World War I was a global war that lasted from July 1914 to November 1918. It led to the mobilisation of more than 70 million military personnel, including 60 million Europeans, making it one of the largest wars in history. It is also one of the deadliest conflicts in history, with an estimated 9 million combatant deaths and 13 million civilian deaths as a direct result of the war.

The immediate trigger for war was the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria on 28 June 1914, but the elite on both sides were already preparing for the war long before this trigger because both parties were involved in a power struggle. According to a descendant of Franz Ferdinand many were already in the starting blocks, waiting for the great conflict. After World War I Woodrow Wilson speeched...

Is there any man here or any woman, let me say is there any child here, who does not know that the seed of war in the modern world is industrial and commercial rivalry? The real reason that the war that we have just finished took place was that Germany was afraid her commercial rivals were going to get the better of her, and the reason why some nations went into the war against Germany was that they thought Germany would get the commercial advantage of them.

This armaments race accelerated in the decade before 1914 as the Triple Alliance of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy squared off against the Triple Entente of France, Russia, and Britain. Germany's fears of increases in Russian armaments, and British fears of the German naval buildup, contributed heavily to the outbreak and spread of the First World War in 1914.*

During its 47 years of existence, the German Empire became an industrial, technological, and scientific power in Europe, and by 1913, Germany was the largest economy in continental Europe and the third-largest in the world. Germany also became a great power, building the longest railway network of Europe, the world's strongest army, and a fast-growing industrial base. Starting very small in 1871, in a decade, the navy became second only to Britain's Royal Navy.

The power elite of different nations were involved in a power struggle. War needed to break out because otherwise the German Empire would become too strong for the British Empire. The Federal Reserve was created shortly before the outbreak of this war and it almost immediately served as the central bank to finance it. Credit, the Federal Reserve, the big banks, the US economy, and the war were inextricably linked. One of the key creators of the Fed was Jack Morgan, son of J.P. Morgan, who said that the war should be a tremendous opportunity for America. Eventually the German Empire was destroyed and the British Empire transformed into the Anglo-American Empire.

Neutrality meant that we claimed the right to trade with anyone that we wanted; that we claimed the right to loan money to anyone who wanted it; ... The British position, and that of most belligerents in Europe, was that if they were fighting another country their friends should not trade with those who are their enemies. ... The United States had a surplus of money at that time, and people like J. P. Morgan and others made a lot of money by loaning their cash to foreign countries who paid high interest rates on it. The United States was loaning money to Great Britain and Germany and other belligerents that they were using in the war.*

The banking cartel plays a defining role in making such wars possible. People like J. P. Morgan belong to the richest people on earth in control of global finance and much more. With the creation of the Federal Reserve the United States was able to finance this extremely costly and destructive war. The power elite don't mind financing both sides of the wars simply because they benefit from it.

The British power elite did not like the idea of the United States getting more powerful by staying neutral and trading with the rest of the world while they were fighting a war. They wanted to involve the United States in their war. But there was a problem. The American public was against U.S. involvement in the war so they had to sway public opinion on the matter. History shows that the most effective way to sway people's opinion is to get a bunch of them killed and blame the party that needs to be attacked and then bombard the public with the propaganda that goes with it. A false flag.

Churchill's commitment to the safety of noncombatant shipping was less than keen: three months before the sinking he wrote to the President of the Board of Trade that it was 'most important to attract neutral shipping to our shores in the hope especially of embroiling the USA with Germany... For our part, we want the traffic—the more the better; if some of it gets into trouble, better still.'*

It was the American Lusitania passenger ship that was chosen to be the target of a German attack. From 4 February 1915 the waters round Great Britain and Ireland, including the English Channel, were proclaimed a war region by Germany. On 7 May 1915, the day the Lusitania set sail from New York, the German Embassy ran ads in US newspapers, warning travelers to avoid liners flying the British flag.

A German U-boat torpedoed the RMS Lusitania, killing 1,198 and leaving 761 survivors. On 28 May 1915 German diplomat Gottlieb von Jagow argued that the German government possessed information that the Lusitania was carrying munitions to Britain - a situation which would inevitably render her a legitimate target.* As expected and to the benefit of the Anglo-American elite the sinking turned public opinion in many countries against Germany, it contributed to the American entry into World War I and became an iconic symbol in military recruiting campaigns of why the war was being fought.

