Posted on 03/08/2014 12:05:27 PM PST by Fennie
Understand that France and Britain specifically declared war on Germany in WWII because of the invasion of Poland (while they did NOT declare war on Hitler’s partner in the division of Poland - the USSR). For the populations of those countries to see the fruits of their sacrifices sold out to the USSR at the end of the war must have been absurd; the skepticism, cynicism, and pacifiscm of Europeans today should be viewed through that prism. As people who have suffered much more due to warfare than Americans have, they know that no government is trustworthy enough to die for.
“Ford built a plant at Gorky (Gorkovsky) in 1932. Given that, and what you’re talking about, do you perhaps see where there might possibly be something fishy going on ?”
I could see why America’s ruling elite would sympathize with another country’s ruling elite; sure.
Food for thought...
They have no sympathy for anyone, nor do they have any national loyalty.
It’s hard to imagine, but to really understand, one has to see things from their point of view.
Why would a “loyal American” invest ANYTHING in the USSR under Josef Stalin ????
It don’t add up.
It’s perhaps easier to understand if you throw out your own national loyalty for a second. Imagine you’ve built up a billion dollar fortune, and you think the government is a bunch of idiots, and most people are idiots - based on what you’ve experienced building up your billion.
You know when you plunk down millions to buy some government bonds, or build a factory, that you are putting your money at risk. And you want your investment principal back - with a return. No ifs ands or buts. You didn’t get to be worth a billion by investing money and having people use it up and not be able to pay you back and laugh in your face. When you invest, you want to safeguard your investment.
If you invest in a third-world country, you then have to have some inside information that you’re not going to lose your investment; it’s not going to be “nationalized”.
International banking (investment houses, etc.) loaned money to the USSR. The view from the international banker’s seat looks like the opposite of that from a normal citizen.
If a country does not repay international bankers, who effectively control other governments... (need to think creatively here).....
the international bankers will do everything they can to start a war against the countries that did not pay up.
Throw out the ruler, replace him with a guy who promises to make good on the nation’s debts to the international bankers.
International bankers also arrange financing for international manufacturers, which then are a profit center for international banking; all those elites are effectively a “club” that knows no national borders.
IMHO, financial elites know more than anyone that all it takes to make money is a little hard work and a little smarts. These qualities impress them. They know that laziness and handouts is the path to poverty and misery. They hate competition against them, they want to stamp it out. So they want talented, ambitious people to work for them, not compete against them. The rest, they want to work their whole lives, take a cut of what they do, keep them in debt, keep them buying the elites products and borrowing. They view patriotism as a waste of time, they know it’s all about the money.
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