THE ROBERT W. WHITAKER ARCHIVE

THE A-C RULE AND WORLD WAR II | 2006-04-04

The A-C Rule was most obvious in World War II.

France was allied with its Country C, Poland.

When Germany allied with ITS Country C, Russia, against Poland as Country B, Hitler could not understand why France and Britain declared war on GERMANY for invading Poland, but did not declare war on RUSSIA, which invaded from the other side.

To Hitler, Poland and the other countries created by the Treaty of Versailles, were jokes. To Hitler, RUSSIA was Country B.

When Hitler invaded Russia, he could not understand why Britain could not understand that he had been sincere all along when he said he was after Russia. Rudolf Hess, Hitler's Number Three man, thought that is HE personally flew to Britain, he could make them understand.

Hess thought Churchill was sane, and paid for it the rest of his life.

So the A-C Rule is very, very, VERY practical. More often than not, it is a matter of life and death.

Churchill has been declared a Great Prophet by historians, so naturally he was out of date. He condidered that only Germany was the threat to European stability, not the lone Soviet Union away out there in the East as the only Communist country on earth.

By 1948, Cburchill had handed a third of the world's population and half of Europe to Stalin by uniting to dstroy Germany. So when Churchill looked at the result of his work and announced that half of Europe had gone behind Stalin's "Iron Curtain" he was again proclaimed a Genius and a Prophet.

World War II lost Britain its Empire and created the Soviet Empire.

And the Great Prophet never understood ahy his Great Work had gone so wrong.

In the end, Churchill concluded of Hitler and Stalin that "I slaughtered the wrong pig."

That statement didn't help much by the time The Great Prophet made it, and historians have scarcely noticed it.

COMMENTS (4)

#1 Peter | 2006-04-04 18:18

Bob,

You are repeating here the ho-hum, in-the-box, usual view of the last wars.

But it does not explain why the French all but helped Germany to occupy France, nor does it explain why Poland was Germany's best ally until the Polish president was assassinated by MI6 and its government thrown into anarchy; it does not explain why Poles had to be bribed with millions of pounds and false promises of a blank check to invade Germany, slaughter thousands of Germans and start WWII. (But even then the war was averted until the West persuaded Stalin to amass all his divisions on the de-militarized line with Germany, thereby starting the real war.)

Bob, you say many nice things, but you are too eager to accept everything you have been taught even when you know your teachers were liars.

Of course we all know there would have been no "Civil War" had those boys at the Citadel just ignored the refortification of Sumter...

Bob (if you are reading this), think different.

#2 kanefromsf | 2006-04-04 22:52

Hitler and Stalin are both in the same league as each other, and Stalin even helped Hitler into power by improving his standing in an election by pulling out the German communists. There is a reason for this, and that is it is much easier to switch between Totalitarian governments (Stalin wanted to expand) than it would be to turn a social democratic country into a totalitarian state.

I think the fact that Hitler openly killed people but Stalin secretly killed people, it wasn't until years after Stalin that people knew of his crimes, helped all of that. I of course think that both of these guys are bad guys. And neither should have our support. Once Hitler declared war on us we did have to stop him. It was all about who was seen as the most immediate threat, although both obviously were threats.

#3 Bob | 2006-04-05 22:02

Peter,

Replies may come later.

But don't worry about whether Bob reads the comments in Bob's Blog.

Hisself

#4 Mark | 2006-04-06 08:11

"Replies may come later."

May?

May???

MAY???

Peter hit a home run and Bob acts as if it were a foul ball.