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− | A close-knit secretive group of unscrupulous men, whose roots and origins were in Britain, were intent on both defending and expanding Britain's existing Imperial dominance of much of the planet against actual or potential challenge. In the decade or so preceding war, Germany was seen as a serious looming challenge that would have to be dealt with. Vast personal fortunes were involved. The | + | A close-knit secretive group of unscrupulous men, whose roots and origins were in Britain, were intent on both defending and expanding Britain's existing Imperial dominance of much of the planet against actual or potential challenge. In the decade or so preceding war, Germany was seen as a serious looming challenge that would have to be dealt with. Vast personal fortunes were involved. The self-justifications of this group are expressed in the social philosophy of John Ruskin <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ruskin John Ruskin] - Wikipedia page</ref> and propagandised in the stirring prose and poetry of Rudyard Kipling <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudyard_Kipling Rudyard Kipling] - Wikipedia page</ref>. The entire world was to be ruled, through the benign subjugation of lesser races, by an enlightened Anglo-Saxon empire whose functionaries were enjoined to "take up the White Man's burden" <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_White_Man%27s_Burden The White Man's Burden] - Wikipedia page</ref>. This group of men, organised and tasked in the manner of an elite secret society, deliberately sought and planned for war to crush Germany between France and Russia, and orchestrated events in order to bring this about. |
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Revision as of 17:21, 8 February 2014
Date | 28 July 1914 - 11 November 1918 |
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Interest of | British War Propaganda Bureau, Charles August Lindbergh, Jim Macgregor, Hew Strachan |
Subpage | •WW1/Commission for Relief in Belgium •WW1/Key Players •WW1/Origins |
Description | The "Great War". Perhaps 10 million killed. |
Contents
The official version
The immediate proximate cause - the casus-belli of the Official Narrative - was the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria in Sarajevo by a young student, Gavrilo Pricip, acting in concert with a few other members of a small but (allegedly) isolated group of Bosnian Serb nationalists. The assassination is held to have provided a warmongering Germany with an excuse to support Austria in forcefully holding the Serbian authorities to account, knowing that in doing so it would provoke France Russia and Britain beyond endurance. In other words, that Germany engineered events in order to to justify pre-planned military aggression and the subjugation of the rest of Europe - and in so doing, took everyone by surprise.
What really happened
- Full article: World War I/Genesis
- Full article: World War I/Genesis
A close-knit secretive group of unscrupulous men, whose roots and origins were in Britain, were intent on both defending and expanding Britain's existing Imperial dominance of much of the planet against actual or potential challenge. In the decade or so preceding war, Germany was seen as a serious looming challenge that would have to be dealt with. Vast personal fortunes were involved. The self-justifications of this group are expressed in the social philosophy of John Ruskin [1] and propagandised in the stirring prose and poetry of Rudyard Kipling [2]. The entire world was to be ruled, through the benign subjugation of lesser races, by an enlightened Anglo-Saxon empire whose functionaries were enjoined to "take up the White Man's burden" [3]. This group of men, organised and tasked in the manner of an elite secret society, deliberately sought and planned for war to crush Germany between France and Russia, and orchestrated events in order to bring this about.
Sub-Pages
Page Name | Size | Description |
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WW1/Commission for Relief in Belgium | 678 | An organisation set up by J Edgar Hoover in 1915, ostensibly to provide humanitarian relief for Belgium but which was used to channel vital food and war fighting material to the German military with the calculated objective of prolonging the war. |
WW1/Key Players | 18,203 | Key architects and arbiters of British policy and events during the 25 or so years leading up to the outbreak of World War I. |
WW1/Origins | 2,880 | The dominance of the British Empire at the turn of the 20th century and the way Empire was viewed by its architects and beneficiaries is fundamental to understanding how the war came about |
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See Also
References
- ↑ John Ruskin - Wikipedia page
- ↑ Rudyard Kipling - Wikipedia page
- ↑ The White Man's Burden - Wikipedia page