Lessons Learned and Lessons Not Learned
With thanks to Batiushka, the author.
Image: The Provinces of the Pre-2014 Ukraine
In February 1917 the scheming British ambassador to Saint Petersburg, Sir George Buchanan, orchestrated a coup d’etat, implemented by treacherous and power-hungry Russian aristocrats, politicians and generals, to overthrow Tsar Nicholas II. The ensuing palace revolt was ‘successful’, the…