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Appeasement at Munich

World Wars, Past and Possible

A year into what was called the Sudetenland War, Hitler decided that he needed a quick victory to secure his domestic position and intimidate the European powers. Also: when Germany invaded Poland in September 1939, it depended on its alliance with the Soviet Union, sealed that August in agreements remembered as the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. Trump himself, his vice-president, the man who holds power (Musk), and their milieux in general all tend to treat Ukraine as a kind of irritant, as a problem rather than as a solution.

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