The Energy of Empire 19. A Carthaginian Peace? The Treaty of Versailles

The term Carthaginian Peace comes from Rome’s sacking of the city of Carthage, where they supposedly poured salt onto the land to ensure the North African city could never rise again. It was applied to the peace settlement with the German’s by economist John Maynard Keynes. In spite of popular adherence, it is a view that many prominent historians consider to be a myth.    To support the show and for access to the forum: https://payhip.com/b/Sq0ZB   Buy me a Coffee page: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/DSConsciousness   Notes Prolonging the Agony: How the Anglo-American Establishment Deliberately Extended WWI by Three-And-A-Half Years, by Jim MacGregor and Gerry Docherty: https://tinyurl.com/b7d9dzfr   Interview with Gerry Docherty by James Corbett:  https://www.corbettreport.com/gerry-docherty-on-the-hidden-history-of-wwi/   Paris 1919: Six Months that Changed the World, by Margaret MacMillan: https://tinyurl.com/yck9rf3v   A Perfidious Distortion of History: the Versailles Peace Treaty and the success of the Nazis, by Jürgen Tampke: https://tinyurl.com/cepdmefr   Germany 1918-1933: Socialism or Barbarism, by Rob Sewell: https://tinyurl.com/yc5ryf98   Great Wars and Great Leaders: A Libertarian Rebuttal, by Ralph Raico: https://tinyurl.com/5bdn9xfv   The Politics of Hunger The Allied Blockade of Germany, 1915–1919, by C. Paul Vincent: https://tinyurl.com/22v3f36t   Omnipotent Government The Rise of the Total State and Total War, by Ludwig von Mises: https://store.mises.org/Omnipotent-Government-The-Rise-of-Total-State-and-Total-War-P53.aspx   The Pity of War, by Niall Ferguson, https://tinyurl.com/f2375m7f