Chapter 169: Karl Marx's Six Commentaries on Trevier
Recently, a piece of news that had been whispered for a long time in the capitals of Europe, and which we had predicted for a long time, finally happened as expected: just a few days earlier, France had given Russia an ultimatum to stop their march on Romania or face each other in arms. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
Not surprisingly, this request was arrogantly rejected by the Russians, and this was exactly what the French inscrutable Caligula expected, who immediately convened his puppet council and then asked the puppets to pass a bill for additional war appropriations.
So, this war, which we had been expecting for a long time, finally broke out.
No one is righteous, and both sides of this war are thieves and robbers - the Russian, though he was the one who was declared war, had declared war on the Turks before that, and had launched his own march into Europe, indulging his boundless ambitions; And Louis Bonaparte and his entire ruling clique were a bunch of shameless thugs, who went against Russia only because one group of robbers did not allow another group of bandits to succeed.
Now that the Russians were gearing up and vowing to add new glory to the glory of 1812, the Cossacks assured their masters that they would defeat the French again, as they had done then.
In any case, driven by ambition, the Russians will always take risks, and such adventures will eventually be punished as they deserve.
And what about the French?
The French, on the other hand, cheered on the surface, just as the parliamentarians shouted long live the emperor in Parliament, and the national mood was high, declaring that they would avenge the shame of the year.
However, at least some of the French people muttered privately that His Majesty of the Empire, while chanting "Empire is peace" and shouting "to maintain friendly relations with the countries of Europe", suddenly and without warning launched a foreign war, which not only imposed a sudden burden on the French people, but also made the regime dishonest from the inside out.
If this breach of trust would bring any benefit to France, perhaps the French would have accepted it tacitly, just as they had tacitly accepted the blasphemous alliance between François I and Suleiman the Magnificent of the Ottoman Empire.
But could this war really bring enough benefits to France? Could it be that France could find any interest in the vast wilderness of the Balkans and the Crimea, in Constantinople, which held the Black Sea? Is this interest worth the French sacrificing the lives of their young people to fight for?
Not a single French parliamentarian dared to ask such a question about their tyrant, questioning his motives for doing his own thing, to see how far Caligula had devastated the country in this new era.
In fact, it is very obvious that anyone can see that France in this war was neither to defend Europe nor to defend French interests, but for the personal prestige and power of Emperor Louis-Bonaparte, who was desperate to take the country and then drive the Zhuaf soldiers to fight the Cossacks in the vast wilderness!
France had no interests in the Black Sea, but Bonaparte needed to curry favor with the English and at the same time reward them with the royal soldiers, so that they could benefit from such a war, which was the only way he could consolidate his empire, which had been crumbling from the beginning.
Yes, it was a war for the benefit of the British, who needed to organize the Russian march and avoid them from the threat to their important colonies, so they urgently needed to thwart the Russians and strike at their military power, wherever they were; And so it is with the generals of France, who are so keen on what the princes and dukes of Napoleon have obtained, who are bent on following the glorious path of their predecessors, who desperately need war to get themselves titles, to get riches, to get everything they desire—and that is the real reason for this war.
The British were fighting for India, so they marched to the Balkans; The royal soldiers of France are fighting for the sake of fighting, so they are also marching into the Balkans!
This is the whole truth that France is facing today, and yet those who can see this truth either lie and deceive with their majesty, or are silenced by the obscenity of the imperial government, so that the military adventures of the emperor are accepted by the French without a word, and they think that their emperor is leading them to glory!
There is no doubt that both countries are great powers, and although Russia is not as strong as France in terms of national strength, they have the advantage of being on their home turf, and both sides will definitely do their best for their own survival until the firewood is exhausted. So this struggle will be an unprecedented one, in which countless young people will lose their lives and all hope.
O vanity lovers of France, you have already been deceived by Napoleon once, why should you be deceived again by another insignificant Napoleon? Your national zeal has thus been exploited by a group of adventurers and crooks, driven to open fire on other peoples, to glorify them with their blood and your own!
It is conceivable that if the crook of the Tuileries Palace had won, he would not have stopped, for the royal army would never have been satisfied, and he would have to launch military adventures again and again to appease the ambitions of the royal army, and Europe would never be at peace.
Therefore, any upright person, anyone who has any hope of peace in Europe and the world, should realize that if Europe wants to have peace, it is necessary to make this empire lose immediately in the war, so that this dangerous regime will not plunge the world into a sea of blood with military adventures and plunder.
