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Written by David William Pear, originally published by The Greanville Post
“History is always written by the winners. When two cultures clash, the loser is obliterated, and the winner writes the history books— books which glorify their own cause and disparage the conquered foe. As Napoleon once said, ‘What is history, but a fable agreed upon? ‘”— Professor Robert Langdon
The Decline of an Empire
Why did World War One happen? The conventional fable agreed upon begins on June 28, 1914 with the assassination of Austria’s Archduke Ferdinand in Sarajevo. The aftermath of the assassination spiraled out of control. It was like an unstoppable train speeding down the tracks. Suddenly all of the Western powers were at war. When the armistice was signed on November 11, 1918 forty million people lay dead. Exactly five years to the day after the assassination of the Archduke, the Treaty of Versailles was signed. Germany alone accepted all the guilt for the war. The end.
Well, it was not “The End”. The outcome of The First World War led to World War Two. The outcome of WW2 led to the Cold War. “Winning” the Cold War created the mujahideen; rebranded as Al Qaeda it led to the Global War On Terror, and never-ending wars.
In the 21st century the U.S. and its allies squandered their blood and treasure on never-ending criminal wars. Millions of people the U.S. slaughtered in West Asia are dismissed as “collateral damage”. Meanwhile, China has been using its resources for development, and lifting millions of people out of poverty.
The U.S. Empire has been in a long decline for decades. More Americans are falling into poverty, and the U.S. has been steadily falling in the United Nations Index of Human Development. It currently ranks number 28th among developed countries. The index is a measure of infant mortality, healthcare, life expectancy, education, and per capita income. The U.S. infrastructure, such as road, rail and airports, public utilities, and the internet are behind other developed countries, too.
China’s economy is expected to surpass the U.S. in 2028. Russia has also revitalized its economy in the last 20 years. Every advance that China and Russia make is propagandized by the U.S. as “aggression”.
Instead of competing peacefully with China and Russia, the U.S. has engaged in a New Cold War. Each passing year the world grows closer to a Hot War. The Doomsday Clock of nuclear annihilations was at 14 minutes to midnight at the end of the Cold War. It is now at 100 seconds to Armageddon. That is the closest it has ever been. There is no effort in the U.S. to turn back the clock.
August 2014 was the centennial of The First World War. The year was a grim reminder, which momentarily gave people pause, and a slew of articles resulted. For instance, Graham Allison wrote an article that appeared in The Atlantic: Just How Likely Is Another World War? . Allison assessed the similarities and differences between 1914 and 2014. His conclusion was:
”For the ‘complacent’ who live in what Gore Vidal labeled the ‘United States of Amnesia’, the similarities should serve as a vivid reminder that many of the reasons currently given for discounting threats of war did not prevent World War I.”
Then Allison optimistically concluded that another world war is, “unlikely if statesmen in both the U.S. and China reflect on what happened a century ago.” Does anybody see “wise statesmen” reflecting, or see much concern in the United States of Amnesia?
There is no viable anti-war liberal class in the U.S. demanding dialogue, diplomacy and compromise among nations. The U.S. has exited treaties, which were designed to prevent catastrophic wars. The U.S. has criminally abandoned international law and the United Nations Charter. Instead the U.S. has come up with its own “rules-based international order”. International law is based on treaties among nations. The “rules” are diktats made in Washington and Brussels, imposed on the rest of the world by U.S. militarism.
In the unipolar world after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the U.S. did as it pleased. It ruled the air, land and seas. With the rise of China and Russia the U.S. does not compete peacefully, nor does it show any desire to. Diplomacy, negotiation and compromise are dirty words to U.S. warmongers, of which there are many.
International capitalism is not based on peaceful competition. Instead it is based on military power, financial blockades, blackmail, and might makes right. International capitalism is a system of imperialism, monopoly, and war. When an empire is challenged, it lashes out. Empires try to destroy their competitors. Empires project their own lust for power and world domination onto all competitors.
In the early 20th century the sun never set on the British Empire. Metaphorically, the sun started to set with the rise of Germany. The British saw a rising Germany as a threat to its goal of world domination.
The following essay summarizes how the British Empire set out to destroy Germany in 1902. It led to The Great War. The similarities of that era are frighteningly similar to the U.S. paranoia and hostility to a rising China and Russia today.
