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| h English (en) | If I don’t dare speculate on the future (except like everybody else on the certainty of final victory) I am happy to justify myself about the past. When you told me<ref name="n3" /> that the Courland expedition<ref name="n4" /> was an eccentric whim on the part of the Germans I replied<ref name="n5" /> that in the case of a people who prepared meticulously for something that they could not foresee (munitions for the duration of a war which they alone believed would be short and were the only ones to be fully equipped, retreat at Lens<ref name="n6" /> in order to take it from us and to help themselves to it when they did not think they would retreat, taking the Dardanelles<ref name="n7" /> to cut off Russia who they thought defeated etc.) one should not imagine that it is a disorderly whim and that the Courland expedition was, in the long term, either a pincer movement against the Russian army or at least against Warsaw<ref name="n8" />, or else a counterpart to the Dardanelles (but Bardou who said<ref name="n9" /> two weeks ago that events in Riga were a show of strength, has written a marvellous article<ref name="n10" /> since then pointing out the symmetry between the Dardanelles, the shutting down of Russia, in imitation of the War of Secession). If Emmanuel is with you give him my very best wishes. |