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

Ralph Raico was a specialist in European classical liberalism and Austrian Economics. He learned economics under Ludwig von Mises, Murray Rothbard, and Friedrich Hayek, and was professor emeritus of history at Buffalo State College. Raico was also the founder of the New Individualist Review.
In this 1983 lecture, Raico teaches a Cato Summer Seminar group the history of World War I, the Great Depression, and World War II. He offers an in-depth look at the conditions which led to both wars and the ways in which governments throughout the 20th century have used war powers to justify and fuel their expansion.
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[@nofutility]

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

[@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!

[@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

[@yahulwagoni4571]

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

[@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 👄👄💋

[@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

[@voltairedentotalenkrieg5147]

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

[@alfredoramirez9738]

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

[@franknunez]

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

[@NikhileshSurve]

This was an incredible lecture.

[@liverdave1977]

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

[@londonbowcat1]

6:00 which German ?

[@Doug8521]

RIP Man... Great Intellectual

[@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.

[@Jack-Spark]

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

[@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

[@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.

[@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?

[@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 ?

[@Mrch33ky]

Great teacher, excellent video!

[@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.

[@trapperarscott]

Sceptical. The first rule for any good researcher or academic. For that matter, for any of us.

[@MsHburnett]

Outstanding comprehensive analysis of global power.

[@russellloomis4376]

I wish this was two maybe three-part series.

[@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.

[@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. 🍷🗽

[@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.

[@michaelwoodsmccausland5633]

Excellent Presentation

[@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

[@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. 🍷✌️

[@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...

[@CaptainMorganxxx]

A very fair assessment of events, with a few slightly slanted views in places, but very listable .

[@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.

[@vatafakman]

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

[@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

[@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?

[@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.

[@vincentmurphy9252]

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

[@voltairedentotalenkrieg5147]

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

[@paulrugg1629]

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

[@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.

[@Oo7Hola]

Great talk

[@nicudanciu5758]

Excellent explanaton!

[@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..

[@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 ?

[@AgainstCronyCapitalsm]

RIP.

[@londonbowcat1]

1:25:00 the English and the Belgian people

[@davidcoleman2796]

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

[@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

[@robdison2123]

great. and humour. love it

[@richardbennice1119]

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

[@RankingRobert]

great teacher, greetings from Austria

[@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"

[@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.

[@blackbeardgoatjr2434]

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

[@Shad0wack]

I like this guy

[@GrumpyOldMan9]

What does he mean with "First World Woua"?

[@russellloomis4376]

😅

[@planetcaravan2925]

Its chinese

[@harrymills2770]

Dude gets it.

[@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.

[@richsill3134]

3 hours of incredibly based content 🔥🔥🔥

[@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

[@bullshitvendor]

this aged like fine milk

[@porcudracului]

Read more, sour agent

[@efrem1]

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

[@neilhillis9858]

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

[@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“.

[@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.

[@Pau11Wa11]

Amazing lecture, Mr. Raico. Thank you

[@londonbowcat1]

1:34:00 hyphenated americans

[@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

[@IJAbraham]

Otto Von Bismarck was not a Capitalist. Really? Book: "The Economic Consequences of the Peace", by Charles Maynard Keynes. "The Governmental Habit Redux" by Jonathan R.T. Hughes.

[@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

[@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

[@MsHburnett]

Interesting if any of these students entered government. Any one know?

[@urdude67]

Absolutely correct about FDR!

[@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.

[@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..?

[@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.

[@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

[@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

[@thebestofallworlds187]

"Belgium atrocities" 1:17:35

[@felidiusz]

He meant German atrocities in Belgium.

[@londonbowcat1]

​@@felidiuszH. C. Peterson: Propaganda for War, The Campaign against American Neutrality, 1914-1917.

[@voltairedentotalenkrieg5147]

1:22:01 The same argument he made could be made the other way; Doesn't the fact that the allegations made about them in WW1 were false give you pause that maybe the allegations made about them WW2 were also false. Ha ha

[@horsefish2525]

I randomly click to hear what about and hear that country Silesia was given to Poland. Who gave? Did this man hear about 3 Silesia Uprisings or Wielkopolska Uprising. This territories were won by Poles themselves against the wishes for example of British. All around Polish borders were won in fighting Those territories and Gdansk was Polish before partitions.

