the way I see it, WW2 was nationalism (Axis) vs. globalism (Allied)

actually Churchill was a pretty based dude. he may have been on the wrong side, but he had some strong leadership qualities that were ultimately good for wartime England... as a peacetime leader, he was quite lousy though.

"You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life."

this quote is a virtue that I hold very close

He was a retard though

He trusted Stalin

true

He was quoted as saying

"Chamberlain was fooled by Hitler but Stalin can be trusted"

Or something among those lines, I have to look it up again

He destroyed the empire

Because of the cost of the war

He knew he couldn't afford it

suppose the Empire continued to exist though

wouldn't it just collapse some other way?

Eventually it might but he helped speed that up quite a bit

if the Axis had won, I can't imagine the British Empire having the same respect and credibility it did pre-war

Axis wouldn't have "won"

They would've taken parts of Eastern Poland

And likely not even Alsace-Lorraine

France too right?

Casualties would be a few hundred thousand at best

For the war

i imagine some of what used to be the Holy Roman Empire

since that was more or less Germany with some wiggle room

Hitler stated on numerous occasions that he had no intention of expanding in the west

France didn't even want to declare war

They were pressured into doing it by the brits

That's why the phony war existed

wait a minute

They didn't put up much of a fight and the civillian population living under occupation didn't mind it all that much

phony war?

Yes?

Between 1 september 1939 and when Hitler invaded France

That's called the Phony War

i dunno, i think people would be reasonably pissed with the invasion of Poland and the night of broken glass

tfw you sippin on the last of the mornin drank and the nutmeg hits
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no.

Hitler told Britain that he would pull out of Poland except Danzig if they made peace

He legit didn't believe they would declare war

And the poles resisted the reasonable german demands