Winston S Churchill: MP for 62 years during 1900-1964 Prime Minister 1940-1945,1951-1955 Parody account honoring WSC’s legacy. Occasional statements and responses by Mr Churchill’s Private Sec., Anthony Montague Brown will be signed: AMB
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With China he wagered on tariffs, thinking the mandarins would cry uncle when the golden spigot was pinched. Instead, they played the long game, as they always do, suffering the sting today for the profit tomorrow. Trump mistook patience for weakness, and in that he was wrong
Trump presents us Vance as his successor; it is rather like a circus master promising that the understudy clown will now tame the lions. The young man may well one day learn statecraft, but it is doubtful the Republic can afford to serve as his schoolroom.
So Trump has anointed a successor —this Vance fellow. Hah! One might as well name the cabin boy Captain because he looks tidy in uniform. The ship of state requires a helmsman, not a memoirist still learning his sea legs.
With China he wagered on tariffs, thinking the mandarins would cry uncle when the golden spigot was pinched. Instead, they played the long game, as they always do, suffering the sting today for the profit tomorrow. Trump mistook patience for weakness, and in that he was wrong.
Trump fancies himself the merchant prince of diplomacy—a bargain here, a boast there, as though the chancelleries of Delhi and Peking were but stalls in some gaudy bazaar.
@nytimes.com Freedom is eroded one concession at a time. But each concession brings the next one nearer to the door.
Imagine, a man so desperate for laurels that he shakes his fist at Oslo! I daresay even Napoleon never thought to bully the Scandinavians into flattery. Prizes are not won by tantrums, and if Mr. Trump thinks otherwise, then he mistakes the Nobel Committee for one of his casinos.”
I find it difficult to dispute your point. One is at a loss to explain America’s posture with regard to these events
“Retribution Presidency”, an apt description of.
I can only account for it as a structural breakdown in the country’s systems of education and public information.
I’ve been an observer of US politics for many years. The actual conduct of government by American leaders today is far afield from the nation’s founding principles. This does not surprise me. What does is the public support for their policies by those professing belief in those lost principles .
Madame, without question I think we may state that at least within the United States that arc is now inverting and bending away from justice and toward what …? Each day, my lowest expectations don’t descend to level of their latest cruel folly.
Modern comment ignores the paradox of the Russian inclination to cross the borders of its neighbors Russia- the nation with largest land mass, 17 million sq Km, seeks expansion, for what? Perhaps to distract their populace from the failure of their system & corruption and inefficiency
…..to mankind’s intellectual freedom and general well being. There may well be many advantages to this new advanced technology if it is under the direction wise and benevolent men. For now those benefits escape my understanding. 3/3
The papers would often be in the service of various interests, but I could counter with public speaking and use occasional access to the wireless to access opinion I fear this “cloud” obscures the motives and identities of powerful interests whose motives must certainly be in opposition ….. 2/3
AMB has briefed me on this “digital virility” and “algorithmic popularity”. I understand that it involves powerful machinery spinning away in some sort of “cloud” I’m accustomed the written word in the form of a daily newspaper being the foremost influence on opinion . 1/3
One obvious quality shared by Messrs. Trump and Putin is their reliance upon the tools of distraction and false grievance.
Modern comment ignores the paradox of the Russian inclination to cross the borders of its neighbors Russia- the nation with largest land mass, 17 million sq Km, seeks expansion, for what? Perhaps to distract their populace from the failure of their system & corruption and inefficiency
So that was Mr. Trump’s attempt at levity, was it? A quip that in moments of war, democracy might be paused. One scarcely knows whether to laugh or shudder. Are we to forget that freedom is eroded one concession at a time? It is happening before us now, each day.
Europe’s leaders must know they are not merely spectators to a quarrel between Kiev and Moscow, or Kiev and Washington. If Ukraine is made a pawn in a bargain struck across the table, the frontiers of tyranny will move westward, and all of Europe will pay the price.”
I’m saddened to see the US experience this reversal of principle and advocate on behalf of Russia’s blatant aggression. Mr Putin need not trouble himself attending summits with a steadfast friend such as Mr Trump working on his behalf
I’m saddened to see the US experience this reversal of principle and advocate on behalf of Russia’s blatant aggression. Mr Putin need not trouble himself attending summits with such a steadfast friend as Mr Trump working on his behalf
A Russian tank is observed flying a US flag in Ukraine. This sight is not only a vile imposture, it is a calculated insult. It is meant to sow confusion among the innocent, to taunt the credulous, and to sully the honor of America in the eyes of those who look to her for liberty’s defence.
Trump is a bull in a china shop. But the china is foreign policy and the shop is his own country.
Mr. Churchill will refrain from further comment on the Russia/Ukraine conflict until the Trump-Zelenskyy meeting has concluded. AMB
If America were to adopt such a policy, it would abandon not only Ukraine but every small nation that dares to resist aggression. Once the world learns that liberty can be bartered away at the whim of one man’s vanity, then all frontiers grow perilous.
Trump dresses up cowardice as pragmatism. He mistakes surrender for statesmanship, and weakness for wisdom. He talks as though one may negotiate with a wolf by offering it only a portion of the flock. But wolves, once fed, return again and again.
