From: Webbster <bax02_spamblock@baxcode.com>
Newsgroups: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,talk.politics.guns,can.politics,or.politics,aus.politics,sac.politics
Subject: Re: "WWII Wasn't Worth It"
Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2025 18:02:49 -0000 (UTC)
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
Found Elsewhere <posts@everywhere.net> wrote in
news:10emoj9$3jh8i$1@news.tcpreset.net:
> WWII Wasn't Worth It
> November 7, 2025
> https://voxday.net/2025/11/07/wwii-wasnt-worth-it/
>
> A British WWII veteran issues a scathing verdict[1] on the state of
> Britain today and his regrets about having defended what is now a
> collapsing, demoralized, half-occupied nation:
>
> > A 100-year-old veteran shocked the hosts of Good Morning Britain
> > today by declaring that winning World War II 'wasn't worth it' due
> > to the state of the UK.
> >
> > Alec Penstone told Adil Ray and Kate Garraway how he quit his
> > factory job to sign up for the Royal Navy and fight for his country
> > as soon as he came of age. The war hero recalled serving alongside
> > close friends, many of whom lost their lives, and called himself
> > 'just a lucky one' for having survived. Asked by Ms Garraway what
> > Remembrance Sunday meant to him, the veteran said he felt that
> > winning the war was 'not worth' how the country had turned out
> > today.
> >
> > 'My message is, I can see in my mind's eye those rows and rows of
> > white stones and all the hundreds of my friends who gave their
> > lives, for what? The country of today? No, I'm sorry - but the
> > sacrifice wasn't worth the result of what it is now.'
> >
> > When he was asked to clarify what he meant by Mr Ray, he continued:
> > 'What we fought for was our freedom, but now it's a darn sight worse
> > than when I fought for it.'
>
> What was the point of defending Britain against the potential threat
> posed by 3 million Germans in order to turn around and meekly submit
> to the subsequent invasion of 3 million Indians, 2 million Pakistanis,
> 2.5 million Africans, and 500,000 Chinese?
>
> What was the threat, that they might end up speaking the same language
> as their royal family, the Saxe-Coburg and Gothas, all spoke
> originally?
>
> What a historical disaster. The sacrifice of all those young
> Englishmen absolutely wasn't worth it. But perhaps the old English
> veteran can find some solace in the fact that even the Viking and
> Roman invaders were eventually sent home.
>
> [1]:
> https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tv/article-15268525/world-war-two-veteran-g
> mb-adil-ray-kate-garraway.html
>
He's a racist bigot, what else is new?
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