[Paul R.]

Hello “Argument Clinic”.

familyop challenged an assertion made in the presentation / description on You Tube of the 1st vid, and contributed additional information. Others (including the OP!!) got to discussing the larger context and related issues, and YOU call that hijacking the thread and blowing smoke up everyone’s caboose?

Fai Mao, if you object to my part in the larger discussion about WW1 and WW2, then let me know and I will apologize.

Otherwise it is BroJoeK who should apologize for attacking FReepers having an interesting and not even really contentious discussion, compared to many on FR — until he / she / it came along.

I think we know who “blew up the thread”.

[Fai Mao]

I have have enjoyed reading the replies

I don’t post politics on FR instead focusing on cultural and historical things (Asian movies the like)

History avocational for me since my training is library cataloging and educational philosophy.

[BroJoeK]

Paul R.: "I think we know who “blew up the thread”."

A cleverer man than I would have noticed your comments referred to the second link, the one from post #2 above.
So the first real thread comment was your post #3 referring not to Fai Mao's very interesting video, but to something else entirely.

I've never before seen a thread hijacked like that in it's first two posts -- wow!
Pardon my assumptions.

[familyop]

You might be interested in this one posted by me yesterday.

Pinkerton: Learning the Right Lesson of World War I on Its 100th Anniversary
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3705091/posts

Here’s the link to the full article. It was well written, in my opinion.

https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2018/11/11/pinkerton-learning-the-right-lesson-of-world-war-i-on-its-100th-anniversary/