On 5/9/2018 12:03 AM, rbowman wrote:


Poland has a checkered history. It sucks being a big, flat place between
the Germans and the Russians. Armies love flat places. Then after WWI
being between Germany and East Prussia wasn't good either particularly
when the Poles believed the British guarantee was worth a bucket of warm
spit and refused the Germans passage through the Corridor.

They just never learn. When a major power says 'we've got your six'
you'd damn well better have Plan B oiled up and ready to go.


Just started reading "The Eagle Unbowed"

Just look at a map of Europe at different points in the last century and
it explains a lot.