This is perhaps a thread with poor wording. Chamberlain tried to thwart German invasion the Chezch, while sending onvoys to try and have Russia side, or oppose this along sides with Great Britain. When Stalin refused to take up arms for the chezch's, their fate was sealed. Russia's only chance to perhaps do this is with French also, and reluctantly the French abided, and so likewise the Russian, leaving Britain as the scapegoat for handing the Sudetenland over. Before Chamberlain left for Berlin, his meeting with cabinet, and ultimately his conversation with H.C.T. Dowding helped in his decision. Dowding expressed to Chamberlain the plight Britain was in at the time....of all the armed forces, the air-force is the most costly and time consuming to establish...with designs of planes constantly needing updating, factories,and fitter needed to construct planes, airfield built, mechanics trained, and airmen required to fly successfully a painstaking slow process. He pointed out to Chamberlain, that a war with Germany was inevitable. But to come to blows in 1938, with RAF in it's infantcy, would result in the tried, trained, and equipped Luftwaffe having little or no resistance, nay for the defense of Britain was possible as well.