07-01-2016, 05:09 PM
(07-01-2016, 03:21 PM)taramarie Wrote:(07-01-2016, 10:53 AM)X_4AD_84 Wrote: I predict this 4T will result in another 1648 or even something more drastic than that.
Why 1648?
Peace of Westphalia ending the Thirty Years' War, one of the nastiest wars ever in Europe.
Freedom of religion was established in much of Europe.
Switzerland got formal independence. Spain had to recognize the independence of the Netherlands.
Prussia gained territories that would make it the biggest power in northern Germany.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.