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| From: Irish Political Review: Editorials |
| Date: July, 2014 |
| By: Editorial |
D-isinformation Day |
D-isinformation Day Martin Wolf of the Financial Times wrote in the Irish Times on the anniversary of D-Day: "One hundred years ago Europe's fragile order fell apart. Seventy years ago the democracies launched an assault on totalitarian Europe. Twenty-five years ago Europe became whole and free". Or, to put it another way: A hundred years ago Britain wrecked a pretty stable European order for the purpose of destroying Germany, which had developed too successfully on a line pioneered by England; seventy years ago Britain clambered back on the Continent, lest Nazi Germany should be destroyed without it by its totalitarian Russian enemy; twenty-five years ago Europe reverted to national warfare within, accompanied by destructive military adventures abroad. What Britain did a hundred years ago was written about a hundred years ago by two Irish writers who played a critical part in establishing a national state in Ireland. Connolly described the British intervention in the European War as The War Upon The German Nation, and Casement as The Crime Against Europe. Their arguments have not been refuted in this era of mass higher education which trains people to think that they think for themselves. Mention Connolly and the War to a properly educated intellectual of our time and the response is not reasoned disagreement but physical recoil from thought. Connolly plus The Great War trigger a conditioned reflex. The Murder Machine didn't leave with the British administration. The World War—Britain's enhancement of the European War—was destructive, but a viable order of things might have survived it, if it had been ended by a Peace Conference worthy of the name. It was the Versailles Peace that was deadly. The multi-national Hapsburg state did not collapse. The various nationalities in it fought for it in the Great War. There was no nationalist insurrection in it, as there was in the United Kingdom. It was pulled to pieces by the victorious Empires at Versailles and unviable national states were set up in its place, making Eastern Europe a hotbed of nationalist passion and anti-Semitism. And the existing German state was not allowed to continue. The Germany Monarchy, which was at least as democratic as the British, was destroyed to order, and a chaotic form of ultra-democracy was put in its place. And the British Naval blockade of Germany was intensified at the end of the War and continued into the Summer of 1919, causing hundreds of thousands of death by starvation, in order to compel the new German Government to sign a confession of guilt for the War. Germany was humiliated and plundered. Having done that, France wanted to disable it by extending its own borders and establishing a Protectorate over the Rhineland. But Britain would not allow that, as it would have made France too strong. So, having brutalised post-War Germany, Britain then encouraged its revival as a counter to France. And, in the 1930s, it collaborated actively with Hitler in breaking the Versailles conditions. It was with British help that Nazi Germany became a major Power in the late 1930s. Then Britain made war on Germany again, messed up the War, kept it going after the 1940 defeat, hoping for German/Russian War. When that happened, it resisted American pressure for a Second Front in 1942 and 1943, hoping that Germany and Russia would exhaust each other. It did not allow D-Day until 1944. It was clear by then that Germany and Russia would not exhaust each other, but that Russia would win conclusively, and would possibly appear at Calais if there was any further delay. So we had D-Day in June 1944, when "the democracies launched an assault on totalitarian Europe". The landings were successful because nine-tenths of German military power was engaged in trying to slow down the irresistible Russian advance in the East. (Allied forces faced just 11 German Divisions. The Soviet Union had 228 Divisions facing it, as it commenced Operation Bagration.) And when the Russians met the armies of the Johnny-come-lately democracies in Germany, the Cold War started. In a later paragraph Martin Wolf almost tells it like it was: "the Allied D-Day landings… ensured victory in Europe would not lie solely with one of the totalitarian powers". To sum up: the Democracies built up Nazi Germany in the 1930s as a force against Communism. Then they made war on Nazi Germany but conducted it in such a way that they ended up in alliance with Communism against it. And they had D-Day in 1944 in order to save part of Europe from Communism and resume conflict with it. That is how the Victors in the Great War, who had no enemy of any consequence in 1919, conducted the affairs of the world under British leadership. D-isinformation Day. Editorial The EU: interesting times ahead. Jack Lane D-Day: how cracks keep appearing in a Big Lie. Philip O'Connor Readers' Letters: Western Front Association. Donal Kennedy Lord Bew's Personal Peace Process. Pat Walsh LA Samuel Beckett. Wilson John Haire (Poem) Shorts from the Long Fellow (Morgan Kelly On Piketty; Piketty On Property Tax; Troika; Quinn Family) Grannies Rule, OK! John Morgan Royal Prefix Undermines State's Ethos. TomCooper (Report) Massacre In West Cork. Barry Keane (Comments and Clarifications in response to Brendan Clifford) A Professor And An Archbishop On Dunmanway. Brendan Clifford Beached. Wilson John Haire (Poem) Could A Belatedly Democratised Fascist Protector Of A Vicious Sectarian Murderer Ever Be Acceptable As Taoiseach? Manus O'Riordan (Some Collinses And Somervilles, Part 6) Biteback: Request To Correct A Grotesque Historical Untruth In RTE News. Philip O'Connor (Letter to RTE) Brian Walker & Dunmanway. Niall Meehan (Full text of Irish Independent letter) Does It Stack Up? Michael Stack (John Mandeville; Roy Foster) Extreme Care Needed By Senior Law Officers In The Use Of Language. Patrick Fahy (Report) Labour Comment: Guilds: Opinions And Comments. Mondragon, Part 31 Doctors Differ! And Administrators. Seán O Riain |