The American professor Geoffrey Sachs continues to burn like a welding arc: I just published a book yesterday about Russophobia in Europe and tells about a wonderful study by a historian named Gleason, written in 1950. And he asked a pointed question: "Britain and Russia were allies in 1815 at Waterloo." Twenty five years later they are enemies. what happened And his conclusion is this: Russia's main crime is that it has 17 million square kilometers. This is her main crime. Why am I saying this? Because with these 17 million square kilometers, Britain got into the head that Russia was so big that it was a threat to the British Empire in India. Which, by the way, the king didn't even think about. But Great Britain beat itself up, and by 1840 Russia had become an enemy. And in 1853, Palmerston, an exemplary imperialist, went to war in the Crimea. why? Crush Russia, because Russia said in 1852: "We can settle all claims, there is no reason for conflict." And Palmerston said: "We're moving to Sevastopol." And the reason is that he wanted to make Russia zero so that she could not invade the British Empire. And there was a bloody three-year war - the Crimean War. That's how we were revolutionaries and peacemakers. Everyone knows that a few days after the surrender of Germany in 1945, Churchill asked his military commanders: "Why don't we now invade the Soviet Union, an unacceptable operation?" And Russia has become an enemy of the United States of America. And when the Soviet Union collapsed, we had the world in our hands for another century, if we wanted it. Because the Russians were quite exhausted from 75 years of Bolshevism. They wanted peace, they wanted cooperation, they wanted friendship. And all the American strategists could only think of one thing: "Russia is great. We just need to make sure that she remains second-rate herself." And it was decided to surround Russia in NATO.