Britain was laboring under the assumption Poland was going to be on Hitler's side until a few months before the war

What do you mean?

I mean what I said

the Polish guarantee was issued very late

because Poland asked for it

What do you mean by Poland was going to be on Hitlers side

up until then the Brits were convinced that the Poles have made a deal with Germany

I'm not saying they were gonna be on his side

I'm saying the British thought so

remember that Polan annexed a smol bit of Czechoslovakia when Hitler took them over

this wasn;t a super clear situation

many decisions were made reactively to unfolding events

plus countries had internal politics to consider as well

did the wrong side win ww1 doom

especially France and Britain where the populations were very unwilling to go to war

there was no wrong side in WWI

the problem with WWI was that the winners didn;t finish it

so the losers thought they could try for another round

the problem with WW1 was the winners used it as an excuse to shit on the losers for 20 years making the losers justifiably very angry.

Versailles. Was. Being. Progressively. Lifted.

The Brits and Mutts were unhappy with it hurting Germany too much

so they pushed for easing the sanctions

and delaying payments

is this like that one machiavelli quote

the sentiment you're expressing

The only ones to be hard line were the right wing French gov.s left wing gov.s in France were pro-rapprochement too.

The French got punished for it

>the French were idiots
shocking

they weren't

they were acting in self interest

the brits were not afraid of weakening Germany too much cause that is mean

they were afraid of that because that would give too much power to France

on the continent

BALANCING is what Albion does

to be fair to the brits, a weak Germany means that the French start acting like assholes

it's just cold geopol

and they probably didn't want to have to come over there and waterloo their asses

it's about keeping the island safe

and that is best done

doom would you rather have a french dominated continent or a german dominated continent

when there is no one capable of having a strong fleet on the continent