Tucker recently had an alternative historian on his show (Darryl Cooper, who runs the Martyr Made podcast) to expound on his view of the genesis of WWII, namely that Winston Churchill was a villainous figure. His twitter thread made after the show does a decent job of summarizing that point.
Obviously any suggestion that Hitler was not 100% Satan incensed the boomer right, provoking febrile emotional reactions like this one from Billboard Chris. The likes of Seth Dillon are also making their favorite call for "moral clarity," which I just read as "die for Israel" these days.
At the same time, a couple people made some decent counterpoints, namely that Hitler invaded a lot of countries at the time he was supposedly suing for peace. This is the problem with calling Churchill "the chief villain," which Cooper walked back into "a chief villain" on X.
Overall, the controversy is a good thing for the right. Tucker is softening up the ironclad boomer mythology of WWII - when you delve deeper into the motivations of the belligerents, you eventually delve into the question of, "so where did the Nazis get all this animus against Jews?" and "why is the Holocaust the greatest tragedy when 14 million Asians were killed by Japan and 20 million Ukrainians were killed in the Holodomor?" Also, blue laser eyes/red tint profile pics are gay.
I listened to the entire podcast yesterday.
I don't really care about Darryl's claim that Winston Churchill was "the chief villain", but his assessment of Hitler & Hitler's intentions are sympathetic to a clear fault.
He's right that you need to understand the perspective of the actors from their views, but there's a big difference between understanding those perspectives, and taking dishonest spin at face value.
For example, we know that most of the Democratic elite are aware that Donald Trump is not a dictator, who raped a woman in a department store bathroom, is a KGB & FSB Agent, who pays women to piss on beds because Obama slept in one. That's propaganda that they don't believe, you shouldn't take them at their word.
Simultaneously, Hitler knew good and god damned well that he was spinning circles around Chamberlain. He survived an assassination plot because of the diplomatic success that Chamberlain straight up gave him. He expected a war with the west and wanted it over quickly. Hitler obviously intended a war with the USSR, even though Stalin didn't, since Hitler was both supplying goods to the USSR, and his government proposed the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, and his government was the first one to break it. Hell, Hitler's recordings at the Eagle's Nest were very clear that he intended to go to war with Russia much earlier than he did, but he didn't realize how badly the Winter War had gone for Russia until long after it was over. He wished he'd invaded then, but the military wasn't up to strength.
The idea that he felt by 1940 that the United States was a more dangerous enemy than the Soviet Union is bananas. There were barely 200,000 men in the entire US Army at that time. Everyone in Europe believed that if the US was going to re-tool for war, it would take years. Goering famously considered the US military-industrial capacity to be a fucking joke.
The reality is that if there was any genuine desire to prevent a war with England, he could have done it, and would have had it. Using Mosby as a fascist puppet government is not "wanting peace". If he really wanted peace, he wouldn't have abandoned Rudolf Hess to die in prison, and wouldn't have publicly disowned him with the entirety of the Nazi government, nor would Hess have needed to parachute into Scotland without telling anyone.
He wanted a war with both the USSR and England. This was because, in his mind, the USSR was the center of Judeo-Bolshevism, and the England was the center of Judeo-Capitalism. To "save Europe", he had to destroy both governments, and exterminate jews not simply from Poland, but from the whole continent. At least from an ideological perspective. From a straight geo-political perspective; Russia always presented an ever-present threat to Germany, and England had clearly intended to manipulate Europe into an environment which benefited it the most, making both legitimate targets from geo-politics alone.
When you're not blathering on about the jews, you're a phenomenal writer. You could probably have a successful substack if you wanted to put in the effort.
I take the same approach with jews as I've done here. You just don't like the outcome.
Eh, you never write about the jews, as far as I remember. You just burn through the comments calling us 'stormfags' and 'retards'.
At this point it's kinda endearing.
I write about the jews because you're retarded.