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> In fact, the more the merrier^Hstronger Umm ... wasn't that what people thought of the alliances and treaties[0] just before the First World War? [0] https:
by logifail 4y ago
> In fact, the more the merrier^Hstronger
Umm ... wasn't that what people thought of the alliances and treaties[0] just before the First World War?
[0] https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/what-you-need-to-know-about-pre-first-world-war-alliances https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/what-you-need-to-know-about-p...
- tokai 4y agoAnd they defeated Germany and dismantled the Austro-Hungarian empire. So it worked.
- eigenhombre 4y ago"It worked" is not the phrase that comes to mind when I think of WWI... yes, where was that outcome, but at the cost of tens of millions of deaths[1], years of trench/chemical warfare, exacerbation of the 1918 pandemic. If we could avoid its equivalent in the 21st century, that would be good. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I
- juve1996 4y agoSure it's the same if you ignore literally everything else about the two conflicts.
- kibwen 4y agoThe problem in WWI was that alliances were made in secret. A secret defensive pact can't deter anyone. NATO is anything but secret.