Victory in Europe Day was on May 8, 1945, the date when the World War II Allies formally accepted the unconditional surrender of the armed forces of Nazi Germany and the end of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich. On 30 April Hitler committed suicide during the Battle of Berlin, and so the surrender of Germany was authorized by his replacement, President of Germany Karl Doenitz. The administration headed up by Doenitz was known as the Flensburg government. The act of military surrender was signed on 7 May in Reims, France, and ratified on 8 May in Berlin, Germany. The historical significance of May 8 depends on the side of the war people belonged to - and the side they belonged to afterward.
German President Richard von Weizsaecker made one of the most meaningful comments about the significance of the date in German history. It came in an address to the German parliament on May 8, 1985. He said the eighth of May, 1945, was a day of liberation, it liberated all of us from the inhumanity and tyranny of the National Socialist regime.
Most Americans opposed entry into World War II, primarily because they had experienced the destructive idiocy of U.S. intervention into World War I, a war that accomplished nothing more than the wasteful sacrifice of thousands of American lives, not to mention giving rise to Adolf Hitler and, ultimately, World War II. Even though World War II saved Europe from the Nazis, the Eastern Europeans were delivered into the hands of America's communist partner in WW II, the Soviet Union.
Communists killed 200 million people, and Nazis killed 20 million people. Venitis points out the Butterfly Effect proves that you only need a major warmonger to transform a minor war to world war. Venitis muses that Winston Spencer Churchill's sadomasochist career lasted half a century, and no other Western warmonger was more calamitous for his country and civilization than Churchill. More than any other kleptocrat, in 1914 and 1939, Churchill lusted for war, his weird ac-dc foreplay, and pushed his country to turn two European wars into world wars. Both times, he succeeded, and those wars, that together took the lives of a hundred million Europeans, were the most infamous mortal blows on humanity. If Churchill did not interfere, Hitler could have wiped out communism from the surface of Earth by 1942.
Adolf Hitler had limited geopolitical aims, just to liberate Eastern Europe from the yoke of communism, but the excitable warmoger Churchill overreacted. Hitler was not out to conquer the world, he loved and admired Britons, he let the British army evacuate from Dunkirk, and he built a defensive line between Germany and France, the Siegfried Line. Churchill's decision to bomb a shattered Germany between January and May 1945 was a war crime. When Churchill entered the inner Cabinet as First Lord in 1911, Britain was the first nation on Earth and ruler of the greatest empire since Rome. The sun never set on the British Empire. When Churchill left in 1945, Britain was a poor island. He was a Great Man, at the cost of his country's greatness.
George Bush and Tony Blair lied about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Neither the Iraqi people nor the Iraqi government participated in the 9/11 attacks or ever attacked the United States. That makes the U.S. government the unlawful aggressor, invader, attacker, and occupier in Iraq, which means that U.S. soldiers have no right, moral or legal, to be killing anyone in Iraq, including those Iraqis who are simply trying to rid their country of an illegal occupier.
Typically couched in a vague context of yellow ribbons, waving flags, and kleptocratic rhetoric, questions of war become questions of patriotism in the most wrong-headed ways imaginable. If Uncle Sam pushes for socialized healthcare or stupidus stimulus, there is no end to the questioning. But if Uncle Sam decides to go to war, too many Americans assume that it is their patriotic duty to support those wars without question. This is obscene, as the only thing standing between a soldier and a bad government decision is the citizenry. With the invasion of Iraq, Americans did not support the troops, they needlessly abused them.
Basil Venitis points out Uncle Sam and Fourth Reich(EU) now spend two trillion euros every year on the military, homeland security, and intelligence. There are 5,000 active terrorists in the world. This works out to spending 400 million euros per terrorist per year. Fear of terrorism drives growth in government and has led to involvement in multiple little wars and some bigger ones as well as subsequent exercises in nation building, all of which have been unconstitutional, and none of which have turned out well.
The global war on terror, now referred to as overseas contingency operations, is without end and without limits, and has made the West hated and feared in most of the world. It has even made Americans and Fourthreichians potential targets of their own government without any recourse to the protections afforded by the American Constitution or the Lisbon Treaty. The exploitation of fear of terrorism by kleptocrats has led to wars that did not have to be fought. Fear has been the key to the door for expansion of government, and kleptocrats have seized the opportunity. It has also eroded the liberties that have defined our Graecoroman culture.
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Business interests seek to bend the state's decisions in their favor by corrupting official decision-makers with bribes, such as gifts, loans, entertainment, transportation, lodging, prostitutes, inside information about personal investment opportunities, overly generous speaking fees, and promises of future employment or consulting patronage for kleptocrats or their kith and kin, campaign contributions, sponsorship of political fund-raising events, and donations to charities or other causes favored by kleptocrats. Kleptocrats in turn corrupt businessmen by effectively turning them into conspirators and beneficiaries of kleptocrtas' most fundamental activity, plundering the general public.
Venitis notes that participants in the military-industrial
Venitis notes that socialists, kleptocrats, and warmongers destroy Uncle Sam. The failure of America's wars has been the very freedoms they sought to preserve. Propaganda, lies, and myths led America into many wars. As venitists know, war has ever been the health of the state. It is clear that wars, hot and cold, have been responsible for the enormous taxes, deficits, and governmental spending that have created kleptocracy so beloved by the social engineers and economic planners of bureaucracy. If foreign wars have been America's chief failure, its great success has been the historic peace and freedoms, the individual liberties and responsibility, to which we must now return.
It's a real tragedy to die for nothing, but we should honor the Americans who go out every day and place themselves in danger in the belief that they are doing so to defend their nation and way of life. The real tragedy here is that kleptocrats, who are completely divorced from the suffering and pain of real people and their families caused by the continuous warfare, do not have the courage to pull the plug on the entire bogus enterprise of interventionism and nation building. Changing one warmonger planetarch for another leads nowhere.
Basil Venitis notes that we are observing the last days of the American Empire. Like ancient Rome, America is saddled with an empire that is fatally undermining its government. The trappings of empire are many: the brutal war of choice in Iraq and other foreign interventions going back decades; the militarization of space; the hundreds of overseas U.S. military bases full of swaggering soldiers who brawl and sometimes rape. At home, the growth of an imperial presidency, with the CIA as its private army, has culminated in kleptocrats' resort to warrantless wiretaps, torture, a gulag of secret CIA prisons and an unconstitutional arrogation of dictatorial powers, while a corrupt Congress bows like the Roman Senate to Caesar. Retribution looms, as the American economy, dependent on a bloated military-industrial
Fourth Reich(EU) originates from the Red House Report, a detailed account of a secret meeting at the Maison Rouge Hotel in Strasbourg, a couple of blocks from today's Eldorado of Prostitutes(
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