Sarah C. M. Paine - WW2, Taiwan, Ukraine, & Maritime vs Continental Powers 

Biased and US based view of things, so I wouldn't call it anything special. Although it is quite a rather nice watch, for free.

​@@freshtoast3879no shit Sherlock ,she is an American and works in a government University

@butterchickenandnaan I was pointing out the inaccuracy of the original posters' viewpoint. Please don't point out obvious things..

@@freshtoast3879 that's not how the internet works

@@butterchickenandnaan OK.

Same😎

Yup, one short sent me searching for more. And the more was this 2 hour masterclass in geo-politics and history, and the global strategies that weave in between them. Wow.

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Yea last time i saw a intelectual i really respected like this has to be Robert Sapolsky

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Nah you gotta pay for that, or sign up for the navy lmao.

Not even close unless you do not have a solid foundation in history. She is wrong about just as many things she is right about.

She is definitely a national treasure.

A cool flip of the old sports expression, snatching defeat from the jaws of victory . . . 😮

Dwarkesh kept asking the wrong questions and she was so keen on them to pivot to where she has expertise on. It shows incredible experience on her part to narrow down the topics to where she has such a profound knowledge and insight on and keep the conversation going. I gotta read her books.

Right?! He’s dripping in that super annoying isolationist undertone. He would have been the first to give up the Sudetenland in 1938.

Yeah I don't get why this guy has a following. He comes across so obnoxiously as an interviewer.

He’s new to questioning. She works at the naval academy. She’s guiding him for the future not her presence. He brought me to her. Not the other way around and now that I found her and I’m enthralled. He learned how to ask question. We learned about a genius that we never knew existed

Totally agree! Now we know why we never see her on cable news! All of their supposed “experts” are constantly opining on topics they don’t know the answer to but get paid to speculate. Ugh…

My dad told me this a long time ago. "It's ok to say, I don't know"

This moderate is definitely liberal talking about Russians hating Stalin for his perges. But they feared him and the organized communist party. No leadership could step up with out getting shot. The tanks weren't great just good enough amd many of them

​@@TheBlackAtlas Most "experts" never got that lesson.

It is so under appreciated in this time. For someone to have the honesty and say that is not my area. I watched one short and then this whole video as well.

She’s the dumbest historian I’ve ever heard

I mean, she's a Professor with a PhD. She's better be that good or the Naval War College is wasting money.

@@VT-mw2zb Did you not just hear what she said in this QA?? She said some of the dumbest things ive ever heard.

@@Immigrantlovesamerica what did you find dumb?

@@Immigrantlovesamerica Like what?

Did you hear ONE quote from the creator of mankind? Have you heard ONE quote from any world leader lately? WHY NOT ?!? Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded; But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof: I also will laugh at your calamity, I will mock when your fear cometh. Proverbs 1; 24-26 May 21, 2011 was the beginning of judgement day on the world { you were warned } And it shall come to pass in that day, a great tumult from the Lord shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbor, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbor. Zechariah 14;13 'Tumult' = disbelief & confusion ...the answer: They are deliberately and purposefully blinded by the Lord. Ignorance and then even contempt. Division is the result for the destruction of mankind! God has 'given up' mankind to his own sins as punishment. Romans chapter 1 lists 23 ... Look around? ...followed world events lately? Division is worldwide in religions, politics, economics, industry, news, sports, entertainment, medicine, and even between the sexes. The Lord is known by the judgement which he executeth, the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah. Psalm 9;16 Fear, and the pit, and the snare are upon thee O inhabitant of the earth. Isaiah 24;17 Yes, the Lord has already begun ruling the nations with a rod of iron (NOT for their good) ...professing themselves to be wise, they became as fools READ THE BOOK ! ...or should have

No she does not.

@@manuelkim7064 What a great argument.

@@manuelkim7064 Google her, dork.

I love her

Fourth, she tells you when she isn't qualified to answer your question.

She's also very good at distorting information to fool her naive and ignorant followers on issues regarding China.

Hardly. There’s a lot of stuff that she gets wrong, specifically about Taiwan, China, and Japan. The Russian stuff is debatable in my opinion.

@@MoosGoCow1 Without any specific rebuttal, it's hard to assign any value for your comment. You might as well have just said, "I disagree."

