The world would be a better place if Germany was the strongest power in the world. Better for the starving, better for jews, better for Europe, and betterfor Germany.
The time when Germany was the strongest power in the world, which happened twice in the last century, twice lead to a world war. This was not necessarily Germany's fault, it was just due to the fact that a Supergermany in terms of military and economy would be possible on an isolated continent such as North America or Australia, but not in the heart of Europe, the center of the world at that time. The surrounding powers just could not accept to see only Germany's afterburner.
@MaximKretsch True and Germany would provide economic and medical aid for countries worldwide and make an effort for the starving people of the world. It's a shame Germany didn't win the two world wars of the last century. The world would be a better place.
@Stoolie33 Yes and watch germany go downhill. This the sameg "germany" that almost self destructed Europe? Primitive people can only be helped so much before you go broke. But on a lighter note , keep gettting refugees from Africa , middle east and that will solve all Germany's problems
@Stoolie33 Sorry to say that, but it very much seems you didn't read my comment you refer to very carefully. Nowhere did I deny that the US export a huge amount of food or that the US is the no 1 world economy (though heavily dependend on China as a creditor).
I'm talking about foreign politics. Are you familiar with what Americ. governments have been doing for the last 6-7 decades? Obviously not.
Bismarck was neither dedicated to the cause of German unity nor to the cration of a Grossdeutschland, as he was not at all a nationalist, but focused only on Prussia. German unity was only a tool to strengthen Prussia. And Grossdeutschland, by the way is the expression for Germany including the ethnic German part of Austria, a concept which had already been given up as a result of the war between Prussia and Austria. Bismarck did not want a second great power inside a new united Germany.
The explanation is that the French had the problem of a common border with Germany. If the British or even the USA would have had one, they'd shut up today.
@Stoolie33 Sorry, But I don't agree. Although the US is the no.1 in grain exporting, it's hardly "feeding the world". Other countries export large amounts of grain too. If the US fed the world, they do a horrible job, given the number of starved people every year.
Re the "evil" thing, reading Chalmers Johnson, Eugene Jarecki & Norman Solomon and watching docus by John Pilger & Robert Greenwald opened a very different perspective for me. "World would collapse without the US"? Can't agree on that.
Otto von Bismarck was usually very determined, not as ruthless as some modern day American leaders and members of elites, but very determinated if needed. Plus he was smarter than the latter.
And he established social security and general health care in Prussia.
@Tigelinus Yes unfortunately he came at a time when liberal thought, and at least some human rights were coming into the minds of the common man in the civilized world. And I think he got a bad rep, when really he was a German, nationalist and so what if he was a Prussian expansionist. Who didn't wan't they're country to succeed when nationalism was growing all over the world. Marcus Aurelius was a Roman Expansionist but considered one of the greatest Roman Emperors!
@UchihaGamer111 At the time you allude to, Germany was not a liberal country so to ascribe any progress in "human rights" to "the minds of the common man" is misleading. OK, the socialist party was the largest in the Reichstag, "but the Reichstag did not rule Germany: the Kaiser ruled Germany through officials that he appointed" like Bismark who started a social insurance scheme for workers: pension, sickness, accident and maternity benefits: he was neither common nor liberal :-)
@elrjames777 I never said anything about Germany being a liberal country. Re-read the post. I said in the 1800's liberal ideas were coming to the common man in civilized Europe. I don't know what post you read, but you need to read it again.
@UchihaGamer111 OK: I did: but the fact is that both this video and your post focus on Bismark, who by your own admission was German; you mention "liberal thought" and "human rights" in the same sentence as his personal pronoun, so of course you intended readers to think about him and Germany: to ascribe any progress of "liberal thought" or "human rights" to the "common man" in that country is clearly mistaken, if emotionally understandable, for the reasons I outlined earlier :-)
@elrjames777 No I ment that he was misunderstood as an expansionist, by liberal minded people of the time. I didn't allude to none of the nonsense you're feeble mind is comprehending and trying to debate. I didn't intend people to think of him at all as I placed liberal thought in opposition to Bismark. So you sound utterly foolish, and are talking about nonsense.
