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Since the start of the Russian-Ukrainian war, the UK has been the most staunch anti-Russian country, which is puzzling.
During the Russia-Ukraine conflict, in addition to the two warring countries, the United States and Britain were the most concerned about the situation, and the United States chose to support Ukraine in order to maintain its hegemony.
Britain is not only far away from Russia, but in many areas, there is no conflict with Russia, and it can even be said that there is a basis for cooperation.
However, Britain was one of the first countries to raise the banner of anti-Russia, what is the contradiction between these two countries, and why did it come to such a point.
Britain is located on the British Isles, and it is uniquely positioned to monitor the situation on the European continent at all times.
Under the influence of long-term geographical circumstances, Britain has slowly developed a kind of neutrality, which wants to participate in European affairs, but also does not want to get involved in it.
What is played is a kind of balance, maintaining the balance of power on the European continent, in order to maintain its own independent status, so as long as it is on the European continent, once the national balance is broken, Britain will participate in it.
Since the Middle Ages, England has pursued such a national policy, whether it is France. Both Germany and Russia were once regarded by Britain as mortal enemies.
During the rise of Napoleon, Britain gathered Prussia and Tsarist Russia to fight against France, and France at this time had the tendency to unify Western Europe, but it still could not withstand the multinational attack and failed.
On the surface, Napoleon was defeated by Tsarist Russia, but in fact, the real driving force behind it was Britain, and France no longer had the strength to dominate Europe.
In the two world wars, the rise of Germany became Britain's biggest opponent, and Britain united with France and Russia to fight against Germany, so that Germany's dream of hegemony was shattered.
But France and Germany were only a threat to Britain for a short time, and could become Britain's enemies for a short time.
For a long time, Russia has always been a potential adversary of Britain, and it has the ability to upset the balance in Europe, so Britain's diplomatic focus has long been on Russia.
After experiencing two industrial revolutions, Britain directly dominated the sea and became the world hegemon, and at the same time, Tsarist Russia also expanded on land and became a land power.
In the subsequent expansion, the two countries eventually became rivals due to the intertwining of interests, and the development of Tsarist Russia increasingly hindered Britain's maritime hegemony.
And Tsarist Russia was bent on seizing access to the sea, so it did not hesitate to expand wildly on land, and the two sides finally met in the Ottoman Empire, and Tsarist Russia had long had an idea about the Black Sea.
But the Ottomans were not fuel-efficient lamps either, in order to resist Tsarist Russia, the Ottomans chose to move closer to Britain, and Britain met with Tsarist Russia in order to maintain its own interests.
The first expansion of Tsarist Russia was declared a failure, and it also officially had a disagreement with Britain, and then the two sides met again in Central Asia, and Afghanistan under British control was attacked by Tsarist Russia, and Tsarist Russia was once again defeated by Britain.
Tsarist Russia was unwilling to finally seize the sea outlet from East Asia, but it met Japan head-on and lost to Japan in the Russo-Japanese naval battle, which directly hindered Tsarist Russia's great ambition of expansion.
And Japan's behind-the-scenes supporter is Britain in Europe, so the expansion of Tsarist Russia in Asia has not harmed Britain's core interests, why does Britain still target Tsarist Russia so much?
In the last century, Britain dominated the navy, and Tsarist Russia was called the "gendarme of Europe", what kind of irreconcilable contradictions existed between the two countries?
Before the First World War, European politicians generally did not understand that Britain was hindering the expansion of Tsarist Russia in Asia, after all, why should Britain go too far if it was not in Europe.
According to the analysis of scholars from various countries, in the last century, Britain was very jealous of Tsarist Russia, although Tsarist Russia's expansion in Asia did not touch Britain's core interests.
However, according to the British politicians' own analysis, the center of gravity of Tsarist Russia has always been in Europe, and even now, although Russia has increased its development of the Far East, the real core is still in Europe.
Therefore, the actions of Tsarist Russia in the last century were only laying the foundation for the expansion of Europe, so Britain was bound to block the pace of the rise of Tsarist Russia.
By the time of World War I, Tsarist Russia was full of domestic contradictions, the huge Tsarist Russian empire collapsed, and after several struggles, Soviet Russia was established, which eventually became the Soviet Union.
Despite the initial weakness of the Soviet Union, Britain still regarded the Soviet Union as a potential threat and even wanted to use Germany's ambitions to attack the Soviet Union as a way to weaken the Soviet Union.
Therefore, before the Second World War, Germany's expansion into the surrounding areas was tolerated by Britain, because Britain and Germany had a secret agreement that Germany was secretly containing the Soviet Union.
