Thanks for writing this. It has been bothering me a great deal lately how much the "dissident right" has swung against freedom itself and into "authoritarianism/collectivism, but the right kind". It's a bit like listening to two wolves fight over who gets to eat you for dinner, while they try and get your support by promising that they are the only one who really cares about you. Worse, really, as at least the wolves aren't engaging in cannibalism and eating their fellows.
I find Taylor's declaration to be a touch ironic - Churchill sacrificed the Empire to redeem England's honor, and the country has suffered for that. Of course honor is another antiquated concept that the morons of modernity are happy to discard.
The economic value of the Empire to the UK has been regularly overstated. All the metropoles of the maritime empires became richer after they lost/gave up their empires. But nice point about honour.
Thanks for all that. He’s the prime example of the singular crucial character. The Empire’s sun was setting fast but he tapped the brakes a bit to help deliver a better-than-worst-case landing, sayeth an impudent yank.
"The racialising of identity is, indeed, the racialising of identity. If one adds in—as Critical Social Justice and intersectionality do—a moral hierarchy based on racial identity, then that is racism, quite precisely. Indeed, it is a favour-divide-and-dominate racism." Razor sharp.
Excellent discussion. Not sure what is meant by "conspiracist view of Maidan," however. That was pretty clearly an effort by the US to displace a duly elected Ukraine President who was acceptable to the Russians, in the interests of the US and the NATO group which it controls which have aggressive intentions toward Russia. Just as the US would not accept hostile foreign support and armament of anti-US forces in Mexico, the Russians could not accept NATO expansion to Ukraine.
That gives the US too much credit and Ukrainians too little. Darryl Cooper went further, implying the killings that triggered the final collapse were not by the Ukrainian security forces.
I give great credit to the Ukrainians for their surprisingly strong resistance, which shows the continuing power of national identity in supposedly globalist era. Not surprising given their sufferings under the old Soviet regime. Nevertheless, it is unrealistic for them as a much smaller nation to position themselves as a hostile force on the Russian border. I agree with your assessment of Cooper.
Lorenzo; the American Fighting stock is DONE. This means in 2024 whatever the PRC is; The PRC is NOT an American problem. Sounds like perhaps an Australian problem?
Call Japan.
No American blood will long be shed in defense of any soil now but our own. Probably we’re about to spill each other’s blood in any case. That’s our problem.
Churchill; Churchill savior of his nation… well, yes. A lot of French, Russians, Canadians, Australians, Americans and Indians died saving it too- and the Americans and Indians decided they wouldn’t again.
Hence both NATO - which is keeping ALL of Europe including and especially old Blighty down to this moment AND Indian Independence, and Decolonization. Decolonization is the quiet part of our 🇺🇸 postwar American strategy of peace, at least as successful in rolling back Communism.
LW; Churchill got Hitler’s number early. YES, takes one to know one. > Hitler is just the Germans getting leadership as psychopathic as the English, Hitler is the German Churchill. That Hitler was murderous directly as opposed to Indirectly starving millions of Indians to death so England could eat during WW2 is circumstance. Churchill never hesitated to go as far as he needed to go with India, Ireland, indeed in the 1950s Kenya. That Hitler was furiously murderous from early 1942-mid 1943 - known as the Holocaust- is circumstance. <<
Perhaps Hitler should have drank too, instead of being a Vegan.
Drunks are amenable, Vegans thin and cranky.
We’re 🇺🇸 out of the Churchillian business , LW, et al. FFS why do you think Obama sent Churchill’s bust back? Churchill put Obama’s Grandfather in a Concentration Camp in the 1950s. A message.
The American Left sent the message with Obama, the American Right sends it now.
It’s over, or at least our part.
Niall Ferguson can go home and save Scotland from his pets.
Look to your own devices, oh Anglosphere, oh Europe, oh Pacific, oh cursed globe of spite, that we lost the American Republic and soul trying to set right.
…if you knew what we are becoming you wouldn’t want us within 5000 miles.
