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The Treaty of Versailles
107 years ago, on the 28 June 1919 the winning forces of WWI, The Great War, made Germany sign a treaty that was so ill conceived that it lead to the raise of Hitler and ultimately WWII, with devastating effects around the globe. In the aftermath of a new world order developed, lead by a beacon of democracy. Admired and envied, stood the US for 80 years as the leader of the free world. Presidents and world leaders like Eisenhower, Kennedy, Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton and Obama made the world feel safe. America was, mostly, perceived as good and fair.
Then came Donald Trump, a man keeping the only book he ever read, Main Kampf by Adolf Hitler, on his bedside table. A man so ignorant that he wouldn’t be able to point out Versailles on a map. This man, yesterday, signed another ill conceived treaty, at Versailles, 107 years ago, almost to the day.
One would have hoped that someone in this man’s entourage could have told him about the historical significance and where it took the world. But there was no such man around and now the World will have to live with the results of the stupidest man on the planet’s attempt to save himself from utter embarrassment while Iran arms itself.
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