1 00:00:00,600 --> 00:00:03,360 Welcome to Keith Knight. Don't tread on anyone in the 2 00:00:03,360 --> 00:00:06,960 Libertarian Institute. This is my most recent article 3 00:00:06,960 --> 00:00:10,760 at the Institute titled Justifying Evil. 4 00:00:11,520 --> 00:00:15,840 So often critics of the regime are called conspiracy theorists. 5 00:00:16,360 --> 00:00:20,280 Those same people calling us conspiracy theorists also tell 6 00:00:20,280 --> 00:00:24,760 us that every foreign politician is a dictator of unsound mind 7 00:00:24,760 --> 00:00:28,280 who can't be reasoned with. Kaiser Wilhelm, Adolf Hitler, Ho 8 00:00:28,280 --> 00:00:31,920 Chi Minh, the Taliban, Saddam Hussein, David Koresh, Bashar 9 00:00:31,920 --> 00:00:35,600 al-Assad, Osama bin Laden, Moammar Gaddafi, Vladimir Putin, 10 00:00:35,760 --> 00:00:39,920 Xi Jinping, etcetera. The formula is nearly always 11 00:00:39,920 --> 00:00:42,600 Enemy X has a plot to take over the world. 12 00:00:42,880 --> 00:00:47,120 Only a mass murder campaign of conscripts and civilians can 13 00:00:47,120 --> 00:00:50,000 save us. Consider the destruction of 14 00:00:50,000 --> 00:00:54,320 Japan in the Second World War. The fire bombing of Tokyo, 15 00:00:54,520 --> 00:00:58,000 otherwise known as Operation Meetinghouse, took place on 16 00:00:58,080 --> 00:01:03,000 March 9th and 10th of 1945 at the direction of US Air Force 17 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:07,320 General Curtis Lemay. Roughly 100,000 human beings 18 00:01:07,320 --> 00:01:10,600 were slaughtered and another million were left homeless. 19 00:01:10,880 --> 00:01:15,240 In Hiroshima on August 6th, 1945, a single bomb weighing 20 00:01:15,240 --> 00:01:21,880 9700 lbs killed approximately 70,000 human beings. 21 00:01:22,360 --> 00:01:25,440 Dwight D Eisenhower, first supreme allied commander of 22 00:01:25,440 --> 00:01:29,800 Europe and the 34th president of the United States, commented on 23 00:01:29,800 --> 00:01:34,680 the bombing of Hiroshima in his 1963 book mandate for Change, 24 00:01:34,680 --> 00:01:39,600 1953 to 1956 the White House years Eisenhower says. 25 00:01:40,360 --> 00:01:45,040 In 1945, Secretary of War Stimson, visiting my 26 00:01:45,040 --> 00:01:48,520 headquarters in Germany, informed me that our government 27 00:01:48,520 --> 00:01:51,400 was preparing to drop an atomic bomb on Japan. 28 00:01:51,800 --> 00:01:54,600 I was one of those who felt that there were a number of cogent 29 00:01:54,600 --> 00:01:57,040 reasons to question the wisdom of such an act. 30 00:01:58,080 --> 00:02:01,240 During this recitation of the relevant facts, I had been 31 00:02:01,240 --> 00:02:05,560 conscious of a feeling of depression, and so I voiced to 32 00:02:05,560 --> 00:02:09,720 him my grave misgivings. First, on the basis of my belief 33 00:02:09,720 --> 00:02:13,600 that Japan was already defeated and that dropping the bomb was 34 00:02:13,600 --> 00:02:17,480 completely unnecessary. And secondly, because I thought 35 00:02:17,480 --> 00:02:21,440 that our country should avoid shocking world opinion by the 36 00:02:21,440 --> 00:02:25,320 use of a weapon whose employment was, I thought, no longer 37 00:02:25,320 --> 00:02:28,560 mandatory as a measure to save American lives. 38 00:02:29,240 --> 00:02:33,680 It was my belief that Japan was at that very moment seeking some 39 00:02:33,680 --> 00:02:36,840 way to surrender with a minimum loss of face. 40 00:02:37,840 --> 00:02:42,160 Three days later in Nagasaki, 40,000 human beings were 41 00:02:42,160 --> 00:02:46,120 murdered with a single bomb and 60,000 more injured. 