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Originally posted by thoughtsfull
reply to post by firstonterror
I am sorry but the way you have worded your post it sounds like America always wanted the land and once it got the land it never had any intention on giving it back..
and if that is what happens I would really question the logic!
how are Americas allies ever going to trust America if America is not seen to keep her side of any treaty.. and why would Americas enemies ever sue for peace knowing a peace treaty with America is meaningless.
A lesson can be found in 2 words... Perfidious Albionedit on 26/5/11 by thoughtsfull because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by thoughtsfull
reply to post by firstonterror
Interesting notion.. tho I generally get confused when people use the term Prussia.. do you mean Germany as a whole? the Holy Roman Empire? or just the lands of Prussia? since looking in from the outside the terms seem interchangeable but like England/Britain have different connotations to different people.
I understand Germany is seen by some as perhaps a better choice for USA to claim lineage from and closer connection to.. It certainly feels at times this is the way America leans especially at the moment.. (which is cool) but wouldn't it then that make it all the more important to return the lands and Islands America holds in trust?
Originally posted by thoughtsfull
reply to post by firstonterror
So.. do you feel that the USA should take the opportunity via these Islands and Lands held in trust to reaffirm it's relationship/kinship with it's Prussian roots?
"Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the Capitalist System was to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens. By this method they not only confiscate, but they confiscate arbitrarily; and, while the process impoverishes many, it actually enriches some. The sight of this arbitrary rearrangement of riches strikes not only at security, but at confidence in the equity of the existing distribution of wealth. Those to whom the system brings windfalls, beyond their deserts and even beyond their expectations or desires, become "profiteers,", who are the object of the hatred of the bourgeoisie, whom the inflationism has impoverished, not less than of the proletariat. As the inflation proceeds and the real value of the currency fluctuates wildly from month to month, all permanent relations between debtors and creditors, which form the ultimate foundation of capitalism, become so utterly disordered as to be almost meaningless; and the process of wealth-getting degenerates into a gamble and a lottery.
Lenin was certainly right. There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose"
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