History lesson simplified: If Word War I was a bar fight - here is how it went down

[Mira]

[The Magistrate]

1. Not Bad, Ma'am

Not bad at all.

[Brigid]

2. Bookmarking this one!

I don't know who wrote this, but it's a keeper!

[malthaussen]

3. If there was a link, it's gone. n/t

[merrily]

4. Over 16 million dead and over 20 million wounded.

Not counting how many suffered from "battle fatigue" or how many people were displaced, impoverished (further), etc.

We can barely imagine those numbers today.

Not to mention, the state in which the peace treaty left Germany arguably paved the way for a lunatic to tell the Germans they were exceptional.

But, the important thing is, American bankers lost nothing on the loans they had made to European nations. So, huzzah.

[jwirr]

5. And that little bar fight set the scene for WWII.

[geek tragedy]

6. this is the myth--reality is that WWI was going to happen sooner or later with that many

aggressive militaristic dictatorships crammed together. They could have backed down from that war if they really wanted to.

If not Archduke Ferdinand, there would have been another pretext and exactly the same players would have lined up.

And it peddles the myth that poor innocent Germany was the victim of the villainous Allies. Germany was more than hot to trot.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

7. Which is another good reason we should not interfere in Ukraine.

"The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men ... an' men / Gang aft agley" Robert Burns