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No one knows the answers to such questions, but no one asks them in a more interesting way than Dan Carlin. This is not a game. This is history. He is, however, one of the most gifted storytellers that your ears will ever encounter. The man is a yarn-spinning machine.

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I mean, that was an area that the former Soviet Union, I think it was transitioning to the Russian Federation at that time. That's in their backyard as far as they're concerned. And they have historic ties to one group of people that was in that conflict, the Serbian folks.

And so it was natural for them to push back in ways where the rest of the so-called civilized powers were pushing in the other direction. After a while, at least to them, it almost seems like it's standard Machiavellian politics being sort of rose colored glasses through the lens of the Bosnian crisis, but the same sort of jockeying for position in Eastern Europe that you saw happen after that too, with the expansion of NATO and a bunch of places, which looks like progress and democracy moving forward.

To us, it looks like being surrounded to the Russians. How does this usually end up for authoritarian societies? Because aren't systems built around one person just more fragile?

I guess a small group of people, a smaller group of people is probably a better way to phrase that. I'm not necessarily arguing against that either. I mean, I'm not a conspiracy theorist or anything but if you look at who really has the power in society—. In China, I think it's a different situation. I think they kind of have a well-oiled leadership machine there. And when the current leader goes away, they'll operate as a kind of a permanent oligarchy there to put forward another candidate.

And they've done this now a bunch of times, whereas really, since Putin made all these changes to Russia, we haven't had another person who wasn't a puppet of Putin's. So it'll be a whole new experiment when he goes away to see how it functions without him. I know that Jinping wants to be chairman for life and that's maybe a little bit of a change on the term limits, but you're right with Putin, it's more like here's an entire remix of the constitution.

Whereas with Xi Jinping, it was more like, "All right, I'm staying," but then the Communist Party knows, "We've got to make this smooth, we've got to be business first. We've got to keep the people in power who have power to keep things from sort of escalating or becoming chaotic.

I mean, that's the other thing they've done it before, right? So Putin, we don't know what happens. China, it probably happens just like it happened last time.

Yeah, you've studied societal and empire breakdown throughout history. It's like when you're getting closer to an iceberg, more and more people can see it. I think there's a bunch of challenges right in front of us that are clear to anyone paying attention. You don't have to have some specialized knowledge in political science or anything like that to see.

I also think there's some things that have been threatening us for a long time that we've become complacent about and forgotten about.

And some of the changes that we've seen, social media is perfect. You know, so many of the things that we looked forward to as these giant liberators and levelers. I used to do capital pitches to investors about what we called amateur content, before there was a YouTube, before there were any of those — before there was an iTunes, before there was podcasts. And what we were trying to tell them was it's going to be great.

You're not going to have any gatekeepers. Everyone's going to be able to broadcast their opinions, all these things. It looked like a relentlessly positive future but they—. But if you had told me back then, if I could go visit myself back in those days, And tell myself, "Well, listen, it may be isn't as relentlessly positive as you were suggesting it might be. If you'd said to me, everybody's going to have a voice, I would have said fantastic, but who would have known that this is how we might use our voices, right?

So I would suggest that that's one example. That to me is the iceberg. Everyone sees what this is doing to us and the destabilization it's causing and the lack of knowledge about where this goes from here. Everybody gets that. And I've done a bunch of shows on this and talked about it extensively.

When we did one on the development in early history of nuclear weapons, I had a theme running through the show and the theme was, if somebody's pointing a gun at your head and they do it long enough, you forget it's there. And if you were born with the gun pointed at your head, do you even notice it? Because we've had this gun pointed at our head the entire time you and I have been alive.

It's part of our existence. One was called The Day After , and it used the modern film techniques of s to show you what a nuclear war might be. It was so upsetting for people to see that in a form that got through to them. You could talk to them all day long about Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but show them what a thermonuclear weapon would do. Ronald Reagan himself was so heavily impacted by that movie.

It's considered to be one of the reasons he pushed for a meeting with Gorbachev to deal with the nuclear weapons issue. It may have influenced the Star Wars development idea because simply being reminded of this sort of Damocles that hangs over our head is enough to sort of recalibrate our senses.

But we've forgotten that the most dangerous thing in the world, the most dangerous human caused and controlled thing in the world in the middle of a pandemic — you might have to make a distinction like that —. And we are way too blight — I mean, I think we've just, like I had said earlier, the longer you get away from one of those traumatic civilizational learning moments, teachable moments, the less we remember it. It took that movie The Day After to remind people, you know what this might be like.

