This is nothing new in terms of rhetorics from the UK-US axis of self-righteous world-view and sub-section of history they like to quote. Now that they induced the conflict and were able to dominate the information space (as they prepared for it for long two decades) they want to capitalize. One thing that everyone seems to agree is that this is not about UA or RU anymore, this is war between ideologies (East/West - whatever the elites understand by this and plan to impose and enforce over docile populace).<p>Both ideologies are as of now just different sides of the same coin. Both, east or west vision of the future are utterly authoritarian, full-spectrum control over population (through digital fin-tech), and dominance in economic-military matters over neighbors. Cooperation will be fragile and shallow. The rhetoric is on both side in absolutes, with no recognition of their own actions playing any role in other's reactions. It appears the western elites especially are in the mode of perpetual escalation, finding anything to use as a vector of provocation or humiliation.<p>As long as there is no peace talks, no speeches for peace, self-restraint and reason, I see no hope. I know of no elite, no politicians or a political party in EU or US that wants peace. NB! Of cause practical state and economic matters have to be solved through appropriate diplomatic channels, Im not advocating infant's view of peace here, but the practical one. One, that takes years to establish even when peace speeches are delivered daily. Instead, we are pumped for war, more encompassing war, more of a total war. A kind of war that nobody (civilians) want on either side of the proverbial barricade.
Does he mean the one when Chamberlain convinced Czech Republic to give its larger army to Germany, it's superior tank factories, concede territory to both Germany and Poland, to rescind the security guarantees the SSSR gave to Czechia ?<p>And then "pikachu" face when Hitler proceeded to invade Czechia with the same tanks they were given 2 years earlier, as did Poland, then second "pikachu face" when the Reich and SSSR did the same to Poland a minute later ?<p>That 1937 moment of titanic hypocritical behaviour ?<p>Englishmen really always love to play the Great Game, no matter the century...