{"id":384844,"date":"2018-11-13T06:49:26","date_gmt":"2018-11-13T05:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/great-powers-commemorate-first-world-war-and-plan-the-next-one\/"},"modified":"2018-11-13T06:49:26","modified_gmt":"2018-11-13T05:49:26","slug":"great-powers-commemorate-first-world-war-and-plan-the-next-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/great-powers-commemorate-first-world-war-and-plan-the-next-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Great powers commemorate First World War, and plan the next one"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>Great powers commemorate First World War, and plan the next one<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    11 January 2019<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>Over the past weekend, the leaders of the world\u2019s great powers met in France to commemorate the official end of World War I. German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Emmanuel Macron and US President Donald Trump pulled long faces, hugged each other and gave speeches lamenting the \u201chorror\u201d and \u201ctragedy\u201d of a war that claimed more than 16 million lives.<\/p>\n<p>But their talk of \u201ctragedy\u201d and \u201csuicide\u201d could not hide the fact that they are all engaged in active preparations for a new and deadly world military conflict.<\/p>\n<p>Trump, as usual, did not feel the need to hide his love of bloodshed. His speech at the Suresnes American Cemetery just outside Paris was a jingoistic rant. Trump praised the \u201cgreat warriors\u201d who \u201cfought through hell to turn the tide of the war\u201d and lauded the \u201cferocious\u201d American marines who were termed \u201cDevil Dogs\u201d by the terrified German soldiers.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike Merkel and Macron, the American President did not give an inch to the idea, universally acknowledged throughout the world since the fall of the Third Reich, that World War I was a disastrous mistake, in which millions were slaughtered either through the ignorance of generals or the avarice of politicians and industrialists. It was, in the words of Trump, a \u201cnoble\u201d struggle to bring \u201cpeace\u201d and defend \u201ccivilization.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The speeches of Macron and Merkel betrayed the same bloody sentiments merely covered over with a dirty layer of dishonesty. Macron styled his speech as a condemnation of \u201cnationalism,\u201d while Merkel lamented the war as a \u201chideous labyrinth of merciless battles,\u201d as \u201csenseless bloodshed\u201d caused by \u201cnational arrogance and military hubris.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But Macron\u2019s speech&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2018\/11\/13\/pers-j11.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Great powers commemorate First World War, and plan the next one 11 January 2019 Over the past weekend, the leaders of the world\u2019s great powers met in France to commemorate the official end of World War I. German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Emmanuel Macron and US President Donald Trump pulled long faces, hugged [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-384844","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}