It's just that Germany's ambitions are not small, so Britain has a big heel and has no choice but to unite with the Soviet Union to resist Germany, and during this period, Britain also sat and watched the Soviet Union fight Germany for a long time.
It was only after the Soviet Union thwarted the German offensive that Britain and the United States opened a second battlefield in Europe, hoping to enter Berlin faster than the Soviet Union.
However, Britain underestimated the fighting power of the Soviet Union, and in the end Berlin was taken by the Soviet Union first, and after the end of World War II, the Soviet Union's power swelled rapidly.
The Soviet Union's influence even spread throughout Eastern Europe, and Britain once again embarked on the anti-Soviet road, taking the lead in lifting the iron curtain in Europe to block the further expansion of the Soviet Union.
However, after World War II, Britain's strength was greatly reduced, and it had lost its former position as the world hegemon, but despite this, Britain still adhered to the so-called independence policy to prevent the unification of the European continent.
At this time, as long as the Soviet Union did anything in the international arena, Britain would oppose it, and followed the United States to form a NATO military bloc, spending a lot of effort to weaken the influence of the Soviet Union.
It's just that Britain at this time was already powerless, every colony was fighting for independence, and Britain could no longer afford to maintain the anti-Soviet struggle on a large scale, so it had to take refuge under the United States and rely on the strength of the United States to ensure its neutrality policy.
The Battle of the Falklands in 1982 made Britain feel powerless just against a small Argentina, which was no longer a strong country at this time, but still could not give up containing the Soviet Union.
When the Soviet Union collapsed, Britain shifted its target to Russia and fought Russia to the end, because in Britain's view, Russia was the only country on the European continent at that time that had the ability to change the situation.
Therefore, Britain must contain the rise of Russia and exaggerate the facts on some events in order to vigorously condemn Russia internationally.
In 2018, there was a vicious poisoning incident in the UK, which actually caused the UK to evacuate its consul in Russia and declare that a new Cold War had come, what was the UK thinking behind this incident?
In 2018, a father and daughter of secret agents fainted on the street on the spot, which attracted great attention from the British government, and the father and daughter had given Britain a lot of Russian intelligence.
Therefore, in the preliminary investigation, Britain extremely suspected that the father and daughter of the Russian secret service team had poisoned them, and also announced that the poison in the two was a poison secretly developed during the Soviet Union.
Immediately, the international community insisted that it was Russia that did it, and took the initiative to expand the influence of this matter, saying that Russia had launched a biological and chemical war on the European continent.
Back in 2006, something similar happened in the UK, and the reaction in the UK was not so great that it could not even be chosen.
What should have been a criminal case between the two countries was turned into an international case by the United Kingdom, and even some small European countries fell into Russophobia.
Russia also failed to produce strong evidence in time, which made the British public opinion offensive even more fierce, and the British continued to launch an offensive, directly expelling more than 20 Russian diplomats by force and revoking all official exchanges.
Some British politicians even clamored for a freeze on Russian assets, and then began to contact France and Germany, and exaggerated the facts were transmitted to the United States.
Under the operation of Britain, the influence of this poisoning case continued to expand, and soon Britain, France, Germany, and the United States jointly publicly condemned Russia and said that Russia was responsible for the incident.
Even pulled up Australia, which is far away in Oceania, and Australia is not too big to see the excitement and join the army that condemns Russia.
Despite Russia's tremendous evidence that it was not Russia's doing, Britain has been attacking Russia incessantly, even at the UN General Assembly.
Russia demanded a joint investigation between Britain and Russia, but Britain rejected it, saying that there was no need for an investigation at all, and that it was secretly instructed by Russia.
Russia knows that Britain is deliberately framing itself, so it simply does not care about it anymore and allows Britain to make a big deal of nonsense in the international community, but Russia just does not recognize it.
According to the analysis of the available data, the reason why Britain magnified the small things is that Britain has seen that Russia wants to make a move against Ukraine, and wants to quickly pull up the anti-Russian front and block Russia's continued expansion to the west.
Since Russia acquired Crimea in 2014, Britain has been worried about Russia's continued westward expansion, so it has been trying to stop Russia's progress.
But the usual protests had little effect, and some European countries were unwilling to join Britain in confronting Russia, so Britain had to find an excuse to provoke contradictions between Russia and Europe, so this case happened.
In fact, Britain's approach is weak at every turn, and the premise for such a policy of neutrality is that it must be supported by strong national power.
But at this time, it is clear that Britain no longer has enough strength to support it, and both Britain and Russia have nuclear weapons, so naturally it is impossible to really fight each other.
After the start of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, Britain once again stepped out and acted as an anti-Russian vanguard, but it has not been able to make any waves in the world, and the former British Empire has long been in decline.
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