It is natural and good that we revise our interpretations of past history now and then in the light of new evidence and the emergence of new perspectives on human affairs. But there seems to be going on at the moment a revisionism about World War II that is somewhat distorted in judging good and evil.


This new perspective is endemic in what is called the alternative right and is appearing even in more mainstream sources. This view suggests that the Allies were mistaken and corrupt in destroying Nazi Germany and thereby inflicted a grave damage on Western civilization that is responsible for our present troubles.


I was shocked and disturbed when this view emerged in response to a little something I wrote on what claimed to be a Southern site. I was attacked by numerous persons and ridiculed as a fool who did not understand history in my sympathy for Britain over Nazis. I have been defending the South for half a century. I thought I deserved a little respect on a “Southern” site. These were people claiming to be Southern. They are people afraid to use their real names. They differ in content but are similar in character to the horde of shallow leftist pseudo-intellectuals destroying civilised understanding by their distortions of history.


There are some elements in the Yankee national character that hint of fascism, but it is impossible to imagine anything more alien to the Southern tradition than goose-stepping German aggressors.


It is true that World War II turned out badly. It weakened the British, French, and Dutch empires, allowing Communism and chaos across Asia, and it gave much of Europe to the Soviet Union. But what happened later does not invalidate war against the Nazis. History often plays tricks like this.


According to our new revisionists, Hitler was a nice idealist who did not want to make war on Britain (as long as they agreed with him) and was only trying to save Europe from Communism. Britain declared war on him anyway. We are given pictures of a fat, corrupt, Jewish-controlled Churchill as responsible for starting World War II.


This is to misunderstand the situation of 1939 entirely. It had long been a standing principle that no one power should be allowed to dominate Europe. Hitler had already conquered and occupied much territory. The invasion of Poland against his own promise indicated a lasting threat. It is true that Britain and France could not help Poland and that they did not declare against the Soviet Union for taking part of that overrun country. But declaring war might deter Hitler from further invasions and the Soviets were not an immediate threat to Western Europe.


The Western powers were by no means perfect. There is no perfection among humans. But compared to the aggressive Nazi police state they were models of decent behaviour and constitutional government. It is true that the war damaged Britain, perhaps irrecoverably, but World War II was still their “finest hour,” deserving lasting admiration.


It is true that the Allies engaged in terror bombing of civilians, but the Germans started it.


And what about this resurrected Hitler? He created a police state that weighed heavily on his people, curtailing their freedom and demanding extreme and endless sacrifice, though being Germans many of them liked it.


Military genius he thought himself to be. He had some early successes due to the hesitancy of the Western powers to get into war again. But thinking he could conquer Russia in a few weeks - one of the stupidest delusions in the history of the world. He never understood Britain or Russia. Like all bad people he thought others had the same motivations as he did.


He continually overruled able and patriotic generals who understood his mistakes. In the latter stages of the war he was a weakened drug addict ready to sacrifice his people to the last man, woman, and child because they had failed his divine mission. And hiding in a bunker and escaping the consequences of his actions as his country collapsed. Some patriot! We cannot imagine such behaviour by Churchill or DeGaule.


The Germans should have overthrown the destroyer of their country by 1944, but they were too used to following orders and thinking of themselves as superior.


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Mexican drug cartels, Colombia drug cartels, Afghan drug cartels - these exist for one reason: to supply the American demand for drugs. And of course we know that Mexican government, army, and police are thoroughly corrupt. Maybe the solution is not wiping out cartels that will soon be replaced but moral improvement in the United States? Is that possible?


The government declared “War on Drugs” about 40 years ago. How has that worked out? We have engaged in a useless war against the suppliers. How about doing something about the demand side? Of course, that might require Christian input which the federal government cannot tolerate, preferring liberal therapeutic solutions that don’t work.


By the way, have you noticed lately how the “War on Terrorism” and the “War on Poverty” are going?


I find it a little interesting that the government and media emphasise Mexican drugs but pay little attention to something that is much more horrific - human trafficking. It is reported by some that tens of thousands of children have had their lives destroyed in this way. And I fear that a major cause of this also is demand by depraved Americans. Why no U.S. interest in rescuing these victims?


We are showing more and more the decadence of Roman decline. People rightfully question the reason for non-disclosure of the Epstein files. Our elites have long been free from facing any responsibility for their conduct. George W. Bush launched an illegal and greatly destructive war on the basis of deliberately concocted lies. When this came to be understood he was re-elected and shrugged it off with “So what.” Bush did more long lasting damage to America even than Biden.
Power fortified by lack of responsibility for consequences, which has been enjoyed for long now by Presidents, Congress, judges, bureaucrats including those who head the military, billionaire NGO masters. One of the major temptations for irresponsible power is breaking the strong taboo against pedophilia.


