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What Kind Of A Man Was Churchill?

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piggynose | 16:14 Wed 26th Apr 2023 | History
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The following video called him an idiot!! Do you agree?

https://youtu.be/z2c7d5RfkAA
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Togo @ 20.31:
"The debts to the avaricious yanks, incurred trying to stop Hitler, were finally paid in full during the leadership of another great Britain. Mrs Thatcher."
You make it sound like the lunatic Thatcher paid it all off in one go. The debt was incurred by Churchill.

I'm still trying to find these "finest hours" that have been mentioned. Dunkirk? Norway? Dieppe? HMS Hood? The Channel Dash? Not to mention the debacle in Hong Kong and Singapore and the Far East. Churchill had his work cut out to maintain public morale in the face of all those failures. He was able to do that until the Yanks came riding to the rescue and win the war from the West.

Victory came from the Americans. That's the reality and people don't like it.
Typical youtube clickbait.
"Boar War"? lol. I will assume these are automated subtitles, but it made me smile.
I've watched enough of that to know who the "idiot" is.
Classic case of someone taking a controversial stance and twisting and selecting facts to back it up.
I won't add to the sensible stuff by jourdain etc already posted.
I have often thought Churchill and Johnson in fact may well have more in common than people admit or realise. There is more than a bit of "idiot" in the latter but I always thought that, like Churchill, he may well have been -- and possibly was - a man for a specific crisis. It was the dull stuff he couldn't handle.

"Victory came from the Americans. That's the reality and people don't like it."

Sure: when Churchill said "Give us the tools and we will get on with the job" what he really meant - and he knew it - was "America, you must join the war or we're ****ed".
But if he'd said that he would have been ... an idiot.

more 5C rhetoric from 10C.
The fact that victory came from the Americans is spectacularly missing the point.
Take Ukraine: it needs US support, but without someone like Zelensky, would they have got it? Biden wanted to ship him out after 3 days ...
Hate to think where we'd be today if we hadn't had Churchill as leader through the war. (Idiot or not!)
He was a great wartime leader, set a good example, and exactly what the nation needed at the time. Like all great individuals, he wasn't without flaws, but they pale into insignificance given his contribution to the country.
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19.42 ttt as usual name calling!!
I know you would find it hard to believe, i started this thread to get other peoples opinions not trash that great man!!!!
Then its easy to speak ill of the brain dead isnt it.

That is a Very CRUEL was to refer t your fellow ABers - I am sure some are aware they are alive
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Steady on pp!
the statement: "The fact that victory came from the Americans is spectacularly missing the point." completely misses the point

they did - american industry and american personnel
Churchill was responsible, as First Lord of the Admiralty, for the disastrous landings at Gallipoli in 1915.
I have read a great deal about WSC including that written by him. I
always feel the better view of the Great man is one written by others who were close to him and wrote a decent book. Two are foremost for me. The first was by Viscount Alan Brooke who cheered him onwards and held him back in equal measure. He knew his faults and he saw his greatness. The other was by his police protection officer who went everywhere with him. Saw and heard everything but rarely spoke aloud. Fascinating biography. In my view he is best and correctly summed up by Mr Clarion - cometh the hour cometh the man. He was what we needed then, not before or after but then.
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“the statement: "The fact that victory came from the Americans is spectacularly missing the point." completely misses the point “
they did - american industry and american personnel“

Completely misses the point ;-)

Come in Peter read what I said after it (!)
12:06: "I know you would find it hard to believe, i started this thread to get other peoples opinions not trash that great man!!!! " - rubbish, you started it with a video trashing TGM then basically invited the AB 5C contingent to do the same. Have the guts at least to not try and swerve what is obvious.
He was the right leader at the right time and he was respected by the public.

At any other time he would have been seen for his many flaws and would never have been PM.

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14.01 take a day off, me old china!
TTT living up to his Frank Doberman avatar. There's no rhetoric, just facts, as I'm sure you don't like admitting. You don't, do you Frank? Do you Frank? "OY! NOOOO!!" :o)

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