World War III: The Only Way to Return Truth to the Foundation of our Society
Michael A. Smith
Associate Adjunct Professor at University of Maryland Global Campus Writer
Looking back through history, when truth was lost as a standard around which thinking people could rally, it took a brutal war to restore truth as a foundational reality. I share three most recent examples: the American Civil War, WWI, and WWII.
Our Founding Fathers did us a major disservice when they refused to deal with human slavery at the 1787 Constitutional Convention. They enshrined slavery into the Constitution and kicked the can forward for a later generation to solve. From 1820, lies, divisions, and all manner of dirty tricks ensued that tore at the unity of the United States. Denials and abuses of power were rampant and threatened to end the great experiment of the democratic republic. Finally, the election of Abraham Lincoln was the step too far, and South Carolina seceded from the Union, followed by other Southern states. Four years later, 700,000 men from both North and South lay dead. It would take a hundred years for normalcy to return. Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, scribbled hurriedly on the back of an envelope, was a master piece detailing the nation's testing and its hoped survival. With two sides at an impasse, it took brothers' blood to restore common sense. Christians fought Christians during the most significant religious revival in American history. Every day, soldiers went out to kill each other, returned to camp, washed up, ate dinner, and held religious services, celebrating that God was on their side.
The war winds in Europe heightened from the unification of Italy and Germany in the 1870s. The problems were European, prompting the US to stay out of the first three years and enter the fourth to help the allied powers win. It was called "The Great War," or "The War to End all Wars." It was not the first world war, but it was termed that way. This time, the cost was 8.5 to 11 million casualties. The loss in property was tremendous. For our one year of participation, the US lost 117,000 men.
Leading to the war, European leaders, especially the German Kaiser, who was the grandson of Queen Elizabeth, and his Prime Minister Bismarck were bullies and were jealous of other nations. Kaiser Wilhelm visited his grandmother in England and was envious of England's vast navy. He returned to Germany to start a weapons race and try to outdo his cousins. The war in the west was brutal and fought in trenches and shattered the idea of Christian unity, as Christians fought against Christians. Millions dead.
The seeds of WWII were planted at Versailles, where the Axis and Allied powers met to arrive at a peace. Woodrow Wilson showed up with his Fourteen Points to World Peace. He walked into a buzz saw of treachery among the Europeans. They had made secret deals with smaller countries like Italy to ensure they got land. They worked hard to ensure the Germans were not made to feel they were the aggressor. They penalized the Germans with reparations and a return to former borders. They drew borders that left German citizens under the rule of other countries, which gave Adolf Hitler his propaganda.
Adolf Hitler was a mesmerizing speaker who could spin lies one after another and hold an audience until he had them under his spell. He rose to chancellor of Germany in 1938 and rearmed Germany rapidly. It took him just fifty-three days to dismantle the democratic republic of Germany to a dictatorship. He began bullying countries. Most ignored it until he directed his army to invade Poland on September 1, 1939, initiating WWII, followed by invasions of Denmark and Norway in April 1940, and later Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands in May 1940. The attempts to appease him were legendary but failed. Eighty-five million was the death toll to bring the world back to truth and to abandon misinformation. One-half million were Americas.
After the Jan. 6 incident, which Trump denies was an attempt to overthrow the government, and in the same breath claims that attacks on Musk's Tesla Charging Centers are domestic terrorism, the question is how do we get back to truth? Both sides are entrenched in their false ideas and are not changing. Sadly, a significant war, and this one is destined to be on American soil, might either bring us to our senses and return us to a foundation of truth or destroy us entirely. Sadly, these are our historical choices.
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Given the exploration of "war" as a part of my discussion the last few days surrounding the Civil War-set novel, Some Like It Hotter, I continue to be amazed, and thankful, when I found that Professor Michael A. Smith has already raised his concern and written of the possibility of WWIII. Certainly if the president of the United States has anything to do with it, I am forced to agree, sadly...
In attempting to proclaim his dictatorship, the president attempts to use his own slogan, "I, Alone, Can Fix It..."
Yet, all he does is create chaos, disruption, and fear. He has accomplished, exactly, NOTHING, since he entered the office...Daily we are faced with the latest "whim" that crosses the mind of an individual who has absolutely no guidance, nor, it seems control by anyone... More and more, people, though are now speaking out...Will it be enough to prevent another World War? Let's look at just a few of his attempts to take over the world...
He first started with attempting to take over the United States with the January 6th Insurrection...
Acquire Greenland for the United States...
Take Over Canada as another State of the United States.
Take over the Panama Canal and surrounding area.
Stop assistance to Ukraine and take over control of negotiation which has failed...
Take over Gaza - while at the same time, the Prime Minister of Israel is spouting the same decision and acting upon it!
Attacking Iran, participating in skirmished with Iran-financially supported terrorist groups, including Hamas...
Declared Tariffs against every single country in the World!
Shot down boats coming out of Venezuela. Without authorization or notice to the country... And, without knowing exactly what those boats were being used for.
Spoke against Brazil's overthrow of their president, increasing tariffs placed against the country...
Removed all entry into the United States from any other country. At the same time, attacking all immigrants, mostly by violence and relocation into holding pens or out of the country...
Placed a mandate against DEI and removed staff, employees and programs in support of diversity.
Attacking higher education, removing funding, based upon some attempt to take over the control... Now going after Smithsonian and other cultural institutions.
Totally destroying the medical care system of the United States.
Instigating lies and complaints against the minority political party, controlling the entire congress, as well as the supreme court... Although judges across the nation have been successfully fighting back...
Yes, I could go on, including the very clear evidence, via redistricting, that our entire voting apparatus is being destroyed, if not stopped...
Indeed, could it be that a Cold War, as was earlier with Russia, has been underway since this administration took office? Will it lead to WWIII, as spotlighted by Professor Smith?
At least once in the past, I've guesstimated, based upon my working in a federally funded university for over 35 years, that the time it will take to just repair the damage done in less than 6 months, will take at least 100 years to return to where we were before he was reelected--I don't even want to discuss how that happened... Bureaucracy takes time if you are doing it properly--justifying, proposing, budgeting, funding, purchasing, project management, etc...
Given that those outside of the Government, namely, The Heritage Foundation, had already created a mandated destruction of America (even if they called it something different), suddenly, not even the president had any idea what he was signing as the stacks of executive orders started being placed for his signature. They had found the perfect stooge...
Except they forgot he was a conman, first, and he soon started making decisions related to money coming back to HIM via loss of funding for what earlier had been approved and funded... and it... just... keeps... on going... After all, he needed a golden office and, of course, needed to add a gigantic ballroom that no other president even considered they needed...
Because, of course, creating a kingship with all the power and glory required that money come to the king, first, to acquire all that he needed to magnify his ownership role to his...worker bees... Because all that he had to be bigger and better than any other king ever had before him... Right?
All I can say is that I hope that the majority of America will see the Truth of what has already occurred... and Vote to Avoid World War III!
Professor Smith is an ongoing contributor to Book Readers Heaven. Thank you so much for sharing your thoughts here and across the world...
God Bless
Gabby
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