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2023-07-07Ten Years of Sword Casting
2023-07-07Just after 4:00 p.m. on April 30, 1945, Adolf Hitler, the infamous murderer and Nazi leader who made the whole of Europe and the whole world tremble, walked into a closed hut with his wife, Eva, after enjoying the last dance he had ever enjoyed in his life. Immediately afterward, a gunshot rang out from inside, followed by SS guard captain Rattan Hooper walking in. The war-monger ends his life with his revolver, while his wife Eva kills herself with poison...
Seventy years have passed since the Second World War, and people from all walks of life have reflected on that disaster in their own ways. Everyone has a different view of Hitler, a complex character who was sensitive, inferior, manic, ferocious, and hyper-energetic, to name a few.
And the question is repeatedly asked - who created Hitler? Those who know the war criminal will probably think first of his closest comrade, his Minister of Propaganda, Goebbels, who, it is said, spared no effort to create Hitler's "idol", or of the Chief of Staff of Army Group A, von Manstein, who at the beginning of the war on the Western Front offered him a "strange trick", or perhaps of Göring, who was in charge of the air force, or of the desert fox, von Manstein, who was in charge of the air force, or of the desert fox, von Manstein. "The chief of staff of Army Group A, von Manstein, or perhaps Göring, who was in charge of the air force, Rommel, the Desert Fox, or Guderian, the "father of the German Panzer Army", to name but a few. It was all these civil servants and military generals, big and small, who together created the evil character of Hitler and achieved his unrivaled "Reichsführer".
None of this is wrong, of course, but if one expands one's perspective to a larger field, if one thinks beyond the Nazis themselves, if one combines history and reality with each other, one finds many surprising logics.
Germany rose to power almost overnight. When Bismarck, the highly decorated Chancellor, left the political arena, German politicians were no longer satisfied with the era of "letting other peoples divide the continents and oceans while Germany was content with the blue sky (in the words of the then German Foreign Minister Bülow)," and in order to occupy resources and seize the international discourse, they actively planned and instigated the World War I. This war cost the Germans dearly, and even directly forced Kaiser Wilhelm II to abdicate and hastily set up the contradictory Weimar Republic in the midst of all the chaos.
So little time has passed that few people still talk about how the German people cheered when Wilhelm II announced his declaration of war to the people. This was once only a generation of the Roman Empire's frontier wilderness, poor barbarians, from its birth, had to rely on their own tenacity of will, and nature to fight against the strong enemy Rome, the Romans called it "Germanic (GERMANNEN)", which means "the fear of the militants "is an indication of their character. And this fearful warrior, but had to face in Charlemagne, long after the fragmentation, or only formally united situation. The sudden rise of their neighbor, France, under Napoleon's leadership, dominated this weak nation. They could hardly breathe in the midst of a Europe of great powers - all of which was the main reason for the enthusiastic cheering that surrounded Wilhelm II. Under the leadership of this "enlightened monarch", Bismarck's efforts led to the rapid unification of Germany and its liberation from feudalism, liberating its creativity on the basis of the discipline that was in its heart and making it a capitalist power.
At the same time, the newly emerging countries were characterized by both rational and emotional emotions. Rationally, they had to create the so-called "resource conditions" for the continued development of capitalism, they had to accumulate a large amount of raw materials from more colonies, and at the same time, they also had to enjoy a full voice in the international political arena to ensure the continuity of their development. To their embarrassment and anger, the first step of the rise of the British and French, has long been all this divided up, leaving them, only a little bit of "leftovers". Sentimentally, they already have a strong production capacity, it is time to "clean up" the enemy that has been trying to suppress their own. But this ill-intentioned war did not help Germany to change the status quo. With the defection of their allies, the Germans eventually lost the war. The British and French powers taught the new "big guy" a lesson. Germany's claims came to naught because of the failure of the war.
What did Germany get?
The answer is, the Treaty of Versailles.
The winners beat down the losers as judges. In Article 440, the Allied Powers demanded a lot of money. In addition to the occupation of territories and the military restrictions imposed on it, the high level of reparations demanded by the Allied Powers from Germany devastated its economy, which had to rely on borrowing from the United States to facilitate its recovery. However, when the financial crisis spread in the United States, the German economy was rightly plunged deeper into a quagmire - the Rhine was taken by the French, the economy was facing total collapse, and the Germans looked out at the world in shame and hunger.
Ultra-nationalism, a label Hitler could never erase. He rejected the Treaty of Versailles, he resisted the French occupation of the Rhine generation with forcefulness, he used both hard and soft tactics to launch labor movements and stimulate production. He used extremely effective means to enhance the people's false sense of honor and superiority, to propagate over and over again those irrelevant lies, and to combine his ambitions with his own achievements, stamping them with a "philosophy" and driving them to move forward in accordance with his will.
As early as the first round of the presidential election in March 1932, Hitler was second only to the heroic World War I general Hindenburg with 30.11 TP3T, and at the end of the second round of voting, he had 36.71 TP3T. If it had been only by mere deception, this potentially evil man could never have enjoyed such universal approval at that time, and objectively speaking, all of his statements centered solely on the subject of "national dignity" - a subject that the people loved - all because of their disgust with the Treaty of Versailles and the hypocrisy of the Western powers. Objectively speaking, everything he said revolved around the theme of "national dignity", a subject that the people loved - all because of their disgust at the Treaty of Versailles and the hypocrisy of the Western powers.
--What, then, provides the soil for demons to grow? And who provides the conditions for demons to grow?
