how did that work for the goal of arriving at a peace treaty that was commesurate with material conditions and would not lead to a new, larger conflict though?

April 09, 2026 - 04:26 UTC

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Fine. Ww2 was caused by Germans being evil
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Evil and bad people too!
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Phew, good job none of the parties involved this time are evil, crikey I was worried for a minute!
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Versailles was certainly an imperfect treaty. But the actual historians I've spoken to generally believe that we really exaggerate its flaws in pop culture. It wasn't that abnormal for its time, either, just look at the Treaty of Frankfurt.
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It did not work at the one thing a peace treaty should work at. So I'd say a pretty bad treaty.
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Honestly? That part worked fine. The horror of the next generation of Germans being an inch or two shorter on average stopped small wars for the next 15 years or so.
It turns out that economic sanctions are more effective as a threat than as an action, unfortunately.
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Pretty unfalsifiable claim you've got in there.
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But also, part of why it happened is that Wilson insisted on regime change as a war result, so the blockade was kept up until the Kaiser was overthrown, which was used to feed the stabbed-in-the-back narrative, so it's not the blockade, really, but the war aims.
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