Found the above Latuff drawing at Pepe Escobar’s Telegram along with some new information and knew something needed to be done to advance the image and information. I found the following text there and tried to find the original writer. What I found was the complete text at a site called
Both the book and Karl’s response rightly point to a largely in examined issue. However, both rely on a narrative “Country A hates Country B so then event E1 follows, then …”.
This is sensible but I think quite incomplete. Countries don’t hate other countries….a country is a not a living entity which can manifest this emotion.
Individuals, within a power structure, promulgate hatred. Individuals coalesce into nodes from which networks (in this case of hatred) expand influence until the capture of publications which reach the masses (consider Robert Darnton’s exposure of the underground press in pre-Revolution France).
Without in any way claiming scholarship, I see enough of a pattern that almost shouts. Since the return of the Jews to England under Oliver Cromwell, their influence, wealth and power has expanded There are countless books on Anglo-Jewry, their disposition into the independent state of the City [of London]’ etc etc. Marriages into the landed aristocracy at all levels is a fact barely worth mentioning but it is still surprising that the Lord Randolph married a wealthy Brooklyn Jewess (née Jerome) who engendered Winston….and started a very popular trend.
The British Jews, of course, are largely Ashkenazi and their purported homeland of Khazaria encompassed lands now largely in Russia. Bits were in the “hinterlands” (Україна) — probably overlapping the acreage that BlackRock and Goldman Sachs hold under options.
So the puzzling hatred of Britain towards Russia isn’t a riddle — at least to me.
"The Making of a Russophobe: David Urquhart: The Formative Years, 1825-1835
Margaret Lamb
The International History Review
Vol. 3, No. 3 (Jul., 1981), pp. 330-357 (28 pages)"
Check this out. (I can't) But I do know that David Urquhart was the great progenitor of russophobia in mid C19th Britain. The tensions, related to the collapsing Ottoman Empire and the supposed road through Central Asia to India, were obvious enough.
But I would suggest that the real basis of this Russophobia lay in the realisation, which goes back to the C18th (when Jeremy Bentham's brother Samuel was working for Potemkin in the conquest and biuilding of Novorossiya- yep the same place that the war is about-and Jeremy was polishing up his manners in the hope of an audience with Catherine the Great at which he was going to present her with a legal code, Samuel had already built the first panoptigon on an estate on the Dnieper.)
The first signs are seen in American literature: the Americans realised that what they were doing in the relatively unprotected western hemisphere, the race to the Pacific, the Russians had already done in Siberia, not to mention Alaska and California. They saw the Russians as 'just like us' a new dynamic power ready to challenge the old world of Europe, and its pigmy powers,
That conception of the future belonging to whichever of the two rivals prevailed- US 'Democracy' or Russian Autocracy- underlies the subsequent rivalry which became the history of the C20th and isn't over yet.
Government defaults are still not much appreciated today. The 1917 Russian revolution canceled public as well as private international debt, if I am reading you right. Upsetting the bankers and on top of that the moneyed classes is an unforgivable sin. It makes sense that therein lie the origins of Russophobia, not just in the Anglo Saxon world.
Prior to the Cold War I do not recall mainland Europe to be Russo phobic although they might have been. The defaults and bankruptcies during the Great Depression may have wiped out any memories of resentment which there might have been in the monied classes.
Tsar Peter the Great came to the Netherlands to learn shipbuilding, living in a humble, small dwelling which exists today as a museum piece. The Cold War also brought Russophobia to the Netherlands. US dominance of Europe turning them into vassal states completed the picture.
The Vietnam War caused too much debt in the US with gold departing to Western Europe which fought hard and fiercely, led by the Dutch Finance Minister. The US got the Germans to cave and that was the end of the gold standard and the beginning of the dollar as a reserve currency enhancing US hegemony.
I am still not convinced that the dedollarization will succeed. Wall Street is mighty strong and capable controlling the CIA throughout the fifties as its handmaiden. Ukraine as a proxy war against Russia looks to me like a rogue CIA project.
