By Mike Whitney
The Unz Review
August 28, 2026
Winston Churchill, for all his triumphs and successes, was probably the man most responsible for the early and rapid collapse of the British empire....What brought the British empire down as rapidly and terribly as it did was world War 2. In my opinion, WW2 was exactly what Churchill called it "The Unnecessary War". And the fatal blunder was the decision in panic of the British government after Czechoslovakia fell apart in March, 1939, was to give an unsolicited war guarantee to a collection of Polish colonels who had a romantic view of their own warlike capacities, who participated in the breakup of Czechoslovakia, and Britain gave them this guarantee to back them in a cause -control of Danzig- where they thought the Germans were fundamentally right.