I have never so felt the urge that gripped George Orwell to go an fight in Spain in December 1936 for the International brigade against Franco but really Hitler. Orwell didn't know then perhaps that MI6 had secretly flown Franco to North Africa to launch the Civil War. 1/2
Orwell discovered the Stalinists/KGB were ursurping & betraying the Spanish & were as bad as the Fascists & Nazis he was fighting. He returned injured to England & then discovered the appeasers & secret fascists at home trying to do a deal with Hitler. orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-fou…
It was this life experience that filtered into his seminal works "Animal Farm" - a cutting parody of Stalinism & "1984" a gripping commentary of World war, totalitarianism & state oppression.
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An appeaser speaks @Dominic2306 - actually a slowly rolling NFZ starting on NATO borders in Western Ukraine and gradually creeping East could be done without bombing radars or shooting down Russian planes, just making the Russian airforce uncomfortable about flying into airspace
By deploying in force and slowly creeping forward, we would deter Russian encroachment without having to engage, over days this could be expanded so a large part of Ukraine had a NFZ air umbrella where Russian AF would be uncertain over Air Superiority as Ukrainian AF resupplied.
How a shifting non engagement NFZ might help push back the Russian airforce without escalation risks
Phase 1 Day 1
It was the attendance of Boris & Carrie Johnson at the Twickenham Rugby in 2020, that prompted the Cheltenham festival not to cancel their Covid Superspreader event. Good Time Party girl Carrie enjoyed Cheltenham in 2016 as a DCMS SPAD for Whittingdale dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8…
a DCMS freebie donated by Ladbrookes, along with free tickets to Royal Ascot. Other freebies 5/15-7/16 Pinewood, Wimbledon, the Brits, the Proms, the Ashes Test and English National Ballet, Royal Shakespeare, Royal Opera, The Old Vic and the Barbican. Nice work if you can get it.
Carrie on Kremlin: Carrie Johnson is dubbed Britain's most influential PM's spouse.
1) Mum worked for KGB Spy Lebedev when he bought Independent 2) Carrie boyfriends - one set up Pro-Putin website, other worked in Moscow 3) Carrie at Con Friends of Russia party in embassy 2012
4) Carrie as Tory PR covered up Whittingdale Secret Russian girlfriend he took to 2012 embassy party she attended 5) Carrie recommended by linkedin contact Russian mil trained PR guru Budargin 6) Carrie friends met FSB Spy Nalobin 7)Carrie unvetted access to secrets & "work mtgs"
I heartilly recommend Stanley Johnson's 2009 autobiography "Stanley I presume" peppered with intriguing anecdotes. Here he recounts the Dec 1963 Mexico Trip, (in the wake of JFK murder) staying with Russian (spy) Boris Litwin, gifts and naming of Baby Boris in gratitude.
It was this Time Magazine article from 1945 that alerted me to Russian Boris Litwin's financing of the Tilletts's in 1940 that led to the discovery of his connection to the Red Haven of US Communist spy ring & Mexican Marxist Artists in Mexico. content.time.com/time/subscribe…
The Tillets set up Community frequented by Marxist artists Diego Rivera & Frida Kahlo,who invited Bolshevik Leon Trotsky (a friend of Litwin's father) to Mexico,then fell out with him & were connected to the KGB orchestrated attack on him. Tillet's wife remarried Spy Fred Field.
In 1980 @BorisJohnson thought it would be a wheeze to visit the USSR. He posted jokes to sister, about RIGA-MORTIS in Riga & FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE.The postcard was of a statue of man who betrayed a poet to the KGB. Also in USSR in 1980, V Putin, A Lebedev & R Maxwell of the KGB
In his Soviet apologist piece in the Eton Chronicle, Johnson admits to be escorted by a KGB Minder. A leading Russia expert told me that this means there will be a KGB file on our PM dating from 1980, quite a large file. Johnson excused the 1979 Russian invasion of Afghanistan
Johnson learned Russian & researched his Russian ancestry in the USSR. Lebedev was posted to London in 1987 targeting members of the Conservative Govt & London Journalists like Boris Johnson. Maxwell let his daughter Ghislaine run "parties" for Oxford friends such as Johnson.