History Repeats. It’s About to Get Dangerous

The show is on Spotify! 👉 https://open.spotify.com/show/7GlXSYMoOpcw41YGRCpjJB?si=cc2e479ee34d4167 Are America and China falling into a trap first described 2,400 years ago? From Athens and Sparta to the world wars and the Cuban Missile Crisis, history reveals how powerful rivals stumble into conflict, and what it takes to avoid it... Join my Substack, where the ideas go further than YouTube lets me take them: https://michaelbutton.substack.com/ Follow the show on Spotify! 👉 https://open.spotify.com/show/7GlXSYMoOpcw41YGRCpjJB?si=cc2e479ee34d4167 Let me know what you think in the comments, and thank you for watching!! Follow me on X: https://x.com/MichaelButtonX Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/michaelbuttonx/ Sources: https://news.usni.org/2023/06/03/u-s-canadian-warships-transit-taiwan-strait https://sofrep.com/news/close-call-in-taiwan-strait-tensions-escalate-between-china-and-us/ https://nypost.com/2026/05/14/us-news/xi-raises-prospect-of-a-future-us-china-war-at-trump-meeting/ https://www.history.com/articles/thucydides-trap-origins https://www.belfercenter.org/programs/thucydidess-trap https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/the-u.s.-and-china-are-falling-into-the-thucydides-trap-2020-09-22 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affair_of_Epidamnus https://www.livius.org/articles/concept/megarian-decree/ https://www.hoover.org/research/history-peloponnesian-war-thucydides https://www.britannica.com/summary/Peloponnesian-War https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0200%3Abook%3D1%3Achapter%3D23 https://defenceindepth.co/2016/05/27/was-the-anglo-german-naval-race-a-mirage/ https://germanhistorydocs.org/en/wilhelmine-germany-and-the-first-world-war-1890-1918/alfred-von-tirpitz-c-1900.pdf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Dreadnought_(1906) https://www.destinationsjourney.com/historical-military-photographs/royal-navy-battleship-hms-dreadnought/ https://blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/archivesandmanuscripts/2010/09/06/the-entente-cordiale-of-1904-a-short-cpa-history-of-anglo-french-military-cooperation/ https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/first-world-war/outbreak https://brewminate.com/the-monroe-doctrine-venezuela-and-the-birth-of-the-american-empire-in-1895/ https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/alaska-boundary-dispute https://archives.chu.cam.ac.uk/education/churchill-era/exercises/german-naval-threat-pre1947/ https://www.historyonthenet.com/the-great-rapprochement https://www.caixinglobal.com/2022-07-07/gallery-the-bridge-where-war-began-in-1937-101909692.html https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/July-26/united-states-freezes-japanese-assets https://the-past.com/feature/pearl-harbor-and-the-rise-of-imperial-japan/ https://www.defensemedianetwork.com/stories/the-attack-on-pearl-harbor-dec-7-1941-photos/ https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/october-14/the-cuban-missile-crisis-begins https://docsteach.org/document/mrbm-field-launch-site-san-cristobal-no-1/ https://microsites.jfklibrary.org/cmc/oct26/doc4.html https://www.wearethemighty.com/articles/tick-tock-cuban-missile-crisis/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/observations/rfks-secret-role-in-the-cuban-missile-crisis/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/air-space-magazine/when-the-missiles-left-cuba-31672903/ https://english.cw.com.tw/article/article.action?id=4465 https://www.fpri.org/article/2019/04/the-taiwan-relations-act-turns-40-so-what-now/ https://understandingwar.org/research/china-taiwan/china-taiwan-special-report-december-31-2025/ https://www.businessday.co.za/world/2026-05-14-xi-warns-trump-taiwan-tensions-could-trigger-us-china-conflict/ https://www.psqonline.org/article.cfm?idarticle=20313 https://aspectsofhistory.com/why-did-japan-attack-pearl-harbor/ https://kritikbakis.com/en/comparing-20th-century-britain-and-21st-century-america/ https://defensemirror.com/news/39262/China_Orders_Military_To_Prepare_For_Taiwan_Invasion_By_2027__U_S__Warns