Comments by "Emir" (@irongron) on "Sir Richard Shirreff - Escalation is Putin's Default Strategy; Might that be Driving us Towards WW3?" video.

  1. At the 16:00 min mark, Sir Richard on foreign policy and geopolitics rarely playing a part in British general elections in he last 100 years - "...what a far cry from the days when Gladstone was talking to packed crowds about the Balkan massacres..." - Sir Richard is not only the quintessential military leader, but a great historian. My ancestry is from the Balkans and my Great Grandparents on my father's Bosnian side were impacted immensely by the Ottoman Turks. From Encyclopaedia Britannica - "Bulgarian Horrors, atrocities committed by the forces of the Ottoman Empire in subduing the Bulgarian rebellion of 1876; the name was given currency by the British statesman W.E. Gladstone. Publicity given to the atrocities, especially in Gladstone’s pamphlet “The Bulgarian Horrors and the Question of the East” (1876), served to arouse public sympathy in Europe for the Bulgarians and other southern Slavs attempting to gain independence from the Ottoman Empire."
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