Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Wayland Makes Progress Date: 12 May 2026 03:16:08 GMT Lines: 41 Message-ID: References: <10sv1kk$gjtg$1@dont-email.me> <69f472c8$0$10325$426a34cc@news.free.fr> <10t8gmr$37epi$4@dont-email.me> <18ac73d880b9a55f$7676$2865982$802601b3@news.usenetexpress.com> <69ff0649$0$7099$426a74cc@news.free.fr> <10tn7ht$3k3t6$2@dont-email.me> <10tohlh$rit$2@dont-email.me> <_p3MR.867913$Gr0f.564828@fx08.iad> <10tsdjb$127ja$3@dont-email.me> <10tt0b9$18h1d$1@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net yRoZOqEcmPTez/SKvou4eQ4N9krnA1eLoo/T5KsoZLJ0qoFWUT Cancel-Lock: sha1:qvXZT3Wm/aSBGWWdLY0kkyE+r2c= sha256:EkGMsYhWmlYT2oeVWHOZc79AJuF4x8bBt1Q0sLj7CwI= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:86434 On Mon, 11 May 2026 09:32:40 -0700, Bobbie Sellers wrote: >> War is good for bidness. A lot of unpleasantness could have been >> avoided had Wilson remained neutral and let the Europeans sort their >> problems out in WWI. >> >> > Which unpleasantness? Europe and the American continents are > on the same planet. AH had global ambitions and would have turned o n > his allies if he had won just as he turned on Joe Stalin once he thought > he had established "Festung Europa". Rewind a bit. WWI had many roots but part of it was Britain trying to defuse the Germans that had discovered the industrial revolution with a passion. The French were still butt hurt over the war they started and lost. Had the US not sent materiel and eventually men the war might have fizzled out with Britain losing a bit of the hegemony that they ultimately lost completely. Then the idealist fool, Wilson, went to Versailles and they played him like a fiddle. There have been recent attempts to blame it on a bad case of flu. Even Keynes couldn't stomach the treaty Clemenceau and George pushed through. Even worse Germany was blockaded for six months after the treaty was signed leading to wide spread starvation. France frosted the cake by having its colonial (colored) troops occupy the Ruhr. Weimar was a shit pit with out of control inflation and general misery with a decadent cherry on top. The KPD was marching in the streets and everyone was aware of what kind, gentle, people they were. q.v. Red Terror. The original Antifa was one of their projects. Enter Corporal Hitler. Stalin was no fool. I presume someone in the CP had read 'Mein Kampf' and knew how Hitler viewed communists. Stalin was buying time. Read Mila Pavlichenko's autobiography. She eventually was sent to the US and became Eleanor Roosevelt's BFF and went on tour begging aid. The hag's worthless husband complied. Him and Joe became great buddies too.