With Epstein and some earlier issues we have considerable reason to suspect that some of our rulers have been tempted into this abomination. Are we ever likely to find out and see justice done? There is reason to doubt.


Democracy? Thomas Massie, the wisest and bravest member of the U.S. House of Representatives, recently suggested cutting of aid to Israel. The next day three out-of-state billionaires supplied millions in funds to prevent his re-election. Something that the Founding Fathers and earlier Americans could not even imagine. Something would not even be thought of before WW II. Democracy? 

A while back I wrote that I would really believe in Donald Trump when I saw the Arlington reconciliation monument go back up. Almost hard to believe, it looks like it’s happening.


It seems also that immigration is being seriously addressed, and I am happy about that too! Although I fear it is far too late to repair the damage caused by Third World alteration of the American population.


Make no mistake, Americans should be eternally grateful for Trump’s appearance on the scene. Remember, he was the ONLY national figure to bring serious issues into discussion. The entire Republican Party, executive and legislative, a club of smug, shallow, self-serving office-holders, never had sufficient courage and patriotism to address the issues that Trump raised. In fact, the Republicans are deeply implicit in abetting our decline.


Alas, Trump is showing some signs that are dubious and sometimes obviously bad. He has attacked his own people, been incomprehensible on the Ukraine question, and failed to explain clearly why he is doing what he is doing. I admit not in the least understanding this tariff business, but if it helps the American working class, then I am for it.


Those who expected him to quit military bullying, cut spending, and expose ruling class corruption have been disappointed and are feeling betrayed.


Trump’s callous stand on the Gaza genocide is deeply deplorable. But it is a simple fact that no President or Congress can oppose Zionism without paying costs that almost no one is willing to pay. If there is any justice in human affairs, Americans will be paying a heavy price in the future as accessories to crime.


We are, I think, seeing proof that being President of the U.S. has grown into a job that no one can do. The federal monster is so large and powerful that control is impossible unless a President and Congress are united and determined and willing to act against the media and the judiciary. And able and determined people are employed to enter the bureaucracy with fire and sword.


​Trump has made a start, at least, on the last mentioned. I think he is trying to do more than is possible and has lost his way, His personality is not an asset in this situation. Almost everyone I know is now or always has been doubtful of Donald Trump. But we must exist in the real world and take what we can get.

Review of Andrea Nolen, Lincoln’s Counterfeiters: The Wisconsin Gang that Funded the Union and Started the Chicago Mob. History Press, 2025.


In the late 19th century and through the 20th there was a widespread impression that the Democratic Party operated corrupt big city machines and the Republican politicians were respectably sober and honest.


​This author makes clear, chapter and verse, that mass corruption began with Lincoln and Grant’s Republicans. Ms. Nolen started with an interest in the local history of her little Wisconsin town of Monroe. She soon found that the town was a major center for counterfeiting of U.S. banknotes. And the crimes were carried out by “respectable” prominent locals, all of them Radical Republicans and abolitionists and members of local groups that suppressed antiwar people. Most of them were born in New England, including a Unitarian clergyman.


The counterfeiting business got even better when the Republicans passed the National Bank Act in 1863, allowing rich Republicans to establish “national banks,” which increased the opportunities of counterfeiting.


“The Union waged for to free the poor suffering black people of the South.” That’s the story told these days. It is a lie. The Republican Party, a minority of the American electorate, got control of the federal government and carried out a cruel invasion and conquest of the South, followed by a decade of military occupation, in order to maintain their economic control of the continent.


Ohio Senate John Sherman, brother of General Sherman, declared frankly that establishing to National Bank system was more important than emancipating the slaves. The blacks were always marginal to the Republican program, except where they might be used to advantage.


The U.S. government was quite restrained at the time in investigation of the crooks. After all, they were good Radicals. Secret Service men were pressured to weaken their reports. It would seem that Lincoln’s incompetent foreign spymaster Pinkerton was part of this.


A number of cities harbored Republican crooks. One group, from Louisville, moved into Chicago and established a corrupt machine that flourished in the 1860s and 1870s under Lincoln and Grant. They engaged in every sort of gang criminality including prostitution.


​Democratic machines rose up in opposition to Republican corruption. The economic crimes and crony capitalism carried out by the Republican party are still with us to this day. There is an abundance of ignored documentation that supports this. Lincoln’s Counterfeiters is a valuable contribution to the truth.