Hello ! I have just begun my journey into paganism (Kemetic) I decided to work with Khonsu so I offered him some fresh water with rose petals in it . I asked him to protect me (I finish work late at night and walk to home ) ... Surprisingly today one of my colleagues ask to drive me home !! ❤️ Just wanted to share my joy with all of you!💎
The First Weltkrieg:
As Europe burned in the fire of the Great War, the United States of America prospered. President Wilson’s vow to remain neutral is what got him elected and he is sticking to it… mostly. The President is partial to the Entente and Kaiser Wilhelm II knows this. In a rare moment of intelligence, the Kaiser listened to his advisors and made the decision to not resume unrestricted submarine warfare and to begin massive propaganda operations inside the US, providing stark evidence of the hunger and hardship that the Entente blockade is inflicting on Central Europe to newspapers. Moved to action, wealthy German-Americans start a charity for German children, gathering clothes, toys and treats to be distributed as Christmas gifts. Tragedy struck when a Royal Navy submarine mistook their vessel, the SS George Washington, for a German ship and torpedoed it, taking it down with all hands.
The SS George Washington Before Being Sunk by a British Submarine
Confused initial reports implied that the sub had full knowledge that they were sinking an American vessel and even left drowning passengers to die in the North Atlantic. German spies and prominent yellow journalists such as William Randolph Hearst seized on the opportunity, and by the time the full story was revealed, public outrage had already reached a fever pitch. President Wilson implored the British to compromise and let non-war supplies through before Congress votes for sanctions or other punitive measures. With little choice, the blockade ceases counting farm products, foodstuffs, and other critical goods as war material, delivering the Central Powers from looming famine.
The mass media struck another killing blow to the interventionist cause in the Fall of 1917, when leaks from the FBI surrounding the investigation into the Black Tom Explosion implied that there was a belief the explosion had been orchestrated by foreign operatives. After the George Washington incident, hints of foreign action pointed squarely to the Entente and by the time official statements were put out, most of America believed the Entente was trying to spur the US into action by blaming sabotage on Imperial Germany.
The End of the War:
With the US firmly out of the war, famine and economic collapse staved off, and the Russian Revolution effectively ending the Eastern Fr
... keep reading on reddit ➡After listening to the fantastic “rest is history” podcast on Napoleons invasion of Egypt, I have suddenly become fascinated with all things Napoleon.
He appears to have instigated the first of what we might know call “Liberal interventionist” foreign policy of the kind practiced by Western powers over the next 200 years in such places as Vietnam, Bosnia and Iraq. (If any can suggest any earlier examples do let me know?). France, a country having recently undergone an enormous social and political revolution, felt the need during their invasion of Egypt to not only conquer the land of the Nile Delta in order to cut off the land bridge between the Mediterranean and India for the British, but also also expunge the enlightenment values of “Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité" to the bewildered Egyptian subjects.
I am particularly interested in the long term legacy of the invasion, both on the French and the Egyptians, if anyone has read any good books on the subject do let me know. I have listed a few examples below of the impact below on the two countries.
France - discovered field of Egyptology, Birth of orientalist movement for 18th century (see galleries dedicated in musee d’orsea and Lourve), expansion of French presence in North Africa (with ramifications to this modern day, as the tension between secular France and Islam persists)
Egypt - rise in European ideas of nationalism, liberty and secularism , weakening of ottoman state, modernization efforts of later rulers such as Muhammad Ali (pivoting long term towards western methods) and ultimate failure to withstand European colonialism (the country becoming a British protectorate after First World War)
