mahveyou've done a brilliant debating trick which is slightly mischievous. i'm in favour of defending britain's national interest on stopping us being invaded, letting hitler go to poland eastwards towards his real aim, russia. Hitler wanted three things, labenstraum, to kill jews and world domination. He didn't get the first, and he wasn't going to kill many jews by invading britain or get much laben roun either. It's a red herring and simply reflects the parlour state of max's argument. Don't blame him for using it. If my argument was as threadbare, i'd cover my
For this week's Sunday Debate, we're dipping back into the archive to 2014, when we gathered a panel of expert historians to debate whether Britain was right to fight in the First World War, a tragedy that laid the foundations for decades of destructive upheaval and violence across Europe. To debate the issue, we invited leading historians Margaret MacMillan, Max Hastings, John Charmley and Dominic Sandbrook to an event hosted by journalist, columnist and national security expert, Edward Lucas.
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