Full podcast episode: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qJqnf7t_3srelY0.html Lex Fridman podcast channel: kzfaq.info Guest bio: John Mearsheimer is an international relations scholar at University of Chicago. He is one of the most influential and controversial thinkers in the world on the topics of war and power.

My great-grandmother came from Germany to the US with my grandmother & great aunt very shortly before WWII. Oma went to her grave thinking Hitler was a good man. She said that he took care of the people, made sure everyone was safe and had food. Nothing would convince her of the horrors he committed.

Are these problems because of too much power, or not enough accountability? If power is the ability to control others, then perhaps a better solution would be to exercise more power on leadership. I think having powerful educators, judges, parents, citizens, etc. isn't necessarily a bad thing, as long as that power is met with accountability. Power is a necessity, and it breeds all kinds of dysfunctional political theories. Usually about how to get it, and not often enough about how to hold it accountable.

Kinda weird to say he wasn't charismatic, his speeches are incredibly impassioned and intense

Lex is being sponcered by fiji water

I use to think Lex could be a Robot, but he slouches to much😂

Lex i love your podcast. You look great unshaved.

Most citizens are preoccupied with the economics. So long as they earn and live better, they support the political party. To so many, politics means their well-being.

There is also the thing with the Rockefeller's.

He had his rivals murdered. And it was ignored by the justice system.

John is a fantastic truth talker

Britain offered to remove all Versailles grievances in return for peace. He did talk about Versailles a lot, especially when weak. We don't have to take his word in our determination to blame everything on the western powers. The problem of Versailles was that it didn’t follow an unambiguous victory and was never enforced seriously. In 1945 the Germans agreed they were defeated. In 1914-18 they never saw a foreign soldier and fell for the lie that they weren't defeated but had been betrayed by the so-called 'stab in the back'. Arguably Versailles was too soft, our great grandparents not hard enough. Pershing I think was keen to march on Berlin, bless him, but then again, he'd only just turned up!

Has he not heard about „Gleichschaltung“?

I watched some Hitler's speeches but honestly can't see why he is "charismatic" to so many his people, I also watched videos of several other world leaders' public speeches, none of them really impresses me, so I'm not going to waste too much time to take "public speech" class

My understanding is it was either Hitler or the communist. And they didn't want to have a leader who was like Stalin.

Defenetly German charisma and sense of humor are completely different to the rest of the world 😅

Deleting every comment here I expect nothing less

The wrong person, at the right moment, at the wrong time in history.

When John Mearsheimer makes Lex look like a NOOB, then you know John Mearsheimer, knows a LOT

If one is not part of the target audience, then there is no charisma.

It must have been his "charisma"

So tired of talking about Hitler. When are we going to start talking about the American oligarchy?

The Polish Corridor issue started World War 2 in 1939. Poland was now a free country after defeating Russia in 1920's war. Poland was major power for centuries earlier and it was feared it could rise again.

How is this guy defining charisma?

God,you would think that Lex is educated enough to know the difference between China today and Nazi Germany! Or,he ponders to his fateful!?

I love how folks wax poetic about hitler😂 Its really easy to understand. Europe was and still is deeply antisemitic. We are all seeing it know with the situation in gaza. I wish we could criticize zionism without being labeled antisemitic

Easy, people were tired of the globalists

Yes. I agree. WW II was very cruel but people don't know a LOT of information. For exemple: Hiter didn't want to attacked Polad but.....

Exactly how Erdogan and Modi are acquiring powers in Turkiye and India

Yaknow the more I hear about this Hitler guy the more I don t like him

How? He followed the trump playbook.

All the radical ideologies like fascism, Zionism and woke liberalism are equally bad. Even the greedy corporate Capitalism is so bad. We need public policies which control people's unlimited greed for money. People should always come to the middle when it comes to politics, at least that'd the Gov job to make people come to middle. Moderate political positions based on principles of classical liberal democracy in a religious society, this is the only sustainable path forward. Religion is also very important to give people hope and prevent people from focusing on bad things. But too much power to religious institutions will eventually lead to greed and fascism, so the importance of religion in a government is also should be closely monitored and thoroughly moderated. Islam has no such problems since it doesn't create wars in the name of "projecting power" or "spreading the religion" up to the same level as Christianity. Islam is way more peaceful than Christianity in the sense of controlling basic human impulses like fear, greed, lust, will to power etc. My 2 cents 🤷🙏😊

Same way Trump is gonna get it.

ofc a jew would say germany started ww 2 even tho its proven that thats not the case.