Recovered result of that 1938-39 mess, and it doesn’t want to see it again. Partly not doing anything meaningful about Crimea in 2014 was its own kind of appeasement. Lessons have been learned. No sell out, not this time.
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Underneath his words Trump knows he can seriously impede Ukraine’s war fighting if he chose to. If Putin persuades him of some bat-crazy idea he has no interest in keeping, Trump can sell Ukraine out. This is why everyone in Europe is trying to make sure that doesn’t happen. Europe now is the partly
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The war began on September 4th, three days after the German attack on Poland.
I’ve outlined this in more detail because Ukraine is apparently facing a hideously similar fate in some ways to the Czechs. Trump & Putin like the great Imperial Powers of their day think they can just carve up Ukraine.
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Worst of all it actually made the aggressor think he could do the same again to Poland and the Nazi leadership didn’t believe the west would fight. The Russians didn’t trust the west having been ignored at Munich, and signed a deal with Hitler on the 23rd August 1939. They split Poland between them.
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occupied the rest of Bohemia-Moravia - what remained of the Czech part of the country. There were no Germans. It was then the penny dropped - this was about land not people or nationality. Appeasement didn’t work- giving the aggressor what they wanted in exchange for peace doesn’t and did not work.
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options. The Germans marched in and took the Sudetenland. Chamberlain came home waving a piece of paper that Hitler absentmindedly signed because he thought it would keep the old man happy. ‘Peace in our time’ Chamberlain declared. He was a national hero. In March the following year Germany
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A second meeting got nowhere and then Italian dictator Mussolini came up with the idea of a conference in Munich. France, Germany, the UK and Italy attended. The Czechs weren’t allowed to have a say over their own fate. Instead they lost all of their border area and defences. They were given no
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propaganda and radio broadcasts, driven by their leader Henlein. British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain flies to Germany to see Hitler to stop him because it would mean France would have to go to war as an ally of the Czechs and that would mean Britain would be drawn in too.
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THAT MUNICH MOMENT… September 1938 and the reoccupation of the Rhineland is two years past, the Anschluss with Austria not six months, and Hitler wants a war with the Czechs to liberate 3 million Sudetenland Germans who occupy the heavily defended border regions of that country. Agitated by Nazi
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If as many believe there are aliens living deep in our oceans, in their frictionless tic-tacs, I sincerely hope that they step in one day and say STOP! Even then half of America would insist they’re a special effect.