The ostensible kickoff for WWII was British / European leaders' perceived need to crush a deliberately re-armed Germany, while the US and other major Western European powers conspired to pit Germany against the Soviet Union.
From WW II To WW III: Global NATO And Remilitarized Germany
In commenting on the rising tide of WWII revisionism in the West, reaching its nadir - to date - on this July 3rd with the passage of a resolution called Reunification of Divided Europe by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) which in effect makes the former Soviet Union (and by implication current Russia) co-responsible for provoking WWII, veteran Russian journalist Valentin Zorin reminded his readers of several events usually swept under the carpet by leading Western circles and their compliant media and scholars: "The infamously failed Munich conspiracy of the western politicians and the Nazi Fuehrer sought to make the German Army march against the Soviet Union. In those days Moscow was pressing for forming an anti-Hitler coalition and invited a British and French delegation to that end. The talks proved long and fruitless. London and Paris actually sabotaged the talks while urging the Fuehrer to attack the USSR. "Even after the war had broken out, top-echelon leaders in London and Paris would not give up their attempts to make Hitler's divisions turn about and attack the Soviet Union. A several-month-long period of strange developments came to be known as a Phoney War. While deliberately inactive at the front, the British and French rulers engaged themselves in secret bargaining with Hitler.
"The infamously failed Munich conspiracy of the western politicians and the Nazi Fuehrer sought to make the German Army march against the Soviet Union. In those days Moscow was pressing for forming an anti-Hitler coalition and invited a British and French delegation to that end. The talks proved long and fruitless. London and Paris actually sabotaged the talks while urging the Fuehrer to attack the USSR.
"Even after the war had broken out, top-echelon leaders in London and Paris would not give up their attempts to make Hitler's divisions turn about and attack the Soviet Union. A several-month-long period of strange developments came to be known as a Phoney War. While deliberately inactive at the front, the British and French rulers engaged themselves in secret bargaining with Hitler.
Fascinating article, which I'd encourage all to read. Over 70 years later, we're only now beginning to understand the forces that were in play during WWII, much less WWI, which was equally conspiratorial in nature.
See also: Operation Unthinkable
Unthinkable, indeed.
What might this tell us about the wars that have been fought since the late 1940s, and those that are being waged today?
There's a pattern, here. What is its common denominator?
This sentence is self-contradictory. How could the British and European leaders (which ones?) at the same time want to crush Germany and pit it against Soviet Union?
By the way, the kick-off of WWII was the German invasion of Poland...
IMHO Globalresearch is not a very reliable source. This article claims that the presence of German troops in the Balkans equates the occupation of Rhineland in 1936, but doesn't explain what they have in common.
It is well known that Churchill was obsessed (not without reasons...) by the advance of Soviet armies in central and eastern Europe and that some people (like Patton) wanted to fight the USSR and that some Nazi leaders tried to reverse alliances. But the US government opposed such projects and, as far as I know, they were never seriously considered.
Furthermore, this article makes many claims (i.e. alleged secret meetings between Stewart Menzies and Canaris) without quoting any source other than Novosti... "Dieu se rit des hommes qui se plaignent des conséquences alors qu'ils en chérissent les causes" Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet
Didn't Hitler crush himself by breaking the Ribbentrop-Molotov non-aggression pact and starting Operation Barbarrossa?
Clearly the easiest way to crush both Germany and the Soviet Union is to provoke a war between the two? The peak-to-trough part of the business cycle is an outlier. Carnot would have died laughing.
Though as far as I know no concrete such plans existed. One should note that Poland and Roumainia blocked the way and that both these states were probably considered important assets in eastern europe. A vote for PES is a vote for EPP! A vote for EPP is a vote for PES! Support the coalition, vote EPP-PES in 2009!
There had been a groundswell in the country at large that hitler was someone who had to be stopped. MacMillan had his Munich moment and Hitler had ignored him. Britain was still too proud of its heft in the world not to see that as a the worst possible insult, to ignore that and ally ourselves with him would have been impossible to sell politically. Once Britain had been humiliated at munich, war was unavoidable.
Even the Daily mail could see that. keep to the Fen Causeway
