Once the UK Conservative Party lost its majority in the House of Commons as the result of the recent parliamentary elections, the fact that can be largely attributed to a string of failed policies pursued by the Conservative government, the Labour Party demanded the sitting Prime Minister Theresa May to resign. Ever since then the head of the British government has been operating in a sort of a panic mode.
Most British media sources agree that Prime Minister Teresa May will be forced to leave her post no later than by the summer of 2019, while citing various sources within the parliament. To somehow escape the shameful image of a PM “that is just about to be removed”, in her response to the former chairman of the Conservative Party, Grant Shapps, announced that she had no plans to step down.
This is not the first time that Teresa May dodges criticism and all sorts of allegations, as she’s been able to dodge far more serious blows over the course of her political career. For instance, quite recently May was forced to swerve out of the way of a giant ceremonial mace during the procession at the Guildhall. This is not the first time good reaction saves British prime minister from injuries, as she would dodge Black Rod’s staff last June in a similar fashion.
Today, the situation for Theresa May is previous obvious – her government is collapsing after proving to pretty much everybody that’s it’s been a train wreck from day one, as the Brexit negotiations turning from bad to worse. In this situation Teresa May needed an excuse for a radical correction of the policies pursued by her government. And she provided one at the above mentioned procession at the Guildhall by subjecting Russian authorities to the strongest criticism during her time in office. May would go as far as to accuse Moscow of “undermining free societies.” Thus, she decided that Russophobia would be her saving straw since a great many of Western political figures managed to get away with it.
However, if we look take a closer look at the history of Great Britain, we would learn that May hasn’t been all that original in her political trick, since throughout its history London has ever used but two approaches to saving face in dire situations, it could get involved in some military adventure abroad or jump the Russia bashing band wagon.
Britain has always been fairly confident that it could not establish hegemony by the human resources of British Isles alone, since, for instance, at the beginning of the 18th century, there were only 11 million people inhabiting those, while the kingdom would try to control more than 750 million people across the planet. To create a colonial empire, London would adopt the policy that was tried and tested in Ancient Rome, known as “divide and conquer”. First, it would sow contradictions between neighbors across the globe, then states would be pitted against each other, and once their disagreements reached its hight, the British empire would simply enslave them. In order to provoke internal conflicts, London would refuse to occupy conquered territories. Instead, various lands would be patched together into artificial states where ethnic conflicts would be consuming human lives for decades.
Examples of such policies are not hard to find if you take a closer look at the history of various regions.
Just take a look at the Burmese Union that would be later known as Myanmar, where more than 500 thousand people perished in the fire of the 70 years long civil war that was orchestrated by London. This conflict alone produced more than a million refugees.
And what about the British Sykes-Picot Agreement of 1916 that resulted in the artificial fracturing of the Middle East region. The sad consequences of this agreement the world is witnessing today as the region is plunged into a perpetual state of war.
However, Eurasia has always been a special attraction for British imperialists, since it hasn’t just had the territories superior to those that can be found in Latin America, Africa and Europe, but has also had much larger population. As for economic potential, Eurasia has always been far ahead of the rest of the world, since out of a total of 15 most developed economies, no less that 12 can be located in Eurasia. While being unable to compete in any way with the three main political and economic opponents in this region, namely Russia, China and India, London has been actively engaged in creating conflicts along the borders of BRICS countries. The plan was old and simple: to aggravate the contradictions that exist within Eurasia and unleash a whole series of regional wars only to draw Russia, China and India into them.
As for Russophobic manifestations in Britain, it should be recalled that London has not just repeatedly used Russophobia in its policies over the past centuries, but has also waged wars against Russia.
It is enough to recall the Seven Years’ War (1756-1763), although there was no direct military large scale engagements between the countries.
It is believed that the conspiracy against the Russian Emperor Paul I that resulted in his murder in 1801 was sponsored by the British government that trying to avoid a war against Russia for the control of Malta. According to the testimony of Russian and British sources, the British Ambassador Charles Whitworth was heavily engaged in the staging of a palace coup in Russia.
Britain fought against Russia from 1807 to 1812 during the Russo-British War, during the Crimean War of 1853-1856. Russia and Britain were rivals in the late 19th century during the Great Game in Central Asia.
After the October Revolution in Russia in 1917, Britain took a direct part in the occupation of Russian territories.
Moreover, as is well known fact that it was Britain that was behind the creation of the Gladio terrorist network in Western Europe, the main task of which was to organize terrorist attacks if some Western European country would become a Communist domain. It was this network that organized numerous assassinations of leftist activists and politicians who advocated cooperation with the USSR or could come to power as a result of popular uprising.
So, even a brief glance in the history books shows that it is not Russia, but Britain that is guilty of “undermining free societies”, the fact which Teresa May tries to keep secret in the political fever she has found herself into.
It should also be remembered that it’s the sitting British government that is trying to play the Russophobe card to draw public attention away from the utter failure of its social policy, that has put Russia on the list of the so-called first-level threats.
But given the utter political disorientation of Therese May, it is unlikely that her dodging skills will help her get away with the poor excuse for a government she’s been running.
But is there British statement that will start curing their country from the historical amnesia it has been suffering from and, of course, the deep-routed Russophobia?