Was Tsar Putin inspired by the idea of the “Afrika Korps”, whose creation Fuhrer Hitler ordered in January 1941, and handed over its command to the “Desert Fox”, Field Marshal Rommel? Within the circles of geopolitical conflict around the world, there is talk of the military corps that Russia is working on in full swing to find its way to the heart of Africa, which reflects Moscow’s intentions to expand deep into the Dark Continent, in an apparent conflict with American and European interests.
For more than 200 years, the skeleton has lain alone and undisturbed in a ditch close to Mont-Saint-Jean farm, south of Brussels - since the soil was turned into a bloody mire by the Battle of Waterloo in 1815.