Mike; <OT> It's too often over simplified, and the blame all heaped
up on the door step of one Nation, or Man..but as you dig into it
you soon find that what created the "environment" for that type
of person to rise to power had more to do with it than the
Nation or man himself. I have met many closet Hitler's, Goebbles,
Himmlers , and "Uncle Joe's" and there may always be some of them around, sort of incubating and waiting on the right conditions to
hatch out.
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Being a Mariner, I tend to see most collisions as having been
avoidable , and when they are not then the fault seldom rest
just on the shoulders of the one who failed to yield the
right of way.
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More than any thing else prior to WWII the Elite of Europe
created a catch 22 , and then got themselves caught in it.
The situation got to the point that those who could have
prevented it , would have been very unpopular had they
taken the action needed.
They had sneered at Wilson when he said the Versailles
treaty was to harsh.
So later when they did see it coming none of them had the
Moral courage to ask for the money to match Hitler's build up, which could have made him think twice, because if they got that money and
war didn't come then they would look like fools.
And beyond that were certain alliances "based on who owed who
money" of course that stands out in WWI also.
So it turned into a rich mans war , but a poor mans
fight, which is par for the course as most wars are.
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I wonder just out of curiosity how many average American
High School Kids know, who actually declared war on who in Europe.
Jim
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