RE # 109/jerryofva: [...] Misanthropicus: The Molotov-Ribbentrop pact was the key enabler to Hitler’s plans. If Stalin had just said no then Hitler would have been finished and he would have been a mere black footnote in German and European history. [...]
Completely agree.
1) Also, here I’ll add some (interesting) trivia – Hitler and the SS weren’t really liked by the Wermacht (situation resembling with the Soviet Army vs. NKVD), and while propaganda describes all Wermacht officers or troopers as being bent of murdering anyone in sight it ain’t exactly so – and here is the trivia I mentioned: just before the invasion of Poland, a communications snafu between OKW and the tank units lined up at the Polish borders occurred, and since Guderian (I think he died later, in Normandie), believed that Hitler rescinded the marching orders, he happily called for champage because “this absurdity will not happen”.
2) you said: “If Stalin had just said no then Hitler would have been finished and he would have been a mere black footnote in German and European history.’”
Agree, and I (not the only one) find in this another disturbing precedent: is it really a stretch of imagination to view that America is the only one able (& willing) to stop the Iranian madness, but sabotaged by the “world community” and all other Iranian enableres will be defeated? Some very, very ugly consequences soon ensuing?
Will the people acknowledge how the next conflagration has been quietly midwifed from… the Nobel Prize Committee sanctifying El Baradei to… yes, the Obama administration’s mindless, if not outright seditious internationalist policies?
Yes, another tin hat wearer -
