Ukraine Dispatch 44 ~ Wearing the Cloak of Appeasement

Ukraine Dispatch 44

Wearing the Cloak of Appeasement ~ COWARDICE

11 March 2024

Introduction

I actually wrote this Dispatch three days ago, out of concern at the consistent and persistent calls to appease aggression by British parliamentarians. It was drafted as Ukraine Dispatch 43.

How quickly events move within a single rise and setting of the Sun, and the world is turned upside down by a very old man, a very, very fallible man, whose track record in his life - if, that is, we are to believe the script delivered in The two Popes ~ Jorge Mario Bergoglio ~ Pope Francis. When I drafted the Dispatch the Pope was not even on my mind, so I quietly remove the gentleman from my consideration.

The Cloak of Appeasement

I

There exists a dividing line between aggressive military service on operations and ordinary military service, and a dividing line between military and civilian, and a dividing line between meaningful citizenship that contrbutes to the welfare of the community, a nation and then, further beyond that nation’s borders. In an advanced democracy such as that enjoyed within the United Kingdom, or France, or Germany, or the Scandinavian Countries we enjoy the freedom to express opinions.

There comes a point when the line blurs, and politicians especially, their eye always on their political careers and good fortunes.

Beware the politician on any TV or Radio programme or Podcast or street-chat, trotting out that idiotic, meaningless and patronising phrase, I listen to my constituents. I’m on the doorsteps. The welfare of my constituents comes first. Politicians, and that other lot, the army of - good, indifferent and plain bad - media bums that invade our living rooms daily, hourly, even cutting across our phone conversations, courtesy of the plethora of social media apps, trot it all out. Media presenters enjoy their dubious celebrity status as they flit around the world, embedding themselves into this, that and any war zone they can find…

The Ugly Face of the Criminal ~ the Invader

What I want is what you own, and I’m

going to have it, and I’m going to

invade you and kill you to get it.

That’s the role of the dice.



And the world will jump up and down,

impose sanctions and do great

posturing, promising you arms and

everything else, but laddie, they’re

politicians. I’m not a politician.

What they promise they never follow

through on. They’re no different to me.

They say one thing but do another.

I say it is preposterous that I am going

to invade, then I invade. I kill, maim

and destroy yet deny I am doing any

such thing.

And the world will jump up and down

and fall over to appease me.

And now, in 2024, that’s precisely what

is happening.

They did it before, with Adolf Hitler.

And when Donald Trump is back in

office, you laddie, all of you, will cease

to exist, as, too, will your language.



That, laddie, is the roll of the dice.

II

We see this, today, in the War in Ukraine. Two years on, we have reached that most dangerous point. In the Second World War, Churchill spoke of the turning of the tide, that point whereby the direction of the war turned in the favour of the Allies, in the Battle of El Alamein and the Battle of Stalingrad.

Except that weak western politicians speak of a turn increasingly in the favour of Russia.

As I watch political debate and watch once respected politicians falling over themselves as they look up from their panels to expectant audiences,

There is no victory in war.
Nobody wins.
That is a fact.
The only way forward is to negotiate.

And all the panel heads nod like those toy dogs we see on the back shelf of the car we drive behind, nodding away, endlessly.

And THERE! Right in the middle of the room is that spectre from former days, now clothed in the garments of new ‘enlightened’ language garments, but which still have that same stench of death, corrosion, the blood of others but not ours, the ashes of others but not ours, the dust of others but not ours ~ APPEASEMENT.

The Language of Appeasement, Acquiescence and Subjugation

Now, at last, do I understand in a very practical sense the abject horror in 1940 recalling that idiotic man, a vain-glorious adjunct from the 19th Century, Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, more commonly known as Lord Halifax, the man who advocated appeasement with Hitler.

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