re: #179 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!

Before we leave this topic, I remind you that there was one country and one leader who went to war with Hitler without first being invaded or having war declared against it. That country was Britain, and the man was Neville Chamberlain.

That country did so because it thought that the threat of war with Britain and France together would be enough to either force the Reich to abandon their conquest of Poland or at least force them to the negotiating table. And had Lord Halifax’s efforts to negotiate a backdoor peace agreement with Hitler succeeded, Chamberlain would have happily accepted it…if only to piss in Churchill’s tea.