How Wars and Colonization Still Control Your Life Today

0:00So, we'll get started. >> Yeah, >> we'll get started, right? Yeah. So, I I think we started. That's a good good cook. >> Yeah. You made it with bones cuz that would taste more authentic. >> Cook better than your mom. >> Well, well, it depends cuz like mom is a vegetarian, so you can't judge her if she can like cook chicken or not.

0:20>> But like like veggie veggie and >> veggie veggie mom >> Okay. So, it's not really a fair competition then because your mom cannot make chicken, your dad can make chicken. Yeah. >> So obviously he has no competition. Yeah. >> Okay. Good. Good. Good. >> There's a better cook between you and auntie. >> H I'll tell you a little secret. Okay. >> Uh Siri uh

0:44she doesn't let let me into the kitchen. >> What? >> Because I'm very dirty. I I I I don't do a good job cleaning up after myself. >> So it creates more work for her. Right. So she's like you stay away so hide. So that's what happens with me and mom. So like one time I was just trying to make this sandwich out of the blue in the

1:04afternoon. And then my mom was like really angry at that time cuz she was like there's like bunch of clothes in my bedroom and then there's just a bunch of stuff on the carpet. And then I was trying to make a sandwich and my mom just yells at me. So I was like don't go in the kitchen. You're going to make a

1:19mess. But she allowed me. And then after I cooked there was two bottles of ketchup. There's bread slices literally open on the thing. There's like five 15 utensils. >> Okay. >> That I didn't clean up. And then there's five spoons for each sauce that I used to put it on the sandwich. >> Okay. >> And then it was my mom who asked to

1:40clean all of them. >> Yeah. >> So like she looked just dead stared at me like >> clean them up and then I went to the bathroom. I escaped and then she >> Yeah. Cooking is easy. Is hard. That's that's the reality. All right. So, why do you have me here? >> Cuz I want to talk talking about like just world wars and stuff.

2:04>> Okay. World world wars and stuff. Is it? Yeah. >> Okay. All right. World War you want to know more about me. >> It's basically just like I want to learn about you. like I want to see who you are and then later with that knowledge I will learn about what you're going to talk about and then I'm going to like I'm going to like analyze how you speak

2:26so like I can learn how to speak that way >> cuz like >> you think I speak good. >> Yeah cuz like you made me open up my speaking compared to my starting speak. So like that's helpful for me. >> Oh really? >> Yeah. >> Okay. Let's get started then. Okay. >> Okay. So this episode we're going to talk about geopolitics and history.

2:47Basically kind of how it's going to affect our future and how these big countries and India are going to affect and drive this new world. Um so you want to introduce yourself to the audience? >> To the audience. So, my name is Wamsi, right? I'll just say my first name. I don't want to confuse the audience, right? >> Wamsi. And uh I'm in my 40s,

3:12>> right? Uh I live in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. >> Not particularly a famous guy. I I'm just, you know, a regular >> run-of-the-mill normal guy. U Vicki Vicki today thinks somehow thinks I'm special, right? So, thank you Vicki for giving me an opportunity >> to be here and >> you know have a discussion with you, right? >> He's a really good speaker cuz he made

3:39me like speak more openly >> compared to like just reading off the script. >> So, yeah, that's what I want to learn so I could go out to people and like talk with them and make them feel more comfortable. >> Okay. >> Okay. So, okay. Talking about your experience, what's the story like behind how you got started in like your work space or just in general your

4:02communication as a leader or a guiding person in your work space? I did not particularly do anything right. It's it's really uh you know uh my upbringing. So in uh I'm from Bangalore. Uh Bangalore is the Silicon Valley of India like most people from India would recognize that right. So so I grew up in Bangalore. I went to a Catholic school very uh I did my elementary and middle

4:36school in a Catholic school. Uh and then I think part of growing up right my school uh really um it was less about studies and it was more about >> religion >> extracurricular activities right >> it was more about extracurricular activities right >> that's what I always thought about Catholic schools >> yes yes >> like I see them singing outside and then

4:58just jumping around sometimes >> compared to my normal school where we have to be in like periods science social >> so very organic right so I I was in I I was a captain of my uh of my uh house group. >> Oh, right. >> So, what's a house group? >> They had like four houses and then >> four houses >> like like do you do you are you a fan of

5:22Harry Potter? >> Well, I have seen the first movie. Oh, like you mean like four different sections in your >> It's like you know how like that, right? There were like four houses in my Catholic school. I think it was Agnes, Margaret, Rita or something, right? Four four groups, right? So the four I four groups had predominantly a within the group there were like girls

5:46and boys. >> Oh my god. >> And they were >> it's it's a girl school, right? They tolerated boys for just the elementary and middle school. >> Oh. >> So I was part of the boys I was a captain of the boys group. >> Oh. >> In in my grade. So was there like competitions between like girls and boys or was it just

6:05>> No, there were competitions between groups >> right so sports day right sports day the four groups would compete then there was an annual day where I don't think there was actually competition in the annual day then there was a science day right >> science day I think there was competition between the different sections in the pretty convoluted but the point is um first of all I don't

6:29think created communication but you think I'm good so that makes me feel special thank you >> but it's very organic right I never particularly went to any >> no way coaching >> centers nothing >> okay so who were like the biggest influences or like people who like influenced you the most like at your starting stages of like work or just college in general

7:01Can I answer the question a little bit different? >> Yeah, sure. >> Okay. So, instead of college or work, right? I'll tell you what influenced me the most in my life. Okay. >> Growing up, right? What what grade are you in? >> I'm in eighth grade. >> In 8th grade, right? Oh, wow. Okay. >> So, um India 8th grade is in high school.

7:24Eighth grade is high school. >> Eighth grade. >> Uh 8th 9th. Right. So, Naraku, you know, u the two biggest influences of my life are obviously my dad and mom, right? >> Yeah. >> So, I was I'm again very lucky that way, right? It's like you don't you don't pick your you know what I mean? Like when a baby is born, right? A baby can

7:48be born anywhere, right? >> I can't I want this mommy, I want that. >> You can't select, right? Which mom and you cannot select, right? So jackpot. I was born in a very good family. Uh we were not rich. We were lower middle class like my uh we had a scooter growing up. I think my dad got a car when I turned 23 I think. So we never

8:13had a car growing up. Right. Uh we also were in colony like like a rented house. My dad was an employee of HH of HMB. So we never had uh we never had our own home also right >> so that in the Indian context I would say that's a lower middle class right >> so coming back to the >> what influenced my life right so my dad

8:38my uh dad is an engineer by profession who worked very hard throughout his life right he he really struggled he did everything on his own Right. Um, he never talked about money when I was growing up. Now that I think back, right, he never talked about we should talk about money and our children. That's completely different. >> You're right. Absolutely right. Yeah.

