Right-wing political commentator Tucker Carlson&#8217;s latest podcast episode featured a Cornell professor who suggested that there&#8217;s a good argument to be made for the United States backing Nazi leader Adolf Hitler during World War II instead of fighting the Nazis with Joseph Stalin and the Soviet Union.
David Collum, a chemistry and chemical biology professor at the Ivy League school, told Carlson in an episode published on Wednesday that he read a book about the &#8220;revisionist history of World War II&#8221; and came away believing that &#8220;the story we got about World War II is all wrong, actually.&#8221;
&#8220;I think that&#8217;s right,&#8221; Carlson replied.
&#8220;One can make the argument [that] we should have sided with Hitler and fought Stalin,&#8221; Collum added. &#8220;Patton said that. And maybe there wouldn&#8217;t have been a holocaust, right? But Stalin was awful by any metric, and we weren&#8217;t his ally.&#8221;
In the episode, which can be viewed in full <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orgvAk7JhBI&amp;t=3943s">here</a>, Carlson offered no pushback to Collum&#8217;s claim that a U.S.-Nazi alliance would have been preferable during World War II, or to the bizarre idea that the U.S. siding with Hitler would have somehow prevented the Nazi regime from murdering six million Jews.
The Nazis <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/articles/zkxwgwx">began</a> instituting antisemitic laws in 1935, four years before the beginning of World War II and six years before the United States declared war on Germany. Jewish persecution intensified in 1937 and 1938 when Nazis began throwing people into concentration camps, and nearly 100 Jews were killed during the Kristallnacht pogrom. Hitler began creating concentration camps specifically for Jews in 1940, a year before U.S. troops joined its European allies to fight the Nazis. The largest mass murder of Jews under Hitler took place in 1942, just months after the United States had joined the fight.
As for Collum&#8217;s claim that Patton wanted to side with Hitler, there&#8217;s no historical record to back it up. While U.S. General George S. Patton believed that the Soviet Union would pose a major threat to the United States, he never advocated for siding with Hitler to fight Stalin. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill also said in the years following World War II that the Soviet Union was &#8220;in some ways more formidable than Hitler,&#8221; but he never suggested that it would have been better to fight Stalin alongside the Nazis.
Diana West, the author of the book that Collum credited for his revisionist take on World War II, said on Thursday that her book &#8220;does not argue for anything remotely like aligning with Hitler.&#8221;
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The former Fox News host was blasted after clips of Collum&#8217;s comments began circulating on social media.
&#8220;So now we should’ve backed Hitler? Let’s see if these sh*t heads are denounced by any but a handful of us on radio or TV,&#8221; <a href="https://x.com/marklevinshow/status/1958345094001553896">said</a> conservative broadcaster Mark Levin.
Carlson <a href="https://x.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1958552781242991095">responded</a> to Levin, writing, &#8220;Settle down, Mark. Nobody endorsed Hitler.&#8221;
During his interview with Carlson, Collum also claimed that when Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, &#8220;It wasn&#8217;t a war.&#8221;
&#8220;It was a police action,&#8221; Collum said. &#8220;And they weren&#8217;t killing people. They were moving troops across the border.&#8221;
Nearly 60 people were killed and 170 people were wounded on the first day of Russia&#8217;s invasion, <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-says-57-people-killed-first-day-russian-invasion-2022-02-24/">according</a> to Ukrainian authorities.
The Cornell professor added that it only became a war because &#8220;NATO wanted a war,&#8221; suggesting that the U.S.-European alliance was the aggressor in the conflict.
&#8220;And so, it morphed from being a police action, which I think Putin was trying to throw a fast ball past NATO&#8217;s chin and saying, &#8216;Back off on this whole NATO thing,'&#8221; Collum said.
&#8220;That&#8217;s correct,&#8221; Carlson replied.

