In the 1930s the threat of WAR came from Germany and Japan. Today in an echo of the past the threat of WAR comes from Russia [Putin's dream to reassemble the USSR] and China [Taiwan is the immediate territorial target for the CCP].
The challenges that plagued our world in the 1930s have become an "eerie echo" for us in the 2020s [see photo].
If we let Putin have his way then who will stop him in Europe. Prime Minister Chamberlain is much maligned by historians but the truth is that he bought Britain and the world time to prepare for a WAR with Germany. America was asleep in an isolation mode with foreign policy. Britain was in denial with the belief that Germany would not use its extensive WAR machine to achieve territorial expansion. History is kind to Churchill who was often a bumbling tactician [his push into Italy was a total disaster] in both WWI and WWII. Stalin was the only match for Hitler and thus it was the Russians who won the WAR in Europe.
In the 1930s Japan was determined to expand its territorial reach in Asia; the echo of that situation is China today. China has America lulled into a false sense of security as they build island military bases in the South China Sea [Taiping Island, Spratly Island, Flat Island, etc] without push back. Today the CCP is a direct and imminent threat to the independence of Taiwan. We hear little but hollow threats from Washington DC about how the Chinese people will regret it if they allow the CCP to invade Taiwan. But where is the American people's "will" to follow through on their hysterical chants. In latter stages of WWII the American navy saved Australia from a full-on invasion by Japan in the "battle of the Coral Sea". Who will save Asia [including Australia] from the territorial and economic ambitions of China in 2020s?
The echoes from the 1930s are a clear-and-present warning to all to prepare for WAR.
Richard.
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