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Reply To: The Great War You Tube Channel

October 21, 2018 at 3:26 pm #1289909

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Actually, they really do, at least some of the time. Wars like WW1 are ended by treaties that by definition are articles of international law. People just like being pedantic and academic, confusing subsequent civil violence as official continuation of hostilities, or related or spinoff wars like the Freikorps engagements, Mandate Wars, or Russian Civil War.

I think what @torros was referring to was the 11 November Armistice stopped the fighting (at least on the Western Front), the actual war itself didn’t end until the Treaty of Versailles (ratified June 1919). Until then certain war measures (armies in the field, British naval blockade) persisted as the Armistice had to be continued / extended over several times. Even this didn’t close everything down – the Paris Peace Conference also concluded five other treaties that were actually equally as important / destructive, in the careless way in the disposed of former German, Austro-Hungarian, and Ottoman possessions. Some of these weren’t formerly ratified until as late as 1923 – and ignited continuing wars and problem areas that kill thousands of people to this day.

But the series comes out in a little while, I’ll leave off until then.

I’m sure I’ll have my work cut out for me at that time. 😐