A couple of history offerings that caught my eye, one of possible interest to RAW fans and one that might interest Robert Shea fans.
RAW was a World War II revisionist, and I recent ran across an announcement from Thaddeus Russell for an online course, "World War II: The Great Blowback," scheduled for Feb. 9-12:
"To most Americans, World War II is the only 'good war'—the one conflict you’re not allowed to question without being accused of bad faith or worse.
"But over the last two decades, a growing number of of scholars has been assembling a very different narrative: that U.S. policy under Franklin Roosevelt turned regional wars into a truly global war, guaranteed the realization of the Holocaust, and was principally responsible for producing the greatest catastrophe in human history.
"This is the new history of the Second World War that I’ll be presenting in a 4-part live course at Unregistered Academy."
While I am open to World War II revisionism, I admit to being cool to the "Allies made Hitler did it" school. Speaking of which, Russell's Substack also has a recent interview with Darryl Cooper.
Meanwhile, Tyler Cowen recently did a mini-review of Jack Weatherford's Emperor of the Seas: Kublai Khan and the Making of China, which covers the period of history in Robert Shea's two Shike novels. Tyler wrote, "A fun and good book, think of it as explaining how Kublai Khan beat Song China but subsequently lost to Japan. The Ainu play a role in a wide-ranging and still historically relevant story."
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Although I never dug in very deeply, I didn't think of RAWs WWII takes as revisionist. It just seemed like the US baited, maybe even covertly forced Japan's hand, into attacking Pearl Harbor, and then looked the other way as the attack went down, such that the American people were then incentivized to support the US entry into the WWII.
It seems like similar things went down with regards to 9/11. Like the US was aware of the plot, maybe even facilitating it, but at minimum looking the other way and allowing it to happen.
Is that revisionism? I really don't know. When I think of revisionism, I think of crazy shit like saying the Holocaust never happened.
I'm super curious how the US could have caused the Holocaust. That seems like a huge reach without knowing any details.
And with the latest Epstein email dump, the conspiracy theorists are taking their victory lap.... The World Turned Upside Down.
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