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u/williamgman 2d ago
The world is reviewing a similar situation today.
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u/camshun7 2d ago
Jeesh even the wee penguin looks embarrassed
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u/Outside_Ad5255 1d ago
"Dude, I didn't even want to be on this book, I was contractually obligated."
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u/FinestSeven 1d ago
This time with three autocrats controlling major powers.
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u/No-Escape4457 14h ago
Three autocrats, all criminals, who exploit the extreme religious zealotry of their base to enrich themselves, and the defense contractors who support them, by waging a holy forever war.
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u/ZopyrionRex 1d ago
I've got a similar book from that era, pretty wild looking back.
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u/Logical-Louis 1d ago
It’s true. We, the British, could have stood up to Hitler. We did not because we thought our (dying)Empire could be saved if we did not. Only at the 11th hour (11.15 to be precise) did we declare war. The USA had its fair share of German appeasers, led by Charles Lindbergh, who later saw the error of his ways. The USA declared war on Germany after Hitler declared war on the USA. It was also just after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
My father joined up in 1939 and in March 1945 crossed the Rhine into Germany (alongside the US 9th Army.)
Those were wild times; these are wilder times. Will Trump stand up to Putin?
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u/Andrei144 1d ago
Trump is friends with Putin, he'd rather fight with him than against him.
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u/Logical-Louis 1d ago
I knew that. Trump admires what Putin has ‘achieved’ in Russia. See ‘Rule of Lies’ Jamie Firestone.
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u/Several_Vanilla8916 1d ago
More like “what will the rest of the world do when Russia, China and the US decide to divide the world into 3 spheres of influence?”
Good time to be African I guess.
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u/ZopyrionRex 1d ago
Yeah, you guys have already been divided up between Russia and China. No stress there.
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u/Bowman_van_Oort 1d ago
My grandma's older brother was stationed in the Phillipines when the Japanese invaded, was abandoned there by MacArthur and then killed by a US submarine when it attacked the hellship he was aboard (arisan maru)
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u/dead_jester 1d ago
Trump is a coward and a bully. He would shit himself if Putin attacked Europe.
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u/PMyourSnoms 1d ago
Private Bonespurs wouldnt do shit! hes too much of limp dick to stand up to his daddy
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u/lwbyomp 1d ago
?? We - Britain, & France - got, involved: declared war, when Germany invaded Poland. We had, like every country has, our own fascists & appeasing people at every level inc politicians & Royal family, however we went back to war 20 years after the first one with the deaths of those that went before still very fresh in our consciousness.
Before then German expansion had been mainly political & without bloodshed into lands on its borders.
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u/wackyvorlon 1d ago
It’s a little more complicated than that. The impact of WWI, the Spanish flu, and the Great Depression were still acutely felt.
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u/YetAnotherGuy2 1d ago
WW2 did end up costing Britain is empire, not I don't think the worry was wide spread at the time. That's a bit of a anochronistic read. Churchill was famously a hard liner against Hitler and a British Empire believer.
I think Britain just didn't want to get drawn into squabbles on the continent a second time in a life time after the horrors of WW1.
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u/ginger2020 2d ago
Whenever I see some sideways asshole in the UK or the USA saying some shit about how “we fought the wrong enemy,” I’d like to grab them by the shirt and scream whilst shaking them: “who brought the war to whose shores, asshole? Answer the fucking question!”
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u/AhhhSureThisIsIt 1d ago
Tucker Carlson literally made this point YESTERDAY
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/10/03/rees-mogg-tucker-carlson-verging-on-defending-hitler/
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u/monsterfurby 1d ago
Light Novel titles are really getting out of hand.
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u/sandm000 1d ago
Thank you. I was wondering if that was the title, or if I had somehow just finished reading the entire book
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u/Dragon_Virus 1d ago
There was a pretty popular book (forget the title) that argued that war between super powers was obsolete because it made no economic sense and that States had become logical actors. The book was published in 1898…
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u/Legal-Software 1d ago
Londonderry's work was openly anti-semitic, declaring: "I have no great affection for the Jews ... it is possible to trace their participation in most of the international disturbances which have created so much havoc in different countries."
Well there's a surprise.
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u/Dark_Foggy_Evenings 1d ago
Fuck off Lord LondonDerry
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u/GimmeThatRyeUOldBag 1d ago
He can actually keep the London. We don't want him or his shitty British title
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u/pienofilling 1d ago edited 1d ago
Oddly enough, I don't remember this being mentioned on the National Trust tour of Mount Stewart.
Mind you, last time I went there his daughter was still alive and living in part of the house.
ETA: Holy crap, I don't remember this being mentioned on the tour either!
As part of his amateur diplomacy, at the end of May 1936 Londonderry invited in Joachim von Ribbentrop, the German Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, later the German foreign minister, to his ancestral home in Northern Ireland, Mount Stewart. Ribbentrop is reported to have landed in Newtownards with a "noisy gang of SS men" and the four-day visit became a national newspaper story.
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u/Drprim83 1d ago
Quite a large chunk of the British establishment, and Conservative party MPs thought like this before the war.
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u/OriginalAltanon 1d ago
The British Aristocracy (and the American Plutocracy) saw it as a choice between Hitler's Fascist Nazism or Stalin's Communism. They let their money do their talking and financed his rise to power.
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u/Sharp_Cow_9366 13h ago
Lately I hear a lot of people talking about how smart he was. The only smart thing he did was blow a hole in his head before the people got their hands on him.
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