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
(Excerpt) Read more at fresnobee.com ...
So b/c the Fresno Bee editor puts VDH’s name in the headline, now he’s an elitist prick who demands we fawn all over him? Never mind that the actual title of the piece via National Review is “War Clouds on the Horizon?”
What’s your complaint again, and why is it so vitally important?
You obviously are incredibly ignorant.
Why are you so angry? Just because you have never read his analysis before, you can simply disagree without getting so obscenely rude.
That's good! Von Mises: "Every advocate of the welfare state and of planning is a potential dictator. What he plans is to deprive all other men of all their rights, and to establish his own and his friends' unrestricted omnipotence. He refuses to convince his fellow-citizens. He prefers to "liquidate them."
Plus you have the democrat party supporting our enemies.
Don’tcha just love folks who judge you before they know you?
Just like you are with VDH.
I’ve read his comments for a couple of years as I have yours
And your thoughtless comments aren’t even close to VDH’s deletes.
Lurking’
The original headline was: “War Clouds on the Horizon?”
Freepers add his name because he has a following here... people like me... others..
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/393896/war-clouds-horizon-victor-davis-hanson
Bfl
war is coming—my guess it will break out in late 2015-—My guess it will be a world war with an “Axis of Evil”—several states working together to change the world order. My guess: Russia/Iran/Turkey/North Korea/and Cuba on one side—USA and South Korea/Japan and Canada on the other. Europe will stay netural as East Europe goes back to Russia, Isreal is eliminated, and South Korea is Nuked. China will stay netural but not give us any more credit—England will be beset with inner turmoil along with France and stay out of it (maybe helping Russia on the side). This time we may lose—when Tables turn on us—other nations may join the Axis—Vietnam, south Africa, Egypt, and others we once saw as allies.
He hasn't gone anywhere!
He posted that caption on his home page and many are fooled by it.
But, apparently ego gets the bettor of some people and they refer to themselves as humble to make others think more highly of them. They are the first ones to bitch when somebody upstages or posts an intelligent thought.
HG thinks he is the thought police here on FR, and anybody that posts from a blog is automatically challenged by him. I guess he doesn't like the competition.
I am of the people that state "opinions are like ...holes! Everybody has one". I have enjoyed reading posts from the mind of VDH because he is succinct and intelligible. He has points to contribute that cause others to think. That is not arrogance, nor is it simple assertion. He is often profound, but always over the target.
As for arrogance, it is extremely arrogant to make such a big deal out of somebody else's postings . It mostly says "look at me" 'cause I am needing attention today!
My issue is simple; hijacking a thread over some conceived idiotic rant is doing a huge disservice to the topic of this article.
Sorry, humblebutters can chill out or discuss the topic.
It’s a rather important one, wouldn’t you agree?
Oh, and for the record, I feel nothing but pride that others called him out on his silly comments - not ‘shame’. How silly of you. Wasn’t that the rant the fools in WI chanted over the whole unions being put in their place?
‘shame shame shame’ bwahaha
I see nothing that warranted the show of douchebaggery that resulted from one comment.
VDH is VDH. He is clickbait simply because of who he is.
But you are just hg, an inconsequential pest.
How sad for you to post such an ignorant comment. You love to shock, but this comment is amazingly stupid.
Where is this “100 years of peace” coming from?
What’s the matter with you?
I like to read his articles and started posting them here (which you call "fawning" or "bowing down"(?!)). Some other FReeper used to have a vdh ping list but stopped doing so and I picked up a partial list. When I started to post his articles, I got FReepmail from someone who said the ping list keeper should put [VDH] in the title so I started doing that, thinking that was what FReepers wanted. Judging by the comments on this thread, I think that is correct.
That's arrogant and causes me to want to spit on him rather than read his stuff.
That's just plain silly. One wonders why you bother to click and post on the thread at all.
However, since I don't want you to spit or think badly of Dr. Hanson, I'll refrain from using the [VDH] in my future article titles.
Actually, I'd prefer if you continue to reference Dr. Hansen in the title, as it alerts me to the author of what's being posted, and Dr. Hansen's work is usually worth reading.
I wouldn't pay much attention to the single poster that objects. After all, someone has to live on the left side of the bell curve.
sitetest
Perhaps if you ask the mods nicely, they will delete this post and spare you further humiliation.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.