Why Winston Churchill Shouldn’t Be Seen as a Hero - My Darryl Cooper/Tucker Carlson Reaction

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[@TheHistoryUnderground]

This is what happens when your whole identity becomes wrapped up in being a contrarian.

[@VloggingThroughHistory]

100%

[@Rammsoldat]

spot on, flat earthers branched out it seems.

[@noamgal4947]

@@Rammsoldatthey can’t do branches those are 3D they can line out

[@AlexKS1992]

Back in the day contrarians got a job working for the circus but since they don’t exist anymore the clowns have to clown somewhere else.

[@sterlingmarshel6299]

very true - its all for clicks

[@sn0wdon]

I'd heard of Tucker doing this interview, and I assumed everyone was exaggerating about how insane it was. Apparently I was very wrong.

[@VloggingThroughHistory]

My feelings exactly.

[@Absinthminded]

Tucker Carlson is using him as ragebait

[@Dawg476]

Tucker actually holds these views.

[@ryankline1164]

You haven't seen his Putin interview?

[@keokihiga8462]

⁠@@Absinthminded no this is what people mean when they say Tucker dog whistles to fascies

[@pentarandir6575]

Of all the F***ed up stuff Churchill did and said he managed to criticise him on the one thing Churchill did a great job on.

[@captainlamp2.076]

@@pentarandir6575 This guy would probably say Churchill handled the Bengal famine quite well.

[@coldwar45]

Coopers racial proclivities would certainly mean he thinks Churchill handled most of the screwed up things he did just fine

[@razier5299]

@@captainlamp2.076 Wasn't that that he didn't really handle it badly he just didn't care?

[@TheStupidDetectiv]

​@captainlamp2.076 can you actually look up what happened there. You sound like Tucker Carlson saying that

[@captainlamp2.076]

@@TheStupidDetectiv I did, very in-depth infact. Thank you for your input.

[@jacobchandler7642]

This guy reminds me how others argue the US is responsible for the Pacific War because they provoked Japan. Like, yes, the attack on Pearl Harbor was provoked... but it was provoked by an Allied oil embargo meant to force the end of Japan's brutalization of China. The issue is not whether there was provocation. Provocation ≠ justification. By their logic, an alcoholic husband is allowed to beat his wife if she provokes him by saying she'll leave if he doesn't get help.

[@5552-d8b]

Reminds me of the argument cole Phelps from the game la noire had with his marines saying he respects japan And one soldier criticized cole saying that Japan bombed peril harbor And Cole said “they bombed us because we cut off there oil” And that is true but cole missed a big reason why the oil was cut off, for I DONT KNOW, how bout that japan was literally doing every war crime in the book in china cole, that’s why the oil was cut off.

[@yashjoseph3544]

@@5552-d8bYeah, Cole wasn’t the best person and the game made that really clear.

[@chrisigoeb]

FDR knew about Pearl habour, I have no doubt about it

[@keokihiga8462]

@@chrisigoeb citation needed

[@5552-d8b]

@@yashjoseph3544 yea he was a flawed character I understand his flaws of cheating on his wife and being a arrogant lt, that I understand but when he literally acted like Japan was the victim of the oil being cut off that was more of a blooper to me, cause cole is a smart guy that you would think he would entirely understand why the oil was cut off.

[@mvplkg5092]

"Germany just didn't know what to do with their prisoners 😢" never before has one sentence told me everything I need to know about someone

[@octavianpopescu4776]

Problem is, even assuming he's right, under the laws of war, Germany is still responsible for treating them humanely. Taking a surprising number of prisoners and being overwhelmed is not an excuse for anything, under the law. You're still responsible to feed them. Otherwise, if you don't know what you're doing, don't go to war.

[@jeremyscungio16]

"The trains kept coming where else were we gonna put them besides the furnace" in all seriousness, though he's insane for trying to justify killing prisoners in an offensive war as mercy

[@richardpowell1772]

I can do better. I followed him on X until last year. He tried to make a moral equivalent to hostages taken by Hamas on October 7th to Palestinians held in Israeli jails. I knew then exactly who this guy really was.

[@Lonovavir]

Neither did the British and Americans, but they didn't do what Germany did.

[@benjaminfunk168]

"The Germans didn't know what to do with the prisoners" is such a blatant lie that I couldn't keep watching. When planning the invasion, the Germans were pretty sure they would be taking lots of Russian soldiers prisoner. The German plan of a fast campaign like France virtually guaranteed it. The Germans also knew they couldn't handle all those prisoners and stick to their timetable. Historical records show that the Germans planned from the beginning to work and starve many of those prisoners to death. For him to miss (or, more likely, intentionally overlook) that fact is horrible.

[@CivilWarMan]

Just FYI, this Cooper guy has an article on German Wikipedia as a well-known Holocaustleugner (aka Holocaust Denier).

[@4Mr.Crowley2]

Cooper is also bizarrely an enormous Jim Jones stan. I wish I were kidding but it’s true - he’s an aging edge lord methinks and likes imagining that aligning himself with villains is somehow meaningful. It’s lame and sad but Tucker showcases these idiots and the total lack of ANY scholarship and research to support any of his ludicrous statements is ridiculous when there are THOUSANDS of tomes re WWII that DO criticize Churchill. 🙄

[@joer9156]

​@4Mr.Crowley2 He's not a Jim Jones "stan" at all. He made a 30-odd hour series about Jim Jones, nowhere in there does he support Jim Jones' craziness. You genuinely don't know what you're talking about. I can tell you haven't listened to his entire series on the Jonestown cult. Maybe do so before spouting off nonsense about it.

[@CivilWarMan]

@@4Mr.Crowley2 I'd be careful about blaming what people like Tucker Carlson and Darryl Cooper are doing as a lack of scholarship. They are intentionally engaging in bad faith, which Cooper betrayed with his little smirk when Carlson set him up to engage in barely coded anti-semitism. Consider the words of Jean-Paul Sartre: "Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past."

[@TheFanha]

@@joer9156 he has a very long podcast on the history of Zionism as well so the holocaust denial charge is just factually wrong.

[@ryankline1164]

Interesting: I found the German page and attempted to switch to the English page and it redirected me to Tucker's wiki

[@sirfatty5068]

3 minutes in and Chris has already had a stroke, Fantastic!

[@r.b.ratieta6111]

I was dying when that happened at 2:35. Due in large part to the fact that my reaction was equally surprised and somewhat similar. 😂😂

[@whilryke]

While it is amusing to see Chris get angry at such an idiotic take, I do feel bad for him having to go through this.

[@elaineandjohn9599]

Closest we’ve ever seen him nearly lose it! Can’t blame him though.

