I get what you are saying, but being a student of the european theater during WWII and the events that led up to it, I consider this to be a very different situation than that one.
There is one big similarity that many don’t think about. Russia has suffered a great humiliation over the last couple of decades in a real way. And that harkens to the German attitude about the impact of the Treaty of Versailles. And Hitler definitely exploited that.
It’s good that you developed your thinking along the lines of sumthin many don’t think about, somehow there’s this great humiliation of Russia. But you didn’t develop your thinking along your first point, you merely say “I consider this to be a very different situation than that one.” If anything you burden your own case with more weight by giving my viewpoint more ammo.
i don’t think anyone is worried in the least about the potential fallout (pun intended) a decade or two down the road from successfully crushing russia now. I can only imagine attitudes were equally short-sighted in 1918.
if the powers that be have gone to such effort to brainwash their populations into canceling tschaikovsky etc., they aren’t going to go soft on a war guilt clause.
and no one sees a problem. it worked fine before.....