Even had Hitler come West after crushing Stalin's.
Soviet Union. How could it have been worse
than it was for the Jews or the gypsies, or the Slavs, or the
Christians tens of millions of whom would die and 100 million
of whom would end up slaves. In an Empire.
That was the most brutal and barbaric.
Enemy Christianity had ever known.
Had Britain, not given the war guarantee and not declared war
over Poland. Western Europe, might have
avoided war altogether, and was the war worth it.
Let us give the last word. To Winston, Churchill, three
years after the victory. He wrote in the Gathering storm.
The human tragedy reaches its climax in the fact that after
all the exertion 's and sacrifices of hundreds of
millions of people, and of the victories of the righteous cause
we have still not found peace or security and we lie in the grip
of even worse perils. Then those we have surmounted
What did Churchill mean by even worse?
Perils than Nazism and Hitler? He meant stalinism and Stalin, a
mass murderer, whose victims, exceeded.
Even those of Hitler by 1948. All of Stalin's promises about
elections had been broken, and he was crushing all opposition
to communist tyranny in the 11 countries.
Now in his grip, including Czechoslovakia, for which
Churchill had wanted to go to war and Poland for which
Churchill had demanded Britain. Go to war.
If the West faced even worse perils in 1948, then in 1939
what had it all been for? Yes, Hitler was dead and Nazism
exterminated. But at a cost of 50 million
lives and Britain had lost 400,000 men and was broken and
bankrupt. The next thing that Patrick
Buchanan addresses is what was the war really about?
He says to British Statesman maintaining a balance of power
was Dogma in 38, Lord Londonderry back from a meeting
with Hitler wrote Churchill. I should like to get out of your
mind. What appears to be strong
anti-german Obsession, Churchill replied, that London to Derry
was mistaken. In supposing that I have an anti
German Obsession and went on to explain British policy for 400
years has been to oppose the strongest power in Europe by
weaving together, a combination of other countries, strong
enough to face the bully. Sometimes it is a pain,
sometimes the French monarchy, sometimes the French Empire
sometimes Germany. I have no doubt about who it is
now, but if France set up to claim the overlordship of
Europe, I should equally Endeavor to oppose them.
It is just through the centuries.
We have kept our liberties and maintained our life and power
twice. This policy would bring Britain
into war with Germany until by 1945.
Britain was too weak. You to play the role any longer.
She would lose her Empire because of what, Lord Salisbury
had said in 1877 was the Communist Terror in politics
sticking to the carcass of dead policies.
Why did Britain declared war on Germany?
Twice? As we shall see.
Neither the Kaiser nor Hitler sought to destroy Britain or her
Empire. Both admired, what Britain had
built both sought an alliance with England?
The Kaiser was the eldest grandson of Queen Victoria.
Thus, The crucial question, were these two devastating Wars,
Britain declared on Germany Wars of necessity or Wars of choice.
First. We have the United Kingdom,
declaration of war. Germany in 1914, Britain
declared war on Germany on the 4th of August 1914.
The Declaration was a result of German refusal to remove troops
from neutral Belgium in 1839. The United Kingdom, France and
Prussia, the predecessor of the German Empire had signed the
Treaty of London, which guaranteed Belgium's
sovereignty. The United Kingdom, declaration
of war on Germany. 1939 consisted of Neville.
Chamberlain's speech on September 3rd in which he said
this morning, the British Ambassador in Berlin handed the
German government, a final note stating that unless we heard
from them by 11:00 that they were prepared at once to
withdraw their troops from Poland, a state of War would
exist between us. I have to tell you now that no
such undertaking has been received and that consequently
this country is at war with Germany.
So the war over polish Independence.
Left Poland under the Soviet Empire, you can and goes on to
say yet in his Memoir David Lloyd.
George who led Britain to victory in World War One wrote.
We all blundered in to war in his Memoirs Churchill who led
Britain to victory in World War Two wrote.
One day. President Roosevelt told me he
was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war
should be called. I said at once the unnecessary
War, there never was a war more easy to stop.
But that which has just wrecked, what was left of the world from
the previous struggle, Buchanan goes on to discuss, the Soviet
Union after the second world war, while Stalin lost millions
of soldiers and civilians and suffered Devastation Stalin
emerged from the war. As the most powerful Tsar in
history with a red Army occupying Berlin, Vienna and
Prague, in the aftermath communist, party's loyal to
Stalin would Vie for power and Paris, and Rome and communist
revolutionaries. Help tear down the empires of
the West in 1949 Stalin, would treble.
The subject peoples of Communism as China.
Fell to the armies of mouse, a tongue converting, America's
wartime Ally and to Stalin's partner in World Conquest in
1949 to Stalin scientists with stolen American Technology
exploded and atomic bomb for almost all other nations.
And people of Europe, the war would prove more.
More a disaster than a Triumph. Finally Buchanan.
Discusses Britain. After the second world war, from
Norway to France, to Greece to Crete to Libya, Britain lost
every battle with the Germans until El Alamein in 1942.
She would end the war with four hundred thousand dead and a
pirate Victory and never again be great.
Churchill had devoted his life to three causes the preservation
of the Empire keeping socialism at Bay.
And preventing any hostile power from dominating Europe by July
of 1945. All three had been lost and
Churchill dismissed by the people.
He had led to Victory. I'd like to end with a quote
from the libertarian party of New Hampshire.
There's still people out there calling John McCain, a great man
and a hero. No, sorry.
Meghan McCain. We understand he's your father
and all but that blood-soaked monster didn't see a country on
the The map. He didn't want to invade Wars,
don't make great men. Great Men, prevent Wars.
Thank you for watching Keith Knight.
Don't tread on anyone and the libertarian Institute.