Eric Weinstein

A hundred years ago.

A hundred.

I mean, 1948 is within living memory.

And the Suez Crisis, I just think this is not true, Francis.

I think this is much more recent.

You have to understand, I married into an Indian family.

And so I go to your British clubs in Bombay that are now populated by Indians, and I look at the club members who died during the Great War, and it's all British names.

I feel connected.

The arguments we get into in Bombay are very often arguments about

Were the Brits that bad?

How much was positive?

How much was negative?

Of course, you're not around to hear them.

I'm sure if you were around, people would be angry.

That's what we do.

I'm talking, the guy who mostly comes from Ukraine is talking to the guys from Russia and Venezuela as if you're British and I'm American.

There is something a little rich about all this.

You know, that in general,

The UK was very knowledgeable about the world because Oxford and Cambridge and the Foreign Service and the Army and the British East India Company worked as a system.

Agreed.