[MtnClimber]

I can-t take three more years of Joe!

[fruser1]

“never again”

Quickly forgotten.

[Does so]

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...

[FLT-bird]

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.

[Tupelo]

“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.

[KarlInOhio]

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.

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.

[Fiji Hill]

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.

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.

[Jim Noble]

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?

[Organic Panic]

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.