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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Turf war.
The eastern world, it was explodin'.
And now the West.
Any student of World history knows that 2 World Wars were aided and abetted by American disarmament.
Over and over again my friend.
Today I watched Tora Tora Tora.....
Roosevelt imposed sanctions against Japan cutting of raw materials to their manufacturing economy
Obama imposed sanctions that have imposed hardship on the Russian economy.
Japan absorbed Indo China and the east Indies and attacked Pearl Harbor
Russia lacks the capacity for military projection
So Nostradamus was right after all.
He’s a brilliant man.
They have nukes and a gas pipeline that supplies Europe? Cyber attacks? Financial war? They are buying a ton of gold along with China and India.
Every time I see Pooty Poot I think a wounded bear is a very dangerous creature.
Does this Hanson guy actually title his stuff with his own name?
The western democratic nations don’t have leadership with any guts today.
They will just keep running their mouths, drawing red lines and backing down until they finally give it all up.
I guess the old "Third time's a charm" might apply in this situation.
I don't care if he's the last six Popes and three of their wives.
Titling his stuff with his name means he thinks folks should read it just because HE wrote it.
That's arrogant and causes me to want to spit on him rather than read his stuff.
The newspaper does that.
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