The deadliest pandemic in recorded history didn't just kill 75 million people. It may have caused World War II.In the spring of 1919, Woodrow Wilson — the one man standing between a just peace and a punishing one — collapsed at Versailles. What happened next set off a chain: war guilt clause → impossible reparations → Weimar hyperinflation → a failed Austrian painter → 70 million dead in WWII.And almost nobody knows about it.In this video I break down:→ Why the Spanish Flu's origin story is a lesson in information suppression→ The W-shaped mortality curve and why the *healthiest* people died→ How Wilson's illness changed the peace terms at Versailles→ What Keynes saw in real time — and why no one listened→ The Roaring 20s, the Florida real estate bubble, and the Great Depression as post-pandemic aftershocks→ The investing principle buried inside all of itThis is Part II of The Great Plagues series. Part I covered the Black Death and how it accidentally created capitalism.📖 Book referenced: *The Great Influenza* by John Barry🔗 Subscribe to The Timeless Investor on Substack: https://thetimelessinvestor.substack.com/subscribeOriginal Full Article on The Black Death (first in The Plagues series):https://thetimelessinvestor.substack.com/p/how-the-black-death-created-our-world?r=d424hFollow me on LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/arievangemeren/Follow me on X: https://x.com/TimelessArie
