Christian Smith

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662 appearances 8 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 13 Aug

Christian Smith’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Talking Geopolitics · D-Day and the Cycles of American Reinvention · 10 Jun 2026 podcast

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I believe it's available uh for for free if you're not a subscriber, so go there and have a look at that. matched

Uh you wrote that Germany's decision to declare war on the US in nineteen forty one goes down in the annals of stupid geopolitical moves. matched

Why is that? matched

I i it's a it's a classic topic, isn't it, for alternate history books or uh or T V shows or films, uh the idea that the US doesn't join the war and what happens and and a number of them have the war kind of continuing in the East, um matched

in a almost guerrilla or or low level way, uh a an uh an unfinished way. matched

increasingly but perhaps not not dissimilar to what's going on in Ukraine. matched

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But George, I mean, if it was a such a stupid move, why did they do it? matched

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In many ways this is i this is uh, shall we say, the classic matched

A country divided is is all of a sudden confronted with an external enemy and that's good for it and and things come through. matched

Is is is that what you're sort of saying here? matched

I think it's interesting because because many people in the world will often accuse the US of not understanding other parts of the world outside of America. matched

But in many ways this sort of suggests that the reverse is true, that often well, th w both things can be true at the same time, but matched

often that many people don't actually understand America itself. matched

Let me let me ask George, I mean I mean let me let me let me push you on this idea of of America not being in decline, say. matched

Um many people would have suggested, you know, w well, if if if we take, for example, the Roman Empire, matched

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