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2/2: #Bestof2021: War in the Pacific over the same island chains that China now threatens: 1/2: Second World Wars and the East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere: Japan 1939 and PRC 2021. Victor Davis Hanson @VDHanson @HooverInst

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🗓️ 28 February 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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2/2: #Bestof2021: War in the Pacific over the same island chains that China now threatens: 1/2: Second World Wars and the East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere: Japan 1939 and PRC 2021. Victor Davis Hanson @VDHanson @HooverInst

https://www.amazon.com/Second-World-Wars-Global-Conflict/dp/0465066984

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This is CBSI in the world, I'm John Batser, speaking to Victor Davis-Hanson, the historian,

0:40.0

and classist at the Hoover Institution.

0:43.0

Looking particularly at a book that Victor published some years past, I recommend the Second World Wars,

0:48.7

how the first global conflict was fought in one.

0:51.8

There was the threat and the bullying and then the preening of the Hitlerite Empire.

0:59.7

There was the similar bullying and preening and boasting of the Imperial Japanese Empire.

1:05.8

The facts do not support the aggression.

1:09.3

Hitler did not have a plan to win the war.

1:12.3

He did not have the production facilities to sustain it.

1:15.8

Japan similarly was up against some physical limits to do with its army and its navy after the Kido-Butai.

1:23.6

They had no shipbuilding capability anywhere on the scale of what the US had, the arsenal of democracy.

1:29.8

And yet, here we are 80, 70 years later and the arsenal of democracy is...

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