Here we have a most extraordinary spectacle: a man who aspires to lead the greatest republic on earth bending his ear to the siren song of the Kremlin. It is one thing to parley with one’s adversaries in pursuit of peace; it is quite another to parrot their distortions as if they were gospel.
Imagine, a man so desperate for laurels that he shakes his fist at Oslo! I daresay even Napoleon never thought to bully the Scandinavians into flattery. Prizes are not won by tantrums, and if Mr. Trump thinks otherwise, then he mistakes the Nobel Committee for one of his casinos.”
If America’s voice is turned to speak the Kremlin’s creed, then liberty itself trembles. Ukraine today is but the battleground; tomorrow it may be the very principle of self-government.
Trump, I regret to say, mistakes bluster for statesmanship. In taking up Mr. Putin’s version of events, he has become less a leader of the free world and more a ventriloquist’s dummy on the Kremlin knee. He speaks of strength, but what strength is it to echo another man’s falsehoods?
Here we have a most extraordinary spectacle: a man who aspires to lead the greatest republic on earth bending his ear to the siren song of the Kremlin. It is one thing to parley with one’s adversaries in pursuit of peace; it is quite another to parrot their distortions as if they were gospel.
I have seen this pattern before: first comes the lie, then the invasion, and then the silence of those who might have spoken in time. To adopt Putin’s view is not mere folly — it is complicity with aggression.
If America’s voice is turned to speak the Kremlin’s creed, then liberty itself trembles. Ukraine today is but the battleground; tomorrow it may be the very principle of self-government.
His inability to concentrate on matters central to governing a nation reveals a mental state at which civilization hardly knows whether to laugh or weep.
I hear Mr. Trump wishes to adorn the White House with a ballroom of such splendour that Versailles itself might blush. Alas, I suspect the result would not be Versailles, but rather a seaside hotel of the louder sort. All the subtlety of a brass band playing in a telephone booth.
Mr Churchill will refrain from comment on the Trump-Putin meeting until after the completion of the summit and both parties have made their statements. AMB
He likes to rattle his saber in the public square and then makes temporary retreats without logic or explanation. He may learn, and the American people will certainly learn that trade wars are like real wars. Easy to begin, but devilishly hard to end….and at tremendous cost to prosperity
…..will be met with violence
In 1933 I spoke of the manner in which Hitler sought to militarize the soul of Germany. It is distressing to witness similar efforts by this American regime directed toward the same result. Sadly, once underway, these conditions take hold rapidly. I fear that soon even modest forms of protest…
………..Astounding and also tragic. The treats are levied against foreign governments and corporations, but the consequences fall upon the American consumer
The pattern is painfully obvious that the American administration’s policies are to divert billions from the world’s otherwise normal financial transactions by the use of threat and extortion. That so many foreign governments , universities, and major industries acquiesce is astounding
The vitality of a democracy lies not in the exclusion of voices, but in the wise employment of them. To deprive half the citizenry of the vote is to forfeit half the wisdom of the nation.
The White House is not a fairground attraction to be improved by glitter. It is the residence of the American presidency, steeped in the blood and toil of the Republic’s history. One does not hang fairy-lights on the Parthenon or drape bunting over the Lincoln Memorial—at least, one ought not.
He likes to rattle his saber in the public square and then makes temporary retreats without logic or explanation. He may learn, and the American people will certainly learn that trade wars are like real wars. Easy to begin, but devilishly hard to end….and at tremendous cost to prosperity
Statesmanship is not the art of yielding to the bully, but of standing with the bullied. If Mr. Trump believes that peace is purchased by surrendering a friend’s lands, then he has mistaken expedience for leadership and barter for honour.”
The White House is not a fairground attraction to be improved by glitter. It is the residence of the American presidency, steeped in the blood and toil of the Republic’s history. One does not hang fairy-lights on the Parthenon or drape bunting over the Lincoln Memorial—at least, one ought not.
The White House is not a fairground attraction to be improved by glitter. It is the residence of the American presidency, steeped in the blood and toil of the Republic’s history. One does not hang fairy-lights on the Parthenon or drape bunting over the Lincoln Memorial—at least, one ought not.
I hear Mr. Trump wishes to adorn the White House with a ballroom of such splendour that Versailles itself might blush. Alas, I suspect the result would not be Versailles, but rather a seaside hotel of the louder sort. All the subtlety of a brass band playing in a telephone booth.
Trump is a bull in a china shop. But the china is foreign policy and the shop is his own country.
In fortress of protectionism, the price is paid not by distant foes, but by our own sons and daughters in the workshops and markets of America. We must ask ourselves: does this impetuous defense serve the national interest, or does it corrode the very foundations of our commercial liberty?”
You’ve heard me state that history doesn’t repeat itself but it rhymes. I fear this “meeting” may rhyme with Neville I am troubled that Putin, as a declared war criminal will be received by a US President on American soil.
It’s always been my position that no one class, no one interest—economic, social, or political—no one segment of the political spectrum could use the system for its own exclusive interest. I am saddened to see these protectionist models erected in the US. They will damage all sooner and later
Mr Churchill follows world events closely. Of late,developments in the US are of particular interest. Mr Churchill may comment from time to time or respond to inquiries he finds of interest. DMs will be open from followers for a short time . amb Anthony Montague Brown Private Secretary to wsc
….I was telling Max that a magnum of champagne is the ideal serving for two gentlemen at lunch.——especially if only one of them is drinking