A wise man once said to not leave your opponent in a position where his only choice is to fight for his survival.

I love this lady! The only person ever to say A. I don't know B. A perfect explanation

Good questions and better answers. I'm so glad I found this channel.

Sarah Paine is just so insightful and brilliant! Thank-you!

Mr Patel I very much enjoy your channel. Thank you for your content. I especially like that you don’t interrupt the guest. Keep going and good luck in your future!

These interviews have been so good

She is a professor of strategy and policy at the U.S. Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island and a successful author. Not only is she credit but highly educated. You, a random anonymous person on the internet, throwing insults at her way means nothing.

"Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across. The wise warrior avoids the battle." - Sun Tzu, Art of War

Tsun Tzu has a quote about this. Do not let your enemy be cornered and to leave an outlet free. Many speculate this is so to the fearlessness of people when it came down to the death. You tell your people the enemy thinks of you as nothing and will not stop till you are dead is a damn good motivator to fight like hell.

I don't know much about her, but it's nice to hear a voice that seems to come from a more sensible time.

She is great! My kind of historian! Thanks for sharing this wonderful video!

She's driven by analysis and not ideologie... very refreshing, very sober, very rational... that is what's missing these days. Every one is so over emotional in one way or the other that breaking it down to facts, experience and analysis is a thread to many, from the far right to the far left, for authocrats to common nationalists..

Thank you for introducing me to Sarah Paine - a self-evident genius. I hope she and I could someday have an amazing conversation. Mr. Patel, you are also a gifted interviewer.

Thank you. One of the most knowledgeable and informative programs on KZfaq.

Excellent questions! Subscribed!

Thank you, Dwarkesh, for bringing us these videos and introducing us to Dr Paine. She’s such a very clear communicator with a wide depth of knowledge. I wish could take a week off and just listen to Sarah Paine lectures and interviews.

This interview was so good, I could listen to another 2 hours e

This lady has been blowing up in my feed recently, on KZfaq, Facebook, and even LinkedIn. And I'm so glad to see someone who's really knowledgeable talk about things she knows. Really, really refreshing.

One of the best interviews I have ever seen. You are so talented and you have the most interesting guests. It is so hard to ask pointed questions to get the most meaty responses, and you do it so well.

Amazing knowledge and great delivery

It’s about time we start getting content based on facts and expertise . Fantastic stuff she might be my new favorite resource for this kind of strategic and historical geopolitical content .

I can listen to this woman all day.

Amazing insights. Thank you

Excellent. What is Sarah Paine's book that is referred to?

On the tank issue, the allies provided every thing else to include the modern machine tools used to build those tanks. Ford alone sent thousands of trucks, because the Soviets were wedded to trains for logistics! This made their logistics predictable and easy to disrupt! Trucks help them free up their movement!

Love this content.

She's so insightful.

Thank you Very much

This woman is amazingly interesting and articulate

Anybody binge watching her videos?

@ Approx 4:23 follow up on the fire-bombing of Tokyo. I heard that Emperor Hirohito toured the bombed out areas afterwards and was stunned to see people turning their backs on the Emperor. This caused him to conclude that Japan could no last much longer.

Really pleasant to listen to her speak.

Let us not forget the historic amnesia here in North America. Andrew Jackson and the gang in U.S. Congress in the 1830’s pretty much had their Wansee conference. They did the same with the Indian removal act and extermination of the natives to steal their land. It is a real bitch that modern times had better record keeping. The victors always dictate the historic books.

Some of this sounds like McNamara's Laws of War.

Thanks, Dwarkesh Patel.

Statistic example. All together were charged 105 032 citizens in September- November 1938. Including: pole 21 258, german 17150, russian 15684, ukranian 8773, belorussian 5716 and etc

Her own hubris shows... Hirohito was a world respected scholar in marine biology. He specialized in mollusca, authored several widely used books under a pen name.

So interesting this.

Lend Lease proved to be a huge factor.

Easy Americans and British were Russian manufacturing during the war. The amount of aid and material from Britain and the United States was unprecedented. The West kept the Soviet zombie alive in WW2.

General Patton: "We defeated the wrong enemy."

Brilliant!

I didn't even know he was sick

Time for the bots to earn their rubles.

