Eric Weinstein

We respect your strength, your brilliance.

And I think it was the right thing to do.

My God, I don't agree with this at all.

I believe, I'm sorry.

I've never actually had this out, so it'd be...

Great to push back a little bit and see where it goes.

I don't think that this is true.

I think that there's an issue of geography.

And geography has a lot to do with how people die in war.

So in general, for example, Austria is alpine Germany.

It's a very hilly place, whereas a lot of Germany is much flatter.

that is going to affect how tanks and other things roll through how defensible something is you have a piece of geography in eastern europe which leads to incredible killing and movable borders so if you look at just a historical timeline of how let's say lithuanian polish empire expanded and contracted and everything's moving around it really doesn't get still until the nuclear weapons come in

So you have a situation in which these people have been subjected to very high levels of uncertainty and warfare because of a bad accident.

So you have the same situation, in some sense, with the Jews during the 1930s and 40s.

You had fantastic percentage of the world's Jewish population put to death.

And one thing that could have happened is that we would have found that we had adjusted to the concept of the expendable Jew.

And the Jews said, under no terms is this going to happen.

We're going to treat every Jewish life as precious.

We will bargain 1,000 people for the return of a single Jewish hostage.

It, in fact, gets us into trouble.