You say "NATO escalated into open warfare". America just wants to see, beyond sanctions, how strong Russia is kinetically. This is a test. If they stop it now, it will be next to impossible to continue this test.
You say Russia tried to negotiate peace. I would not say that. They will try to negotiate a pan-European security guarantee. It was in their proposals of December 2021.
After the Treaty of Versailles, June 1919, France worked tirelessly to ensure a comprehensive security arrangement for Europe, (against a German re-occurrence), without any success. They tried to ally with Russia, Czechoslovakia, Belgium and Italy. That was before Italy was part of the Axis Power, and they were hostile to Germany. This security pact was completely unacceptable to Britain, which wanted no exclusively European political organization. They blocked France in every way possible, made the League of Nations powerless, made each of these alliances impossible, worked to rearm Germany, and to rebuild their navy, and to sic them onto the Soviets. Britain hated France also.
France argued that "if a firm front is maintained by France and England, Germany will yield without war.” All the later appeasement was not a mistake, but designed to put Germany on the border with the Soviet Russia, and then watch the fireworks from afar.
Chamberlain was able to get the British people to accept the destruction of Czechoslovakia, wrapping it up in a piece of paper, marked "peace in our time," which he obtained from Hitler, as he confided to that ruthless dictator, "only for British public opinion Dear Fuhrer." Up until the last minute Britain was in secret talks with Germany. Even in 1939 Hitler spurned all Chamberlain's frantic efforts to restore the Four-Power Pact along with his equally frantic and even more secret efforts to win Hitler's attention by offers of colonies in Africa and economic support in eastern Europe. I know very many of these voluminous details. But it all boils down to Britain set the stage for WWII in every way possible, when it did not have to happen.
Now in 2024, we are in the EXACT SAME CIRCUMSTANCE, as in 1939. Now besides Britain, America is the co-author.
You say "NATO escalated into open warfare". America just wants to see, beyond sanctions, how strong Russia is kinetically. This is a test. If they stop it now, it will be next to impossible to continue this test.
You say Russia tried to negotiate peace. I would not say that. They will try to negotiate a pan-European security guarantee. It was in their proposals of December 2021.
After the Treaty of Versailles, June 1919, France worked tirelessly to ensure a comprehensive security arrangement for Europe, (against a German re-occurrence), without any success. They tried to ally with Russia, Czechoslovakia, Belgium and Italy. That was before Italy was part of the Axis Power, and they were hostile to Germany. This security pact was completely unacceptable to Britain, which wanted no exclusively European political organization. They blocked France in every way possible, made the League of Nations powerless, made each of these alliances impossible, worked to rearm Germany, and to rebuild their navy, and to sic them onto the Soviets. Britain hated France also.
France argued that "if a firm front is maintained by France and England, Germany will yield without war.” All the later appeasement was not a mistake, but designed to put Germany on the border with the Soviet Russia, and then watch the fireworks from afar.
Chamberlain was able to get the British people to accept the destruction of Czechoslovakia, wrapping it up in a piece of paper, marked "peace in our time," which he obtained from Hitler, as he confided to that ruthless dictator, "only for British public opinion Dear Fuhrer." Up until the last minute Britain was in secret talks with Germany. Even in 1939 Hitler spurned all Chamberlain's frantic efforts to restore the Four-Power Pact along with his equally frantic and even more secret efforts to win Hitler's attention by offers of colonies in Africa and economic support in eastern Europe. I know very many of these voluminous details. But it all boils down to Britain set the stage for WWII in every way possible, when it did not have to happen.
Now in 2024, we are in the EXACT SAME CIRCUMSTANCE, as in 1939. Now besides Britain, America is the co-author.
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