• RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        2 hours ago

        We don’t know how it would’ve played out if both Western Allies and the USSR committed publicly to declaring war in case Poland is attacked.

        • BrainInABox@lemmy.ml
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          4
          ·
          1 hour ago

          You’re expecting the USSR to have imperilled tens of millions of lives and risk wholesale extermination by deliberately undermining their own position based solely on “well, you know for sure!”

          • RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            1
            ·
            edit-2
            1 hour ago

            France and UK committed to it. I don’t expect the USSR to have done it, but I would’ve preferred to see that sort of larger deterrent.

            • BrainInABox@lemmy.ml
              link
              fedilink
              English
              arrow-up
              4
              ·
              1 hour ago

              Ok.

              The USSR isn’t obligated to sabotage it’s own existence because some random unborn Finish person “would’ve preferred to see it”

              Not to mention the UK and Frances commitment turned out to be extremely token, a fact that came as zero suprise to the USSR