Posted on 12/07/2014 4:34:41 PM PST by daisy12
The world is changing and becoming even more dangerous — in a way we’ve seen before.
In the decade before World War I, the near-100-year European peace that had followed the fall of Napoleon was taken for granted. Yet it abruptly imploded in 1914. Prior little wars in the Balkans had seemed to predict a much larger one on the horizon — and were ignored.
The exhausted Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman empires were spent forces unable to control nationalist movements in their provinces. The British Empire was fading. Imperial Germany was rising. Czarist Russia was beset with revolutionary rebellion. As power shifted, decline for some nations seemed like opportunity for others.
The same was true in 1939. The tragedy of the Versailles Treaty of 1919 was not that it had been too harsh. In fact, it was far milder than the terms Germany had imposed on a defeated Russia in 1918 or the requirements it had planned for France in 1914.
Instead, Versailles combined the worst of both worlds: harsh language without any means of enforcement.
The subsequent appeasement of Britain and France, the isolationism of the United States, and the collaboration of the Soviet Union with Nazi Germany green-lighted Hitler’s aggression — and another world war.
We are entering a similarly dangerous interlude. Collapsing oil prices — a good thing for most of the world — will make troublemakers like oil-exporting Iran and Russia take even more risks.
Read more here: http://www.fresnobee.com/2014/12/06/4273844/victor-davis-hanson-a-large-war.html?sp=/99/274/#storylink=cpy
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You’re not.....smart.
Thank-you for making my night with that posting!
Editors write headlines, not writers... You are embarrassing yourself.
Whatever.
Arrogance bothers me, and fawning even more.
Fawn over the arrogant one, make of yourself a peasant.
Bow down! It is Victor Davis Hanson! On your knees!
Doff hats, Chuckies, and show a knee!
What does this mean?
Jeez! Who's next? Grumpy Cat?
It means that however highly this fellow thinks of himself,
I’m not going to fawn over him just because of his name.
No he doesn’t. No he isn’t. Read the man’s columns. You’ll be better for it.
ROTFLOL!
This is what is posted when clicking on the link, however, since posts have still continued, the information may not be accurate. Thanks.
Just ignore the troll.
“humblegunner
Since Jan 23, 2001
This account has been banned or suspended.”
That’s just a spoof. He’s the self-appointed thread cop here. Annoying at the best.
No. Not really. Some strife? Yup. True war? Not any time soon.
And stop fantasizing, it makes you sound queer.
Get a clue, goat roper.
No one GAF what you think.
I’m amazed that a real sexual intellectual such as yourself has never heard of Hanson before. ;^)
Thanks for the information - looks like I was fooled ;)
When Humble returns I would like to be the first to welcome him back. He is OK in my books, we just disagree on this thread.
TT
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