Posted on 09/13/2024 6:56:56 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Hindsight is always 20/20.
Perhaps Churchill and the crown could have done things differently to keep the Empire. Perhaps not. Accepting a peace offer from Hitler would have delayed it a bit, but still would result in a continental power being able to take on the UK. That was a direct violation of their long standing policy.
Japan’s propaganda was making holding on to India an issue, and this was before the violence that lead to the split. At best they could have done what France did, and have a soft empire. But there were forces spinning it off fast enough it was not going to last
Agree!
If you would listen to the podcast, the historian talked about the book he wrote about the history of Zionism prior to 1948. He said initially he read 6 books and then pontificated on the subject. Then he read 80 books and 1300 papers on the subject and thought how ignorant he was earlier.
I am ambivalent towards they guy, and I don’t think he implied the Nazis are nice people. But he is interesting and does present an informed point of view. He acknowleged it is not possible to criticize Churchill without a massive pushback.
Please listen to the first 30 minutes of the interview.
If you watch the Piers Morgon interview, he does. This is an article about that interview.
“Pelham thinks I’m soft on VDH and Cooper lol”
Yup. Guilty.
Cooper is either incredibly ignorant about Nazi ideology or he’s trying to deceive people.
Hitler didn’t hide his intentions, he announced most of it in Mein Kampf back in 1925 fourteen years before igniting the war.
If Tucker had ever read Shirer’s The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich he wouldn’t fall for a clown like Cooper.
VDH... in my view VDH is vastly overrated. Some writers at Chronicles magazine exposed VDH as a mediocre historian years ago by focusing on errors in his knowledge of ancient Greek history which is what his degree is in. And his ideas of America history are recycled Harry Jaffa proposition nation manure. (Am I being too harsh? No. That stuff is the enemy of anything resembling MAGA.)
If you listed conservative historians worth reading he simply wouldn’t be on my list. Some who are: Forrest McDonald. Russell Kirk. M.E. Bradford. Thomas Fleming. Bernard Bailyn. David Hackett Fischer. Clyde Wilson.
He stepped in it by doing so and everyone has beaten him up and it's also enough.
Tucker just has to fill a news hole and it is a big one. Once in a while he gets a clinker.
You can’t look at WW2 and say, “That ended up having the best possible outcome.”
True but that is a lot short of showing that Churchill was to blame.
I used to be a Tucker fan. He went off the rails when Covid started. Night after night he’d talk about conspiracy theories. It wasn’t easy to watch 20 or 30 shows talking about how bad masks were. One would have been sufficient.
Fair enough. I am not a regular watcher.
>I am ambivalent towards they guy, and I don’t think he implied the Nazis are nice people.
I remember him specifically saying they were not.
WWI was our first bite of the apple at engaging in a big foreign war outside of our immediate neighborhood.
And that’s going to be popular with neocons and other Pax Americana fans.
Other than that we lost two fights to mighty Canada, won a big fight with Mexico, and won kind of a global fight with Spain.
Maybe that war with Spain over Cuba should be when we decided to become an empire instead of a republic. I think there was a big controversy over that at the time.
Tell us more about the two lost fights to Canada...
The only world leader who read “Mein Kampf” was Winston Churchill and realized what a total psycho they were dealing with.
1812 and during the Revolution. We invaded twice and mighty Canada sent us packing both times.
https://www.battlefields.org/learn/revolutionary-war/battles/quebec
https://www.history.army.mil/html/reference/army_flag/1812.html#canada
One of my favorite movies.
Canada is actually our worst enemy because we fought six wars with it: the War of the League of Augsburg, aka the Nine Years War (1688-1697), the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1714), the War of the Austrian Succession (1740-1748), the Third Silesian War, aka the Franch and Indian War (1754-1763), the War of the American Revolution and the War of 1812.
However, in four of those wars, we were English and Canada was French, and in the other two, Canada was English.
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