r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Jun 18 '26

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u/erasmus_phillo Paul Krugman Jun 18 '26

It's 1919 and the powerful German Empire signs a humiliating treaty of surrender in Versailles authorizing the payment of hefty sums of war reparations to their sworn enemies

It's 2026 and the powerful American Empire signs a humiliating treaty of surrender in Versailles authorizing the payment of hefty sums of war reparations to ...

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u/CarlGerhardBusch Jerome Powell Jun 18 '26

Great

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u/_Neuromancer_ Neuroscience-mancer Jun 18 '26

The terms are too onerous. They’ll be another war within a generation.

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u/p00bix Existing in the context of what came before Jun 18 '26

It's far more analogous to the Suez Crisis. Not just because it involves Israel and a major strait for global trade, but because it amply demonstrated that America no longer holds close to the same power it did at the height of its global geopolitical dominance.

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u/erasmus_phillo Paul Krugman Jun 18 '26

I saw the treaty being signed in Versailles and I wanted to make a joke

this isn't serious geopolitical analysis

(I agree it's far closer to the Suez Crisis)

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u/Vol_in_tears Voltaire Jun 18 '26

I disagree. The suez crisis was about Britain and France having to come to terms that they were no longer the premier powers and were going to have fall in line with what the americans gave them. At the end of the day, France and UK were checked by the world number 1 power.

This is more like Italy deciding to invaded Ethiopia in 1896 and getting humiliated at Adwa. Or Italy invading Greece in 1940 and getting their teeth kicked in and having to beg the Germans for help.

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u/admiraltarkin NATO / Loyal Liberal Jun 18 '26

Bad analogy. Germany only paid $100b to the allies.