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Jocko Unraveling

Unraveling 22: 1917

Jocko Unraveling

Jocko DEFCOR Network

Worldconflict, History, News

4.82.8K Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2021

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

"There are decades when nothing happens, and there are weeks when decades happen." -V.I. Lenin

This is the first of a series of discussions about critical years in the 20th century. As the First World War entered its 4th year, the mighty German army had the Entente powers on the ropes. But two men who started the year 1917 uninvolved with the Great War would soon make decisions that would determine the outcome, and shape geopolitics for the rest of the century.

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0:00.0

This is the Jocco Unraveling Podcast episode 22 with Del Cooper me,

0:07.0

Jocco will like DC what's happening? Feeling good. Just took a beating from you

0:12.4

in Wesley for an hour. That's always a character building exercise. Yeah it's

0:17.2

interesting as I was reviewing the notes for this podcast. You and I obviously

0:25.9

it's very easy for you and I to just get in a get sucked into a vortex of any

0:33.1

historical moment in time and to go deep deep into whatever that historical

0:40.2

context is and we were discussing what subjects we could talk about and I don't

0:46.4

know maybe we could go use something a text that had just had years just had

0:50.7

years 20th century years but you said what do you think of these years?

0:55.8

Which one stand out to you? Started with 1917 that it was like 1917 1934

1:00.7

1934 44 you just went through this list of just years. So what do you think?

1:07.3

Which one of these stands out? The 20th century is so insane and each one of

1:14.3

those as I looked through these years I thought to myself, I wonder what he's

1:18.0

thinking about that? Why do you pick that one? What's he thinking about there?

1:21.3

Because every one of these years has some key component that stands out to it

1:25.3

and then you start thinking about the years that you were bringing up and they

1:30.5

they have key component after key component after key component that sets

1:36.4

some kind of pivotal moment that that really has a lasting impact or a

1:42.0

series of events in a short period of time that has a lasting a lasting

1:46.3

impact in shaping the future. And Lenin said something along the lines of

1:54.5

there are decades when nothing happens and weeks when decades happen and so when

2:02.4

we look at years a lot can happen in a year and 1917 was one of those one of

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