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Woodrow Wilson's racist legacy and decolonising modern sanctions
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| 07-16-2020
| by Eva Nanopoulos
Posted on 07/16/2020 12:34:14 PM PDT by Red Badger
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To: dfwgator
Point being, Germany was no better nor worse than the other Allied Powers.
Germany did do a few things that didn’t make itself look very good. They executed a British nurse who helped British soldiers escape(Edith Cavell) and they executed a ship’s captain, Charles Fryatt, for attempting to ram a submarine that was attacking his ship—since he was a civilian, he was tried and convicted as a terrorist when the Germans later captured him.
And the sinking of the Lusitania didn’t help them a lot either—even if she was carrying war supplies. Pictures of bodies of dead children washing ashore in Ireland doesn’t make for good press.
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07/16/2020 5:05:53 PM PDT
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hanamizu
To: hanamizu
Shall we talk about the Brits during The Boer War, I already mentioned Belgium in the Congo, and the French certainly weren’t innocents, neither.
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07/16/2020 6:30:34 PM PDT
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dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: dfwgator
Shall we talk about the Brits during The Boer War...
No, there were no angels during the colonial times in Africa—although the Brits and French did seem to be somewhat less horrible than the Germans. But no one was a bad as Leopold who did not hold the ‘Congo Free State’ as a possession of Belgium, but rather his own personal property.
All that said, Colonel von Lettow-Vorbeck did apparently have the loyalty of his African troops as he held off/tied down a much larger English force in East Africa.
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07/16/2020 7:16:55 PM PDT
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hanamizu
To: hanamizu
I still believe had America and Britain stayed out of it, the world would have been much better off.
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07/16/2020 7:18:43 PM PDT
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dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: Red Badger
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07/16/2020 7:25:29 PM PDT
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Bratch
(If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.)
To: dfwgator
Had Princeps missed Archduke Ferdinand and Sophie, the world would be better off. I used to tell my jr high history students that WWI has lots more loose ends effecting us today, than WWII. The Middle East being the most obvious along with the rise of Communism.
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07/16/2020 8:19:37 PM PDT
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hanamizu
To: hanamizu
Something was going to trigger WWI, it was only a matter of what and when.
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07/16/2020 9:30:42 PM PDT
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dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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