The Kremlin Conspiracy

People call Putin's power strategy the new Cold War. Author Douglas Boyd argues that it is the same one as before, fought with potent new weapons: the energy resources on which half of Europe now depends. The Cold War did not begin in 1945, but rather when Lenin created the Communist International in 1919, in a tradition of Russian expansionism that goes way further back. Recounted often in the words of participants, The Kremlin Conspiracy is the chilling story of 1,000 years of bloodshed that made the Russians the way they are. Why the title? Kremlin policy has not changed since Rurik of Novgorod and Ivan the Terrible. It's as though they are whispering in the ear of Vlad the Gasman, 'Go on, grab Crimea, and then...' Winston Churchill said: 'Never having known a Magna Carta or even the principle of trial by jury, the Russians are not like us.' So we must understand them because our leaders do not.