The war against Adolf Hitler was unnecessary. Not because Hitler posed no threat, as Tucker Carlson and his Renfield-like incel army of cockroach-consuming camp followers would have you believe. It was unnecessary because it could have been prevented, which is why Winston Churchill, who had shouted from the cheap seats in the House of Commons for years about the rising threat from Nazi Germany, told Franklin Roosevelt that this phrase—“the unnecessary war”—was what they should use to describe