10-17-2019, 09:40 AM
(10-16-2019, 09:04 PM)Warren Dew Wrote:(10-16-2019, 03:33 PM)Cynic Hero Wrote: Yes at first But not after about 1935 or so when Hitler unveiled the Wehrmacht. In the far east no one really sought compromise after about 1932. Any agreements after these periods were purely tactical moves. This remained the case even after 1945, the idea of honest compromise did not reemerge until 1954, after Stalin's death and the subsequent purge of Stalinist hardliners from the Kremlin leadership.
The second London Naval treaty permitted Japan to sign and prevent escalator clauses up to 1937, so we were still pretending it was 1919 up until then. I do think WWII ended the pretense - with Pearl Harbor for the US - and the current pretense will end with WWIII.
Let's hope not. Recovering from any version of WWIII will not be as easy as the recovery from WWII, and that was no picnic.
Intelligence is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom, but they all play well together.
