From: Peter Jason <pj@jostle.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: Mon, 10 Nov 2025 09:07:35 +1100
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
On Sat, 8 Nov 2025 21:02:06 -0000 (UTC), J D <j_d@invalid.org> wrote:
>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?
>
Is it racism if it's true?