Russia Sees Multi-Polar World as It's Future -- Not Trump

[David Guyatt]

Well, David, I would have to say your post clears things up. Well, said. And it's sad the Yelstin years placed Russia its current trajectory. Just sad?

Without the least bit of evidence, I wonder if some future Guido Preparata will tease out the current equivalents of Montague Norman and Hjalmar Schacht, if indeed they exist. Could Putin be piece in a vast danse macabre in ways yet to be imagined? I think its time for me to re-read Conjuring Hitler. One of my favorites.

Preparata has this to say in its conjuring of Hitler and WWII with particular notice to the bold text:

But the Hitlerites had to be duped into going to war against Russia with the guarantee that Britain,
and thus America, would remain neutral: Hitler would not want to repeat
the errors of World War I. Therefore Britain had to double' herself, so to
speak, into a pro-Nazi and anti-Nazi faction both of which, of course, were
components of one and the same fakery. The complex and rather grotesque
whole of Britain's foreign policy in the 1930s was indeed the result of these
ghastly theatrical diversions with which the Hitlerites were made to believe
that at any time the colorful Nazi-phile camp would overthrow the hawks
of the War Party, led by Winston Churchill, and sign a separate peace with
the Third Reich. The secret goal of this unbelievable mummery was to drive
Hitler away from the Mediterranean in 1941, and into the Soviet marshes,
which the British would in fact allow him to cleanse' for three years, until
the time would arrive to hem the Nazis in and finally crush them. (p. 204)

Just think about what he is saying with respect to the current hollering and at least wonder if the same tricks are being used now as in pre-war England.

I'm sure Preparata is absolutely right in this.

The British elite of the day, the upper-crust, landed gentry, royalty, aristo's etc., were almost to a man great admirers of Hitler. But, of course, Churchill was also of aristo blood, that of the Dukes of Marlborough - one of the great families of that time. The key aim of British foreign policy in Europe was to divide and conquer and all alliances were drawn up on the basis of pitting France against Germany and Germany against Russia etc. Pure Rhodes-Milner strategies.

I heard a hilarious definition of "upper crust" as told to Ray McGovern by his Irish grandmother --- "the upper crust are lots of crumbs held together by a load of dough."