It is true that the defeat of France will make the Cossack masters more arrogant, will make the ambitions of the Russians more dangerous, and will make the French suffer unbearable losses, but the ambitions of the Russians will be stopped after all, and the calamity facing France now will certainly be smaller than that of the future - after all, this is a war without land borders, and the Cossacks will not enter Paris, and what about the future? Perhaps one of Bonaparte's military adventures would have brought about the humiliation of mainland France, as was the case with the previous Napoleon!
I believe that those French who have not yet been deceived by the bandit clique of Bonaparte, after sober and rational reflection, will also understand that the sooner France abandons this bandit clique, the better it will be for France, and only then will France be able to regain all the honor and majesty it once had, and it will have the opportunity to become a free French republic again.
In the midst of this long-planned surprise attack, there was also a small episode.
Before the ultimatum was delivered to the Russians, the French were celebrating the birthday of Her Majesty the Empress, and the Austrian Emperor Franz-Joseph I had arrived to congratulate her, and when he learned that France had started a war against Russia, the Emperor was furious and left Paris hastily after a perfunctory day.
The Emperor's anger was understandable, because although they were equally disgusted with the Russian advance, they did not dare to confront Russia head-on because of their weakened national power, so they counted on some great power to stand up and carry out such a confrontation in their place, and this is why the Habsburg Emperor abandoned his dislike of Napoleon's successors and flattered him instead.
But the French, too, took advantage of him unequivocally, and while he was congratulating the Empress of France, and while he was flattering the French Emperor, the Emperor flattered him and at the same time amiably submitted a declaration of war to Russia, and then pulled him aside, without even saying a word about it before!
All the Habsburgs wanted was to find a backer to support themselves, and where did they think that this backer would have bad intentions in the first place?
Although the Habsburg throne was far older than Bonaparte's, they had enough common language in their brazenness, rebellion, and justifiable wickedness, and it could even be said that it was precisely because they were familiar with the hypocritical ways of doing things that were used by the nations that the nations of Europe admired Bonaparte and his servants so much, and the gentlemen applauded their crimes against the republic, and then accepted them as members of the "European family." The more shameless and vicious they are, the more they are able to provoke admiring glances and cheers, and then be accepted by the gentlemen as their own kind, celebrating their victory.
The Habsburg Emperor was angry only that he had not deceived others, but had been deceived. Robbers usually don't look at themselves, but only blame others for not letting them rob them.
As long as this brazen code of conduct continues, Fontainebleau's absurdist will not be the last performance, the first time it will be a main play, and then it will be a farce, and they will be entangled in France, carry out military adventures again and again, and be defeated in one adventure without honor. And Louis Bonaparte and his ridiculous cronies, and his entire empire held together by intrigue and tyranny, will disappear into the farce as if they had never existed.
And in this series of farces, we seem to see another person, and that is the Charles de Treville, who already enjoys a "reputation".
Although he had left the diplomatic service and become a true Imperial Minister by virtue of the favor of his master, he had a huge budget at his disposal and the privilege of using it for his own personal gain, but he did not seem to be satisfied with this, and was bent on assisting his leader in continuing to destabilize Europe in order to give him more power personally.
There is inconclusive evidence that even after the decision of this bandit group to prepare for war against Russia, he has always called himself a friend of the Russians, and has been enthusiastically interacting with Russia, repeatedly speaking flattering to the Russian minister, singing the same high tune as his master "Empire is peace", and doing everything to confuse and paralyze the Russians, deceive and spread rumors.
There is no doubt that only with the help of a wolf in fine costume like Treville can the monsters of Corsica be able to do so smoothly to the wicked. In a sense, his sins and the sins of his master are one and the same, and together they are a disaster for the whole world.
In the years of service, he must have robbed countless fortunes for himself, everyone knows that in a few years his wealth has swelled dramatically, becoming the richest man in this empire, robbing an unknown amount of wealth that originally belonged to the French people, and his Machiavellianian style of acting has also made the adults of European countries have not left much morality in their hearts, and they have been corrupted a little more.
Thanks to the efforts of Caligula, a new-age Caligula of Louis Bonaparte, and his cronies, who were like Talleyrand's rebirth, Europe was now in crisis and in turmoil. And in Gu Ying's suffrage, we can always see a few wisps of ghost fire burning from Treville, how many years will he and his master poison Europe? What kind of funny posture will you take to say goodbye to this stage?
We'll see.