The past as present in regional and global threats the US, the UK, france, poland, the baltics, and the ongoing and potential german ouvertures toward russia (MDEM, NOVA law, 12th november, 2018

THE PAST AS PRESENT IN REGIONAL AND GLOBAL THREATS: the US, the UK, France, Poland, the Baltics, and the ongoing and potential German ouvertures toward Russia Armando Marques Guedes MDEM, NOVA Law, November 12th, 2018 The legendary Krupp's Big Bertha, a German 42cm howitzer used to crush the Belgian fortresses in 1914 Belgian refugees near Aydenarde, 1915 a muddy British outpost in Flanders, 1916 preparing to 'hop the bags' outside Beaumont Hamel 1st Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers July, 1916 Péronne during the Battle of the Somme, 1916 “Don't be angry, just be amazed”, was the calling card left by Germans on the destroyed town hall of Péronne after their withdrawal to the Hindenberg Line in the relative comfort of a German trench, before the Woodrow Wilson and US decision to enter the war a mustard gas victim the arrival of Trotsky to Brest-Litovsk, for the formal negotiations started on the 22nd December, 1917; the photgraph below is of the failed attempt at a first draft of the Brest-Litovsk Treaty On the right hand side, a map of the territories ceded by the bolchevicks to the Germans after the definitive Treaty, signed only on the 3rd March, 1917 The territorial losses were humiliating to the Russian soviets President Woodrow Wilson announcing to the US Congress the official break of diplomatic relations with Germany, 3rd February, 1917 Merkel: “Trump's G7 message withdrawal is ‘sobering’ and ‘depressing’” Trump wants Russia back into a G8, and seems ready to recognize Crimea’s 2014-2015 annexation by the Kremlin, after it’s 2008 partition of a Georgia it invaded July 7th, 2018: the G7 Summit Merkel: Germany can’t rely 'on the superpower of the US' anymore rewinding to 2017 Russian President ‘insulted’ by allegations of collusion between Moscow and Trump campaign Vladimir Putin says 'absurd' election meddling claims are designed to hurt Donald Trump, who he ‘admires’ The admiration is mutual moving forward in time: US President Donald Trump met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki, Finland, on July 16, 2018 July 30, 2018, check the facial expressions at the egregious 'Summit' A picture worth a thousand words Indeed TIME Magazine cover Trump-Putin fused, issue of July 30, 2018, after the 'Summit' November 11th, 2018, Paris Trump: Welcome! Macron is poker-faced Merkel in not too happy, but smirks Melania looks partly concerned, but vaguely amused Saturday, November 11th, 2018, in Paris to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the 1918 Armistice Paris, November 11th, 2018, at the meeting of Heads of State, the first row Look who is there, in-between… Merkel, Macron November 11th, 2018, in Paris closer then, in 2016-2017 now… Russia's regrowth, d’aprés STRATFOR ... comments the celebration of the Ribbentrop –Molotov Pact, with smiling Stalin at the back, and avuncular Lenin up on the wall, in August 24, 1939 joint parade of the GermanWehrmacht and the Soviet... British Empire in 1915 (before the demise of the German colonies in 1919) when everything seemed easy… and even the North was covered but things did not turn out as Berlin expected… didn’t they know... in January 1943; turning the tide advancing, retaking land, and the inexorable Soviet progression toward the West, in June 1943 North-Americans at dawn, waiting for factory gates to open so they