Multiple choice is evil. I checked all.

You do ask some very strange different questions Andrew. Some leaders might be evil but this doesn't apply to a country or its people.

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Those Polish pilots felt betrayed as Britain & France acted too late to save their country from being invaded. This is understandable but looked at realistically there's very little anyone could have done to prevent it. Even if resources had been available it takes time to assemble & deploy any sort of task force. France & the rest of western Europe was to find out a few month later just how powerful & efficient the German forces were. International affairs are cumbersome at the best of times & diplomacy must be given every chance. No country declares war lightly.

I can produce a remarkably long list to prove my case Björn, in fact most of the wars of the 20th century for a start

Maybe I should have qualified my statement with the little word democratic.

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Interesting point - I did a quickl mental exercise to see if I could come up with at least ONE war who's origin could not be due to a "corrupt dictatorship trying to hold to power" and the only one that I could possibly say is an exception, is the Vietnam War, whose origin I trace to a colonial power trying to retain that which it had effectively lost...

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Maybe not outright war but there are many similar examples. WWII changed the face of the world for ever & when former colonies were freed from occupation in 1945 they were not prepared to put the clock back as though nothing had happened. This would have been seen by the nationalists as effectively swapping one oppressor for another. Britain lost the remains of its great Empire as a result. Some of these places have been troublespots ever since. http://www.britains-smallwars.com/main/index1.html

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That might explain why their recital of Hamlet's speech may wind up as distorted as mine .