Chamberlin and Hitler

[S.A. Boggs]

One gets a feeling of Deja Vu.
Sam

[Major Tom]

Since Biden has been compromised by both Russia and China; you can be sure there will not be any sanctions against Russia or an investigation into Wuhan labs in China! Both those countries have something on Joe and Humter!

[BudT]

Hair sniffer is compromised by everyone, Putin id going to wipe the floor with him before and after the next hacks by Russia, China and North Korea. Hair sniffer and the dog will share another toilet hour consoling each other by sniffing each others butt's. Biden is a dummy, Mr. Peanut is moving up the Prez ladder to as good as this loser.

[togor]

Wait I thought we liked Ivan and the Norks, and blew hot and cold on the Chinese. Sure seemed that way one year ago. Did something happen to change that?

[dogtag]

Comparing Biden to Chamberlain is an insult to the former PM.

[S.A. Boggs]

Comparing Biden to Chamberlain is an insult to the former PM.

i was comparing the age and trust mentality which are similar.
Sam

[togor]

Comparing Biden to Chamberlain is an insult to the former PM.

Well that brings the tally of Neville Chamberlain admirers around here all of the way up to 1.

[dogtag]

Well that brings the tally of Neville Chamberlain admirers around here all of the way up to 1.

He got an undeserved bad rap. When he accepted "peace in our time" deal, he had little choice.
Britain was virtually defenseless, unarmed except for the Navy which if he had declared war
could not have prevented an invasion due to the Luftwaffer (sp?). The main British fighter then
was the hurricane - no match for the 109.
He gave Lord Beaverbrook the task of expedited rearming, and when Poland was attacked,
declared war. He was very popular with th public.

[togor]

DT,

So Britain sells out the Czechs, with their sturdy army, armaments industry and fortified frontiers, because Britain is too weak?

Only to decide to draw a red line months later at the far less defensible Polish frontier against a Germany that now has possession of those Czech resources?

No, history's unkind verdict rendered upon the appeasers is the just one. They allowed themselves to think that Hitler could be useful to them as a Central European bulwark against Bolshevism. Chamberlain experienced his Great Awakening in early 1939, but that hardly makes him a hero, or vindicates him in the eyes of posterity.

[dogtag]

We had no treaty with Checkslovakia (sp?) - we did with Poland.
Politics is a cutthroat business. You can't go to war if you have no weapons,
I think Sun Su would agree.
But, you have your version of history and I have mine.
Good to chat anyway - a raririty these days on the forum which is now a link dump.

[togor]

Well DT let us agree then to look down upon the French. They were a party to Munich and certainly seemed to make less good use of the subsequent interlude than did the Germans. Even declining to do much of anything in the fall of '39 when the bulk of German armed forces were busy in the east.

[dogtag]

The French had the biggest army in the World at that time and better tanks than the Germans
but the leadership was abysmal - fighting the last war all over again. The troops were fine
but they waited in vain for orders from their leaders. In the battle for France, overall command
of the allied armies, Dutch, Belgium and the Brits was given to the French. Huge mistake.
Eventually. the BEF had enough and left (Dunkirk)
i

[togor]

Both the French right and left share the blame. The right found more to like in the politics of the Germans than in the turbulence of the French left. And after the Nazi-Soviet pact put Communism officially on the sidelines for the opening rounds, the response of the French left to their natural enemies was muted.

[dogtag]

Politics is like a legal form of the Mafia, only worse.