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« Last post by DougMacG on Today at 08:30:02 AM »A few interesting points in this.
https://nationalinterest.org/feature/remembering-memorial-day-we-must-avoid-world-war-iii-211175
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[Doug] The article is about avoiding another world war today. The passage below has to do with lessons from history. I have asked on these pages and in discussions, what were the lessons of WWII?
My first answer (unfortunately) is intervene (against evil) earlier.
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From the article:
"As Churchill wrote subsequently in his history The Gathering Storm, “One day, President Roosevelt told me he was asking publicly for the suggestions about what the war should be called. I said it was ‘the Unnecessary War.’” Churchill then goes on to explain that “There never was a war more easy to stop than that which just wrecked what was left of the world form the previous struggle.” Had they only listened: when Hitler violated the terms of the Versailles Peace Treaty and remilitarized the Rhineland in 1936, Churchill called for Britain and France to send troops to enforce the peace. Had they done so, the German general staff would very likely have ousted Hitler, and World War II would never have happened."
[Doug] (Churchill was not elected Prime Minister until 1940.)
How does this apply today to US China policy regarding South China Sea and the impending, threatened invasion of Taiwan?
https://nationalinterest.org/feature/remembering-memorial-day-we-must-avoid-world-war-iii-211175
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[Doug] The article is about avoiding another world war today. The passage below has to do with lessons from history. I have asked on these pages and in discussions, what were the lessons of WWII?
My first answer (unfortunately) is intervene (against evil) earlier.
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From the article:
"As Churchill wrote subsequently in his history The Gathering Storm, “One day, President Roosevelt told me he was asking publicly for the suggestions about what the war should be called. I said it was ‘the Unnecessary War.’” Churchill then goes on to explain that “There never was a war more easy to stop than that which just wrecked what was left of the world form the previous struggle.” Had they only listened: when Hitler violated the terms of the Versailles Peace Treaty and remilitarized the Rhineland in 1936, Churchill called for Britain and France to send troops to enforce the peace. Had they done so, the German general staff would very likely have ousted Hitler, and World War II would never have happened."
[Doug] (Churchill was not elected Prime Minister until 1940.)
How does this apply today to US China policy regarding South China Sea and the impending, threatened invasion of Taiwan?
