shot. will: yeah. vladimir putin s ambition. that s the great question. what is vladimir putin s ambition? i know history doesn t repeat. it sort of rhymes. it sounds familiar and looks familiar. carley knows this week i m watching movies about the add vent of world war ii. the reason i asked about the european neighbors to ukraine. what happens if one domino falls. if one falls does another? does poland have to step in and then if polgd steps in what s the domino after that? when is the domino effects it so it s undeniable that the united states has to be involved? i don t know the answer to that. and i do not think the answer to that is ukraine. carley: what would the optics be in an invasion does occur americans don t heed the warning, don t get out and then they are stuck there? that could be something that s harassment. pete: seen that movie before and how that ended.
hitler used at the beginning of world war ii as a means for saying this is why we need to start this. you do see some of these elements. you do. i mean, look, history doesn t repeat, but sometimes it rhymes and this area is deep with history. and the mere fact that, you know, putin s initial justification was denazification invites pushback. it highlights that absurdity that julia was speaking of, the goal of russian propaganda is to undermine the idea the truth itself, it is not intended to convince, it is intended to confuse. at moments like this, there is such stark moral clarity, that the rest of the world can see despite russian propaganda, life gives us villains and victims. and ukraine being united in the face of this aggression, of this attack, is uniting the world on its side. folks aren t falling for it, despite the russians best attempts to muddy the waters between truth and lies. yeah. some russians are totally
area of the 1940s, the bombs have dropped, we enter a nuclear age, world war ii ends, the cord war immediately descends, the iron curtain descends, george marshal goes to harvard, announces the marshal plan, nato is formed, the truman doctrine, we will help those standing against the autocracy of communism. you know, it is a cliche, but cliches are cliches because they re true. mark twain once said history doesn t repeat itself but it does rhyme. so the infrastructure of security, to try to to try to defend democratic, lower case d , values is arguably our greatest contribution as a nation to the world. not, to connect the two stories again, that we always practice those principles at home, but we try. at our best, we try. and anybody who thinks that democracy or the constitution or
issue. i don t know why you have me on. this is why we re built and we re a sports culture, you know. we re always complaining about what we didn t do well in that game and how we have to do better here and somehow people are willing in almost every aspect of life to be brutally honest about themselves and their friends and their team and this but we can t do that about our history. our history has become a political football and what we re trying to do is return it to a place in which we can create a space that was founded by david ruben stein and better angel society, create a space where people can have a conversation between the past and events that seem to rime as we know history doesn t repeat itself but it rhymes and i m in the business of rhyming. yeah, we like rhymes around here. you re also you touch on many important points including the posture that we have. are we going to be historically
whoever first said that history doesn t repeat itself but rhymes should be around for today s practically a poetry slam. american history. the darkest parts of it are back and are rhyming with a vengeance. so much so that one of this country s most eloquent students of history is saying this about this moment. it s really serious. there are three great crises before this, the civil war, the depression, and world war ii. this is equal to it and we re, you know, we re looking right down the muzzle of that gun. that, of course, is ken burns. 16-time emmy-winning documentary filmmaker and storyteller. he s introduced millions to the civil war, the second world war, the invention of radio, jazz, baseball, mark twain who might or might not have coined that phrase about history rhyming. his latest work airing and streaming on pbs is a remarkable look at the life and turbulent times of muhammad ali who is just one of the great figures of our time. and such an arc of a life and a story.