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Why did the British come to hate the Russians? Why?

And I would tell you because I just published a book yesterday

about Russophobia in Europe, and I recount in the

first chapter of this book a wonderful study by

a historian named Gleeson, written in 1950.

And he asked a poignant question, completely relevant for us

today. He said Britain and Russia were allies in

1815 at Waterloo. 25 years later,

they're enemies. What happened? And so he studied the Hansard,

he studied every published record. He read everything.

He read whatever was said in the House of Commons. He read every speech.

And his conclusion in this wonderful book is that

Russia's biggest crime is that it has seventeen

million square kilometers. That's its biggest crime.

Why do I say that? Because with seventeen million square

kilometers, Britain got into its head that Russia was so

big that it was a threat to the British Empire in India, something

that never crossed the tsar's mind, by the way.

But Britain talked itself into quite a froth, and by

1840, Russia was the enemy. And in

1853, Palmerston, the quintessential

imperialist, went to war in Crimea. Why?

Long story, but basically just to crush Russia because

Russia in 1852 said, "We can solve all the

grievances. There's no reason for any conflict."

And Palmerston said,

"We move on to Sevastopol." And the reason is that he

wanted to make Russia a non-entity so it couldn't

invade the British Empire. And there was a three-year bloody war, the

Crimean War. That's how revolutionarily peaceful

we were. And you know, days after Germany's

surrender in 1945, everyone knows that Churchill

asked his own war command, "Why don't we invade the Soviet Union

now?"

Operation Unthinkable. And it became an enemy of the United

States of America when it took over the British Empire in

1945. And when the Soviet Union would dissolve,

we had

peace in our hands for a century to come if we

wanted it because the Russians were rather exhausted of

seventy-five years of Bolshevism.

They wanted peace, they wanted cooperation, they wanted

friendship. And all the American strategists could

think about

was, "Russia's big. We just have to make sure it remains a

third-rate power." And what was decided is we're gonna surround

Russia with NATO, and if you behave that way long enough, you

end up with the Ukraine war. This is not Putin's war.

This is our war, for exactly the same reason

that Palmerston and

Napoleon III launched the first Crimean War, because Russia

doesn't have the slightest interest in marching into Europe, and

it never did, except when Napoleon bothered them and

when Hitler bothered them