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!
I have nothing against Zelensky, per se.
He’s really just another inert, somewhat perverted, and corrupt symbol, much like Joe Biden, of the globalist, MIC, DC deep-state masters who put him nominally in control of their project in Ukraine.
This statement must be one of the most twisted immoral things that have poured from the mouths of well-known and respected conservatives.
It presumes all sorts of things. Having placed the laurel wreath on Zelenskyy's he declares him the Churchill of our time. Then he tells us that anyone who thinks otherwise is a Quisling.
So this idiot makes Hunter who has been dealing with the corruptocracty in America and Ukraine when not or when dealing taking cocaine and consorting with crack whores a visionary patriot in furthering a great hero battling for the mighty causes that further the interests of humanity.
Emmett Tyrrell is now a hateful propagandist of an order that should merit him high standing in the 2022 award of the Orwell Gold Medal, admittedly a crowded field this year.
ping!
Luckily,
Zelensky does not give a damn what Stockman says.
As a matter of fact, nobody really gives a damn about Stockman any more!
So long as Hunter was getting a piece for himself and another pieces for the big guy.
Yes he is the Churchill of our time....with stilettos/s
https://www.queerty.com/sean-hannitys-interview-sean-penn-got-real-awkward-real-fast-20220406
Glory to Ukraine! = Slava Ukraini! And post it often!
Zelensky may be no Churchill, but he certainly deserves credit where credit is due.
The deep state/globalist MUST neuter and control Russia, or their project will fail. I don't believe Putin has pictures of the Biden family having sex with Children (although its certainly possible), rather, its far more strategic than that.
Russia gave up Marxism. the neo-marxists of the West are still moving forward. You know how ideologues are - they hate traitors to their religion more than anyone else.
No, it's alarming.
Emmett Tyrell goes full neo-con retard. The Kristols will be silent only because they are jealous they didn't write this purplish screed calling for WWIII.
When you have Hollywood, Biden, and Soros all boosting Zelinsky, you ought to at least ask why this evil convergence? It’s enough to convince me something doesn’t compute.
Ignorance?
I agree with your statement but where do we find leadership that is concerned with the well-being of its citizenry? The current situation is unacceptable.
What leadership? I have seen nothing but evil leadership that has promoted a fallen world. The leadership has made things far worse.
It’s the crack up of the dangerously frivolous fringes of Americo-Euro global imperialism against the hard rock of Russian vital interests.
Also, Ukraine is deeply divided. there are many people in Eastern Ukraine who prefer to live under Russian control. The militias of Lukansk and the Donbas (as well as Crimea) number in the many tens of thousands and have been battling Kiev since the Maidan Coup. 14,000 people in Eastern Ukraine have died at the hands of the Kiev government. And of course, our own US Government is contributing to the conflict.
So the simplistic MSM narrative of madman Putin vs. saint Zelensky is a very childish and the cheapest form of propaganda.
Tyrrell needs to wipe the volodymyr off his chin.
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