[@Avatar1977]

I made it to 6:45 and the suggestion that the gas chambers were an act of mercy before I had my stroke

[@captainlamp2.076]

This guy can't even get basic facts about WWII correct. Launched Operation Barbarossa to seize Romania's oil fields? Romania was a German ally and participated in Operation Barbarossa on the German side. This man cannot be taken seriously. Also, does anyone here know if he at any point in the interview mentioned the Bengal famine? I came into this video thinking that was going to be the topic because it is perhaps the most sour note of Churchill's career. From this section it seems this man just dislikes Churchill because he likes Hitler.

[@jdotoz]

To be fair, I think he meant it was to protect them more than to seize them.

[@claudiu-mihaipuiu1221]

@@jdotoz Even then, that's still wrong. The Soviets had already gotten what they wanted from us, so they didn't have any incentive to try and take us down fully. If anything, the Germans had been more of a threat to us than the Soviets considering they allowed both Bulgaria and Hungary to take lands from us and had made the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact which specifically allowed the Soviets to take Bessarabia and North Bukovina from us. Maybe they'd have tried to take Romania down later? That's a possibility, Romania and Russia weren't big fans of one another, but even the whole protection part is a big stretch, if that's what his argument was.

[@deschloro]

Bengal famine wasn’t really Churchill’s fault either. Resupply of Bengal was extremely difficult given that Japanese U-boats infested the waters of Bengal.

[@captainlamp2.076]

@@deschloro That is correct and I generally push back against those that say it was. Could he have handled it better? Yes. Was it his highest priority? No. Winning the war was the best way to address that issue along with many others. I was only saying from the title of the video I assumed that was what was going to be covered. Saying Churchill was a warmonger and Hitler only wanted peace threw me for a loop.

[@thewarmachine3732]

I believe he was making the connection that Operation Barbarossa was a preventative war meant to protect the Romanian oil fields. Of course, this misses the fact that the Soviet Union was in no position to actually challenge Germany on that front. The best reason for that was the sheer success of Barbarossa.

[@RushitTahiri]

Im losing brain cells listening to cooper! 😭🤦🏻‍♂️

[@kareemi7080]

Why when he brought up Zionism which Christians believe in too that he thought cooper was talking about all Jews?

[@seanwhelan6960]

@@kareemi7080well you seem to have missed the point.

[@s.henrlllpoklookout5069]

"Hitler launches peace proposals" France & England: "Maybe we shouldn't trust the promises from this guy who has broken his promises several times..."

[@Lonovavir]

Peace proposals for Germany's benefit exclusively.

[@r.b.ratieta6111]

Bully: *Steals someone's lunch.* The bully after stealing the lunch: "Hey! I just want peace, bro. Chill."

[@kevinrussell3501]

​@@r.b.ratieta6111yeah good comparison but I would take it farther. Not only did he steal your lunch money, he sucker punched you from behind, slapped your momma, took your girlfriend and kicked your dog. Then he's like chill out man

[@bigenglishmonkey]

​​@@kevinrussell3501I usually like to put it as. Man punches random guy (austria) in bar Man punches another random guy (czechoslovakia) He then tells you he won't punch him (czechoslovakia) again, then does it again. He then tells you he won't punch anyone else. He then proceeds to punch all your friends (poland, Denmark, Norway, Belgium, Luxembourg, Holland, France.) He then turns to you and says, I promise I won't punch you next. Would you believe him?

[@captainlamp2.076]

@@s.henrlllpoklookout5069 NO! Accept the peace proposal. What could possibly go wrong?

[@Jonesbones13]

My 15 year old brother with an F in history has a better understanding of the Second World War than this guy.

[@216blockparty]

Right this guy just a democrate the guy with the glasses

[@sanic1085]

No he doesnt

[@coldwar45]

@@sanic1085Yeah he does. Cope

[@b3564]

My 6 year old niece studying at infant school has more knowledge on the wars than this waste of spunk!

[@williamwallaceoftheus8033]

True but how does one get an F in history unless he’s flat out not giving an F?

[@averageatbest303]

This gives me straight Lost Cause vibes. Ask Cooper about the American Civil War next 😂

[@danieltoft2116]

Right? Bet his family had investments in Mercedes and VW

[@TheHistoryUnderground]

I think you're pretty much guaranteed a "Lincoln the Tyrant" response.

[@whilryke]

That reminds me, The Cynical Historian made a video about how historians can be disgraced and gives some examples (and briefly mentions this interview and that Cooper is not a historian since he published nothing and if he did would be immediately disgraced), I think it would be interesting to hear what Chris has to say on the subject being a historian himself.

[@sonny2892]

Doing mental gymnastics to try and make Jews the villains of WWII is diabolical.

[@ortegaperu8510]

No, it's an uncomfortable truth of how society actually works and why there will never be world peace

[@mcwildstyle9106]

@@ortegaperu8510 what??

[@silverstudios6916]

@@ortegaperu8510you seriously cannot be defending this guy

[@CivilWarMan]

Cooper's engaging in a common strategy among abusers, grifters, and atrocity deniers known as DARVO. Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender. He Denied with his attempted whitewashing of German treatment of prisoners on the eastern front. He Attacked by claiming that Churchill not capitulating to Germany is why Germany engaged in the atrocities he claims didn't happen (ie blaming Churchill for Hitler's actions, commonly worded by abusers as "Look what you made me do"). He Reversed Victim and Offender by insinuating that the reason Churchill did not capitulate to Germany was due to him being influenced by the people the Germans specifically targeted with their atrocities, in an attempt to justify the commission of the atrocities that he claims didn't happen.

[@ortegaperu8510]

@@silverstudios6916 whom?

[@cobbler9113]

Please refresh yourself by reacting to Epic History’s videos on Lord Nelson’s naval victories.

[@arifhossain9751]

I second this motion

[@jake5773]

Third!

[@MrTorn69]

I 4th that!

[@melissareohorn7436]

I 5th it

[@peterjohnson1091]

Nelson was pro slavery.

[@jake5773]

I'm only 3 minutes in, but this guy sounds like the onlyfans version of a historian.

[@danielbackley9301]

Don't insult only Fans they have more integrity than cooper does.

[@QuantumAscension1]

That thumbnail gave me a good chuckle

[@corey2232]

This alternate facts & alternate history stuff, saying Abraham Lincoln was horrible or Winston Churchill was the biggest villain of WWII, is mostly coming from my side of the political spectrum... It's getting concerning. Letting this guy say the Holocaust was just a result of "not having a plan" for political prisoners?! Holy. Crap. Even when these hosts don't directly say "I agree!" they frequently interview & give a platform to people saying the most absurd things, then defend it saying "I'm just ask questions." I don't need to hear someone ramble about flat earth (or saying "I'm not globe earther or a flat earther," as if that gives both sides equal weight). Stop spreading this nonsense or lose reasonable people like me.

