Corbyn has always remained constant
IN the historical perspective, Jeremy Corbyn spent his lifetime in the political field, staying constant in his political views and from sheer time and experience surely he has become one of the most entitled, as does a village elder, to convey a perspective in the broad and specific upon the world he sees around him.
Elected by the vast majority of the political party members he has spent the majority of his life promoting and learning from, I think it is necessary to ask from what source did the relentless criticism for criticism’s sake arise?
Criticism unfounded in the main; unevidenced in its mass; accusatory in political terms that was never brought to valid or empirical test.
In the practice of the time, where Donald Trump was accused of taking Russian aid in his presidential election as a crime found without fact; where his predecessor had openly intervened to aid the US-preferred Russian presidential candidate up for election in the Russian Federation a scant few years before... and taken plaudits as the right thing to do! Was this the right thing to do?
Where there is blanket coverage in today’s Western media from behind remote computer screens, pasting the narrative carried and promoted by so very few voices at the top of its political establishment, that political perspective seems to include nothing but unverified titillation and downright ridicule in denial or deliberate inversion. Such are the words of the current Polish president from a Holocaust event at one of the 500-odd Nazi prison camps created
in the Second World War. Those in Poland commonly had Ukrainian nationals as guards, having been liberated, as were their own country and nationals, by Soviet Russian troops. In doing so, some 27 million Soviets had died; near half the global 55 million dead of the war that was primarily a polarised conflict between Axis imperial colonialism and those who lived within an imperial concept, be it authoritarian or elective.
The Russian sense of security is forever scarred by its own holocaust and any Polish leader is being exceedingly hypocritical in claiming adherence to the usual US narrative of “for the good of democracy” where historically Poland has invaded Russia as frequently as the USA has invaded sovereign nations. When did the US deinvade Afghanistan, Iraq; Syria..?
I do believe Jeremy Corbyn held contrary views to US foreign policy as well as the UK establishment that still greatly objects to even the thought of the government of the Solomon Islands in the Pacific allowing the Chinese Navy to intrude, let alone welcome them.
Somewhat hypocritically, the same UK establishment gives away national homes to the US Navy in the Indian Ocean and has long forgotten how the USA annexed its main base at Guam after instigating a war with the Spanish Empire on the (fake) news these were responsible for the explosion in the magazine of the battleship Maine.
Britain kept clear of the US and its lying involvement in the war to retain colonialism in south-east Asia it called The Vietnam War, without noticing the three or four million
natives that were killed.
Now 50 years on, that invasive narrative (followed by deinvasion) has come home to roost in Europe and in a nation that lost its people in a similar proportion to the rest of the Soviet Union of which it was part.
Perhaps it was Jeremy Corbyn whose vision of the broader world is proving to be the correct one?
M J Benning Langford Budville, Somerset