Whom were the powers that be?....Aristocratic rule was destroyed....
Aristocratic rule was destroyed....Exactly. It was the most insane war in history... and the least necessary.
There were virtually NO differences to be fought over. All societies were basically the same structure and undergoing the same change... the change from aristocracy to some form of western liberal democracy (liberal in the original sense, not in the modern, co-opted commie sense).
The aristocrats of all those nations, in a misguided reflex action to save their failing aristocratic systems, concocted that war.
To be fair, though, a lot of the common people cheered for the war and went into it like they were going to a much-heralded sporting match.
It is very sad, the story of that war, and this story of the Christmas Truce is just another glimpse at that sadness.
WWI brought us Hitler and Lenin... the legacies of whom we still are fighting today.
After all, who is our President-Elect and exactly what kind of change is he promising?
Whom were the powers that be?....Aristocratic rule was destroyed....Actually, Catholic aristocratic rule was destroyed. The anti-Catholic forces of the so called 'enlightenment' triumphed last century. We now see the bitter fruit of that even here in this country.