Posted on 07/10/2017 1:27:04 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
“For family, for freedom, for country, and for God.”
This morning in Warsaw, Poland, President Donald Trump issued a battle cry — for “family, for freedom, for country, and for God" — in a speech that often resorted to rhetorical conceits typically used by the European and American alt-right. It sounded, at times, not just like the populists of the present but the populists of the past.
Drafted by Steve Miller, the architect of the travel ban, Trump’s speech used the type of dire, last-chance wording often utilized by the far right on both sides of the Atlantic: "The fundamental question of our time is whether the West has the will to survive.”
“Do we have the confidence in our values to defend them at any cost?” Trump asked. “Do we have enough respect for our citizens to protect our borders? Do we have the desire and the courage to preserve our civilization in the face of those who would subvert and destroy it?”
Trump arrived in Warsaw Wednesday night for a 16-hour visit in the runup to the G20 summit in Hamburg, Germany. Poland was a less-than-obvious choice for Trump’s first major public European speech. Typically, American presidents land in London, Paris, or Berlin before Eastern Europe. But Trump has been at odds with German Chancellor Angela Merkel over everything from climate change to migrant policy, and French President Emmanuel Macron has also positioned himself as a counterweight to the conservative American administration. The Polish leadership, on the other hand, seems to have more in common with Trump’s vision.
In his address, Trump cast the West, including the United States and Europe, on the side of “civilization.” With an undercurrent of bellicosity, he spoke of protecting borders, casting himself as a defender not just of territory but of Western “values.” And, using the phrase he had avoided on his trip to Saudi Arabia, he insisted that in the fight against “radical Islamic terrorism,” the West “will prevail.”
Again and again, Trump held up Poland as an example, saying their history reminds the world that “the defense of the West ultimately rests not only on means but also on the will of the people to prevail.” He recalled the story of the Warsaw uprising against the Nazis in 1944: “The West,” he said, “was saved with the blood of patriots.”
That battle, the president seemed to say, is ongoing. He called on a new generation to rise up, saying “every last inch of civilization is worth defending with your life.”
“Just as Poland could not be broken, I declare today for the world to hear that the West will never, ever be broken,” Trump said. “Our values will prevail, our people will thrive, and our civilization will triumph.”
He did not mention that in 1944, the Polish patriots, while valiant, were not, ultimately, the saviors of the state. Nor did he note that Europeans widely see the Polish ruling party of today, which has tried to clamp down on the media and judiciary, as itself a threat to Western values. Some 90,000 Poles marched against the Polish government in early May, protesting its anti-democratic trajectory. That Poland was absent in Trump’s speech
Trump addressed Russia, and NATO, but the real takeaway of the speech was its tenor
In his speech, Trump also addressed Russia, in advance of his highly anticipated meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin later this week. He urged Russia “to cease its destabilizing activities in Ukraine and elsewhere” and “its support for hostile regimes including Syria and Iran,” and to join the “community of responsible nations in our fight against common enemies in defense of civilization itself.”
He also affirmed the US commitment to NATO’s Article 5, the assurance that each member will defend the others, on European soil. His failure to endorse that clause on his previous visit to Europe in May had angered traditional US allies. (He later did so, on US soil, but he had yet to do so in Europe.)
As expected, Trump also doubled down on his insistence that NATO allies pull their weight economically, and praised Poland for already giving 2 percent of its GDP.
But it was his insistent thread that recalled theories of a clash of civilizations that will be the primary takeaway from this speech. He was met with cheers throughout. Earlier in the week, the Associated Press reported that the audience was largely hand-selected in advance by the Polish ruling party, which brought in supporters by bus to ensure a large crowd.
Earlier in the day, Trump bashed the media and offered insight into foreign policy decisions in the making
Trump’s speech came after a joint press conference held with Polish President Andrzej Duda, during which the American president called CNN “fake news” and said what he would like to see is “honest” and “fair press” because fake news was a “bad thing, very bad for our country.”
At the same press conference, Trump told traveling press that hacking might have come from Russia in the 2016 presidential elections but “nobody really knows for sure.”
"I think it was Russia,” he said, “and I think it could've been other people."
