In an article in the Daily Telegraph, Ben Wallace, the head of the Ministry of National Defense for 2019-2023, convinced defense advisers that Putin was not leading a full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2019 before it began. Not by logic or the desire to modernize Russia, but by revenge and caring for one’s own heritage.
“The bizarre article, personally written by Putin in June 2021, seriously distorts the facts, ignores events and portrays Russia as the savior of the world. It claims that the Nazi-Soviet pact that led to the invasion and dismemberment of Poland benefited Britain,” Wallace wrote. The essay Ben Wallace talks about is called “The Real Lessons of the 75th Anniversary of World War II.”
“In an attempt to recast Russia’s role in World War II, Putin blames Britain and France and completely undermines the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. He makes no mention of the massacre of 20,000 Poles at Katyn by the Red Army and secret police in 1940. Before the occupation of Poland, Russia trained with the Wehrmacht and this man He also did not mention that you should read his article to learn about it.
Ben Wallace, Russian experts in the British Foreign Office, the French government or the US CIA, did not appreciate the article, as well as the “historical unity of Russia and Ukrainians” and regretted their analysis. Putin’s behavior is so closely that they ignore the human factor and are guided by the rational complex.
He recalled a meeting with Russian Army Chief of Staff Sergei Shoigu and Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces General Valery Gerasimov 10 days before the invasion, during which they stopped maintaining any pretenses and Gerasimov told him that Russia would never be humiliated. Again.
“These people at the top of Russia believe they are rewriting history, settling scores for hundreds of years, redressing the shame they felt at the end of the Cold War. “While Russia is doing a good job of humiliating itself once again through its own actions, we must realize that in Putin’s version of history, the heart of Russia’s failures lies not with America but with Britain,” Wallace wrote.
“In Putin’s distorted view of the world, we were behind the Crimean War and the defeat of the Tsars, we were behind the rise of Hitler, we were behind the counter-revolution, and our spies were behind the end of the Soviet Union. Britain is in Putin’s crosshairs, Putin is coming for us, and we must prepare for the inevitable.” want