@UchihaGamer111 Ad hominen arguments are not convincing: yes you did mention something about Bismark being a Prussian expansionist (which is itself debatable because he was reluctant to move her borders eastward as that would entail taking many more non Germans into the Reich), but your essential point was that German "liberal thought" and "human rights" were "in the minds of common men", which is incorrect because contemporary progress in those areas in Germany was top down :-)
@elrjames777 And you are still incorrect. If you actually took the time to see who I was responding to, I was agreeing that Bismark wasn't a simple expansionist. I said he was a Prussian nationalist. I also said that because of liberal minded views in the CIVILIZED WORLD, which last I checked didn't regard Germany solely. He was misjudged as an expansionist. I then wen't on to say even if he was an expansionist, so what he was still a great statesman. You're still looking foolish.
@elrjames777 Please quote my essential point. The one where I said "German liberal thought" or "German common man". I greatly await more of you're nonsense.
@UchihaGamer111 You wrote: "Bismark came at a time when human rights and liberal thought were coming into the minds of the common man in the "civilized world" Did you really mean that Bismark "came" everywhere except Germany, and the situation you describe pertained everywhere except Germany, unless of course you implying that Germany was not civilized. No: either you are lying to excuse your poor English, or you are wrong about the nature social progress in Germany :-)
@elrjames777 Or you're a moron who is trying to find stuff that isn't there. Of course Bismark was precedent to Europe. He practically masterminded the orchestration of Prussia into the NGF and then the German Empire. You are ridiculous, to say "did you really mean Bismark came every but germany." I'm talking about Bismark getting the rep for an expansionist. Where are you getting you're ridiculous ideas, quit bothering me fool. My poor english is vastly superior to you're common sense.
@elrjames777 If you want to play the moron, and act like the 1800's didn't have a rise of liberalism, as more common people became educated in the civilized world be my guest. I'm not talking about German's sole opinions, i'm talking about foreign nations and historians depictions of him even at the time. So please fool, stop it.
@UchihaGamer111 Don't blame me for your inadequate English: If you wanted to air your preoccupation with common people becoming educated in the "civilized world" then you should have said so in the context of a more germane forum: this video is about the Franco / Prussian war, Bismark and Germany not a sociology lesson about the rise of the "common man" in the "civilized world", which of course begs the question: where in the world do you consider people to have been uncivilized?
@UchihaGamer111 How can anyone "comprehend" what you meant by the "civilized world", at the time of Bismark, unless you tell us; always assuming of course that you are are not too lazy or stubborn to correct your original clumsy and misleading remarks :-)
@elrjames777 Nope you're just too stupid. Who doesn't know what was and wasn't the civilized world in the 1800's. Keep thinking things like the Meiji restoration didn't happen. Now quit bothering me fool.
@UchihaGamer111 An honest answer to the question please: where is the "civilized world" of Bismark's time that you have in mind: your opinion is that only some parts of the world were "civilized" don't you. We also see clearly that your suggestion that the "Meiji restoration" was the result of "human rights" or "liberal thought" "coming into the minds of the common man" is just as ridiculous as your implication that it was the cause of any social progress in Bismark's Germany :-)
@elrjames777 More nonsense that I never said. More nonsense that I said anything about the social progress of Germany. Just go to you're medicine cabinet and eat all the pills. You're stupid as fuck. LMAO
@UchihaGamer111 No: you are not laughing, your squirming: and you'r a lier also because you did mention "human rights" and "liberal thought" in the "civilized world" : or perhaps you want us to believe that "human rights" and "liberal thought" aren't social progress or that Germany wasn't civilized :-)
@UchihaGamer111 Yes: those 3 words of meaningless vernacular neatly summarize your level of expression and understanding on the topic: your academic English is poor so you were incapable of expressing what you really meant and you don't comprehend the subtlety of what is said to you in return. You lied and your historical opinion is shallow, simplistic, confused. Also, your foolish implication that some parts of the world were uncivilized is insulting, arrogant and fallacious :-)
@UchihaGamer111 The foolishness is yours for not allowing yourself to be corrected when you are wrong, so yes: it is useless to recapitulate the relevant information :-)
@elrjames777 You haven't been relevant since the beginning. No one said anything about what you're ridiculous mind thought up. Quit bothering me with you're false intelligence. If you were 5% of what you are trying to be. You wouldn't be up here now would you.
