Churchill and the Roman Empire (det som vi killar tänker på varje dag)
After the fall of France in 1940, Britain’s military position against Nazi Germany was so absolutely dire that it took a reactionary of sorts, with a romantic view of national destiny, to fight on.
Churchill’s romantic sense of history sometimes led him astray. In a chapter on Mussolini, Mr. Reynolds explains how Churchill’s love of the Roman Empire affected his judgment.
Even after Mussolini was executed in April 1945, Churchill opined that the Italian leader had rescued his country from the communism
Churchill’s irrepressible imperialism complicated his relationship with President Franklin D. Roosevelt
Robert D. Kaplan WSJ 19 January 2024
Winston Churchill, 1940:
”We shall defend our island whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches. We shall fight on the landing grounds.We shall fight in the fields and in the streets.
We shall fight in the hills. We shall never surrender.”
Winston Churchill (internetional.se)
Cambridge University historian David Reynolds in “Mirrors of Greatness: Churchill and the Leaders Who Shaped Him.”
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/mirrors-of-greatness-david-reynolds/1143369621
Mr. Kaplan holds the chair in geopolitics at the Foreign Policy Research Institute.
His most recent book is “The Loom of Time: Between Empire and Anarchy, From the Mediterranean to China.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_D._Kaplan
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