Yuval Noah Harari

There was a moment, now it's a struggle between nations, but there was a moment when the decision was taken in the mind of a single individual of Vladimir Putin, and he could have decided otherwise, and the world would have looked completely different.

There was a moment, now it's a struggle between nations, but there was a moment when the decision was taken in the mind of a single individual of Vladimir Putin, and he could have decided otherwise, and the world would have looked completely different.

There was a moment, now it's a struggle between nations, but there was a moment when the decision was taken in the mind of a single individual of Vladimir Putin, and he could have decided otherwise, and the world would have looked completely different.

I say that?

I say that?

I say that?

Again, I can't tell you the why. I can tell you the how. I don't think it was inevitable. I think that if a few things were different, there would have been no Third Reich. There would have been no Nazism, no Holocaust. Again, this is the tragedy. If it would have been inevitable, then what can you do? This is the laws of history or the laws of physics.

Again, I can't tell you the why. I can tell you the how. I don't think it was inevitable. I think that if a few things were different, there would have been no Third Reich. There would have been no Nazism, no Holocaust. Again, this is the tragedy. If it would have been inevitable, then what can you do? This is the laws of history or the laws of physics.

Again, I can't tell you the why. I can tell you the how. I don't think it was inevitable. I think that if a few things were different, there would have been no Third Reich. There would have been no Nazism, no Holocaust. Again, this is the tragedy. If it would have been inevitable, then what can you do? This is the laws of history or the laws of physics.

But the tragedy is, no, it was decisions by humans that led to that direction. And even from the viewpoint of the Germans, we know for a fact it was an unnecessary path to take. Because in the 1920s and 30s, the Nazis said that unless Germany takes this road, it will never be prosperous. It will never be successful. All the other countries will keep stepping on it. This was their claim.

But the tragedy is, no, it was decisions by humans that led to that direction. And even from the viewpoint of the Germans, we know for a fact it was an unnecessary path to take. Because in the 1920s and 30s, the Nazis said that unless Germany takes this road, it will never be prosperous. It will never be successful. All the other countries will keep stepping on it. This was their claim.

But the tragedy is, no, it was decisions by humans that led to that direction. And even from the viewpoint of the Germans, we know for a fact it was an unnecessary path to take. Because in the 1920s and 30s, the Nazis said that unless Germany takes this road, it will never be prosperous. It will never be successful. All the other countries will keep stepping on it. This was their claim.

And we know for a fact this is false. Why? Because they took that road, They lost the Second World War. And after they lost, then they became one of the most prosperous countries in the world because their enemies that defeated them evidently supported them and allowed them to become such a prosperous and successful nation.

And we know for a fact this is false. Why? Because they took that road, They lost the Second World War. And after they lost, then they became one of the most prosperous countries in the world because their enemies that defeated them evidently supported them and allowed them to become such a prosperous and successful nation.

And we know for a fact this is false. Why? Because they took that road, They lost the Second World War. And after they lost, then they became one of the most prosperous countries in the world because their enemies that defeated them evidently supported them and allowed them to become such a prosperous and successful nation.

So, you know, if you can lose the war and still be so successful, obviously you could just have scraped the war. You didn't need it. I mean, you really had to have the war in order to have a prosperous Germany in the 19th century? Absolutely not. And it's the same with Japan. It's the same with Italy. So it was not inevitable.

So, you know, if you can lose the war and still be so successful, obviously you could just have scraped the war. You didn't need it. I mean, you really had to have the war in order to have a prosperous Germany in the 19th century? Absolutely not. And it's the same with Japan. It's the same with Italy. So it was not inevitable.

So, you know, if you can lose the war and still be so successful, obviously you could just have scraped the war. You didn't need it. I mean, you really had to have the war in order to have a prosperous Germany in the 19th century? Absolutely not. And it's the same with Japan. It's the same with Italy. So it was not inevitable.

It was not the forces of history that necessitated, that forced Germany to take this path. I think part of it is part of the appeal of, again, Hitler was a very, very skillful storyteller. He sold people a story.

It was not the forces of history that necessitated, that forced Germany to take this path. I think part of it is part of the appeal of, again, Hitler was a very, very skillful storyteller. He sold people a story.