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In reply to the discussion: Bacon calls Trump 'the new Chamberlain' over Russia policy [View all]thought crime
(1,107 posts)39. He appeases like Chamberlain but thinks like Charles Lindbergh
The National Security Strategy doc is very much an "America First" product in the sense of Lindbergh's America First of ~1940. The "Hemispheric Defense" and dominance is right out of 1930's imperialism, attempting to divide the world by race and technical power.
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I was assuming that Britain would have preferred a ground war in Europe in 1938
speak easy
16 hrs ago
#34
He really delayed nothing. But to your point, at least he wasn't a foreign operative like Krasnov.
paleotn
Yesterday
#7
Hitler's blitzkreig into Poland then into western Europe was almost certainly inevitable
Martin Eden
22 hrs ago
#18
'sent to Hitler a message of weakness, not strength.' Was that actually a bad thing in the end though really?
cstanleytech
20 hrs ago
#21
Well I was thinking more of a blitzkrieg type invasion of England bypassing France for now.
cstanleytech
16 hrs ago
#35
Blitzkreig depends on air and ground forces. You're aware that Great Britain is an island, right?
Martin Eden
15 hrs ago
#36
Call it what it is in the Russian dictated ""White House peace plan" a surrender document that rewards Putin.
Botany
Yesterday
#11