9:06Yeah. Yeah. You're absolutely right. >> Yeah. >> Right. So, so you never uh you nailed it, right? You never talk about money, right? I don't talk about money in front of my dad or no my dad talks about money in front of me cuz like once I think money I'll think of like oh my gosh if we're losing this much money we're

9:25spending so much money but then once I think that there's like there's no money spent I'm like way more open to it like feel more grateful for it like so if there's like a product and I look at the pri if I don't look at the prize I'm obviously way more grateful like I got it compared to like a gift. >> Mhm.

9:44>> Yeah. Cuz like sometimes things that are like low cost can mean more, but then if you know that it's low cost, it can sometimes, you know, just drop that value down even more. >> Yeah. So biggest value my u my dad never discussed money. He never worked for money. He was very passionate about what he did. So Nakadi was the biggest

10:09influence because for me money was never the end. Yeah, >> right. Money was just something that you know that comes along the way way, right? >> Keeps you alive and >> Yeah. It's not It's not the end. >> It's just there to like make you like survive in this world basically. >> Just your food and shelter. >> Exactly. And I also felt

10:33that's a very important lesson because I felt like if if money if I always if I treated money as an end >> Yeah. >> Right. as an end goal. >> You have to work for it all the time. >> Correct. Correct. My my thought process would have been different. Right. >> Yeah. >> So that's the biggest lesson that I got from my dad, but I I'll be grateful to

10:54him forever for that. >> So >> So what do you think about like this quote says like money will chase you if you stop chasing for money. Do you think that makes sense? >> It makes sense, but I don't like that quote because again you're focusing on money. >> Yeah. >> Right. people like okay I don't want money but you know I kind of want money

11:15>> yeah exactly right so I so that is money okay um right figure that out and then my mom my mom >> my mom is actually if I look at your mom right >> mom is important >> yeah your your mom reminds me a lot of my mom right very u a stay at home Right. >> That is the most difficult job in the

11:44whole world. >> Yeah. >> The most difficult job like like you could do anything and then you know it's very very tough right and to be able to do it on a consistent basis is even harder. >> Yeah. Well, what does it take to do that? I mean >> resilience. lot of res you need a lot of resilience right >> so imagine if you have to if you are if

12:14my mom I remember she used to consistently make breakfast lunch dinner take care of the house >> take care of you know clothes whatever it is right and she used to do it consistently right like she can't like get a break she can't be like you know what for one month I'm not going to do it right >> the like people right now where they

12:35just like do shifts and just daily like work cuz like if cuz I've I've seen some people on like social media where like the >> you know whenever I struggle right I just look at I just think about my mom and how she was so resilient and in fact >> right around your age in eighth grade or ninth grade I used to make fun of my mom

12:56I still remember that I used to be like daddy daddy what do you do right now I'm like man you know that was like I did not truly understand it right how well I shied my uh biggest influence. >> Okay. >> Then the second biggest the most biggest influence in my life is um uh an author called a rand. Okay. >> A rand a y

13:25r a n e a rand. >> She's an author. >> She she a rand is a she >> she's she's author author. And uh I read her book Fountain Head right at your age I think. Right. I think 8th grade n >> I might actually read it. >> Yeah. So what I learned from that book is which has helped me a lot in life is

13:51being very objective about things. >> What do you mean by like objective? Um, have you heard of first principles? Elon Musk keeps talking about it. Break everything down to the first principles. >> Um, I never heard of it. >> Okay. So, objective and there is the relative truth and there is the absolute truth. >> Yeah. >> Right. So, for example, how do I say

14:23this? Right. relative truth and absolute truth that uh okay so this mic here right it's black >> right >> that's absolute >> it is also relative truth because if a if an object is truly black it should absorb all the light >> and you shouldn't see anything >> right >> it's kind of yeah it's reflecting some light back so you can see it right

14:54>> so it is almost black but it's not black. >> That's not absolutely true. >> Right. When you say it's black, it's not absolutely true that it's black. >> Okay. >> Right. So, Natu I learned this concept by reading that book. Right. In that book, she has different characters and how they lead their lives. Each of these characters, right? They lead their lives

15:19in a particular way. and and the characters that actually look at life. >> Yeah. >> In first principles in my opinion lead a true life. >> So like a life that satisfies you >> that satisfies themselves. Right. >> Yeah. >> Right. They're not living for others. >> Yeah. >> They are living for themselves and what they want. >> Like what they like they do what they

15:50like. because money. >> Correct. Right. That is the purest life in my opinion. Right. >> So, so that as much as I can. I'm not perfect. I use that as much as I can uh in leading. Okay. Um so, Adi then uh second uh third third point, right? Uh building my own pride, right? I over a period of time I built a good circle of

16:23uh friends. You don't have to have >> a lot of friends, right? Like honestly I don't >> it's like in my opinion it's like better to have three really good supportive friends than have 100 friends who are just like >> Oh no not Thank you for the water bottle. Yeah. So >> that's my dad. >> Yeah. So nu it's the tribe right? I have

16:51a good set of friends uh both uh okay so both local and you know friends that are in India as well right? Yeah. >> Uh who are really my tribe, right? I rely on them and I would highly recommend that you also Vicki, right? It's not about the number of friends that you have. It's about the quality of friends, right? >> Okay.

