Noam Chomsky on Language, Left Libertarianism, and Progress

Re:Noam Chomsky on Language, Left Libertarianism, and Progress by TheLoafOfBread on Sunday June 18, 2023 @05:33AM (#36378645)

> If West reacted in 2008 how they react now - we could have saved 100s of thousand of people AND avoided 2 wars and billions in military and humanitarian spending. We didn't, because it was easier in the short term to look the other way.

That feels like 1930s and policy of appeasement, when Germany was taking back Rhineland, creating Luftwaffe, annexing Austria and France with Britain were just looking and doing nothing. Then Munich agreement came about and France with Britain signed it because they did not wanted to do anything. The rest of history is just WW2.

It is almost comical to think, that WW2 in Europe could have been reduced to local conflict between Germany and France fighting over Rhineland.

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Re:Noam Chomsky on Language, Left Libertarianism, and Progress by pieter_mj on Sunday June 18, 2023 @07:59AM (#36379391)

WW2 became almost unavoidable the moment the US got involved in WW1 in 1916.

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Re:Noam Chomsky on Language, Left Libertarianism, and Progress by tourmalinetaco on Sunday June 18, 2023 @01:00PM (#36382033)

As a history professor I had once said, “the only reason they stopped World War 1 was because they lost an entire generation of soldiers”.

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