I’m saying they would have been crushed anyway. The Poles were subhuman to him. He’s blaming the Poles is how I take it. Substitute US of Poles and Osama for Hitler, and see... oh wait a minute, Pat has also taken Osama’s side there too- we’re too decadent, are troops are in Saudi...You could be right. Then again, Hitler wanted Russia. Poland was an ant to be dealt with later. Instead of pulling the Tiger's tail and getting annihilated for sure, getting the two giants to fight each other was a *much* better strategy IMO.
It is a fact that Poland’s refusal to bow to Hitler led to Hitler’s decision to attack Poland.
It is a fact that Poland was losing in a 6-week war with Germany. Stalin’s attack on Poland sealed her fate.
But how was Poland supposed win by continuing the policy of appeasement and granting concessions to Hitler before hostilities began? How do Polish concessions to Hitler make Stalin feel secure or satiate Hitler’s ambitions?
If war between Hitler and Stalin is to be supposed as a result of Polish concessions, how does that change what in fact happened? Germany and the Soviets went to war anyway. If Germany won, Poland would have been a Nazi satellite. If the Soviets won, Poland would become a Soviet satellite or buffer territory of the USSR for making concessions to the Germans.
Poland’s trust in Britain and France may have been misplaced, but Britain and France were the one’s who were slow to act on their guarantee. They had time to prepare and some time after hostilities began to at least do _something._
Poland could trust Germany to either attack Poland or to use Poland as a springboard for a war with Stalin. Either way, certain war with a neighbor was the only prospect for Poland. Neither neighbor could be called a victor in the previous war.
Chamberlain’s guarantee was the best option for minimizing the possibility of war. Britain and France failed Poland. Britain and France were the latest war winners and dictators of the terms to the losers. It should have been a safe bet to side with them.
The resulting war was not a case of Poland failing Poland. It was a case of the Britain and France failing Poland.
The UK, France, Denmark, Norway, North Africa, Poland were all just on the way to Russia, got it.