The Great Game; Understanding What is Really Going on

During the 1800s one family sat on the various thrones of Europe.  Queen Victoria’s children married into royal families around the continent. Eight ruled Britain, Greece, Norway, Prussia, Romania, Russia, Spain and Sweden.

Victoria’s eldest daughter married a man who went on to become the German Emperor and King of Prussia. Their son became Kaiser Wilhelm II; their daughter, Princess Sophie, became Queen of Greece.

Princess Alice married the Grand Duke of Hesse. Their  daughter  daughter Alix married Tsar Nicholas II of Russia.

The Great Game was originally played between the English branch and the Russian branch of the Family in Afghanistan.    The intention was to gain control and use the country as a highway, goods to and from India travelling safely through it.

Further, controlling Afghanistan would stop Russia from gaining a port on the Persian Gulf or the Indian Ocean.

Russia desired Afghanistan to be a neutral zone so that it too could use it as a highway.

This led to the first Anglo-Afghan War in 1838, the Second Anglo-Afghan War of 1878 and the annexation of Khiva, Bukhara  and Koland by Russia.

This way of looking at the world has continued into the modern day.  Not only in Afghanistan, but the entire Middle East.

The West provokes an ‘Arab’ Spring.   Many of the countries in the Middle East had relations with Russia.

As the West, (including Britain’s off-spring, America) consider anyone who is a friend of Russia fair game,  they will underthrow, overthrow, invade, or otherwise make a mess in that country.

As Russia backs the Syrian president, the West has to be against him.   Battles range, opportunists step in for what they can get, and how many people die, are injured, made homeless, is meaningless.

It’s only a game.

The shock is that President Elect Trump doesn’t want to play the game.  He has no problem with Russia.

This has totally upset Britain and it’s European allies.   For almost two hundred years the Game has been played, whether in Afghanistan, Korea, Vietnam, Syria.   It is the same Game.

And now Trump doesn’t want to play.