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I have commented previously that I believe (at least given my current
understanding) the main purpose for U.S. entry into the war was two-
fold: 1) to take the place of an increasingly ailing Britain as the
primary tool for the elite to expand global control, and 2) to ensure
a new, long term enemy can be made out of the Soviet Union and
communism. I will add a third to this list – actually it is a subset
of the first: to bring the productive populations of Germany and Japan
under the control of the elite.
Before I expand on this further, I would like to revisit some of the
factors regarding the war and why it is not just improper, but
inconceivable to refer to this was as a good war.
1) Roosevelt lied to the country regarding his intentions of entering
the war.
2) Roosevelt took great strides to get first Germany, and after
failing this, Japan, to strike the first blow.
3) Roosevelt ignored and otherwise did not take advantage of the many
proposals by Japan that, if acted upon, could have avoided the
upcoming armed conflict.
4) Roosevelt entered the war well before any declaration by Congress.
5) Roosevelt encouraged Britain and France to provide a guarantee to
Poland, a guarantee known to the Western powers to have no teeth.
6) Roosevelt chose to side with Stalin, who at the beginning of the
war had more blood on his hands than all the other leaders of
belligerent countries combined.
7) Roosevelt did not extend U.S. support for Jews attempting to
emigrate from Central Europe and immigrate into the United States
until 1944.
8) Roosevelt knew of the impending attack by Japan somewhere in the
Pacific, and very likely specifically that it would come at Pearl
Harbor.
9) Roosevelt avoided taking action to properly alert and otherwise
protect the troops.
10) Roosevelt made unconditional surrender a requirement of the axis
combatants, prolonging the war in both Europe and the Pacific.
11) Roosevelt cut Poland loose to the communists after the war.
12) Truman had many opportunities to end the war in the Pacific in
the Spring of 1945, instead choosing to delay the end in order to give
time for development of the bomb.
13) Truman continued Roosevelt’s policy of demanding unconditional
surrender, despite protests from many military and other advisors.
14) Truman chose to drop two bombs on Japan after months of Japan
signaling its willingness to meeting all terms of the allies with the
exception of removal of the Emperor (an exception also desired by
allied commanders, and an exception granted immediately after the
surrender in any case).
15) Truman afforded many diplomatic victories to Russia in Asia,
despite the lack of contribution or need of the Russian forces in this
victory.
16) Truman backed away from the Chinese Nationalists in favor of the
Communists – this despite one purported reason for U.S. animosity
toward Japan being U.S. support for the Nationalists.
17) The allies both acquiesced and aided in the forced transfer of up
to 14 million Germans to Germany from various locations in Central
Europe.
18) The allies both acquiesced and aided in the forced transfer of
perhaps several million captured Russian soldiers and other refugees
fleeing the communists to Russia against their will, resulting in
their imprisonment or execution upon return.
Lies, deception, treachery, genocide, and potentially treason. Can
anything associated with such actions be called “good”? Can a
government be called representative if it acts with deception towards
its citizens? Can a democracy (or a republic) be considered acting
based on the will of the people when such actions are taken via lies?
Except for the fact of winning the war, can these actions be
distinguished from many of the crimes on the side of the axis – for
which countless were tried, imprisoned, or executed?
There is nothing “good” about this track record.
Now, as to the purpose and reasons for the U.S. entry into the war,
let me first summarize again the outcomes of the war: first, the
United States replaced Britain as the global presence and power of the
West. Second, the Soviet Union specifically, and communism generally,
gained significant footing as a world power. Finally, the populations
of Germany and Japan both came under the domination of western elite
power.
Now, just because these were outcomes does not necessarily mean that
these were objectives from the beginning, or that these were reasons
for U.S. entry. However, I can find no other reasonable explanation
for many of the actions taken by the U.S. in the period before,
during, and after the war – many of which are identified in my list at
the beginning of this post.
I do not accept that these were just blunders or mistakes of
Roosevelt (and later, Truman) and his advisors – they were far too
experienced to make this many disastrous and “wrong” decisions. I do
not accept that Hitler was prepared to take over the world and had to
be stopped. He had neither the military for it nor the economy.
Mostly, he did not have the intent. Conversely, supporters of
communism were quite transparent in describing their goals for world
conquest – why not fight against the communists, as Germany and Japan
both seemed intent on doing?
When I try to find a rational explanation for these decisions and
actions – and I follow the thread backwards from the outcome – the
decisions make perfect sense only if these outcomes were the
objectives all along.
