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Why are leaders so hesitant to meet? I'm told now by a bunch of diplomats that no, no, no, no, there's a process. At first you have to have these diplomats meet and they have to draft a bunch of stuff. I sometimes have the simplistic notion like why not meet? Why not meet? I think there is a human element there. Of course, especially when there's this

Yeah, but there's also just, you see the humanity in others. It's so much easier, you see this in social media, it's so much easier to talk shit about others than when you're not with them. And like, military conflict is the extreme version of that.

Yeah, but there's also just, you see the humanity in others. It's so much easier, you see this in social media, it's so much easier to talk shit about others than when you're not with them. And like, military conflict is the extreme version of that.

Yeah, but there's also just, you see the humanity in others. It's so much easier, you see this in social media, it's so much easier to talk shit about others than when you're not with them. And like, military conflict is the extreme version of that.

You can construct these narratives that they're not human, that they're evil, that they're, you can construct a communist ideology, all these, you can project onto them the worst possible a version of a human, but when you meet them, you're like, oh. They are just a person. They're just a person.

You can construct these narratives that they're not human, that they're evil, that they're, you can construct a communist ideology, all these, you can project onto them the worst possible a version of a human, but when you meet them, you're like, oh. They are just a person. They're just a person.

You can construct these narratives that they're not human, that they're evil, that they're, you can construct a communist ideology, all these, you can project onto them the worst possible a version of a human, but when you meet them, you're like, oh. They are just a person. They're just a person.

And the agreement that they won't attack each other, is that right? Yeah. Do you think Stalin actually believed that?

And the agreement that they won't attack each other, is that right? Yeah. Do you think Stalin actually believed that?

And the agreement that they won't attack each other, is that right? Yeah. Do you think Stalin actually believed that?

Yeah, so either direction you think it's inevitable. I think there's a huge amount of evidence for that. Stalin probably wanted it, what, like in 42, 43? Yeah. Something like that.

Yeah, so either direction you think it's inevitable. I think there's a huge amount of evidence for that. Stalin probably wanted it, what, like in 42, 43? Yeah. Something like that.

Yeah, so either direction you think it's inevitable. I think there's a huge amount of evidence for that. Stalin probably wanted it, what, like in 42, 43? Yeah. Something like that.

And how did Churchill come to power at this moment?

And how did Churchill come to power at this moment?

And how did Churchill come to power at this moment?

This might be a good moment to bring up this idea that has been circulating recently, brought up by Daryl Cooper, who hyperbolically stated that Churchill was the, quote, chief villain of the Second World War. To give a good faith interpretation of that, I believe he meant that Churchill forced Hitler to escalate the expansion of Nazi Germany beyond Poland into a global war.

This might be a good moment to bring up this idea that has been circulating recently, brought up by Daryl Cooper, who hyperbolically stated that Churchill was the, quote, chief villain of the Second World War. To give a good faith interpretation of that, I believe he meant that Churchill forced Hitler to escalate the expansion of Nazi Germany beyond Poland into a global war.

This might be a good moment to bring up this idea that has been circulating recently, brought up by Daryl Cooper, who hyperbolically stated that Churchill was the, quote, chief villain of the Second World War. To give a good faith interpretation of that, I believe he meant that Churchill forced Hitler to escalate the expansion of Nazi Germany beyond Poland into a global war.

So Churchill is the one that turned this narrow war, Czechoslovakia, Austria, Poland, into a global one. Is that accurate?