Updated By Bob Barney 2023
I stand firm on this even more so today that because of the stupidity of our leaders, they caused the killing upwards of 20 million people in WWI and 21 million additional people were wounded! Presently speaking and given the corrupt climate on a global scale, we are on the verge of something even more irresponsible and even more catastrophic than WWI.
As you will read below, WWI was started by MISTAKE and that is The Plain Truth! I cannot stress enough that it is because of how absolutely half-baked the national leaders were. WWI was not supposed to happen. The Czar of Russia, the Kaiser of Germany, the Prime Minister of England, the Italian government, and the old Ottoman Empire (Austria), every country was controlled by people that didn’t have enough brains between them all.
Russia had a pact with Serbia, Germany was an aggressor to Serbia, England had an alliance with Serbia and France had an alliance with Serbia. America had no alliances whatsoever, but we had a president, Wilson, that wanted to always be with and like England.
Many people are unaware of the fact that the King of England, the czar of Russia, and the Kaiser of Germany were all first cousins, and they were all descended from Queen Victoria. This matters in the story as the bottom line with WWI is that the cousins were ultimately fighting over nonsense. In addition to this, their military leaders were even more inadequate and were eventually to fight with 15th Century tactics with 21st century guns and airplanes and they are to blame as well for the wounded and the casualties.
So, what happened? The Archduke Ferdinand of Austria was thought to be killed by a Serbian and therefore must have been working for Serbia. This was not true. He was killed by anarchists! Which by the way, some anarchists are related to Satan. They are troublemakers! As a result of the Archduke’s demise, Austria and Germany went to war against Serbia. This action brought England, France, Russia, and Italy to posture themselves against Germany and Austria.
Initially though, all the parties involved agreed to not go to war and to make peace but Russia, being a big clumsy bear and being that carrier pigeons couldn’t make it fast enough across Russia’s 13 time zones, they mobilized their troops and went full speed ahead. Tens of thousands of soldiers kept showing up surrounding the borders of Serbia and Germany and because of the lack of speedy communications and even with the Czar trying to stop this, created a mistrust in Western Europe. They accused him of being a liar, so they all began mobilizing their own troops, abandoning their peace talks, became a group, and WWI had begun. (This is an excellent resource on the topic, here:)
This column below was written by Bob Barney back in 2013 and is still timely and spot on…
We live in an Equal Opportunity Employment World, a concept and a reality fed to us in massive dung piles by our worthless leaders. All major firms hire ‘EOE’ employees and most never really get any power, they just fill positions and do nothing; no harm done, right?
Recently, many firms have actually promoted inferior workers into high positions with disastrous results. JC Penny, being the last example. In 2008, America put an EOE into the White House, dumber than his predecessor, and only elected because of his color. It is my contention that we will not just experience one of the greatest depressions of all time in the very near future, but I believe we will find ourselves in another war…maybe even a WORLD WAR.
This is why I have decided to run an article on the causes for the start of WWI.
The first world war was a totally unnecessary war. It was fought because of the enormous level of stupidity of the world leaders at the time. We are talking about Great Britain, France, Germany, and Russia. The men leading these countries were complete morons and because they allowed the assassination of a minor person from an even lesser-known nation, Serbia, we had WWI!
The great war produced the “Lost Generation“, which Ernest Hemingway so famously wrote about. This war destroyed France for forever, making her the laughingstock of all nations to this day and the war also took the greatest power in the world, Great Britian, and reduced her into a second-rate power. If America was not the growing world power on the scene in the 1920’s when England was declining in power, the English today would be speaking German and saluting Hitlers’ successors. THIS was the end result of both WWI and WWII.
For America, our own hubris and moronic EOE leadership (and added today in 2023, the intentional desire to bring America to its weakened knees), will result in the destruction of us as a world power.
The following piece on WWI causes, I encourage you to compare the causes of back then to our current day scenario!
Background to the War
We have conquered for ourselves a place in the sun. It will now be my task to see to it that this place in the sun shall remain our undisputed possession, in order that the sun’s rays may fall fruitfully upon our activity and trade in foreign parts… The more Germans go out upon the waters, whether it be in journeys across the ocean, or in the service of the battle flag, so much the better it will be for us.