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Cecil Rhodes, Alfred Milner and The Society of the Elect
The authors of The Hidden History, The Secret Origins of the First World War claim that it was Great Britain that started World War One, and not Germany. It is a convincing story. The authors George Docherty and James MacGregor call their book a conspiracy fact.
The story begins in the late 1800s. The British Empire ruled the seas. In 1870 a young Cecil John Rhodes migrated to a British colony in southern Africa. After failing at farming he set out in pursuit of diamonds, which had been discovered in a region of Southern Africa. With the financial backing of Nathan Mayer Rothschild, the young Rhodes monopolized the diamond trade. He became fantastically wealthy and founded the De Beers diamond company. In 1889 Rhodes was granted a royal charter for the British South Africa Company to colonize an area later named Rhodesia.
In 1895 gold was discovered in the Transvaal Republic controlled by Dutch settlers, known as Boers. Rhodes teamed up with Sir Alfred Milner, who was the British commissioner for Southern Africa. Together with a small group of wealthy British elites they instigate the Boer War in order to grab the gold for themselves.
Rhodes and Milner went on to form a secret society. As Rhodes had written earlier:
”Why should we not form a secret society with but one object the furtherance of the British Empire, and the bringing of the whole uncivilised world under British rule, for the recovery of the United States, for the making of the Anglo-Saxon race but one Empire.”
Rhodes’ ambition was to control all of the world’s wealth, for the benefit of the British Empire. He believed in the supremacy of the Anglo-Saxon race, and he believed that the British Empire should rule the world. After Rhode’s early death in 1902, Alfred Milner became the leader of the secret society. Milner was so admired by Rhodes that he is quoted as having said:
“If Milner says peace, I say peace. If Milner says war, I say war. Whatever Milner says, I say ditto.”
Conspiracy Facts
The authors of the “Hidden History” uncovered many World War 1 documents, which lay the blame for WW1 on Rhodes’s secret society. Authors George Docherty and James MacGregor built on the work of Georgetown University Professor Carroll Quigley’s book The Anglo-American Establishment. Quigley wrote:
“One wintery afternoon in February 1891, three men were engaged in an earnest conversation in London. From that conversation were to flow consequences of the greatest import to the British Empire and the world as a whole. For these men were organizing a secret society that was, for more than fifty years, to be one of the most important forces in the formulation of British imperialism and foreign policy.”
“The three men thus engaged were already well known in England. The leader was Cecil Rhodes, fabulously wealth empire builder and the most important person in South Africa. The second was William T. Stead, the most famous, and probably the most sensational journalist of the day. The third was Reginald Baliol Brett, later known as Lord Esher, friend and confidant to Queen Victoria, and later to be the most influential advisor to King Edward Vll, and King George V.”
The Boer War was a long and costly war for Britain. It marked the beginning of the decline of the British Empire. Rhodes established his secret society of elites to reverse the decline. He named it The Society of the Elect.
By the turn of the 20th century, Germany was a rising power. It was outpacing Great Britain in industry, finance, science, technology, commerce and culture. Germany was acquiring colonies and expanding its navy. The Society of the Elect characterized every German advancement as an act of aggression. They conspired to start a war that would crush Germany, so that the British Empire would remain supreme.
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Circles Within Circles
The Society of the Elect was organized as circles within circles. The inner circle was Cecil Rhodes, Alfred Milner, W. T. Stead, The Viscount Esher, the Marquess Salsbury, Lord Rosebery, and Nathaniel Rothschild. King Edward VII was a central member, and after his death in 1910, King George V was too. According to “Hidden History”:
“Stead was there to influence public opinion, and Esher acted as the voice of the King. Salisbury and Rosebery provided the political networks, while Rothschild represented the international money power. Milner was the master manipulator, the iron-willed, assertive intellectual who offered that one essential factor: strong leadership.”
The Society of the Elect had an outer circle, which they named the “Association of Helpers”. The Helpers were like-minded elites. They were royalty, imperialists, financiers, greedy profiteers, war mongers, and egotistical and corrupt politicians. The Helpers were willingly manipulated, often unknowingly, by the inner circle.
Some recruits to the Helpers were Jan Christian Smuts, Arthur Balfour, Edward Grey, Richard Haldane, H. H. Asquith, Lord Roberts, David Lloyd George, Sir Edward Carson, Frederick Sleigh Roberts, Alfred Harmsworth, and Winston Churchill.