[@alexratzloff894]

Agreed. It's getting worse and it's very disturbing. As time goes on, I notice a lot of WW1 revisionism ("CeNtRaL pOwErS sHoUlD'vE wOn") and Woodrow Wilson slander... I'm not that old (32) and when I was growing up the 99% consensus that the Entente (plus USA) was the good guy AND Woodrow Wilson was in the top 10 of best ranked Presidents.... sadly, all these egdelords, contrarians are trying revise all of that......

[@t700e]

As a conservative-leaning individual, I think there are some seriously concerning things coming from the right-wing. The affinity for contrarianism at any cost, strong-man saviors, and anti-intellectualism is palpable. I honestly can't stand most so-called "conservatives" at this point.

[@christiangudmundsson8390]

Hey if it's any consolation, far too many on my side, the other side, are fond of two infamous organisations starting with H that are frequently in the news these days. I especially like this channel because it proves to me that you can be conservative and perfectly reasonable, with well considered opinions, that I can understand and respect even if I might not agree with them.

[@ryanprosper88]

As a conservative myself, I'm furious with Tucker for exposing such blatant Nazi propaganda without any push back

[@seanwhelan6960]

@@christiangudmundsson8390well, respectfully, those 2 H organizations are bad, but this is the case where the I is acting worse than them. You don’t have to sympathize with the H’s to know the I is the one continuing the killing, and trying to drag the USA into a wider war. It’s almost as if the B at the top of the I that is the biggest problem.

[@almasbaibolov1446]

2:35 Exactly my reaction to such nonsense statement. Like, surely, Churchill was not saint and he made bad decisions here and there. Especially Indians, Bangladeshi and Pakistani has few words say about his policy. But blaming HIM out of all people in WW2 is just stupid.

[@whilryke]

Blaming the war on Churchill is a favorite talking point of neo-nazis and other far-right types.

[@Tom_Corvus5]

As a Slovak guy, rather than Churchill, we see Chamberlain as the villain. Namely because of the Munich Agreement, or as we call it, the Munich Betrayal/Dictate.

[@hannahdyson7129]

From Northern England. Churchill was no hero, though. Outside of World War ll he was complicated

[@dermotmcquaid3692]

You guys we're Hitler's Buddies! It was the Czechs that we're pissed off!

[@ryankline1164]

The Western betrayal 😢. Too bad Ike wouldn't have let Patton take Prague. I don't know if that would have helped you Slovaks though. I'm interested in your thoughts on that.

[@Tom_Corvus5]

@@dermotmcquaid3692 1.) "we're" (2x)? 2.) that said betrayal was before the first splitting of Czechoslovakia; 3.) his buddies? C'mon, pal. Does Slovak National Uprising ring the bell?

[@thebman468]

@@Tom_Corvus5probably not, since he clearly hasn’t researched anything about Slovakia in WWII

[@RaulV22]

I am fully against censorship. I don’t agree that people should be actively silenced for their views IF they are not hurting anyone… however, things like this make me question why some people get the platforms to spew twisted nonsense like this. This makes me sort of see why some people criticize Joe Rogan for giving certain people a platform to speak on, and I have generally been critical of that. But this is a person twisting HISTORICAL FACTS and hoping others will listen and agree, which a lot most certainly will. In an era when it is easier than ever to “have the megaphone”, it is so so dangerous for arrogant people to have that capacity and influence people that have a tendency of being manipulated easily.

[@LC-sc3en]

The thing is people these days claim that not being given a platform alone is censorship. Which is of course wrong. You are not being censored if or silenced if anyone with a smudge of knowledge, critical thinking, and journalistic integrity think you and your ideas are not worth the time to platform or even dangerous to let spread because it is so wrong and vile. If I cant land an interview with the NYT to talk about my favorite game it is only because it isn’t newsworthy not because “they” are silencing me. I can go on the internet or the town center and say all I want. I can create my own platform even. Anyone who thinks otherwise is an entitled child. 😂

[@avinashreji60]

The government isn’t doing anything dude quit whining about “censorship”

[@christiangudmundsson8390]

​@@avinashreji60come on that's not the point at all.

[@RaulV22]

@@avinashreji60 what are you talking about? I didn’t say a single thing about the government censoring anyone… dude.

[@avinashreji60]

@@RaulV22 Then who are you talking about being silenced

[@BradanKlauer-mn4mp]

You know it’s gonna be bad if Chris doesn’t start the video with “Welcome back everybody” but rather, “what am I doing?”.

[@iammattc1]

"This is just an invasion of Poland" Is this him spinning "this is just an invasion of Ukraine" ?

[@zombieoverlord5173]

Probably. Tucker is just straight up a Russian agent now so it makes sense

[@19Paul91]

This is Goebbels level of political propaganda spin!

[@Golfer908]

I don't think I've heard such apologist for Hitler before.

[@coldwar45]

This guy is David Irving for a new generation.

[@whilryke]

I have, in fact I know this whole "Churchill is responsible for WW2" from them, they came up with it.

[@whilryke]

​@@coldwar45At least Irving used to be an historian, Cooper isn't even that.

[@danielbackley9301]

@@coldwar45 He's not even that REPUTABLE! AND yes, that is really saying something.

[@ineednochannelyoutube2651]

@@coldwar45 For context for those who are confused as to who Irving is and don't have the time for Wikipedia read, Irving wrote a biography of Hitler where he claimed Hitler and the Larger german army had no knowledge of the Holocaust and it was "Just something the SS did". He recited a bunch of other Nazi propaganda in his career, even responding to the question of; Was Adolf Hitler an evil tyrant? "I will go further, I will say that he was as evil as Churchill. As evil as Roosevelt." After being disgraced for giving a series of speeches blaming Jews for any hardships that befel them, he now claims that Jews orchestrated his downfall and that they merit persecution. David Irwing was a Nazi, and the interviewee in this video is too.

[@feuilletonie]

I was chopping vegetables while listening to your reaction, but I actually had to stop bc I was worried in all my outrage/shock I'd cut my fingers off. This guy is clearly in love with antisemitic conspiracy theories. Saying that all the camps were "improvised", made solely for prisoners of war? That Churchill was motivated by EMBARRASSMENT? That the poor Germans were merely doing "mercy killings"? I cannot believe Tucker had this guy on his show and never asked any questions or pushed back. Chris, why do you think Tucker didn't push back?! I doubt he believes this guy's fantasy story.

[@eirrenia]

I can’t speak for Chris, but I think it may be a case of believing sunlight is the best disinfectant. Doing a proper journalistic interview is almost a lost art these days, one where you let the subject make their case and either vindicate or damn _themselves._ Tucker let people see just how nuts this guy is without giving him the chance to claim Tucker treated him unfairly.

[@bobtaylor170]

​@@eirreniano, actually, Tucker didn't do any such thing. He treated the guy as though he was a grand revelator, and all narratives of World War II would have to be rewritten because of Darryl Cooper's brilliance.

[@DefinitelyNattox]

This video made my blood boil. Sure, Churchill wasn’t a great person, but calling him the primary villain of WWII completely ignores ADOLF HITLER.

