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@mattmarzula

3 жыл бұрын

For men? Are you sure?

@donnybrookinhooligan1088

3 жыл бұрын

"I always turn to the good folks at Geologie for my skin care needs" - Buffalo Bill

As a veteran that worked in a command post on a military base, there are red phones that are direct connections to certain places on base. The base general had a red phone (with 5 buttons for different offices on base), and the command post had a red direct line (the button on a massive phone board) that connected him to us. We communicated with the Pentagon via encrypted messages. So, there are red phones or red phone line buttons that are very high-priority calls in the military. We were required to answer that line before the 2nd ring. It did not matter who we were on the phone with or busy doing that red line rings; you immediately answered it or got in trouble.

@Sam.From.Wonderland

3 жыл бұрын

OPSEC, ever heard of it?

@deanworsley2244

3 жыл бұрын

@@Sam.From.Wonderland my thoughts exactly

@DFX2KX

3 жыл бұрын

@@Sam.From.Wonderland I don't think OPSEC applies here. Because Tiffany's not the first to point out that the red 'direct line' phone has precedent in the military. Hell, they have several of them on display at decommissioned Silos. It's pretty apparent what they are for.

@mynameisjeff6988

7 ай бұрын

@@Sam.From.WonderlandYou're black, opsec doesn't matter

@Sam.From.Wonderland

7 ай бұрын

@@mynameisjeff6988 I'm not. #blackopsecmatters

Shortly after this, in 1966, a matching pair of red desk phones were installed on the desks of both millionaire Bruce Wayne and Gotham City police commissioner James Gordon.

@johnstevenson9956

3 жыл бұрын

And kept on a cake plate.

@jasonrodgers9063

3 жыл бұрын

@@johnstevenson9956 Hee hee! Thanks!

@dhotnessmcawesome9747

3 жыл бұрын

@@johnstevenson9956 Well obviously! Where are we supposed to keep our big red phones? Pfft. Please. Tell me water is wet next. Everyone knows where to place big red phones.

@johnstevenson9956

3 жыл бұрын

@@dhotnessmcawesome9747 LOL Well, I tried keeping my cellphone in there but it looked so empty. So I put a cake in there with it.

@dhotnessmcawesome9747

3 жыл бұрын

@@johnstevenson9956 Well that's reasonable. I mean... Where else would you put a cake when you have a cake tray? NOT on the cake tray like some heathen? I think not.

I visited the Pentagon in 1981 and saw the teletype room, where I was able to send a test message on the English teletype. A response to the test was received on the Russian teletype. Worked exactly as Simon described.

"Text communication was considered less vulnerable to misinterpretation"... Hah! If I had a dollar for every time I got into trouble because the tone of an email I have sent was misinterpreted, I could buy a really nice bottle of whiskey, maybe even two. 😂

@realulli

3 жыл бұрын

Noob! ;-)

@Shinzon23

3 жыл бұрын

Bit of a difference between civilian emails/electronic text messages and this is this is for military/governmental communication and they would have multiple people looking it over before actually sending it to make sure it meant what they were saying.

@dhotnessmcawesome9747

3 жыл бұрын

@@Shinzon23 If it ends in a crying laughing emoji... might just be a joke.

@61rampy65

3 жыл бұрын

Very similar to KZread cimments?

@SuperKingslaw

Жыл бұрын

It was and is necessary for the transmitting side to use their own native language for the same reason. To insure proper interpretation of the transmitted message intent.

We all know that red phone went from commissioner Gordon's office to the batcave

@owenshebbeare2999

3 жыл бұрын

Nah, just geeks and nerds know or care.

I have a mental picture of Obama's anger interpreter dude on the red phone. 😆😅🤣😂😂😂😂😂

How many here are old enough to remember rotary phones ,dialing zero to speak with an operator ,and party lines?

@xaenon

3 жыл бұрын

Not just old enough to remember rotary phones... I still have one. No longer in use, of course, but it sits on a small table next to my antique stereo console. It's just decoration now, but it was fully functional when it was taken out of service in 2004. Before it was mine, it belonged to my parents, who continued to use it as an extension in the basement long after touch-tone replaced it in the living room in the 1970s. Thing could wake the dead, too. You could hear its ring all the way down the block. Bakelite and metal and built like an anvil; you could bludgeon an intruder with that thing, then use it to call the police. Party lines.... man, I do remember those. I also remember when they rebranded that service as 'distinctive ring' to allow a single household to have up to four telephone numbers. Who remembers a 'princess' phone? With the dial in the handset?