Thanks for writing this. It has been bothering me a great deal lately how much the "dissident right" has swung against freedom itself and into "authoritarianism/collectivism, but the right kind". It's a bit like listening to two wolves fight over who gets to eat you for dinner, while they try and get your support by promising that they are the only one who really cares about you. Worse, really, as at least the wolves aren't engaging in cannibalism and eating their fellows.
I find Taylor's declaration to be a touch ironic - Churchill sacrificed the Empire to redeem England's honor, and the country has suffered for that. Of course honor is another antiquated concept that the morons of modernity are happy to discard.
The economic value of the Empire to the UK has been regularly overstated. All the metropoles of the maritime empires became richer after they lost/gave up their empires. But nice point about honour.
Thanks for all that. He’s the prime example of the singular crucial character. The Empire’s sun was setting fast but he tapped the brakes a bit to help deliver a better-than-worst-case landing, sayeth an impudent yank.
An interesting and objective read. Thank you.
"The racialising of identity is, indeed, the racialising of identity. If one adds in—as Critical Social Justice and intersectionality do—a moral hierarchy based on racial identity, then that is racism, quite precisely. Indeed, it is a favour-divide-and-dominate racism." Razor sharp.
Those who love Britain as it is today can thank Winston Churchill in large part.
I think discussant Hannah was trying to clarify she meant “pozzed”, not “paused”.
Thanks, I must it admit that was mysterious to me.
Excellent discussion. Not sure what is meant by "conspiracist view of Maidan," however. That was pretty clearly an effort by the US to displace a duly elected Ukraine President who was acceptable to the Russians, in the interests of the US and the NATO group which it controls which have aggressive intentions toward Russia. Just as the US would not accept hostile foreign support and armament of anti-US forces in Mexico, the Russians could not accept NATO expansion to Ukraine.
That gives the US too much credit and Ukrainians too little. Darryl Cooper went further, implying the killings that triggered the final collapse were not by the Ukrainian security forces.
I give great credit to the Ukrainians for their surprisingly strong resistance, which shows the continuing power of national identity in supposedly globalist era. Not surprising given their sufferings under the old Soviet regime. Nevertheless, it is unrealistic for them as a much smaller nation to position themselves as a hostile force on the Russian border. I agree with your assessment of Cooper.
Lorenzo; the American Fighting stock is DONE. This means in 2024 whatever the PRC is; The PRC is NOT an American problem. Sounds like perhaps an Australian problem?
Call Japan.
No American blood will long be shed in defense of any soil now but our own. Probably we’re about to spill each other’s blood in any case. That’s our problem.
Churchill; Churchill savior of his nation… well, yes. A lot of French, Russians, Canadians, Australians, Americans and Indians died saving it too- and the Americans and Indians decided they wouldn’t again.
Hence both NATO - which is keeping ALL of Europe including and especially old Blighty down to this moment AND Indian Independence, and Decolonization. Decolonization is the quiet part of our 🇺🇸 postwar American strategy of peace, at least as successful in rolling back Communism.
LW; Churchill got Hitler’s number early. YES, takes one to know one. > Hitler is just the Germans getting leadership as psychopathic as the English, Hitler is the German Churchill. That Hitler was murderous directly as opposed to Indirectly starving millions of Indians to death so England could eat during WW2 is circumstance. Churchill never hesitated to go as far as he needed to go with India, Ireland, indeed in the 1950s Kenya. That Hitler was furiously murderous from early 1942-mid 1943 - known as the Holocaust- is circumstance. <<
Perhaps Hitler should have drank too, instead of being a Vegan.
Drunks are amenable, Vegans thin and cranky.
We’re 🇺🇸 out of the Churchillian business , LW, et al. FFS why do you think Obama sent Churchill’s bust back? Churchill put Obama’s Grandfather in a Concentration Camp in the 1950s. A message.
The American Left sent the message with Obama, the American Right sends it now.
It’s over, or at least our part.
Niall Ferguson can go home and save Scotland from his pets.
Look to your own devices, oh Anglosphere, oh Europe, oh Pacific, oh cursed globe of spite, that we lost the American Republic and soul trying to set right.
…if you knew what we are becoming you wouldn’t want us within 5000 miles.
Ta.