The World at War (Ralph Raico) - Libertarianism.org

[@nofutility]

40 year old lecture is more history than than current undergraduate studies teach. Great lecturer. Very knowledgeable and fair.

[@CK-cz6ml]

No lol but a good lecture

[@Petal4822]

This lecture has more historical facts than any university studies.

[@rockyk1950]

True

[@johnmckell4362]

And it would seem that history really does repeat itself...

[@negashkebede6036]

Is it The world at war or the Europeans at war?

[@fourleafclover2885]

If we'd have been taught history like this in school, the class would have been on the edges of our seats instead of doodling on notebooks, napping or staring out the window. They made history soooo boring but I can't get enough of this guy. I've watched this video 5 times already because it's so interesting and every time I pick up something I missed before.

[@khedsz1976]

Go to 2:56 on the video. That gives you a classroom view. Note that this is not a lecture to school age students, college or earlier. These seem to be all adults many of them older. It is nice to think that 18 year olds would be on the edge of their seats but I really doubt it. These are a group of people who want the information not kids trying to get a degree

[@russellloomis4376]

Maybe you were to busy doodling to hear what was being said I know i was.

[@TheGerogero]

I vaguely recall an essay assigned in history class that had me extolling the accomplishments of Bismarck...

[@BushyHairedStranger]

They are always at fault. Dam they! They are always getting in the way! especially in my learnings! Its the fault of they!

[@priyanka5316]

@BushyHairedStranger LOL! You can force yourself to learn even with negligent teachers, which I did. I was a good student, got good grades, etc. But I would have understood the importance of history a great deal more if the teachers themselves didn't treat their subject like they found it boring and pointless. You don't have to actually have the skills to teach to be a teacher in our crap school system-you just have to get a degree.

[@chuckmartin935]

Raico was one of best speakers/lecturers & scholars on the planet. This 1983 talk was a epic performance. R I P

[@bombasticbusterii6926]

When this was recorded I was in 9th grade, and 15. I am now 55 and a grandfather of 3. The world keeps turning over in 2023.

[@blaquenguni9249]

The scary thing is that it wasn't even that long ago

[@voltairedentotalenkrieg5147]

I like that this guy, seems very fair and unbiased. He treats every country equally and explains every country's point of view.

[@chrisjackson1244]

I just stumbled across this while searching for libertarian lectures and couldn't be happier. I'm hooked on his talks.

[@frankrusk6172]

he does inject humor to the samo-samo crap about the wars.

[@pr.paradox1970]

100% agree 👄👄💋

[@yahulwagoni4571]

Heard him live at a 1988 CATO conference. Sad to know he is gone.

[@constantined9015]

Can't believe that this lecture took place in 1983!!!!!!

[@OldHickory7]

Are you sure? It seemed like he was referencing all those obvious inside jobs before we had a clear understanding of it in 2001. That would be amazing if that's true. He truly knows his stuff

[@londonbowcat1]

​@@OldHickory71:18:30 report on gassing jews in 1942

[@ewright4108]

The gold standard prevented the uncontrolled expansion of capital. So what we had first was industrial capitalism. Once financial capitalism took hold from the Reagan area onwards, we have had the conditions for Marx’s and Engel’s vision.

[@rosesprog1722]

A definition of insanity is repeating the same action again and again while expecting different outcomes. I just cannot conceive how someone like Haig did not have his parts torn off, much less be considered a hero.

[@christopherpalmer6333]

This man's lectures are amazing.

[@omalone1169]

16:30 War and the private investor;: A study in the relations of international politics and international private investment, Hardcover - January 1, 1935

[@SomeGuy-nr9id]

Passed out listening to a story about Clautzwitz on the Us Army War College site with auto play on and woke up to this, lol the irony. This just scratches the surface though the economic history during these times and the connections between the players paints a even more disturbing picture.

[@NikhileshSurve]

This was an incredible lecture.

[@liverdave1977]

This has been 3 hours well spent, fascinating stuff..!!

[@londonbowcat1]

6:00 which German ?