42 00:02:46,520 --> 00:02:49,760 Charles de Gaulle, then Chairman of the Provisional Government of 43 00:02:49,760 --> 00:02:55,400 the French Republic, wrote on page 926 of his 1954 book The 44 00:02:55,400 --> 00:02:57,800 Complete War Memoirs of Charles de Gaulle. 45 00:02:58,480 --> 00:03:01,520 On August 6th and 10th, the atomic bombs were dropped on 46 00:03:01,520 --> 00:03:04,560 Hiroshima and Nagasaki. As a matter of fact, the 47 00:03:04,560 --> 00:03:08,160 Japanese had given indications before the cataclysm that they 48 00:03:08,160 --> 00:03:12,200 were prepared to make peace negotiations, but it was 49 00:03:12,240 --> 00:03:15,440 unconditional surrender the Americans demanded. 50 00:03:15,560 --> 00:03:19,560 Certainly they were following the success of the experiments 51 00:03:19,800 --> 00:03:22,480 conducted in New Mexico that they would obtain it. 52 00:03:23,720 --> 00:03:27,280 At the time of the bombings, Robert S McNamara was Lieutenant 53 00:03:27,280 --> 00:03:29,560 Colonel in the US Army Air Corps. 54 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:33,440 He later gave a documentary interview titled The Fog of War 55 00:03:33,880 --> 00:03:37,040 11 Lessons from Life for of Robert McNamara. 56 00:03:37,840 --> 00:03:40,560 Commenting on the war in the East, McNamara says 57 00:03:40,840 --> 00:03:43,560 proportionality should be a guideline in war. 58 00:03:43,880 --> 00:03:50,360 Killing 50% to 90% of the people of 67 Japanese cities and then 59 00:03:50,360 --> 00:03:54,480 bombing them with two nuclear bombs is not proportional in the 60 00:03:54,480 --> 00:03:57,640 minds of some people to the objectives we were trying to 61 00:03:57,640 --> 00:04:02,880 achieve domestically. Under Executive Order 9066, 62 00:04:03,200 --> 00:04:06,720 President Franklin Roosevelt used the Pearl Harbor myth to 63 00:04:07,000 --> 00:04:12,680 kidnap roughly 120,000 people of Japanese descent, including 64 00:04:12,680 --> 00:04:17,079 80,000 American citizens. People who would apologize for 65 00:04:17,079 --> 00:04:20,839 accidentally stepping on your foot will explicitly defend or 66 00:04:20,839 --> 00:04:24,720 condone the mass murder of innocent people because they 67 00:04:24,720 --> 00:04:26,680 attacked us first at Pearl Harbor. 68 00:04:27,200 --> 00:04:30,560 As if the people killed in the fire bombings were the same 69 00:04:30,560 --> 00:04:34,080 people involved in the high level secret meetings planning 70 00:04:34,080 --> 00:04:38,000 the Pearl Harbor attack. This is equally as ridiculous as 71 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:41,480 blaming all Americans for the actions of President Donald 72 00:04:41,480 --> 00:04:45,400 Trump or Joseph Biden. Most citizens of all countries 73 00:04:45,720 --> 00:04:49,160 are rationally ignorant regarding political matters. 74 00:04:49,360 --> 00:04:53,080 The high opportunity cost of informing yourself on issues is 75 00:04:53,080 --> 00:04:57,320 not worth the microscopic unforeseeable effect your one 76 00:04:57,320 --> 00:04:59,280 vote can have on the bigger picture. 77 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:06,440 And we want to not just blame but murder people in other 78 00:05:06,440 --> 00:05:09,240 countries for the actions of their emperors and conscripted 79 00:05:09,240 --> 00:05:11,520 soldiers. According to the US War 80 00:05:11,520 --> 00:05:15,960 Department's 1944 Handbook on Japanese military Forces. 81 00:05:15,960 --> 00:05:21,040 Quote in peacetime all male Japanese subjects between 17 and 82 00:05:21,040 --> 00:05:24,640 40 are subject to service in the armed forces. 