The American Empire and the Fall of Europe

Did FDR want Pearl Harbor to happen? He did everything to make it happen. He also did a lot to persuade England and France to go to war with Germany in 1939. Chamberlain said his role was crucial. 

The results of WW2: America ruled most of the world except for poor crucified Eastern Europe, Europe ceased to matter and Israel was created.

Thus (in 1943 to be precise) began the web of connections that Whitney Webb has exposed between the CIA, MI6, the Mossad, organised crime and numerous other power centres and brokers. We are ruled by Anglo-American secret services and deep state to which Israel has been added, plus organised crime, Big Tech, etc, etc. 

Epstein swam apparently effortlessly in this sea.

AJP Taylor said that in 1917 European history, in the old sense, came to an end because of Wilson and Lenin. 

Not quite true: the USA withdrew from European affairs thanks to the Republicans and Europe was saved by Poland from the Communists for 25 years in the Miracle on the Vistula. 

Europe had a second chance and it ended in Europe effectively committing suicide, to quote the title of a book by Prince Michel Sturdza, a former Romanian Foreign Minister who belonged to the Iron Guard. (I haven't read it.)

Since 1956 the UK has played the role of Bulgaria to America's USSR. 

All that has to change now and it is good that it is so. Unfortunately the British and European leaders or their defence establishments, with honourable exceptions like Hungary and Slovakia, want to continue the thinking that got the world into this mess.

A friend of mine, a Cambridge educated liberal Tory, welcomed the Ukrainian war as a means to strengthen the EU and Nato at not too much cost in blood or treasure. 

I thought he was probably right but a prediction was rarely less accurate.

I doubt the end of the war will mean in the medium term the end of Nato or the EU, but they will be utterly changed. 

While Trump is president the USA is in Nato in name but not in spirit.

And Nato has always been the American empire.

Without America it is Hamlet without the prince.

Do European leaders want to find a modus vivendi with Putin? 

It looks like they prefer to arm against a non-existent threat from Russia while paying Russia vast sums.

Those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad.

While the British and European leaders rightly talk about Russian war crimes their silence about Gaza is deafening, but you know that.

I am not a pacifist but going to war was a big mistake in 1914 and 1939. I don't know enough about Louis XIV or Napoleon.  

Wars and revolutions are usually disastrous mistakes. Look at Ukraine, Egypt, Syria, Iraq and Gaza.

I met an English architect in his 60s in Lviv two years ago, who was bringing aid to Ukraine. 

He said that that war was the first wholly just war in his lifetime. Perhaps. 

I mentioned the Falklands but he disagreed. 

The Ukrainian cause is wholly just, as was the Poles' in 1939, but the 2022 war could and should have been averted by America.

And France and Germany could have clearly condemned the American mistakes as they warned against invading Iraq.