weren't 3 guys in a shed.'
It would never happen and if anyone else tried, we'd be there quick, fast, and in a hurry to let them know that " Gentlemen , that just isn't going to happen " . Most of us Americans feel the same way , leave the UK alone or we're coming for you.
Man, you guys are great.
"They can have those places" hahha
you mean like we don't, like A- rab, and Pair-re or Bis-mark.
The guy in the video got a few things wrong the US has 19 aircraft carriers 11 of which are nuclear. The F-35 can launch from any of the aircraft carriers and there is a special variant of the F-35 for the nuclear carriers. Each nuclear aircraft carrier can carry 80+ fighter jets not including helicopters and transport aircraft. The number of aircraft carriers isn’t entirely accurate as some older outdated carriers have been converted to amphibious assault ships, I’m not entirely sure how many of those are still in service currently.
Look at us now, dad!
Interesting concept but two things to bear in mind.
1. The USA has never won a major war in the last 100 years without the help of UK troops.
2. Last time mainland UK was invaded was 1066.
Plus of course it's all about the money and last time I checked UK companies own a vast majority of the USAs defence companies
Your first point is a little cherry-picked though. The US was fairly autonomous in WWII, I mean, the Pacific Theater is an example of that. And to be honest, you're a little optimistic, the one thing America does better than any nation in history, is power projection, the US military can literally just hang out and fight until either A) America gets bored, or B) the enemy goes broke. Those are important facts to consider in this silly, totally hypothetical scenario.
Get some sound dampening foam for the walls and the studio would be perfect.
As an American I'll look at it this way, whenever we fought last time with you guys, you guys were the big bad wolf and we were The underdogs and we won. There's no telling that it wouldn't go the same way if it happened again, and I hope it never does.
It was Brits fighting Brits. So you can say the British made the USA and you can also say the British won you Independence.
@@s.j.l.8736 Not exactly
@@johnnysins7950it pretty much was just Brits vs Brits. The American identity wasn’t really developed then
As interesting as that was the bond between the two nations is so strong. That has been proven many times over and over again. What the world forgets that if you mess with one the other will would respond.
Frankly, in the age of Trump I am worried whether Trump would.
@Channon Legier He's not out. Cheating will not be allowed.
@@larryyeadeke2953 yeah you get em larry.. lol
@@larryyeadeke2953 Imagine not being black.
@@777wrath Don't have to.
The thing about Vietnam is that the US was winning almost every major battle against the Vietnamese. We were dominating them at every major point, with them winning small skirmishes.
Vietnam also has a bunch of underground tunnel systems, just like with Japan, this made it harder to bomb them.
We “lost” the war because of all the anti war protests back home. We could’ve finished the war and gone him within the next year, but the higher ups back home were getting scared of all the protesting, so they decided to quit while they were ahead and pulled out. My grandfather told me it was one of the few days he was ashamed to call himself an American. We left the south Vietnamese to be conquered when we could’ve stopped it from happening.
United States of America and Northern Ireland has a good ring to it
Something tells me the Scots and Irish would happily join the US.
I like how the Scots are the main defense. Has to make the Scots proud for being known for their will power.
@@spidaman0112 I think of all the people in the UK fighting the Scots would hurt our feelings the most. We adore the Scots and Irish here in America.
served and hung out with some of our british brothers in the gulf and while people loved to talk smack from both sides of the pond, the truth is, when the shit goes down, we always have each others back...
The US has the power to go to war against the entire world 😂. I recommend watching that video next.
@Channon Legier the US has military bases that are surrounding the worlds oil supplies. The US can cut off the worlds fuel and thusly the worlds ability to fight a war. This isn’t an opinion. There are many videos on the hypothesis.
@Channon Legier every 88 out of 100 eligible adult in America owns a gun. There are more than a couple hundred militias just in Texas alone. There is a reason no country has ever tried a full scale invasion of mainland America. That is the fastest form of suicide. I also don’t think you watched the same video because they covered that in this scenario.
@Channon Legier Nah the US will deadass take over everything we learn that in school 🏫 lol
@@romane9548 “we learn that in school” nah that’s indoctrination not learning
@@Kingjr18102 and yet we haven't won a war since 1945. Imagine that
From a vet across the pond, thanks for some good laughs lads!
We're coming for you! We're gonna make you drive on the other side of the road and make you spell color without the U
@ASL 72 Touché ;D
NO! Not the U! Anything but that!
My question is what's stopping us from taking the Republic of Ireland in this scenario as well? We'd wear them like a sock
It would put a damper on our St. Patricks day celebrations ;)
the interesting thing when you brought up Vietnam was the fact that the US was actually winning the war, the only weakness was the fact it was a war that the US populace didn't want to be in. This is why the US wouldn't take over the world slowly gobbling up countries even though it could. US citizens see ourselves as righteous people here to help the world, so random wars for no other reason than expansion is frowned upon heavily. We won the ground battle of Vietnam but lost the war back home, the biggest weakness of the US military is our "good" people funnily enough.
