And if these folks continue to have their way, the next War to End all Wars may actually live up to its name, something they all appear to be completely oblivious to or unconcerned about. Which brings to mind Albert Einstein (who plainly had nukes in mind) when he said, "I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."
The Resurrection of Perfidious Albion
For even casual surveyors of the present geopolitical landscape, not all of this should come as a big surprise. As Hidden History reveals, it was America's current partner in criminal imperial enterprise that created the original business model of Empire two hundred years ago and spent the next hundred plus years finessing said model. The Americans didn't just learn from the masters. Many would argue the 'pupils' are hell-bent on showing their former 'teachers' a clean pair of hegemonic boot-heels.
In his 1993 book called A Century of War - Anglo-American Oil, Politics and the New World Order, William Engdahl brings this to the fore. After noting the "peculiar genius" of English foreign policy lay in its "skillful manipulation" of the shape-shifting alliances and relationships within Europe especially, and more broadly globally, when they perceived such relationships to be shifting in one direction or another (and in Europe such seismic shifts were a work in more or less perpetual 'progress'), Engdahl this to say:
"English diplomacy cultivated this cynical doctrine, which dictated that England never held sentimental or moral relations with other nations as sovereign respected partners, but rather, England developed her 'interests.' English alliance strategies were dictated strictly by what England determined at any given period might best serve the definition of English 'interest'" [My emphasis].
Docherty and Macgregor's book underscores Engdahl's assessment unequivocally. All of which is to say that, if from Napoleon's time the British Empire played The Great Game, then since 1945, and especially in earnest after the Soviet Union imploded in 1992, America has taken control of the way the "game" is played, decides who gets to play (or more precisely, who has to play and on whose terms), and makes up its own rules as it goes along. And after 9/11, it has been open slather. Meet the New Empire, same (almost) as the Old Empire!
And if starting the Great War itself and then blaming the Germans was not enough, the British (along with the French, and the Johnny-Come-Lately Americans) compounded the tragedy exponentially by imposing on Germany via the 1919 Treaty of Versailles a set of impossible reparation conditions and penalties. According to American economist and sociologist Thorstein Veblen this knowingly -- yes knowingly -- set the stage for the Next War to End All Wars (aka World War II) 20 years later. Of course this war -- the most obvious example of the blowback to be had from the Original War to End all Wars -- was one which lasted two years longer, killed and/or wounded over twenty million more people, created considerably more havoc and devastation across an even greater expanse of our favourite planet, and ushered in the nuclear age. And it should be noted, even more blowback. The Cold War anyone? The War on Terror anyone?
Moreover, not only to the WWI 'victors did the spoils go', said "victors" also got to write the history, almost all of which is "bunk". That is, they then convinced the world it was all Germany's fault, a monumental lie that we have all been swallowing for one hundred years. And we are still force-feeding the current generation the same lie. Even in its current decrepit, decayed state, the ancien regime of "Perfidious Albion" that was the British Empire still has a lot to answer for. And then some! Why? Because we're all still paying for it now, and will be for some time to come!
At this point, the big question here for us all is this: Will current or future generations of Australians, New Zealanders, even Brits themselves -- or anyone else -- on Uncle Sam's imperial alliance dance card continue to buy into the Great Game 2.0? Given our own history of unstinting, obsequious support of the two Empires in question and the execrable wars that inevitably result from their respective, recidivistic hegemonic ambition, the answer to that query appears obvious.
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