And for those who might've been inclined to consider an alternative to the "co*k-up" theory of the Gallipoli tragedy, it is impossible to imagine how this would have affected them. Either way, even now we might 'cue the sound' of long departed Anzacs -- to say nothing of Britain's own veterans, along with those of all other countries involved -- spinning furiously in their eternally designated plots of land (at least those 'fortunate' enough to be identified and [to] receive a proper burial) at such knowledge or more broadly, any suggestions the larger war was fought for reasons other than the ones they believed in and did actually fight for. Lest We Forget indeed!
In a follow-up article published on the eve of the ANZAC* Centenary, Docherty and Macgregor present in graphic detail the backstory behind the Great War's arguably greatest travesty. After observing Gallipoli "was a lie within the lie" that was the First World War, they then grimly observed the following:
"The Gallipoli landings went ahead on 25 April 1915 with the terrible slaughter and wounding of many incredibly brave young men, dispensable pawns on Imperial Britain's chessboard....By late 1915....the British government began withdrawal from the corpse strewn peninsula. The last Allied troops were taken off on 9 January 1916, leaving behind 62,266 of their comrades. The majority of the dead on both sides have no known graves. Many of the 11,410 Australians and New Zealanders who died suffered unspeakable deaths, [were] deliberately sacrificed on the altar of British imperialism." [My Italics]
The Kids in the Kindergarten
From at least 1904 -- shortly after the Second Boer War (itself little more than a dress rehearsal for the showdown with Germany), and fully ten year's before the eventual outbreak of the War -- Lord Milner's "Kindergarten" clique literally conspired then at every turn to spark this cataclysmic conflagration. To say they left no stone unturned in their efforts to realise their grand plan is no overstatement.
One example will suffice herein. This was the dogged manner in which various members of the Secret Elites coerced, cajoled and curried favour in the pre-war years with the various dominions and colonies specifically amongst their respective media outlets and leading politicians of the day -- Australia, India, New Zealand, Canada to name the obvious ones -- to ensure that once war began, there would be unstinting loyalty from all and sundry to the cause of empire. It was of course an astonishing political, diplomatic and propaganda achievement, yet one we can now safely say, came at great cost for all those dominions and colonies, with little or nothing to show for it.
It should be noted that, as first Lord of the Admiralty at the time, of all of the Cabinet ministers the aforementioned Churchill was according to the PM at the time Herbert Asquith, "the most eager for war....[he was] bellicose, and demanding immediate mobilization". Indeed, so hot to trot for the conflagration was our chap 'Winnie' -- a man who by any measure is 'deserving' of his own revisionist narrative -- that even after Cabinet refused at one crucial point in their pre-war deliberations to give him permission to mobilise the Royal fleet, he went ahead and did so anyway! A warmonger to be sure, and many would argue even at this stage, well on the way to a deserved -- yet rarely acknowledged -- reputation as a war criminal par excellence.
Of course as history also records, Churchill went on to become Britain's wartime leader in the fight against Nazi Germany under Adolf Hitler, himself no less than a singular creation of the Secret Elites and their immediate successors. Although a story for another time, in this we can safely say all Churchill was doing was cleaning up the mess he and his ilk had so assiduously worked to create from the off. But without American treasure, and especially Russian blood -- not to mention that of all the other allies -- this time it would have been England that had bitten off more than it could chew.
Yet as history tells it, 'winning' the Great Game was something of a Pyrrhic victory for the Empire. By 1945 it had gone all pear-shaped for the British as a direct result of imperial overreach brought on by monumental hubris, avarice, contempt and greed, fuelled by an absolute, insatiable -- and ultimately corrupting -- lust for geographical dominion, human exploitation, and unbridled power even Lord Acton (he of the "power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely" dictum) might never have imagined the human condition capable of mustering absolutely.
And now with Uncle Sam intent on playing his own version of the "Great Game" (swap China, Iran and Russia for Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire) -- with the remnants of the Old Empire now playing second fiddle -- we're clearly heading toward another Great War scenario. Which is to say one does not need to be a descendant of Nostradamus to see where this might be heading. With current world events and developments uncannily echoing those of the time and which are still being defined by its ongoing blowback, for the imperially inclined, the Great War is the gift that just keeps on giving. Just ask the neoconservatives and their fellow travellers the liberal interventionists in Washington and the broader beltway! In so many respects these folks are all rightful heirs of the Secret Elites, and guardians of their treacherous, cold-blooded legacy.
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