Posted on 08/24/2025 4:58:32 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler
Long Form Interview
Maybe you could make it even more obscure.
I have no idea what this video is about.
But I will state my broad thesis that Germany lost WWII, but the Nazis won.
how about a cliffs notes summary for us to see if it’s worthwhile clicking the link?
Theologian and First Things editor R.R. Reno joins The Winston Marshall Show for a sweeping intellectual conversation on nationalism, identity, and the postwar consensus that still haunts the West.There, you didn't even have to type it yourself. You could have just copied this to give a summary of the video. I dislike the "you must watch this video" posts with zero description, zero reason to watch it and zero comments by the poster. If I see something worth posting it's worth me writing my opinion on it.Reno argues that the true crisis isn’t a conspiracy—but a consensus forged after WWII: a fear of nationalism, religion, and moral conviction, shaped by the horrors of Auschwitz and Hiroshima. He calls this the age of “weak gods”—a culture hollowed out by relativism, therapeutic liberalism, and meaning without truth.
From Karl Popper and the Open Society to the cult of DEI and the rise of populist rebellion, Reno makes the case that Western civilization is suffering from a kind of civilizational PTSD—and that only the return of “strong gods” like loyalty, love, and faith can offer redemption.
All this—postwar ideology, the collapse of civic trust, mass migration, shared mythos, and the spiritual malaise of modern life…
Yeah, and.....
The Nazis did win. To counter the Soviet Union, the allies conspired to put Nazis in power positions throughout the West.
My guess:
Eisenhower should have let Patton take Berlin. And maybe Warsaw, too.
(That would have been a disaster all around. But I suppose one guess here is as good as another.)
It’s helpful if you give a two or three sentence description of what the video is about and exactly how long it is.
“”””a consensus forged after WWII: a fear of nationalism, religion, and moral conviction, shaped by the horrors of Auschwitz and Hiroshima.””””
They always leave out race, there is a reason why Japanese atrocities have never played a role in the post WWII narratives, they aren’t white, so it doesn’t serve the white is evil, post WWII strategy against Western “nationalism”, Western “religion”, and Western “moral conviction”, this has always been a war against Western/white civilization and the 1960s immigration laws across the almost entire list of white nations is a part of this.
Islam has so many wonderful things to offer. Like slavery, wife beating, forced religious conversion, fascism, and racism. No wonder the left can’t wait for them to take over.
Which includes Prescott Bush and Allen Dulles.
That’s a great short summary of Islam and our modern Western Left.
“Eisenhower should have let Patton take Berlin.” Terrible idea.
Russians killed taking Berlin is more than 80k with 280k wounded or missing.
The total number of U.S. military personnel killed in the entire Pacific Theater during World War II is about 110k.
I recently read The Devil’s Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America’s Secret Government.
Worthwhile. Explains much about the forces that created Trump’s first term and today.
And Oswald was a patsy.
Russia lost 25 million citizens during WW2. Satan rejoiced. Today, that would be the populations of the metro Philly and NYC.
I thought the point was, how much misery from 1945-89 (fall of the Berlin Wall) could have been spared?
They should have nuked Moscow. There was a four year period before they got the bomb. Repeat as necessary.
In the context of the last 80 years—everyone who fought wwII lost.
The soldiers on both sides of the war would not recognize their own countries today.
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