Inquiring minds would like to know why the UK is so interested in discrediting the Russian government. It's clearly not just "making the world safe for democracy" or defending Western liberal values and traditions.
Something of this size and intensity suggests only one thing, "Follow the money." What's up with this? Has it something to do with the British financial empire that replaced the British political empire? What else could that be, and if this is it, what is the underlying rationale?
There seems to be little doubt that the US and UK tried to take over Russia after the collapse off the USSR and were added in this by both Russian oligarchs and foreign operatives. Is this an attempt to regain lost territory, mount a new offense to neuter Russia and a power and take over its resources (think Mackinder and Brzezinski) , or are the Russians somehow viewed as a threat to the City and British tax havens where the vast majority of oversees wealth is stored in secrecy?
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British Government Runs Secret Anti-Russian Smear Campaigns
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Or maybe it's a simple as that the Brits have collectively lost their marbles.
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On the other hand, the British Empire was instrumental in creating the conditions for both WWI and WWII, both of which were imperialist wars, just as WWIII is shaping up as an imperialist war. While the emperors may be history, imperialism is not. Of course, the British Empire was not the only empire involved in creating the conditions for WWI and WWII, and WWIII will be predicated not only on the Anglo-American Empire as the political successor to the British Empire, but also the resurgence of ancient empires as well as power blocs align and face off — Germany and France in the West, Russia in Eurasia, Ottoman Turkey and Iran in the Middle East, and China and Japan in Asia. And part of the struggle is for control of the countries of the Global South, chiefly Africa and South America.
Perhaps this is just a continuation of that historical dialectic entering a new stage productive of new conflicts.
