Comments by "Winston Smith" (@kryts27) on "Churchill was an idiot" video.

Speaking as an Australian, not only was Churchill an idiot, he was also vindictive and a killer of thousands of young Australians in both World War 1 (Gallipoli) and World War 2 (Greece and Crete). Additionally, he was a treacherous and egotistical thug and was prepared to sacrifice Australia to the tender mercies of the racist, totalitarian Showa era Japanese. In defiance of PM Curtin of Australia, who badly needed seasoned troops (at home and in New Guinea, there were only a few thousand badly trained and equipped militia at that time) to defend New Guinea and Australia during the early onslaught and rapid expansion of the Japanese during the Pacific War in 1942. Churchill refused to supply warship escort to the 7th AIF division troopships while it was steaming towards Fremantle, for two weeks, withdrawing these escort ships in a huff after having yet another phone battle with Curtin when he refused to divert these troops to Burma (by then a lost cause). Leaving these men defenceless against potential attacks by Japanese naval ships, submarines and warplanes. That is how much Australians in the know despise Winston Churchill.
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To be initially slightly reasonable to Churchill, there were significant Australian forces in North Africa (and Greece) at that time. However, in early-mid 1942 when major British offensives out of Egypt were being planned against Rommel, the Japanese invaded Rabaul and New Guinea (if you don't know where that is, get a map). The two main Australian army divisions in the Middle East (the 7th and 9th), were needed to defend Australia much closer to home by a rapidly advancing and utterly ruthless enemy. At the time, Australian undertrained and undermanned consripts called Militia were fighting seasoned Japanese troops in those Pacific places and losing. While Churchill very grudgingly released the 7th division from North Africa, like the schoolboyish idiot that Tik correctly identifies, insisted that they steer themselves (while steaming towards Australia across the Indian Ocean) towards the lost cause of the Japanese invasion of Burma. To his everlasting credit, the Australian PM John Curtin fought Churchill over long phone calls to prevent this, and in high dudgeon, Churchill refused to supply RN troop ship escorts (for 2 whole weeks) while most of the troop ships steered towards Fremantle. This is grave act of unnecessary treachery that could have been an unmitigated dssaster for the defence if Australia in 1942 , for which i personally hold Mr Churchill plausibly responsible. Okay, i've rammed this point home, unintentionally.
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