Historian responds to Darryl Cooper on Churchill | James Holland and Lex Fridman

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  @LexClips · 1 year ago · pinned

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  @mattc1124 · 1 year ago

  Really glad he’s got James Holland on, he’s really worth listening to.

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  @TheHistoryUnderground · 1 year ago

  The initial comments from Cooper were wild enough. It was his doubling down that followed that was really unhinged. Solid take from James Holland here.

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  @C-L-A-E-S · 1 year ago

  As a historian I would say there are reasons to be critical of Winston Churchill, especialy viewed from our &quot;oh so enlightened&quot; times, to claim Churchill forced Hitler is the most rediculous thing i&apos;ve heard in a while. WWII Revisionism seems up these days, Perhaps people should stop taking Hearts of Iron 4 gameplay for real history.

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  @LloydBraun9000 · 1 year ago (edited)

  As was pointed out, the thing that gets me about Daryl is that doesn’t even seem to realize that Churchill wasn’t in charge of Britain when World War II broke out😂

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  @tommonk7651 · 1 year ago (edited)

  Logistics wins war…. &nbsp;Holland makes that point well.

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• JJ

  @jjhw2941 · 1 year ago

  “Amateurs talk tactics, professionals study logistics”-General Omar Bradley.

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  @u.2b215 · 1 year ago

  Churchill was a man with many faults but he wasn&apos;t the chief villain.

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• AD

  @adrianmitchell3264 · 1 year ago (edited)

  Before Churchill Took Office (by 9 May 1940)<br>1. Austria – Annexed in the Anschluss, 12–13 March 1938 <br>2. Sudetenland (part of Czechoslovakia) – Acquired via the Munich Agreement, 30 September 1938<br>3. Bohemia &amp; Moravia (remaining Czechoslovakia) – Occupied in March 1939 <br>4. Memel Territory (from Lithuania) – Annexed, March 1939 <br>5. Poland – Invaded on 1 September 1939<br>6. Denmark – Invaded &amp; swiftly occupied on 9 April 1940<br>7. Norway – Invaded concurrently with Denmark, 9 April 1940<br><br>On the Day Churchill Became PM – 10 May 1940<br>8. Belgium<br>9. The Netherlands<br>10. Luxembourg<br>11. France<br><br>Then Japan invaded Manchuria in 1931, Jehol 1933, the rest of China 1937 and French Indochina 1940.<br><br>But according to the Tucker crowd, Churchill caused WW2.

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• UL

  @Ultra_Light_Beam · 1 year ago

  The use of the work “realist” is doing so much lifting.

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  @NoNameForThisGuy · 1 year ago

  Wasn&apos;t &quot;Lebensraum&quot; antithetical to the idea of stopping with Poland?

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  @ath7616 · 1 year ago

  Excellent episode. Fascinating perspectives on the Second World War.

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