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Neville Chamberlain wants his peace for our time back. Outcome of such negotiations can also mean expulsion of Russian population from Ukraine to Russia as it
by TheLoafOfBread 4y ago
Neville Chamberlain wants his peace for our time back.
Outcome of such negotiations can also mean expulsion of Russian population from Ukraine to Russia as it was done after WW2 with Germans in neighboring states.
- photochemsyn 4y agoThe fundamental factor that undermines the Chamberlain meme is nuclear weapons. If Britain, Russia and Germany (hey, why not Poland too?) had ballistic nukes in 1938, Germany would not have invaded Poland or Russia, or launched attacks on Britain. This dynamic has had a fundamental effect on the course of military conflict ever since the end of WWII. India and Pakistan, for example, would likely have engaged in massive WWII-era tank battles over Kashmir without the threat of nuclear escalation holding them back. Israel's nuclear weapons have dissuaded the other regional powers from launching more wars on Israel. North Korea ensured it won't be regime-changed by building nuclear weapons. Also, if Iraq and Libya had possessed nuclear weapons, the US / NATO wouldn't have overthrown those governments, and they'd still be around in their previous form. This has resulted in an era of covert wars, or wars of superpowers against relatively defenseless entities, which often turned into proxy wars (Vietnam being one example, Syria being another, and now Ukraine being the latest example).
- TheLoafOfBread 4y agoGermans were eager to go through whole meatgrinder of Eastern front losing hundred of thousands of soldiers there and did not even flinched after firebombing of Hamburg. What is the difference from 30kT nuke? Nuclear weapons in 1930s would made war more destructive, but it would happened anyway.