War Is a Racket (1933)

Post by socialdemocrat » Wed, Jan 15, 2020, 12:28 AM UTC

8note wrote: post #120

socialdemocrat wrote: post #71

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I know it is not a popular view but I think WWII was a major mistake. We could of course not have stopped Hitler's initial actions, but it was the West's choice to wage war against Hitler. I think that was a mistake. The rational was to keep Poland and the Czech republic free. However at the end of the war neither country was free. They had fallen under the Soviet sphere of influence. The goals they set hence failed.…

fortunately the mistake was made, or even more people would have died in the concentration camps.

I don't think that is given. If Germany had sent massive forces towards Russia and there had been no war in the west, France and Britain would have been free to launch a major assault on Germany while German troops where tied down in Russia.

They war could very well have ended sooner.

Post by socialdemocrat » Wed, Jan 15, 2020, 12:31 AM UTC

SergeAx wrote: post #97

socialdemocrat wrote: post #71

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I know it is not a popular view but I think WWII was a major mistake. We could of course not have stopped Hitler's initial actions, but it was the West's choice to wage war against Hitler. I think that was a mistake. The rational was to keep Poland and the Czech republic free. However at the end of the war neither country was free. They had fallen under the Soviet sphere of influence. The goals they set hence failed.…

History doesn't tolerate what-ifs, but just in case. Soviet Union wouldn't stand war with Germany without Allies. Hitler would get access to all the Soviet's resources: cheap slaves' workforce, food, oil, coal, steel, Arctic and Far East seaports. Then attack on the US together with Japan, both East and West coast. The US would not have a chance. Game over.

That is the whole point. Germany and Russia could have knocked each other out. That would have allowed allies to take both of them.

Instead allies did the absolutely stupid thing and propped up Russia making it strong enough to take over half of Europe! Wow brilliant move there.

Helping Russia was a major strategic blunder. It helped create the cold war.

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