Posted on 05/18/2024 10:39:34 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
And Churchill did a lot to make that happen. Representatives of the Polish government in exile were not invited to the conferences at Tehran or Yalta, which determined their country's fate. Churchill agreed to setting Poland's eastern border at the Curzon Line, the territory that Hitler had given Stalin as a result of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. Many of the 200,000 Poles fighting in the British Army were from that region. And at Yalta and Potsdam, the Western Allies completed the handover of Poland to the Soviet Union.
Good leaders are always prepared for foreseeable contingencies. Poor leaders don’t even consider the foreseeable consequences of their own actions.
This was not an uncommon thought at the time; for anyone.
Still waiting for a thank you from the UKvfor saving them 3 times.
Martin Gilbert’s biography explains Churchill’s strategy.
We have contingency plans to attack every country on earth, even the UK.
In my job we had to come up with a lot of “risk management” scenarios. 99% of them were ridiculous. Yet, the plan was in the folder for the regulators to review.
(If they ever really read them, they would have seen the line, “If this really happens, go home and be with your kids…because we are screwed.”)
Since no on ever commented on that, I don’t think they were ever read.
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