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.
Crux question. If Hitler wasn't around, would there be a WW2.
Yes there would have been.
There would have been wars, but I don't know if they would have coalesced into such a grand scale. Weimar Germany would have descended into civil war, perhaps balkanizing, Russia would have gradually seized Eastern Europe and may have gone to war with the West, Japan and the US likely would've fought.
I know you don't want to accept this point, but which countries turned it into a grand scale?
That is a grand scale. Bigger than what we got in fact.
Germany played a massive part in this. Invading Belgium, Poland, France, Africa, Russia, and declaring war on the US kind of speaks for itself.
If Eastern Europe's assimilation into the USSR provoked a war (not a given), the Soviets would have crumbled without Lend-Lease.