Posted on 03/18/2022 3:49:37 AM PDT by MtnClimber
If Putin has underestimated the moxie of his political peer in Ukraine, he is at no such loss with Joe Biden.
The Treaty of Versailles, doling out spoils to the victors at the end of the First World War, was a Carthaginian peace that sliced and diced Germany, surrendering provinces to Belgium, Czechoslovakia, and Poland, and cutting homeland ties to seven million ethnic Germans. Three and a half million landed in the eastern region of the former Czechoslovakia, then called Sudetenland.
A postwar, impoverished, and decadent Weimar Republic gave rise to Adolf Hitler, who viewed the Sudeten expats as a hindrance to his plans to unify Germany. Demands for their repatriation sounded the alarm for another world war. Fearful European leaders rushed eastward to placate Hitler’s aggression, hastily signing onto the fateful Munich Pact of 1938. The agreement ceded not only Sudetenland to the Third Reich but nearly all of the country’s mining resources, iron production, and electrical grid, putting the Czechs under German domination without firing a shot. So began the Wehrmacht’s two-year march to the Atlantic, leaving history to put numbers on a half-century of wars to end all wars.
With six million European Jews added on to seventy million military and civilian deaths, roughly three percent of all humankind, the free world issued a crucible: never again. Eighty-four years later and those words still ring hollow. Dictators, driven by a lust for militarism and power, trigger regional conflicts and world wars. Petty tyrants seek advantage from them.
Despite his jawboning during the presidential campaign about bringing Vlad Putin to heel, Joe Biden as commander-in-chief has handled him with kid gloves. For Putin, influencing the foreign policy of the Biden administration has hardly tested the mettle of the KGB’s most famous alum.
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I can-t take three more years of Joe!
“never again”
Quickly forgotten.
Ukraine’s natural resources invaluable to China, electric battery production, and titanium (for Russia’s all-titanium submarine construction):
...coal, iron ore, natural gas, manganese, salt, oil, graphite, sulfur, kaolin, titanium, nickel, magnesium, timber, and mercury...
Bismarck didn’t overplay his hand and knew when to stop. Putin could have gotten away with sending “peacekeepers” into Luhansk and Donetsk but invading Ukraine was a step too far.
“Beltway Republicans are sitting back, self-assured.”
Yep. However, there may be hope out here in Flyover Country. If only we can get around the Vote Finding Machine that is the Democrat party.
Only a very small section of Germany went to Czechoslovakia. The Sudetenland was part of the Austrian Empire when it was split up entirely, unlike Germany which lost about 10% of its territory.
As KarlInOhio pointed out, most of the Sudetenland was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, not Germany.And it was in the western region of Czechoslovakia. The eastern region was called Ruthenia and is now part of Ukraine.
Why was the partition of German Austria in 1919 RIGHT and repossession of the German part of Wilson’s invented country of “Czechoslovakia” WRONG in 1939?
No more than Mexico’s libenstraub up north. They just aren’t killing the gringo with massive weapons like Putin. They use drugs and small arms.
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