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SorellaLaBefana

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9. "This is my last territorial demand in Europe"
Sun Jun 1, 2025, 08:10 AM
Jun 1

said the Leader of Germany in September 1938 referencing his demand that part of Czechoslovakia simply be given to Germany. The countries of France, Italy and the United Kingdom immediately agreed. Czechoslovakia had no say.

Upon return from signing the betrayal of the Munich Agreement—which gave Germany this important area of Czechoslovakia (in spite of France having a defense treaty with Czechoslovakia)—UK Tory Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain told the crowd outside of Number Ten:

My good friends, this is the second time [PM Ben Disraeli had done this first in 1878 redrawing the Balkans to give Austria a bigger share—which also worked out well?] there has come back from Germany to Downing Street peace with honour. I believe it is peace for our time. We thank you from the bottom of our hearts. Now I recommend you go home, and sleep quietly in your beds."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neville_Chamberlain

In short: Nothing to see here, move along and go sleep quietly in your beds...

Psychopaths cannot be appeased. One would think that lesson might have been learnt ere now. One would be wrong.

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