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.
They didn't "start" anything. Wilson laid the groundwork for the next war, more than anyone else.
That's like blaming Germany for the 1920 invasion of Poland, or the Winter War.
Even if we accept the "groundwork" argument, the decision for Russia to invade Poland and Finland doesn't rest on the Germans.
Yeah, Germany invading people definitely wasn't starting anything. Riiiight.
Your reddit tier snark aside that's completely correct. You don't unilaterally declare one country the villain of a continent wide mutual war caused by a Serbian communist, and then enslave those people with onerous inflation and economic warfare, and then play the "I'm not touching you" game.
The Germans had every right to kick the living shit out of the rest of Europe for that.
In conclusion, fuck off back to reddit, leftist.
Sorry, just because I'm not a neonazi fuckwad doesn't make me a leftist. Get over yourself.
Yeah, Germany invading other countries was what actually started the war. We can talk about why, but if they didn't commit acts of war, nobody would have gone after them.
If you don't want people to call you a duck, stop quacking maybe.
Yes it does.