Their "Finest" Hour?



I can't see it.



I see a kingdom, with a senate that is the largest undemocractic, self appointed (ie largely through privilege and birthright) outside of the modern PRC, allying itself with Joseph Stalin to attempt to do something it couldn't do even in WWI: defeat Germany & Friends.



I see a kingdom with allies like Stalin, who, on all accounts, was responsible for the deaths of approximately 10-30 million people before 1939.



Four years after "this finest hour", I see a kingdom with a member on a tribunal next to a Soviet commissar advocate/judge, who very likely was personally responsible for ordering (ie rubber stamping "Does the name check out? Yes? Off to the cellars) the deaths of tens or hundreds of thousands of his fellow "citizens". What kind of victory is that?



I see a kingdom that made a promise to Poland (with a then Nazi like government) to protect it, could never protect it, and then after the war seemed content to allow Stalin and his successors to control that country for the next 40-50 years.



I see a kingdom that lost 500,000 of it's youngest males, resulting in immigration policies decades later that are still being debated today in that very kingdom.



I see a kingdom that twice, tried to defeat Germany, twice allied itself with it's (ie GB's) arch enemies France, and Russia, and lost on both occasions.



How is any of this a sane foreign policy? How is England, always a third rate power on the Continent, ever going to win a land war with Germany? What was it thinking?



Why would the USA, Canada, Australia et al support it?



Who won these wars?



Why is it that thousands of English pensioners and young people escape their binge drinking violence filled grey cities to live in peaceful Germany, and the world buys German cars, luggage, industrial goods, food (Lidl/Aldi), watches (counting Swiss Germans) and weaponry?



What was that all about?