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Phew. Finally finished “The Ghost At The Feast: America and The Collapse of World Order 1900-1941” by Robert Kagan -- like an extensive history course. Really amazing book. #bookstodon #theGhostAtTheFeast #robertKagan
I did not know that Robert Kagan's wife is Victoria Nuland. #history -
Phew. Finally finished “The Ghost At The Feast: America and The Collapse of World Order 1900-1941” by Robert Kagan -- like an extensive history course. Really amazing book. #bookstodon #theGhostAtTheFeast #robertKagan
I did not know that Robert Kagan's wife is Victoria Nuland. #history -
Phew. Finally finished “The Ghost At The Feast: America and The Collapse of World Order 1900-1941” by Robert Kagan -- like an extensive history course. Really amazing book. #bookstodon #theGhostAtTheFeast #robertKagan
I did not know that Robert Kagan's wife is Victoria Nuland. #history -
Phew. Finally finished “The Ghost At The Feast: America and The Collapse of World Order 1900-1941” by Robert Kagan -- like an extensive history course. Really amazing book. #bookstodon #theGhostAtTheFeast #robertKagan
I did not know that Robert Kagan's wife is Victoria Nuland. #history -
“Above all, it would have required self-understanding, a recognition early on that they would not tolerate a shift in the balance of power in favor of global dictatorships and therefore should work consistently to ensure that the risks of such a shift were kept to a minimum”
The Ghost at the Feast
Robert Kagan
#bookstodon #theghostAtthefeast #robertkagan #history #pastisprologue -
“Above all, it would have required self-understanding, a recognition early on that they would not tolerate a shift in the balance of power in favor of global dictatorships and therefore should work consistently to ensure that the risks of such a shift were kept to a minimum”
The Ghost at the Feast
Robert Kagan
#bookstodon #theghostAtthefeast #robertkagan #history #pastisprologue -
“Above all, it would have required self-understanding, a recognition early on that they would not tolerate a shift in the balance of power in favor of global dictatorships and therefore should work consistently to ensure that the risks of such a shift were kept to a minimum”
The Ghost at the Feast
Robert Kagan
#bookstodon #theghostAtthefeast #robertkagan #history #pastisprologue -
“Above all, it would have required self-understanding, a recognition early on that they would not tolerate a shift in the balance of power in favor of global dictatorships and therefore should work consistently to ensure that the risks of such a shift were kept to a minimum”
The Ghost at the Feast
Robert Kagan
#bookstodon #theghostAtthefeast #robertkagan #history #pastisprologue -
“from the global perspective, appeasement of “the bandit nations” anywhere only strengthened the forces of aggressive fascism everywhere.”
The Ghost at the Feast
Robert Kagan
#theGhostAtTheFeast #RobertKagan #pastIsPrologue #bookstodon #wwii #history -
“from the global perspective, appeasement of “the bandit nations” anywhere only strengthened the forces of aggressive fascism everywhere.”
The Ghost at the Feast
Robert Kagan
#theGhostAtTheFeast #RobertKagan #pastIsPrologue #bookstodon #wwii #history -
“from the global perspective, appeasement of “the bandit nations” anywhere only strengthened the forces of aggressive fascism everywhere.”
The Ghost at the Feast
Robert Kagan
#theGhostAtTheFeast #RobertKagan #pastIsPrologue #bookstodon #wwii #history -
“from the global perspective, appeasement of “the bandit nations” anywhere only strengthened the forces of aggressive fascism everywhere.”
The Ghost at the Feast
Robert Kagan
#theGhostAtTheFeast #RobertKagan #pastIsPrologue #bookstodon #wwii #history -
“What is America but millionaires, beauty queens, stupid records and Hollywood?”
—Adolf Hitler quoted in Compton, Swastika and the Eagle.#TheGhostattheFeast
#RobertKagan #WWII #history #AmericanHistory #pastisprologueI am loathe to quote Hitler, but this is too good—AND as President Joe Biden, said at his State of the Union speech: those who wish the United States ill should know "it's never ever a good bet to bet against America".
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“What is America but millionaires, beauty queens, stupid records and Hollywood?”
—Adolf Hitler quoted in Compton, Swastika and the Eagle.#TheGhostattheFeast
#RobertKagan #WWII #history #AmericanHistory #pastisprologueI am loathe to quote Hitler, but this is too good—AND as President Joe Biden, said at his State of the Union speech: those who wish the United States ill should know "it's never ever a good bet to bet against America".
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“What is America but millionaires, beauty queens, stupid records and Hollywood?”