83 00:05:25,840 --> 00:05:30,200 Second section titled The Pearl Harbor Myth after Roosevelt 84 00:05:30,200 --> 00:05:37,720 spent 40 .1% of America's gross domestic product with his 1933 85 00:05:37,880 --> 00:05:41,080 New Deal recovery program in hopes of ending the Great 86 00:05:41,080 --> 00:05:43,800 Depression. The country experienced a double 87 00:05:43,800 --> 00:05:49,880 dip recession in 1937 with unemployment hitting 20% and 88 00:05:49,880 --> 00:05:53,520 with failed domestic policies, politicians look for foreign 89 00:05:53,520 --> 00:05:57,560 distractions. The plan to provoke an incident 90 00:05:57,560 --> 00:06:02,080 at Pearl Harbor was not widely known until January 2nd, 1972 91 00:06:02,240 --> 00:06:05,280 when the New York Times summarized the then recently 92 00:06:05,280 --> 00:06:08,840 released British War Cabinet papers covering the period of 93 00:06:08,880 --> 00:06:14,680 January 1941 to July of 1945. The article titled War Entry 94 00:06:14,680 --> 00:06:18,760 Plans led to Roosevelt claims President Franklin D Roosevelt 95 00:06:18,760 --> 00:06:23,520 told Prime Minister Winston Churchill in August of 1941 that 96 00:06:23,520 --> 00:06:27,320 he was looking for an incident to justify opening hostilities 97 00:06:27,320 --> 00:06:31,080 against Nazi Germany. The minutes, quoting Churchill 98 00:06:31,240 --> 00:06:35,640 indirectly said he Roosevelt obviously was determined that 99 00:06:35,640 --> 00:06:39,720 they should come in if he were to put the issue of peace and 100 00:06:39,720 --> 00:06:41,840 war to the Congress. They would debate it for months. 101 00:06:41,840 --> 00:06:47,080 The Cabinet minutes added the president had said he would wage 102 00:06:47,080 --> 00:06:50,320 war but not declare it, and that he would become more and more 103 00:06:50,320 --> 00:06:53,000 provocative. If the Germans did not like it, 104 00:06:53,000 --> 00:06:55,080 they could attack American forces. 105 00:06:55,400 --> 00:06:57,520 The president's orders to these U.S. 106 00:06:57,520 --> 00:07:02,080 Navy escorts were to attack any German U boat which showed 107 00:07:02,080 --> 00:07:05,320 itself, even if it were two hundred or three miles away from 108 00:07:05,320 --> 00:07:08,120 the convoy. Everything was to be done to 109 00:07:08,120 --> 00:07:10,960 force an incident. The president had taken this 110 00:07:10,960 --> 00:07:14,320 very well and made it clear that he would look for an incident 111 00:07:14,480 --> 00:07:17,840 which would justify him in opening hostilities, Churchill 112 00:07:17,840 --> 00:07:20,520 told the war cabinet, according to the minutes of the meeting. 113 00:07:21,400 --> 00:07:25,480 Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger explained Roosevelt's 114 00:07:25,480 --> 00:07:29,840 strategy of provocation toward Germany and Japan in his 1994 115 00:07:29,840 --> 00:07:35,440 book titled Diplomacy. In September of 1941, the United 116 00:07:35,440 --> 00:07:38,160 States crossed the line into belligerency. 117 00:07:38,600 --> 00:07:41,440 Roosevelt's order that the position of the German 118 00:07:41,440 --> 00:07:45,400 submarines be reported to British Navy had made it 119 00:07:45,400 --> 00:07:48,880 inevitable that sooner or later some clash would occur. 120 00:07:49,240 --> 00:07:54,000 On September 4th, 1941, the American destroyer Greer was 121 00:07:54,000 --> 00:07:58,080 torpedoed while signaling the location of a German submarine 122 00:07:58,240 --> 00:08:01,800 to British airplanes. On September 11th, without 123 00:08:01,800 --> 00:08:05,240 describing the circumstances, Roosevelt denounced German 124 00:08:05,240 --> 00:08:08,200 piracy, comparing German submarines to a rattlesnake 125 00:08:08,200 --> 00:08:11,520 coiled to a strike. He ordered the United States 126 00:08:11,520 --> 00:08:17,120 Navy to sink on site any German or Italian submarines discovered 127 00:08:17,320 --> 00:08:21,360 in the previously established American defense area, extending 128 00:08:21,400 --> 00:08:25,320 all the way to Iceland. To all practical purposes, 129 00:08:25,560 --> 00:08:29,760 America was at war on the sea with the Axis powers. 