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 ...
There is no humor in being or pretending to be such a jerk. You do succeed in giving all the impression that you are a jerk.
Are you trying to set a record for negative comments made to one poster?
Not your comments, there were no comments from others who did read the article.
You can’t read and understand English!
I must admit I never knew editors commonly titled editorials like this. (With the author’s name in the title). Learn something new every day I guess.
Now for the editorial itself: rather frightening I’d say. What does the author propose as an antidote to all this poisonous world instability I wonder?
Actually, I’m reminded yet again of Matt 24:6 when reading his opinion. Perhaps that should be more concerning.
Amazing.
So.. without using any English.. let's review:
My objections are bad.
Your objections are good.
Does that pretty much sum up the issue?
You’re a creep, too.
Is he a little retarded kid? If he is we can back off.
Otherwise he makes his own bed.
ping
I believe you are Jim Thompson.
ROFL!!!!!
She’s kinda cute, don-o ...
But either she’s incredibly vapid, or her friends (whom she’s imitating) are.
Not going to happen.
The one I think you think you're referring to was in July 1941 after Japan, through a deal with Hitler, took over French Indochina, thereby threatening both the Philippines and British Malaya (and the Straits of Malacca). Only an idiot would have let Japan keep going. FDR correctly shut off all further oil sales (although quit a bit still was shipped as late as Dec. 1941), and froze Japanese assets, which meant they couldn't buy more US oil. Nobody forced them to do anything. Quite the contrary, I think FDR was slow and weak in his response. He should have cut off all oil after the Mukden incident. That would have nipped the Rising Sun in the bud, so to speak.
Then, as now, we don't "impose hardships" on anyone. They impose it on themselves. It's like you're living next door to a murderer and you choose not to do business with him. It's not your fault he's a creep and a thug.
ZEro, on the other hand, has not acted nearly tough enough with Putin. He should have forced him back out of the Crimea and immedately re-nuked the Ukraine.
Excellent explanation, LS, one I never knew when reading historian’s plaints that we forced the Japanese into the war with our sanctions.
Thanks!
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