Paul Craig Roberts – paulcraigroberts.org March 16, 2021
I was born in the spring of 1939. I was a few days shy of 5 months old when Germany invaded Poland on September 1. The British and French governments responded to the invasion by declaring war on Germany, thus initiating World War II.
Germany always gets the blame. Germany’s invasion of Poland is always said to be the event that triggered World War II, never the British and French declaration of war on Germany. This is because the victors write the history.
The British, French, and Americans were victors only because the Soviet Red Army defeated the Wehrmacht, possibly the finest army ever in existence. The Soviets prevailed through sheer numbers and in weapons production capability far beyond Germany’s capability. After reading Viktor Surorov’s book, The Real Culprit, I don’t believe Stalin had any need of war supplies from the West. The Normady invasion did not take place until June 6, 1944, after the Red Army had been fighting the Wehrmacht for three years since June 1941.
Hitler was putting Germany back together from its dismemberment by the Versailles Treaty. Only the German people and territory under Polish rule remained to be returned. For reasons that make no sense, the British government interfered in the German-Polish negotiations and caused the Polish military government to break off the negotiations. The result was the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact that divided Poland between Germany and the Soviet Union. Hitler had a claim to German territory. The Soviets had no claim to the Polish territory seized by the Red Army, but the British and French limited their objection to the invasion of Poland by Germany.
It was the mindless British “guarantee” to Poland that caused World War II. In its absence the Polish government would have come to terms with Germany. Hitler did not want war with Britain and France, much less with the US. These were events forced on Germany. After the swift German defeat of the British and French armies, Hitler offered Britain peace with German military guarantees to protect the British Empire, but Churchill kept the peace offer secret and refused.
Churchill continued to refuse German offers of peace, and some historians concluded that the reason Hitler attacked the Soviet Union was because of Hitler’s belief that Churchill was holding out with the expectation that Russia would come into the war on the British and French side. Therefore, Hitler decided that he would remove that British hope by overrunning Russia. Suvorov says Hitler knew that Stalin was about to attack Germany, but David Irving’s histories have not uncovered evidence to support Suvorov’s claim that Hitler knew of a planned Soviet attack. Neither side seemed to know of the other side’s intention.
Had it not been for an early Russian winter, Hitler might have succeeded in knocking out the Soviet Union. The early winter stopped the German advance and gave the Red Army time to recover and organize.
I am writing this as background to the world I grew up in. World War II did not harm the US. It did America well. The war brought the US out of the decade-long economic depression and left the US as the world power with the reserve currency.
US military deaths from both fronts—Japan and Germany—totalled 416,000, a number almost matched by Britain, a much smaller country and population, and exceeded by tiny Yugoslavia with 446,000 military deaths. In contrast, German military deaths totaled 4,300,000 plus an underestimate of 500,000 civilian war deaths from the British and American policy of targeting German civilian populations with bombing raids on residential areas. The defeat of Germany was achieved by the Soviet Union with a miminum of 10,000,000 military deaths and between 24,000,000 and 26,000,000 civilian and military deaths.
I grew up in halcyon days. In those days a person did not have to be brilliant or have ruling class connections in order to succeed. This fact seperated America from the rest of the world in popular opinion. Americans lived in a land of opportunity. And it was true, not make believe.
In Atlanta, Georgia, 5-year olds could walk alone or with neighborhood classmates a mile to school and a mile to home without being molested or kidnapped. Boys could have fights on the playground without being arrested. Parents together with teachers dealt with problems, which were few. Teachers were outstanding. There was no such thing as education degrees. Teachers had degrees in English or other languages, mathematics, chemistry, physics, history. They were people who loved their subjects and conveyed that to students.
Misbehavior, which was rare, was dealt with a note home that had to be signed by a parent and returned the next day. The last thing any of us wanted was a note home. There was no CPS we could call to complain of being punished for our misdeeds.
We got along well with black Americans. They were part of even lower middle class white households. In those days labor saving machines were unknown. Clothes were washed by hand and hung on clothes lines to dry. Meals were cooked from scratch with real ingredients. If mother was not present, Carrie was the boss, not us “white privileged.” Carrie dined with us at the table, and if Carrie encountered a financial problem she couldn’t handle, my parents and her other day employers would pool our scant resources to help her.
I grew up in Atlanta, Georgia, with no fear or hatred of black Americans. This is no longer the case in Atlanta. Many white Atlantans are fleeing the city.
It is not only the relations between the races that have deteriorated. Everything has. America today bears no relationship to the American world that I grew up in. Of course, today the reply will be that I grew up in “white privilege.” But actually, I grew up in a community in which people and genders had different roles, and a person was judged by performance. Performance included moral behavior. If you were a moral person who did a good job and your word was true, you were respected. Period.
