I have the belief most people on Talk Elections are not interested in stopping war.
Ironic that the same kind of people usually have the opinion the treaty of Versailles was too harsh. Yeah lol, without hindsight. Not a chance you would've actually thought that.
the treaty of Versailles was far too MILD. Germany should have been dissolved and all German states should have been completely demilitarized.
Not sure if you're trolling, i assume so.
But punitive treaties only stimulate more war & conquering.
not if you take away the capacity. IRL the Allies allowed Germany to keep a unified state with enough population and industry to be a great power and a reduced military that could (and did) serve as the core for future rearmament. Dissolve Germany into its post-Napoleonic states, dissolve Prussia into five smaller states, and ban the German states (incl. Austria) from having any kind of military or arms industry and you take away the capacity. Then let France and Britain act as guarantors of the German states' territorial integrity.
So if someone defeats the USA in a war, breaking up USA in several microstates is what we should do?
You know the first thing that would happen is that all states would merge again and be also revanchist and hateful.
