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What Jack Weatherford thinks about America

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Anthropologist and author of Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World, and DeWitt Wallace Professor of Anthropology emeritus at Macalester College.

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2 dated positions, 2025, in their own words. Our reading of what Jack Weatherford has said — not written or endorsed by them.

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  1. Our readingHiroshima and Nagasaki were not military targets — they were acts of terror against women and children, and Americans should say so before condemning the Mongols.

    Their wordsWe dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Those were not military targets. We were not doing anything strategic against the country other than terrorizing the country by killing women and children.

    ↗Jack Weatherford: Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire | Lex Fridman Podcast #476youtube.com 9th of 22 in this recording

    war

    Interesting

  3. Our readingAmerica keeps losing wars because it attacks the capital first; the Mongol method was to take the countryside and let the city starve.

    Their wordsThe Mongol strategy is first you take the countryside. They're country people. They think in terms of countryside. You take the countryside, you occupy the countryside, and you cut off the city. It cannot live without the countryside. And that's how they did it every time.

    ↗Jack Weatherford: Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire | Lex Fridman Podcast #476youtube.com 21st of 22 in this recording

    Interesting