WWII Badasses

[Flt.Lt.Andrew]

I've been reading a book on Poland's fighter pilots in Britain during WWII and it has quite a bit of information on how Poland was betrayed, which seemed (in my mind) to beg the question, who was the badass of WWII? (for the uninitiated, badass means the most evil country).


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[ATI_7500]

Multiple choice is evil. I checked all.

[ozzy72]

I would have said the biggest threat was Switzerland, afterall they've got everyones money

[Hagar]

You do ask some very strange different questions Andrew. Some leaders might be evil but this doesn't apply to a country or its people.

how Poland was betrayed

Those Polish pilots felt betrayed as Britain & France acted too late to save their country from being invaded. This is understandable but looked at realistically there's very little anyone could have done to prevent it. Even if resources had been available it takes time to assemble & deploy any sort of task force. France & the rest of western Europe was to find out a few month later just how powerful & efficient the German forces were. International affairs are cumbersome at the best of times & diplomacy must be given every chance. No country declares war lightly.

[ozzy72]

No country declares war lightly

Except corrupt dictatorships trying to hold onto power....

[ozzy72]

I can produce a remarkably long list to prove my case Bj

[beefhole]

[quote]I can produce a remarkably long list to prove my case Bj

[Hagar]

Maybe I should have qualified my statement with the little word democratic.

[Craig.]

Careful Bjorn, I've heard rumors that he's a teacher-they tend to know a bit of history n stuff

They are nothing more than rumors and speculation

[Felix/FFDS]

[quote]I can produce a remarkably long list to prove my case Bj

[H]

Interesting point - I did a quick mental exercise to see if I could come up with at least ONE war who's origin could not be due to a "corrupt dictatorship trying to hold to power" and the only one that I could possibly say is an exception, is the Vietnam War, whose origin I trace to a colonial power trying to retain that which it had effectively lost...

...which was still affected by a few would-be dictator military leaders, with their own agendas; more so by some who were economic dictators in their own little corners, benefittiing from the war's continuation...
It can be noted that these things don't directly refute your statement, however.

[Hagar]

a colonial power trying to retain that which it had effectively lost...

Maybe not outright war but there are many similar examples. WWII changed the face of the world for ever & when former colonies were freed from occupation in 1945 they were not prepared to put the clock back as though nothing had happened. This would have been seen by the nationalists as effectively swapping one oppressor for another. Britain lost the remains of its great Empire as a result. Some of these places have been troublespots ever since. http://www.britains-smallwars.com/main/index1.html

[ozzy72]

democratic

I've never been that in my life, I tell my students what to do and they do it or get the Complete Works of Shakespeare (hardback edition) across the back of the head resulting in concussion (it is a heavy book)
Classrooms are a dictatorship, fortunately for me

[H]

... or [they] get the Complete Works of Shakespeare (hardback edition) across the back of the head resulting in concussion (it is a heavy book)

That might explain why their recital of Hamlet's speech may wind up as distorted as mine .

[Flt.Lt.Andrew]

Fair enough....


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