As I suspected, Grandpa is part of a sophisticated, elite institution promoting war.
Friendly face.
Total distortion of history. Is he priming us for a future attack?
Victor Davis Hanson: The Atomic Bombs Stopped a Far Bloodier War
Most Americans date the war to Pearl Harbor; better-informed ones to the 1939 invasion of Poland. the shooting actually began in 1931 and escalated gradually until the war was fully formed by the end of 1941.
FDR had fully committed troops into a garden variety Euro-Asian war that had been going back and forth for 100’s of years before the American public knew it was happening.
The American public was told, and apparently still it is that WW2 was a war between good and evil???
Well here is a little factoid that Mr. Hanson forgets to tell.
An armada of 279 B-29s dropped a carpet of incendiary bombs on Tokyo. the death toll was approximately 265,000 buildings destroyed and 185,000 people killed — more than Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined. Was that a minor omission to the smooth talker?
American losses?: 14 planes. The postwar Strategic Bombing Survey finding that probably more people lost their lives in Tokyo in that six-hour period than in any similar length of time in all of history,
How could the Allies be the good guys if Stalin, they say, murdered twice as many people as Hitler?
On June 24, 1941, President Franklin Roosevelt announced that he would begin sending aid to Stalin. The strangest thing about this is that in 1941, Hitler was still new at genocide. The Allies had only vague information about Hitler’s death camps and other atrocities, while millions of Stalin’s murders were well known. More than ten million murders had happened before 1936,
WWI had ground to a stalemate by 1917 with mutinies and desertions on both sides, and would have petered out had Wilson not abandoned neutrality.
American firepower let the Allies crush Germany and then impose the Treaty of Versailles, which humiliated and impoverished the Germans. That appetite for revenge became WWII — an example, he says, of Washington’s talent for turning small wars into large ones.
On August 16, 1941, Stalin, who by the way was a former bank robber, issued his famous order that all Soviet troops taken prisoner would be considered traitors and shot, and their wives would be sent to labor camps.
This was Stalin’s way of making sure all his troops fought to the death. In effect, he made his whole army into a suicide army. Yet President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) backed Stalin.Why?
We cannot read FDR’s mind. My guess is that it was because Stalin was socialist. Socialism was the hot new philosophy in the U.S. and FDR had strong socialist leanings. That’s where it started.
Our fight against the evil of Japan included allying with multiple mass murders, even of their own people. We’re so clever.
The Soviet Socialists were out to conquer the world, and they were working hard at it long before Hitler came along. Read the works of Lenin and Marx, and you will have no doubt that world domination was the goal.
Marx’s COMMUNIST MANIFESTO was published clear back in 1848. It ended with the famous rallying cry, Compared to the Soviet Socialists, the German Nazis were amateurs. Rookies. At the maximum extent of his reach, in 1942, Hitler controlled about 4 percent of the world, and through most of the war less than 2 percent. This while the Soviet Socialists had already conquered 16 percent (and the USG’s other ally, London, had conquered 22 percent.
Do the math. Who do you think was the greater threat to America, the Allies or the Axis?
Neither side was the good guys, unless you define “good” as the side that murders the fewest millions. In that case, the Axis would have been the good guys, which would mean America was on the wrong side.
The Swiss were the good guys, they stayed out of the war. The Swiss kept their rifles loaded and just watched millions being slaughtered. They understood the importance of neutrality. Is there any other ethical choice in either world war?
Let’s be clear, we are talking here about murder, not warfare. Rummel’s research is concerned not with soldiers killed in battle but with innocent men, women, and children murdered, as the Nazis murdered the Jews.Hitler’s death toll is really 20.9 million.
In addition to Jews, reports Rummel, the Nazis murdered prisoners of war, the aged, the sick, homosexuals, Slavs, Serbs, Czechs, Italians, Poles, Ukrainians, and many others including, of course, anyone they thought might be plotting against them. Rummel looked into the whole sorry catastrophe, not just the Jewish Holocaust.Again, the body count for the Nazis is not 6 million, it is 20.9 million.
R.J. Rummel’s figures put Nazi killings of civilians and prisoners at about 20.9 million. Germans are usually blamed for all of that, but the author says fascism was popular across Europe and that Germany’s allies (Romanians, Hungarians, Austrians, French, Croatians, and others) also murdered millions, often with torture.
Hitler is still described as the chief Axis leader who deserves the most blame. The author accepts that 20.9 million murders is an enormous atrocity and that this reasoning is why many Americans supported aiding Stalin against Hitler.