17:14>> Right. Because quality really determines, you know, >> over quantity >> over quantity over the long run. Right. And also the the tribe that you pick right should be the right tribe like they shouldn't you know you're like okay I know what I want >> the turning point in your like life that was like really life changing things or was it just like one step after another

17:46see life is not cinema right >> there's not like one turning point where I'm going to wake up in the morning where I'm going to wake up in the morning and I'm just going to be like uh you know >> man I'm like you know I've changed right or there's one guy comes and makes fun of me and I'm like oh my god I'm not

18:06going to be this person I'm going to be somebody else right now but one thing that I would say is my wife my life uh became a I was very not sure of myself at your age. I was I was very um okay if if I like something right man I like it sure I could not tell you confident >> yes I I lack confidence right and I also

18:44had somewhat of a pessimistic view of life pessimistic view of life right and I basically ended up there >> what if something bad happens to me then how do I >> thinking too much about the future, >> thinking too much about the future, right? So the turning point then would be my marriage, right? Because Siri uh she she gave me you should have a good

19:09partner, right? >> Uh who can kind of lift you up, right? Who can kind of like you know >> like support you >> support you, right? Should elevate you, >> should not drag you down, >> right? So Siri is kind of my a life partner to me who kind of elevates me right through which I got a lot of selfbelief as well right that confidence

19:34right she gave me a lot of confidence right it happened naturally not that she's like go become confident right >> it's like every >> going up and up tribe >> tribe right >> even even people that you hang around with family I don't know If I talk to an individual, it's a luck of the drop. >> But your friends and your life partner

19:59should be somebody that should elevate you. >> Yeah. >> In my case, after I got married, right, Siri kind of elevated me, right? She elevated me and I was able to elevate her as well. Right. >> Together. >> Yes. Yes. Together elevated. Yeah. Yeah. >> So, >> so turning point is marriage. >> That makes sense. Yeah, >> that makes sense. Yeah. Um, so was there

20:26like a project or success that you were like proud of like not because like it looked really good but like how much hard work it took you to achieve it that you felt happy like man I did this like when just like man I finished this project this makes me happy like doesn't matter like result itself not with the project but like what it took you

20:50internally to achieve it >> I that question right again there is no like one project right >> I feel like it shifts with age like I told you like I'm in my 40s right >> so a 30's version of me or a teenage version of me right has different uh >> different things >> right like I remember when I was in 8th

21:14grade when my Catholic school right it kicked boys out after seventh grade >> right so I wrote a written exam that I got into the best the best school in Bangalore. Ooh, >> academically the best. The number one school in literally I can say school >> it's called VBS Sadharpatil high school. It is the number one academically oriented high school in Bangalore back

21:39then. >> Right. I wrote a return test. There were like 200 people or 300 people that wrote the test and they would only accept eight people. >> Ooh. >> So imagine right? >> Did you? >> I was pretty proud of it. Right. I was like man I did it right. I did it right then in my 10th standard uh I scored flying marks. They had taken out a state

22:00ranking system just couple of years before that. But if the state had ranking system then I would have landed in the top >> right again as an 18 year old is like man because you know looking at you your parents are like you know my my dad was like so proud my mom was so proud and all that like >> it depends 30s it's different 40s it's

22:21different right so yeah >> okay >> I'm going to talk at your age right >> 18 yeah Okay. >> With okay with your experience leading an IT department and navigating this like fast changing tech landscape like things are always changing in this world like I'm like interested in your like your opinion in this like bigger picture of like how these like big powers like

22:51USA China are like going to shift the world in like Indian stuff. So like how is there anything you want to say like about geopolitics or like how it helped you understand things in the world? >> Okay. So I see multiple questions there. >> Yeah. But like what I'm trying to ask is like what do you think about geopolitics and like your understanding that like

23:18how did it help you >> okay >> understand what's happening in the world? >> Okay. So um first you asked about my my professional career right? >> Yeah. So, so basically I I'm a leader. Let's not use any phrase other than that. Like I am a leader in a in a company, right? Uh my probably 80% of my job is all about

23:49how do I make my teams right? How do I help my teams achieve their goals? Right. And my success lies in their success. Right. >> Yeah. So you're just like leading them and then you're taking responsibility kind of. >> Correct. Right. So my job is to basically ensure that they are successful in whatever they're doing. Right. Right. So I have to remove

24:19obstacles in their path so they can be very successful in what they do because end of the day if they are successful I'm successful. Right? I'm not I'm also not doing a social service here, right? >> It's just that you know their success is my success and and I should ensure that they're all successful, right? That's probably my number one uh job, right? So I think that's how

24:45we have to be as leaders, right? There's a difference between a manager and a leader. >> Yeah. >> Right. a manager is is >> like kind of telling you what to do in the group and then you're like we got to do this and this success is going to help the company as a whole and then we want to make sure you are successful.

25:07>> Yeah. People will instinctively follow a leader if they're good. If a leader is good, if a leader becomes a manager, then basically the manager should somehow try to hold the people, right? >> Yeah. >> And and kind of both are probably trying to achieve the same thing, but >> it's just the way they do it. >> Yeah. But a a leader is a leader's job

25:34becomes much more easy, right, if people work for the leader. >> Yeah. >> Right. So it's that it's that that slight difference >> like >> that you'll have to understand right even in your school right say if you're leading a project right >> well technically I'm doing this student council thing and I voted for being president so >> awesome >> I don't know how do I make the group

25:57feel more collaborate >> you have to elevate them if you're leading a group of people >> I was just like let's go you got this >> elevate them put them in a position to be successful and if someone's not working for you then take some quick action to fix it. So overall you're still achieving what you want to achieve. >> Okay. >> Right. So

26:22>> yeah. >> Yeah. For that uh you can read some you know it's like you know you can you can look at great battles right you can read you can look at how some generals lead their armies right. >> Mhm. Uh there are some very good examples in history about how generals led from the front, right? >> Yeah. >> Um so I kind of want to talk about

26:47geopolitics. >> Okay. >> Like let's start from the back. World War II, how do you think like World War II reshaped like global powers like differentiated the world from one power to another? >> Okay. Okay. Like you know how there was like two different spaces where like there was Germany of course fighting and then there was like United States. So like >> what do you think that shaped the

27:12balance of power in World War II? >> So you want to talk about World War II as such. Okay. So World War II >> is significant, right? It's a world war, right? The last war that was fought from 1939 to 1945 where almost every country of the world was fought right in some sort of so what led to World War II is very simple

27:38right to summarize it right >> you had you had the great powers back in the day which was Great Britain we call Great Britain why they said >> they never they said son never settle on the British Empire that they own so many colonies that any point of time right it was daylight >> right so sun never set on the British Empire right they controlled so many

28:04other colonies right India was also >> Australia >> India right India India was the >> it was the biggest one >> yeah India was the crown >> right >> they used to call it I think Haraja something right there's a word I think a crown the crown jewel I think the crown jewel right the crown jewel of all colonies or Britain was yeah right

28:32uh France also had a lot of colonies in Africa right was one such colonies right I think they also owned a lot of the eastern east >> probably like they say like central America like above you know like the Bahamas area like right by Mexico. >> There's like just a bunch of crowds >> and then a lot of them were like colonized by French.

