{"id":11298,"date":"2018-07-27T10:46:47","date_gmt":"2018-07-27T17:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11298"},"modified":"2018-07-27T10:46:47","modified_gmt":"2018-07-27T17:46:47","slug":"07-27-18-angry-reader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/07-27-18-angry-reader\/","title":{"rendered":"07-27-18 Angry Reader"},"content":{"rendered":"

From An Angry Reader:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Your article\u2026about NATOs challenge is Germany, not America.<\/p>\n

Sir,<\/p>\n

With all respect but before you write any article you should learn about history. Germany did not start both World Wars. You might want to do some research before writing anything. Very sad how little people here actually know about history and then write about it in an article.<\/p>\n

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Dear Angry Reader Susanna Mackenzie,<\/strong><\/p>\n

It is a silly tactic to accuse someone, as compensation for one\u2019s own abject ignorance of history that you display in your letter. I wrote an entire book on World War II, and many as well on European history. That constitutes \u201csome research.\u201d In World War I, the German Schlieffen Plan and the Kurt Riezler\u2019s Septemberprogramm<\/em> were reflective of Germany\u2019s prewar and wartime ambitions to expand its power in Europe beyond its borders, in a way not so true of its prime antagonists, France and Britain. I suggest you read carefully the terms of the indemnities and land confiscations of 1871 that ended the Franco-Prussian war; the aims of the Septemberprogramm<\/em>, the particulars of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk of 1918, and the program of aggression outlined in the 1920s in both Hitler\u2019s Mein Kampf<\/em> and The Second Book<\/em>. If you would do so, you would learn of a pattern of German aggression and territorial expansion and acquisition over some 70 years, that ceased only with catastrophic defeat in 1945, the appearance of NATO, the nuclear status of Britain and France, the common enemy of the Soviet Union and the 50-year Cold War, and the utopian attempts of a pan-continental EU. Yet nonetheless Germany finds itself at odds with Southern Europe, Eastern Europe, Britain, and the US, and there is a common denominator: a sort of demand to shape up to German norms of financial protocols, of open borders, of a tough British departure from the EU, and of a reluctance to meet its NATO promises\u2014while running up the world\u2019s largest account surplus and a $65 billion trade surplus with the U.S., both of which Germany insists are non-negotiable realities.<\/p>\n

Victor Davis Hanson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From An Angry Reader: Your article\u2026about NATOs challenge is Germany, not America. Sir, With all respect but before you write any article you should learn about history. Germany did not start both World Wars. You might want to do some research before writing anything. Very sad how little people here actually know about history and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-2We","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11303,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/07-30-18-angry-reader\/","url_meta":{"origin":11298,"position":0},"title":"07-30-18 Angry Reader","author":"victorhanson","date":"July 30, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"From An Angry Reader: Subject: NATO Maybe it\u2019s my old age but you seem to be contradicting yourself. 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Your cynical article mocking the suffering of the BRAVE German people and glorifying the demonic scum jew who CAUSED are are personally offensive to me and every informed TRUTH loving man woman and child\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Angry Reader"","block_context":{"text":"Angry Reader","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/angry-reader\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":10748,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/10748-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":11298,"position":4},"title":"From an Angry Reader: Dear\u2026","author":"victorhanson","date":"November 21, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"From an Angry Reader: Dear Professor Hanson, \u00a0 I read your article on Stalingrad and I wanted to respond. \u00a0 The German 6th army in Stalingrad had Slovakian and Croatian units in the city. On the flanks of the 6th army was the Italian 8th army which played a huge\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Angry Reader"","block_context":{"text":"Angry Reader","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/angry-reader\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":10967,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/02-09-18-angry-reader\/","url_meta":{"origin":11298,"position":5},"title":"02\/09\/18 Angry Reader","author":"victorhanson","date":"February 14, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"From An Angry(?) Reader: Greetings Professor Hanson! For many years now, I have followed you on talk radio, TV interviews, YouTube videos, books and published articles. I greatly appreciate your commitment to truth, accurate history and the application of those two principles to current events. 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