Keir Starmer’s government is determined to continue the war in Ukraine and to undermine President Trump’s efforts to bury the hatchet with Russia.

JOHN LEAKE

Between 1588, when the English Navy repulsed the Spanish Armada of Philip II, and 1815, when the Duke of Wellington defeated Napoleon at Waterloo, the British government did a pretty good job of pursuing British interests without getting dragged into the treacherous and ever shifting alliances and conflicts on the Continent. Notable exceptions were the War of the Spanish Succession between 1701 and 1714 and the Seven Years War from 1756 to 1763.

The causes of these wars strike the contemporary reader as obscure and confusing. An ancestor of mine, Sir John Leake, was an Admiral of Fleet during the War of the Spanish Succession, and ever since I read his biography as a boy, I have been fascinated by British military history. To me, what is most remarkable about it is that, despite the occasional stupid and disastrous war, the small island nation continued to expand its power and wealth in a steady progression all the way till the end of the 19th century.

It was only the in 20th century that the British ruling class started making really bad decisions, starting with its overreaction to Kaiser Wilhelm II’s ambition to build a strong German Navy. Until then, the British—whose royal family was from Germany—had always enjoyed cordial relations with the German principalities.

Additionally, British rulers struggled to form a coherent Russian policy. During the Crimean War the British allied with the Turks against the Russians. During World War I, the British allied with the Russians against the Turks. Following World War I, the British endorsed dissolving the Austro-Hungarian Empire in Europe and the Ottoman Empire in the Middle East. Both policies created yet more instability and resulted in yet more war.

After World War I, British rulers made a bungling mess out of the Middle East, implementing policies in Palestine, Syria, and Iraq that planted the seeds for many recent conflicts.

For a while the British supported Palestinian Arab claims, and even turned away Jewish refugees from Europe after Hitler extended German rule into Austria and Czechoslovakia, and Poland. After the Irgun blew up the British Mandatory Palestine headquarters in the King David Hotel in Jerusalem in 1946, Whitehall realized the place was too hot to handle and terminated its Mandate two years later.

During World War II, the British formed an alliance with the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin against Germany. At the Yalta Conference in 1945, Churchill and Roosevelt essentially granted Stalin total domination of Eastern Europe, including Poland—ignoring that the violation of Poland’s sovereignty was the original casus belli against Germany.

Also overlooked was the fact that the Soviets invaded Poland shortly after the German invasion, as well as the Soviet murder of the Polish officer class in the Katyn forest in 1940.

During the 20th century, the one thing the British government undeniably excelled at was persuading the United States government to take its side in World War I and II. Along with these decisions, the American people have been conditioned to believe that the British—our cousins across the pond—are necessarily the good guys in Europe.

While some elements of this narrative were true in the past, I strongly doubt this is the case today. The current British government strikes me as the most dreadful in the nation’s long history. Especially stunning has been its tyrannical imposition of censorship, thereby flouting an unbroken tradition of free speech going back to John Milton’s “Areopagitica” defense of free speech, which he published in 1644.

In recent weeks it’s become clear that the British government is working hard to undermine President Trump’s attempts to end the senseless war in Ukraine and to make peace with Russia—a nation with whom the United States can and should have a peaceful and cooperative relationship.

Millions of Americans who have been systematically brainwashed by anti-Russian propaganda for the last thirty years are unable to see this reality, but this doesn’t make it any less real.

In light of recent events, it is one of the great ironies of history that the American Left was enamored with Soviet communism well into the 1950s, when Hollywood and other cultural institutions were sympathetic to Russia and hated Senator Joe McCarthy.

In 1953, the great American playwright, Arthur Miller, wrote The Crucible. Ostensibly about the Salem Witch Trials. the play was Miller’s parable about McCarthy’s so-called Red Scare.

When Alger Hiss died in 1996, the New York Times published a flattering obituary that lent no credence to the evidence that Hiss—part of Roosevelt’s delegation at Yalta—was one of Stalin’s most useful spies.

In recent years the situation has completely reversed, and the American Left has become hysterically anti-Russian. Nowadays you’ll find no greater supporters of the warmongering U.S. Military-Industrial-Intelligence Complex than Americans who identify themselves as liberal Democrats.

We applaud President Trump’s bold and courageous efforts to end the senseless war in Ukraine, bury the hatchet with Russia, and focus on building American prosperity instead of getting dragged into Britain’s imbecilic “Great Game” against Russia.

