Mirror of: https://youtu.be/pkecNkNyGtQ
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"Found this video by pure coincidence, and being a Portuguese that actually knows about war equipment after years of study, gotta tell you that I laughed at your video really hard. You are not exactly wrong on many of your points, but you clearly don't understand the context, or the time some things were used.
1º Germany and Italy did need equipment for themselves, but as they kept developing new equipment, the "trash equipment" was left to reserve units or sold to countries like Portugal. You can call it "trash" but many of these things like the mauser m98k could still be used effectively. We actually had countless Steyers MP34 submachineguns sold to us after the anschluss of Austria, not that bad either.
2º As for the Azores, USA could definetely take it most likely with a prolongued blockade (since the Portuguese fleet would be no challenge to them) because on an amphibious landing... Good luck with that. Portugal sent almost 30.000 men into the islands and the american plan (war plan gray) for taking over it included only 28.000 american soldiers. And Azores had things like coastal fortifications/batteries with 260mm cannons so yeah good luck (earlier normandy on portuguese shore? lol).
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5º "The Portuguese Navy was only capable of ferrying men" - made for a good laugh as well. Dude are you serious? Most of your info is wrong, and some of those avisos were large enough that they even had a torpedo/recon airplane on it. They were more than capable of engaging Destroyers as well. Not heavy cruisers, though. And given the situation in Europe, you couldn't do much with a fleet either way. If you were on the allies side, you didn't have to worry and would have to worry only about german u-boats, which, we were more than capable of fighting with our own ships or naval aircraft. If Portugal was on the side of the germans, hell, no fleet would be good enough to face the americans or the british on this part of the world isolated from everyone else. The Portuguese fleet wasn't a powerful fleet but it was a fleet powerful enough to do its required job. Avisos were ships for long travels by the way, few ships were ocean worthy and capable of traveling far away. The Portuguese colonies were far away from each other, and ships for long travels were required, and those that Portugal built were more than enough of defending themselves vs smaller vessels too.
6º Your part of the spanish civil war is also interesting "... all he (salazar) did was sent 8-12 thousand men to spain"... You said "all he did". Yes, all he did was send the BIGGEST FOREIGN VOLUNTEER GROUP into the spanish civil war... Not to mention that during this period (1936-1939) Portugal was the TOP importer of weapons and war material IN THE WORLD... because most of it was being smuggled into Spain and Franco's army. That is "all" he did, really. Do you think this sort of aid was small? The USSR pratically did the same but took the majority of the spanish gold reserve (one of the biggest in the world) as payment. lol.
7º As for Salazar himself - he wasn't a fascist. He was a dictator, but not a fascist. He died poor but managed to pay the entire foreign debt and leave the country in a much better shape than he found it - for instance the average wage increased 8x times and Lisbon doubled in size (we had the 2nd biggest economic growth rate in the world for countless years, usually around 20%, with only China being better, but all of this only after ww2 since the economy tanked during the conflict). I actually doubt he feared Franco or an invasion from Spain btw. Franco kept speaking highly of Salazar, and was forever in debt for Salazar's aid. Plus, he needed Salazar to remain friendly with the UK-USA, since Salazar trying to convince the allies that "Franco wanted to be another dictator like Salazar and not like Hitler/Mussolini".
8º Also irrelevant to the ww2 discussion, but Viriato was actually a Lusitanian, and not a Celt-Iberian... Get your facts right, mate!
All of this said by someone who actually understands of the topic, by the way. I leave opinions for others, I merely state facts."