We haven't had even a day after, I think when you make a movie like this now, it looks like a horror movie. It just looks like a thriller. These weapons are all still out. And if you look at how the First World War, for example, ramped up, it's a wonderful example of how quickly things could get out of control and progress in a direction that will make your head spin. And 20 days into it, you'll go, "Oh my God, can you believe we're really facing a nuclear war. It can sneak up on you quickly.

And I also think when you get the first day after, it makes a big impact. If you get three nuclear war movies after that, that effect is lessened with every movie, same thing with the pandemic thing.

If you take the best human beings out there, and that changes depending on the subject, right? You may be the best human being in category A and not the best human being, because we all have different skills and strengths and weaknesses. I think if we pick for example, leadership from the most qualified and that's not always the people we think are most qualified, depends on your criterion, but I think if you were to pick the best leaders amongst the human race, I think we've got the potential to work our way out of any problem.

But I think that we don't pick the best people from the human race. And I think that when — and this is a crazy thing for me, because one of the things we used to talk about on our political current events show, and this also gets to the social media thing, was the idea of democracy about having the people involved in things.

Now, my problem is, is I don't trust putting anybody else in charge of my fellow man. So I don't have an alternative, but this is what we were talking about, about getting devolving to the mean, look at how we are. I mean, look at how we are on anything — vaccinations, pick any subject you want to right now, and you look and you just go, "Holy cow. Some people really think that way. At that point, I don't think they're really special people. And when I say that, that's every category, there are people that are special at singing on stage in Broadway.

We all are gifted in different ways, but I don't think we're having the really gifted people, unless it's gifted at fundraising, gifted at demagoguery, gifted at pandering to specific groups and extremists. The word I'm looking for is not there because there are no better people overall, but there are people who would be better leaders. And I don't think a person who has the qualities we want in a better leader could get elected today. I mean, the first thing you're going to want is someone that would speak the truth to you.

Well, right there you're gone, right? And one of the pros is it's an ego trip. I don't think that the people who we would want to see, I'm not necessarily sure the great Broadway stars are even getting on Broadway. My point is, I think this is across the board. Problem humanity has is we're not getting our best people in the best positions. And I think we all suffer because of that.

And I think when we devolve to the group, you can see what happens. The loudest people get the attention the most. We get very panicky, we're very brave individually in a lot of cases, but we get very panicky in groups. I got thrown from one of them because they saw their shadow in a puddle on the ground. Well, that's how people get. Oh, you scare a horse in a herd, the whole herd moves in another direction quickly.

They don't even know why they're scared, but one horse got scared, everybody followed. I feel like that's where we get as a group. We turn into a herd. And yet, if you were to single out the individual horses, in this case, the individual humans, we have a ton of gifted people across the board in so many different ways with so many different qualities that are just so beneficial, but we don't have a meritocracy. We don't have any of the things that would allow.

I think we actually, as a society, produce everything we need, but the people that are the production that can get us out of a million different messes, don't end up where we need them. Like, "Let me, the great leader, put all the proper people into the proper places and we will be greater than the sum of its parts. You have a skill set, you have talents, you start to maximize those talents, the people that hire you or give you opportunities, reinforce that, and that down the road, you end up in the place where you're not just the most beneficial to yourself, but to the rest of us.

That's a pipe dream. Clearly, it's a pipe dream. And for those of you who don't know what the totalitarian reference was, for example, in North Korea, they will say, "Oh, this first grader, they love playing with cars in their tech.

They can fix things. But I wondered when I was there, I went to North Korea a few times on a tour and running a business that dealt with them. And I asked, "How do you find comedians? Because our comedians make fun of politicians a lot of the time. Surprise, surprise, not even a little bit. And they say, "Oh, the teachers find funny kids from the class and then they put them in the comedy school.

And they do the same thing for technical occupations and other things like that as well. So why not point out the Soviet Union would find you—. We're going to turn you into a gymnast. That's absolutely from an American standpoint, and from my standpoint, as a freedom guy, that's a worst case scenario.

