The King’s man (2022) The story about the 3 cousins scene 

IIRC even during the initial stages of the war when they thought they could bring it to a peaceful solution they still signed their letters as Georgy, Nicky, and Willy. I'll say what didnt help easy tensions was that all three cousins were stilling using an idea from the age of Napoleon and Bismarck. That is if war broke out, if you mobilized before hand you'd suffer less devastation. (and yes they were all either first or second cousins once removed)

The Austrian and Russian Ambassadors tried really hard to smooth things over too. Even the German and Russian ones when Austria’s ambassador died.

That's so oddly wholesome it makes you wonder what if their nations were able to keep the peace😔

@@diegoandrade467 I could be wrong, but i believe it was the French who really pushed for the war

@@isaac3702 somewhat. The French were greatly angered by the loss of Alsace-Lorraine so they prepared for the chance to get it back. They allied with Russia and refused cooperation with Germany. Russia protected Serbia so naturally they’d be involve at the start but there would’ve been no world war if Germany didn’t issue the Blank Check.

Not true. Wilhelm was an ardent supporter of expansion of the German Reich, particularly overseas in terms of creating a larger global empire and a fleet that could rival the British. He was more than happy to use the Austrian invasion of Serbia as a pretext to expand Germany’s power in mainland Europe (at the expense of the French and Russians) and overseas (at the expense of the British). Tsar Nicholas also was a firm supporter of using WWI to restore Russia’s reputation as a leading power following their humiliating defeat to Japan, and to also r establish themselves as the pre-eminent Slavic nation that would defend their neighbours. But as you say, George had no real power, but Britains policy at the time was to not let any power in mainland Europe get too powerful and so they went to war to support France against Germany, and also to defend Belgium which they had helped to establish following the Napoleonic wars.

What a very educated response!

@@samr131also wrong. It is true that Wilhelm Held the British in contempt, but from his letter exchanges with Tsar Nikolaus we know that The Kaiser and the Tsar were trying to stop the War before it began. In one of the letters, Wilhelm is begging Nikolaus to stand his troops down and not to mobilize.

@@samr131 However it makes the ending part no less true when George V expressed relief that Britain didn’t get an anti-monarchal revolution, even if he was saying that to a fictitious character.

@@wolfbrigade1425 I may have been quick to say wrong. But it’s all well and good for Wilhem to beg Nikolaus to tell his troops to stand down. Why didn’t Wilhelm make efforts to demobilise his troops? Bismarck was gone at this stage and the Kaiser was the ultimate authority on whether they wanted to go to war. Wilhelm wanted to expand German power at the cost of Britain and France, that is plain to see. Him imploring Nicholas to demobilise was him wanting Russia out of the war so Germany could focus on the western front.

Unfortunately, Denmark was never a great power, so I don’t think the writers cared that King George V and Tsar Nicholas II were grandsons of King Christian IX, even though his nickname was the Father in Law of Europe. Wilhelm and Nicholas were related. 3rd cousins through Emperor Paul I of Russia, and 2nd cousins once removed through King Frederick William of Prussia. But 1st cousins are easier to remember even if it is a lie.

Nice effort to make it look like he's a nice guy.

@@ahmadsantoso9712 Indeed he was. The problem with Kaiser Wilhelm II was his cocky, overly manly and hotheaded manner, which also led to several crises, such as the Moroccan ones. After the initial excitement and reactionary actions, he usually came to his senses and rowed back. Only the situation shortly before the Great War was such that all the great powers of Europe were working towards a confrontation. That is why the general thesis applies today that the German Reich is not solely responsible for the war, but that all the great powers of Europe have committed a collective suicide.

@@ahmadsantoso9712 >ahmad Ignoring the violent refugee

@@janweber7910 ''the general thesis applies today that the German Reich is not solely responsible for the war'' It's an established fact that Germany was not the only nation responsible for WWI

@@ahmadsantoso9712 He's way better than Churchill and Stalin

I blame Tzar Nicholas II. He was the one that mobilized troops. Had the Kaiser not declared war and mobilized his troops, Germany would be at a disadvantage as the first troops at the border has upper hand. Nicholas II wanted to distract his people from the Russo-Japanese war.

@@b1crusade384 yes I agree the over confidant Russians significantly escalated the situation knowing the French would back them. Tsar Nicholas was a highly incompetent leader that would prove fatal to the Russian Empire.