[@royalewithcheese7]

It completely ignores Hitler, Tojo, and Stalin

[@orwellboy1958]

@@royalewithcheese7 And Mussolini

[@danielmacdonald9287]

It ignores every single Axis power's leader. Every single one of them.

[@hannahdyson7129]

He was a poor poltcain during peacetime though

[@Deniryer]

@@danielmacdonald9287 And other countries that joined. Moreover extra events that took place at the same time for example like Wołyń massacres where polish soldier and civilians were murdered by Ukrainian nazi.

[@sedmark6328]

Tell me you’re anti-Semitic without telling me you’re anti-Semitic

[@MichalKolac]

Wait does that make sense?

[@mcwildstyle9106]

Wait are you saying VTH is anti-Semitic or the two dunces?

[@redmengoals3295]

There we go I knew I’d find it 😂

[@Blazeit-rj3eb]

@@mcwildstyle9106he means the Nazi apologist

[@Justanotherconsumer]

@@Blazeit-rj3ebnot even apologist at this point, an outright advocate.

[@zacharyrobinson3001]

This is like Lost Causers saying that Lincoln was a tryant: there's some elements of truth, but it's a wild exaggeration in some misguided and often nefarious way to sound "objective." Churchill was not prefect (my biggest beef was how he treated the Irish), but in WWII, while I won't defend every decision, he 100% was the hero.

[@jeffslote9671]

There’s nothing exaggerated about Lincoln being a tyrant. He greatly abused his powers That doesn’t justify the confederacy thou. It’s just something he should have been challenged on

[@lavrentivs9891]

A lot could also be said about how he treated India.

[@Justanotherconsumer]

Hero? Meh, that goes a bit too far. He definitely wasn’t a mustache twirling villain, just a faithful servant of his country and all the skeletons in that closet.

[@ConnarKent]

And people who praise him shouldn't ihnore that. Its shows thag all "good guys" in history had their skeletons too​@@Justanotherconsumer

[@ismaelnehme379]

Hitler absolutely did try to make peace with Britain even before Churchill: Neville Chamberlain said in his diaries that Hitler sent him very generous peace proposals, but he wasn't going to accept anything but the total removal of Hitler after Hitler had invaded Poland despite his clear warnings that it would mean war. And Chamberlain was absolutely right to do this. First of all, after Hitler annexed the rest of Czechoslovakia and invaded Poland, Chamberlain would have to be the stupidest poltician alive to trust Hitler. Second, from a geopolitical standpoint it made no sense for Britain to let Germany take Poland: it's the same reason Britain stayed at war with Napoleon. Why would they let a single country totally dominate the continent and tip the balance of power completely out of wack? People who say "The U.K should have acquiesed to German dominance" just don't understand how politics works

[@Jack-4v]

Plus, they ruled the seas they could just blockade Germany until thar economy fell apart

[@WhatsUp-fe8jc]

Tucker Carlson really sat there most of the time not even questioning him

[@dukerrr]

yeah its an interview not a debate

[@whilryke]

After the Putin interview it has to be expected

[@Longshanks1690]

@@whilrykeIn the Putin debate, Tucker listened to him explain in explicit detail that he considered Ukrainian independence an affront to Russian nationalism and an error of history he needed to correct. In this interview, he said Putin was not an ideological person. The grift is real.

[@Longshanks1690]

Of course he did, he’s espousing “Liberalism bad, America bad, modernity bad, “””””Zionists””””” worst of all.” He’s saying everything Tucker knows his audience wants to hear, why would he push back on a single word?

[@historyofnerdom6111]

@@dukerrrthe biggest problem is that he gave him a platform… you’re not very bright and it shows

[@caphep]

From what I have read of Churchill, his callousness towards India and Ireland are where his reputation falters most of all. It is strange this guy should choose his unflinching opposition to Hitler and the Nazis as a reason to see him as a villain.

[@dermotmcquaid3692]

Well considering the fact Ireland like Spain became SUPER Fascist in the 1930's and the Fascist Irish like the Spaniards we're Pro-Nazi (Though both we're neutral countries) though they condemned Germany for Co-Invading Poland (A Fellow Tradcat Country) with the USSR (They saw it as a betrayal of their Anti-Communist Ideology)

[@dermotmcquaid3692]

Britain was right to colonize Ireland.

[@kevinrussell3501]

I don't think it's that strange if you allow yourself to think that this guy was for what Hitler was doing. It's hard to wrap our heads around the fact they are people that are that evil so I get it. Probably in that guy's mind anyone that was trying to stop the mass extermination of millions of people he also wanted killed is evil

[@bigenglishmonkey]

​@@dermotmcquaid3692difference is, spain let 45,000 people volunteer to fight for germany. Ireland let 120,000 people join the British forces.

[@captainlamp2.076]

@@caphep In regards to Ireland, Churchill's views and actions were not all that dissimilar to most British political and military figure at the time. Same holds true for India. That doesn't make these actions right but it also does not particularly vilify Churchill any more than it would most British leadership at the time.

[@DonnyTinyHands]

Can we all agree that Woodrow Wilson was a great villain in US history.

[@BradanKlauer-mn4mp]

Him and Jefferson Davis.

[@alexratzloff894]

No, he was the Hero of WW1. I'd argue that Charles Lindberg, Andrew Johnson, Andrew Jackson, Jeff Davis, Aaron Burr are the villains in US history... "honorable" mentions: Joseph McCarthy, Tucker Carlson, Donald Trump (even though a above average Presidency).

[@_Nekronos_]

*sees title* "I mean yeah, Churchill was honestly a pretty horrible guy and his oppression of India should definitely be talked abou-" *sees tucker in the thumbnail* Oh this is neon4z1 drivel, huh

[@Justanotherconsumer]

This. This right here.

[@rezza_lynsaii]

fr

[@AbhishekTiwari1111]

Bengal region of that time.

[@usagi18]

Same here lol

[@_Nekronos_]

@AbhishekTiwari1111 you're right, my apologies. I couldn't remember if Bengal was the previous name or correct for the time

[@jordanhooper1527]

Yay, video approved??

[@VloggingThroughHistory]

so far!

[@johngalt234]

@@VloggingThroughHistory I tend to use "Angry Mustache Man" when mentioning He-Who-Shall-Not-Be-Named. I've been banned before on KZbin.

[@corey2232]

20:04 - This right here, and how you correct him afterwards, is very reminiscent of today with people defending Putin invading Ukraine & blaming the US for keeping the war going. They think Russia should just have their way with things and that the US & Europe should be trying to convince Ukrakne to surrender, rather than helping them to defend against Russia. "Churchill kept this war going..." "Ukraine/Zelenski are keeping this war going..."