—Adolf Hitler quoted in Compton, Swastika and the Eagle.#TheGhostattheFeast
#RobertKagan #WWII #history #AmericanHistory #pastisprologueI am loathe to quote Hitler, but this is too good—AND as President Joe Biden, said at his State of the Union speech: those who wish the United States ill should know "it's never ever a good bet to bet against America".
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“What is America but millionaires, beauty queens, stupid records and Hollywood?”
—Adolf Hitler quoted in Compton, Swastika and the Eagle.#TheGhostattheFeast
#RobertKagan #WWII #history #AmericanHistory #pastisprologueI am loathe to quote Hitler, but this is too good—AND as President Joe Biden, said at his State of the Union speech: those who wish the United States ill should know "it's never ever a good bet to bet against America".
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When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.
—Franklin D. Roosevelt, September 11, 1941Franklin D. Roosevelt, “Maintaining Freedom of the Seas,” Fireside Chat #18, Sept.11, 1941 http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/_resources/images/msf/msfb0004
The Ghost at the Feast
Robert Kagan
#fdr #wwii #bookstodon #theGhostAtTheFeast #robertKagan #pastisprologue #roosevelt #history #americanHistory -
When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.
—Franklin D. Roosevelt, September 11, 1941Franklin D. Roosevelt, “Maintaining Freedom of the Seas,” Fireside Chat #18, Sept.11, 1941 http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/_resources/images/msf/msfb0004
The Ghost at the Feast
Robert Kagan
#fdr #wwii #bookstodon #theGhostAtTheFeast #robertKagan #pastisprologue #roosevelt #history #americanHistory -
When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.
—Franklin D. Roosevelt, September 11, 1941Franklin D. Roosevelt, “Maintaining Freedom of the Seas,” Fireside Chat #18, Sept.11, 1941 http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/_resources/images/msf/msfb0004
The Ghost at the Feast
Robert Kagan
#fdr #wwii #bookstodon #theGhostAtTheFeast #robertKagan #pastisprologue #roosevelt #history #americanHistory -
When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.
—Franklin D. Roosevelt, September 11, 1941Franklin D. Roosevelt, “Maintaining Freedom of the Seas,” Fireside Chat #18, Sept.11, 1941 http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/_resources/images/msf/msfb0004
The Ghost at the Feast
Robert Kagan
#fdr #wwii #bookstodon #theGhostAtTheFeast #robertKagan #pastisprologue #roosevelt #history #americanHistory -
‘Even if the United States faced no immediate threat of military attack, Roosevelt warned in his January 1940 State of the Union address, the world would be a “shabby and dangerous place to live in—yes, even for Americans to live in” if it were ruled “by force in the hands of a few.”’
#TheGhostAtTheFeast #RobertKagan #pastisprologue #isolationism
#history #fascism #MolotovRibbentrop #WWII #bookstodon -
‘Even if the United States faced no immediate threat of military attack, Roosevelt warned in his January 1940 State of the Union address, the world would be a “shabby and dangerous place to live in—yes, even for Americans to live in” if it were ruled “by force in the hands of a few.”’
#TheGhostAtTheFeast #RobertKagan #pastisprologue #isolationism
#history #fascism #MolotovRibbentrop #WWII #bookstodon -
‘Even if the United States faced no immediate threat of military attack, Roosevelt warned in his January 1940 State of the Union address, the world would be a “shabby and dangerous place to live in—yes, even for Americans to live in” if it were ruled “by force in the hands of a few.”’
#TheGhostAtTheFeast #RobertKagan #pastisprologue #isolationism
#history #fascism #MolotovRibbentrop #WWII #bookstodon -
‘Even if the United States faced no immediate threat of military attack, Roosevelt warned in his January 1940 State of the Union address, the world would be a “shabby and dangerous place to live in—yes, even for Americans to live in” if it were ruled “by force in the hands of a few.”’
#TheGhostAtTheFeast #RobertKagan #pastisprologue #isolationism
#history #fascism #MolotovRibbentrop #WWII #bookstodon -
“I have a horrible feeling of seeing…a civilization dying even before its actual death….How delicate a fabric this thing we call modern civilization really is.”
Franklin Roosevelt close adviser, Adolf Berle, writing in his diary on occasion of the Hitler-Stalin non-aggression pact, August 1939—Berle, a year before, had regarded fears of Hitler’s intentions as overblown.
#TheGhostAtTheFeast #RobertKagan #pastisprologue #isolationism
#history #fascism #MolotovRibbentrop #WWII #bookstodon -
“I have a horrible feeling of seeing…a civilization dying even before its actual death….How delicate a fabric this thing we call modern civilization really is.”
Franklin Roosevelt close adviser, Adolf Berle, writing in his diary on occasion of the Hitler-Stalin non-aggression pact, August 1939—Berle, a year before, had regarded fears of Hitler’s intentions as overblown.