Specially in Britain, where the King had (and still has) no real power. The Supreme Authority is the Prime Minister and Parliament

It was Kaiser Bills fault. He’s the one who gave the Austrian’s the blank cheque in the first place. As for Nicholas deflecting from the Russo-Japanese war, that ended in 1905.

@@iangascoigne8231 🐂💩 Blank check meant hostility towards Serbia. And Europeans powers have never kept promises/treaties after it stops serving their interest. If Tzar Nicholas II would of had sat down with the Kaiser in neutral Switzerland and told him there will be war with Russia or ban of German good in Russia and any country’s good that buys from Germany if Kaiser went to war with Serbia, the Kaiser would withdraw support to Austria against Serbia. Easy, as Kaiser wanted Russia as an ally in some way and Kaiser knew it needed a strong ally. But no. The Tzar expelled any Duma member who was against war with Germany and pushed hard for war by mobilizing troops to the German border. The Kaiser was forced to declare war as a delay would mean Russia had first-strike advantage. The stigma of Russo-Japanese war was still strong and Tzar wanted a distraction.

Same

fun fact in real life king gorge and tzar nicolas look so much alike that one could say they were twins in my opinion that makes nicolas's fate a lot more sad

He also played George V in the BBC drama - The Lost Prince

But then who is Tom Hollandest?

@@stepanserdyuk4589 A Tom born in Holland

He was the crown

WE CANNOT AFFORD TO LET THEM EXPAND THEIR EMPIRE ANY FURTHER NOW THAT THEY HAVE A SAUSAGE FACTORY IN TANGANYIKA

Well technically it was the British Government which acted in his name. It was his empire yes but ruling was done by the Cabinet and Parliament. His Majesty had very little say in anything really. He had the position and privileges but no power.

"If events continue, the Germans, who have a larger population and economy, may be approaching 1/3 of our naval strength!!"

Well it wasn't really about imperialism at the start, was it? It was about Germany invading Belgium and France. The imperial dimension came, inevitably, later. So that wasn't the reason it started.

That is the reality of geopolitics, it’s a zero sum game. If you aren’t gaining, you are losing. This is why even with the establishment of the Pax Americana and unipolarity, America still spends so much on defense and is involved around the world: the moment they let up, Beijing fills the vacuum and reestablishes a bipolar world order (as we’ve seen over the last decade). The same exact logic applied to the Pax Brittanica in the 19th century, and why Britain was so dead-set against German overseas expansion in the early 20th.

It’s set in the universe where there’s a literal cowboy with a electric whip, I think historical accuracy is thrown out the window in the first movie

@@beeaggressive160 lol yea

@@beeaggressive160 I'll buy an Electric whip (which is actually possible, but not usable) before I'll ever buy a magic headwrap that brings headshot victims back to LIFE

@@beeaggressive160 Still a more believable alt history than Inglourious “scalp every German you can see but completely leave out motherfucking Himmler” Basterds story.

The movie introduces historical figures like comicbook villains. Just look how they introduce Adolf Hitler in the end. It's not supposed to be historically accurate but I like the aesthetic

Sadly not many places sell toy soldiers like this any more. However if your are willing to accept a smaller scale with some painting and assembly. There are a few tabletop war games. Perry minitures is my personal recommendation.

aliexpress, china

King and Country from Hong Kong. Beautiful painted metal soldiers.

something big like these soldiers are probably special (maybe bigger movie props easy to see in the big screen, and to emphasize the grandieur of the monarch's playroom) , if someone made them this big (in metal) back then they werent common. you're more likely to find smaller metalic soldiers or bigger wooden ones

The British won the war and were the most powerful nation for a time, so it's rightfully deserved propaganda

So true

As long as Germany could keep all the lands they over ran he was for peace.

@@dodge-ut6ti You're delusional. Grow up and look at actual history, not some spoon-fed British propaganda. Clearly the biggest colonial Empire owning 1/3 of the world must act to stop "German imperialism". Clown.

@@ElfboiiYeah Next your going to tell me hitler wasn't that bad either. Get off your l hate the British. Because you are running with a bad crowd when you defend losers like the Kaiser. PS l like how Sargent York almost captured the whole of the Kaiser's army.

