Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Hitler Invaded Sudetenland, Now Putin Invades South Ossetia

On October 3, 1938, Adolf Hitler's armies marched into Sudetenland, a part of Czechoslovakia. Germany said it was responding to separatist demands from the large German population that lived there and that she was merely honoring their desire for reunion with Germany. Hitler's tanks took over a vital part of an independent country that had largely rejected his overtures and allied itself with the West.

Neither Britain nor France nor the United States did a thing to stop him.

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[the most important thing for Americans to understand about this entire affair is that it was enabled by our suicidal energy policy: Europe gets most of its energy from Russia, it will do noting. And thanks to years of American created scarcity, Russia has gotten rich from its petro-dollars - and now owns our debt - we've no 'soft power' options.]

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