Comments by "Itinerant Patriot" (@itinerantpatriot1196) on "Captivating History" channel.

  1. This is a rather homogenized account of The French Revolution that glosses over the bad and misrepresents the good. For starters, they make it sound like Montesquieu had some sort of active role. The problem with that is he died in 1755 and Spirit of the Laws, written decades before the revolution, played a larger role in shaping the future structure of the American system of governance than the French. There is no mention of Voltaire or Rousseau and the differences between their interpretation of the Social Contract (Compact) and Locke's. A direct line can be drawn from the French Revolution to other left-wing revolutions such as the Bolshevik Revolution that relied on terror, attacked traditional institutions, and devolved into tyrannical dictatorships. That is the true legacy of the French Revolution.
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  2. Couple of points. First, Japan didn't lean on Hitler to declare war on the U.S. and acquiescing to anyone wasn't exactly Hitler's style. He declared war on the U.S. with the false illusion that it would strengthen the alliance between the two nations and might even lead to Japan attacking the USSR via Mongolia which wasn't going to happen. Also, Chamberlin was hailed when he returned with that agreement. The British were not clamoring for war and they weren't ready for one. Not working to create some sort of mutual defense arrangement between Czechoslovakia and Poland was a bigger mistake. The Czechs had a decent army and Germany would have had trouble taking them both on at the same time.
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