And yet I can see the beneficial side of it, theoretically. I would love to have someone smarter than myself, do some sort of study and figure out if that's even possible. And if it is possible, you know, what have we created that's an impediment to that? I certainly think that we have a hard time taking advantage of naturally gifted people who are born into poverty. And the first thing you do is you turn around and you go, "So what do kids who would be great ballerinas but whose parents are struggling to put food on the table, they can't afford a ballet class, what happens to those kids?

I wouldn't want it any other way in a freedom sense, but I think we should understand that, as a person who believes in merit and talent, we're leaving a lot of talent underutilize. It is a shame but, of course, the answer is not to put everyone in the category in kindergarten or first grade, and then take them away from their family.

Do you believe that civilizations in society naturally pull themselves apart or polarize automatically, somehow? Is that something that you've noticed in your research? It depends on what's holding them together in the first place. So I think ours does, but there's a great book — I forgot what it is. American Nations or something like that, where the author tries to show you why that is in the United States.

And his basic contention is that if you look at the United States before it was the United States, it's about 11 different countries and they all have sort of different temperaments and personalities and attitudes on what the United States should be. And that when there isn't something actively pulling us together, that that's a natural divider because the people are different. Seriously, if you asked people in those places, would we be better off without those other guys?

I'm not sure what the results would be, but I don't feel like there's a lot of people going in the south, "Oh yes. I think there are other countries that are held together by different sorts of bonds and that they may be more immune to that kind of a feeling. In other words, if our entire country was more like San Francisco or more like Mississippi, well, then is it pulling itself together all the time apart all the time?

And then there were things that happened that occasionally throw us back together and remind us of sort of our common interest, if you will. You know what? That's great, that's a great point. I picked the two most different places I can think of. I mean, we have partly, this is a big country problem, right? I mean, China has great differences. You go to the west of China, it is a very different place and they have very different issues with people like the Uyghurs or the Muslim Central Asian areas of China, which are so different than the Han areas.

I think smaller countries probably deal with this less, although look at a place like Iraq. Iraq had three major divisions and a ton of minor ones. I mean, you had Shiites, you had Sunni's, you had Kurds. And before Saddam Hussein was deposed, they used to say about him that it may take an iron fist — you know, you hear that about Yugoslavia too — an iron fist and sort of regime to keep these people from killing each other, which is what they, they would say at the time and they naturally want to do so.

I think all I can talk about with even a semblance of a view is our country. And I do think we naturally pull ourselves apart. I think you're seeing that now. And to tie this all in a bow, I'm wondering if the social media aspect of it isn't accelerating and amplifying the whole thing.

I think you're right. I want to clarify my earlier statement because I kind of cut myself off. I have about six I'd like to clarify.

I think I only said half that. And I think a bunch of people were like, "This guy, he hates the south and loves San Francisco. We don't want the people who run that place, running the whole country, but neither do we want it.

I like that. Great restaurants in San Francisco. I know you did talk radio and you have to see this. Now, when you consume media political hacks and talk show hosts, they love to misuse historical examples, right?

They'll say like "This situation we're in right now, it's the same as Hitler in It's always Hitler in Where do you see this kind of thing happening now, this sort of blatant misuse of history? Do you have a few examples in mind or was it too broad? The problem is that there's an assumption built into it that's wrong. The assumption is that somehow — let's take the example you use the example. It's all based on Munich, appeasement of dictators. It all goes back to, "If we'd only been tougher on Hitler during his early moves, we could have avoided the Second World War.

The mistake is in assuming that Hitler in is representative of any other person in any similar situation, because we heard it with Saddam Hussein, right? Where they'd said, because I brought him up a little while ago, "We know not to appease dictators. We learned in in a very specific German sort of situation that you can't appease that particular dictator at that particular time. In other words, this idea that history teaches us lessons that you can then plug in X for Y in another time period is wrong.

And there are almost no historians believe that. Now, you can learn certain things you can say to yourself, okay. We should be careful here because this might happen. But to sit there and go, "No, we learned an ironclad lesson from that circumstance that's applicable in other circumstances with a thousand different variables," is wrong. And so when you talk about misusing history, simply using history as a tool to guide future actions in a rigid way is a fallacy to begin with.

So in my opinion, when somebody starts doing that, I instantly know they haven't read much history or don't know much about it.

I think that's probably the majority of people, honestly. Political hack or not, not necessarily having looked at history in a nuanced way.

