Video Lecture: Stumbling into WWI

Started by bayonetbrant, March 27, 2014, 10:29:28 AM

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bayonetbrant

The key to surviving this site is to not say something which ends up as someone's tag line - Steelgrave

"their citizens (all of them counted as such) glorified their mythology of 'rights'...and lost track of their duties. No nation, so constituted, can endure." Robert Heinlein, Starship Troopers

Martok

Thanks for the link, brant.  Am definitely going to sit down and watch the rest of this later (already watched the first 15 minutes or so).  He may be right about the subject having been discussed to death, but I'm always fascinated by new perspectives/theories on what led to the war's starting. 

"Like we need an excuse to drink to anything..." - Banzai_Cat
"I like to think of it not as an excuse but more like Pavlovian Response." - Sir Slash

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"If we had lines here that would have crossed all of them. For the 1,077,986th time." - Gusington

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