Sarah Paine – How Hitler almost starved Britain

It turns out that the possibilities for maritime  and continental powers are a little different.

Basically, a small subset of countries can  defend themselves primarily at sea. That

opens certain possibilities. Others can't.  That opens and closes certain possibilities.

I'm going to talk about this story  from Britain's point of view,   the country with the 360° "you can't get me" moat.

It's an instructive case for the United  States, of the possibilities and the perils