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  • JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works
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    3 months ago

    Is every alternative preferable to war? For example, should Ukraine have agreed to become part of Russia to avoid war?

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      3 months ago

      Quite a few nations capitulated against the Nazis within days or even without a fight to avoid war. It saved a lot of lives. Does that make it the right choice? Who is to say…

      What’s for sure is that Boris shouldn’t have vetoed the peace agreement in 2022.

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        3 months ago

        I didn’t think it saved lives, since it empowered the Nazis to kill more people. So I say no it wasn’t the right choice.

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          Look it’s hard to say if it saved lives in the overall ww2 tally, but surrender to save lives was the rationale of the Generals eg in The Netherlands. They looked at what the Luftwaffe had done to Rotterdam, looked at what weapons they had themselves, considered the prospect of what was going to happen to Utrecht next, and decided that further resistance was futile. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netherlands_in_World_War_II#German_occupation

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            Sorry, I don’t mean to say that it killed more people in every case. I agree there are could be cases where the outcome was certain, and maintaining strength for gorilla resistance and saving population centers was likely prudent.

            I was primarily referring to appeasement, where countries in Europe, mostly England, gave the Nazis land to avoid war.