Why World War II Matters - Victor Davis Hanson
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- Опубліковано 15 вер 2016
- The Hillsdale College History Department presents a special public lecture by Victor Davis Hanson.
Victor Davis Hanson is the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow in Residence in Classics and Military History at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, a professor of Classics Emeritus at California State University, Fresno, and a nationally syndicated columnist for Tribune Media Services. He is also the Wayne & Marcia Buske Distinguished Fellow in History, Hillsdale College, where he teaches each fall semester courses in military history and classical culture.
Hillsdale website: www.hillsdale.edu/
He never ceases to amaze me. No notes, just talk. Incredible.
Turst me.
When you know a subject to the depth and breadth that some people do, all you need is a good memory and decent public speaking skills.
He wasn't going into minute detail but the battle of Britain could quite easily have been won by Germany if they had done two things differently.
Take out the airfields and all fighters. Establish complete superiority by bombing there airfields and factories to rubble.
The me-109s because of low fuel only had about 20 min over England
Drop tanks.
Drop it as soon as you spot any interceptors and use internal fuel for the fight.
Even an extra 10-20 Min would have made a huge difference.
Hanson is AMAZING! AND TRUTHFUL.His memory fanominal!
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@@alexanderbutler2989 couldn’t you be less respectful or more bombastic?
I could listen to Victor Davis Hanson all day on military history. Very smart educated man.
who doesnt wanna pay his Mexican labor apparently.
Me too... it's kind of interesting to hear the technology-devoid ramblings of someone leaning so hard on Greek classicism, trying to compare some "lessons of the past" to today's modern, computerized warfare where AI is calculating the outcome of of not just a battle, but an entire conflict, in tens of thousands of scenarios, in the the few minutes a missile is flying.
"When I was a kid, we had wars... real HUMAN wars. None of this new-fangled war where computers are determining that the best thing to do is to not have a war in the first place.... get off my lawn!"
Michael Carey, I sense that you underestimate the politics involved. A country with the finest AI technology can still lose a war if its leaders are not interested in defending the nation. (Anti-war appeasers or traitors.)
He's actually way out of his element on military history. He gets basic facts WRONG. For instance @ 36:36 Now, the Ki-61, of which some 3500 were built,was powered by a licensed copy of the Daimler Benz 601 engine!!!!
Absolutely agree
It's impossible not to learn something when you listen to Victor David Hanson.
😊when is he speaking?
I'm sick of people saying Russia lost 20 million they lost 60 million. History uses Stalins quote he was referring to communist party members Russia 1930s 180 million 1958 116 million look it up
Learn bulshit
Enjoyed the lecture. Amazed to hear him speak with such knowledge, no notes, no teleprompter, just speaking from his heart/mind with passion. Well done! 👍
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I don’t know how my name got on your list l did not put it there and would appreciate you deleting this from your list of contacts. Thanks.
Pls eliminate my name from your contact list.
@@barbaralewinter8455 List of what ?
He’s smarter than Biden.
“The more you try to defer to someone when you have power,that you did not need to defer, the more you earn contempt for your magnaminity than appreciation.”
Makes me think of current Russia, China and Iran.
I sat on the edge of my chair in front of my computer, hanging on every word... I've never been handed a better understanding presented for the cause and effect of WWII. Thank you Hillsdale for making this possible.
Lonnie Nichols ...Thank you for your comment. After reading what you said I decided to listen carefully to what he lectured on. The lecture was excellent and if it wasn't for you I would have missed this great story.
Love listening to Victor David Hanson speak…he KNOWS history…he doesnt jury regurgitate something he’s read…greatest history teacher ever!
David L Hoggan's work The Forced War is also a great teaching in history. Udo Walendy's work Truth for Germany could also be included as among the greatest history every. David Irving may be the greatest history teacher ever, in particular in this case Hitler's War, but many other works by Irving as well.
My Dad was in the Marines in WWII. He fought on Okinawa and was in the 6th Division, 29th Regiment. He was in the area where Victor Hanson died. When I heard about his Uncle, I wondered if he and my Dad had ever met.
VDH
Victor Davis Hanswn
Everyone talks about when their parents served. What did YOU Do ??
Your dad was a hero. He thought he was doing the right thing. Our men fought for people who hated us American people. Its sad. They truly were the greatest generation. Until the generation comes along that will free us from the usurpious evil men who hate us and control our government
@@michaelclark7037 In World War 2? A lot of folk whose parents were in the military in WW 2 were children in WW2. Not serving is no excuse to forget the greatest generation. Giving tribute is not necessarily a personal brag, so what's your point?
Thank goodness for UA-cam and my retirement ...now I can open my brain and knowledge to some incredibly brilliant information and understanding. Dr Hanson is about my age and he found another follower 👍 Pragmatic and insightful, thank you for the post !
Try this: Search for the audio of a talk by Benjamin Freedman: "GAGGED & CENSORED" Speech (1961)" I can guarantee you will learn more about both world wars in that single talk than we have been spoon fed since birth by establishment mouthpieces like VDH.
Watch the video while you still can. As you will see once you find it, youtube has severely clamped down hard on the video, erasing all comments, blanking out its 4 million plus views, and hundreds of thousands of positive ratings. That means it will soon be deleted.
Don't miss it.
UPDATE: Though youtube has deleted that particular copy, you can now find the entire speech on Bitchute.
@ekimshield Fetid eh? To anyone who happens upon this thread: Benjamin Freedman is a Jew who lived what he later wrote and spoke about. His 1961 talk is now available on Bitchute.
@@PanWayOut Everybody should listen to this speech !
he's a liar and pro colonial 19th century European world romantic plus manifest destiny here in america. Maybe he'd feel 180 degrees differently if the CIA installed dictators in his native Scandinavian countries like they did in Asia, Latin America, and Africa. His books are toilet paper to me.
You have alzeheimer's alredy?
Every teacher/professor in the US (in the world for that matter) should be required to include lectures from this man. Liberals continue to ignore obvious history lessons.
How is this something that liberals are ignoring? It was the conservatives of the pre-war era in the US that were the leading isolationists. It was Roosevelt, the liberal, who was offering aid to Great Britain and the Soviet Union.
Funny I had the same sentiment about conservatives as I see the rise of authoritarianism here in the US, and how it's causing internal fractures and leaving us exposed. Perhaps it's simply a human trait to only see the faults in the other side's ideology and have a big blind spot for our own, and that drives the repetition of these big mistakes.
@Despiser Despised the right wing is using anarchy as a boogeyman - there is no organized left wing in America - Dems are centrist neoliberal capitalists.
@Despiser Despised I'm on the left and I'm advocating the opposite of tyranny - which is social anarchism. Anarchy isn't chaos, it's simply equality democracy for all. The chaos part is a byproduct of the failing authoritarian state using violence unconstitutionally against citizens who are compelled to continue protesting until it's resolved.
Wait I thought you said conservatives were the authoritarians. How can you be an authoritarian and an anarchist? That doesn't make any sense. You are using words and describing ideologies that you have no idea what they mean.
I have taken the courses offered by Hillsdale College in which Hanson was the teacher. No question in my mind that Mr. Hanson is the best mind at present in our nation. I have listened to him in radio and TV in the cable channels. I advise all of you that did not have the occasion to listen to this very intelligent man to listen to him. He is always spectacular and you always learn from him.
