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From a war history series. Copy while available. Shadowbannd.

The Energy of Empire 17. Russia, WWI & the Turkish Straits
https://www.bitchute.com/channel/deepstateconsciousness/

Russia’s major geostrategic objective in the First World War was to capture the Turkish Straits. Preventing this from happening had been a major geostrategic objective for Britain and France for at least the previous seventy years. Did their position really shift, or was this all a ruse to lure Russia into the war?

Notes
Anthony Sutton lecture https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVfbbebIBCA
The Russian Origins of the First World War, by Sean McMeekin https://tinyurl.com/2v6nuf9z
The Pity of War, by Niall Ferguson https://tinyurl.com/nhex4b3d
Prolonging the Agony: How the Anglo-American Establishment Deliberately Extended WWI by Three-And-A-Half Years, by Jim MacGregor and Gerry Docherty https://tinyurl.com/b7d9dzfr
The Flight of the Goeben and the Breslau, Rear Admiral Archibald Berkeley Milne https://archive.org/details/flightofgoebenbr00milniala
Gallipoli: The End of the Myth, by Robin Prior https://tinyurl.com/2p9txuut
The World at War, Ralph Raico lecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTupV8o3mW4

Music
Dominion / Mother Russia, by Sisters of Mercy, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-o-6ftmw8CE

0:00 Introduction - finance of Trotsky. GB USA SWI CAN GER RUS
2:45 15thCentury
5:00 Russian instigation of WWI
8:00 Turkish Straights (Gallipoli) vital to Russia
20:00 Constantinople for Russia
20:45 Start of Gallipoli Campaign
26:00 Naval Mission Badly Planned
27:00 underpowered Mine Sweepers swept out to sea
30:00 Enter the ANZACS
31:45 the plan
33:00 what actually happened
35:20 August offensive
37:30 improbability of success
43:00 ox drawn cannons and the Alps...
44:45 Russian Republic