Support for the Saudis in the 70s and 80s led to 9/11, the Islamic state etc.
Supporting the jihadis fighting President Assad will lead to even more hell.
Cleary he was just the Kaiser’s “useful idiot “.
How’d that all work out now? FOR ANYBODY??
Trying to equate Russia’s activities today to Germany’s during the Great War doesn’t make sense. The contexts are just too different. Russia was searching desperately for a way out of WWI after 3 years of sheer carnage. No such circumstances exist today.
I always understood that the Germans provided Lenin with a train car of gold.
One could also suggest that France’s support of the US in the War for Independence was a contributing factor in the French Revolution.
If this, if that, if one thing, or if another thing are ALL, all of them sheer speculations with not one iota of insurance that the results - if this or that happened - would have turned out just as speculated.
It didn’t happen, end of story, unless you’re writing fiction.
Lenin on the Train by Catherine Merridale.
New book, just came out.
I don’t know anything about it, other than I just cataloged it.
Something to look into though.