He also started WW2 by declaring war on Germany.
No British politician comes remotely close in terms of disaster; even Boris Johnson telling Ukraine to scrap their agreement with Russia and keep fighting instead seems mild in comparison.
No British politician comes remotely close in terms of disaster; even Boris Johnson telling Ukraine to scrap their agreement with Russia and keep fighting instead seems mild in comparison.
* Actually WW2 had been going on since 1937 with the Japanese invasion of China.
Meanwhile weather and geography are able to sneak from the room..
The world wars were caused by a world were empires and there atrocities were normal. Japan, Italy and Germany were all late comers to an empire world were starving out a nation was considered acceptable. They became thus desperately hyperimperialist by circumstance. The circumstances that made worldwar end, were free trade, traditional empires waning and nukes.
Were it otherwise, we would still be at it, every ten years a desperate mini empire emerging from rubble of "in between countries, to be then swallowed and eaten by the eldritch horrors that are traditional empires.