130 00:08:30,480 --> 00:08:33,960 Roosevelt instructed the American negotiators to demand 131 00:08:33,960 --> 00:08:38,000 that Japan relinquish all of its conquests, including Manchuria. 132 00:08:38,320 --> 00:08:42,360 By invoking America's previous refusal to recognize that these 133 00:08:42,360 --> 00:08:46,200 acts, Roosevelt must have known that there was no possibility 134 00:08:46,200 --> 00:08:50,040 that Japan would accept. Roosevelt had achieved his goal 135 00:08:50,040 --> 00:08:55,760 patiently and inexorably, educating his people one step at 136 00:08:55,760 --> 00:08:57,800 a time, about the necessities before them. 137 00:08:58,120 --> 00:09:01,800 His audiences filtered his words through their own perceptions 138 00:09:02,040 --> 00:09:06,080 and did not always understand that his ultimate destination 139 00:09:06,080 --> 00:09:10,320 was war, though they could not have doubted that it was 140 00:09:11,520 --> 00:09:14,680 confrontation. At the time. 141 00:09:16,240 --> 00:09:23,360 Henry Louis Stimson was the US Secretary of War and in the 1946 142 00:09:23,360 --> 00:09:27,040 investigation of the Pearl Harbor attack, Stimson's diary 143 00:09:27,040 --> 00:09:30,240 is brought into evidence on page 177. 144 00:09:30,400 --> 00:09:34,880 The report sites a diary entry from November 25th, 1941, almost 145 00:09:34,880 --> 00:09:38,560 two weeks before the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor. 146 00:09:38,760 --> 00:09:42,040 Stimson wrote. General Marshall and I went to 147 00:09:42,040 --> 00:09:45,600 the White House where we were until nearly 1:30. 148 00:09:46,160 --> 00:09:51,320 At the meeting were Secretary of State Cordell Hull, Secretary of 149 00:09:51,320 --> 00:09:55,720 the Navy Frank Knox, Chief of Staff of the Army, George C 150 00:09:55,720 --> 00:10:00,080 Marshall, Chief of Naval Operations Harold Ranswell Stark 151 00:10:00,360 --> 00:10:02,800 and myself. The President brought up the 152 00:10:02,800 --> 00:10:06,360 event that we were likely to be attacked perhaps as soon as next 153 00:10:06,360 --> 00:10:09,600 Monday, for the Japanese are notorious for making an attack 154 00:10:09,600 --> 00:10:13,240 without warning. And the question was what we 155 00:10:13,240 --> 00:10:15,720 should do. The question was how we should 156 00:10:15,720 --> 00:10:19,640 maneuver them into the position of firing the first shot without 157 00:10:19,640 --> 00:10:21,560 allowing too much danger to ourselves. 158 00:10:22,400 --> 00:10:25,960 Stimson later published sections of his personal diary in his 159 00:10:25,960 --> 00:10:30,920 1948 book Co, written with his brother Bundy, titled On Active 160 00:10:30,920 --> 00:10:36,320 Service in Peace and War. On page 393, Stimson cites his 161 00:10:36,320 --> 00:10:41,000 own diary entry from December 7th, 1941, the very day Japan 162 00:10:41,000 --> 00:10:43,200 attacked American troops stationed at Pearl Harbor. 163 00:10:44,200 --> 00:10:47,360 When the news first came that Japan had attacked us, my first 164 00:10:47,360 --> 00:10:51,080 feeling was of relief that the indecision was over and that a 165 00:10:51,080 --> 00:10:54,480 crisis had come in a way which would unite all our people. 