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which far exceeded anything that Hitler ever envisioned for Germany.

First, both Great Britain and France gave 'war guarantees' to Poland should they be invaded, i.e., they would automatically declare war against the nation that invaded Poland.
While Hitler was attempting to negotiate a return to Germany an area that was occupied predominantly by German people (ceded to Poland due to the Treaty of Versailles after WW I),
Poland became bellicose and refused all attempts at negotiations.
Hitler AND Stalin both agreed to invade Poland and divide it with the Soviets controlling the East and Germany the West. Keep in mind and this is huge; GB & France did not declare war on the other invader, i.e., Soviet Russia, but only Germany.
Russia gets a free pass, and it was our ally Russia that actually was the big benefactor of WW II, evidenced by the amount of territory in Eastern Europe that fell under their control, which far exceeded anything that Hitler ever envisioned for Germany.
Also a great time to mention that Churchill was like Ron Paul in the 1930s, a mostly powerless backbencher disliked by the majority of newspapers and considered a warmonger by the majority of the population The idea he pulled the UK in War is absurd. He didn't enter government until after the Nazis violated Munich and invaded Poland - September 3rd, 1939, when he was put in the Admiralty.

Did you forget about Ukraine? Yes, a war is still going on there and it’s a weeping lesion on Western Civ, possibly leading to fatal sepsis. US neocons set the stage in 2014 with the Maidan color revolution as a wedge to wreck and then loot Russia. Then, for eight years, Ukraine harassed the Donbas with US-supplied missiles and artillery. Russia had enough of that in 2022 and ventured in to stop it. For “Joe Biden,” the war was a nice smokescreen to cover his long-running grift operations in Ukraine. The Euro club stupidly came along for the ride.
It was all a tragic and feckless waste. Mr. Trump wants to stop it, but Western Civ as a whole is in such a state of florid strategic disorder that he’s had to pretend the US supports Ukraine. Mr. Zelensky could not possibly carry on this mischief without US weapons and loads of US taxpayer cash. Still, the Russians advance implacably on-the-ground. They are going to “win” this war eventually — meaning, the US and Europe will lose — and everybody knows it. ...
Yet, Macron, Merz, and Starmer keep pushing the fantasy that Russia seeks to invade them, and so they must strike at Russia before that happens . . . all pure delusion.
You can suppose that Mr. Putin wants a negotiated peace rather than continuing the long grind on-the-ground, with all its casualties and expenditures. Such a negotiated peace really amounts to the US ceasing to support Zelensky’s war effort. Of course, such is the insanity of US political life, that many in our government pretend that we have a stake in Ukraine, and must retain some control of it.
Mr. Trump must know this is insane and is against the interests of the USA. He knows that Ukraine is historically in Russia’s sphere of influence — as Venezuela is in ours — and that the best outcome of this mess would be for Ukraine to return to its prior status as a harmless frontier between Russia and western Europe — as it had been since 1945 — looking to its humble business of growing wheat for export. We do not need Ukraine to be anybody’s problem, despite the insane yearnings of the neocons, the weapons manufacturers, and the reckless globalists of the EU, to make it everyone’s problem.
and that the best outcome of this mess would be for Ukraine to return to its prior status as a harmless frontier between Russia and western Europe — as it had been since 1945
Of course, such is the insanity of US political life, that many in our government pretend that we have a stake in Ukraine, and must retain some control of it.
Back in those dark days, virus understanders sold measures like lockdowns and masking to the public first as a means of keeping hospitals at capacity by slowing virus infections, then as a means of slowing virus infections just because, and finally as rituals that we had to do more of whenever infections rose, regardless of what effect they had on anything. Mass vaccination followed a nearly identical arc. At first the vaccinators said everyone had to be vaccinated to stop the virus, but by late Autumn 2021 they wanted to vaccinate everybody as much as possible because reasons. In both cases you could see, in real time, the ends towards which we were striving regressing, until finally the means became unquestionable ends in themselves.
