The blueprint to get another world war going

[mystery-ak]

March 30, 2022
The blueprint to get another world war going
By Paul C. Binotto

Article 231 may rightly deserve the notorious distinction as being the 20th century's single greatest miscalculation.  Any miscalculation in the application and enforcement of the severe economic sanctions levied against Russia in response to its recent invasion of Ukraine may turn out to be the 21st century's single greatest.

Article 231, also known as the War Guilt Clause, was part of the Treaty of Versailles, negotiated as conditions of peace for ending World War I.  The resolution "placed all blame for inciting the war squarely on Germany, and forced it to pay several billion in reparations to the Allied nations."

This miscalculation is found in the intent of the War Guilt Clause, which was to take all the bite out of the German Pinscher's mouth, by crippling, for generations to come, the German economy to subsistence, subservient levels, so it should never again be able make war on its neighbors . However, it would be its severe enforcement that, as historians assert, led to the broad support among Germans for political and cultural promises contained in the evil and maniacal barking of Adolf Hitler.

In other words, it was, at least in part, "[d]ue to lasting resentment of the Versailles Treaty [that]  the National Socialist (Nazi) Party ... w[as] able to gain support in the 1920s and early '30s by promising to overturn [the Versailles Treaty's] harsh provisions and make Germany into a major European power once again."  That regained power would soon assert itself by provoking a second world war and committing the horrific atrocities of the holocaust.

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[Kamaji]

The difference between Article 231 of the Versailles treaty and the current economic sanctions is that the sanctions on Russia will not necessarily continue after Russia ceases its aggression - in fact, reaching that goal is the point of the sanctions - whereas the point of Article 231 was to render Germany economically devastated in perpetuity - forever - which is not the goal of the sanctions.

Once the treaty had been signed, there wasn't much Germany could do to avoid continued application of Art. 231.  That is not the case with the sanctions on Russia; once Russia ceases hostilities against Ukraine and withdraws its troops, the sanctions should end; Russia is master of its own fate in that regard in a way that Germany was not.