12 SHOCKING Ways WORLD WAR I Still Shapes Our World Today

[@christtp]

Great Paul McCartney shirt!

[@GregoryTheGr8ster]

The Great War also spawned the most memorable patriotic song of all time: Over There.

[@jackprecip5389]

At the 6:33 mark we're shown a political cartoon that was obviously drawn by someone advocating for foreign intervention and war, trying to mock the depicted GOP "isolationist" Senators shown who are (L to R) William Borah, Hiram Johnson, and Gerald Nye. No need to write their biographies, since anybody interested can look them up for themselves, but Gerald Nye is an especially interesting man and one whom I greatly admire. Nye, who hated war and especially hated the lies and propaganda associated with "selling" war was so disgusted by what he thought of industry profiteering from the horrors of war (or as Gen. Smedley Butler famously stated that War was a Racket) that he actually headed a congressional committee in the 1930's that ran for a couple of years which not only put under a microscope the profits made by American companies in WWI, but also tried to investigate if industries had not only profited from the war, but had actively helped to facilitate American involvement in it. Once Senator Nye in a committee hearing essentially accused the deceased former President Woodrow Wilson as a "collaborator" of the profit driven motives of industry to enter WWI, the Democrats, who by the mid 30's held the power in Congress, abruptly shut the committee down. Could you imagine a sitting Senator having a congressional committee today on investigating the profit motives for the lies told to get America into the Iraq war, or the defense industries anti-Russian lobbying for money to Ukraine and Israel? America would be better off with GOP Senators like Nye, Hiram Johnson, and Borah instead of the likes of McConnell, Graham, Romney, McCain, and the other neo-cons who although are diminishing from power (Thank God) are still a reminder of the sleaze from the previous generation and the Project For A New American Century vipers who orchestrated the disasters of the Bush (and even Obama/Biden) foreign fiascos.

[@jackspring7709]

Very true.

[@Beefster09]

You can’t have open borders and any kind of welfare at the same time.

[@WildBill99x]

Bryan Caplan addresses that claim in his recent book. He finds it to be a poor argument. On the whole, immigrants provide more value than they take in welfare benefits.

[@soundscape26]

Good video, thanks.

[@gaigerolfe]

Ironically, it was also the British and the French not enforcing the Treaty of Versailles during the Rise of Nazi Germany in the 30s that might've made WWII inevitable.

[@jackprecip5389]

Not "enforcing"? The French invaded and occupied the German Ruhr Valley for 2 1/2 years between 1923 to 1925 for lack of reparation payments and that only added to the rage that Germans felt which helped the Nazi's gain in popularity from a fringe party to a viable one. By the 30's, there's nothing the French or British could do to enforce the terrible and vague treaty anyway, and the former "Allies" of WWI were all looking to protect their own interests, so they were never a united force to suppress the country that they never actually defeated militarily to begin with. The Treaty Of Versailles itself was almost an insurance of future war. However, if British agents like Edward House and Bernard Baruch, who largely controlled Wilson's foreign policy, hadn't of been allowed to sucker America into breaking its long held tradition of avoiding European Wars they had no part of, just so Rothschild, Balfour, Minor, Weizmann, and the rest of the Zionist lunatics and their London puppets could take over Ottoman Palestine with some goofy notion of a thousands years "homeland" for European Jews "oppressed" by Christian monarchies, then WWI would have ended in a peaceful stalemate by late 1916 or early 1917 with no territory concessions, no brutal financial penalties and hard feelings, and WWII might have been prevented from ever forming. Also, there's a real good chance the barbaric Bolsheviks would have never seized power in Russia (which would have saved the lives of millions of Christians from the Cheka/NKVD), and the communist movements in Eastern Europe would have been much more insignificant.

[@gaigerolfe]

​@@jackprecip5389 You call out me saying "not enforcing," yet prove my point by stating "By the 30's, there's nothing the French or British could do to enforce the terrible and vague treaty anyway," so then do you agree if the Western powers such as Britain and France had done something, even if it is hard to imagine considering what they were going through in the 30s (i.e. Great Depression and its aftermath, Social/political upheaval, Not wanting war, etc.), the Rise of Nazi Germany, or even Hitler himself, would've been smothered and would've therefore helped nipped WWII in the butt before it have even started? Also, on the Treaty being "terrible," yeah it was harsh, but let's not pretend if Germany was on the other end they would've been nice about it either, especially after a long, exhausting, grueling war. An example for that wasn't too long ago in regards to the Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871). As for vague, I don't know about that one, everything was laid out for them in that document very, very clearly.

[@gaigerolfe]

@@jackprecip5389 I also give you a thumbs up because I appreciate you willing to give some sort of argument with some points attached instead of simply going "Not enforcing? How stupid"

[@jackprecip5389]

@@gaigerolfe You are a gentleman sir! Of course, my arguments don't mean I'm right, everybody is entitled to their own opinion. Interestingly enough, while I'm checking replies, I am watching a suggested new documentary by SLICE Full Doc called The SS : Hitler's Fanatical Killing Machine (Part 1), and in the first ten minutes, it shows footage of the French occupying the German Ruhr in the 1920's (showing French soldiers slapping Germans in the street as well), and interviews with former SS officers talking about how humiliating it was for them and its contribution to the appeal of Nazism's ethnic pride for them. I just started watching it, and it's really good with footage I've never seen before, and that is rare because I watch a lot of them. Whether it was in Europe or in Vietnam, I'm not a big fan of the French foreign policies going back as far as Napoleon. I have nothing against French people, but their governments have left a lot to be desired over the centuries in my opinion. Heck, America almost went to war with them in the late 1700's when it was just a newborn country.

