Quote (El1te @ 8 Sep 2023 20:18)
Who's territory is whose is not set in stone, and is a matter of perspective. By your logic, is Mexico justified in invading Texas and the southern states because the territory used to be theirs? Do you believe the USA should concede the territory they gained (by invasion) in the Mexican-American war?
the "perspective" that both crimea and donbas are ukrainian is something that was an internationally accepted agreement. russia itself REPEATEDLY acknowledged that territorial integrity in various different treaties - many of which signed by or in the name of pootin. there is something as internationally recognised borders. are you genuinely not aware of that, or are you just doing some flawed historic revisionism routine in yet another feeble attempt to justify russia's warmongering?!
Quote (El1te @ 8 Sep 2023 20:18)
Edit: the conditions of the Treaty of Versailles DID essentially force the Germans into war, as it was unjust and malicious. This is the academically accepted view. Carthaginian peace does not work, and is not peace at all - it's an act of war in itself. Germany considered themselves to still be at war.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carthaginian_peaceyou (unsurprisingly) COMPLETELY whooooshed the point there. yes, we can reasonably argue that the treaty put post WWI germany into a situation (economically, politically, ideologically, territorially...) in which a rise of a radical party looking to avenge or rectify the "injustices" put upon it was foreseeable, or likely at the very least, and that it certainly "helped" pave the way into yet another war. we also know for certain that in that war, allied forces committed many war crimes. my point is not that those things are simply not true, and that the allies were angel. my point is that anyone who looks at WWII and declares "both sides were wrong", and leaves it at that, is doing a massive favour to nazi germany, which systematically murdered millions of people, and forcefully annexed / invaded one european country after the other, clearly was the aggressor, and clearly bears the main responsibility and guilt of that war.
just like russia in the current conflict...