{"id":229679,"date":"2021-03-18T07:59:59","date_gmt":"2021-03-18T07:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=229679"},"modified":"2021-03-20T06:45:35","modified_gmt":"2021-03-20T06:45:35","slug":"i-have-outlived-my-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=229679","title":{"rendered":"I Have Outlived My Country"},"content":{"rendered":"

Paul Craig Roberts \u2013 paulcraigroberts.org March 16, 2021<\/strong><\/h1>\n

I was born in the spring of 1939.\u00a0 I was a few days shy of 5 months old when Germany invaded Poland on September 1.\u00a0 The British and French governments responded to the invasion by declaring war on Germany, thus initiating World War II.<\/p>\n

Germany always gets the blame.\u00a0 Germany\u2019s 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.\u00a0 This is because the victors write the history.<\/p>\n

The British, French, and Americans were victors only because the Soviet Red Army defeated the Wehrmacht, possibly the finest army ever in existence.\u00a0 The Soviets prevailed through sheer numbers and in weapons production capability far beyond Germany\u2019s capability. After reading Viktor Surorov\u2019s book, The Real Culprit<\/em>, I don\u2019t 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.<\/p>\n

Hitler was putting Germany back together from its dismemberment by the Versailles Treaty.\u00a0 Only the German people and territory under Polish rule remained to be returned.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 The result was the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact that divided Poland between Germany and the Soviet Union. Hitler had a claim to German territory.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n

It was the mindless British \u201cguarantee\u201d to Poland that caused World War II.\u00a0 In its absence the Polish government would have come to terms with Germany.\u00a0 Hitler did not want war with Britain and France, much less with the US. These were events forced on Germany.\u00a0 After the swift \u00a0German \u00a0defeat 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.<\/p>\n

Churchill continued to refuse German offers of peace, and some historians concluded that the reason Hitler attacked the Soviet Union was because of Hitler\u2019s belief that Churchill was holding out with the expectation that Russia would come into the war on the British and French side.\u00a0 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\u2019s histories have not uncovered \u00a0evidence to support Suvorov\u2019s claim that Hitler knew of a planned Soviet attack. Neither side seemed to know of the other side\u2019s intention.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

I am writing this as background to the world I grew up in.\u00a0 World War II did not harm the US.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n

US military deaths from both fronts\u2014Japan and Germany\u2014totalled 416,000, a number almost matched by Britain, a much smaller country and population, and exceeded by tiny Yugoslavia with 446,000 military deaths.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n

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.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n

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.\u00a0 Boys could have fights on the playground without being arrested. Parents together with teachers dealt with problems, which were few. Teachers were outstanding.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n

Misbehavior, which was rare, was dealt with a note home that had to be signed by a parent and returned the next day.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n

We got along well with black Americans.\u00a0 They were part of even lower middle class white households. In those days labor saving machines were unknown.\u00a0 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 \u201cwhite privileged.\u201d\u00a0 Carrie dined with us at the table, and if Carrie encountered a financial problem she couldn\u2019t handle, my parents and her other day employers would pool our scant resources to help her.<\/p>\n

I grew up in Atlanta, Georgia, with no fear or hatred of black Americans.\u00a0 This is no longer the case in Atlanta.\u00a0 Many white Atlantans are fleeing the city.<\/p>\n

It is not only the relations between the races that have deteriorated.\u00a0 Everything has.\u00a0 America today bears no relationship to the American world that I grew up in.\u00a0 Of course, today the reply will be that I grew up in \u201cwhite privilege.\u201d But actually, I grew up in a community in which people and genders had different roles, and a person was judged by performance.\u00a0 Performance included moral behavior.\u00a0 If you were a moral person who did a good job and your word was true, you were respected.\u00a0 Period.<\/p>\n

Today if you aren\u2019t a \u201cwoke\u201d person who objects to gender pronouns and you don\u2019t believe that the white working class are \u201csystemic racists,\u201d you are deplatformed and cancelled. White people are now demonized by other white people, and the demonized are not permitted to object. Any \u201cperson of color\u201d can destroy any boss, fellow employee, university professor or dean by claiming to be \u201coffended.\u201d<\/p>\n

In America today there are very few free people.\u00a0 Only those not dependent on employment and media approval are free.\u00a0 Even the few free Americans are in jeopardy as the expession of dissent is being defined by the Biden regime as domestic terrorism.<\/p>\n

The media speaks with one voice, and the voice is one of denunciation of all who challenge the ruling narratives.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n

The consequences are varied and disastrous.\u00a0 With Covid there have been needless lockdowns that have destroyed businesses and individuals.\u00a0 In foreign policy antagonisms have been created that could lead to disastrous wars with Iran, China, and Russia.\u00a0 The focus of the Biden regime on defining Trump supporters, all 90 million American voters, as domestic terrorists implies a civil war.<\/p>\n

What I find most discouraging about America is that after all the proven deceptions Americans\u00a0 have endured\u2014the 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\u2019 line, the Vietnam War, 9\/11, Saddam Hussein\u2019s weapons of mass deception, Assays\u2019s use of chemical weapons, Iranian nukes, Russiagate, Russian invasion of Ukraine, the 2020 election, Trump insurrection at the Capitol\u2014the list goes on forever\u2014Americans continue to sit in front of CNN and the rest, \u00a0listen to NPR, and read the New York Times or Washington Post and, thereby, \u00a0continue to accommodate the ruling Establishment by consenting to being brainwashed. A people this insouciant has no possbility of survival.<\/p>\n

A bainwashed America, a brainwashed Western World, are not homes for freedom.<\/p>\n

On this website, I attempt to make you aware.\u00a0 In contrast to the media, I give you good information about the subjects I explain.\u00a0 Go back and compare what I told you compared with what the media told you.<\/p>\n

Consider, for example, my Covid reporting. I told you how to protect yourself.\u00a0 I told you what the cures are if you are infected with a serious case.\u00a0I told you the masks are not protective unless they are rated N95.<\/p>\n

This is valuable information.\u00a0 This website is valuable for everyone. Every person on earth is unique.\u00a0 We should respect every one until they give us reason not to respect them.\u00a0 The people in Western governments seem to be the least respectable.\u00a0 They lie the most, and the presstitutes cover for them. Only those who speak truth are attacked.<\/p>\n

Think about your sources of information.\u00a0 I mean real information, not that which agrees with your biases.\u00a0 Do you have better sources than this website?<\/p>\n

Does it keep you informed?\u00a0 Does it make you think?<\/p>\n

If so, you owe it your support.<\/p>\n

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