William de Berg Media pundits and leading politicians claim Russia’s intervention in Ukraine will be Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “Waterloo”,[1] a reference to the final, crushing defeat of Napoleon’s forces in 1815 in what is now present-day Belgium. They may have it backwards, though: The real Waterloo analogy may be better applied to the collapse of Putin’s opponent—the Anglo-American Bilderberger/NATO empire in the West. Afghanistan has often been referred to as the “graveyard of empires”, but this bears little historical reality.[2] Alexander the Great conquered the satrapies in Afghanistan and…
