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SorellaLaBefana

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22. "14 Points" Interesting. I recall learning of Woodrow Wilson's 14 Points put forth at the end of WWI ...
Wed Jun 17, 2026, 06:48 PM
16 hrs ago
... which were crafted to truly make WW1 the "War to End All Wars"

Woodrow Wilson's 14 Points were:

Open convenants of peace; no secret agreements.
Freedom of the seas, except when curtailed by international action.
The removal, wherever possible, of all economic barriers.
Guarantees for the reduction in armaments.
Impartial adjustment of all colonial claims, with the interests of the subject populations being equal with the
claims of governments.
Evacuation of all Russian territory.
Restoration of Belgian sovereignty.
Occupied French territory to be restored, and Alsace-Lorraine to be returned to France.
Readjustment of Italian frontiers 'along clearly recognised lines of nationality'.
Opportunity of autonomous development for the peoples of Austria-Hungary.
Evacuation by occupying forces of Romania, Serbia, and Montenegro; Serbia to have free access to the sea.
Relations of Balkan states to be settled along lines of allegiance and nationality.
Opportunity of autonomous development for non-Turkish peoples within the Ottoman Empire.
The Dardanelles to be free for all shipping.
Creation of an independent Poland with access to the sea.
Formation of a general assembly of nations with the aim of 'affording mutual guarantees of
political independence and territorial integrity to great and small states'.

Source https://www.worldhistory.org/article/2801/woodrow-wilsons-fourteen-points/


Someone in the Regime knew of this history, and sought to burnish the turd by harking back to Wilson's Fourteen Points.

Not that many may get the reference, but just about everyone was exposed to them sometime in school and, as they were always presented as being a Good Thing, it allows the Regime's idiotic agreement to have some sense of respectability.

At least, that's why I think there were 14 Points in this travesty.

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"14 Points" Interesting. I recall learning of Woodrow Wilson's 14 Points put forth at the end of WWI ... SorellaLaBefana 16 hrs ago #22
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