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In Reply to: What happens when global empires collapse? Most likely, war. posted by vacuous on October 22, 2023 at 13:23:27:
The collapse of those empires didn't precipitate war, they collapsed as a result of war.
What's more, Britain and France didn't fight to preserve their empires and neither did Japan. In fact, Japan wanted to build an empire and saw the US, Britain, France, etc. in the way.
Germany didn't even have an empire when Hitler invaded Poland, and whatever empire it acquired during the war was limited to countries it occupied.
Also, here in the West we like to think the invasion of Normandy was the turning point of the European part of the second world war but it wasn't. By the time the Allies hit the beach in June of 1944, Germany's defeat was inevitable. The Red Army had pushed the Wehrmacht back nearly to its Barbarossa start lines and there was no possibility of Germany regaining the initiative. It was only a matter of when, not if.
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Follow Ups
- I think you have it ass-backwards. - ghost of olddude55 10/23/2303:33:15 10/23/23 (12)
- Hey ghost! Maybe stick to bad car repair porn! - vacuous 14:59:03 10/23/23 (0)
- Let's see whose claims about empire and war withstand scrutiny: - vacuous 13:36:42 10/23/23 (0)
- "there was no possibility of Germany regaining the initiative." - Victor Khomenko 04:39:39 10/23/23 (9)
- Regardless... - ghost of olddude55 04:48:16 10/23/23 (8)
- "they laughed at the Sherman tank" - Victor Khomenko 05:52:45 10/23/23 (7)
- It's not horseshit. They did laugh, and I have read. - ghost of olddude55 06:25:36 10/23/23 (6)
- Then read some more - Victor Khomenko 06:28:17 10/23/23 (5)
- Here is something for you - Victor Khomenko 07:10:33 10/23/23 (4)
- I have a pro-Sherman book... - ghost of olddude55 14:29:12 10/23/23 (3)
- It just doesn't get closer than this to overthrow your statement - Victor Khomenko 16:00:06 10/23/23 (2)
- BUT the T34 had one "best in class" feature - ltman 21:50:54 10/24/23 (1)
- No, you are not wrong, it definitely had some nice features - Victor Khomenko 06:23:50 10/25/23 (0)
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