A speech by Kaiser Wilhelm to the North German Regatta Association, 1901
| [Note: the AQA syllabus only requires you to know about the Arms Race and the System of Alliances, but you may wish to treat nationalism, imperialism and awful governments as essential background knowledge.] The argument which follows suggests that Europe in 1914 was RIPE for war to break out – that the causes of World War One went back long before 1914, and had so set Europe at odds that it only needed a tiny spark to push all Europe into war. You will need to understand, not only WHAT the situation was in 1910-14, but HOW each element made war more likely… | LinksSpidergrams:• Examples of the long-term causes of war• How did the long-term causes of war cause war? Powerpoints:• Alliances and World War I ppt. swf.• Arms Race and World War I ppt. swf. YouTube:Blackadder on the causes of World War One Map of Austria-Hungary in 1914Race map of Europe before 1914  Essay frame: How was a ‘climate for war’ created by 1914? |
| 1. Militarism This is not just an arms race, but also a government’s attitude of mind, seeing war as a valid means of foreign policy. (This often includes the influence of government by the generals.) All the nations of Europe were militaristic, but the governments of Germany and Austria-Hungary were especially so. All the countries of Europe built up their armies and navies. In 1914, their armed forces stood like this:• Germany: 2,200,000 soldiers, 97 warships• Austria-Hungary: 810,000 soldiers, 28 warships.• Italy: 750,000 soldiers, 36 warships• France: 1,125,000 soldiers, 62 warships• Russia: 1,200,000 soldiers, 30 warships• Great Britain: 711,000 soldiers, 185 warships As one country increased its armies, so all the others felt obliged to increase their armed forces to keep the ‘balance of power’. Germany and Britain clashed over the size of their navies -in 1900 Kaiser Wilhelm began to build up the German navy (Tirpiz’s Navy Law), announcing that he wanted Germans to sail all over the world and take for Germany ‘a place in the sun’. After 1906, he began to build numbers of the new, large ‘Dreadnought’ battleships, which were more powerful than any other ship. Effects1. The British developed the idea that Germany wanted to challenge British sea power – the basis of Britain’s greatness (cf ‘Britannia rules the waves’).2. A strong navy would also allow Germany to threaten British colonies overseas.3. Britain made an alliance with Japan in 1902, so as not to have to worry so much about the Pacific.4. Britain also began to build Dreadnoughts. The British government had planned to build four Dreadnoughts in 1909, but when Germany refused to limit the number of ships it was building, the British public protested, demanding: ‘We want eight and we won’t wait’. Britain and Germany thus had a naval arms race.5. By 1914, Britain had won this naval arms race and the British navy was much larger than the German navy, so it is arguable that this was NOT a major cause of World War One. Another thing that the countries of Europe did was to train all their young men so that if there was a war they could call, not only on the standing army, but on huge numbers of trained reservists. One historians has estimated the total number of men (including reservists) that the countries could thus call upon as:• Germany: 8.5 million men• Russia: 4.4 million• France: 3.5 million• Austria-Hungary: 3 millionIt is important to realise that – although in 1914 the German army was the biggest and best in the world – the Russian army was growing the fastest, and German generals were worried that, in a few years time, they would not be able to defeat Russia so easily (see Source E). | Source AThe German answer to all our talk about the limitation of armaments is: Germany shall increase to the utmost of her power… I have lived among Germans, but with the best will in the world I can see no solution to the present collision of ideals but war.A lecture given in 1913 by JA CrambJA Cramb was an Englishman who went to university in Germany, and who loved Germany. Source BThe Naval ‘War Cabinet’ of 1912General von Moltke [head of the army] said: I believe war is unavoidable; war the sooner the better. But we ought to do more to press to prepare the popularity of a war against Russia. The Kaiser supported this. Tirpitz [head of the navy] said that the navy would prefer to see the postponement of the great fight for one and a half years.From the Diary of Admiral Muller, 8 December 1912Some historians say that this proves that Germany was wanting war in 1912, although others say that it records a general discussion of no great significance. |
| 2. AlliancesAs well as seeking protection in the size of their armies, the countries of Europe sought protection by forming alliances.At first, Bismarck had kept Germany friendly with Russia. Kaiser Wilhelm overturned this, and concentrated instead on the Dual Alliance of 1879 between Germany and Austria-Hungary – which became the Triple Alliance (or Central Powers Alliance) when Italy joined in 1882.êAlarmed by this strong central bloc:a. France in 1894 made an alliance with Russia, andb. In 1904 France made an agreement with Britain called the Entente Cordiale (= ‘Friendly Relationship’ – not a formal alliance, but a promise to work together). c. In 1907, Britain made an entente with Russia, thus forming the Triple Entente (France, Russia, Great Britain). d. In 1902 Britain made a naval treaty with Japan.êThe Triple Entente alarmed Germany, which felt itself surrounded by the France-Russia alliance.The countries of Europe thought that the alliance system would act as a deterrent to war; in fact it tied the countries together so that, when one country went to war, the others felt themselves obliged to follow. | Alliances Timeline Diagram – very clearThe Alliances – Columbia encyclopediaThe Triple Alliance – Wikipedia article The Triple Entente – Wikipedia article Sidney Bradshaw Fay Did You Know?It is important to realise that the politicians of 1914 did not see – as we do today – the build-up of armed forces or the system of alliances as threats to peace; they thought that they would KEEP the peace by acting as a deterrent to any nation thinking of attacking them. They believed that peace would be kept by a BALANCE OF POWER between the two alliance blocks. |
