Just after WWII, the USA offered a total nuclear weapons ban. The
Soviets refused. The USA offered "open sky" flyover to reduce
tensions. Ditto.
I doubt very much that that is an accurate way to describe the situation.
I can imagine USA suggesting a total ban on development of nuclear weapons
for other nations, so they would remain the only nuclear power.
The same with "open sky" flyovers, it would probably have greatly served
USA to stay in a much better position, as they were after the war, when
Russia and Germany had exhausted all their resources and USA was unharmed
and had a strong weapons industry built up.
Remember that the capitalist side had just tried to destroy Russia
completely and had killed 20 million russian soldiers.
What reasons would Russia have after the war to suddenly start to trust the
capitalist side and allow some "open air" policy which would surely serve
the capitalist side ambitions to keep on attacking Russia?
The USA let western Europe govern itself, even elect
Communists; compare that to the fate of Poland, Rumania...
It is easy let people "govern themselves" when you have full control over
the world media channels, and news agencies, and could control the economy
of Europe through the Marshall help plan.
http://reformed-theology.org/html/books/wall_street/chapter_06.htm
" Henry Ford was also the most famous of Hitler's foreign backers, and he
was rewarded in the 1930s for this long-lasting support with the highest
Nazi decoration for foreigners."
"Henry Ford's protestations of innocence suggest, as we shall see in this
chapter, that he did not approve of Jewish financiers profiting from war
(as some have), but if anti-Semitic Morgan3 and Ford profited from war that
was acceptable, moral and "constructive.""
"On December 20, 1922 the New York Times reported4 that automobile
manufacturer Henry Ford was financing Adolph Hitler's nationalist and
anti-Semitic movements in Munich."
"We shall see later that Hitler's backing in the late 20s and early 30s
came from the chemical, steel, and electrical industry cartels, rather than
directly from individual industrialists. In 1928 Henry Ford merged his
German assets with those of the I.G. Farben chemical cartel. A substantial
holding, 40 percent of Ford Motor A.G. of Germany, was transferred to I.G.
Farben; Carl Bosch of I.G. Farben became head of Ford A.G. Motor in
Germany. Simultaneously, in the United States Edsel Ford joined the board
of American I.G. Farben."
"General Electric and the Financing of Hitler
The tap root of modern corporate socialism runs deep into the management of
two affiliated multi-national corporations: General Electric Company in the
United States and its foreign associates, including German General Electric
(A.E.G.), and Osram in Germany. We have noted that Gerard Swope, second
president and chairman of General Electric, and Walter Rathanau of A.E.G.
promoted radical ideas for control of the State by private business
interests."
"n brief, we have hard evidence of unquestioned authenticity (see p, 56) to
show that German General Electric contributed substantial sums to Hitler's
political fund. There were four American directors of A.E.G. (Baldwin,
Swope, Minor, and Clark), which was 80 percent owned by International
General Electric. Further, I.G.E. and the four American directors were the
largest single interest and consequently had the greatest single influence
in A.E.G. actions and policies. Even further, almost all other directors of
A.E.G. were connected with firms (I. G. Farben, Accumulatoren Fabrik, etc.)
which contributed directly — as firms — to Hitler's political fund.
However, only the German directors of A.E.G were placed on trial in
Nuremburg in 1945."
"In two gears Germany will be manufacturing oil and gas enough out of soft
coal for a long war. The Standard Oil of New York is furnishing millions of
dollars to help. (Report from the Commercial Attaché, U.S. Embassy in
Berlin, Germany, January 1933, to State Department in Washington, D.C,)
The Standard Oil group of companies, in which the Rockefeller family owned
a one-quarter (and controlling) interest,1 was of critical assistance in
helping Nazi Germany prepare for World War II"
And it goes on and on like that, showing that the american capitalists did
a lot to start a war in Europe, which would, of course be very useful in
crushing communism and socialism, and let USA become the remaining super
power of the world after Europe and Russia had exhausted all their
resources and had been bombed to pieces.
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