My two oldest uncles both flew missions in WWII. The eldest was training 1500 pilots at a time at age 21 with already 3 yrs of service. He flew 66 missions and was shot down in NewGuinea and was helped back to his base by natives to fly again. He repaid the natives with red ribbon. The younger was shot down in Germany on 23rd mission and spent 18 mos in Moosberg POW camp with 100,000 pows from 17 countries. He was saved in Spring of 1945
Special thank you to your great uncle for serving who was captured and sent to a POW camp. They are never forgotten!
Wow
Victor
I’m 75 and in my youth I worked on my family ranch in the Colorado high county.
No electricity no indoor plumbing and you worked big stock, critters that could and would hurt you, sometimes pretty bad and in all of natures variety of aspect from lighting thick thunderstorms to
bone chilling pushes through blizzards that never reached above - 20 Fahrenheit. But you always felt the season… the weather the yaw and pitch of the Earth, always marked the moon and you kept your powder dry for the unanticipated.
You were (and are) surrounded by Life and I think that gives a different perspective than a TV or X Box weaned kid gets in these “wonderful” modern times!
Thank you for your insights. I’m a fan.
My grandfather joined the 32 Division, 126th Regiment in 1930. His reasons were to serve his country, and this during the Great Depression, and since he like to eat he could get free food. He quickly rose to a 2nd Lieutenant. He was an infantry instructor at Camp Grayling. He trained men that eventually fought in Leyte.
My great uncle died in the Navy in Japan’s attack on US bases in the Aleutians off Alaska. My step Dad, great uncle, father-in law & several uncles all served in WW2. WW2 matters bc the global situation would be entirely different if we had not entered & had not won. Never forget. Incredibly important. Thanks Dr. Hanson.
VDH is a national treasure I love his WW2 historical descriptions. He is an extremely intelligent and very well educated man. I hope and pray nothing but the best for him and his family.
VDH is brilliant. The density of information and depth of insight in his analysis of WW II is uniquely clarifying.
I wish every high school in America would use this man to teach… Not teaching history in public schools has destroyed our nation
they do teach this history. Hitler bad/white man bad is all they teach in schools
For sure!!
Who was smedley Butler he wrote a book in the 30's called" war is a racket "only the most decorated war hero of all time until his death, but yet no one's ever heard of him!
I'm pretty sure the indoctrination program is designed that way for a reason !
@@nunyabisnis1448 " the Maverick Marine" incredible story. Most have never heard of him unfortunately most have never even heard of Audie Murphy this is not the country we grew up in. Butler new what general Eisenhower warned us about the military industrial complex those same people are now engaged in this disgusting regime to destroy America.. this is a hill we should all be willing to die on. Once we're back in power rule change.. they changed the rules and we are going to play by them now. Conservatives need to understand offense we are always playing defense that is a losing strategy. God bless you Patriot 🙏🇺🇸
I’m so pleased I came across this wise, educated, brilliant, very interesting man who has huge knowledge. Respect to him. I look forward to and enjoy listening to him
I could listen to /learn from this man ALL DAY !!
VDH is a national treasure. Live long and prosper!
May the force be with him.
Very original comment! Time to get some new material
He really wraps this presentation up with a great conclusion in under 1 minute, stating that we went to war to fight a banality. No one in their right mind, he emphasizes, would think that they could take on the allies and come out winning. However, he reiterates, it was the combination of appeasement, isolationism and collaboration early on that emboldened the Axis and cost countless lives.
Yes ..great summary ..further interesting was the Russian perception ..that we had “joined” Nazi-ism ..and ultimately led to the great divide of Western and Eastern Europe ..
Appeasement was a diplomatic term that emboldened criticism, and we are still hearing it. The US is particularly dedicated to that criticism, so Americans do not even know the reference to them at Munich. Start there, where the world leader was, not with all the theories that academics are known for.
The axis powers were the good guys
@@cnote3598 the axis of evil? Riiiight.
@@ajbunches825 Jewish lies ? Yes
Why is this only 46 minutes long???? This man should be MADE to speak for at least 8 hours! In all seriousness....another fantastic lecture by Dr. Hanson.
He does a class on WW2 at Hillsdale College on line. It is free. you can take it if you like. I have taken it and it is extremely interesting.
@@charlestdennis2797 I did not know that! Thank you for the info. I'll check it out!
Old bit of wisdom: what is good, if brief, it's twice as good!
I think a documentary series based on his works would be amazing. A 10 part series would be fantastic.
he gets to his point quick unnlike some people trying to use 3 words when one word will work
The lesson for Americans here: Never relinquish your first and second ammendment rights, under any circumstance.
absofuckinglutely
Spambot alert.
@@MultiCappie Democrat shill alert.
Where is even a link with world war II ?
@@kint87 Did you even watch the video? A well-armed populace is a permanent soft counter to the rise of authoritarian governments.
I discovered Dr Hanson from his interviews on Tucker Carlson and I can’t get enough of his take on all subjects regarding anything.
"WWII, the BIG one". I remember hearing that countless times as a child. We are forgetting our past and that's very bad.
Victor slips up on a few names, but this is the best speech on WWII I've ever heard.
Yes, "Submarine" when he meant to say: "Supermarine Spitfire". But we can afford to cut him some slack!
FlaviusAetius try listening to dan carlins ghost of the oestfront. Dan carlins the man. Or if you like he has like a 12 hour series on ww1 call blueprints for armagheddon
FlaviusAetius it’s a lecture.
He says in WW1 there isn't fighting in Africa, S. America, and the Pacific, but during WW1 Germany still had it's colonies in Africa, Asia, and Oceania.
The British fought the Germans in various African colonies, off the Falkland Islands, in China (with UK ally Japan), etc.
I've never found a very thorough history of the post WW1 invasion of Russia by the Western powers and Japan... I wish I could find one.
Pezfeo Don't know if this is any good to you 'The Great War (TV series)' by the BBC (When they were good), made in 1964 so it's in black and white, but it's pretty comprehensive, nearly 18 hours long.
I am Italian born a few years after WWII was over. In foreign policy Mussolini was a gambler and deemed Italy to destruction. Luckily, British and American where wise enough to give us an open hand to turn us their friends. Thanks America for your Marshall plan for reconstruction.
Mussolini e Hitler furono Pupazzi del Vaticano dovevano rifare L'impero Romano. these guys where installed with the help of the jesuits and the vatican.
we love you
mlu ccc yes indeed
The Italian people were great to work with in the early 80,s a place called aviano air base provided the opportunity for myself and many other American's.....
Italia Won the World Cup while their...talk about a celebration 84?
Ciao.....italia...from....usa
Read about Mussolini from the end of WW. Entirely different view.
Sad that there isn't more young in the audience. Such a great mind needs to be shared.
i grew up in the midst of this. born in jan of 45 so am connected to this era by mentors, family and friends. one must know the roots they draw from their intellectual sustenance
When the “host” guy said “Hanson home for generations” I thought he meant Mmbop Hanson Lol. After watching this, though, he’s now my favorite WW2 lecturer.
This man is a treasure! So much wisdom and he communicates with the love of history!
“The more you try to defer to someone when you have power,that you did not need to defer, the more you earn contempt for your maganaminity than appreciation.”
Victor Hanson inadvertently sums up the race problem in the US since the 1960s.
Ziggler Norris that’s the most important sentence in the entire speech
@STS I think a charitable reading of what the commenter meant would be that if you have a criminal/radical/thug-like element within a population (in this case, the black community), and you appease it, the criminal element will be emboldened and the population (within which it is found) will also suffer. You could say the same thing for the mafia in Italy, or the terroristic and repressive leadership in the West Bank and Gaza.
