Dan Snow
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Churchill knows, like, he's got them. This is America are in. They have agreed to provide enormous, enormous military supplies to Britain and its empire and its allies.
Churchill knows, like, he's got them. This is America are in. They have agreed to provide enormous, enormous military supplies to Britain and its empire and its allies.
Yes, he likes to drink, he's old, he's a sort of Victorian war horse, let loose in this sort of modern age of the mid-20th century. He is also, this is the big thing that the FDR, I think, will always sit between them. He believes in the British Empire passionately.
Yes, he likes to drink, he's old, he's a sort of Victorian war horse, let loose in this sort of modern age of the mid-20th century. He is also, this is the big thing that the FDR, I think, will always sit between them. He believes in the British Empire passionately.
Yes, he likes to drink, he's old, he's a sort of Victorian war horse, let loose in this sort of modern age of the mid-20th century. He is also, this is the big thing that the FDR, I think, will always sit between them. He believes in the British Empire passionately.
1914, Churchill macht ein bisschen mentale Gymnastik, weil Churchill sagt, Hitler ist ein existenzieller Threat für alles Gute in diesem Welt. By the way, India, you're remaining part of the British Empire, for the foreseeable. So, you know, you're like, okay. So, he, and FDR sees that.
1914, Churchill macht ein bisschen mentale Gymnastik, weil Churchill sagt, Hitler ist ein existenzieller Threat für alles Gute in diesem Welt. By the way, India, you're remaining part of the British Empire, for the foreseeable. So, you know, you're like, okay. So, he, and FDR sees that.
1914, Churchill macht ein bisschen mentale Gymnastik, weil Churchill sagt, Hitler ist ein existenzieller Threat für alles Gute in diesem Welt. By the way, India, you're remaining part of the British Empire, for the foreseeable. So, you know, you're like, okay. So, he, and FDR sees that.
FDR's like, I'm not sending American boys to die, and I'm not sending American dollars to be put to work to keep the British Empire afloat. Like, that's not what, you know what, the name, the name, The Republic, it's the United States of America. Our foundation myth tells you all you need to know about our view of the British Empire, right?
FDR's like, I'm not sending American boys to die, and I'm not sending American dollars to be put to work to keep the British Empire afloat. Like, that's not what, you know what, the name, the name, The Republic, it's the United States of America. Our foundation myth tells you all you need to know about our view of the British Empire, right?
FDR's like, I'm not sending American boys to die, and I'm not sending American dollars to be put to work to keep the British Empire afloat. Like, that's not what, you know what, the name, the name, The Republic, it's the United States of America. Our foundation myth tells you all you need to know about our view of the British Empire, right?
And this is something I think that Brits, and something we can come maybe to at the end, but Winston Churchill gets fundamentally wrong about the Americans FDR. It's like he thinks they buy into the whole thing and that the British Empire is sort of legitimized. But no, FDR is always going to be like, you are a crazy old aristocrat.
And this is something I think that Brits, and something we can come maybe to at the end, but Winston Churchill gets fundamentally wrong about the Americans FDR. It's like he thinks they buy into the whole thing and that the British Empire is sort of legitimized. But no, FDR is always going to be like, you are a crazy old aristocrat.
And this is something I think that Brits, and something we can come maybe to at the end, but Winston Churchill gets fundamentally wrong about the Americans FDR. It's like he thinks they buy into the whole thing and that the British Empire is sort of legitimized. But no, FDR is always going to be like, you are a crazy old aristocrat.
This is a really important point and it adds to the texture of the story.
This is a really important point and it adds to the texture of the story.
This is a really important point and it adds to the texture of the story.
Ja, genau. Er wütet ihn sehr hart. Ich meine, wir kommen zu diesem Thema, ich bin mir sicher, aber sie treffen sich tatsächlich Gesicht zu Gesicht. Und Churchill, absolut. Es ist, als würde er auf eine Date gehen. Er wendet sich zurück. Am selben Zeit, als Churchill sich als der Großvater des globalen, als der Kissinger-Figur des Welt. Ich bin derjenige, der alles über Strategie weiß.
Ja, genau. Er wütet ihn sehr hart. Ich meine, wir kommen zu diesem Thema, ich bin mir sicher, aber sie treffen sich tatsächlich Gesicht zu Gesicht. Und Churchill, absolut. Es ist, als würde er auf eine Date gehen. Er wendet sich zurück. Am selben Zeit, als Churchill sich als der Großvater des globalen, als der Kissinger-Figur des Welt. Ich bin derjenige, der alles über Strategie weiß.
Ja, genau. Er wütet ihn sehr hart. Ich meine, wir kommen zu diesem Thema, ich bin mir sicher, aber sie treffen sich tatsächlich Gesicht zu Gesicht. Und Churchill, absolut. Es ist, als würde er auf eine Date gehen. Er wendet sich zurück. Am selben Zeit, als Churchill sich als der Großvater des globalen, als der Kissinger-Figur des Welt. Ich bin derjenige, der alles über Strategie weiß.