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Churchill was Trump in the 1930s

It’s amazing to look at how often Winston Churchill was right in the 1930s. Sure, he was wrong a few times, the unlike any other person, he absolutely saw the future under appeasement of the Nazis.

Perhaps we forget how far this went. Did you know that the English soccer team gave the Nazi salute in Berlin’s Olympic Stadium at the request of the British foreign office??! Or that Neville Chamberlain, after the Sudetenland crisis, had flown to Germany to meet Hitler and upon his return said der Fuhrer was “a man who could be relied upon when he had given his word?” (Which Hitler subsequently broke within a year).) Chamberlain’s MI5 even spied on Churchill in 1938 after his criticism of Chamberlain’s pro-Nazi policies. (Sound familiar?)

Yet fully two years before he became Prime Minister, Churchill was sounding the alarm about Hitler: “if we do not stand up to the dictators now, we shall only prepare the day when we shall have to stand up to them under far more adverse conditions. Two years ago it was safe, three years ago it was easy, and four years ago a mere dispatch might have rectified the position. But where shall we be a year hence? Where shall we be in 1940?”

The answer was that all of England’s forces not only would be committed, but would be surrounded at Dunkirk, saved only by the “miracle” literally devised by Churchill himself.

He continued: “Historians a thousand years hence will still be baffled by the mystery of our affairs. They will never understand how it was that a victorious nation, with everything in hand, suffered themselves to be brought low, and to cast away all that they had gained by measureless sacrifice and absolute victory . . . . Now the victors are the vanquished, and those who threw down their arms in the field [i.e., the Germans] and sued for an armistice are striding on to world mastery. . . . Now is the time to rouse the nation. Perhaps it is the last time it can be roused with a chance of preventing war . . . .”

Many today will mistakenly apply the situation in Ukraine to Churchill’s warnings, but I see vast differences. The Soviet Union as a structure collapsed, but Russia was never “beaten,” nor did it “throw down its arms in the field” or sue for an armistice. Quite the opposite, President Ronald Reagan and General Secretary Gorbachev had concluded a peace of mutual accommodation, and the subsequent dissolution of parts of the Soviet empire took elements from its fringes, but marked no “victory” over Russia herself.

On the contrary, just as Churchill had condemned the Treaty of Versailles for its “Carthaginian” elements, the public agreements or privately understood “alliances” between NATO and other formerly East Bloc countries had not been acknowledged by any real treaties agreed to by the Russians. Indeed, they comprised, historically, a renewed threat in Russian eyes to surround and, piece by piece, decapitate the map of Russia proper.

Similarly, the German army was bled white, its navy destroyed, and all elements of its military power stripped even as Hitler marched troops into Czechoslovakia. Even without a military buildup, the allies could have put 140 divisions to just five for the Germans in 1938 and Hitler would have backed down. Such is obviously not the case with Russia, which, to date has forced the West to use up a massive share of its anti-air and anti-tank weapons.

No, I see in Churchill’s words a social and societal alarm, that this next two years may be the “last time [our nation] can be roused with a chance of preventing worse than war, for the threat is within comprised as people like the Rutabaga president and his goblin-horde of demonic, petticoat-wearing, maskiopathic analpuppets whose goal is nothing less than the total destruction of the United States in its present form.

Were Churchill to look at Ukraine, as contrasted with the destructive existential threat posed by modern-day so-called liberal fascists, he would certainly address his language to the latter. After all, Russia could be beaten by a military that did not prioritize transsexual surgeries or female equality with competence, ability, and most of all, a true masculine fighting spirit. It[‘s not too much to say that Vladimir Putin’s “Sudetenland” moment in Ukraine is almost entirely due to the weakness and unseriousness of not only the U.S. military, but that of all of our allies save Japan and Israel.

Rousing the nation will demand, but not be limited to, restoring President Trump to the White House but also a commitment to surrounding him with zealots who will not stop until every element of woke spoogery is blasted from the last crevace in the United States government.

Larry Schweikart

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