I must admit to thoroughly enjoying knowledgeable sounding hisotircal narratives... and so long as one remembers that it is as self-serving as anything we hear at home, you meed not worry about being bamboosled...

btw, anyone else think Tucker was Out Of His Depth... maybe the language barrier was against him but he seemed to come at it like he was going to talk to a political commentator at home rather than a guy who has run a large nuclear-armed country comprised of disparate groups of armed peoples over 11 timezones and 26 languages for the past quarter century and thinks at century timescales.