Ukraine DispatchesKenneth WebbDecember 25, 2024Ukraine Dispatches Vol II 2025Comment

Ukraine Dispatches Volume II ~ UD 1

Ukraine DispatchesKenneth WebbDecember 25, 2024Ukraine Dispatches Vol II 2025Comment

Ukraine Dispatches

Volume II

UD 1 ~ Christmas Day 2024 (revised)

I

Should any visitors to the website’s article Gentleman in Moscow think that this light-hearted book review suggests sympathy with Russia and Putin, then allow the eyeline to move to the top of the screen where, of course, one sees the beautiful blue and yellow of the independent sovereign state and nation of the people of Ukraine that forms the background and backbone of the logo, which hands are set at 11:04. [i]

It is Christmas Day. For those who have an interest in Europe, freedom, true democracy and of course our defence, NATO, we will regard today’s attacks by missiles and drones throughout Ukraine as the actions of a dictator. His principles are:

Deny any hostile intent when he orders preparations for invasion
When Intelligence confirms that invasion is imminent, expresses anger, outrage even, at such a preposterous suggestion
He has already ordered the illegal invasion of a sovereign territory with no warning
He conducts a ruthless campaign of arrests, violence and imprisonment against every Russian citizen who even uses the noun WAR
He closes peremptorily all media outlets that are independent of the Kremlin
He insists that he is merely conducting a special military operation which means, for him, that war could not be further from his mind
Within his borders he brutalises
In Ukraine he authorises the murder after torture of people even in the street, in full view of international media over whom he has no control
Thousands of Ukrainian children are snatched and removed to within this man’s borders
Political opponents are murdered, openly, contemptuously ~ Mr Navalny is but one victim
This dictator is weak, restricted in travel because of international arrest warrants
This does not stop his fraternisation with China
Emboldened, he now directly involves North Korea
The man is the classic politburo gambler unable to foresee that should a call be made from Washington DC USA to Beijing China, that those ten thousand North Korean troops would evaporate overnight - The North Korean dictator will do exactly what Beijing directs

The list is endless.

II

War is subjective.

We must stand by Ukraine. The 46th President has been lamentable in his policy of giving just enough but no more, refusing air cover.

The incoming 47th President is, it seems, looking for the quick deal that will feather his interests. He would counter, that he wishes to rebuild and protect the American people.

Well, if you believe that, you’ll believe in Santa Claus.

The Americans do not have the wherewithal to be the world’s policeman even though they have the military might.

I had intended letting Ukraine Dispatches rest. But too many people are listening to the wrong voices, even here, in Great Britain.

Understand the mindset of the dictatorial expansionist. The man ~ or woman ~ who wants to put the clock back, and recreate the Soviet Union. Who wants to recreate the East German DDR. And let it be clear, that there are those on the far, far right in Germany who yearn for a Fourth Reich.

III

Simply put, giving in to Putin will be a rerun of the débâcle of the Munich Pact with Adolf Hitler in September 1938 at the expense of the Czechoslovakia as it then was.

In September 1938, Adolf Hitler stated to Neville Chamberlain that the pact now settled all affairs and that he had no further territorial ambitions in Europe.

In March 1939 he invaded and occupied Czechoslovakia.

IV

Today, Ukraine.

Tomorrow Finland, the Baltic States, Moldova and Poland.

V

We have nothing for which to thank President Biden as regards Ukraine. Entrusting our future to the president-elect is akin to handing Dennis the Menace a hand grenade with a lighted fuse.

The businessman should stick to his cameo appearances on Home Alone 2. When I saw that, I saw the mindset of behind much of America. My god. They really do go for TV as real life.

The Americans are unable to deal with any of this.

As regards the attacks on Ukraine today, Hitler did the same to Britain on 25 December 1940. I say again, war is subjective.

VI

There is a glint of light in America. It is too early to ask this with confidence, but might it be that the newly elected Republicans have sent a clear message to their President-Elect? They will not be bought at any price? That the Republican Party remains the Republican Party and has not nor will not morph into either the MAGA Party or the trump Party?

One can almost imagine newly elected Republicans of whom it is suggested, now owe the loyalty, their success to the Trump organisation?

Yes, we are grateful to you for helping us to become elected representatives on Capitol Hill.

But if you think that the Republican Party is the MAGA Party, or the Trump Party,

it is best to think again!

Notes

[i] For those interested, that simply reminds me of my police service five decades ago as Constable 1104. I owe much to the police service and to the Gloucestershire Constabulary.

Kenneth Webb

Ken Webb is a writer and proofreader. His website, kennwebb.com, showcases his work as a writer, blogger and podcaster, resting on his successive careers as a police officer, progressing to a junior lawyer in succession and trusts as a Fellow of the Institute of Legal Executives, a retired officer with the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, and latterly, for three years, the owner and editor of two lifestyle magazines in Liverpool.

He also just handed over a successful two year chairmanship in Gloucestershire with Cheltenham Regency Probus.

Pandemic aside, he spends his time equally between his city, Liverpool, and the county of his birth, Gloucestershire.

In this fast-paced present age, proof-reading is essential. And this skill also occasionally leads to copy-editing writers’ manuscripts for submission to publishers and also student and post graduate dissertations.