[@Longshanks1690]

@@corey2232 That’s not a good comparison because the US, unlike the UK in 1940, is not willing to put its own soldiers on the ground to overthrow the despot in question, because of the insurmountable public backlash this would receive. But Ukraine is not strong enough to defeat the Russians completely on their own, so the war is in a perpetual stalemate, and the only solutions are either the war continues in an indefinite stalemate, the US intervenes with soldiers to take Moscow or compel Ukraine to accept the reality on the ground. I’m not saying there aren’t bad actors in right wing commentary who want Ukraine to fall for other reasons, cos there are, but the military reality is simply not comparable because of a lack of willpower on the protector nation to intervene militarily, which should effect how we think the war will actually end.

[@supernovel7514]

When I saw the title, my first thought was that this was going to be from an Indian perspective.

[@FiveLiver]

You must be so disappointed.

[@overtherenowaitthere]

"To our Allies and well-wishers in Europe, to our American friends and helpers drawing ever closer in their might across the ocean, this is the message-lift up your hearts, all will come right. Out of depths of sorrow and sacrifice will be born again the glory of mankind." - Winston Churchill to Allied Delegates June 1941 Wow what a villain!

[@zombieoverlord5173]

Do you have quotes on his opinions of Irish and Indians?

[@georgegreen711]

He was wrong. It was the beginning of the end for for the period of the supreme position and fatherly guidance of European Civilization in the world, finishing what the fratricidal folly of the Great War started. A simple conference in Warsaw, in person between Wilhelm II, Nicholas II and Franz Josef could have resolved the July Crisis without bloodshed and returned stability to Europe, especially if a yearly Pan-European Congress had been opened up afterwards in Geneva or some other neutral city to keep the peace and coordinate the interests of Europe.

[@FiveLiver]

@@zombieoverlord5173 More to the point, do you?

[@Agnoletta]

He might want to re-read Mein Kampf.

[@mattm7798]

LOL right, or understand a leader doesn't have to be perfect to not be a villain(sorry for the double negative).

[@georgegreen711]

Which one, the version printed before the war, or after when they put editorial notes in it at the bottom of pages and perhaps even added content to fit post-war narratives to spread White guilt beyond the 7 million or so NSDAP members and the SS and place it on our entire race? Now obviously, the Holocaust happened; from 1941-1945, 2 million Jews were shot (mainly as partisans), 2 million Jews died from unsanitary labor conditions and overwork as prisoners of war, as under German law then, their entire people were considered enemies of the state and irredeemably Bolshevised, and 2 million Jews were gassed to save food for the war effort (and yes, the Nazis hated the Jews, and not just blindly, as our Bolshevik elites would tell you). Had the Haavara Agreements continued, and Britain and France not been so well-propagandized by the Soviets and their domestic counterparts against Germany and Italy (as well as the trauma of the Great War continuing to fester), eventually there would have been a Great War in the East to liberate Russia, and in order to keep the European Alliance together, Britain and France would have demanded humane treatment of the Slavs and Jews in exchange for their participation, which the National Socialists would have gladly accepted. Poland, a Baltic state, Belarus, and Ukraine would be German puppets, with Britain and France bringing back the Romanov Dynasty in Russia under a Constitutional Monarchy, which they would guarantee the independence of.

[@-._A2._-]

Maybe he needs an English copy lol. I don't speak German but I can understand some of it enough to understand when he wants war with certain people, he isn't a good person

[@georgegreen711]

@@-._A2._- True, but no one is truly good except God. No one tries to look at why the reaction happened because the reaction was strong and brutal, but the Jewish moral underclass, like they had in Russia, were hard at work trying to make the Weimar Republic into a Soviet state and with the same sort of moral degeneracy that they have later on promoted and directed here in the US and other western countries, which, after seeing little to no resistance from Rabbis or other ostensibly moral people in the Jewish community, they (both the German public and the NSDAP, assumed the whole race had become corrupted their moral underclass), and so they acted accordingly as if the very life of the nation/race was at stake, as if the Jews were engaged in a total war with German people.

[@robert_bbiii]

I just assume he reads it a lot and thinks it is a good read

[@jonnyrh]

Me: *reads video title* Me: *clicks on video* Chris: “I don’t know what im doing here” 🤣🤣

[@nypdbagpiper]

Yeah…it was “just” an invasion of Poland…..they didn’t start shoving Jews into starvation-ghettos or anything.

[@Justanotherconsumer]

Well, that was just the second solution. The first one was just to make them so miserable they would “voluntarily self-deport” (this should sound familiar in American politics). The second was the camps, many of them across the border in Mexico I mean Poland. The final solution, well, they ran out of space and they couldn’t send them anywhere so what else could they do but… yeah. Let’s just say that I’m nervous about the violence of the rhetoric in our modern scapegoats. We’re not there yet, but it’s on the map and we’re headed that way.

[@otisdylan9532]

And after the Polish invasion, they invaded Russia. Is Cooper implying that Germany wouldn't have invaded Russia if the UK hadn't declared war on Germany?

[@tacobowler]

So, the real problem is that he didn’t continue to let the Reich take whatever they want. And the evidence for that is that the Reich launched the war but wasn’t ready for an actual war? But that’s not the Reich’s fault?

[@peterjohnson1091]

He surrendered Poland to the USSR in 1945.

[@mikimil-f4y]

About Germans not having a plan for prisoners and population before Barbarossa. They had it for years, a certain book written by a certain Austrian corporal has an entire chapter dedicated to it, and it's called Lebensraum. The plan was to completely exterminate Jews, while others (mostly Slavs) were to be exterminated and/or mass deported. The exact percentages of these measures for each individual nation varied. This is not some arcane knowledge I'm showing here, it's something I learned back in elementary school. So, he either doesn't know about this or he's omitting it on purpose. I don't know what is worse, to be honest. P.S. Writing this at about 25% of the video, I'm curious if I'll remain just on one comment. This was supposed to be a nice, relaxing evening (it's 7:30 PM in my country) with a new VTH video, and I got this individual instead. P.P.S. It is possible, that some of the camp commanders didn't know all the specifics of this doctrine - but it is very, very unlikely.

[@perhaps_a_pikmin]

9:32 "This guy's an idiot!" Took the words straight out of my mouth

[@Justanotherconsumer]

A useful one?

[@BHuang92]

Winston Churchill wasn't perfect but he was no doubt an effective leader that Britain desperately needed!

[@josephstalin839]

Exactly. He was a wartime leader. That was his biggest thing pro. He was not a peacetime leader. Doesn't help what happened in India, too. But whatever

[@ageofstrategy5936]

Not really surprising coming from a Tucker Carlson podcast. The guy is known to bring insane (dangerous) conspiracies content to social media. Its even worse that so many people end up believing it because they don't want to do the research themselves.

[@ChristianSirianni]

ANOTHER EPISODE OF CHRIS IS PISSED!

