white people were placed in the USA by Jesus duhYah - I'm not sure if everyone has simply forgotten the history of immigration or if, perhaps, they never learned it.
Don't forget all the different distinctions of white. WASPs in Virginia, Brahmins in Boston, the Scots Irish in the hill country (direct ancestors of our modern rednecks), and then the later shades of white pissed upon by those already in the country (Irish, eastern European +/- Jews)...white people were placed in the USA by Jesus duh
wrong. pure. jesus. white.Don't forget all the different distinctions of white. WASPs in Virginia, Brahmins in Boston, the Scots Irish in the hill country (direct ancestors of our modern rednecks), and then the later shades of white pissed upon by those already in the country (Irish, eastern European +/- Jews)...
businesses should set an entrance procedure, gotta solve a math problem to get in.
No MexicansNo Gypsies
No Jews
No Russians
No Scots
No Germans
No Italians
No Spaniards
The Jews would like to have a word with you.Historically we always let in immigrants we didn't like so we could exploit them, like Mexicans.
Barring populations fleeing warzones that we triggered by the destabilization of a region by a war started with alternative facts is a new concept
No Mexicans
No Jamaicans
No Hungarians
No Czech or Slovaks
No Chinese
No Australians
No South Africans
Yes, but the US wasn't the primary cause of the conditions that created the Nazis.
No Welsh
Treaty of Versailles.Yes, but the US wasn't the primary cause of the conditions that created the Nazis.
OMG! YOU'RE BACK!!! Please stay, we need you.Manimal go full Nazi yet or not?
No Welsh
No Norwegians
No Finns
No Kazakhstanis
No Mongols
No Nicaraguans
No Trinidadians
No Moroccans
No Greeks
No Egyptians
No Somalis
Treaty of Versailles.
And if you read that you would note that Woodrow Wilson 'opposed harsh treatment of Germany but was outmanoeuvered by Britain and France'.
Wilson may have been able to do a better job and prevent the conditions, but he did try to prevent them.
Genuine question, how did the US help destabilize Europe post WWI? I thought we were pretty avoided involvement.^^^^
Either way, the end result is the same. We were complicit in destabilizing a large portion of Europe for at least the next generation. So call it even on us dragging GB and France into Iraq, Syria, Libya, etc? Everything is fucked again.
Don't forget oil. But true, the Brits effed up royally.Looking at the long game, lots could be said about British chopping up the former Ottoman for sake of colonial efforts contributing significantly to today's mess in the middle East. All exasperated by our support of hard line dictators for the sake of cold war alliances.
Well, I think history has shown that it didn't really matter. I understand that it's still a matter of some debate, but in the opinions of lots of people who do it for a living, the Treaty of Versailles pretty much guaranteed a second WW. It was never stable to begin with, intervention was not required. It was recognized at the time, there are several quotes floating around to this effect.Genuine question, how did the US help destabilize Europe post WWI?
“I cannot conceive any greater cause of war than that the German people, who have certainly proved themselves one of the most vigorous and powerful races in the world, should be surrounded by a number of small States, many of them consisting of people who have never previously set up a stable system of government for themselves, but each of them containing large masses of Germans clamouring for reunion with their native land. The proposal of the Polish commission that we should place 2,100,000 Germans under the control of a people which is of a different religion and which has never proved its capacity for stable self-government throughout its history must, in my judgment, lead to a new war in the East of Europe . . .”
Lloyd George, British Prime Minister
The wiki I linked earlier has Keynes quote about "Carthaginian Peace"."This is not a peace. It is an armistice for twenty years"
Ferdinand Foch, French General and Supreme Allied Commander
I'd like to note here that we pushed Japan into Pearl Harbor through an oil embargo, among other actions.And yes, post war the US was very hands off. We adopted a very isolationist policy prior to that little thing that happened with Japan in Hawaii.
Huh. TIL.I'd like to note here that we pushed Japan into Pearl Harbor through an oil embargo, among other actions.
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1930
So we are pushing North Korea and Russia to attack us with sanctions?I'd like to note here that we pushed Japan into Pearl Harbor through an oil embargo, among other actions.
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1930
Other countries are rational actors, in at least some sense. We're not some god-country sitting atop Valhalla that dispenses justice with impunity. I'm not saying sanctions are the incorrect action in particular settings, but it's irresponsible to assume that the targets of such sanctions wouldn't respond on their own.So we are pushing North Korea and Russia to attack us with sanctions?
There was certainly a but of hubris involved in not better preparing for such an event. But even more so that such an attack wouldn't have disastrous results.Other countries are rational actors, in at least some sense. We're not some god-country sitting atop Valhalla that dispenses justice with impunity. I'm not saying sanctions are the incorrect action in particular settings, but it's irresponsible to assume that the targets of such sanctions wouldn't respond on their own.