28:58>> Oh yeah. French, British. Like if you look at that strip, right? Jamaica, Barbados. >> Yeah. >> Right. Dominican Republic, right? >> Yeah. They're Yeah. They were all controlled by these >> different countries. >> It's very interesting. >> It shaped how they're like current right now. I have this one example just like how leaders change like a place. So there this there's this island that was

29:22like a whole tribe and then one part was taken by French and then the other part was taken by Spanish. Now the first one is Haiti and the second one is Dominican Republic. >> If you look at the current time there's a major difference. Dominican Republic is far more like economically better than Haiti. And that's major part of it is because they were colonized by the

29:48right people compared to French cuz like the French just put a bunch of slaves in that island and they really didn't care about them as much whereas the Dominican Republic they were like owned by Spanish Spain people and then they had like laws and government and stuff and eventually Dominican Republic became a good country where like people can survive and then Haiti

30:13And people in Haiti have to travel to Dominican Republic to sell their goods. So they can't even sell their own goods in their own country. That's how it changed. >> Yeah. They go to I'll tell you another very interesting thing. Okay. Um you watch cricket, right? There's a team called the West Indies. >> Yeah. >> Right. So you go look at the map, right?

30:32There's Jamaica, there's Barbados, right? And few other St. all these countries put together the team called the West Indies, right? But if you look at the map, they are like spread everywhere. It's not like they're next to each other, right? Dominican Republic is is passionate about baseball. They don't play. >> Yeah. >> Right. They don't play cricket and they they are like Dominican Republic is in

31:00the middle of these countries, right? >> So it's all colonial how colonies came to exist, right? So back to World War II. That was our topic, right? >> We got off topic. >> Yes. It was good. It's good. It was fun though. >> It was fun. Yeah. >> So, a lot of these powers had colonies, right? Russia was huge, right? Back then,

31:20>> it was a big piece of land. >> Big piece of land, right? And Russia was monarchy that eventually became communist. That's another interesting story. >> Soviet Union, I guess. >> That was after World War II, right? >> So, even before World War II, they had just turned communist. >> Yeah. uh after the revolution. >> Stalin who like was >> I think that was after World War II.

31:41>> No, no, it was during World War II. It was during World War II before World War II. Right. So Russia Russia. >> So Russ Russia was uh was the monarchy. It was called the Robinoff. >> The Robov family. >> Yeah. They I think one of their daughter is Anastasia. >> Anastasia. >> Yeah. They believed that she was like alive and escaped, but she was dead.

32:02>> She was dead. >> They found it. So the bulgeiks or the communists right they they shot the entire royal family I think in somewhere in 1917 1918 right during I think during World War I or just after World War I and there >> then the communist >> no it was before but >> like >> world war I so war I was 1914 to 1918

32:24>> so the the Bojik revolution happened during World War I >> okay war one right then what happened Lennon was the first uh president. >> Yeah. >> You want water? >> Yeah, I want water. >> Yeah. So, Lenin was the first president and then Stalin became the second president. And Stalin was cruel, right? >> Yeah. No mercy. >> Yeah. No mercy. But anyway, Soviet you

32:50the point I'm trying to make is in World War II, right? Russia had a lot of resources. Big country. America was a big country, right? And they just like took over like their whole space from like Pacific Ocean to Atlantic Ocean for themselves. Who? >> America. So like the United States cuz like they started in the Atlantic Ocean, right? Obviously they came from Britain

33:16and all those countries and then they settled here and then >> well see the United States of America maybe we can talk a different day, right? But let's say for the concept of World War II, right? America was was even now right >> two great great amount of natural resources >> and separated by two huge oceans right >> so nobody can actually come and mess

33:41with America right >> America can was living its own >> they have like no land route compared to like Russia where there's China in the bottom >> and then there's like a 100 European countries >> that would be a whole mess >> and that's why it became a mess right >> so in world war two If you look at it right, everybody had something. If you

34:01were a small country, you had colonies. If you were a big country, no, no issues. Germany, >> they >> did not have a whole lot of colonies, right? >> They were in the middle. >> Yeah. >> All colonies were taken already. >> Correct. So, Germany did not unify. Germany unified under Ottoman Bismar. I believe somewhere in the late 1800s. I love that kind of ties it all up because

34:25like World War I also made them go bankrupt. >> Correct. So I'll get there, right? >> Yeah. >> So Germany was all was a rising power in Europe, >> right? If you look at the context, right? It was a rising power. It had a young population. They were they were very much into science and technology. They were innovating very well compared to rest of the countries.

34:50Britain was not innovating. Brittain had so many colonies that it was actually it was going down right from an innovation perspective Germany was actually doing extremely well right so what is a growing power just like what China has correct which China is growing right >> that they want to tell the world that they've arrived >> you know what I mean >> so Germany was going through that phase

35:18right so we can talk since we are talking about World War II, right? You're right. World War I also, right? Germany was bankrupted. That led to the rise of Hitler and everything, right? >> So that's the context of World War II, right? You had Germany, Italy >> and even Japan was a rising power. >> Japan was very very old school colonial medieval.

35:43>> Yeah. >> Then they got exposed very small for their army. very kind of atrocities Japan did in China and uh and Korea right atrocities right so Nan king it's called it's called the name of Nan king China right you got to reread about it Japan Japan treated its prisoners of war very brutally in world war right very brutally and China suffered a lot even

36:15today if you look at the philosophy that the Chinese have towards uh the Japanese, right? It's all for a a reason. You know, World War II was very bad for the Chinese. It's just that the Western world probably doesn't recognize it as much, right? But >> but then you don't know until you're living in that state. >> Correct. Japan actually tried to they

36:40occupied a lot of China, but what they they started occupying China even in the early 30s. Oh, >> so they occupied a lot of China, right? So that was Japan's idea. Eventually they wanted to take over China in the same way that uh Germany wanted to take over the entire world, right? Japan wanted to take over China, right? Because everybody was flexing, right?

