• marcos@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Life is an exercise of optimizing for the lesser evil.

    But some times everybody is so evil that the lesser evil must be called out too. Otherwise you get entire countries believing that maintaining wars all over the world for the next 80 years is normal and the world should thanks them for it.

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      But some times everybody is so evil that the lesser evil must be called out too. Otherwise you get entire countries believing that maintaining wars all over the world for the next 80 years is normal and the world should thanks them for it.

      I don’t think that a lack of being called out is what caused that.

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      2 days ago
      1. This is in reference to WW2. ‘Triple Entente’ is the preferred term for the WW1 alliance that Britain was a part of.

      2. Yes, Imperial Germany was literally an aggressor in WW1, invading neutral Belgium to execute its war plans against France.

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        4 hours ago

        I mean, the idea was to strike France to take the western front before the Russian forces finished mobilization and left Germany in a two-front war.

        I think it was shit to attack Belgium, who had no beef with anyone (well, Belgian colonies excepted) but strategically it wasn’t necessarily a terrible idea.

        Russia had declared war on the Austrian-Hungarian Empire already, and Germany was an ally of Austria-Hungary, so… determining who the aggressor was is a bit murky, IMHO.