[@alfredoramirez9738]

Truly knowledgeable. Really enjoyed all the in-depth details. Highly recommend it

[@Jack-Spark]

Incredible, Wish i could do a lecture or a presentation much like this one day

[@PrivateAckbar]

I'm almost embarrassed how happy i am to find new Raico lectures. Reading my way through the epistemology, praxeology, philosophy, and catalactics in Mises and Rothbard is great, but Raico makes me wish i was a historian.

[@aeroquavers]

PrivateAckbar

[@PrivateAckbar]

John Grinder Yes?

[@Doug8521]

RIP Man... Great Intellectual

[@deaddropholiday]

I can't remember the historian's name who said the entire focus of US foreign policy for all of the 20th century (and beyond) was preventing Germany and its technological superiority from aligning itself fully with the Soviet Union/Russia and its ocean of natural resources. Moreover, the Germans knew this and deliberately played on US fears to gain economic and political advantages.

[@naradaian]

Whoever it is this was also what Churchill and many empire builders in britain said

[@v_skeezy]

This is superb work. It is right and relevant

[@peterkemp8633]

Outstanding lecture, am sure most can learn something from this, ah the good old days when the lecturer can smoke and speak the truth during the lecture, how civilised

[@GrumpyOldMan9]

The most cynical historian I have ever seen, and therefore the best.

[@WJack97224]

@GrumpyOldMan, I think Ralph Raico is just telling us the facts, truths.

[@flemhawker9134]

WJack97224 that’s what he’s saying. It’s called irony.

[@rudolphguarnacci197]

@@flemhawker9134 Telling truth and facts is not cynical.

[@russellloomis4376]

@@rudolphguarnacci197 that maybe so but the way he delivers his facts can be.

[@rudolphguarnacci197]

@@russellloomis4376 The way he delivers his facts can be a lot of things.

[@Therecouldbehope]

The Professors taught much more content in the 1960’s & 70’s early 80’s than modern University Syllabus’ require today. This lecture would be a series of 6+ lectures today. We have dumbed down all higher education, now AI will completely remove human concentration…

[@franknunez]

He said debt will be 2 trillion by the time Reagan leaves office. Every single US president since: "hold my beer".

[@rockyk1950]

Not Trump

[@JB-qt3wo]

Marx may have been right after all.

[@ppetal1]

Yes. Reagan began it's exponential rise. It's locked in. Terump took out mortgages on world peace in the Golan, Jerusalem and Saudi.

[@1961Bullet]

@@rockyk1950HA!

[@Mrch33ky]

Great teacher, excellent video!

[@adammiller3609]

My man is huffing down squares mid lecture...amazing ...sure wish I was there

[@JamLeGull]

I am not at all sympathetic to right-libertarian ideology but there’s no such thing as unbiased history, so absorbing information from different perspectives is important for gaining a better understanding of our world. A very engaging speaker such as this man is also much appreciated.

[@JamLeGull]

Holy shit the level to which this guy substitutes ideology for material analysis is bewildering.

[@rdeloges7957]

It's a good talk, and perhaps beyond the scope of the intent of this lecture, but bias runs in both directions, on both the front and back ends of historical events. The fact that Japan was a virulently racist (ethno-nationalist) nation on par with Germany in their belief in superiority over, in particular, other Asian nations and peoples, has been almost completely memory-holed. The "villain" (racist) of WW2 are the Germans, who wound up killing or causing the death of millions of fellow Europeans. There's historical confusion of what the Germans and Japanese actually believed at the time, in order to make it more useful and yet palatable to political sensitivities in "the current year".

[@w.t.fpipedreamwithhopefull5538]

Like in 1984 with Doublespeak. Todays authoritarians have destroyed words. Conservative and Liberalism. I think this lecture shows up the old conservative that can look at all sides. Not the Conservative label used today. Nothing in this speech goes against the idea of "class warfare" and its denial.

[@thermionic1234567]

I’d be interested to hear how your thought process has evolved on the three year anniversary of the two week “flattening the curve” mandate.

[@JamLeGull]

@@thermionic1234567 those who advocated for protecting the market over people won out in the end. We could have stopped the virus, but instead we created a situation where the virus got to propagate freely and the rich consolidated more money and power. Right libertarians essentially got what they wanted in terms of prioritising capital over public health, but that’s a bad set of priorities that leads to bad outcomes. I know the libertarians will think it wasn’t anything like what they wanted, but that’s just because libertarians all imagine themselves as rich people, and they assume that anything that makes their life worse can’t be related to those free market philosophies they admire.

