Comments by "Zetectic" (@zetectic7968) on "Ryan Chapman" channel.

  1. Ā @twelvecatsinatrenchcoatĀ Well your theory about WW1 is wrong. The Austro-Hungarian empire was collapsing due to Nationalism but it wasn't prepared to allow Serbian independence. It was the "Blank cheque" given by Germany to Austria that allowed it to declare war on Serbia that started the chain of events. Without Berlin's agreement there would have been no war.
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  2. Very interesting, thoughtful & informative. It was the USA that persuaded France to sent back Khomeini to Iran because they has fallen out with the Shah. It was also the US that backed Saddam & Iraq to start the war with Iran. American foreign policy fails more times than it has succeeded! I had an Iranian friend that refused to return to Iran ( he had been studying in the UK) after the Ayatollah's return. He knew how back the clerical establishment were: they abused their power for their own satisfaction. There can be no change in Iran under totalitarian rule until the oil runs out & the economy weakens considerably.
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  3. Drafters of the constitution were worried about elites when they were in fact The elite šŸ¤£ Interesting but overlooked 2 keys points that have weakened government: SCOTUS taking power to itself to make & change laws ( that should not be its function); Newt Gingrich stopping the GOP participating in bipartisan government. Add to that the anti-democratic electoral college.
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  4. An interesting view. It is obvious the effort you put into this. Most of the books you quote from I have not heard of. Got bogged down by Margaret Macmillan's one on the Treaty of Versailles. There are moves in the UK to re-evaluate Neville Chamberlain & reject the viewpoint that he was a simpleton who got conned by Hitler. Disappointing that like most Americans on YT you mispronounce European name when just a minute on Wikipedia can put you straight (Memel & Guernica to name but 2). A pity you glossed over the "America First" movement in the USA & the positive attitude held by many that was pro-German, the US investment into Germany alternatively the Communists supporting the USSR & having a favourable view of Stalin. Lastly the League of Nations was castrated as soon as the USA refused to join: sadly the UN has gone the same way due to the permanent members of the Security Council with the veto.
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  5. I read some Orwell when young & need to go back & read more. His profile deserves to be much higher than just the author of Animal Farm & 1984. Capitalism is destroying the planet.
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  6. Zoroastrians known as Parsee's in India & fled to there due to Muslim persecution.
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