THE FIRST WORLD WAR as reported in the daily news

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Re: THE FIRST WORLD WAR as reported in the daily news

Post by Niner » Sat Jul 16, 2022 8:46 pm

A hundred years ago, in 1922, Germany was struggling to pay the reparations. Some countries were in favor of giving them some slack. France, nearly bankrupt themselves, weren't feeling that way.

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Post by DuncaninFrance » Sun Jul 17, 2022 2:33 am

And the Hun have gone full circle and now refuse to help out Ukraine as other countries are doing..............
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Post by Niner » Sun Jul 17, 2022 10:29 am

Germany opposes the Russian invasion and promised Ukraine some defensive missiles. However , Germany is Russia's strongest European trading partner. The interrupted Nordstrum pipeline was a joint German and Russian venture. Germany gets it's energy from Russia. Germany probably hates the Russian Ukraine invasion more than any other country because they depend on Russian supplied energy. But for Germany, cutting off Russia is like disconnecting life support in the hospital because you don't like the electric company.
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Re: THE FIRST WORLD WAR as reported in the daily news

Post by DuncaninFrance » Mon Jul 18, 2022 3:39 am

Germany opposes the Russian invasion and promised Ukraine some defensive missiles

So much for promises. If I remember correctly the first support that was going to gifted was not because it was moldy and wouldn't work properly. Then they were going to supply tanks and didn't and then the with held funding that was promised...........with support like that who needs enemies?
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Post by Niner » Wed Nov 16, 2022 9:19 pm

The war is well over in November of 1922. However, working out the reparations and Germany's current status are causing some finger pointing around what the armistice agreement was about and the US is getting some flack from European journalists that famous writer Rudyard Kipling.
General Bliss..for the US says.... bullshit...or whatever is polite that amounts to the same thing.

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Post by Niner Delta » Thu Nov 17, 2022 8:57 pm

I did some reading on this and it was bizarre. There were Bonds and "Plans" in the 1920s and '30s that were different ways
that Germany was to pay the Allies. In the end it took Germany until the 1990s to pay everything off. It turns out that
the US loaned Germany a LOT of money back then to rebuild, and they used that to pay back some the the other Allies, who in turn
used that same money to pay their war debts to the US. So basically the US got paid back with their own money, crazy times. ..... :lol:


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Post by Niner » Fri Jan 27, 2023 8:25 pm

First time I noticed Hitler mentioned in the US news. A hundred years ago today the French were in the industrial Ruhr region of Germany locking up banks, and confiscating bank patron's money, arresting coal mine owners, confiscating coal and anything else that wasn't nailed down, all in the name of squeezing out reparations from a prostrate Germany suffering from rocketing inflation.

Hitler will end up arrested for his troubles and ends up in prison where he writes his famous Mein Kampf.

Ironically, I just noticed on the news that today is Holocaust remembrance day.

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Post by Niner » Mon Apr 17, 2023 9:48 am

A hundred years ago today, even though you would have thought the dust from WWI had begun to settle there was this little problem that was difficult to remedy. Of course the women who got husbands must have been working at producing babies because WWII seemed to have enough war bodies to raise a lot of hell when the children already existing in 1923 had grown up and began to run in low supply in the early 1940's.

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Post by Niner » Sat Apr 22, 2023 10:15 pm

A hundred years ago Germany's industrial war industry was shattered. The major arms producers that had employed 100's of thousands of workers were attempting to change gears and produce peace time goods but the workers, such as had jobs were between a rock and a hard place. Skilled German workers weren't making any kind of living at all and the triumphant forces weren't concerned. Obviously sooner or later someone was going to come along and get the war going again.

One editorial story examining the situation, with no obvious axe to grind, wrote a newspaper story.

A few paragraphs attached.

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Post by Niner » Mon Dec 18, 2023 12:11 pm

France and Russia plotted the first world war? There was a Senator from Oklahoma who said he thought so in December of 1923. Some of what he says reminds me of today. The part about governments subsidizing and controlling the press and getting people to hate other people and policy makers saying they are doing something but otherwise doing something else in actual fact.

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