pinnacle of deceit

The violation of these terms when defenseless Germany was in the chains of the armistice amounted to a pinnacle of deceit on the part of the United States and the European Western Allies which could hardly be surpassed.

- The Forced War [pdf] by David Hoggan

The British ability to rationalize an essentially immoral foreign policy and to moralize about it has always been unlimited. -pg 60

Это смутно мне напоминает Индо-пакистанский инцидент.

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also see The Forced War in Ex Libris

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The Freeman’s Journal insisted that Chamberlain’s ultimatum to Kruger had been “modeled on the methods of the blackmailer,” and alleged that the British Cabinet “want war to satisfy revenge and the greed for gold.”

The paper professed amazement at the British ability to rationalize the country’s motives and conduct in the Transvaal, scoffing,“They are a wonderful people the English. There is a magnificent unconscious self-sufficiency about them which enables them to do the most unjust and the meanest things without the least loss of self-respect.”

- "To Hold the World in Contempt": The British Empire, War, and the Irish and Indian Nationalist Press, 1899-1914