Dan Snow

And I think, what are they doing here so far from home? Like, it's hard. This is a hard thing to sell to people, right? So I respect the American people and their desire to stay out of trouble. If I lived in the middle of America, you bet I wouldn't be clamoring to fight Germany. But I think that what Churchill does is he launched an influence campaign, right? His speeches are great.

And I think, what are they doing here so far from home? Like, it's hard. This is a hard thing to sell to people, right? So I respect the American people and their desire to stay out of trouble. If I lived in the middle of America, you bet I wouldn't be clamoring to fight Germany. But I think that what Churchill does is he launched an influence campaign, right? His speeches are great.

And I think, what are they doing here so far from home? Like, it's hard. This is a hard thing to sell to people, right? So I respect the American people and their desire to stay out of trouble. If I lived in the middle of America, you bet I wouldn't be clamoring to fight Germany. But I think that what Churchill does is he launched an influence campaign, right? His speeches are great.

Some of the funniest speeches ever made in the English language, up there with the Gettysburg Address and... He's setting this up. He's setting this up as a global... War against evil. That he hopes will help Roosevelt. If he just goes, this is an old-fashioned British... The Brits have been fighting on the continent for 300 years.

Some of the funniest speeches ever made in the English language, up there with the Gettysburg Address and... He's setting this up. He's setting this up as a global... War against evil. That he hopes will help Roosevelt. If he just goes, this is an old-fashioned British... The Brits have been fighting on the continent for 300 years.

Some of the funniest speeches ever made in the English language, up there with the Gettysburg Address and... He's setting this up. He's setting this up as a global... War against evil. That he hopes will help Roosevelt. If he just goes, this is an old-fashioned British... The Brits have been fighting on the continent for 300 years.

We've been swapping provinces with the French and the Austrians and the Germans. He doesn't want it to be seen as that kind of war. This is not like, oh, we'll take Alsace-Lorraine, we'll give you back Gibraltar, you know, all that kind of stuff. This is a all or nothing fight against something that is evil.

We've been swapping provinces with the French and the Austrians and the Germans. He doesn't want it to be seen as that kind of war. This is not like, oh, we'll take Alsace-Lorraine, we'll give you back Gibraltar, you know, all that kind of stuff. This is a all or nothing fight against something that is evil.

We've been swapping provinces with the French and the Austrians and the Germans. He doesn't want it to be seen as that kind of war. This is not like, oh, we'll take Alsace-Lorraine, we'll give you back Gibraltar, you know, all that kind of stuff. This is a all or nothing fight against something that is evil.

And he's doing that to try and help Roosevelt, to try and say, I'm going to sell this in a different way.

And he's doing that to try and help Roosevelt, to try and say, I'm going to sell this in a different way.

And he's doing that to try and help Roosevelt, to try and say, I'm going to sell this in a different way.

Yeah, we sometimes think, it's so true, man. We sometimes think of these guys as old school, patrician, pre-internet, pre-TV, grand strategists. These two were ferocious PR guys. They knew exactly what was going on. They knew exactly how to move democratic audiences one way or another.

Yeah, we sometimes think, it's so true, man. We sometimes think of these guys as old school, patrician, pre-internet, pre-TV, grand strategists. These two were ferocious PR guys. They knew exactly what was going on. They knew exactly how to move democratic audiences one way or another.

Yeah, we sometimes think, it's so true, man. We sometimes think of these guys as old school, patrician, pre-internet, pre-TV, grand strategists. These two were ferocious PR guys. They knew exactly what was going on. They knew exactly how to move democratic audiences one way or another.

The Brits faced a very tough battle against Germany. They were two equally matched prize fighters. They would have been punch-runk by the end. I mean, you're going to end up in a situation not unlike the Napoleonic Wars, where Britain wouldn't have been able to get an army ashore on the continent to take on the German war machine.

The Brits faced a very tough battle against Germany. They were two equally matched prize fighters. They would have been punch-runk by the end. I mean, you're going to end up in a situation not unlike the Napoleonic Wars, where Britain wouldn't have been able to get an army ashore on the continent to take on the German war machine.

The Brits faced a very tough battle against Germany. They were two equally matched prize fighters. They would have been punch-runk by the end. I mean, you're going to end up in a situation not unlike the Napoleonic Wars, where Britain wouldn't have been able to get an army ashore on the continent to take on the German war machine.

But the Germans wouldn't be able to build a fleet to cross the... It's the same problem Napoleon's got, right? So you're going to end up with this kind of maritime power against this continental European power. And it's going to be a bit of a stalemate. Now, Germany conquered this vast empire in Europe from the biggest since the Caesars, right?

But the Germans wouldn't be able to build a fleet to cross the... It's the same problem Napoleon's got, right? So you're going to end up with this kind of maritime power against this continental European power. And it's going to be a bit of a stalemate. Now, Germany conquered this vast empire in Europe from the biggest since the Caesars, right?