Episode
Sarah C. M. Paine — Why dictators keep making the same fatal mistake
Dwarkesh Podcast · Oct 4, 2023 · 2 h 25 min
I learned so much from Sarah Paine, Professor of History and Strategy at the Naval War College. We discuss: - how continental vs maritime powers think and how this explains Xi & Putin's decisions - how a war with China over Taiwan would shake out and whether it could go nuclear - why the British Empire fell apart, why China went communist, how Hitler and Japan could have coordinated to win WW2…