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This is a end of free trade and a return of the old empires, with there embargos and the great games. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Game https://en.wikipe

This is a end of free trade and a return of the old empires, with there embargos and the great games. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Game https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Game These empires and there funny little starvations they inflicted carelessly on there provinces (france on africa, england on india, irland) were the reason for WW2. Never again!

mschuster91 3y ago
No, the reason for WW2 was Hitler and the OG Nazi regime. The old colonial bullshit had pretty much nothing to do with the causes for WW2. In any case we saw that "change by trade" ("Wandel durch Handel" in German) aka spreading the idea of human rights and democracy by establishing trade zones and routes didn't work out - most of Africa is either failed states, military dictatorships or theocracies, everything in the "Middle East" is either theocracies or on the fringe of becoming one (Israel), the situation in Asia isn't much different. In addition to that, our own democracies are nearing tipping points as well with the rise of the far-right that mostly makes bank by exploiting the destitution that globalization has brought upon our societies where a lot of manufacturing and other industry jobs have been shipped off to Asia. Globalization needs to be turned back. I do not see any valid reason why the money of Western people should be flowing towards countries that actively disrespect our values.
- sparrowInHand 3y ago
  Harber Bosch was present before WW2. WW2 was mostly fought for Lebensraum, aka place to grow food with medieval methods (no fertilizer) for a industrial sized nation. They could easily have fed all these people, if free trade and fossil fuel imports would have been available and guaranteed. No reason to start the whole war in the first place. But they were not- and could not be relied on if a colonial empire singled you out and cut trade. Thus the war aims, the goals and execution. The existence of the british empire or a similar empire was the precondition for WW2.

mschuster91 3y ago

No, the reason for WW2 was Hitler and the OG Nazi regime. The old colonial bullshit had pretty much nothing to do with the causes for WW2. In any case we saw that "change by trade" ("Wandel durch Handel" in German) aka spreading the idea of human rights and democracy by establishing trade zones and routes didn't work out - most of Africa is either failed states, military dictatorships or theocracies, everything in the "Middle East" is either theocracies or on the fringe of becoming one (Israel), the situation in Asia isn't much different. In addition to that, our own democracies are nearing tipping points as well with the rise of the far-right that mostly makes bank by exploiting the destitution that globalization has brought upon our societies where a lot of manufacturing and other industry jobs have been shipped off to Asia. Globalization needs to be turned back. I do not see any valid reason why the money of Western people should be flowing towards countries that actively disrespect our values.

sparrowInHand 3y ago
Harber Bosch was present before WW2. WW2 was mostly fought for Lebensraum, aka place to grow food with medieval methods (no fertilizer) for a industrial sized nation. They could easily have fed all these people, if free trade and fossil fuel imports would have been available and guaranteed. No reason to start the whole war in the first place. But they were not- and could not be relied on if a colonial empire singled you out and cut trade. Thus the war aims, the goals and execution. The existence of the british empire or a similar empire was the precondition for WW2.