From: J D <j_d@invalid.org>
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 21:02:06 -0000 (UTC)
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
On 08 Nov 2025, Webbster <bax02_spamblock@baxcode.com> posted some
news:10eo0k8$2obgp$1@dont-email.me:
> 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?
He's a "racist bigot" because he wore a uniform, stood for his country,
fought for it, and now condemns those trying to destroy it via social
activism platforms?
Could you say the same of yourself?