The Mythos Surrounding WWII

Because I Haven't Pissed Off Enough Substackers Already

There’s been an Internet furor about Tucker Carlson’s interview of Darryl Cooper, recently—right here on Substack, in fact. Cooper touched on a few different areas of interest, including Jim Jones and his cult. But it was his assault on the official WWII narrative that piqued my interest, and apparently caused the interview to go viral.

Before going into detail, Cooper specified that highlighting the immoral behavior of one historical figure was not tantamount to whitewashing the behavior of another. Nevertheless, his reassessment of Winston Churchill caused massive butthurt across Normieland.

Cooper noted that Hitler was content with and had the lebensraum he desired after the conquest of Poland, wanting no conflict with Britain and France. But the Allies—and Churchill in particular—insisted on a war with Germany and calculated the UK’s every action to wage and prolong one. Even after the Wehrmacht’s stunning (but reluctant) defeat of France, Churchill ignored Hitler’s peace overtures. Even after Germany allowed the British Army to escape at Dunkirk, and nixed an invasion of Britain, Churchill still fanatically remained committed to a war with the Germans, at whatever cost in lives was necessary. Far from being the savior of the world he is hyped to be, Churchill was a warmonger hell-bent on waging a crusade for reasons which were not as altruistic as we’ve been led to believe.

I’ve been a WWII buff since I was a teenager and have read quite a bit about it. Cooper’s theory, so far, (he barely scratched the surface in the interview) meshes with my own evolved understanding of that period of history.

Faster than a jerking knee, outrage mobs formed to accuse Cooper of Being a Nazi sympathizer and Hitler apologist.

A lot like how criticizing Obama would get you accused of white supremacism.

For a saeculum now, nobody dared question the sacred WWII mythos. But after digging underneath the superficial narrative, and connecting the dots obscured by the coincidence theorists and their Establishment fellow travelers, I don’t believe an honest person can help it.

Tucker provided Cooper with a bigger microphone than I’m ever likely to get, but I have done some myth-busting of my own.

Provoking Fate is the fourth book in the Paradox series, from which I’m pasting the following excerpt. It’s a more “tell” than “show” than I normally dump on a reader, but I considered it the best and most efficient way to reveal my working theory. With the help of a time machine, Ike’s adopted father gives him the mother of all history lessons. This is one part of it.

When Hitler was awarded the Chancellorship of Germany, the Cabal didn't have to stage mass shootings to disarm the German people—people had no right to bear arms to begin with. The National Socialists jumped straight to absolute authoritarianism after the Reichstag fire. The French and British, despite having superior armed forces and an overt interest in keeping Germany weak, chose to appease the rash new dictator as he first violated the Versailles treaty by building up the Wehrmacht; then moved troops into the Rhineland; then annexed Austria; then took over the Sudetenland; then occupied Czechoslovakia.

Hitler staged his own "false flag" operation to justify invading Poland from the west, while the Soviets invaded from the east. The Allies had finally drawn the line at Poland, thus "the Big One" (World War Two) finally kicked off.

Dad emphasized the point, however, that they only declared war on one of the invading empires: "Interesting that attacking Poland was an act of war for Hitler, but not for Stalin. Now I just wonder why that might be."

We did some more sightseeing over the Atlantic while Dad continued filling in details.

While the USA was still pretending to be neutral, FDR had the US Navy helping the British, to varying degrees, attack German U-Boats. He had American merchant ships ferrying munitions, and even British troops, for the Royal Navy. Roosevelt effectively turned civilian cargo vessels into his own "Q-ships," armed and aggressive toward German U-Boats.

"Roosevelt keeps assuring everyone that his policies are strictly defensive," Dad said, "but he wants war with Germany bad. Real bad. He assures Churchill the USA will pull their Limey asses out of the fire again. Trouble is, the Lost Generation, who survived the last pointless European war, don't wanna send their sons to die in the sequel. Americans don't like war, anyway. The best way to get Americans to change their mind, though, is to piss 'em off. Churchill said as much. That's why Roosevelt is trying to provoke another Lusitania incident."

"I'm still kinda' upset about Poland," I admitted.

"What about it?"

"They get carved up from two directions," I clarified, "but only one culprit was blamed."

Dad grinned at me. "It's part of a pattern that should be clear to you when this is all over. Communists are good guys, see, so whatever they do is either justified, or ignored. Stalin gobbles up other sovereign countries while he's at it: Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia…invades Finland. No Lend/Lease for the Finns. But as soon as Hitler double-crosses Stalin…that's all the excuse Roosevelt needs to start building the USSR up into a superpower. We never got a dime back from "Lend/Lease," by the way. Or an aircraft. Or a field gun. American taxpayers were grifted to finance the build-up of our communist 'ally,' then were left holding the bag, as usual."

