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30 Jan 2025 Dwarkesh Podcast Sarah Paine — How Mao conquered China (lecture & interview)
“You've already done a three-year tour in World War II because, in those days, you started serving whenever it was in the war, and you weren't coming home until the war was over.”
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- Sarah Paine
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- 30 Jan 2025
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
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…Of all these factors, the fact that American support, or lack thereof, was not one of them, it just seems like it was a super contingent thing. But also, America not being as strong as it should have just didn't matter. I don't know- it's just not politically feasible. I mean, talk about it? Put yourself back in those days. You've already done a three-year tour in World War II because, in those days, you started serving whenever it was in the war, and you weren't coming home until the war was over. It was none of this nine-month tour, a year tour here and there. You were there for the duration. So you get home. And then you're told, "Go make nice to the Chinese and go get yourself killed there." How is that going to fly in your family? Probably poorly. I mean, again, you don't have to send the GIs there. You can just not do an arms embargo on them.…
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