[@maxilopez1596]

This is perhaps my favorite video on youtube

[@thebestofallworlds187]

try Benjamin H. Freedman's speech on KZbin.

[@thebestofallworlds187]

also, KGB defector Yuri's speech to an audience.

[@londonbowcat1]

​@@thebestofallworlds18716:40 which French theorist ?

[@davidcoleman2796]

Just amazing. I go back to this and always learn so much . He 😊was a great man . Also good a giving

[@Peterhistoryman69]

I love t😂❤his kind of lecture, the last fourthy years have seen a lot of new or different views but basicly a lot of historical events are still the same, when it the first 20 years of the 20th Century concerns. Thanks you for this upload

[@MsHburnett]

Outstanding comprehensive analysis of global power.

[@bpm990d]

OMG he is puffing on a cigarette in class. That is awesome and I don't even like smoking. :-)

[@RockBrentwood]

He died late in 2016. No cause is publicized, but it was something he had sufficiently advanced knowledge of, and which has a sufficiently high assurance of mortality, that he was already giving away his possessions (e.g. his library) in 2015.

[@OldHickory7]

It's a vape

[@WJack97224]

@bpm990d, Oh how I wish he had smoked a big ol' cigaro.

[@josephsmith6777]

We had a smoking room in high school .

[@michaelwoodsmccausland5633]

Excellent Presentation

[@frankhoward4485]

Excellent, excellent, excellent presentation. Bravo. Every American should watch this a dozen times until they understand the implications. Then they should read the books Mr. Raico references.

[@londonbowcat1]

7:10 which Belgium liberal died?

[@TheGerogero]

Mystery ships: USS Maine, Spanish-American War; RMS Lusitania, US enters WW1; Attack on Pearl Harbor, US enters WW2; Gulf of Tonkin incident, Vietnam War... mYsTeRy ShIpS...

[@martinledermann1862]

USS Liberty...

[@antondavidoff150]

@@martinledermann1862 that one is by far most mysterious

[@akselkarlsson5229]

It is sad that this has 50k views and 25k are from me.

[@arthurbolokov2029]

I thought it was just me.

[@stevevukich8958]

hahahahoohah! feels like i've heard 25k versions of this period, all similar none resonant; finally a cogent, clear one ringing of truth

[@russellloomis4376]

I go to sleep listening to this and have it on repeat.

[@Petal4822]

This lecture has more historical facts than any university studies.

[@vincentmurphy9252]

Libertarian since I could First vote 1984!!! Keep it up and join in anyone.

[@postmanlondon]

I love history and this man was a master of it

[@RankingRobert]

great teacher, greetings from Austria

[@emmanueljimenez1289]

"Closest ever came to being a Communist?...I was a Republican"...🤣Great lecture by Ralph Raico...The real never dies, the unreal never lived

[@tommasanauskas3070]

He got the explosion in China trade wrong. Shows you how hard it is to predict the future, even a couple of decades hence

[@vatafakman]

One great frikin lecture!!!Thank you very much!!!!!

[@mandefu007]

Sound stuff, good analysis. Thank you for posting this.

[@alexluthiger731]

Sounds like Europe has to cut off fascist minded, illiberal european partners like Hungary, Poland and Turkey to get it to a divine and healthy tree with a liberal and wonderful future. 🍷🗽

[@Thevisvideos]

Fantastic lecture, too bad there's not much more of him out here.

[@alexluthiger731]

A prof to enlarge your consciousness and your angle of perspective. 70 000 feet over the abyss. As good as a good aged Chateauneuf-du-Pape. 🍷✌️

[@Petal4822]

Great delivery and straight to the point.

[@manuelgris9995]

Great video! Raico is my favorite historian!

