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The Treaty of Versailles took the German army down to 100,000 in a population of 68 million, which was regarded as a pretty severe thing to do, even by the understandably vengeful French. It was considered to be the minimum strength that even a defeated nation needed for self-defense in 1919.

According to the Wiki article, as of 28 February 2017, the German Army had a strength of 60,431 soldiers in a population of 82 million. Nobody else did this to Germany, Germany did this to Germany.

This isn't a case of America "turning inward" or abandoning any commitment to democracy. It's a case of other countries riding for free, not making their own committed contributions to the collective defense, preening about being pacifist and moral for having deliberately failed to do so, and cursing those who have had to take up the slack as being warlike. Sorry, Anne, but the game's over.

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The Treaty of Versailles took the German army down to 100,000 in a population of 68 million, which was regarded as a pretty severe thing to do, even by the understandably vengeful French. It was considered to be the minimum strength that even a defeated nation needed for self-defense in 1919.

According to the Wiki article, as of 28 February 2017, the German Army had a strength of 60,431 soldiers in a population of 82 million. Nobody else did this to Germany, Germany did this to Germany.

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Why, that's barely enough to conquer France!