Posted on 09/04/2024 10:27:36 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
At at least three points in the interview, this so-called historian’s timeline simply doesn’t match up with actual history. Plus his grammar is embarrassingly bad. Tucker is a clown and a grifter, and it’s a very sad devolution to behold.
He is not a “Hitler apologist” and specifically said so a number of times during the interview.
His ENTIRE point is that Hitler has been made into a mythical whipping boy, scape goat upon which the entire post WW2 geo-political paradigm has been built.
This paradigm is one of globalism, progressivism and anti-nationalism. ANY rethinking of the traditional WW2 narrative is a threat to this paradigm and is swiftly and immediately cut down.
Tucker is operating out of bitterness - first from being ostracized by the DC and Northeastern elite, and then losing his show and therefore the legacy he counted on. He aims the blame in all different directions yet can’t call out the WASPs (Rupert Murdoch & co.) who had the final say in taking him out. Candace Owens is creeping into this tendency as well in her professional context.
It’s doing a great disservice to the MAGA cause at large and reflecting poorly on their Christian witness. Pray they repent.
But... for a REALLY good overview of the German food situation in WW2 read The Taste of War
“Let’s say you were Biden’s adviser and he was inclined to listen to you... what would you advise him to do in February 2022?”
Good Question. IIRC Biden was warning that Putin was going to invade and Putin denied it right up to the day of invasion.
Who was the liar?
I never understood why they drew the line on Poland. Why not let Russia and Germany divide Poland and then fight it out. If we had forced Britain and France to settle for peace in late 1939, I believe Germany would have focused on eliminating Russia first. Then we could have supported whichever side was beginning to lose. A lot fewer lives would have been killed and post 1945 would have looked better.
Ditto, WWI. We should have stayed out.
We need to redefine “win”.
Your dad fought in a couple of horrible battles, and I can understand his viewpoint. I wonder if he knew everything we know today, if he would have changed his mind. Perhaps not, those were really bad places to have been.
De-escalate.
Possibly re-iterate that Ukraine will never be in NATO. (certainly not send the VP to say they WILL be)
Negotiate a way to stop the Russians at the Donbass while giving money and support to the Ukrainians to help them recover for the loss of territory.
I don’t know but certainly not attempt to escalate the war killing millions and bringing us to the precipice of nuclear war.
I suffered through quite a bit of Tucker Carlson’s interview with Cooper. Cooper is a rambling buffoon. Not sure if he is really a crankpot who believes all he says or is just trying to sell books.
Not sure why Carlson would waste so much time with this guy who would go on and on and say very little with the exception of occasional provocative statements. Maybe Tucker is just trying to get attention for his show.
My opinion.
Let Russia buy Crimea. Russia Out everywhere else.
Ukraine create a military alliance with Poland and the Baltics.
One is finding an onslaught of historical thinkers and provocateurs on social media. We’re watching the sand shift underfoot many people seeking truth and the diabolical, ignorant and foolish sowing confusion. There is a rock to build life on and astoundingly it is a person and not a premise. May I commend Jesus. He claimed to be “the way, the truth and the life.”
My prediction is we’re going to need Him more than ever down the road and what He offers will be golden when it comes to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
This is completely ahistorical. Even before the war in Europe started, Hitler had talked about the Armenian Holocaust, he was already formulating a plan. And the industrial scale achieved at these death camps was not by accident.
Can this historian provide any account of someone who was in a death camp, that portrays it as merely euthanasia, instead of incredibly cruel? But the conditions of these camps belie what he is saying. So what incredibly cool when evil conditions.
We have lost our own greatness because of a willingness to nitpick pivotal moments in history according to modern sensitivities. FDR, Truman, and Kennedy were largely settled and revered as American greats. Now if I mention any of them here, I have to be prepared to argue with somebody.
Hitler was going into Poland and into Russia one way or another. He was after Lebensraum. But think of the Nazis as a cancer and the Soviets as opportunists. The Czechs didn’t fight the Nazis because no one would allow Soviet troops to cross the frontier. They had a treaty and the bungling Brits and French gave up the Skoda Works and eventually all of Czechoslovakia. So then they take an indefensible stand and looked like fools with Poland. The USSR wasn’t even going there, but the British and French guarantees got Hitler to divide the place with Russia.
My father wouldn’t recognize this government today. I’m glad he isn’t here to see these monsters. But he was a good guy and he believed he was fighting for his traditions, his president, God and country, and his family. Rest in peace, Dad, and Semper fi.
Presented rather dramatically and dishonestly here. If you watch the interview and the clip it’s markedly different that is presented here. It never, even once presents Hitler as a good guy and makes a point to say that the things Churchill did wrong did not make the Germans some kind of good guys.
Very interesting interview. What ACTUALLY has them pissed off are the other things said. Tucker then began exploring how Britain is totalitarian today, that peoples in Europe have lost their natural right to a home. That Germany is cucked out so badly that they tolerate *anything* in the name of the holocaust... to the point that they let known pedos adopt orphans, that they let murderous Jew haters flood the nation, etc etc.
And he points out that Churchill arrested and placed German Jewish refugees into camps for the duration and more. That the USA turned away Jewish refugees. Illustrating that the hagiography is skewed in important areas. He also said communism was the worst scourge of the century by far.
The most critical point he made about Churchill was that he was a driving force behind the Brits joining into WWI, and personally drove the post war German starvation blockade until well after the war and the war reparations...literally creating the fertile ground that spawned Hitler. THAT is why he called him one of the biggest villains.
We were never neutral in WWI, because we needed the Royal Navy to guard the Atlantic, while we were building our Pacific Fleet.
If we were neutral, we would have demanded that Britain allow US ships through their Naval Blockade of Germany.
I have a lot of criticisms of Churchill, But there is no reasonable way to make him more of a villain than Hitler and others. I guess the only way, is if one had unquestioning sympathy for the Nazis.
But Carlson did none of these things. Why not?
The interview was an hour and 38 minutes long. It’s obvious that you did not sit and listen to the whole thing. On a long interstate drive... I did. You are pushing an incredibly dishonest review of something based on a few clips and reviews.
The time has finally come where the evil of the Holocaust can be denied or downplayed because the perpetrators, victims and witnesses have pretty much all died. I subjected my 8th-grade students to an unfinished film made right after the war, ‘Memory of the Camps’, that was pretty much made for this eventuality. It is a trip to Hell. You can find it on YouTube.
It is interesting how legalistic the Nazis were when it came to stripping the Jews and the conquered nations of their wealth. Virtually nothing was stolen. It was all paid for with money the victims weren’t able to spend, or if they could spend it, it could only be spent on overpriced German goods.
Look at pictures of German civilians taken right after the war, the ones touring the death camps. Most are well-dressed and well-fed. Yes, the women in Berlin did look more than a little worse for wear it must be admitted.
Tucker's job is to conduct interviews. So I can't fault him for that. But yes, offering VDH as a counterpoint would have been the smart thing to do.
Basically this "Youtube historian" blames the Jooz.
You are correct. Woodrow Wilson is more responsible for World War 2 than any other person.
Clemenceau is the one who is most responsible, if anything, Wilson did try to get Clemenceau to “call off the dogs.”
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