Posted by tangplay on 6/6/2018 1:56:00 PM (view original):
Posted by cccp1014 on 6/6/2018 1:18:00 PM (view original):
Posted by tangplay on 6/6/2018 1:16:00 PM (view original):
Posted by cccp1014 on 6/6/2018 1:12:00 PM (view original):
Germany wasn't powerful at all as well until they were. Is Iran a threat? Pretty sure. They fund Palestine.
I think we should do everything possible (short of war) to stop the funding of terrorism from Iran.
Germany was way more powerful than Palestine.
Post WWI? No, they were not. No military and huge financial sanctions.
Pretty sure their military and economy was still stronger than Palestine's, who has no economy because they aren't a country.
I may be wrong though.
Not through the early 20s. Germany was an utter catastrophe. They had no economy. The Reichmark experienced 1000% inflation and things like rags and bones became semi-precious. The French were demanding reparations, imports were strictly controlled, Franco-British troops occupied the Saar region (and its industrial production) as well as all of the Rhine river crossings, the military was banned and a police force of 100,000 was the only thing stopping complete anarchy. New York City has 35,000 police to give you some perspective. It was so bad in Germany, the government fled Berlin and set up shop in the old town of Weimar. It only started stabilizing when the French were forced to relax their insistence that the Versailles Treaty, another catastrophe we can talk about some other time, be adhered to the letter.
Anyway, you get the point, hopefully.