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#239 – Niall Ferguson: History of Money, Power, War, and Truth
Lex Fridman Podcast
Why Britain Shouldn't Intervene in the First World War
If Britain had been strategically committed to preventing Germany winning a war in Europe, they should have introduced conscription 10 years before. So the Liberal government provided the worst of both worlds. A commitment that was more or less secret to intervene that the public didn't know about - but without really the means to make that intervention effective. If Britain had stayed out, I don't think that France would have collapsed immediately as it had in 1870.
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