The World Wars were a demographic disaster for Europe.
10’s of millions of the best men slaughtered.
To me it explains much of the world, especially Europe.
The two world wars exhausted Europe spiritually and physically, giving rise to Third World attacks against a dying civilization. Note the so called liberation movements became effective after WWII.
“The World Wars were a demographic disaster for Europe.”
That’s for sure. Really it was the end of European Christian civilization. It ushered in the era of Communism and Nazism, followed now by Islamization.
I agree; my belief has always been that you can’t understand where we are today unless you appreciate what happened in World War I. On a tactical basis, static, costly battles incredibly bad for troop morale; almost no maneuver except at the very beginning and the end and in the Mideast theater and Churchill’s disastrous Gallipoli campaign; unbelievable disregard for the lives of our best young men. The strategic consequences were horrendous; the rise to power of the murderous Bolsheviks in Russia who would have never been allowed near public toilets much less the government in normal times; the same for Hitler in Germany; the feeling in the US that led to isolationism in WW2 was a direct result of having lost 100,000 men for a European war that made little sense to the average American. I have never been to Fort Douamont in Verdun but I have been to the Somme. Verdun was a direct result of German Gen. Falkenhayn’s belief that the German nation had more young men to lose than the French, thus they could bleed the French nation to death. Same thing for Gen. Haig at the Somme. Horrendous military thinking with expectable horrendous results.
Yes, but I understand the Ruling Classes came out okay for the most part.
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