Originally Posted by CBreezy

I am not at all saying we need to send troops there now to fight Russians. In fact, I've explicitly said we shouldn't. I don't know how hard that is to read.

And if Putin wanted the whole thing, he'd have taken it? Well this certainly is an interesting development, isn't it.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe...ad-2022-02-22/

Finally, I'm not big on comparing present day things to Hitler BUT, outside of the atrocities he committed, this move is looking very similar to the lead up to World War 2. He annexes Austria and then goes to "rescue" German speaking people of Czechoslovakia. But it's okay because that's all he was interested in doing, right? Uniting the original Bohemia and that's it. Does that sound familiar? We've seen this before and it didn't work out well for Europe. Autocrats who are just looking to "save" their people have other plans and inaction by the "free west" will result in us being forced to engage militarily to defend ourselves and our European allies.