Showing posts with label switzerland. Show all posts
Showing posts with label switzerland. Show all posts

Sunday, April 13, 2014

Neutrality and Appeasement are - morally - the same

Chamberlain's appeasement of Hitler's evil - despite frequent attempts by many writers on the fringe far right to defend it - is a truly dead horse and my book won't spend much time kicking it.

But WWII would never have even started if others hadn't remained stoically neutral bystanders to bullyboy Hitler's evil for the twelve long years of his reign of terror.

Militarily, Baltic is a two nation sea : Sweden and Germany

Today's Russia , China or America could never be dominant players in a serious Baltic Sea war - the same goes for Britain, France, Italy and Japan,  even in their naval heyday.

Geographic hard power here trumps military hardware Faux Power.

Sweden's long twin coasts and many mid-Baltic islands dominate the central Baltic - Germany's two coasts much less so, but its similarly central Baltic location and bigger population make up for that.

Would WWII ever have happened without Neutrals like Sweden and Switzerland ?

If most of the countries that were allies of France and Britain in WWI hadn't remained neutral in 1939, WWII might never had begun .

But for today let us consider that those few who were neutral with regards to the Kaiser and who also remained neutral to the far far more evil Hitler twenty five years later.