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  2. Appeasement - Wikipedia

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    In the early 1990s a new theory of appeasement, sometimes called "counter-revisionist", [81] emerged as historians argued that appeasement was probably the only choice for the British government in the 1930s but that it was poorly implemented, carried out too late and not enforced strongly enough to constrain Hitler. Appeasement was considered ...

  3. A total and unmitigated defeat - Wikipedia

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    In 1938, Winston Churchill was a backbench MP who had been out of government office since 1929. He was the Conservative member for Epping.From the mid-1930s, alarmed by developments in Germany, he had consistently emphasised the necessity of rearmament and the buildup of national defences, especially the Royal Air Force.

  4. Lesson of Munich - Wikipedia

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    The foreign policy of British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain has become inextricably linked with the events of the Munich Crisis. The policy of appeasement and Chamberlain's delusionary announcement of a Peace for our time has resonated through the following decades as a parable of diplomatic failure.

  5. Kakistocracy - Wikipedia

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    The term is generally used by critics of a national government. It has been used variously in the past to describe the Russian government under Boris Yeltsin and later, under Vladimir Putin, [10] the government of Egypt under Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, [11] governments in sub-Saharan Africa, [12] the government of the Philippines under Rodrigo Duterte, [13] and the governments under some United ...

  6. Trump’s ‘Golden Age’ vs. the ‘Gilded Age’: An examination

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    The way in which big corporations and the very, very wealthy are tied to government policies, that’s very Gilded Age. That’s one of the greatest parallels between the two periods right now.

  7. Former government ethics director warns of corruption danger

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    President Donald Trump dismissed David Huitema from his role as director of the U.S. Office of Government Ethics (OGE) on Monday. Huitema was nominated by former President Joe Biden and was sworn ...

  8. Alaska proves ranked choice is bad? Why did it produce the ...

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    The attacks on ranked choice are best seen in that light: a simple expression of the fact that people who have managed to corner more power than they deserve might be reduced to the level of an ...

  9. Why England Slept - Wikipedia

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    Why England Slept (1940) is the published version of a thesis written by John F. Kennedy in his senior year at Harvard College.Its title alludes to Winston Churchill's 1938 book Arms and the Covenant, published in the United States as While England Slept, which also examined the buildup of German power. [1]