Today if you aren’t a “woke” person who objects to gender pronouns and you don’t believe that the white working class are “systemic racists,” you are deplatformed and cancelled. White people are now demonized by other white people, and the demonized are not permitted to object. Any “person of color” can destroy any boss, fellow employee, university professor or dean by claiming to be “offended.”
In America today there are very few free people. Only those not dependent on employment and media approval are free. Even the few free Americans are in jeopardy as the expession of dissent is being defined by the Biden regime as domestic terrorism.
The media speaks with one voice, and the voice is one of denunciation of all who challenge the ruling narratives. In America today media protect the mistakes and avariciousness of medical bureaucrats allied with Big Pharma, and the media shield Establishment narratives from scientific experts who are silenced by being denied a forum. Consequently, the pubic is informed only by self-serving propaganda that enriches material interests and increases government power over citizens.
The consequences are varied and disastrous. With Covid there have been needless lockdowns that have destroyed businesses and individuals. In foreign policy antagonisms have been created that could lead to disastrous wars with Iran, China, and Russia. The focus of the Biden regime on defining Trump supporters, all 90 million American voters, as domestic terrorists implies a civil war.
What I find most discouraging about America is that after all the proven deceptions Americans have endured—the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, the assassination of Robert Kennedy, the assassination of Martin Luther King, the assassination of foreign leaders who refused to toe Washington’ line, the Vietnam War, 9/11, Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass deception, Assays’s use of chemical weapons, Iranian nukes, Russiagate, Russian invasion of Ukraine, the 2020 election, Trump insurrection at the Capitol—the list goes on forever—Americans continue to sit in front of CNN and the rest, listen to NPR, and read the New York Times or Washington Post and, thereby, continue to accommodate the ruling Establishment by consenting to being brainwashed. A people this insouciant has no possbility of survival.
A bainwashed America, a brainwashed Western World, are not homes for freedom.
On this website, I attempt to make you aware. In contrast to the media, I give you good information about the subjects I explain. Go back and compare what I told you compared with what the media told you.
Consider, for example, my Covid reporting. I told you how to protect yourself. I told you what the cures are if you are infected with a serious case. I told you the masks are not protective unless they are rated N95.
This is valuable information. This website is valuable for everyone. Every person on earth is unique. We should respect every one until they give us reason not to respect them. The people in Western governments seem to be the least respectable. They lie the most, and the presstitutes cover for them. Only those who speak truth are attacked.
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If so, you owe it your support.
The question is…why? Does Roberts need so much support…..
He seems to be running a one man operation from his house and in receipt of a good pension having been employed in high powered well paying jobs.
Presumably his house and so forth are mortgage free
So he does not seem to be incurring too many expenses.
Infact there are MANY people running one man operations who dont constantly ask for “support”….
Any comment contradicting these assumptions would be interesting to hear.
From the article:
It was the mindless British “guarantee” to Poland that caused World War II. In its absence the Polish government would have come to terms with Germany.
I agree, I’ve speculated the Jewish Banksters, who had a lot of power behind the scenes in Great Britain, forced their puppets in the British government to create the absurd agreement with Poland.
Excerpt from a BBC article:
It was unprecedented. Britain had never given such a pledge to an eastern European country. There had never been a special relationship with Poland. Even Winston Churchill was amazed.
“His Majesty’s Government have given a guarantee to Poland. I was astounded when I heard them give this guarantee,” he told MPs in May 1939, when still a backbencher.
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-28979789
Why did the Jewish Banksters want Great Briton to invade Poland? To teach the Germans a powerful lesson.
Hitler basically broke away from the elite Jews who controlled the banks, including the Rothchilds; the Jewish Banksters expected to provide loans (make big money and have control) to revive the German economy. In retaliation the Jewish Banksters decided to crush the German people, via WW2, unfortunately it worked.
Hilter created a booming economy with zero to very low interest rate loans, Hitler and his team didn’t want the Jewish Banksters in control.
The Jewish Banksters were concerned this notion of government loans with just a tiny interest rate to revive an economy might catch on throughout Europe, thus people wouldn’t need the Jewish Banksters and they would lose control of banking systems throughout Europe and in other countries.
My country is dead. I have no loyalty to what is now a meaningless line on a map. So I Go Galt.
germany was forced into w w 2 by the jew owned nations
Russia Uk and USA it was a dirty trick, because Germany dared to come away from the jew monetary system and he international banks
When i was first at work i spoke to as many men from w w 2 as i could many of them said if they had known they were fighting another war for the jews they would not have taken part
Read “Stuka Pilot” by Hans Rudel. When he still flew recce he photographed the Res Army build-up proving Stalin’s intention to attack Germany. The Allies were plotting WW2 long before. Read “Infamy” by John Toland. He writes “American diplomats were spreading war talk in Europe without the knowledge of Congress, but with the approval of the president” If I remember correctly, this was in 1936.
