This is an excellent, detailed, long twitter thread in 4 parts. I've linked the thread-reader version, or you can start from the first tweet, HERE .
QRD: In 1994 US submarine on exercise in the Baltic accidentally (?) sank a passenger ferry killing almost 1000 people. The Swedish government, and other Baltic nations who were set to join NATO, covered it up and blamed a design failure for the sinking. At the time, NATO was expanding eastwards. Since the fall of the USSR however, and with it the loss of the enemy NATO was established to defend against, this expansion seemed unnecessary to the public. The incompetence of the (apparent) accident apparently would have been a PR nightmare for NATO's pointless existence and expansion, at least under it's guise as a "defensive partnership". The cover-up was seemingly so crucial that actual survivors, who may have had witness testimony that would contradict the cover-up, were disappeared and/or apparently thrown back into the ocean (hours after being rescued and even cared for in hospital) to drown.
Crazy stuff.
Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler by Anthony C. Sutton:
‘The contribution made by American capitalism to German war preparations can only be described as phenomenal. It was certainly crucial to German military capabilities... Not only was an influential sector of American business aware of the nature of Naziism, but for its own purposes aided Naziism wherever possible (and profitable) - with full knowledge that the probable outcome would be war involving Europe and the United States.’ Penetrating a cloak of falsehood, deception and duplicity, Professor Antony C. Sutton reveals one of the most remarkable but unreported facts of the Second World War: that key Wall Street banks and American businesses supported Hitler’s rise to power by financing and trading with Nazi Germany. Carefully tracing this closely guarded secret through original documents and eyewitness accounts, Sutton comes to the unsavoury conclusion that the catastrophic Second World War was extremely profitable for a select group of financial insiders. He presents a thoroughly documented account of the role played by J.P. Morgan, T.W. Lamont, the Rockefeller interests, General Electric Company, Standard Oil, National City Bank, Chase and Manhattan banks, Kuhn, Loeb and Company, General Motors, the Ford Motor Company, and scores of others in helping to prepare the bloodiest, most destructive war in history.
Including his laughing and joking and then deep breaths to get into character.
Edit: Robbie Parker is there and he looks pretty unhappy. Probably not getting paid as well this time.
