For those who haven’t recognised Buktop's general argument, its essentially the Neville Chamberlain "peace for our time", but with a slight spin to make it more malleable to the less discerning Macedonian (Neville Chamberlain was complicit in forcing the then Czechoslovakia to renounce territory to Germany in order to APPEASE Hitler).
The naive Chamberlain thought that he could either "buy time" (like Buktop and his "grand strategy") or more likely, appease Hitler's appetite and avoid war altogether.
What in fact would have had a much greater chance of DETERING Hitler from being so aggressive in the first place, and was the only policy that stopped Hitler after Chamberlain so miserably failed, was Winston Churchill's philosophy of iron determination and counter aggression, summed up perfectly in a number of his speeches, including:
...we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender, and even if, which I do not for a moment believe, this Island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving...
You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word: It is victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.
It is amazing how the Chamberlains and Buktops of our world can repeat the same old tired MISTAKES and arguments over and over again, even though history and proved them WRONG again and again.
The naive Chamberlain thought that he could either "buy time" (like Buktop and his "grand strategy") or more likely, appease Hitler's appetite and avoid war altogether.
What in fact would have had a much greater chance of DETERING Hitler from being so aggressive in the first place, and was the only policy that stopped Hitler after Chamberlain so miserably failed, was Winston Churchill's philosophy of iron determination and counter aggression, summed up perfectly in a number of his speeches, including:
...we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender, and even if, which I do not for a moment believe, this Island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving...
You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word: It is victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.
It is amazing how the Chamberlains and Buktops of our world can repeat the same old tired MISTAKES and arguments over and over again, even though history and proved them WRONG again and again.
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