An Update

Pops

Hi - new subscriber and paid member here. I enjoy your program a great deal, keep up the good work!

Really eager for your Start of WW2 video!

martin warner

Hell of a big scope, start of WW2. A lot of culprits, my favourite, and often overlooked...FDR! Love your work. Peace be unto you.

Blake Petersen

Keep up the amazing content Ryan!! You’ve inspired me to start reading these types of sources myself. I really appreciate your work

Lina

All of them sound very interesting, looking forward. And congratulations on your new space!

Charnell Jones

Yay!!!

Peter Anthony Gallett

Your discussions are insuperable! I look forward eagerly to enjoying the latest and wish you every satisfaction with your new "digs". ¡Excelsior!

Alexandra Leigon

Sounds great! My time for responding in writing to your terrific work is limited, but I get to all your videos eventually! ( I save them in my library to share.) Whenever I have a question about some issue or other, I check your channel to see if you have provided a resource. That's the way I get to see them because once I have your answer to my question, I keep watching others that I've missed!! Thanks!

Michael Adcock

Will be great to see your balanced and nuance view on the origins of WW2. The simple answer that it was all about one madman is all to tidy and convenient, which history never is, and teaches us nothing. Can I assume you've considered Niall Fergusson's War of the World? It is a bit hit and miss, but the longitudinal view is helpful, and kind of like Alan Watts view that we tend to pick rather random points of time to consider the start and end of events, rather than really considering the chain of causation. At a minimum please consider if Japans invasion/s of China was the start of WW2, not Germany's invasion of Poland. After all it is called a 'world" war. Good luck with it. Will be a great watch for sure.

Matthew Prostko

Good luck with the move. Cool that you are moving into a WW2 phase. Looking forward to it. I think there a few angles you could do really well, given you ability to make complex, nuanced subjects seem clear. 1. How did Post WW1 create WW2? 2. How does WW1 and post WW1 inform what is happening in Ukraine 3. What was different about immediate actions post WW1 and Post WW2 how did that affect those post war periods? 4. How should that affect what we think about our involvement in Ukraine conflict? 5. How is Ukraine conflict like Russia-Afghanistan (Charlie Wilson's war) conflict and should that inform what we do? Love your work. You are one of my favorite thought leaders and would love your take on these elements

Kyle Isaac

Sounds like some good stuff. I'm excited to see it.

Will Hedges

After you finish those videos do you think you could go more in depth into Marx’s influence on the post war west?

Jason Flohe

Hope the move goes well. Videos sound great, nationalism and patriotism are often misused and a solid topic!

Ann Schmitt

Keep up the good work! I really look forward to the history of WWII beginning. Just know that we are very interested in what you have to say. It is always fascinating! Thank you.

Dan

Good luck with your "moving experience" Ryan, the good news is that you are getting a better space for your work. Looking forward to the Nat vs Pat discussion as not many others comment on this area. I have passed on a link to your work to a couple of university professors here in the UK, they like what you do very much and asked me to pass on their wishes to you.

Kaerakh

Sounds great, I reference events and places like the Anschluss and Sudetenland as juxtapositions for certain modern contexts and no one seems to know or remember anything beyond or before famous events like Pearl Harbor. Adjacently, Daniel Immerwahr has both a talk and a book (How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States) which touches on some interesting context, but may be out of scope of your current project as reading material. Looking forward to the video, I'm sure it'll be great.