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Originally Posted by MS Fowler
What diplomacy would have prevented WW2 in Europe? There are many who argue that the "diplomacy" of allowing Hitler to take over land unopposed actually emboldened him. Had a little force been used early, it might have prevented the major force that was required later to stop Herr Hitler.
I am no fan of war. It truly is "hell". But tyranny is worse.
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I'm not suggesting that diplomacy would have prevented WW2 in the 30s, but many people believe that WW2 was the inevitable result of the "diplomacy" that occurred at the end of WW1.
I was simply disagreeing with the term "good."