Oh, I'm going to All right I want to welcome everyone to the Q&A wrap up show for the Cold War series with Thomas 777.

How you doing Thomas?

I'm very well, thanks.

And yeah, thanks for accommodating this format.

Like I said, it just seems to make sense.

And I know that a lot of the subscribers have been eager to ask questions and stuff and kind of get a

more discussion-based format going so yeah that's great man can I can I start with

a question for me yeah Yeah, of course.

All right, cool.

We talked about this in the Yaki Spangler episode I did, but a lot of people who have just

started hearing about Yaki hear that Yaki was, you know, after World War II and especially, you know, from after 1950-ish, he took the side of the Soviet Union over America. Can you explain why he would do that?

I mean in geostrategic terms it is the perennial principle that the only way that Europe is truly going to be an autonomous actor

the only way it's going to be able to compete as a superpower is if some sort of

concord is accomplished with Russia. You know this some people suggest during the McKinders World Island how bothers this I mean it isn't it isn't it isn't it's not it's not as so much a geography as destiny calculus.

It has to do with power potential,

not just the material resources,

but, you know, of mentioned material as you know the Germans

used to refer to you know on the human population is not just in terms of but in terms of their capacity to bear culture and things like that.

Europe has this kind of rump peninsula, you know, forever on an enemy footing with Russia

artificially instigated and maintained by the United States is never even if the United States

withdrew its forces in being from Europe, but that status quo remained.

Europe would never ever be able to, you know, emerge again as as a true power political actor of any of

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