Yet, the most important long term consequence of the Great War is not economic or political, but spiritual: literature and the arts began to change much more dramatically after 1918 than they had done before the war. Political ideologies such as Facism and Communism were given fertile breeding grounds. Speaking from an English perspective, the first generation of men who had a school education joined up in 1914, and they were massacred. Future leaders, artists, journalists, writers, politicians etc were simply wiped out. World War 1 changed not only the way Europe thought about itself, but its ability to even think coherently about itself.

You said a mouthful.

The same dynamic exists WRT Luftwaffe fighter-defense pilots facing off against the USAAF.

For starters, there were so few survivors.

Next, after all their experiences — it was a stunner to see un-blooded pilots gunning German aces down all over the homeland.

Their personal prestige plummeted, too.

rickl, Well siad for let all knew what sort of person you are…

As of your Baird brain for ” detecting a strong whiff of anti-Israel sentiment. this well known behaviorist by Hasbara, isn’t?

LOL, you can argue them as the makers of the modern age and the most influential people in history.

Not only were they involved in the above, but the corruption in the Church led to the formation of the Protestant movement, the creation of the Church of England, and everything that followed from that in the UK rippling down through history.

Liar. Racist.

Only white men are that eeeeeeeeeeeeeeee-vil.

:-9

I concur. Welles is well-known for Citizen Kane but, if you ask anyone what else he did, birds chirping is the most common sound that follows. If anyone knows anything, it’s usually The Magnificent Ambersons, which… well, it’s best not mentioned.

“The Third Man”, along with “Touch of Evil” are two of Welles’ movies that every film buff should see.

One of the more interesting things notable about The Third Man is that it calls attention to something that most don’t realize, and that is that, for a long time, Austria was also partitioned by the Allies.

World War Zero was the Mongol hyper-expansion.

It almost swept the ‘world-island.’

It’s expanse, to my mind, is unrivaled until WWII.

It’s the reason the Magyars fled to Hungary and the Turks ended up in Anatolia.

The Mongols established/ re-established the Silk Road — of which Marco Polo traveled.

[ The Romans were trading silk with the Chinese centuries earlier. Each knew of each other. IIRC, their trade used the Silk Road, not the ocean. If anyone had realized just how much cheaper and safer it was to sail to and fro -- history would've taken a different turn. ]