The Energy of Empire 17. Russia, WWI & the Turkish Straits

The Energy of Empire 17. Russia, WWI & the Turkish Straits

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?

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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

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