The war between Good and Evil makes the evil Jews attack White people.
Covid-19 is a complete hoax.
Virus theory can not make me physically ill, but the IDEA of an imagined virus will most certainly evince a psychosomatic response if repeated numerous times a day, 7 days a week, for MORE THAN ONE YEAR!!
The Nazi’s propaganda stated that if a lie is told with sufficient repetition, it will eventually be accepted as truth.
Stop with the Covid propaganda already Paul Craig Roberts. I will never accept this bullsh*t.
The USA is under the control of Bolshevik Ashkenazi Communist Satanists. If you can not figure this out, you are an UNCHRISTIAN idiot. Biden and Harris are pure evil.
I think he has forgotten the actual title, I think he means ..The Chief Culprit: Stalin’s Grand Design to Start World War II . It can be D/L from here in PDF…The Chief Culprit: Stalin’s Grand Design to Start World War II Paperback
And he still believes that this so called virus is real!
“I was a few days shy of 5 months old when Germany invaded Poland on September 1. The British and French governments responded to the invasion by declaring war on Germany”
The german invation of poland was a human rights operation. It was not the start of second world war.
The 2nd warld war was started by aggressive soviet union when soviets attacked poland on on 17 September 1939.
If only, all elected US politicians including POTUS could only serve one term in government things in Zionist occupied America wouldn’t have got so bad.
There is but one evil in this world which has proven to be from the same source throughout history. Wherever this evil infiltrates itself into another place on this earth its intention is always the same. It is driven by greed and total control . This is achieved by various methods including bribery, blackmail by sexual perversion and even murder. They will plan many years in advance to destroy a political system and its supported values , they will gain control of the vital education , financial and industrial systems in their vile corrupted agenda with planed and final achievement of complete destruction of decent society’s across the world whilst at the same time ensuring that they have stolen everything they may possibly can, there is only one way forward for this world to go to cleanse itself, and most people are plainly aware of the direction in which to move.
There is but one evil in this world which has proven to be from the same source throughout history. Wherever this evil infiltrates itself into another place on this earth its intention is always the same. It is driven by greed and total control . This is achieved by various methods including bribery, blackmail by sexual perversion and even murder. They will plan many years in advance to destroy a political system and its supported values , they will gain control of the vital education , financial and industrial systems in their vile corrupted agenda with planed and final achievement of complete destruction of decent society’s across the world whilst at the same time ensuring that they have stolen everything they possibly can, there is only one way forward for this world to go to cleanse itself, and most people are plainly aware of the direction in which to move.
Lots of lies here. Explain to us Mr. Roberts why Italy and Germany attacked my country, Greece, then… Greece wanted to remain neutral. Instead we paid a lot of blood, money, and destruction of infastructure, for a war we had no intention of participating in. Italy just invaded and after they were repelled the Nazis invaded also, alongside their Bulgarian allies. This doesn’t seem like someone who wanted “peace” to me. He wanted to conquer the whole world.
Roberts….states that the CIA killed JFK and his brother……
This is transparent NONSENSE….they were murdered by Global Jewry.
JFK was replaced by the OBVIOUS crypto jew Lyndon Johnson…
Until such time as Roberts sees fit to change his opinion on the JFK murder I wouldnt be giving him a penny.
LBJ…..was most certainly involved in the coverup of the destruction of the USS Liberty…..no question.
Snipper, so good you had to say it twice? lol. Or was it just part of s eyegots nazi propaganda big lie bullshit?
“The Nazi’s propaganda stated that if a lie is told with sufficient repetition, it will eventually be accepted as truth.” This is not accurate. When Hitler wrote of the big lie, he was referring to the Jews propensity to lie about everything and tell it long enough until accepted. The problems in the west go back to the defeat of Germany. This is where the big lie comes in. The Jewish owned media, even more powerful after their WW2 win, spread the lie nonstop that Hitler was an evil man and the “Nazi’s” started the war. Not to mention the added lie of the six million gassing hoax. Only the most suspect traitorous Jews were put in work camps, and not just Jews. What was Germany supposed to do with these people? They had been undermining Germany since at least WW1, declared economic war on Germany in the 30’s and came out with books like the 1941 book “Germany must perish” I understand completely what Paul Craig Roberts writes about and I must praise him for bravely stating some truths about WW2.
One of the Popes announced that it is essential to the salvation of the world that everyone should be subject to the Pope. This is the explanation for WW2 and most wars from the ‘fall’ of the Roman Empire until now.
Stephan-I want to acknowledge and thank you for your clear, accurate assessment of Germany’s conduct and PCR’s description of them.