Lions
led by donkeys is a phrase that’s been used many times. ‘Karl
Marx and Friedrich
Engels used
it on 27 September 1855, in an article published in Neue
Oder-Zeitung,
No. 457 (1 October 1855), on the British military's strategic
mistakes and failings during the fall of Sevastopol, and particularly
General James
Simpson's
military leadership of the assault on the Great
Redan.
‘The joke making the rounds of the Russian army, that "L'armée
anglaise est une armée de lions, commandée par des ânes"
["The English army is an army of lions led by asses"] has
been thoroughly vindicated by the assault on Redan.’
‘‘Wiki.
The
asses, i.e. Generals, have beenhee hawing a lot recently.
In a long list in 2025, is the Polish Chief of the General Staff
General Wieslaw Kukula. The ‘adversary’, although he doesn’t
specify who that is, it’s obvious who he’s finger pointing at,
‘has begun preparing for war”
by creating the “conditions
favourable to potential aggression on Polish territory.’
French
General Fabien
Mandonand, army chief-of-staff has "jeter
un pavé dans la mare"
by telling French Mayors that
‘France's biggest weakness in today's dangerous times was the lack
of a will to fight,’ oh and being prepared to see your children and
grandchildren slaughtered. ‘’What
we are lacking - and this is where you [the mayors] have a role to
play - is the spirit. The spirit which accepts that we will have to
suffer if we are to protect what we are. If our country wavers
because it is not ready to lose its children...or to suffer If our
country wavers because it is not ready to lose its children... or to
suffer economically because the priority has to be military
production, then we are indeed at risk. You
must speak of this in your towns and villages.
The
remarks were in line with other pronouncements the general has made,
warning of a coming confrontation with Russia and stressing the need
for psychological as well as economic and military preparation. For
the far-right National Rally, Sébastien Chenu said the general had
committed an "error" because he did not have the
"legitimacy" to pronounce on such matters. But another
senior figure Louis Aliot said it was "necessary to be ready to
die for one's country … if the war is just or to ensure the
survival of the nation".
"Our
policy is to do everything to avoid war but at the same time prepare,
and consolidate that collective moral force without which no nation
can survive the test," said Vautrin.
Other
senior European defence figures have also warned of the need to
prepare for a possible clash with Russia - particularly if it
disengages from Ukraine following any peace deal. German defence
minister Boris Pistorius told Frankfurter Allgemeine
Zeitung newspaper
that the general view had been that a Russian act of aggression could
come from the year 2029. "But now some are saying that it could
be envisaged from 2028 - and there are even experts who think we
might have just lived through our last peacetime summer."
We
now have another ass,
UK Chief of the Defence Staff Air Chief Marshal Sir Richard Knighton
pushing the ‘Dulce
et decorum est pro patria mori’ line. he
said 'more people' needed to be ready to take up arms to protect the
country. British families must be prepared to send their sons and
daughters to war against Russia. Sir Richard called for schools
to encourage children to take up jobs in the arms industry and said
more British families will 'know what sacrifice for our nation
means'. Mail
Online.No,
it is not sweet and never has been to die for your country. Whose
country is it anyway?
‘A
shocking new forecast has emerged of how Vladimir
Putin will trigger
World War 3 in
little over a year. Ukraine’s respected
GUR military intelligence chief, Lt-Gen Kyrylo Budanov, claims to
have inside knowledge of Russian battle plans. Putin intends to
occupy three NATO and
EU states - Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania in 2027, he
said. Russia will
also attack Poland -
striking the country, but not immediately intending to invade it.
“According to the main plan, the Russian Federation was supposed to
be ready to start operations in 2030,” said Budanov, whose forces
are behind many Ukrainian strikes on Putin's territory. “Now the
plans have been adjusted, revised towards reducing the deadlines to
2027,” he warned.’ Daily
Express.
As
someone famously said, he would say that wouldn’t he? They all,
like the legacy media, are
working to a coordinated script as are politicians who are likely in
for a shock when push comes to shove because despite all the
propaganda the majority will not be prepared to lay down their, or
their children’s, lives for capitalism.
What
should they be doing instead? Acquiring knowledge about socialism and
kicking leaders and asses to the kerb.