166 00:10:54,680 --> 00:10:58,800 This continued to be my dominant feeling in spite of the news of 167 00:10:58,800 --> 00:11:02,720 catastrophes which quickly developed, for I feel that this 168 00:11:02,720 --> 00:11:06,000 country united has practically nothing to fear, while the 169 00:11:06,000 --> 00:11:10,160 apathy and division stirred up by unpatriotic men have been 170 00:11:10,160 --> 00:11:14,880 hitherto very discouraging. On October 7th, 1940, a 171 00:11:14,880 --> 00:11:18,680 memorandum was written by Captain Arthur McCollum, Chief 172 00:11:18,680 --> 00:11:22,000 of the Far Eastern Section of Naval Intelligence. 173 00:11:22,240 --> 00:11:25,480 McCollum, whose name is mentioned 55 times in the 174 00:11:25,480 --> 00:11:29,680 previously cited official Pearl Harbor investigation of 1946, 175 00:11:30,280 --> 00:11:35,040 titled his memo Estimate of the Situation in the Pacific and 176 00:11:35,040 --> 00:11:39,000 Recommendations for Actions by the United States. 177 00:11:39,240 --> 00:11:44,000 The memo was popularized by Robert Beaston Net in his 1999 178 00:11:44,000 --> 00:11:47,560 book Day of Deceit. Page four of the Memorandum 179 00:11:47,560 --> 00:11:52,360 records Mccollum's ninth and 10th, Section 9. 180 00:11:52,920 --> 00:11:56,320 It is not believed that in the present state of political 181 00:11:56,320 --> 00:11:58,960 opinion the United States government is capable of 182 00:11:58,960 --> 00:12:02,640 declaring war against Japan without more ado, and it is 183 00:12:02,640 --> 00:12:06,480 barely possible that vigorous action on our part might lead 184 00:12:06,480 --> 00:12:08,440 the Japanese to modify their attitude. 185 00:12:08,760 --> 00:12:12,160 Therefore, the following course of action is suggested. 186 00:12:12,480 --> 00:12:15,920 A Make an arrangement with Britain for the use of British 187 00:12:15,920 --> 00:12:19,240 bases in the Pacific, particularly Singapore. 188 00:12:19,520 --> 00:12:23,080 B Make an arrangement with Holland for the use of base 189 00:12:23,080 --> 00:12:25,920 facilities and acquisition of supplies in the Dutch. 190 00:12:25,920 --> 00:12:29,520 E Indies. C Give all possible aid to the 191 00:12:29,520 --> 00:12:31,360 Chinese government of Chiang Kai Shek. 192 00:12:31,880 --> 00:12:36,000 D Send a division of long range heavy cruisers to the Orient, 193 00:12:36,000 --> 00:12:40,040 Philippines or Singapore. E Send two divisions of 194 00:12:40,040 --> 00:12:44,360 submarines to the Orient. F Keep the main strength of the 195 00:12:44,480 --> 00:12:48,640 US fleet now in the Pacific, in the vicinity of the Hawaiian 196 00:12:48,640 --> 00:12:52,320 Islands. G insist that the Dutch refused 197 00:12:52,320 --> 00:12:55,720 to grant Japanese demands for undue economic concessions, 198 00:12:55,920 --> 00:13:00,520 particularly oil. H Completely embargo all U.S. 199 00:13:00,520 --> 00:13:03,360 trade with Japan in collaboration with a similar 200 00:13:03,360 --> 00:13:05,760 embargo imposed by the British Empire. 201 00:13:07,040 --> 00:13:09,840 Section 10. If by these means Japan could be 202 00:13:09,840 --> 00:13:14,040 led to commit an overt act of war, so much the better. 203 00:13:14,440 --> 00:13:17,880 At all events, we must be fully prepared to accept the threat of 204 00:13:17,880 --> 00:13:21,120 war. Why do the ramblings of one 205 00:13:21,120 --> 00:13:24,520 single soldier matter? Because the main recommendations 206 00:13:24,520 --> 00:13:28,360 from the memo were embraced and enacted by the US government, 207 00:13:28,520 --> 00:13:32,840 which, as McCullum predicted, LED Japan to commit an overt act 208 00:13:32,840 --> 00:13:35,480 of war. Section C was enacted aiding 209 00:13:35,480 --> 00:13:40,840 Chang's regime as