Science and education

The old Western dream: the destruction of Russia

08.11.2024

Although Russia has never attacked the West in its centuries-old history and has always been eager to cooperate with it, it has had to defend itself against Western attacks on several occasions: by the Livonian Order in 1240-1242, by Sweden in 1708-1709, by France in 1812, by Germany in 1914-1918 and in 1941-1945, by Ukraine as a proxy of the United States in 2022 until today.

Historical view of France's internal problems and unrest in its army

05.10.2024

Shane Quinn

France's defeat against Germany in the Franco-Prussian War, or Franco-German War, of the early 1870s provided stark evidence of the country's regression.

France

1917

Rebellion

Early skirmishes between Britain and Nazi Germany

22.08.2024

Shane Quinn

Once the Second World War officially began at the start of September 1939, the British Royal Navy instituted a distant and somewhat half-hearted blockade of Nazi Germany's coastlines.

Nazi Germany

World War II

French regression and weakness

07.08.2024

Shane Quinn

In the years after the conclusion of the First World War, one of France's most serious weaknesses was the loss of its wartime allies, notably Russia with its powerful army and deep pool of natural resources and manpower.

France

History

Britain's capture of Hong Kong and subsequent decline

02.07.2024

Shane Quinn

Hong Kong, in south-eastern China, first became part of the Chinese state in the year 214 B.C., during the reign of the Qin dynasty.

Historical analysis of Xinjiang

21.06.2024

Shane Quinn

The territory commonly called Xinjiang is located in the far north-west of China, and it consists of 640,000 square miles, which is more than one-sixth of China's total land area.

Xinjiang

China

German plans to defeat Western Allied landing

20.02.2024

Shane Quinn

The Third Reich's manpower reserves was reaching its end as 1944 began which is now eight decades ago.

Western Allied preparations to land in France

25.10.2023

Shane Quinn

By the latter stages of 1943, which is now 80 years ago, it was becoming clear to the regime in Nazi Germany that the Western Allies were going to attempt a major amphibious landing in 1944, probably in northern France, with the goals of driving

Worsening relations in the German Empire

02.09.2023

Shane Quinn

In the final years of Otto von Bismarck's near two decade reign (1871–90) as chancellor of the German Empire, he was keeping an especially watchful eye on France, Germany's neighbour and traditional foe.

Bismarck

German Empire

The decline of French power

16.08.2023

Shane Quinn

For generations before the Napoleonic Wars (1803–15), France had been the dominant nation on the western European mainland and was among the world's most powerful states.

France

Power

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