But from the start, Biden worried about how tensions with Russia could spin out of control. The White House has always regarded Putin as an adversary who can’t be deterred by conventional means. They believe he has the mindset of a guerrilla fighter—who has no conscience about widening the battlefield to civilian targets—which limits the ability of the United States to respond in kind.Excerpt from Masters of the Air by Donald L. Miller, Simon & Schuster
“Churchill did not share Harris’s confidence that bombing alone would bring down Nazi Germany, but in the absence of alternatives, he endorsed a bombing program of ruthless resolve…
“And the prime minister had no moral reservation, then or later, about unrestricted air warfare. After the war, he wrote to a former officer in Bomber Command: “We should never allow ourselves to apologize for what we did to Germany.”
And it bears repeating, this Munich is not that Munich
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