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I totally agree, Keynes was just one of many who made huge mistakes in the inter war years and in the WW1 resolution. > a defence alliance to prevent Germany f
by nickik 6y ago
I totally agree, Keynes was just one of many who made huge mistakes in the inter war years and in the WW1 resolution.
> a defence alliance to prevent Germany from making trouble. Which was something that was probably politically impossible in the US, and I don't recall Keynes advocating for it.
It was actually not impossible. If you don't take the standard US history crap about how 'isolationist' are the worst thing and responsible for all bad things, its actually pretty clear that they could have gotten the WW1 resolution threw congress.
Yes there were some isolationists but that's not why all the treaties failed in the US congress.
This talk is very good on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTBI86s0oSQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTBI86s0oSQ
- yyyk 6y agoThanks! the talk is quite enlightening. So perhaps an alliance wasn't politically impossible. Wilson played with that (never knew that) and there was some Republican support. Alas. There's a good chance WW2 wouldn't have happened at all.