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Promethean’s Will Wertz and Tony Papert explore the deep historical and geopolitical connections behind the Ukraine conflict.
They reveal a startling narrative of a 250-year-long geopolitical plot by Imperial Britain, known today as ‘The Great Game.’
This strategy aimed to maintain British dominance through control of the Eurasian heartland, heavily influencing events such as the Ukraine crisis.
Learn how the expansion of NATO, the British Empire’s long-standing opposition to Russia, and significant historical events like the American Revolution and both Afghan wars shape today’s global stage.
Discover alternative solutions that propose a united front of 4 global powers - USA, Russia, China, and India - to dismantle the lingering influence of the British Empire and usher in a new Bretton Woods financial system.
This episode combines historical analysis with insights into current geopolitical strategies, offering a comprehensive view of ongoing international conflicts.
Chapters
00:00 Introduction to the Ukraine War and British Imperialism
00:57 The Great Game and British Geopolitical Strategy
04:57 Historical Context: British and Russian Conflicts
09:14 The British East India Company and Global Influence
28:12 The Heartland Theory and NATO’s Expansion
37:14 Modern Geopolitical Strategies and the Role of Ukraine
54:56 Conclusion: A New Bretton Woods System
Video Summary with Time Stamps
(with thanks to ‘Wise101’, posted in the YT comments)
This video argues that the Ukraine War is the result of a 250-year-old plot by Imperial Britain, known as “The Great Game,” with the goal of controlling the Eurasian continent and, therefore, the world.
Here is a summary of the first half of the video:
The Great Game and the Heartland Doctrine
The Premise The speaker asserts that the Ukraine War is the result of a 250-year geopolitical strategy by Imperial Britain [00:18]. The opposing view, and the proposed solution, is a coalition of four powers—the United States, Russia, China, and India—to defeat the British Empire by establishing a new Bretton Woods financial system [01:15].
The Mackinder Doctrine This British strategy was formalized in 1904 by Halford Mackinder’s “Heartland Doctrine” [03:05]. The doctrine’s maxim is: “Who rules East Europe commands the hardland... Who rules the world island commands the world” [03:51]. This doctrine later inspired the creation of NATO [04:09].
Ukraine as the Pivot Zbigniew Brzezinski’s 1997 book, The Grand Chessboard, is cited as a modern continuation of this doctrine, which identifies Ukraine as the “pivot area” for bringing down Russia and establishing unipolar control through NATO’s eastward expansion [04:19].
The Crown Jewel: India and the Russian Threat
The British East India Company The British established imperial control over India through the Seven Years’ War and the 1763 Treaty of Paris [05:00]. Following the American Revolution in 1776, Britain feared a loss of control over India, which was the “crown jewel” of the British Empire [06:09].
The First Plans for Invasion Russia’s support for the American Revolution, led by Catherine the Great, who created the League of Armed Neutrality [06:22].
Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 1783 led to British fears of a Russian flanking operation through Persia and Afghanistan to invade India [07:28].
In 1791, a plan was drawn up for a Russian invasion of India to drive out the British East India Company [08:34].
Zar Paul I deployed 22,000 troops to march on India in 1801 and was assassinated three months later by a palace guard aligned with the British Ambassador [12:31]. The British are alleged to have paid for this assassination [14:30].
A joint invasion of India through Persia was later planned between Napoleon and Zar Alexander I under the Treaty of Tilsit in 1807 [15:02].
Creating a Buffer Zone To counter the perceived Russian threat to India, the British signed treaties with Persia (Iran) to prevent a hostile army from passing through [15:10]. They also fought the First Afghanistan War (1838-1842) to create a buffer zone for India [18:49].
The Crimean War The Crimean War of 1854 is presented as another conflict where the British confronted Russia, with the British seeing Russian control over Crimea as a threat to their empire in India [21:32]. During this war, Russian generals developed additional plans to invade India through Central Asia to “overthrow the English rule” [22:35].
The American Civil War Russia, under Zar Alexander II, supported the North against the Confederacy during the American Civil War (1861-1865), sending its fleet to American harbors to prevent intervention by Britain and France [24:10]. The Second Afghanistan War (1878-1880) was another continuation of the British effort to create a buffer against Russian influence [27:31].
The speaker concludes the first half by contrasting this geopolitical strategy (which also brought about World Wars I and II) with the counter-proposal of a US-Russia-China-India agreement, which would dismantle the British Empire’s influence [31:05].
The second half of the video continues to trace the British geopolitical strategy through the 20th and 21st centuries, culminating in an analysis of NATO expansion and a proposed alternative solution.
Here is a summary of the second half of the video (beginning around the 29-minute mark):
The Continuation of the Great Game Doctrine
Mackinder’s Post-WWI Theory: In 1919, Halford Mackinder wrote Democratic Ideals and Reality, re-emphasizing the idea that the “World Island” (Europe, Asia, and Africa) could be controlled by any power that organizes East Europe and the “Heartland” (Russia). The video asserts that this historical context is what makes the Ukraine conflict a modern “siege of the heartland”.
The Basis for NATO: Mackinder’s 1924 work, The World War and After, proposed that Western Europe and North America form a “single community of nations” around the “Midland Ocean” (the North Atlantic). The speaker identifies this concept as the strategic basis for the formation of NATO.
Brzezinski’s The Grand Chessboard: The speaker labels Zbigniew Brzezinski as an agent of British influence, whose 1997 book restated the Mackinder doctrine, emphasizing that “Eurasia is the globe’s central arena” and the key to American global primacy.
Brzezinski identified Ukraine as the “geopolitical pivot”. Its independent existence is viewed as a “vital geopolitical setback for the Russian state” because Russia cannot be a Eurasian power without Ukraine.]
Brzezinski’s ultimate proposal was to balkanize Russia into a loosely confederated state composed of three republics (European, Siberian, and Far Eastern) to weaken its imperial power. NATO Expansion and Broken Promises
The Timeline of Conflict: The speaker highlights that key events in Ukraine—the Orange Revolution (2004) and the Maidan coup (2014)—are central to this British geopolitical policy.
The Promise to Gorbachev: The video cites the promise made by James Baker to Mikhail Gorbachev in 1990 that “not an inch of NATO’s present military jurisdiction will spread in an eastern direction”.
The Expansion: A map is shown to demonstrate the subsequent expansion of NATO, which grew from 12 initial members to 32 by 2024, with the biggest acceleration occurring after Baker’s promise. This expansion is presented as a direct betrayal driven by the British geopolitical strategy.
The Proposed Alternative Solution
The Opposition: The speaker concludes that President Trump is up against the “Anglo-Dutch imperial system” (King Charles, the British Prime Minister, France, and the EU bureaucracy), which supports the Mackinder-Brzezinski doctrine.
The Solution: The only way to resolve the Ukraine War and oppose this geopolitical strategy is through Lyndon LaRouche’s Four Power Agreement—a coalition of the United States, Russia, China, and India—to create a New Bretton Woods financial system.
The New Financial System: This new system is necessary to crush imperial finance and would be based on:
Real production, not speculation
Fixed exchange rates
A gold reserve standard
Eliminating the Root Cause: This new system would replace organizations like the IMF and World Bank and eliminate the British Empire’s use of concepts like the Paris climate treaty, which the speaker views as a “fraud” designed to shut down industry and reduce population. The ultimate goal is to restore national sovereignty, establish durable peace, and uplift the global population.