[@Valorum_]

“Chris is Pissed” needs to be a series

[@jennatomashosky8624]

@@Valorum_it could be a playlist

[@jtejada615]

This interview is like a reddit forum of a shitpost to history.

[@Longshanks1690]

No, he’d get banned from Reddit. He’s a 4Chan post of history.

[@kais.1684]

I don't think this man is accidentally acting as a nazi apologist. I believe it is intentional. He even insinuates "bankers" influenced Churchill to fight Germany. His goal is to use this revisionist critique to make fascism more appealing. All his talking points match with neo nazi historical revisionism from materials such as "The Greatest Story Never Told" the pro Hitler documentary.

[@FilipDePreter]

Ok, who took this guy's brain cell.

[@ianp1986]

Wow, 2 people in a room, 1 of them is Tucker Carlson and the biggest ****** in the room isn’t Tucker Carlson. I’m stunned!

[@LC-sc3en]

Turns out “there is always a bigger fish” saying applies to azhats as well.

[@Roguefem76]

@LC-sc3en Thanks for the laugh I got from that! 🤣

[@bobtaylor170]

It happened again yesterday, his appearance in Ft Worth with Rosanne Barr. My God. That is what conservatism has come to?

[@edstockton3685]

I went into this as a left-leaning cautious critic of Churchill but I was truly unprepared for how bad these takes were going to be.

[@GlobalOutcast]

Honestly the only thing I shit on Churchill for was his reaction to the Bengal famine

[@VloggingThroughHistory]

Which Cooper never even mentions.

[@GlobalOutcast]

@@VloggingThroughHistory Thats the crazy thing. The one thing that would be a fair criticism of Churchill and he doesn't even talk about it.

[@Skelli2]

add surrendering Eastern Europe to the Soviets in the Percentages Agreement just because he thought he was the only person that Stalin "listened" to. Realistically there isn't much the Allies could of done to save us from communism but his hubris still feels disgusting to this day

[@patmcclung7205]

​@@VloggingThroughHistory something tells me he doesn't care about the people affected by the Bengal famine

[@djfedora7161]

With Churchill there is a lot to hate him for beyond just the Bengal Famine. Like his actions in Gallopi.

[@jerseyjon73]

Chris, you're a better man than me. I couldn't stand listening to this guy's logic for 30 seconds. Revisionist history by that dude. This reminds me of a history book that tried to claim that the Nazis accidentally bombed London during the Battle of Britain. Yeah, accidentally for 56 nights.

[@LC-sc3en]

Haha whoopsie we accidentally organized a well documented killing machine, people pipeline, and infrastructure, and international propaganda to hide it from other countries and the most gullible of our civilians.

[@GOODYGOODGOOD789]

0:00 neither does anyone else.

[@williamkriebel7531]

What scares me more than anything is people will take all this at face value and spread it like it’s true and completely disrespect everyone who fought and died during this awful war

[@LukeWingrave]

Glad to catch a video early! Not watched yet but always happy to see Winnie defended haha

[@ollieollie66]

thanks for covering this, this guy is a lunatic and Tucker had no business letting him sit there and spew that stuff without challenging

[@arifhossain9751]

When I first watched this, I was queasy all the way through it. As someone from Southeast Asia, I have no love for Churchill and his policies during the WW2, but vilifying him to this degree is just BS of the highest order. And you KNOW this is just to drum up controversy for views, they themselves do not believe any of this.

[@rasmusn.e.m1064]

I was absolutely shocked that this wasn't about The Bengal Famine, which is what I immediately thought of when I saw the headline. The guy is fricking crazy.

[@alexnicklay8626]

It's like saying Roosevelt is responsible for Japan's invasion of China because the US placed an embargo on oil going to Japan, Japan would have invaded for other reasons without US involvement.

[@mini2239]

China was at war with Japan before the embargo, not that it makes his claims any less absurd

[@alexnicklay8626]

@mini2239 you're right, what was I thinking, even so, claims beyond ridiculous

[@-._A2._-]

Bengal famine, bombings of German cities targeting civilians and his actions in the countless of deaths in Gallipoli is the crimes he need to pay for. Not for fighting the Germans. He not the worse person of WW2 but definitely bad for non Brits/yanks.

[@captainobvious4556]

I like Tucker’s interviews but Darryl Cooper claiming Churchill to be the CHIEF villain of WW2 is utterly ridiculous and narrow minded 🤦 There should be some push back with more questioning.

[@LC-sc3en]

You might want to reevaluate his choices in other interviews too. This guest and his conduct here displays questionable judgement at the very least. What questions or push backs did he fail to do in those other interviews and why? I think the best scenario is that he is a bad interview and the worst is that he doesn’t ask questions he think will challenge his arguments.

[@evilmark443]

What the hell is this nonsense!? Lost Cause: Nazi Edition??

[@VloggingThroughHistory]

Pretty much.

[@shadowmaker7233]

Im german and Im getting aggressive by hearing this. 16% of the entire polish population died (over the half where jews) and if you listen to him you could think that this was a war like any other in history.

[@Justanotherconsumer]

I was in Białystok a few years back. It was apparently once a center of Jewish culture and life with half the city being Jewish. Now? I was told there was one small synagogue left even now. One of those terrifying reminders of the past in simple demographics. (Also, Americans don’t talk enough about the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and Golden Liberty - it’s very familiar).

[@brandonarmienti7734]

I too was flabbergasted by this video. Claiming that Churchill was the true villain of WW2 and not funny mustache man, is just ridiculous. 🤦‍♂️

[@chronogamer7901]

Unfortunately, that is just where the political right is at these days. It's all contrarianism, conspiracies and 'alternative' facts.

[@Lonovavir]

Cooper probably hasn't heard of Stalin, Mao and Tojo.

[@stevepenney2073]

Hitler made entreats time after time to Churchill to stop the war and Churchill wouldn't hear it.Germany invaded {Poland after many murderous atrocities against Germans living there and thats such a crime but the Soviets invaded Poland at the same time and thats ok.What do you think the Soviets did to German prisoners? Have You ever heard of Eisenhower death camps where Thousands and thousands of German prisoners perished in open air camps.Look up David Irving and Eisenhower death camps here on y tube.

[@mattm7798]

Right, you have 3 far worse people in Stalin, Hitler, and Mussolini(not to mention the atrocities done by the imperial Japanese military)

[@ComedyJakob]

Well Churchill was not, of course, prime minister when the war started. Nor was he #2 in the conservative party, which was Lord Halifax. So to deem him responsible for the British Empire AND France joining in to defend Poland seems a stretch and a half. No doubt he was pushing for it, as he had been for a decade, rightly so, but Chamberlain made the decision, not Churchill. And if the esteemed right honorable guest truly believes that further appeasement at Poland would have ended Hitler's territorial ambitions then I am sad to say that he is unfit for conversation.

