https://youtu.be/TOPaaHSjMcw?si=f7nmhupN6Ugg7lBO
Yes.
France should have never allied with Russia, if anything, Britain and France should have allied with Germany and Austria-Hungary against Russia.
Yes. Next question.
It makes one wonder about WWIII.
I think WWI was avoidable but there was a lot going on at the time and it seems like many of the Great Powers were spoiling for a glorious little war that would be over by Christmas.
The current situation doesn’t make any sense at all to me except for the apparent fact that the West really seems to be spoiling for a glorious little nuclear war that will be over in about 90 minutes.
Every war is ‘avoidable’.
hindsight is 20/20 ...
The war was engineered by the British who did not appreciate German successes in the colonial areas. In German industry was doing very well. Britain did not like competition. World War I was very different in origin than World War II.
Another interesting sidenote, the average World War I German soldier could vote. The vast majority of British soldiers could not. The war to make the world safe for democracy… you know.
In 1918 the German defense minister asked the German Prime Minister:
“How did this horrible war happen?”
The Prime Minister answered:
“Ahhh,...if we only knew.”
This is an important article because there are strong parallels between Europe in 1914 and the Ukraine/ Russia situation today.
In 1914 blindness and overconfidence ruled the day. Pretty much the same now.
No disrespect meant to any FReeper, but we see a bit of that here.
“Russia is 100% correct, and here’s why…”
or
“Ukraine is 100% correct, and here’s why…”
It happened because of the assortment of abysmally mediocre politicians involved and in no way should have been solely blamed on Germany. This and the resulting Versailles Treaty cemented in the certainty of WW2.
I think World War III is unlikely. Confronted with the prospect of nuclear war, I think the west would sacrifice Israel, surrender and disarm. Better red than dead would be narrative of the day.
World wars are pre-planned by hidden elites, acting thru their puppet governments. They have their agenda.
WW1 was fomented to setup Russia. WW2 was fomented to create Israel (think Balfour Declaration, give from the Crown to Lord Rothschild).
See Albert Pike, and his prediction in the late 1800's for 3 world wars:
Well I didn’t cause it
Theoretically every war is avoidable.
Of course it was!
Nope. The powers behind the curtains wanted the war. Most of those scum thought it would be over quickly and they’d make a lot of money and get a lot more power. It didn’t play out for many of them the way they thought.
Similar as what’s happening today. Anyone who thinks senile Biden and moron Harris are actually making real decisions is an idiot. Their puppet masters are. Hence WWIII will occur if Harris steals the election. If Trump gets in, he might be able to delay it. Only one who has a chance to do so. But the powers that be are also going to wreck America (they are well on the way), so we won’t be able to put it off overlong.
Sorry if that sounds all “conspiracy theory” like, but it’s based on a deep understanding of history. The same patterns occur throughout history from Greece to Rome to China. And even older.
History does not repeat, but it does rhyme. Only real difference now is nukes will come into play.
PS One of my favorite lines from a Zelanzy novel: “Then come to me in Bright Defile,” he said, “where Judgment Day is not a thing that can be delayed for overlong.”
I’m going to say that it was engineered and those doing the engineering did not want to avoid it. Millions of people and it doesn’t affect those doing the engineering.
The real genius of the US Constitution is that it established individual freedoms that allowed people from warring countries to live together in peace.
The Founders knew government tyranny and was a major source of creating national rivalries. They tried to limit government and tried to prevent the US government from entering long term alliances. They created a high threshold of national consensus before waging war.
Slowly, we are sliding back into the bad policies that have wracked Europe for millenniums.
Germany is totally responsible for WW I. Germany was spoiling for a war. France and Great Britain were correct to impose those Reparations on Germany. The west’s mistake was not enforcing the penalties of national Socialists repudiating the Treaty of Versailles. If France and Great Britain had machine-gunned the German troops occupying the Rhineland, there would’ve been no WW 2