@UchihaGamer111 Sorry for the delay: but no: you are the one who posts personal abuse rather than engage with he facts: the fact is that the Franco Prussian war (the subject of the video under which you posted your comment) had nothing whatsoever to do with "liberal thought, and at least some human rights were coming into the minds of the common man in the civilized world". Indeed, your proposition in itself is simply unsubstantiated assertion without any evidence :-)
@UchihaGamer111 Not banter just scolding: we do not "fool" ourselves into imagining that you posted under a Franco Prussian War clip to say nothing about it. Your mistaken idea that "he [Bismark] came at a time when liberal thought, and at least some human rights were coming into the minds of the common man in the civilized world": is nonsense in itself what "liberal thought", which "human rights" where is this "civilized world" and "common man" other than in your own common mind
@elrjames777 Lmao I never attributed anything about Liberalism to Bismark. Liberal governments formed all over Europe, Latin & North America in the 19th century. The French revolution of 1830 instigated uprisings all over Europe. The ring-leaders of course were liberal politicians not common men. But do you think they're speeches to garner support about liberal thought and human rights, didn't reach the common man who would fight in these revolutions? Yea sure that stuff didn't happen.
You mix up liberal with economically liberal. Liberal means that you have political rights, not only economical ones. Each single male German was allowed to vote for the Reichstag - one man one vote, well understood - while in Britain the majority of the working class was not allowed at all to vote until the end of WW1. But at that time Germany introduced the women's right to vote, something with which Britain came up 25 years later. So what is a "liberal" country in your opinion?
@Tigelinus No American President or their court historians or media propagandists (e.g., Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, FDR, Harry Truman, LBJ, Nixon, the Bush Crime Family, Clinton or Obama) have any moral standing to criticize Bismarck.
@RPenta It is faintly ridiculous to suggest politicians should have "moral standing" before they can criticize each other: in the very nature of the sordid activity it would be, and still is, perfectly normal. Similarly, it is easy for us to dismiss your nonsensical labeling of any historian who criticizes Bismark (who was to a some extent actually self critical) as being in the "court" of a US president or a media propagandist, as merely the deluded effort of a polemic simpleton :-)
@elrjames777 It is not ridiculous; simply applying a universal moral standard which should apply across the board-whether politicians, generals, popes, or hack writers such as yourself.
@RPenta Whether or not we are hack writers (which we probably are) does not alter the foolishness of imagining that human beings ever existed, or live today, in the politics of "should": what you describe is not realistic, merely a personal aspirational morality :-)
Typical case of utter over-estimation of an inbred midwest Yank who never left a footpath outside the US. If the bad guys are as intelligent as you I'm neither feared of them nor can I wait to meet them. Maybe I should remind you that the computer was not an american invention, just as the internet was a NATO project and not a US project. The US foreign aid per capita is an shameful story compared to what smaller countries donate as human aid - without political conditions.
You want the US to play the bad guy (what it does since quite a long time) and complain about "continuous world wars" at the same time? And you guarantee to have been to more places than I have, although knowing literally nothing about my CV. And of course a keyboard warrior like you knows all the important guys, yet has to come along with the childish idea about "who invented the internet". Just take "your" internet and abstain from European inventions like cars in return.
@XxxSakura101 Generally, u r right. But go to a Germ. soccer video and you'll find hundreds or more comments about how nazi-like today's Germany is. To clarify (if u r Amer.). I don't bash ordinary Amer. people. It's the (neo-con) elite, not average Joe causing problems. Perhaps you wanna check "War made easy", Why We Fight", "Iraq For Sale", "Uncoverd. The Whole Truth About The Iraq War", John Pilger's "Breaking The Silence" and see for yourself. Available on video google or YT.
@PercyMcQueen11 I read somewhere that he drank copious amounts of brandy while he addressed or debated in the Reichstag - this titbit endeared him to me - seemed like he'd be fun to be around ( if you suppressed your socialist tendencies ).
@comadivine1 Sorry: I know its been a year since you posted on the topic but, yes: for instance the key significance of the struggle at Mars La Tour 16th August 1870 :-) Napoleon III senior field commanders really let him, and France, down very badly :-)
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ursus911 5 days ago
Napoleon III was a terrible military leader, but a great economist.
Obasiliasfilosofos 1 week ago
The world would be a better place if Germany was the strongest power in the world. Better for the starving, better for jews, better for Europe, and betterfor Germany.