#TheGhostAtTheFeast #RobertKagan #pastisprologue #isolationism
#history #fascism #MolotovRibbentrop #WWII #bookstodon -
“I have a horrible feeling of seeing…a civilization dying even before its actual death….How delicate a fabric this thing we call modern civilization really is.”
Franklin Roosevelt close adviser, Adolf Berle, writing in his diary on occasion of the Hitler-Stalin non-aggression pact, August 1939—Berle, a year before, had regarded fears of Hitler’s intentions as overblown.
#TheGhostAtTheFeast #RobertKagan #pastisprologue #isolationism
#history #fascism #MolotovRibbentrop #WWII #bookstodon -
“I have a horrible feeling of seeing…a civilization dying even before its actual death….How delicate a fabric this thing we call modern civilization really is.”
Franklin Roosevelt close adviser, Adolf Berle, writing in his diary on occasion of the Hitler-Stalin non-aggression pact, August 1939—Berle, a year before, had regarded fears of Hitler’s intentions as overblown.
#TheGhostAtTheFeast #RobertKagan #pastisprologue #isolationism
#history #fascism #MolotovRibbentrop #WWII #bookstodon -
The Ghost at the Feast
Robert Kagan
#theGhostAtTheFeast #RobertKagan #americanhistory #fdr #pastisprologue #DefendDemocracy #bookstodon -
The Ghost at the Feast
Robert Kagan
#theGhostAtTheFeast #RobertKagan #americanhistory #fdr #pastisprologue #DefendDemocracy #bookstodon -
The Ghost at the Feast
Robert Kagan
#theGhostAtTheFeast #RobertKagan #americanhistory #fdr #pastisprologue #DefendDemocracy #bookstodon -
“These are not normal times; people are jumpy and very ready to run after strange gods.”
—Franklin D. RooseveltFranklin Delano Roosevelt to Elihu Root in Elliott Roosevelt, ed., F.D.R.: His Personal Letters, 1928–1945”
The Ghost at the Feast
Robert Kagan#TheGhostattheFeast
#RobertKagan
#bookstodon #history #americanhistory #fdr -
“These are not normal times; people are jumpy and very ready to run after strange gods.”
—Franklin D. RooseveltFranklin Delano Roosevelt to Elihu Root in Elliott Roosevelt, ed., F.D.R.: His Personal Letters, 1928–1945”
The Ghost at the Feast
Robert Kagan#TheGhostattheFeast
#RobertKagan
#bookstodon #history #americanhistory #fdr -
“These are not normal times; people are jumpy and very ready to run after strange gods.”
—Franklin D. RooseveltFranklin Delano Roosevelt to Elihu Root in Elliott Roosevelt, ed., F.D.R.: His Personal Letters, 1928–1945”
The Ghost at the Feast
Robert Kagan#TheGhostattheFeast
#RobertKagan
#bookstodon #history #americanhistory #fdr -
“These are not normal times; people are jumpy and very ready to run after strange gods.”
—Franklin D. RooseveltFranklin Delano Roosevelt to Elihu Root in Elliott Roosevelt, ed., F.D.R.: His Personal Letters, 1928–1945”
The Ghost at the Feast
Robert Kagan#TheGhostattheFeast
#RobertKagan
#bookstodon #history #americanhistory #fdr -
1933 could be 2023–it’s the same:
“Although cautious about challenging the democracies prematurely, Hitler could also be bold and opportunistic. He looked for weaknesses to exploit and early on perceived that the Western powers lacked the determination and coherence to defend their order.”
#TheGhostAtTheFeast #RobertKagan #pastIsPrologue #PutinIsHitler
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1933 could be 2023–it’s the same:
“Although cautious about challenging the democracies prematurely, Hitler could also be bold and opportunistic. He looked for weaknesses to exploit and early on perceived that the Western powers lacked the determination and coherence to defend their order.”
#TheGhostAtTheFeast #RobertKagan #pastIsPrologue #PutinIsHitler
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1933 could be 2023–it’s the same:
“Although cautious about challenging the democracies prematurely, Hitler could also be bold and opportunistic. He looked for weaknesses to exploit and early on perceived that the Western powers lacked the determination and coherence to defend their order.”
#TheGhostAtTheFeast #RobertKagan #pastIsPrologue #PutinIsHitler
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1933 could be 2023–it’s the same:
“Although cautious about challenging the democracies prematurely, Hitler could also be bold and opportunistic. He looked for weaknesses to exploit and early on perceived that the Western powers lacked the determination and coherence to defend their order.”
#TheGhostAtTheFeast #RobertKagan #pastIsPrologue #PutinIsHitler
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‘As [Herbert] Hoover later wrote in his memoirs, Americans suddenly learned “about the economic interdependence of nations through a poignant experience which knocked at every cottage door.”’
