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I think the idea that you could get what you wanted through threatening war, and the refusal to back down from the threat of war, made a European war inevitable. But this war, with this cast of countries on each side, was not inevitable.
Another excellent lecture, I do enjoy them very much. The only disagreement I had is her comment regarding the British in the Boer War of 1899-1902. From all that I have read, they never fought in their red coat uniforms (as she stated regarding their heavy losses earlier on). They had discarded these in the Anglo-Sudan War a few years earlier and hadn't used them regularly since the 1880's. However they did suffer heavily against the Boers who were well-trained, well supplied and knew the land better and so could manoeuvre around, causing the necessity for the British to attach them head on.
I feel its worth adding, while discussing blockading germany & the impact on its civilian population, that Germany also aimed to do this to the English, although less effectively
ABSOLUTELY STUPENDOUS. i'M IN MY EIGHTIES, AND HAVE ABSORBED TO TEACHINGS AND OPINIONS OF MANY GREAT MILITARY HISTORIANS; PROFESSOR MARGARET MacMILLAN, IS AMONG THE VERY BEST.
The Germans were idiotics. The Army didn't talk to the foreign office about the effect of violating Belgium and its brining Great Britain into the war. As the French Army wouldn't violate Belgium neutrality and it was impossible for the French to successfully breakthrough the German defenses in Alsace-Lorraine, there was no need to attack France in 1914. Germany could have remained on the defensive in the west and used the majority of the German Army against Russia. This would have kept Austo-Hungarian forces from being crushed by Russia and England would have remained neutral. After disposing of Russia, Germany could have crushed France.
The war was set in motion by bankers and financiers. Some of whom were on the side of the Bolsheviks. The greatest LIE in history is that Bankers and Money can't work with ideology. They do. As you can see today, bankers and the modern version of Marxism ie. GLOBALISM work HAND IN HAND. They use their money, in combination with Marxist tactics, to get what they want which is a one size fits all - one world order. A taboo group of people at the top of this have been at it for centuries. From the Court Jew to Jacob Schiff. She does not know what she is talking about until she unwraps Socialism, the deliberately confusing spider web of international banking and the desire by several groups to control the planet. What so-called academics like this shy away from is that FACT that Socialism had existed in its purest form for about 70 years BEFORE WWI broke out. Lenin talked of using a global conflict as a vehicle for their global control since the turn of the century. It is no coincidence that the original TARGET of MARX was GERMANY - NOT RUSSIA. You also can't truthfully talk about ANY of this until you know the facts of JEWISH involvement both in revolutionary groups and banking. The BS about the pogroms and who was responsible and the dragging down of the Czar BY LIES through his enemies control of the Western Press. You also do not know anything until you dig into the deep relationships that WESTERN governments had with global Socialism/Communism. WWI NEVER ENDED. PERIOD. We are still fighting it today.
Ask yourselves this. If war was set into motion by a Marxist by shooting the Arch Duke of Austria, why did the nations involved not just go after the perpetrators of THAT crime? Hmmm?? How hard could that have been?
37:30 - 37:45. Football player Johan Cruyff taught: "To score, you have to shoot." General Von Schlieffen, in 1893: "To win, you have to attack." I like these parallels. For the famous Rinus Michels, the inventor of modern football (soccer) in the 1960's, famously said: "Football is war." So we can conflate these two fields of human endeavour. LOL
Professor MacMillan details what Henry Kissinger calls "Into the vortex" in his brilliant book "Diplomacy". There was no reason for the First World War to come about but it did because of what politicians all across Europe and the USA thought between 1898 and 1914. Margaret MacMillan delivers a highly interesting exposition of what really happened then.
Excellent lecture, very interesting! A question that comes to my mind: the role of pacifists seems to be very limited. I believe this is because pacifists are by nature ‘passive’, also towards extremism in their own country. Isn’t this an interesting subject to discuss in a future lecture?
According to the conservative worldview of the time, pacifism was a position typical for weak, spoiled, efeminate men (women's opinion didn't matter at all). No man wanted to seem that way.
No, it was not inevitable, I am sure Prof MacMillan asserts, but it did happen, and as her wonderful title "The War that Ended Peace" also asserts, it ended peace. What peace did it end? I should not be surprised if she means that peace from 1914 on is not a characteristic of the 20th and 21st centuries as it was said to be of the 19th. It is hard to look back on the many years after 1914 as a time of peace. The Great War set the course for future events that made for a deceptive peace. Peace has been a temporary, a very temporary blessing in the past 109 years. The ruling politicians of the United States today do not strive for peace at all. Rather, they sought and successfully created the enemies they needed to keep my country in a profitable state (for them) of preparation for war. If the Austro-Hungarian empire was criminal in placing all of Europe at risk in order to settle scores with Serbia, think how much more wicked US Presidents have been since the end of WW2 in order to nourish our MIC !
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Da haben wir jetzt aber Glück, dass Ihr uns mit der Wahrheit aufklärt. Ich habe mich schon oft gefragt, wem Ihr die gegenwärtige Politik, die nichts anderes im Sinn hat, als das ganze Land in den Untergang zu treiben, sonst in die Schuhe schieben würdet, gäbe es diesen unsäglichen Krieg nicht.
