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.
A number of tweets in his thread have context added, because he was misleading (or outright lying).
Hes taking a very specific point of view to make Hitler seem less bad. If he was being honest, I'd say he had more of a point.
Ultimately, I think ww2 was largely driven by the impacts of ww1 and driving Germany to hyper inflation, etc. If they'd have had a stable economy and not been overrun by communists, Hitler wouldn't have been in power.
I also don't think Churchill was a villain, because that sits on the aggressors (namely, Hitler et al). Was Churchill (or anyone else) perfect? No. But to claim he's a villain is hyperbole.
Also, to claim nobody but Churchill wanted war is hilarious. Hitler literally started it by invading other countries. That's an act of war, and he knew it. He just thought everyone else would back down.
I'm not convinced Churchill was a villain, but Russia/Ukraine doesn't cleanly break down like that.
Why are you talking about Russia and Ukraine in a topic about ww2?
Because Russia is the aggressor, but they are not exactly the villain, or perhaps not the only villain.
The US by way of NATO is the aggressor, and have pulled a DARVO to try to blame Russia.
The US foreign policy towards Russia could be described as a child swinging its fists near someone's face and saying, "I'm not hitting you! I'm not hitting you!"