michael mills wrote:I was able to access and read the article in the UNZ Review. Basically it is saying that if Germany annexed the Baltic States, that would create a source of conflict with a future revived Russia that would try to recover those lost provinces (as well as Ukraine).
Yes; correct!
History has shown us that Russia did try to recover its lost territory on the Baltic and Black Seas, an d did succeed for a time. However, contrary to the prediction in the article, the collapse of Communist rule led to a second loss of the Baltic States and Ukraine, and even though a reviving Russia would obviously like to reconquer those territories, the West is strongly opposing such reconquest, and is in fact upholding the loss of territory that Russia suffered in 1918.
Does Russia genuinely want to incorporate millions or even tens of millions of people who are
extremely hostile to renewed Russian rule into Russia, though?
The article appears to take the view that once the Bolshevik regime in Russia was overthrown, the wartime alliance between Russia and the West would be revived. However, what has happened in our own time is that the 19th Century hostility between Russia and Britain, which resulted in the Crimean and Russo-Japanese wars, has been resurrected despite the collapse of Communist rule, with Britain being replaced by the United States as the opponent of Russia.
Yes; correct! Indeed, what you wrote here certainly makes sense, Michael! After all, with the destruction of German military power in Europe as a result of the two World Wars, the West has once again become hostile to Russia's attempts to increase its own power and influence and to threaten and weaken the balance-of-power in Europe.
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