The Official Narrative About WWI Was a Lie. Economist Explains.

追加: 2026-05-23

[00:00:00]You've pointed out many times all wars are engineered and we're just having a discussion at breakfast that I think is worth recounting for others. Um so first world war one of the most momentous events in world history ended Christian Europe killed more than 20 million people wounded another 20 million just really reordered the globe and then led to the second world war. So the United States joined that war in 1917 toward the end. It had already been going for 3 years. But one of the main reasons the US got into that war is because the sinking of a passenger ship called the Lucatania off the coast of Ireland two years before in 1915 in which 120 odd Americans were killed. It was sunk by a German yubot. And even at the time there were people who said I don't think this is this is not quite on the level. But now 112 years later, we know a lot more about the sinking of the Lucatanian. And I wonder if you wouldn't just mind recounting what you said to me this morning at breakfast because it gives us perspective on the effect of propaganda in wartime.

[00:01:08]>> Right. Um yes, I mean this the sinking was clearly um a key factor in in creating in the media in America anti-German sentiment quite successfully.

[00:01:19]Um, and so yeah, the question is what happened really? Um, the way it's presented was, well, there's a passenger ship with American passengers, you know, just civilians traveling across the Atlantic and sunk by a German submarine.

[00:01:34]Well, that's like an act of war against America.

[00:01:37]>> Yes. Going to do something about this.

[00:01:39]We're going to declare war on Germany.

[00:01:42]Well, that's not that's not a representation of the facts. What really happened was there was this British plan to get America into the war on the British side against Germany, which was very difficult because uh of course actually you know ethnically a majority at the time of Americans were of German origin. Even German speakers still by that time was still German was still widely used as a language in America.

[00:02:14]And and so to get America into war against Germany is a bit of a feat, you know, to arrange that. Yes, it is. It is.

[00:02:21]>> Um so how how did this happen? And and that is a good example of the extent to which the the plotters that want war go and it's it's good for people to think about that because of course ordinary people don't want war in any country.

[00:02:38]Most ordinary people are good people.

[00:02:41]And that creates this problem that they just can't imagine that we're dealing today, you know, as we look at the world with such dark and evil forces that are intentionally plotting to create a world war or get countries to declare war, you know.

[00:02:56]>> Yes.

[00:02:57]>> Um so that's why >> that is true. People cannot even permit themselves to believe that could be true.

[00:03:03]>> Yeah. Yeah. And and that's where studying history is important because we need to know the facts of what happened in the past to understand the present and make some predictions about the future or prepare for what could happen in the future. And the past teaches us that there are some evil elements out there and they are not really um you know they're not people that are represent of ordinary people. the majority of people wouldn't intentionally harm others but we do have such people out there and often in very important and powerful positions. So what happened was step number one uh Britain did this very officially. It listed the Lucitania as an auxiliary um naval military ship and of course the as you can imagine the German Imperial Army and Navy went by the book. I mean that's what one thing Germans are famous for. Um and of course the British knew this. So the moment they would list it on their official list of what are our ships officially declared to be military ships um it was on there as an auxiliary military ship. the Germans would of course target it. Now when the Germans then saw this German military, oh well hang on, isn't this a passenger ship?

[00:04:19]Well, you can re uh reuse um you know um of course passenger ships for warfare.

[00:04:27]So that seems to be what they're doing.

[00:04:29]But then they realized, oh actually they're taking passengers in. They plan to take passengers in in America. And so partly they sort of half realized well this could be a part of a bigger plot.

[00:04:42]That's not good and we don't want to sink passengers. On the other hand it was listed there. So that in in many ways they had no choice. What they did then was the German uh military command they put out and the German embassies implemented in America. They put out ads into American newspapers stating and they you know we have copies of these ads uh warning people don't board the Lucitania. It is listed as a military auxiliary ship. It is on our target list.

[00:05:10]>> Wait, the German government put ads in American newspapers telling Americans not to board the Lucatania because they might sink it.

[00:05:17]>> Exactly. Indeed. Indeed.

[00:05:19]>> That's incredible.

[00:05:20]>> And and it turns out that in in some cities, the big newspapers refused to carry these ads because they were clearly controlled by people that had the same views as the British side in this war and wanted America to join the war.

[00:05:36]So the ads weren't always published uh successfully everywhere but quite a few were published. So that's the situation.

[00:05:45]Despite that there were passengers on board. No doubt some efforts were made to make sure certain groups you know you would have some people on there for sure. Maybe you pay them to board even.

[00:05:56]Who knows? You know we don't know these details. We know the facts that there were passengers, American passengers on board, American citizens. and the Germans had warned we're going to sink this and um it's not quite clear whether there was actually military equipment on there. There seemed to be the indication that there was because and I you can imagine that the goal was really to make sure that the the Germans will sink it. So the best way then is to actually have military equipment on there and you know have some visibility when it's in the dock and some something's loaded and we do have some indication that this happening. Of course later this was denied. Um but there's also you know various people looking at at the the sunken wreck. Um and still it's basically there is a good chance that there was military ammunition and and other equipment on there. Now so that's one thing. The other thing is well how would the captain of the ship handle this? um as you know as he crosses with his passengers and potentially military load and of course he must have been aware that it's listed as an auxiliary military ship uh as he crosses the Atlantic. Well, the British at that time had actually broken the the secret code for encryption that the German military was using, the Enigma code, and they therefore could read the messages between um the Yubot submarines and headquarters and so on, which of course is another indication that okay um you know this this could not really have been such a big surprise uh to Britain. And something like this of course must have been the reason why the captain of the ship uh of the Lucitania was happy to go because you know of course he has to trust his his admiral t and his um you know um his country's leadership. They said no you'll be fine.

[00:07:52]We make sure you'll be fine. We we know where the hubot are, the Germans are and we'll we'll we'll guide you on the track that uh will keep you safe.

[00:08:02]So they guided him, as it turns out, straight into one of those German submarines. Um, but the captain didn't know. He was told this is the safe path.

[00:08:11]Now, where I'm sure he started to become suspicious was when the order was suddenly then given in the vicinity or about to approach the vicinity of a German submarine to slow down the engines because that never makes sense.

[00:08:26]And there's a good BBC documentary on this where they didn't hide the facts and they have the first lord of the admiral ti as the key figure. Who was that? None other than Winston Churchill.

[00:08:38]And they show how he gives the order.

[00:08:42]Now instruct the captain to slow down the engines and even his underlink saying well sir um you know this sort of increases the risk. Should we really do that? This is my order. Give the order.

[00:08:55]And that's what they did. They slowed down the Lucitania. And of course, it was unavoidable. Then the Yubot, they saw them. It's on the list. They have to follow the orders. And they sank it. And then, of course, the next day you had all these headlines, you know, these um you know, the Huns, the butchers had it again as the Germans were described in the British First World War propaganda.

[00:09:17]And it it was an important factor in getting America into war. So, so basically it was a false flag and that has been um a key mechanism to start or you know get countries to join a world war.

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