VJ Day reflections

 I blame FDR for Pearl Harbor. Chamberlain blamed the Americans for our going to war with Germany in 1939. I recently decided, while following the war in Ukraine, that the Allied insistence on unconditional surrender was a huge mistake on both fronts but WW2 is a template for the foolish wars of our day. It is the justification for all the things the Anglo-Americans do.

The invasion of Iraq and its baleful consequences convinced Peter Hitchens that going to war in 1939 was a mistake (by England and France). I long thought so but as of a week or two ago I decided that Lord Halifax, the alternative to Churchill in 1940, would have been a better Prime Minister because he would have spoken to Germany to explore the possibility of a peace, what Donald Trump has done with Russia.

Talking of VJ day here is the late and much missed Duke of Edinburgh talking about being present at the surrender. What a great comedian he was.