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!
“Slobber Ukraini “
The same people who installed Joe Biden. Biden and Zelensky share many traits.
So are you an anarchist?
Stockman’s statement seems ludicrous, but his characterization of Zelensky as a “clown” is accurate. I would have no faith in a country whose powers behind the scenes put the court jester in charge.
Exactly......plus ALL the MSM including Fox.....24/7
Well... both of them were obnoxious people in person, who rose to the occasion in defense of their country... (Read Churchills biography)
Both of them united their nations against attack from an aggressor...
Of course, Zelenskyy is not a born aristocrat who believed in the British Empire's natural right to rule.
Have you accepted Zelensky as your lord and savior? 😏
“So you agree with the leftists who want to tear down the Founding Fathers and our early presidents?”
The founding fathers recognized that man is inherently evil and structured a government with checks and balances, rather than the traditional monarchy. They were insightful, but not not infallible.
I don’t care who you are, but if you will not stay and fight to protect your home and family you aren’t worth spit. If someone — and I don’t care who! — is attacking your family, I fully expect you to fight like a banshee to protect them.
It’s not anarchy to laugh at the idea of us needing strong government leaders because of a crisis those very leaders created.
A lot of that sentiment goes out the window when you live in an urban center where “home and hearth” are a multi-story tenement, you have no connection with transient neighbors, and “family” is a group of highly dysfunctional wards of the state.
So you are one of those who agrees that no old white men in history should be considered heroes?
If you support tearing down statutes I think you are on the wrong site.
Why are there no comparisons of Putin to Lincoln? Lincoln didn't recognize the right of the Confederate States to be an independent country. Putin doesn't recognize Ukraine's right to independence. Lincoln demonized the Southerners as "rebels." Putin demonizes the Ukrainians as "Nazis." It took Lincoln 4 years to conquer the South. Maybe four years from now Putin will have won and Kiev will look like Richmond did in April 1865.
And what if your family is a Russian-speaking one, with relatives on the Russian side of the border, and your kids' schools have been closed, and the local Ukraine "nazi" militia leader sent from Western Ukraine decides you are a potential problem? Do you stay?
“I don’t care who you are, but if you will not stay and fight to protect your home and family you aren’t worth spit. If someone — and I don’t care who! — is attacking your family, I fully expect you to fight like a banshee to protect them.”
Nah, banshee might not fit. I used it in the context of “a wild woman,” which is more of a modern description than the original, true meaning of the word. So, I’m amending my comment by saying “...fight like a man (or woman) possessed.”
What a silly question. I am for a decent freedom loving Republic. Any old government who doesn’t put citizens first is dangerous and evil.
Is their something about just being “governed” that makes you so happy?
Zelensky does the bidding of Biden, the anti-Putin self proclaimed tough guy.
Meanwhile millions of Ukrainians are left homeless, their lives ruined.
I put this on Zelensky, the comedian who has forsaken his country and its 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?
(Repost, typos corrected)
When this war is over either Zelensky or Putin (or a Putin puppet) will be leading Ukraine. If, under your scenario, Russia withdrawals and Zelensky is removed there will be a power vacuum at a time when Ukraine is in ruins. This will most likely lead to a civil war. The question is what scenario would lead to an outcome that causes the Ukrainian people the least hardship. You can hate the leader and still dread the alternative.
I find that a silly comparison.....
Churchill was a warrior and statesman.....
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Zelenskyy was a comedian and is a tool......and I believe is being propagandized to the detriment of the Ukrainian people....( and the US and the world!)
It’s the people who are the pawns and paying the price for this farce.
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