[@joycenorment4720]

Manuel Gris However, I was under the impression that the Zimmerman letter Secretly, send to Mexico 🇲🇽 from the Germans but, intersected by, 🇬🇧 The Contents from Zimmerman telegraph wanted support from Mexico for Germany with rewards of US lands to Mexico! US PRESIDENT WILSON used this telegraph to convince US into WW1

[@londonbowcat1]

​@@joycenorment47206:40 Sumner who

[@tedpaulus]

Anyone catch the irony of him stating that selling arms to the “freedom fighters in Afghanistan” is completely unobjectionable. 20,years from the date of this lecture and the USA begins fighting these same freedom fighters in Afghanistan - they stay for 20 years and the USA eventually withdraws, defeated

[@rogerwelsh2335]

The stories of Germans coming out of WW2 were highly exaggerated too

[@paulrugg1629]

I am so great full that I got the chance to be exposed to this man and his observations.

[@danwroy]

The stuff on Chinese markets being a myth at 2:00:30 was absolutely hilarious.

[@JTKroll12]

didnt age well

[@Mrch33ky]

At the time it was true. Hard to predict the future. :/

[@Dheard91]

@@Mrch33ky I would argue Ralph was going on the assumption, that, America would treat China the same way it did the USSR. Not become corporate partners together.

[@w.t.fpipedreamwithhopefull5538]

This was the propaganda before 2000. Really after 1973. China and the US have had a very long relationship with Universities in the US being built on Opium money. It was a lie. As we are now finding out. Maybe good for the Multinationals and bankers. Not good for everybody else.

[@w.t.fpipedreamwithhopefull5538]

@@Dheard91 The US sided with China in the early 70's against the USSR. Maybe look at why Kissinger and Nixon had a chance at being chummy with China. What did it give the US. He mentions that the reason the US entered WW2 in the Pacific was the excuse of protecting China. The Oil embargo's and harsh stance with Japan saved the USSR from facing Germany and the Japanese in the war in the East.

[@lornespry]

I seriously wonder if an American professor can make the same comment about the 'American Empire' (see the final part of the presentation) without getting cat-calls from students,, or more - getting censured or denied tenure by a university. Again, I seriously hope not, but I don't know.

[@neilhillis9858]

They do all the time

[@fourleafclover2885]

I haven't gotten to that part, but if you mean can an American professor rip the United States, our history and our foreign policy to shreds in a University, that's pretty much all they do and have done for decades.

[@w.t.fpipedreamwithhopefull5538]

Because its anti-capitalism and goes against the Right wing lies of the last century. Blaming WW1 and WW2 as a conspiracy by bankers to control the population. Very few people let alone Historians touch the subjects touched here as it goes against the imperialist world we live today.

[@londonbowcat1]

​@@neilhillis985845:25 who is this historian ?

[@SteveFraserVideo]

Brilliant discourse

[@anchorbait6662]

Dude is smoking a cigarette indoors after the lecture. God bless merica

[@jamesseiter4576]

@ElPocho DelMundo Please correct me if I'm wrong. I would love nothing more than to learn something. But from what I'm aware, nobody at this lecture was held there against their will. They could have left at any point in time. If they felt the second-hand risk of cigarette smoke was more dangerous than the value of the knowledge provided by the lecture, they could have walked out the door. 100% freedom of individual choice. Which is exactly what Mr. Raico is supporting and what the Cato Institute supports.

[@NickO.-uz1re]

@ElPocho DelMundo oof, don't let the door hit your ass on the way out.

[@youguysdonthavetheright8070]

@ElPocho DelMundo No, the property owners are victimized when the government proscribes certain victim-less beahviors on private property. Those in the audience sensitive to exposure to environmental carcinogens may leave, and go into the fresh city air....errr....hmmmm. Go back to class, you need an update.

[@SomeGuy-nr9id]

@ElPocho DelMundo One of those down with the usa guys. Can't beat them with nukes tear em apart from the inside out start with the personal rights and chip away bit by bit, take freedoms on other peoples private property. Declaring it public and therefore under your private law for you're ideal greater good. They even outlawed it at bars how ridiculous is that? Its ok to drink and drive and kill other people instantly and promote people becoming alcoholics which is drug use, why because in washington that is culturally acceptable. But smoking in a bar is too dangerous lol. How would you like it if someone came to your house from some city 1000 miles away and told you that you couldn't cook in your own back yard. Because the charcoal smoke was polluting the public air then take you're money for taxes and leave. Then you would rage as long as it's not you losing your freedoms. Its ok for it to happen to your neighbor right. Good for the goose but not for the gander take that social justice and gtfo. 20 years later people still getting cancer at the same rate if not even higher.

