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Have you noticed that the people who are speaking most strongly about defending freedom in Ukraine are not exactly defenders of freedom in their own countries?
One aspect of the Trump-Zelenskyy imbroglio that few have remarked upon is the fact that the allegedly stalwart freedom fighters who have lined up with the supposedly Churchillian Ukrainian president don’t exactly have sterling records of protecting freedom at home. Is this just a coincidence? Or is there something else at play here?
Take, for example, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who has led the way with his bold pledge to supply “boots on the ground and planes in the air” to keep the dastardly Putin at bay in Ukraine. In less than a year as prime minister, Starmer has earned the nickname “Two-Tier Kier” by aggressively prosecuting native Britons who are opposed to mass migration into the country, sometimes for nothing more than a rude remark, while letting those guilty of violent crimes against people who transgress against woke sensibilities walk free.
When Starmer visited the Oval Office last week, Vice President Vance upbraided him for his encroachments upon the freedom of speech in his once-great nation: “To many of us on the other side of the Atlantic, it looks more and more like old entrenched interests hiding behind ugly Soviet-era words like misinformation and disinformation, who simply don’t like the idea that somebody with an alternative viewpoint might express a different opinion or, God forbid, vote a different way, or even worse, win an election.”
And yet here is Keir Starmer, posing as a champion of freedom — not for Britain, but for Ukraine.
Then there’s Canada’s vapid Justin Trudeau. Back in February 2022, Trudeau invoked Canada’s Emergencies Act to crush the Freedom Convoy, a peaceful protest of truckers against the COVID mandates and restrictions that were destroying their ability to make a living. Trudeau’s government froze the protestors’ bank accounts and took other authoritarian measures, earning a rebuke even from that staunch freedom fighter Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who wrote: “The Violent crackdown on #FreedomConvoy2022 has nothing to do with freedom of speech and human rights. How coercion could be related to liberty & freedom of choice? #TruckersForFreedom.”
But Justin Trudeau, the destroyer of freedom in Canada, is going to save it in Ukraine.
Joining Starmer and Trudeau in this alleged coalition for freedom is France’s President Emmanuel Macron, whose government is busy with efforts to get his principal opponent imprisoned and barred from seeking political office. Yes, that sounds as if Macron has taken a page or two from Old Joe Biden’s playbook, and of course, if Old Joe were still pretending to be president, he would be standing with Starmer, Trudeau, and Macron both in cracking down on our freedoms and in forking over more of our money to Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
So what is going on here? One aspect of the conflict is that today’s Commies hate the Russians. The Soviet Union was for decades the vanguard Communist state, and back in those days, the left in Europe and the U.S. loved to mock patriots who were concerned about a Communist threat. Ronald Reagan and the rest — they were just paranoid, you see, and driven by hatred. I remember seeing a news item back in the 1980s, to the effect that the Reagan administration was going to host a concert at the White House featuring the music of Sergei Rachmaninoff. The smug leftist commentator remarked that this was curious in light of the fact that Reagan hated Russia and Russians.
Reagan did not, but today’s leftist authoritarians do. Vladimir Putin’s Russia is hardly a free society, but it isn’t a Marxist one, either, and the socialist internationalists who control the corridors of power in the West have never forgiven Russia for leaving the Communist fold and destroying what had seemed to be the inevitable forward motion of the Communist bloc. They also hate Putin for overseeing a large-scale re-Christianization of Russia. Whatever Starmer, Trudeau, and Macron are doing or hope to do in Ukraine, defending freedom is at the absolute bottom of the list.
They want to protect their interests there. They want to embarrass and discredit Trump. While they’re at it, they want to embarrass and discredit Putin as well. But when these sinister authoritarians start talking about freedom, the cognitive dissonance between what they’re doing in their own countries and the values they claim they’re determined to protect in Ukraine becomes too massive to ignore. The hypocrisy is off the charts. Trump and Vance should never miss an opportunity to point it out.
Yes. Yes. I too remember when the Left loved the Soviet commies.
I think Greenfield wrote an article many years ago about this _ how the Left loved mass murderers _ and lost their interest when the government of Gulags collapsed.
Now they hate Russia.
And yes, Russia is not some sort of America circa 1955 democracy – but there are no death camps. Political prisoners can be counted in thousands.
And the government of Russia – Pootler’s government – is NOT all about destroying Russians, bleeping Russians, killing Russians, or spewing hate-filled lies about Russians.
Indeed – when Pootler lies – he is telling Russians how great they were, are, or could be.
And Pootler’s anti-American propaganda is really awful … because he just tells the truth.
Ouch.
No wonder the Left hates Russia. The only nation they hate more is America.
PS: People often forget that one of the largest groups of actual victims of Soviet communism was … Russians. Only Ukrainians come close or exceed the number of Russian victims of Soviet communism.
If you’ve heard the horror stories of the Holomodor – it’s extreme. But the stories of the Gulags are a runner up.
No one needs a Saw movie after spending an evening with a Gulag survivor.
Pootler? What are you, 13?
Shit Starmer? The Brit twits got who they voted for, especially the islamopithecine voters. The United Kaliphate and the European Ummah over all the dhimmies. Just like the idiots in the Great White North got who they voted for in Justine Trudeau. And Macron needs to get a body wax before somebody shoots him with a silver bullet.
