James Joyce is right in many ways.
WW1, and WW2 (Which was WW1 part 2) stemmed ultimately from British foreign policy designed to prevent any single other power from dominating the European continent, while Britain used its naval power and massive economy to basically rape the rest of the world. WW1 was nothing short of Imperial belligerence, with Germany committing no worse crimes than Britain did. It's ridiculous to single out Germany as Imperial aggressors when the Soviets (British and US allies at the time) annexed Estonia, Riga, Latvia, and as much of Finland as they could grab, and the British had aggressively conquered nearly the entire world. Nothing shows how little Britain actually cared about the fate of the Polish people like the great betrayal of the Warsaw Uprising several years later. It was all just a big chess game.
Again in the lead-up to WW2 Germany noticed just how badly it had been assraped by Britain and friends, but Hitler should have stopped with the reoccupation of the Rhineland, annexation of the Sudetenland, and anschluss of Austria. The decision to invade Poland and start WW2 basically ended European hegemony over Earth, and fascism, which ended up being terrible for everyone involved. We're left with mass market consumer capitalism which is basically destroying humanity and the planet.
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12-09-2015, 08:59 PM
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