Re: OT: Cracking Speech by JDV!

On 22/02/2025 11:30 am, John Larkin wrote:

On Sun, 16 Feb 2025 18:58:42 +0000, liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid
(Liz Tuddenham) wrote:
 

Cursitor Doom <cd@notformail.com> wrote:
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War has a heavy price in blood and treasure and Trump - quite rightly
- wishes to avoid such expendiiture if it can possibly be avoided. A
novel standpoint for a US president, I grant you,

>
Not exactly novel, America didn't get involved in WWII until December
1941.  Britain had already been fighting for over 2 years by then.

 Britain did declare war on Germany.

Britain and France had guarantee the integrity of the borders of the Polish state on the 31st March 1939.
On September 1, 1939 Germany invaded Poland, initiating World War II in Europe.
On September 3, 1939 Honoring their guarantee of Poland’s borders, Great Britain and France declared war on Germany.
While Britain and France did declare war on Germany, Germany did start WW2 by invading Poland.
The Ukraine was not able to get any such guarantees against a Russian invasion - mainly because Russia had occupied the Crimean Pennisula in 2014 and encouraged an insurrection in the Donbass at much the same time.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-28357880
putting in a Russian military anti-air missile unit which shot down Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, killing a bunch of Dutch and Australian passengers in August 2014.
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Bill Sloman, Sydney