Hanson also sets up the thesis that the Axis Powers succeeded initially only because of the hesitance and even fecklessness of the Allies during the late thirties, when the Nazis and the Bushido Empire expanded without resistance to take regional control and acquire influence, and even more while the major Allied powers pretended not to see the threat or, in some cases, refused to do anything to stop the aggression.
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That thesis is nothing new. Churchill and others knew that and were very frustrated because of it.
Deja Vu all over again - Europe and the Muslim invasion.