I upvoted you on a strong last sentence.
So when does Justine’s reign end? He “resigned” a while back so when is that effective and he’s off to his Daddy’s island paradise? Can Canada AFFORD to give a billion or two? Maybe they’ll just send some of that fantastic bacon!!
President Putin might just make the US and offer we can’t refuse – CANADA AND the metals if we just cut off funding and don’t interfere with their smackdown of the others!
Great headline Mr. Spencer. Sums up the DemoRats past decade!
I on the far right side of Conservatism & I hate Putin. Don’t lump everyone together. We had an agreement to help Ukraine and it has been too little too late; that is why the war dragged on. The lefts help is about some mysterious reason; I have no idea of what they think or are doing. Maybe it makes them feel good or just show they can have feelings. Now the situation is a mess. Maybe Trump can help or not? Russia has been trying to destroy Ukraine culture for a 100 years and success would bring glory to Putin. I am hoping for the best; meaning to stop him and have peace. He writes about taking all of Eastern Europe, which is the future market for the US and will be an important trading partner. Hope this is not Munich 1938, as isolationism did not work for the Republicans back “in the day.”
I am “alt-right” too. Agree with you entirely. Here is my open letter http://judeochristianamerica.org/OpenLetter/ToTrump2025.htm
Thank you for finally stating the obvious. I hope you get to the point where you feel brave enough to point out the fact that the Democrat Party is now the de facto Communist Party USA.
Trump has saved America.
I’d add another take on the Ukraine-Russia war: what is at stake there is literally the front lines between freedom & tyranny….Russia under Putin is a globalist empire once again trying expand, conquer & dominate -which is what empires do – Ukraine so far w/lots of help has held that line – but the bigger picture is the very Westphalian sovereign nation state system itself…which does not defend itself – but if we who value our own continuing membership in that system do not step up to defend it, it will crumble not just in Europe (again), but elsewhere, as warlords like Xi Jinping & the Iranian mullahs see their chances too – that is why it is imperative that EU, NATO, US, all of us do whatever we possibly can to help defend Ukraine’s national territorial sovereignty before it’s too late
To begin with, I must correct a bit my very admired author Robert Spencer.
1) Not today’s Commies, but rather the globalists hate the Russians. Yet this is a shallow statement. In fact, the globalist hate Trump. And because Trump made a huge mistake befriending Putin, the globalists hate Russia even more. However, Russia well deserved to be hated – see http://judeochristianamerica.org/RussoNazism.htm
2) Russia is not Marxist, but it is Stalinists. Does this sound better, Mr. Spencer?
3) Putin overseeing a large-scale re-Christianization of Russia?! What is with you Mr. Spencer?! See the link above!
4) Though the government of Ukraine is scoundrels, Putin and Russia are even greater scoundrels presenting a huge danger to the world order! It’s a huge mistake of Pres. Trump that his policy towards Ukraine is affected and formed by Putinversteiners! Here is my open letter http://judeochristianamerica.org/OpenLetter/ToTrump2025.htm
The anti-Russian rhetoric coming from the left dates from about 1991, for those old enough to remember.
The Russians betrayed the revolution. And for that, the left will never forgive them.
For the record, Putin is a vicious murdering thug who among other atrocities, has had former Russian citizens who got out assassinated in other countries. But RS is certainly right about the treacherous duplicity of leftie leaders in Great Britain, the EU, etc. Their constant imposition of tyrannical measures in their own countries shows that their protestations on behalf of the Ukraine are nothing but clumsy lies. I speculate that the reason they make these statements/back Zelenskyy/the Ukraine is because deep down, they realize that they are living on the front door step of the Russian dictatorship and their nations do not spend nearly enough to be able to defend themselves. With Trump in charge, the US is pushing for them to do so and might back that up. In other words, I think those GB/EU leaders are terrified of Russia and perhaps well they should be. Why Trudeau should go along is unclear except for the fact that lefties NEVER think for themselves. They blindly unthinkingly follow the signals of other lefties. (If someone has a better explanation of their support for the Ukraine, I’ll be delighted to read it.) One fact about the left is clear. They hate and fear freedom and individual rights and do everything they can to destroy them wherever they find them. How this fits into their support the Ukraine may have something to do with dirty deals they’ve done there but again I have no direct knowledge of any such thing and that’s just me speculating.
Putin was riding Motorcycles and Hore’s while the Obamas were riding those stupid Bicycles
https://jasonpowers.substack.com/p/uk-signed-100-year-defense-and-minerals?utm_campaign=posts-open-in-app&triedRedirect=true
Quote “Russia is no bastion of freedom, per say. But the EU is now far more aggressively pushing all their cultures towards a hellscape of authoritarian rule – a Chinese model of control. The UK police are arresting people for their social media and harassing people for their praying habits. (And many a stupid Stasi neighbors are assisting in this nonsense across Britain and Europe. People that make Gladys Kravitz look remotely sane,)
Mainly because: the populations have ZERO WEAPONS to fight back.
That is what barely keeps the U.S. Citizens free at all. Anyone telling you otherwise – is a utter fool or a propagandist for the INTEL-MEDIA complex.
Even Trump better start talking much better about our 2nd amendment. He’s gonna need millions of Americans to be fighters against all sorts of chaos coming.”