Thank you for these brilliant lessons!!

Thanks!

Is there any more of this?

The difference in the willingness of a people to fight is stark when we're comparing people fighting for goals in foreign lands, and people fighting in their homeland, defending their very existence and their very way of life. Compare the US in Afghanistan and Ukraine fighting Russia. Big differences

She's good!!

She's so insightful. I adore the emotionless matter of fact attitude. Exactly how history and news should be provided.

This 9:24 is something I've been thinking of for decades, were the Axis to be victorious. It's so obvious but this is the first time I've heard it. Coming from a source like Sarah Paine is gratifying.

In the future , everyone will interview everyone and give their opinions on everything

I love the way she explains everything.

Great talk

I didn't know anything about this scholar. What wonderful intelligence! Thank you for this discovery.

There’s no mystery. The Soviets were supported by the USA. The vastness of Russia has always helped block any invasion. As for advanced technology they moved their factories hundreds of miles away from the front.

Lend Lease. Stalin wrote in his memoirs that the Soviets would literally have starved without Lend Lease. Also the Soviets couldn't produce high octane aviation fuel or artillery shells at scale and imported much of this through Lend Lease. And the those tens of millions of Soviet troops were eating US food, wearing US boots, and driving US trucks. That's what I bring up when people bring up the "Russia did most of the fighting" argument.

The only thing I can really add is there is a difference between high moral and blind fanaticism.

Fascinating

To think that Communist China is a bad thing I think is very one-sided. The unipolar world under US hegemony has stagnated save for Silicon Valley and a few other bastions of creativity. And even then, Silicon Valley has created a plethora of new problems regarding mental health, from internet addiction to social media anxiety & depression. The economic model that China is currently using is superior to the US currently. Our cities are still being built with the 1900 mindset of requiring to drive, which truly only benefits the car companies and gas companies. The government til this day hasn't invested in public transportation, and neoliberalism has literally made us race to the bottom for goods, exploiting third world nations as we force them to embark free trade while we don't do it ourselves. China is the antithesis, and has quietly observed how the US has conducted itself. I love how China did NOT bail out Evergrande like we did with the banks during the 08 financial crisis. Our government has been bought out, and though we like to champion freedom, free speech, and equal rights, our government does not really believe it, but loves to portray the image that that is what we represent, and that it is fine to invade 'backwards authoritarian regimes' such as Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan and Syria, so long as we use those principals as our Trojan Horse. Our government is ran by super rich, spoiled, arrogant, assholes. If you think the people in Orange County and Hollywood are stuck up, imagine how far that gets scaled when we're talking about billionaires who've never spent a single day with regular people of America. Capitalism being good is what the capitalists who are on top want you to think lmao. How is this not recognized? Always look at your own team with suspicion because they will never admit their 'true' wrongdoings. China IS NOT perfect by any means, and has a lot of flaws in itself. But the US is not any better, and in my opinion, has done more global damage. The only time it ever does good is when it benefits it's long term goals, such as rebuilding Germany, Japan, and South Korea to keep Communist countries at bay. We've done nothing like this for South America nor Africa, EVER, and would NEVER do it if the US stays as the hegemonic power. Check out Michael Hudson. Would love to see Michael Hudson and Sarah Paine speak. Both seem highly intelligent but have veryyyy different views.

Short answer, terror, the Red Army had years of practise in the years after the 1917 revolution, the Allies invaded and the Red Army fought them until 1923, the White Army continued fighting, then the Red Army terrorised the ethnicities. Then the Red Army fought the Japanese. The Red Army still collapsed, if Beria had any courage, he would have assassinated Stalin without a risk up until the Nazi Army retreated from Moscow.

She's a great speaker 🔊😊

Brilliant! Sarah's analysis is supported by "The Chrysanthemum and the Sword" by Ruth Benedict, which is a fascinating anthropological study of pre-war Japanese culture. The Office of War Information commissioned Ruth's ethnography to formulate strategies for the eventual occupation of Japan, which is one of the great success stories of post-war relations.

In Soviet Union were massacred not only poles, but all nations of Soviet Union were massacred

Alfred Rosenberg of all people thought that the Hitler/Koch approach of just killing everyone was counterproductive and made no sense.

