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Historians traditionally blame the failure of the League of Nations--the post-World War I, Versailles-era dream of President Woodrow Wilson--on many things. Its membership was small (58 nations). The League's utopian rhetoric lacked commensurate force. The postwar ascendant United States refused to join. The winners of World War I, like France and Britain, were terrified of rearming, while the losers, such as Germany and Austria, were eager to. Consequently, the League in the mid-1930s allowed fascist powers to make a mockery of the Versailles Treaty. It could never even enforce its own embargoes and sanctions. Without big power backup, the League...

Trump, unlike the UN, is brokering cease-fires and curbing threats by wielding U.S. power through trade, leverage, and force—favoring deals over endless wars. Historians traditionally blame the failure of the League of Nations—the post-World War I, Versailles-era dream of President Woodrow Wilson—on many things. Its membership was small (58 nations). The League’s utopian rhetoric lacked commensurate force. The postwar ascendant United States refused to join. The winners of World War I, like France and Britain, were terrified of rearming, while the losers, such as Germany and Austria, were eager to. Consequently, the League in the mid-1930s allowed fascist powers to...

We are at a crossroads in American history. The world is closing in on us and the dam is soon to break. China, Russia, Iran, North Korea and others are rising up and challenging us on the world stage economically and militarily. We kill our babies, war in the streets, lies from the mouths of our leaders, wrong is right and right is wrong, Clinton followed by Bush followed by Obama presidencies. America is weak, not just militarily but culturally, politically, and morally. A day of reckoning is coming. It came for the Roman Empire. Prepare yourself Freepers, spiritually, physically...