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BREAKING: Shocking russian Article Calls for Genocide of Ukrainians (video commentary)

07/31/2025

Source: Silicon Curtain

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  2. Posted by Joe Lindsley in Kyiv:

    “He told us exactly what Russia would do in the face of weakness. We should have listened.

    Nearly 80 years ago, Winston Churchill delivered the speech that defined the Iron Curtain—and warned of shadows ahead.

    “From what I have seen of our Russian friends … I am convinced that there is nothing they admire so much as strength and there is nothing for which they have less respect than for weakness, especially military weakness.”

    The ex-PM knew the playbook.

    5 March 1946: Churchill, now Leader of the Opposition, travels to Westminster College, Fulton, Missouri. President Truman introduces him.

    “A shadow has fallen upon the scenes so lately lighted by the Allied victory,” Sir Winston warned.

    Then comes the phrase that will define an era: “From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.”

    Iron Curtain: In two words, Churchill crystallizes what others couldn’t yet see.

    “Behind that line lie all the capitals of the ancient states of Central & Eastern Europe. Warsaw, Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Budapest, Belgrade, Bucharest & Sofia— all these famous cities … lie in … the Soviet sphere…”

    “All are subject in one form or another, not only to Soviet influence but to a very high and, in many cases, increasing measure of control from Moscow … Police governments are prevailing in nearly every case.”

    This specter now haunts Ukraine again.

    Churchill’s prescription:

    “Neither the sure prevention of war, nor the continuous rise of world organisation will be gained without what I have called the fraternal association of the English-speaking peoples.

    “This means a special relationship…”

    Churchill lamented:

    “Last time I saw it all coming and cried aloud to my own fellow-countrymen and to the world, but no one paid any attention.”

    Germany “could have been prevented in my belief without the firing of a single shot. …. There never was a war in history easier to prevent by timely action than the one which has just desolated such great areas of the globe … but no one would listen and one by one we were all sucked into the awful whirlpool.”

    The formula for peace, Churchill said, was simple:

    “[T]here [must] be no quivering, precarious balance of power to offer its temptation to ambition or adventure. … On the contrary there will be an overwhelming assurance of security.”

    Churchill titled his speech “The Sinews of Peace”—not the “wishes” for peace, but the SINEWS.

    Sinews: the tendons and muscles that give a body its strength.

    Peace isn’t passive. It requires muscle. It requires strength. It must be built and maintained.”

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