The future of the world seems decidedly gloomier than in many a year.For the United States and the West, 5 November is a fork in the road with its consequences possibly irreversible.

The electoral choice recalls the contrast between Britain and France in 1940 as they faced the Third Reich. Having prevailed in the Battle of Britain, it was not only the superiority of the Royal Navy, the loyal support of her empire and certain technological advantages, especially radar, that made an invasion of the UK unlikely.

It was also that the British, informed by a free and ethical media, inspired by Churchill, and reliant on a loyal political class and civil service with a reigning monarch dedicated to their service were in ‘their finest hour’. The result was that until the US became a participant in the second world war in December 1941, a virtuous UK, inspired by Winston Churchill, continued  to lead the West.

This contrasted with France which, despite its standing as a leading and ancient power, with an empire the world’s largest after Britain’s and an army seen as one of the finest, in a mere six weeks suffered the most shameful defeat.

As they witnessed the flight from Paris of a defeatist and, at times, treacherous establishment, and were misinformed by a corrupt media, the French were, as historian William Safire observes, completely demoralised when a fascist dictatorship was installed, with supreme leadership vested in an 84-year-old, nearly senile one-time war hero, Marshal Pétain.

Donald Trump, on his record, offers to make the United States an America which will be great again, one resembling in many ways the Churchillian Britain of 1941. Indeed, Trump’s intensely courageous reaction to both assassination attempts, and to the cowardly lawfare unleashed against him, is in the tradition of the great Churchill.

Kamala Harris, protected by a corrupt media and establishment, comes with the track record of the Biden-Harris administration: massive inflationary spending, supporting far-left policies, running down the defence forces and undermining the nation by opening the southern border to millions of illegal immigrants, including criminals, terrorists and drug dealers who are flooding the country with fentanyl.

That Harris is no more than a political chameleon is proven by the silence of the Democrat nomenclatura in the face of her claimed conversion to Trumpism.

As to foreign affairs, the Biden-Harris administration is notable for disgracefully abandoning soldiers, citizens and a massive cache of the latest arms in their appalling flight from Kabul, as a result of which Colonel Richard Kemp, former British commander in Afghanistan, called for Biden’s court martial.

The Biden-Harris administration is also notable for reversing Trump’s measures against Tehran, thereby releasing US$100 billion to the mullahs who constantly denounce America as the Great Satan, and enabling them to play the role of the world’s biggest terrorist power funding Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis and over a dozen militias and terror groups across the Middle East, with outposts around the world. Biden and Harris have as their vocation  an America in serious decline appeasing the Beijing-Moscow-Tehran axis, a decline which over time will come to recall the Fall of France.

As to the Harris-Trump debate, the corrupt media were on show where even they have now admitted only Trump was ‘fact-checked’; either wrongly or for having an opinion different from ABC’s so-called moderators.

As suggested above, it is relevant to compare American media corruption with the fact that the emergence of a corrupt, captured media was a major factor in the Fall of France.

This was examined in a 2012 Swiss-published study by Vincent Bignon from the Banque de France and Marc Flandreau, The Price of Media Capture and the Looting of French Newspapers in the Inter-War Period.

Of particular interest is a comparison between the Paris newspaper Le Temps with London’s The Times where the editor’s independence was protected under the corporate constitution.

French newspapers were looted by their owners accepting funding, including funding from hostile powers, to violate their role; a phenomenon reported in the celebrated work by Marc Bloch, L’étrange défaite (The Strange Defeat), where he blames France’s media and elites for the country’s collapse.

It is extraordinary that much of today’s  American media have followed the French example of allowing themselves to be  captured.

In furthering this, they have abandoned their role and duty of reporting facts to play instead the role of the Democrats’ propaganda arm.

This was best demonstrated in the US 2020 election when they reported, against all evidence, that the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation.

This laptop revealed that the Biden family had been corruptly involved in the sale of access and influence at the highest levels in Washington to foreign moguls and agents from various dictatorships, including communist China’s.

Subsequent polling commissioned by the Media Research Centre found that 17 per cent of Americans who voted for Joe Biden would not have done so had they been aware of the truth about the laptop.

Meanwhile, commentator Mark Levin says the true purpose of the recent debate was so that the media could be ecstatic about Harris, no matter what she did.

Harris was trained to memorise a few pat lines to be used as answers to any question, however irrelevant.

Those answers contained what the leading journal the Federalist reported as twenty-five lies by her about Trump. The totally compromised debate hosts of the ABC did not ‘fact-check’ even one.

All the media wanted was that she would not be exposed as completely unelectable, as Biden had been in the first debate.

It is likely few will forget that, until the  Biden-Trump debate, the mainstream media along with Harris and her Democrat powerbrokers blatantly lied about Biden’s competence, or lack thereof.

As Levin says, the chameleon Harris’s real plans for the US are for out-of-control and totally unchecked migration, uncontrolled inflationary spending, unpunished crime, and certainly not tackling inflation and reducing prices of things like food, gasoline, vehicles, and housing – all things that affect the American people.