> This isn’t the Sudetenland in 1938, nor Poland 1939 Feels pretty much exactly like it, though. (Crimea was the Sudetenland (unless that was Abkhasia / South

> This isn’t the Sudetenland in 1938, nor Poland 1939 Feels pretty much exactly like it, though. (Crimea was the Sudetenland (unless that was Abkhasia / South Ossetia).) > Poland actually had defense pacts which were not honored So to avoid that, this time around "Poland" wasn't even given any pacts (unless you count the Budapest agreement) but strung along in the hope of them... OK, so not an exact repetition; "History does repeat, but in a funny-house mirror". [Just made that up.] > and was invaded by two of the most powerful countries in the world in a world that had not yet invented nuclear weapons nor ICBMs. Isn't that quite a bit like someone saying "This isn't the start of WW1; we're in a vastly different world with tanks and gas now" about Poland in 1939? Yet most serious historians nowadays (AIUI) see WW2 as a direct continuation of WW1. > This is Ukraine 2022 in a very different world with very different power dynamics, communications and much more destructive weapons technologies. There is a lot more at stake and to disregard that is foolishness. Yeah, so it's still pretty much the same world, with the same power dynamics and weapons technologies as, but somewhat better communications than, in the 1970s and -80s. Just like the 1920s and -30s were only a pause in the 20th Century World War, the mistake now is thinking that the Cold War ended in 1990. It's been going on all the time.