Just like medical mis-diagnoses come with profound consequences, so can the misconceptions of history, the wrong lessons learned from great events. World War II is remembered as the defining event of the 20th century. Concluded around midcentury, it more or less divided the century into pre-WWII and post-WWII periods, thematically as well as temporally.
Granted, the pre-WWII period more than witnessed its share of violence as it was defined by two great events, World War I(aka The Great War) and the Bolshevik Revolution(and the ensuing Russian Civil War). There was also a kind of a Cold War(or Hot Peace) during the seemingly normalizing interwar years, a return to growth and stability. But for all the optimism(mostly in the US of the Jazz Age era), there were seismic rumblings beneath the strained optimism and fragile stability.
Red Russia, emerging from a devastating Civil War, posed a challenge not only to the capitalist West but the entire colonialist world order as Leninism reinterpreted Marxism as an anti-imperialist creed. For a time, the capitalist ‘demoligarchies’(or democratic oligarchies) tolerated and even welcomed fascist and quasi-fascist movements as useful bulwarks against communism. Benito Mussolini had lurched from the left to a kind of modernist right that guaranteed security for the capitalist class while appealing to the masses with populist rhetoric and nationalist propaganda. Likewise, the West found feudalist-modernist Japan useful as a capitalist-imperialist counterweight against Russia and a partner-in-crime in the control over China.
But, tensions grew as Italy, Germany, and Japan, though of the pro-imperialist camp more-or-less united against the anti-imperialist Soviet communist camp, were perceived to have designs on the empires of the dominant Western powers, especially Britain and France. In Hitler’s case, he went out of his way to assure the British, the biggest empire-holders in the world, that his plans were mostly in the east(toward Russia) and posed no threat whatsoever to the Anglosphere. His overtures might have been acceptable, even welcome, but for one reason: Hitler’s anti-Jewish ideology that made it thorny for the Jewish-permeated Anglosphere to come to terms with National Socialist Germany. Thus, what might have been a ‘beautiful friendship’ disintegrated into bitter rivalry. Anglos went with the Jews against the Germans instead, and the Germans had no option but to make war on Britain that declared war on Germany. Ironically, unlike Jews who not-so-secretly resented and detested the Anglos(and wanted to see the Anglo World destroyed via cultural subversion and financial parasitism), Hitler and Germans genuinely wanted a mutually respectful relation with the Brits. (Well, Anglos chose the Jews and must now sleep in the bed they made.)
Granted, the pre-WWII period more than witnessed its share of violence as it was defined by two great events, World War I(aka The Great War) and the Bolshevik Revolution(and the ensuing Russian Civil War). There was also a kind of a Cold War(or Hot Peace) during the seemingly normalizing interwar years, a return to growth and stability. But for all the optimism(mostly in the US of the Jazz Age era), there were seismic rumblings beneath the strained optimism and fragile stability.
Red Russia, emerging from a devastating Civil War, posed a challenge not only to the capitalist West but the entire colonialist world order as Leninism reinterpreted Marxism as an anti-imperialist creed. For a time, the capitalist ‘demoligarchies’(or democratic oligarchies) tolerated and even welcomed fascist and quasi-fascist movements as useful bulwarks against communism. Benito Mussolini had lurched from the left to a kind of modernist right that guaranteed security for the capitalist class while appealing to the masses with populist rhetoric and nationalist propaganda. Likewise, the West found feudalist-modernist Japan useful as a capitalist-imperialist counterweight against Russia and a partner-in-crime in the control over China.
But, tensions grew as Italy, Germany, and Japan, though of the pro-imperialist camp more-or-less united against the anti-imperialist Soviet communist camp, were perceived to have designs on the empires of the dominant Western powers, especially Britain and France. In Hitler’s case, he went out of his way to assure the British, the biggest empire-holders in the world, that his plans were mostly in the east(toward Russia) and posed no threat whatsoever to the Anglosphere. His overtures might have been acceptable, even welcome, but for one reason: Hitler’s anti-Jewish ideology that made it thorny for the Jewish-permeated Anglosphere to come to terms with National Socialist Germany. Thus, what might have been a ‘beautiful friendship’ disintegrated into bitter rivalry. Anglos went with the Jews against the Germans instead, and the Germans had no option but to make war on Britain that declared war on Germany. Ironically, unlike Jews who not-so-secretly resented and detested the Anglos(and wanted to see the Anglo World destroyed via cultural subversion and financial parasitism), Hitler and Germans genuinely wanted a mutually respectful relation with the Brits. (Well, Anglos chose the Jews and must now sleep in the bed they made.)
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