Peace in our Time September 1938

Thank you so much for uploading this vid. One of the most important in YT.
You are invited to visit my channel too: I explained there why a Palestinian state in Smaria is equivalent in some ways to the handing over of Sudetenland to Hitler in 1938, and what is the true reason Muslim leaders are pushing so hard to achieve it. It is mortal danger to Israel and Jordan, but also to Europe.

Its curious to see the similarities of those past events today. Iran in the middle east and Venezuela in Latin America. They both have an aggressive rhetoric against Jews and both have been arming, specially Venezuela, a poor country that just bought $2 billion in weapons from Russia and has threatened Colombia various times with war. Our generation's Chamberlain lives in the White House today. God forbid war erupts, but if it does History will cease to have utility, for man ignores it.

Pius XII defanged Bruning's Center Party, the only organized democratic opposition. France let Hitler march into the Saar with troops on horseback for want of trucks. The Nazis propagated the myth that were ready for war and nothing was further from the truth. The Allies (and you with hindsight even) bougth the myth. At every step Hitler could have been stopped and he wasn't.

There were opportunities all through the 1930s and no one stood up to the blackshirts.

We must all remember that the policy of appeasement was not Chamberlain's. It was the previous prime ministers' before him after the Great War. Chamberlain continued to follow this policy because he had already lived through a war, he did not want another, he sympathised with Germany for the harshness of the Treaty of Versailles. Also, the British public hoped that the policy of appeasement would work.

1:32 Who's the big guy?

despite this the quest for peace is an honourable one

In the 1930s, though, one man's hypocrisy was another man's fear; and that applied to all the developed nations and ultimately also to the League of Nations, and not just Britain.
My view is that things would only have gotten harder for Britain and France to prevent German and Italian aggression, and inevitable that the US and/or Russia would exert some sort of military pressure on Japan's aggression; but, maybe you're right: maybe Hitler and Stalin's mutual lust would have destroyed them both.