@@MoosGoCow1and your opinion is based on what?

Well Poland should have never burned down Moscow in the first place. It’s called PTSD

Seriously that's over 400 years ago. Is that event really still relevant in modern Russian society?​@@forzaacmilan36

​@@forzaacmilan36 No. You can not justify current action based on something happening in 1611. If these people with "PTSD" died 400 years ago you can't use it as a argument for anything current.

@@forzaacmilan36is that a bit or are you actually that genuinely stupid?

It's not so much the Russian people but instead is the Russian leadership who want to put back into place a new kind of Soviet Union.

Huge fan! Really flattered to learn you listen!

You're clearly uneducated if you believe she's incredible.

What did you think of it? This is incredibly though provoking for me.

Dude, you are way too sappy.

​@@DwarkeshPatel Japan didn't invade "Manchuria" ... they invaded China in order to occupy it ! Then later set-up their puppet state of "Manchukuo" .

В одному вона помиляється З її слів " коли росія стане демократичною і зміниться уряд , ми знову запросимо її в світову інтеграцію . Ага , вона піде , намолотить лаве, зміцнить армію і знову буде нападати на сусідів . Тільки повний розвал цієї πедераціїї , інакше все по новому. Слава Україні, Слава ЗСУ, Слава Залужному! 💪💪💪🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦

I was hoping for a question about foreign ownership of land ownership in Ukraine. She says the military aid is inexpensive (relative to WW III?) but who is benefitting?

The interviewer put forward typical maga/kremlin talking points and she destroyed them easily and made him look like a chump.

@@propsychobably what do you mean by that? What foreign ownership question do you have?

@@derekflynn9644 I think, Kremlin’s propaganda narratives must be brought during the interview and answered by an educated pro-western person, otherwise the internet will be filled with answers only from pro-russian speakers.

My friend put me onto this and it is mind blow after mind blow. Also, a previous comment here so ignorant is that she is just American biased. Well yes but also the whole comment about sources in native languages! What a gem she is!

​​@@GreenTimeEagleher word count to impact ratio is very impressive.

Why are most of the US academics poorly spoken, f.x. compared to OxBridge academics ?

that’s what’s taking me in as well. this level of expertise is inspiring.

Something she overlooked was that the 1979 invasion of NK was a ploy with two goals: 1) Solidify the USA as an economic ally, and 2) waste a body of soldiers who were a political threat to the government's absolute control. Something people don't understand about Taiwan invasion is that it will occur IF the government needs a political distraction to justify government control, and/or needs to get rid of its own soldiers.

Yes, gratitude to her. He ruins the whole video.

She's actually a govt paid propagandist. But she does know some history, which is why she's actually good at her job.

Awe inspiring to the ignorant

this could be better if professor has a visual vtuber anime avatar instead of older lady.

@@aSSGoblin1488 How on earth does that improve anything? What a stupid take.

Go workout or build something for two hours. Mistake to trust her. I like her too, but these people don’t pay for consequences. If Elon Musks car company went bankrupt from bad cars, or all SpaceX rockets failed, he’d be forgotten and justly blamed for foolishness, and regardless of how smart he was. Not these academics though. They can be wildly wrong, and she is about Russia, no consequences, ever, as long as they have a good pitch.

@@Jonra1I think he was joking

Does she? American wars under her time would say her and her colleagues are fools.

she talks like someone who loves history and just wants to talk about it after accumulating like 60 years of knowledge

well she is a professor at the naval war college, so i'd say that assessment is spot on.

Free Palestine from Hamas...

@@farzana6676 Off topic but to do that, Palestinians Must reject Hamas. No one else can end the terror between Israel and Hamas. A war only trains the next generations... on both sides.

@@argentum530 It is all a bit more complex. Both parties are equally bad agents. Isreal for unapologetically creating an "Untermensch" caste in society and actively engaging in appartheid against the Palestinians. The Palestinians are equally to blame to for not accepting that they lost, TWICE, and are now Israeli citizens. They have repeatedly forgone all possibilities for independence through their deliberate actions and multiple wars losing against Israel.

the disney guy? what does that havr to do with

@@aSSGoblin1488lmao wth is bro yapping off about 😂💀

@@aSSGoblin1488 It's something he'd say. If you can afford it, you can book time w/ him for business advice. He has a Masterclass too but that's a side business since he left Disney. He's like $10k an hour or something lol.

