>>17901024
With the exception of appeasement it makes me figure overcaution is better than undercaution.
I really don't blame the lost generation for being so crazy politically, and frankly I'd say they should have strung up every single aristocrat and military class
>>17901030 type except that the rank and file people all were as equally gung-ho drunk on jingoism. So it was frankly everyone's mistake.
I'm pretty sure what fucked with Kipling wasn't so much that his son died because he must have known had it been any of the colonial dustups he'd written about there'd have been a chance of that. But those would have been personal and some couching of romance. Not "You never quite know if he actually died, and given that you have no comfort of a body to bury but instead expect he got turned into bloody dust or chewed up into mincemeat and shat out by rats. WW1 then fucking spanish flu, except for people who survived Eastern Front WW2 it's hard to think of a level of misery and 'the world you knew is ending' like that.
Looking it up and apparently they did find his body, but it was identiifed only in 1992 so for Kipling's family it was that terrible unknown.
>>17901195
Would be but every joe blow was for it. The socialist initially tried some brother-worker solidarity but it fell apart as everyone just fell in line with their nations. The tragedy is unless you were some European minority that prospered from it and gained independence it all feels so fucking pointless.
