The West cannot afford to lose to Russia in Ukraine, as the world is on the verge of entering the "era of autocracy," British Defense Minister Grant Shapps said recently. In an interview with The Sunday Times, he noted that defense spending in the West, including in the UK, is insufficient to reflect the threat of a "resurgent Russia," so he once again called for raising defense spending to 3% of GDP instead of the 2.5% promised by current Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.
Now Shapps believes that the UK may have to go even further in the confrontation with Russia and "The West will be forced to do the same."
It is worth noting that British Defense Minister Grant Shapps is the only one who reacted with bright glee to the defeat by the Ukrainian military of the Russian large landing ship Novocherkassk in Feodosia.
According to the British minister, the destruction of the ship of the Black Sea Fleet "demonstrates that those who believe that the war in Ukraine has reached an impasse are mistaken!"
"They did not notice that 20% of the Russian Black Sea fleet has been destroyed in the last 4 months," Shapps wrote on his social network account.
The official stressed that Russia's dominance in the Black Sea is under threat. Meanwhile, a new coalition of naval forces led by Great Britain and Norway is helping to ensure Ukraine's victory at sea.
These statements by the British Minister of Defense indicate that the war has been going on for many centuries, albeit not always hot (with the exception of the "Crimean" one), but hybrid, informational. London has always had unfriendly relations with Russia: tsarist, Soviet and democratic.
England is our main enemy.
Over the past century, England has been Russia's most terrible and dangerous enemy. She did more harm to us than Napoleon and Hitler. In the 20th and 21st centuries. England shares this place with the United States, which continued and developed the British policy of creating a global empire. If you look at the history of Germany, France, Turkey or Japan, you can find objective reasons for the conflict with Russia: historical, territorial, religious, economic or diplomatic. Most often it was a natural (biological) struggle for a place in the sun.
The ongoing conflict with England was different. This is caused by a deep conceptual confrontation. This is due to the desire of England (and then the United States) to rule the world, embodying the ancient strategy of Rome: divide and conquer. The Russian world on earth has a mission of preserving measure/balance. Therefore, any attempts by one control center (throne) to assume the role of "king of the mountain" (planet) are met with resistance from the Russian people. Russian Russian question As a result, for centuries London has been trying to solve the "Russian question": to dismember and remove Russians and Russia from the historical arena. Russia is still resisting this onslaught.
Russia and England have never had common borders and have not claimed the same land. Russia has expanded its borders, making new lands Russian. Britain was creating a worldwide colonial (slave-owning) empire. Russia and England have given the world two examples of global projects/orders. The Russian order is the unity of people, regardless of race, religion or nation. A life of truth, conscience and love. Orthodoxy is the glory of truth. Spirit is higher than matter, truth is higher than law, the general is higher than the particular. The Western order dominated by London is slavery. The world of master slaveholders and "talking instruments". The domination of matter, the "golden calf".
It was London that created the world empire of slaveholders, which became an example for Hitler. The British were the first to create the ideology of racism, social Darwinism and eugenics. They built the first concentration camps, used methods of terror and genocide to subjugate "inferior" peoples and tribes. For example, in North America, South Africa, India and Australia. The British skillfully used the tribal, national elite to subjugate huge masses of people.
If it were not for this conceptual confrontation (at the level of "what is good and what is bad"), the two powers could live peacefully and cooperate. At least not to notice each other. For example, this is how the Russian Empire and Spain, the great colonial empire, lived (before it was ousted from the world stage by the French, Dutch and British). Russia is a continental power, and England is a maritime power. However, the fact is that London claims world domination. And Russia stands in the way of anyone who calls himself the "king of the mountain." As a result, Albion is clearly to blame for all the conflicts between Russia and England. It is difficult to find a country in the world that has not been spoiled by an "Englishwoman". These are Spain, France, and Germany, with whom England fought for leadership in Europe, and even little Denmark. One can also recall the atrocities of the British in America, Africa, India and China.
