First Great War . Who really started World War I part 7. NATALIE MAGNETIC GUIDE
After the partitions of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the late 18th century, Polish patriotic leaders had to work in conspiracy against the occupant powers. Multiple risings against Russia had failed and the Poles knew that they needed a favorable geopolitical situation especially Germany and Russia to be at war to regain independence and be back in the geopolitical game.
That opportunity was forthcoming in the early 20th century with the political tension military rivalry and imperial competition especially between the British Empire and the German Reich. As the rising military and economic power of Germany was altering the balance of power in Europe the British elites centered in Milner's Group embarked on a secret plan to create anti-German coalition. They established a Triple Entente with France and Russia that was grounded in France's drive to reign Alsace-Lorraine lost in Franco-Prussian war Russia's ambition to gain the Straits of Constantinople and Britain's master plan to suppress the raising power of the German Reich. The armament companies pushed for war as that would bring them lots of business whilst oil companies wanted to dismantle the Ottoman Empire and open the region for large oil exploration.
Lord Rothschild in London whose family came from Germany and who provided finance for the growth of the German economic and political power was against the anti-German coalition. The Rothschilds remembered the alliance of the City of London and Prussia in times of Napoleon Bonaparte and hoped the two could form a common front to counter the ambitions of Russia. Yet, even the Rothschilds could not be ignorant of other factors at play. The French banks and bondholders who took over Berlin's job of serving Russia after 1887 had put too much money into Russia to risk the collapse of the currency and devaluation of their own investments. Lord Rothschild also knew of the extension of the anti-German zeal amongst the British elites who in turn did not fail to notice that Rothschild's agenda did not always overlap with what they perceived were the best interests of the British Empire.
ARMAMENT TRUST
The British press continued to draft anti-German articles threatening with the German battle fleet and thus get pretext for arms expenditure. Consequently, the allocation towards naval spending increased multiple times. The rise in naval and military spending benefited the shareholders of 5 British armament companies: Vickers Ltd, Armstrong, Withworth and Co ltd, John Brown and Co ltd, Cammell, Laird and Co and the Noble Dynamite Trust. These British companies were in partnership agreements with, or held shares in other foreign armament firms: Krupp and Dilingen of the German Reich, Betlehem Steel Company of the United States, Schneider & Co of Creusot in France as well as Vickers-Terni and Armstrong-Pozzouli (Puzzle) of Italy forming the so called ARMAMENT TRUST.
In Britain, the shareholders of the 'Armament Trust' were among the nobility senior politicians admirals generals bishops of the Anglican Church and other members of the British Establishment. Lord Welby lamented at the time: 'We are in the hands of an organization of crooks. They are politicians, generals, manufacturers of armaments and journalists. All of them are anxious of unlimited expenditure and go on inventing scares to terrify the public and to terrify the minister of the Crown.'
The British plans to take control over oil resources in the Middle East were in line with the Zionist agenda to create a Jewish state in Ottoman-controlled territory. Since the 19th century the Zionist were lobbying with the Ottoman Turks for a Jewish settlement. As these negotiations failed ultimately, the Zionists turned to the revolutionary methods planning to use the masonic organization - Young Turks - to overthrow the Sultanate and introduced a secular western-model society. Young Turks were allied with the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP) a secret masonic organization whose driving force were Donme descendants of Sephardic Jews who immigrated to the Ottoman Empire from the Iberian Peninsula following their expulsion in the 15th century.
BALKAN POWDER KEG
The Ottoman Empire was crumbling at the time. In 1912, Montenegro Bulgaria Serbia and Greece encouraged by Pan-Slavic Russian minister to Belgrade Nikolai Hartwig declared war against the Ottoman Empire. Within a month, the combined forces of the Balkan League drove the Ottoman Turks from almost all of their territories in south Eastern Europe. These catastrophic defeats were utilized by CUP who carried out a coup and took over the rule in the Ottoman Empire. As Bulgaria was not content with the agreements made in London regarding the creation of Albania it started second balkan war however when countered by Romania it had to cease some of its previous gains to neighboring states. Serbia came out of these war militarily powerful and turned its attention to its Serb community of Bosnia-Herzegovina annexed earlier by Austro-Hungarian Empire.
