80 Years Since The Greatest Sacrifice

Eurasia note #105: European leaders turn full circle and demand more war

May 08, 2025

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Argentina's Milei releases documents on Nazis who fled to LatAm
Bank Credit Suisse investigated for hiding accounts of Nazi-affiliated groups
Macron welcomes leader of ISIS which was blamed for Bataclan Theatre massacre
Are we supposed not to notice? That adversary we defeated, rules the roost?
The cost of swallowing the narrative is children will be drafted once again
Consequence of wars past in the looming shadow of those to come

27 million Soviet citizens died, split roughly between military and civilians.

May 8, 2025

They didn’t choose it.

It is the people who paid the price who deserve remembrance; while politicians in various countries crassly take credit or argue, 80 years later, about who won a war that politicians did not fight.

While they beat the drums of war, once again, we only hear criticism of the "other." The problem is, this exempts those in authority from addressing their own shortcomings or self interest.

It is precisely at this time when We The People owe it to ourselves to question the discourse. We fail to observe the injunction, "heal thyself."

It has reached the point when former allies do not attend the same commemorations; they inhabit parallel worlds. With complicity of the media, congress and academia debate has been closed down — the censorship grows ever tighter.

On the eve of the WW2 commemorations in Eastern Europe it is worth delving into the deception by which dark powers perpetuate war.

We live with the consequence of wars past and present, and in the looming shadow of those to come.

Ratlines

As WW2 was ending the ground was being laid for the Cold War to ensure the project continued.

Ratlines would spirit thousands of senior officials and scientists of the Third Reich from Germany to the United States and third countries.

Argentina's president Javier Milei last month said he would declassify documents on an estimated 5,000 figures who found refuge in South America. The materials are to be housed in Argentina’s General Archive of the Nation and made available for public and academic research.

Some of these worked openly, like Klaus Barbie, the "Butcher of Lyon," who helped shape U.S. military policy and advised on training what became the School of the Americas police academy that provided the muscle for coups and dictatorships between the 1950s and 1980s.

Dictatorships were a means to create ideological stasis, in order to freeze societies where neoliberalism had failed to take hold. In the four decades after WW2 Latin America was one of the regions most prone to coups.

The U.S. and the Central Intelligence Agency did not invent coups: Bolivia has experienced more than 190 since independence in 1825. Apart from ill-judged wars, the perennial cause was the tension between tightly held wealth and a disenfranchised society. [1]

However the intelligence agencies formed out of WW2 would become a fetid trough of assassinations and coups (Guatemala 1954, Chile 1973), torture of targets (rendition), general terrorism of the people, and forever wars.

This was known by the early 1970s, if not the late 1960s. The public execution of president John F Kennedy gave rise to a cottage industry of amateur researchers plugging the holes in the official and media narrative. The killings of Malcolm X, Martin Luther King and Robert F Kennedy removed any doubt for those with eyes to see the rivers of blood.

Names like Permindex (a trade organisation and alleged assassination bureau) became the parlance of the underground press along with European fascist movements like the Iron Guard and the Arrow Cross, nouns like "the establishment," blandly-named banks and money launderers, as individuals with clear links to the supposedly defeated Axis popped up in U.S. party politics, the EU, NATO and the UN.

It was clear that the enemy we'd been taught was defeated, was alive and integrated into the winning side. Or maybe the concepts of adversary and ally are too simplistic.

Bank account

Bank Credit Suisse is being investigated for concealing, during previous investigations, accounts of Nazi-affiliated individuals and groups. These include an unnamed German manufacturer who relied on concentration camp slave labour.

There were several but the most famous in Quandt. The family sponsors a European journalism prize. How better to keep the newspaper coverage pristine?

See Nazi Bargain And The Post-War Order - Part 1: Did the WW2 settlement cloak plans to revive the fascist project? (Oct 27, 2021)

Seventy accounts “with plausible links” to Argentina-based Nazis were opened after 1945, and at least 14 remained open as recently as 2020.

Senator Chuck Grassley supported the reappointment of Neil Barofsky, a former federal prosecutor in New York and a partner of Jenner & Block LLP. He had been fired as an ombudsman in 2022 but UBS has since taken over and renewed his access.

Some of the concealed client files are stamped "Amerikanische Schwarze Liste" — of individuals and companies that were directly financed by or traded with Axis powers.

Barofsky has also found evidence that Credit Suisse may have “sanitized” some information in response to earlier probes.

That’s not the only thing that was sanitized: the historical record, too.

That’s your newspaper from 2015. CIA-aligned The Washington Post.
It changed its tune. Did you change your tune, in lock step?

Myths & narratives

How did Germany recover so quickly from the destruction, starvation and typhus of 1914 and the reparations, including the seizure of its industrial heartland and punitive payments, determined between 1919 and 1921, and then hit by the great depression of the 1930s?

How in little over a decade was it rearmed to the point of challenging the continent?

There is truth and a lot of myth.

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