If Hitler at this time blinded the eyes of the West, then what happened afterward is extremely ridiculous. In order to avoid war, Britain and France let the Germans annex Austria, and let the Germans solve the so-called "Czechoslovak Sudetenland (i.e., the German-speaking neighborhoods on the German side of Czechoslovakia)", and finally, when they were eyeing Poland, the West continued its policy of appeasement, and the Soviet Union signed a non-aggression pact in order to divide the other side of the country with them. signed a non-aggression pact with the Soviet Union in order to partition each other.
In that moment, allies are nothing more than objects to be used for betrayal, and they keep compromising, compromising, compromising, for their own immediate interests, until in the end, even they themselves have no way out.
--What provides the ground for demonic expansion? And who paved the way for the devil to advance?
If we turn back the clock to the distant past, think of how Julius Caesar, a polytheist, persecuted the Christians, and how Christianity persecuted the "infidels" after its turnaround. Think of how Islam and Christianity, which are of the same root and race, conquered each other, and how Catholicism and Orthodoxy, which are of the same family, are hostile to each other. If we compare all this with the ancient Chinese idea of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism, we can easily see the limitations of faith in the Western world. Westerners are more interested in the image of faith than in its content. The same philosophies of goodness are confronted with each other only because of the differences in their "images", and wars are often fought not only against a certain administration, but more to defeat a "totem" of a different mold.
Thus, we find that the cultural confrontation of the West often does not lead to "integration", but more to "subjugation" for the purpose. The strong suppress the weak, the weak hate the strong, and once they are over, they are bound to suppress each other again. The winners force the losers to accept their "idols" unconditionally, even if their beliefs are not essentially the same as those of the winners - whether you believe in goodness or not, as long as you don't believe in Jesus, you will be defeated. And vice versa.
This cycle of mutual suppression has brought about an essential "sense of fear" and "sense of crisis" in Western civilization, and as the "Thucydides Trap" says, emerging countries will always go to war with the old powers. As the Thucydides Trap says, emerging countries will always go to war with the old powers. This is the strange circle they can not get around.
In today's world, the idea of "idealism" has been relegated to the background, the value of "materialism" has become the mainstream of the world, and religious beliefs are no longer the highest value in Western societies, but at the same time, another phenomenon has also been put before us. Take the global hegemon, the United States, as an example, their so-called "democracy", in their eyes, is nothing more than the "separation of powers" system in the United States nowadays, or the "recognized" system in Europe in the early days. In their eyes, it is only the present "separation of powers" system in the United States, or the system "recognized" by them in Europe in the early days, and any other system of government that is not in line with this system will be regarded as "undemocratic". This system has become the "idol" that they worship in the new era.
In order to maintain the dignity of this "idol", they try to transform all political systems that are different from theirs, with one exception - when they come across a more powerful opponent that they have no time to change, they choose to temporarily "compromise". "compromise", psychologically rejecting the other side and giving in to it in action. However, such concessions are only a desperate measure, and while giving in, they do not spare any effort to contain the other side - the fear of different "idols" is extremely obvious at this time.
The suppression caused by ancient Rome, Napoleonic France, and the early rise of rivals watching from all sides for the newly glued together Germany, contributed to its desire for hegemony. When Germany rose to power, it similarly followed the logic of the Western tradition and tried to use war to conquer all its enemies with its own value system (militarism). However, it failed, and failure meant the total collapse of its own value system and its own total subjugation in humiliation.
In the history of mankind, conquest has either resulted in the extermination of the adversary - a phenomenon that occurred frequently in the distant primitive and slave societies, but hardly ever in the later times when the race was growing in size - or in the temporary suppression of the adversary - a process in which the weak adversary compromises and loses his culture and spirit. -In the process of suppression, the weak opponents will compromise and cause the loss of their culture and spirit, while the resolute opponents will never bow down and become more united and stronger, until one day in the future, they suddenly rise up and tear their opponents apart.
In this fear of conquest, today's Americans are pushing their military organization, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, formed during the Cold War, eastward, forcing their values onto Ukrainian soil, and placing their guns on the doorsteps of Russia, a country with a very different ideology, which has undoubtedly been met with a strong response from the other side. A strong response from the other side, the swift seizure of Crimea being one of the means of response. The hard economic sanctions that followed in Europe have brought the crisis to a dead end.
In the midst of the crisis, when President Putin's approval rating at home exceeds 80%, when the Russian people see the European and American powers as enemy number one, when the national mood in Russia is unprecedentedly enthusiastic, let's turn back to the Treaty of Versailles, let's turn back to the lies of the Nazis, and let's turn back to the enthusiastic cheers of the simple German people of yesteryear, and do we not feel some similarities?
At this point, please think likewise, who made Hitler? Who made Hitler?
Ironically, while the world's largest country is busy countering the world's most powerful rival with drastic measures, the world's number two, China, once considered by Thucydides to be "the most threatening," is actively rebuilding the historic "Silk Road," and actively proposing the rhetoric of a "community of destiny" - a country whose purpose is "communion" - as it has done in the past. the historical Silk Road, and actively promoting the idea of a "community of destiny" - a country that aims at "communion. "
Allow me to end this article with a nod to Josim Fest, author of the Hitler biography:
"For him [Hitler], this idea of salvation was inextricably linked to the European pride that no other continent mattered, no other culture mattered, except Europe. All other continents were mere geographical terms, places where slaves lived, places to be exploited, empty spaces with no history, 'places where lions roam.'"
--The narrowness of Western-style figurative thought and its conquering nature is what created Hitler!
Just after 4:00 p.m. on April 30, 1945, Adolf Hitler, the infamous murderer and Nazi leader who made the whole of Europe and the whole world tremble, walked into a closed hut with his wife, Eva, after enjoying the last dance he had ever enjoyed in his life. Gunshots rang out.
However, is he really dead?


