I read that Churchill wrote that, "History will be kind to me for I intend to write it." I'm not completely sure that he said that quote, but it was true when I was a boy and I got schoolchild versions of Churchill's history.
We know that a Serb shot the Austrian-Hungarian Arch-Duke in 1914, and that led to war between France, the UK, and Russia against Germany, the Austrian-Hungarian Empire, and the Ottoman Empire.
We know that Russia lost in 1917 and had to hand over a big chunk of Western Russia to Germany.
We know that the Central Powers, i.e., Austria-Hungary, Germany, and the Ottomans lost in 1918, and then the US, France, and the UK invaded Russia to take a bit more of Western Russia and make it part of the French-UK controlled part of Europe, becoming part of Poland and a few other East European nations, along with the eastern parts of Germany. The Austrian-Hungarian Empire was completely dismantled into many countries (often, like Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia, combinations of ethnic groups that didn't like each other, so they could not form a united country, but would be subject to UK-French rule).
We know in 1919, Germany was forced to sign the Treaty of Versailles that Germany would be forever completely unarmed, with no military (and would pay all German gold to the Allies as war reparations, making the mark worthless and destroying the German economy).
We know in 1933 that France and the UK were terrified of the USSR and allowed Germany to elect Hitler Chancellor on a promise to reject the Treaty of Versailles and re-arm Germany, so Germany would be able to slow the attack of Stalin and give France and the UK time to prepare to fight the USSR. We know that Churchill wrote that he thundered against letting Germany elect Hitler, and said the UK must demand that Germany reject Hitler as Chancellor and pick someone who would abide by the Treaty of Versailles, but we cannot find any Churchill speeches against Hitler in '33 in the newspaper morgues (easily searchable with the Internet). Everyone seems to have agreed that Germany must rearm to slow the advance of the USSR in '33 (and, of course, from 2004 on to slow the advance of Russia).
We know, in 1938, that British PM Chamberlain signed a Peace Treaty with Germany, and promised, 'Peace in Our Time.' We also know PM Chamberlain was lying, he was only buying time. France said they would not join Britain in any war against Germany before they finished the Maginot Line, and Britain knew about bombers, and wanted to complete the radar system that would protect the UK from the Luftwaffe. Churchill condemned this peace deal, and said that a UK victory against Germany would still have been easy in 1938 (but most disagree and are glad that PM Chamberlain delayed for a year).
We know that, in 1939, seeing that the UK and France had signed peace deals with Germany, the USSR signed a peace deal with Germany that said Poland, formed from land taken from Russia, Austria-Hungary, and Germany after WWI, would be returned to Russia and Germany.
We know that Western history says that France, the UK, and the US fought against Germany and the USSR in WWII, which was started by the German-USSR alliance.
We know that, in 1939, the UK and France told Poland to blockade East Prussia from Germany, an act of war that caused German to declare war on Poland, and then the USSR also declared war on Poland, after which Germany and the USSR took back all of Poland that had been taken from Germany and the USSR after WWI. This caused Britain and France to declare war on Germany, expecting the Wehrmacht to be destroyed by the Maginot Line.
We know that, in 1940, the Germans used paratroopers to overwhelm Belgium, then quickly defeated the Anglo-French alliance in France, but the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) made it back to the UK somehow (different versions: some say fishing boats, some say UK troop carriers, some say both were needed to rescue the BEF).
We know that, in 1941, Germany attacked their 'ally' the USSR. The US say the Germans won. The Germans attacked Leningrad and Stalingrad, and, if one looks at a map, there is no Leningrad, there is no Stalingrad, so obviously the Germans won in their war against the USSR, but the US single-handedly defeated the Wehrmacht. Of course, Russia have a different version, but if Russia won, where are Leningrad and Stalingrad???
And in 1945, Germany surrendered. The actual surrender was late, because the Americans allowed the Russians to be there, and it was May 9 in Russia before the Americans let the Germans sign the surrender document, but it was May 8 in the US, UK, and France (and Germany). The US does not celebrate the end of WWII on May 8, but, before, on May 31, and now on the last Monday in May, the US celebrates Memorial Day, in memory of all the soldiers who died in all American wars.
The Russians note that they lost 27 million in WWII, and want some credit for the victory, which the US will never give.
The US know that all the oil and gas on the planet belong to the US, and are proud of liberating all the Iraqi and Libyan and Syrian oil. Saudi used their Hajj money to buy all the Saudi oil from the US owners, making them the legal owners under US law, about the only legal owners of oil (other than the US) on the planet.
The US oil in Iran must be liberated soon, along with all the US oil in Russia. Cutting the PRC off from all oil should put a dent in their economy, and, we all hope, will ensure total US hegemony over the entire solar system (the US have no intention of stopping with nothing but all of this planet).
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