Friday, March 27, 2026

DDR: The Coming Storm: Power, Conflict, and Warnings from History by Odd Arne Westad

 


Saw a blurb for this, thought it looked like my kind of thing, asked the library to send it to me, here it is. I think I'm the first person to check it out.


244 pages. Let's see what Westad has got. 


Day 1 (DDRD 3,069) March 27, 2026)

Read to page 39.

Oh. Oh. Get this: "The best example of how British politics went from complacency to fear is the sudden appearance of the question of tariffs." (35) As it flails about in its death throes, Britain decides that imposing tariffs is the way to maintain their hold in the competitive trade market. Mmm-hmmm.

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