We listened to a radio broadcast in 1940, during which FDR assured Americans that their sons would not be sent to fight in Europe again.

My heart sank as I watched an American destroyer stalk a German submarine, reporting its position so a British bomber could attack it. Another US Navy ship attacked U-Boats for three hours with depth charges before the Germans fired back.

Dad showed me a Gallup Poll from that year: 88% of Americans opposed another war with Germany, even with all this going on. Something drastic was required to turn them pro-war.

"I feel sick," I said.

"Why's that?" Dad asked.

"It's like you're taking Germany's side. Or trying to get me to take it."

Dad sighed and shook his head. "Don't get stuck in binary thinking. You don't understand what the 'sides' really were. Almost nobody did. Sure—FDR wasn't on Germany's side. He also wasn't on America's side. Germany was a tool—just like the Depression. Just like Roosevelt himself. Like pretty much everything else, it wasn't a Good Guy against Bad Guy scenario. There was no Good Guy. It was Bad Guy against Bad Guy…and Bad Guy against Worse Guy. Thesis against Antithesis, so they can wind up with Synthesis. Stalin and Hitler were the Thesis and Antithesis. International Socialism against National Socialism."

He had talked about the Hegelian Dialectic before, but my emotions were hindering my intellectual stamina right then. "Synthesis was the New Deal, then?"

"That was a simultaneous dialectic, Sprout. In America. You're thinking too small."

That fit. I felt pretty small. Small; insignificant, and hopeless.

"Not that I'm gonna shed any tears for the Nazis," Dad said, "but they actually showed incredible restraint. The Krauts learned their lesson from the first war, and didn't take Roosevelt's bait. But there was a nation in the Axis that could be provoked into a fight with us."

My heart sank a little more, in anticipation of what might be next.

The Japanese had never been defeated, and many of them considered themselves invincible. They also didn't understand the American temperament the way Churchill did. So maybe they were too arrogant to consider the risks of a war with the USA; or maybe they underestimated the American reaction to the destruction of the US Pacific Fleet.

Whatever the reason, they would blunder right into the trap.

FDR had Japanese assets frozen. He closed off the Panama Canal to their shipping. He increased sanctions against Japan all the way up to a full embargo. There were several other provocations. Then he made our Navy as vulnerable as he could to the Japanese.

Dad piloted the VTOL over a California naval base before the war, pointing out all the battleships, cruisers, destroyers and aircraft carriers in port. He nodded toward the ships below and said, "US Pacific Fleet."

"Why are they here instead of Pearl Harbor?" I asked.

"Because there's plenty of fuel here, and dry docks," he replied. "No shortage of manpower to draw from to crew these ships. Sailors tend to maintain higher morale when they get to see their families now and then, instead of being stuck on some island halfway around the world where they outnumber women twenty-to-one and if you want to get laid…well, you'll have to settle for the hordes of faggots in Honolulu. Here you got a whole continent behind you and there's only so many directions you can be attacked from. There's nets and baffles in the harbor, to guard against torpedoes. Pearl Harbor doesn't have that. The Japs would never try to attack the fleet here. Never. You ever heard of Admiral J.O. Richardson?"

I shrugged. "Don't think so."

"He didn't want to move the fleet to Hawaii, where they would be sitting ducks. Butted heads with FDR. Got shitcanned. Churchill figured, if Britain could hold out until FDR was reelected, US entry in the war was a done deal. He called that one dead on."

Richardson was replaced by Admiral Kimmel, who also thought moving the fleet to Pearl was foolish, but who followed orders. He believed that Washington's intelligence network would warn him if an attack was likely.

And Washington did have good intelligence on what the Japs were planning. A program called MAGIC had cracked the Japanese code, and determined when the attack was scheduled. Embassy staff in Tokyo provided intelligence that tipped off Washington the location of the attack.

Three of the decoding machines built as part of MAGIC were given to the British, but none was provided to the American Armed Forces in Hawaii, despite being requested. Instead, intercepted messages were forwarded from the Pacific back to Washington, decrypted, then routed through the military bureaucracy back to Pearl. At least some of them were routed to Pearl.

Further radio intercepts through MAGIC confirmed the Japanese plans—including the time, place, and manner of the attack. The SIGINT (signal intelligence) was further corroborated by a Yugoslavian double agent; a Peruvian ambassador; Dutch Army code breakers, and the Korean Underground. But the Roosevelt Administration withheld all this information from the men who needed it most—the commanders of US Forces in Hawaii.

I processed all this information, heartbroken, like a kid who just found out there is no Santa Clause.

The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor was FDR's back door into the war against Germany he wanted all along.

Our entry into the war made Americans accept a lot of "new normals," like Daylight Savings Time, the IRS automatically withholding the "voluntary" income tax from their paychecks…and the second advent of a transitional global government, now called the United Nations, funded mostly by those automatically withheld "voluntary" taxes on American citizens.

