Appeasement was the Minsk Agreements, which Merkel and Hollande subsequently admitted were just buying time to flood Ukraine with weapons so they could retake the secessionist areas in the Donbas by force.
Not sure what youre suggesting. They agreed to annex part of another country in the mistaken belief that it would stop a war because a dictator was telling porkys ...
And the GOP party, the Scotus, the Fourth Estate, the Tech corporations. The tailban style Christians hating women, DEI groups and an educ system that doesn't teach politics & history because its too busy banning/burning books.
Historians and Conservatives have been unkind, but he was aware of the state of British air defence, having been informed there were only about 75 hurricanes available and the first Spitfires had been delivered. They had also just begun constructing chain home. He bought time for the country.
This has lots of info in it. All seems a bit far fetched, but then there are sections that now have a recent familiarity.
Lots of names.
Lots of ideas.
Incompetent buffoon dictator sucking up to the dangerous maniac who thinks it's OK to invade neighbouring countries reminded me of two other characters from that time.
“He’s promised not to be a naughty boy”. That’s all he’s referring to folks so stop making more of it. Although putin didn’t do that, it’s more a case of trump misunderstanding when he said he’d go back to war in 6 mths, he thinks he’s promised NOT to.
We didn't have enough of anything to go to war at that point. So possibly a wise decision to try and delay.
There's something to be learnt from that about maintaining military capacity
Occasionally,my students surprise me with random comments.Teaching this the other week gave me one from one of my "less engaged" kids.They said this is what the world is doing to trump.I said explain why, they said,the world is letting him do things he wants because noone is prepared to stop him.
🥺I think I get what you’re saying w/just this photo of a shameful moment in time: P.M. Chamberlain, willing to “capitulate” to H*tler’s wishes.
To paraphrase (whom?):
“Those who forget History are condemned to repeat it.”
I don’t think anyone who voted scump even knows any 20thC. history.Tragic😢.
Agreed, but Chamberlain had like so many knew the destruction & slaughter of war. He hoped to prevent it. The govt. Also stepped up civil defence & armaments, including plane building on that borrowed time.
TY for this: I myself was ignorant of the Big Picture & you’ve helped to educate me, for which I’m very grateful.🙏Even yrs of schooling & docu’s didn’t give me the complete story, tho IDK Chamberlain was trying to avoid/prevent war. This add’l info is Important, giving both context & nuance!🙏🕊~ tam
Thank you. He is misunderstood. He wanted peace but his govt. prepared for war. His declaration of war speech is filled with emotion and foreboding which for a Edwardian man took courage. What came next was worse than anyone could have imagined.
And, tragically, History seems to be repeating itself-in a different way, yes-but w/tacit “approval” & aid😱 of a certain world “leader” (it galls me to even refer to scump as that) & his Puppetma$ter.
Pls know that by saying that, I don’t mean to equate scump with Chamberlain! Far fr/it. TY again.🙏
Exactly, lots of comparisons but the infiltration of GOP with extremists. The biased selection of SCOTUS meant that Trump should not have been elected the first time and should have gone to prison last year. Now democratic countries have to negotiate with a Fascist coup
Completely unfair to Chamberlain- he had been pushing to increase the pace of rearmament for YEARS but the budgets kept getting refused. When Hitler threatened war, NC knew Britain wasn't ready to fight, and he did the only thing he could do to buy time for his country, at the cost of his career.
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You're doing it.
"What?"
"He's invading the rest of Czechoslovakia"
"Oh"
"You lied to me"
"What do you expect?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uk_6vfqwTA 7:05 haha
Lots of names.
Lots of ideas.
https://youtu.be/5RpPTRcz1no?si=Eu75OtXIdJIrtx39
Trump is a fucking arsehole.
He's not the man trying to honour "Never Again" less than 20 years after everyone said that...
Not so for Trump.
There's something to be learnt from that about maintaining military capacity
To paraphrase (whom?):
“Those who forget History are condemned to repeat it.”
I don’t think anyone who voted scump even knows any 20thC. history.Tragic😢.
Pls know that by saying that, I don’t mean to equate scump with Chamberlain! Far fr/it. TY again.🙏