"What had the crisis and its resolution accomplished? In some respects, little or nothing. It certainly had not ended the Russian strategic and political threat to Central Europe; that would persist down to the First World War." Schroeder, p. 536.
Schroeder, writing in 1994, might perhaps more accurately have said, 'down to the present moment, and into the foreseeable future'....
This is why I have talked about a counterfactual, bringing down the Bolshevik Regime after 1917, and then partitioning Russia into at least several different monarchies or protectorates. That was a good time to do it, as even Schroeder's erroneous remark seems to acknowledge chronologically.
Schroeder implies the threat of Russia to Central Europe ended at the First World War.
That was emphatically not the case, as subsequent history has amply shown, especially the outcome of WWII and its aftermath, for Central Europe, and the rest of the world. That is why I advocated, counterfactually, the Patton solution in 1945.
The military commanders on the ground saw clearly the problem, and the solution, even if at that late date only a defensive one, pushing Russia back to its place on the edge of Eastern Europe. 1919 would have been a much better time to address permanently the Problem of Russia than 1945. It had been inconceivable in 1814, 1815, when Czar Alexander actually came to Paris in triumph after Napoleon's defeat.
This is why I have talked about a counterfactual, bringing down the Bolshevik Regime after 1917, and then partitioning Russia into at least several different monarchies or protectorates. That was a good time to do it, as even Schroeder's erroneous remark seems to acknowledge chronologically.
Schroeder implies the threat of Russia to Central Europe ended at the First World War.
That was emphatically not the case, as subsequent history has amply shown, especially the outcome of WWII and its aftermath, for Central Europe, and the rest of the world. That is why I advocated, counterfactually, the Patton solution in 1945.
The military commanders on the ground saw clearly the problem, and the solution, even if at that late date only a defensive one, pushing Russia back to its place on the edge of Eastern Europe. 1919 would have been a much better time to address permanently the Problem of Russia than 1945. It had been inconceivable in 1814, 1815, when Czar Alexander actually came to Paris in triumph after Napoleon's defeat.
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