[ SECRET POST #2925 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2925 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

Re: time travel!

[(Anonymous)]

Wouldn't work. War was the only logical conclusion to the situation at the time. Postponing it would only mean people had more time to to get better and better weapons of war and most likely make things worse.

Re: time travel!

[(Anonymous)]

War was not the inevitable conclusion at the time. Nothing is ever the inevitable conclusion of anything except physical laws. But more to the point Europe had scraped through other diplomatic crises without going to war (see Agadir, and some others I can't remember the names of). And there's no telling what the advance of years would have done to technology or more importantly to the balance of power and diplomacy in Europe. It might actually be the case that you could just delay Germany enough to get to the point where they just couldn't make it work anymore.

I don't think it would be a perfect solution and if I had a fully functioning time machine or the powers of a god it's not what I would do. And of course with contemplating what would have happened, it's impossible to really know. But given the enormous suffering caused by World War I, not to mention the rest of the 20th century, I think it'd be worth a shot.

Re: time travel!

[philippos42]

Bull. Better air power and radio communications could have made trench warfare obsolete. If the conflagration were delayed by fifteen years, then when things exploded, the actual war (in the west at least, I don't know much at all about the east) might have been over sooner.

Granted, the trauma of that war remade Europe, and in some ways for the better. So whatever.

Re: time travel!

[(Anonymous)]

But would we have made those advacements without the war to spur us on? War is the mother of invention and all that.

maybe

[philippos42]

Did it need to be that war, though?