@chacdogful

3 жыл бұрын

Party lines? 3way calling? With more 3 way calling...still do that on occasion 😂

@xaenon

3 жыл бұрын

@@chacdogful No, three way calling is something different. Party lines were a way to provide service to as many homes as possible while they were still building the telephone infrastructure. You would share a phone circuit with up to four other households. Each of the households had its own phone number, but the circuit itself was connected to at least one phone in each of up to four houses, and ALL those phones would ring when someone called. So how did you know a call was for you instead of Mr. Jones down the street? Easy. You'd listen for the appropriate number of rings. If you were assigned 'three rings', you would listen for: RING RING RING (pause) RING RING RING and you'd know the call was for you. If it was any other pattern, it wasn't a call for you. The problem was outbound calls. Somebody else on the circuit might be using the phone, and that would prevent you from calling out. You simply had to wait until the line was clear. If it was something of an urgent nature, you could pick up the receiver and ask the other party to clear the line. Legally, if you declared an emergency, like a need for police, fire dept, ambulance, etc. the other party was required to relinquish the line. Other people on the circuit could listen in to your conversation, too. We were aware that at least one other person would listen in on conversations. Obviously there has to be a lot of trust and cooperation in order for it to work, AND you weren't really supposed to hang on the phone all day as became common later on. Once the telephone company strung all the necessary copper, neighborhoods had the option for dedicated household lines for each home. But party line service was still offered at a low cost for quite some time afterward. In the (1970s? 1980s?) the service was rebranded to 'distinct ring' - same basic idea, but limited to one house. Up to four telephone numbers assigned to a single circuit, all within the same residence. The phone in the living room might be one ring, Dad's 'home office' might be two, Li'l Johnny might be listening for three rings, and Sister Susie might have four. Of course, in the 1980s or 1990s, 'party line' became something else entirely - usually chat lines with a per-minute fee.

@kiplambert64

3 жыл бұрын

@@xaenon Yep...

@chacdogful

3 жыл бұрын

@@xaenon Jesus how old are you 😂 jk No, that must have been a city thing. My granddad farmed and built us up. By the time things came his way they worked like they were supposed to. I don’t think he lived close enough for a party line lol. Thank you for that clear explanation though!

That is some seriously strong beard game. Crikey. It's like your hair got tired of being on top and moved down to your face. Much respect.

@linda10989

3 жыл бұрын

Simon is bald. So what? There are a lot of very handsome men who have that condition. Patrick Stewart, Mark Strong, Stanley Tucci, Derek Mears, to name a few

@xliquidflames

2 жыл бұрын

@@linda10989 I know. It's awesome. Add the beard to it and it's also a great look.

Hey Simon, only posting this here because it's your most recent video. But I was just watching the "How Tall can you get" entry from Nine months ago. Idea for a follow up... You CAN get significantly taller or shorter as an adult because of environmental factors. Either through extensive time in space, or walking a lot. Especially while carrying weight. Anthropologists can tell if a tribe was nomadic by looking at the length and density of leg bones. I myself am 3 inches shorter than I was 15 years ago, just because of a life of heavy lifting and a lot of walking (while being over 250 pounds.) Its entirely possible that if you shoot one twin into space and have the other carry 100 lb sacks cross country for ten years...Space Twin could end up six inches taller than Earth Twin. Granted, Space Twin would have zero muscle and the bone density of paper mache, while Earth Twin is made of solid cast iron. But there WOULD be a massive difference in height between them. Just a thought if you ever want to cover it. Keep up the great content!

Thanks for another outstanding video.

