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Conventional narrative: during the 1930s, the UK under PMs Baldwin and Chamberlain got complacent and obsessed with reducing military spending while Germany and Japan built their military machines.Actual stats: the UK built 1M tons of warships from 1928 to 1941, compared to 700K tons by the U.S. and 600M by Japan (Germany's production was almost too low to register).(from N.A.M. Rogers, The Price of Victory).So, pace Churchill's rants, the real moral isn't that the allies weren't prepared for #WW2 (remember that the Spitfire and radar were also pre-war innovations, for example). The moral is that spending a lot of money on weapons — during a global depression, no less — didn't prevent war from happening and didn't make the allied generals and admirals any smarter. 🫤#history #militaryHistory #nonViolence

U.S. claims NATO allies aren't there for them in time of need while it attacks Iran to steal its oil.School bully claims friends aren't there for him in time of need while he beats up kids to steal their lunch money.We really haven't considered how unsafe we make agressors feel when we refuse to join in. They're the real victims. 🫤#nonViolence #IranWar #nato