In London, the Milner's Group and the international armaments trust wanted to use the nationalist tensions in the Balkans to create a flashpoint and trigger a military conflict. In 1912 a scandal erupted when news came out that Gustav Krupp' agents stole over a thousand documents from a War Office files and fomented anti-German attacks in the French press. In July 1914, with the rumors of the forthcoming war, Daily Mail spotted Gustav and Bertha Krupp in Kiel on their way back from the City of London. Around the same time a secret command went from the British Foreign Office to Russian diplomat Alexander Isvolsky in Paris and from Isvolsky to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Sazanov in Russia and from him to Russian ambassador in Belgrade in Serbia, Nicholas Hartwig. He in turn was closely associated with Colonel Apis, the Serbian chief of military intelligence and his terrorist organization the Black Hand dedicated to the destruction of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Apis was supplying arms to the Young Bosnian Organization which recruited Bosnan patriots who were planning on the assassination of the members of the Austro-Hungarian Imperial family.
THE ASSASINATION
The actual assignation took place on 28 June 1914 whilst Franz Ferdinand the heir to the Austro-Hungarian War was visiting Sarajevo the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina then other Habsburg rule, provokingly on the Serb's national day. After failed negotiations, Austrio-Hungarian government declared war on Serbia a month later entangling international alliances formed over a previous decade. As Russia mobilized in support of Serbia, the German military leaders pushed Kaiser Wilhelm II to agree to declare war on Russia. Soon thereafter, the Ottoman Empire signed a treaty with Germany which subsequently declared war on France and crossed into the Belgian territory to evade the fortifications in northern France. As the City of London bankers helped to establish independent Belgium in the 19th century, having also a treaty signed committing to uphold the independence of Belgium, the British government declared war on Germany. Chancellor of Exchequer David Lloyd George rushed to Lord Rothschild to arrange finance for armaments.
Due to growth and involvement of the armament companies the First Great War was a real carnage. The British and French were sustaining high losses going in tens of thousands of people dying in battle fields. In Ottoman Empire the German generals encouraged the Turks to exterminate Armenians as potential subversive element. Concurrently, the British were encouraging the Arabs to revolt against the Turks at the same time secretly agreeing with the French on the carving of the Middle East for oil exploration. The Germans in turn supported the Irish against the Brits whilst the Germans and Austrians planned to use the Polish legions that were formed by Marshal Josef Pilsudski in Krakow to fight against Russia.
BALFOUR DECLARATION
By 1917, the First Great War in Europe reached a stalemate in France. Neither Britain and France nor Germany were wining the war. This is when the Zionists in London, the Rothschilds and the associated powerful banking families, approached the British government and offered them a deal. They said they would bring the United States into the war on side of Britain and France if the British government promises them Palestine. The US elites envisaged to gain greatly on the European war. J.P. Morgan wrote in his personal letter to President Wilson that "the war should be a tremendous opportunity for America'. This would enable them to recuperate money they lent to Britain and France and would also give them access to the negotiating table at the peace conference. The telegram that was sent by German Foreign Minister Arthur Zimmermann to the Mexican government inviting an alliance against the United States. was used by the US elites as justification to declare war on Germany. Few months later Lord Balfour issued his famous declaration addressed to Lord Rothschild that provided for 'the establishment in Palestine of a national home of the Jewish people'.
BOLSHEVIK REVOLUTION
The Germans attempted to alleviate situation by facilitating the return of Bolshevik revolutionaries to Russia to overthrow the Russian tsar and sign a peace treaty which would allow them to move German troops to the western front. The Bolshevik revolution was in part arranged by the western elites including German-Jewish financiers who were involved in funding revolutionary activity in Russia since 19th century. By planting pro-German agents in Russia Germany managed to sign a peace treaty with Russia whilst the Bolsheviks promised sovereignty to various national groups. This was a huge blow for the Triple Entente. The US elites needed to come with some counteroffer to the Central and Eastern European States and that came in the form of President Wilson's '14 points' which included self-determination for various national groups including Poland.
Albeit the Germans had successes on military front their supply lines were under huge strain and the American troops started to arrive to Europe. With the Austro-Hungarian Empire crumbling from desertion of Czechs Polish Croats Serbs Hungarians Ukrainians and Poles and with German offensive bringing no results the Germans had no other choice but to sign a peace treaty. When the German ambassadors arrive at the Paris Peace Conference in Versailles, there was over 100 American bankers there and leaders of Zionist movement and this is when they realized they largely lost the war because of the Zionist agenda to recreate the state of Israel in Palestine. Quashed under the heavy terms of war reparation payments refusing to accept a new border with Poland and feeling betrayed by the Jewish community the Germans started to use a rhetoric of being stabbed at the back by the international Jewish conspiracy.
How the US corporate elites used the rising German anti-semitism for their own agenda?
How the Polish government tried to prevent German invasion on Europe?
Well… that’s for next time.
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