I don’t kid myself that Vladimir Putin is St. Francis of Assisi.
Perhaps Russia is lucky that he isn’t.
I have neither heard, seen nor read an analysis from mainstream Western sources to convince me that the expansion of NATO to Russia’s borders is not intended as a threat to that much-invaded country, which liberated Europe from the NAZIS at the cost of 26 million dead of its own sons and daughters.
Nor have I accepted the claim by David Cameron, who claimed, while on a visit to St Petersburg , that Britain had rescued Europe from Fascism.
Britain bankrolled Mussolini from 1917, dubbed him a Knight of the Bath in 1923, facilitated his rape of Abyssinia. A British agent who organised propaganda in Dublin Castle during the Tan War flew General Franco from the Canary Islands to Morocco whence that mutineer scumbag launched his attack on the Spanish Republic and established a 40 year tyranny.
In the 1930s many prominent Britishers embraced fascism, including peers of the realm, generals and admirals and an Assistant Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police and Press Barons.
From September1939 British troops sat on their bums and twiddled their thumbs behind the Maginot lines before fleeing to Dunkirk where they left guns and trucks used a year later by Hitler’s troops for its genocidal attack on Russia.
The Western commentators in Ukraine whom I’ve seen on TV, so far seem to have cushy billets. As well dressed as they might be in London’s West End. Not a sight of a Russian soldier with snow on his boots nor an unshaven nor badly made-up narrator, No hard news, nor searching questions for commentators,
During the UK’s alliance with Stalin no criticism of Stalin or his regime was allowed in the British media. No defence of Mr Putin’s motives or character is allowed today.
In Ireland during Britain’s embrace with Stalin, our State was neutral and ensured that our media gave none of the belligerents a pretext to attack us. Churchill did not recognise Irish sovereignty at the time, and made clear he would attack us if it served his interests.
Today Ireland faces no threat from the Eurasian landmass. But academics are demanding cutting cultural links with China and Russia, and politicians from Alan Shatter who condemns our neutrality in the 1940s to Sinn Fein which in recent decades has shown the wisdom once associated with De Valera and Frank Aiken, has called for the expulsion of the Russian Ambassador.
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