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+Title: Ideology Of World War One
+Date: 2021-12-25
+Tags: WWI, Communism, Democracy, Imperialism, Ethnicity, Podcast
+Category: War
+
+How did ideology contribute to World War One? It did not.
+
+None of the extant ideological movements of the time were a factor in
+causing World War One. Even _ethnicity_, which is the opposite of ideology, played only a
+very small role.
+
+This blog post is a response to the Podcast
+[When Diplomacy Fails](https://www.wdfpodcast.com/){target="_blank"},
+which asserts that ideology was a contributing factor, but I disagree.
+
+### Communism
+None of the
+[belligerents](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belligerent){target="_blank"}
+were pro-communist. Even if one were to speculate that any of the belligerents,
+might have been capable of being motivated by the desire to prevent the
+spread of communism, there was nothing to prevent.
+
+While it is true that the outbreak of communism in Russia was tangent, that
+only lead to Russia withdrawing from the war.
+
+### Democracy
+Democracy is interesting because it had been a huge motivation in the past.
+Because the French Revolution gifted France the capability to raise
+huge armies,
+[The First Coalition](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_the_First_Coalition){target="_blank"}
+rose up against it.
+
+And Democracy certainly has been a huge factor in other wars. For instance Democracy
+gave Athens the spirit to win at
+[Marathon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Marathon){target="_blank"}.
+And Democracy enabled the allies to execute more effectively and win
+World War Two.
+
+But despite being the most democratic belligerent in WWI, France did not even have the most
+powerful army at the time, Germany did. And there is no indication that France wanted
+to spread Democracy to Germany. In a vacuum the only motivation France would have had to
+go to war with Germany would have been to recapture
+[Alace-Loraine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alsace%E2%80%93Lorraine){target="_blank"},
+which it lost in the
+[Franco-Prussion War](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franco-Prussian_War){target="_blank"},
+or to possibly exchange colonial assets.
+
+### Imperialism
+The only exception here is that Serbia's stance was in opposition to the
+[Austro-Hungarian Empire](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austria-Hungary){target="_blank"}.
+But in the final analysis, Serbia was merely a pawn.
+
+Russia, France, Italy, Austria, Britain, Ottomans, and Germany were all empires, and thus
+unopposed to Imperialism as an idea. Even the King of Belgium possessed colonies.
+
+### Monarchy
+While it is true that Austria wanted to protect the Monarchy as in institution, the fact that
+[Archduke Franz Ferdinand](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archduke_Franz_Ferdinand_of_Austria){target="_blank"}
+was heir to the Austrian Throne was only relevant in the local context of
+the assassination in Sarajevo. Indeed, Serbia also had a King.
+
+### Ethnicity
+The problem here is that identity is not an ideology. Identity is the opposite
+of ideology. Western Elitists may very well hold the ideology that identity is
+an ideology, but the ideology of identity being an ideology, is not that same
+thing as identity being an ideology. This merely shows how out-of-touch Elitists are.
+
+But even if we stipulate that identity is an ideology, this only applied to
+Russia coming to Serbia's defense because the Serbs are Slavs. And while it is
+true that the war would not have happened if Russia had not stood up for Serbia,
+in the final analysis Serbia was only a pawn. And furthermore, Russia was equally
+motivated by _sphere-of-influence_ considerations in the Balkans.
+
+And while it is true that Austria was motivated to contain Serb influence
+in its empire, Serbianism is not an ethnicity. A Serb is no more or less a
+Slav than is a Czech, Bosnian, or Croat, all of whom were already established
+within the empire.
+
+Were the Ottoman Turks Racist? Either way that is immaterial as they
+were only able to fight effectively in defense.
+
+Nor did Germany invade France for ethnic reasons. Germany attacked France
+because the strategy of the
+[Schlieffen](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schlieffen_Plan){target="_blank"}
+plan was to defeat France quickly
+on the assumption that Russia would be slow to mobilize, thus avoiding
+having to fight both at the same time. The fact that Germany entered the
+war because of Russian mobilization,
+and because Russia was deceptive and duplicitous about that,
+is a separate issue from the strategy
+of the Schlieffen plan.
+
+Nor did America enter the war for 'anti-German' reasons. America
+entered the war because she had lent vast amounts of money to the belligerents
+and needed to protect her investment. It would be as disingenuous to
+cast, as racist, alarm about the
+[Zimmerman Telegram](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimmermann_Telegram){target="_blank"},
+as it is to cast Trump's Border Wall as racist.
+
+### War as an Ideology
+The Statesmen who pushed over the dominoes, may well have
+embraced the Glory or War, but that was an evolution; an effect but not a cause.
+As of June 28,
+no one thought that the destruction of Europe would be therapeutic.
+
+### Conclusion
+World War One was caused not by ideology, but by Nationalism and Fear.
+Nationalism and Fear are not ideas, they are feelings.
+
+The [Donkeys](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lions_led_by_donkeys){target="_blank"}
+were not thinking men anymore than
+[Democrats are](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cesSRfXqS1Q){target="_blank"}.
+
+Ironically, World War Two **was** caused by Idealism. From
+[Wilson's 14 Points](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourteen_Points){target="_blank"},
+to the
+[Versaille Treaty](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Versailles){target="_blank"}, to the
+[League of Nations](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/League_of_Nations){target="_blank"},
+to the
+[Weimar Republic](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weimar_Republic){target="_blank"}:
+the Elites tried
+to remake Society and the World according to their high-minded ideals, but then in
+typical fashion shielded themselves from the negative consequences of
+their idealism while being unwilling and incapable of enforcing them.
+Until
+[Patton](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_S._Patton){target="_blank"} came along.