During WW1 Churchill was among the most ruthless imperialists and warmongers. He is quoted as having said:
“I think a curse should rest on me, because I love this war. I know it’s smashing and shattering the lives of thousands every moment— and yet I can’t help it— I enjoy every second of it.”
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The Propaganda Machine
The Boer War was an important prelude to World War 1. It started off badly in 1899. It was unpopular at home, and a drain on the British Empire. In 1902 it ended badly too, with the ethnic cleansing and genocide of Boers.
Tens-of-thousands of men, women and children died of disease and starvation in British concentration camps. This would prove to be an important event in the early development of propaganda.
It was the British who began perfecting propaganda to promote the Boer War and to cover up its ugly aftermath. Newspapers had become an affordable mass medium of influence. The Society of the Elect had Helpers who owned the newspapers and published war propaganda eagerly. Rhodes had written of his planned secret society that it “should inspire and even own portions of the press for the press rules the mind of the people”.
Winston Churchill was a self-promoting war correspondent who went to South Africa during the Boer War. He returned home as a self-aggrandizing hero. His wild story of being captured by the Boers, and his harrowing escape made him a national celebrity. In 1900 he was elected to Parliament, and remained there until his death in 1964.
Even as a declining empire, the British navy was supreme in the early 20th century. The British naval policy was to keep its navy as large as the next two naval powers combined. When Kaiser Wilhelm II started expanding Germany’s navy the British propaganda called it “German aggression” and interfering with “freedom of the seas”. Yet, Kaiser Wilhelm’s policy was to keep his navy at less than two-thirds the size of the British navy. The German threat to the British Empire was invented propaganda, and the hype of a German invasion was ludicrous Germanophobia to frighten the public.
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The Triple Entente
The Society of the Elect made ententes with France and Russia for a war on Germany. The alliances were secret, unknown to the public, Parliament and most of the Cabinet.
The British had secret military “non-binding military staff conversations” with Belgium going back to 1906. In 1911 Belgium collaborated with France and Great Britain on how to defend Belgium’s “neutrality” from a German invasion. Both offensive and defensive alliances are a violation of neutrality.
Belgium had instituted military conscription in 1913, and began making plans for a war with Germany. As “Hidden History” reports:
“Documents found in the Department of Foreign Affairs in Brussels shortly after the war began proved Anglo-Belgian collusion at the highest levels, including the direct involvement of the Belgian foreign secretary, had been going on for years.”
The Society of the Elect needed ententes with France and Russia because of their large land armies and strategic locations. The Society secretly promised Russia the prize of Constantinople and the Dardanelles, after the planned breakup of the Ottoman Empire. Russia had long-coveted a warm-water port. The Society promised France the return of Alsace-Lorraine, which the French had lost to Germany in 1871. The secret triple entente planned to divvy up German overseas colonies among themselves.
Germany knew that it had two hostile empires on its borders. The German army was confident that it could defend against either one. But a simultaneous invasion by both Russia and France could be fatal. A large and speedy German army was maintained for defense. Military thinking at the time was that the best defense is a speedy offense.
In 1905 General Count van Schlieffen presented a defensive plan. It became known as the Schlieffen Plan. If both Russia and France attacked, then the German army would go through Belgium to attack the French from behind their lines. After the German army quickly defeated France, the plan was to rush to the eastern front to defend against the slower moving Russians. Time was of the essence. One day’s delay could result in disaster.
From military intelligence and leaked information, the Society of the Elect learned of the Schlieffen plan. A spy in the German army known only as Le vengeur (The Avenger) sold the entire Schlieffen plan to the French. Also a general on the German staff was the brother-in-law of the King of Belgium, and he could have revealed Germany’s military secrets.
The Society of the Elect used the Schlieffen Plan to set a trap. They had to make it appear that Germany was the aggressor. Otherwise, the British Parliament and the public would not support a war in Europe.
Again, according to “Hidden History”, Belgian neutrality was a sham:
“Belgium was involved in secret military plans for a possible war of aggression against an unsuspecting Germany but almost a decade later would be presented as the innocent victim of German aggression.”
The Kaiser knew that the Schlieffen plan would likely fail if the British declared war too. The British could send its army across the English Channel to slow the German army in France, while Russia invaded from the east. The British navy could attack and blockade Germany from the North Sea, and it could protect France’s coast. The French navy could then be dispersed to the Mediterranean to deal with the German navy based in Pula, Austria on the Adriatic Sea.
