06-11-2015, 02:44 PM
(06-11-2015, 05:38 AM)StLucieBengal Wrote: As far as whether Germany was going to win the war..... That war was obviously going to end in a stalemate and everyone would have gone home with relative ability to save face.... However wilson wanted the allies to win a lopsided victory which germany lost loads of their lands and money. Which sent the people looking for someone who wanted to promotw german values, make germany the pinnacle the of the world. This gave way to the Nazi's rhetoric.... German jobs for Germans.... Wilson's mistake here is exactly why we don't leave a country in ruins after a war any longer.
We are still paying for the mistakes of Wilson's policies giving birth to the nazi's ... We still fight then today.
First France and Britain were the ones that wanted harsh war consequences on Germany not Wilson. "He (Wilson) is the only serious statesman here," wrote one observer. "He is a titan struggling with forces too great even for him." After the treaty was signed, it was far less idealistic than what Wilson had argued for.
And your assessment of Hitlers rise to power is at best simplistic at worst something Beck would spout on about. That part of History is way more complex, especially since Hitler and the Nazi party almost never came to be. A lot of conservative libertarian hyperbole at it's finest here.
