Geri ™️
Mark Francois talks about Neville Chamberlain "denuding the British forces of funding until it was too late."
This is wrong. Even while Chamberlain was signing the Munich Agreement in 1938, he was agreeing to a huge increase in spending to increase Britain’s armament in preparation for war.
Mark knows fuck'all
Know your History
https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/resources/chamberlain-and-hitler/
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Thanks for sharing this, Geri.
I've several thoughts re/ this:
1) *#MarkGinoFrancois, #MP*
I find it deeply troubling that a #UK politicians who used to be Minister of State for Defence Personnel, Welfare and Veterans and then Minister of State for the #ArmedForces doesn't know these essential fact.
2) What he has been (wrongly) saying about deluding the #pre-WWII #British #military is, in contrast, very true...
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...about the #German #ArmedForces under #Conservative (#Union) and #GrandCoalition leadership for decades until 2022.
3) My high-school history teacher was right: #appeasement of totalitarian leaders never works. They only understand strength.
4) Today's general situation in #EasternEurope is very much similar to the one in 1939: instead of an #Austrian -born #dictator, #Hitler, we have a #Russian one, #Putler...
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...Appeasing #Putler with looking away of what he did in #Chechnya and when letting him get away with parts of #Georgia and the #Ukrainian #Crimea peninsula is what #Chamberlain and other #European leaders were doing with the #Nazis in the 1930's. Up to the #Crimean invasion oh 2014, it was the #Sudetenland of #Chechoslovakia:
"In September 1938 he [#Hitler] turned his attention to the three million #Germans...
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...living in part of #Czechoslovakia called the #Sudetenland. #Sudeten #Germans began protests and provoked violence from the #Czech police.
👉#Hitler claimed that 300 Sudeten Germans had been killed. This was not actually the case, but Hitler used it as an excuse to place German troops along the Czech border."👈
Welcome to #Putler's repetitive playbook!--Always the same old, same old for decades.
The next "#Russian...
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...(ethnic minority) 'citizens'" will quite likely be in #Moldova. After that?--The #Baltic States and, not unlikely, #Poland, in particular if #Putler's chief Western asset, #TFG, should be re-elected as #US president in the fall.
5) #Putler's #Poland proved to be his large-scale (second) invasion of #Ukraine in 2022:
[#UK #PM] "#Chamberlain made an agreement...
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...with the #Poles to defend them [if #Nazi] #Germany invaded [them]. 👉#Hitler did not think #Britain would go to war over Poland, having failed to do so over #Czechoslovakia.👈 He sent his soldiers into Poland in September 1939. Two days later, Britain declared war on Germany."
And there is a sixth lesson to be learned: an unjust peace, even if only viewed by a large majority of one of the former combatants, will not...
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...will not hold, but lay the foundation for the next war: #the #TreatyOfVersailles which left millions of #Germans suddenly on foreign soil with a foreign sovereign and unpaiable reparations (as deemed by Sir #JohnMaynardKeynes) made it rather easy for the #Nazis to gain followers and spread their propaganda.
"The [#UK] government believed that #Hitler and 👉#Germany...
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had genuine grievances,👈 but that if these could be met (‘appeased’) Hitler would be satisfied and become less demanding."
https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/resources/chamberlain-and-hitler/
I stand with what I said earlier today:
https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/112088055790270012
Or, to quote from #Biden's #SOTU 2024 speech:
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This is absolutely right. Furthermore in 1932 - even before #hitler came to power but after #japan invaded #manchuria - #nevillechamberlain abandoned the 'ten year rule' - under which no major war was expected for ten years - shortly after becoming #chancelloroftheexchequer . A previous #chancellor had brought in the rule in during the second #Baldwin government - a chap called #WinstonChurchill !
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