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| From | Maus <Greymaus@mail.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | alt.folklore.computers |
| Subject | Re: Who Knew ? |
| Date | 2021-11-04 17:31 +0000 |
| Message-ID | <slrnso8682.28j.Greymaus@dmaus.org> (permalink) |
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On 2021-11-04, Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> wrote: > On Wednesday, November 3, 2021 at 11:01:42 PM UTC-6, Dave Garland wrote: > >> Goebbels was a good propagandist. Goering (former fighter ace) was >> more of a junkie who was self-important. His was a perceptive observation: > >> > Naturally, the common people don't want war ... but after all it is the leaders >> > of a country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to >> > drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, >> > or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people >> > can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you >> > have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists >> > for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same >> > in every country. > > Perceptive, perhaps. But self-exculpatory, certainly. > > The Nazis were _lying_ about the Jews, about Czechoslovakia, about Poland, > as they stirred up hostility in Germany to them. The Polish corridor was a problem that the natzis used as an excuse to attack poland, but it was a real problem. Large parts of Czechslovakian were German speaking , The Austria-Hungarian Empire, which cz* had been created fro, was multiethnic. The German speakers were driven out after the war, and some of them, that moved to the Ruhr area, did very well since. > > The French and British governments weren't lying about Germany having > invaded Poland, a nation with large coal reserves which, if captured by > Germany, would give it a strategic advantage. > > Franklin Delan Roosevelt didn't make up Pearl Harbor. What did he think would happen after he banned scrap iron exports to Japan?.. The US navy should have been placed at high allert, but was not. (The irony was that the Japanese used some of their steel to build superbattleships which were by then outdated) > > So, while the pattern Goering identified was hardly unique to the Nazi regime, > it's still true that there's a difference between aggressive countries and peaceful > ones. Democracies may stir the people up against threats that are not immediate, > but they're rather less likely to engage in blatantly aggressive wars. > > John Savard War is an evil, cruel thing. Remember the Delphic prophesy "If you go to war, a great empire will be destroyed" -- greymausg@mail.com That's not a mousehole!
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