Appeasement WAS a massive screw up because contemporaries at the highest levels of the Reich, in the General Staff, in Hitler's bureaucracy, wrote at the time that if Britain and France had invaded during say, the remilitarization of the Rhineland, the German government would have collapsed because the Army existed only in theory, and the Luftwaffe and Navy not at all. Hitler only really became powerful at around 1938. Certainly in 1934 or 35 he could have been easily crushed without too much trouble.

Your statement about British aggression is profoundly stupid, as it was German aggression, i.e. invading and occupying Poland, that kicked off WWII (in Europe, anyway). Nor was mass third world immigration into Britain much of anything until the late 1960s, a full twenty years on after the END of WWII.

This is the problem with WN -- their hatred of a certain ethnic group makes them stupid. Hitler was possibly the most stupid leader any nation ever produced. He managed to take a winning hand and turn it to ashes. The Western allies were desperate for a counter-weight to Stalin, who was a real threat (this explains Appeasement). In turn, Germany had interests in keeping war and conflict far away from them, and not creating a massive, very un-German slave empire to the East (the motivation for Hitler's invasion of Poland). A smart leader would have pocketed Allied support, extorted money from them, propped up border nations and pointed them straight East on their own accord. Waiting for Stalin to die of bad diet and alcoholism, and see far less ruthless and able leaders succeed the dictator.

I understand WHY the Allies wanted to appease Hitler. They thought he was not insane, and Stalin was a threat. Unfortunately none seems to have read Mein Kampf and realized Hitler wanted desperately to construct a massive Roman-style slave Empire in Europe. He wasn't Napoleon, or Mussolini, or Franco, or your average tyrant. That's why appeasement failed. Hitler could never be satisfied with this territory or that nation -- he wanted EVERYTHING.

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“'Appeasement' can only be viewed as a 'massive screw-up' if one views its opposite — the British aggression which began WW2 and resulted, after much slaughter and carnage and cultural destruction, in the collapse of the British Empire and the present control of Britain by a hostile elite steadily extirpating the traditional inhabitants of Britain — as a massive success"

This is accomplished by the insane way we have of severing the war from its outcome, as if all wars were about were winning wars, hence nonsense like "winning the peace." One wonders why you'd start wars in the first place if the only point of war is to win the war. But we can smother that worry by pretending every damn conflict is existential, and that if we weren't fighting and winning we'd all be dead or slaves. Hence nonsense like Churchill saying he'd put in a good word for the devil in parliament if Hitler invaded hell. Why, in the name of sanity? That's not an idle question, for just around the bend was another devil, Stalin, and it's astounding to me that it never occurred to anyone that Hitler and the Japanese weren't the only problems in the world. Of course, everyone knew. They just plugged their ears and charged forward, which makes them fools.

Russia had actual war aims, besides winning and World Peace. They were the smart ones. Britain lost every damn thing it pretended to be defending, including the demise of Germany, part of which was propped up as a bulwark against Russia shortly after the slaughter, dismemberment, starvation, enslavement, and looting. Gone was Britain's empire, eminence in world power, the balance of power in Europe, even its independence of foreign policy. Then there was the effort, money, blood, and time invested in the losing venture. Churchill himself admitted as much in his memoirs. The only excuse was to pretend like the war and its peace were two different things. Which, as I said, is insane.

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In regards to Jenner.

I think the whole thing is a tragic accident of sorts. Lovecraft would have understood him.
Look how could any man not go insane being stuck in a house full of gold digging self-absorbed air headed females. Hell I bet if you waved a book in front of them or mention a getting a job at Starbucks those females would burst into flames or morph into some sort of blob.

Jenner was simply a fool to hang around them and succumb to their banal evilness and stupidity. I've seen their show and it's the closet thing to a digital lobotomy that I can think of - with Honey Boo Boo running a close second. Imagine dealing with these creatures on a 7x24 basis, it could only kill ones soul.

Jonathan Chait is not a white male. He is a Jew. His friend Hanna Rosin is not white. She is a Jew. Each of them knows this to be the case. It’s essential that readers struggling to come to an understanding of the contemporary world separate from the Narrative also come to understand this fact of identity as always central to the issue at hand, whatever it might be.