Obama giving millions to Iran fits this statement.
@@sethhamby9405 Well... how can it be considered appeasing when you share the same values and goals of those you are appeasing? Supporter and donator to the cause would be more appropriate.
He mistakes some people for everybody....people like Hitler might hold you in contempt if you don't exercise your full power to have your own way, but that is because he was all about power and nothing else...Hanson's comment is not applicable in every situation. As for bringing in the race problem in the US since the 1960s, I am afraid to even ask what you mean.
I became a history 'buff' (not an expert...) at age 40 as a result of my interest in the American Civil War and WWII. Listening to scholars like VDH on these things is always a bit of a thrill. I always learn something new, and pick up some new perspective.
Yea, those are my areas of interest, too. But I was interested in the Civil War at least since high school and WWII as long as I can remember.
A good education on yt. Imagine that
Fantastic talk. Can't stop watching them. Mr. Hanson is just marvelous!
Them?
Good history requires a dedicated interest in a relatively limited area, and WWII is not this man's subject, he is giving the US point of view, it is not history. He can't tell us one lie Chamberlain told, for example, the whole British Empire. It is rather old hat that Hitler lied and indeed played games. No whole BE existed in relation to Czechoslovakia, but there was a whole BE and Hitler indeed challenged because of Munich.
I could hear this 10 times and not get enough information, he is brilliant and such a master teacher.
Hope He taught You how to kill, when the Chinese hit our shores.
I am an English teacher at a School in Delhi, India. This was very informative. I have to teach basics of WW2 to my students.
This man is incredibly. I enjoy this man so much.
So positive that some young people are learning history. May they find their way into leadership positions. Thank you VDH!
Amazingly informative and concise, as always. He's a brilliant lecturer.
If a biased lecturer can still be brilliant, that is.
@@WilliamJones-Halibut-vq1fs You nailed it!
@@WilliamJones-Halibut-vq1fs While he may be a Neocon his points are no less valid. If weakness is shown it will be capitalized on. The US has become the leader of the "freeworld", the danger is if its forces are unwilling to fight then everywhere becomes open to aggression. We can see this happening now with China, Russia and North Korea. They no longer respect America intervention because the public no longer accept war, they will not even entertain the thought of all out war. Its why the cold war did not end the world. It was that people in both countries (Russia , America) where willing to push the buttion.
While I am against war, its horrible and only decides who is left, we must always be prepared to defend ourselves. The European Union and current political climate is weak. I look at it and go what do you stand for. The answer of that is equality and that answer scares me. Equality of outcome is only achieved though lack of choice. If you take my choice away what is left for me to strive for?
If only he knew what he is talking about, the term Appeasement is no explanation for anything. Far too much regard for Hitler, little or no regard for the evidence published since 1946.
@@whiteyonthemoon1193 conservatives have no idea how consequential WW2 was for human history. If only we could strip away the mythology from the presentation of the 20th century, maybe the right could come to understand the system that currently oppresses them.
He's a national treasure, to anyone who will...who is smart enough to listen..
Victor is a brilliant writer. His geopolitical knowledge is extensive.
I try to follow along as best I can. He makes it easier than most others who never simplify their message enough so plain folks like me can understand. I have to trust his vast knowledge when he draws a comparison or makes a reference to the facts of a medieval war, for instance. I enjoy being able to stretch my knowledge base with VDH & Thomas Sowell.
Great summation on the causation, battle overview and the aftermath of WW2. A great speech from a very insightful historian.
An amazing lecture! I thought I knew all about WWII, until this lecture. NEVER heard so many new facts on this heavily researched and documented subject before. Gave me a new perspective on something I thought had been done to death, with nothing new to learn. Thank you, Dr. Hanson!
That's because you never read Rise and Fall of The Third Reich by William Sherer
Oh cmon what new perspective? This is the most basic of talks I've ever heard.
Where is the pre-war part where Hitler was politically supported and financially-backed by Allied countries?
Where is the part where USA couldn't care less for atrocities in China, in hopes that Japan would fight with USSR?
Where is the part where USA watched the British Empire crumble, and then bargained in order to help break the Atlantic siege?
Yeah collaboration my ass. It was a global war where the country leaders were having identity crises among themselves and the common people were stupid enough to put blind trust in their leaders. That was the only mistake that was ever made: to allow such a mindless dictatorship all over the place, never before did such autocratic feudalism met modern technology -- yeah, democracies, right. Just look at the Uncle Sam wants you poster, it's so full of caring and benevolent sympathy for its people -- no, it's outright demanding like it demands taxes, and nothing has changed AT ALL. People are coerced into ideological maneuvering by rich unscrupulous individuals at power, and for dubious reasons.
This is why 70+ million people died.
Yeah Stalin was extremely bad and stupid. But he was smart enough to play on both sides, and come out as a "winner."
The price was huge, but now people will think it was a sacrifice and not a sheer massacre. Just like how people will think that Hitler was a living embodiment of Devil, yet he was exactly the same as anyone else, he just made moves more aggressively, which, had he won, would be considered a virtue.
No Britain didn't fight on principle, it originally placed a political bet, then it realized it had understated German power and had to struggle to preserve own identity. Finally it had to abandon some ideas it tried to preserve, only to stay afloat, but received a newfound respect in the new world (namely Europe), and managed to establish a strong economy. This is what it means to strategize during a perilous time. The same thing happened to an opportune USA, a country that immediately found a new foe to aim its freshly built military-industrial complex at, and did so for the next 40 or so years, inciting proxy wars all over the globe. GDP my ass. Inventing a theater of war, banning everyone else from it, and than singlehandedly lubricating it, is a monopoly and a system of non-loyal market intervention. That's not deterrence, that's much worse and much more sinister than what Hitler did. He was at least upfront about what he wants and what's going to happen. 6 years of Nazism is nothing compared to 40+ years of forceful "democratization" while you build alliances based on intimidation.
People are getting born and dying of old age under the constant american oppression. In the decades that followed, entire regional economies were devastated, puppet regimes were implanted, welfare of hundreds of millions of people all over the globe were affected directly and indirectly. And after all said and done, the machinery above it is not even benevolent to its own people (whatever "own people" even means), and is mutating rapidly to the point of being completely independent from the mundane industrial slavery beneath it. In the recent times, not even a valid casus belli is needed anymore, every war is happening at hyper-lightning speed, the media is entirely corrupted, propaganda at its zenith, and any social reaction can be simulated by an AI in real time.
So the question is, who do you fight for and why? What terrorism? What is the point of it? Do you really buy that guerrilla bands of Afghanistan are threatening the american way of life? What way of life? Even you don't enjoy your imagined way of life. While Afghans live in some rocky hills, surrounded with goats and opium fields ffs. It's all just wish wash at this point. We are entering 2020, able to communicate at light speed at the touch of our fingers, people can't or don't want to understand the mounting islands of plastic in Atlantic and Pacific, let alone the true mechanistic, ethnographic and financial machinations behind WW2....
There are no good guys in this world, at least not at this scale, but I'd also argue that by blindly collaborating with any government*, regardless of how family-oriented you are, doesn't do anyone any good, simply because entire lives are socially engineered from top to bottom and absolutely EVERY atrocity in this world was committed by the nicest family-oriented people, though arguably unknowingly, so please abolish the idea of absolute moralism, and focus instead on growing your own individual consciousness and intuition.
