Dr. Philip W. Travis: History Changes

Professor of History, specializing in the Cold War. Host and Creator of the History Changes Podcast, Breaking the Social Contract.

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My new podcast. Basically a history of how America got to the Trump era. Going to build summary chapters and then bring in experts as guests.

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@tommy57592 @ChrisMurphyCT @JerryGersh1 The MOU is public for everyone to read. What part of that MOU looks like a better deal for the US than before the US started the conflict?

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@theMiddleEighty @ProfessorPape Nuclear powers that are adversaries of the US do not hide their possession of these weapons, they make it known publicly because there is a long history that demonstrates that the possession of these weapons is a deterrent to overt violations of national sovereignty.

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Well we don’t know. However, if they did have one I think they would likely tell the world that they do posses that capability because possessing nuclear weapons is a deterrent to these kinds of attacks whereas the allegation that one is seeking a nuclear weapon is the most common justification for the US and its allies to attack and pursue regime change, regardless of whether the allegation has any merit.

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Iran had pledged to not build nuclear weapons prior to the US attack, and the two countries were engaged in negotiations at that time. Having Iran state again what it had already stated prior to this attack is not an accomplishment.

Further that was not the original objective. The original stated objective was regime change and/or a decimation of Iran, which is why the first and primary target on day one was the Supreme leader and this followed up by a call by the US for the people to rise against their government.

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@DrDavidMiano lol, correct!

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@ProfessorPape This operation was poorly planned and implemented, shockingly so. The oversights here are striking. There was no strategic understanding of success from the beginning, and as a result the only way out is to effectively concede defeat and then to claim victory in the press.

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Going to see them in Tampa later this year. However, there should be a balance between respect for what they are doing now and respect for what Neil helped create. What made Neil great was not simply technical ability, Neil was not great because no one else can play Neil’s stuff…like Bonham, or Moon…what made these players great was what they helped create in a particular moment in time.

If this tour leaves people walking away saying that someone playing Neil’s parts is playing them better than he did then honestly I feel that crosses the line and the tour probably shouldn’t occur. Neil was not simply a guy that played amazing drums, he was an integral creative part of Rush, the tour should be a celebration of that most of all.

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What happened? The American people were con’d by one of the most well known modern confidence men. It is as simple as that, for years critics on both sides of the isle said “he is a con man”, three elections, a coup, a concerted effort to discredit the democratic process as a sitting President, numerous testimonies from his closest advisers that he was unfit for the the office…only now do the majority begin to acknowledge that they were con’d.

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@indycarpodcast 9pm on a Sunday night is too late a start time.

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@LeighBrown If only truth were a simple thing. History is complicated, and it rarely provides explicit truth. Instead, it is interpretative and changes with available sources, the perspective and lens of analysis and the concerns and preferences of societies over time.

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The rebuilding of the defeated powers was not altruistic, it was a decision of mutual benefit. The US was building allies, which in turn strengthened the American position in the world.

The other caveat to this conversation is that the US leadership in the 21st century does not behave the way it did at the outset of the Cold War.

During the Cold War, and in the spirit of Franklin Roosevelt’s Atlantic Charter, the US sought to position human rights and national sovereignty at the center of the world order, the US with all of its shortcomings would reach for this ideal.

Since 2001 and the Bush Doctrine the US has intentionally undermined the world order that it created and replaced it with a hegemonic imperialist order, where power and spheres of influence center the world order not ideals. The 21st century world now resembles something like the pre-World War 1 moment.

America is different today. I am not sure the Marshall Plan provides much relevant optimism for which nation might be best to hold the most power.

See my video on the collapsing global world order.

https://t.co/7rB4XUr07Z

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@KassiusKlay11 Well the scientific community and the sources that I mentioned all overwhelmingly agree that each of those are a consequence of human behavior.

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Extreme changes are happening:

Hurricanes are more severe. Ask anyone that has lived in Florida for a long time and they will tell you this ( if they are honest) and according to NASA

Wildfires are more extreme according to NASA and USDA

Heatwaves are more severe according to the EPA and the UN

Coral bleaching has increased dramatically according to NASA

Global wildlife populations have declined by 73% since 1970 according to WWF

And one could go on and on. The changes in the world are stark and extreme. In terms of the biological age of earth these are happening in an instant, but people often don’t acknowledge things unless they effect them in a direct and immediate way.

However, the changes are alarming and rapid and if one speaks to people with scientific knowledge and expertise on the matter those scientists will tell you exactly that.

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Wouldn’t you say the similar things about any major densely populated city? Noise, space size, insecurity, logistical issues, cleanliness…these are varying issues in all big cities. Complaining about the niceness developed mass transit in urban areas is a pretty “first world” gripe. Yes, Tokyo has the best mass transit in the world, but having a reasonably strong mass transit system is a great luxury as major cities go in the world.

In the US the question I have while sitting in traffic for an extra hour to get 10 miles is how do people live like this? How does the richest country in the world not have high speed rail everywhere!? Many US cities don’t have anything that resembles a transit system as thorough as Paris…at least Paris has great coffee and food that I can consume after my train ride. lol

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@rickjeff78 @eyebrowser95 I don’t think the US could invade even if it wanted to. The size of the combat ready ground forces are not nearly large enough and there is no will among the American people to go and sign up to fight such a conflict.

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What shocks me is that a prior term of office, a coup attempt, a conspiratorial effort to discredit the elections of the country, and calling political opponents the enemy within was not enough to get a majority of the country to figure that this individual was not fit for the office.

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@Ties_Skies @DLand91 $3.55…that is not too bad compared to Florida

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The fact that this comparison is happening at all, that this comparison is something we are talking about, however, is actually symptomatic of Indy 500 growth and Daytona 500 contraction. Go back to 2009 Indy 500 was at 6.34 and that race has an overall trend up (particularly post-2020) while Daytona has gone from 16.0 in 2009 and trend has consistently gone down since then.

Overall, it is a story across the board of less people watching racing, but it is more a story of NASCAR contraction then it is of the NASCAR powerhouse that outperforms the Indy 500.

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@DLand91 Yeah, I like that idea. What is the reason for not using the higher boost all the time? Is that a cost factor. I’d think if they ran higher boost there’d be more attrition too, which adds another element to the racing.