[Mr Ramsbotham]

... intervening under the pretext of protecting ethnic Russians.

I believe that was Hitler's favorite pretext as well ... intervening to "protect" ethnic Germans in the lands he had his eye on.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

I see a FReeper has a thread on this: 78 Years Ago This Week History Taught Us a Lesson. But Does Anyone Care? The West is shrugging off the seizure of Crimea in Ukraine the same way we ignored the Rhineland invasion! ..........Earlier this week I observed the 68th anniversary of Winston Churchill's "Iron Curtain" speech in Fulton Missiouri. In the 1930's Churchill warned about the dangers of neglecting Hitler's ambitions and later he warned about the dangers of neglecting Russia's. History has proven Churchill to be right.

So why aren't we listening when the cost of avoiding war is low and the rewards great?"

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Why? indeed.