That was my biggest take from the Art of war

6:10 as portrayed by modern Japanese about themselves in Godzilla : Minus One

whole lot of intellectual discussion but I have to drop in to say: this guy is literal gigachad

Generalplan Ost

Does anyone know if there are anybooks or memoirs from Japanese soldiers who surrendered and returned home after the war. I would love to know if thier families were crying with joy or if they still brought shame.

Shes such an amazing speaker.

7:23 hm, quite intriguing laugh

It's real weird that Russia ended up choosing the fascist way.

She avoided answering the question.

She really knows what she's talking about.

Is Netanyahu oh political "death ground"?

She literally a casual

Dwarkesh read Stalin's Folly: The Tragic First Ten Days of WWII on the Eastern Front

That was the least of his mistakes.

it’s a very interesting question, but Russian manufacturing would’ve been nothing without the United States. The US literally built the tank production lines in the states and shipped them to Russia.

She has strong biases on some critical issues; the biases prevented her from being objective in analysis and drawing sound conclusions. You direction is wrong then you only see things that are only visible to you.

I think McArthur not wanting Hirohito to put up for war crimes was instrumental in giving the Japanese the idea that Americans were not interested in a revenge mission in regard to post-war Japan.

I love listening to her.

It's so refreshing to hear an unbiased and intellectual position.

700 000 Ukrainians became Russian citizens every year since 2022 at minimum. The most number of Holodomor was around Volga river in Russia. Isaine lyar

Great. Video

Sounds like a great title for a movie, Death Ground.

His opening premise is wrong. Russia was not robust. They were made robust. Russia got their tank knowledge from Germany before the war. And the Sowiets received endless help from the allies. America sent its Russian ally the following military equipment: 400,000 jeeps and trucks 14,000 airplanes 8,000 tractors 13,000 tanks More than 1.5 million blankets 15 million pairs of army boots 107,000 tons of cotton 2.7 million tons of petroleum products (to fuel airplanes, trucks and tanks) 4.5 million tons of food That is why Russia didn't collapse. That is why the government didn't collapse. In additon allied forces even helped the sovjets hitting Nazi targets in east europe because they couldn't handle the Germans. From rferl: Most famously, Soviet dictator Josef Stalin raised a toast to the Lend-Lease program at the November 1943 Tehran conference with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt. "I want to tell you what, from the Russian point of view, the president and the United States have done for victory in this war," Stalin said. "The most important things in this war are the machines.... The United States is a country of machines. Without the machines we received through Lend-Lease, we would have lost the war." So yeah - Russia didn't collapse because of the US and the allies.

Why are women historians so eager to defend their own lackluster goverments.

She is an extremely eloquent and knowledgeable lady. No doubt about it.

My physics professor had advised and guided the fire bombing of Japan in WW2 and was consulted for Vietnam. He reported that the weather and climate conditions would not permit it. Putting people on known death ground is not a good idea. One exception was the strategy of Ghenghis Kahn. Even then, people did not know that they were put on death ground. His army would attack outlying areas, comprehensively driving them into smaller and somewhat urban areas and forts. Then he would leave would appeared to be an unforeseen route of escape. The trapped people would try to use the avenue of escape and be killed. Chesty Puller, USMC used the same technique in Central America. He identified the routes of escape and cut them off.

Excellent presentation of verified historical facts, not propaganda

This woman is another Victoria Nuland😂😂😂😂😂

The Russians built so many tanks because they didn't have to build most of their trucks and railcars and a host of other logistical needs. Unless I'm mistaken, the Russians were offered a second front in '43 in exchange for ending Lend Lease but the Russians wanted Lend Lease to continue, so the second front wasn't until '44.

Ah... Mother Mohiam finally unveiled....

Wrong heading. It was the Soviet Union Hitler invaded not Russia (see a contemporary map). He made many points about Communism, but not Russia as a civilisation.

However they try to flip it Russia acted in reaction to NATO

When Gen. Lee surrendered to Gen. Grant, it wasn't an unconditional surrender. Grant allowed Lee's troops to keep their horses and arms.

I certainly admire this woman.

Whereas Trump cant find Moscow on a map, but his mattress is full of oligarch dollars. Go figure.