@@DannyBoy443 yikes. i dont think its dinner anymore but influence you are buying. i hope! just like you hire politicians to speak at a dinner gala

@@aSSGoblin1488 True enough lol. Besides Eisner, he fixed Disney and oversaw most of the Marvel growth. And setup the streaming.

She's very patient with him.

Yea I'd prefer to see Lex interview her

I was thinking exactly the same. Instead of extracting her knowledge to understand "what was and what is" and how we got here, he asks an historian, "what will". Also, he has a lot of information, names, dates, stuff... But he doesnt connect the dots and ends up having what sounds like "immature views" in some cases. Either way, I appreciate his humility to listen and correct course. Good vid.

And interviewers can't keep replying with "but," "but," "but." (Valley girl accents don't help, either.)

​@tryagainnoob101 my thoughts exactly.

Fdr was a socialist he thought Stalin was fine

FDR's weakness lead to the war in the Pacific, just as chamberlins weakness lead to the European war.

Yes, you could see how Patel the questioner would ask common questions and narratives, and her responses are spot on. Like should the USA and UK have done as General Patton suggested and fought the Soviet Army to "liberate" East Germany, Poland and maybe the Baltics, Austria, Hungary and Czechoslavakia, or should the Western democracies have supported the White Russians to oppose the Bolsheviks, or wasn't Stalin a greater murderer than Hitler, or was dropping atomic bombs over Japan the right thing to do, or would a land invasion be the right strategy to save lives?

@@TeknoTim2002 The Whites would have been helped by Poland, the only country to actually defeat the Soviet Union in 1920. But the Whites wanted to recreate the Russian empire and enslave Poland. Hence we didn't help them. Note that Lenin was helped and sent to Russia by the Germans. The Germans created the monster of communist Russia. The Bolsheviks were aided by American money from New York. It's funny also how Red China was essentially made by Japan. In inflicting such heavy losses on KMT (and KMT on them) the Japanese allowed the Red to take over China. Now I suppose if PRC decides to attack Japan it will be their own chickens coming home to roost.

That right? Lot of soaring morality there. What then should US policy be? Ukraine war, nato? Because you provided nothing

If you like warmongers like her, then yeah...you also have them on tv, less classy, but nevertheless the same warmongering narrative.

00:40 in my time zone. Didn't miss - nor regret - a minute. Fantastic content!

The same here in Denmark 😆🤣 She’s too so amazing

She so fascinating and the way she conveys information is excellent

That's something that up until about an hour ago was an unknown unknown. I had never even thought about the U.S. being a maritime country, much less how that affects its place in the world.

Honestly & some of these questions were bordering on "but what if the C&C Red Alert or Wolfenstein timelines were real??!"

That's my big take-away from this. One of them.

You believe that WEF mouthpiece for real...I pity your naivety.

@@niarlatotepbassetah yes, another contrarian troll who lives on conspiracy theories and distrusts actual facts and facts

Unfortunately we live in a time where, in many places, in many schools of thought, learning is a bad thing. You want to learn about the horrors of the past and the atrocities of evil men like these dictators? You must be some sort of fascist then, why else would you want to learn more? Some people just want everything bad to be expunged and redacted so we can be doomed to repeat what history would otherwise teach us not to do.

@@niarlatotepbasset We the vast majority pity your ignorance. You could not possibly have studied modern history and political science at a nationally ranked university, and then spent years in the National Archives in Moscow, Beijing, Tokyo and London like she did, and worked your way up in academic circles to be instructing at the world's top naval academy. So don't expect anyone to agree with you. We listen to experts, not trolls.

The problem is when Trump returns to the White House he aint listening to her or them.

