Comments by "AFGuidesHD" (@AFGuidesHD) on "Niall Ferguson: History of Money, Power, War, and Truth | Lex Fridman Podcast #239" video.

  1. Well I agree with his remarks about WW1 but on WW2, the reason there wasn't war in 1938 is because the French military told their government they would lose the war if it broke out that year. Britain too would also be several months unprepared, as Lord Halifax said of Munich; it bought time for many aeroplanes to be built each month. The USSR could not have intervened either, without itself starting a war with Hungary and/or Poland. Had the USSR barged through Poland, this would have ironically made the German-Polish alliance possible, the very alliance AH failed to attain in 1939. On the other side of course Germany is less prepared, the German generals as you mention, threaten a coup and the Germans do not have access to Czech industry. I think wargaming war in 1938 is nigh on impossible. Even if France went to war they would still likely have taken a defensive posture as they did in 1939. And AH himself in 1945 said that Munich was a mistake, if he instead invaded Czechia then he could have traded Slovakia for Danzig with Poland and avoided war with the west. So it's pretty funny how all sides regret Munich.
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  2. "A terrible nightmare where everyone believes they are right... Russia's future" Is this not more like America or "Western Civilization's" future ? If not also it's entire past ?
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