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    1. Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li‏ @perdricof 13 Jun 2020
      Replying to @perdricof @mssilverstein and

      pearl harbor is an instructive example. the japanese assumed this would bloody america's nose and dissuade us from pursuing a long and costly war, when in fact it assured the exact opposite and led to the total destruction of the japanese regime. whoops!

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    2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 13 Jun 2020
      Replying to @perdricof @mssilverstein and

      There were even people who said so at the time (the Sleeping Giant speech) Sam Houston said something very similar warning his fellow Southern politicians about why secession was a really stupid idea

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    3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 13 Jun 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @perdricof and

      Using the old metaphor of climate for temperament "Your Northern brothers may seem like they lack your fiery temper, for they were raised in colder climes But once their anger is aroused it will crush you with the full force of an avalanche"

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    4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 13 Jun 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @perdricof and

      I mentioned earlier the South's various "Ranger" units just letting bandits and thugs run free robbing and killing people along the border Which was this conscious strategy going "Yankees are all soft clerks who will crumple instantly at their first bloody nose"

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    5. Baal Ska Tov‏ @mssilverstein 13 Jun 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @perdricof and

      This was also broadly the sense in Imperial Germany at the outbreak of World War I - France is soft, and they'll melt before our brave troops. Then everybody died.

      2 replies 1 retweet 3 likes
    6. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 13 Jun 2020
      Replying to @mssilverstein @perdricof and

      The French had, in fact, already absorbed a lot of "cheese-eating surrender monkey" mockery after the Franco-Prussian War and spent decades letting that old shame fester into overwhelming unreasoning fury It's where we get the term "revanchist"

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    7. Baal Ska Tov‏ @mssilverstein 13 Jun 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @perdricof and

      Yeah - and I guess the experience of 1871 was a pretty good sign of German superior military prowess...it was just 40 years out of date.

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    8. Nivenus‏ @nivenus 13 Jun 2020
      Replying to @mssilverstein @arthur_affect and

      TBF, Germany still basically punched out of their weight. Austria-Hungary and the Ottomans were basically dead weight after 1916 but it still took two years to defeat Germany.

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    9. Baal Ska Tov‏ @mssilverstein 13 Jun 2020
      Replying to @nivenus @arthur_affect and

      Yeah, they almost won the war on several occasions before eventually being exhausted in 1918. But it was all based not just on eventually winning, but being able to capture or surround Paris in a couple months.

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    10. Nivenus‏ @nivenus 13 Jun 2020
      Replying to @mssilverstein @arthur_affect and

      Yeah, I think it's fair to say Germany still has the best army in the war while also acknowledging they *vastly* overestimated their own invincibility.

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      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 13 Jun 2020
      Replying to @nivenus @mssilverstein and

      My history teacher in high school liked to describe this as Germany being the biggest bully in the schoolyard and all of Germany's snotty little friends talking smack to everyone all the time Austria-Hungary all "You better not lay a finger on me or Germany will hear about it"

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        2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 13 Jun 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @nivenus and

          This whole "Better not fuck with me or you'll have to fight Germany" thing can only go on so long before Germany actually does have to fight someone, and if it takes TOO long then suddenly he has to fight everyone

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        3. Nivenus‏ @nivenus 13 Jun 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein and

          Yeah that sounds about accurate. And is unfortunately very similar to Trump's stated foreign policy.

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        2. Baal Ska Tov‏ @mssilverstein 13 Jun 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @nivenus and

          Ha - definitely true in part! But there was a similar dynamic between France and Russia, or at least, Russia believed there was because of the bellicose French ambassador being at least moderately dishonest about what he heard from Paris.

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        3. Baal Ska Tov‏ @mssilverstein 13 Jun 2020
          Replying to @mssilverstein @arthur_affect and

          There's also a really weird thing where the individuals most likely to have stopped a war in each country - France, Russia, Germany, and Austria-Hungary - had been knocked out of politics by four separate misfortunes in the past year or so.

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