SATISH SHARMA - not just Rotigraphy.: 80 years ago Churchill stood in Fulton, Missouri and drew a line across Europe. He didn't say 'against communism' — he said an iron curtain had descended from Stettin to Trieste. The target was Russia. It was back then, and it is now.

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80 years ago Churchill stood in Fulton, Missouri and drew a line across Europe. He didn't say 'against communism' — he said an iron curtain had descended from Stettin to Trieste. The target was Russia. It was back then, and it is now. The speech was not improvised. It was coordinated with Truman, vetted by the State Department and delivered while Stalin was still formally an ally, millions of Soviet dead still unburied. Churchill called for an Anglo-American military alliance against a country that had just bled itself white saving Europe. The Special Relationship was born as a strategic instrument, and Russia was its organizing principle. This was not new. Britain spent the entire 19th century containing Russian expansion in Central Asia, Persia, the Balkans. The Great Game didn't end, it just changed players and acquired better press. When the Russian Empire collapsed in 1917, fourteen foreign armies were on Russian soil within months. The ideology of whoever sat in Moscow was secondary. The question of sovereignty was always the one that mattered — and that pattern held through the interwar period, through détente, through Gorbachev's genuine overtures. When the Soviet Union dissolved, the architecture of containment didn't pause. Yeltsin's Russia accepted Western economic prescriptions, looked away from Kosovo, asked for partnership. What it received was a security architecture designed around its permanent exclusion. Five rounds of NATO enlargement between 1999 and 2004. The argument was never primarily ideological. If it were, the alliance roster would look very different. It was always about geography: the Heartland, the resources, who controls Eurasian space. Modern Russia is capitalist, Orthodox, socially conservative — everything the Cold War was supposedly fought to produce. The containment architecture didn't pause for a single day. Churchill's Fulton address wasn't a reaction to Soviet behavior. It was a doctrine, drafted while the alliance was still intact. Fulton is the policy that never ended. Ukraine is its latest proof. RT News