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Old 11-22-2012, 11:13 AM
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What if the French hadn't imposed ruinous, vindictive conditions on the Germans after WW1? (They were already starving for god's sake so what more did they want) What if the European nations had owned up to a shared responsibility for the outbreak of WW1? What if Britain had stayed out of the War and left it to the continental powers to resolve?
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Old 11-22-2012, 11:24 AM
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What if the French hadn't imposed ruinous, vindictive conditions on the Germans after WW1? (They were already starving for god's sake so what more did they want) What if the European nations had owned up to a shared responsibility for the outbreak of WW1? What if Britain had stayed out of the War and left it to the continental powers to resolve?
You mean having politicians and kings/royalty publicly admit that they messed up and was wrong?

Won't ever happen
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Old 11-22-2012, 12:17 PM
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You mean having politicians and kings/royalty publicly admit that they messed up and was wrong?

Won't ever happen
Exactly. Which is why Nato troops and Afghan civilians are still dying for no good reason whatsoever.
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Old 11-22-2012, 09:32 PM
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Actually you could say it was the Great Depression that allowed Hitler and others into power , and the great depression was caused by the Stock market crash, which in turn was caused by greedy people borrowing money to punt on the stock market, with little regulation. sounds familar ?

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Old 11-26-2012, 08:17 PM
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A Hitler without his ideological pet crusade against the Soviet Union wouldn't be the historical figure Hitler. Besides, I think it would have been a question of time only until the red and the brown wolf would have turned against each other. Both followed ideologies which contained ideas of "world dominance" so a clash of the two systems was "systemic" and therefor inevitable.
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Old 11-27-2012, 06:01 PM
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Actually you could say it was the Great Depression that allowed Hitler and others into power , and the great depression was caused by the Stock market crash, which in turn was caused by greedy people borrowing money to punt on the stock market, with little regulation. sounds familar ?

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Sounds alot like republican policy!!
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