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Bapton Books
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About the series:
hese Position Papers, commonly authored by the
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hey are issued to inform, to !uestion, to educate, to assert
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Bapton Books
Position Papers:
Night of the Jackal: VV
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eries: *+, *, nternational
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$arkham ha" Pyle
This Paper represents the views of Bapton Books as a firm.
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/opyright %&' by Bapton Books 0iterary rust 1o. '
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About the authors:
GMW Wemyss lives and "rites, "isely pseudonymously, in ilts. 2aving, by
invoking the protective colouration of t"eeds, cricket, and country matters,
someho" evaded immersion in $ercury "hilst up at *niversity, he survived to
become the author of The Confidence of the House: May 1940 and of Sensible Places:
essays on lace, ti!e, " countryside, as "ell as of the #illa$e Tales series of novels,
beginning "ith %&'34s Cross and Poy%
Markham Shaw Pyle, author of &enevolent 'esi$ns: The Countess and the (eneral:
(eor$e )ashin$ton, Selina Countess of Huntin$don, their corresondence, " the
evan$eli*in$ of +!erica, and 5ools, 'run-s, and the .nited States/: +u$ust 1, 1941,
holds his undergraduate and la" degrees from ashington 6 0ee. 2e is a past
or current member of, inter alia, the 7rgani8ation of American 2istorians9 the
ociety for $ilitary 2istory9 the outhern 2istorical Association9 the
outh"estern ocial cience Association9 the outh"estern 2istorical
Association9 the outh"estern Political cience Association9 the irginia
2istorical ociety9 and the e;as tate 2istorical Association.
ogether, they are the partners in Bapton Books, and co
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Night of the Jackal: VV Putin & Ukraine
Putin ? and it really is !uite remarkably
difficult not to "rite that as, @Putain4 ? is not,
personally or as leader of his kleptocratic,
kakistocratic regime, bold by nature. Bullies and jackals are
never bold: they crumble and scuttle "hen opposed "ith
firmness. ladimir ladimirovich is not bold: he has been
e!boldened%
hat he and his regime vie" *kraine in the fashion in
"hich the Pdophile nformation #;change vie"ed nine'
notably failed to take account of egetius4 ma;im, Si vis
ace!, ara bellu!% eakness, irresolution, and the failure to
dra" clear lines and !aintain the!
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constituted ? as the militarists in =apan in the '>3&s
constituted9 as the in Pakistan today constitute ? an
i!eriu! in i!erio% n the aftermath of the assassination of
the Archduke at arajevo, Austria
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support of ervia, and the Erench and -ermans been dra"n
in in respective support of Cussia and of Austria
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localised. 2ad 2$- made it clear that Cussian mobilisation
should cause the *nited +ingdom and the British #mpire to
"ash their hands of $osco", Erance, if not Cussia, should
have acted so differently as to have stopped the spread of
"ar. 2ad 2$- made it clear that the first party to intervene
in the Austro
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embrace pacifism. 7r as $r Pyle puts it, n this "orld, until
the econd /oming, those "ho beat their s"ords into
ploughshares end up doing the ploughing for those "ho kept
their s"ords.
n '>', the /abinet "ere deep in the toils of rish 2ome
Cule, had a precarious "orking majority o"ing only to rish
support, and kne" that if the -overnment fell, 2ome Cule
should fall "ith it. Accordingly, despite an abyssal division
"ithin the 0iberal Party and the /abinet, they felt ? !uiffy in
particular felt ? it imperative to make any conceivable
concessions to his internal opponents, to keep the party and
the -overnment together. (he greatest threat to any Prime
$inister ? al"ays ? does not face him across the Despatch
Bo;, but rather sits beside him on his Eront Bench.) adly, the
faction As!uith "as determined to assuage "as the @peace at
any price4 set of Cadical 0iberals, supported by /P cott andtheManchester (uardian%Fhe chances missed on %H =uly '>',
for e;ample, to stop or localise the "ar, "ere due "holly to
the doomed attempt to keep on side the peace
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$orley and Cunciman, 2arcourt and imon.
-eorge 0ansbury "as a dear, s"eet man, a patriot, a
committed /hristian, and an all
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harmless by a /arthaginian peace.G(Cussia is not, as it fancies
itself,the @hird Come49 it is /arthage, $oloch and all. 6r$o,
delenda est%)
his does not yet mean "ar, and -od forbid it ever should.
t does mean e;traordinary measures, re!uiring far more
effort and money than should have been "anted to prevent
the "retched situation4s arising. t "ants the addition of $r
Putin and his entire regime to the $agnitsky 0ist9 the
cancelling of the -
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"ith persons "ho, after the manner of the aliban, then
become the ne;t threat "ith "hich "e in the est must deal.
1evertheless, all options must no" be on the table, from a
ne" tu;net to arming the bloody /hechens9 and all because
a gang of fools encouraged the Putin regime, by the sheer
supineness of @reset buttons4 and -
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his Position Paper specifically does represent the vie"s of Bapton
Books, as a firm and as an imprint. Because the issue is so serious a one,
it is being made available at a nominal charge in some formats, and free
even of a nominal charge "here possible. hose "ishing to sho" a
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