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2006-10-07 Europe

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Posted by Seafarious 2006-10-07 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11132 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Much like France's Vichy collaboration with the Nazis, their drive to facilitate Eurabia will help spawn another of Europe's famous charnel houses. Vlaams Belang is a wrong but predictable response in the face of mounting Islamic domination. Europe's career bureaucrats simply cannot disengage their obsession with multiculturalism for long enough to regain perspective. The great unwashed will do it for them and nuance will be in short supply when this happens.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2006-10-07 02:03|| 2006-10-07 02:03|| Front Page Top

#2 Too many people forget what the history of Europe was before the imposed peace of US dominance after WWII. The Europeans had fought a world war before the 20th century, and much of it took place in North America : the French and Indian War. England and France went at each other's throats, and pulled every one of their colonies into the mix. The Europeans have a talent for slaughter and may well discover it again, before too long if the Muslims are not careful.

Posted by Shieldwolf 2006-10-07 03:42|| 2006-10-07 03:42|| Front Page Top

#3 And before the French & Indian war, the Hundred Years War.

Posted by lotp 2006-10-07 06:05|| 2006-10-07 06:05|| Front Page Top

#4 It appears those who have forgotten are soon to be reminded.

btw, isn't this the 535th anniversary of that other opportunity for an epic motion picture, the Battle of Lepanto? That would make a great movie.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-10-07 06:15|| 2006-10-07 06:15|| Front Page Top

#5 And let's not forget the best religious war of yurpean histry, the Thirty Years War. That's the one this next episode should resemble the most. In all respects.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-10-07 06:17|| 2006-10-07 06:17|| Front Page Top

#6 I expect the democratic European Union to abide by Peoples' choice.

Posted by gromgoru 2006-10-07 10:05|| 2006-10-07 10:05|| Front Page Top

#7 The EU lost a hell of a lot of cred when it basically outlawed that rightist Austrian party a while back. That united many of the rightist parties throughout Europe, who have since found common cause in lots of things.

Posted by Anonymoose 2006-10-07 11:26|| 2006-10-07 11:26|| Front Page Top

#8 Nimble Spemble, yea, the shoe resembles. It may even start with a defenestration of multiculti church reps.

Posted by twobyfour 2006-10-07 13:31|| 2006-10-07 13:31|| Front Page Top

#9 As a service to our younger readers who were not taught history in school, here is a short history of wars in "enlightened" Europe. We'll leave out the early years and jump right to 1377:

The Hundred Years' War was a conflict between England and France, lasting 116 years from 1337 to 1453. It was fought primarily over claims by the English kings to the French throne and was punctuated by several brief periods of peace and two lasting ones before it finally ended in the expulsion of the English from France. Thus, the war was in fact a series of conflicts and is commonly divided into three or four phases: the Edwardian War (1337-1360), the Caroline War (1369-1389), the Lancastrian War (1415-1429), and the slow decline of English fortunes after the appearance of Joan of Arc. The term "Hundred Years' War" was given afterward.

The Seven Years' War (1754 and 17561763), some of the theatres of which are called the Pomeranian War and the French and Indian War , was a war in the mid-18th century that enveloped both European and colonial theatres. The war was described by Winston Churchill as the first world war, as it was the first conflict in human history to be fought around the globe, though all of the combatants were either European nations or their overseas colonies. The war involved all major powers of Europe: Prussia, Great Britain (with British Colonies in North America, the British East India Company, and Ireland), and Hanover were pitted against Austria, France (with New France and the French East India Company), the Russian Empire, Sweden, and Saxony. Spain and Portugal were later drawn into the conflict, while a force from the neutral United Provinces of the Netherlands was attacked in India.

The American Revolution was a political movement that in 1776 created a new nation, the United States of America, ending British control. The British resisted and the American Revolutionary War, (1775-1783) resulted in American victory. The victory at the Battle of Saratoga encouraged the French to officially enter the war, as Benjamin Franklin negotiated a permanent military alliance in early 1778. Later Spain (in 1779) and the Dutch became allies of the French, leaving Britain to fight a major war alone without major allies. The American theatre thus became only one front in Britain's war.