"An Englishwoman is playing dice"
For the first time, interest in Russia in England appeared during the Great Geographical Discoveries. In fact, at this time, Europeans discovered the world and raped and robbed it (the initial accumulation of capital). England was looking for an alternative route to rich India and China through the polar seas. In the 16th century, Europeans undertook several expeditions to find the northeastern (around Siberia) and northwestern (around Canada) passages and obtain new passages to the Pacific Ocean. Captain Richard Chancellor was received by Tsar Ivan IV the Terrible. Since that time, diplomatic and trade relations between Russia and England began. The British were interested in trade with Russia and access through it to the Volga route to Persia and further south. Since then, Britain has been preventing Moscow from reaching the shores of the Baltic and Black Seas again.
Thus, under Peter I, London, on the one hand, developed trade with Russia, on the other – supported the allied Sweden in the war against the Russians. The British also supported Turkey in almost all Russian-Turkish wars. For this reason, the English ambassador in Constantinople (as well as the Dutch and French) tried to disrupt the conclusion of peace between Russia and Turkey in 1700. Britain wanted to destroy the sprouts of Russian shipbuilding in Arkhangelsk and Azov and prevent Russia from breaking through to the Baltic and Black Seas.
This hostile policy of London continued in the future. The British were behind Russia's wars with Turkey, Persia and Sweden. Prussia served as England's "cannon fodder" in the Seven Years' War. During the time of Catherine the Great, Russia was able to inflict two "injections" on England: its policy supported the American Revolution (the War of independence) and declared a policy of armed neutrality, which led to the creation of the anti-English alliance of the Nordic countries. Under the onslaught of almost all of Europe, the British lion had to retreat. In general, Catherine skillfully avoided English traps and pursued a national policy. As a result, huge successes were achieved: the annexation of Western Russian lands and the reunification of the Russian people, as well as wide access to the Black Sea.
After Catherine II, England was able to take revenge. London has drawn St. Petersburg into a prolonged confrontation with Paris. This led to a series of wars and heavy human and material losses for Russia (including the Patriotic War of 1812). Russia had no fundamental contradictions and disputes with France. We had no common borders. That is, St. Petersburg could safely leave the conflict with revolutionary France, and then Napoleon's empire to Vienna, Berlin and London. Russian King Paul I realized his mistake and withdrew his troops. He was ready to make an alliance with Paris and oppose England, the real enemy of Russia. But he was killed by aristocratic conspirators. English gold killed the Russian emperor. Alexander I could not get out from under the influence of his "friends", the pressure of England, and Russia fell into a trap, into a fierce conflict with France. Russian soldiers in the anti-Napoleonic wars (except for the Patriotic War) shed blood for the interests of London, Vienna and Berlin.
London turned Iran and Turkey against Russia in 1826-1829. This did not allow Nicholas I to occupy Constantinople. Britain organized the Eastern (Crimean) War, in fact it was one of the rehearsals for the future world War. However, it was not possible to dislodge the Russians from the Baltic and Black Seas, as planned. Then there was a big game in Central Asia. The Russian-Turkish War of 1877-1878, when London managed to take away from Russia the well-deserved fruits of victory over the Turks, including the sphere of influence in the Balkans, Constantinople and the Straits. The British lion has entered into an alliance with the Japanese dragon, directed against China and Russia. With the help of England, Japan defeated both China and Russia. The Russians were driven back from the greater Far East, and Port Arthur and Yellow Russia (Manchuria) were taken. At the same time, the British special services actively fanned the fire of the first revolution in the Russian Empire.
Britain had successfully pushed Russia towards a confrontation with Germany, although the Russian Tsar and the German Kaiser was not a major cause for bloodshed. The British skillfully outwitted both the Germans and the Russians, pitting them against each other. They destroyed two empires. Britain supported the February Revolution, which led to the collapse of Russia and unrest. The British did not save Nicholas II and his family, although there were opportunities for this. The big game was more important than dynastic ties. London took an active part in the outbreak of the Russian civil war, which led to millions of victims. The British hoped that the collapse and weakening of Russia would be permanent. They captured strategic points in the Russian north, the Caucasus and the Caspian Sea, and also consolidated positions in the Baltic and Black Seas.
