I'm sure a tougher approach taken earlier on when he didn't have as much military leverage would have proven useful, but the question of 'how could we have stopped hitler' spawns a dozen topics in and of itself. Suffice to say I am confident that diplomacy, handled correctly, could have worked.

I don't think the best conditions for politics are when people are in a state of constant fear of massive brutality and total warfare. That doesn't seem like a healthy way to manage a world society. War is sometimes necessary, but the possibility of war should not be the factor that informs all our actions.

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it is a mistake to throw out the language of equal worth because of its contingent historical association with Western power.