The Sixth Extinction and WWII : Jews and Romas not extinct but damned close

We live - for how much longer we will live I do not know - in both a modern plenticidal age and a postmodern neo-plenitude age.

We humans are trying hard as we can to kill off all other lifeforms, killing the golden goose, so we can have this earthly golden egg all to ourselves.

So we are plenticidal : killing off Nature's plenitude, thinking that draining her gene pool is a good thing , just as we used to think draining wetlands was a good thing too.

Kyoto Protocol and Atlantic Charter : all smiles on outside , all self interest inside

As a moderately well known (and formerly very active) Green politician and activist , it must seem very odd that I have seemingly suddenly turned my back on the party and the movement.

All to devote myself instead to a book on some obscure events from seventy five years ago during WWII.

But I disagree.

I see lessons for us all today from those events so long ago, as the Anglo-American "special relationship" faces its toughest ever crisis : human climate change.

Would WWII even have happened - if Sweden an ally of UK and France in 1939 ?

Hitler was just a short man with bad skin , greasy hair and some extreme ideas - a crank.

Hitlerism is what happened when many believe believed all of his ideas and worked hard to try them out -- and when many more lukewarm half-believers and non-believers passively let them.

Serious histories of WWII : geographic hard power over science faux power

Far far too much attention is paid in WWII histories to the new weapons created by wartime scientists and not enough to the vastly altered geographic balance of power of that war viv vis WWI only 25 years earlier.

Militarily, Baltic is a two nation sea : Sweden and Germany

Today's Russia , China or America could never be dominant players in a serious Baltic Sea war - the same goes for Britain, France, Italy and Japan,  even in their naval heyday.

Geographic hard power here trumps military hardware Faux Power.

Sweden's long twin coasts and many mid-Baltic islands dominate the central Baltic - Germany's two coasts much less so, but its similarly central Baltic location and bigger population make up for that.

Hitler creates the war-winning Allied coalition

It should never have turned out this way, but it did.

Except for the British and French empires - and even they very reluctantly - no Allied nations ever went into combat against the evil Axis, unless directly attacked by the Axis first.

Nobody , at least no nation , (some individuals did much better) went to war against the Axis because innocent fellow beings, who they didn't know personally , were being murdered by armed thugs.

No nation ever showed any selfless agape love for their fellow beings.