* (starting with how eagerly we all pay taxes, and basically donate our energy and perceived freedom to some Devil in a suit, or else we are stigmatized, excommunicated, deprived of our human rights, and ultimately imprisoned
For an excellent overview of ww2 and the lead-in history to that monstrously hideous war, search for the PDF of the book by retired US Navy pilot Benton L. Bradberry: "The Myth of German Villainy". Amazon recently banned the book, which essentially confirms the book's value as a source for truth. But you really need to discover that for yourself. The online version is an easy-to-read format similar to kindle. Don't miss it.
@@milanstevic8424 I'm not on drugs.
@@milanstevic8424 I can't actually disagree with anything you said.
You are aware that there are plenty of people who understand all this, and want to change it, right?
One correction: Australia was there on day one and still there on the last day of the war.
I thought Britain came in on day 3.
That's right. Britain declared war on 3rd September.
And New Zealand .
For about 2 hours New Zealand was face to face alone at war with Nazi Germany (they declared war 12 hours ahead of Britain and 2 hours ahead of Aussie).
Yup
That sure was educational! I would love to meet Dr. Hanson and shake his hand. What a brilliant mind. 👏👏👏👏👏
Victor is one of my favorites. He is always so calm no matter what he is addressing He's insightful and easy to listen to.
No matter that to the large extent he misrepresents the history???
So who has expansionist aspirations? Putin, Erdowan, the House of Saudi, about Netanyahu has he still the premiership of Israel? China has many nations in debt to them also, Conflict not considered? Be afraid, be very afraid. Victor the Brexit negotiation is side issue, yet the German intercessors say that God tells them Britain's benefits by getting out of E. U.
Yea, like your real.objective
@@radomirsamardzic1925 has Victor got his sponsorship at college because he gives the official story? He certainly does not give history.
Thank you so much, Professor Hanson. Beautiful presentation. I'm so glad there are people as you. God bless you.
I'm blind the doctor so knowledgeable and we got it on video for future Generations thank you dr. Hanson
I have enjoyed this history lesson so much although I couldn’t relate or repeat what I have learned, I know who to tell people to listen to and recall my teaching as conversations come up. Thank you 🙏
I read a lot of comments regarding missing details and misrepresentation. Hanson had x-minutes to provide an overview. It would take hours to discuss all the factors that contributed to war and impacted the various stages of war. In addition, there are various historical perspectives that others have presented in numerous books that may be accurate or even misinterpreted based on a personal bias, including the personal bias of those commenting here.
History is always a compilation of data and is also always a story woven together in the perspective of the weaver. The best way to genuinely learn, understand and grow is to listen carefully and understand the weavers perspective. VDH recites the data, occurrences, and causes from as neutral of a perspective as any I’ve ever heard. He has obviously taken great care to consider various alternative perspectives. Listen to VDH and learn.
American isolationism, British appeasement, Soviet collaborationism.
Interesting Lecture!
American isolationism, British appeasement, Soviet collaborationism. Everything is 180 degrees in the rear view.
War is a racket that enriches the mongers.
American isolationism ? With a military presence in 182 countries ???
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Yes and according to Right wingers like Hansen every third world country we want to take over is a potential Germany and every tin horn dictator is Hitler and any diplomacy offered at the time is Chamberlin. Don't be fooled by his knowledge he's revising history to justify an aggressive interventionist foreign policy.
Victor you make history so very interesting, so easy to listen to.
Being born in Germany, I like to thank you for comparing the first part of WW2 to Napoleon and Caesar. My history books in school had been written by the winners, consequently this first part (you have highlight here), and Hitler's strange success had only been exposed to blame the nazi regime. The movement of people throughout european nabours and their reasons to participate, or not, was not discussed in any of the school books in my history lesson. This built in war guilt seem to stick really well in Germany. WW1 was also severely shortened in detail to the point that the student itself felt guilt in the 80 and 90's. Very strange to listen what you bring up here. I guess If you, my grand dad, or a teacher would have told the full details back then, any person would have been ostracised within hours and being painted as a supporter to 3rd Reich.
Yes, it's interesting how history gets distorted. In England, even today, we always associate the average 'German' with the War. In fact, it's almost an obsession, as is the continuously told story of standing alone against the rest of the world.
Yet the curious thing is that this feeling is not extended to the German army. There are three reasons for this. Firstly, we were (saving the Channel Islands) never invaded. Secondly, any army would be compared to the Japanese army. In comparison the 'morals' of the German army look good in British eyes. Thirdly, the desert campaign in North Africa. In this Rommel is viewed as a Robert E. Lee figure, or a Stonewall Jackson. He might be your enemy, the 'Desert Fox' had to be admired, as were his soldiers.
Strange, .... but there it is.
Daniel, wait until you learn that Holo didn't happen.
If that’s what you learned, you need to listen again & try harder. Germans still have a lot to feel guilty for. If you had won we’d all still be speaking German. You had history books which you now reflect back on as being incomplete….waaaa.
@@ajbunches825 And you will now be speaking pakistani.
@@dariovukojevic926 is that a threat?
Fascinating lecture and delivered with such authority. Proud to see an American of Welsh ancestry contributing so much to the understanding of great historical events. Thank you Mr Davis Hanson.
"American Isolationism. British Appeasement. Russian Collaboration."
How we doing on these topics?
Well, now we have American Collaboration, British Isolationism and Russian Appeasement.
So pretty much the same old song and dance, just a different verse of that song.
I couldn’t help but think that the USA was isolationist except for the banks. Correct me if I’m wrong but didn’t the USA bankers provide the money for Hitler to get the ball rolling?
@@classixdrummer Actually, we seemed pretty willing to sell stuff to the Brits and Russians and remain neutral...until Pearl.
@@classixdrummer THE LOVE OF MONEY IS THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL.
CandidDate - Why are you shouting scripture? It’s not helpful.
Absolutely brilliant.
I especially like that he mentions that Sweden was pro-german; they sold raw materials to Germany, and allowed their officers to enlist under foreign powers, fighting for Germany.
He mentions that Denmark fell within a day: It is absolutely true.
The civilian government of Denmark broke the ground law, which stated that in the event that foreign belligerent forces are found within the realm, the governing power to deal with the event is to be handed over to the chiefs of the defense forces. -The civilian government of Denmark refused the request of the chief of the army, Lieutenant General Prior, to be given governing power. And the government also issued several orders for the armed forces to lay down their arms, that mobilization of the reserve forces where not to continue, and that the population was to remain peaceful. ...IMO, high treason, and one that was never tried in a court of law.
Denmark could have pushed the German supply lines going to the invasion of Norway to breaking point. Even some hours, or a day of denying the Luftwaffe access to Aalborg Lufthavn (an airport) could have given Britain enough time to reach strategic points in Norway before the Germans got there.
The western European states fell like dominoes.
When Britain did not topple, Soviet Russia had a better chance of not getting knocked over. -It does matter, whether or not one heeds the call for mobilization. -If for nothing else than going to Folkvang, instead of later having to sit in Naglfar (Norse mythology, about the end time, where you do not want to be a coward) :3
Victor Davis Hansson er tindrende klar , Han som er av svensk herkomst forteller hvilke banditter svenskene var , Merker dette i Marbella til og med , svenske menn gifter seg veldig ofte med tyske kvinner !Ivar Kamprad IKEA var dundrende Nazist ! Folk er uvitende og historieløse ! Handler ugjerne med Dansker som er generelt griske! For en bedriten verden! Er veldig stolt av min famile som i stor grad havnet i tyske dødsleire uten å være jøder!
