Ukraine vs. Hungary

On October 23, 1956 there was a revolution in Hungary where the Hungarians rose up against the mighty Soviet Union. The battles lasted about three days and at the end the Soviets left Hungary.

Unfortunately, on November 4, 1956 the Soviets returned with guns blazing to reclaim what they thought was theirs. This was the beginning of a very bloody resistance fight by the Hungarian freedom fighters. The entire world knows the outcome of this fight.

Soviets 1, Hungary 0

The Red Army overran the poorly equipped but enthusiastic Hungarians. Enthusiasm will not win wars, guns will!

Now why am I writing about this ancient history? Because history is about to repeat itself.

During the bloody fights in Budapest, Radio Free Europe kept blaring messages that keep fighting we (Americans) are coming and this way giving false hope to the participants of the uprising about incoming Western military help.

You know what came? Close your eyes and tell me what you see. Exactly, that what came!

No help of any kind arrived. The Sixth Fleet did not cruise up the Danube River to help the fighting. There was absolutely nothing from anybody.

I stand corrected. There was a lot of talk. In the United Nations everybody condemned the Soviets and announced for the record that they were against this blatant terrorism. Do you know how much the Soviets cared about all that talk? About as much as they care about the talks now on behalf of Ukraine.

Yesterday, lacking anything else to do I watched a live telecast from the UN Security Council where every country, from Chad to Australia condemned the Russians for what they did and asked them to withdraw and rip their clothes and show the world how sorry they were for their actions.

The Russian ambassador just sat there stone faced just like Gromyko did in 1956 wishing that the whole circus would end and he could leave and drink his daily portion of vodka.

All the saber rattling by the West will achieve nothing. The West will not go to war over the Ukraine and Russia knows that. So what's the point of all this grandstanding? These UN ambassadors have to show that they can talk and many of them can even speak English?

Later yesterday I heard on the news that the US would send 300,000 ready prepared meals to the Ukraine. Now that is a lot of help!

I am really glad to see that this government is strong and is standing by its principles. If Hungary would have received 300,000 ready prepared meals in 1956 maybe the Revolution would have turned out differently!

I forgot, we were not starving and we didn't need food and we didn't need words. We needed military help and that never came.