Mobilization is an Act of War
It was understood in 1914 that the mobilization of an army was a de facto declaration of war. If Russia and France mobilized their armies, then Germany was confronted with a fatal disaster, unless they moved quickly. When Germany invaded Belgium, the trap was sprung. The Society of the Elect got their planned excuse to go to war.
Here is what the “Hidden History” says about mobilization:
“The Franco-Russian Military Convention [of 1892] was very specific in declaring that the first to mobilise must be held the aggressor, and that general mobilization ‘is war’”.
The “Hidden History” documents the sequence of events that occurred after the assassination of the Archduke Ferdinand.
The Balkans had been a hotbed of conflict for years. Serbia was aggressively seeking a “Greater Serbia” of Slavic people. Nationalism was running high, and there was deep hostility towards Austria, for one because of its 1908 annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina from the Ottoman Empire.
Serbia reacted with jubilation at the assassination of the Archduke in Sarajevo. Austria was outraged at the assassination of their future king. According to “Hidden History”, Austria had solid evidence that Serbia was behind the assassination. Austria then spent three weeks contemplating a response. On July 23rd Austria sent Serbia a list of 10 demands, and gave them 48 hours to reply.
On July 25th Serbia’s answer was to mobilize its army, which was an act of war. Later the same day Austria began mobilizing. On July 28th Austria declared war on Serbia, and on July 29th Austria bombarded Belgrade. On July 30th Kaiser Wilhelm still hoped to placate Austria and Serbia.
According to “Hidden History”, the Kaiser did not give Austria a “blank cheque” of military support, as stated in so many history books:
“It is claimed that, in a deliberate attempt to force a war on Europe, the Kaiser gave an unconditional assurance to Austria by a so-called blank cheque. In fact, Austria-Hungary’s need to respond to Serbian aggression was endorsed by others including [publicly] Britain and the British press. The Kaiser and his advisors supported a local solution to a local problem and made absolutely no special preparation for war.”
As “Hidden History” says, Germany showed no intention of attacking Russia. Nor did Russia have any obligation to defend Serbia militarily. So, the fable that the assassination of the Archduke triggered a chain reaction of opposing alliances is just that, a fable.
The only “blank cheque” to go to war was the secret entente between Britain, France and Russia. On July 24th the Russians and the French secretly agreed to mobilize their armies. The British soon followed.
Winston Churchill was the First Lord of the Admiralty, and on July 29th he ordered the British navy to its war station in the North Sea. This put the British navy in position to attack and blockade Germany. Society of the Elect member Richard Haldane gave the order to mobilize the British army. The Society of the Elect took Great Britain to war even before the parliament authorized it.
On July 26th Russia began mobilizing. Russia was mobilized by July 30th. The Kaiser sent a telegram to his cousin Czar Nicholas asking him to halt mobilization. The Kaiser waited in vain for 24 hours for an answer. Then Kaiser Wilhelm had his ambassador in St. Petersburg ask Russia’s minister of foreign affairs to halt Russia’s mobilization. On August 1st the Russian minister said that the Russian mobilization would continue. Later that day Germany declared war on Russia.
Kaiser Wilhelm II Tried to Avoid War
According to “Hidden History”, Kaiser Wilhelm II did everything he could to avoid war. The Kaiser did not threaten to attack or declare war on France. He repeatedly asked his British cousin King George V if he could guarantee French neutrality. He pledged that if France would remain neutral, then Germany would not attack it.
King George V never gave a straight answer. Instead he deceived his cousin, telling him that Britain would stay out of a “ruinous” war. It was a stall for time that Germany did not have. Belgium began mobilizing on July 31st. When the Kaiser could wait no longer he mobilized the German army on August 1, 1914. Germany was the last country to mobilize.
On August 1st the German ambassador to London, Prince Karl Max Lichnowsky, met with Sir Edward Grey. While speaking with Lichnowsky, Grey allegedly offered that if Germany pledged not to attack France, then England would remain neutral and guarantee France’s “passivity”. Kaiser Wilhelm II accepted immediately; only to be told later by King George that “there must be some misunderstanding”. Lichnowsky then advised that if Great Britain would remain neutral, Germany would respect Belgium neutrality. Sir Edward Grey replied that he could not give this assurance since “England must have its hands free”. It had all been a stall for time, which Germany did not have.