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Established in 1895, the Nobel Peace Prize is one of five “Nobel Prizes” established by the will of Alfred Nobel, and is awarded by the Norwegian Nobel Committee “to the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses.” Unlike the Nobel Prizes for Chemistry, Physics, Physiology or Medicine, and Literature, the Nobel Peace Prize may also be awarded to an organization. 
With the Nobel Peace Prize presented on December 10, with the recipient to be announced in October, nominations have already started for 2021’s award. Jared Kushner, who was at the forefront of the Trump administration’s unprecedented achievements regarding peace in the Middle East, has been nominated. So has Stacey Abrams, apparently for <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/01/stacey-abrams-among-2021-nobel-peace-prize-nominees-.html">promoting</a> “nonviolent change via the ballot box.”
However, the nominee raising the most eyebrows is undoubtedly the Black Lives Matter movement. Norwegian MP Petter Eide nominated BLM for “for their struggle against racism and racially motivated violence,” saying that “BLM’s call for systemic change have spread around the world, forcing other countries to grapple with racism within their own societies.” The fact that the widespread violence and rioting sparked and fueled by the Black Lives Matter movement resulted in <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8740609/Rioting-140-cities-George-Floyds-death-cost-insurance-industry-2-BILLION.html">billions</a> of dollars in damage seems irrelevant.
However, such controversial nominations become less surprising when we <a href="https://www.nobelprize.org/">understand</a> that “any person or organization can be nominated by anyone eligible to nominate for a Nobel Peace Prize,” with a nomination considered valid if it is submitted by someone who falls into one of the following categories, according to the Nobel committee:
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<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Members of The International Court of Justice in The Hague and The Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Members of l’Institut de Droit International</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Members of the international board of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">University professors, professors emeriti and associate professors of history, social sciences, law, philosophy, theology, and religion; university rectors and university directors (or their equivalents); directors of peace research institutes and foreign policy institutes</li>
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As reported by <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/01/stacey-abrams-among-2021-nobel-peace-prize-nominees-.html">CNBC</a>, “A nomination does not mean that an individual or organization will actually be considered for the prize by the Nobel committee and the committee does not offer comment on any of the nominated candidates.”
Indeed, multiple other questionable <a href="https://www.dnaindia.com/world/report-nobel-peace-prize-2021-list-of-nominees-greta-thunberg-donald-trump-2872067">nominations</a> have already been made, including Greta Thunberg, the World Health Organization, and the US-based Committee to Protect Journalists. However, one only has to turn through the pages of history to find some shocking nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize that have been made in years prior.
Here is a list of some of the most controversial nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize since its inception.
Adolf Hitler (1939)
In the mid-1930s, Adolf Hitler banned anyone in Germany from receiving the Nobel Peace Prize after Carl von Ossietzky — a German pacifist who was convicted of high treason and espionage for exposing German rearmament — received the award while interned in the concentration camp Esterwegen in 1935. As a dark joke, antifascist member of the Swedish parliament, Erik Gottfrid Christian Brandt, nominated Hitler in 1939, but the nomination was later cancelled. 
Somewhat appropriately, no Peace prize was awarded in 1939, with World War II beginning on September 1 1939 after Germany invaded Poland. Two days later, the United Kingdom and France declared war on Germany. By the time the war ended on September 2 1945 — six years and one day after it began — the world had witnessed over 24 million military casualties and an unfathomable 45 million civilian deaths (at the very least), making World War II the deadliest conflict in human history.
Joseph Stalin (1945 and 1948)
According to the Nobel Prize <a href="https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/facts/facts-on-the-nobel-peace-prize/">website</a>, “Joseph Stalin, the Secretary-General of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1953, was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1945 and 1948 for his efforts to end World War II.”
Following Germany’s surrender, and Soviet losses of at least 20 million civilian and military lives, “Stalin oversaw the continued occupation and domination of much of Eastern Europe, despite ‘promises’ of free elections in those countries.”
