“ One thing to keep in mind about Chamberlain was that his “Peace in our Time” gave the world NO DOUBT as to Hilter’s ambitions, when Hilter violated it, without provocation, as far as I know. It actually was a brilliant move by Chamberlain”
Interesting take on that moment, lol shocking I have a different one.
Chamberlain thought he could negotiate with hitler by giving him what he wanted. If your point was correct then the world would have gone to war after Hitler took the rest Czechoslovakia in violation of the agreement, 6 months after “peace in our time” The world did nothing until hitler invaded Poland6 months later, with Soviet Union as an ally 🤔
Interesting similarities, hitler demanded Sudetenland because of “ethnic Germans “ in that land. Hitlers waited 6 months to take the rest of Czechoslovakia. Pitin took Crimea and parts of the Donbas…. The world did little, waited 8 years and is trying to take the rest of Ukraine
I am sure that Hitler thought the world would react the same way to his taking of Czech, that the world would not go to war over Poland. War plans show that hitler was looking at around 1945 to go all in, likewise I believe that putin thought the world would react as they did in 2014 with a flurry of strongly worded letters and weak sanctions.
Both were mistaken.
Fair point. However, I don’t think there is any mention of the Brits saying that the Munich Agreement was a farce to buy time, so that they could later go to war against Germany, as both the Merkel and Hollande has stated about the Minsk Agreements.
You do bring up the timeline. Hitler rose to power in 1933, built up his military, and 6 years later was taking over large parts of Europe and 8 years later had the whole continent in up in flames. Seems that Hitler wasted no time in doing so.
Putin, on the other hand took 22 years to make his first move (Crimea was to protect his bases on the Black Sea, which were about to be handed to NATO) and Putin actually cut his military in half, or more, during those 22 years, which is why it took him 3 years of fighting to get the small piece of Ukraine that he has.
Anyway, it sounds like Germany and UK want to fight Russia in few years (assuming they haven’t handed power to their Muslims prior), so we’ll see how that goes.