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Originally Posted by Iron's Rite  Well, my whole point about aggressive action is that it is by and large not fully justifiable when the situation is critically examined. Britain had nothing to fear from the nations of it's Empire;. |
They wanted to keep them in line because it was the basis of their economy.
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even America defended itself and became an autonomous nation without taking things further and invading.
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We did move in on the territory that England claimed in North America, Native Americans be damned. Then when we were done with England we bought France out, and started moving in on Spain's territory.
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Germany didn't have any real, concrete justificaton to massacre the Jews either.
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Have you read Mein Kampf? Hitler's jew obsession was unrelated to his expansion of German territory. He could have easily done one without the other. In Mein Kampf he evaluates the geopolitical situation at the time, and rules out forming an overseas colonial empire because it would have brought him into conflict with England and France, which he didn't want. He decided Eastward expansion was the best choice, on the assumption that the West wouldn't lift a finger in defense of Russia. If England and France hadn't threatened him with war over Poland, he would have smashed Russia easily. Which would have been a good thing. We would have had a cold war with Germany instead of Russia.