[@goldenvulture6818]

Never forget immigration & migration are two completely different things

[@samueljackson6188]

Yeah let go back to the days of no passports. With open boarders and the free exchange of ideas!

[@goldenvulture6818]

You meant to write "borders"

[@andrescorrea2425]

Limited Immigration is based actually

[@TheParadox_]

15:24 _“At the time of the first world war most women were barred from voting…”_ -Barred or ineligible?

[@goldenvulture6818]

The United Nations is really The League of Nations 2.0

[@ableasdale2000]

Too many Leftist tropes. Yawn.

[@4evrane342]

anyone that has a basic understanding of history but is also politically left leaning, is either slow or delusional.

[@marlonmoncrieffe0728]

What Leftist tropes?

[@sofia.eris.bauhaus]

"pander to my opinions more or else i may fall asleep"

[@jackprecip5389]

I've never heard of invoking the thoughts and theories of Ludvig Von Mises, criticisms of sedition legislation, or pointing out the pre-1941 GOP platform of keeping with George Washington's dictums on staying out of European wars, non-interventionism, and no long term allies or adversaries as "leftist tropes". Heck, in today's American realm, those things are now considered "'far right".

[@MrFixItGa]

There were "machine guns" during the late 1700's. I also don't agree with you about the Allies being partially to blame for Hitler and Germany being upset and coming back for round two. For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. They were well within their rights to punish Germany and all involved. Do not blame the good guys for actions taken to stop the bad guys.

[@jackprecip5389]

If you think the Germans, Austrians, and Ottoman's were the "bad guys", and the British, French, and later the US were the "good guys" in WWI, then that would explain your moronic take somewhat. While there are never any actual 'good guys" and "bad guys" in war (except for the parasites lending money and selling arms to both sides as is the norm), if anybody was the "bad guys" in WWI, it would be the sleazy British, and the London usurers that collaborated with their agents/financiers in Wilson's administration (House, Lansing, Baruch) to secretly illegally collaborate to not only extend the war (and let's not forget the shameless propaganda for the Lusitania disaster the Allies facilitated by illegally arming the passenger ship), but to bring in the Americans into the fray after 3 years of brutal trench warfare (breaking their long held traditions of staying out of European Wars) to defeat the Germans and Ottomans so that a bunch of lunatics like Rothschild, Weizmann, and Ben-Zvi could create some goofy idea of a thousands years Jewish "homeland" in Ottoman Palestine. Not only did this horrible truth prevent WW1 ending in a peaceful stalemate in 1916, it also facilitated the Bolshevik takeover of Christian Russia by the barbaric atheistic Bolsheviks (and we know what that led to), led to WWII, and unfortunately led to the creation of Israel, which has caused war and misery since 1918, and whose existence is still harboring regional and global conflicts to this day.

[@JacobNeff-oq5km]

Newsflash, Germany didn't start WW1. They were sucked into it by political entanglements like most of the players were, but were the only one left standing on the loser's side at the end. And the winners were warned that they were ensuring hostilities would resume in 20 years. John Maynard Keynes even said as much in his official capacity as an advisor at Versailles.

[@MrFixItGa]

@@JacobNeff-oq5km where in my statement did I say Germany started WW1?

[@jackprecip5389]

If you think the sleazy British and the barbaric Soviets were "good guys" in WW2, I almost feel sorry for you. As someone who's spent more time than I'm willing to admit studying the geo-politics and war of the last 200 years, I have a hard time finding ANY "good guys" in WW2.

[@spunkitydoda]

I'll leave you with a question: Did Woodrow Wilson destroy our nation by giving congress a credit card?

[@sandler800]

Amongst other reasons, yes.

[@JacobNeff-oq5km]

Trick question, the United states were never a nation in the first place. They are a union of states (duh) just like the EU.

[@kma3647]

I can't do it. You're spending more time hawking your own damn "sister channels" than you are telling me anything of interest. One of the worst trends in social media is "content creators" spending all their time hawking their own or someone else's products instead of actually delivering real content. WWI is very interesting, but if your'e going to claim that it's some kind of revelation that WW1 lead to the raise of Notsee Germany, that's not "content." That's common knowledge to literally anyone, even if you did get a gov't education at a gov't school.

[@misterchoc123]

Never seen someone spell Nazi like that 😂

[@manuelgris9995]

I agree with almost everything except the idea that Nazi Germany was fully responsible for WW2. It was an imperialist war, it was Britain and France who declared war against Germany and who refused peace.

[@nabster9253]

Average libertarian who believes every war is the west's fault

[@kwfinken]

That view excusing Germany has so very little resemblance to reality as to be delusional.

[@mynameisben123]

Wtf, how can you accept peace until Germany stops expanding?

[@madlarkin8]

I think your vision for the world is strangely twisted so far from reality that there is no common ground to debate on except that it WAS an imperialist war: It started by 8 different actions of Germany seizing, annexing, and militarizing territories, unilaterally disregarding treaties it was signatory to. They preyed on the weak until the weak were ready to risk everything to stop them. The legacy of that war is a hard-learned one in Europe; that there is no negotiating with conquering despots except to have them conquer you last.

[@d33pblu3]

They declared war because Germany attacked Poland alongside with the USSR.