Big media has fully surrendered to the Trump regime’s reliance upon the tools of distraction and false grievance. They are enablers and partners in the creation of a mass deception In my time, the dailies would have been screaming from every street corner with special editions showcasing crimes

I’ve been absent for awhile . Words escape me. That is indeed a rare condition for me

The shadow of tyranny seldom announces itself with marching boots…at first …… Rather, it begins with the ruler who delights in applause more than in law, and who mistakes personal will for public right. I have seen that play before, and it ends badly for liberty.

This is bluster, not leadership. It is the speech of a man who has mistaken insult for influence. One cannot hope to rally allies by spitting in their faces. Even when I stood in that body to denounce tyranny, I clothed my reproach in the garb of warning and appeal, not in vulgar derision.”

The Kremlin will send ten thousand men into the fire for a single mile of ground, and when half are slain, they call it a good day’s work. Their rulers think nothing of squandering men as though they were musket balls.

@nytimes.com Freedom is eroded one concession at a time. But each concession brings the next one nearer to the door.

“Retribution Presidency”, an apt description of.

AMB has briefed me on this “digital virility” and “algorithmic popularity”. I understand that it involves powerful machinery spinning away in some sort of “cloud” I’m accustomed the written word in the form of a daily newspaper being the foremost influence on opinion . 1/3

Modern comment ignores the paradox of the Russian inclination to cross the borders of its neighbors Russia- the nation with largest land mass, 17 million sq Km, seeks expansion, for what? Perhaps to distract their populace from the failure of their system & corruption and inefficiency

So that was Mr. Trump’s attempt at levity, was it? A quip that in moments of war, democracy might be paused. One scarcely knows whether to laugh or shudder. Are we to forget that freedom is eroded one concession at a time? It is happening before us now, each day.

I’m saddened to see the US experience this reversal of principle and advocate on behalf of Russia’s blatant aggression. Mr Putin need not trouble himself attending summits with a steadfast friend such as Mr Trump working on his behalf

A Russian tank is observed flying a US flag in Ukraine. This sight is not only a vile imposture, it is a calculated insult. It is meant to sow confusion among the innocent, to taunt the credulous, and to sully the honor of America in the eyes of those who look to her for liberty’s defence.

Mr. Churchill will refrain from further comment on the Russia/Ukraine conflict until the Trump-Zelenskyy meeting has concluded. AMB

If America were to adopt such a policy, it would abandon not only Ukraine but every small nation that dares to resist aggression. Once the world learns that liberty can be bartered away at the whim of one man’s vanity, then all frontiers grow perilous.

Trump dresses up cowardice as pragmatism. He mistakes surrender for statesmanship, and weakness for wisdom. He talks as though one may negotiate with a wolf by offering it only a portion of the flock. But wolves, once fed, return again and again.

If America’s voice is turned to speak the Kremlin’s creed, then liberty itself trembles. Ukraine today is but the battleground; tomorrow it may be the very principle of self-government.

Trump, I regret to say, mistakes bluster for statesmanship. In taking up Mr. Putin’s version of events, he has become less a leader of the free world and more a ventriloquist’s dummy on the Kremlin knee. He speaks of strength, but what strength is it to echo another man’s falsehoods?

Here we have a most extraordinary spectacle: a man who aspires to lead the greatest republic on earth bending his ear to the siren song of the Kremlin. It is one thing to parley with one’s adversaries in pursuit of peace; it is quite another to parrot their distortions as if they were gospel.

If America’s voice is turned to speak the Kremlin’s creed, then liberty itself trembles. Ukraine today is but the battleground; tomorrow it may be the very principle of self-government.

His inability to concentrate on matters central to governing a nation reveals a mental state at which civilization hardly knows whether to laugh or weep.

I hear Mr. Trump wishes to adorn the White House with a ballroom of such splendour that Versailles itself might blush. Alas, I suspect the result would not be Versailles, but rather a seaside hotel of the louder sort. All the subtlety of a brass band playing in a telephone booth.

The White House is not a fairground attraction to be improved by glitter. It is the residence of the American presidency, steeped in the blood and toil of the Republic’s history. One does not hang fairy-lights on the Parthenon or drape bunting over the Lincoln Memorial—at least, one ought not.

Trump is a bull in a china shop. But the china is foreign policy and the shop is his own country.

You’ve heard me state that history doesn’t repeat itself but it rhymes. I fear this “meeting” may rhyme with Neville I am troubled that Putin, as a declared war criminal will be received by a US President on American soil.

It’s always been my position that no one class, no one interest—economic, social, or political—no one segment of the political spectrum could use the system for its own exclusive interest. I am saddened to see these protectionist models erected in the US. They will damage all sooner and later

Mr Churchill follows world events closely. Of late,developments in the US are of particular interest. Mr Churchill may comment from time to time or respond to inquiries he finds of interest. DMs will be open from followers for a short time . amb Anthony Montague Brown Private Secretary to wsc

….I was telling Max that a magnum of champagne is the ideal serving for two gentlemen at lunch.——especially if only one of them is drinking