YEP, just look at the brittish who only went to war after Belgiums neutrality was violated by Germany but then soon after proceed to invade/occupy Greece when they were neutral nearly sparking a civil war.....

@@ryanv2324 technically Belgian neutrally was broken after England allowed them to join the Entente as stated by the 1839 treaty of London quoting Article 7 “Belgium, within the limits specified in Articles 1, 2 and 7, shall form an independent and perpetually neutral State. It shall be bound to observe such neutrality towards all other states.” That last part is very important as it states that Belgium is to remain neutral from other states meaning they couldn’t form or join alliances. Britain and France by allowing the Belgium into the Entente violated the treaty and had the war gone in the Central Powers favor England and France would’ve had to answer for it along England answering for the North Sea Blockade, them allowing Canadian troops to do what ever they wanted to German POW’s, and let’s not forget allowing military arms and ammunition to be shipped to England on civilian cruise liners which is against the Genova Convention. Edit: I also found out recently during the French bomb raids at the start of the war before the German crossed over the Belgian border Albert I and his government’s had allowed French airships to fly over their country and didn’t give Germany any warning. By allowing another nation to bomb German cities and Belgium themselves also broke the London Treaty of 1839 as the Belgian choose a side before Germany even sent word of their need to access Belgium.

No, cause its a different film thats not set in the marvel comedy universe. Hence why it was a good film

He was not just here but also a Nazi in another movie.

One of the many crimes of this film is the incredible waste of so MANY excellent actors.

@@saintniccage2818 the film was not good at all

@@abaddonthearmless319 so why are you back looking at clips of it?

Why let the truth stop a good sounding story? That is how Western propaganda works.

Maybe a little more research When The shepherd said The inbred monarchs Think about it And do research. Also uh DUH

The British weren't involved in the beginning stages of the war, and only got involved when those savage apes of Germans decided to invade innocent Belgium.

@@danielsokolov4821 the Brits were pretty surprised that their scheme would in turn drag them into the war as well.

@@danielsokolov4821like when did the UK ever invade innocent countries ? Haha

@@danielsokolov4821 Yea, ask the Boers of South Africa, who the 'savage apes" were. the British even invented the concentration camp to terrorize the civilian population after invading innocent Transvaal and the Orange Free State.

@@danielsokolov4821the belgians slaughtered 12 million congolese so they arent innocent either and britain controlled 1/4 of the whole world. They hated us because we became an economic competitior and had a bigger economy than england in 1914

Which is what his character was doing in the movie. Telling the Tsar to stop but that was a ploy to make the war easier for Germany

War torn them apart

The problem was George feared an uprising in his own country. Many British people admired the Bolsheviks and hated the Romanovs. George decided that given the tenuous political situation- it didn’t help that Nicholas’ wife was German- bringing over the Romanovs could spark a major crisis. He probably thought the Bolsheviks would never kill the imperial family and that they would find sanctuary somewhere else. I suspect when he found out what happened it haunted him until he died.

Bruh image what the world would looked like

Its their sad moment but for one person within the battlefields of western front enjoyed it. Probably some simple corporal within the german army with some silly mustache

For someone so reluctant with war it sure did happened

It’s meant to be funny and not very historically accurate, it’s people like u that ruin movies nowadays.

Dats wut they do best lmao

@@uglybetty8747 totally, like u would know 🤡

@@blakefishburn lmao triggered already 🤭

@@uglybetty8747 Hello again 🤡? Ur the one liking ur own comments XD

I get that reference. He played George III in John Adams. lol

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@@bensongreggb that’s Erik the second leader?

@@6thBeatleFinnxMal0 No

@@6thBeatleFinnxMal0 that’s kaiser Willhelm the ll

@@bensongreggb oh

Indeed they did. Thos proven in their correspondence

I am with you they were not going for historical accuracy. If they were the scene would have lasted 2 hrs

It’s a fact so don’t be sorry lmao

Prince Philip and Queen Elizabeth were cousins through the royalty of Greece and Denmark, probs explains why Charles is so unpopular

Yes

If Vicki the younger was slated to inherit the throne, I don't think she would have been married off to Germany in the first place...

@@AlouattaCaraya Why not? Victoria (senior) was. Her husband was Herzog Albrecht von Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld. He was Victoria's first cousin as her mother was Victora von Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld. The British Royal family is largely of German ancestry anyway. Even today's King Charles had several paternal aunts married to Germans, even Nazis.

