Ius Publicum Europeaum Series Intro
The work of Thomas777 and Pete Quiñones on the World War Two podcast series gave rise to a personal fascination with a historical figure who for the majority of Westerners, let alone the world, has been thrown into relative obscurity.
The Nuremberg consensus has dictated to not only European powers, but nations worldwide a status quo policy deeming it illegal to be right wing. This is enforced by the United States that is currently controlled by what many call the “deep state” which is one portion overgrown, managerialist behemoth, financially draining the country and another portion of stateless parasites both Middle Eastern and European that use the United States to enforce the aforementioned consensus.
The United States in many ways is prevented from falling due to it being too valuable a prize to squander whether it’s controlled by the vanguard elite emerging of Trump, American finance, the PayPal Mafia, and even one faction of our favorite country in the Middle East on one side, or the other faction of that Middle Eastern country, the Davos crowd, and the aforementioned deep state on the other side.
Much of what is written above, if not all, is a distillation of many talking points of great revisionists and commentators, like Paul Fahrenheidt, Pete Quiñones, “Cat Girl Kulak,” and most notably, Thomas777 that I’ve had the privilege of listening and reading.
But what struck me as more fascinating than the Nuremberg consensus is the consensus that it replaced, originating in Westphalia in 1648, crafted by “the miracle of Holland,” as dubbed by Henry IV, the great Hugo Grotius.
The Thirty Years War was World War One close to 300 years before World War One, lasting from 1618 to 1648, taking place in four phases, the Bohemian phase, the Danish phase, the Swedish phase, and the French phase. The conflict began over the Holy Roman Emperor, Ferdinand II wishing to enforce Catholic policies on the entirety of the Holy Roman Empire which went both against the Treaty of Augsburg of 1555 granting religious allowances for Lutheran states within the Holy Roman Empire. The rise of Calvinism added an additional inflammatory question, as multiple Northern German states opted for the new strain of Protestantism emerging from Jean Calvin in Geneva. But what ensued was a round robin struggle for power, with Catholic victories alarming Nordic Protestant powers of a strengthened Catholic, Habsburg neighbor as well as Catholic opportunists seeking power in the case of France.
What was clear was to European soldiers and statesmen alike, was that the bloodletting that killed 52% of the German people needed to cease in order for Europe to survive. However, with the religious grounds of the conflict, the source of peace was sought outside of the Christian Faith in the “naturalism” of Greco-Roman morality that pre-dated the rise of Christianity in Europe.
Grotius had brought peace to Europe, but that peace came at a cost that eventually gave grounds to Nietzsche’s most infamous and misunderstood quote of, “God is Dead,” with God all but removed from top down policy, opting for mercantilism holding the highest spot on the hierarchy of importance. While monarchy was technically alive in every country in Europe sans Portugal, France, and Switzerland leading up to World War One, the Great War simply removed the veil of the true status quo that was diluting the power of monarchies, with non-royal heads of state in Franco, Mussolini, Roosevelt, Stalin, and Hitler all filling the void down the line.
What finished the job close to thirty years later was Nuremberg, but the events that brought Europe to this point, began with the Westphalian consensus. These events are many, and my new co-host on the Blood & Rain Podcast for all things political theory, Mercatores and I decided to chronicle these events in both podcast form and written form.
The series will take place in nine parts as follows:
The Origins and Works of Hugo Grotius
The Thirty Years War and The Peace of Westphalia
The French Revolution, Napoleonic Wars, and Congress of Vienna
The “wilderness period'“ between Waterloo and World War One, specifically, the Crimean War, the Franco-Prussian War, The Meiji Restoration, The Russo-Japanese War, and the Boer War
World War One
The Treaty of Versailles & The Inter-War Period
World War Two
The Nuremberg Consensus
Is secular peace a worthy goal?
The working question of the series running parallel with the chronicling of the butterfly effect of Hugo Grotius and the Peace of Westphalia is the question posed and potentially answered in the final episode is whether or not a secular peace is worthy of pursuing. While it alleviated Europe of further bloodshed in the immediate term, one can make the argument that it culminated in far worse horrors in the World Wars, Communism, and the atomization of mankind.
The podcast series is already four episodes in with episode five set to release next week, but the articles will provide further depth and different angles that are better provided in the medium of the written word.
Part one will be released next Saturday, with all articles eventually concluding in lock step with its counterpart podcast series.
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> the question posed and potentially answered in the final episode is whether or not a secular peace is worthy of pursuing. While it alleviated Europe of further bloodshed in the immediate term, one can make the argument that it culminated in far worse horrors in the World Wars, Communism, and the atomization of mankind.
If you're answer to the question really is "no", are you willing to apply that answer to our own time?
Westphalia led to WW2…
Disagree.
Ernst Junger wrote that Liberalism led to nihilism, which led to Bolshevism, which led to Nazism, and in a warning that Liberalism postwar is going back to the starting point.
“The Peace” by Ernst Junger 1944. I agree with Junger, who was present for the events from WW1 to the fall of the Berlin Wall
1895-1998.