"Hello?... Uh... Hello D- uh hello Dmitri? Listen uh uh I can't hear too well. Do you suppose you could turn the music down just a little?... Oh-ho, that's much better... yeah... huh... yes... Fine, I can hear you now, Dmitri... Clear and plain and coming through fine... I'm coming through fine, too, eh?... Good, then... well, then, as you say, we're both coming through fine... Good... Well, it's good that you're fine and... and I'm fine... I agree with you, it's great to be fine... a-ha-ha-ha-ha... Now then, Dmitri, you know how we've always talked about the possibility of something going wrong with the bomb... The _bomb_ , Dmitri... The _hydrogen_ bomb!... Well now, what happened is... uh... one of our base commanders, he had a sort of... well, he went a little funny in the head... you know... just a little... funny. And, uh... he went and did a silly thing... Well, I'll tell you what he did. He ordered his planes... to attack your country... Ah... Well, let me finish, Dmitri... Let me finish, Dmitri... Well listen, how do you think I feel about it?... Can you _imagine_ how I feel about it, Dmitri?... Why do you think I'm calling you? Just to say hello? _Of course_ I like to speak to you!... _Of course_ I like to say hello!... Not now, but anytime, Dmitri. I'm just calling up to tell you something terrible has happened... It's a _friendly_ call. Of course it's a friendly call... Listen, if it wasn't friendly... you probably wouldn't have even got it..."

@61rampy65

3 жыл бұрын

OMG one of the funniest- and maybe scariest- movies of all time! Love Peter Sellers!

@61rampy65

3 жыл бұрын

And DR Boze's comment deserves Wayyyy more likes!!!

"The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" It's something called a pangram. It's a phrase or sentence that uses every letter of the alphabet. It you grew up in the 80s or 90s and took typing classes you probably typed it about 1000 times.

@joeyr7294

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I don't miss typing class one bit!

@floridaboz1

3 жыл бұрын

Yes so many times, the bad part is my typing teacher did not explain things very well, and never knew why I typed that sentence so many times when I was in class. But she also told us that typewriters are the wave of the future and that this stupid computer and internet fad would be gone in a few years.

@mikesimonian484

3 жыл бұрын

Took typing. Never had to type that.

@xaenon

3 жыл бұрын

@@mikesimonian484 Oh, I did. It was our warm-up exercise every class. Typed it ten times every day.

@Shinzon23

3 жыл бұрын

I grew up in the 1990s and this was still a thing

I wonder if those communications are kept on record (I’d probably a rather highly secret one), or if, in the interest of confidentiality, those communications are completely destroyed.

Good video 👍

Thank you

Obviously the "red telephone" should be a global network connecting such entities as Ethiopia/Eritrea, China/Vietnam, India/Pakistan, on and on. Why not symbolize the system with a red telephone? The symbolism, as Simon points out, is important.

"Am I to understand the Russian ambassador. Is to be admitted entrance to the.. War Room?"

@cympimpin20

3 жыл бұрын

He'll see everything! He'll see the big board!

@Yaivenov

3 жыл бұрын

You can't fight here, this is the war room!

@rashakawa

3 жыл бұрын

There's no fighting in the war room!!!

@rashakawa

3 жыл бұрын

Straight up number one all-time favorite movie!!!!

@61rampy65

3 жыл бұрын

Hey! How can I eat my dinner when all these comments are making me laugh hysterically???

The Soviet Invasion of 1979 was during President Carter's time period - 8:15

It's noteworthy that the missiles in Cuba were a clear response to US missiles in Turkey - but few Americans remember that.

Woah. Good thing I just went on break!

I would really like a biographics episode on Henry Kissinger! (And Robert McNamara) (And also Leonid Brezhnev)

@salvus7021

3 жыл бұрын

I second the Kissinger idea. Just to hear Simon mention the late Christopher Hitchens.

@Jonas.856

3 жыл бұрын

@@salvus7021 (Oh, and also Christopher Hitchens)

Now that is genius. with many people in between the communication taking out the feeling and emotion of the people sending the message so not to be misinterpreted.

Having multiple lines of direct communication is definitely not a bad idea. It's not unrealistic that a situation demanding the use of this hotline, may involve a disruption in other means of communication - wether the reason be warfare, terrorism or natural disaster.

Hi Simon! here's an idea on the same lines as this topic! "does the Nuclear Commission link all the nuclear power plants (and other Atomic facilities) via hotlines ('Red phones' I love that term!) and systematically check-in with them all on a regular basis?"

Lol "If you are ugly and have blemishes then you are an eyesore, buy Geologie or out of consideration of everyone else that isn't ugly stay out of their sight" is what I got out of that sponsor spot.

Pronunciation check: _Kosygin_ is usually pronounced with a stress on the second syllable: "kos-EE-gin" (hard G).

@nubworthycigars6682

3 жыл бұрын

Or in if it were Japanese Ko-se-e-gi-n

"The reply from Moscow was reportedly unintelligible" : "Съешь ещё этих мягких французских булок, да выпей же чаю"?

