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Much 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 s

• lostlogin 3y ago
  There 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 ago
  Where 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.