WW2 – Causes?

BaalsTears

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American isolationism was a contributing cause to the start of WWII. After WWI the US wasn't interested in further entanglement in the world other than ordinary trade. That's one of the reasons America never joined the League of Nations.

American neo-isolationism is growing on the American left and right in the current era. Nature abhors a vacuum. Geopolitics also abhors a vacuum. Others will fight to fill the vacuum left by America's retreat.
 

darkbeaver

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Germany caused the war by refusing the disease that's eating the west at this time.

There WAS no such thing as a "World Bank" back then. Some of you REALLY need to study some history BEFORE you sound off about things that you know nothing about.

There was no publicly declared institution "The World Bank" at that time but there certainly was world dominating central banks. My point being the difference is nil.
 

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American isolationism was a contributing cause to the start of WWII. After WWI the US wasn't interested in further entanglement in the world other than ordinary trade. That's one of the reasons America never joined the League of Nations.

American neo-isolationism is growing on the American left and right in the current era. Nature abhors a vacuum. Geopolitics also abhors a vacuum. Others will fight to fill the vacuum left by America's retreat.

The US is staying out of War- far away- Why should the US always be the one that countries turn to when in need.
Even today the US pays 75% of the costs of NATO- Why because the EU cannot get the collective a-s-s together- Time for the US to reduce that cost.
Use those funds where they are needed. In Asia.
 

BaalsTears

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The US is staying out of War- far away- Why should the US always be the one that countries turn to when in need.
Even today the US pays 75% of the costs of NATO- Why because the EU cannot get the collective a-s-s together- Time for the US to reduce that cost.
Use those funds where they are needed. In Asia.

I'm a neo-isolationist. I don't support the American alliance system. The sooner it ends the better. Even Canada needs to take care of its own defense.
 

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The world is splitting into economic and resource power blocs.

SEATO should include NATO as full partners and include India, Japan, Vietnam and such.
Southeast Asia Treaty Organization - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
All NATO nations will bite the dust to some degree, that's what happens when you back a loser in a war.

The President of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff announces publicly the creation of a world internet system INDEPENDENT from US and Britain ( the “US-centric internet”).
Not many understand that, while the immediate trigger for the decision (coupled with the cancellation of a summit with the US president) was the revelations on NSA spying, the reason why Rousseff can take such a historic step is that the alternative infrastructure: The BRICS cable from Vladivostock, Russia to Shantou, China to Chennai, India to Cape Town, South Africa to Fortaleza, Brazil, is being built and it’s, actually, in its final phase of implementation.

The BRICS “Independent Internet” Cable. In Defiance of the “US-Centric Internet” | Global Research
 

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All NATO nations will bite the dust to some degree, that's what happens when you back a loser in a war.

The President of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff announces publicly the creation of a world internet system INDEPENDENT from US and Britain ( the “US-centric internet”).
Not many understand that, while the immediate trigger for the decision (coupled with the cancellation of a summit with the US president) was the revelations on NSA spying, the reason why Rousseff can take such a historic step is that the alternative infrastructure: The BRICS cable from Vladivostock, Russia to Shantou, China to Chennai, India to Cape Town, South Africa to Fortaleza, Brazil, is being built and it’s, actually, in its final phase of implementation.

The BRICS “Independent Internet” Cable. In Defiance of the “US-Centric Internet” | Global Research

Check the map of how the net works- I mentioned this before- it is impossible.
 

darkbeaver

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OK which Bolsheviks.