And asked about North Korea’s missile testing, he said there would be “consequences” for their “very, very bad behavior.” But he did not specify what those consequences would be outside of “some pretty severe things.”
Whatever it was...Go Trump!
In 1920 the Poles miraculously defeated the Bolshevik invasion and saved Europe.
Trump could have mentioned that - but I guess its better that he didn’t. It would have been spun as an attack on Putin.
Now the West and Russia should unite against the new Bolsheviks: AntiFa and ISIS.
More anti-Trump/anti-Polish leftist hate.
Just three things the left vehemently despise.
not one wants to acknowledge that white Europeans have contributed more than any other group, to successful civilization building. It is why God put us on the earth. We bring order and relative peace. Without us, godlessness and chaos. We are not perfect, but the best the earth has ever seen. Period.
Read's like a Who's Who of FakeNews outlets from a self-hating Jew.
Try to put your hand on something not invented by a White or Asian male. I’ll wait.
They are legion.
Boy the left hates that. For them anything but suicidal self-loathing and hatred of America and Western Civilization is Nazism.
A free nation has the right to expect full cooperation from all groups. A free nation has the right to look to the leaders of business, of labor, and of agriculture to take the lead in stimulating effort, not among other groups but within their own groups.
The best way of dealing with the few slackers or trouble makers in our midst is, first, to shame them by patriotic example, and, if that fails, to use the sovereignty of government to save government.
As men do not live by bread alone, they do not fight by armaments alone. Those who man our defenses, and those behind them who build our defenses, must have the stamina and the courage which come from unshakable belief in the manner of life which they are defending. The mighty action that we are calling for cannot be based on a disregard of all things the worth fighting for.
The Nation takes great satisfaction and much strength from the things which have been done to make its people conscious of their individual stake in the preservation of democratic life in America. Those things have toughened the fibre of our people, have renewed their faith and strengthened their devotion to the institutions we make ready to protect.
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This nation has placed its destiny in the hands and heads and hearts of its millions of free men and women; and its faith in freedom under the guidance of God. Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere. Our support goes to those who struggle to gain those rights and keep them. Our strength is our unity of purpose.
To that high concept there can be no end save victory.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, 1941 STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS “THE FOUR FREEDOMS” (6 JANUARY 1941)
As a reminder, to paraphrase Uncle Joe: One death is truly terrible, one million deaths is but a statistic.
Remember, for a moment, Operation Keelhaul, the results from Yalta, ...
Well, we’re seeing how the leftist media has decided to smear Trump’s latest triumph. This is about the fifth article I’ve seen calling that wonderful speech “white privlege” or “alt right”. It’s like the montage Rush puts together on broadcast media’s catch phrases of the day.
"In 1920, in the Miracle of Vistula, Poland stopped the Soviet Army bent on European conquest."
To commies everything to the right of socialism is like extreme right
Regardless what the petty left think, the speech was historically significant as a clear pronouncement of the right course for the survival of civilization and humanity. While speech delivery is important, it is the words that will survive and the man who put those thoughts and words down on paper deserves the real credit. Stephen Miller’s brilliance was clearly evident throughout that speech.
Everything the globalist are destroying. For this guy to write an article as if that is the "alt-right"(whatever the heck that is)wrote that, show exactly what liberals have become. Truly scary.
Thank God they are no longer hiding how they want to enslave us.
Sarah ought to go hang out in a conclave of anti-Western practitioners. See how she likes it. Atheistic North Korea or Islamic Saudi Arabia, or maybe Chad.
Sick of these fake thinkers who benefit from the ideals and freedoms extended by Western Christian values who think the same are the source of evil in the world.
Like a fish protesting water.
So is alt-right supposed to be a good thing, or a bad thing?
Inquiring minds want to know.
At least this phenomenon is not being called “fascism” any more.
Turns out, fascism is a very bad marriage of the socialist state with the concept of “crony capitalism” in which winners and losers are designated BEFORE any assessment by the marketplace.
And even the #2 spots, like Japan for example, and British colonies, all had the help of White Europeans to get going. There are photos of Japan before the 1940’s and they were living the same way a thousand years ago. To their credit, they took the gifts of the White man and ran with them. You really should copy what works. Good for them. But also, you’re welcome, Japan
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