jackhutton 🇺🇸Feb 5, 2023

“Many had believed [..] that in the new age of interconnected economies and technological miracles “‘certain kinds of cruelty and violence could never occur on a large scale again.’”

This, referring to the atrocities of World War I.

Eerie. Different—but the same.

The Ghost at the Feast
Robert Kagan
#GhostAtTheFeast #RobertKagan #WWI #technology #cruelty #crueltyisthepoint

Show threadjackhutton 🇺🇸

1915 WWI :

“Instead of creeping around in gum-shoes,” insisted German-born Congressman Richard Bartholdt of Missouri, German Americans had “to put on jack-boots.”

Excerpt from
The Ghost at the Feast
Robert Kagan

* we’re looking at you, Senator Josh Hawley..et al.

#Bookstodon #GhostAtTheFeast #WWI #DifferentButTheSame #DeJaVu

Feb 5, 2023 at 4:31pmWeb
Show threadruthlessoneFeb 5, 2023
@jackhutton thank you for this information.. had not realized that this was an actual “American” saying these things out loud .. definitely looking at Josh Hawley et al
Show threadjackhutton 🇺🇸Feb 5, 2023
@ruthlessone Kagan is clearly drawing parallels—similarities to thinking then to thinking now— well annotated take on U.S. foreign policy — and striking how —this frightening nuttiness around us, is not new— we learn from history, right…(?)