Carthaginian peace

English thumb|Roman troops besieging Carthage. Etymology In reference to the draconian peace terms imposed on the Carthaginian Empire by the Roman Republic following the Punic Wars. At the end of the Third Punic War, Rome destroyed Carthage. Noun - s en politics Peace maintained with devastating consequences for one of the parties involved; a very harsh peace, particularly one that results in the defeated side being destroyed or nearly so. en Stephen Gross Export Empire https://books.google.com/books?id=DDDuCgAAQBAJ Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2015 50–51 https://books.google.com/books?id=DDDuCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT71 978-1-107-11225-4 To be sure, the Treaty of Versailles was not a Carthaginian peace as many contemporaries, most notably John Maynard Keynes, believed. Germany was not crippled as an economic power. It remained the most populous state in Europe, its industrial potential was largely intact, and with the demise of the Habsburg, Ottoman, and Russian empires Eastern Europe was now populated by small, fragile states. While on the surface reparations seemed to impose a huge burden on Germany’s public finances, Weimar’s inflation and the speculation that came with it led to a substantial net flow of capital into Germany. Translations Finnish: fi toiselle osapuolelle tuhoisa rauha, fi Karthagon rauha French: fr paix carthaginoise f Polish: pl nierówny pokój m Trivia Cato the Elder supposedly had a habit of saying, “Ceterum censeo Carthago delenda est”, meaning, “As for the rest, I declare that Carthage must be destroyed.” See also en Pyrrhic victory en Violence