Joe Lindsley

Joseph Lindsley

The only American reporting every day from Ukraine until Victory / on Chicago’s WGN Radio. UkrainianFreedomNews.com: Truth to the World. Supplies to Ukraine.

Dec 1, 2024

Viktor, a soldier in Ukraine’s full-scale resistance to tyranny, has this message for @joerogan, who still has not replied to @Klitschko’s challenge:

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From tea in London with Churchill’s last secretary to a cocktail under his portrait in blackout Kyiv, I’ve seen how Sir Winston’s spirit endures. Today, Ukraine is a nation of Churchills, holding the line against tyranny while the fearful, like @joerogan, cry, ‘Give up your freedom!’ Here’s how it all connects ⤵️

LVIV, UKRAINE—Yesterday marked Winston Churchill’s birthday. For me, here in Ukraine during the full-scale resistance to tyranny, this felt personal. Years ago, I worked for Lord Charles Williams, Baron of Elvel. His wife, Lady Jane Williams, had been Churchill’s last private secretary. Over tea in her Kensington flat, she shared stories of Churchill the man with a 23-year-old me.

Lady Williams, born Jane Portal, was not just Churchill’s secretary but also one of his fiercest defenders. She insisted she never saw him smashed drunk. Yes, he drank whiskey all day—but in a civilized way: a tinge in his morning water glass that increased by the hour. He could be difficult, she admitted, often dictating while naked in the bath. “We all knew he was a great man, and we were there to help,” she said.

One night recently, during a brutal Russian missile assault on Kharkiv, I decided to write to Lady Williams for Churchillian encouragement and insight—only to discover she died in 2023.

If you read The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson / @exlarson, you’ll also encounter her uncle, Charles Portal, the UK’s Air Chief Marshal during the Blitz.

During a Russian-induced blackout in Kyiv, I was walking along a cobbled street, listening to Larson’s brilliant account of Churchill and his inner circle navigating the Blitz and the uphill battle to secure U.S. support. As the narrator mentioned Lady Williams’s Uncle Charles, I passed a small oasis of light on an otherwise dark block: Bar Sir Winston Churchill.

Naturally, I had to enter. I descended into the dimly lit, wood-panelled chamber, sat on a green leather stool, and ordered a gin and amaro cocktail. Beneath a portrait of Churchill, I listened—headphones on—to stories of Britain’s survival during its darkest hour. Around me, patrons chatted and laughed. In that moment, I knew Kyiv, too, would endure as a free and decent place.

I can imagine the Joe Rogans of the 1930s saying, as the podcaster did to Zelenskiy and the Ukrainian people, “F-you” to Churchill. “Give up your freedom, you’re gonna get us all killed!” has always been the cry of the fearful.

Today, Ukraine is a nation of Churchills. They’ve flipped the script—holding the line so Europe doesn’t fall, so the fate of the free world no longer rests on one man. Like Churchill, Ukrainians frighten tyrants—Russia most of all, but also the globalist bureaucrats who fear free people.

Thanks to Lady Williams, I feel a bit of the strength of Churchill here in Ukraine every day.

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Comment from :

Christopher J. Wajnikonis

Engineering Consultant at CJW Aero-Hydrodynamics

These are counter-intuitive matters difficult for us to understand. It is our duty to help in that understanding both among: – our Governments, – all of us. Experiencing wars makes people understand quickly; it did during WW II. Now everybody in Ukraine & many around Ukraine already understand. We need to bring everybody else onboard before it is too late to prevent WW III. The chance for our ‘road to Damascus’ moment is escaping fast. As the paper from the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) I’ve highlighted has noted our Administration does not understand ruZZia or their duty towards Americans. It was similar in 1938-1940, when only Churchill understood Hitler, & initially Churchill was ridiculed for that. Luckily for the UK & for us all Churchill was around when everybody understood too… And he was a tremendous Leader. Otherwise the war result would have likely been different. Is it really necessary for a war to start for people & leaders to understand? – I do not think so, but at the moment it looks like we must find (a) Leader(s) in Europe. Will they start leading before it is too late? It is very late already… America must be taken along with properly lead Europe before it is too late on both sides of the Atlantic.

A reminder to everybody, but mostly to the U.S. & European Leaderships: >>Winston Churchill: “You were given the choice between war and dishonour. You chose dishonour, and you will have war.” – To Neville Chamberlain”<< https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/614924-you-were-given-the-choice-between-war-and-dishonour-you This situation is binary. There are only two possible outcomes, even though multiple paths may lead to one of them: 1. Putin must be defeated in Ukraine. (With more of our help. A no-fly zone for a start, but more may be needed.) 2. A (forced) negotiation or a fall of Ukraine = strengthened Putin would start WW III later that we would have to fight without Ukrainian help. If one thinks that generosity (or being YELL0W) justifies risking #2, instead of a victory per #1, I question her/his sanity. That includes our ‘chicken politicians’. Putin is unlikely to use nukes, because we are much better protected from him than he is from us. If he is stupid enough to try, #1 is much better than #2 is. A no-fly zone is likely the best way we can help. 100% defensive, it would stop killing & destruction. It would allow Ukraine to fight Putin safer.

Here is one important lesson from history of the 20th Century: >> Returning on 30 September 1938 from his last meeting with Hitler in Munich, Chamberlain announced, “My good friends, for the second time in our history, a British Prime Minister has returned from Germany bringing peace with honour. I believe it is peace for our time… Go home and get a nice quiet sleep.” Churchill remarked to a group of friends, “The sequel to the sacrifice of honour would be the sacrifice of lives, our people’s lives.” << https://www.nationalchurchillmuseum.org/winston-churchill-and-the-gathering-storm.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neville_Chamberlain The way of Britain to win WWII was hard, but the fight was carried out under the RIGHT LEADERSHIP. WINSTON CHURCHILL WAS NOT A ‘CHICKEN POLITICIAN’! >> Accepting that a national government supported by all the main parties was essential, Chamberlain resigned the premiership because the Labour and Liberal parties would not serve under his leadership. Although he still led the Conservative Party, he was succeeded as prime minister by his colleague Winston Churchill. <<