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He also started WW2 by declaring war on Germany. No British politician comes remotely close in terms of disaster; even Boris Johnson telling Ukraine to scrap t
by truthinhstor 3y ago
He also started WW2 by declaring war on Germany.
No British politician comes remotely close in terms of disaster; even Boris Johnson telling Ukraine to scrap their agreement with Russia and keep fighting instead seems mild in comparison.
- EdwardDiego 3y agoI'm sure there would have been peace in our time if only Churchill had merely appeased Hitler.
- squarefoot 3y agoJust wondering which flavor of peace and at what cost. Speaking as an Italian.
- MomoXenosaga 3y agoNazis don't want peace their entire ideology hinges on perpetual struggle.
- simonblack 3y agoMuch as I dislike Churchill, you can't pin 'starting WW2' on him.* That was Chamberlain, not that he had much choice either. * Actually WW2 had been going on since 1937 with the Japanese invasion of China.
- lostlogin 3y agoThere is a school of thought that has WW2 as a continuation of WW1s unfinished business, with an interval before the unsolved issues were hashed out.
- Log_out_ 3y agoWhere did the river start always causes an argument about aquifiers, ponds and glaciers. Meanwhile weather and geography are able to sneak from the room.. The world wars were caused by a world were empires and there atrocities were normal. Japan, Italy and Germany were all late comers to an empire world were starving out a nation was considered acceptable. They became thus desperately hyperimperialist by circumstance. The circumstances that made worldwar end, were free trade, traditional empires waning and nukes. Were it otherwise, we would still be at it, every ten years a desperate mini empire emerging from rubble of "in between countries, to be then swallowed and eaten by the eldritch horrors that are traditional empires.