[@ComedyJakob]

Let's say the British Empire stays out of it. France still joins and loses. The USSR still gets invaded and likely receives aid from the US in terms of lend lease as Roosevelt was deeply distrustful of Nazi Germany and not all together unsympathetic to the Soviet Union. Japan still attacks Pearl Harbor. The Nazis still declare war on the US. And then the UK probably joins the war.

[@johngalt234]

How dare you make a video criticizing *_"the best and most honest popular historian in the United States!"_* What frustrates me, aside from the blatant inaccuracies, is how this rhetoric gains mainstream traction. Figures like him often say, _"We all know what happened in during X. Then revisionists distorted the truth. Here’s the real history."_ In reality, historical revisionism is a vital part of ethical scholarship that seeks new sources and reevaluates old ones for a nuanced understanding of the past. In contrast, what Darryl Cooper and Tucker Carlson are doing is historical negationism-akin to the "Lost Cause" narrative of the Confederacy-where they distort reality to push an agenda. Last semester, one of my students cited _Not Stolen: The Truth About European Colonialism in the New World_ as a credible source. The book claims colonists aren't to blame for displacing Native Americans because certain tribes are at fault because they forced out others so they could sell the land to colonists who were eager to buy. When I asked her to summarize the peer reviews, she admitted it was widely criticized but chose it simply because it was written by someone with a Ph.D. from a prestigious university. (The claim that some Indian tribes forced out others is absolutely correct; the Iroquois Confederation did that extensively. What the book insidiously leaves out is that the colonial governments and land speculators knew it and encouraged it because it meant that they could get ill-gotten lands for cheap. One such example of this is the Walking Purchase. The main Indian architect of that scheme was so in league with the colonists that he named two of his sons-John Logan Shickellamy and the "famous Mingo chief" James Logan Shickellamy of _Logan's Lament_ fame-after the colonial agent with whom he worked on that fraudlent activity. In our next class, I shifted the discussion to African chattel slavery to avoid identifying her. I asked if colonial slave owners were wrong for their involvement. All students said "yes." I prompted them to reconsider by noting that ~90% of transatlantic slaves were initially enslaved by other African tribes and sold as cheap labor, which colonists would be stupid to refuse. Again, they maintained that colonial slave owners were still accountable. I emphasized that the moral question remains unchanged by context, and that we all know this from childhood. When your mom asked if you were in a fight, "but he started it" is not a valid excuse.

[@blueballedbilly6637]

Churchill screwed up a lot of things, was probably not a great person, and would be beyond "problematic" by todays standards, and of all the ways you could go after him, of all his many failings, his messed up worldviews and actions, he choose this as his vector of attack, his absolute strongest accomplishments and performance, lol, lmao even.

[@Arcian]

Darryl Cooper: Hitler said... Me: And you believed him?!

[@ThomasTheorist]

Haven't watched it yet but i can tell its gonna be great!

[@ThomasTheorist]

ANOTHER PEAK VIDEO 🎉🎉🎉

[@anathardayaldar]

VTH listening to wackos so we don't have to. Some heros don't wear capes.

[@noamgal4947]

Tucker Carlson is such an awful interviewer. He questions nothing. Challenges nothing.

[@Andrew-lu3rx]

I mean, it’s not a debate. You listen to what the person has to say and come up with your own opinion about cooper. This interview/conversation is about cooper not Tucker.

[@LC-sc3en]

@@Andrew-lu3rx I don’t think you understand what an interview is. A debate is about arguing different sides and convincing the audience or even your debate partner you are correct. An interview is all about question and clarifications. It is to obtain information about a subject or the interviewee’s stance on a subject for an audience. It is entirely standard to challenge them when their responses to the questions are inadequate, make no sense, are contradictory to what they had said before. Some interviewers do occasionally use the technique of just letting a person talk on and on for a while before coming with questions. But for anyone considered a journalist the seeking clarifications about apparent contradictions, bizarre statements, or challenging falsehoods ( this last one is sometimes done after the interview when the guest is gone for practicality or safety purposes) is the minimum for journalistic integrity. What you are describing where no questions at all is the way invited speakers are treated. As in you invite someone to give a speech or a lecture and just let them speak uninterrupted (usually unprompted). There may or may not be questions afterwards.

[@jdotoz]

​@@LC-sc3enYeah, even if you want to be neutral you still ought to say something like "Your position here seems to be contrary to the mainstream, which says..." or "How does your thesis account for..." You don't just have fringe people on and let them speak by themselves.

[@samvimes2061]

@@Andrew-lu3rx that's not an interview, that would be a monologue or essay.

[@mmarshfairc3]

@@samvimes2061don’t be stupid. An interview is not let any guest come on and talk endlessly about any subject they want no matter how true it is or not completely unchallenged. That’s what Tucker Carlson did.

[@rossdaveni9718]

As a Warhammer player I take personal offense to this guy's comments about playing with figurines.

[@WackyJack322]

"Why is nobody asking about this thing?" - Tucker Carlson on every well-studied, easily researchable thing

[@JHawke1]

I know it's frustrating to watch content like this, but thank you for posting this. As a Jew, seeing so many people revise history in this manner is anxiety inducing to say the least. Your video at the very least provides me some comfort in seeing someone else react appropriately to his insane ramblings.

[@cjimmersive6955]

I really liked this interview. In a time when it seems like no one is willing to agree on anything, even basic facts, when it doesn't put their side in the best light, here everyone comes together in agreement that this Cooper guy is talking BS.

[@stevenmullens511]

Cooper knows nothing about history. Churchill was not perfect, but he did the best he could. I can not say anything else Cooper really making me mad.

[@WhatsUp-fe8jc]

Almost as bad as the Woodrow Wilson did nothing wrong video

[@alexratzloff894]

Woodrow Wilson did do wrong but he's still rightfully considered top 10 US Presidents.... but this guy in this video to call Churchill a villain is just flat out insanity.

[@WhatsUp-fe8jc]

@@alexratzloff894I personally would not put Wilson in my top 10

[@Jones25ful]

This is how a guy that has never read a book, but has 5000 hours in Hearts of Iron 4 sounds like.

[@Djasphur]

lol. You can say lots of things about DC, but that^ simply doesn't fit :D

[@thiccchungo1041]

He doesn’t understand why Britain went down the historical route

[@mudadamuda294]

I have a fun video suggestion for you its called "I cooked every Presidents favourite food" by Max the meat guy he doesnt just make the food he also gives some facts about the presidents

[@Lonovavir]

People should get hazard pay for listening to Cooper's distortions and lies. Even as a teenager I had a better understanding of WW2.

