“Hitler did not stop with the Sudetenland.”
You have it backwards. Putin learned the lesson of Munich. And expansionist aggressive socialist entity cannot be appeased. NATO expansion into Ukraine was an actual redline.
Rather than acting like Chamberlin and trying to appease NATO, Putin stopped them. He tried to talk, but could see there was no appeasing NATO and their Nazi minions.
Sure. Putin thought he could roll over Kiev in three days, and begin the project of reconstructing the Soviet Union. NATO, a purely defensive alliance, was no threat to a Russia content within her borders. He has only justified the Baltics’ and Poland’s fear of Russia, and succeeded in stampeding Finland and Sweden into NATO after seventy years of strict neutrality.
Good job, Vlad.