Originally posted by Jerome Scuggs
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You butchered the logic I presented and strung that nonsense together. So, let's start with the basic principle: Past events affect present events (or future events).
If you disagree with that notion, then the rest of what I'm about to say doesn't matter.
We're looking at WWI and WWII.
If you fail to see how events of WWI paved the road to WWII, then you're ruling out the affects of past events on future events, and thus shouldn't read any further..
Now, I'm going to try to keep this as short as possible.
After the Treaty of Versailles was signed Ferdinand Foch, a Marshal of France, said "This is not peace. It is an armistice for twenty years."
Guess what happened twenty years later?
Ding! Ding! Ding! WWII!
The US didn't enter the war until 1917. The war was already grinding to a hault before US entered into the war. In other words, peace negotiations were already occuring in 1916 prior to US involvement. All countries involved were on the brink of bankruptcy (if not already bankrupt) as these peace negotiations were occuring.
Instead, what occured was the opposite. The US entered the war and tipped the scales of power. The Germans were forced to resurrect the war on two fronts. As a direct result, ze Germans funded Lenon in order to overthrow the Romanovs, thus taking Russia out of the war -- which, by the way, led to 70 years of Russian genocidal, expansionist dictatorship.
Now, this left the western front to deal with. However, the sheer dominance of the Allied forces, due to America's entry into the war, left Germany no alternative but to surrender and assume a massive war debt which was imposed by the Treaty of Versailles.
As a result, Germany had to print massive quantities of money just to pay off it's foreign debts -- which led to the hyperinflation of the 1920's; which destroyed the stability of the middle-class; which paved the way to Hitler; and Hitler paved the way to the 2nd world war. (Not to mention that the 2nd world war led to the fall of China to communism.)
The 1st world war led to the birth of:
- Income Tax
- Fiat Currency
- Banking Cartels
One of the main reasons the US joined the Allied forces was because it lent large amounts of money to England and its allies. If England would've lost the war or if there was a stalemate, then all of that money would've been lost. By entering the war, the US could overpower Germany, impose these debts, and extract Germany's wealth for the next 20yrs.
It was the beginning of US Imperialism.
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