Comments by "" (@BasementEngineer) on "Intelligence Squared" channel.

  1. What crimes did Germany commit?
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  2. Germany never had any intentions of war with Britain. Germany was doing so well with its industry and foreign trade that no war would benefit it.
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  3.  @moviemonster2083  Projecting, much?
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  4. Very good precis of the situation!
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  5. Well, had France not declared war on Germany, then there would have been no need for Germany to invade Belgium. Much is made of Belgian neutrality but it was not that. Belgium sided with France, and Britain.
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  6.  @bolivar2153  30 seconds with google would prove you are wrong, certainly with WWII. For WWI France and Russia mobilized before Germany, which at that time was akin to a declaration of war.
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  7.  @bolivar2153  Do you have a reputable believable source for your assertions? For example, for WWI Germany was the last country to mobilize. Further, France engaged with Russia in secret negotiations and agreements so as to threaten Germany from 2 direction.
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  8. No! Germany did its best to prevent the war.
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  9. Rubbish.
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  10. Rubbish. Britain was going to be in the war no matter what.
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  11. France had mobilized which, at that time, was akin to a declaration of war. Belgium had sided with France.
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  12.  @landsea7332  The issues you outlined are probably correct, however, the agreements between France and Russia, plus the Russian refusal to stop its mobilization, complicated matters considerably. Austria-Hungary should have been left alone to settle their grievances alone.
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  13.  @neddevine7692  Rubbish.
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  14.  @peterwebb8732  All you state was the direct result of Britain and its hangers-on declaring war on Germany.
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  15.  @dertery8724  Hmmm, Britain fosters slavery in many of its possessions, and then wants the credit for abolishing it. Got it.
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  16. Your last two paragraphs are certainly moronic rubbish.
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  17. FYI: The ill treatment of the Jews did not begin untill long after the declarations of war by Britain, France, and the USA de facto.
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  18. Can you cite any authenticated documents from the NSDAP goverment to instruct whoever to go forth and kill Jews? This was tried during the Zundel trials in Toronto and the prosecution failed miserably to produce any authentic document, or a competent eye witness, tha could testify to the Kill Jews assertion. None could withstand the cross examination by the defence counsel Doug Christie.
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  19. I have had a debate about militarism before and it went nowhere. It is first necessary to define what militarism actually is.
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