Sarah C. M. Paine — Why dictators keep making the same fatal mistake

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, and whether Japanese occupation was good for Korea, Taiwan and Manchuria * plus other lessons from WW2, Cold War, and Sino-Japanese War * how to study history properly, and why leaders keep making the same mistakes 𝐄𝐏𝐈𝐒𝐎𝐃𝐄 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 * Transcript: https://www.dwarkeshpatel.com/p/sarah-paine * Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sarah-c-m-paine-how-xi-putin-think-maritime-vs-continental/id1516093381?i=1000630184469 * Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/073V9sl5GLf7R0JlMSFdK7?si=Z3Eu2BZiQiCe1rDINzCZDQ * Follow me on Twitter for updates on future episodes: https://twitter.com/dwarkesh_sp * Buy Sarah Paine's books: https://www.amazon.com/stores/S.-C.-M.-Paine/author/B001HCVOTG 𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐌𝐏𝐒 00:00:00 - Grand strategy 00:11:59 - Death ground 00:23:19 - WW1 00:39:23 - Writing history 00:50:25 - Japan in WW2 00:59:58 - Ukraine 01:10:50 - Japan/Germany vs Iraq/Afghanistan occupation 01:21:25 - Chinese invasion of Taiwan 01:51:26 - Communists & Axis 02:08:34 - Continental vs maritime powers