Posted on 01/27/2015 8:01:33 AM PST by fredericbastiat1
Recently we marked the 50th anniversary of the January 24, 1965 passing of Winston Churchill.
Churchill was not only a courageous leader but an eminent historian and lucid writer who left us with volumes of valuable insight and wisdom.
We have been flipping through his, “The Gathering Storm,” which recounts among other parts of history the lead up to World War II, when Churchill stood as a lone voice against Nazi Germany — a threat he so clearly saw while the world dithered.
Below are 12 passages from Churchill’s Volume I of “The Gathering Storm,” that look awfully eerie in light of the rising totalitarian, anti-Western, often anti-Semitic and savage, jihadist, Communist and fascist forces rising in the world today.
(Excerpt) Read more at theblaze.com ...
A big war is coming, beyond a doubt. And we will start unprepared, again.
But the necessary ingredient for a WW II-style disaster is missing, because the Germans, what’s left of them, don’t want to play.
I imagine the Chinese will neutralize Japan and take the Pacific East to the second island chain, South to the Torres strait, and North, who knows? What deals are in the works, or even possible, between the Whites in Moscow and the Yellows in Beijing can’t be known at this time.
Australia and NZ will become satellites. I doubt they want Hawaii, but they might take it just to show the world who the big dog is.
I don’t think a diverse America has much fight in it.
Ah, too bad the story is on the Blaze, that site is too annoying to bother clicking on.
I don’t think the Chinese will risk killing their economy. I see them more as spectators protecting their economic interests.
I work with a Chinese citizen and Chinese people really like the US. Much of China’s military production is designed for foreign sale. They want to replace the Soviet Union as the biggest arms seller. Russia just can’t do it anymore.
China has a huge Muslim problem that they know needs attention.
That is a very interesting read. There are definitely parallels. Our demise is actually much more predictable because there is not an easily identifiable wild card like Hitler. Instead we have demographic data that although it is constantly changing... still points where we are headed. It is not pretty and shows no likely reversals.
It’s interesting and instructive to read this, but GW Bush found that waging a preemptive, at one time one might even have said prophylactic, war only results in your being called a war criminal.
Democracies do not wish to be strong. When they look weak,though, they invite attack. There is little we can do at this point in our history, beyond looking to personal safety. In a time when Iran has an ICBM and a nuclear weapon that is a tough task.
Good luck to one and all. Indeed, a war is coming. It may come much sooner than we expect.
Key difference is dominant middle east moslims and economic colapse.
“Dominant ... Muslims”
Only because we are so weakened by diversity.
When huge Arab armies fight a handful of Jews, what happens?
“I don’t think the Chinese will risk killing their economy”
We’ll see.
I think if the Central Committee decides the masses have to eat grass for 100 years to subjugate the whites, that’s what will happen.
Yes, formula for disaster.
Despite the catcalls and criticism, Churchill, in a great speech to the House of Commons on 12 November, 1937, reproached the Government for its failure to face up to the Nazi menace."So they go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all powerful to be impotent. So we go on preparing more months and years - precious, perhaps, vital, to the greatness of Britain, for the locusts to eat."
There has never been, nor can there ever be again, a man of such vision or brilliance and the courage to put them before the world without apology.
China has never expansionist. They have a tentative hold on their own population.
My coworker from China says that America is over-regulated. Ha!
Supposedly NSA had Snowden in Hawaii organizing a shift of their Tier 1 databases over to the Islands, I assumed to keep it protected if civil unrest struck the US. I wonder if that wasn’t such a bright idea. Hawaii might have just become a very rich, very isolated target for any enemy to acquire.
The Tibetans might disagree with that. The Chinese will expand southward. Due to the drastic fall off in solar activity. The Oligarchy MSM has been failing to report the massive number of collapsed structures in northern China the past few winters. Due to heavy snow accumulation. They do not have an Ocean on their western coast to protect them like we have here in America.
Yes. But of course. He’s going to tell you that he is arming to kill you and your family and friends.
He would not hide anything from you.
You are his special friend.
Yeah, he’s killing everyone around here.
Of course he is.
The Gathering Storm movie, with Albert Finney as Churchill, is one of the best movies I’ve seen, every bit as good as The King’s Speech, and it was a made for HBO movie.
Would the invaders consent to hear Lord Beaverbrook's exposition, or listen to the impassioned appeals of Mr. Lloyd George? Would they agree to meet that famous South African, General Smuts, and have their inferiority complex removed in friendly, reasonable debate? I doubt it. I have borne responsibility for the safety of this country in grievous times. I gravely doubt it.
But even if they did, I am not so sure we should convince them, and persuade them to go back quietly home. They might say, it seems to me, "you are rich; we are poor. You seem well fed; we are hungry. You have been victorious; we have been defeated. You have valuable colonies; we have none. You have your navy; where is ours? You have had the past; let us have the future." Above all, I fear they would say, "you are weak and we are strong."
-Winston Churchill November 16, 1934.
You’re right about the Blaze. Sensationalism and teases abound there.
Methinks I should pull down my copy of “The Gathering Storm,” which I read over 15 years ago. But that was an old copy; I have the Chartwell Edition now.
:)
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