Tag: Ukraine

A Lesson from History

In the 1930s Britain urged Poland (today Ukraine) to constantly provoke her German neighbours. Promises were made to the Polish government (Ukraine) that in the event of a German military response (Russian) Britain and her Empire would ally itself to Poland to resist the German armed forces.  

Learning from History but Idiots never do

How true the advice of Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821): ‘He who his first hits twice.’ Now the sweet irony: Russia has done precisely what Germany did in June 1941. Back then, to frustrate a Soviet attack on Germany and the Reich’s allies to the East, Germany pre-emptively struck the American-sponsored Soviet Union. The USSR had been given the go-ahead to overwhelm Europe by Roosevelt’s blank cheque (Lend-Lease Plan).