In 1938 Hitler, having previously sent in forces to create disturbances, annexed the Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia purportedly to protect ethnic Germans living there. After a series of conferences the western democracies did nothing.
In 2014 Putin, having previously sent in forces to create disturbances, has annexed the Crimea and invaded eastern Ukraine purportedly to protect ethnic Russians. So far the western democracies have held conferences.
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it", George Santayana.
Fyi, Hitler later stated that if the West had prepared to militarily oppose his reoccupation of the Rhineland in 1936 he would have retreated immediately.
Wednesday, September 3, 2014
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