“How can you contradict yourself in one sentence. If Germany and Russia went to war then Poland will be annihilated anyway.”
How so?
The war would have been fought in the Soviet Union, not in Poland. There wouldn’t been any fighting in Germany, Poland, Hungary, Italy, or Croatia.
In your view, the best of all possible worlds was the death of millions of German and Polish Catholics, and the conquest of Hungary and Croatia by communists.
“In fact, you suggest the one circumstance that could have resulted in a worse outcome for Poland than what actually happened.”
That’s odd: the Germans and Russians fight each other to the death, Poland’s historical enemies, and the worst possible case for Poland?
Poland would have come out better off losing millions of its own people? Over Danzig ... a city that was destroyed in the war, which was 95 percent German?
That’s the dumbest thing I have ever heard.
“If the war had happened later and more gradually, Poland would have been even more screwed.”
That’s comforting to Poland I am sure - after losing its independence for half a century, losing the lives of millions of its Catholic and Jewish citizens, becoming a warzone for Nazis and Communists ... nickcarraway is confident that Poland would have been “even more screwed” if it had just sat out the war like Ireland, Sweden or Spain.
How do you know everything that would have happened, if something else didn’t happen? You don’t. If you have some kind of crystal ball, why aren’t you using it?
The battle ground would have been Poland.