Who was worse? Hitler or Woodrow Wilson?

After 800 years of expansion, starting with the Crusades around 1100, the European world imploded in a vast War To End All Wars, 1914-1945: The War of the British Succession, as AJPTaylor called it. Who was to succeed Britain as ruler and prime beneficiary of the world economy? And America succeeded Britain. That was her destiny all along. Like Fortinbras, America need only show up for the kill.

Feel free please to submit this entry to the Guiness Book of Records as the weirdest blog ever. Our warrior males are defeated in my view: They cannot defend society from the anti-social. They lack a coherent world view. A good appreciation of the Thirty-One Years War may put some backbone into them.

An avalanche is caused NOT by the dislodged pebble but by the instability of the slope. Murder in Sarajevo just triggered the avalanche: The collapse of sloppy old Europe was caused by the overgrowth of the Russian and British empires. They were unsustainable. They had to go. And they have gone. Now we can breathe.

Russia gratuitously launched a major European war in 1914. Britain gratuitously turned it into a world war. Austria, France and Germany fought in self-defence: because they were attacked essentially. Britain and Russia were not attacked: They fought to protect their place in the pecking order. Italy intervened again in her interest: sacre egoismo. And most problematic was the American entry.

When you consider the Second World War and the Holocaust were the direct result of the American intervention in the First World War, which reversed its outcome, the issue starts to focus.

THE JEWISH FACTOR

The British Empire was always an alliance between the English, Scots, Irish and Jews. The Scots were the professionals: the doctors and engineers. The Irish were the military: the protestant landowners were a born officer class~our Junkers~while the catholic tenantry provided the empire's stout-skulled soldiery. Little effort was wasted motivating the Irish to fight! The English provided the navy, the administrators, and the political and legal framework. And the Jews took care of business: the financial side of the British Empire was disproportionately Jewish-run.

To digress for one paragraph: The British empire got underway with Oliver Cromwell in the 1650's. England was totally militarised during the civil war in the 1640's: every able-bodied man was under arms. So when Cromwell came to power, he found himself in charge of an enormous military capability, which he lost no time in putting to use. First, he beat up the usual suspects, the Scots and the Irish. Then he turned on the Dutch and the Spanish. Europe had just come through the Thirty Years War. Spain was exhausted, so Cromwell could easily rip off Jamaica. Holland meanwhile had grown rich during the Thirty Years War: She had stayed neutral and attracted the money crowd, largely Jews fleeing the Inquisition. Amsterdam was now the financial capital of Europe; and Cromwell lusted in his heart. He re-admitted the Jews into England, and whumped the Dutch in the First Dutch War. The money crowd spotted England as a potential winner, and covered their bets. And the British Empire was off to a flying start.

But it was their stewardship of the financial side of the British Empire that gave the Jews their role and power in the world: that created world Jewry as we have known it this last 300 years. The Jews rode the British Empire to fame and fortune, and when we foundered in World War One, they switched horses, and clambered on board America.

to be continued