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Thank God (for NATO) - we're at war with Russia | 37 comments (37 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

The end of the British Empire was an own goal. Two massively expensive and destructive world wars basically drove it into bankruptcy.

by ATinNM on Thu Dec 28th, 2006 at 11:31:08 PM EST
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The second war was forced on them. The first one is debatable - the pendulum has swung back somewhat from the sixties-seventies 'it's all the Germans fault' thesis that grew of Fischer's Griff nach der Weltmacht (Germany's Aims in WWI) and Krieg der Illusionen (War of Illusions, but the consensus is still assigning the preponderance of blame to the Germans and the Austrians.

by MarekNYC on Fri Dec 29th, 2006 at 02:20:56 PM EST
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I wonder wheter the blame of WWI will shift as a consequence of 9/11 and the Afghanistan war. Many seam to see the Afghanistan war as just, and should therefore view the Austrian respons to Serbian terrorist actions as just. Except for scale of the terrorist act in question the scripts are very similar.

Small country has popular terrorist group. Terrorist group commits act against big country. Big country puts an ultimatum to small country regarding the terrorist group. Small country does not totally comply. Big country attacks.

If anything I think Afghanistan was more compliant then Serbia. Guess time will tell what history books will be written.

Britains part then, hmm. I guess if they had been hell-bent on avoiding war, they could have stayed out. In neither of the two was Britain the attacked party but brittish allies were. And I guess there is a pretty strict limit on how many allies you can leave hanging in the wind if you want to uphold a world empire.

A vote for PES is a vote for EPP! A vote for EPP is a vote for PES! Support the coalition, vote EPP-PES in 2009!

by A swedish kind of death on Fri Dec 29th, 2006 at 08:01:02 PM EST
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