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Old 02-14-08, 12:24 AM   #9
Kazuaki Shimazaki II
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I took the question as "If I were God, who will I have helped win", so I chose the Central Powers. My personal reason is Versailles. As treaties go, it is arguably WORSE than the Unequal Treaties on China. The apologists attempts to justify it using Brest-Litovsk and the Treaty the Germans might have sicced on the Allies if they won is asinine.

What really bugs me is not the Massive Reparations, nor the Territorial Losses, or even the Admission of Guilt crap. All that crap goes with losing, and countries tend to get over them (France paid off Germany's reparations after the Prussian-France War surprisingly fast). It is the Military provisions. I don't know why that part is so under-emphasized, when it is (as written), the harshest part. It has no time duration, no set way to pay it off ... etc.

Why don't they say "Well, this is what we're grabbing from you now, but we've got unlimited De Facto rights to get more at any time we please, simply because you don't have an Army left." I don't see a line on Brest-Litovsk that could compare with that clause of unlimited punishment (as written).

The sheer diktatness of that farce makes me utterly unsympathetic to the French when the Germans rolled over them in 1940 - they practically begged for it to happen.
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