“Stalin did not mellow with age,” <a href="https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/joseph-stalin-dies">History</a> writes. “He pursued a reign of terror, purges, executions, exiles to the Gulag Archipelago (a system of forced-labor camps in the frozen north) and persecution in the postwar USSR, suppressing all dissent and anything that smacked of foreign, especially Western European, influence.”
The article concludes that Stalin was remembered both “as the man who helped save his nation from Nazi domination,” and “as the mass murderer of the century, having overseen the deaths of between 8 million and 20 million of his own people.”
Benito Mussolini (1935)
In 1935, German and French academics nominated Italian dictator Benito Mussolini for the Nobel Peace Prize. That same year, Mussolini’s Italian forces invaded Ethiopia in the Second Italo-Ethiopian War, which lasted from October 1935 to February 1937. This conflict resulted in 377,500 casualties and losses on the Ethiopian side (who received material support from Nazi Germany at the time), and 208,000 casualties on the Italian side. 382,800 civilians were killed between 1935 and 1941.
In October 1936, an alliance was formed between Italy and Nazi Germany, known as the Rome-Berlin Axis. Mussolini later joined Hitler and Japan’s Hirohito as the main Axis leaders during World War II. 
Neville Chamberlain
On January 24 1939, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, as the leader <a href="https://www.nobelpeacecenter.org/en/news/hitler-as-a-nobel-laureate">who</a> “through this dangerous time saved our part of the world from a terrible catastrophe.” The argument was that peace had been secured by Chamberlain after the Munich Agreement was concluded by Nazi Germany, the United Kingdom, France, and Italy on September 30 1938.
The Munich Agreement was reached on Hitler’s terms, and was an attempt to appease Nazi aggression by handing over portions of Czechoslovakia to Germany. Standing outside 10 Downing Street in London, Chamberlain read these now infamous words:
“My good friends, for the second time in our history a British Prime Minister has returned from Germany bringing peace with honor. I believe it is peace for our time.”
Winston Churchill, who would become Prime Minister in 1940, described the Munich Agreement as “a total and unmitigated defeat,” and correctly predicted what would await Europe as a result.
“We have suffered a total and unmitigated defeat&#8230; you will find that in a period of time which may be measured by years, but may be measured by months, Czechoslovakia will be engulfed in the Nazi régime. We are in the presence of a disaster of the first magnitude&#8230; we have sustained a defeat without a war, the consequences of which will travel far with us along our road&#8230; we have passed an awful milestone in our history, when the whole equilibrium of Europe has been deranged, and that the terrible words have for the time being been pronounced against the Western democracies: ‘Thou art weighed in the balance and found wanting.’ And do not suppose that this is the end. This is only the beginning of the reckoning. This is only the first sip, the first foretaste of a bitter cup which will be proffered to us year by year unless by a supreme recovery of moral health and martial vigor, we arise again and take our stand for freedom as in the olden time.”
Earlier that year, Churchill wrote to David Lloyd George, saying “England has been offered a choice between war and shame. She has chosen shame, and will get war.” 
He was right.
Ian Haworth is an Editor and Writer for The Daily Wire. Follow him on Twitter at <a href="https://twitter.com/ighaworth">@ighaworth</a>.
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The woman believed to be the oldest person in the world has died at age 123 after living a life she described as being characterized by &#8220;hard work and optimism&#8221; despite living most of it under oppressive communist regimes.
According to the Russian Book of Records and Russian government officials, Tanzilya Bisembeyeva, a Muslim Kazakh whose death was announced Wednesday, was the oldest woman in the world, born before the last tsar of Russia and living a life that spanned three centuries.
Bisembeyeva was believed to have been the third-oldest person in Russia just months ago, but the two women who were reportedly older than her — Nanu Shaovawomen (128) and Koku Istambulova (129) — died earlier this year, leaving Bisembeyeva with the remarkable distinction.
