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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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To: humblegunner
"Sorry. Don't like it."

Looking real hard for someone who cares what you think, goat roper.

Umm....I got nuthin'.

81 posted on 12/07/2014 5:40:50 PM PST by SnuffaBolshevik
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To: SnuffaBolshevik

“He must shovel a lot of bucks to JRob since he posts a lot of stupid s*** here and gets away with it.”

That is also my opinion.


82 posted on 12/07/2014 5:41:26 PM PST by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra (Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
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To: JennysCool

That is the way I thought it was done also.


83 posted on 12/07/2014 5:43:52 PM PST by bobby.223 (Retired up in the snowy mountains of the American Redoubt and it's a great life!)
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To: humblegunner

Does this Hanson guy actually title his stuff with his own name?
What an arrogant piece of crap he must be.


I doubt if anyone really cares what you think.


84 posted on 12/07/2014 5:43:59 PM PST by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: humblegunner
The name in front of the title is like "DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM?"

Sorry. Don't like it.

Then direct your bitch to the Headline Editor at the Fresno Bee. He's the one who wrote it.

85 posted on 12/07/2014 5:44:36 PM PST by okie01 (THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA: Ignorance on Parade)
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To: humblegunner
Does this Hanson guy actually title his stuff with his own name? What an arrogant piece of crap he must be.

FreeReign: These are the end times

86 posted on 12/07/2014 5:44:57 PM PST by FreeReign
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To: daisy12

It seems that Hanson has forgotten the 1870 Franco-Prussian War.


87 posted on 12/07/2014 5:47:44 PM PST by expat2
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To: expat2

Whoops.


88 posted on 12/07/2014 5:50:47 PM PST by EternalVigilance
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To: humblegunner
It's the editor's title and you know that.

At one time I thought you might have another point, but now I kinda doubt it. It's that acid reflux, man.

89 posted on 12/07/2014 5:50:58 PM PST by Mrs. Don-o (Well I should probably warn you I'll be just fine, yeah / No offense to you, don't waste your time..)
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To: humblegunner
It's the editor's title and you know that.

At one time I thought you might have another point, but now I kinda doubt it. It's that acid reflux, man.

90 posted on 12/07/2014 5:51:56 PM PST by Mrs. Don-o (Well I should probably warn you I'll be just fine, yeah / No offense to you, don't waste your time..)
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra
Grumpy Cat is, at the least, fun. HG is just annoying!

Nonsense! Humblegunner is OUR Grumpy Cat.

91 posted on 12/07/2014 5:57:33 PM PST by okie01 (THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA: Ignorance on Parade)
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To: okie01

That’s where neutering will get ya! ;’)


92 posted on 12/07/2014 5:59:45 PM PST by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: okie01

Grumpy cat without the millions of bucks to make off him. LOL


93 posted on 12/07/2014 6:01:17 PM PST by dforest
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

My opinion, too.


94 posted on 12/07/2014 6:04:57 PM PST by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: okie01
"Humblegunner is OUR Grumpy Cat."

Sorry but that's B.S.

Grumpy Cat was born with a congenital defect that he can't help.

Humblegunner goes out of his way to be the far end of the digestive tract.

95 posted on 12/07/2014 6:05:24 PM PST by SnuffaBolshevik
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To: humblegunner

Wow, you are just shallow and ignorant regarding this. You need to grow more informed.


96 posted on 12/07/2014 6:07:53 PM PST by sgtyork (Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy)
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To: SnuffaBolshevik

LOL! Good one.


97 posted on 12/07/2014 6:13:58 PM PST by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: jttpwalsh; humblegunner

As jttp pointed out, usually the editor writes the headline. I agree that VDH is one of our most brilliant conservative thinkers and writers, as well as being personally very humble. In addition, VDH just suffered the sudden loss of an adult daughter. Attacking him, on such scant evidence, seems out of line.


98 posted on 12/07/2014 6:19:38 PM PST by Hetty_Fauxvert (FUBO, and the useful idiots you rode in on!)
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To: Hetty_Fauxvert

Thanks for your reply.


99 posted on 12/07/2014 6:20:40 PM PST by jttpwalsh
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To: expat2

Or the Crimean war in the 1850’s.

CC


100 posted on 12/07/2014 6:20:59 PM PST by Celtic Conservative (Hodie Christus Natus est!)
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