What happened to your video about ww2 and the utility dresses, makeup, etc? I can't seem to find it anywhere.

Cool to know

More reliable? Talk about playing a game of telephone. We've all played that and in the end what we said changed drastically.

@mattmarzula

3 жыл бұрын

That's because someone playing the game somewhere along the "line" deliberately sabotaged the message. When the world is at stake and professionals are handling the information, it isn't a bunch of kids trying to be funny.

@williamjeffersonclinton69

3 жыл бұрын

Purple Monkey Dishwasher

@loka7783

3 жыл бұрын

@@mattmarzula It also helps that the message is handled in a way that does not follow the rules of narrative telephone. They can in fact, listen to the message multiple times before relaying it to the next in the chain so as to ensure accuracy. Critical Roll's "Narrative Telephone" series are prime examples of how not to handle a world leader's communication. :)

@pr0xZen

3 жыл бұрын

In case you didn't pick up that detail, the original message is passed along with its translation, all the way home. This way those serving at the leader's side, can quickly compare the two and point out any errors or lapse in translation, should the message be of great imporance in a moment of tension or crisis. And yes, both leaders have multiple people at their side, fluid in russian, mandarin, arab / persian (farsi) etc, for among these reasons.

@binaryglitch64

3 жыл бұрын

Educational thread... good work.

My test messages would lines from Red Alert and Red Alert 2 "Shake it baby" "Kirov reporting" "Ready for meltdown"

This vid' raises a good question: How DID Batman set up that hotline to Commissioner Gordon's office without somehow compromising either his secret identity or the location of the Batcave?!

Simon and co making: ‘do they use a red phone’, ‘no’, actually interesting

The title is that a reference to Dr. Strange Love?

There are so many “one guy saved the world from ww3” stories that I’m pretty sure everyone saved the world from nuke annihilation!!

I just realized that I am not aware of any movie showing the Kremlin side of that hotline. Would that phone be depicted as red as well (or rather red-white-blue)? And would the General Secretary have a yellow phone as well, for contact with China, their main competitor in the dominance-over-the-communist-world game?

@SerumCRM114

3 жыл бұрын

I think the movie "The Sum of All Fears" shows the Russian side of the hotline, but I am not completely sure 🤔.

@SerumCRM114

3 жыл бұрын

Yep, found it: kzread.info/dash/bejne/dIlqo5mrnpSbn6Q.html

@WarpRadio

3 жыл бұрын

The phone on the Kremlin side would have been a wooden box with a crank at one end.. MABEL?! MABEL?!... and what would happen if Earnestine Tomlin was the operator?? RUSSIA: "This is Putin- Connect me to the President of the US..." EARNESTINE (The operator): "I'm Sorry.. please insert another 500 Rupels for the next 3 minutes! Thank you! that box sounds pretty full- I better get down there on my dinner break and empty it out!"

@jhdix6731

3 жыл бұрын

@@SerumCRM114 Yep, I know that one, but I wondered if there was a counterpart to the "red phone" trope.

Here's one for you Simon, et.al. Anacreon In Heaven, or, the British melody that spawned an American anthem. Please do this story.

How did author Peter Bryant (his name is on the bookcover shown) get changed to ‘Peter George’ in Simon’s narrative?

@karnickel-s33d16

3 жыл бұрын

It's like how in the UK they call ice pops ice lollies

yes and its been used

Around 1969, I toured the Oregon Governor's office as part of a Capitol tour. He had a literal red phone that connected directly to the White House switchboard.

10:20 I remember this campaign ad. We had to pay attention to the 1984 campaign cycle for President for civics class. I think the teacher was later arrested for child abuse.

1:18 to skip the ads.

That quote?

The president picks up the phone to prevent ww3, then the operator comes on and says 'please deposit 25 cents'. AT&T causes ww3.

@Richard_Nickerson

3 жыл бұрын

Do payphones even still exist?

A couple of corrections re the cited events of 1979: the rise of Solidarność in Poland, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, and the Lebanese Civil War all either began or largely occurred during the Jimmy Carter administration. So it would likely have been him authorizing the hotline. Ronald Reagan became US President on January 20, 1981.

The British Red Telephone is phone to the switchboard in Russia.

