Good Guys and Evil Empires

It is of course axiomatic that Russia has no legitimate security concerns, especially as regards the freedom of a large and hostile alliance to station missiles on its borders. We have only to recall the sane and sensible rush to nuclear holocaust with which the Kennedy administration greeted a far less threatening situation in Cuba, or to imagine the calm and restrained reaction of Her Majesty's Government should the Fenian traitors in Dublin allow Russian missiles to be stationed along the holy border with Ulster, to see what universal and civilised values the Free World is defending. All doubt as to the peril in which Law and Liberty now stand must vanish before the scare-quotes around the "peacekeeping" forces which the fiend Putin has illegally deployed in limited and specific regions of eastern Ukraine. At such moments of civilisational destiny, there are no legitimate reasons, only morally indignant rah-rah; there is no legitimate history, except those bits of the Second World War which were won by Mr Churchill and his American chums; and there are no legitimate contexts, only relativistic whataboutery.