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In capitalism there isn't really isn't a need for a 'winner', its not zero sum. Britain and Germany would have been both 100x better of to not fight any idiotic
by nickik 6y ago
In capitalism there isn't really isn't a need for a 'winner', its not zero sum. Britain and Germany would have been both 100x better of to not fight any idiotic wars over strategically worthless land in the Balkans.
Many people from both sides realized this but the German leadership sadly was of a more conservative mindset.
- 082349872349872 6y agoKissinger blames the entire slide into the Great War on blunder after blunder[1]. I was surprised to learn from Zweig's first-hand account how much Orwell's MiniTru was based on western behaviour during the Great War. https://ia801609.us.archive.org/21/items/in.ernet.dli.2015.176552/2015.176552.The-World-Of-Yesterday.pdf https://ia801609.us.archive.org/21/items/in.ernet.dli.2015.1... p.182 "German professors declared that Dante had been Germanic, the French that Beethoven had been a Belgian, intellectual culture was requisitioned without scruple from the enemy countries like grain and ore." [1] Among which: having remembered the iron fist but having dropped the velvet glove: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dropping_the_Pilot#/media/File:1890_Bismarcks_Ruecktritt.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dropping_the_Pilot#/media/File... 铁拳软包?