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[โ€“] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Also "appeasement" is a made up post-hoc explanation for the western Allies' actions before WW2, blaming the supposed naivete or lack of spine of the leaders for simply allowing the Nazis to make expansionist moves uncontested, rather than it being an intentional policy to get out of their way and try to direct them eastwards against the Soviet Union.

[โ€“] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Good comment, this lie also works with the thought terminating cliche of bumbling accidental empires in a damn near synergistically perfect way