The "Churchill moment"

On September 10, 2001, almost everyone thought that Rudolph Giuliani was a ridiculous character.

Yes, he had quite successfully fought the mob as a prosecutor and had already served two terms as mayor of New York, where he had achieved a significant reduction in crime.

But the trouble between his wife and his lover, the drunkenness in the middle of the afternoon and the continuous quarrels with everyone caused embarrassment.

Nor did her public image help her fondness for cross-dressing in corsets, stockings and garter belts.

He was sick (prostate cancer), he had been defeated by Hillary Clinton in the Senate elections and nobody saw any future for him.

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The next day, September 11, 2001, Mayor Giuliani was in lower Manhattan.

When the first plane crashed into the Twin Towers, Giuliani was barely two blocks away.

A great cloud of smoke and dust enveloped the area and a hero emerged from the cloud: in a few hours, due to his leadership and his ability to calm a terrified city, Giuliani became “the mayor of America”.

, whose editorialists have disparaged him for years, called him "Winston Churchill in a baseball cap."

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chose him "man of the year".

The Queen of England made him an honorary knight.

Rudy Giuliani had had his "Churchill moment," albeit in a baseball cap.

He had had an opportunity and he had taken it.

For a few months he was the king of the mambo.

Then he passed the time and it was proven that he was, and is, a ridiculous character.

A guy who, in full alcohol intoxication, advised Donald Trump to declare himself the winner in the elections despite having lost;

a guy whose hair dye dripped down his temples;

a lawyer who, because of his excesses, is not allowed to practice as a lawyer.

Winston Churchill was obviously the one who enjoyed the best "Churchill moment".

Until 1939 he was a politician prone to drunken antics, responsible for the Gallipoli military disaster (1915) and the return to the gold standard in 1924, an idea (fiercely criticized by the economist John Maynard Keynes) that plunged the UK into crisis. which linked with the great international depression of 1929. Churchill was finished.

But World War II came and the clown deservedly went down in history as a giant of the 20th century.

Boris Johnson considered himself a new Churchill: he also had an American mother, he was also rich, he was also cultured, he could also write, he was also prone to horseplay, and he was also destined to reside at 10 Downing Street.

It was enough for him to wait for his moment, the "Churchill moment".

He believed that he had come with the invasion of Ukraine and immediately became Volodymyr Zelensky's staunchest ally.

Things have ended badly for Johnson.

Embarrassingly bad.

No one remembers such a pitiful prime minister.

If you've had a "Churchill moment," it was 1915 or 1924, not 1940.

Right now, Boris Johnson seems as sorry a guy as Rudy Giuliani.

The normal thing is that he continues to seem so.

But in such turbulent times, anything can happen.

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