Babies On Bayonets
On August 2nd the Kaiser asked Belgium for “permission“ to pass his army through. On August 3rd Belgium declined, and Germany declared war on France. On August 4th Germany invaded Belgium. The Germans were met with stiff resistance from Belgium’s 234,000-man army.
The British propaganda machine went to work. They feigned outrage at the violation of Belgium neutrality. There were horrifying stories in the press about German atrocities, executions, rapes, and “babies on bayonets”. The British propaganda machine called it “The Rape of Belgium”.
The British dredged up the 1839 Treaty of London. It supposedly obligated the British to defend Belgium’s neutrality. To “protect” Belgium, the British sent an expeditionary force to France on August 9th, as was secretly planned since 1906 and 1911 with French and Belgium military planners.
The public was told that defending Belgium was a matter of honor for the British. The propaganda was that there would be a domino effect if the British Empire failed to act. Supposedly, Germany planned to conquer all of Europe; even the world. None of it was true, and Belgium neutrality was a sham.
On August 4th King George declared war on Germany. The British parliament did not vote on the war until August 6th, and then it was to fund the war. The Society of the Elect got their war. Instead of reversing the decline of the British Empire though, the Great War accelerated it. The British came out of the war exhausted and deeply in debt to the U.S. They would have to cut spending, and reduce the size of their navy. The British Empire would never rule the seas again.
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The U.S. is Now Facing its “World War 1” Moment
So, why did the First World War happen? The authors of The Hidden History, The Secret Origins of the First World War say that based on documentary evidence, a small group of wealthy British elites took the world to war to preserve the supremacy of the British Empire. It was a war the Society of the Elect chose.
As Edward Bernays said:
“There are invisible rulers who control the destinies of millions. It is not generally realized to what extent the words and actions of our most influential public men are dictated by shrewd persons operating behind the scenes.”
Bernays was the “father of propaganda”, a dishonor usually reserved for Joseph Goebbels. During the First World War Bernays was developing war propaganda for the Allies. It was the British and the U.S. that began perfecting war propaganda.
It takes war propaganda to stampede the public to war. Propaganda is how the British got the public to support the Boer War in 1899. Having used propaganda successfully for that war, they began using propaganda in the early 1900s to prime the British people for a war with Germany. Fear is the most effective weapon of war propaganda.
As Henry Kissinger infamously said in 2002:
“The one thing every man fears is the unknown. When presented with this scenario, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well-being.”
And as H. L. Mencken said of democracy:
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.”
The U.S. is now facing its “World War 1 moment”. For several decades the public has been feed constant fear mongering towards Iran, Russia and China. The public is easily frightened into giving up their liberties for the promise of protection from “hobgoblins”. Those who profit from war are not the ones who fight and die in them. With every new hobgoblin the war profiteers invent they line their pockets with money and feed their insatiable ego with power.
Another world war could come at any time. The weapons of mass destruction are locked, loaded and ready to go in a matter of seconds. The next world war will be The Last World War.
# Suggested Books:
- The Hidden History, The Secret Origins of the First World War, by George Docherty and James MacGregor
- Prolonging the Agony: How The Anglo-American Establishment Deliberately Extended WWI by Three-and-a-Half Years, by Jim Macgregor and George Docherty
- Lord Milner’s Second War: The Rhodes-Milner secret society; the origin of World War I; and the start of the New World Order, by John Cafferky
- Deep State Exposed: A New Trans Pacific Alliance May Now Take Shape, by Mathew J. L. Ehret
- Tragedy and Hope 101: The Illusion of Justice, Freedom, and Democracy, by Joseph Plummer
David William Pear is a journalist, columnist, editor, and commentator. His articles, essays and interviews have an emphasis on U.S. foreign policy, history, and economic and social issues. He is an advocate for peace, ending US wars of aggression, and promoting economic, political and social justice. He has been writing for The Real News Network, OpEdNews, The Greanville Post, American Herald Tribune, and other publications since 2009, He is a member of Veterans for Peace, Saint Pete (Florida) for Peace, CodePink and the Palestinian-led non-violent organization International Solidarity Movement. His articles are published under Creative Commons Attribution, Non-Commercial 4.0 International License, and they may be republished as such without obtaining any other or prior permission.
