I said intelligent. These things are not mutually exclusive. Germans invented some of the most impressive machines in its height and were it not for the giants Russia and the US, no nation or even combination of nations in Europe could have beaten Germany in WWII. German military machinery was superior to all allied equipment; some say that if the Me-262 were invented a little earlier, the US would have had to withdraw in defeat. Were they not so outnumbered and with so little territory, Germans would have swept Europe. They're the most intelligent Western Europeans; or at least they were. Once countries follow America, they tend to dumb down so we can't be sure anymore.
Maybe because they were good at copying from Britain?
The American Exploitation of German Technical Know-How after World War II
The Anglo atlanticists can’t use Christianity anymore as a unifying schelling point for the western nations so they dogwhistle to using race. Have been since Obamas pivot to Asia.
Book smart is not necessarily the same thing as wisdom, autists populate many material science research programs and even intelligent people can be victims of propaganda given how many well meaning westerners devolve onto the xinjiang blood libel.
They copied a Spitfire and ended up with a Storm Bird? They copied a Sherman and ended up with a Tiger? This kind of reasoning is how Americans say China copied everything from them, even the tech they don't have.
Gordon Chang only gambles at Steve Wynn's casinos because he's a smart businessman and makes good decisions
Sure, then the Japanese are equals to German by your logic.
I think he talks about the 1870-90s, germany was a new state at the time and desperately underdeveloped compared to britbongs.