Dwarkesh
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1,722 appearances
5 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2025
last heard 25 Nov
Dwarkesh’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And he says, no, you can't kill Chiang Kai-shek.
Even though he's your enemy, he's been massacring you.
You got to let him go.
And in exchange, Chiang Kai-shek has a promise to create a united front.
against the Japanese.
Now there's 30,000 communist guerrillas when they're fighting the Japanese at this period.
And there's 1.5 to 2 million nationalist troops.
So the communists get to claim the prestige of fighting the Japanese with a fraction of the effort.
And this just seems like a brilliant move in Stalin's part in retrospect, because if they had killed Chiang Kai-shek, the nationalist forces might have dissolved.
Yeah.
there would be a public government installed by Japan.
It would be a terrible thing for Stalin.
It just seems like Stalin makes a lot of right calls in the theater in Asia at this time.
And what is he understanding big picture that lets him... Oh, hold on.
I think there's still something a little underexplained about... Probably.
Lots of things are underexplained.
But in the sense, look, Hitler's another dictator, and he does... Forget about having these moves where he decides who exactly... Don't kill this kidnapped person, because it'll be a bad idea in the long run.
In the opposite, he's declaring war against America, even when he doesn't have to.
He's just making these crazy moves.
Stalin is just a special thing to explain...
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