"When an interviewer recently confronted Vladimir Putin about Europe's American-made missile defense system the President of the Russian Federation couldn't help but laugh right in his face.
According to the journalist, NATO's missile defense system is pointed at and designed to protect Europe from Iran, not Russia."
via shtfplan
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"I have returned from Germany with peace for our time."
You know there are almost no mainstream "journalists" today who would not buy that all over again.
Doesn't everybody laugh at the girly President?
Don't laugh. Obama thinks it would be more useful to re-aim the missiles at the Koch Brothers. Everyone knows Putin is just their puppet.
...and the whole world laughs with him.
OR ELSE!
Think of how history would be so different if there were no short men, if all men were the same height.
Heh
lol April, what a great find.
(And don't you forget it, Sixty!)
Bago, I recently read that the actual goal of Munich might have been for Britain to contain Russia. Something about allowing Germany to take back the German-speaking parts of Czechoslovakia (the Sudetenland) would dissolve, or allow to be dissolved, the Russia-Czechoslovakian alliance, which would weaken Russia strategically.
"British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain met with Adolf Hitler in Berchtesgaden on 15 September and agreed to the cession of the Sudetenland; three days later, French Prime Minister Édouard Daladier did the same. No Czechoslovak representative was invited to these discussions.
Chamberlain met Hitler in Godesberg on September 22 to confirm the agreements. Hitler, aiming to use the crisis as a pretext for war, now demanded not only the annexation of the Sudetenland but the immediate military occupation of the territories, giving the Czechoslovak army no time to adapt their defence measures to the new borders. To achieve a solution, Italian dictator Benito Mussolini suggested a conference of the major powers in Munich and on September 29, Hitler, Daladier and Chamberlain met and agreed to Mussolini's proposal (actually prepared by Hermann Göring) and signed the Munich Agreement, accepting the immediate occupation of the Sudetenland. The Czechoslovak government, though not party to the talks, submitted to compulsion and promised to abide by the agreement on September 30.
The Sudetenland was relegated to Germany between October 1 and October 10, 1938. The Czech part of Czechoslovakia was subsequently invaded by Germany in March 1939, with a portion being annexed and the remainder turned into the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia."
-wiki
The deceit is that ambitious men will stop after you give them what they want. Witness the expulsion of the Mozilla CEO for example.
"How horrible, fantastic, incredible it is that we should be digging trenches and trying on gas-masks here because of a quarrel in a far-away country between people of whom we know nothing."--Neville Chamberlain, a couple of days before Munich
He wasn't alone, most of the British public agreed with him. The horrors of WWI were still too close in their minds.
Anyway, I think that was the main reason for appeasing Hitler, not a grand design to hem in Soviet Russia.
Lydia, another theory I've come across is that the appeasement was to give Britain time to ramp up for war.
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