I hope Trump makes it clear to Starmer that if the ridiculous and treacherous Prime Minister gets Britain into a war with Russia, the Yanks will not be coming to his rescue.

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Russian Spies Warn That The UK Is Trying To Sabotage Trump’s Envisaged “New Détente”

ANDREW KORYBKO

Trump 2.0 must become aware of the threat that the UK poses to its plans and respond accordingly to defend the US’ interests.

Russia’s Foreign Spy Service (SVR) accused the UK of trying to sabotage the nascent Russian–US “New Détente” for self-interested geopolitical reasons. According to their sources, the success of their talks could break the Brits’ regional containment of Russia, which is why they’re employing a dual-track policy for preventing this. The first part involves information warfare fearmongering about Trump’s ties with Russia while the second seeks to escalate the Ukrainian Conflict through a conventional intervention.

SVR’s report lacks any bombshells since everything that they revealed was already self-evident to astute observers, but it’s still important that they lent credence to what others before them had already picked up on and the timing with which they did so. “France, Germany, & Poland Are Competing For Leadership Of Post-Conflict Europe” while the UK plans to divide-and-rule the continent like usual, to which end it’s expected to rely more on Poland and/or Ukraine with whom it’s been colluding since February 2022.

Few either saw it at the time or still remember, but the UK forged an informal trilateral alliance with Poland and Ukraine exactly one week before the special operation began, which was leveraged shortly after to convince Zelensky to abandon spring 2022’s peace talks with Russia as was explained here. In the three years since, Poland and the US have taken harder stances towards Ukraine, the first initially for domestic political reasons and the second due to Trump’s eagerness to “Pivot (back) to Asia” pronto.

The aforesaid developments have left the UK as Ukraine’s top supporter, the position of which it expects to maintain for as long as possible since that former Soviet Republic is the lynchpin in London’s regional anti-Russian containment strategy, but events might ultimately force it to abandon this project. Until that happens, however, the UK is doing its utmost within all realistic limits to complicate and even possibly sabotage the nascent Russian-US “New Détente” and associated deal over Ukraine.

Should it fail, which is seemingly inevitable, then the fallback plan could be to refocus on Poland as the core of a new regional containment coalition that’ll be smaller in scope but nonetheless still formidable. Poland has the largest economy of the EU’s eastern members, now boasts NATO’s third-largest army, and aspires to restore its lost “sphere of influence” at the expense of Russia’s security interests. These factors could converge to make Poland the UK’s preferred top partner in post-conflict Europe.

The only problem to these plans is that the US is poised to make Poland its own top partner on the continent so the UK might have to compete with its American ally or accept junior partner status vis-à-vis Washington in any trilateral that might form between them. At the same time, however, Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski is a diehard Anglophile who even had British citizenship till he gave it up in 2006 to join the government so he might operate as the UK’s “agent of influence” to advance its agenda.

From the UK’s perspective, the best-case scenario is that: the nascent Russian-US “New Détente” fails for whatever reason; the US then feels compelled to resume large-scale military support to Ukraine in response so as to teach Russia a lesson as Trump might see it; but the UK successfully manipulates Western public opinion to supplant the US as the “leader of the free world” due to its consistently anti-Russian position that never once wavered no matter how difficult things became for Ukraine in the past.

On the flipside, the worst-case scenario from the UK’s perspective is that: the nascent Russian-US “New Détente” succeeds; a pragmatic compromise follows in Ukraine which turns it into an informal joint protectorate between Russia and the US; the US then turns Poland into its top partner in post-conflict Europe; and the US, not the UK, guides Poland as it restores part of its lost “sphere of influence” and then uses this geopolitical network to divide-and-rule Europe by keeping Germany and Russia apart.

It’s precisely this sequence of events that’s presently unfolding and which might consequently provoke the UK into doing something very dramatic to sabotage this process out of desperation. Russia clearly has an interest in preventing that, ergo why SVR chose this moment to lend credence to what others before them had already picked up on about the UK’s interests in this context. Trump 2.0 must become aware of the threat that the UK poses to its plans and respond accordingly to defend the US’ interests.

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This article (Russian Spies Warn That The UK Is Trying To Sabotage Trump’s Envisaged “New Détente”) was created and published by Andrew Korybko and is republished here under “Fair Use”

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