And the growing tensions in England and Europe over the growing population of Muslims look ominous.

Another day older and closer to death.

And, considering the current tension between Germans and Muslims in Germany, history might repeat itself very soon.

http://www.amazon.com/review/RT0PJK89V90D0/ref=cm_cr_dp_cmt?ie=UTF8&ASIN=030740515X&channel=detail-glance&nodeID=283155&store=books#wasThisHelpful

As to the Soviets, perhaps they needed some sort of pretense, like the blowing up of the Battleship Maine or the sinking of the Lusitania. But the Soviets were so bold, aggressive, & in control of things, they didn’t feel the need for any pretense.

http://history1900s.about.com/cs/worldwari/p/lusitania.htm

Hitler had some misgivings about the French but did not view them as a potential threat to Germany, as the Soviets were.

Therefore, when England & France declared war on Germany, Hitler entreated them to reconsider. Moreover, Danzig was 90% German, & before France & England declared war on Germany, nearly 85% of the people of the world sympathized with Hitler with respect to the Danzig issue. But England & France refused to budge (as did Poland buoyed up by her new found supporters).

Therefore, France’s & Britain’s declaration of war on Germany appears to be a contrivance engineered by Stalin’s secret agents of influence working within the governments of both Britain & the U.S.

See the Philby Group & “Stalin’s Secret Agents,” by Stan Evans & Herbert Romerstein.

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/RUScomintern.htm

However, Poland refused to negotiate with Germany because Britain & France had pledged to defend Poland. Britain’s & France’s foolish audacity may have been the result of FDR’s secret promise to back them. (See Freedom Betrayed by Herbert Hoover.)

http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005438

http://ww2memories.wordpress.com/2011/07/25/danzig-gdansk-and-the-start-of-ww2/

But Britain & France turned a blind eye to the Russian attack on Poland, and only declared war on Germany.

Later, Britain & France welcomed Russia as an ally in a supposed grand & just war to preserve freedom in Europe (see the Atlantic Charter). But Russia had forcibly taken over Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, & parts of Finland & Poland prior to the war and Czechoslovakia, Hungary, East Germany, Albania, Bulgaria, Romania & all of Poland after the war. (That’s how economically backward Russia became the powerful Soviet Union.)

http://linnamuuseum.tartu.ee/?m=2&page=4&change_lang=en

“The experience of the last 20 years has shown that the Communist movement is not strong enough to seize power in peacetime. Sovietization can best be achieved through war.” Josef Stalin, August 9, 1939. A few days later Germany & Russia signed the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact calling for the simultaneous invasion of Poland. (See Icebreaker,” by Viktor Suvorov.)

Russia was invited to join in the pact (instigated by Wm. Bullitt), wherein England & France pledged to protect Poland against German aggression, but Stalin feared that if the Soviets joined the coalition, it would probably discourage Hitler him from reclaiming the German territory ceded to Poland under the Treaty of Versailles.

A German-Soviet non-aggression pact, however, would give Hitler a free hand to reclaim those lands from Poland. Moreover, Stalin felt certain that England, as Poland’s ally, would declare war on Germany, drag a reluctant France into the conflagration, and Italy would rush to Hitler’s side.

“Nonintervention represents the endeavor… to allow all the warmongers to sink deeply into the mire of warfare, to quietly urge them on. The result will be that they weaken and exhaust one another. Then… (we will) appear on the scene with fresh forces and step in, naturally in the interest of peace,” to dictate terms to the weakened belligerents.”2 Josef Stalin, March 10, 1939, speech in Moscow.

Nikita Khrushchev said that Stalin considered war with Germany inevitable. But first, he wanted to see Germany debilitated by war with the West.

It must be our objective that Germany wage war long enough to exhaust England and France so much that they cannot defeat Germany alone…. Should Germany win, it will itself be so weakened that it won’t be able to wage war against us for 10 years…. It’s paramount for us that this war continues as long as possible, until both sides are worn out.5 Josef Stalin, text of a speech Stalin delivered on August 19 to a closed session of the Political Bureau in Moscow, as published in the Swiss periodical Revue de droit international on August 25, 1939.

Even though FDR ordered our Navy to shoot at the Germans, they refused to fire back for fear of provoking war. Therefore, FDR turned his attention to progressively escalating provocations for Japan. Finally, FDR told Japan to get out of China, Indochina, & Manchuria, or else. And Japan knew what the “or else” meant. Japan was willing to do just about anything to stay out of war with America, including getting out of China & Indochina) but she had invested nearly a half-century of her blood & treasure in Manchuria (including a massive investment in the South Manchuria Railway). And the demand to abandon Manchuria (that the Soviets so dearly coveted) proved too great.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Lake_Khasan

https://mises.org/misesreview_detail.aspx?control=188

http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1930