Comments on: Churchill’s cock-up https://didacticmind.com/2019/10/churchills-cock-up.html Strategic Defence of the Mantle of Responsibility Sat, 29 Aug 2020 12:08:58 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 By: Didact https://didacticmind.com/2019/10/churchills-cock-up.html#comment-1269 Thu, 17 Oct 2019 15:45:26 +0000 #comment-1269 In reply to Nikolai Vladivostok.

Привет из Индии, товарищ!

Yeah the Ron Unz article that I linked to above was my first introduction to just how badly mistaken Churchill was as a leader, on multiple occasions. I had known something about his blunders before, having read AJP Taylor's The Origins of the Second World War literally half a lifetime ago. But I didn't realise just how bad he really was until I saw that he directly and openly agitated for war as a way to carve his own name into the history books.

]]> By: Nikolai Vladivostok https://didacticmind.com/2019/10/churchills-cock-up.html#comment-1268 Thu, 17 Oct 2019 08:31:16 +0000 #comment-1268 I agree with all this to the extent that I could have written it myself, especially the parts about Churchill because I'm reading Buchanan's 'The Unnecessary War', where Whinny doesn't come out well at all.
I looked at the Jordan hiccup on the map and noticed it gives control of two important roads to the Kingdom, which may have been a factor.

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