37:03Everybody wanted natural resources. >> Yeah. But then why did they attack Pearl Harbor and turn USA into it? Their main idea was to China, like coloniz China. So I'll answer that question a little bit later. Right? So when World War II happened, obviously Hitler was flexing for a long time, right? >> Hitler talked about national pride because he talked about how you know

37:30there were certain sects of people Jews because of whom which is all nice, right? It's all lies, right? >> He was a great manipulator. >> Manipulator, right? So very good for Hitler. Uh obviously he was also drug of also like just a quick fact Hitler got into politics because the art school he wanted to go to rejected him. So like if maybe that art school accepted him this

38:01wouldn't have happened. >> Nah >> maybe. >> But then they needed a power at some time. So Hitler was the kind of guy, right? >> He he was very power hungry, right? He was very power hungry. He was not money hungry. Hitler did make money. >> He just wanted >> He just wanted power, right? Hitler probably I think when he died, he had

38:24like a somewhere. >> Yeah, >> that's about it, right? >> I think he lived near Argentina in his last days. >> I thought he's >> That's a That's a >> That might be a >> No. So he he shot himself. >> Yeah. had died in in his bunker in 1945 >> just about when the Soviets were closing in on Poland, >> right? He he and his close people went

38:48to a bunker and he shot himself and his friends burn his body and burn his body, right? But eventually they did find some evidence, right? both both fragments and everything >> to determine that he was. >> So >> So yeah. So talking about World War II, right, you had Hitler when he when he slowly started acquiring countries around him because in World War I,

39:17Britain and US had put some even Russia right told Germany, you know, there are some lands that you cannot go touch, right? Or you had natural resources there don't touch, right? So Hitler slowly started occupying lands, right? And the rest of the world kept quiet, right? So there was Japan. Britain was trying to stop a war, right? But they drew a line in the center. They said,

39:41"If you attack Poland, >> if Germany attacks Poland, we are going to declare Poland." Right. >> English. >> England. England. Right. So >> Britain said that. >> Britain said that to Germany, right? >> Britain and France. Britain and France. >> Yeah. I don't think Hitler cared about >> Hitler did not care. And back then, back then, the French had the largest army in the

40:06world. >> It's so embarrassing >> in the world, right? >> And it's so embarrassing thinking about it. Like, now we know what's happened, but then the whole crowd goes, we have the best army. Like the French people say, and then >> the whole we know history, right? >> Yeah. History, right? So, so anyway, let's not let's talk about it, right? So as soon as Hitler occupied Poland and

40:31you know how he occupied Poland he he shook hands with Stan Russia right >> so Russia and uh and Hitler formed an alliance they attacked Poland and Poland >> I don't think Poland was recognized as a really good army of >> but they fought they fought they fought right they fought >> they had to obviously >> they had to fought yeah but see how

40:55alliances also changed right So, so Stalin and Hitler shook hands, right? >> And Stalin thought Hitler was on the same side, right? >> Yeah. >> You and I are buddies, right? >> Then what happened? Hitler is like, >> "This is >> French and England declared war. >> They declared war, right? >> Let's just attack them, >> right?" So, what the French did was they

41:17fortified all the main routes. So, if you look at the map, right? They fortified all the main routes and and they put heavy gunery and everything, right? But what Hitler did which is amazing right >> it's called blitzkrieg >> blitzkrie >> blitzkrieg right blitzkrieg is you know you just take a small tank led force right multiple multiple troops right where it's tanks artillery soldiers

41:49>> and you just >> attack >> attack and make a hole >> oh it's like you know like the Bahubali movie where they have formation. Correct. That's the Bahubali, right? >> Yeah. They break through one and the whole arm is like crushed and cut a >> pull up the flag. >> Correct. Because you don't have to defeat every army, right? Every person

42:11of the army, right? If you cut a hole and go for the head, >> the head falls, >> theole, >> everything will break down. There'll be a breakdown in chain. >> Chain of command will break down. >> So like the French head was basically Paris, right? >> Paris, right? So he's like, I'm going to go through the forest. There's a forest region that nobody thought any army

42:29could meaningfully go through, right? And here is also like you look at any pharma companies, >> right? They're all from that Germany, right? Bayer Bayer Bayer I think is from Germany, right? So back then, right? All these >> I have no clue who it is >> drugs. drugs, right? These drugs that >> they probably just fed the soldiers >> they fed the soldiers drugs, right? And

43:01when you're on the drug, >> you basically won't sleep. >> Dopamine. >> Yeah. >> You get you get that rush and you don't sleep for 3 days or 4 days. You're always like energetic. >> So like it's called dopamine, I think, where like the body releases this like emotions or like chemicals that make your brain think like you're not tired. Like it makes you like rejuvenate that

43:26energy back even though your butt is like dying from it. >> Correct. So that's what they did. A bunch of drugged up German soldiers. Right. Also highly trained >> Nazis. >> Nazis, right? Highly trained. Highly trained Nazis on drugs, went through France, went to Paris. They did not stop for the night. >> No, they didn't break. They didn't take a break. Right? Imagine the French are

43:50going, >> "You know what? >> I got to go sleep. It's about bedtime. >> Bedtime. They're like, you know, I fought for like 12 hours, 14 hours, right? >> What >> now? But the opposition is not stopping right. >> They're drugged. Like they >> they're drugged, right? Just went through. They cut Paris. French collapsed. >> I think it took like 7 days.

44:11>> Yeah. Blitz, right? Right. >> So that was >> so like his strategy was just like drug men and then like train them and then just make them get that energy and like attack. >> Correct. So by 1940 Paris fell. >> Oh >> right. >> It happened so quick like everything happened with just a span of 2 years. >> Correct. >> And then the world was collapsing at

44:37>> Yeah. >> See the French fell, right? >> Yeah. >> Now look at the world back in the day, right? America was more like you know what new country they they had a lot of natural resources but technologically they were not advanced. >> Yeah. Like we're just grow we're just trying to grow like I don't want to be part of this war

44:55but but then I don't know why Japan chose to do that. >> Well I'll tell you I'll tell you why. Right. Remember Japan? We get back to Japan. Right. >> So at that point Hitler stopped on the shores of the Atlantic. Right. He can see Britain literally. Right. >> There's the English Channel and there is the island of Britain. >> Yeah. >> Right. Right. So 1940 Britain is still

45:22at war. Right. >> Yeah. >> So Winston Churchill and Britain comes to power. >> Britain was like the only power left to fight against the Germany. >> Correct. >> At that time. >> Correct. All the other countries small small countries, right? >> Small small countries because French was a power, right? All the other Western European countries, right? They were either neutral or or not Russia. Russia