Trump is an uncontrollable battering ram and I am not sure how much Wall Street likes that. The very rich, like Bloomberg's kids hanging with Trump's kids in riding school in Long Island, live in a world of their own. Likely, we will never know what will come out of that. They do not conduct themselves like the WEF.
Karl,Everyday I read your output I am reminded of the depth of my ignorance.Todays article has deeply penetrated the wall of my western indoctrination by western conveniant history.Thank you for answering some nagging questions I have been harboring without answers.What you have written today makes perfect sense and brings many things into focus during a deluge of misinformation.Again THANK YOU!
I've come across several long in-depth articles in old New Zealand newspapers about the British/Russian relationship late 1800s / early1900s here. https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/
Not what I'm researching so haven't focused on it, but a quick read of some indicates an interesting subject. Old newspapers. A good source of information I find.
This is so scary! And all the Western side is doing, is doubling down on its disastrous project! And Israel pushing the USA in its war against IranI ……. hope that Alastair will address this….. mind you, it will be good to hear from Elijah Magnier too, if he did talk somewhere……
"The British got it into their crazy heads that Russia was going to invade India through Central Asia and Afghanistan—one of the most bizarre, phony, wrongheaded ideas imaginable—but they took it quite literally. "
You know, when Trotsky was head of the red army, he seriously considered carrying out this "bizarre" idea.
"Who rules the heartland (w/ huge resources) rules the world". Lead to liebensraum, which exploded when Bolsheviks ousted the Euro royal clique. Hated Hitler because he could have gotten it. Now Germany offset, neocons into liebensraum.
But.... one antecedent to Crimean debacle was Tsar supporting Bulgars against the Turks. Where do the UK and French go support the Ottoman?
UK is US' Israel with respect to the Euro continent. Special relation since WW I or earlier with the cavalier's descendants in the slave holding southern US..
Both the book and Karl’s response rightly point to a largely in examined issue. However, both rely on a narrative “Country A hates Country B so then event E1 follows, then …”.
This is sensible but I think quite incomplete. Countries don’t hate other countries….a country is a not a living entity which can manifest this emotion.
Individuals, within a power structure, promulgate hatred. Individuals coalesce into nodes from which networks (in this case of hatred) expand influence until the capture of publications which reach the masses (consider Robert Darnton’s exposure of the underground press in pre-Revolution France).
Without in any way claiming scholarship, I see enough of a pattern that almost shouts. Since the return of the Jews to England under Oliver Cromwell, their influence, wealth and power has expanded There are countless books on Anglo-Jewry, their disposition into the independent state of the City [of London]’ etc etc. Marriages into the landed aristocracy at all levels is a fact barely worth mentioning but it is still surprising that the Lord Randolph married a wealthy Brooklyn Jewess (née Jerome) who engendered Winston….and started a very popular trend.
The British Jews, of course, are largely Ashkenazi and their purported homeland of Khazaria encompassed lands now largely in Russia. Bits were in the “hinterlands” (Україна) — probably overlapping the acreage that BlackRock and Goldman Sachs hold under options.
So the puzzling hatred of Britain towards Russia isn’t a riddle — at least to me.
"The Making of a Russophobe: David Urquhart: The Formative Years, 1825-1835
Margaret Lamb
The International History Review
Vol. 3, No. 3 (Jul., 1981), pp. 330-357 (28 pages)"
Check this out. (I can't) But I do know that David Urquhart was the great progenitor of russophobia in mid C19th Britain. The tensions, related to the collapsing Ottoman Empire and the supposed road through Central Asia to India, were obvious enough.
But I would suggest that the real basis of this Russophobia lay in the realisation, which goes back to the C18th (when Jeremy Bentham's brother Samuel was working for Potemkin in the conquest and biuilding of Novorossiya- yep the same place that the war is about-and Jeremy was polishing up his manners in the hope of an audience with Catherine the Great at which he was going to present her with a legal code, Samuel had already built the first panoptigon on an estate on the Dnieper.)
