Our foreign policy was an improvisation. Like Schacht's financial policy, it lacked foresight. The Nazis kept talking about a thousand-year Reich, but they couldn't think ahead for five minutes!
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- The author criticizes a foreign policy for lacking foresight, comparing it to a failed financial strategy and noting the inability to plan long-term.
- In plain terms
- The policy was improvised and lacked long-term planning.
- What can you take from it?
- Planning ahead is crucial for policy.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- How do you plan long-term?
- What policies failed due to poor foresight?
Another view
It simplifies complex political decisions into a lack of thinking.
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