The Truth sorry, The Truth. Not so. Carefully cultivated modern history factoid but scrape the surface and wrong. Start with SKF and move out...
@ Jacob Bøge Andersen
Re: "The civilian government of Denmark broke the ground law, which stated that in the event that foreign belligerent forces are found within the realm, the governing power to deal with the event is to be handed over to the chiefs of the defense forces. -The civilian government of Denmark refused the request of the chief of the army, Lieutenant General Prior, to be given governing power. And the government also issued several orders for the armed forces to lay down their arms, that mobilization of the reserve forces where not to continue, and that the population was to remain peaceful. ...IMO, high treason, and one that was never tried in a court of law."
I am an American, but half-Danish in that my mother is a Dane by birth, who survived the war as a teenager (she is now 93 years old). I've studied WWII, including the invasion of Denmark and Norway, for many years, but had never before run across the info above, so thank you for it. It is always a pleasure in WWII history to learn something new!
Not withstanding your point, Denmark's position strategic and tactical position was extremely precarious and difficult with regard to Germany and German aggression. In 1940, Germany had a population of 52 million people, Denmark about 3.8 million, or roughly a 13:1 advantage. Denmark adjoined Germany at Jutland, and her terrain was poor for the defense, in that it was flat and lacked terrain features suited to defense or guerilla warfare, such as large areas of forest or mountains. The Danish coastline was lengthy and convoluted - which was a point in her favor, but one largely unexploited by the Danish war ministry. Indeed, the Danish government had intentionally reduced the size of her armed forces so as not to appear provocative to Germany. That obviously did not work: They invaded anyway.
Even with substantially greater resistance than was offered by the Danish forces, the victory still would have been lopsided. The planners of Operation Weserübung had done their work well: Merchant ships docked in Danish sea ports held assault troops which poured out to take harbors and docks almost without resistance early in the morning of April 9, 1940, and paratroopers dropped over major airports and airfields accomplished the same thing. Land-based forces simply rolled across the frontier and into Denmark, facing scant resistance which was easily-brushed aside.
The campaign for Norway took months, in part because it was further away from Germany than Denmark, and larger and more rugged, as well. Also, Denmark's fate warned Norwegians of their predicament and they stiffened their resistance. British and French forces were deployed to assist Norway, which also aided their cause. Norway's armed forces were arguably better-equipped and prepared to resist as well, for example the fortress guarding Oslo Harbor managed to torpedo and sink the German heavy cruiser Blücher in the Battle of Drøbak Sound as she attempted to force her way up the fjord.
The decision by the Danish government to lay down their military arms has been controversial since the war, but apart from the honor of greater resistance, what would have been gained? The outcome would have not been altered, only delayed, and the resultant fight would have been a slaughter and a bloodbath. Hitler had wished to turn Denmark into a "model protectorate," but as the war went on and Danish resistance activities increased, that dream was shown to be a lie. Ultimately, Danish resistance proved to the world that even a nation as small as she could fight well and hard for the cause of human freedom.
Listening to you again I heard this before but I always pick up new stuff so I just keep on listening whenever I can what a blessing you have been to so many
I am amazed to listen to him recite all this off the top of his head with no notes. What an amazing intellect.
Dropped in for a minute - stayed for the whole thing. Very interesting view on the war and an unbiased one at that. Equal measures on all sides.
You wrote, "unbiased one at that. Equal measures on all sides." Can you explain in detail your thinking? The man gave the "British Perspective" which is 100% biased. The guy might as well be a Brit himself, not an American. Saying his lecture equal on all sides is a complete joke.
Especially from a chicken hawk guy who never served a day in uniform. He's a false philosopher who's writings I would use as toilet paper especially when I have a bad case of diarrhea. Full of excrement!! WHY AM I NOT SURPRISED HE'S ON FOX NEWS ALL THE TIME. PLUS HE HAS A DEGREE FROM A PUBLIC UNIVERSITY ( UC SANTA CRUZ....LOL!!! ) COMMIES COME FROM PUBLIC UNIVERSITY I THOUGHT....LOL!!!
These two (Mr. Chevron and Richard Alvarado) are too intellectually challenged to appreciate this presentation; hence the moronic comments of these cretins.
Pardon me for nitpicking, but it should be remembered that Britain actually meant Britain, its Empire and Commonwealth. I will concentrate on Australia, being Australian and having lost relatives in WWII, and interviewed veterans of the 2/14 battalion AIF (Australian Imperial Force), veterans of the Middle East, New Guinea and Borneo.
Australia was only a nation of 8 million at the time, but had more service personel per capita and more deaths per capita than the US.
Guadalcanal was not the first occasion where the Japanese were halted and turned back. The Australians achieved that at Milne Bay in New Guinea and along the Kokoda Track where the Japanese had been advancing toward port Moresby on the southern coast, and were held then pushed back and destroyed at the Battles of the Beaches, their original landing sites on the North coast. There US army units played a part at Buna, with Australian assistance.
The 2/14 was the first AIF battalion up the Kokoda track to help the hard pressed inexperienced, outnumbered and poorly equipped militia battalions making their gallant stand against the Japanese at Isurava.
Australia had an odd military set up in WWII. The AIF were men who had volunteered for service overseas. They are the second AIF as distinct from the first AIF of WWI and their battalion designations reflect the distinction. Thus the 2/14 are the successor battalion to the 14th battalion of the first AIF, and shared their battalion colour patch, yellow over blue. (My great grandfather and other relatives served with the first AIF.)
The militia were only to be used for home defence, but at that time New Guinea and nearby islands were Australian territory.
The AIF men had disparaged the militia as 'chocolate soldiers', who would melt in the heat of battle. When the 2/14 got to Isurava and fought beside the 39th militia, and especially after the 39th refused to be relieved but elected to stay in the fight, the AIF men had a complete change of opinion, and the old men left of the 2/14 and the 39th mingle at commemorative events of the Kokoda campaign.
A cousin of mine, a bomber pilot was killed over Milne Bay. His younger brother joined the air force, flew with Bomber Command over Europe, was shot down, captured and imprisoned in Stalag Luft III. He was to have gone out in the Great Escape, but being the closet thing they had to a doctor in the camp (a medical student) gave up his place to another man who was among those executed, and felt the guilt ever after. My mother says that in the film, the man playing the 'doctor' is dark haired, whereas her cousin was fair haired.
My paternal grandfather was a career officer in the RAAF (Royal Australian Air Force), and adjutant at the air base at Darwin in the Northern Territory which was bombed by the Japanese, using the same carriers and more planes that had bombed Pearl Harbour. The Japanese made numerous attacks on Darwin (and other towns in northern Australia) and the USS Peary was still firing its guns at Japanese aircraft as it was sinking on 19 February 1942, with the loss of 88 of its crew.
"There is a memorial in Darwin in honor of the lives lost. This memorial, in Bicentennial Park, consists of a plaque and one of the 4-inch deck guns recovered from the Peary. This gun is aimed towards the Peary's resting place in the harbor. In the words of Peter Grose, author of An Awkward Truth: The Bombing of Darwin, February 1942, "The doomed yet magnificent reply by the destroyer USS Peary in Darwin harbour as Japanese dive-bombers swarmed around her deserves a place in the legend books of American military history." Wikipedia
By the end of the war, Australia had the fourth largest air force in the world, and one third of Bomber Command in Europe were Australians.
The RAN (Royal Australian Navy) fought in the Mediterranean and alongside American vessels in the Pacific, around the islands of the Dutch East Indies and Guadalcanal where both navies lost ships and men.
