Posted on 04/07/2022 5:52:11 AM PDT by Kaslin
My British friend, Andrew Roberts, the Churchill biographer, spoke at a conference of conservatives in Brussels recently, and his remarks were reprinted in The Wall Street Journal over the weekend. He reminded the assembled that there are times when conservatives are duty-bound to stand out and speak up. Roberts was disappointed in his remarks by people like David Stockman, the budget director under President Ronald Reagan, who, by the way, had a spotty career with the Old Cowboy. In his own words, Reagan "took him to the woodshed" on at least one occasion. It is time for Stockman to return to the woodshed.
Provoked by Stockman, Roberts elaborated, "Sometimes I feel that there are some in our movement who enjoy being contrary for its own sake -- out of perversity or a desire for attention -- regardless of the cost to the wider movement and how it looks to ordinary people. They fail to heed the enormous damage done to the right in denouncing Mr. Zelensky and the favorable opinion that is strongly held by many millions, perhaps billions, of people around the world who have been profoundly moved by Ukraine's plight."
What did Stockman say of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy with other quislings presumably chiming in denouncing the Churchill of our time? Stockman said, "We were already getting sick and tired of this Zelenskyy clown." Clown! Stockman went on, "Zelenskyy should resign and make way for a collaborationist government that will sue for peace." Collaborationist! After all, Ukraine's present government is composed of "anti-Russian fascists and oligarchs." Stealing yet another line from President Vladimir Putin, Stockman added that Ukraine is not a real country and has no claim to sovereignty.
The language employed by Stockman has a Vichy-like quality to it -- for instance, "collaborationist" and when Stockman speaks of Putin's interest in territorial acquisition. Adolf Hitler used a more compact word, "Lebensraum." Still, I think Stockman's move to the Vichy right could have waited a few weeks. There were others who joined him. One was Rep. Madison Cawthorn, the youngest current congressman, who called Zelenskyy a "thug" and said that the "Ukrainian government is ... incredibly evil, and it has been pushing woke ideologies."
As I say, these quislings came out against Zelenskyy at a less than auspicious time for them. First, there was Zelenskyy's superb interview with Bret Baier on Fox News last week. Zelenskyy came across as reasonable and sympathetic, not beating his chest, only calling for that which he and his countrymen had earned. That is to say, a country free of Russian invaders and at peace with the world. Second came the revelations of the weekend. After Ukrainian troops pushed back the Russians in Bucha, a suburb of Kyiv, they found civilian corpses strewn throughout the city, most showing signs of having been tortured. There were landmines the Russians had hidden in homes and within the corpses. Women had been raped in front of their children. Men had been executed with their hands behind their backs. Instead of fighting their enemies, the Ukrainian military, the cowardly Russians committed crimes against humanity as they fled, but flee they did.
Andrew Roberts is right in his summation. Says Roberts, "The martyrdom of Ukraine and the Churchillian leadership Mr. Zelensky and his people are showing has changed the political landscape. If we believe in uniting the right, and especially if we want to do it when the left is so disunited, now is the time for open-hearted and full-throated support of Ukraine and its leader."
As I have been ending this column for weeks: Glory to Ukraine!
The deification of Zelensky is disturbing.
“After all, Ukraine’s present government is composed of “anti-Russian fascists and oligarchs.”
Good summary. Hopefully the Nazis at least will be gone soon.
Hopefully Soros-boy Zelenski gets run over by a T-80. Then, hopefully, it backs up and runs him over again.
Then run the multinational fraud over a 3rd time.
Then a 4th time... so I can have a good laugh.
Yes, and those calling Zelensky the ‘Churchill of our time’ betray an abject ignorance of both who Winston Churchill was, and the international stature of the British Empire.
Zelenskyy ......’the Churchill of our time’
Get real...!Seriously
Disproved by Ukrainian people fighting fiercely against Putin's invasion. People only deserve liberty if they themselves are willing to fight for it.
Glory to Ukraine? How about America First 🇺🇸
This might be Tyrell’s all-time dumbest article - and if so, it has triumphed over some pretty stiff competition.
Zelensky should be neither deified not demonized. Government leadership is a necessary evil in this fallen world.
Huh.
What do you call the super brave and righteous commentators who really want Ukraine to fight down to the last man.
No concessions! Keep dying!
The same commentators who push the huge lie that Ukrainians are all on the same page, and all clearly want this or that.
There are LOTS of ukrainian males right now who are forced to stay on the battlefield against their will.
Maybe these commentators will insult them as quislings too for daring to have a thought that differs from their desire for maximum and escalating conflict
I agree. I has been like a reverse “Orange Man Bad”. Not a good practice to base your opinion of someone on the collective opinions/ agenda of the media. Their track record is horrible because their published opinions are driven by an agenda with a narrative . . . which usually is wrong-headed, if not immoral.
If trues, it also applies to Biden, Trudeau and Putin. All in the same basket, corrupt and bend towards evil.
Meanwhile millions of Ukrainians are left homeless, their lives ruined.
I put this on Zelensky, the comedian who has forsaken his country and it's people.
Ukraine is the size of Texas. Russia is almost twice the size of the United States, so what outcome does Zelensky realistically expect, other than many more deaths and total destruction of his military?
Wow. “The Churchill of our time.”
The neocons really are desperate for WW3. Makes you wonder why.
No, he should be demonized - then executed to send a long-term message.
This POS was literally installed by globaloid demons. Literally. I’m not exaggerating.
Literally put into power by the same MFers who want to ruin America.
“Zelensky should be neither deified not demonized. Government leadership is a necessary evil in this fallen world.”
So you agree with the leftists who want to tear down the Founding Fathers and our early presidents?
Let’s consider a couple facts.
The deep state and their media stooges went completely insane when Trump tried to meet with Putin. THey even demanded that the interpreter be forced to testify against Trump, and demanded Trump be impeached for talking to Putin. Something that is completely normal for a President to do.
The deep state and their media stooges went completely insane and took out General Flynn when he called his Russian counterpart.
The deep state has gone completely insane over Putin invading Ukraine, yet could care less about other military actions around the world.
There’s a LOT of smoke here folks. Deep state traitors are hiding something huge in Ukraine / Russia. And they are desperately afraid of Putin. Putin has something on them, or knows something that they are losing their minds over. Something huge. And they’re willing to start WW3 over it to keep it from coming out.
Which is why I’m reading everything I can. Gen Miley saying this could take years is a big Red Flag. They do not mean Peace.
Military motives from both sides are not like ours. Russian Ivans and Uke Cossacks ( I know prejudiced) are not like us. Be cautious.
“There are LOTS of ukrainian males right now who are forced to stay on the battlefield against their will.”
If someone has to be FORCED to fight for and defend their hearth and home and family, then they don’t deserve any of them. Better to let them flee as the cowards they are, because they could never be trusted. But, I’m old school.
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