Merkel warns of return to nationalism unless EU protects borders  … German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Thursday urged European leaders to protect EU borders or risk a “return to nationalism” as the continent battles its worst migration crisis since World War II.  – Yahoo Merkel and other Eurocrats are worried about a degeneration of Europe. The idea is that until Europe pulled together as one entity, its quarrelsome nation-states fought one another regularly, culminating in world wars. But this is a misreading of history. For at least the past 500 years and probably longer, Western elites have been behind the wars that Merkel warns about. Germany itself formalized colonialism with the Berlin Conference of 1884-1885 attended by Western powers. In fact, the twin motors of modern colonialism and nationalism were Britain’s Cecil Rhodes and German chancellor Otto von Bismarck. Both of these individuals were backed by the monetary elites of their day. The colonialism that generated today’s nationalism around the world is often portrayed as an uncontrollable surge of Western greed. But colonialism, certainly in its later stages, was carefully controlled and guided. At one point, the British colonial empire stretched around the world. It has been portrayed as a political empire but in fact it was a mercantilist, banking empire. Whether in Africa, South America and Asia, the idea was to build nation states that could later be regionalized into the blocks of world government. The United Nations and European Union in particular have been advanced as an antidote to bellicose nationalism, just as Merkel suggests. But the wars blamed on nationalism were ones that set in motion by the … Continue reading How Merkel’s Germany Helped Build the Nationalism She Now Warns Against