The song hits unexpectedly hard in the game. You spend hours focusing on combat and preparing/fighting war, and at the very end, when the guns fall silent, there isn't a victory march or jubilant song. Instead, it's just a serene droning from strings as the firing stops and the world falls silent.
Really tops off a good campaign. I just finished a Soviet Union gameplay, I almost lost twice, fight from 1941 to 1951. When Berlin and Tokyo fell to me and the Allies, and those two peace conferences, I felt happy. Then this plays as I review how everything changed. It was a satisfying victory. Europe was destroyed, Asia was destroyed, but in the end victory was achieved. I even signed NAP's with allies so peace was guaranteed. What a nice way to end the game :)
Only downside is it plays everytime the United States wins a war (no matter how short) in the game. Every time. Regardless of what side you're on as well. Like my last run, I was playing the Soviets and decided that I wanted to consume Europe. Well the US went to war with a minor nation for whatever reason and won, and the speech played as I was jamming to Wolfpack and annihilating Italian ships. Then again, I was dominating East Asia, and the US won some minor war they were in and low and behold it interrupted my song to play the speech once more. I didn't want a third time so I invaded and annexed the US, just to get it to stop.
kind of ironic that the guy advocating for peace here is the same guy advocating for dropping 49 nukes on Chinese forces in the Korean war barely 5 years later
Restored Romanovs in Russia and reformed Triple Entente but had to fight Germany and Japan from 1941 all the way to 1953. Military casualties on the eastern front alone (both sides) were about 50 million. Hearing this during the peace conference of a seemingly endless war was one of the greatest moments of clarity and relief I ever felt in gaming.
@@GoofusPlays It is possible, once i had a very long war (i messed up multiple things and it went until the 1960s or so) and the soviet union ALONE had 50 million casualties
I don't know why, but the occasional beeping of the telegraph just gets me every time. The sound of this message being recorded and sent back to millions just hits me differently.
This is remarkable because it brings fanaticism into light and shows you the importance of peace, rather than lighting up patriotism. But again, you can only speak like this when peace is at hand, not the other way around.
Heard this during my democratic Czechoslovakia run. For once, the Allied AI wasn't stupid and performed an effective D-day in 1943, slowly driving Germans eastward while Soviets advanced westward. My Czechoslovakia never surrendered and held for five long years. Hundreds of thousands Germans died on my forts, yet I could not advance. But then the Allies came and the long siege had finally ended. Germans capitulated in late 1943 and were divided into occupation zones. Hearing this speech, I only imagined the imaginary relief of my virtual countrymen. It really was a great feeling.
I played as monarchist Portugal, invaded Spain before the ww2 began and secured the peninsula. I grew my military strength to something that I wanted to test, so I declared war on the Germans and joined the allies. Over the course of 7 years, with the fall of the Soviet Union, I fought hopelessly as the UK fell, then got pushed back to the border between Spain and France. I lost about 2-3 million Portuguese and Spanish on those mountains until I finally broke the lines and pushed to Berlin, liberating the UK and France as I went. Hearing this speech after the peace treaty was signed finally put me into a peaceful state of mind after a few hours of stressful play.
4:10 “We stand in Tokyo today, reminiscent of our countryman, Commodore Perry, ninety-two years ago. His purpose was to-“ *record scratch* *cut to Bill Wurtz’ history of japan* open the country… stop having it be closed…
I always find it beautifully ironic that MacArthur talks about the utter destructiveness of war and technology for the first time in human history ending the ability to sort out our differences via combat. Nuclear weapons and industrial war machines have brought us on the brink of Armageddon. Same man then 5 years later insists on nuking the Manchuria-Korea border pre-emptively to prevent a land invasion.
yesterday i was playing the uk and it was the first tima i managed to actually end ww2 in hoi4, the germans were about to capture moscow when i had to dday to divert some troops, after som fighting and the us landing in japan i heard this speech for the first time, ever knew that this was even in game
Sounds like the voice of God speaking through this , 'Great Man" "we have had our last chance," he said. He was right, as will stare into abyss of "Armageddon' geopolitically and ecologically from the misapplication of our technology which has outstripped our wisdom in it's application. Must be of the "Spirit"if we are to save the flesh. McArthur was a very enlightened being.
@@bishopbrennan3558 It's still a rather dubious way of putting things that a person could take as inferring the superiority of one group of people over another.
Finished a campaign last night. The war lasted from 1939 to 1957, as the Allies fought the Comintern right after. The WW2 lasted about six years in my game. The WW3 lasted for twelve years. The casualties for the whole era were about 100 million.
while i love the speech i also find it funny how he mentions Perry's expedition to Japan as something positive despite the fact it was clear imperialism.
"If the talents of the race are turned into constructive channels, the country can lift itself from its present deplorable state of into a position of dignity" Fast Forward to 21st century: Tentacle porn and used panty machines.