I would say ‘early in the Cold War’ isn’t after the Cuban missile crisis but the first 10 years…

Batman was the first to have a hotline telephone : P

I always thought the presidential big red phone was a direct line to a superhero. 🤷🏻‍♂️

a thought spread by batman tv show where gordon had red phone

....but does the President have a red-phone hotline to ZOWIE if he needs to contact Derek Flint?

@xaenon

3 жыл бұрын

didida Didida DIDIDA didida Didida.....

@davidsigalow7349

3 жыл бұрын

@@xaenon The ringtone was unforgettable. I wonder if I can get that for my phone?

@carlsage8198

3 жыл бұрын

@@davidsigalow7349 kzread.info/dash/bejne/daOfsJeBl9zMdJs.html

And it's because of this belief that any classic rotary dial or dial-less (also called "manual") telephone in red gets called a "presidential phone" on ebay at an extortionate asking price, because it's red, not because it just happened to be a common colour choice for the subscriber of the phone service with which it was issued... :P

For me it’s the Bat Phone all day long

As a child of the Cold War in suburban Chicago, I believed in the "Red Line" for reassurance that tomorrow wasn't going to be the sunniest day of my life. A bright, incredibly sunny, extremely hot day. With, for some inexplicable reason, tornado sirens wailing away. Duck and cover, kids. Here comes a big wind.

5:01 Because nobody has ever misunderstood a text message.

@owenshebbeare2999

3 жыл бұрын

Less likely, as diplomatic language is used, colloquialisms avoided, and emotive tone ans accents removed. Not perfect, just less liable to misinterpretation, even though spoken communication would be recorded too. Plus they are not sms style texts, full context and removam of ambiguity is at least aimed for.

I've heard that the control rooms of American nuclear power plants have a red phone on a direct line to the Nuclear Regulatory Administration.

0:00 ??? Are you saying there are people who thought that movie Prop/McGuffin was a symbol of the US Pres actually having a Phone Directly inked to Moscow???

Good information. Reagan wasn’t President in 1979 though...

Good evening, this is Mr. Gorbachev- Hello Gorby, this is the White House, Ronald Reagan speaking- Hello, my old friend, how are you today? Fine! It's time for our daily chess-match, are you ready? Yes, my last move yesterday was the Queen from A6 to B6-

BIDEN: Hey, Vlad, what's up!? BATMAN: Who's this? You're on a private line! BIDEN: Oops! Wrong dial

@akizeta

3 жыл бұрын

Adam West Batman would be more respectful.

@MMarin1983

3 жыл бұрын

​@@akizeta Indeed! Christian Bale's Batman on the other hand... "I want you off the fucking line, you PRICK!"

Personalized skin care? Yeah... I've been using water, soap, and a razor. Seems to work just fine.

@Richard_Nickerson

3 жыл бұрын

Not everyone has such luck 🤷‍♂️

@mattmarzula

3 жыл бұрын

@@Richard_Nickerson first off, I'm not a dermatologist... It's not luck. It's conditioning. It's also more about what you put into your body than what you put on it. If you eat garbage and cover your skin, it suffers. I don't have great skin genetics. I do have the best skin in my family. It's because I don't put cosmetics and pharmaceuticals on it. I simply moisten, cleanse, and scrape away dead skin. I learned this living in desert areas for years always on the go with limited access to water and hygiene products. Your skin gets tough if you don't baby it.

@Richard_Nickerson

3 жыл бұрын

@@mattmarzula 1. Wtf does being a dermatologist have to do with anything? I never so much as implied that you are one, so... k? 2. Saying that it's all about what you eat rather than a variety of other things such as genetics or genuine skin conditions would've been enough to prove that you're not a dermatologist anyway. You're just one of those people who think what one eats controls literally everything. However, there are many, many factors for literally all kinds of health. The truth is that you're just genetically a healthy individual who supposedly augments that natural health with a good diet and whatnot. Yes, it IS luck that you don't need products to have perfect skin. Yes, it's really ignorant and douchey to tell people you know absolutely nothing about that diet is the one and only key to health.

It's a diet coke phone :P

Operator please contact me to Moscow via the big crimson red phone!

i ve got a red phone to call batman

HELP ME SIMON! I NEED MORE CREAMS IN MY LIFE!!!

after missile crisis the red phone went in ..jfk

Jimmy Carter was President in 1979 during the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan.

The red phone is connected to the bat cave. Duh.

