Comments by "William Cox" (@WildBillCox13) on "Churchill was an idiot" video.

  1. A. A. Milne had worked for Punch, lampooning Churchill for some years before he named his child's mistake prone teddy bear "Winnie the Pooh". The apocryphal story widely distributed is a red herring used afterward to deflect criticism.
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  2. In general, I'm with Milne.
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  3. As for writing the history. I have it in hardback, all six volumes. Have read them serially and episodally for later analysis. It was the definitive history of the war for years. Not Liddel Hart's, not Eisenhower's. I have not the pleasure of the official Soviet history, through have read extensive excerpts in translation, but I bet they know Churchill better than some of their own* men. It occurs to me that the "great man" had his eye on advertising his influence, rather than strategic planning. He was a military fanboi, as were Hitler, Mussolini, and Hirohito, with a keen eye to moving "lower ranks" to passion and élan. Politics was, in a word, his specialty. Not taking responsibility, but deflecting it. Not claiming perfection, but known for "courage" and "verve" and other superlative descriptions without substance. Not planning, but promoting and then meddling at length due to perhaps a combination of late night drinking and the cocaine or amphetamines empowering it. *I have read Chuikov
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