What errant rot. People don’t learn from history. World War 1 started long, long before the Archduke of Austria was assassinated. The tinder for that conflagration was carefully dried and placed for years, decades… before the spark landed that set it off. And of course, the gun didn’t start the war, the monkey that fired it did. In the real world, the assassin was an obscure disgruntled idiot from an underground organization no one had ever heard of. The Archduke was a low level peon in the scheme of things and under any other circumstances, the whole thing would have been largely ignored.
So it goes today. Some retarded liberal kid with an AR15 will shoot someone he shouldn’t. Democrats thugs will try to hose an election and get shot for their troubles. Some influencer will get run over by a jacked up 4x4 with an American flag and Trump bumper stickers. There’s dry tinder, gun powder and gasoline everywhere, and monkeys with Bics and matches. Old enemies want to fight.
To me it’s felt awfully 1939-ish for a long, long time.
Between the Swedes running around naked all the time and the wine guzzling, cheese eating little fop Froggies stirring things up with the Russians, the stage was set for the Krauts to goose-step in and take over the whole works. In the end it didn't shake out that way, but the Krauts had a Plan B - hence WWII.
ReplyDeleteIn the bad old days the best we could do was a nasty little group calling themselves The Weathermen, all of whom should have been rooted out, tried for high treason, and executed via firing squad. They weren't, but they should have been. Instead they grew up to be Democrats and invaded the US Government.
I would like to say that the vast majority of US citizens are sane with middle of the road politics. That's not the case, but I wish it were. Instead, we've got various splinter groups reminiscent of the Black Panthers, the KKK, and the Up With People movement. I say let 'em fight it out and make an end to the whole mess.
That is exactly what they’re fixing to do… and the rest of us that had plans to sit on the side lines, chewing our cud… are going to get sucked into it with them….
DeleteThe Archduke was killed in 1914.
ReplyDeleteThe heir to the throne of the empire of Austria and Hungary, commander of the armies, was, in fact, a big deal. This was back when the Emperor and his family actually ran the government.
ReplyDeleteThe fact that his own family considered him to be an incompetent moron is beside the point.
It might have been a big deal in Austria-Hungary, McC, but in the rest of Europe? In normal circumstances the power struggles would have been dealt with internally as they always had been. Instead, all of Europe and the world went up in flames. None of the allies gave a hoot about Ferdinand - they were all out to hang the Kaiser of Germany.
DeleteThe war wasn’t about succession and Austria-Hungary’s power struggles. I am beginning to think it wasn’t even about the clash of empires… I have a nasty suspicion that WW1 was all about markets and access to them. And that a certain tribe of people with funny hats, big noses and ties to big international trade - may have coincidinkally and peripherally been involved in things. I do not trust any of the published historical accounts.
I’ve gone full conspiritard though - so whadda I know?
Who ever is behind it today, you nailed it! There’s dry tinder, gun powder and gasoline everywhere, and monkeys with matches. No good outcomes in sight.
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