tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post3662428610319848953..comments2024-03-15T20:25:28.637-04:00Comments on History Unfolding: 1914 and all thatDavid Kaiserhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05020082243968071584noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post-86071768991920685692014-08-16T11:02:18.556-04:002014-08-16T11:02:18.556-04:00Professor
Great essay.
I will have to take a look ...Professor<br />Great essay.<br />I will have to take a look at Albertini.<br />I read Kennan's two volumes. They were more evenhanded I suspect than Albertini, re German responsibility. Kennan painted a large canvas re the struggle over the carcass of the Ottoman empire.<br /><br />The civilizational flavor of this struggle is well alluded to in Kennan's account.<br /><br />What Kennan only passingly does is connect the imperial game with the financial underpinnings.<br /><br />I am going to look at Ferguson's account of the Rothschilds for a better view of those aspects than Kennan's.<br /><br />all the bestBozonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18078858723231122013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post-61846982447697761182014-08-16T07:21:16.928-04:002014-08-16T07:21:16.928-04:00It seems that Germany and Japan are trying to nor...It seems that Germany and Japan are trying to normalize their foreign policies. Japan changed Article 9 ofconstitution on july 1st, or just allowed troop presence abroad, ending pacifism. Germany is heading down same path to attain UN security seat status and military status in alliance commensurate to its economiic weight in Europe.<br /><br />In Germany article 26 bans preparations for wars of aggression:"acts tending to or taken with the intent to disturb peaceful relations between nation, especially to prepare for a war of agression shall be unconstitutional."<br /><br />If one takes this literally then Germany will find it difficult to keep pace with America. For example CIA has staged coups, etc. and very arguably assisted in kiev regime change. The tone of global and German press currently towards Russia is mostly emotional, avoiding factual discusion of events, in effect one could argue "warmongering(Kriegshetze)" in which the govt. participates. This is criminal behavioir under German law so that impeachment proceedings or similar could be instigated against ministers and criminal charges against the press. What is legal to do in British and US tabloids against a nation to encourage war in Ukraine is actually verboten in Germany.<br /><br />The constitutiion must be changed to remedy this and to allow full Grrman participation in NATO expansion into Russia, without voluntary NATO joining by Russia. I don'tthink this will happen and the constitution will be ignored. The new world order could look more Eurasian than Atlantic-Pacific-USA, who knows. Exciting times indeed.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post-75236877459659717722014-08-16T06:14:05.528-04:002014-08-16T06:14:05.528-04:00I really enjoyed that. I never read a complete boo...I really enjoyed that. I never read a complete book on wwi except "All quiet on the western front", which reads more like a Vietnam veteran's memoirs. You don't think the world is prepared to fight a war now. Hitler did it on a shoestring, just making whyt he needed for a blitzkrieg and bluffing, assuming it would be a short, decisive war. Everyone always seems to miscalculate and war takes on a life of its own. I was not aware of the various theories about wwi but it si easy to imagine that envy about empire was a motivation. One copies the most successful model, the British empire in this case. The rules were mercantilism and fair is fair if Japan and Germany were to join the club they would need empire. Germany was no big maritime power so a land empire was the obvious goal and not just helping out a friend Austria and stumbling blindly into war. Hitler was muvh more obvious about this and Mussolini learned nothing from wwi but gave Germany carte blanche in axis treaty. Franco was much more intelligent and Canaris helped him here.<br /><br />As to the last quote. USA role change is massive and the belief that the role will always be as is or still more powerful is behind current policy of aggressive warfare. If an alternative BRICS, SCO controls the continent and global trade thsi could be a wrong bet.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com