Everything in this life has it ending. Everything, and that especially applies to the imperial pretentions of nations. I remember when I was young hearing that Britian were soon going to have to give Hong Kong back to China. I remember thinking, how could we do such a thing? That is ours, that is the rightful possession of the British Empire, why would they just give that up like that? But such was the deal, and Britian was in no place to assert its continued dominance over part of China. The problem is that so many of us grew up on James Bond movies that we still thought of England as a serious player on the world stage. It seems too many of the people who grew up on those movies are now in charge, because they are looking to commit suicide by foolishness:
“Britain and France have not
ruled out sending troops to Ukraine as part of a European coalition, French
media has reported, amid fears that the war is edging closer to becoming an
all-out conflict between Russia and NATO.
Discussions on sending
troops from Western armies and private defence companies have been
'reactivated', according to French daily newspaper Le Monde, months after
President Macron faced opposition from Western leaders over the suggestion.
The talks have also been
revisited amid concerns that US support for Kyiv could be pulled by
president-elect Donald Trump when he enters office on January 20, sources
reportedly claimed.
London and Paris could head
up a new coalition of European allies of Kyiv, the sources said, with the
proposal said to have gained traction in recent weeks due to Sir Keir Starmer's
visit to France for Remembrance Day on November 11.
'Discussions are underway
between the UK and France regarding defence cooperation, particularly with the
aim of creating a core of allies in Europe, focused on Ukraine and broader
European security,' a British military source told Le Monde.
When asked about the
possibility of French boots on the ground in Ukraine, France's Minister of
Foreign Affairs, Jean-Noël Barrot, told the BBC: 'We are not ruling out any
option.'
'We will support Ukraine as
intensely and as long as necessary. Why? Because it is our security that is at
stake. Each time the Russian army progresses by one square kilometre, the
threat gets one square kilometre closer to Europe,' he said…
…His comments appear to
confirm that France has followed the UK and US in giving Kyiv the green light to use long-range
missiles it has supplied it with in strikes on Russian territory.”[1]
Russia is much, much stronger now than it was prior to
World War 2. Its military is more advanced, its population has grown much
larger, its industrial base has withstood and thrived under severe sanctions for over
two years now (really longer), and it is allied with the largest industrial nation in the
world, China, which sits right next to it. It does not need to fight across
seas, or travel long international distances, and its military is winning,
gaining ground, something the western media finally admit, and has built combat
experience in a theatre of war larger than anything that Britian has ever been
involved in, and anything France has been successful in for some time. All the
advantages go to Russia because it has gotten stronger, even in the last 2
years, and Britain and France are shells of their former selves. Even loyal
children of the former empire like myself can see that.
At its peak Britain could not have beaten Russia in a
land war in the Ukraine. Churchill was so terrified of the possibility of such
a war that he submitted the British to American dominance and lost the Empire
just to make sure such a thing never happened. To be sure he wanted such a war to be fought, but he wanted to do it with a European and US coalition that would
have provided much of the arms, men and equipment, because beating Russia was
out of Britian league…at the height of its empire. Beating Russia was out of
France’s league…with Napoleon. Beating Russia was out of America’s league, and
until recently, they knew it. But now all of these powers in their diminished
forms are pushing harder and harder for a war with Russia on land in Asia!
Your empires are over gentlemen. Britain’s has been for
some time now, as has France’s and America has not won a war of any note for
some time now. It is time to stop the imperial pretentions before you
demonstrate again why it is a classic blunder to het involved in a land war in
Asia. Russia has won, the sooner we accept that fact the less painful the
realization and process of decline will be. But if our leaders refuse to stop
poking the bear things could get very bad for the West.
List of References
[1] https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/britain-and-france-not-ruling-out-sending-troops-to-ukraine/ar-AA1uIEIC?ocid=msedgntp&pc=NMTS&cvid=ddb4b23579bd4bc5a909327b1009bd10&ei=11
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