They lured him to agree to do it there with all the gilding in the palace, knowing well that he would have no idea what kind of symbolism signing a peace treaty in Versailles had. But everyone else, France and Iran included, absolutely did.
1919 vs 2026
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Darnton@piefed.zip 2 months ago
thefluffiest@feddit.nl 2 months ago
Well, Trump is of German descent…
Arancello@aussie.zone 2 months ago
I very much appreciate the person who understands history enough to draw this parallel. I am also fairly certain few in the usa get it because international history is no longer a core subject.
Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 2 months ago
My high school history curriculum was one year of World History, followed by two years of U.S. History. I always thought that was completely backwards. There’s so much more history in the world than in the U.S. Besides, we’d already covered pretty much everything except the 20th century in elementary and middle school, making the first U.S. History class basically a rehash of stuff we already knew.
collectif_imaginaire@piefed.social 2 months ago
Well can anyone explain ? What happened ? What has trump signed ?
Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
The Treaty of Versailles was the treaty that ended WW1. It required Germany to pay huge reparations to the rest of Europe.
Trump just signed the Memorandum of Understanding that “should” lead to the end of the war with Iran. And the US is required to pay huge reparations to them.
It’s a bit “on-the-nose”.
collectif_imaginaire@piefed.social 2 months ago
Thx 👍
mech@feddit.org 2 months ago
Trump probably sees himself more like Hitler who made the French government sign their surrender in Versailles.
Tommelot@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Please note that historians consider the treaty of Versailles with her ‘unrealistic’ reperations a core contributor to WW2.
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
I wouldn’t put it past him that it mashes him feel more like Hitler to hold power in a crumbling embarrassed power filled with latent rage.
That is exactly what the Nazis leveraged to gain and hold power.
DandomRude@lemmy.world 2 months ago How could he? The guy is orange…
marcos@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Oh, man. If those are the normal-ish guys that start it, I don’t want to know how the dumb crazy drug-addicted genociders look like.
ToiletFlushShowerScream@piefed.world 2 months ago
And I once thought “who could be so unintelligent as to bankrupt a casino”, and it’s the same person who agreed to embarrass his nation by signing a reparations treaty in Versailles France. It’s as if his secretary of education doesn’t have a thorough understanding of history, and the balls to speak up? At least it wasn’t in a train car I guess.
Serinus@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I expect he’s happy about it because he’s getting a cut.
Just straight up fleecing the American taxpayer so he can get a small percentage.
freebee@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
He thinks signing something in Versailles makes him a king
jaybone@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Even if you explained it to him, with crayons and circles and diagrams and arrows and cartoon characters, he wouldn’t get it and even if he did, he wouldn’t care.
trollercoaster@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
You’d also have to watch out carefully so he doesn’t eat the crayons.
Ariselas@piefed.ca 2 months ago
It all makes sense now
Evotech@lemmy.world 2 months ago
History doesn’t repeat but it does rhyme. Indeed.
tropicaldingdong@lemmy.world@lemmy.world 2 months ago PugJesus@piefed.social 2 months ago
Don’t tell me this is going to get worse, I’m trying to avoid the urge to play chicken with the next passing freight train.
trollercoaster@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Please don’t be such an arsehole towards the train driver.
Also, what /u/lordbritishbusiness@lemmy.world said.
lordbritishbusiness@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Pug, we need historians like you to remind us what normal should look like.
And who else would remind us about the Eternal Glory of Rome that even modern empires in decline still look to for inspiration?
- tropicaldingdong@lemmy.world@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Best case scenario AMOC shuts down and we don’t learn what happens down the rest of this timelines.
ellypony@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The idiocracy timeline was right