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.
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!
