Winston Churchill, saint, sinner hero or war criminal?

Timewise 60+ said:
Like all of us he was human! Yet, he was vital to England in WWII! The right kind of leader at the right time...that was his finest moments! Thank God...
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He clearly learnt something from his monumental mistake in WW1.
 

Rakaia said:
No freaking way was that my motivation, WTAF.

All 3 of my parents served with the Allies in WW2, mother, father and stepfather.
I chose not to reveal my feelings about Churchill to soon so the thread could 'flow' along its own course.
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I'm saying that because there is SO MUCH wokeness now. I have actually read people on Reddit accusing America of starting WWII.

TRULY.

I'm not attacking anyone. I'm just sick and tired of revisionism applied to EVERY historical event to frame it as "White Power gone mad". White people fight, brown people fight, Asian people fight and Black people fight. Sometimes they are right and sometimes they are wrong. Skin color is not the deciding factor on that - principles and human rights usually are.

I think Churchill was fighting for human rights. I think he saw through all of Hitler's bullcrap.
 

Winston Churchill, saint, sinner hero or war criminal?​


On different days he was likely called all of those names.
He was the man for the time.
 

There isn't much excuse for being unaware of history. It has been presented time and time again by scholars and even dramatized in popular fiction:

Young Indiana Jones Chronicles - Ep 26 Paris, May 1919

But I doubt anyone will sit through these 46 minutes even now, just as they ignored them when the episode first aired decades ago.

Even the roots of the Vietnam War are exposed there, along with the events that led to chaos in the Middle East and to the rise of Hitler and to WW II itself.

The arrogance of France and England were simply breathtaking, US bureaucracy little better ("Presidents come and go"). The world paid, and pays, the price.
 
Winston was told by a woman that he was drunk, He replied that she was ugly. He added that in the morning he would be sober and she would still be ugly. šŸ˜œ
 
Rakaia said:
It would definitely help if you specified exactly which time, there were times when he was more a part of the problem than the solution.
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His personality/character/wisdom along with that of FDR and Stalin succeeded in overcoming the Axis powers in WW2. He was the backbone of the British people.
 
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Erik Larsen wrote a book about Churchill, titled, The Splendid and the Vile. It is well done, and we see Churchill the man. He is brilliant, and sees not only Hitler for who and what he was, but Stalin as well.

He can infuriate you one minute and have you charmed by him the next. He was exactly what the world needed in the 40s.
 
Has anyone mentioned that his mother Lady Randolph Churchill ( Jennie Jerome) was an American , born and raised in NYC ?
 

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