Welcome to Keith's night. Don't try down anyone and the
libertarian Institute. This is the story of how Winston
Churchill's debacle in Norway. Got him promoted to prime
minister of the United Kingdom. I'm quoting from Human smoke.
The beginnings of World War Two, and the end of Civilization by
Nicholson Baker. Winston Churchill, lord of the
admiralty, wrote a memo about mining Norwegian, Waters, iron
ore, which made steel, which made the tools of war, was
getting through, to Germany from Norwegian points of Entry
stopping. The influx of iron ore through
the remote Port of narvik above the Arctic Circle would cripple,
the enemies industry Churchill contended, and it might succeed
in provoking Germany into an imprudent action, which would
open The door for us. The plan code named Wilfred was
Myna and innocent. He told his admirals.
Hints of Churchill's plan appeared in the press.
Alerting the German High command which made counter plans, prime
minister, Chamberlain didn't like the narvik idea, partly
because it was illegal. Norway was a neutral country and
sewing mines. In neutral Harbors was contrary
to international law. It was also a war.
Widening provocation, German Admirals, mused over the
consequences of losing Norwegian ports.
The war would be as good. Lost.
They said, vidkun quisling, the former war minister of Norway
began talks with Hitler about setting up a puppet government.
There had been no plans in Berlin for an invasion of
Norway. Now, there were, it was March
1940 Harold nicolson noted in his diary that the British Navy
was laying mines in Norwegian Waters.
This will create a rage. He said, it was April 8th, 1943.
Sweet. Ashish foreign officer dropped
by undersecretary cadogan's. Office says, we have done the
silliest thing in history in our own interests could dogen wrote
and I think he is right, but I had to argue with him.
The Norwegian government protests Gravely and strongly
against this open breach of international law said,
Norway's. Foreign minister German forces
surged in by April 9th 1940. They were in control of a nun.
Bombed has low. And of narvik, German singing to
have got into narvik wrote Under secretary, could dogon how
suddenly it was a real war on the ground.
There were midnight Landings on Norwegian, soil of small
English, and French forces, which were set upon by German
airplanes. The French had forgotten their
mules, the English had, no snowshoes one group
commandeered, some horse-drawn sleds from local peasants and
serge. Through the drifts a squadron of
RAF planes was sunk when it parked on a frozen lake and the
love. Woof bomb the ice.
The Royal Air Force began writing Norwegian airports under
German control sometimes with delayed-action bombs.
Then British retreat, disaster, excoriation, and leaping outrage
in the press and Parliament. The outrage was aimed.
Not at Churchill who had conceived of the Norwegian
campaign. But at Chamberlain, the first of
our glorious evacuations, h.g. Wells said later a debacle or
not a debacle. If what you wanted was Noble
chaos, wounded struggle, a spotlight, trained on chamber,
linnaean, indecisiveness, and the Above all of a stoic
England, be set but steadfast carrying bravely on in a world
everywhere enslaved and prostrate Norway was Winston's
adventure and poor Neville blamed for it.
Chips Cannon wrote in his diary. So this was the final straw that
got Neville Chamberlain to step down and got Winston.
Churchill appointed as prime minister, May 10th 1940, you
might I want to say, well, unfortunately, you have to do
some terrible things. So good.
People can really take charge and they can defeat the evil in
the world that in this case were the national socialists in
Germany. Here's Winston, Churchill in his
book, The Gathering storm in March of 1948.
One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly
for suggestions about what the war should be called.
I said it once the unnecessary War.
There never was a war more easy to stop than that which has just
wrecked. What was left of the world.
From the previous struggle, the human tragedy reaches its climax
in the fact that after all the excerpt ations and sacrifices of
hundreds of millions of people and the victories of the
righteous, cause we have still not found peace or security and
that we lie in the grip of even worse, perils than those, we
have surmounted. Did another words on September
3rd, 1939 Neville, Chamberlain. And the United Kingdom declared
war on Germany. For violating Poland's
independence. By the invasion of Danzig.
After six years of Bloodshed, millions of people killed
millions of men, enslaved, billions in property damage.
Millions of lives are ruined, they gave Poland to Joseph
Stalin. Here is how Pat Buchanan and his
book, Churchill Hitler, and the unnecessary war in his chapter
on Churchill in Cairo. In 1943.
Churchill was entertaining MacMillan.
The war had passed its crisis point.
And Churchill seen, briefly to realize that, after all the
spilled blood and lost treasure. Stalin might emerge as master of
Europe. One month's regime about to
replace another, that was slowly being strangled.
To death. He turned suddenly to McMillan.
Crumb wall was a great man, wasn't he Churchill last?
Yes, sir. A very great man.
MacMillan replied. Ah, but he made one terrible
mistake. Churchill went on obsessed in
his youth by fear of the power of Spain.
He failed to observe. The rise of France.
Will that be said of me? Yes, it will be said of him.
He had been a great man at the cost of his country's greatness.
Thank you for watching Keith Knight.
Don't tread on anyone and the libertarian Institute Silver
Lining there. But this is what central
planning does in healthcare and education and infrastructure in
policing in everything in every single thing when government
gets their hooks on it. And it's not because of this
party's bad, or this politicians, bad.
It's because of the system itself when you have a system,
That is financed by extortion, and enforced, not by Merit, or
by value, but by threats and violence, they don't have to
actually work. If I had a company, if we if we
open it me an eight. We open, Nate and spikes Chicken
Shack. Okay, and our model for Natan
spikes. Chicken Shack is anyone who
dares to walk anywhere near our store.
We point a gun in their face and say, give me all the money in
your wallet and we'd get all the money we go.
This entitles, you to X number chicken sandwiches over the next
month. Great job, everyone.
And then and then they come in and they try to get their
chicken sandwiches. Do you think those sandwiches
are going to be good? Do you think that we're going to
have any need at all whatsoever? To make sure that people are
getting their sandwiches in the timely fashion or that they're
not poisonous much less tasty. Is there any reason to think
that that's going to work out? Well, no, because it's
extortion. We've removed the entire profit
motive, an incentive of providing value.
That makes us have to provide more value than the money were
receiving an exchange. That's how the the entire world
works every single person or organization on earth, except
for the government or its cronies that are attached to it.
Like now the healthcare sector are expected to provide more
value than the money, they're receiving, or else, they won't
get any money in their competitors.
Will this is why central planning always fails is by the
very nature of how it exists. And that's the problem that
we're facing. We're face.