(03-03-2025, 01:09 PM)homebiscuit Wrote:

(03-03-2025, 12:32 PM)mikesez Wrote: Chamberlain actually gave Hitler advance, explicit permission to invade another country.  Biden did not give Putin anything of the sort.

Also, people get that story wrong.  Chamberlain and Churchill both had open and frank discussions with the British armed forces at the time, they were from the same party, and they were collegial with each other.  The British generals privately told Chamberlain in no uncertain terms that he needed to delay war for at least a year.  They all knew Hitler wouldnt stop but they weren't yet ready to try to stop him.  Chamberlain played his role.

Chamberlain holding up the document and proclaiming “Peace in our time” was his undoing.

Right. While he had no real choice at the time but to let Hitler have the Sudetenland, he really hoped and let people believe he hoped that Hitler would stop there.  But he also planned on the downside, and did increase British military spending and did form a public alliance with Poland.  And he graciously stepped down in favor of Churchill when the downside came to pass.

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