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Originally Posted by UnderseaLcpl
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Originally Posted by August
I would rather see my beloved country cast into the fires of revolution and secession than to see it turned into the abomination it would become under your presidency. Think about that.
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That's a little harsh, don't you think?
Most of his policies aren't bad at all compared to what we're getting now, except for the foreign policy, and granted, it's a doozie. |
My point was to illustrate that radical ideals will be met with radical ideals. Any American government that starts bombing cities in third party nations in retaliation for another groups misdeeds is going to have a fight on their hands and not just from foreigners.
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What would have happened had Chamberlain been there and bowed to his wishes is mostly speculation, but it couldn't have been much worse than the bloodiest conflict in human history, the destruction of the British Empire, and leaving a dozen Eastern European states behind the Iron Curtain for half a century, including Poland, ironically. Not to mention the numerous wars spawned from the rise of the Soviet superpower.
Most likely, if Hitler had been given Danzig, what followed would have been a war between Fascist and Communist dictatorships where they bludgeoned themselves to death, leaving everyone else relatively intact, and that doesn't seem so bad to me.
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Worse in this situation would have been a victorious nazi Germany able to put it's entire military weight against the western world so i'm pretty sure how things worked out was realistically the best option short of the nazis removed from power by the German people before the fighting commenced.