A brainteaser is something (such as a puzzle) that demands mental effort and acuity for its solution.
I enjoy brainteasers.
Here is one for you:
What do the following dates have in common?
- November 8, 2016.
- November 6, 2018.
- November 3, 2020.
- January 5, 2021.
- September 14, 2021.
Tease your brain and let me know your answers! But remember you have to use your brain in order to tease it properly!!!
Woody Wilson was a 💩 to the highest degree of stank. He was arguably one of if not the most dangerous and destructive presidents in our history. Domestic policies were utterly terrible, but the foreign policies had the furthest reaching effects. He replaced Taft's policy of "Dollar Diplomacy" with "Moral Diplomacy" which was just a fancy way of saying "we're going to force 'democracy' down your throats so that we can control you." Woody got the US intervening seemingly everywhere around the world, especially South America and for the first time on a large scale, into the Middle East. Check out the book "Power, Faith, Fantasy" sometime. The turn of the century saw a massive shift from the "faith and fantasy" influences in the Middle East, into a more raw power grab. And then don't even get me started on the trash of the League of Nations and WWI. Woody Wilson, the racist POS from Princeton who laid the foundation from America's demise.... ugh.
I mean shoot, we could even go back to the Jeffersonians pushing for "democracy" in France. Oops! These efforts have gone on for our entire existence as a country, and in nearly every case, it's caused a lot of damage.
Always going to need oil to keep the war machines always running ;)
Hitler's inability to maintain supply lines and keep constant access to oil was arguably the #1 cause of Nazi Germany's defeat.., forced out of North Africa and the Middle East, stopped en route to the Caucasus... Kursk, Battle of the Bulge... no oil, no machines, no chance.
Revenge for WWI was definitely the ultimate motivation for the militarization and aggressive actions by the Nazis. I don't think Hitler seriously expected the UK to keep up the fight. He thought they would agree that the greater enemy was the communists (and in his mind, a global Jewish conspiracy). The takeover of Eastern Europe and Russia was really his main goal. I don't think he really planned on the British continuing to be a thorn in his side after opening up the Eastern front. I also don't think he really expected the US to enter the war either. The more I've thought about it, I'm certain Adolf was no mastermind, just a puppet. Problem for the Nazis was that the more the cult of personality developed around him, the more power he gained. He took advantage of it and ironically, foiled the plans of those who wanted to control him. When he took full control of the military, defeat became inevitable. He had no skills for running a war.