part of an extension to America's Lend 210 00:13:40,840 --> 00:13:43,760 Lease program, which also aided the British and Soviet 211 00:13:43,760 --> 00:13:47,680 governments before the US official entrance into the war. 212 00:13:48,080 --> 00:13:52,640 Moreover, Section D was enacted. A restricted document from 213 00:13:52,640 --> 00:13:57,560 November 15th, 1941 had the subject General Marshall's 214 00:13:57,560 --> 00:14:04,360 conference today titled #2-6O2. Robert Robert L Sherrod 215 00:14:04,360 --> 00:14:09,320 Memorandum for David W Hulbert General George C Marshall at the 216 00:14:09,320 --> 00:14:13,480 time was Chief of staff of the United States Army. 217 00:14:13,880 --> 00:14:17,720 The document summarized a meeting at the War Department in 218 00:14:17,720 --> 00:14:19,800 a secret conference with General Marshall. 219 00:14:20,520 --> 00:14:25,440 The memo from the George C Marshall Foundation reads. the 220 00:14:25,440 --> 00:14:28,520 US is on the brink of war with the Japanese, said the general. 221 00:14:28,760 --> 00:14:31,400 Our position is highly favorable in this respect. 222 00:14:31,560 --> 00:14:34,560 We have access to a leak in all the information that they are 223 00:14:34,560 --> 00:14:37,440 receiving concerning our military preparations, 224 00:14:37,440 --> 00:14:41,760 especially in the Philippines. In other words, we know what 225 00:14:41,760 --> 00:14:45,400 they know about us, and they don't know that we know it. 226 00:14:45,880 --> 00:14:49,520 Under a great secrecy. The US is building up its 227 00:14:49,520 --> 00:14:52,720 strength in the Philippines to a level far higher than the 228 00:14:52,720 --> 00:14:57,000 Japanese imagine. General MacArthur is unloading 229 00:14:57,000 --> 00:15:01,400 ships at night, is building airfields in the carefully 230 00:15:01,400 --> 00:15:05,360 guarded interior, is allowing no one within miles of military 231 00:15:05,360 --> 00:15:08,120 reservations. Most important point to remember 232 00:15:08,120 --> 00:15:10,120 is this. We are preparing for an 233 00:15:10,120 --> 00:15:14,280 offensive war against Japan, whereas the Japs believe we are 234 00:15:14,280 --> 00:15:16,720 preparing only to defend the Philippines. 235 00:15:17,080 --> 00:15:20,800 We are piling a large portion of our new material into the 236 00:15:20,800 --> 00:15:24,040 Philippines, several shiploads of it a week. 237 00:15:24,960 --> 00:15:28,920 If war with the Japanese does come, we'll fight mercilessly. 238 00:15:29,320 --> 00:15:33,880 Flying Fortresses will be dispatched immediately to set 239 00:15:33,920 --> 00:15:36,840 the paper cities of Japan on fire. 240 00:15:37,080 --> 00:15:40,000 There won't be any hesitation about bombing civilians. 241 00:15:40,280 --> 00:15:45,360 It will be all out. Section F was maintained when a 242 00:15:45,360 --> 00:15:49,640 clear alternative was possible, which was withdraw U.S. troops 243 00:15:49,640 --> 00:15:52,560 from the area since Hawaii was not even an American state at 244 00:15:52,560 --> 00:15:56,160 the time and would not be so until 1959. 245 00:15:57,000 --> 00:16:01,600 Most significantly, Section H of Mccullen's memo advocating an 246 00:16:01,600 --> 00:16:04,760 embargo, the forcible restriction of trade with Japan, 247 00:16:05,000 --> 00:16:10,040 was enacted August 1st, 1941. This came on the heels of the 248 00:16:10,200 --> 00:16:14,280 freezing of Japanese assets which occurred July 26th, 1941. 