It's a problem though, because if you're going to make an argument with somebody, a political argument, what do you use to bolster your case? Once upon a time in an era where we had basically agreed upon facts and they may have been fallacies, but even if they were basically agreed upon fallacies, you could use them as a talking point, right? You can make an argument with them.

In this post-truth era where the first thing the other person's going to say to you is, "Well, I don't buy your facts. And where'd you get that information? In a situation like that, you're left trying to figure out, "Okay, how do I bolster my case if I'm in a post-truth society?

And to think otherwise is to pretend that everyone who's ever been in the authoritarian in any country in the world is going to act like every other authoritarian. I mean, like somehow they're robots and that they have programming and that the programming requires them to act this way. It's ludicrous when you really sort of break it open and examine it. I think the fact that it continues to work shows you that nobody really does that. Well, maybe a better question is, are there examples, historical examples of societies depolarizing that you think might apply?

I absolutely think about this all the time. I'm paraphrasing from memory here, but the Project for New American Century group in sort of laying out the document that they were going to show had tried to say, "Okay, this is the lay of the land.

And that it is certain incidents which pull it together. In order to contradict the normal forces that pull the United States apart. And they even said something like a Pearl Harbor or something. So you can see why, especially if you're a little bit conspiratorial minded, you go, "Aha, well," but their point is well taken in the sense that everything left to its own devices, we'll pull ourselves apart, but periodically something happens like a Second World War or something that contradicts the normal lay of the land, pulls us together again for a while.

And then the process begins anew once we return to normalcy. Is that really how far we have to go? And so I'm trying to find an alternative to that at the moment. So that's the lay of the land though, as I'm looking at it. Miro is a collaborative, white boarding online platform created to help people visualize, discuss and share work. Basically, Miro is just like the whiteboard that hangs in your office where you never go anymore, or you and your team can write, draw, use videos, sticky notes, diagrams, or audio to conceptualize your vision.

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Prices vary based on how you buy. I can see the Internet getting flooded with the "Democrats did it, Donald Trump did it. And then there'd be a whole bunch of people that said that never happened. It's a hoax. Pearl Harbor is still there. My friend's friend, he just was there. He just said he was there.

What if a bunch of the people online making that case, going back to your Pearl Harbor example where Japanese and what if they were the Japanese military and intelligence services, being the ones who, you know, paying thousands of people to go onto US message boards and spread that information.

The Wages of destruction by Adam Tooze2. The Art of War by Sun Tzu 3. Dan Carlin adores the Middle Ages. Normans anyone? Author Ian W. Toll who has written extensively on the Pacific Theater in the Second World War joins Dan to put the finishing touches on the Supernova in the East subject matter. Toll 2. Toll 3. Twilight of the God…. Dan discusses his background in miniature wargaming and then talks to one of the architects of a popular Second World War themed video game about the genre, its development, growth and challenges.

Featherstone 2. When do spirit, tenacity, resilience and bravery cross into madness? When cities are incinerated? When suicide attacks become the norm? When atomic weapons are used? Japan's leaders test the limits of national endurance in the war's last year. By Dan Carlin. Can suicidal bravery and fanatical determination make up for material, industrial and numerical insufficiency? As the Asia-Pacific conflict turns against the Japanese these questions are put to the test. Japan's rising sun goes supernova and engulfs a huge area of Asia and the Pacific.

A war without mercy begins to develop infusing the whole conflict with a savage vibe. Deep themes run through this show, with allegations of Japanese war crimes and atrocities in China at the start leading to eerily familiar, almost modern questions over how the world should respond.

And then Dec 7, arrives The Asia-Pacific War of has deep roots. It also involves a Japanese society that's been called one of the most distinctive on Earth.

If there were a Japanese version of Captain America, this would be his origin story. As an avid student of history and folklore, I have listened to most of the history podcasts on iTunes, but am usually disapointed by the quality and content.

Dan Carlin, however, has done a masterful job of creating an enthralling and extremely informative podcast. Many history podcasts sound like they are simply read from a book or are scattered and incoherent, but Dan sounds as though he is actually having a conversation albeit a very Socratic one with the listener.

Not only does he give a passionate and accurate account of the facts, but aslo provides valuable and intriguing insight, focusing on trying to make the listener understand the contemporary perspective as well as the historical.

This is simply the best history podcast on iTunes and I would highly recommend it to anyone. Why didn't they teach history like this in school? Carlin makes the story relevant and meaningful like I've never heard or read.