45:42was the eastern side, right? >> Yeah. Oh, yeah. Western I see. >> Yeah. Western Europe was highly industrialized and >> you know, even now they think that they >> they >> are the best in the world, right? So that was the setup and now Hitler had to conquer Britain. >> If there was no ocean, if there was no ocean. >> Yeah. That would be happening like 2

46:07days. Come on. >> 2 days now, right? Yeah, they would have occupied Britain. Game over. But here's the notion, right? How do we how does he overcome the ocean? And during after World War I, there was a huge embargo on uh Germany to build big class warships. So, so Germany could only build warships of a certain size. So, the German Navy was not as good as the British Navy

46:34>> cuz British is basically surrounded by water. So they need it. >> Correct. Plus there was also an embargo, right? Imagine from 1918 to 1939, Germany was not allowed to build carriers, you know, these aircraft carriers or these big warships, right? They built this secret without anybody knowing, but they never could actually build them sufficient, right? >> So they built submarines because

47:02submarines are smaller than aircraft carriers. They built a lot of subs. Okay. So Hitler's idea was then there was a luft the luftwafa now this lufansza right national German air this luftwafa right the German air force >> so they wanted to Hitler's idea was I'm going to bomb the heck out of Britain I'm going to bomb it so much that they're going to come and beg they're

47:29going to say stop >> stop it right >> but then like if you think about it Britain had the best air force at the time >> no the Luftwafa Luftwafa >> it was between in Great Britain and Germany at that time >> Germany's air force was was magnitudes of order superior than the British Air Force in 1940 superior in terms of the

47:53number of aircraft the quality of the aircraft everything right Britain was nowhere in the picture right but here's the thing right he had to bomb the heck out of Britain right he had to neutralize the Royal Air Force to a point where they cannot fight back. >> Yeah. >> Right. So Arman Goring who's the air force commander of Hitler right he's told Hitler I'm going to get this done

48:24right he's like one or two months right don't exactly it's like it's not it's a given >> right so he just said okay go go go for it so you want to take a break you want to continue >> no no continue >> bombing bombing bombing right but the Royal Air Force had come up with the something called as the radar, right?

48:47Where they could actually set out air waves and they could >> radio waves >> radio waves and they could kind of predict when the Germans are coming and they had a limited number of aircraft, right? Very limited. So they could deploy them instead of spreading it along the entire coast, right? All they could do is okay, Germans are going to keep you from that

49:11side. I'm going to just focus there right they could predict so radar because of radar Germany could not really gain air superior even though Germans had a lot of aircraft even though they lost a lot of aircraft >> but they just like attacked all at the same time >> they tried that they tried that but the British repelled them because the British knew that they were coming see

49:35there should be an element of surprise right there was no element of surprise right they knew Germany didn't know that these guys had this technology, right? >> They needed to send a spy or something. >> Correct. So, radar was the one that kind of it's called the battle of Britain. >> That kind of hard carry >> you know British said we won the battle

49:58of right. You didn't win the battle of Britain. You just stopped the Germans from pounding you to death. >> Yeah. >> That's all you did. >> They really won when America came in. >> Yeah. They just defended, right? They defended. Then like I'm going to live to fight another day, right? And they live to fight another day, right? >> Yeah. >> So by 19 late 1940s 1941, it became very

50:21clear that Hitler was not going to win against Britain. >> Yeah. >> That Hitler was not going to win against Britain, right? It became very clear. >> Yeah. And then what he's going to do probably >> Hitler probably did the dumbest thing of his life. >> Attack Soviet Union. He attacked Russia, right? >> That is so dumb. Like >> so dumb. >> Napoleon tried it and he failed it. That

50:46caused him to lose. >> Imagine so smart. He's so dumb in these decisions. >> If he had not attacked Russia, >> he was just probably hungry. >> We all would be talking probably. >> Yeah, >> right. He completely ruined it >> when he had >> because he already had plans with them. Yeah. >> Had he called a ceasefire, had he said, "You know what? I'm not going to fight

51:10anymore." Okay. He would had he said Churchill Roosevelt was the American president, Stalin, four of us, right? Let's get together and let's rule this world, right? Came over. >> Yeah. >> Germany by now would have still, you know, occupied a vast part of Western Europe and he would have been the number one at that point. Hitler was the number one leader in the world.

51:38Germany was the undisputed king of the world. >> Yeah. >> Only thing he did is he moved all his forces over to from French >> over to the Russian side. Right. >> But then that means basically the western side is now empty. Like it's much easier to >> Well, he still has. So his idea was that Britain is so weak that it cannot mount

52:05an attack, >> right? >> And America does not want to get involved in war. >> But then America did get involved in >> Well, here's the thing, right? America also was silently helping uh Britain. >> Yeah. >> It was giving a lot of supplies to Britain, right? That's when the Germans, right, even though the the Nazis, right, we should call them Nazis.

52:28>> It's unfair to call them Germans, right? Yeah. >> So even though Britain, America had not officially declared war, >> they were helping Britain, right? >> Not neutral. >> Correct. That's when the German subs would go and attack all the fleets, the ship, the shipping fleet, right? The merchant fleet, right? That was supplying raw materials to right, that's a different story. Uh but the minute

52:54Hitler decided to attack Soviet. By the way, Stalin didn't see this coming. >> But they were like making a deal. >> They were friends, right? >> Yeah. >> He didn't see it coming, right? >> Oh, if he like did not attack Stalin, I think they would have been probably losing the war. >> Yep. >> He would just probably expect to be >> at that time. the time when

53:21>> he couldn't wait an extra 2 years cuz like that whole thing happened in for like 4 years. He couldn't wait for four years. >> Actually, he you're absolutely right. >> Had he waited, built because he had the industrial strength, right? >> Yeah. >> Germany had the industrial strength, they could have built more weapons, they could have built more tanks, aircraft, bettered their technology, right?

53:45>> And then attack Britain. >> Then attack Russia. Maybe he it would have still been different. Right. Attacking Russia in 1941 was probably the biggest mistake that he did. >> Yeah. >> Had he waited two years later, things would have been different. Right. >> Yeah. >> Right. So he attacked Russia. Right. Everybody was surprised. Everybody was surprised. Nobody saw it coming. Right.

