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The generation that decided war wasn't worth it - Sarah Paine

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The generation that decided war wasn't worth it - Sarah Paine

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And here's the ultimate insurance

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[music] policy that was created by the

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greatest generation, which are the

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conscripts of World War I. The people

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who were told to go up and over trenches

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and to see how that would go. And the

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ones who survived

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>> [music]

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>> came back and tried to raise their

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families during the Great Depression.

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And then by the time they were the age

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to be strategic leaders, they're off

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sending their own kids to fight World

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War II. And they concluded that the

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solution to Great Depressions and World

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Wars was institution building on a

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global scale. And they built

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institutions that have lasted to the

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present and held the peace until

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Vladimir Putin decided to work his

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magic. But they create [music] the UN,

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the IMF, NATO, the predecessor

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institutions of the World Trade

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Organization. And their idea is we must

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hash out our differences with diplomats

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and lawyers. Cuz when you send the

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soldiers in, whatever gains you think

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you're going to get are going to be

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inferior to what you would have done

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with the diplomats. It's [music] it's

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too ruinous fighting each other.

Interactive Summary

This video describes the strategic philosophy of the generation that lived through both World Wars and the Great Depression. It explains how they established global institutions like the UN, IMF, and NATO to maintain peace and resolve conflicts through diplomacy rather than war.

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