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A little churlish, I think, about UK and France. They both went to war, as promised. France was defeated and UK deployed all its resources to engage and try t
by hardlianotion 7y ago
A little churlish, I think, about UK and France. They both went to war, as promised. France was defeated and UK deployed all its resources to engage and try to win the War. When precisely do you think that these two nations could have halted Hitler?
- 6d6b73 7y agoRight when, they were supposed to - when Hitler attacked Poland. If Hitler had to fight on two fronts in September 1939 there would be no Blitzkrieg. And possibly Russian would not attack Poland, Finland and other countries at that time.
- whuaminot 7y agoHindsight is always 20/20, sure. But there were many points along the way where Germany could have been stopped dead. Their taking back the demilitarized Rhineland (a large industrial zone) was a gamble on Germany's part. There is a lesson to be learned from the pre-WW2 history. That lesson is - never give in to an aggressor. They only view diplomacy as weakness. Stalin, Hitler, Putin - they're all the same. And we're making the same mistakes with Russia now: Georgia, Ukraine.