Government-run Russian newspaper Rossiyskaya Gazeta, which first reported her death, quotes Astrakhan region official Nurgali Baitemirov, who said Bisembeyeva &#8220;died peacefully&#8221; and was buried in a family cemetery, where the &#8220;whole village came to see her depart on her last journey,&#8221; as reported by <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7630077/Oldest-woman-world-dies-aged-123-Russia.html">The Daily Mail</a>.
Bisembeyeva credited her &#8220;healthy&#8221; and active lifestyle, as well as her commitment to &#8220;hard work and optimism,&#8221; for her longevity. The Daily Mail notes that she reportedly won a labor award, didn&#8217;t smoke and ate &#8220;only natural foods.&#8221; She also apparently drank a lot of fermented milk.
&#8220;The secret of her long life, surviving the upheavals of the Russian revolution, when she was already 21, and the Soviet collapse, as well the tyranny of Stalin, was &#8216;optimism and hard work&#8217; &#8211; along with drinking kefir, or fermented milk,&#8221; the Mail reports.
Her son, Shintas, who is in his 70s — which means his mother had him when she was 53 — described her difficult life under Soviet rule and in largely impoverished conditions. &#8220;My mother has seen a lot during her long life. She has lived from Rasputin to Putin,&#8221; he said.
&#8220;My mother met my father [Musagali Bisembeev] in 1946,&#8221; said Shintas. &#8220;She was 50 and he was over 60 but he was a strong man. He worked at the collective farm and did as much as two men would do. After the war my parents lived in a soldier&#8217;s shelter and their first son died in his babyhood.&#8221;
&#8220;They were so poor that could not afford a proper house, and probably this is why their baby son died,&#8221; he explained. &#8220;You could not heat such room properly.&#8221; But later they had three more sons.
&#8220;Just think about it,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;I was born when my mother was 53 and the youngest brother was born when she was 59. It still sounds incredible.&#8221;
They lived much of their life in poverty, Shintas notes, describing his upbringing as difficult and often characterized by hunger and work in the fields.
Her three boys went on to give Bisembeyeva ten grandchildren and over two dozen great-grandchildren.
As noted by The Daily Mail, verifying the ages of older Russians can be difficult due to a lack of consistent documentation. Skeptics of Bisembeyeva&#8217;s claim point to her unusually old age for having her three children as evidence that she may not have been as old as believed.
The previous oldest person in the world, Koku Istambulova, who reportedly reached the age of 129 before passing away earlier this year, offered a similar story of a lifetime of struggle as a Muslim under communist control to that of Bisembeyeva. Rather than a life filled with &#8220;optimism,&#8221; however, Istambulova described her experience as largely devoid of &#8220;happiness.&#8221;
&#8220;Why did Allah give me such a long life and so little happiness? I would have been dead long ago if not for Allah, who was holding me in his arms,&#8221; Istambulova <a href="https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/world-news/3338828/worlds-oldest-and-most-miserable-human-129-curses-allah-for-letting-her-live-so-long/" rel="nofollow">told</a> The Sun in October 2018. &#8220;It is hard to live when all who remembered you died long ago.&#8221;
One of her worst memories, she said, was the day she and her fellow Chechens were deported by Stalin&#8217;s government to Kazakhstan. &#8220;It was a bad day, cold and gloomy,&#8221; said Istambulova. &#8220;We were put in a train and taken no one knew where. Railway carriages were stuffed with people – dirt, rubbish, excrement was everywhere … On the way to our exile, dead bodies were just thrown out of the train.&#8221;
The day she pointed to as the one day she felt happiness was when first entered her home. &#8220;It was the day when I first entered my house,&#8221; she said. &#8220;It was very small and I stoked the stove with wood, but it was my home. I built it myself, the best house in the world. I lived there for 60 years.&#8221;
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Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) recently appeared on C-SPAN’s “After Words” program to promote his new book, “The Case Against Socialism.”
During the approximately 45 minute interview with Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) acting as host, Paul spoke about the dangers of people like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) promoting socialist ideology unchallenged.
