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Winston Spencer Churchill

June 6, 2023



Note: I'm writing this from memory of my research.
For better accuracy on these things... do your own research.
I'm still researching this man.




Over the years I have regularly been reminded of the legacy of Winston Churchill... the wise ruler... the military strategist... the king of World War 2... and the many quotes that he is known for... that give proof to all adoration of this English icon. And then... I began to have my doubts about his "nobility" and "accomplishments."

I guess it began while I researched the peoples' uprising in Iran.
I needed to know some history... like...
who was British Petroleum... and what did they do to these Persians.
Winston... was there.

As the story goes... British Petroleum... owned by the royals... saw a potential future military need for oil and was one of the first to set about exploring for it. They made a deal with Iran (Persia) that was turning out to be a regret for Iran. If Iran were to receive a percentage of the profits then Iran needed to see the books... but they got no books.
And British Petroleum was claiming nearly ALL of Iran... as in its power.

Exploration was expanding in the Middle East and several of these countries were making quite profitable deals with the petroleum companies. Iran began appealing to British Petroleum to renegotiate the contract... to open the books... and to treat the Iranian workers with more respect. Iran fought for many years... making many appeals to other nations. Iran even appealed to the World Court for a better contract... not a bad one made with a bad king.

Iran fought for years... to regain its dignity among nations.
And... Winston Churchill... was the attorney for British Petroleum.
Winston would not budge... after all, exploration is a risky business.
Contract would stay as it was...
so... Iran got rid of its leader... and nationalized its oil.

End of contract.
... trouble trouble ever since...

And then one day... I was watching a history of D-Day on television and heard how the soldiers on the beach were getting annihilated because the airplanes that were to give them protection from the Nazi guns on the bluffs... those bombers... got lost... in the fog...

Whose military genius... planned that one...?
Many good and brave American soldiers... lost their lives.

So... I will not ever... admire this man.
He probably had a speech writer, anyway...
while he drank himself numb...
and displayed his pompous ass to... the nations.

Question:
did Winston have anything to do with the Balfour Agreement...?

but then... that's another unpleasant story...
and also had something to do... with... contracts... and treaties...



Edited from sources:

Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was the progeny of high aristocracy, the son of Chancellor Lord Randolph Churchill, a boy who would have been destined for high office whatever he did.
He was descended from the first Duke of Marlborough


That particular Marlborough's wife was by all accounts a cantankerous woman, though capable of great charm. She had befriended the young Princess Anne and later, when the princess became Queen, the Duchess of Marlborough, as Her Majesty's Mistress of the Robes, exerted great influence over the Queen on both personal and political levels.

The relationship between Queen and Duchess later became strained and fraught, and following their final quarrel in 1711, the money for the construction of Blenheim Palace ceased. For political reasons the Marlboroughs went into exile on the Continent until they returned the day after the Queen's death on 1 August 1714.

On the death of Charles II in 1685, his brother, the Duke of York, became King James II. James had been Governor of the Hudson's Bay Company (today North America's oldest company, established by royal charter in 1670), and with his succession to the throne, Churchill was appointed the company's third ever governor.

Winston Churchill reached adulthood with an advanced sense of his own potential greatness... as someone who prized his reputation for courage in the face of death. The British Empire had offered millions of people willing to travel halfway across the world to rule over people they knew next to nothing about the chance for that kind of adventure. Across an empire enfolding 450 million in its death grip, revolts and struggles were appearing in southern Africa, Egypt, and Ireland.

When he joined the 1906 Liberal administration, he advocated aggressively authoritarian measures to curb social disobedience. Churchill’s promotion to home secretary four years later came at a time of still-rising political turmoil in the United Kingdom: Irish struggles for Home Rule, Suffragism, strike waves. Churchill opposed them all violently.

During a standoff with armed Latvian anarchists in Stepney, he took the unusual step of assuming operational command of police for the duration of the siege, and ultimately opted to kill the enemy by allowing them to be burned to death in a house where they were trapped.

That role was short-lived, however. Churchill was appointed, instead, to a senior military position, first lord of the admiralty, that put him in political command of the Royal Navy. A technophile, he pushed for modernization, aerial combat, and later the tank.

But nothing in his life experience could prepare him for the glory of the First World War: “My God!,” he effused in 1915. “This, this is living History. Everything we are doing and saying is thrilling -- it will be read by a thousand generations, think of that! Why I would not be out of this glorious delicious war for anything the world could give me.”

Churchill’s gung-ho nature may have been to blame for the military disaster in Gallipoli in 1915. In an effort to claim control of the Dardanelles Straits and thus freeze Turkey out of the war, he was responsible for an operation sending British, French, New Zealander, and Australian forces -- mostly volunteers, half-trained -- to besiege the Gallipoli Peninsula. The ensuing debacle chewed up those units, and resulted in Churchill being demoted, leaving the government, and joining the Army to command a battalion.

Had his ruling class credentials been less estimable, he might have been unmade by his failure. Instead, he returned to parliament in 1916 and once again rose through the ranks -- minister of munitions, secretary of war, and then secretary of air.

He was a ferocious advocate of intervention to quell the Russian Revolution, and wrote furiously about the dangers of the “International Jews” (communists) and their “sinister confederacy,” against whom he invoked the far more acceptable “National Jew” (Zionism) -- writings which have been mystifyingly interpreted by hagiographers such as Martin Gilbert as evidence of his philosemitism.








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