It was a issue that only the strongest among themselves could make out, and the strongest were France and England. They hated each other with a passion at that moment. The fact that England was in the end game for world domination was the big surprise for Paris.
The English had prepared for this for a long time, cool to the bones. Under the guise of ‘European balance’, they negotiated on this side, or on that side, and systematically maintained the eternal war on the European mainland… It was the naked greed for the immeasurable jewels and gold that had been seen in the state treasure coffers of the Indian Maharajas, and the rewards of the North American fur trade. It was naked greed that inspired the English to copy the ancient Roman idea of a ‘colonial empire’ a long-forgotten term… Cooper’s ‘The Leatherstocking Tales’ played during this time. A lovely book. A nice harmless book. And so classy. So right to be placed in the hands of the youth… England began to take on the task of informing the rest of the world about current affairs“.
In this context, a poem from 1872 by Conrad Ferdinand Meyer is worth mentioning. It speaks about the pitiful predisposition among some Germans to be gullible defectors and nest polluters: ‘To hell a German libertarian, who brags about being an enemy collaborator‘. This sublime tradition is continued these days, with dignity, by incumbent and past Federal Presidents. Napoleon also clearly recognized the inclination and mercilessly exploited it. – Continued with Joachim Fernau.
“Yes, you are reading correctly! Berlin fell. At that time, Russians were already strolling ‘Under the Linden’. That was in October 1760. A year later we still saw Friedrich fighting… Heaven knows what kept him upright.
At this point, England broke away from Frederick and stopped the supporting payments. In India, the decisive battle at Plassey had been won and India was placed under the British crown. And in North America, Quebec, the last French run city, was in the hands of the British. Prussia was no longer of interest. The world war out there was decided. On Christmas Eve 1761, Frederick the Great sat with the rest of his faithful in snow-covered tents in a camp somewhere in Silesia, where he was expecting the new year. And it was probably the end.
At that moment, fate intervened inexplicably. Within hours, Frederick became the victor of the Seven Year’s War!… On 17 January 1762 Elizabeth of Russia died. The new Tsar was an ardent admirer of Frederick. Like everyone at the time, secretly.
The Russian soldiers made a U-turn of 180 degrees. They were suddenly Prussia’s allies. I don’t need to explain anything further to you, given the format of Frederick the Great.”
Felt slipper war. After the French Revolution. 1792 – 1795.
“One morning, in April 1792, the news broke that France had declared war on Austria.
The goal was not to fend off an attack, but to do something very primitive and chauvinistic. No king could have been more chauvinistic than these supposed freedom worshippers. On January 31, Danton said: ‘The borders of the Republic are set by nature. We will reach them completely – on the Rhine. The border-stones of our republic must stand there, and no violence will prevent us from achieving this!’ So now we know the reason for the war.
Yes, it was astonishing, and the people of France did not notice that these world-do-gooders and tyrant-haters took over the whole chauvinistic program of Louis the Fourteenth…
The great Republican experiment of France has not changed anything in the life of nations, but one thing: responsibility became anonymous and hatred became personal! One could no longer say: ‘Louis 14 burned down the Palatinate’, but ‘the French have’… I think life has become a hint more evil… In a separate peace, the French took the whole left bank of the Rhine… On 27 July 1794, exciting news came from Paris: the Revolutionary Party, in which no one was safe of his life, executed Robespierre! France had chopped off its head!”
Coalition wars against Napoleon. 1792 – 1815.
“After the French Revolution, one no longer had the feeling of being a blind chicken or puppet of other powers but was sober and ‘enlightened’. That was what the masses understood to be the meaning of common sense. On the other hand, one used one’s energy to obtain some tiny rights and ‘freedoms’ to best advantage. Whoever succeeded, was considered to be the most clever and progressive of all, a true candidate for the post of Foreign Minister…”
Slightly modified, this statement explains the rise of a green-inspired, riotous taxi driver, to the position of German Foreign Minister, 1998 – 2005.
Napoleon then, [after his failed Egypt campaign] as history books teach, heroically made his way, by land and in a daring boat trip, ahead of his troops back to France. He was cheered by the people, unseated the perplexed and paralyzed ‘people’s representatives’ in a clean sweep, and was proclaimed by the troops and the crowd as head of state. The masses were convinced that a lot of fame and glory would happen again for France… No one had any idea that there was a European Genghis Khan lurking in the young Frenchman…[of Italian descent]