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So /pol/ told me to come here. About to have a debate in a few hours and my side of the debate is to list ways in which the organizations at the time (hegemons or international institutions) could have prevented the World Wars while at the same time using the economic interconnectitveness of the nations at the time to grow more wealthy/powerful themselves.
The other guy is going to debate reasons why the war war inevitable no matter what the organizations did. My friend will record the debate. I hope you help and enjoy the results.
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>war war
Sorry I meant world wars
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If everyone had just decided to bomb Prussia when they started to make a fuzz with Denmark everything would have been fine.
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You're definitely on the harder side of the debate.
If the great powers of the time could have somehow formed a proto league of nations, passed SUCCESSFUL arms reduction treaties to stop the arms race, not had the big alliances which ended up dragging everyone into the war, signed free trade deals...
Basically what kept peace after WW2 was the Bretton Woods economic system, the european economic community (proto-EU) + nukes, and none of that was really possible pre-war, there just wasn't any intellectual support, or public awareness or anything of that nature. Neither did any of the powers realise how bad the war would be in terms of casualties and the massive destruction of accumulated wealth of Europe.
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He's going to wipe the floor with you, the positions are too uneven.
Also we aren't going to do your homework.
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