US can only be measured at 28th in development by virtue of CIA bribes…this decayed morally rotten cultural desert is near collapse…”the last virtues in an empire near collapse are apathy and tolerance”. Aristotle the depraved stupefied amerikans tolerate any LGBT perversion, any black lies matter racism—but not freedom or justice. they are so apathetic that they permitted their ruling class to install a senile vegetable prez…so submissive they will wear full body masks during sex
https://worldtruthvideos.org/watch/screaming-naked-feminists-1_h1vRANToVuhUFFR.html
All deliberately engineered using Critical Theory; there are millions who reject it, not enough apparently.
This author is mentally ill! German expansion was the cause of world war 1 & 2.
Yes for me German expansion is also one part which caused WW1, Berlin Baghdad Railway.
Like the name Austria or in german Österreich(EasternEmpire) the name tells you everything, a german eastern Colony.
Drang nach Lebensraum, drang nach Osten means: urge for habitat , urge to East. (Poland, Czecho/Slovakia and Russia(todays Baltics, Russia, Belarussia and Ukraine). The urge for hotwater harbour/port Croatia(Istra/Dalmatia) and farmland Croatia(Slavonija), Serbia(Vojvodina).
They came first as Settlers(Donau-Deutsche which means Danube-Germans) in todays Countries like Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Serbia, Bulgaria and Romania, then years later the Germans came which their Armies to steal and occupy foreign Land.
Why are Germans always twisting their history, you were not innocent angels. Germans occupied Hungary(German King, Magyar Language, Slovak Genetics/Citizens) same with Romania (German King, Romanian Language, mostly Slavic Genetics)
Half of todays Gemany and Austria is stolen Land(begans with Karl the Great and even earlier).
They caused Mayhem and CHaos in Poland, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Greece, Russian Empire/Sowjet Union.
In the second World War the “peaceful Germans” killed only in Poland, Yugoslavia, Sowjetunion over 20.000.000. Civilians(Slavic People). 90% of the forced labor were Slavic people, devastated the infrastructure, the industry and factories in those countries and never paid repair payments to those countries!!!
You are mentally ill and also stupid. UK controlled half of the world (and terrorized the other half) but “German expansion” was the main problem? Same today – US control half of the world (and terrorize the other half) but “Chinese expansion” is the main problem? Anglo history – anglo lies.
Anglo history If the germans were in control nowadays we would say “Germanic lies”
Everyone uses propaganda and we all are evil pieces of shit that wish to control other people.
No sane person denies British scheming but this text is somewhat biased and pro-german (based on german revisionist book). For example the author claims: ‘Kaiser Wilhelm II did everything he could to avoid war’? No he didn’t. Germans planned the war for quite some time, immediately after they reconstruct Kiel canal for dreadnoughts use (reconstruction finished in 1914). They were afraid of Russian fast industrialization (under Sergei WItte) and considered that Germany absolutely cannot win a war against UK, France and industrialized Russia in 10 years or even less. So the war must start as soon as possible. Sarajevo was a perfect opportunity and they it. Austro-Hungary itself tried to start a war with Serbia again and again, especially after Balkan wars.
“Serbien muss sterbien” (translation “Serbia has to die”) Qoute of the German press years before WW1 but they are like the Turks they just remember what they want and act as innocent.
Of course the British Empire was the Tyrann of half of World at this period and wanted a war between Germany and Russia. But Germany has also played very dirty, or what they had to do in EAST and SOUTHEAST ??? Wyh they didnt just fight in the NORTH and WEST ???
Germans attacked Serbia 3times in less than 100years 1914; 1941; 1999. was it also British/Jew fault ???
Wyh did the Germans support UCK and made dirty Organ deals there ???
Exactly they were not Expanding. They also had no claim on continental Europe. The Chinese are not trying to expand. Have you been using too much fluoride?
Lieutenant George: “The war started because of the vile Hun and his villainous empire- building!”
Captain Blackadder: “George, the British Empire at present covers a quarter of the globe, while the German Empire consists of a small sausage factory in Tanganiki. I hardly think that we can be entirely absolved of blame on the imperialistic front.”
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Yes And Germany wanted to catch up. That’s the expansion which started the wars. Is everybody on this side daft?
Proof ?
Germany’s aggressive expansion. Are you retarded?
I suspect that Russia and China are going to be to intimidating for the West to tackle. The war will end up being on the citizens of the West who will suffer more and more oppression and turning on themselves to ‘make ends meet’. And of course the ‘Vaccine’ to trim the population of useless eaters.