 A map showing the alliances in Europe in 1914. | |
| In addition to these two major issues, historian have identified three other underlying causes of the war: 3. Nationalism EVERYONE A) was nationalist in those days, and this helped cause war in two ways: It made the people of countries like Britain, Germany and France more bellicose (warlike) – the British sang: ‘Rule Britannia’ and ‘Land of Hope and Glory’, and the Germans sang: ‘Deutschland uber alles’. French politicians like Clemenceau and Poincare (who had been around in 1870) HATED the Germans. People were enraged when someone insulted their country. B) It made the races ruled by Turkey (such as the Romanians and the Bulgarians) and by Austria-Hungary (such as the Serbs) want to be free to rule themselves. In the Balkans this was called ‘Panslavism’ because the people who wanted to be free were all Slav races. The most nationalistic of all were the Serbs – Serbia had became an independent country by the Treaty of San Stefano in 1878, but in 1900 many Serbs were still ruled by Turkey and Austria-Hungary, and Serbia was determined to rule over them all. This led to rebellions and terrorism which destablised the Balkans. | Source DLand of Hope and Glory, mother of the free…God who made thee mighty, make thee mightier yet.The words of Land of Hope and Glory, written by the English composer Elgar and sung by British people at the Prom concerts every year. Germany, Germany above all, over everything in the world,When it steadfastly holds together, offensively and defensively.The words of the German national anthem, Deutschland uber Alles. |
| 4. Imperialism Countries who believed that they were superior thought it was alright to conquer and rule others – particularly if they were inhabited by races, they thought were inferior. This is why countries like Britain, France, Belgium and Italy thought it was OK to colonise vast areas of Africa in the 19th century. In 1900, the British Empire covered a fifth of land-area of the earth. A. This led to clashes between imperialist powers. Britain was trying to conquer Africa from Cairo (in the north) to Cape Town (in South Africa). France was trying to conquer Africa from the Atlantic to the Red Sea. In 1898 their two armies met, at Fashoda in the Sudan, almost causing a war. B. Most of all, it led to HUGE tension when Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany decided that HE wanted some colonies too! | Source E This British postcard shows what would happen if the Kaiser took the ‘place in the sun’ that he wanted. |
| 5. Awful governments Not only were many of the governments of Europe autocracies (ruled by one man), but many countries also had stupid and corrupt governments (click here to find out the shocking facts). Note that very few of the countries of Europe were democracies – it is hard for a democracy to go to war because the people (not just an individual ruler or small group of ministers) need to agree to go to war. Remember also that in these days there was no idea of going to war for the ‘right’ reasons – many people in those days thought it was alright to go to war simply to win more power and territory for the ruler. In such a Europe, outbreak of war was less of an issue than – say – the recent war in Iraq. | Source FA peaceable, industrious, sensible mass of 500 million [European people], was hounded by a few dozen incapable leaders, by falsified documents, lying stories of threats, and chauvinistic catchwords, into a war which in no way was destined or inevitable.Emil Ludwig, July 1914 (1929) |
| Extra:For each of these background ‘pressures-towards-war’ 1-5, suggest how it helped to bring war nearer. | |
In summary, today, we have a total incompetent moron in Washington DC. Putin proved this as well by invading Ukraine and Xi proves this with his attempt to confiscate Taiwan. You do know by now that the taking of Taiwan will then mobilize Japan to attack China…right?
There are no warriors in the world willing to die more than a Japanese kamikaze type warrior. You may think Moslems are willing to die at all costs, but that is not so.
It is important to remind you about the mentality of a kamikaze…they believe there is no life after death so to them, it is no holds barred when it comes to sacrificing themselves and their nation. They fear NOTHING and that is a continued cultural posture going back 1,000 years.
This is what our 45th President, Donald Trump understands and over anyone else in the deep state, the media, or our government…that we are headed for disaster. How many times has he said it himself…? Countless times. And this is why we here at The Plain Truth believe it is going to take a miracle from God, (and He is in the business of miracles), in order to get Trump back in office so he can be used by God to help straighten this mess out. Then America may be given more time to flourish and be the blessed Country that God intended for it to be. It is time to be a warrior of PRAYER.