Posted on 12/09/2014 9:03:11 AM PST by Rummyfan
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
Read more here: http://www.fresnobee.com/2014/12/06/4273844_victor-davis-hanson-a-large-war.html?rh=1#storylink=cpy
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It is difficult to stop horror when 42% of the population and leaders are working to initiate and elevate the horror to supreme status but the 42% has a surprise waiting on them and their ranks will be 10% once the surprise is released.
Our leaders lack the wisdom to prevent the horror that’s coming...
And this time many Americans will die on American soil.
That's going to take nukes ... and America has People running loose ....
WHOA - that's good! Tagable...
Good chance you're right...
That’s going to take nukes ... and America has People running loose ....
I understand the “Nuke” part but “and America has People running loose” I don’t get.
Classified ....
Why would anyone complain about that?
Why, indeed - refer to this, for as long as you can stomach it :(
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3234787/posts
I hope whatever is “classified” is a good thing for us.
Near 100 year peace? Just off the top of my head, the Crimean War of 1853-56 (the Charge of the Light Brigade happened during it), and the French-German War of 1870-71 would be a bit of an interruption in that.
Ditz.
As long as we ignore him, he can’t get his jollies by troll jacking the thread. The trick is to not react.
always ... or most nearly always. The Military and LE is not stupid and besides zer0 dissed them. Is called self-preservation also.
Freeloaders, welfare rats, and their elected leaders are over-funded. Without them we’d be in the black.
That was a bad day. Surprisingly I refused the bait and didn’t pile on, but I wanted to.
Thanks for your reply. I learned a lesson, that’s for sure!
How can we win. America is not ready for my answer. Nukes and a policy of Massive Retaliation will:
Reduce the Defense Budget
Save lives
Force Europeans to grop-up and pay their own way
End these endless wars.
So be ready for 60,70, 80 years of endless wars.
All else is lethal folly waged by politicians with OTHER PEOPLE’S CHILDREN. The Cream of the Crop of America.
He is so effective because there are so many on his side: the MSM, the Academy, entertainment industry, crony capitalists, the insane, the stupid, the warped, the gibsmedats, the godless, the lawyers, and on and on.
After the collapse, I'd like to see Nuremberg-style trials for the leading traitors of this country, followed by hangings.
Correct...
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