Deception and manipulation play the biggest role in war
Who still thinks that the causes of the outbreak and course of the First World War (1914-1918) and the consequences of the Treaty of Versailles still play a role in world politics today? And yet they do! It is precisely these historical episodes that are of great importance in the present. It is no exaggeration to say that it is impossible to understand world politics, especially the war situation in Ukraine, Gaza, Lebanon and Syria, without knowing what Lord Edward Grey, a member of the English Club Coefficients, led the German ambassador in Great Britain to believe in the first half of 1914: he made false statements about the British attitude towards a military conflict between the continental powers.
The same means of political deception have been used to bring about the war in Ukraine, which has now been going on for three years. But it is historically verifiable that it began much earlier, albeit in a different way than in February 2022. It can and must be traced back to the First World War. What happened in the Second World War is also part of this history. The reasons are always the same, as set out in Mackinder's 1904 essay and revised and applied to the post-1997 world by Zbigniew Brzezinski in his book The Grand Chessboard: America's Strategy of Supremacy. This book describes in broad strokes what can be expected in the future if the elites succeed in imposing their will to take over world power. But God will not stand by and watch this happen.
Ps. 5:10-12: 10 Hold them guilty, O God; by their own devices let them fall! In the multitude of their transgressions thrust them out, for they are rebellious against You. 11 But let all who take refuge in You be glad, let them ever sing for joy; and may You shelter them, that those who love Your name may exult in You. 12 For it is You who blesses the righteous man, O Lord, you surround him with favor as with a shield.
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On May 23, 1903, the members of the Coefficient Club discussed how to stop the economic rise of other colonial powers, especially France, Germany, and Japan, but also America. There was no question that Great Britain, as a naval power, needed to assert its political and economic supremacy against the rising nations; opinions differed only on the choice of appropriate means. Most supported Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon, who proposed what was seen as a realistic strategy: first, to play the European powers off against each other by cunningly manipulating the policy of the Entente Cordiale. Entente Cordiale means "cordial agreement" and referred to an alliance between England, France, and Russia. However, it was rightly recognized that Britain could not achieve its goals without underscoring its claim to world domination with a credible military intervention on the Continent. In a war between Germany and Russia, the German Kaiser would emerge victorious; France would have to side with Russia to maintain the balance of power against Germany. If Britain remained on the sidelines, the mutually neutralizing parties would soon seek peace in an unwinnable war. The Empire would then be unable to derive maximum benefit from the conflict, especially since America could only be persuaded to enter a European war as an ally of England to ensure a victorious outcome of hostilities. As H.G. Wells made clear in his autobiography, Earl Grey provoked the outbreak of the war by falsely leading the German government to believe that England had no national interest in a military conflict between the continental powers. Grey would keep his country out of the war even if the German Kaiser, as an ally of the Austrian Kaiser Franz Joseph I, mobilized against Serbia and Russia. However, biographer Lord Louis Mountbatten confirmed that the Second Lord of the Admiralty, Mountbatten's father, had ordered the British fleet to prepare for battle a week before the outbreak of war. "My father could say to the king, 'We have the sword of iron in our hands.'" Robert Cecil expected His Majesty's Navy, basking in the aura of power, to emerge victorious from the impending carnage.
Earl Russell vigorously opposed this perfidious plan. In his view, English intelligence had far more effective and far cheaper means of psychological warfare at its disposal to manipulate the geopolitical constellation of world powers in favor of the Empire. England would be spared a European war. However, he was dismayed to discover that he would receive no support from the other members of the Coefficients to prevail against the Milner-Mackinder-Amery faction that had joined Lord Cecil's opinion. Sensing the worst, he resigned from the club.
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See Bertrand Russell, The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell, 3 vols. (London: Allen & Unwin, 1967-1969):
Volume 1, page 230: "Most of the members, indeed, shocked me deeply. I remember Amery's bloodthirsty eyes at the thought of a war with America in which, as he jubilantly said, we would have to arm the entire adult male population. One evening Sir Edward Grey (who was not yet in office [as Foreign Secretary]) made a speech in support of the policy of the Entente, which had not yet been adopted by the Government. I expressed my objections to this policy very strongly, pointing out that it would probably lead to war, but nobody agreed with me, so I left the club. As you can see, I spoke out against the First World War at the earliest possible moment.”
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