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Matt Yglesias:

I’m going to side with Robert Farley against John Quiggin on the nature of the settlement of the Second World War. There’s definitely a sense in which it all worked out for the best in the end, but the conclusion of the war in Europe was both very harsh on the Germans and also a spectacular failure in terms of cosmic justice.

The phrase "very harsh on the Germans" and WWII's conclusion is difficult to comprehend. And his later point that

 it’s really only relative to the carnage of 1914-1945 that the subsequent 45 years look like a good deal to anyone.

The post-WWII world is better than the previous 31 years only because it didn't have a pointless and murderous war, an economic collapse, a necessary War, the Holocaust, the Armenian Genocide, etc.

The man is a serious thinker.  He really is.