A few days ago, "president" Trump said that British Prime Minister Keir Starmer "is no Churchill" because of Starmer's refusal to allow the U.S. regime to use UK bases for its war on Iran. The reference would be puzzling, if one were to credit the "president" with a knowledge of history, because Winston Churchill was famous for his defense of British independence against an erstwhile fascist empire, which is exactly what Starmer was doing.
By the way, I have decided to use scare quotes in designating Trump as "president" because that is the title legacy media uses to refer to him, although he is no longer performing that office, having eschewed such job duties as gaining congressional authorization for military adventures, enforcing the law, and respecting other branches of government. He isn't president, but he plays one on tv.
Speaking of legacy media, where are the headlines and stories about the regime's chaotic and ill-planned approach to evacuating Americans from the ever-widening war zone? Imagine how they would be covering this if it were Biden. Anyone remember the end of the war in Afghanistan? Legacy journalists couldn't write or say the word "evacuation" without sticking the adjective "chaotic" in front, even though, in terms of military history, the American withdrawal was not unusually disorganized for a retreat in the face of a sudden collapse of an ally's resistance. (Anyone remember Dunkirk?) To be fair, it has been widely reported that Trump, when asked why his government hasn't been able to help its citizens escape his battlefield, answered, "it happened all very quickly," as if his preparation for his war had not been going on for months and he had no control over the timetable. What you may not have seen in the legacy media, due to its relentless proclivity for sanewashing, is the rest of his response to this question. I am indebted to the indispensable Heather Cox Richardson for the rest of Trump's Churchillian (not) oration:
Well, because it happened all very quickly, we thought, and I thought maybe more so than most, I could ask Marco, but I thought we were going to have a situation where we were going to be attacked. They were getting ready to attack Israel. They were getting ready to attack others. You’re seeing that right now. And a lot of those missiles that are hitting in those are stationary. Those were aimed there for a long period of time at these other countries. So I think I was right about that. We attacked first, and if we didn’t, it could have been, you know, look, we’re really decimating them. They’re being decimated. And if we didn’t. If we didn’t, and by the way, we have massive amounts of ammunition. We have the high end. A lot of it was given away stupidly by Biden, very stupidly, for free. And I’m all for Ukraine, but they gave away a lot. As you know, when I give away ammunition, everybody pays for it. The European Union is paying for it, then they can do what they want with it, but they are giving it, let’s say, to Ukraine, and it’s okay, but we gave away a lot of high end but we have plenty. But we have unlimited middle and upper ammunition, which is really what we’re using in this war. And we have an, really an unlimited supply. We also have a lot of the very high end stored in different countries throughout the world. With this, we’re literally storing it there, which is actually something that I insisted on in my first term. I rebuilt the military. In my first term, the military is great. A lot of, not unbelievable, amount of of ammunition, or munitions, as they say, were given away to you know, the Wall Street Journal incorrectly covered the story when they said that it was given away to the Middle East, not to the Middle East was given away to Ukraine. Very little was given to the Middle East. Middle East would buy a lot. And some of the nations, because they’re rich, they have a lot, but it was given away to Ukraine and it just should have been done. Look, it’s a war that should have never happened. If I were president, that war would have never happened. But we have a tremendous amount of munitions, ammunition at the upper upper level, middle and upper level, all of which is really powerful stuff.
