It'd Be Harder to Uncover (Albeit in Broadest Daylight) A More Egregious Example of the Collective Loss of Historical Memory Than Those Petty & Paltry, Sordid & Small 'Men' and 'Women' Presently Seeking - Wholly in Vain, Incidentally - to Diminish the Mana of One of History's True Greats: Sir Winston Churchill: Who Of Course Is Renowned for That Wonderful 'Ole Maxim: (S)he Who Forgets [the Lessons of] History Is Doomed/Bound to Repeat It/Them: Yes, They'd Have Acclaimed & Cheered Neville Chamberlain From the Rafters, Even Doubtless Likewise Pronouncing 'Peace in Our Time': Nazi Collaborators One & All (Yes, Even You Supposedly 'Progressive' New Zealand Greens)!

Whilst Teresa May Acquits Herself With Aplomb As She Wrests the Mantle of True & Tireless Advocate for the World's Teeming Masses of Needy & Oppressed From All Other Pretenders To That Most Worthy of Offices...Speaking Up Awhile Ago for the United Kingdom's Aid Budget to be Significantly Increased, and Now Addressing and Challenging, Even Politically Assaulting (So to Speak), her Prime Ministerial Successor in Her Ablest of Articulate Advocacy for the Abjectly Abandoned Afghanis in Their Darkest Hour...

Trump Et Al May Snidely Snipe From the Safety of the Sidelines, Even Mercilessly & Smugly Gloat Over the Biden Administration's (Admittedly, Own Goal & Self-Perpetuated) Dilemma & Now Abject Abnegation of Responsibility in Afghanistan...Fair Enough I Suppose...But Let's Not, Let's Never Forget that He & His Presidential Predecessors (AT LEAST As Far Back As George W) Have Blood In Abundance Upon Their Hands Over the Situation There...And Arguably Donald J Trump's (Original) Very Departure Date for US Troops There Reveals the Real Facts of the Matter...Meticulously Manipulating Matters to Heap Maximum Disrepute Upon His Successor (the Original Evacuation/Withdrawal of Troops Being Scheduled for Around Inauguration Day 2021 - A Little Like Ronald Wilson Reagan's Own Similar Behind-the-Scenes Skillful Manipulation of Things in Iran in early 1981)

Though it's hard to escape the contrary argument that Trump was taken offguard by what happened in Presidential Election 2020 - anticipating this of course by his casting disrepute and infamy upon that election in the leadup to it - for in his heart of hearts (if he has such!) he really didn't expect anyone else - whoever s/he might be - to be able to beat/best 'im...

...and of course still doesn't believe anyone did!...still not having conceded (and with no intention to ever do so; still trumpeting "that stolen election" disinformation 'fake news' trope)...

the last refuge of a congenitally poor loser 

With Remarkable & Admirable Zeal Worthy of a Far Better & Greater Cause, Lockdown Protestors & Anti-(Covid-19)-Vaccinationists Unknowingly Give Ammunition to Those Whose (Secretive) Purposes are Far More Nefarious Indeed...

To Be Continued... 

It Only Took Another Olympics To Remind the World that Belarus Cannot Avoid Getting Up to Its Old Tricks...So Good On Poland for Having the Guts, the Gumption and the Gonads to Vouchsafe the Safety & Security of that Gutsy Young Belarussian Athlete/Gymnast...Who Skedaddled Recently to Preempt an Instant Deportation Back to Lukashenko's Unfriendly Unwelcome...

You - in this case she - can bet your - in this instance, her - life that were she to be returned to her Belarussian homeland, she'd have been in rather deep doggy doo-doo, apparently aka Lukashenko's own brother (high up in their Olympics Committee, no less, c/o some good ole-fashioned Trumpesque nepotism at the highest levels)...

Under the rubric of her supposedly problematic mental health (as is all too common in the modern-day Games) she was in line to be given the right unroyal heave-ho and bullied (even if 'only' psychologically) into due submission - if not in fact a whole lot worse...

But the gal was not for being hoodwinked and silenced and dealt to

So all the best for her future prospects elsewhere and a well-earned good riddance to Lukashenko's Belarus...

Yes, it'll doubtless take every single last one of those ten-some years she named till she's indeed able to return there...

But who knows? The peoples' uprising at the outset of 2021 (I believe; or was it a year earlier?) failed to overturn his tyrannical, despotic, Putinesque rule - no doubt with 'friends in (Russian) high places', to be sure...

So how long the longsuffering Belarussians will put up with Russian Czar-apparent Putin's satellite drone running roughshod over all their civil liberties is a moot question indeed...  

...though naturally enough they'd generally be only too well aware that if they, the Belarussian mice, clamber for liberty too loud and long, the Russian mogey'll come down hard and fast and with some rather awful finality (upon one and all who dare to challenge its territorial aims and ambitions and assumptions)...