We went to war with Germany for less in 1917.
We went to war with Germany for less in 1917.
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Sinking of the Lusitania by Germany….loaded with arms to England…the US lied, said it was not carrying arms…..but finding the wreck decades later showed arms…..the U.S. lied, ( again) and many people died….exhibit A: the non effective and dangerous MRNA clot shots…..
We went to war with Germany for less in 1917.
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Sinking of the Lusitania by Germany….loaded with arms to England…the US lied, said it was not carrying arms…..but finding the wreck decades later showed arms…..the U.S. lied, ( again) and many people died….exhibit A: the non effective and dangerous MRNA clot shots…..
And the Zimmerman telegram was taken seriously for a while.
Between 1848 and 1917 the relative military strength between Mexico and the United States had changed dramatically, and not in a manner favorable to Mexico. The Mexicans firmly rejected Germany's entreaties. When a sympathetic U.S. reporter suggested to Foreign Minister Zimmerman that the telegraph message was a British forgery, he dismissed the suggestion. Denial would have been an even worse insult.
The origin of he Zimmerman telegraph is intriguing. Germany had lost telegraphic contact with the Americas when Britian severed her transatlantic telegraph cables in the opening days of the (not-so-)Great War. The Germans asked the American ambassador to relay a message to the German embassy in Washington, which would give instructions to the German ambassador to the United States to conduct negotiations for an armistice being sought by President Wilson.
The encrypted telegram actually contained instructions to be relayed to Mexico offering to reverse the territorial losses suffered by Mexico in 1848, if Mexico would assist Germany in the event that the United States became involved in the Great War on the Allied side. The telegraph was relayed via the U.S. embassy in London.
British intelligence was watching all telegrams originating from the U.S. embassy, and were surprised, if not actually delighted to see a telegram in German diplomatic code. The British had penetrated both U.S. and German diplomatic ciphers, so they immediately recognized the importance of the telegram.
However, the British were naturally reluctant to inform the U.S. that they were intercepting communications from the U.S. embassy. Therein, they formed a plan. They arranged to have agents in Mexico City steal a copy of the decrypted telegram from the German embassy in that city. It wasn't hard to arrange to bribe Mexican officials to turn over a copy of the decrypt, with all the route markings, including through the U.S. embassy in London, and then foist it on a Mexican working in the German embassy.
The British could then "honestly" say that they got the copy from the German embassy in Mexico City. The German duplicity outraged American public opinion. An American naval officer was allowed in the British Chamber Noir, where he was granted access to British code books and cipher keys. He could honestly say that he had personally decrypted the German message sent from the U.S. embassy, and reveal its contents.
On such events, the fate of nations turns.
Mexico would be insane to accept Putin's offer. In the event of a nuclear exchange between Russia and the West, Mexico intends to be an observer, not a participant. Even after the Cuban missile crisis and the U.S. embargo, Castro wanted Russia to attack the United States, from Cuba. He had a suicidal hatred of the United States, and cared little about the death of tens of thousands, perhaps millions of Cubans.