tion, and the Balkan peninsula and anterior Asia Minor are doomed to devastation.
Armenia's part in the Allies' fight against Turkey is analogous to that which Belgium played in the war with Germany, and Serbia in the war with Austria-Hungary. When the Armenian state was formed—without boundary lines and without means of existence—Wilson declined the Armenian mandate offered him by the "League of Nations", for Armenia's soil contained neither petroleum nor platinum. "Liberated" Armenia is now less secure than ever before.
Almost all the newly formed "national" states have their own irritants, their internal national ulcers.
At the same time the national strife within the bounds of the victorious countries has reached its climax. The English bourgeoisie which pretends to be the guardian of the nations of the world is incapable of solving the Irish question at home.
Still more threatening is the national question in the colonies. Egypt, India, Persia are shaken by internal upheavals. The toilers of the colonies are adopting the slogan of the Soviet Federation from the advanced workers of Europe and America.
Official, national, civilized bourgeois Europe—after it emerged from the war and the Versailles peace—is like a lunatic asylum. The petty states artificially dismembered, economically stifled within their boundaries, wrangle and fight with one another over seaports, provinces and small towns. They seek the protection of the bigger states whose mutual antagonism is increasing from day to day. Italy stands in a hostile position against France and is ready to side with Germany against her as soon as the latter is capable of raising her head. France is rancorous with envy towards England, and would not hesitate to set the whole of Europe on fire if that would only enable her to get back her interests. Assisted by France, England maintains a state of chaotic impotence in Europe, in order that no one shall be able to interfere with her imperialistic plans against America. The United States allows Japan to involve herself in Eastern Siberia so that she may meanwhile get her navy into a condition to get her the upper hand of Great Britain—provided England should not in her turn attempt to have a trial of strength with America before 1925.
It is in keeping with this state of international relations that the oracle of the French bourgeoisie, Marshal Foch, predicts that the coming war is going to begin where the preceding war left off: aeroplanes, machine guns, mitrailleuses instead of rifles, and grenades instead of the bayonet.
Workers and peasants of Europe, America, Asia, Africa, Australia! This is what you have achieved at the cost of ten millions of killed, twenty millions of wounded and maimed!
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