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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Looking real hard for someone who cares what you think, goat roper.
Umm....I got nuthin'.
“He must shovel a lot of bucks to JRob since he posts a lot of stupid s*** here and gets away with it.”
That is also my opinion.
That is the way I thought it was done also.
Does this Hanson guy actually title his stuff with his own name?
What an arrogant piece of crap he must be.
I doubt if anyone really cares what you think.
Sorry. Don't like it.
Then direct your bitch to the Headline Editor at the Fresno Bee. He's the one who wrote it.
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It seems that Hanson has forgotten the 1870 Franco-Prussian War.
Whoops.
At one time I thought you might have another point, but now I kinda doubt it. It's that acid reflux, man.
At one time I thought you might have another point, but now I kinda doubt it. It's that acid reflux, man.
Nonsense! Humblegunner is OUR Grumpy Cat.
That’s where neutering will get ya! ;’)
Grumpy cat without the millions of bucks to make off him. LOL
My opinion, too.
Sorry but that's B.S.
Grumpy Cat was born with a congenital defect that he can't help.
Humblegunner goes out of his way to be the far end of the digestive tract.
Wow, you are just shallow and ignorant regarding this. You need to grow more informed.
LOL! Good one.
As jttp pointed out, usually the editor writes the headline. I agree that VDH is one of our most brilliant conservative thinkers and writers, as well as being personally very humble. In addition, VDH just suffered the sudden loss of an adult daughter. Attacking him, on such scant evidence, seems out of line.
Thanks for your reply.
Or the Crimean war in the 1850’s.
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