Posted on 02/19/2015 4:17:59 AM PST by Servant of the Cross
World War II was the most destructive war in history. What caused it?
The panic from the ongoing and worldwide Depression in the 1930s had empowered extremist movements the world over. Like-minded, violent dictators of otherwise quite different Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, Imperial Japan and Communist Soviet Union all wanted to attack their neighbors.
Yet World War II could have been prevented had Western Europe united to deter Germany. Instead, France, Britain and the smaller European democracies appeased Hitler.
The United States turned isolationist. The Soviet Union collaborated with the Third Reich. And Italy and Japan eventually joined it.
The 1930s saw rampant anti-Semitism. Jews were blamed in fascist countries for the economic downturn. They were scapegoated in democracies for stirring up the fascists. The only safe havens for Jews from Europe were Jewish-settled Palestine and the United States.
Does all this sound depressingly familiar?
The aftershocks of the global financial meltdown of 2008 still paralyze the European Union while prompting all sorts of popular extremist movements and opportunistic terrorists.
After the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, America has turned inward. The Depression and the lingering unhappiness over World War I did the same to Americans in the 1930s.
Premodern monsters are on the move. The Islamic State is carving up Syria and Iraq to fashion a fascist caliphate.
Vladimir Putin gobbles up his neighbors in Ossetia, Crimea and eastern Ukraine, in crude imitation of the way Germany once swallowed Austria, Czechoslovakia and Poland.
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WW III was the cold war. We are on the cusp of the WW IV.
I’m currently reading William Manchester’s biography of Churchill. The 30‘s and today’s times are eerily similar.
“The panic from the ongoing and worldwide Depression in the 1930s had empowered extremist movements the world over.”
The fact that European fascism was born of opposition to communism can’t be ignored; pointing to fascism as the starting point is akin to calling the Crusades a Christian attack against Islam. Without communism there would have been no European fascism, and nobody wants to point out that communism is a complete overturning of peoples’ way of life. If you have any doubts, look at what Obama and the Dems have done in six years.
Obama is more like Oswald Mosley- someone who sympathized with the enemy.
I’m with the author on this one.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3170217/posts
Actually, Fascism is born out of a sense of innate superiority to others. Communism is more an economic stance.
THE GATHERING STORM by Churchill is also an excellent study of how the refusal to see evil for what it was allowed Evil to wreak far more havoc on those who wanted “peace on our time” than any timely - fought war could have.
Churchill was a voice crying in the wilderness in 1936. In 1941, his message was finally understood...but only because it was written in in so much blood!
The Road to Serfdom.
I think its a stretch to compare Putin to Hitler. His objectives are likely limited to eastern Ukraine and the Crimea.
Iran and China are potentially much bigger threats. ISIS is a very loud pissant.
Obama’s problem is that he is infatuated with radical Islam. It still floors me that, 7 years after 9/11, we were stupid enough to elect such an individual President.
But, perhaps the biggest threat to the American republic is unfettered immigration from the Third World. And Obama is doing his best to facilitate that.
But, perhaps the biggest threat to the American republic is unfettered immigration from the Third World. And Obama is doing his best to facilitate that.
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23 more months of unrelenting obamas*** to go.
Textbook example of fascism: A minimum wage.
Question, so what should be the “minimum wage” ?
More like killing Jews in Nazi Germany, because "how dare an inferior race steal jobs from (real) Germans!"
Question, so what should be the “minimum wage” ?
What an employer pays its employees is between the two of them. When the government gets involved in that relationship it is fascism. If the employer is exploiting employees you eventually get something called “labor unions”.
More like killing Jews in Nazi Germany, because “how dare an inferior race steal jobs from (real) Germans!”
Socialism owns the business. Fascism just micromanages them.
God help us.
We need a minimum wage until immigration goes to zero. Otherwise the Chamber of Horrors would cause a new French Revolution in the USA.
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