There are two previous posts related to this one. I blame high school for not teaching history properly.
Just a simple overview:
World War 1 took place between 1914 to 1918, which is where a lot of ideas are currently coming from. The Spanish flu was discovered in Spain in 1918 likely brought in through all that movement and the poverty of war.
The Ottoman Empire (ended in 1922) was already declining, leaving room for others to expand. The land that is currently Israel belonged to the Ottoman empire, was conquered and held by the Brits.
Iceland belonged to Denmark and achieved its sovereignty in 1918 and 1944. It is a Nato member, but has no army of any kind. Wikipedia has a decent history on it in which the US played a role. It shows how much territorial reshuffling wars produce.
The recent slip of the tongue at the WEF where he mentioned Iceland several times is probably the intent of repeating a base on Greenland which I think is going to be the agreement.
How important good allyship and friendships are. In 2022 when the pipeline on which Germany is dependendant for 40% of its gas supply was destroyed by the Russia/Ukraine war, Canada quickly repaired one of the giant bombardier turbines that the Germans needed.
When the US ran out of baby formula (also 2022?) due to Covid and supply chain interruption, Europe sent baby formula on military planes.
Canada along with the Ukraine are the main suppliers of world wheat, but the former is dealing with Tariffs. The later had to let it go to waste.
Then there are very young Turkish people that want the Ottoman Empire back, Iranians who want Persia back and a group of pure bloods who claim Vikings as their ancestry.
Anthropology is a soft and speculative science. involving a lot of hypotheses. Vikings were the warrior tribe of the norsemen, likely mercenary, marauding and exploring, spending a lot of their time on ships and telling tall tales. They didn't really settle anywhere they landed (Greenland and Iceland among it), which they abandoned due to the mini ice age of the middle ages. They were only active for about 150 years.
They were a little taller than the Europeans at the time (around 5'7 or so) probably due to their lifestyle and fish based diet. They ended up integrating and marrying into European culture. Considering the estimate of about only 100,000 of them claiming them as ancestors is silly.
This should make some of the recent comments make more sense.
Currently, Germany wants to repatriate their gold reserves, because it no longer views the US as reliable. It was stored there due to fears that Russia might invade. Ironic, because Russia is expanding.
Troops are being deployed to deal with Iran and rumors have it that Israel is asking the US for restraint.
Of course a lot of propaganda is Russian generated and this is modern warfare, so how much is for show and distraction is anyone's guess.
China has already acquired Hong Kong, which was thriving. Not sure what is currently going on with Taiwan. I could be wrong, but China is mostly interested in intellectual property and selling its goods.
Before people think it's over there, well, it affects all of us with western values.
Here's a very brief commentary on the WEF meeting. I'm still trying to find a non AI transcript of Carneys speech.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=j7CH59Q6ytg
I leave with a Churchill quote:
"Democracy is the worst of all political structures,
except for all the others that have been tried from time to time."
As always, please refrain from insulting politicians. At this point it's much bigger than that.
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