Historical powers from Rome to Nazi Germany fell partly through division. The speaker argues that today's American-centric news cycle deepens splits instead of building the unity that might prevent repeating those mistakes.
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And when you look back through history, you wonder, how did you know when World War II, most people can relate to that. How did it happen? How did the people allow it to happen? And I've never been able to make sense of that until probably the last five years, because I can see it how it happens now. And it happens us being divided, and that's a story of history, is divide and conquer, right? Go back through Roman history. The Germanic tribes, they just couldn't get the message. If we come together, we can beat these guys. And for a very long time, they were really struggling with that unity. And what we've been looking at around the world, and I know in America, people have a very can have a very American view of what's going on from a news perspective, because your news sources are very American focused. It's a big country. It makes sense.