Re: The joy of Democracy

On Fri, 18 Oct 2024 03:25:11 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

On 18 Oct 2024 01:01:49 GMT, rbowman wrote:
 

On Thu, 17 Oct 2024 23:47:07 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
 

Slaughtering his own people → OK.
Invading another country (Poland) → not OK.

 
That's a simplistic treatment of Poland.

 
“Simplistic”? Sure. “Flimsy excuse”, even? There we go.
 
Nevertheless, that seemed to be the straw that broke the camel’s back,
that triggered the flip from treating Mr Genocidal Psychotic Nazi Man
from “good guy” to “bad guy”.

Of course the Soviets and the Slovak Republic also invaded. The Soviets
ultimately became the gallant allies. Annexing Sudentenland wasn't as
clear cut. Poland and Hungary wasted no time grabbing the parts of
Czechoslovakia they wanted.

The US wasn't all that triggered. The sentiment was to let the Europeans
fight amongst themselves. It took Roosevelt two years to troll the
Japanese into an attack and Hitler stupidly lived up to his agreement with
Japan and declared war on the US. Roosevelt trolled him too but he never
took the bait.

The truth is nobody wanted a boatload of Jews.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_St._Louis