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.
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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:
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,