Washington’s ‘Win-Hold-Win’ Strategy Needs To Change

In July 1917, in the midst of World War I, the Imperial Germany Government secretly sent Vladimir Lenin and tens of revolutionaries across Germany to Russia in a sealed armored car. Berlin’s leadership hoped that Lenin would somehow manage to pull Russia out of the war, so that Germany could concentrate on fighting the Western Allies. The Germans bet correctly; Lenin’s arrival in St. Petersburg’s Finland Station marked the beginning of the Bolshevik Revolution. And he pulled Russia out of the war.