Granted they were all first cousins the rest of the scene was extremely oversimplified

Nicolas II and George V were cousins. So people who don’t know history would think that means Nicholas II was Queen Victoria’s grandkid. BUT to their credit, Nicholas II’s wife was a grandkid of Queen Victoria. So technically he was a grandkid-in-law.

@@b1crusade384 And technically speaking George V and Kaiser Wilhelm were first cousins, the kaiser and the tsar weren't.

@@Katoshi_Takagumi What did I say to make you not think I knew that? No they are not first cousin purely. To further confuse the situation, the Tzar' mother was ths Kaiser's sister-in-law; so they were "cousin" in a sense. The Tzar's wife was the first cousin of the Kaiser, so the Tzar and the kaiser were first cousin-in-law in that sense. European royal family inbreeding lead to bizarre family connections.

@@b1crusade384 I did not think you would not know it, sorry that was not my intention. That is the impression that the movie clip gives, though. I don't know if this is properly a case of inbreeding, but the smaller the gene pool, the more hereditary diseases tend to pop up. In Russia and some other countries, first cousins would not have traditionally been allowed to marry.

@@Katoshi_Takagumi It depends on how you define inbreeding. I say inbreeding is 3rd cousin or lower. So may not as some think it is first cousin or closer. In Russia, first cousin-marriage were forbidden but there were noticeable exceptions. I think Tzar NIcholas II sister married a first cousin or something like that.

It is a complete disaster. I would recommend reading professor Niall Ferguson's book entitled the pity of war

@@maxhalsted5381 i’ve read it. Along with much else. Like I told you, I am an historian

@@martinwetles I am man of history myself. Niall Ferguson is great writer and historian

@@maxhalsted5381 yeah I thought pity made a lot of good points. Niall is in the economic history branch along side other greats like Adam Tooze. But much of the book was rather a comment on the histography of the war, which was much needed at the time. If I want to read a great narrative of the years leading up to the war, I think Christopher Clark’s book Sleepwalkers is brilliant. You can pick up Macmillans book as well for a more personal focused narrative. I still haven’t read Sean Mcmeekins work on the war from the Russian side, I have probably read it with in next month or so.

@@martinwetles the study of World War 1 is very undervalued on America. Both would wars are linked yes. But it all starts on 1914. One of my high school teachers thought me that every historical event sicne can be trased to back to the Great War.

It’s a cool scene but not much of it is historically accurate. The three kings actively tried to stop the war.

@@bigfoot984 It's a surprisingly informed riff on the real history of the event. I really enjoyed this film for that very reason.

@@bigfoot984 They sure did I mean WW1 didn't happen at all.

Wilhelm was known for his immature, egotistic and easily distracted personality. It's one of history's big questions about how the world would look if his father had been Kaiser for longer than 99 days and Wilhelm had acquired the throne at a later age. But it is bollocks that he was out to start a war.

@@DomWeasel Wilhelm wasnt out to start a war in 1914 he wrote in his memoirs that he didnt want a war, he was a bit hot headed and ill temperd but still he was a human being.

For one, the Kaiser has the use of both of his arms. In fairness though, they surprisingly more or less nailed the Sarajevo assassination.

@@arthurwellesley1815 Read the last part of my comment.

@@cobbler9113 He had the use of both hands but the left was withered due to complications at birth. He was very self-conscious of it and that's why he would always stand with it held behind his back. At the start of the 20th century, the stigma over such things was huge.

The movie blames ww1 on a Scotsman not the Kaiser

George and Willy were grandsons of Queen Victoria. George and Nicky were grandsons of Christian IX of Denmark. Willy and Nicky were great grandsons of Frederick William III of Prussia. And Alix (Nicky’ Swift) was granddaughter of Queen Victoria (and they were both great grandsons of Louis II of Hesse, who was second cousin of Frederic William III of Prussia)

@alberto2287 Geez lol. Thank you for explaining that. I always knew a lot of the monarchy of Europe was related in some way but that really puts it in perspective. Thank you for clarifying that for me.

source: Trust me, bro.

It’s in colour so must be real

@@jspringer86 my source is I made it the fuck up.

The Kingsman 2021

If you mean the one with the monocle, yes.

Lizard is in this clip too

Yes, he fought in the great war