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James Holland

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
4177 total appearances

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#470 โ€“ James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles

You're going to think again before you go to war with people like that.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#470 โ€“ James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles

Maybe they got a point about the Danzig Corridor. They are mainly German-speaking people there. It's disconnected from East Prussia, which is just saying, I sort of get it. Maybe they got a point. And is Poland really a kind of thriving democracy anyway? Not really. By 1930, late 1930s, it's not. It's, to all intents and purposes, a dictatorship in Poland at that time.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#470 โ€“ James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles

Maybe they got a point about the Danzig Corridor. They are mainly German-speaking people there. It's disconnected from East Prussia, which is just saying, I sort of get it. Maybe they got a point. And is Poland really a kind of thriving democracy anyway? Not really. By 1930, late 1930s, it's not. It's, to all intents and purposes, a dictatorship in Poland at that time.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#470 โ€“ James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles

Maybe they got a point about the Danzig Corridor. They are mainly German-speaking people there. It's disconnected from East Prussia, which is just saying, I sort of get it. Maybe they got a point. And is Poland really a kind of thriving democracy anyway? Not really. By 1930, late 1930s, it's not. It's, to all intents and purposes, a dictatorship in Poland at that time.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#470 โ€“ James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles

Maybe they got a point about the Danzig Corridor.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#470 โ€“ James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles

They are mainly German-speaking people there.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#470 โ€“ James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles

It's disconnected from East Prussia, which is just saying, I sort of get it.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#470 โ€“ James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles

Maybe they got a point.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#470 โ€“ James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles

And is Poland really a kind of thriving democracy anyway?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#470 โ€“ James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles

Not really.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#470 โ€“ James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles

By 1930, late 1930s, it's not.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#470 โ€“ James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles

It's, to all intents and purposes, a dictatorship in Poland at that time.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#470 โ€“ James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles

I mean, it's not right that you just go and take someone else's country. Of course, you can't do that. But you can see why in Germany people are thinking they've got a point. You can also see why in France and Britain they're thinking, well, you know, do we really care about the Poles? I mean... You know, is it worth going to war over? But there's kind of bigger things at play by this point.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#470 โ€“ James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles

I mean, it's not right that you just go and take someone else's country. Of course, you can't do that. But you can see why in Germany people are thinking they've got a point. You can also see why in France and Britain they're thinking, well, you know, do we really care about the Poles? I mean... You know, is it worth going to war over? But there's kind of bigger things at play by this point.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#470 โ€“ James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles

I mean, it's not right that you just go and take someone else's country. Of course, you can't do that. But you can see why in Germany people are thinking they've got a point. You can also see why in France and Britain they're thinking, well, you know, do we really care about the Poles? I mean... You know, is it worth going to war over? But there's kind of bigger things at play by this point.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#470 โ€“ James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles

I mean, it's not right that you just go and take someone else's country.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#470 โ€“ James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles

Of course, you can't do that.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#470 โ€“ James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles

But you can see why in Germany people are thinking they've got a point.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#470 โ€“ James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles

You can also see why in France and Britain they're thinking, well, you know, do we really care about the Poles?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#470 โ€“ James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles

I mean...