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Victor Davis Hanson: A large war is looming
The Fresno Bee ^ | December 6, 2014 | Victor Davis Hanson

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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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Germany; Government; News/Current Events; Russia; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: europeanunion; france; germany; iran; lebanon; nato; norway; russia; unitedkingdom; vdh; victordavishanson; wwiii
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1 posted on 12/07/2014 4:34:41 PM PST by daisy12
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To: daisy12

Turf war.


2 posted on 12/07/2014 4:36:18 PM PST by mylife
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To: daisy12
The exhausted Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman empires were spent forces.. Czarist Russia was beset with revolutionary rebellion.

The eastern world, it was explodin'.

3 posted on 12/07/2014 4:36:46 PM PST by MUDDOG
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To: MUDDOG

And now the West.


4 posted on 12/07/2014 4:38:21 PM PST by ClearCase_guy (Democrats have a lynch mob mentality. They always have.)
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To: daisy12

Any student of World history knows that 2 World Wars were aided and abetted by American disarmament.


5 posted on 12/07/2014 4:38:47 PM PST by Nachum (Obamacare: It's. The. Flaw.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Over and over again my friend.


6 posted on 12/07/2014 4:40:13 PM PST by MUDDOG
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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


8 posted on 12/07/2014 4:42:39 PM PST by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ..... Obama is public enemy #1)
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To: daisy12

So Nostradamus was right after all.


9 posted on 12/07/2014 4:43:46 PM PST by Ben Mugged (The number one enemy of liberalism is reality.)
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To: humblegunner

He’s a brilliant man.


10 posted on 12/07/2014 4:44:12 PM PST by Richard from IL
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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.


11 posted on 12/07/2014 4:45:54 PM PST by daisy12
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To: Richard from IL; humblegunner

http://victorhanson.com/wordpress/


12 posted on 12/07/2014 4:48:06 PM PST by EEGator
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To: humblegunner

Does this Hanson guy actually title his stuff with his own name?


Respectfully, no - the editor writes the headline. He is also very humble, in my years of reading him.


13 posted on 12/07/2014 4:48:21 PM PST by jttpwalsh
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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.


14 posted on 12/07/2014 4:49:37 PM PST by Iron Munro (D.H.S. has the same headcount as the US Marine Corps with twice the budget)
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To: Nachum
Any student of World history knows that 2 World Wars were aided and abetted by American disarmament.

I guess the old "Third time's a charm" might apply in this situation.

15 posted on 12/07/2014 4:50:47 PM PST by CapnJack
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To: daisy12


16 posted on 12/07/2014 4:51:58 PM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: Richard from IL
He’s a brilliant man.

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.

17 posted on 12/07/2014 4:53:42 PM PST by humblegunner (Why hello, Captain Trips.)
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But not Nostralitis.


19 posted on 12/07/2014 4:55:59 PM PST by MUDDOG
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To: humblegunner

The newspaper does that.


20 posted on 12/07/2014 4:56:34 PM PST by JennysCool (My hypocrisy goes only so far)
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