How Hitler almost starved Britain – Sarah Paine

It turns out that the possibilities for maritime and continental powers are a little different. Basically, a small subset of countries can defend themselves primarily at sea, and that opens certain possibilities, and others can't, and that opens and closes certain possibilities. And I'm gonna talk at this story from Britain's point of view, the country with the three sixty you can't get me moat. And it's an instructive case for The United States of the possibilities and the perils of having this sort of position. So that is my game plan today. And you can look at the great peninsula of Europe

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Alright. So that's it on the commerce rating. So once you command the Atlantic, which means that a sustainable amount of traffic is going to get through from the Allied powers, then you can start thinking about peripheral theaters. Okay. What's a peripheral theater? The main theater is Russia in this war. Not what you think. Why? Because between two thirds and three quarters of German ground forces were always fighting Russia. That means these other theaters, which are peripheral to the main theater, take up between one quarter to one third of German forces. That makes them peripheral. Doesn't

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So that was then. How about now? Okay. This is what NATO looks like. And you can look at The United States with our western and eastern coasts that are unencumbered. You wouldn't be able to blockade those. The two narrow seas are the Sea Of Labrador and the Caribbean. But basically, hard to imagine that the United States Navy wouldn't be able to deploy in wartime with that. And same thing true on the Big Peninsula of Europe. Yeah. I get it. Turkey may not be able to deploy, but Spain, France, and Norway, they're they're these unencumbered coastlines. They'll probably get their navies out. Eura

First question. The lecture is framed as explaining Britain's strategic wins in how they prosecuted World War two. But if it seems like we really have to explain what what seems to keep happening is that Germany and Hitler specifically keep making mistakes. So 1940, 1941, Halifax is saying, look. We need to come to a peace with Germany. We've lost the battle of France. We've had to evacuate Dunkirk. And then Hitler could have done a blockade of Britain and could have just keep prosecuting the war. But instead, he decides to open up a second front against the other biggest army in the entire wo