54:08Stalin was like, "Oh my god." Right? >> The British probably were just crying cuz he attacked. They're not attacking us. >> British was so happy. Right. Imagine Churchill, right? Churchill is like, "Oh my god, this guy went and commit suicide, right?" >> Yeah. >> He's like on his way, right? >> Let's go. >> Yeah. He's like, "By the way, there's another, you know, Churchill is not such

54:29a great man." >> Okay, that's a different story. We'll get to that. >> So, like, why did Hitler choose to attack Russia even if he knew that Napoleon did they know about Napoleon? Like they know that Napoleon army fell off because they attacked Russia with like >> one important thing if Hitler's army was drug riddled men. >> Don't you think Hitler is taking drugs?

54:57>> Yeah, >> Hitler was on drugs. >> That makes so much, >> right? So you can look at some of his old videos, right? His hand is shivering. He's basically having withdrawal symptoms, right? Here's a drug adult guy who thought he could conquer the world, right? He's in that dopamine like you said, right? That high, right? He's like, "Man, I can do

55:18it." Right. >> I just conquered France. >> Yeah. >> I just made Britain Great like Great Britain just like fall down. >> I can take over Russia, man. >> Yeah, that's it. He did it, right? So, he was very successful, right? So, he started conquering Russia. He like took over huge swats of land, right? But if you look at the current day Russia, it's

55:40a huge country, right? >> Yeah. >> What Stalin did is he had lot of men lot of lot of young men fight you know in World War II which country had the most casualty. >> Russia >> was Russia >> probably because of the >> by a factor. By a factor like I think 5 million or 6 million Russians died, right? >> Yeah. uh and I 3 million Germans died I

56:08think soldiers or something or >> I know a policy >> I could be wrong it could be more than that right don't quote me on the numbers but magnitude higher Russian people men died in World War II right so what Stalin Stalin is as bad as >> he's just that you know he won the war right >> yeah let's just let there's this drug

56:32guy who's just trying to like fight this whole thing let's just let let him do the work, then the go's just going to wait for the right time and then we're going to follow. >> So Stalin was such a bad guy. What he would do is he would basically he slowed Germany the Nazis down, right? By letting them take Nazis or that he

56:54would send his soldiers with no weaponry, right? Because he knew he had a lot more stock in the back. He had lot more young men to fight for, right? >> Yeah. >> He withdrew. He withdrew. Then he was able to quickly move factories. Then he got a lot of aid from Britain and US. US was giving him a lot of aid, right?

57:20>> Like when was Japan involved in this? >> So in this whole concept, right, when all of this is happening, Japan was busy invading Korea and China, right? Malaysia. So there were like there's this whole thing going on. Let me just focus on my business. I'll take away China. >> Yeah. See, Germany and Japan, they did not fight together. >> Yeah. They were just like they're

57:44attacking someone. Let's just do it and let's just not attack each other. >> Correct. You attack, I attack. You and I are friends, right? >> But they were really not exchanging notes, right? They were not like okay let's send let's combine our armies and send them together. Right. >> Yeah. Exactly. Right. So Japan was busy >> doing occupying land. Right. Had Japan

58:10opened a front with Stalin on the eastern side and Germany on the western side Stalin would have lost. >> Yeah. Easily. I mean >> easily. Right. But Japan was busy in China. Right. uh taking care of the natural resources and everything, right? So, they basically wanted to expand their empire. It's a colonial mindset, right? I'm I'm just going to take on more empire. I'm

58:34going to Philipp Phil Philippines, Korea, Korea fell, Philippines. >> Basically, the whole southwest >> Malaysia, Indonesia, they came to Burma. Southwest, >> they were ready to attack India. They came through Burma. They occupied Burma as well, right? Japan busy there, right? So then the where the where World War II thought turned on its head right was the winter of 1941. Um so talking about winters basically in

59:08my class I learned about how Napoleon lost to silent. It was basically like there was this like tactic called the scorched earth policy. >> Yep. where the where the leaders of like the Soviet army or like Russian army, they would just burn all their resources. Yeah. >> Like they know the fact that they are going to lose their resources, but then they just burned everything. So like if

59:32there's invaders coming, they have nothing to eat or nothing to use. >> So like eventually 10 million people in Napoleon army left with around 10,000 people. >> Yep. >> That's game over for Napoleon. Yeah, exactly. Stalin pretty much replicated that, right? >> Yeah. >> And then uh in the winter of 1941, Hitler did another >> suicidal thing, right? Because again, he was drug added, right? So he split his

1:00:04army, right? He split his army and there was a town called Stalin. It's a town, right? The town it's of no value. Like there was no reason to take that town other than >> change it name >> other than make it a ego thing right. >> Yeah. >> Hitler by taking a town called Stalin Grat is telling Stalin that I took a

1:00:29town with your name on. Yeah, >> that is the only purpose, right? To take that town, right? So he split the German the Nazi army split. Nazis wanted oil, right? So they were there were oil, there were oil fields, right? Either he could have gone to Moscow, taken Moscow just like how he took Paris, ended the war, right? Still Hitler could have won,

1:00:54right? Could have gone to Moscow. Instead, what he did is his British army. He said one part of the army go for the oil fields in the in the the current day Azharbaijan all those countries right go for those oil fields right and second army I think he said go for >> either he split into two armies or three armies maybe three armies right then he

1:01:20sent a smaller army to go take Moscow something of that nature right >> I'm not sure about that right I have to refresh >> but basically he split which he didn't have Right. >> It's better to go as one than a party. >> Correct. So what happened is uh he sent an army to start. Right. And that is where Stalin he's like I'm going to stop here. I'm

1:01:44going to fight. Right. So Stalin, there's a movie called Enemy at the Gates. Watch it. It's called Enemy at the Gates. >> Enemy at the Gates. >> Enemy of the Gates. Right. It's about the battle of Stalinra, right? >> So there is a type of stupid town. >> Stupid town >> for ego purposes. >> Ego purposes, right? That's where and then winter. When winter hit, the Nazi

1:02:09supply chain, right? See, wars are not won by bullets. Wars are won by supply chain. How well can you supply your army with weapons, fuel? Russia winters are absolutely the worst things. >> Yeah. So when the Russian winter hit their supply chain got stretched and then Stalin basically he he surrounded the Nazi army right and even then the Nazi commander right the

