[EternalVigilance]

Feasting with a monster.

I know all the arguments of political and war expedience. But still I’m sickened by their warm and jovial feasting with a monster.

[Tax-chick]

Yes, I agree. On the other hand, we know more now than they did then. Churchill and Roosevelt really to sell themselves the Stalin myth, because there was no other way to win the war. There was also very little they could do about his post-war plans for Europe.

[colorado tanker]

I suppose it is the sort of thing diplomatists say to one another, but the toasts are stomach turning, aren't they?

And the idea that the Finns started the war and gosh, if we'd just asked, in 1939 Russia would have chosen us over the Ribbentrop Pact? What utter nonsense.

[colorado tanker]

There was also very little they could do about his post-war plans for Europe.

The reality is the Red Army is now so large we could not have ejected it from any of the Eastern European territory they occupy or are about to occupy, even if we wanted to. And the British Army is exhausted.