Posted on 06/06/2026 11:52:17 PM PDT by Texan4Life
All these "incestuous" Aristocracies trying to Rule The World . . . I say, Let them ALL Perish ! ! !
I learned things from this AI video. Many interesting photos and film...
"The "Windsor" were actually The House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha until they decided to change names to conceal their German roots. I don't know how many in the Royal family have been actually British, I do know that Princess Diana was one and perhaps that is the reason why there was no love lost between she and the Windsor, which reportedly she used to call the Huns."
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George didn’t kill Nicholas, the wife, or the kids.
But George didn’t stick his neck out, did he.
The Windsors have always been about what’s best for the House of Windsor.
I contend that the treatment of Royalty in Russia after 1917 Russian Revolution is partly to blame for Hitler’s rise to power. The Communist were gaining power among the people of Germany and the Nazi Brown Shirts were Battling the communist in street wars. Hindenburg through Hitler could be controlled and server as a force against communism so he appointed Hitler as Chancellor.
I contend that the treatment of Royalty in Russia after 1917 Russian Revolution is partly to blame for Hitler’s rise to power. The Communist were gaining power among the people of Germany and the Nazi Brown Shirts were Battling the communist in street wars. Hindenburg through Hitler could be controlled and server as a force against communism so he appointed Hitler as Chancellor.
In one history I read, one of the Romanov’s servants who went to England after the Romanovs were murdered, broke into tears when she met George V; she thought he was Nicholas.
Are you familiar with what was going in Europe in the mid 19th century and later...?
There wasn’t just a mad-on for Russian royalty.
Royals have been and always will be about themselves. Wealth and power comes to them through heredity instead of hard work which means any change to the status quo is a negative for them and not something they will voluntarily accept.
Yes, the resemblance is that striking.
CC
Do they have Prince Albert in the can?.............
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I’ve noticed that and listen for it. It will show up.
The Brits were worried about their own skins, sentenced the Tsar and his wife and kids to death.
Nicholas signed his own death warrant when he abdicated, don’t leave out that part.
Instead of pursuing a policy of conciliation and peace, Germany allied with Austria-Hungary and created a massive navy and army poised to mobilize quickly for offensive action so as to defeat her enemies in a matter of weeks.
This naturally engendered a defensive counter alliance and military preparation by France, England, and Russia. The result was that Europe became a powder keg awaiting a spark.
In the event, an assassination in Sarajevo provided that spark, with the Schlieffen Plan failing and turning the brief summer campaign intended by Germany into the Great War. As often happens, military action was a wrong and treacherous instrument to carry out the nation enhancing goals of grand strategy.
Alternatively, Germany could have continued to develop her world-leading scientific and technological prowess. Within a generation, Germany would have become the dominant economic and political power in Europe, at peace and immensely prosperous and respected.
Stalin was preparing to march across Europe
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No he wasn’t.
Europe and their royalty were the original soap opera.
I disagree.
Instead of pursuing a policy of conciliation and peace, Germany allied with Austria-Hungary and created a massive navy and army poised to mobilize quickly for offensive action so as to defeat her enemies in a matter of weeks.
Germany did pursue a policy of conciliation generally. Allying with the Hapsburg Empire did not preclude peace. Germany spent a LOWER percentage of GDP on their military than France did on theirs or Russia did on theirs. The Germany Navy was built up to be a very credible navy but was only about half of the size of the Royal Navy. The Kriegsmarine was in line with what a major European power would be expected to have. It was not some offensive juggernaut intended to sweep everybody else's fleet from the oceans of the world.
This naturally engendered a defensive counter alliance and military preparation by France, England, and Russia. The result was that Europe became a powder keg awaiting a spark.
Germany was not seeking territorial aggrandizement. It laid no claim to lands controlled by France or Russia for example. It never proposed stripping valuable colonies away from the British Empire. It did not have an offensive stance. Wilhelm II made a big mistake when he did not renew Bismarck's Reinsurance Treaty in 1890. France then quickly pounced and enlisted Russia as an ally against Germany. It was FRANCE that was the dissatisfied power. It was FRANCE that was revanchist. It was FRANCE that took an offensive position - not Germany. Britain was not even in formal alliance with France and Russia.
You spoke before of "defeating her enemies in a matter of weeks" being Germany's intention. The way the Germans saw it, speed was their only defense. They needed to knock France out very quickly before the slow and ponderous but massive Russian bear could fully mobilize. They thought that if Russia could fully mobilize on their Eastern flank and they were forced to fight a 2 front war, they were doomed. Thus they needed to move quickly. Notice how that is a defensive strategy rather than an Offensive strategy. They weren't seeking to annex half of France. They were just looking not to be overrun themselves.
In the event, an assassination in Sarajevo provided that spark, with the Schlieffen Plan failing and turning the brief summer campaign intended by Germany into the Great War. As often happens, military action was a wrong and treacherous instrument to carry out the nation enhancing goals of grand strategy.
Well gosh, why was an assassination in Sarajevo the spark for war? It was because the Serbs were responsible and the Hapsburg Empire knew it. So they issued an ultimatum to the Serbs which the Serbs then rejected. THEN Russia intervened on behalf of the Serbs which it was not allied to and furthermore Russia did so in violation of their promise to the Germans not to do so and knowing their mobilizing all across the frontier would start a general European war. Yet you blame Germany for this? That makes no sense to me.
Germany's grand strategy was to defend itself. They were not seeking expansion.
Alternatively, Germany could have continued to develop her world-leading scientific and technological prowess. Within a generation, Germany would have become the dominant economic and political power in Europe, at peace and immensely prosperous and respected.
That's exactly what others - like Britain and France - were afraid of. That's why France was eager for war.
Royalty is the breeding farm of the scapegoat. Every now and then the people get fed up, and need to kill somebody. Royals are farmed for that purpose.
Nicholas, like Louis XVI, had too much power over the people and not enough over the bureaucracy.
When the pressure became unbearable on them, the people relieved it by slaughtering royals. Some non-royals lost their lives as well, before passions returned to normal levels, but bureaucracy — that never goes away. Kind of like the mycelium of fungus, an underground network you can never eliminate completely.
I'd say Nicholas II died because Lenin and his Commie henchmen killed him. No, the Brits did not want him because the Republican side in Britain was gaining power at the time, but there were dozens of other countries that would have take him.
They all should have suffered Nicky’s fate.
Bkmk
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