Stoolie33 2 weeks ago
@Stoolie33
The time when Germany was the strongest power in the world, which happened twice in the last century, twice lead to a world war. This was not necessarily Germany's fault, it was just due to the fact that a Supergermany in terms of military and economy would be possible on an isolated continent such as North America or Australia, but not in the heart of Europe, the center of the world at that time. The surrounding powers just could not accept to see only Germany's afterburner.
MaximKretsch 2 weeks ago
@MaximKretsch True and Germany would provide economic and medical aid for countries worldwide and make an effort for the starving people of the world. It's a shame Germany didn't win the two world wars of the last century. The world would be a better place.
Stoolie33 2 weeks ago
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@Stoolie33 Yes and watch germany go downhill. This the sameg "germany" that almost self destructed Europe? Primitive people can only be helped so much before you go broke. But on a lighter note , keep gettting refugees from Africa , middle east and that will solve all Germany's problems
popper504 5 days ago
@Stoolie33 Sorry to say that, but it very much seems you didn't read my comment you refer to very carefully. Nowhere did I deny that the US export a huge amount of food or that the US is the no 1 world economy (though heavily dependend on China as a creditor).
I'm talking about foreign politics. Are you familiar with what Americ. governments have been doing for the last 6-7 decades? Obviously not.
And when did I say I'm European?
Tigelinus 2 weeks ago
Bismarck was neither dedicated to the cause of German unity nor to the cration of a Grossdeutschland, as he was not at all a nationalist, but focused only on Prussia. German unity was only a tool to strengthen Prussia. And Grossdeutschland, by the way is the expression for Germany including the ethnic German part of Austria, a concept which had already been given up as a result of the war between Prussia and Austria. Bismarck did not want a second great power inside a new united Germany.
MaximKretsch 2 weeks ago
Why is it in every war video I go to the words "With the defeat of the French army", are to be found?
crazymuthaphukr 3 weeks ago
@crazymuthaphukr
The explanation is that the French had the problem of a common border with Germany. If the British or even the USA would have had one, they'd shut up today.
MaximKretsch 4 days ago
@Stoolie33 Sorry, But I don't agree. Although the US is the no.1 in grain exporting, it's hardly "feeding the world". Other countries export large amounts of grain too. If the US fed the world, they do a horrible job, given the number of starved people every year.
Re the "evil" thing, reading Chalmers Johnson, Eugene Jarecki & Norman Solomon and watching docus by John Pilger & Robert Greenwald opened a very different perspective for me. "World would collapse without the US"? Can't agree on that.
Tigelinus 1 month ago
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Stoolie33 2 weeks ago
i tinhk that he did ver god things and not all germans are bad
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Otto von Bismarck was usually very determined, not as ruthless as some modern day American leaders and members of elites, but very determinated if needed. Plus he was smarter than the latter.
And he established social security and general health care in Prussia.
Way ahead of his time.
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@Tigelinus Yes unfortunately he came at a time when liberal thought, and at least some human rights were coming into the minds of the common man in the civilized world. And I think he got a bad rep, when really he was a German, nationalist and so what if he was a Prussian expansionist. Who didn't wan't they're country to succeed when nationalism was growing all over the world. Marcus Aurelius was a Roman Expansionist but considered one of the greatest Roman Emperors!
UchihaGamer111 3 months ago
@UchihaGamer111 At the time you allude to, Germany was not a liberal country so to ascribe any progress in "human rights" to "the minds of the common man" is misleading. OK, the socialist party was the largest in the Reichstag, "but the Reichstag did not rule Germany: the Kaiser ruled Germany through officials that he appointed" like Bismark who started a social insurance scheme for workers: pension, sickness, accident and maternity benefits: he was neither common nor liberal :-)
elrjames777 1 month ago
@elrjames777 I never said anything about Germany being a liberal country. Re-read the post. I said in the 1800's liberal ideas were coming to the common man in civilized Europe. I don't know what post you read, but you need to read it again.
