Going back further, if we had backed Denmark against Prussia in 1846* then both the Austro Prussian war and the Franco Prussian war may never have happened. * the infamous Schwelsig-Holstein question. (View Post)

And weren't they right to do everything possible to stop the cataclysm that a generalised European war would be? (View Post)

Didn't France declare war the same day as us in 1939? In any case WW2 was 2 years old in China by then. (View Post)

I have a Sudanes colleague. Her extended family have nearly all left Khartoum for relative safety elsewhere, mostly internally displaced. She says their is no ideological or religious doctrine separa… (View Post)

Indeed, the lessons learnt from the blockade of Germany (which continued until mid 1919, causing many deaths and bitterness) were why we took a different approach to Germany, Austria and Japan post W… (View Post)