The French Revolution (17891799) was a pivotal period in the history of French, European and Western civilization. During this time, republicanism replaced the absolute monarchy in France, and the country's Roman Catholic Church was forced to undergo a radical restructuring. While France would oscillate among republic, empire, and monarchy for 75 years after the First Republic fell to a coup d'état, the Revolution is widely seen as a major turning point in the history of Western democracyfrom the age of absolutism and aristocracy, to the age of the citizenry as the dominant political force. While France would oscillate among republic, empire, and monarchy for 75 years after the First Republic fell to a coup d'état, the Revolution is widely seen as a major turning point in the history of Western democracyfrom the age of absolutism and aristocracy, to the age of the citizenry as the dominant political force.

The politics of the period inevitably drove France towards war with Austria and its allies. The King, the Feuillants and the Girondins specifically wanted to wage war. The King (and many Feuillants with him) expected war would increase his personal popularity; he also foresaw an opportunity to exploit any defeat: either result would make him stronger. The Girondins wanted to export the Revolution throughout Europe. Only some of the radical Jacobins opposed war, preferring to consolidate and expand the revolution at home. The Austrian emperor Leopold II, brother of Marie Antoinette, may have wished to avoid war, but he died on 1 March 1792. France declared war on Austria (20 April 1792) and Prussia joined on the Austrian side a few weeks later. The French Revolutionary Wars had begun. After early skirmishes went badly for France, the first significant military engagement of the war occurred with the Franco-Prussian Battle of Valmy (20 September 1792). Although heavy rain prevented a conclusive resolution, the French artillery proved its superiority. However, by this time, France stood in turmoil and the monarchy had effectively become a thing of the past.

The Napoleonic Wars, a series of global conflicts fought during Napoleon Bonaparte's rule over France (1799 - 1815), formed to some extent an extension of the wars sparked by the French Revolution of 1789 and continued during the régime of the Second French Empire of 1852 - 1870. These wars revolutionized European armies and artillery, as well as military systems, and took place on a scale never before seen, mainly due to the application of modern mass conscription. French power rose quickly, conquering most of Europe; the fall also took place rapidly, beginning with the disastrous invasion of Russia (1812), and Napoleon's empire ultimately suffered complete military defeat, resulting in the restoration of the Bourbon monarchy in France in 1814 and 1815.
No consensus exists as to when the French Revolutionary Wars ended and when the Napoleonic Wars began; one possible watershed-date occurred when Bonaparte seized power in France (9 November 1799). Other versions put the period of warfare between 1799 and 1802 in the context of the French Revolutionary Wars, and set the Napoleonic Wars' beginning at the outbreak of war between the United Kingdom and France in 1803, following the brief peace concluded at Amiens in 1802. The Napoleonic Wars ended on 20 November 1815, following Napoleon's final defeat at Waterloo and the Second Treaty of Paris. Collectively, the nearly continuous period of warfare from April 20, 1792, until November 20, 1815, sometimes (though rarely these days) bears the name of the "Great French War".

The Crimean War lasted from 28 March 1853 until 1 April 1856 and was fought between Imperial Russia on one side and an alliance of the Great Britain, France, the Kingdom of Sardinia, and the Ottoman Empire on the other. The majority of the conflict took place on the Crimean peninsula in the Black Sea, with military conflicts also occurring in western Turkey, the Baltic Sea region and in the Pacific Ocean. The war is generally seen as the first modern conflict and "introduced technical changes which affected the future course of warfare."

World War I (abbreviated WWI), also known as the First World War, the Great War and "The War to End All Wars" was a global military conflict that took place mostly in Europe between 1914 and 1918. It was a total war which left millions dead and shaped the modern world. The Allied Powers, led by France, Russia, the United Kingdom, Italy, and later the United States, defeated the Central Powers: Austria-Hungary, Germany, Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire.
Much of the fighting in World War I took place along the Western Front, within a system of opposing manned trenches and fortifications (separated by a "no man's land") running from the North Sea to the border of Switzerland. On the Eastern Front, the vast eastern plains and limited rail network prevented a trench warfare stalemate from developing, although the scale of the conflict was just as large. Hostilities also occurred on and under the sea and for the first time from the air. More than nine million soldiers died on the various battlefields, and millions more civilians suffered. The war caused the disintegration of four empires: the Austro-Hungarian, German, Ottoman, and Russian. Germany lost its overseas empire, and states such as Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia were created, or recreated, as was the case with Poland. World War I created a decisive break with the old world order that had emerged after the Napoleonic Wars, which was modified by the mid-19th centurys nationalistic revolutions. The results of World War I would be important factors in the development of World War II 21 years later.

