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back to 1938, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain has just declared,
“Peace in our time,” after signing the Munich Agreement with German Chancellor
Adolf Hitler. Hitler had just invaded Czechoslovakia and had militarized the
Sudetenland, a direct violation of the treaty of Versailles. Versailles had
been the place where the Germans finally signed an Armistice ending World War
in 1918. Hitler had come to power in Germany under the Nazi or National party
in 1932. Chamberlain’s signing of the Munich agreement was in relation to his
appeasement policy to avoid war at all costs. By signing the agreement,
Chamberlain also did not punish Hitler for taking military action as long as he
stopped. Hitler broke that promise, and what would follow was the deadliest war
in the history of the world. In March, 2014, Russia attacked the territory of
Crimea located in the Ukraine. Following the attacks, the United States
provided economic sanctions, but took no military action to support the
Ukraine. This comes 23 years after the cold war. World War II started 21 years
after World War I. Some very interesting similarities. There is no question
that Hitler has tested the allied nations, just as Putin does now. President
B-Rock Obama has vowed to not take military action over the Russian annexation
of Crimea. He and the rest of the western democracies have taken economic
sanctions against the largest remnant of the former Soviet Union. These
sanctions followed the referendum taken by citizens in Crimea who voted to
become part of Russia. (With the Russian military pointing guns at them.) The
UN did not recognize the vote. Regardless, Crimea is under military control by
the Russians, and nobody has stopped them. This could lead to either a third
world war, or perhaps Cold War II.
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