Operation Ichi-Go is an operation conducted by the Japanese Army on the Chinese mainland from April 17th to December 10th, 1944 during the Sino-Japanese War. It was the last major offensive of the Japanese Army, which caused the National Revolutionary Army to be hit hard and affected during the Chinese Civil War. However, on the other hand, the United States is also mediating the conclusion of the Double Tenth Agreement with Chiang Kai-shek in order to avoid a civil war. According to a study by Barbara W. Tuchman, the results of this operation had a more significant impact on the subsequent war situation than the Japanese had imagined, and had a decisive impact on Japan's fate. According to it, Franklin Roosevelt has consistently strongly trusted and supported Chiang Kai-shek since the beginning of the war, and encouraged him in the war against Japan so that he would not drop out of the Allies in a single peace with Japan during the Cairo Conference. However, he said that he changed his mind because the front of Chiang Kai-shek collapsed due to this operation. In fact, Chiang Kai-shek has not been invited to important Allied conferences ("Yalta Conference" and "Potsdam Conference") since then. According to the Stilwell document, Roosevelt said, "Can China win?" Stilwell said, "There is no choice but to eliminate Chiang Kai-shek." During the 1944 Hengyang battle, he could not sleep at night and twice. He says he thought about suicide. The American side also planned to assassinate Chiang Kai-shek, and three methods of "poisoning", "aircraft incident", and "pretending to be suicide" were considered, but it was canceled in 1944 due to changes in the international situation such as Burma. The successor that the United States envisioned is Sun Fountain. As Roosevelt's Chief of Staff George Marshall and General Joseph Stilwell have long insisted, Chiang Kai-shek's army is actually a demoralized and corrupt organization that does not form an army. It became clear that he had no desire or ability to fight with the United States and other Allied forces. As a result, President Roosevelt changed the scenario of the operation against Japan from the conventional bombing of Japan and other countries from the air bases of mainland China to the one that MacArthur and others claimed to occupy the islands of the Pacific Ocean one after another. China was dismissed at the Yalta Conference, and the Allied nation's footsteps were disturbed, with angry Chiang Kai-shek presenting a peace plan to Japan against the will of the United States. In the Japan-US negotiations, Japan's allegations were peace by the confluence of Wang Jingwei of the Nanjing government and Chiang Kai-shek of the Chongqing government, and a proposal for defense from communism jointly by Japan and China. The US allegation was the withdrawal of Japanese troops from China, admitting only the Chongqing government. The negotiations broke down and the United States stopped oil, resulting in a war between Japan and the United States. The Japanese Operation Ichi-Go attack left the National Revolutionary Army with 750,000 casualties. This caused the Kuomintang to lose to the Communist Party in the civil war. China would not have been dominated by the dictatorship Communist Party if it had made peace with Japan and cooperated in protecting it from communism.
Nothing hurts more than knowing that men made from iron, hard work, dedication and fanaticism gave birth to a nation that would rather kill itself than be called a racist. May the boomer be remembered forever of how he embraced cowardice over the birthright of absolute strength.
What did you want? For the allies to shed 3 million more men? Or quickly end a war. The Japanese had a terrible amount of zeal, with them fighting all the way till today, where the Japanese government denies it's warcrimes.
@@orientof It's not about what I want the United States sending in The real peace treaty proposal said in Tehran That was argued For the surrender of Japan that handle quite literally said nothing about killing the head of state but instead the United States sent in an Extremely vague threat that they would be killing the Japanese emperor. Though If the soviet Union hadn't invaded the Japanese government would keep on getting nuked ritualistically Because if you didn't know The Japanese government was trying to appease to the Soviet Union In order to get a deal that wouldn't end in the death of their emperor Until Is the Soviet Is invasion of manurchia The nukes quite literally did nothing But murder civilians
@@reddawn1873 I suggest you watch "Knowing Better"'s video on this topic, the Japanese emperor said in the surrender speech "Japan has surrendered due to the use of evil bombs" referencing Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
@@orientof japanese cabinet Secretary of State: "The chance had come to end the war. It was not Necessary to blame the military side or the manufacturing Is people or anyone else It was just the atomic bomb It was a good excuse Someone said it was the kamikaze to save Japan." From this qoute It is implied that The atomic bomb was nothing more but an excuse To keep It's national pride And not embarrass anyone To say you cheated so we didn't actually lose Don't believe everything the government tells you It was only on August 8 That the Soviet Union invaded That the Japanese council decided to make movement in order to discuss peace but it Waited the next day In order to Have every council member available the day of the 2nd bombing on August 9th But nevertheless the council again got into deadlock and so the day after the bombing the day they surrendered It was the Japanese emperor that had to come for a special meeting in order to break the deadlock