@imnevermakingavideo McNamara's policy, and Gen Westmoreland, was to set up static bases throughout the country to operate from, relying heavily on electronic measures to detect movement along trails. Once the enemy had been engaged and pushed back, they just let them reoccupy the same ground all over again. Combined with the policy of not attacking any of the Northern airbases or Haiphong Harbor where they knew the SAM's were coming into the country from, and you've pretty much tied the hands of the US military for political considerations.
The US population wanted to exit the country, both the North and South Vietnamese population wanted the US to exit the country, it was a war with not “victory” possible.
He's under-estamating N.I., we fought a civil war for 35 YEARS to remain apart of the UK, anyone comes to our home without an invite, they'll have a lot of problems with us lot
Normally I’d say it was weird to think about us attacking our closest allies but then again we seem to be attacking ourselves nowadays.
They tried it once. Didn't get past the pub on Whithaven docks.
It is my dream to go to the town of my namesake in Wiltshire, Trowbridge, and claim it. Tis mine!
Hey guys I'm a 30 year U.S. veteran. You are our brothers...never happen.
Don't worry. We love our cousins with the "funny" accents. We fought our last war against you guys in the early 1800s and I don't see that ever happening again. Again, we LOVE you blokes. BFFs forever! 😘
I'm American, I cannot imagine scenario where the British and Americans are enemies. We've been great allies for a long time.
Idk man. French came to our aid and gave us Statue of Liberty in friendship...yal gave us high taxes and tried to restrict our trade routes which resulted in two wars that yal lost. Close relation means nothing 😂😂
@ASL 72 the British burned one building. The US kicked y’all out of your own territory.
Imagine going from the largest empire in history to a country the size of a single US state
Btw I’m just ruffling your feathers, I’ve got no problem with the UK
The only reason that France helped us was because they had lost the French-Indian war to the Brits. It was revenge. I do like our Statue of Liberty ,though.
We didnt lose Vietnam. We gave up. 50k US death to over a million North Vietnamese, I wouldnt consider that a loss
Thankfully this scenario will likely never play out. I will say that after many Multi Nation Exercises over my years active operating electronic warfare system, the Brits flying Tornadoes were deadly good pilots. At times I'd swear they came up valleys and upon the mountain tops, that they flew in under the damn trees. But those guys sure were great to drink with later those nights in the p7bs.
As a Brit living in US, I'm conflicted. However, UK would not fall easily at all. It would take the US years.
This is like one of those “simplified” videos without the entertainment. The only thing we want to invade you with is chlorinated chicken 🐔
Pfft, you guys are so freaking hilarious! I love good historian talks, especially those with a sense of humor. Thanks for the video!
19:52 You forget the US is also able to fight 2 or more wars at the same time like World War II the US fought the Japanese and the Germans at the same time.
now a days we can fight 3, just leave Mexico to Texas.
You also have to think about morale. Someone fighting on their turf for their home will fight far harder than a foreign invader.
True, but it works the other way around too. When you see your people gaining territory you start to think you’re unbeatable, and when you see armies rolling in and taking your forces down with few losses on their side, it can shatter any resolve you once had, and you might start to think about surrendering to save the people you have left.
You should have told the Japanese and the Germans..
They might have won the 2nd World War if they had known that😕
@@glowhoo9226 You seriously underestimate how little the UK goverment cares for its people .
Don't worry, if the United States ever invades the United Kingdom we will be sure to bring chips and beer.
Thats now how we work... we would take THEIR chips and beer.
Introduce them to catfish and hushpuppies!
I would bring tortilla chips and salsa.
“I don’t think a war will happen on the ground again in Europe” OOOP. Little did y’all know 😂😂😂
3 Blokes with sniper rifles decimate U.S. air attack.
I was in the Navy (Aegis Cruiser), and I'm pretty sure all cruisers, destroyers and frigates carry ASMs. We had 8 Harpoons, plus Tomahawk ASMs.
Not to mention the fact that more of those missiles could always be added to the vertical launch cells, if needed. The only reason why these ships don't carry a lot more of them now is the fact that they are mostly called upon for land attack in recent times.
@@randlebrowne2048 True. I was in from '85 - '91. Soviets were building a blue-water navy at the time. Nobody but the USA has one anymore.
Fun fact. Speaking of mexico, germany tried to get Mexico to invade america during the first World war
Lol I would really be interested in seeing a transcript of how that went.
Germany: Go get zem! Zey are veak as zey are deployed overzeas!
Mexico: No mames guay! Choo out choo freakin mind?!
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I find it hilarious that the underdogs always try a workaround to defend themselves from the facts or act like they wouldn't get their asses kicked saying Mexico could invade the U.S that's just fucking hilarious
Without seeing the video I'm going to guess the answer will be "yes and it would be very easy"
I doubt we would make it ‘easy’
Along with Canada attacking, creating a reason for Americans to return home, China would pounce on America and the UK would have to be immediately abandoned. Also every european and middle eastern country would feel threatened and jump in as well. Absolutely no chance whatsoever Mexico would get involved at all. They would practically cease to exist on every level without the extensive economic interaction with the US. Americans are much too aware of these realities for this to ever be considered a viable option.