Comments by "doveton sturdee" (@dovetonsturdee7033) on "Triggernometry" channel.

  1. As the old proverb says, 'The squeaky wheel gets the most oil.' We see this every day in society. Politeness and courtesy gets one precisely nowhere.
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  2. “Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain” Friedrich Schiller.
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  3. But it wasn't the Soviet Union, however unpleasant it might have been, which had embarked upon military expansion in Europe.
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  4. Why is it that those of a right of centre persuasion seem determined to split into factions, perpetually squabbling over a finite number of votes, and thus staying far from the levers of power? Rather like the various resistance groups bickering with each other in the 'Life of Brian' movie.
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  5. When she grows up, she will probably be a Yuman Rites lawyer.
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  6.  @mememeandalsomeyoutoo  'So you want to tell me that Churchill hasn’t committed atrocities? Is there a source of information that says otherwise?' Yes. A whole host of documents and archives. Which 'atrocities' do you attribute to Churchill, out of interest? By the way, I think you might mean Bengal, rather than Burma, but before you response, here are a few facts about the Bengal Famine:- Actually, the Famine had a number of causes, among which were the number of refugees from Japanese held areas, the inability to import food from those same areas, stockpiling by hoarders and, perhaps worst of all, the Bengal administration, which tried to minimise the crisis. The worst that could be said of Churchill was that he should have known what was taking place, but didn't. After all, in 1943, he had little else to worry about. You could also add the refusal of FDR to allow the transfer of merchant shipping, by the way. What is without dispute, except by those who choose to blame Churchill for everything since the Black Death, is that once he did find out, he transferred food distribution to the British Indian Army, and had grain convoys diverted from Australia to India. Seriously, with 2.5 million Indian servicemen joining the Allied cause, was Churchill really likely to have gone out of his way to risk fomenting a second Mutiny? I appreciate, of course, that you won't believe any of this, as it doesn't suit the agenda.
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  7.  @mememeandalsomeyoutoo  I regret that you dislike facts, but they do not make them any the less factual. 'I thought he took away the food from his subjects, FDR has nothing to do with them.' Then you were wrong on two counts. Firstly, the people of India were not Churchill's subjects. He was not a monarch. Secondly, FDR was the President of the USA, and Churchill needed his agreement, in the middle of a war, concerning the allocation of shipping resources, as it was not something he could do unilaterally. As to Ireland, do you know what Michael Collins said in a letter to Churchill in 1922 during the Irish Civil War? Collins was then Commander-in-Chief of of the Irish Free State Army. Through a friend, he had recently sent a message to British Colonial Secretary Winston Churchill: “Tell Winston we could never have done anything without him.” You are clearly too indoctrinated, or prejudiced, to be worth further effort.
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  8.  @mememeandalsomeyoutoo  Unlike you, I suspect, I have a First in Modern History. As one of my Professors, M. R. D. Foot, was wont to say, 'when people resort to insults, it means that they are uncertain of their arguments.' I trust you recognise yourself?
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  9. Neither Britain nor France went to war to 'save Poland from invasion.' They attempted to avoid a wider European war by telling Hitler plainly what such an invasion would mean. You should actually read the terms of the Treaty. Churchill, nor anyone else, handed anything over to Stalin. Stalin simply took Poland by military force.
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  10. People claim that Wellington was a brilliant General, but how many battles did he win in WW2? Alexander the Great might have conquered much of the known world, but what has he done since 323 B.C.? Great arguments, Mr. Carlson.
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  11. Well Michael Collins certainly didn't. Michael Collins was killed by Irish Republican Army gunmen on 22 August 1922 during the Irish Civil War, just as his Irish Free State forces had the IRA on the run. Collins was then Commander-in-Chief of of the Irish Free State Army. Through a friend, he had recently sent a message to British Colonial Secretary Winston Churchill: “Tell Winston we could never have done anything without him.”
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  12. How did Churchill drag England (I assume you mean 'Britain'?) into anything? He had held no government office since 1929. He was indeed voted out in 1945. But voted back in in 1951. Something you appear to have forgotten. 'He wasn’t even the first choice PM.' It seems that, with the majority of MPs in 1940, he was. 'He caused a famine in India.' No he didn't, unless you believe revisionist historians, who are remarkably untroubled by actual facts. 'He is the reason to this day our taxes are so high in the uk.' As he retired from politics in 1964, having retired from Government in 1955, where in the name of sanity do you get that idea? You might as well blame Lord North!
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  13.  @pokemon1996ism  Or perhaps your comments are too divorced from reality?
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  14. And the relevance of that to Churchill is?
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  15. Churchill actually said, after Barbarossa began ' If hitler invaded hell, I would make at least one favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.' Realpolik, 1941 style.
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  16.  @UrbanBard1  More likely, it simply proves that he regarded the Soviet Union as the lesser of two evils.
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