Thank you for that brief discussion of Australian contribution in WWII. Is there a good book(s) detailing more about this contribution? I am quite familiar with WWII and the efforts by US, UK, and USSR actions, but had never heard about the RAN, AIF or RAAF in any detail.
@@mattmatteson8759 Thanks for your interest Matt. I don't know of any specific books I could recommend that give an overall view of each of the services.
I have an interest in history including military history but was a scientist by trade until recent retirement. Without going in to how it came about, at the request of a University and the veterans association of the 2/14 battalion I recorded oral histories with some of the men.
What I know of the histories of the services and various campaigns comes from numerous books and documentaries, many available on You Tube.
For example, put HMAS Sydney Kormoran in the UA-cam search for videos on the history and loss with all hands of the cruiser HMAS Sydney after an encounter with the German raider Kormoran, which was also sunk in the engagement with some survivors.
The Sydney was a favourite ship of the navy having sunk an Italian cruiser in the Mediterranean and had crewmen from all over the country. The Germans reported the flaming Sydney sailing away over the horizon, never to be heard of again. The circumstances of the Sydney's loss was considered a mystery and is still controversial to this day.
Search Savo island 1942 fro the battle in which US and Australian vessels were lost off Guadalcanal. Almost as many American and Australian sailors were killed in that one night battle as US Marines died in the 6 month battle for Guadalcanal.
You will find videos and Tobruk, El Alamein, Kokoda etc. There is a feature film called Kokoda available online.
I suggest you google the various services. The Wikipedia articles are comprehensive and may lead you to specific campaigns and battles. Or try searching Amazon etc.
Hope this is helpful
South Africa too.. my grandfather was a gunner in Egypt.. even black south Africans were fighting
We should never forget the contribution from the Commonwealth and also individuals from the Republic of Ireland in WW11.
The Australian victory at Milne Bay was one of our best kept secrets for decades. I first read about it in Russel Braddon's book Images of Australia, which was published in 1987. Never heard a word about it at school.
In recent years it's getting some attention in the media. But Australians should be at least aware of the victory at Milne Bay as we are of the tragedy of Gallipoli. At Milne Bay the Diggers had their backs to the wall, and fought to win.
2:13 Family who fought in WWII
4:23 Allies had differences, but they had a common enemy
5:15 60-65 Million Dead 💀 unthinkably lethal
7:04 The truely total global war (World War 1 had no Pacific theatre)
• Technology increased the death toll
8:37 The War was 6 Years Long
9:12 Armor, Gunpowder, Kevlar
10:07 Novel Ideologies which drove people; relativism about good and bad
*Speedy Invasion Global Bloodshed*
11:29 Germany Invaded Poland,
12:02 Germany Invaded Denmark (1 day),
Norway (6 weeks) Netherlands Luxembourg Belgium France (7 weeks)
12:45 Did what no one had done before
13:45 British/French Appeasement, Russian Collaboration, American Isolationism
14:39 3 Million people
16:54 Appeasement 18:19
18:34 Treaty of Versailles
* Alliance should have arrived after Germany invaded Poland
20:08 Punitive and WEAK
- talked a big game, but didn’t back it up with muscle
21:17 The Soviet Union’s Non-aggression pact, provided resources to Germany
22:15 Stalin treated the Axis members better in their deals
23:06 _Isolationism, Appeasement, Collaboration_ allowed WWII to grow into the Global Bloodbath it became
26:38 Germany & Italy declared war on the USA 27:34 _Invasion of Soviet Union, Pearl Harbor, Declaration of War on America_
30:38 Why did the Allies win?
1. More appealing to neutral countries, we won’t invade them
32:06 2. Our leaders don’t lie as much
33:58 3. Cooperation of Allies, Axis was uncooperative
37:39 Bomb their capitols to smitherins
38:40 Soviet Union
39:37 Britain 🇬🇧 41:02 Gave up their empire
41:33 Italy 🇮🇹
41:53 Japan 🇯🇵
42:46 United States 🇺🇸
43:52 Dilemma: Rebuilding Countries
44:46 War 45:25 Who is stronger?
Thank you so much for taking the time to organise that, I always look for comments like yours, I don't have time to waste when I'm wasting time.
Thank you for this. Super helpful !
This guy is so brilliant. I have never, ever, seen the Gish Gallop performed with such perfection.
If anyone embodies the words sober and judicious it's this man.
I would say that whoever removed Roosevelt form the need to know lists of American Intelligence was a better example of the term sobre and judicious. (As long as it wasn't that jessie Edgar Hoover was it?)
Edgar Hoover didn't want to know about Pearl Harbour. There is a video by the man the British sent to tell him on Younube (where he explains how the FBI treated him so he kept his mouth shut.)
The Americans were very foolish militarily and Churchill was stupid putting Eisenhower in charge. They screwed up D-Day so badly that they nearly USAAAFeffed the USAA. We British considered the American soldier to be: "Our Italians".
Corruption in the engine production of its four engined bombers killed nearly as many air-crew as the Luftwaffe did as they couldn't complain too loudly about duff materials. The same problem went into liberty vessel construction we had to put the ships in sandwiches to hold them together.
The USAAF asked for a Liaison Officer from the RAF. The man they sent was so enamoured of them that he threatened to resign his commission rather than accept the posting. Roosevelt's own son committed treason in the assignment he had in British Intelligence.
The American people were a disgrace. Nothing had changed by the time of the Clintons.
However in your darkest hour who fed you ? Who fueled you ? Who armed you ? I guess we could do a couple things then .
I agree. We need this clear and concise analysis of our dark days but unfortunately the know all's will dismiss him.
Really? He didn't bother to mention who actually starts all these wars and it isn't some crazy despot in Germany or Iraq. They are just useful idiots.
You are correct Test Channel, it is the cabal of international bankers who finance all sides of every conflict who are behind all wars.
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The Soviets did break an agreement with one of the Axis powers, they invaded Manchuria wiping out the Japanese Kwangtung Army in 1945.
Study, China and Japan were fighting WAY before this ....and...you may recall, the passage through to the northern Pacific above Korea was a big concern to Russia and usa
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The USSR signed a peace agreement with Japan, after fighting in Manchuria in 1939.
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They've had constant border skirmishes since then.
They also invaded Sakhalin. This was as agreed with the USA and Britain, although the USSR did delay their attack until the Japanese asked them to intercede to make peace after the atom bomb was dropped.
I have never respected anyone's views as I do Dr. Hanson. I have listened to his lectures and podcasts for years. A brilliant mind with a down to earth attitude is an American treasure.
Victor Davis Hanson is a National Treasure. Listen to him whenever you get the opportunity.
Interesting, independent thought on a subject we’ve heard a thousand times. His military career is telling on his personal perspective of a regional conflict and the motivations and temptations that drove it into a world war.
Absolutely brilliant crystallization of the greatest event in human history.
I don't believe that I have ever encountered a man possessing this level of insight.
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I have listened to hours of Victor, no one makes more sense of issues than him
Another stellar lecture by Dr. Victor Davis Hanson. Thank you, sir, for the amazing insight and new information--to me at least.
OUTSTANDING!! BEST 40MIN TALK ABOUT WW2!
Wow! A great explanation of WW2 for this 77 year old without all the high school history class mandatory dates causing me to get failing grades. I've watched many of your videos and as a believer, I believe God has blessed you. You do more for humanity then any Presedent or Military General.
Great Scott! How clear it is NOW!Thank you.