First, I suggest that the U.S. entered the war in order to replace
the ailing British Empire as the primary tool of the elite looking to
expand global domination. For those who believe politicians serve
their people and the national interest, and are not serving
individuals and entities with even higher power, you may feel free to
skip this section. For the rest of you….
Historically, Britain proved to be a good tool for extending global
control. However, a far better tool was on the western horizon, that
of the United States. The United States had almost unlimited potential
in terms of geography, resources, and people – certainly as compared
to Britain. The United States still had much to exploit; as was
becoming more and more obvious in the first years of the 20th century,
Britain had likely reached its limits.
Britain was losing on all fronts – it could not fight a war in Europe
without U.S. support. It lost much of the Middle East shortly after
the end of the Second War, as it also lost India. These weaknesses,
especially when compared to the obvious superiority of the U.S. as the
primary tool for control, were certainly obvious to the elite well
before the actual events.
I should clarify – this transition did not occur only in the immediate
build-up and aftermath of World War Two. The establishment of central
banking in 1913 was the key to ensuring the United States would be in
position to take over this role – without this, there is little
possibility that enough resources could have been taken from the
private sector to the degree necessary for establishment of a global
military power.
While imperialism was present in the U.S. from the beginning,
overseas expansion began at the end of the 19th century. Even with
this, much of the population had to be dragged into fighting in a
European War in the second decade of the 20th century – the people had
no appetite for fighting overseas, yet Wilson found a way to maneuver
the country into the battle.
This desire to keep out of European troubles was still in the
population in the 1930s. The people wanted to stay out – all the time
their president was secretly working to get in. If the objective was
to avoid war, Roosevelt had countless opportunities to do so. If the
objective was to get into the war despite a people and Congress that
desired to stay out, Roosevelt’s actions make perfect sense.
Roosevelt served with purpose toward this end – clearly against the
will of the people he purportedly served. Why would he do this? I
suggest it was because he was serving a different master – a master
who knew that riding the British horse was now turning into a loser’s
proposition. That horse had been ridden hard, and had nothing left to
give. A new horse needed to be found, and no other horse fit the bill
better than the United States.
The elite needed the United States to take center stage, and they
found political leaders willing to lead the nation toward that end.
The second reason for U.S. entry into the war was to set the stage
for the Cold War. War is the health of the state, and perpetual war
offers perpetual health. Today, the United States continues this
perpetual war by conjuring an enemy out of a tactic – terrorism. One
purpose of U.S. entry into World War Two was to make an enemy out of
an idea – communism. In order for the enemy to seem real, it had to be
(or at least seem to be) powerful.
Had the U.S. stayed out of the war, Hitler and Stalin likely would
have crippled each other significantly, such that neither would be a
menace to anyone outside of the forsaken ground between them (the poor
residents of Central Europe were doomed once trapped between these two
tyrants, almost regardless of any decisions taken in the West). Japan
hated the communists in China as much as Germany hated the communists
in Russia. Japan and Germany would have at least kept in check any
ideas of communist expansion, minimizing the possibility of healthy,
perpetual war for the west.
Had the U.S. stayed out of the war, communism would never have grown
into the “threat” needed for perpetual war. There would be no long-
term, believable enemy – it certainly would not have been National
Socialism, a very un-exportable ideology. While wealth extraction can
occur absent war, nothing moves the needle toward government and the
elite and away from freedom like war does. What better than a Cold
War, one that that offers long term fighting without intense
casualties?
Now to the third reason: for wealth extraction, which populations
would offer a better harvest, Germany / Japan, or Russia / China? The
former offered two of the most productive economies on earth. The
latter were still quite agrarian and relatively undeveloped. The
former occupied a limited, manageable territory, the latter – large,
and in many cases relatively unreachable regions.
The U.S. did not have to choose Russia over Germany – at the
beginning of the war Stalin was known to have far more blood on his
hands than did Hitler. Certainly from the perspective of the United
States, if the desire was simply to get into the fight (to distract
from depression, to enhance the state, whatever), fighting the
Russians through German territory would have been much easier than
fighting the Germans directly. Stalin could have been made the devil
just as easily as Hitler was.
Once these two productive peoples were subdued, wealth extraction
became much easier. And these were the two non-Anglo populations that
offered the most capacity for wealth to extract. What was likely not
possible through peace, trade, and negotiation was certainly possible
once these lands were conquered.
The U.S. replaced Britain as the tool for the elite to work through
for continued global domination; the communists were strengthened,
creating a credible enemy for perpetual war; the wealth of two
productive nations was made accessible to the elite. These three
outcomes were realized. If these were the objectives, the actions
taken by Roosevelt and Truman seem quite rational towards these ends.
I conclude these were the objectives from the beginning.
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