or you were a French socialist who's a believer in the Republic,

或者是在共和国内的一个社会主义信仰者
and most of them were,

他们大多数是这样的
how do you explain how a Republican state is allied with the czar,

大家如何解释一个共和主义国家与沙皇进行结盟
a czarist regime, an autocracy,

这是一个专制政权一个独裁统治的国家
repressor of all of the peoples and among other things orchestrator,

一个镇压所有人除此之外对犹太人中演奏者
encourager, facilitator, enabler of vicious pogroms against the Jews?

支持者服务商有能力的人进行罪恶的大屠杀的国家
So, how this happens is extremely interesting

这些如何发生的这非常有趣
and it means that these powers are on the search for allies

这意味着那些国家只会寻找
who are going to give them an advantage should Europe go to war.

能给他们带来巨大利益的同盟国当欧洲爆发战争时
Now, later on I will make the case,

稍后我会分析这些情况
and it's an obvious one to make, is that most people who followed such things

这很显然那些经历这些事情的人
expected a war in their lifetimes.

在他们的生涯是期待一场战争的