(November 11, 2015 at 2:51 pm)Mathilda Wrote:(November 11, 2015 at 12:19 pm)Brian37 Wrote: If we had no military we'd be speaking German right now.
It was the Britain and France that declared war on Germany, not the other way round. Hitler had no interest in going west, he was looking east. We chose to fight with one dictator (Stalin) against another dictator (Hitler). We should have just left Germany and Russia to fight it out. Stalin was responsible for a greater number of deaths than Hitler when the allies declared war.
Besides, Germany is now economically strong because it hasn't been burdened with a military for so long after the second world war. One reason why it's so important for me to learn the German language right now.
So? How about considering they did that because they saw the writing on the wall and that Hitler was a fucking dick. What would have prevented his rise is if the Allies hadn't left Germany to rot after the first world war. Hitler is still ultimately to blame for WW2.
But this is also the same failure our species has in understanding that the best tactic is to think ahead so that conditions don"t lead humans to get to the point of desperation. On a global business scale Bill Gates along with climate change scientists know that if we don't slow down and reverse this pollution, it will continue to affect global resources to the point of a global nuclear war. If we manage to survive as a species, the aftermath will leave us in the stone age even more tribal than we are now.
