Hooray! World War I Is Now Over! USA! USA! USA!

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September 28, 2010 03:33 PM

Germany is finally paying off the last of its reparations for World War I, so we can now close that chapter of world history with a bitchin' victory party. Yes! We did it! Those Krauts paid out!

The principal representative of the British Treasury at the Paris Peace Conference, John Maynard Keynes, resigned in June 1919 in protest at the scale of the demands.
"Germany will not be able to formulate correct policy if it cannot finance itself,' he warned.

Haha, GAY. Like that's going to happen. So what do you say, boys? Now that we've won the war, how about going for a World War Two? That Germany still has some sport in them, eh? Should be an invigorating experience. [Telegraph]

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