UK's elite hardware talent is being wasted

Re:UK's elite hardware talent is being wasted by throwaway48476 on Sunday January 19, 2025 @11:26PM (#42764984)

Indeed. Choose peace if possible instead of rushing into war. Nothing that happened in the Balkans was important to the UK.

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Re:UK's elite hardware talent is being wasted by WillPostForFood on Sunday January 19, 2025 @11:34PM (#42765017)

Nothing important Sudetenland, nothing important in Austria, nothing important in Poland. They tried your strategy in the 30s and it was not a success.

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Re:UK's elite hardware talent is being wasted by throwaway48476 on Sunday January 19, 2025 @11:44PM (#42765054)

Are the Sudetenland, Austria, and Poland in the Balkans?

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Re:UK's elite hardware talent is being wasted by nine_k on Monday January 20, 2025 @12:19AM (#42765219)

Possibly Balkans themselves were not important. The trade routes in Mediterranean likely were.

Also, there was a complex web of international treaties and alliances that eventually pulled the UK into the war.

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Re:UK's elite hardware talent is being wasted by insane_dreamer on Monday January 20, 2025 @12:59AM (#42765428)

This was back in the day when alliances, particularly European ones, meant something.

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Re:UK's elite hardware talent is being wasted by nine_k on Monday January 20, 2025 @01:31AM (#42765601)

Also, family ties. European monarchs were a really tight bunch. For instance, the tzar of Russia and the king of the British Empire at the time of WWI were brothers.

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Re:UK's elite hardware talent is being wasted by sofixa on Monday January 20, 2025 @02:54AM (#42766070)

> For instance, the tzar of Russia and the king of the British Empire at the time of WWI were brothers.

They were first cousins, along with the German Kaiser they went to war with.

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