Its time to call bulls** on you and your ilk"
Neville Chamberlain with "Peace for Our Time":
Call it whatever name you wish, but facts remain facts nonetheless.
During the Second World War our mortal enemies were the Axis Powers, primarily Germany, Italy and Japan.
The reason the Axis grew to become mortal enemies requiring the total combined efforts of every major country on earth to finally defeat, one reason is because we never tried to stop them when they were relatively minor powers.
This is the "Broken Windows Theory" of policing applied to international relations.
Before Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, there was a long list of invaded countries which Americans and others said were "not our war".
Here are some of them:
- China (1931 invaded by Japan)
- Ethiopia (1935 invaded by Italy)
- the Rhineland (1936),
- Austria (1938),
- Czechoslovakia (1939),
- Poland (1939),
- Albania (1939 invaded by Italy)
- Denmark & Norway (1940)
- Belgium & Netherlands (1940),
- France (1940),
- Libia and Egypt (1940 invaded by Italy)
- Indochina (1940 invaded by Japan)
- Yugoslavia & Greece (1941)
That's why one of the Lessons of History, taught to every schoolchild after 1945, was that we have to stop these wannabe empire builders while they are still small and defeatable, not wait until they've grown into world-class monsters.Now suddenly we've forgotten the lessons and are returning to the policies which caused WWII in the first place.
What could possibly go wrong?
A new Axis of Evil Dictators:
Democracy Index: red/brown/black are dictatorships: