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Re:Thomas Piketty: 'The reality is the US is losing control ... by OgsyedIE on Tuesday December 16, 2025 @07:58AM (#46287943)
In 1944 huge numbers of people, from a large number of countries, asked for a hegemonic world police stemming from a sole hegemon:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bretton_Woods_Conference

We don't know much of it anymore with the decline of Europe, but for several centuries the dominant geopolitical goal of most countries on Earth was to defend themselves from European invasion. Why do you think every incremental ratchet step on the gear of Germany rearming in the last three years has been taken as serious headline news by so many?

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Re:Thomas Piketty: 'The reality is the US is losing control ... by watwut on Tuesday December 16, 2025 @08:09AM (#46288055)
> Why do you think every incremental ratchet step on the gear of Germany rearming in the last three years has been taken as serious headline news by so many?

Cause they started two world wars previously. The second one coupled with genocide, actually multiple separate genocides going on at the same time.

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Re:Thomas Piketty: 'The reality is the US is losing control ... by OgsyedIE on Tuesday December 16, 2025 @08:17AM (#46288134)
Germany only started the second and all parties in the first had some prior experience with conducting a genocide.
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Re:Thomas Piketty: 'The reality is the US is losing control ... by watwut on Wednesday December 17, 2025 @04:31AM (#46299908)
They started the first one too. They just did. Their politics was split roughly into two camps - war hawks wanting to start the war now and moderates wanting to wait for a year and then start a war.

It is not that other countries were full of saints ... but Germany did started both those wars.

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