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#286 – Oliver Stone: Vladimir Putin and War in Ukraine

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The Most Challengesome Version of Empathy

If you sit down across from Hitler, you empathize. You have to walk in their shoes. So see them because they usually, villains usually see themselves as the hero. Yes. Is that a burden? Is that hard? Not for George W. Bush. He's bitching because they didn't understand them, but he had a good vision. But certainly at whatever point you talk to him, I would try to understand his point. That's all an interviewer should do. And certainly, Churchill, we have no doubts now from history, revisionism, that Churchill's interest, main interest, was not Germany. It was the British Empire. And to preserve it to India, the

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