Say what you like about Sir Edward Grey, he saw it all coming. This was him, as Foreign Secretary to the Austrian ambassador shortly before the outbreak of WW1. He predicted the a great power war would... “involve the expenditure of so vast a sum of money & such an interference with trade, that ..
So everybody predicting that the war would be a really quick victory was wrong? Um hi spoiler alert! Von Schlieffen would have been so disappointed
..[it] would be accompanied or followed by a complete collapse of European credit and industry. In these days, in great industrial states, this would mean a state of things worse than that of 1848, and, irrespective of who were victors in the war, many things might be completely swept away."
Meanwhile Rasputin was saying: 'You are the Tsar, the father of your people. Dont let the lunatics triumph and destroy you and the people. And if we conquer Germany, what, in truth, will happen to Russia? We all drown in blood: the disaster is great; the misery infinite.'
Yeah because he was a peasant and had seen who suffers in war.
“Crazy” Rasputin.
Boney M had a point there
I don’t suppose any parallels can be drawn with …
Wanders off to watch Alan Rickman’s brilliant portrayal of Rasputin again…
Times are bad when Rasputin is your voice of reason