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re: World War I ended 108 years ago today
Posted on 11/11/26 at 9:30 am to RollTide1987
Posted on 11/11/26 at 9:30 am to RollTide1987
A war for the banks. It enabled them to transform Europe's economies with emergency war measures.
And simultaneously decimated the European population.
And simultaneously decimated the European population.
Posted on 11/11/26 at 9:42 am to beerJeep
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Imagine the world where the Brit’s stay out.
No Nazi germany. No communism. No Middle East quagmire.
Stay out? Stay out of what? International commerce? Protection of their trade routes? That’s like imagining a present day world in which the United States “stays out”.
Posted on 11/11/26 at 9:45 am to Penrod
The treaty of Versailles started WW2
Posted on 11/11/26 at 9:59 am to Penrod
No way in hell were the British going to stay out of that fight. The great British fear was that the Germans would strengthen their navy so that it would have a qualitative and quantitative edge on the British .....and challenge Britain in Africa and influence in the ME.
There was an observation made a few years before by the British Admiralty based on a German battleship's port of call in Morocco at Spanish port that had sort of freaked them out. The German warships were better built and capable of just as much if not more firepower than anything the British had. There just was not enough of them at the time and they were reliant on coal whereas the British were transitioning to oil. It had Churchill's attention. Germany gets enough of those and the game changes.
Germany knew it. What wasn't counted on is how a trip about two years later to Sarajevo changes all the calculus.
There was an observation made a few years before by the British Admiralty based on a German battleship's port of call in Morocco at Spanish port that had sort of freaked them out. The German warships were better built and capable of just as much if not more firepower than anything the British had. There just was not enough of them at the time and they were reliant on coal whereas the British were transitioning to oil. It had Churchill's attention. Germany gets enough of those and the game changes.
Germany knew it. What wasn't counted on is how a trip about two years later to Sarajevo changes all the calculus.
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