[@davidrahrer]

@@jamesseiter4576 There is no such thing as 100% freedom of individual choice, and there never has been. This is the flaw in that ideology. The best example of the closest thing we have would be a place like Somalia - a libertarian paradise.

[@efrem1]

I will miss your insights Mr. Raico. Your departure along with the demise of Joe Sobran leaves us in a less better world.

[@GregJay]

Italy got Hungary so they fried Turkey in Greece.

[@jackstoltz1379]

Such bad taste

[@kevinkiso4579]

Jesus, thanks a million. I just spat my coffee out of my tightly clenched teeth and lips over a tiny, crowded Starbucks here in Seattle at 6am.

[@JK360noscope]

​@@kevinkiso4579 for somebody living in Seattle, that must've made your week. People always been steel facing

[@cjones3710]

​@@JK360noscope what does that mean? Like vulcans stone faced? Emotions hidden?

[@cjones3710]

​@@kevinkiso4579 mn

[@voltairedentotalenkrieg5147]

37:43 - 38:45 "This is the last time."

[@Oo7Hola]

Great talk

[@GregJay]

Growing up as a kid in the 60's if people said an older guy was German it meant he was very cranky, one casualty nobody ever seems to mention of war, is the taking of thousands of young guys just starting out in life and have innocence and then they are exposed to the horrors of war thus giving them a trauma they will never forget changing them for life. Take some young guy who is thinking about the things in life young folks do and make them into killers, then if they survive to say okay thanks bye They use words like he says here like patriotism, like a kid owes his life to the people that tax him, thus losing every shred of decency and revert to animalistic behavior. That should be a crime, if the President perhaps acted as a real leader and be the first boot on the ground the thinking would be much different.

[@blackbeardgoatjr2434]

Let us make this man proud. There is only one way out of this

[@SterileNeutrino]

46:40 Who is responible for WWI and how Germany sees the situation 1:54:00 Very "happening in Ukraine": Every crossing of any boundary is an act of aggression. Unless the Collective West does it. Also at 01:04:48 an important note on Kerenski letting the cat out of the bag! 1:49:40 The Balfour Declaration 1:03:10 Cynical & callous governments. 1:07:00 Annexation of Philippines through imperialist cabal 1:14:00 Belgian atrocities (cf Bernays but also check out "R*pe of Belgium" at Wikipedia, which has good info on actual "war crimes", as these activities are called today) 2:11:10 USS Greer incident 2:13:30 Interventionists vs. "Isolationists"

[@davidcoleman2796]

This man was brilliant . I still love his opening. This map was the one used by Hitler to invade Russia. 😂

[@jamesclark7682]

Do not equate Libertarianism with Liberalism please. We will miss you Ralph. I only regret that I found you after you died. You were totally brilliant!!!

[@wowhallo]

Well the new liberalism is certainly nothing like libertarianism, but strands of classical liberalism certainly were forerunners to libertarianism. In the time before the new liberalism, classical liberalism was known as liberalism.

[@SirJamestheIII]

Classical liberalism was just called "liberalism." Mises wrote a book called "liberalism." The tide changed after the Lippman Colloquium, which was an effort to find a "new liberalism." Now called classical liberals, opposed the findings of that colloquium.

[@robdison2123]

great. and humour. love it

[@nicu_danciu]

Excellent explanaton!

[@AgainstCronyCapitalsm]

RIP.

[@londonbowcat1]

1:25:00 the English and the Belgian people

[@mfpreece]

I would have asked about the Berlin-Basra railway the Germans were working on. In those days the great maritime power that was the British Empire at the time would have seen that very much as a threat to its global dominance.

[@Error-fourOfour]

The British and French used WWI as a pretext for moving into and carving up the Middle East, undermining Turkish dominance and German expansion in the region.

[@carlosenriquegonzalez-isla6523]

They actually did

[@londonbowcat1]

​@@carlosenriquegonzalez-isla652337:30 what was the Russian issue ?

[@lowersaxon]

So, come to the point: the mere existence of Germany posed a threat „to its global dominance“.

