West Europe's increased hybris

Apart from a few exceptions such as Ireland, it may be argued that, since January 1919, the West or Atlantic Europe has time and again overplayed its hand. A pattern emerges from its post-war approaches of the continental other.(1) For many years, the red lines of both Germany, in 1919 and thereafter, and Russia, in the 1990s and after, were ignored. Obviously, it went differently within the context of the post-Second-World-war constellation. Both Germany's unconditional surrender and the balance of power between the victorious powers, among whom the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics mourned more sacrifices than those of its western allies together, stand for a different chapter of history and international relations.

Did historical and political intelligence grow since the European West's strangling diktat of 1919 and the subdued nation's subsequent dictatorship (1933–1945)? Historic failures, particularly the European West's intrusions over the second and third 1918 Armistice extension, early 1919, seem to be repeated during the post-Soviet era. In my German-language centenary book, the British Empire's imperialist and sub-imperialist derailment of the Armistice Agreement was analyzed from a transnational perspective.(2)

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Footnotes

1.  Glenn Diesen, Jeffrey Sachs: NATO and Russia on the Brink of Nuclear War, G. Diesen's Substack, interview, June 3, 2025, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCkl63N84s4, final couple of minutes.

2.  Peter de Bourgraaf, Hundert Jahre Urkatastrophe. Der Kolonialvertrag 1919, Göttingen 2018.