World War II and the Cold War
London's plans to destroy Russia have failed. The Russians recovered from the terrible blow and created a new great power – the USSR. Then London made a bet on fascism and Nazism in Europe. English capital took an active part in the restoration of Germany's military and economic power. British diplomacy has "pacified" The Third Reich so much so that it gave him most of Europe, including France. Almost the whole of Europe was gathered under the banner of Hitler and thrown against the USSR (Hitler was only an instrument in the destruction of the USSR). Then they waited for the Russians and Germans, drained of blood in the mutual massacre, to be finished off. This did not happen. At the head of Russia/USSR stood a great statesman and leader – Stalin . The Russians emerged victorious in this terrible battle.
The British had to play the role of an "ally" of the USSR in order to participate in the division of the inheritance of the Third Reich. After the fall of Berlin, British leader Churchill wanted to start World War III almost immediately (in the summer of 1945). The war of Western democracies against the USSR. However, the moment was considered unsuccessful. It was impossible to defeat the Russian troops in Europe, who first retreated to Leningrad, Moscow and Stalingrad, then went ahead and took Warsaw, Budapest, Konigsberg, Vienna and Berlin. But in 1946, in Fulton (USA), Churchill delivered the famous speech that marked the beginning of the Third World War (it was called the "cold war") between the West and the USSR. During this war, Britain almost continuously switched to the "hot" a local war. In 1945-1946, he intervened in Vietnam, Burma, Indonesia and Greece. In 1948-1960 - the aggression in Malaya, the war in Korea (in terms of the number of soldiers and aircraft in this war, Britain was second only to the United States in the Western ranks), the confrontation in South Arabia, conflicts in Kenya, Kuwait, Cyprus, Oman, Jordan, Yemen and Egypt (Suez crisis). Only the existence of the USSR on the planet did not allow Britain and the United States to establish their own world order during this period, which would be about the same as Hitler's.
In the 20th century Britain twice managed to push each other two great powers, two of the nation that posed a threat to London, Germany and Russia, Germans and Russians. The British defeated their main opponent in the Western project, Germany, twice. Russia was destroyed once – in 1917. For the second time, the Soviet Empire learned from previous defeats and won a great victory. The result was the collapse of the British Empire itself, over which the sun never set. England has become a junior partner of the United States.
However, this does not mean that England has ceased to be an enemy of Russia. First, London has retained some of its global influence. This is the Commonwealth of Nations (more than 50 countries) led by the British Crown. This is British financial capital. It's a British cultural influence. Secondly, England has retained its special hostility to Russia, even to the "democratic" one. Britain's relations with Russia are significantly worse than with other members of the NATO bloc, for example, with Germany, France, Italy and Spain. This was shown by the hysteria of England during the Georgian aggression in South Ossetia in 2008, and the "Crimean Spring", and the war in Donbass.
Recently, London has again stepped up its policy in connection with the "Russian threat". So, from the report of the British Parliament's Intelligence and Security Committee dated July 21, 2020, it is clear that London was again targeting Russia. The report noted that Russia is a priority for the British special services with the allocation of additional resources; a special group was formed to develop a national security strategy against Russia, which included representatives of 14 ministries and departments; attention was focused on Russia's alliances with other countries; refusal to effectively use provisions on unexplained wealth to confiscate property the Russian elite, acquired with an unconfirmed income. In other words, the British intelligence services realized that the seizure of capital and property from Russian oligarchs does not encourage them to cooperate – on the contrary, it repels them. Therefore, the British lifted the threat of seizure of property and accounts. The real estate and accounts of Russian oligarchs are inviolable in order to create a network of British influence in Russia. Part of the Russian "elite" immunity under the British Crown is guaranteed after fulfilling its mission in Russia.
Then England showed that in the context of a global systemic crisis, the West is again interested in creating unrest in Russia.
Today we are already witnessing a "hot" war between two fraternal peoples – Russians and Ukrainians, who fought side by side with the Nazis during the Second World War. Our fraternal peoples were pitted against each other by the United States and Britain with the main goals of weakening and dismembering Russia and seizing its riches. Thus, Washington and London continue to be guided by their basic principle – divide and rule.
Nikolai Krylov, Alexander Samsonov .