[@DennisMcQuiston]

He’s very interesting & I plan to listen to this again. But I have to pose this comment & question: if we had not entered WWII, I think it’s at least possible that Germany could’ve conquered Europe & Russia. Then they would’ve looked toward America and we’d have to defend ourselves. With all of Europe’s resources, we could lose that war. Although Roosevelt was apparently very deceitful about everything, where we be today if Germany had won?

[@Pau11Wa11]

Amazing lecture, Mr. Raico. Thank you

[@londonbowcat1]

1:34:00 hyphenated americans

[@DimitrisAndreou]

3 hours want enough, did he have other history lectures? I hope I'll find a bunch

[@frankrusk6172]

go find out who started all the wars sicne the 1800's the rothschilds and their gang..

[@harrymills2770]

Dude gets it.

[@damianbowyer6258]

Back in 1988 things a little less Dramatic compared to 2019.

[@londonbowcat1]

1:16:00 glad to hear Thomas Sowell mentioned

[@planetcaravan2925]

A risk of nuclear war was present

[@FreemonSandlewould]

David Irving is anything but uneven. His in depth research of original documents is beyond compare.

[@neilhillis9858]

His holocaust denial and general unevenness are pathetic.

[@porcudracului]

​@@neilhillis9858if you don't read enough, yes. You have to read a lot more

[@porcudracului]

Of course, but he couldn't say it, otherwise he'll be banned, like Irving

[@richardbennice1119]

very enjoyable speech''........

[@neilhillis9858]

"Certainly no-one here would support an arms embargo on the Afghan Mujahidin, the freedom fighters" Funny how things change.

[@Galv140577]

According to the Corbet report: Cecil Rhodes, WIlliam T. Stead, and Reginald Brett conspired to start WW1

[@naradaian]

In the 40 years since this lecture we have learnt more

[@abrambadal8997]

By Oct 2018 , it is moderately senscured and voice cut-outs in over 50 places of this video ! Fascism installed here !

[@wowhallo]

That's most likely not censorship, but faults in the actual recording.

[@J0CKTheR1PPER]

More likely that Abram is an SJW idiot.

[@anchorbait6662]

Wow.. National debt of 1.2trillion dollars. Fast forward thrirty years and twenty trillion to today. Great speaker, great lecture... A little progressive tinge but that's to be expected. Thanks for the upload.

[@nullclass0813]

Anchor Bait ......progressive?

[@londonbowcat1]

​@@nullclass08131:11:00 Politics of War describes the emergence of the United States as a world power between the years 1890 and 1920-our contrivance of the Spanish-American War and our gratuitous entrance into World War I-and by filling in the back story of an era in which mendacious oligarchy organized the country's politics in a manner convenient to its own indolence and greed, Karp offers a clearer understanding of our current political circumstance. The Politics of War: The Story of Two Wars Which Altered Forever the Political Life of the American Republic Walter Karp, Lewis H. Lapham (Illustrator)

[@londonbowcat1]

​@@nullclass08131:14:30 Belgium atrocities sounds like throwing babies out of incubators

[@richsill3134]

3 hours of incredibly based content 🔥🔥🔥

[@mu99ins]

@2:26:00 - 1941 - It was known that air power could sink ships. It was not yet demonstrated that aircraft carriers could attack a target like Pearl Harbor, 3800 miles from Japan.

[@mu99ins]

@2:32:00 - It would have been the ultimate lack of responsibility to not push back against the expansion of the Axis Powers. It was the isolationists who prevented the U.S. from coming to the aid of Great Britain, and this lack of will by the U.S. anti-war movt., convinced the Japanese that the U.S. would sue for peace when attacked. It was the isolationists who are responsible for the rise of the Axis powers. So, being anti-war comes with the paradox that it encourages war. Being anti-war is about as effective as establishing no gun zones to prevent mass murder. FDR was the leader of a country dominated by the peace movement. Sometimes, leaders have to lie. 1941 - 42 wasn't a Boy Scout jamboree. We were up against some truly evil enemies, who at the time, had bigger militaries than the U.S.. It reminds me of the Norm MacDonald joke about rape and hypocrisy. Loosely paraphrasing, "The worst thing about the Cosby rapes was the hypocrisy. No, the rapes was way worse." Lying is a sin, but letting the world go to heck, dwarfs lying.