The only red phone ☎️ is Gordon/Batman

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The whole reason for needing a direct hotline is because they are enemies. There is no reason to have that kind of thing with allies, anything you need to talk about can wait, and isn't going to end the world if it isn't cleared up real fast.

👍👍👍

Did no one notice that this Sponsor means Mountain Science/ geology in German :D funny to think oft it AS a skin care product - like pimples AS Mountains :D

My test message would be *ENEMY AC-130 ABOVE* and *dread it, run from it, yet destiny still arrives*

You know what would help even better than a hotline? An entire country's media empires not constantly slandering, belittling, and blaming them for everything, without evidence.

This is honestly absurd. Two mortal enemies that have a direct, encrypted line of communication between eachother? It seems ironic.

@jonhall2274

3 жыл бұрын

It's really not, a line of communication when MAD is at hand, more often than not would lead to cooler heads prevailing and prevention of said MAD.

I can just imagine two world leaders Tweeting each other in the middle of the night when they're just bored. No political talk, just two people having a friendly conversation.

@WarpRadio

3 жыл бұрын

like Trump was doing to Putin's girlfriend? hehe

So Goodwin's law existed as far back as 1964

@owenshebbeare2999

3 жыл бұрын

^Godwin's. It is indeed a tool used by some to either shut down a debate or nullify an argument. It certainly is of the Internet age, and a tool/weapon regularly abused.

I was in the Canadian pandemic situation room in 2009 on a tour and they had a red phone I picked it up and someone instantly answered which surprised the hell out of me.

@Richard_Nickerson

3 жыл бұрын

I'll take Things That Never Happened for $500

Jimmy Carter, not Reagan in 1979

Simon is realistic af, yet here he is...promoting creams that “make you look younger “ 🙄🤦🏻‍♂️

@BlueCollarBachelor

3 жыл бұрын

I mean, beer makes women look younger. It all depends on where it's administered.

@brandonlyon730

3 жыл бұрын

Everyone’s got to put food on the table somehow, and KZread has make things overly complicated with there dumb algorithm, copyright, and monetization systems.

@AggressivelyMediocre

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah. I don’t like how little effort he puts into making his adds stand out from his actual factual work. I like channels that take the piss out of their ads or let it be completely clear that it’s an ad and that everything said within that time window should be ignored.

"The quick brown fox..." as a test message sounds pretty worn out. I'd use something like "Oh my God! It's full of stars". But thinking about it, there are two flaws there. #1, the quote was not created at that time. #2, the Soviets may not have liked a reference to God.

@randacnam7321

3 жыл бұрын

'Quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog' contains every letter of the English alphabet and thus verifies that the teletype machine is fully working for all letters. Coming up with a new test message would require it to also be a pangram.

@OldieBugger

3 жыл бұрын

@@randacnam7321 Ok, ok. I missed that point. I just didn't think it mattered with a one-time cipher (which it doesn't).

people might be thinking of batman...

US: *puts missiles near USSR* USSR: Okay, then. USSR: *puts missiles near US* US: OMG how could you?! WTF us your problem?!?!

@mattmarzula

3 жыл бұрын

Our hemisphere was the one experiencing peace and not threatening invasions.

@akizeta

3 жыл бұрын

@@mattmarzula The US putting nuclear missiles in Turkey capable of reaching Moscow was hardly a _peaceful_ move.

@gailseatonhumbert9199

3 жыл бұрын

They were already in Turkey and were due to have been removed

@brandonlyon730

3 жыл бұрын

@@akizeta Course after WW2, Stalin had promised to eventually remove there armies out of many former German occupied nations and they never did or not til decades later after his death. It’s hard to completely trust them after stuff like that.

@cubey

3 жыл бұрын

@@brandonlyon730 The US has been commiting genocides in the middle east for 20 years for oil.

The rest of the world do everything they can to foster good relationships between themselves and the rest of the planet. It's really telling that some countries don't see the benefits of friendship and co-operation. I think it's that attitude that explains how the world feels about certain countries.

@smarterthanall1659

2 жыл бұрын

This is objectively false.

@thehangmansdaughter1120

2 жыл бұрын

@@smarterthanall1659 Umm, some of us really do try to build good relationships with other nations. New Zealand does everything we can to be good global citizens.

