In a recent interview, economist Dr. Richard Werner pointed out that the world’s first central bank, the Bank of England (founded in 1694) was founded especially as a weapon to be used in war. Not surprisingly therefore, a few years afterward, the first world war broke out.
Like all wars, the big wars that can be classified as World Wars are ostensibly fought to determine who wins a dispute in the course of a kinetic encounter. In this respect those World Wars can indeed be characterized as the continuation of diplomacy by other means. Another reason world wars are fought seems to be to cull the population. Substantial numbers of peasants and workers are left behind lying dead on the battlefields and the bottom of the seas. Although these numbers are usually roughly specified, these are nevertheless always questionable since we can just never really be sure about historical statistics.
All those poor young men in the prime of their lives being slaughtered instills fear among those left behind and generally makes them meek and weak with respect to government policies. Wars therefore also need to be considered a powerful tool in the hands of elites with which to keep the population subdued......
.....The English victory certainly also meant a victory for the Bank of England, which from the beginning had many Jewish shareholders, many of whom were living in Amsterdam.....
.....However, time would not obey English wishes and London had to find new alliances to maintain its position. The United States was a logical choice, and in 1913 it was clear that a big wave of international violence was being planned, for in that year (like the Bank of England in 1694), the Fed was founded, as Richard Werner recently reminded us.
Russia being perceived as the biggest threat to English interests, still centered on the crucial seaway connecting the British Isles to India, Japan also seemed a logical choice for an ally. Armed to the teeth (especially its navy) by London, Japan in 1904 started a war against Russia. This can be considered the opening stage of the Fifth World War. As so often in a world war, this one also began somewhere in the periphery, at least not anywhere near the central stage of operations. The next stages were also set in the periphery. In 1911 Italy went to war against the Ottoman Empire over control of Cyrenaica in what is now Libya. Although officially a member of the Triple Alliance with Germany and Austria-Hungary, Italy had always maintained strong ties with England. This preferential relationship had earned it its first colony in 1890. In that year the Italian commercial presence on the Red Sea coast, right along the sea route from England to India, was converted into a colonial settlement. This would never haven been possible without English permission and support.......
World War V took about 20 million victims, mostly military personnel. If one were to add to that the deaths caused by the worldwide Spanish flu “pandemic” (claiming anywhere between 17 and 100 million deaths), which ought to be added to that number, the total might reach 120 million.
The London-based initiators of the war had enough reasons to be quite happy and content. England’s main competitors had been effectively trimmed and neutralized, maybe not forever, but at least for some foreseeable future. Three great empires had fallen, two of which had also fallen apart in the process (Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire). The British empire had been consolidated and fortified. The power of the United States, a central part of the English-speaking world, had grown spectacularly. In a first step towards a central world government, the League of Nations was set up......
World War VI
There was still a lot of work to do before the entire world had been brought to speak English and before the next step towards a unified central world government could be taken. Needless to say, the next step would have to be another world war.
Some have said the Second World War of standard historiography is so closely connected to the Great War or First World War, that both could be considered to be episodes of a single war covering almost the entire first half of the 20th century........