1:02:43the I think it the fourth army or the fifth army not sure pretty big army right he told Hitler let's withdraw let's withdraw let's recover and attack again right let's withdraw Hitler said don't withdraw Stay there and fight to the last one. Right. Because sometimes you have to withdraw, right? To live another day. >> I think that's just for ego. >> Ego. Yeah. Drugs. Right. So he he he

1:03:12said no. Five to the last man. And they fought to the last man. But unfortunately they got surrounded >> or fortunately, right? However, want to see that that I think the fourth >> fortunately, right? Because Nazis committed a lot of atrocities, right? Like the Holocaust, >> genocides, >> genocides and all, right? So, yeah, definitely fortunately. So, occupied the that army surrendered, right? They all

1:03:39became prisoners of God. From that day onwards in in the winter of 1941, >> World War II was decided. >> Yeah. Because from then on Pit had to fight on two fronts. The eastern front, the western front and slowly was getting. >> Yeah. But then the also thing is like once you attack a thing, they'll start to attack you back cuz like he just

1:04:05attacked us with like we thought we were friends and then he just suddenly betrays me. Like I'm not stopping it. I'm killing him. So like now he has to take care of two sides instead of just one. >> One side, right? So on then you ask about Pearl Harbor, right? >> Yeah. >> Pearl Harbor happened because America was kind of supplying >> Yeah.

1:04:28>> raw material, food, fuel, materials, everything to Britain and Russia, right? >> It was an open secret. So Japan back then had carriers like aircraft tanks. By the way, Germany didn't have carriers. They had aircraft carriers, right? And they their hope was that if they sink the specific fleet which was stationed in Hawaii right >> yeah because uh America had an Atlantic

1:04:58fleet and a specific right you look at the map their specific fleet is the one that uh faces >> Japan one that faces Japan China right their hope was that they can sing the specific fleet >> they own the whole ocean >> and they can buy time. They can buy time, right? They can buy time. So that's why they attacked Pearl Harbor,

1:05:19right? >> I think that's also a bit of a ego thing, right? >> It was stretched because how did they attack Pearl Harbor? They literally pushed their aircraft carriers into the middle of because no aircraft had that kind of a range, right, to go from Japan to America because ocean is a big ocean, right? >> Yeah. >> They could only launch from islands or

1:05:40from aircraft carriers, right? >> Yeah. They Yeah. They attacked Pearl Harbor like Hawaii in on a Sunday in the mornings and then I saw this movie. >> Yeah. Pearl Harbor. >> Pearl Harbor. And then I also read this book where like one guy and his friend go through this like whole experience of just >> five actually 20 Japanese aircraft >> coming bombing the whole navies like

1:06:09navy supplies and then there was like 50 ships that were like sunken down. >> Yeah. But then it backfired to them obviously and then they got your stuff. >> Yeah. >> Like >> Hiroshima eventually happened, right? Yeah. Hiroshima happened because America did not want to use a lot of people trying to take over all of these islands, right? >> They just want to end this.

1:06:36>> So they were like most So they were like, you know, uh what can I do? what can I do to kind of end the war, right? They just like shut their mouths so they they won't stop >> and and not funny thing ironically right the atom bomb happened because of German science right from Einstein >> right right from Einstein Einstein was a

1:07:01German >> but he fled because he was also a Jew and Hitler was committing atrocities against the Jews right Germany had everything with them they had the best scientists in the world Right? They basically gifted away all of their uh all of their >> talent >> their talent. Right. >> Jewish. >> Not only Jewish, right? Even the German scientists like even uh the man that you

1:07:26know when America right sent a man to the moon >> correct but that program right the NAS NASA was founded by 11 Brown who was a German scientist who was building rockets. That's basically America. That's like >> who was building rockets for Germany for Hitler. So there were the V1 V2 rockets that oneonone drone was building that Germany was flying rockets to hit

1:07:54Britain in 1943 1944, right? >> But they were doing damage but they were not doing a whole lot of damage. >> So after World War II, right, they 111 Brown was secured by US >> like >> and they bought him here. I don't think he even wants to live in a corrupt country was like billion dollars. >> Which one? >> Like Germany cuz Germany back then was

1:08:19the one Germany lost the World War II, right? It's basically it's basically an open field, right? Any that the winning countries can come and take whatever they want. >> Yeah. >> Right. So America and Russia basically all they did was that they went and got the best scientists. any scientists that they thought were valuable, they guard them over to their side, right? Because

1:08:42Ger Germany was occupied by both like the Russians occupied the eastern side, right? And they and the westerns the western countries occupied the other side. They met in the middle of Berlin. >> Even Berlin city was like kind of split, right? So they decided >> all the resources on this side went to Russia including scientists. All the people on this side went to America.

1:09:03>> They got the best. Yes. the most. >> Did you know there's called the Bisher Smith aircraft, right? Checks, jet engines. You know, in World War II there were propeller engines, right? >> Yeah. >> Propellers, right? Germany flew their first fighter jets. >> Yeah. >> They came up with a jet engine in 1944. >> Yeah. Did they like they they make aircraft that did not use propellers?

1:09:26>> Yeah, that's the Mish aircraft, right? So, it's a jet engines, right? >> First ever. >> First ever. But they that was 1944, I They first blew it. >> Yeah. >> Shock, right? >> But then >> it's at the wrong time. I guess if he was at the start of the world war, then I think that would >> or if Hitler would not have attacked

1:09:51Russia and waited for fighter jet >> big trains to like make it up, >> make it up, right? Build more rockets, >> right? will uh >> I guess there's consequences for drugs >> and atom bomb atom bomb changed the world >> that just basically like shut the war just like final bomb on Hiroshima >> yeah Hitler had he not gone to war in

1:10:161939 >> had he waited for 5 6 years he would have even had an atom bomb >> yeah like no one's going to stop him at this point >> jet engines rockets atom bomb game over right you're the king >> like at At this point, America wouldn't even exist if you're thinking it that way. Cuz like once you make atom bombs, it's just like game over cuz like you

1:10:36could just bomb it on. >> Yeah. But even America by then, right, there were a lot of German scientists who were writing letters including Einstein who wrote a letter to American president saying, "Hey, Hitler is going to acquire right. So we have to also America also wants to develop." So the nuclear program was started because of >> Okay. >> Yeah. We'll take a short break. Yeah.

1:11:04>> See you after the short break.