The Russian Revolution of 1917 was a series of political events in Russia, which, after the elimination of the Russian autocracy system, and the Provisional Government (Duma), resulted in the establishment of the Soviet power under the control of the Bolshevik party. This eventually led to the establishment of the Soviet Union, which lasted until its dissolution in 1991.

The Spanish Civil War, which lasted from July 17, 1936 to April 1, 1939, was a conflict in which the Nationalists, led by General Francisco Franco, defeated the Loyalists or Republicans of the Second Spanish Republic. The Loyalists (also known as the Republicans) received weapons and volunteers from the Soviet Union, the international Communist movement, and the International Brigades, while the Nationalists (or Francoists) received weapons and soldiers from Italy and Germany and logistical support from Portugal. While the war lasted only about three years, the political situation had already been violent for several years before. The number of casualties is disputed; estimates generally suggest that between 300,000 and 1 million people were killed. Many of these deaths resulted from mass killings perpetrated on both sides. The war started with military uprisings throughout Spain and its colonies.

World War II, or the Second World War, was a worldwide conflict fought between the Allied Powers and the Axis Powers, from 1939 until 1945. It was the largest armed conflict the world has ever seen, and remains one of the most significant events in all of human history. World War II involved military forces from over seventy nations; air, land and sea battles spanning much of the globe; and resulted in the death of over sixty million people. The war was brought to an end in 1945 with the Allies victorious.

Facts complied from Wikipedia.

Posted by Steve 2006-10-07 15:04|| 2006-10-07 15:04|| Front Page Top

#10 You left out the 30 years war, which AFAIK gave birth to the modern notion of Nation-State, now being destroyed right in front of our eyes.
There's also the 80 years war, which ended up with Dutch Republic free to invent modern capitalism.

Posted by anonymous5089 2006-10-07 17:33|| 2006-10-07 17:33|| Front Page Top

#11 Btw, Europe has had wars, yes? And what? What is your point (no offense intended)?

Problem is, you see today's Europe, either in terminal decadence phase (some kind of civilizational senility), or in the grip of an ultimately nihilist utopia (the "EUssr" and its a-historical new man, and its joint-venture with the arabo-muslim world), and you somehow think it's a frozen moment in eternity, allowing you to judge us from the distant past to the distant future ("see, they were always bad").

I don't know if we'll die as a civilization or european (ethnic sense) continent, or if we'll survive and keep on going, but one thing is certain : this present situation will not last forever, the "enlightened" EUtopia will not last. We're not out of History, even if we have to become a giant Yugoslavia.

PS : again, do remember that almost 50% of your voting population wanted the candidate whose party promises the USA to follow the Eutopia. And, what, 90% of your entertainement and media Elites are "enlightened" too... so, mock europe if you wish, but you're not immune, you're just less far in the death curve, so for the West's sake, you'd better win that culture war.

Posted by anonymous5089 2006-10-07 17:43|| 2006-10-07 17:43|| Front Page Top

#12 Actually, Anonymous5089, they are agreeing with you that the current trend in Europe can't stand.

It's your "Euro-elites" that are indeed clueless, just like Kerry and Co., but that doesn't mean that the average citizen on either side of the Atlantic isn't becoming more aware of the realities of militant Islam.

Posted by Ernest Brown">Ernest Brown 2006-10-07 18:46|| saturninretrograde.blogspot.com]">[saturninretrograde.blogspot.com] 2006-10-07 18:46|| Front Page Top

#13 so, mock europe if you wish, but you're not immune, you're just less far in the death curve, so for the West's sake, you'd better win that culture war.

Yes, on both counts.

Posted by lotp 2006-10-07 19:23|| 2006-10-07 19:23|| Front Page Top

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