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WW1 and 2 are pretty solid examples where military interventions have worked out just fine.
by baxtr 4y ago
WW1 and 2 are pretty solid examples where military interventions have worked out just fine.
- AlmostAnyone 4y agoBoth of these were before nuclear weapons were a thing, though.
- ethbr0 4y agoWWI didn't work very well. See: WWII
- ohgodplsno 4y agoFrom an american perspective where they stayed in the back during WW1 and had to be trained on the spot, and were perfectly happy to work with nazi germany in WW2 until shit hit the fan, sure. For most of europe, it's a traumatic experience that led to dozens of millions of dead young adults, entire cities firebombed and razed to the ground, areas shelled so hard that even today their access is forbidden. But I'm sure it's much easier from a position of a country that never had a single war on its territory.
- baxtr 4y agoThat’s maybe a misunderstanding. I’m not advocating war per se. Yet I think it was right that the US didn’t stay on the sidelines.
- bigbillheck 4y agoI'm struggling to think of ways in which WWI 'worked out just fine' unless you count getting rid of the Romanovs and (most of) the Hapsburgs.
- qikInNdOutReply 4y agoIt helped to exaust alot of old colonial empires close to collapse, were the memberstates escaped to independence. Those two worldwars were what ate the british empire alive.
- baxtr 4y agoGood point. Yet not all of them if you consider Russia the last of the European colonial empires.
- bigbillheck 4y agoI certainly do not. (Look at France and Britain's overseas holdings)