[hanamizu]

Whether Zelensky is a “good guy” is immaterial. Putin is the thug and aggressor. As such, he is far worse.

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Was the Czechoslovak government in 1938 pure as the driven snow? How about the Polish government of 1939, or the Dutch, Belgian, Danish & Norwegian governments of 1940? Germany invaded all of them, the latter four without even bothering to give much of a justification.

Ukraine and its people are the victims here. What and how much we should do about it is a fair topic for debate. We are, alas, in Joe’s handlers’ hands.

[dfwgator]

“Poland was almost certainly the most disliked and her Foreign Minister the most distrusted. Poland’s pursuit of an independent line left her bereft of any close friends by the end of 1938.... The Western powers saw Poland as a greedy revisionist power, illiberal, anti-Semitic, pro-German; Beck was a ‘menace,’ ‘arrogant and treacherous.’”

Of course that all changed in 1939, when Poland did ally with Britain and France, but even then many in those countries did not support sticking their necks out for Poland.