re: #405 aagcobb

News flash: Its not always 1938, not every dictator is Hitler, and every crisis isn’t Munich. We let the Soviets crush Hungary in ‘56, Czechoslovakia in ‘68 and Georgia in 2008, and it didn’t lead to the Russians launching WWIII then, and it won’t now. The Russian army is a shadow of the Red Army, and if they do occupy the entire Ukraine, which I doubt, they will have their hands full just trying to control that.

the hungarians, czechs, and slovaks didn’t take it quite as smoothly, i can assure you, as a matter of fact it pretty much destroyed most of the credibility we had earned in wwii

so, no, i am not so sanguine that everything will be chill after ukrainian independence is nullified

if we don’t do something, there won’t be wwiii, that’s true, but something else really not good