Lions led by donkeys is a phrase that’s been used many times. ‘Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels used it on 27 September 1855, in an article published in Neue Oder-Zeitung, No. 457 (1 October 1855), on the British military’s strategic mistakes and failings during the fall of Sevastopol, and particularly General James Simpson‘s military leadership of the assault on the Great Redan. ‘The joke making the rounds of the Russian army, that “L’armée anglaise est une armée de lions, commandée par des ânes” [“The English army is an army of lions led by asses”] has been thoroughly vindicated by the assault on Redan.’ ‘‘Wiki.
The asses, i.e. Generals, have beenhee hawing a lot recently. In a long list in 2025, is the Polish Chief of the General Staff General Wieslaw Kukula. The ‘adversary’, although he doesn’t specify who that is, it’s obvious who he’s finger pointing at, ‘has begun preparing for war” by creating the “conditions favourable to potential aggression on Polish territory.’
French General Fabien Mandonand, army chief-of-staff has “jeter un pavé dans la mare“ by telling French Mayors that ‘France’s biggest weakness in today’s dangerous times was the lack of a will to fight,’ oh and being prepared to see your children and grandchildren slaughtered. ‘’What we are lacking – and this is where you [the mayors] have a role to play – is the spirit. The spirit which accepts that we will have to suffer if we are to protect what we are. If our country wavers because it is not ready to lose its children…or to suffer If our country wavers because it is not ready to lose its children… or to suffer economically because the priority has to be military production, then we are indeed at risk. You must speak of this in your towns and villages.
The remarks were in line with other pronouncements the general has made, warning of a coming confrontation with Russia and stressing the need for psychological as well as economic and military preparation. For the far-right National Rally, Sébastien Chenu said the general had committed an “error” because he did not have the “legitimacy” to pronounce on such matters. But another senior figure Louis Aliot said it was “necessary to be ready to die for one’s country … if the war is just or to ensure the survival of the nation”.
“Our policy is to do everything to avoid war but at the same time prepare, and consolidate that collective moral force without which no nation can survive the test,” said Vautrin.
Other senior European defence figures have also warned of the need to prepare for a possible clash with Russia – particularly if it disengages from Ukraine following any peace deal. German defence minister Boris Pistorius told Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper that the general view had been that a Russian act of aggression could come from the year 2029. “But now some are saying that it could be envisaged from 2028 – and there are even experts who think we might have just lived through our last peacetime summer.”
We now have another ass, UK Chief of the Defence Staff Air Chief Marshal Sir Richard Knighton pushing the ‘Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori’ line. he said ‘more people’ needed to be ready to take up arms to protect the country. British families must be prepared to send their sons and daughters to war against Russia. Sir Richard called for schools to encourage children to take up jobs in the arms industry and said more British families will ‘know what sacrifice for our nation means’. Mail Online.No, it is not sweet and never has been to die for your country. Whose country is it anyway?
‘A shocking new forecast has emerged of how Vladimir Putin will trigger World War 3 in little over a year. Ukraine’s respected GUR military intelligence chief, Lt-Gen Kyrylo Budanov, claims to have inside knowledge of Russian battle plans. Putin intends to occupy three NATO and EU states – Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania in 2027, he said. Russia will also attack Poland – striking the country, but not immediately intending to invade it. “According to the main plan, the Russian Federation was supposed to be ready to start operations in 2030,” said Budanov, whose forces are behind many Ukrainian strikes on Putin’s territory. “Now the plans have been adjusted, revised towards reducing the deadlines to 2027,” he warned.’ Daily Express.
As someone famously said, he would say that wouldn’t he? They all, like the legacy media, are working to a coordinated script as are politicians who are likely in for a shock when push comes to shove because despite all the propaganda the majority will not be prepared to lay down their, or their children’s, lives for capitalism.
What should they be doing instead? Acquiring knowledge about socialism and kicking leaders and asses to the kerb.