pcr knows where we're intentionally heading as do many of us, unfortunately;

Previous History Indicates that War Is Our Future

Paul Craig Roberts

“Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it” — George Santayana

Our time is much like Europe during 1912-1914 and 1938-1939.  War is brewing, and unlike the earlier periods today the countries likely to be involved, with the exception of Russia, China, and Iran, are not trying to avoid it.  Between 1912-1914 the French President Poincare, Russian Foreign Minister Izvolski, later Russian ambassador to France, and Russian Foreign Minister Sazonov were deeply involved in a conspiracy to cause a war between Russia and France (with British approval and involvement) on one side and Germany and Austria-Hungary on the other.

Poincaire’s goal was to recover Alsace-Lorraine for France.  The Tsar’s ministers wanted Constantinople in order to control the straits that are the entrance from the Black Sea into the Mediterranean. Harry Elmer Barnes tells the story based on the notes the conspirators wrote to one another over the years the conspiracy was prepared and put into operation.  

For telling the truth, Barnes, a top of the line American historian, lost his position at Columbia University.  The official narrative was that Germany caused the war, a claim for which there is zero evidence. But assigning historical blame to Germany kept attention off the French-Russian conspiracy. As Barnes own fate proved, it did not pay for a historian to tell the truth.  The road to professional success was to create a narrative that justified the winners. And the “winners” were actually winners because the Germans were deceived, having foolishly trusted US President Wilson’s “Fourteen points.”..........more........