[@r.b.ratieta6111]

I'm not a fan of communism, but after this guy talked about Germany in the sense of "Oh, they were just some random country making harmless decisions to annex Poland" and then referred to the communists and Bolsheviks as this super evil force, my brain instantly thought: "This guy's a Nazi sympathizer. I don't know to what degree he believes that, but he's definitely gotten his information from people who are sympathetic to Hitler's doctrines and philosophies." And the moment he said "Zionism" in the context that he used it, just like the Leonardo DiCaprio meme from Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, I instantly pointed and was like, "THERE IT IS! There's the rub! The Queen of Hearts! Slapjack! He just showed his card!" And while I agree that Churchill wasn't necessarily a saint and had faults, idiosyncrasies and bad habits of his own (wait, are we suggesting humans have quirks, flaws, weaknesses, and sometimes do bad things to each other?), there's a difference between a criticism in good faith with evidence and multiple accounts and documents, and "Nah, just trust me bro." This was both funny and cringey to watch, Chris. I'd argue this did more neurological and psychological damage to you than the iDubbz video, namely because iDubbz was trolling and the people he was satirizing don't know any better. This is a guy who knows what he's saying and believes it wholeheartedly, which, like you mentioned, can make him a potential danger in certain circumstances.

[@markmartin4970]

You can't argue or reason with crazy. It reduces you to their level. This guy has to ignore all the evidence to think this. The flat earth version of history.

[@liubron4435]

I studied Churchill a lot over the past year and as much as he was a defender of his nation people wipe away the first 40 years of his contribution to victorian imperialism. But thats just my opinion and one angle of looking at his legacy

[@Justanotherconsumer]

There are a lot of legitimately concerning things Churchill did and he’s a very human figure with very real flaws. This video does not discuss those.

[@liubron4435]

@@Justanotherconsumerunfortunately not… im just shocked Cooper has a platform like this though

[@steveamsp]

"You'll be listening to some guy saying 'well... he's fairly intelligent... AH, he's full of $#!+'" - George Carlin WOW... just.... wow. Thank you for putting yourself through the absolute brain-melt of utter insanity. We're all better off having seen this kind of thing and realizing for ourselves that people can be this insane.

[@TheTruthAndLight]

Thanks for the George Carlin quote ❤

[@thewalkingcontrarian257]

He is absolutely right. Winston Churchill can be chiefly blamed… for Germany not steamrolling the USSR and taking hold over all of Europe.

[@melissareohorn7436]

. For years before the war churchill was one of the few people who saw through hitlers bs. He was the one who got uk to start rearming significantly in 1938 without it i doubt uk would have stood a chance

[@ecw123456789]

8.38 To address your point, I think you misunderstood. I believe that he was making the argument that one of the German officers in charge of the prisoners sent a letter back, stating that it would be more humane to mercifully execute the prisoners (which he is arguing they didn’t do as a policy) than to let them starve to death, as a point to support his argument that these deaths of mass starvation were a result of a lack of planning. Just to clarify, I don’t support his argument, but that is what I believe his point was.

[@whilryke]

To that we can answer that enslaving them and letting them starve was actually the plan, the Generalplan Ost and the wider Nazi plan to exterminate the Eastern Europeans.

[@TreantmonksTemple]

It's a tough watch, with thinly disguised Hitler and Nazi apologism. I hope most viewers recognize it for what it is.

[@Justanotherconsumer]

Tucker’s audience? No, they’re nodding in agreement and accepting it as gospel.

[@marinanguish9928]

I think there are legitimate criticisms of Churchill's actions in the second world war (especially the bombing campaign), but Hitler was definitely far far worse. I just can't with this guy insisting the atrocities on the Eastern Front were just an accident and in his twitter thread afterwards taking Hitler's offers to only annex the majority German parts of Poland at face value (given Hitler's similar promise re-Czechoslovakia which he breached).

[@jdotoz]

Yeah, some wars have obviously right and wrong sides even though the people involved might do good and evil things.

[@JeanValjean875]

I'd point out that the casualty counts for some of those bombing campaigns (like Dresden) have been grossly exaggerated by Holocaust deniers like David Irvine. Don't get me wrong, the bombings did kill many innocent Germans, but nowhere close to the number some people believe. In Dresden, for example, around 25,000 Germans were killed, but pro-Nazi historians have often falsely claimed deaths between 250,000-500,000.

[@Czar_2017]

I am no fan of Churchill but c'mon he's 10 times better axis leaders

[@Lonovavir]

Even if I'm unhappy about the way the British and Americans treated Poland Churchill is light years better than the Axis leaders.

[@BrandoMonium2]

Hey I love the channel. I’d love save everyone some time and headache… If Tuckers oversees exhibition to Moscow grocery stores didn’t prove to you that he is a Putin asset peddling Russian propaganda then nothing will. This video only further proves this. Tucker Carlson is not someone who should be taken seriously, nor should any guest in his show.

[@merrold4233]

God Bless you for doing what any of us are either too stressed or way to upset to watch this with a cool head. You prove him wrong at every turn and you aren't just shouting rhetoric against Nazis, YOU FIND THE FACTS. I find it amazing that he is just allowed to spew this garbage onto some sort of mainstream media for some people. If you agree with this Nazi dude, Y'all Need Jesus

[@mitchaxness2305]

"The Germans had no plans for camps for these people." They literally kept accounting-level records of every aspect of the operations of the camps, except instead of monetary count it was a body count.

[@Dudewithguns-ww7wc]

Thumbnail already looks VERY promising. Thank you for suffering for us

[@pablo2448]

Wait, of all the bad things Churchill has done (mainly his response to the Bengal famine), the guy is criticizing him for the best thing he has done? Wtf??

[@onefadedgunner3281]

Was he perfect no, did he make mistakes yes, but without him Britain might not have been able to survive.

[@mattm7798]

I would definitely argue if Chamberlain stayed in power, Britain may not have fallen, but may have sued for peace at some point. IN a war, you need a leader like Churchill, not Jimmy Carter.

[@onefadedgunner3281]

@@mattm7798 Churchills “We shall fight on the benches" speech told his people that he was prepared to do whatever it takes to protect their nation, and that this simply wasn’t something they could just sit back and let happen.

[@dancorey9049]

How do you feel about a journalist giving a platform to someone who has a totally out of touch view and not really contesting it? Like anyone who knows the facts will dismiss the guy, but where is the line for a host to put up some sort of opposition in the place of "us normal" people? I don't think I could sit there and listen to this guy talk.

[@jackbrooking4754]

As another historian that commented on this interview, with Ben Shapiro pointed out. Cooper almost verbatim spews out the same rhetoric that the nationalist socialists uttered during their reign.

[@jx6135]

He also skipped over the German invasion of Norway that took place before France

[@MACGamer100]

Dear mother of god, this video is driving me insane I am a history novice and even i knew how the events played out

[@damienwilliams2947]

Razorfist without the swear words.

[@fatedsculpture2596]

I find his overuse of swearing very irritating.

[@charlieblack20wolfpack]

Seeing you get angry over this guys horrible ahistorical logic makes me glad to have you here. You are true to yourself and the historical truth that really matters. For you to call out this pea brain for his willful ignorance makes me feel safer in this world.