The first signs are seen in American literature: the Americans realised that what they were doing in the relatively unprotected western hemisphere, the race to the Pacific, the Russians had already done in Siberia, not to mention Alaska and California. They saw the Russians as 'just like us' a new dynamic power ready to challenge the old world of Europe, and its pigmy powers,
That conception of the future belonging to whichever of the two rivals prevailed- US 'Democracy' or Russian Autocracy- underlies the subsequent rivalry which became the history of the C20th and isn't over yet.
Government defaults are still not much appreciated today. The 1917 Russian revolution canceled public as well as private international debt, if I am reading you right. Upsetting the bankers and on top of that the moneyed classes is an unforgivable sin. It makes sense that therein lie the origins of Russophobia, not just in the Anglo Saxon world.
Prior to the Cold War I do not recall mainland Europe to be Russo phobic although they might have been. The defaults and bankruptcies during the Great Depression may have wiped out any memories of resentment which there might have been in the monied classes.
Tsar Peter the Great came to the Netherlands to learn shipbuilding, living in a humble, small dwelling which exists today as a museum piece. The Cold War also brought Russophobia to the Netherlands. US dominance of Europe turning them into vassal states completed the picture.
The Vietnam War caused too much debt in the US with gold departing to Western Europe which fought hard and fiercely, led by the Dutch Finance Minister. The US got the Germans to cave and that was the end of the gold standard and the beginning of the dollar as a reserve currency enhancing US hegemony.
I am still not convinced that the dedollarization will succeed. Wall Street is mighty strong and capable controlling the CIA throughout the fifties as its handmaiden. Ukraine as a proxy war against Russia looks to me like a rogue CIA project.
Trump is an uncontrollable battering ram and I am not sure how much Wall Street likes that. The very rich, like Bloomberg's kids hanging with Trump's kids in riding school in Long Island, live in a world of their own. Likely, we will never know what will come out of that. They do not conduct themselves like the WEF.
The new Alastair Crooke: https://strategic-culture.su/news/2024/04/13/is-a-peaceful-accommodation-between-brics-and-the-west-possible/
https://www.unz.com/article/free-to-cheat-jewish-emancipation-and-the-anglo-jewish-cousinhood/
Karl,Everyday I read your output I am reminded of the depth of my ignorance.Todays article has deeply penetrated the wall of my western indoctrination by western conveniant history.Thank you for answering some nagging questions I have been harboring without answers.What you have written today makes perfect sense and brings many things into focus during a deluge of misinformation.Again THANK YOU!
I've come across several long in-depth articles in old New Zealand newspapers about the British/Russian relationship late 1800s / early1900s here. https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/
Not what I'm researching so haven't focused on it, but a quick read of some indicates an interesting subject. Old newspapers. A good source of information I find.
This is so scary! And all the Western side is doing, is doubling down on its disastrous project! And Israel pushing the USA in its war against IranI ……. hope that Alastair will address this….. mind you, it will be good to hear from Elijah Magnier too, if he did talk somewhere……
Good article.
"The British got it into their crazy heads that Russia was going to invade India through Central Asia and Afghanistan—one of the most bizarre, phony, wrongheaded ideas imaginable—but they took it quite literally. "
You know, when Trotsky was head of the red army, he seriously considered carrying out this "bizarre" idea.
Fascinating! Thanks, Karl.
Is there a cure for this kind of thinking? I wish...
Why US/UK hate Russia? Why US/UK almost same?
"Who rules the heartland (w/ huge resources) rules the world". Lead to liebensraum, which exploded when Bolsheviks ousted the Euro royal clique. Hated Hitler because he could have gotten it. Now Germany offset, neocons into liebensraum.
But.... one antecedent to Crimean debacle was Tsar supporting Bulgars against the Turks. Where do the UK and French go support the Ottoman?
UK is US' Israel with respect to the Euro continent. Special relation since WW I or earlier with the cavalier's descendants in the slave holding southern US..
The Genesis of Russophobia in Great Britain - A Study of the Interaction of Policy and Opinion Author(s): John Howes Gleason
Available here: https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=FD768DE750CB4BEC01AAB7CF237FCB6E
(pick one of the mirrors to download - libgen.li usually, but not always, works.
That is very interesting!