Your right the U.S. is nothing but a paper tiger that loses every war it gets into and NATO is nothing but an empty shell.
World War I, the First Zion War, was actually two wars, one: The first from August 1914 to May of 1916, and the second from May of 1916 to November of 1919*. The Jews orchestrated the two wars so as to enable their stealing, by way of their British and French puppets, Palestine.
The first First Zion War ran from August of 1914 to May of 1916 when the Jews were promised, by way of the Sykes–Picot Agreement, the post-War partitioning of the Ottoman Middle East for their benefit: Arab lands were to be balkanized (See later Yinon Plan) and Palestine set aside for them.
By early 1916, even in 1915, it was evident that the Jews’ British and French puppets had lost the war (Per the Jews’ design?!). As such, the Jews’ puppets were desperate for a face saving way out, which the Jews offered: The manipulation by the Jews of their US Tyranny puppet into the war in exchange for Palestine for the Jews. The promise of Palestine for the Jews was later enshrined in 1917’s Balfour Declaration.
The second First Zion War ran from May of 1916 to November of 1919*. The first phase was the British’s push to capture Palestine in 1916, succeeding in 1917. The second phase came with the entry in 1917, after much manipulation by the Jews, of the Jews’ US Tyranny puppet in to the war.
Sidenote: The so-called Lawrence of Arabia was really a tool of the Jews. He was used to undermine the Arab portions of the Ottoman Empire, “Greater Israel”. Lawrence’s handler was the Jew Aaron Aaronsohn in Cairo. See:”Setting the Desert on Fire,” by Barr, “Lawrence of Arabia, The Authorized Biography,” by Jeremy Wilson, and “Churchill and the Jews,” by Gilbert.
* And, essentially for many years thereafter.
Evil mf jews man. Everywhere
One of the best articles here I have ever seen. Clear, precise and very informative. The thruth will be known.
The Tsar was actually waffling over war right up to the moment of actual declaration. In order to ensure war, once his signature had been obtained on the mobilisation order, the army staff quietly sabotaged the telephone line to the palace so Nikolai II couldn’t call back to cancel the mobilisation after all.
The importance of WWI in terms of destroying the Ottoman Empire can’t be overstated. The Brutish navy was transitioning from coal to oil. Brutish power depended on its navy so much that it had a navy minister as a cabinet appointment, the First Lord Of The Admiralty, who in early WWI was no other than Winston Churchill. Known oil reserves at the time were almost entirely in Ottoman territory, and to access them easily the Brutish and French needed to break up the Empire. Russia would be fobbed off with (isolated and difficult to defend from Russian territory) Constantinople, which could be seized back in a future war; Brutain and France divided the oil territories between themselves even before the Ottoman Empire joined the war. In fact the Ottomans didn’t join as early and promptly as hoped for and expected. They had to be pushed into a corner – just as Japan was in WWII – to compel them to fight back. In this case the Brutish first seized cruisers the Ottomans had paid Brutish shipyards to build. Then two German cruisers, the Göben and Breslau,* sought shelter in neutral Constantinople, and the Brutish immediately blockaded the Eastern Mediterranean. The Ottomans were – as the Japanese were 30 years later – despised as Asian pushovers, and just like the Japanese put up a level of resistance the Brutish and French had never expected. No account of the start of WWI can be complete without a discussion of Brutish designs on the Ottoman Empire. WWI was the first oil war.
*The Ottomans eventually bought the cruisers, crew and all, from Germany in order to avoid having to expel them or intern them.
The only reason why Ottoman empire survived through 19th century is because Britain kept them live. “Known oil reserves at the time were almost entirely in Ottoman territory” not really, the US (50-70% of oil production back then), Russia, Austro-Hungary (Galicia), Dutch East India, Persia, Romania, Mexico, Peru… oil wasn’t discovered in Arabia till 1930s.
Excellent text. Rhodes and Churchill are among the most evil creatures in modern history.
in all of history
I agree about them but I disagree about the text, it’s pro-german and full of inaccuracies.
This is an excellent essay on a likewise excellent book, Hidden History, by Docherty and MacGregor, the German translation of which I read two years ago.
I do not want to distract from this important work by commenting on what is part of the introductory paragraphs which set the stage of current geopolitics to provide a context to which lessons from history can be applied.
