The Paris Peace Conference set out with the highest ambitions possible: to achieve eternal peace. Obviously it failed, but what can future peacemakers learn from the failures of 1919?
Interesting and insightful. One quibble, though: Greece did invade Turkey after the war, more or less. They were given the area around Smyrna in the talks, due to the large Greek population there (but not in the surrounding countryside), but they had not taken Smyrna in the war and had to invade to secure it. Big disaster; the Turks won.
1919 - A time for peace
"Arguably the peace process was fatally doomed already in December 2018."
Should be 1918, though I do tend to agree with the statement as worded.
Interesting and insightful. One quibble, though: Greece did invade Turkey after the war, more or less. They were given the area around Smyrna in the talks, due to the large Greek population there (but not in the surrounding countryside), but they had not taken Smyrna in the war and had to invade to secure it. Big disaster; the Turks won.