The Finance of the First World Economic War

By Danilo Stentella

On the eve of the outbreak of the world conflict, the Ottoman Empire was most similar in some respects to the current European Union, a decadent entity, but after 683 years of domination, with many internal conflicts, with an unreliable army, weighed down by a self-referential bureaucracy and unable to perform its function. And "there was a nation that promised another nation the land of a third nation", thus began the tragedy of Israel and in some ways even the Shoah.
The promises made to the Arabs by the British were not honoured, but this is another story, which closely concerns the geopolitical instability of the Middle East, which still today sees the population suffering the wars that the economic powers play in those territories , literally playing, to dispute their economic interests, continuing to foment the hopes of the various Arab factions and arming their hand, composing and undoing groups under the most varied acronyms, only to then define them terrorists to better sow chaos in the area.
The final transition from the liberal state to the welfare state was being prepared, even though as a consequence of such a mournful event such as a war, which however had timidly started towards the end of the nineteenth century, with the recognition of the formal equality of citizens.
On the background of these tragedies moved Jewish banking finance, which pragmatically thrived by financing all the powers deployed on the war theatre.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Publisher s19444
• Release date: May 7, 2020
• ISBN: 9788835822110

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Introduction

The Finance of the First World Economic War is in substance, if not in the title, the second edition of The First World Economic War, published in Cento anni dalla prima guerra mondiale (S. Dotto, A. Micheli, D. Stentella, 2019), in which I examined some stages of geopolitics that with the Great War broke a path of consolidation and the creation of a European Union embryo, at least economic.

The aim of this study is to analyze historical and economic relations between speculative finance and geopolitical crises that led to the First World War and the persistence of that type of connection with regard to current regional crises.

In this analysis, the role of Jewish finance and Zionist movement stands out significantly, an element that I hope and believe will not be understood by anyone as an indication of an anti-Jewish or anti-Zionist sentiment of the author, a position that would only indicate immense stupidity, a quality not appreciated in the researcher. On the other hand, I believe that any aversion towards the Jewish universe would even be challenging to develop, so vast, composite and variously represented is that culture. In particular, for the non-religious researcher it would even seem unreasonable and freely offensive to take a stand towards any belief, confession, cult and towards their respective followers.

Without disturbing the Babylonians, we remind that archaic forms of finance, such as pawnbroking, were exercised in a specially organized way in the Middle Ages by the Templars, who, having fortress in Europe and in the Holy Land, were able to conduct banking business with the pilgrims, who entrusted their money to the Templars on departure to have it available on arrival, without risks associated with navigation or travel in unsafe lands. Beside them, although to a very marginal extent, Jewish usurers began to operate, which in fact filled a gap originating from the fact that the loan on interest was officially prohibited for Catholics.

Loans to states, often belligerent among them, have ancient origins. Genoa, Venice, Florence, France,