Here I was feeling mighty uncomfortable with all the WWII parallels I'm seeing and it turns out I've been overlooking the WWI parallels this whole time.
Also the guy in the video is a queer historian who is starving and he's planning on starting a podcast to do audio essays. I think he's one to keep an eye on if you dig history/sociology and he deserves support for the critical work he is doing.
Haven't watched the tiktok but there are a few parallels to WW1 for sure. For one there's the advancement of weapons technology in colonial wars being used by peer/near-peer combatants in parallel with old tactics to disasterous results (machine guns and artillery in WW1, cheap drones and anti-tank weapons in Ukraine), the aforementioned period of colonial "policing" leading people to drastically misunderstand what modern war entails (look at how war was treated as an adventure prior to WW1 and compare to how the
brigades were talking about it), mass media controlled by the ruling class misleading and outright lying to the general population (I'm sure everyone has seen the modern day examples, and for an example for WW1 let me plug a post I made on news coverage on the Battle of the Somme )
HAHA...
Its awesome to think of Aircraft Carriers and M1 Battle Tanks and B2 Bombers in the same way the Magniot Line was thought of after WW2.