[@horsefish2525]

@Vasian Vasianich It was Polish [ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silesian_Piasts ] and in 14th centaury was part of Kingdom of Czechia. And although Habsburgs became Kings of Kingdom of Czechia Silesia were still part of Czechia. It was stolen by Frederik II the Thug in 1740-ies. But Germans cooked up themselves the Lebensraum but disappointed Hitler who just before his death, in his bunker bedamned them that they were not strong enough. Result Germans had to limit their Lebensraum

[@horsefish2525]

@Vasian Vasianich There is a village of Karwice in Pomerania [Western] which was called Karvitz until 1945. There is a beautiful palace near beautiful lake owned by Brockhausen family. The last owner had a son and a heir, 700 ha of arable lands, 800 ha of forests [with beautiful botanical garden with trees from all over the world] What you need more in life? But they wanted more. The result was: his son lost his life deep in Russia [wonder what did he do there?] and he himself had to flee before Soviet front leaving everything behind. When you are a gambler and you put at stake everything you have you can win a lot but you can also loose everything. And dont cry then. It`s a pity that Germany wasnt ploughed or is not bombed every 50 years as Churchill proposed. Today Germany once again brings a catastrophe on Europe with its crazy immigration policy. And Germany finances another idiot Putin.

[@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

[@michaelharrington7656]

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

[@FreemonSandlewould]

He never mentions the bankers in any substantial way. Sorry but you can't explain events without doing so..............

[@yahulwagoni4571]

How were bankers involved in Peral Habor. Now, the US investment banker Goldman was involved in funding the Japanese just before the 1905 Russo Japan War. That had enabled the Japanese to build a fleet to equal Russia.

[@Mrch33ky]

He mentioned that JP Morgan Bank ran to the aid of England and France well before the US entered the war. I'd say that's pretty substantial. Maybe you were asleep for that part of the lecture.

[@superfuzzymomma]

Wow

[@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

[@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

[@TheMajorActual]

Fekking. Brilliant.

[@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

[@thebestofallworlds187]

1:35:14 ... damn

[@londonbowcat1]

1:48:00 Keynes the economic consequences of peace

[@bexhill8777]

The articles of the elders of zion explain all the ills of the world.

[@user-di5rm9ee1p]

It is always interesting listening western historians! This guy knows a lot, but is clueless about Serbs and Balkan, it is funny. And serbian government DID informed AH government about Young Bosnia actions and Gavrilo Princip.

[@thomaslee1982]

The West has always marginalized the Balkans and historically treats them as the 2nd world Euro citizens even though the Balkan countries have saved them from a few hordes here and there. I hear you what you're saying.

[@eddyerle3338]

are there any proofs of it?

[@naradaian]

Its 40 years ago, before the web...and the end of ussr,eastern europe - pointless criticism

[@praski149]

He is brilliant, but I wonder if people used to say umm and ahh a lot more in the past?(1970's -90's)

[@porcudracului]

Those are not verbal ticks like you would call it today if a speaker doesn't have perfect flow, it's the sound of them thinking before saying something

[@creedlang419]

@2:01:30 You can eat those words as of today bro..

[@akselkarlsson5229]

He spoke about trade theories in the 1930s and their immediate impact on ww2, he doesn't talk about later Chinese growth.

[@londonbowcat1]

​@@akselkarlsson52291:56:00 the wars with russia ?

[@fellowcitizen]

2:11:25

[@londonbowcat1]

1:50:00 protocol of zion mention ?

[@whatsyurprob158]

. . . something about a reoccurring stimulous. 😎

[@londonbowcat1]

1:42:00 had no ideas these were palace names Successor states

[@whatsyurprob158]

@@londonbowcat1 The very first city taken by the Allies on German soil >>>>> "Bloody, Aachen". This is also the city where all Royalty within Germania were christened. Now you have an idea regarding the minds of those who ruled at the time, and to this very day. They set examples out of those who stray. 🇺🇸

[@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.

[@yankeegonesouth4973]

He has a lot of interesting points, but some of his research is now a bit out of date. In particular, more recent scholarship based on research in allied and German archives has shown that the Germans did commit atrocities in Belgium, though not to the extent or extremes depicted in the wildest propaganda. The German treatment of Belgium in general is pretty dank.

[@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 .

[@deniseb.5883]

Excellent lecture. Amusing the times back then when a professor could smoke at the lectern 😅

[@kano6325]

Trust me G😂😂

[@NavaidSyed]

All investments are made at the investor's own risk. No other individual or institution is responsible for it.

[@londonbowcat1]

1:22:00 The Bryce report: Committee on alleged German outrages H. C. Peterson: Propaganda for War, The Campaign against American Neutrality, 1914-1917.