The contemporary investigations both in the UK and the United States into the precise causes of the ship's loss were obstructed by the needs of wartime secrecy and a propaganda campaign to ensure all blame fell upon Germany. Argument over whether the ship was a legitimate military target raged back and forth throughout the war as both sides made misleading claims about the ship.*

The Anglo-American power elite obstructed investigations into the event and implemented their typical secrecy to keep the public from knowing what really happened. On 30 July 1982, Noel Marshall, the head of the Foreign Office's North America department, wrote...

Successive British governments have always maintained that there was no munitions on board the Lusitania (and that the Germans were therefore in the wrong to claim to the contrary as an excuse for sinking the ship), ... The facts are that there is a large amount of ammunition in the wreck, some of which is highly dangerous. The Treasury have decided that they must inform the salvage company of this fact in the interests of the safety of all concerned. Although there have been rumours in the press that the previous denial of the presence of munitions was untrue, this would be the first acknowledgement of the facts by HMG.*

In 2011 a dive team found and filmed stacks and stacks of upturned copper ingot bars and huge quantities of .303 rifle ammunition, as well as evidence of severe damage that was not characteristic of the partial collapse of the wreck. However, the crucial area to be examined lies underneath that devastation, against the sea floor, buried under another twenty to thirty feet of heavy and probably very unstable wreckage.*

It is therefore highly likely that the Anglo-American power elite made the RMS Lusitania a legitimate target because of the war material they shipped with it. By doing so they provoked a German attack in order to involve the US into the war alongside Britain. Whether it was a typical false flag or not, the propaganda of the power elite made sure it created the support of the public for their desired war...

On 8 May 1915 the New York Times headlined: Washington believes that a grave crisis is at hand. And thus the American public was prepared for US entry into World War I and the Anglo-American elite got what they wanted.
See also Spartacus Educational's Lusitania *. Never let a good crisis go to waste.

During World War 1 the country's propaganda agency, the Committee on Public Information (CPI), had aggressively exaggerated both the enemy's evil nature and the eager heroism of the troops, who were depicted as relentlessly positive. George Creel, head of the CPI, had seen himself in a battle "for the minds of men, for the conquest of their convictions [so that] the gospel of Americanism might be carried to every corner of the globe." A staggering amount of material was produced for the World War I-era American media...

Atrocity propaganda is used by the power elite to provide the justification for a desired conflict and for persuading countries to adopt warlike policies, through a combination of bribery, false reports and undue influence on public opinion..

The "Rape of Belgium" is a typical example of atrocity propaganda. The so-called Bryce Report is now known to be a hoax. These invented atrocities tainted the Report and have made it an often cited example of propaganda and psychological warfare. Propaganda like this was used by Woodrow Wilson to ask Congress for "the war to end all wars" that would "make the world safe for democracy". But making war for peace is like fucking for virginity. It was the beginning of an era of wars to come. Since World War I and II the elite of the Anglo-American Empire have systematically waged aggressive wars on nations across the globe under false pretenses and lies for obvious reasons.

National political control over the arms trade continued to encroach on the laissez-faire system of the pre-war period. Britain in 1921 established a comprehensive licensing system for arms exports (which excluded aircraft) and embargoed exports to China (until 1929), the Soviet Union, Africa and ex-enemy states. ... Every major seller took advantage of the chaos in China to sell weapons there... The third major element of continuity in the interwar arms transfer system was the continued evolution and rise of second-tier producers who had succesfully industrialised and who subsequently entered the arms export market...

The League of Nations was another step in the process of globalization. The power elite presented themselves as peacemakers, but peace is the enemy of the military-industrial complex which is largely run by the same people who formed the League of Nations.

The agenda of the power elite is globalization. This was only the beginning of a century of wars to come. World War II was already in the making when the victors of World War I and the creators of the League of Nations set their minds on the further destruction of Germany by means of the "peace" Treaty of Versailles. Professor of History Thomas J. Knock explored the place of internationalism in American politics, sweeping away the old view that isolationism was the cause of Wilson's failure and revealing the role of competing visions of internationalism--conservative and progressive. Walter Lippmann described the end of World War I as an anticlimax in a dreary and savorless world.