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Started by Maladict, June 05, 2019, 08:03:02 AM

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Habbaku

#30
June 06, 2019, 09:09:46 AM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on June 06, 2019, 01:47:41 AM
I'm trying to think of a single mistake of WWI we're repeating.

Some breakdown in trade is happening. But it's a pretty inapt comparison, I think.
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Tamas

#31
June 06, 2019, 10:02:53 AM
Yeah, it's more about repeating the mistakes of the between-the-wars era.

Duque de Bragança

#32
June 06, 2019, 12:51:24 PM
Quote from: mongers on June 06, 2019, 07:28:14 AM
Sobering that in the 75th anniversary year we're retreating from Europe, largely motivated by a fear of 'foreigners' and an general ignorance of what the EU is. 

There will be trouble ahead.

September 1st 2039

In the Westerplatte or Danzig declaration, following secret negotiations at Gleiwitz, the UK joins back the EU.  :P

Razgovory

#33
June 06, 2019, 01:13:29 PM
Quote from: Habbaku on June 06, 2019, 09:09:46 AM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on June 06, 2019, 01:47:41 AM
I'm trying to think of a single mistake of WWI we're repeating.

Some breakdown in trade is happening. But it's a pretty inapt comparison, I think.


Oh, I thought of another one: Militarization.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Eddie Teach

#34
June 06, 2019, 02:36:07 PM
The Military Industrial Complex has been around since Eisenhower.
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Valmy

#35
June 06, 2019, 02:55:35 PM
Quote from: Eddie Teach on June 06, 2019, 02:36:07 PM
The Military Industrial Complex has been around since Eisenhower.

Well at least that combination of words describing it has been. Not sure if that is the same thing as its existence.
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The Brain

#36
June 06, 2019, 04:02:12 PM
We don't understand or care about squabbles in the Balkans.
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crazy canuck

#37
June 07, 2019, 11:30:19 AM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on June 06, 2019, 01:47:41 AM
I'm trying to think of a single mistake of WWI we're repeating.

You are not paying attention

crazy canuck

#38
June 07, 2019, 11:34:24 AM
Quote from: Habbaku on June 06, 2019, 09:09:46 AM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on June 06, 2019, 01:47:41 AM
I'm trying to think of a single mistake of WWI we're repeating.

Some breakdown in trade is happening. But it's a pretty inapt comparison, I think.

You are correct in that rather than being isolationist the US has gone full blown bat shit crazy.

derspiess

#39
June 07, 2019, 12:57:29 PM
You're paying too much attention.
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Razgovory

#40
June 07, 2019, 01:35:10 PM
Quote from: Eddie Teach on June 06, 2019, 02:36:07 PM
The Military Industrial Complex has been around since Eisenhower.


Cool story.  Perhaps you can find a proper place to share it next time.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

grumbler

#41
June 07, 2019, 05:55:41 PM
I'd say that Chinese president Xi Jinping is doing a decent Kaiser Wilhelm II impression.  The one power that should be most satisfied with the wold is doing its best to destabilize the world and pick fights. 

I don't think that there is a Fin de Siecle equivalent of Trump.  Maybe he's Wilhelm II as well, except dumber and less articulate.
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Zanza

#42
June 09, 2019, 04:57:02 AM

The Brain

#43
June 09, 2019, 05:19:06 AM
:)
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Syt

#44
June 09, 2019, 05:32:10 AM
To be fair, without Germans there wouldn't have been a D-Day. :P
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