The current Ukraine crisis is part of an historical effort by the Anglo-Saxon nations to dismantle Russia. Fearing the geographical sprawl of the Russian Empire going back four hundred years, as Russia spread eastward toward India, which was then the crown jewel of their Empire, the British determined that Russian power had to be broken. In the late 19th century Great Britain through the Rothschild Milner group began to recruit the United States through their subordinate banker J. P. Morgan to join their geopolitical interests together as they did not believe that they had the power alone to achieve these goals.