• katy ✨
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    gee if only you were still part of the largest trading bloc in europe

  • LordOfLocksley@lemmy.world
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    Is this going to be like that time Neville Chamberlain flew to Berlin and got an agreement from Hitler that he wouldn’t invade Poland?

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      Well so far fuck nuts hasn’t used military force against his neighbours. Talked about it but hasn’t. Putin on the other hand is a real hitler. Appeasement won’t work with him.

      On a side note regarding chamberlain. He realized Britain wasn’t ready to fight Germany. They needed to rearm. Those few years allowed them to build a few thousand modern ighters which paid off durning the Battle of Britain. No appeasement and no spitfires.

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        On a side note regarding chamberlain

        That’s a revisionist view, unspported by evidence in his contemporaries’ diaries, notes and official documents. What there is evidence of, though, is a number of people, many in his own party, observing that Chamberlain was naive and out of his depth. His main political experience prior to being PM was in Birmingham local politics. He was a schmoozer who prided himself on his dealmaking. He had no idea what he was doing when it came to international politics, and his party had a large pro-Nazi faction. He was also digustingly cynical about his sell-out of Czechoslovakia: “A far-away country of which we no little.”

        Churchill was not popular with the Conservatives, but he was no ditherer.