Hitler's Counterfactual Causality

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Hitler was able to get a roll back an got back to rhineland. And every time he did something, they called him general bloodless. So s he gotevrhe got all the stuff that you get from war. But he did it without getting into war. The attack on france. In this case, what you got is a army wiping out biggest army in europe and cr and it took place in two months. Almost entire litzgre was his inventionte the generals carried out. Theyr flower gassed. He wasn't very d spook up there. That wasino, and he's on my side. Ye ye. For a of 12

In this conversation based on his new book, The Stupidity of War, political scientist John Mueller argues that American foreign policy since 1945 has been one long miscue; most international threats — including during the Cold War — have been substantially exaggerated. The result has been agony and bloviation, unnecessary and costly military interventions that have mostly failed. With international war in decline, complacency and appeasement become viable diplomatic devices and a large military is scarcely required.