2025-05-09
1 小时 10 分钟you It's Tuesday, May 6, 2025, and welcome back to Goodfellows,
a Hoover Institution broadcast examining social, economic, political, and geopolitical concerns.
I'm Bill Whelan.
I'm a Hoover Distinguished Policy Fellow, and I'll be your moderator today.
Most enviable task
because I now get to kick back and benefit from the collective wisdom of three of the brightest individuals I know.
We call them the Goodfellows.
They are the historian Sir Neil Ferguson, John Cochran, aka the Grumpy Economist,
a Grumpy and blog name only is actually a delightful gentleman,
and former presidential national security advisor and our resident optimist,
Lieutenant General HR McMaster.
In addition, there are many distinguished accomplishments.
Neil John and HR are all Hoover senior fellows.
Gentlemen, we're doing something different today, something we haven't done in a while.
It's what we call a BYO show, or more to the point, a BYOT show, as in bring your own.
topic.
In fact, she's here to come ready and loaded with a matter for conversation.
John Cochran, I turn to you.
This week is coincides with the 80th anniversary of VE Day in Europe, victory in Europe Day.
And you have Europe on your mind.