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[Smithington]

Recently I've been thinking about major wars that the West should not have fought. The Vietnam and Iraq wars are classic examples. But I'm increasingly convinced that the UK should have kept out of WWII. What did it gain? Nothing at all. The war devastated the British economy and cost Britain its empire. For what? To honor a rediculous treaty with far-off Poland? How did that work out in the end? Poland ended up as a Soviet satellite state. Churchill for the fail!

And let's remember that the Wehrmacht was going east. In short, it was heading away from the UK. Who in their right mind sees a hungry tiger walking away from their village, then throws stones at it, effectively directing its attention back to one's own village? That's effectively what happened. Britain and France declared war on Germany, not the other way around. And it did so as Hitler was looking to expand into the East....The Brits should have let the two totalitarian regimes knock each other out.

Winston Churchill, in my opinion, was a failed prime minister. WWII was a war Britain should have kept out of. And Churchill should be condemned for dragging the UK into it. Instead he's lionized as a great leader.

Do you think the afore-mentioned village lionized the retard who threw stones at that tiger?

[rollo]

Oh well. do you really think Britain would have stayed independent if the Germans controlled the entire continenet. Only a matter of time until they fell. There was no choice. None what so ever. the tiger was loose and they were next. Have you read any european history. do you know the difference between Iraq, vietnam and WWII. Big differences between all three.

[dairyairy]

Chamberlain was the one who declared war. Churchill didn't take over until later and he certainly led a successful war effort.

If anything the argument could be made that if England had intervened earlier, say when the Rhineland was remilitarized by Germany in 1936, then the war could have been postponed. Handing over Czechoslovakia was the biggest blunder. But Chamberlain didn't have the balls to stand up to Hitler.

[young_clinton]

[alistaircandlin]

I thought the OP might be interested in this debate on Intelligence2:

http://www.intelligencesquared.com/events/neville-chamberlain/

[rollo]

Churchills remark to Chamberlain" You had a choice between peace or war, you choice peace and guaranteed war' Chamberlain gave Cheksloslovakia away without a fight. That gave Hitler the Skoda works to build his Panzer army. It also put his armies closer to Russia.

Yes they threw Churchhill out when the war ended installed Eden who had been churchill's partner in running Britain. Churchill had ran the war and Eden had run the domestic side. Churchill was seen as a warior and not a peactime leader. If Britain does not join in. russia would have fallen then those 100 tank divisions come after England.

[cabeza]

Debating "what ifs" in history is fun, but pointless.

Who knows what would have happened.

Would Hitler have stopped at Poland? I doubt it.
Would he have moved against the USSR pre June 1941? Who Knows. Maybe.
Would a Wehrmacht that didn't have to worry about it's Western flank, have been able to defeat the USSR? There's a subject for about 50 books.
Would Hitler turn west eventually anyway? Most probably.
Would Japan have still attacked the US, thus bringing the US into the war against Nazi Germany. ...?

Would an unmatched and unimpeded Nazi Germany have rolled into Russia, taken Moscow and Stalingrad, continued eastward and swept across the great steppe until they saw the Pacific Ocean, thus ushering a period of German hegomny across the Eurasian continent, changing history forever, threatening the US mainland itself, thereby accelerating the US's nuclear ambitions, stopping at nothing to halt the evil Germanic wave that sat just across the Bearing strait, ensuring a future of nuclear winter for us all? Yes. By which I mean, no.

Remember that movie/book "Fatherland"? The movie was pretty rubbish, but it offered a pretty good idea of what may have happened if the British were defeated or never entered the war.

[ombeach]

Ignore the invasion of Poland - and turn a blind eye to the aftermath of genocide?

I'm glad Britain didn't do that.

[Died By Bear]

If the Germans ran the world, we wouldn't have all this terrorism now. We'd have much better infrastructure too. German and Jap cars would RULE!

[Newbie]

OP was a joke right?

A kind of "I'm going to post the stupidest thing I could think of and see how people react", right? I hope!

[Steelrails]

All detailed in Pat Buchanan's book "Churchill, Hitler, and the Unnecessary War"

http://www.amazon.com/Churchill-Hitler-Unnecessary-War-Britain/dp/0307405168

A great read.

[northway]

All war is unnecessary. This should go without saying.

[Steelrails]

[northway]

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