Re: The joy of actual numbers, was Democracy

On Sat, 9 Nov 2024 14:10:13 +0100, D wrote:

On Sat, 9 Nov 2024, rbowman wrote:
 

On Sat, 9 Nov 2024 05:55:54 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
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God Bless America!

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Gott strafe England. It took a while but considering the current state
he finally got around to it.
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England? I think god has expanded his punishment a bit to include all of
europe. ;)

It does seem so. I realize that the causes of WWI were complicated but I
put the major part on England's desire to put down a recently unified
Germany that was starting to threaten their hold on the world.

The blockade of Germany for 6 months after the armistice that caused many
deaths from starvation and the draconian terms of Versailles inevitably
led to WWII. If it wasn't Hitler it would have been someone else.

Allying with the Soviets led to the enslavement of half of Europe. The
Brits could have extended the Phoney War and let the Axis powers drive the
Communists to the east of the Urals if not into the sea but Churchill had
to open a second front to help Stalin.

I suppose it could go back to France's attempt to save its dying empire in
1870. Bismarck used that very effectively.

And here we are now.