I propose to call this phenomenon endification, and I think it is very significant. It seems to happen whenever you mobilise large, complex systems towards goals that sooner or later prove unattainable. As these goals pass out of reach but the system remains mobilised, basic understandings of what we are even trying to do shift. The erstwhile means become almost sacred, worthy of pursuing in themselves, often for moral reasons. This can go on for a very long time even though it makes no sense and is painfully retarded.
- eugyppius
On the Train with 3 Ukrainians in Peru
Soon after boarding the train, three travelling barnyard animals took the seats in my section and we shared a table. Two females and one male. I can feign charm and friendliness quite well (even though my default position on all people is one of extreme condescension and disgust), which I did, and they told me they were from Ukraine. ...
They informed me that Putin is the devil and that the war is horrible. The woman showed me a clip of some lights in the sky (fireworks?) taken in the evening from apartment and said see - they are trying to shoot down incoming Russian missiles! They even have North Korean soldiers! (She for sure watches CNN - a lot).
They went on to try to dispel my ignorance informing me that there was no real support for the referendum that resulted in the Crimea seceding from Ukraine. They insisted that this was an annexation. I was told that everything negative I hear about Ukraine is Russian propaganda (apparently there is only one nation spewing propaganda).
Not wanting to be confrontational I lobbed some softies at them.
FE: Addressing the male who appeared fit and healthy - how are you able to avoid fighting in the war?
M: I have an exemption because I work in the dairy industry.
Lucky him - he gets to go to Peru and he was in Nepal trekking last year! And meanwhile is comrades are dying by the hundreds of thousands fighting his arch enemy. I wanted to ask him why, if he hates Putin so much he doesn’t sign on the dotted line and jump into the fray. But I didn’t want to back the rat into a corner. He’s no doubt one of the many fellas we see in the clubs of Kyiv parting the nights away as the missiles light up the sky hahaha. Life is great despite war!
FE: struggling to hold back laughter said - I see, so that is considered a critical job in Ukraine
M: Yes
FE: addressing the female - from watching that clip on your phone - would you say it would be dangerous for me to travel to Kyiv?
F: Yes definitely. The male interjected and insisted that it is not dangerous (they then argue for a minute or so in Russian).
FE: addressing both of them - so it’s quite a dangerous place - do you know anyone either fighting in the war or living in a city targeted by the Russians who has been wounded or killed.
M and F: No. (Fast Eddy struggles to suppress his incredulity)
FE: addressing both of them - Russia’s military is considered one of the top 3 forces in the world along with the United States and China. Why do you think that they don’t just launch a barrage of missiles targeting all of the Ukraine’s power generation infrastructure.
M: Because Russia does not have enough missiles to do that, The Russian military is weak. They are even turning to North Korea for help.
I wanted to say that your friend just told me Kyiv is a dangerous place because the Russians are randomly launching missile attacks on the city regularly, yet they don’t have enough firepower to target key infrastructure? They were already getting worked up (and introducing the truth into a conversation with a barnyard animal only results in anger) up so I shifted the discussion to a more benign topic. What do ya’ll think of the new Taylor Swift release….
Conclusion
This war is fake.
Macron says that France will send 7k French troops to fight in Ukraine if the war lasts until 2026.
Ukraine is short on manpower and I'm sure that they will make a decent if short showing for themselves.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/france-to-deploy-7-000-soldiers-to-ukraine-in-2026-against-russian-forces/vi-AA1Phz0A?pc=HCTS
Macron says that France will send 7k French troops to fight in Ukraine if the war lasts until 2026.
Ukraine is short on manpower and I'm sure that they will make a decent if short showing for themselves.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/france-to-deploy-7-000-soldiers-to-ukraine-in-2026-against-russian-forces/vi-AA1Phz0A?pc=HCTS

Misc says
Macron says that France will send 7k French troops to fight in Ukraine if the war lasts until 2026.
Ukraine is short on manpower and I'm sure that they will make a decent if short showing for themselves.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/france-to-deploy-7-000-soldiers-to-ukraine-in-2026-against-russian-forces/vi-AA1Phz0A?pc=HCTS
Sure he will.
Russia has been fighting aimlessly for three and a half years a War that should have taken a Real Military Power less than a week to win. This is not distinguishing Russia. In fact, it is very much making them look like "a paper tiger." -- Donald J. Trump
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