Comments by "Jim Taylor" (@jimtaylor294) on "The Spectator" channel.

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  9.  @susannamarker2582  Well people tend to focus on the NSDAP getting into power as the key detail in Germany rearming... yet the Communists had similar ambitions, and Weimar Germany had already been putting some of its US loans into rearming. (case in point the secret Tank, Aircraft & Submarine development pacts with third party countries like the USSR, and a certain class of overgunned Cruisers) Germany only got enough arms to be a threat again though, because the countries supposed to enforce the treaty were so divided: • The French favoured a hard line, and did where they could. • The British were less & less eager to be firm on Germany (until being blindsighted in 1938), and opposed French measures in the '20's. • The USA pretty much did nothing after the early '20's , favouring isolationism. • Italy did basically nothing, as only Austria remaining seperate from Germany really mattered to them. (until Hitler won Mussolini over to letting that happen) • Russia was by then communist and thus was shunned by most, and had no baring on the treaty. • Belgium wanted Germany kept weak but also didn't want to be on bad relations... plus had no teeth to enforce anything. • Romania had not had any real say at the peace talks and thus was external to it all, was more concerned with Hungary, and had gained a lot from Bulgaria. ...which all led to a weak front re' German rearmament and re-expansionism; despite Germany being relatively weak for most of the interwar period re' Oil supplies and actual fighting power.
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