[@mu99ins]

@2:42:00 - It was looking like Hitler was winning for the 1st half of WWII. That puts the fear in you. This idea that you should only fight Hitler with moral allies has it's undeniable points, especially with hindsight, but at the time, the immediate consideration was the need for a 2nd front.

[@mu99ins]

@2:43:00 - 1940-41 - London Blitz, from Sept 1940 continuing until May, and it included other cities besides London. With all the civilians that the Germans killed during that war, and the same applies to the Japanese, it was imperative to stop these 2 monstrous states as soon as possible. I had a neighbor who walked away from Dresden as it burned. He remembered the glow in the sky. He was a kid from Lithuania. He was a child slave owned by an abusive German family.

[@mu99ins]

@2:45:00 - I doubt that anything was clear coming out of Japan. For one thing, the Japanese generals were powerful, and it was not clear that the Emperor had the support of his military. There were military leaders who didn't want to surrender. Meanwhile, the Japanese sent 3,800 Kamikazes to successfully sink American ships, killing thousands of sailors. If the U.S. had not used the nukes, the plan was to burn Japan to the ground, killing millions more than in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The plan was to fly all those bombers that were in the European theater of war and have them join in a horrific napalm attack on cities and towns of Japan. Ralph Raico is very intelligent, and I agree with him on most of his points, except when he has "an axe to grind". "The closest I ever came to being a communist, I was a Republican." That speaks to his extremism. Extremists are notorious for not being open minded. Is there such a thing as a moderate libertarian?

[@curtiskretzer8898]

November 11-12,1940 🇬🇧RN send 21 Fairey Swordfish torpedoe bi planes n2 Taranto,Italy. This is where the idea 4 Pearl Harbor came from,but don't let that get in the way of your"lack of demonstration"observation. I🇯🇵N literally sent a rep 2 Taranto 4 research purposes as part of the Pearl Harbor attack preplan

[@russellloomis4376]

I wish this was two maybe three-part series.

[@jonathanccast]

It's important that it be clearly noted that libertarianism is only a restraint on the *American* and *British* governments, and not, for example, on the Chinese or German governments. In other words, China adopting a restrctionist policy is *not* illibertarian force, but Britan stopping it *is*.

[@londonbowcat1]

1:39:00 Eugene Debbs under espionage act

[@michaelharrington7656]

Britain was the first free trade nation and kept to free trade longer than any other. Yet the greatest imperialist country was Britain.

[@terryfarley1027]

Pretty good, but, when talking about America's entry into WWI he never mentions the Zimmerman telegram. Yes, England chose the best time to release it to Wilson, but it should still be mentioned.

[@youguysdonthavetheright8070]

Yeah, Mexico declaring war on the US in that era? Cause losing Texas to a bunch of ruffians wasn't enough, the Mexican government wanted to be totally obliterated. Zimmerman telegram was the same kind of threat a lighter makes to an ocean.

[@porcudracului]

Mexico had Texas for 23 years, officially. They never had it in fact, the Spanish empire did.

[@voltairedentotalenkrieg5147]

People saying he was wrong about the China market, he was right. At the time America wanted to sell to China, but look what happened today, China sells to America. And America has lost a huge amount of it's jobs, economy, industry, self-sufficiency. He was right.

[@porcudracului]

"Lost" is a major misnomer. All done on purpose.

[@conancimmerian9829]

Odd that he doesn't mention the Zimmerman telegram @1:35:00 in his Luisitania diatribe.

[@neilhillis9858]

Or our warning regarding unrestricted sub warfare to Germany, or really the rape of Belgium, or Imperial Germany's obscene territorial demands/war aims. WW1 was justified.

[@flashers.5212]

Neil Hillis well, he can’t cover everything, it’s a great lecture, however I agree with your point. German war crimes against civilians were vicious especially against the French & Belgium’s.

[@georgea.567]

@@neilhillis9858 WW1 was a stupid unnecessary war. Especially for the US.

[@patrickyoung3503]

I have just been woken up by Dr. Ralph Raico as to what actually happened in world history . I'm lost for words to express my disgust in human behaviour . I have escaped all major wars in my lifetime . I don't know who to thank for my good luck , believe me I'm really indebted to ever was responsible .