When Gaetz asked Paul about the way in which certain politicians and media figures “champion Venezuela,” the senator replied:
<blockquote>Venezuela is just such a disaster. I mean, people literally eating their pets. We tell the story of a young lady who was a teenage girl, and she has a gang, but her gang is to defend the turf of trash. So, there’s certain garbage receptacles and she keeps people out of them because those are her garbage receptacles to look for food. How sad. People killing rats in the street to try to eat them, pigeons, and it just, it really is a sad thing.
Kind of going back to the world economy thing, we have to understand why the world economy got better, and we have to understand why Venezuela’s deteriorating into, you know, chaos – and that&#8217;s, I think, part of what the book is doing – it’s part of also the debate we should be having up here, and we don&#8217;t seem to have it in Congress, is that we don&#8217;t develop, we aren’t really talking about which economically system is better.
And nobody in the media seems to care that what AOC is supporting or what Bernie is supporting is Stalin and Mao and Pol Pot, and all these terrible ideas, and they get away with it because they aren&#8217;t challenged.</blockquote>
The pertinent portion of the video begins at the 16:21 mark:
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Later in the interview, Gaetz brings up Sanders’ <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2019/02/19/bernie-sanders-well-actually-bread-lines-arent-quite-bad/">remark</a> from the 1980’s about breadlines.
“It’s funny, sometimes American journalists talk about how bad a country is, that people are lining up for food. That is a good thing!” Sanders stated. “In other countries people don’t line up for food. The rich get the food and the poor starve to death.”
To this, Paul replied: “Yeah, well, we suggest that he actually go down and see what the lines are like in Venezuela. I don’t think people are too excited about lines.”
On the subject of politicians and media personalities defending socialism, during his October 11 appearance on ABC’s “The View,” Paul received pushback from guest-host Ana Navarro, who <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-ana-navarro-claims-venezuelas-maduro-is-not-a-socialist">suggested</a> that Venezuela was not a representation of socialism.
<blockquote>NAVARRO: Let me ask you this because I live in Miami, there’s tens of thousands of Venezuelan exiles living there. You talk a lot about Venezuela in your new book. I get a lot of political ads from the Republican Party – Donald Trump has tweeted this, many have tweeted this – “If you vote for Democrats, they will turn the United States into Venezuela.” Do you think that’s a fair statement to make?
PAUL: Well, if you vote for a socialist, you might get socialism.
NAVARRO: Come on. Don’t do that. Maduro is not a socialist; he’s a corrupt, murderous thug who is starving his people.
PAUL: That’s not true.
NAVARRO: That’s not true? Maduro’s not a thug and a murderer who’s starving his people?
PAUL: Let’s have a conversation here. Chavez was a socialist, and socialism was the economic system Venezuela –
NAVARRO: And they stole. [It’s a] kleptocracy. It’s not socialism.
PAUL: But here’s the question … they voted for socialism.</blockquote>
Paul attempted to finish his thought, but Navarro cut him of, falsely implying that Paul wouldn’t condemn Maduro as a “murderous thug.” 
The Daily Wire reached out to Venezuelan expat Daniel Di Martino for a response to Navarro’s claim that Maduro isn’t a socialist, and he stated:
<blockquote>Ana Navarro is wrong to say Maduro isn’t socialist. Nicolás Maduro and his predecessor, Hugo Chavez, nationalized thousands of companies and greatly expanded welfare programs and government employment. It was as a result of these socialist policies that our economy was destroyed and that today 9 out of every 10 Venezuelans live in poverty and more than four million Venezuelans like myself have been forced to leave our homeland. Corrupt and evil people govern many countries around the world, but these countries don’t see the terrible humanitarian crises that socialist countries like Venezuela and Cuba experience.</blockquote>
“It is insulting that media personalities continue to try to defend the socialist system that has killed so many people throughout history just to protect the radical Democrats that promote those same policies in America,” Di Martino added.

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