Appeasement Continues

In fairness to France and the USSR, had Britain and Poland given the go ahead in 1938, the french army and the red army would have been pouring in Germany. It was Britain selling out France's allies. With Poland happily taking Hitler's tablescraps in 1938.

It's a fair point, and we may be at a chicken/egg sort or impasse, but if France is allowing for Czechoslovak dismemberment, why wouldn't Poland participate?
 
But it also seemed likely that if Hitler and Starlin shared a border in Poland they would end up fighting a war with eachover so to have the two totalitarian expansionists exhaust themselve on each over seems the better option.


Trouble is, sooner or later one or other of them is going to win. That leaves GB and France facing a totalitarian Empire from the Rhine to the Urals or Vladivostok, ruled either from Moscow or Berlin.

The only outcome that seemed tolerable was to avoid war altogether, which is what they tried to so. In the end, of course, they failed, but were saved by the Japanese from the worst consequences of the failure.
 
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