[@stillhere007]

The Russian Empire didn't make decisions based on how things looked for the Soviet Union.

[@bluegtturbo]

Too many 'uhhhhhhs' for me to listen... Drives me crazy.. 😢

[@glutinousmaximus]

Plenty of good comments about this speaker here; but I found him all over the place and distinctly partisan.

[@BuckeyeIn541]

It's not you. It's everyone else.

[@davidrahrer]

No, you got it right. If you spin a narrative that goes against established facts, even if you are inaccurate, then people think they are getting to hear the "real story from behind the curtain." It is the same way vapid conspiracy theories take off.

[@Mrch33ky]

Partisan towards or against...? Perhaps you could do a better job covering the causes and results of two world wars in less than 3 hours without going "all over the place"? Drop us a link where your lectures can be found.

[@trumanhw]

It's not people fixated on people's wellbeing that spurred an impetus for a welfare state; it's the awareness of those in power that governments are not reliable stores of power as they're at the mercy of the mob. Instead, it's the desire of those in power to make the state's subjects as desperate for the government to survive as those who governing its minions. NO MATTER HOW MUCH ... Ralph Raico sounds like someone who loves liberty and abhors socialism... @15:00 ... listen to his reverence and respect for _The Great Society._ And the WELFARE state that's clearly worked SO well. Obviously the recipients are using the auspices to better their lives in the long run; not just surviving on the meager subsistence, right?? Don't we know enough by now to know that BOTH socialism and welfare were created as a solution for the powerful to make its peasant class as interested in maintaining the status quo as those who are benefitting most from their power? Making loyal voters committed little self-appointed guardians of that status quo..?

[@4OHz]

Ironically the wellfair state did not attach many to the government as described; actuarially, the age to receive welfare was set at the end of the average persons life. So, the perception that the government was looking after “retired” persons they were looking after the few who beat the average. So, even though the welfare state may have been a established may have been established by the “beneficent “ Kaiser,” very few people benefited. To date, what we have seen that even though capitalism has increase the wealth of certain nations as per Reagan’s acting on behalf of laissez-fairs capitalism has destroyed the American middle class.

[@porcudracului]

Reagan didn't have anything to do with laissez-faire capitalism. It's an attack of that by his critics, on both him and capitalism. Good political tricks but not true

[@GrinsofNH]

On Pearl Harbor, he is wrong. The decrypts of the Japanese telegrams did not identify the target(s) of Japanese aggression. They showed only that war was coming, but without specifics. The Japanese ambassador himself did not know that Pearl Harbor was to be targeted.

[@OldHickory7]

What are your references? What lying Noam Chomsky said? Because he has about a hundred times more info on it than you do. A guy like this knows every detail of what you're talking about plus all the other details. And then he chooses the correct answer from all the information there is, because he's not a disinfo liar. So if he doesn't say it as that, then you're wrong.

[@TheMajorActual]

Fekking. Brilliant.

[@Shad0wack]

I like this guy

[@OlympusLaunch]

Damn, I didnt know hank from breaking bad was so based and knowledgeable!

[@lisettem1009]

Interesting lecture but why is there no transcript but a 'Report' button....? The lecture supports Hans Herman-Hoppe is position what America has become....

[@porcudracului]

You forget that this platform is a commie one

[@3rdager]

Fascinating: I just wonder why he chose to refer, throughout his lecture, to England instead of using the terms Great Britain (Britain) or the United Kingdom?

[@curtiskretzer8898]

B/C England runs Britain/United Kingdom. Welsh,Scots & N.E.Irish get to follow along,w/o much say(@ least,back in the day)

[@rudolphguarnacci197]

Why not?

[@londonbowcat1]

​@@rudolphguarnacci1971:57:30 free trade imperialism

[@kristjanerlings]

This is a man. He was educated by Ludwig Von Mises. The last knight of liberty. freedom to do is not about abusing other. To subjugate. Mises is the true voice of classical laisse fair. Do no harm. Another pupil of Mises Schumpeter said this "The benolevent destruction of capitalism" Competition is the foundation of creation. find Quotable Mises

[@GrumpyOldMan9]

What does he mean with "First World Woua"?

[@russellloomis4376]

😅

[@planetcaravan2925]

Its chinese