Mencius Moldbug: Religious Zeal for Promoting Democracy Led Anglo Powers into War Against Germany

Moldbug has made a good case for the idea that the America of the 20th century had a religious devotion toward democracy, and many elite Americans hated Germany because it had opted for Hitler's nationalism instead of Weimar republicanism. Moldbug excerpted writings by Anglophone writers in the 1930s who loathed Hitler before he did anything to regain the territory Germany lost in the Treaty of Versailles.

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America entered the war not because Germany was a strategic threat, but because the war was an opportunity for American internationalists to remake the world to their fancy and at the same time beat up on a sinner nation that had abandoned the secular religion of democracy. America's entry into the war in turn was the impetus for the Nazis' systematic efforts to kill off the Jews; since the Jewish holocaust would cause Western elites to make antiracism their highest value, the American faith in democracy and republicanism can be blamed for the demographic displacement of whites that is occurring now.

Moldbug's primary sourcebook on WWII shows that the Allies, in their "normal and sane" attempts to promote democracy, abandoned the centuries-old convention that limited hostilities to uniformed forces and reverted to primitive forms of war that targeted civilian populations for violence and starvation. Moldbug's block quotation from a book by F.J.P. Veale, whom he calls a British fascist historian, is worth reading because it dramatizes the sharp break the combatants made with the conventions of civilized warfare that had ruled Europe since the end of the 1600s:

As early as 1770, by which time the horrors of the Thirty Years War had become generally forgotten, the Comte de Guibert could express the already prevailing complacency by writing:

"Today the whole of Europe is civilized. Wars have become less cruel. Save in combat no blood is shed; prisoners are respected; towns are no more destroyed; the countryside is no more ravaged; conquered peoples are only obliged to pay some sort of contributions which are often less than the taxes they pay to their own sovereign."

An explanation is clearly needed to account for the fact that governments composed of educated men, reared in the 19th century and brought up to accept as a matter of course the standards of conduct then accepted by everyone, should have so quickly and easily overcome their natural repugnance and adopted and carried out such enormities as the systematic extermination of a defenceless minority on account of its racial origin, the mass-deportation of enemy populations numbering millions, and the deliberate slaughter of enemy civilians by terror bombing in order to generate among the survivors a disposition to surrender unconditionally. 

.... They failed to realize that genocide and terror bombing were not isolated phenomena but symptoms of the same retrograde movement which had mysteriously overtaken Western civilization.

In the rest of the sourcebook, Moldbug attempts to use primary sources, mainly Edgar Mowrer's "Germany Puts Back the Clock," to explain the cause of the "retrograde movement" that accounted for both the civilian bombing and genocide. Moldbug includes a long quotation from Mowrer (a journalist from Bloomington who was apparently human) to show that the Anglosphere's casus belli was to punish Germany for "rebelling against the nascent international community," and WASP republicanism. Whether the Mowrer passage proves that thesis or not, the block quotation is a good read and it brims over with a sort religious loathing of the German republicans for failing to keep Hitler from coming to power. Mowrer's book was a best seller and he won the Pulitzer Prize.