False moral equivalence. Once the Germans invaded the Polish government had an obligation to fight and not leave the Polish people defenseless.
That is a little axiomatic isn’t it? Britain entered the war, therefore it expanded its scale by addition of itself to the war. Brazil also expanded the scale of the war. As did Haiti. Bad Haiti!
Once the Germans invaded the Polish government had an obligation to fight and not leave the Polish people defenseless.
That’s nonsense. The only thing governments have an obligation to do is cease to exist. The same thing goes for the Confederacy. The Confederate army had no right to exist and it botched the war, it was based on extortion and it disrupted trade and production; even though any person or group of person had a right to non-coercively defend themselves against the Union all the Confederacy did was lose the war and get a lot of people pointlessly slaughtered. The same goes for Poland.
There is no good government, there is nothing the government can ever do correctly. I don’t support sending murderers to prison or police catching thieves, because no matter what they do it will be the wrong thing.
The Poles had the right to in their defence use the organisation and the equipment created by the state for the waging of war. It would be foolish of them disband the armed forces that were created by expropriating them on the eve of an invasion of their country - when they had no alternative structure for defense in place. Anybody asserting they should have done so and on the spot dismantle the command structure and the rest of the military buerocray which is obviously an asset in war is saying the equivalent of that they commited aggression for not blowing up their own artillery pieces etc.
Oh, sure, they can use whatever they’ve got. But the actual government continued to tax and impress people, and had no right to do so. It also took command of the military and defense operations, and predictably sucked at it.
Yeah, but a husband who beats his wife is stil entitled to defend his families home from a burglar. (And if he has ran out the eldest son who could have otherwise defended the home, he has not just a right but a moral obligation to defend it.)
he has not just a right but a moral obligation to defend it
Nonsense. Obligations are fantasies people make up to get people to do things they have no reason to do.