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> If West reacted in 2008 how they react now - we could have saved 100s of thousand of people AND avoided 2 wars and billions in military and humanitarian spend
by TheLoafOfBread 3y ago
> If West reacted in 2008 how they react now - we could have saved 100s of thousand of people AND avoided 2 wars and billions in military and humanitarian spending. We didn't, because it was easier in the short term to look the other way.
That feels like 1930s and policy of appeasement, when Germany was taking back Rhineland, creating Luftwaffe, annexing Austria and France with Britain were just looking and doing nothing. Then Munich agreement came about and France with Britain signed it because they did not wanted to do anything. The rest of history is just WW2.
It is almost comical to think, that WW2 in Europe could have been reduced to local conflict between Germany and France fighting over Rhineland.
- pieter_mj 3y agoWW2 became almost unavoidable the moment the US got involved in WW1 in 1916.
- tourmalinetaco 3y agoAs a history professor I had once said, “the only reason they stopped World War 1 was because they lost an entire generation of soldiers”.