“Instead of competing peacefully with China and Russia, the U.S. has engaged in a New Cold War. Each passing year the world grows closer to a Hot War. The Doomsday Clock of nuclear annihilations was at 14 minutes to midnight at the end of the Cold War. It is now at 100 seconds to Armageddon. That is the closest it has ever been. There is no effort in the U.S. to turn back the clock.”
Because of this Doomsday & Armageddon nuclear narrative with all its mind-blowing implications, people don’t imagine there’ll be a new war in Europe between “the West” and Russia. However, there is a real military build-up going on in the Baltic region.
I do not think the US is interested in an all-out war engulfing all of Europe, but the US is definitely interested in preventing Eurasian integration, and one way to create a durable rift would be a war that would cost a couple thousand lives, or maybe even more by an order of magnitude.
There is no way, however, that this will lead to a nuclear escalation for the very simple reason that nuclear weapons have precisely as much reality to them as flying saucers. It is all science fiction, film trickery and huge chemical gadgets to impress young and naive soldiers.
The main arguments for the existence of nuclear weapons are Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but if we scrutinize the photos and films that can be found on the net in great numbers, we realize that the damage is extensive rather than intensive and the areas only look like rubble wasteland because, unlike their European counterparts, Japanase cities back then consisted of flimsy huts made of wood and paper like in some third world slum, with the exception of a few official and commercial stone buildings here and there, most of which still stand, such as the famous “atomic dome”in Hiroshima, which is a brick building, not one made of reinforced concrete.
There are many discoveries to be made on these old photos (bridges, trees, poles, antennas) which prove beyond any doubt that no extraordinary detonation can have taken place in Hiroshima or Nagasaki, no extraordinary shockwave, no extraordinary heat, and of course no extraordinary radiation because continuity of settlement on these places has never been disrupted.
So what did destroy Hiroshima and Nagasaki? Well, the same force that destroyed the other Japanese cities such as Tokyo, Yokohama, Osaka, Kobe, you name it: an armada of American bombers democratically dropping napalm all over the place, thus confronting firefighters with an impossible task. Hence the extensive rather than intensive damage that can be observed in the photos.
Full of hubris and arrogance, the Americans thought themselves clever enough to fool the Soviets at Potsdam, but that didn’t work. Stalin smartly went along with the American hoax and simply copied it a couple years later. The ensueing East/West antagonism is, in my opinion, the main reason for the longevity of this colossal hoax.
There is an entire propaganda zoo which has been created around this scam, which the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is part of as well as the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW), where well-intended adherents pay via their membership fees for the propaganda work that they are enrolled in. In a nutshell, the administrators of the hoax have managed to bolster it up by creating unsuspecting academic opponents and herding them into an organization under their control and even having them pay for it. Think long and hard about how clever this scheme is.
If this thing blows the loss of lives will run into the millions, as Russia stated if attacked why they will attack the places that those orders came from it’s hard to game a war because of all the unknowns that always rise up in the course of that war which ofttimes dictates the winner of those wars, the leadership of the American military has always been suspect, Korea Nam Iraq Afghanistan is more than ample proof of that, it’s hard to go to war with an army of transgenders queers dykes and queers of other types for that’s when you lose discipline which both Russia and China has not to mention their ability to move whole armies plus the airborne in the matter of a few days from point A to point B.
The U.S. had its “World War 1” Moment long time ago. Nothing became better after the Wall Street Crash of 1929. The New Deal did nor work. American companies preferred to invest in Germany. So why not getting the 10 million unemployed young man in uniforms and doing what this state always did? I guess there is enough evidence about the organisation of the Pacific WW2 published. The organisation of the Atlantic WW2 is in detail described in Udo Walendy’s “Wahrheit für Deutschland” In opposite to the Pacific war the war in Europe brought profit. The German patents and engineers brought so much knowledge that even a country on low standards became rich. And now both The US and UK are broke. Good that Russia and China are prepared.
The U.S. had its “World War 1” Moment long time ago. Nothing became better after the Wall Street Crash of 1929. The New Deal did nor work. American companies preferred to invest in Germany. So why not getting the 10 million unemployed young man in uniforms and doing what this state always did? I guess there is enough evidence about the organisation of the Pacific WW2 published. The organisation of the Atlantic WW2 is in detail described in Udo Walendy’s “Wahrheit für Deutschland” In opposite to the Pacific war the war in Europe brought profit. The German patents and engineers brought so much knowledge that even a country on low standards became rich. And now both The US and UK are broke. Good that Russia and China are prepared.