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   AJ Sadauskas (ajsadauskas@social.vivaldi.net)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Feb-2025 07:11:22 JST AJ Sadauskas

   In these tumultuous times, it's worth taking a moment to read this short biography of former British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain: https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/appeasement-and-peace-our-time

   Chamberlain is best known for a policy he called "peace in our time", but has since become known as appeasement.

   In 1938, Chamberlain secured a deal with Hitler that saw Czechoslovakia cede a portion of its territory, known as the Sudetenland to Germany.

   In return, Hitler agreed that he would have no further territorial ambitions.

   By March 15, 1939, German troops had seized the rest of Czechoslovakia. And by September they had invaded Poland.

   In 2025, there's no shortage of Neville Chamberlains on the world stage willing to give up the Sudetenland to appease the likes of Trump, Putin, and Musk.

   It didn't work for Chamberlain then.

   It won't work now.

   #Musk #Trump #Putin #history #USpol

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     Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Feb-2025 07:11:22 JST Charlie Stross

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     @ajsadauskas Actually that's not what happened. Chamberlain declared "peace in our time" to prevent public panic in March 1938; immediately afterwards—the day after his meeting with Hitler—he called an emergency Cabinet meeting to set up the UK's biggest-ever rearmament program because he knew war was inevitable.

     He didn't resign as PM until the catastrophic French collapse in summer 1940: he was an okay leader, pilloried long after the fact for a single misinterpreted statement.