Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Col Douglas Magregor: Ukraine Must Shut Up / Do What We Tell Them" video.
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Great Britain has been trying to keep Russia and Germany as landlocked as possible for centuries. If Russia ever became a sea power in proportion to her land power, Britain would become a minor player in the Great Game. Britain has stayed in the Great Game by allowing and sometimes manipulating America to act as her proxy.
The USA picked up where Britain left off, which allowed Britain to maintain the illusion (and sometimes the reality) of its former imperial glory. To this day, if there's a nation with a significant Russian presence in its seaports, it's likely to succumb to regime-change operations. Britain's ambitions in the Middle East, Africa, and the Far East have pretty much been carried out by the USA.
We, the collective West, have a maddening habit of dragging other nations down and then saying "See? This all shows our civilization is superior to theirs, and why we have the right and the duty to intervene and draw the map for them."
"See? All they do it hate!" And I think "Well, no wonder."
I also think that the stresses we impose on societies around the globe are in large part responsible for the regressive and authoritarian regimes we hold in such scorn. We keep them on a constant war footing and then blame them for being so top-down in their governance.
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