Good speech. The point about the British nationalization program is very important, but he needed to explain it better. Britain was bankrupt. It was not the time to spend billions on buying up private industries which needed rebuilding, investment, & retooling. The Labour government spent the postwar loans for nationalization & didn't have the money for the rebuilding, reinvestment, & retooling. Not trusting the Atlee government the US wrongly imposed harsher terms on the UK than they should have. Had Churchill been returned to power things would have better. Don't panic, the NHS was already agreed in principle by 1944.
Excellent! A couple of things come to mind. One, WW II was the first war where civilians were intentionally targeted because they were seen as part of the production process and the providers of bodies for the military. Two, Stalin played all the Allies false and tried to make sure the US and Britain took as many casualties as possible. The Russian War consisted of one long stalemate on the Western Front (to the Russians) aka the Eastern Front (to the Germans). Stalin's ultimate goal was to set up the basis for World Communism and his agents had been infiltrating the USA sand subverting the USA since 1934. At the end of WW II, Stalin and the Soviets conquered all of Eastern Europe without firing a shot and were given power over tall those Sovereign Nations through deals with Britain and the USA. They were also typically vindictive when they convinced the US and Britain to return 2 million "Displaced Persons" to the arms of Mother Russia. These were Russians who had escaped the Totalitarian Communist system before WW II started and gotten into Europe. After WW II they were rounded up and sent back to be tortured and killed. The general lesson from all this is that relatively small governments can start very big wars on behalf of all their citizens who are expected to fight and die in those wars and usually the reasons for it all are lies. And "We The People" have not "Gotten the Message" yet and I'm afraid we never will.
joelmull lucifierian agenda,the date on the dollar bill is may 1st 1776 the year the order was started
This is the best overview of the war I’ve ever heard.
My grandfather was in the US Army Rangers, Master sergeant served from Aleutian Islands to Okinawa. He was a hard man.
Absolutely brilliant from start too finish! VDH is an American original and a gift from God! Thank heaven he’s on our side!
Your life is a gift, and VDH has the same old story of academics since 1944, an historic failure.
This is a fascinating (and scary) read. One of the best nutshell descriptions of our current political situation that I've seen.
Dr. Jack Devere Minzey, born 6 October 1928, died 8 April 2018, was the Department Head of Education at Eastern Michigan University as well as a prolific author of numerous books, most of which were on the topic of Education and the Government role therein. (Editor's note)This was the last of his works:
CivilWar: How do civil wars happen?
By Dr.Jack Devere Minzey
Two or more sides disagree on who runs the country. And they can't settle the question through elections because they don't even agree that elections are how you decide who's in charge. That's the basic issue here Who decides who runs the country? When you hate each other but accept the election results, you have a country. When you stop accepting election results, you have a countdown to a civil war.
The Mueller investigation was about removing President Trump from office and overturning the results of an election. We all know that. But it's not the first time they've done this. The first time a Republican president was elected this century, they said he didn't really win. The Supreme Court gave him the election. There's a pattern here
What do sure odds of the Democrats rejecting the next Republican president really mean? It means they don't accept the results of any election that they don't win. It means they don't believe that transfers of power in this country are determined by elections. That's a civil war.
There's no shooting. At least not unless you count the attempt to kill a bunch of Republicans at a charity baseball game practice. But the Democrats have rejected our system of government.
This isn't dissent. It's not disagreement. You can hate the other party. You can think they're the worst thing that ever happened to the country. But then you work harder to win the next election. When you consistently reject the results of elections that you don't win, what you want is a dictatorship.
Your very own dictatorship.
The only legitimate exercise of power in this country, according to Democrats, is it's own. Whenever Republicans exercise power, it's inherently illegitimate The Democrats lost Congress. They lost the White House. So what did they do? They began trying to run the country through Federal judges and bureaucrats. Every time that a Federal judge issues an order saying that the President of the United States can't scratch his own back without his say so, that's the civil war
Our system of government is based on the constitution, but that's not the system that runs this country. The Democrat's system is that any part of government that it runs gets total and unlimited power over the country.
If the Democrats are in the White House, then the president can do anything And I mean anything. He can have his own amnesty for illegal aliens. He can fine you for not having health insurance. He can use the IRS as his own police force and imprison citizens who speak against him. He can provide guns and money (Fast and Furious) (Iran nuclear deal) to other countries to support his own agenda, and watch while one of America's Ambassadors is dragged through the streets and murdered doing nothing to aid our citizens. His power is unlimited. He's a dictator. But when Republicans get into the White House, suddenly the President can't do anything. He isn't even allowed to undo the illegal alien amnesty that his predecessor illegally invented. A Democrat in the White House has 'discretion' to completely decide every aspect of immigration policy. A Republican doesn't even have the 'discretion' to reverse him. That's how the game is played. That's how our country is run. Sad but true, although
the left hasn't yet won that particular fight.
When a Democrat is in the White House, states aren't even allowed to enforce immigration law. But when a Republican is in the White House, states can create their own immigration laws. Under Obama, a state wasn't allowed to go to the bathroom without asking permission. But under Trump, Jerry Brown can go around saying that California is an independent republic and sign treaties with other countries The Constitution has something to say about that. Whether it's Federal or State, Executive, Legislative or Judiciary, the left moves power around to run the country. If it controls an institution, then that institution is suddenly the supreme power in the land. This is what I call a moving dictatorship
Donald Trump has caused the Shadow Government to come out of hiding: Professional government is a guild. Like medieval guilds. You can't serve in it if you're not a member. If you haven't been indoctrinated into its arcane rituals. If you aren't in the club. And Trump isn't in the club. He brought in a bunch of people who aren't in the club with him.
Now we're seeing what the pros do when amateurs try to walk in on them. They spy on them, they investigate them and they send them to jail. They use the tools of power to bring them down.
That's not a free country.
It's not a free country when FBI agents who support Hillary take out an 'insurance policy' against Trump winning the election. It's not a free country when Obama officials engage in massive unmasking of the opposition. It's not a free country when the media responds to the other guy winning by trying to ban the conservative media that supported him from social media. It's not a free country when all of the above collude together to overturn an election because the guy who wasn't supposed to win did.
Have no doubt, we're in a civil war between a conservative volunteer government and a leftist socialist Democrat professional government.
Well now Pilgrims and Patriots, having read the above, I suggest two things: forward this very timely, very important analysis to those whom you believe think like you do (and those that don't)
Best description of our history and what we should do.
Great lecture.. every time I listen to VDH, I learn much more about history and have a better understanding of the present.
We need Hanson. HE is a force for good.
Bear in mind the state of Fake News extended far beyond Germany and Russia. 19,000 Allied troops died in a few days in the 2nd Battle of the Ardennes.
With hind-sight Paton could have pulled everyone out of the region and regrouped them between Antwerp and Bastogn, where they could have picked off the over extended attackers at a distance with the newly acquired proximity shells on radar guided guns.
Instead nobody questioned anything. That is how people were. Even today the average person is unaware that the BBC for example is just another political pawn, not really all that different to CNN.
Mention Jimmy Saville and it is :
...""Yes but"......
You can't wipe out national pride with an opinion and if you quote facts at them what kind of member of society are you?
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Miles Patterson : - VERY TRUE! In my opinion Patton is OVER RATED because he realized TOO LATE the GEOPOLITICAL realities of HIS time!
Patton couldn't have done much, he wasn't in charge. But who's to say regrouping would have accomplished anything. By attacking instead of regrouping, he keep the Germans from pressing, and eventually caused the Germans to regroup. Patton understood what the Germans, knew and the Allies didn't. A good offense is the best defense.
