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To: Zhang Fei

Did Germany have colonies in the Americas? No.

Britain and France did.

Germany was interested in the European continent, they weren’t interested in but having maybe a few African colonies.

And those “poor” Belgians got everything they deserved for what they did in Africa.

Britain and Germany should have made a deal.


18 posted on 05/26/2020 5:28:59 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

[Did Germany have colonies in the Americas? No.

Britain and France did.

Germany was interested in the European continent, they weren’t interested in but having maybe a few African colonies.

And those “poor” Belgians got everything they deserved for what they did in Africa.

Britain and Germany should have made a deal.]


Interests expand with capabilities. What you don’t dare to hope for when you’re a pauper becomes a must-have once you acquire the capability to get and hold them. The Belgians operated in the dark about what their black subordinates did to the people of enemy tribes.


19 posted on 05/26/2020 5:35:10 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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To: dfwgator
Britain and Germany should have made a deal.

Yes, but the time for that was earlier. By August 1914, everybody was locked in and what was happening couldn't be stopped. Nobody was really a hero by that point.

27 posted on 05/27/2020 5:50:22 AM PDT by x
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