Quotes of the day 17th February 2025

 







REMEMBER HOW THAT WORKED OUT!

In Munich in 1938, without allowing the Czechs to be in the room, Neville Chamberlain thought he could get "Peace in our time" by handing part of their country to a dictator to appease him.

All it achieved was to give Hitler longer to build up his war machine.

A few months later Hitler took the rest of Czechoslovakia. A few months after that he came for Poland.

And the second world war, in which 50 million people died, happened anyway - against a Nazi regime whose armed forces were significantly stronger in September 1939 than they had been at the time of Munich.

Insofar as anyone on the British side was to blame for how many of our people were killed in that war, it wasn't those who argued we should stand up to dictators, it was the appeasers.

THE WEST MUST NOT MAKE THAT MISTAKE AGAIN!

As Gavin Barwell wrote on X formerly Twitter, today,

"If Putin is allowed to come back in a few years and take the rest of Ukraine, he won't stop there. Preventing Russia seizing territory by force is profoundly in our national interest." 

It is not necessarily wrong to talk to Putin to see if an acceptable peace can be agreed to stop the killing. But Ukraine must be a party to that peace. And the terms must not be so favourable to Putin that he gets the idea that he can do what Hitler did in 1938 - build up his army again and come back later for the rest of the country.

Any peace deal will only actually deliver peace if the terms makes it absolutely clear that Ukraine can and will defend itself, and will be assisted to defend itself. A "Peace" deal which doesn't achieve that will be Chamberlain's "Peace in our time" all over again.


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