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Short book review by Robert Barnes:
The War That Ended Peace: The Road to 1914.
Reveals the idiocy of elites that led to a war that scarred the world for a century to come, bringing down centuries-long empires in a mere half-decade across the continent, from the islands controlling a world so broad they say the sun never slept on it, across the six-century old family governing much of Europe to the Asian empire whose sudden collapse brought us the Mideastern wars of today, to the end of the continent with a three-century old Russian empire still reeling from its fall. The British Empire: gone. The Hapsburg empire: gone. The Ottoman Empire: gone. The Russian Empire: gone. What took three to six centuries to build, wiped out in less than half a decade. Oh, and it sowed the seeds for the Great Depression, another World War, the rise of Nazism, Fascism and Communism. The most disastrous war in world history. This book gives a glimpse at how it all came about. The greatest threat to civilization isn’t foreign nations or the weather or even the moral corruptibility of its leaders; it is the incredible incompetency of a decision-making class filled with Hubris.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17345257-the-war-that-ended-peace
"I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested."
US Marine General Smedley Butler, reflecting on his 35-year career as a soldier
“Fact check; not locking down at all (like Sweden) would have saved lives in UK. Hard to believe how much money the UK spent on its sham covid inquiry.”
--Jay Bhattacharya
The UK Covid-19 Inquiry cost millions. It finally released the core political chapters of its long-awaited report. After nearly three years of hearings, millions of documents, and tens of millions of pounds spent on legal fees, the conclusion is now unmistakably clear.
They’ve learned nothing, even while watching millions suffer from lockdowns and vaccination.
Worse, they may not want to learn. The Inquiry’s structure, its analytical frame, even its carefully curated narrative all point in the same direction: away from the possibility that Britain’s pandemic response was fundamentally misguided.
Bill Madden writes, "Refusing illegal orders in the military is difficult to do because they normally are generated high in the chain of command and very few officers in the chain really know what is or is not a legal order. Immediate superiors can be very demanding and the orders are usually given in high pressure environments. Refusing an illegal military order is tantamount to whistleblowing and, as much good as it does for the concept of truth, the whistleblower’s life is made miserable as a punishment for his honesty and a warning to others."
I watched this happen with Army Spec Michael New during the Clinton years. He disobeyed an illegal Clinton order, was arrested on base in Germany, was then given an unjust, unconstitutional trial, and then a Bad Conduct Discharge. But he stood his ground the whole time and has been proven right since.
