Editing Eastern Pact (section)

=== War-revolution nexus ===
Laval’s refusal to engage in healthy relations with the Soviet Union wasn’t specific to Laval. It was based in the idea that a European war would bring communism to Europe. This theory is the so-called "war-revolution nexus", a talking point of most appeasers. One might say that the war-revolution nexus was a exonerated position given our hindsight of the end of World War 2 and the creation of the Eastern Bloc. Ironically though, World War 2 played out in the context of the appeasement policy being implemented to its maximum. In other words, the war-revolution nexus was realized exactly in the context of the "naïve" Anglo-French policy that was supposed to prevent it; a ‘self-fulfilling prophecy’ of sorts.