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this is great... havent watched the video but the effort Cappy made here is well worth it.... now, I want to see tucker carlson do the same thing, go to the front in Ukraine and interview the Ukrainian grunts... its only fair, and its what a real reporter would do, show both sides, even though I think that whatever "side" or grievance, that russia has is complete and utter baloney, but tucker interviewed putin and gave him a voice to his audience, so now its time to go and give a voice to the Ukrainian side... and I say that not really as a fan of tucker, but also not someone that is in complete opposition to him.
Scholz ready to talk to Putin again despite 'frustrating' phone call
"I will do it again. But we must not have any illusions about it," German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said, according to Zeit.
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Jesus christ. There's nothing else to be discussed. Give him the finger and send some Taurus to Ukraine.
Scholz ready to talk to Putin again despite 'frustrating' phone call
"I will do it again. But we must not have any illusions about it," German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said, according to Zeit.kyivindependent.com
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Maybe he wants to go into history as some kind of peace angel?
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That worked about five minutes for Chamberlain, until it didn't.
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Are you going to compare Scholz with Hitler? That's a bit far-fetched...
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He's comparing Putin with Hitler.
The fact of the matter is, this is just campaigning. It has nothing to do with Ukraine whatsoever. Scholz genuinely thinks he can avert a catastrophic election defeat by schmoozing the pacifists and East German electorate.
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in UK its generally felt that he won us some time to re-arm, leading to german defeat in the battle of Britain, for example. This may not be the view of central europeans!
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Germany was in no position to fight a two-front war and never planned for it. September 1939 was the earliest possible opportunity to invade Poland and between Poland and Denmark/Norway was winter and the repositioning to the west. After France the Germans needed to move their air force forward to recently captured air bases and set up the logistics train. There imo wasn't any moment where the Germans could have accelerated the time table any more than they ended up doing prior to the Battle of Britain.
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Yes but it also bought Germany time to continue to rearm, to absorb the weapons taken from Czechoslovakia and Austria (and Austrian manpower). The tradeoff may not have been a positive one.
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@Mike1976 Ok, sorry. That was a misunderstanding on my side... That shows english is not my native language ;-)
And yes, now I understand how it was meant and I agree with you!
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Exactly.
Hate to be that guy, but Neville Chamberlain did have a chance to stymie Hitler and blew it.
Nazi Germany was in no shape to fight a two-front war in 1939 and the Wehrmacht knew it well. Army Commander-in-Chief Colonel General Walther von Brauchitsch, Chief-of-Staff Colonel General Franz Halder and Military Intelligence chief Admiral Wilhelm Canaris were anxious enough to embark on a conspiracy eventually dubbed the September Plot: They meant to arrest Hitler and kill him, should he try to go to war over Czechoslovakia (which the conpirators were sure would lead to a Franco-British counter attack).
Then came the Munich Agreement, Hitler was suddenly seen as a man of peace and his popularity rose to such heights that the conspirators felt they had to give up for lack of popular support. From Ian Kershaw's book 'Hitler 1936-1945': "The conspirators, who had hoped to use Hitler's military adventurism as an argument to depose him, no longer saw an opportunity to strike." And Major General Hans Oster, deputy head of the Abwehr (later executed for his involvement in the July Plot of 1944) wrote in his diary: "Chamberlain has saved Hitler".
Appeasement is always a bad idea. Well, Chamberlain could be forgiven insofar as totalitarianism was a new phenomenon back then. It's different today. Scholz, Biden and other so called leaders flirting with appeasing Putin should know better.
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