Palookaville Free Press
By Lemuel Chyme
Dec 4, 2025
In sequence, here are the words spoken by Sir Winston Spencer-Churchill on separate occasions in 1939 :-
“We seem to be very near the bleak choice between War and Shame…….”
“My feeling is that we shall choose Shame, and then have War thrown in a little later on even more adverse terms than at present.”
And then, after Munich :
“You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor, and you will have war”
AI says on the post-Munich quote :
“He reportedly said these words to British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain after Chamberlain returned from signing the Munich Agreement with Adolf Hitler in 1938. The agreement, which ceded a part of Czechoslovakia (the Sudetenland) to Nazi Germany in the hope of securing “peace for our time,” is now seen as a classic example of the failed policy of appeasement that ultimately emboldened Hitler and led to World War II.”
In 1934, Churchill wrote the following in the Daily Mail :
“I marvel at the complacency of ministers in the face of the frightful experiences through which we have all so newly passed. I look with wonder upon the thoughtless crowds disporting themselves in the summer sunshine, and upon this unheeding House of Commons, which seems to have no higher function than to cheer a Minister; [and all the while across the North Sea], a terrible process is astir. Germany is arming.”
Were his words heeded?
Clearly not.
In the first Gulf War (1990-91), GHW Bush deployed c. 425,000 troops and requested Margaret Thatcher to help. She sent c. 54,000 British troops. (She was deposed just before Desert Storm and John Major took over).
The purpose was to prevent Iraq; a piss-ass dictatorship ruled by an Arabic version of Putin, from occupying Kuwait, moving on to the KSA and controlling an enormous chunk of the world’s energy reserves.
The 2nd Gulf War started in 2003 and ran until 2011. GW Bush sent c. 500,000 troops, requested British help and Tony Blair sent c. 50,000 troops.
The purpose; amongst other things, was regime change. The UK contribution represented approximately one third of its available troops for each war. Quite a significant contribution.
The U.S. response to the crime of the theft of Crimea was…. Nothing. Which was itself arguably a crime, because there can be no doubt that Ukraine signed the Budapest Memorandum on the understanding that their sovereignty would be preserved in the event of an attack. What country would give up the one thing that would protect them unless they believed 100% that they had received cast-iron security guarantees?
Had John McCain been elected in 2008 instead of Obama, it is more than possible that in 2014 he would be on his second term and might well have deployed US forces based in Europe into Ukraine. He may well have also requested the UK under Dave Cameron to do the same. Perhaps three U.S. divisions and one UK division. They could have been sent to Kherson, Mykolaiv and maybe Dnipro.
US and UK aircraft would have patrolled Ukrainian skies.
The purpose would have been to bolster Ukraine’s defences and the rules of engagement to only attack hostiles if themselves attacked. It is almost 100% certain that Putin would have abandoned his plan for full conquest.
Coalition forces could have remained indefinitely; or until the Russian threat diminished and Ukrainian armed forces built up into something big enough to deter an invasion.
It would have saved an immense amount of death and misery for Ukraine.
What a tragic and far-reaching decision the U.S. electorate made when they chose Obama over McCain!
In 2022, to defend Kyiv, Boris sent 2000 NLAWS and eventually Biden joined in. But not before he helpfully (for putler) wrote an OpEd in the NYT setting out what he would and would not do for Ukraine.
At that time nothing came in from anywhere else. True the Germans sent some helmets. Well whoop-de-doo!
Putin made bloodcurdling nuke threats in 2014 and has continued regularly with them since then. He does it because like propaganda it works.
Dictators have immense advantages over democrats : no election cycle, citizens are told only what the dictator wants them to know/they are bombarded with propaganda and opponents are murdered.
The US and UK had no formal agreement to help Kuwait, yet they helped them. They had no formal agreement to prevent the Kurds and Yazidis from suffering genocide, but they helped them anyway.
The U.S. and UK did have in place a security guarantee arrangement with Ukraine, yet they chose to ignore it.
And now we have Trump, aka Krasnov, who is hostile to Ukraine and friendly with some of the most execrable regimes of the world : Putlerstan, Orbanistan, Lukashenkastan.
Therefore the onus is now on the European military powers to help Ukraine defeat putlerstan.
No other option exists at this time.
What a catastrophic decision the US electorate made when they gave Trump a second term, despite the fact that he not only said that Ukraine would get zero help from him, but sneered at them at every opportunity!
Ukr intel confirms that the enemy has 1.5m reserves being prepped up to enter Ukraine.
It also has 10-15,000 Norks there in an official capacity, plus an unknown number of mercs from Africa, Asia, Central and South America.
Ukraine has the volunteer legionnaires, who are awesome but there are not enough of them.
Ukraine needs an influx of professional Nato-standard troops, plus a load of mercs; maybe as many as ten divisions.
Without serious help, Ukraine will suffer slow but inexorable losses, in terms of both manpower and territory.