249 00:16:15,040 --> 00:16:17,880 None of this was inevitable. It could have easily been the 250 00:16:17,880 --> 00:16:20,800 case that the US government saw the brutality of the Japanese 251 00:16:20,800 --> 00:16:24,960 regime in China and feared provocation or wanted a strong 252 00:16:24,960 --> 00:16:30,040 Japan to later fight the Soviets or contain Chinese expansion in 253 00:16:30,040 --> 00:16:32,520 Asia. With the Japanese having 254 00:16:32,520 --> 00:16:36,600 occupied Vietnam in September of 1940 and having maintained Korea 255 00:16:36,600 --> 00:16:41,200 as a colony since 1910, the new found United States Empire 256 00:16:41,400 --> 00:16:44,480 inherited conflicts of the previous Japanese Empire. 257 00:16:44,880 --> 00:16:48,080 Of course, those with fashionable opinions constantly 258 00:16:48,360 --> 00:16:53,160 will say the US had Truman's containment policy and was just 259 00:16:53,160 --> 00:16:57,000 trying to contain communism when they killed millions of Koreans 260 00:16:57,000 --> 00:17:01,920 and millions of Vietnamese. This assumes the US empire had a 261 00:17:01,920 --> 00:17:05,079 reasonable fear of communism thousands of miles away from 262 00:17:05,079 --> 00:17:09,240 Vietnam and Korea, while Japan had no reason to fear them, even 263 00:17:09,240 --> 00:17:11,680 though Japan is far closer to these areas. 264 00:17:12,319 --> 00:17:15,200 Unlike market actors, governments have unique 265 00:17:15,200 --> 00:17:19,359 qualities which incentivize warfare in ways that would be 266 00:17:19,359 --> 00:17:21,560 unprofitable in the voluntary sector. 267 00:17:22,000 --> 00:17:25,880 States have unique access to central bank money creation, 268 00:17:26,280 --> 00:17:30,080 taxation, conscription, compulsory education and a legal 269 00:17:30,080 --> 00:17:33,200 double standard which allows them to commit murder under the 270 00:17:33,200 --> 00:17:36,120 guise of foreign policy. We should expect states to 271 00:17:36,120 --> 00:17:40,240 continue to agitate for wars. We must see war for what it is, 272 00:17:40,560 --> 00:17:44,480 mass murder campaigns based on lies funded by theft. 273 00:17:45,640 --> 00:17:48,440 The national security elites in every country since the 274 00:17:48,440 --> 00:17:52,640 beginning of time must lie and sensationalize potential foreign 275 00:17:52,640 --> 00:17:55,640 threats in order to get their domestic populations to 276 00:17:55,640 --> 00:17:59,600 surrender their freedoms and bear the high cost of dying and 277 00:17:59,600 --> 00:18:03,280 getting their limbs blown off. May we all have the humility of 278 00:18:03,280 --> 00:18:08,360 Tucker Carlson in reflecting on the atrocities of Hiroshima and 279 00:18:08,440 --> 00:18:11,720 Nagasaki. Well, I love, by the way, that 280 00:18:11,720 --> 00:18:16,440 people on my side, I'll just say I'll just admit it on the right, 281 00:18:17,000 --> 00:18:20,320 you know, have spent the last 80 years defending dropping nuclear 282 00:18:20,320 --> 00:18:23,040 weapons on civilians. Like, are you joking? 283 00:18:23,760 --> 00:18:26,000 That's just like prima facie evil. 284 00:18:26,040 --> 00:18:28,600 If you can't. Well, if we hadn't done that, 285 00:18:28,600 --> 00:18:30,520 then this that the other thing that was actually a great 286 00:18:30,520 --> 00:18:32,200 savings. Like, no, it's wrong to drop 287 00:18:32,200 --> 00:18:35,280 nuclear weapons on people. And if you find yourself arguing 288 00:18:35,280 --> 00:18:37,560 that it's a good thing to drop nuclear weapons on people, then 289 00:18:37,560 --> 00:18:39,760 you are evil. Like it's it's not a it's not a 290 00:18:39,760 --> 00:18:41,360 tough one, right? It's not a hard call for you. 291 00:18:41,360 --> 00:18:44,720 It's not a hard call for me. Thank you for watching Keith 292 00:18:44,720 --> 00:18:48,280 Knight, Don't Tread on Anyone, and the Libertarian Institute.