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karynnj

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6. Very interesting comparison
Thu Aug 14, 2025, 09:17 AM
Aug 2025

As you note, there are many points of similarity.

My first thought is that the comparison is a great frame for Democrats to use because it is accurate and in retrospect it was a bad deal. ( The only defense I ever read was that when it happened, Britain was not prepared for war and they then increased their preparedness. Whether that was true, it is absolutely not in the case of Ukraine.)

That said, I wonder if anything WWII is ancient history to many born as much as 50 years later. I have been surprised at how fascism has become almost less negative a word than socialism. Having been born in 1950, fascists, who we helped defeat, were the first enemy we learned about.

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