has prevented these resumption of hostilities from returning to all-out war and the potential for broader conflagration. And that that uncomfortable,unsettled, unstable middle ground is where we have now been occupied
he didn't want any part in Vietnam, because he understood that that was a bad war . He understood that that was a war . He didn't want to sacrifice his own life for. I mean, he gets the fact that wealthy people have been able to dothat, poor people haven't. And so, he won in part by saying, "I'm not going to fight any wars on the back of
puts it is, work is for the sake of leisure, not the other way around. He also has another analogy. War is for the sake of peace. So he thinks of work as being analogous to war . It's this constant struggle you have just to get into place the conditions that you need for the things that youreally care about, which are the works of peace. And leisure is like that. It's the analog of peace in ordinary life where we work and work and work and work. And then here's this thing, leisure. So
United States, Lincoln and Grant matter beyond calculation- ... in this war . And on the Confederate side, if you take Lee out of the picture, the war doesn't last nearly as long as it does. In terms of causation, if you take slavery out of the picture, there is no Civil War , period.- The following is a conversation with Gary Gallagher, a historian of the American Civil War .
across all parts of the loyal states and not as controversial as it was. It was still intensely controversial. It alienated many Democrats when he issued it, who said, "You're changing what this war is about. We're willing to shed our blood and maybe risk our lives to restore the union of the founders. I'm not gonna risk my life tofree a Black person." That's a very, very common attitude among Democrats.
about the fact that even with this gigantic conflict going on, immigration continued at a high level. People coming into a nation that was in the middle of a great war . And they said, "This is a testament to the promise of the United States." And I think that promise continues. I mean, we've argued about... As with so many things, Americans haveno sense of history. They believe we've never argued about immigration before.
- Quick pause for a bathroom break if it's okay. war doesn't last nearly as long as it does. In fact, we'll talk about this later probably, I think it could have ended early in the summer of 1862
- Quick pause for a bathroom break if it's okay. War , a lot of administrative experience. He checked every box. Lincoln checked none of the boxes, and yet you got Lincoln as a
- Quick pause for a bathroom break if it's okay. war is going well and we all know that everything depends on what our soldiers do.
crisis. Because infinity is associated with God, how could there be multiple infinities? And also, Cantor was deeply religious himself. Second, there's a kind of mathematical civil war . The leading German mathematician Kronecker called Cantor a corrupter of youth and tried to block his career. Third, manyfascinating paradoxes emerged from this, like Russell's paradox, about the set of all sets that don't contain themselves, and those threatened to make all of mathematics
is a big context. The Versailles Treaty had the effect that the German economy was not really able to recover after the end of World War I. The Versailles Treaty was written basically by the Western victorious powers. Germany had no say in the negotiations. And I'mcertainly not a German nationalist, not even a German patriot, but even I would say that the Versailles Treaty treated Germany somewhat unfairly. I mean, it laid all the blame on Germany. And,
to continuously erode basic human freedoms. Uh if I can allow me to list some of the estimates from the cost of war project from Brown University just so we understand the cost of these wars .The post 911 wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Pakistan, and Yemen led to an
you lay out how the full history the full context of how it is that the American people were misled into this war on terror that was so costly in so many ways?Yeah. First of all, thank you for having me again. It's great to be with you on the show. One important statistic uh
There's a phone call of LBJ saying to a Republican senator friend of his that I can't be the first president to lose a war . So, right, he's just going to retire first and make it Nixon's problem, right? Same as George W. Bush said, "Oh,the end of Iraq, well, that'll just have to be up to other presidents to decide.
So like we just almost assume in the United States, war has been framed in the defensive sense, like where offensive war , we're not doing that anymore.- You make a fair point.
And he was killed - they were shot. It was a mass... War , the rise of fascism and Nazism, the emergence of Hitler, Goebbels, and their entire team—at the time,
And he was killed - they were shot. It was a mass... War is hell. But let me say again, we must find a path to peace.
substantial um patterns in history uh where air power alone had never toppled a regime going all the way back to World War I. Most people had not really heard that before. Many people even in themilitary did not fully know how much President Trump went up against the weight of history. Then we shifted. We
fair to hypothesize that actually this war might have strengthened Iran because now it has this control over energy on aglobal basis that it didn't have before.
one of the things that Trump likes to do is if he declares a war , I believe he had a different expectation of the Iran war . He's using foreign policy. He's using these fighting of wars in order to consolidate his support at home. So that's that's a part of what'shappening. But some of this is nothing to do with Trump. You know, we are now living in a world where the historical
Meaning that you can just fly in your planes, cut off the head of the snake, and the war is over. There's absolutely no way you can defend against air strikesbecause you're entirely a desert.
Iran can choose to fight a war of attrition. What's a war of attrition? A war of attrition is a game of uncle.What's that? Right. A game of uncle is where uh we don't have enough power to destroy
Some people would say 100% of a Tesla for 40% of the price. If there weren't ter if there wasn't a ridiculous tariff war right now BYYD I think would be the number one EV in the United States it's eating Tesla's launch in addition what Ithink is going to happen about Tesla credit where it's due change the market inspired the EV race good for good for
are likely going to move. There's going to be movement to ground options in stage three uh here very rapidly in this war . At that point in time when we had our first discussion, you wanted to push for the future. I said, "No, we we needto wait." And the reason, Stephen, is because what you're not seeing with me is throwing random darts at the future.
could attack Lebanon. Uh they could do all these things. Of course they the 67 war . Uh they wiped out the is Arab invading Arabian armies in six days.They have this past history of being militarily dominant in the area and they they knew that Iran was too big for them
even worse in that sense than other people, they don't understand how critical and how fragile our production systems are. So people can talk about a war in Iraq and think, "Oh, that's a war in Iran and that's going to cut off our oil supply." No, it's going to cut offyour food supply. And for the average person listening now, what will they start to experience if this war doesn't
So, in the when I finished my PhD, right away we started to fight the first Gulf War , which was an all air power war . And I found my work from the 1980s suddenly more relevant than ever. I was in the Washington Post, USA Today,Frontline, designing the stories because we didn't have the talking military heads at the time. And then I get a call
war right now. Benjamin, I know you've got a a personal connection to Iran because your family fled Iran, I believe.
war and stuff like that. I think we should focus more on the US than the
War II. Because the ROC was one of the allies, it had an important role in
war . Mkhyo Fedorov says there is a crisis of governance and that there's a
war and this always has been an anxiety on the South Korean part that if something happens, Americans will walk away instead of helping the South
war in Iran. What has South Korea's position actually
war with all the ensuing consequences.
war with NATO, but direct military But direct military retaliation still retaliation still seems unlikely.
war . Well, it is significant and it's been Well, it is significant and it's been consistent. 16 billion pounds has been
war including for example through wildberries some military military
war . Um a lot at the time, a lot of people, not least myself, were saying, "Look, to make this work, it's going to lead
war became a stalemate. Two years later in 1953 an armistice was signed.
war cabinet of very experienced generals and they fell into argument pretty quickly
war in Iran by the Americans. Uh also what we have is that the Europeans have also uh given uh quite a lot of
war going on. But, as you treat people, is the word getting out that this is
war and what could it mean for oil prices and the global economy? Megan Satcliffe is principal analyst at Saba
war as opposed to Gaza, and that's why Benjamin Netanyahu can do whatever he wants between now and October, the elections
war against Ukraine, the invasion. It says, "We need peace," which is much much less clear much much less specific.
war with Ukraine. Mhm.
War still kills people.
War still destroys everything.
War when she was six years old.
War , how a society, how a culture, how a regime as technologically advanced as the Third Reich-- as the Germans