"Appeasement at Munich: World Wars, Past and Possible"
The symmetry between Germany-Czechoslovakia in 1938 and Russia-Ukraine in 2022 is uncanny, and pausing for a moment on the resemblances might help us to take a broader view of today.
https://snyder.substack.com/p/appeasement-at-munich
The symmetry between Germany-Czechoslovakia in 1938 and Russia-Ukraine in 2022 is uncanny, and pausing for a moment on the resemblances might help us to take a broader view of today.
https://snyder.substack.com/p/appeasement-at-munich
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I think they also skipped Sunday School.
Of course, the two talked through translators. And "peace" and "world" in ruzzian are the same word.
So the pootin was honest when he said I want "мир" (the world), but it was mistakenly translated into "peace"
story, was on TV (UK) today.
Lewis Gilbert, director, felt it came along "fifteen years too late... there was nothing in it for people to relate to."
If only that were still the case...
I cried 😿
Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦
Kremlin delenda est.
Being democraticly inclined it adds a cacophony of sirens.
I have already written to all of my representatives that this is not a fight we can afford to lose.
It won't be pleasant but I don't want to repeat our 20th century experience but worse.
- Promote BlueSky, then Boycott Twitter
- And every other Business
- Make Headlines
- Some good stuff here I hope ... tbc ...
https://bsky.app/profile/build-openandfair.bsky.social
https://bsky.app/profile/leidl.bsky.social/post/3li4yeax6s226
"Europe’s focus should be on putting Ukraine in a position where they are “able to say no to a bad deal”, and that “the stronger they are on the battlefield, the stronger they are behind the negotiation table.”
Hard to disagree.
https://flip.it/37ezB1
In 1986, the fallout from the Chernobyl nuclear contaminated much of Europe. Russia bombed Chernobyl yesterday.
A United Europe has always been the path to peace. Ukraine must no longer be alone in the defense of Ukraine and Europe.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/macron-host-european-leaders-meeting-ukraine-monday-says-french-minister-2025-02-16/
Cartoon from the book "Dr.Seuss goes to war"
see second half of this reporting attached to above link-
(seems photo and paste disabled...???)
This is actually a really ignorant trope to keep repeating and is damaging to Ua
Chamberlain wanted peace (yes, he failed catastrophically), trump doesn't give a fuck and openly worships dictators and autocrats.
He pursues Ukraine ceasefire for domestic approval and I'm pretty sure he doesn't mind helping Russia rearm
Trump is a Moseley, Vichy or Quisling simply a traitor.
1/2
Then was more about buying time to face, deal with, and defeat a threat.
Now might be 1936 for the US but for Ua and the EU it's 1942 and the US is run by traitors
very very different scenarios.
US has no bargaining leverage towards Ukraine, if Trump doesn't give them real security and a lasting European peace🤬 Time for all 630mio Europeans to support Ukraine's victory and secure lasting peace in Europe❤️🔥Use 300bill USD russian frozen assets NOW🙏
"[H]owever things turn out, the first American move under Musk-Trump has been to endorse appeasement. Knowingly or not, and I do not presume to say which, that choice pushes us one step towards 1939.
11:35am Munich time, 14 February 2025
... Those who do learn from History are condemned to watch while those who learned nothing from History repeat the same old mistakes yet again."
Putin said “Ukraine itself was artificial” 2022
Trump says Canadian border is an “artificially drawn line” 2025
Seems pretty clear to me!
No more European procurement of weapons.
No more support for the US wars.
No soft power driving sales of US products, maybe to the point of a boycott.
Americans choosing fascism…sadly also not much of a shock.