@smarterthanall1659

2 жыл бұрын

@@thehangmansdaughter1120 Every nation tries to build good relationships with other nations but geopolitics has shown for thousands of years the lust far power and resources for outweigh any and all relationships at the end of the day. This is true then, it's true now, and it'll be true long after every nation currently around has been forgotten.

@thehangmansdaughter1120

2 жыл бұрын

@@smarterthanall1659 Some nations have no lust for power outside their own countries. When was the last time Iceland made a power grab? Or Taonga? Or NZ? We've never tried to take resources from other countries. We foster good relations because those relationships lead to trade, something we absolutely need to survive. Why fight when trade is easier? While some nations do try to dominate others there are many who don't. Small countries such as ours simply don't have the ability, nor the desire, to stir up trouble. We don't get into conflicts with other countries. We don't try to infringe upon others rights, or dictate how their countries should be run. We trade in good faith. We send humanitarian aide without a political agenda and take refugees (though we should take more). Not every country has the desire to invade or dominate. Most don't have the capability even if they wanted to.

@smarterthanall1659

2 жыл бұрын

@@thehangmansdaughter1120 This is absolutely true and these such countries are at the complete mercy of larger neighbors. This is how its always been and always will be. War, Revolution, Annexation, and Secession the rapid or gradual collapse of States into new States the movement of people, resources, and weapons. The adaption of new technology or traditions the evolving jungle of ideology. It's all apart of the mess we call human nature. Regardless of the peacefulness of the people or location, war and degradation gets everyone eventually. Larger nations bully smaller nations either militarily or economically into more or less becoming Vassal States you see it all over the planet.

Don't dodge the question Fact Boy! Is it Z or Zed? Make up my mind!

Who cares Commissioner Gordon had one straight to Batman!

??? Ronald Reagan During the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan?????

Probably, but there is a big red button connected directly to Moscow

So did the Kremlin have red white and blue phones?

8:05 "Surprise Attack"? The June 5th 1967 Israeli attacks on Syria and Egypt were were in response to the May 22nd 1967 Egyptian blockade of the strait of Tiran through which Israel received 90% of it's oil. Syria had a Mutual defense pact with Egypt (Signed November 1966) as did Jordan (Signed May 30th 1967)

@brandonlyon730

3 жыл бұрын

Not to mention Egypt moved in thousands of soldiers near the border after kicking out UN forces.

In today’s political environment, Shouldn’t we also have a connection with China.? We could have 3 way calls like back in the day. Lol. Does other countries do this as well? Like China and India, or Iran and Israel?

Saudi Arabia became convinced Saddam was going to invade their land after Iraq stopped answering their hotline, before the first Gulf War.

Such a great channel but he should really drop his super fake over-the-top old-fashioned RP accent.

5:30 Historically there is one thing that all unbreakable cyphers have had in common. They have all been breakable.

@joshduthie3401

3 жыл бұрын

A one time pad isn't really breakable. It is completely random, and can only be decoded with another copy of that one time pad. It's called "one time" because each page of codes is only used once, so the next time it's used the letters are scrambled completely differently. And (if Tom Clancy novels are to be believed), they throw in a few non-english names randomly to mess up any attempt at analysis via statistical analysis (i.e. "e" is the most common letter"). Of course, it *can* be compromised if someone were to get a copy of the pad.

@erictaylor5462

3 жыл бұрын

@@joshduthie3401 The Nazis believed they had an unbreakable code in Enigma, but the English broke it. So what happens if you depend on an "unbreakable" broken code? The Nazis found out in 1945. So did the Japanese. No code should be considered unbreakable. Because you can't know how someone who isn't you might find a way to break it. Same for any security system. There is no such thing as a totally secure system.

@61rampy65

3 жыл бұрын

The Navajo code talkers language was never broken by an enemy.

@erictaylor5462

3 жыл бұрын

@@61rampy65 Failure to break a code does not mean the code is unbreakable. Unbreakable means it's not possible to break it. The Japanese failed to break the Navajo code because they didn't know code did not corresponded to English. Had they known it was in fact a Native American language they might have figured it out. Rather clever if you ask me. Even a simple letter exchange code would be impossible to break if you assumed it was English and it was, in fact, French.

@61rampy65

3 жыл бұрын

@@erictaylor5462 Maybe. But my comment is correct as written.

Really loving the fake conversations about investing, Simon, what the hell

"Mr. Khrushchev said 'We will burry you' I don't subscribe to this point of view.

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