tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post913723214431416652..comments2024-03-28T23:57:50.103-05:00Comments on Bayou Renaissance Man: World War II began 76 years ago todayPeterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10595089829300831372noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-25462906956441436302015-09-03T17:42:57.251-05:002015-09-03T17:42:57.251-05:00No, they didn't pay for all the Lend-Lease we ...No, they didn't pay for all the Lend-Lease we sent them. They decided to keep some of the latest things that were sent right at the end, or in transit, and we gave them a 60 year loan @2% to pay for that. (Priced at a 90% discount of production costs.) Everything else was either destroyed or returned to us. The original deal was send it back or destroy it at the end of hostilities.<br /><br />It took them more than the 60 years, due to them skipping some years due to monetary issues.<br /><br />They also got about $3.3 billion grant under the Marshall Program.Willhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00722792638246578812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-14911221021166524982015-09-02T09:30:59.748-05:002015-09-02T09:30:59.748-05:00The Brits made substantial repayments of Lend-Leas...The Brits made substantial repayments of Lend-Lease so you can dismiss that claim.<br /><br />And it is worth noting that in Germany, the Church-State bindings permits the State to levy a tax on church members to force church members to support the church financially. Thus, most Germans avoid that tax by avoiding church. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-33833348922541383282015-09-02T02:40:28.974-05:002015-09-02T02:40:28.974-05:00If you really want to get fussy, WWI was just a co...If you really want to get fussy, WWI was just a continuation of the tensions from the 1870 Franco-Prussian war. If only the Prussian King (not the Kaiser then) had just listened to Bismark about Alsace-Lorraine.<br />Joe in PNGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-67463502962691044382015-09-02T02:14:55.911-05:002015-09-02T02:14:55.911-05:00An alternative date is July 28 1914 considering th...An alternative date is July 28 1914 considering that that conflict (WWI) was closed in an unsatisfactory manner, planting the seeds for the Second World War.Timbonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-29187641880688290372015-09-02T01:45:29.183-05:002015-09-02T01:45:29.183-05:00England became 3.29 billion $ from the Marshall pl...England became 3.29 billion $ from the Marshall plan, more than twice what Germany got at 1.45 billion.<br />The percentages of grant and loan where roughly the same.<br />The difference was that England squandered it and Germany used it wisely.<br />The money from the marshal plan is still being reinvested in Germany today.<br />But the author of the article made a blatant (if common) error.<br />The second world war did <i>not</i> start in 1939 with the german invasion in Poland.<br />Depending on the definition it either started 1937 with the japanese invasion of china (the earlier of the 2 separate wars that merged into WWII) or with the merger of both wars with the attack on Pearl Harbour.MadMcAlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05189731235105279817noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-6865441025726574052015-09-02T01:12:33.224-05:002015-09-02T01:12:33.224-05:00My perception of England was they were too in love...My perception of England was they were too in love with socialism. That's why they tossed Churchill after winning the war. They decided to relax and coast after the war. Europe was bombed flat, so they didn't have the luxury of sitting back and taking it easy like the English.<br /><br />AFAIK, the English never paid any of the Lend-Lease back. So, claiming that they never got any of our money after the war is a little disingenuous. <br /><br />They never really recovered from ww1, and then got hit with ww2, and that pretty much finished them as a world power. Their idiot generals got so many men killed fighting the ww1 Bosch, they should have hung all of them for incompetence. That lost generation ruined them.Willhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00722792638246578812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-75582377159274291102015-09-01T23:43:56.716-05:002015-09-01T23:43:56.716-05:00Going just from the excerpts - calling Hitler a &q...Going just from the excerpts - calling Hitler a "would-be philosopher" gives him credit he did not deserve. Metaphysical questions, deep inquiry into the true, the good or the beautiful, were of no concern to him at all, except as political cudgels to be swung against the opponents of the German Race.<br /><br />And if this author thinks that earning a living is the sum and total of American thought, he knows less than nothing of the country. If anything the American fault is to have <i>too much</i> interest in metaphysics - both in depth of speculation, and in filthiness on emerging, US academics were assiduous students of the Germans, and have long surpassed their teachers. The worst things in US history spring from Americans following a principle wherever it leads, even when that is Hell.<br /><br />Nor is America truly alien to European culture. Its origin is that same Enlightenment that came from Europe in the first place; if Europeans can't recognize the common ancestry, it's only because they have forgotten their own past. The utilitarian logic that rejects metaphysics is not, as the author supposes, an American import; it ruled Europe already when the Americans arrived, and most Americans, I think, find it as repulsive as he does.<br /><br />He <i>is</i> right, though, that Hitler's war led straight to American hegemony. Let's give him that much at least.Michael Brazierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07510942619007870591noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-81586690884227980472015-09-01T20:25:14.273-05:002015-09-01T20:25:14.273-05:00Once, years ago, on a trip to England I met a man ...Once, years ago, on a trip to England I met a man (friend of a friend) who went on and on about how the USA screwed England after the war, by giving all that money to Germany (the Marshall plan) and nothing to England, who soon found themselves unable to compete with most European countries, because they were still broke and recovering from the war.<br /><br />So, they won the war, but lost the peace, and he laid the blame for that at the foot of the US, which he felt should have helped its allies first.<br /><br />Makes you think.J Van Stryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18214235153399109479noreply@blogger.com