How Hitler almost starved Britain – Sarah Paine

The podcast features a lecture analyzing maritime and continental powers, particularly Britain's strategic approach in WWII, emphasizing sea control, peripheral theaters, and alliances against continental problems like Germany. It contrasts WWI and WWII strategies, highlighting the importance of blockade, commerce raiding, and allied coordination. The discussion extends to modern geopolitical scenarios, assessing Russia and China's maritime limitations and vulnerabilities, and concludes by advocating for positive-sum trade and international cooperation over territorial aggression. The host then engages the speaker with questions that further explore the nuances of the lecture, such as the role of industrial output versus strategy, the sustainability of continental strategies, and the motivations behind historical decisions made by key figures like Hitler and Stalin.