Harsher in Hindsight/Real Life: Difference between revisions

* ''War of Machines'' contains the line "Japanese scientists further advised their government that neither the Germans nor the Americans could possibly deflect enough of their productive resources to a bomb project to have a weapon [usable] in the current war."

* During [[World War I]], the Entente frequently propagated lurid stories claiming that Germany and its allies were committing genocide in its occupied territories. They were, but nowhere near the level that they were accused of being, which ironically led to most dismissing the entire issue out of hand, and thus [[Crying Wolf|when the same accusation was made three decades later, not a lot of people believed it.]]

** He wasn't alone in this prediction, either--the list of people who expected this to happen (especially at the end of [[World War I]] as the peace was negotiated) is sufficient and push it through this trope and into wondering how ''un''[[Genre Savvy]] you'd have to have been to think it really ''was'' going to be the War to End All Wars.

*** Among the most influential voices warning of conflict as a consequence of the peace treaties was the great economist [[wikipedia:Economic Consequences of the Peace|John Maynard Keynes]].