The Myth about World Wars Discussion

[King David]

I hate to call this a review but rather a more detailed discussion about the podcast as I think this subject has wildly important implications.

 

I really loved this podcast but I think it could have related more detail to the financial aspect of ww1, as the implications of this conflict, and the financing of it, especially the final two years of it are nothing short of astounding.

 

Germany began the war with ambitions of a quick victory, which was stemmed at the First Battle of the Marne.  England, more or less was implicated in the war by expansionist imperial policy during the late Victorian era.  After her husband passed away her generals browbeat her into all kinds of expansion that the UK really could have done without.

 

To add more context to these stories, Otto von Bismarck had been the first autocrat to institute a social security tax that was to be paid out to the elderly after the then ripe old age of 65 yo.  Being that most every body in Germany was dead at this age it essentially turned into a cash cow for the ambitious juvenile empire.  This tax was essentially what afforded the arms race that led to the war, as most if not all the money collected was actually used to finance the building of the German Imperial Navy, and their fleet of dreadknots.   

 

The progression of the war followed the formula of dreadknots + battlefield success = imperial credit.  Germany's success in France  allowed them to continue with the war.  Their success at Tannenburg was what enabled them to attack Verdun.  Their success with the Brest-Litovsk Treaty was what enabled Operation Michael, etc.

 

As for the allies, who in general had a much greater naval capacity due to English Imperial primacy, often found credit available to them regardless of the disastrous land campaigns they suffered as they bumbled from one defeat to another.  Gallipoli, The Somme, etc.  The naval battle of Jutland in 1916 easily could have ended the war if Germany had suffered any significant losses.  A good analogy would be that Germany was the short stack in a poker game and had they lost they would no longer have the ante to stay in the game.  Ironically, their fleet they refused to expose to pitched combat is to this day still lying on the ocean floor since German disarmament in 1919.

 

So, like Stefan correctly asses in the Myth about World Wars, is that after 1916, European powers were ready to abandon their ambitious pursuit of conquest after two years of ridiculously exhausting and terrible combat, but something changed. Ohh did it ever change.

 

Stefan points out that USA joined the allied war effort despite Woodrow Wilson's election campaign of isolationism.  What he could have elaborated on was why.  There was the Lusitanea, and there was those poor Belgians, but I would argue that those were not alone enough.

 

What was missing from the pod cast was that there was Jewish and banking financiers, both heavily invested into armaments production and gold.  The proof these were forces in the USA public support for the war effort is the promise afforded to the Jewish Zionists that assured them the creation of the State of Israel.  This is not a conspiracy theory, this is real.  Personally, I have no problem with the creation of Israel, but why on earth would they put it in the middle east where everybody wants to kill them I will never know.  Of course besides the text of the Bible I mean.  Show me Solomon's Temple and I may believe they have a case for their choice of location.

 

Another relationship worth mentioning here is that of the American media campaign and the influence the Jewish community has had in Hollywood.  Coincidence? 

 

So naturally, because a bunch of Zionists, and bankers stood to loose their shirts through a war monger campaign, 1916 - 1918 can now be associated with the bloodiest period of all human history until then, eclipsed only by the even bloodier consequences associated with 1916 - 1918, in the Russian Revolution, the rise of the Nazi's, WW2, the immediate collapse of the Ottoman, and Austrian Hungarian Empires, the conscription act which almost tore Canada apart, the eventual Chinese Revolution...

 

I could go on here but I will just leave it with calling it the rise of socialism, enough said.  If you have ever looked at a map of the world today and thought "I wonder why ....*", I suggest reading the book Paris 1919.  Essential reading for any modern political scientist.

 

King David