Yakov Kedmi, public figure (Israel):
- After listening to what Macron said... Even Freud used to say that Europe has an inferiority complex. Speaking of the seriousness of the European leaders, just listen to what Macron said. Who's threatening them? China's threatening Europe? Have you seen their geographical location? Will the European army have to fight the Chinese army? Have Chinese soldiers ever been to Europe? Have they ever been close to it? China had the opportunity to capture Europe when Columbus sailed to Spain on his tiny ship. Back then China had a fleet a thousand times larger. But they burned it because they didn't want to capture anything. Only a mentally ill person could say that the Chinese military is threatening Europe. Macron was talking about a military threat. Armies deal with military threats. To assess his level of adequacy we must remember that he's not only afraid of China but that he's afraid of the US as well. Is that why he needs a European army? Because he's afraid of the US military? In general, after hearing that, any mental health professional would hang themselves because there's nothing they could do to help him.
And these people run Europe. Does anybody believe Europe has changed in the last 100 years? Nothing has changed. There's a small mistake here. The reasons behind a war aren't the same as the excuse to start it. Take Germany for instance. The German General Staff had war plans ready for over a decade.
- They were preparing for war.
- But they needed a reason. It's a hundred-year-old lesson. The excuse for a new war doesn't matter. It's being prepared. The Blitzkrieg operation prepared by the head of the German General Staff was a plan to defeat Russia with a single quick strike. The same plan was adopted by the US in 2005. The excuse they'll present depends on their imagination and the situation. It could be anything from Georgia to Estonia. But those won't be the reasons.
And secondly, we forget that a genocide started during that war. Everybody knows about the Armenian Genocide. The Turks were killing every Armenian that they stumbled upon. But there was also the civilized Austro-Hungarian Empire which was culling Rusyns in concentration camps. They even had designated places. Nobody remembers this genocide today. Nobody cares about the Rusyn population of the Carpathians and the Austro-Hungarian Empire. We remember the Armenian Genocide, but no one remembers the Rusyn Genocide. We've long forgotten about that. Russia was the first to forget.
- No, Russia still remembers.
- Russia is beginning to remember. Thank God, it's mentioned once in a while. It was a different thing, a genocide. According to the plans of the German Command... What was Germany preparing? I'm not talking about Nazi Germany, thank God. What was Imperial Germany preparing for the peoples of Central Europe? What future was it preparing for the states of Central Europe? I'm talking about Belgium, the Netherlands, and so on. What was the plan? They were supposed to cease to exist as states and the populations to work for Germany. The German brutality in Belgium preceded the Nazi brutality. It was no different from the brutality of the Austrian-Hungarian Army in Transcarpathia. It was no different from the brutality of the British Army during the Boer War.
Europe remained the same. The most recent thing worth mentioning is the statement by the US Congress Commission. It's basically racism. The same excuse was used to start the crusades. It was used when they were murdering the "wrong Christians" during the crusades. The idea of moral superiority was used to wipe out the population of Africa and the native population of Latin America. The same idea was used to wage war against Russia. The same idea was used in every war that ended badly.
When somebody says that their people, their population, or their country has moral superiority over all others which entitles them to do whatever they want it's Nazism. It's pure Nazism, just in English. There's no excuse for that.
An important aspect to note is that there's nothing new. The idea has been and will always be there, it's the essence of Europe. It's always been the backbone of Europe and it will be its undoing.
People study history to try to understand the present and attempt to predict the future. The processes from WWI continue today. The main target of the European nations, namely Germany is the East, same as in 1941. They had to stop, incapacitate France and then they would be free to attack the East. By the way, how many pilots were defending Great Britain? Churchill said that: "Never was so much owed by so many to so few." 185! 185.
- Those figures are wrong.
- 185 Spitfires.
- Nonsense.
- There were no Spitfires back then. — The Spitfires…
- There were thousands of pilots, what are you talking about?
- 185 Spitfires.
- Spitfire is only one class of aircraft and there were many.
- Only fighter aircraft were defending the skies of London and Great Britain. By the way, more than 30% of them were Poles. Not English. But that's not the main thing.
The main thing is that the goal they had 100 years ago. The goal that Europe, including France, the UK, and Germany had regarding Russia was to dismember Russia and take its territories. It was partially carried out in the late 20th century. It's being partially carried out in the early 21st century. Have you forgotten about the French troops in Odessa? Have you forgotten about the German troops in Kiev? Have you forgotten about the Polish troops in Minsk and Kiev? No. They were there. It's happening. The Drang nach Osten Project continues. They are taking the East. They grabbed what they could, and the territories they didn't manage to grab now house their military bases ready to fight Russia. Speaking of the Dardanelles and whether it was worth taking them in 1917 or not if you had taken them there wouldn't be any American missile destroyers in the Black Sea. And now there are.
History is important. We mustn't focus on short-term issues. Speaking of the situation in Russia back then the Imperator didn't realize what was awaiting Russia. He didn't know that. He didn't want a war. Just like Stolypin said: "We must keep Russia away from war". But he had no choice because if he hadn't responded to the declaration of war by Germany and Austria-Hungary against Russia he would've been mauled in the streets. Remember what was happening on the streets of Petrograd. No authority could stop the desire of the Russia people to join the war. It means that even though he was the sole ruler of all of Russia, the absolute monarch he couldn't retain his power if he stayed out of the war even though he didn't realize the consequences.
