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Churchill was the bigger appeaser, IMO. The whole "formal" reason Britain declared war in 1939 was to defend Poland, and yet in 1944-45 Churchill sold out Poland and much of eastern Europe to another dictator, Stalin. In 1938 at Munich, in the name of buying time and avoiding war, Chamberlain thought it prudent to sell out 15 million Czechoslovakians in a territory of about 140,800 km2. In Feb 1945 at Yalta, for the much of the same reasons, Churchill thought it prudent to sell out 45 million Poles, Romanians, Bulgarians, Hungarians and others covering 1.3 million km2 to fifty years of slavery and servitude.
Furthermore, as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1924 to 1929, Churchill made significant cuts to defense spending, including reductions in the Royal Navy's budget, military aircraft development, and overall military personnel and resources. And yet Chamberlain, whose government led Britain's rearmament, is the great appeaser and Churchill the master victor? I call sus on this.
I am surprised that the Moldovans and Georgians haven't risen up to expel their Russian-backed rebels and take back their territory, If not now, when?It ain't over 'till it's over. There's rumblings within the territory of the former worker's paradise. Georgia seems a bit independent-ey lately. I doubt Chechnya is firmly Russian. Kadyrov keeps dropping in and out of sight.
I think most western countries will be happy to have this invasion just stop and not bother to correct the hell that Putin created.
Unfortunately, we live in interesting times.
Putin has done the same, as when the armistice or ceasefire is declared, Russia will be holding over 20% of Ukraine's pre-2014 territory. Let's see who plays the Dictator's complacent, agreeable Churchill this time around.
Russia's economy is in serious trouble at the moment and declining daily, unlike Soviet Russia after WWII.
Stalin had time to bluster and bullshit the Western nations in order to consolidate his territorial gains.
Putin does not have such a luxury.
True, but Uncle Joe was intending on exploiting the resources of his newly acquired territories and was willing to commit his workers...err...I mean "the people" to building back the great Soviet idea.The Soviet economy was in deep kimche after WWII. No more LL providing raw materials or fuel, a bunch of demobbed troops looking for work and swelling the job market, and the only economies willing to trade much with it being dependent on it.
True, but Uncle Joe was intending on exploiting the resources of his newly acquired territories and was willing to commit his workers...err...I mean "the people" to building back the great Soviet idea.
It worked, sorta.
True, but Uncle Joe was intending on exploiting the resources of his newly acquired territories and was willing to commit his workers...err...I mean "the people" to building back the great Soviet idea.
It worked, sorta.
I just realized we need accurate color pictures of the bewildering variety of birds.Ukraine Discloses New Method To Defeat Russian Fiber-Optic-Controlled FPV Drones
One Ukrainian military drone unit is using mobile radars to track enemy FPV drones which are then destroyed by friendly ones.www.twz.com
And the PM that replaced him was dumb enough not to veto the selling of Rolls Royce Nene jet engines to the USSR.In 1945, when Stalin was entrenching himself Churchill was no longer Prime Minister and not in a position to do anything.