Re: OT: Cracking Speech by JDV!

On Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:25:09 +0000, liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid
(Liz Tuddenham) wrote:
 

John Larkin <jjlarkin@highlandtechnology.com> wrote:
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On Sun, 16 Feb 2025 18:58:42 +0000, liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid
(Liz Tuddenham) wrote:
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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,

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

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Britain did declare war on Germany.

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What!???
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Germany invaded another country which was protected by international
agreements.  It didn't have to do it and it knew that it would be at war
if it did.  The same thing happened in Ukraine, only we were too
spineless to uphold the agreement this time; now we are reaping the
reward.

 Amazing how much confusion there is over this. The bald facts were
that Germany invaded Poland. Britain gave Germany an ultimatum to
withdraw, which Germany ignored. Chamberlain then announced that as a
result of that failure, Britain was at war with Germany.
You can dress it up however you like, but that *was* a formal
declaration of war by Britain and John is quite correct.