The Ghost at the Feast
#theghostatthefeast #bookstodon #history -
‘As [Herbert] Hoover later wrote in his memoirs, Americans suddenly learned “about the economic interdependence of nations through a poignant experience which knocked at every cottage door.”’
The Ghost at the Feast
#theghostatthefeast #bookstodon #history -
‘As [Herbert] Hoover later wrote in his memoirs, Americans suddenly learned “about the economic interdependence of nations through a poignant experience which knocked at every cottage door.”’
The Ghost at the Feast
#theghostatthefeast #bookstodon #history -
‘As [Herbert] Hoover later wrote in his memoirs, Americans suddenly learned “about the economic interdependence of nations through a poignant experience which knocked at every cottage door.”’
The Ghost at the Feast
#theghostatthefeast #bookstodon #history -
“If you want to quiet the world, you have got to reassure the world, and the only way in which you can reassure it is to let it know that all the great fighting powers of the world are going to maintain that quiet.”
—Woodrow Wilson, September 1919 -
“If you want to quiet the world, you have got to reassure the world, and the only way in which you can reassure it is to let it know that all the great fighting powers of the world are going to maintain that quiet.”
—Woodrow Wilson, September 1919 -
“If you want to quiet the world, you have got to reassure the world, and the only way in which you can reassure it is to let it know that all the great fighting powers of the world are going to maintain that quiet.”
—Woodrow Wilson, September 1919 -
“If you want to quiet the world, you have got to reassure the world, and the only way in which you can reassure it is to let it know that all the great fighting powers of the world are going to maintain that quiet.”
—Woodrow Wilson, September 1919 -
1918 ‘For anyone not in Paris [Peace talks] and in close touch with representatives of the French people, White wrote Lodge, it was “impossible to comprehend” France’s “extraordinary obsession” with the possibility of a renewed German attack in a few years. It seemed the entire French population was “shell-shocked.”’
#TheGhostattheFeast
Robert Kagan
#WWI #americanHistory #france #europeanHistory -
1918 ‘For anyone not in Paris [Peace talks] and in close touch with representatives of the French people, White wrote Lodge, it was “impossible to comprehend” France’s “extraordinary obsession” with the possibility of a renewed German attack in a few years. It seemed the entire French population was “shell-shocked.”’
#TheGhostattheFeast
Robert Kagan
#WWI #americanHistory #france #europeanHistory -
1918 ‘For anyone not in Paris [Peace talks] and in close touch with representatives of the French people, White wrote Lodge, it was “impossible to comprehend” France’s “extraordinary obsession” with the possibility of a renewed German attack in a few years. It seemed the entire French population was “shell-shocked.”’
#TheGhostattheFeast
Robert Kagan
#WWI #americanHistory #france #europeanHistory -
1918 ‘For anyone not in Paris [Peace talks] and in close touch with representatives of the French people, White wrote Lodge, it was “impossible to comprehend” France’s “extraordinary obsession” with the possibility of a renewed German attack in a few years. It seemed the entire French population was “shell-shocked.”’
#TheGhostattheFeast
Robert Kagan
#WWI #americanHistory #france #europeanHistory -
1917 - “and so, as Canada’s prime minister, Sir Robert Borden, put it, ‘the more we can get the United States to realise her great responsibilities for the peace and welfare of the world the better it will be for us and for all mankind.’”
The Ghost at the Feast
Robert Kagan
#TheGhostAtTheFeast #WWI #1917 #pastIsPrologue #americanHistory #responsibility -
1917 - “and so, as Canada’s prime minister, Sir Robert Borden, put it, ‘the more we can get the United States to realise her great responsibilities for the peace and welfare of the world the better it will be for us and for all mankind.’”
The Ghost at the Feast
Robert Kagan
#TheGhostAtTheFeast #WWI #1917 #pastIsPrologue #americanHistory #responsibility -
1917 - “and so, as Canada’s prime minister, Sir Robert Borden, put it, ‘the more we can get the United States to realise her great responsibilities for the peace and welfare of the world the better it will be for us and for all mankind.’”
The Ghost at the Feast
Robert Kagan
#TheGhostAtTheFeast #WWI #1917 #pastIsPrologue #americanHistory #responsibility -
1917 - “and so, as Canada’s prime minister, Sir Robert Borden, put it, ‘the more we can get the United States to realise her great responsibilities for the peace and welfare of the world the better it will be for us and for all mankind.’”
The Ghost at the Feast
Robert Kagan
#TheGhostAtTheFeast #WWI #1917 #pastIsPrologue #americanHistory #responsibility