i have to rely on his alcoholism and psychological failings to explain this kind of behavior.
the optimal solution for british foreign policy was a peace with Germany in fall 1940 after the french capitulation. this would have left britain with a dominant Germany on the continent, but one that would be balanced by an intact and powerfully positioned USSR. i do not believe that petainist France would have become an axis partner; more likely it would have associated with franco and portugal and maybe even yugoslavia to form a neutralist bloc. under this scenario germany is leading, is dominant, but britain might hold the deciding balance of power in a mid 1940s cold war between the third reich and a defensively-oriented ussr.
what churchill did doesn't make any sense, given his personal history and his country's goals. it's almost an inverse of the balfour declaration negotiations from ww1, where britain is being illicitly influenced to sacrifice herself, by way of churchill, through the american jewish connection.
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