From Churchill to Vance...Sounding Off About Tyranny

American Thinker ^ | Vince Coyner

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I love Churchill (I named my dog, Winnie, after him!) and one of the great things about him was that he was so confident.

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A large part of his “Wilderness” period had to do with his constant and vocal haranguing of the government—even of his own party—about the threat of the Nazis in Germany and his push to prepare the military for war. Mostly his warnings fell on deaf ears and to many he was considered a war monger.

But his warnings on Germany weren’t the only instance of his prescience. He was equally adamant about the evil of the Soviet Union. From the Russian Revolution until the day he died, Churchill was an adamant anti-communist. Although during WWII a pragmatic Churchill understood the necessity of working with the Soviets to defeat the Nazis, after the war he made his thoughts crystal clear in his famous “Iron Curtain“ speech at Missouri’s Westminster College.

There are two lines from that speech I find particularly compelling and relevant to our modern world. The first comes after he described the darkness overcoming much of eastern Europe: “Whatever conclusions may be drawn from these facts- and facts they are-this is certainly not the Liberated Europe we fought to build up.” He continued, “From what I have seen of our Russian friends and Allies during the war, I am convinced that there is nothing they admire so much as strength, and there is nothing for which they have less respect than for weakness, especially military weakness.” Churchill was seeking to animate the West about the emerging malignancy of communist tyranny.

If those two lines from Churchill ring familiar, they should. They were basically echoed last month when JD Vance went into the lion’s den and gave a speech in Munich.

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He [Vance] said, “…the threat that I worry the most about vis-à-vis Europe is not Russia, it’s not China, it’s not any other external actor. And what I worry about is the threat from within, the retreat of Europe from some of its most fundamental values—values shared with the United States of America.” A bit later he continued, “And unfortunately, when I look at Europe today, it’s sometimes not so clear what happened to some of the Cold War’s winners.”

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This was deadly for the EU.

Vance at Munich:

If you’re running in fear of your own voters, there is nothing America can do for you. Nor, for that matter, is there anything that you can do for the American people who elected me and elected President Trump.

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Democracy rests on the sacred principle that the voice of the people matters. There is no room for firewalls. You either uphold the principle or you don’t.

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Vance might want to channel this from Winston,

“Individual Muslims may show splendid qualities, but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world”.

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Islamists are the same way.

And all refuse to hear it, similarly.