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Originally Posted by Juan Perón
Would an ordinary statesman have perhaps realised the problems that afflicted France & take measures to address them…..they might’nd have won the war but would they have inflicted enough damage to deter say Catholic Bavaria from joining Bismarck’s great vision…..?
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Don't think that this (the unification) was not long coming and long awaited by the german people. The greatest mistake was that it didn't unify all of the german people. There was a vision that was Deutschland, way before Bismarck. It was only the people in power that kept the german people from being under one leadership. People in power supported by foreign governments, the worst thing for long established empires of England, France, etc. was to have a unified german superpower in central europe. At the time they were more looking to their colonies rather than Europe, especially England, and wanting to expand there.
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What an astonishing achievement for Germany…no one ever speaks of this now though……odd that isn't it?
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A never understood why England would send her boys over to France to die for French. The English and the French, two peoples that have a history of rivalry between them. And then America comes in at the end, like a john wayne movie, to save the day. Only the war was mostly over and both sides were sick of the fighting and massive death. I think peace would've been sought differently if the Amis didn't jump in at the last secound. And who is blamed for the war? Germany. We didn't start it, yet were given the worst peace terms and the monarcy was kicked out. What did the Allies get instead of a Kaiser, not fifteen years later? Hitler, and more French, English, American, Russian, etc. people would die than the first war. That Karma is some bitch, isn't she? I've always said America and the Allies are their own worst enemies.
Just an aside, look at America's foreign policy and you'll find they are their own worst enemy. Hammered Germany after WWI, and they got WWII. Supported the Soviets, and they got the Cold War and spread of communism, eventually leading to Bay of Pigs (Cuba) and Vietnam. They support Osama bin Laden in Afganistan by training them and giving them weapons to fight the Soviets. Osama bin Laden launches holy war agianst USA, they must fight a war in Afganistan agianst the Taliban, same people they supported. They support Saddam Hussein and give him chemical weapons to fight the Iranians, and then he uses weapons agianst kurds and turns against USA. The Americans must fight Hussein twice and lose more American boys, because of their stupidacy. They are their own worst enemy.