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SvennoJ on 18 November 2025
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JackHandy said:
SvennoJ said:

What it means is that we have let his sacrifice be for nothing as we're well underway to new fascist oppression. It doesn't mean that he wanted Nazism to steamroll the world in the 1940s, it means that its happening again. It means we haven't learned from history and are repeating the same mistakes that led to Nazi Germany.

Yes he can make that assessment. 

No, he can't because it's wholly-flawed logic.

If he hadn't fought, if no one had fought, there wouldn't be a country to lament about. There wouldn't be a world he doesn't care for. There would be nothing. No interview for him, no opinion for you and no reply from me. If the three of us had been born into that world, and that is a big if considering... we'd all be living in some sort of Tolkien nightmare where Frodo doesn't save the day.

The man was dead wrong.

Period.  

I agree with @The_Yoda After watching the interview it's definitely very personal for him as he chokes up talking about the sacrifices made, loss of his friends. He's not saying the Nazis shouldn't have been defeated, he's saying that the world of today wasn't worth his personal sacrifices.


This was him last year

D-Day veteran tried to send Russian medal back over Ukraine
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/06/08/d-day-veteran-tried-to-send-russian-medal-back-over-ukraine/

A D-Day veteran who protected troops during the Normandy landings has revealed he tried to send his Russian medal for bravery back to Moscow after Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.

But yes otherwise it seems he's upset with the current state of the UK.