My favorite part was how he started his history lesson by saying: "Will you indulge me - oh nevermind, I'll indulge myself" and then talked for like 15 minutes uninterrupted lmao
Libs in my circles have latched onto a part where he (they claim, I haven't watched it) says the molotov-ribbentrop pact was to protect Czechoslovakia which is pretty brainwormy. I've been responding to ribbentrop shit for the last few days because of the uptick in discussion about it.
Germany and Poland already shared the annexation of parts of Czechoslovakia by then. How would the Molotov-Ribbentrop plan change that?
The plan of the Western powers was for Germany and Poland to invade the USSR, after giving them Czechoslovakia, while Japan enters the war from the east.
The Brits signed the Dusseldorf agreement after Munich (annexation of Sudetenland) to establish industrial cooperation between the British and Nazi Germany, months before Germany invasion of Poland. Clearly they did not expect to declare war on Nazi Germany at all. They all fully expected Hitler to turn east towards the USSR.
Stalin’s diplomats engineered the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact at the last minute (apparently without Hitler’s involvement) to drive a wedge into this plan, forcing Germany to invade Poland, and in turn forcing the British and the French to declare war on Germany.
The entire Japanese cabinet resigned after the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact was signed. Like, seriously, ask yourself, why would the entire Japanese government resign just because two foreign countries signed a neutrality pact?
I assume they misunderstood him in the first place, cause it was not to protect Czechoslovakia, it was in response to the betrayal of the Czechs. There was no protecting them by the time the pact was signed
If libs complain about the USSR invading Poland, you can ask them to compare a map of the second Polish republic with modern Poland. Particularly how much of Ukraine had been annexed by Poland. And ask what the status of Ukrainians and Jews was in Poland.
So before World War II, Poland collaborated with Hitler and although it did not yield to Hitler’s demands, it still participated in the partitioning of Czechoslovakia together with Hitler. As the Poles had not given the Danzig Corridor to Germany, and went too far, pushing Hitler to start World War II by attacking them. Why was it Poland against whom the war started on 1 September 1939? Poland turned out to be uncompromising, and Hitler had nothing to do but start implementing his plans with Poland.
Saying that Poland refusing to cede Danzig to Germany was the cause of WW2 is a bit iffy I think. Why is Danzig a legitimate target to cede while the Sudetenland was an outrage?
It would be nice if people were less easily impressed with blood and soil propaganda.
Is there a compilation of Putin just dunking on tha yankee? I don't want to have to hear a yankee speaking, if I could, and people truly are hyping up the interview.
Deadass, Tucker Carlson only talks for maybe 90 seconds in the whole interview. The only big own was when Putin mentions that Tucker didn't get accepted by the CIA.
Otherwise, Tucker just repeatedly asks a dumb question and Putin says something like, "Is this serious or a talk show? Anyway, back in the year 1178..."
Does anyone else kinda find it annoying that Reddit is mad that Putin was giving a history lesson? I mean I didn't watch the interview (and I won't tbh) but it seems pretty silly to go after him for providing historical context to the region.
There are other reasons to be mad at Putin and tucker, but this wasn't it.
I saw posts about putting explaining the formation of the earth and the big bang on reddit. It's silly.
Settler colonists are trained from birth to advocate that bygones be bygones because that's the only moral framework under which they can even try justify living on stolen land.
Therefore, other people remembering history is a direct threat to the anglo settler colonists and they will react accordingly.
Settler colonists are trained from birth to advocate that bygones be bygones because that's the only moral framework under which they can even try justify living on stolen land.
I never thought of it like that, it makes so much sense why Americans and anglos think that way.
it seems pretty silly to go after him for providing historical context to the region.
It is silly, but it's also entirely predictable. Since they (reddit libs) have no concept of the historical context, when it is provided, all their shitty surface-level vibes-based reasoning for supporting NATO and Ukrainian fascists starts crumbling. So of course they're going to get upset at being informed of history. It triggers their cognitive dissonance and makes them look like the fools they are.
I'll explain why you're wrong later. It'd been a long day.i need to make a Tolkien copypasta for myself sometime so I don't have to repeat myself manually every time this weak shit comes up
To be fair, he's Russia's clown in America, and he just happened to have a state sponsored vacation in Russia. No one in America wants him either, which is why he has his own thing now.
You understand Putin called him out as a failed CIA asset for the entire world to see right? What this interview was in my opinion was Tucker APPLYING to be a Russian stooge and hilariously failing because Putin would never hire someone with past and current ties to the CIA.