In the other theater, I've sometimes wondered about the policy of "appeasement" and what really motivated it. The narrative of history is that Chamberlain was just being weak willed but it strikes me as odd because, in a democratic system, one doesn't rise to the highest office by being in the habit of giving things away to one's enemies.
I wonder if the failed and tragic strategy was more of a "Frankenstein's monster". There was a red scare in Britain and France at that time and the Soviet Union had been very aggressive in invading its neighbors, including a failed attempt to invade Poland. I speculate that Chamberlain mistakenly thought that the Fascists, being at the opposite end of the political extreme from Communism, would be a bulwark against the Soviet Union. I think it's fair to say that nobody saw the Nazi-Soviet non-aggression pact coming.
The lesson is that my enemy's enemy is not necessarily my friend.
I wonder if the failed and tragic strategy was more of a "Frankenstein's monster". There was a red scare in Britain and France at that time and the Soviet Union had been very aggressive in invading its neighbors, including a failed attempt to invade Poland. I speculate that Chamberlain mistakenly thought that the Fascists, being at the opposite end of the political extreme from Communism, would be a bulwark against the Soviet Union. I think it's fair to say that nobody saw the Nazi-Soviet non-aggression pact coming.
The lesson is that my enemy's enemy is not necessarily my friend.
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"The trinity can be equated to having your cake and eating it too."
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