Comments by "mpetersen6" (@mpetersen6) on "Poland '39: Why no War against Soviet Union by the Allies?" video.

@guidor.4161 Some of it was trying to be on the right side of history. Some of it trying to look good at home. The worst example imo was Argentina. For some nations who did join the Allies any material contribution they could have made was outweighed by basing agreements. A good example would be Brazil. While Brazil did have units in the Italian Theater (the most multi-national theater of the war) their biggest contribution was the use of airbases for anti-submarine patrols. Mexico largest contribution was the 300k people doing farm work in the US. Of the neutrals the two that have the least clean hands were probably Sweden and the Swiss. Both allowed manufactured products to be sold to the Axis. And allowed transit of their territory to a certain degree. To be fair both were stuck between a rock and a hard place to a degree. The Swedes did sell a limited amount of manufacturing turned goods to the allies but shipping in anything other than Swedish hulls would be a problem
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@Ilia1138 The Poles has a number of choices. All of them bad. Ally with the USSR. Ally with Reich. Attempt to be neutral. It's never good to be the smaller guy in between two bullies. No matter which one starts the fight you're gonna get hit. The Poles had more industry than one might think. In fact both they and the Czecks developed some really good small arms. Plus they had an extremely good intelligence service. After all they were the ones who cracked the Enigma originally. It's just they really didn't have any really good defensible natural borders.
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I remember a line from a Polish official in the 1930s regarding their geopolitical position. Something to the effect that "on one hand we will loose our freedom, on the other we will loose our souls". Hell of a spot to be in.
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