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.
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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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