The generation that decided war wasn't worth it - Sarah Paine
31 segments
And here's the ultimate insurance
[music] policy that was created by the
greatest generation, which are the
conscripts of World War I. The people
who were told to go up and over trenches
and to see how that would go. And the
ones who survived
>> [music]
>> came back and tried to raise their
families during the Great Depression.
And then by the time they were the age
to be strategic leaders, they're off
sending their own kids to fight World
War II. And they concluded that the
solution to Great Depressions and World
Wars was institution building on a
global scale. And they built
institutions that have lasted to the
present and held the peace until
Vladimir Putin decided to work his
magic. But they create [music] the UN,
the IMF, NATO, the predecessor
institutions of the World Trade
Organization. And their idea is we must
hash out our differences with diplomats
and lawyers. Cuz when you send the
soldiers in, whatever gains you think
you're going to get are going to be
inferior to what you would have done
with the diplomats. It's [music] it's
too ruinous fighting each other.
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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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