Sarah living in Taiwan and China for 3 years each sure helped formed her opinions and the vast esoteric knowledge she gained on the nuances of Taiwan/Japan relationships. This must have something to do with whom she spent some quality time with-the benshengrens (lol). These people had their roots on the island as far back as the 1600s and lived through the Imperial Japanese occupation period (1895-1945) and were treated well by the Japanese colonizers: they built the current infrstructures on the island that still exists today and propped up the local economy that the former Qing colonizers never bothered doing. The Chinese then viewed Taiwan as a backwater island occupied by belligerent "savages" (aborigines) and because of their bellicose resistance to Qing rule, they never had the full administration of the island except the western coastal plains. Conversely, the minority waishengrens who migrated to Taiwan post 1949, at least the older generations who still recalled the Japanese atrocities they experienced while still living on the mainland, passed this resentment and hatred down to their younger generations, and have nothing but vengeful things to say about Japan, identical of that shared on the mainland. 🤷‍♂️

I have no idea how she can supposedly be an Eastern Europe expert and yet be completely wrong and utterly clueless about Russia, and yet intimately understand Taiwan. Maybe it’s called being paid to put things in that way. And I seriously never ever thought. I would see a person apologize Imperial Japan of all things! Oh, and then she has the nerve to say communism is a failure and horrible after the communist rebuild all of central and eastern Europe following World War II, and killed a tiny fraction of the people in that area versus what Japan did to Taijuan while also exterminating the culture! Oh, and the land reform thing being why Kai-shek lost the Civil War is the stupidest fucking thing I’ve ever heard! A G E N D A

Yea you guys are cucked af

I lived in Japan for almost 20 years and have a Japanese wife and noticed the same thing. And it goes both ways, I have never heard a Japanese person speak ill of Taiwan or Taiwanese but have heard the worst about Chinese and Koreans.

@@kayumochi Agree. I wouldn't be surprised that the Japanese living on the main island during the Imperial colonization era before 1945 viewed the Formosans no different than that of their view of the Okinawans. They were both Japanese citizens albeit second rate, but citizens nevertheless. FWIW.

i mean shes a teacher at one of the best schools in the US so

@@icyr0bin-794 Best school doesn't mean best teachers. She is very knowledgeable and an excellent teacher/researcher

You can tell she's really understood it

She’s rather worryingly ignorant for someone in such a prestigious position. She seems totally unaware of the events of the 1930s and buildup to war. She then goes on to repeat popular myths like the necessity of the atomic bombs for ending the war with Japan. That’s just for starters

​@@SworBeyE16 yeh she has a very specific selective memory

@@SworBeyE16that isn’t a ‘myth’ nor a ‘popular myth’. On the contrary, folks like you rely on the popularity of condemning the bombings to advocate against them using anachronistic hindsight through rose-tinted glasses.

I learned so much, I’m gonna read all her shit

​@@SworBeyE16I'm sure you'd do much better, lmao.

It's like you need to spend 7.5 hours taking notes and absorbing it. In the long run you save time because she's covered the history with impeccable accuracy so you'll hardly need to watch most YT tie-ins between history and current events.

same, good job algorithms

Same same. Glad I found this.

That isn't really a fair diagnosis. In order to rephrase and ask better questions, you would need to know the material and the subject matter which would require an interview prior to this one. It goes back to the unknown, unknowns.

​@@sattyre6892 nah this guy sucks

Yeah it was frustrating to listen to

Yeah man the interviewer is quite ignorant about history😂

I mean, look at the state of him...he is just a youtuber in all fairness...look at his satin tie, its so poorly knotted as he tries to look like a smart person but naturaly just ends up looking like a politician, blue at his age is hilarious...the beard trim template, this guy doesnt hear words like people and care just positive and success and awesome etc. People like this are the buffer between ourselves and people a life of education and impact on society, as is hers....

They stayed over 50,000 ++ of their own people and still counting. 😢

100% correct. professor could also have a vtuber anime avatar instead of older lady irl

1:06:00 cute intelligent anime waifu sass

I came to the comments for this exactly xD

You don't even realise the propaganda when it's fed to you. US is the biggest propagandists of all. Of course you will say no because you believe there is still starvation in North Korea because petals Washington Post told you so , a media funded by CIA as well

Individuals like this are really great at structuring the whole sentence before they even start speaking it. It's clear she chooses her words with great precision.

Me too. And I’m real glad she teaches where she does

She's fucking brilliant

Dr. Paine

Professor Paine

I speak 5 languages (excluding Classic Middle Egyptian and Coptic.) I am an aerospace engineer. Am I one of multilingual elite?