After D-Day, General Patton's US 3rd Army broke out of the hedgerows in Normandy and began exceeding all expectations along his race to Berlin. He was finally stopped, not by the Germans, but by Allied commanders diverting his supplies to the predictably unsuccessful Operation Market Garden. This bought time for the Red Army's own race for Berlin.

"So remember," Dad said, "the war started when Poland was invaded from the west by the Wehrmacht and from the east by the Red Army. But France and Britain only declared war on Germany, while the USSR got a pass. When the Soviets invaded Finland, Lithuania, and so on…crickets. Then, at Yalta, FDR met with Churchill and Stalin. That's where Roosevelt and Churchill handed Uncle Joe all of Poland and the rest of eastern Europe. Wanna know what our brave boys in uniform were really fighting for?"

Dad showed me the map of pre-war Europe again, then showed me a post-war map for comparison with all communist countries colored red. The later map revealed that the communist empire had expanded significantly during the war.

"You tell me what the war accomplished," Dad challenged me. "Did we 'set the world free'? Looks like the opposite to me."

"But…Hitler was a threat," I replied, weakly.

Dad scoffed. "He was the lesser evil. We replaced him with a mass murderer three times worse. Yay, democracy."

I was desperate to find some outcome of the war that would have justified it. "We did prevent Japan from controlling the Pacific."

Dad rolled his eyes. "You just don't see the pattern yet, do ya Sprout?"

We jumped to the Far East to continue the tour.

In August of 1945, Japan was incapable of offensive campaigns. After the battles for Iwo Jima and Okinawa, even the most fanatical Japanese Imperialists knew they were beaten. Immediately after President Truman had the atom bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Stalin joined the war against Japan, gobbling up more territory, including half of Mongolia and Korea.

In China, during the war, Mao Tse-Tung did very little to help fight the Japanese. He instead concentrated on building his own power, while Chiang Kai-Shek and his Nationalist Chinese forces did most of the heavy lifting against their mutual enemy. Envoys and advisers sent by the Roosevelt Administration, including General Stillwell, did what they could to help the Communists while sabotaging the Nationalist Chinese. They assisted the mainstream media in whitewashing the behavior and ambitions of Mao's followers—even denying they were communists, so the American people would remain ignorant.

At President Truman's invitation, the Red Army also moved into Manchuria, where they armed and equipped Mao's weak guerrilla force with captured Japanese weapons, as well as weapons paid for by American taxpayers and furnished to Stalin via "Lend/Lease." Meanwhile, George C. Marshall cut off supplies to the Chinese Nationalists. Despite betrayals of the Nationalists by communist apologists high up in the US Executive Branch, Chiang still could have won the civil war. On three separate occasions, Chiang Kai-Shek had the communists trapped and on the ropes. Each time, George C. Marshall imposed a truce (which only the Nationalists honored) rescuing the communist forces from annihilation.

We flew over Mao's encampment some time after the Japanese surrender. Dad varied our altitude drastically so I could get the big picture. Chiang's Nationalist Chinese had inflicted numerous defeats against the communists and was now poised to wipe out what was left of Mao's PLA ("People's Liberation Army").

"This is Chiang's last opportunity," Dad explained. "He can secure victory with one final push. But as we speak, his 'great American ally' is gonna snatch defeat from the jaws of victory yet again. Marshall will coerce Chiang into not pulling the trigger."

The opportunity to save China slipped away forever.

Mao escaped, regrouped, reinforced, and was resupplied by the Soviets, who were now flush with weapons, supplies, and money given them by the Roosevelt and Truman Administrations. Of course, Chiang never got that kind of support from the US. He also never got another chance to wipe out Mao's PLA. It wasn't too long before the situation was reversed, and the Nationalists had to flee to the island of Formosa.

The communists took over mainland China—thanks mostly to the US State Department.

"Stillwell and Marshall have the supplies and munitions we promised Chiang dumped in the Bay of Bombay or left in India," Dad explained, "rather than deliver them to the Nationalists. Marshal leaves China in 1947, having fucked the Chinese people and, ultimately, the world. The Koumintang grows weaker and the communists get stronger until all mainland China is enslaved by 1949."

Americans are now waste-deep in a Fourth Turning. It makes sense that the last generation heavily invested in the mythos surrounding the previous Fourth Turning (the Great Depression and WWII) are approaching the end of their cultural/societal dominance just as those myths are cracking under scrutiny.

One way or another, there will be a new paradigm by the turn of the new saeculum. Part of that, I predict, will be:

1. A reduction of interest in the previous Fourth Turning in lieu of what happens in this one.

2. Proliferation of narratives about WWII which supplant the one maintained up until now.

All six Paradox books are still on sale for the moment.