Totally logical of the American’s to side with the bigger killer.
Our other allies? China responsible for 10 million deaths.
Nine governments account for most major wars since the Middle Ages — Beijing, Berlin, London, Moscow, Paris, Rome, Tokyo, Vienna, and Washington. The older empire-builders (London, Paris, Moscow) became the Allies;
the latecomers (Rome, Tokyo, Berlin) became the Axis. Because the old members had already taken most of the world, the only land left for the newcomers to seize was land the older powers had seized first — which the older powers then labeled aggression. Europe conquered nearly all of it; he lists Persia, Afghanistan, Thailand, Japan, and most of China as exceptions.
Japan was fighting the older colonial empires — Britain, France, the Netherlands, Russia, and above all the United States — for access to the resources it didn’t have.
For over 300 years the British, Dutch, and other Europeans had been invading and conquering the Pacific and the Orient, and that there was long-standing sentiment across Asia that all Westerners should be thrown out.
Berlin was doing in the 1930s and '40s what London had been doing for eight centuries. The English simply didn’t wear black uniforms, stage rallies, or give speeches about exterminating other races — they just did the killing quietly, and nobody said much. Just ask the Irish the atrocities on the Irish by the British Empire. https://youtu.be/0tAhn8WpgWg?si=eK5mk0miIPnNfZ0V
Tokyo, as the region’s chief naval power, cast itself as the one who would do the throwing — and then take over the position the Europeans had vacated. In his “Usual Suspects” scheme (ch. 11), Japan was a younger member of the empire-building club; since London, Paris, and Moscow had already claimed most of the world, the only expansion available to Tokyo was to take what the older powers had already taken. The older powers called that aggression.
Japan was economically incapable of fighting America and knew it: Japanese strategists assessed that the US war potential at seven times their own. So why attack? Because they were cornered.
He walks through the October 1940 McCollum memo — an eight-point plan by a Navy intelligence officer to base US ships in Singapore and the Dutch East Indies, aid Chiang Kai-shek, send cruisers and submarines to the Orient, move the fleet from San Diego to Pearl Harbor, and cut off Japanese oil — whose stated hope was that Japan could be led into committing an overt act of war.
He then lays out a chronology (ch. 23) of Roosevelt doing each of those things: the fleet move in April 1940 over Admiral Richardson’s objections, the oil and metal cuts starting July 1940, the iron cutoff that September, the “pop-up cruises” into Japanese home waters like the Bungo Strait in March 1941, Lend-Lease aid to Britain and China, the Flying Tigers, and the July 1941 asset freeze that cut Japanese oil by 90%.
Chiang Kai-shek’s Kuomintang, whom Roosevelt backed with Lend-Lease and the Flying Tigers, murdered 10,214,000 — nearly twice Japan’s 5,964,000. And when the Kuomintang’s brutality drove the Chinese people to support the Communists, who took over in 1949, the Red Chinese murdered another 35.2 million (1949–1987). Total Chinese murder count: 45 million against Tokyo’s 6 million.
the newsreels of bombs falling on London and Londoners saving St. Paul’s — was precisely the impression the British government wanted, helped by the fact that newsreels didn’t come from Germany and the Germans didn’t speak English. What went unmentioned, was that British rulers had set their own people up for the Blitz through the Treaty of Versailles. In effect, they asked for it. He adds later that Britain never needed saving at all, and that the danger to Britain was largely fabricated to lure America in.
Rummel credits the British government with 816,000 murders in the 20th century, which sounds trivial compared to Hitler or Stalin. However, The British t empire was essentially complete by 1900, so the most British conquest happened before deaths were systematically counted or before war was industrialized. Now estimated at 37 million.
So no Mr. Hooverville Institute scholar. It wasn’t a fight of good vs evil. It was Socialism vs Fascism.
By the way, something else nobody remembers. We were on high alert of an attack by the British. They weren’t our allies.
Churchill warned his cabinet about possible war with America. In the early 1930s the US Army Air Corps was still planning to repel a British attack, with the USG having drawn up a naval blockade of Britain. His point: this was years after America had come to London’s aid in WWI.
Which brings us to Iran and all the atrocities being reported by your favorite youtube stay at home dad?
These never come out until it’s too late. You think the President even knows what goes on on the ground during War and his generals report back?
Natural law is dead. History is dead. Experts and scholarship is dead.
Other than that. Beautiful day out today.