@@douglaswilkinson5700 you are man, that is cool

I am extremely jealous of people whose brains can wrap themselves around multiple languages. I’m a fluent English speaker, and I’m somewhat conversational in Spanish, but I’ve been learning Chinese (my wife is mainland Chinese) and I just cannot wrap my head around it or memorize any of the words or phrases I learn.

​@@douglaswilkinson5700 I guess if you want

​@@douglaswilkinson5700 why do you need Classic Middle Egyptian and Coptic for aerospace engineering? Is it because the pyramids were made by aliens?

I agree. Basically he should have her expand on each question and ask half as many.

He did ask some fantastic questions though. With some rounded context and nuance before he got to the core of the question. For someone not as well versed as her on these topics, he did a great job of pulling her where she needed to go to fill his gaps.

@@stevehatcher7700 I agree. He’s not an expert by any means, but his questions were solid, and she is great at picking up a question and expand its scope.

The rambling and unfinished sentences are quite irritating, he needs to slow down, perhaps sticking to a script would help him. I suspect he is slightly in awe and nervous, which is understandable, but I do think he could do better

Fully in agreement. I was doing the washing up while listening to the video. This tempo sounds unprofessional at the level.

Yeah, maybe he's just intimidated.

He’s asking the dumb questions that know-nothings ask.

Lmao alright ​@@colingenge9999

@@colingenge9999 Same thought. A bunch of dumb questions. Some of them felt very leading too. Like he wanted certain answers.

I'll say it. This interviewer sucks.

There already are warmongers like her in the leading positions. I admire your naivety and lack of knowledge on her.

@@niarlatotepbasset So she’s a warmonger cuz why ? She doesn’t think Russia should be able to just annex neighboring countries like the nazis ?

@@jsmith7348 Yes, the whiner (not you) who questions your comment is a less educated, misinformed troll who doesn't like hearing the truth espoused so logically to such a large reception. It's dangerous for the Kremlin for the world to realize their murderous intentions.

One of life’s biggest ironies is that those who genuinely deserve power often times don’t seek it. And those that abuse power intentionally seek it.

She is a teacher

This isn’t a debate

@@Godfrey544 🤣🤣🤣

@@DannyBoy443 no i mean its not. its more like an interview. Or a general podcast conversation.

@@Godfrey544 Yes, I agree.

Yeah, I feel you. Using alphabet is just widely different than using pictograms. Even trying to find a kanji you don't understand in dictionary is a challenge

Definitely, absolutely sure P. Zeihan knows of her and has read her books!

Has anything Peter Zelhan said come true? Is there anything important?

Ignorance squared

I think a seriously interesting conversation would be Perun and Sarah on an agreed to subject giving them both time to prepare.

@@gregorybrennan8539Russia invaded Ukraine. Pretty much when he said they would

She is not. She assumes so much it just makes a nonsense of that she says. Listen to john mersheimer he is light years ahead of this.

@@tonyclifton2230 The soft sciences have their statistical limitations and assumptions like any other field of study. NOTHING is without some assumption.

Couldn’t agree more! You should have her on regularly. ❤

Just completely neglecting how y’all refused to let Russia into the union or into NATO and then impoverished it for over a decade and killed tens to hundreds of thousands of people by sponsoring terrorist groups in it and then wondering why Russia is unhappy with us and not interested in our bullshit.

I feel you. Average westoid has such a limited understanding of the situation listening to them is almost physically painful. This woman was a delight to listen to.

​@@grimwaltzmanOf course most people are not specialists which is why we need to vote for competent people of character, not "those who agree with us."

Interesting how within Europe you refer to “Westerner” to distinguish Western Europe, but although we acknowledge that clarification as an American I’m more likely to refer to most of Europe in regards to “Western civilization”, focusing of recent history, cooperation & trajectory…

The trash we have are exactly like her. What were you listening to?

They would get bogged down by people who do not want them in power...

Humbleness and Humility, two traits politicians lack.

people of high calibre always gets demolished by IDIOTS, WOKE, SELFISH , evil ETC POLITICIANS!!!

She's not a sociopath

Fell asleep then. Can’t get enough of it now lol.

Thank you!

my family is Paine but without the E

Glad you enjoy it!

For real Lex Friedman sucks balls. This is actually a smart boi podcaster who posts less and does the reading.

Classic state approved RUSSIA BAD! SUPPORT CURRENT THING! Talking points.