How many people died because of Neocons like him?
A superb lecture. Clear and concise. We British may have fought a long, honourable war but it exhausted us. There was total mobilisation. We had no choice. It had turned into a war of national survival in a way that it never did for the US. My father was a bomber pilot and the fathers of just about every boy I knew as I grew up in the 1950s and 60s had served in some capacity or other so my generation felt very much in touch with those who had done the fighting. Yes, we were on the winning side for all the reasons the professor cites --- but we lost the peace due to the disastrous flirtation with socialism from 1945 onwards the effects of which we have still not shaken off despite the recovery during the Thatcher years. Now we have the EU (the Fourth Reich) treating us with contempt as we attempt to conclude a satisfactory Brexit deal. F--- them. The Anglo-sphere ALWAYS was far more important to us, the British people, whatever our craven politicos and civil servants may have thought. Our Prime Minister's negotiating concessions to the EU are appeasement all over again.
Angus Thank you acknowledging the American contribution. America was totally mobilized as well. My mother and all my aunts worked in the ship yards.
Without our stalwart allies in Britain we would have never succeeded in Europe against Germany without even more enormous sacrifice and loss. And without the U.S. you probably wouldn't have succeeded either. My father served on a Destroyer in the Pacific. His ship was kamikazed at Okinawa.
The Canadians, the Brit's the Aussies and Kiwi's have always been there when we needed them. I hope you always will be.
War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it. ... by Desiderius Erasmus.
Good lecture but at 19:00 he states the United States should have sent 2 million men in 1939 when Poland was invaded which would have been impossible since at that time America's military ranked 17th in the world with a total of less than 400,000 in uniform combined army and navy.
See Chris Bollyn Solving 911
I hope that England (UK) will survive the onslaught of the Kemer Rouge, I mean the left.
We lost all our men and now we are getting berated for marrying immigrants :(
I watch every WWII documentary I can. My grandparents, parents, aunts, and uncles all lived through it and were greatly affected by it. I also believe we must never forget how cruel people can be when they are unchecked.
How refreshing to hear a sophisticated vocabulary spoken by a scholar of history about a subject that heavily influenced my growing up. I was almost ten when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor and saw Movie Tone News at the movies each week. This talk helped me understand the War and was so very informative and well said!
As a Brit I would like to thank America for its contribution to NATO since WW2.
As a Yank, I would like to thank the Brits for having the intestinal fortitude to keep perseverance. As Mr. Hanson puts it, they fought on moral grounds. As did the French. They fought to honor their commitments to an ally.
As a Dutch I would like to thank the scheming of the 1918 allied conglomerate and her banks for making sure the nazis succeeded from being a lunatic fringe phenomenon like they are in most nations, in becoming a blitzkrieg steamroller , that squashed little nations like The Netherlands inbetween the quarrels of would be empires....
Which might happen again since the folding of the Warsaw Pact ,against which Nato once was a valid response, Nato is now on the Kremlin's doorstep ,acting surprised and annoyed why a new Kremlin strongman rose up after a few years of cordial relations...moving Nato's nuclear missiles from Turkey to Romania ,which would be the same as if the former Warsaw Pact was stationing warheads in Mexico...
Propping up neo fascist seperatist mercenaries in the Ukraïne which is as inseperable a part of Russia as Alaska is considered to be of the U.S. even though the U.S. (unlike Russia)didn't lose tens of thousands of her citizens in keeping Alaska in the U.S. fold.
Thanks again for making the West European theatre safe for a long overdue bout of bloodletting and an unprecedented increased possibility for a nuclear accident. Although.... being certainly no Putin aficionado...his restraint untill now seems admirable , considering both worldwars started for a *lot* less.....
@@PAULLONDEN that sounds a little disingenuous don't you think.
I would like to ask while you're giving your country away to the Muslim jihotties now. You do know what's going to happen soon as they become a majority in a 50 years or a hundred years but it's still going to happen. Probably much sooner really sad
*@Joseph Harrigan* Wouldn't that be a more appropriate question to ask Uncle Sam, and his open imigration door policy for decades.....to which his nato lapdogs have to adjust their imigration policies Joseph ? Uncle Sam ..the Saoedie and Egyptian militairy regimes best pal.....while for some strange reason Syria's Assad *has* to go......?
Sincerely disingenuously yours......
Better than any history class I ever took
Dr. Victor David Hanson is absolutely brilliant and is so on every topic that he does a talk on.
I wish I had Hanson teaching my history subjects in the 1950s. I would have grasped concepts much more clearly.
I say HISTORY matters...always !
Patton even said we fought the wrong enemy in WW2. Europa the Last Battle. We need to unite not fight.
My ex would disagree with you... which is partly why she's my ex... and I guess she is right in a way, because now she's history and she doesn't matter :)
Jokes aside however i agree with you entirely.
Funk you
Dr Hanson is a like my teacher . Thanks Dr , truly you are good . I have huge respect for you . Sir .
32m5s : On Lies, Alliances and knowing who are your friends. The historical example in the Macro that applies to the Micro.
Good eample brought to you from history, courtesy of Historian VDH.
Thanks, Victor.
What a great time to be alive. To learn what he has spent a lifetime studying. My entire life there was war.
The Internet can be a wonderful learning tool! How fortunate we are.
Outstanding! One of the brilliant minds of our time!
When he mentioned that Hitler didn’t even know where Pearl Harbor was and whisked away the story…..I know this man is truly a war historian. I learnt a lot from this one ☝️ man🙌
Wars are won on physical, moral and conceptual fields. You have discussed this in an interesting fashion. Thank you
7:11 that's a bit of a fallacy
The Graf Spee was indeed sunk at the mouth of the River Plate (well, it was scuttled), but there were comparable actions, around South America, in WW1 as well: battle of Coronel and the Falklands
Much better than the Oliver Stone version.
YrocFrick Truth is far better than fiction or myth
No doubt, Oliver Stone is simply a sensationalist and entertainer.
The Oliver Stone version is in fact more true to real history than this mainstream bullshit given here.
Antony Sutton gives the best and most accurate history of WWII.
It is the cabal of international bankers who finance all sides of every conflict who are behind all wars.
See: Antony Sutton, Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler:
www.voltairenet.org/IMG/pdf/Sutton_Wall_Street_and_Hitler.pdf
And Sutton - Wall Street and FDR (1975)
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As true as Putin's helicopters
Uhm...yeah. Troll on garth.
It amazes me that we’re still dealing with socialism and communism today. How many more people have to die for these ideologies.
See Chris Bollyn 911 Deception
See Chris Bollyn Solving 911
@Jim McCracken STUPID to the MAX! 1\2 the population? BOT alert here!
Not to mention racism.
Altruism is still the culturally dominant morality.
Every time I watch one of his videos I always learn something new. Like the one thing he pointed out how one army ran on grass and the other army ran on oil.
The German Army also used thousands of horses in its campaigns in the Soviet Union. Highly mechanized Blitzkrieg is not the whole picture. That's what German propaganda wanted to put across, but the reality was rather less modern.
History was always my favorite subject in school. I think it's incredibly important and I'm horrified by how little younger Americans know about their own country much less the world.
Sure wish VDH had taught history in my school! Our “history” lessons amounted to memorizing dates of wars, data & locations about who fought whom etc. very little was conveyed about HOW it happened or WHY. And history was 100% a white man’s story. No women, no ethnicities were ever given homage. History classes shouldn’t be ALL about wars.