#4505093 - 01/26/20 11:55 PM
Re: Cousins might have prevented the First World War
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What strikes me the most about that monologue by Macdonald is that you can’t get much more pacifist than modern day Germany. Heck, a considerable percentage of the population would have no problem with completely getting rid of the military.
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#4505299 - 01/28/20 04:54 PM
Re: Cousins might have prevented the First World War
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For a reason that I don't recall, the caravan was detoured. It was because one of the other conspirators had thrown a grenade at the car earlier, wasn't it? Yes, there were multiple assassins and they all failed. It was on a later detour after the Archduke's speech that they decided to go to the hospital and visit those hurt form the grenades that they took a wrong turn and stopped right where Princip was standing.
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#4505486 - 01/30/20 12:46 AM
Re: Cousins might have prevented the First World War
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Here’s another interesting hypothetical historical scenario.
Let’s say Hitler decided to “play nice” and stopped all of his territorial ambitions after the Anschluss with Austria so that means no occupation of the Sudetenland and no invasion of Poland. Would Hitler have stayed in power until he died? For how many decades would Germany have remained a fascist country? For example, Spain remained fascist until Franco died in 1975. I think that falls into the category of the scorpion and the frog. Hitler was just being true to his nature. He couldn't NOT do what he did.
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#4505496 - 01/30/20 01:29 AM
Re: Cousins might have prevented the First World War
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Probably the biggest "IF" about World War One has to do with Communism, in my opinion. If the war hadn't occurred, Russia would not have fallen to the Communists. That means that China, most likely would not have either. Korea, Viet Nam...etc. There would have been no Soviet Union to spread world Communism, no Cold War. Lotsa ifs to ponder as to what would have happened instead.
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#4505524 - 01/30/20 11:40 AM
Re: Cousins might have prevented the First World War
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. Hitler was just being true to his nature. He couldn't NOT do what he did.
This is true since Hitler's ultimate objective was to take most of Eastern Europe and the USSR for his "lebensraum" doctrine.
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