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24 May 2025
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James Holland — holds since 2025-05-24 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Britain and France's refusal to negotiate seriously with the Soviet Union in the summer of 1939 was the great missed opportunity to snooker the Third Reich. — tap to centre the map on it Britain and France's refusal to negotiate seriously with the Soviet Union in the summer of 1939 was the great missed… Last stated a year ago
24 May 2025
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James Holland — holds since 2025-05-24 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Operation Barbarossa should never have come close to being a victory; the Germans got as far as they did because of Red Army and Soviet incompetence, not German prowess. — tap to centre the map on it Operation Barbarossa should never have come close to being a victory; the Germans got as far as they did because of Red… Last stated a year ago
24 May 2025
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James Holland — holds since 2025-05-24 — tap for who they are
Same subject: The familiar narrative of the war — useless Britain, the world's best German army beaten only because Hitler was mad — is an artefact of how the world looked in the 1970s and 1980s, not of how it looked in 1939. — tap to centre the map on it The familiar narrative of the war — useless Britain, the world's best German army beaten only because Hitler was… Last stated a year ago
24 May 2025
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James Holland — holds since 2025-05-24 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Germany had already lost the war by the beginning of December 1941, once one enemy had become three in six months. — tap to centre the map on it Germany had already lost the war by the beginning of December 1941, once one enemy had become three in six… Last stated a year ago
24 May 2025
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James Holland — holds since 2025-05-24 — tap for who they are
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The fall of France in 1940 was half German operational brilliance and half French failure and incompetence.
Holds JH James HollandRead this korrent →
Britain and France's refusal to negotiate seriously with the Soviet Union in the summer of 1939 was the great missed opportunity to snooker the Third Reich.
Holds JH James Holland
Operation Barbarossa should never have come close to being a victory; the Germans got as far as they did because of Red Army and Soviet incompetence, not German prowess.
Holds JH James Holland
The familiar narrative of the war — useless Britain, the world's best German army beaten only because Hitler was mad — is an artefact of how the world looked in the 1970s and 1980s, not of how it looked in 1939.
Holds JH James Holland
Germany had already lost the war by the beginning of December 1941, once one enemy had become three in six months.
Holds JH James Holland
If anyone in the Nazi leadership was a genius it was Goebbels the propaganda chief, not Hitler.
Holds JH James Holland
British intelligence dropped its plans to assassinate Hitler because a drugged, malfunctioning Hitler was better for Britain than whoever would replace him.
Holds NO Norman Ohler
The Few were Britain's first line of defence in 1940, not its last; the story that they alone stood between Britain and the Nazi hordes is rubbish.
Holds JH James Holland
There is a good chance the Second World War would have happened even without Hitler.
Holds JM John Mearsheimer
A Chinese crewed landing on the Moon before America returns would be a defeat for the free world.
Holds CH Casey HandmerEB Eric Berger
A country cannot have radical technological breakthroughs and also refuse to tolerate uncomfortably rich people, because the financial system it resents is what funds the innovation.
Holds KJ Keyu Jin
A country's large trade deficit in manufactured goods reduces its manufacturing employment below what it would be with balanced trade.
Holds PK Paul Krugman
A company doing something at the edge of the Overton window has to hold two cultures at once — the true believers and the serious professionals who think they are crazy — and integrating them is what makes it work.
Holds MH Max Hodak
A new world order based on raw power is being drawn right now, and Europe has to fight for its place in it.
Holds
A tiny fraction of ancestry can carry the most important thing about a population: Yamnaya is only a few percent of DNA in India and yet it brought the language.
Holds DR David Reich
A country cannot fund its own industrial strategy and call the same policy cheating when China does it.
Holds HR Hannah Ritchie
A few square miles at the Moon's south pole are the only lunar real estate that matters, and whoever gets there first sets the terms.
Holds EB Eric Berger
A large, sustained AI capability lead by either the US or China could shift the global balance of power between them.
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