Grizalltheway wrote:Ibanez wrote:
the basis is true. As a trained and active historian, the similarities exist.
Hell, look at how we appeased Hitler and how we are appeasing Iran.
How does cutting off their lifeblood (oil) constitute appeasement? Shit, we had American companies (IBM, for one) actively doing business with Nazi Germany. Not the same at all.
It was the Japs that we really cut the oil. After we cut that, they had no alternative but to attack us, knock us out, and the grab resources from the PacRim.
We appeased Hitler be giving him Czechsolvakia, the Sudentland, we failed to enforce the ToV(before the crash of 1929) Hitler was going to Africa, the Balkans andRussia for oil. There are countless studies on the appeasement of Germany in 1939. Europe kept trusting Hitler in hopes of avoiding a war.
Today, with our sanctions, we are similarly appeasing Tehran.