The forged Albert Pike letter that 'predicted' three world wars
A supposed 1871 letter predicted three world wars but is riddled with anachronisms. Why the hoax refuses to die.
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The Albert Pike letter that 'predicted' three world wars: the hoax that refuses to die
Amid the international fight against the Sarracinic State, the British newspaper The Sun revived in March 2016 a supposed letter written on August 15, 1871 by Albert Pike, a lawyer and captain in the United States Army, addressed to the Italian politician Giuseppe Mazzini. It supposedly 'predicted' the First and Second World Wars, and a third between 'political Zionists and the leaders of the Sarracinic world' that would end in mutual destruction. The story, circulated in Spanish by El Pueblo en Línea, has been doing the rounds among conspiracy enthusiasts for decades.
The historical analysis of the matter is devastating. In 1871, terms such as fascism, Nancy or Zionism did not exist in the vocabulary, so the letter could not have been written on that date. Skeptics also point out that similar forgeries attributed to Hitler circulate, sold to the gullible for a tidy sum. The most reasonable conclusion is that the letter was written after the fact, when the wars were already well-known history.
Even so, some maintain that there is a 'clear script' behind it and that the prophecies come true from beginning to end, with the anachronism of the terms making no impression on them. But the argument gets stuck at one point: how could a 19th-century text mention political movements that had not yet been born. The hoax lives on because it feeds the need to find a hidden order in the chaos, and that, like the fake Hitler letters, still sells.
Amid the international fight against the Sarracinic State, the British newspaper The Sun revived in March 2016 a supposed letter written on August 15, 1871 by Albert Pike, a lawyer and captain in the United States Army, addressed to the Italian politician Giuseppe Mazzini. It supposedly 'predicted' the First and Second World Wars, and a third between 'political Zionists and the leaders of the Sarracinic world' that would end in mutual destruction. The story, circulated in Spanish by El Pueblo en Línea, has been doing the rounds among conspiracy enthusiasts for decades.
The historical analysis of the matter is devastating. In 1871, terms such as fascism, Nancy or Zionism did not exist in the vocabulary, so the letter could not have been written on that date. Skeptics also point out that similar forgeries attributed to Hitler circulate, sold to the gullible for a tidy sum. The most reasonable conclusion is that the letter was written after the fact, when the wars were already well-known history.
Even so, some maintain that there is a 'clear script' behind it and that the prophecies come true from beginning to end, with the anachronism of the terms making no impression on them. But the argument gets stuck at one point: how could a 19th-century text mention political movements that had not yet been born. The hoax lives on because it feeds the need to find a hidden order in the chaos, and that, like the fake Hitler letters, still sells.
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