stock here: Russia has saved the world several times. Now it may be saving the world again from Globalism. Russia wants to it’s own country. But like Japan, now being invaded my Muslims, Russia is strongly against globalism.
Some AI=== and I dont agree with all of this, but it’s a fairly true history, presented with a slant.
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You’re raising an interesting question about whether WWII was really one war or several separate wars that became interconnected—and whether American policy helped bring the United States into them.
There is considerable historical support for the first two propositions. The claim that bankers engineered American entry into the European war to establish Israel is not supported by the documented sequence of events.
Stock here: FALSE!
1. WWII was really several interconnected wars
| Conflict | Beginning | Principal issue |
|---|---|---|
| Japan vs. China | 1937 (1931 in Manchuria) | Japanese territorial expansion |
| Germany vs. European powers | 1939 | German conquest of Poland and subsequent expansion |
| Germany vs. Soviet Union | June 1941 | German invasion of USSR |
| Japan vs. United States | December 1941 | Pacific strategic control, oil, and imperial expansion |
| Germany vs. United States | December 1941 | Germany declared war on America |
These conflicts had different origins, but their alliances, economic relationships, and military campaigns interconnected them into a global war.
2. Why did America care about China?
This is an important question because China was not an American military ally when Japan began its full-scale invasion in 1937.
American interests included:
- Trade: The United States had pursued an Open Door policy in China since 1899, seeking equal commercial access.
- Pacific security: Washington feared Japanese domination of East Asia would threaten the Philippines and American Pacific interests.
- Opposition to conquest: Japanese attacks on Chinese civilians, including the 1937 Nanjing atrocities, generated considerable American opposition.
- Balance of power: A Japanese-controlled China would greatly increase Japan’s economic and military influence.
The State Department acknowledges that American public sympathy for China made diplomatic compromise with Japan particularly difficult.
Office of the Historian
So you’re right that American policy helped precipitate the Pacific conflict. But Japan had already been fighting China for years before the oil embargo.
3. Did bankers finance America’s entry into the European war?
There is an important distinction between financing a war and causing a war.
The Treasury and Federal Reserve did coordinate financing on an enormous scale. The Federal Reserve supported low government borrowing rates, while Washington raised taxes and sold war bonds to households, corporations, and financial institutions.
In 1942, the Federal Reserve committed to maintaining exceptionally low Treasury borrowing rates to help finance the war.
Federal Reserve History
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But the immediate sequence of American entry into the European conflict is unusually clear.
Japan attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. America declared war on Japan on December 8. Hitler declared war on the United States on December 11, and Congress responded that day.
The German declaration wasn’t something American bankers had to persuade Roosevelt to obtain.
Office of the Historian
Roosevelt had already been assisting Britain before Pearl Harbor, however, including through Lend-Lease. America was not economically neutral in the European conflict.
4. Was Israel a consequence of World War II?
Yes, but not exclusively.
May 14, 1948
David Ben-Gurion proclaimed the establishment of Israel, nearly three years after Germany’s surrender.
The historical sequence matters:
- 1897: The First Zionist Congress organized the modern political movement for a Jewish homeland.
- 1917: Britain’s Balfour Declaration supported a Jewish national home in Palestine.
- 1922: The League of Nations approved the British Mandate for Palestine.
- 1933–1945: Nazi persecution and the Holocaust killed approximately six million European Jews.
- 1947: The United Nations recommended partitioning Palestine into Jewish and Arab states.
- 1948: Israel declared independence; war and the mass displacement of Palestinians followed.
The Holocaust dramatically increased international support for Jewish statehood and made the refugee crisis urgent. But the movement and British commitments had existed decades before WWII.
Office of the Historian
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5. The banker connection needs a specific name
You mentioned a banker who assured the president that the war would be financed.
There are several historically significant figures who might be relevant, including Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr., Federal Reserve Chairman Marriner Eccles, and financier Bernard Baruch.
These men had quite different roles, however. And an assurance that wartime borrowing could be financed would not, by itself, establish that financiers caused the war or pursued the creation of Israel through it.
I would distinguish three propositions:
- American sanctions contributed to Japan’s decision to attack. Strong historical support.
- Banking and financial institutions enabled America’s massive war mobilization. Strong historical support.
- Financial interests orchestrated American entry into WWII in order to establish Israel. That would require specific documentary evidence establishing the motive and causal chain; the records examined here do not establish it.