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.

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 US 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.