Just like how the Viet Cong attacked the US in the Gulf of Tonkin.
Somehow I don't buy that.
Polish troops were openly violating Germany's frontier.
Are you talking about the radio-station false flag?
USA was openly harassing German assets
Yes but the USA was not Poland and that was after the war began.
Western Poles were openly hunting down Germans
I've spent a lot of time looking for evidence of this and most of the incidents happened after the war began. Horrible, certainly. But if we're going to start pointing fingers at nations that practiced ethnic cleansing and denouncing them… well, was there even one righteous nation?
"Judea" pompously declared war on Germany in '33
Yeah and like America, "Judea" is not Poland.
I guess it really depends on what you want to say what defines "starting a war."
Oh jeez, well if we want to play loose and liberal with what "began" the war, we could go back and say that WW2 was really a continuation of WW1 which was a continuation of the Franco-Prussian war which was a part of the unification of Germany which was also tied to the nationalist revolutions of the 1840s/50s which was a result of the Napoleonic wars which was a result of the Revolution of France which was a result of the American revolution which was a result of the 7 Years War which was a result of the War of Austrian Succession which was a result of War of Spanish Succession which was a result of the Nine Years War which was in large part a result of the 30 Years War which was a result of Protestantism which was a result of the corruption of the Catholic Church which was a….
Honestly, we could go back to the fucking Roman Empire and beyond if you like. How far back do you want to go?