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#239 – Niall Ferguson: History of Money, Power, War, and Truth
Lex Fridman Podcast
British Non-Intervention Is the Most Plausible
The extension of the war for a further two years with escalating slaughter is what condemns us to the Bolshevik Revolution. The key point here is that the Germany that emerges from victory in 1916 has a kind of European Union. In 1936 or 1938, I think more plausibly 38, Britain should have gone to war. Hitler was in an extremely vulnerable position in 1938 because remember he didn't have Russia squared away as he would in 1939. There are other contingencies that spring to mind.
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