UchihaGamer111 1 month ago
@UchihaGamer111 OK: I did: but the fact is that both this video and your post focus on Bismark, who by your own admission was German; you mention "liberal thought" and "human rights" in the same sentence as his personal pronoun, so of course you intended readers to think about him and Germany: to ascribe any progress of "liberal thought" or "human rights" to the "common man" in that country is clearly mistaken, if emotionally understandable, for the reasons I outlined earlier :-)
elrjames777 1 month ago
@elrjames777 No I ment that he was misunderstood as an expansionist, by liberal minded people of the time. I didn't allude to none of the nonsense you're feeble mind is comprehending and trying to debate. I didn't intend people to think of him at all as I placed liberal thought in opposition to Bismark. So you sound utterly foolish, and are talking about nonsense.
UchihaGamer111 1 month ago
@UchihaGamer111 Ad hominen arguments are not convincing: yes you did mention something about Bismark being a Prussian expansionist (which is itself debatable because he was reluctant to move her borders eastward as that would entail taking many more non Germans into the Reich), but your essential point was that German "liberal thought" and "human rights" were "in the minds of common men", which is incorrect because contemporary progress in those areas in Germany was top down :-)
elrjames777 1 month ago
@elrjames777 And you are still incorrect. If you actually took the time to see who I was responding to, I was agreeing that Bismark wasn't a simple expansionist. I said he was a Prussian nationalist. I also said that because of liberal minded views in the CIVILIZED WORLD, which last I checked didn't regard Germany solely. He was misjudged as an expansionist. I then wen't on to say even if he was an expansionist, so what he was still a great statesman. You're still looking foolish.
UchihaGamer111 1 month ago
@elrjames777 Please quote my essential point. The one where I said "German liberal thought" or "German common man". I greatly await more of you're nonsense.
UchihaGamer111 1 month ago
@UchihaGamer111 You wrote: "Bismark came at a time when human rights and liberal thought were coming into the minds of the common man in the "civilized world" Did you really mean that Bismark "came" everywhere except Germany, and the situation you describe pertained everywhere except Germany, unless of course you implying that Germany was not civilized. No: either you are lying to excuse your poor English, or you are wrong about the nature social progress in Germany :-)
elrjames777 1 month ago
@elrjames777 Or you're a moron who is trying to find stuff that isn't there. Of course Bismark was precedent to Europe. He practically masterminded the orchestration of Prussia into the NGF and then the German Empire. You are ridiculous, to say "did you really mean Bismark came every but germany." I'm talking about Bismark getting the rep for an expansionist. Where are you getting you're ridiculous ideas, quit bothering me fool. My poor english is vastly superior to you're common sense.
UchihaGamer111 1 month ago
@elrjames777 If you want to play the moron, and act like the 1800's didn't have a rise of liberalism, as more common people became educated in the civilized world be my guest. I'm not talking about German's sole opinions, i'm talking about foreign nations and historians depictions of him even at the time. So please fool, stop it.
UchihaGamer111 1 month ago
@UchihaGamer111 Don't blame me for your inadequate English: If you wanted to air your preoccupation with common people becoming educated in the "civilized world" then you should have said so in the context of a more germane forum: this video is about the Franco / Prussian war, Bismark and Germany not a sociology lesson about the rise of the "common man" in the "civilized world", which of course begs the question: where in the world do you consider people to have been uncivilized?
elrjames777 1 month ago
@elrjames777 Sorry you're to stupid to comprehend it. Everyone else online can.
UchihaGamer111 1 month ago
@UchihaGamer111 How can anyone "comprehend" what you meant by the "civilized world", at the time of Bismark, unless you tell us; always assuming of course that you are are not too lazy or stubborn to correct your original clumsy and misleading remarks :-)
elrjames777 1 month ago
@elrjames777 Nope you're just too stupid. Who doesn't know what was and wasn't the civilized world in the 1800's. Keep thinking things like the Meiji restoration didn't happen. Now quit bothering me fool.
UchihaGamer111 1 month ago
@UchihaGamer111 An honest answer to the question please: where is the "civilized world" of Bismark's time that you have in mind: your opinion is that only some parts of the world were "civilized" don't you. We also see clearly that your suggestion that the "Meiji restoration" was the result of "human rights" or "liberal thought" "coming into the minds of the common man" is just as ridiculous as your implication that it was the cause of any social progress in Bismark's Germany :-)
elrjames777 1 month ago
@elrjames777 More nonsense that I never said. More nonsense that I said anything about the social progress of Germany. Just go to you're medicine cabinet and eat all the pills. You're stupid as fuck. LMAO
UchihaGamer111 1 month ago
@UchihaGamer111 No: you are not laughing, your squirming: and you'r a lier also because you did mention "human rights" and "liberal thought" in the "civilized world" : or perhaps you want us to believe that "human rights" and "liberal thought" aren't social progress or that Germany wasn't civilized :-)
elrjames777 1 month ago
@elrjames777 Lmao what ever fool.
