tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post1789088028583326714..comments2024-03-22T05:20:44.167-07:00Comments on The Disaffected Lib: If Only the Kaiser Had WonThe Mound of Soundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-48391169826855129492014-08-10T22:01:02.003-07:002014-08-10T22:01:02.003-07:00Things could have easily turned out worse. Germany...Things could have easily turned out worse. Germany had democratic institutions, but the old Prussian military estabilishment easily subverted them.<br /><br />Also don't forget Eastern Europe and Germany's treaty with Russia there. Germany's post-war plans for those territories involved gradual ethnic cleansing. Lebensraum was an endorsed policy of the German goverment at the time. <br /><br />Imagination can make the grass seem greener, but it could have been a lot worse.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-73091089010867373612014-08-10T15:15:59.704-07:002014-08-10T15:15:59.704-07:00Hi, B.Y. Yes, the Treaty of Versailles was a huge...Hi, B.Y. Yes, the Treaty of Versailles was a huge blunder. The Brits and French had herded a generation of their finest young men through a meat grinder and, perhaps out of guilt, demanded revenge. WWII was merely a continuation of WWI only with Italy and Japan switching sides. We're so lucky the Cold War never quite went hot because the death toll would have been a billion or more if we didn't all perish from Nuclear Winter.<br /><br />Yes, Lorne, he does regularly illustrate how pack journalism seizes upon a narrative that is often hopelessly incomplete and misleading.The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-8350407007707749342014-08-10T14:52:12.385-07:002014-08-10T14:52:12.385-07:00I always enjoy reading Gwyn Dyer's work, Mound...I always enjoy reading Gwyn Dyer's work, Mound, in that he is not afraid to challenge the conventional thinking that defines so much of the MSM. It was through him, for example, that I learned the truth about the situation in Thailand and that the people who protested and worked for the ouster of the government were essentially the elites who objected to the wealth distribution programs of the prime minister, Yingluck Shinawatra. Every other media source only referred to her government as corrupt.lornehttp://www.politicsanditsdiscontents.blogspot.canoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-71872329527505055602014-08-10T10:17:51.518-07:002014-08-10T10:17:51.518-07:00I heard Gwynne Dyer interviewed on this and I agre...I heard Gwynne Dyer interviewed on this and I agree with his assessment. Couple that with Margaret MacMillan's excellent "Paris 1919" and you can't help but wonder if the course of World History would have been much better off without the Treaty of Versailles. Even the League of Nations (later morphed into the UN) set out an imbalanced power structure favouring the victors thus betraying the so-called spirit of egalitarianism.<br /><br />By the by, welcome back Mound!Beijing Yorkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05579118045254845839noreply@blogger.com