UchihaGamer111 1 month ago
@UchihaGamer111 Yes: those 3 words of meaningless vernacular neatly summarize your level of expression and understanding on the topic: your academic English is poor so you were incapable of expressing what you really meant and you don't comprehend the subtlety of what is said to you in return. You lied and your historical opinion is shallow, simplistic, confused. Also, your foolish implication that some parts of the world were uncivilized is insulting, arrogant and fallacious :-)
elrjames777 1 month ago
@elrjames777 Sure fool.
UchihaGamer111 1 month ago
@UchihaGamer111 Yes: I am very sure :-)
elrjames777 1 month ago
@elrjames777 Still typing useless non-relevant information fool?
UchihaGamer111 1 month ago
@UchihaGamer111 The foolishness is yours for not allowing yourself to be corrected when you are wrong, so yes: it is useless to recapitulate the relevant information :-)
elrjames777 1 month ago
@elrjames777 You haven't been relevant since the beginning. No one said anything about what you're ridiculous mind thought up. Quit bothering me with you're false intelligence. If you were 5% of what you are trying to be. You wouldn't be up here now would you.
UchihaGamer111 1 month ago
@UchihaGamer111 Sorry for the delay: but no: you are the one who posts personal abuse rather than engage with he facts: the fact is that the Franco Prussian war (the subject of the video under which you posted your comment) had nothing whatsoever to do with "liberal thought, and at least some human rights were coming into the minds of the common man in the civilized world". Indeed, your proposition in itself is simply unsubstantiated assertion without any evidence :-)
elrjames777 1 month ago
@elrjames777 And again I said nothing about the Franco Prussian war at all. More useless banter from a pathetic fool.
UchihaGamer111 1 month ago
@UchihaGamer111 Not banter just scolding: we do not "fool" ourselves into imagining that you posted under a Franco Prussian War clip to say nothing about it. Your mistaken idea that "he [Bismark] came at a time when liberal thought, and at least some human rights were coming into the minds of the common man in the civilized world": is nonsense in itself what "liberal thought", which "human rights" where is this "civilized world" and "common man" other than in your own common mind
elrjames777 1 month ago
@elrjames777 Lmao I never attributed anything about Liberalism to Bismark. Liberal governments formed all over Europe, Latin & North America in the 19th century. The French revolution of 1830 instigated uprisings all over Europe. The ring-leaders of course were liberal politicians not common men. But do you think they're speeches to garner support about liberal thought and human rights, didn't reach the common man who would fight in these revolutions? Yea sure that stuff didn't happen.
UchihaGamer111 1 month ago
@elrjames777
You mix up liberal with economically liberal. Liberal means that you have political rights, not only economical ones. Each single male German was allowed to vote for the Reichstag - one man one vote, well understood - while in Britain the majority of the working class was not allowed at all to vote until the end of WW1. But at that time Germany introduced the women's right to vote, something with which Britain came up 25 years later. So what is a "liberal" country in your opinion?
MaximKretsch 2 weeks ago
@Tigelinus No American President or their court historians or media propagandists (e.g., Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, FDR, Harry Truman, LBJ, Nixon, the Bush Crime Family, Clinton or Obama) have any moral standing to criticize Bismarck.
RPenta 2 months ago 2
@RPenta It is faintly ridiculous to suggest politicians should have "moral standing" before they can criticize each other: in the very nature of the sordid activity it would be, and still is, perfectly normal. Similarly, it is easy for us to dismiss your nonsensical labeling of any historian who criticizes Bismark (who was to a some extent actually self critical) as being in the "court" of a US president or a media propagandist, as merely the deluded effort of a polemic simpleton :-)
elrjames777 1 month ago
@elrjames777 It is not ridiculous; simply applying a universal moral standard which should apply across the board-whether politicians, generals, popes, or hack writers such as yourself.
RPenta 1 month ago
@RPenta Whether or not we are hack writers (which we probably are) does not alter the foolishness of imagining that human beings ever existed, or live today, in the politics of "should": what you describe is not realistic, merely a personal aspirational morality :-)
elrjames777 1 month ago
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Stoolie33 1 month ago
@Stoolie33
I wonder how the USA will feel if the rest of the world stops supplying oil and gas and brains and borrrowing money.
MaximKretsch 2 weeks ago
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Stoolie33 2 weeks ago
@Stoolie33
Typical case of utter over-estimation of an inbred midwest Yank who never left a footpath outside the US. If the bad guys are as intelligent as you I'm neither feared of them nor can I wait to meet them. Maybe I should remind you that the computer was not an american invention, just as the internet was a NATO project and not a US project. The US foreign aid per capita is an shameful story compared to what smaller countries donate as human aid - without political conditions.
MaximKretsch 2 weeks ago
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Stoolie33 2 weeks ago
@Stoolie33
You want the US to play the bad guy (what it does since quite a long time) and complain about "continuous world wars" at the same time? And you guarantee to have been to more places than I have, although knowing literally nothing about my CV. And of course a keyboard warrior like you knows all the important guys, yet has to come along with the childish idea about "who invented the internet". Just take "your" internet and abstain from European inventions like cars in return.
MaximKretsch 2 weeks ago
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Stoolie33 2 weeks ago
@MaximKretschThis coming from a person on an American website. Have fun getting Shariah law shoved down your throat in Britian! LONG LIVE LONDISTAN!
popper504 5 days ago
@popper504
I don't know who you are or what you refer to - in any case to nothing I wrote here - but I know very well WHAT you are. :-)
MaximKretsch 4 days ago
@MaximKretsch coming from a person on an American website. Have fun getting Shariah law shoved down your throat in Britian! LONG LIVE LONDISTAN!
popper504 4 days ago
@MaximKretsch Donate more to the primitive African continent? yea , we will leave that crap to you shariah law loving moslems
popper504 5 days ago
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@MaximKretsch I wonder how you will feel when you no longer can log on to YOUTUBE or FACEBOOK or GOOGLE LMAO!
popper504 5 days ago
@Tigelinus Amazing how even on a video like this you people manage to find a way to bash us.
XxxSakura101 2 weeks ago
@XxxSakura101 Generally, u r right. But go to a Germ. soccer video and you'll find hundreds or more comments about how nazi-like today's Germany is. To clarify (if u r Amer.). I don't bash ordinary Amer. people. It's the (neo-con) elite, not average Joe causing problems. Perhaps you wanna check "War made easy", Why We Fight", "Iraq For Sale", "Uncoverd. The Whole Truth About The Iraq War", John Pilger's "Breaking The Silence" and see for yourself. Available on video google or YT.
Tigelinus 2 weeks ago
Otto von Bismarck rocks !! He was a man's man.
mickigoe 7 months ago
@mickigoe Naw he was still an asshole. Although nowhere near as bad as some other Germans.
PercyMcQueen11 6 months ago
@PercyMcQueen11 I read somewhere that he drank copious amounts of brandy while he addressed or debated in the Reichstag - this titbit endeared him to me - seemed like he'd be fun to be around ( if you suppressed your socialist tendencies ).
mickigoe 6 months ago
@mickigoe yeah bismarck was a pretty heavy drinker, he was even a alcoholic during his university time...and yet he only died at 83 ;)
xxxMRXXXxxx 3 months ago
@xxxMRXXXxxx That's reassuring Mr X - I shall persist with my cognac so as to increase my longevity..hic...
mickigoe 3 months ago
@PercyMcQueen11
Never met the assholes in Washington and elsewhere in the USA.
MaximKretsch 2 weeks ago
Of course, such glorification of a french enemy by a brit is unsurprising
myowngenesis 8 months ago
Bizmark. Or whatever his name is spelled as. I dislike that "creature" b a d
myowngenesis 8 months ago
sorry but this is very inaccurate.... key moments and events overlooked
comadivine1 1 year ago
@comadivine1 Sorry: I know its been a year since you posted on the topic but, yes: for instance the key significance of the struggle at Mars La Tour 16th August 1870 :-) Napoleon III senior field commanders really let him, and France, down very badly :-)
elrjames777 1 month ago
Vive la France!
Vive le Empereur!
Komnenit 1 year ago